"Therefore, it is necessary to increase logistics personnel in divisional troops!"
Cao Kun said so. After listening to it, Zhao Dongyun turned his attention to the wall forever.
The 417th case of Hong Putao
Facing Zhao Dongyun’s sight, Fang Biyong didn’t speak for the first time, but after a while, he said, "Before the General Staff Department, many examples of our army were studied. It is a fact that our divisional troops lack logistics and transportation power. However, according to the report of the War Department and the Strategy Department, it is also shown that although our divisional troops lack logistics power, the logistics and transportation power of the quartermaster department of the divisional troops is still sufficient. In wartime, the quartermaster department has mobilized the civilian worker regiment to participate in the front-line logistics and transportation for many times. Therefore, from an overall point of view, our army’s combat
When the wall always said this, Cao Kun looked at the wall forever with dissatisfied eyes. He secretly said to himself that these high command people did not know the difficulties of the front-line troops. They knew that the front-line troops kept winning, but they never paid much attention to the front-line troops.
Today, Cao Kun, the general of the field army, is duty-bound to say immediately, "Even though the corps level and the military supplies department can provide some logistics and transportation forces for the front-line troops, there are still many inconveniences. It is enough to say that when the ninth division is in urgent need of transportation forces for the seventeenth brigade, it is necessary to report to the fourth army at last, and this has had a quite serious impact on the seventeenth brigade war at that time!"
After the speech, Cao Kun didn’t stop him from speaking, but after a slight pause, he continued, "No matter how strong the logistics force in the military department or the quartermaster department is, the divisional troops still need their own logistics force. It’s like if a person has no hands or feet, others can give him some help, but no matter what, they can’t compare with his own hands and feet!"
Cao Kun made an anomaly that made people feel cruel, such as ending his speech
His backward words made the side wall look a little ugly. Immediately, he said, "Even if it takes enough to expand the logistics force of the three main divisions, let’s practice another main force like the 14th Division and the 15th Division!"
It is more realistic to say that it is necessary to expand the existing troops and let Fengjun have an extra main division of 10 thousand people
However, Cao Kun snorted. "Although I am the commander of the fifteenth division, I always disown the fifteenth division so that the troops can support us to serve the army!"
The implication is that the newly formed 15th Division, a new force with limited combat effectiveness, cannot be compared with the third, ninth and tenth divisions!
Generally speaking, Cao Kun, the commander of the 15th Division, should not belittle his troops, but he is the commander of the 15th Division and represents the whole field troops in Fengjun. In this meeting, Cao Kun is not just a commander of the 15th Division, but will speak on behalf of nearly 200,000 field troops in Fengjun.
Moreover, self-deprecation of the fifteenth division will not cause any practical negative impact, and even self-deprecation is beneficial to the subsequent development of the fifteenth division
What? Because the third division, the ninth division and the tenth division are the first to become the ideal establishment in the establishment department, it will not be so follow-up. In the foreseeable future, Fengjun will reorganize other troops, and what will be the wave of reorganization troops?
It’s nothing more than going to Lu Yongxiang to lead the first division of Chun Li Dan teachers and the fourteenth division of Yang De, and the fourth Huncheng Brigade, which is also fighting on the front line, may become the second batch of reorganized troops.
In addition, it is the 15th Division. Although the 15th Division has not yet completed the army, everyone in the military department knows that the 15th Division, like the 14th Division, is dedicated to building the future main force. Zhao Dongyun and other high-ranking military and political officials are the 14th Division and the 15th Division as the fourth and fifth main forces of the army.
Especially the excellent performance of the 14th Division in Jinling Campaign has deepened the confidence of Soviet military and political high-level officials in building a new main division.
Under such circumstances, there is a great possibility that the fifteenth division will expand its troops in the second batch in the future.
And Cao Kun was a teacher of the 15th division. When the 15th division was strong, he won the battle, and his position as Su Fengjun in Cao Kun was able to rise.
Cao Kun and the wall are always tit for tat, which makes the head Zhao Dongyun frown. Although it was not a long time when the army was formed, even from 191, it is only seven years now. If Zhao Dongyun took control of the establishment of the standing army in Mukden in 195, Su Chu took shape only three years ago.
