Beiyang reactionaries

Most of the machines in the Gongxian Arsenal are used to make gunpowder and ammunition.Fortunately, Yuan Shikai invested a lot of money in the construction of the Gongxian Arsenal back then, and the machines and equipment he purchased are all relatively advanced in the world.

Therefore, a large number of bullets and shells can be produced, so the production volume of ammunition is still acceptable.

"Half a year, half a year."

Duan Xun thought for a while, then turned his head to Gu Pinzhen and said, "Minister Gu, can the recruit training catch up?"

"General, at present, I can provide a maximum of about 2 recruits, plus the officers and soldiers of the reorganized Seventh Division, Eighth Division, and No.18 Division, and I can provide more than 3 troops. 9 People, I really can’t get them out for a while. If we start large-scale recruitment and training from now on, I think it will be no problem to provide qualified recruits to the army within a year.”

How easy is it to expand the army.

Qualified sources of soldiers are needed, and sufficient ammunition is needed.

Xiong Kewu's expansion plan seems to take a year anyway.So Duan Xun looked at Xiong Kewu.Xiong Kewu immediately said: "Half a year, General, I think it can be completed within half a year."

"No weapons, no recruits, how do you do it?"

Duan Xun smiled.

It is not so easy to expand the army by 9 people in half a year.

Xiong Kewu heard Duan Xun's words, and said easily: "General, in fact, whether it is weapons or recruits, there is not as much shortage as imagined."

"How to say?"

"General, according to the army reorganization plan, each division must have an artillery regiment with forty to fifty artillery pieces under its jurisdiction. According to this plan, our army needs to develop at least ten artillery regiments at present. And the subordinates of each army The supply brigade, medical regiment and other troops occupy a large part of the army, but in fact there is not that much demand for weapons. I think the equipment department will not need half a year at all, and should be able to produce weapons to meet the troops within two or three months."

The army does not need as many guns as there are people.

In fact, if a division has 4000 people, it doesn't even need 500 long and short guns.Because a division has logistics regiments, health regiments, etc., it is not bad for half of the ten people in these troops to have weapons.There are also artillery regiments. An artillery regiment only has forty or fifty cannons, but it needs about 2000 to [-] people.Because the artillery regiment needs defense troops, as well as logistics and transportation troops.They don't need a gun each, about a third of them do.

So don't look at the need to expand the army by 9 people. In fact, the long and short guns that are really needed are [-] to [-].Others include machine guns, cannons, etc., and weapons and equipment are not so lacking.

Xiong Kewu said while looking at Han Linchun.

Han Linchun sighed.

In fact, Han Linchun said half a year, just to leave enough room for maneuver for himself.Han Linchun also graduated from a military academy and came from the army. He has been the head of the equipment department for so many years.

How could this not be clear.

It's just that he needs to think more and can't talk too much.If you can't get it out by then, how can you explain yourself, and delay the expansion of the army, the crime will be serious.Seeing that Xiong Kewu didn't save himself any face at all, and forced himself like this, Han Linchun felt a little angry.But he could only nod his head.

Seeing Han Linchun like this, Xiong Kewu smiled slightly.

Duan Xun saw this above, and smiled wryly in his heart.Xiong Kewu has a bad temper and doesn't leave room for others when speaking, which is really not very good.Xiong Kewu is capable and smart, but he has some personality problems.

"Minister Xiong, what about recruits? Recruits cannot be changed."

"The problem of recruits is not that big. First of all, let's start with the garrison in Mongolia. We have troops in Outer Mongolia. Chen Shike, commissioner of Uliasutai Zuoli, and Yan Shichao, commissioner of Tangnu Wulianghai, have one Thousands of hundreds of troops. There is also the establishment of a cavalry division in Kulun. A better way is to recruit troops in Mongolia. Although the Mongolian cavalry has long lost its historical glory, the Mongols are a nation on horseback after all. A little training is enough. It is a qualified cavalry unit. And if we want to control Mongolia for a long time, it is necessary to recruit some Mongolian soldiers."

"kindness."

Duan Xun nodded.

If you want to control Mongolia, it is useless to blindly take military action.Because Mongolia is too big and has too many tribes.If Mongolia is made to rebel everywhere, and Russia is behind it, it will not be pacified at all.

So the best way is to increase the connection with Mongolia.