However, in just a few years, the military department of Lisufeng has formed many mountain factions.
Not to mention the well-known old armament school and overseas students’ advanced students school, the contradiction between the field army generals and the high command officers in the current army is actually very large
There are many reasons for this situation, and the main reason is that there is a obvious difference between field officers in Fengjun and civilian officers in the high command.
Apart from the personnel in this very special organization, most of the officers and generals in the high command department of Fengjun are people who have never fought, such as Fang Biyong, Zhao Dongping and Hong Putao. They are more like a civilian than an official in quality.
Although many field officers in the Fengjun Army have also had field experience, most of them are field officers at the level of field officers, which is still relatively small in this group, and only the two directors before and after the war are field officers.
However, although the war department belongs to the General Staff of the High Command in name, in fact, the agency is rarely responsible to Fang Biyong, the chief of the General Staff. Usually, Shi Yanglin of the war department reports directly to Zhao Dongyun.
Moreover, it has recently been said that the war department is likely to be upgraded to the war department and directly responsible for Zhao Dongyun, but it is still the wind, and it is not practical yet.
The war department and the navy department seem to be at a lower level, but one is responsible for the command of the army and the other is responsible for the command of the navy. In fact, most of them are ordnance department and quartermaster department.
Most of the general officers in many departments of the high command are civilian officers, but Cao Kun and other officers in the field army are all shot with live ammunition. These two groups have formed a relatively contradictory nature, which is somewhat similar to the contradiction between the civilian corps and the military commanders.
At this time, Hong Putao, the chief commander of the Ministry of Munitions, said, "What General Fang and General Cao said is reasonable!"
From Hong Putao’s appellation of Bi Yong and Cao Kun, we can feel the difference between civilian officers and field officers. Fang Bianyong and Cao Kun are both middle-ranking generals, but Hong Putao’s appellation of Fang Bianyong as a job owner and Cao Kun as a general has the nature of a field officer.
"As we all know, our army is limited and we need more troops to fight in the South, but the fighting capacity of the front-line main force is also in urgent need. I have an immature idea that there are many various transport groups in the head of our military supply department, and some of them have participated in the first-line transport stations extensively. Is it possible to directly transfer these transport groups to the divisional troops, so that too many trench personnel can be added without causing more pressure on the army and improving the logistics and transportation capacity of the main force?"
Zhao Dongyun gave a little approval to Hong Putao’s words. When others were arguing about whether to increase logistics personnel, Hong Putao was able to come up with a feasible solution, and he also transferred the transportation troops under the Ministry of Quartermaster to the field troops to discuss. Many people think that this is Hong Putao’s own weakening of his own strength.
Hong Putao also saw Zhao Dongyun’s approval, and he knew that he was on the right track to transfer tens of thousands of people to the field army, even though it would weaken the military supplies department, but if this move could win Zhao Dongyun’s praise, it would be all worth it
Hong Putao knows very well that although he is also wearing the epaulettes on his shoulders, he is a serious civilian general who has never led troops to fight in this generation. In this era, civilian generals are definitely not as dazzling as those in the field. Zhao Dongyun’s most admired generals can be said to be all generals in the field, such as Gu Lanyu and Chun Li. However, Hong Putao and Zhao Dongping estimate that a total commander will come to an end in this generation, and the military influence is far from that of Meng Enyuan and Xu Bangjie. If you want to reach the top in the future, you will be a marshal.
"Chief Hong’s case is good. On the one hand, it solves the shortage of logistics strength of divisional troops, but it will not cause too much pressure on the growth of our army!" Zhao Dongping is also appropriate. For him, if he doesn’t spend money, he will support it.
He is the financial steward of the military, and he is more concerned about every military expenditure than others.
Zhao Dongyun finally said, "What’s your opinion?"