It is also necessary to recruit some Mongolian troops among the troops.

"The sequence of Huang Chengtu is good."

"General, he is what I was going to talk about. He was the secretary of the Kulun High Commissioner's Office, and he was one of the heroes who recovered Tannu Wulianghai this time. The Fourth Kulun Cavalry Regiment is under the control of Huang Chengtuxu. I think You can definitely join Li Yunlong's cavalry division."

"can."

Duan Xun nodded.

Huang Chengtu Xu, who has such a heart for China, should be reused.Moreover, he is a hero, or a great hero, so he should be reused.Although Duan Xun, in order to prevent the birth of warlords, has always not allowed the first-line troops to conscript themselves in the stationed places.

But Mongolia is a special place.

Whether it is Jing Yuexiu or Ma Xiaojun, they are guest troops in Mongolia, and no matter how they develop, they will not be able to develop new warlords.Moreover, Mongolia is very special. In order to strengthen cooperation with Mongolia, it is also possible to recruit some Mongolian soldiers.

"We'll discuss this separately."

"Yes."

Xiong Kewu immediately changed the subject and said: "Also, General, we already have the Yunnan Lecture Hall, the Guizhou Army Lecture Hall, and the Sichuan Army School. There are more than 500 graduates a year. This time we control several provinces, It’s the time for the graduation of military academies in these provinces. I calculated carefully that there are nearly 3000 military academies in the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou this year, as well as those in Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, and Guangxi. I mean Yes, we can put all these students in the recruit training unit. Anyway, recruits only need to learn simple physical training, know how to shoot, understand simple tactics, understand the military discipline of the army, etc. This can greatly increase the speed of training soldiers. As for These new recruits can enter the army and learn their real skills."

"Minister Xiong, where are the weapons? Our mobilization department currently reserves only about [-] long and short guns for recruit training. It is impossible to train so many recruits at once."

Gu Pinzhen shook her head.

Recruit training is planned.Duan Xun has always recruited recruits for training in spring and autumn, but the speed of recruiting recruits in the army has accelerated in the past two years, so they train three times a year.

But it can't keep up with the speed at all.

There are officers, but what if they don’t have weapons, and recruits cannot be trained with wood.

"Minister Gu, there are many retreating troops in this war. Many of these people occupy mountains and become kings in the four provinces of Hunan, Guangxi, Hubei and Henan and become bandits. I have just seen the results of the bandit suppression headquarters for a month. Tens of thousands of troops went out to suppress the bandits, and they seized a lot of rifles of all kinds, more than 2000 rifles of all kinds were seized in just one month. There are also generals, there are many private handicraft factories making guns in Henan. Do you want to rectify these small private workshops? It is estimated that they have one or two thousand guns of various kinds in reserve. If they hand over the guns from the guards of major private merchants, there will be thousands of rifles. After finishing them all, in a short time Adding tens of thousands of strokes is possible."

"But those weapons are various, and some are some earthen guns. Many of those bird guns are very backward things."

"It's fine if you can train. They are in the recruit company, as long as they learn how to shoot, they can shoot."

Xiong Kewu pushed back.

When Gu Pinzhen heard Duan Xun's words, he was not as good-tempered as Han Linchun.After all, Gu Pinzhen used to be a leader of the Yunnan Army, and Xiong Kewu was just a Sichuan Revolutionary Party attached to the Yunnan Army a few years ago.

So want to refute.

But Duan Xun coughed "cough cough", interrupting the argument between them.On the whole, Duan Xun still admires Xiong Kewu.Although his approach was a bit hasty, it is really possible to complete the expansion of the troops within half a year.

In fact, Xiong Kewu was right.

The recruit company only received simple training, and the real war still had to go to the army to learn.

And no one can say how the situation will develop.Duan Xun thought for a while and said: "Half a year, just half a year. First complete the reorganization of each division within half a year, and then add new recruits to each division. Then it will take half a year to complete the reorganization of each army."

Xiong Kewu played a trick.

In fact, according to Xiong Kewu's reorganization plan, Duan Xun's troops will exceed 50 people, especially the establishment of military-level units, which requires the establishment of many supporting troops.It's just that Xiong Kewu didn't count all of these, so it's only 45 people.

"I'm talking about the stationing of various troops and the issue of the group army. Cichen, tell me."

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