Chapter four hundred and ten 19-year preparation
In the face of Zhao Dongyun’s gaze, Cao Kun and Fang Biyong were silent for a long time. The rear wall always said first, "Although the transport regiment of the Ministry of Munitions is also an active force, there are still some gaps compared with the active forces in the field forces. If they are directly transferred to active personnel, can they be well integrated with the existing forces?"
On one side, Cao Kun also said, "It is naturally feasible if the transport regiment can be transferred from the Ministry of Munitions to supplement the divisional troops!"
He also didn’t say a word, that is, after the Ministry of Military Supplies has transferred these transport regiments, should it continue to set up transport troops, and how to solve the cost of setting up these transport troops?
But these things have nothing to do with Cao Kun, the general of the field army. After he finished this sentence, he just shut up.
This is another discussion. After half an hour, Zhao Dong Yun finally said, "The words have all been said. Then it’s settled. Some active transport regiments will be transferred from the Ministry of Military Supplies to supplement the various units. After these transport regiments are transferred from the Ministry of Military Supplies, the civilian worker corps can be increased to fill the gaps."
The transport regiments in the Ministry of Military Supplies are different from civilian workers’ regiments and river operations. Many transport regiments in the Ministry of Military Supplies are active troops, mainly responsible for the supply and transportation of ammunition at the front line, while those civilian workers’ regiments and river operations are not active troops but recruit civilian workers.
Although these civilian workers will also pay some subsidies, they are much less than the salaries of active servicemen, and sometimes the Ministry of Military Supplies will forcibly recruit civilian workers locally for transportation.
These days, Fengjun, like other warlord troops, doesn’t mean that tall troops don’t take a needle and thread from the masses and don’t disturb the people. These tall slogans and Fengjun don’t mean that they don’t disturb the people at best, but they just don’t plunder on a large scale. The so-called not taking a needle and thread from the masses at best is to buy things and give tickets to Zhang Jun. God knows whether these military tickets can be exchanged for money from the Soviet-controlled government.
The army often collects livestock, grain, wagons and other materials, and even forcibly collects civilian workers to transport them. A considerable number of these recruited civilian workers are not paid, and even have to bring their own rations. These recruited civilian workers are actually corvees.
Zhao Dongyun’s command of Fengjun is actually an army with a strong feudal atmosphere.
When Zhao Dongyun made a decision to transfer the transport regiment of the Ministry of Military Supplies to the field army, the high command quickly reached the order. Many transport regiments under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Military Supplies in Hezhou, Dangtu and Jinling were directly dismantled and directly added to the third and ninth divisions.
The number of the third division and the ninth division soared by more than 2,000 people in a short time, and Qin Linjun became the so-called ideal establishment force in his mind.
This ideal establishment is also called 19-year establishment in official documents. This establishment was only implemented last year with 197-year establishment. Has the combat troops changed? Is there an infantry squad or a platoon of fourteen people? There is still a light machine gun and an infantry company still has two 60mm mortars.
The technical personnel of front-line fighters have not changed, but they have greatly increased the forces such as artillery and trench, thus increasing the total strength of a division in 19 years to 10 thousand
Because the increase in combat establishment is the responsibility of logistics personnel, even if it has little impact on the third division and the ninth division in the midst of combat, it is only necessary to directly supplement the personnel.
In just a few days, we joined many logistics personnel of the Ministry of Military Supplies, and the strength of the third and ninth divisions expanded to 10 million.
Because of the little influence, there are still many transport groups in the Ministry of Munitions. Zhao Dongyun quickly reached the second order, that is, the three units of the fourth Hunchenglv, the first division and the fourteenth division of the front line war were also expanded to a 19-year establishment.
When the above-mentioned divisions expanded to 10,000, there were more than 5,000 people before, and the fourth Huncheng Brigade directly added to a transportation group, and the total strength expanded to more than 7,900, nearly 1,000 people.
Of course, it is worth saying that most of the increase is logistics personnel, and the combatants still maintain their original scale.
In simple terms, it is just that Fengjun transferred many logistics units belonging to the Ministry of Munitions into field troops.
It has no effect on the total size of Fengjun.
Adopt a 19-year-old establishment and change the establishment of the Fengjun troops. Some large infantry squadrons still have 14 people, one infantry platoon has three infantry squadrons, and each infantry company has three infantry platoons, and each infantry company has two mortar teams, and each infantry company has 113 people.
An infantry battalion has jurisdiction over the above four infantry companies, in addition to a mortar platoon, a trench platoon and a heavy machine gun platoon, with a total strength of 930 people. The battalion has two 10 mm mortars and two heavy machine guns.
The infantry regiment is in charge of the above three infantry battalions. In addition, there is a health platoon, a trench company, a four-door 10mm mortar company, a heavy machine gun company with nine heavy machine guns and a total strength of 2,79men. The technical weapons are light machine guns, 36 heavy machine guns, 15 60mm mortars, 24 doors and 10 doors of 10mm mortars.
The infantry brigade has jurisdiction over two infantry regiments, except for a headquarters. Normally, an infantry brigade has 6,360 people. However, in actual combat, many auxiliary units of the divisional headquarters are often assigned to the infantry brigade, thus forming a mixed brigade-scale combat unit that is solely responsible for the war in one direction. Depending on the situation, the total strength of a brigade-level combat detachment may reach 1,000 to 9,000 people in wartime.
According to the infantry division, there are two infantry brigades, in addition to one artillery regiment with 36 field guns and 16 mountain guns, one mortar battalion with 16 mortars and 120 mm mortars, one cavalry regiment with three companies, one trench regiment with three battalions and 100 men, one engineering battalion with 600 men, one health company, one communication company, one divisional guard and one divisional command, with a total strength of 11,660 men, more than 1,000 logistics horses and more than 3,000 western-style heavy transport carriages.
The division has more than 13,000 revolvers riding rifles, more than 3,000 semi-automatic pistol 75mm field guns, 36 75mm mountain guns, 16 120mm mortars, 16 10mm mortars, 40mm mortars, 100 heavy machine guns, 60 light machine guns and 150 guns. In addition, there are many auxiliary equipment such as artillery balloons, telescopes and ordnance shovels.
Such an infantry division in Fengjun is a typical two-brigade, four-regiment unit in the army of contemporary powers, and such a division will cost more than 4 million yuan a year just to maintain it, not to mention all kinds of ammunition and equipment for fighting.
At present, as far as Soviet finance is concerned, there are only a few such teachers at most, and there are too many roots to support.
At present, Su Fengjun still needs more cheap troops, such as the first division, the eleventh division and the thirteenth division. Although the three units under the jurisdiction of the third army are comparable to the third division, it is more than enough to set up cheap troops and beat other warlords and provinces.
According to the scale of these divisions, Zhao Dongyun also ordered the army high command to set up the 17th division.
For the 17th division, he didn’t say that he had too much expectation directly, and in order to speed up the formation of the army, he didn’t intend to start training again, but to integrate and form several existing troops.
Zhao Dongyun deployed the backbone of the Seventh Huncheng Brigade in Shijiazhuang, and then added new soldiers and equipment, begging the new 17th Division to become an army.
After the 17th Division, Zhao Dong Cloud deployed the backbone of the 10th Hunchenglv in Fengtian, and formed the 10th Division, which also expanded Fengjun’s control over Fengtian after adding a small number of soldiers.
Zhao Dongyun’s formation of the 17th Division and 10th Division, the backbone of the 7th HunChengLv and 10th HunChengLv successively, also made many generals see Zhao Dongyun’s plans for serving the army in the future, that is, the establishment of HunChengLv was gradually abolished, which gradually transformed the troops into the main forces of many infantry divisions.
The establishment of Hunchenglv is a temporary measure, and it is necessary because of the shortage of troops and equipment. It is no longer suitable for the contemporary Fengjun to form and maintain too many Hunchenglv if the current Fengjun army is sufficient and the situation of the whole country is taken into account.
Because the soldier base of Hunchenglv is about half of that of a division, but the technical weapons, especially artillery, are far less than half of that of an infantry division. However, the most expensive thing to pay for serving and supporting the army in contemporary times is not the purchase price of weapons, but the salary of personnel.