Although the annual government work report meeting in 1901 ended, the Military Commission immediately recruited its own summary meeting. Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng and Xiao Jianjun all participated in the summary of the army. Although Qin Zheng is now the Speaker of the Senate House and should not attend the military meeting, the system of the East China government is not perfect now. Moreover, Qin Zheng is one of the three giants of the original military and one of the founders of the People's Army. He has not officially retired, so he can still participate in major military decisions.

The Military Commission is the only department among the nine major ministries that does not work in the administrative region, and only has an office in the administrative building. The Military Commission's office is now the original Governor's Office of the German Governor's Office. Earlier, this was the Jiaoao General Office of the Qing court. This arrangement was also handled according to the principle of separation of military and political affairs.

After nearly a year and a half, the People's Army, the People's Army, formed by the time travelers, has already been based on its initial scale. Now there are about 93,000 people, including 72,000 troops and 21,000 navy.

The Army's report was told by Zhu Yaping, the commander of the army, that the current combat troops of the army are about 60,000 and the logistics personnel are about 12,000. 20 combat regiments have been organized, of which 10 are troops with practical experience. There are also cavalry regiments and a * artillery regiment. However, the cavalry regiment and the * artillery regiment have only two battalions.

Overall, the organization, system, discipline, training, weapons and combat of the People's Army basically proceeded in the modern army model. After the war with the Eight-Nation Alliance, a certain combat effectiveness was formed. It was enough to defend the current territory of the East China government. Even if it turned against the Qing court, it was enough to protect itself. At the same time, the construction of the army has always strictly implemented discipline and maintained a good style, which has also won many praises from the garrison.

The current shortcomings of the People's Army are mainly due to three points. First, the overall quality of the army is still not high. After all, it has only been established for less than a year and a half. Less than half of the soldiers who have been in the army for more than half a year. The training level is not satisfactory, but the cultural quality is extremely poor. The illiteracy rate accounts for nearly 70%, and about 30% of the half illiteracy. Less than half of the soldiers can truly read and read.

On the one hand, this is because China's overall cultural level is relatively low in this era; on the other hand, the Navy has snatched away a large number of soldiers with certain cultural qualities. However, the modern army has high requirements for the comprehensive quality of soldiers, so an army with a very high illiteracy rate is destined to not have too strong combat effectiveness. Of course, the Military Commission also noticed this problem and began some remedial measures to carry out literacy education, reading and literacy education in various troops, but it is difficult to reverse it significantly in a short period of time.

The second is the lack of artillery, because it lacks large-caliber artillery. Overall, the People's Army is still a light army. Among the 20 regiments of the entire army, only 8 regiments are equipped with medium-caliber field artillery battalions; only two independent battalions are equipped with large-caliber artillery, and the People's Army has no heavy artillery with an oral caliber of more than 150 mm.

In fact, in 1901, the time traveler purchased a batch of arms from Zhang Zhidong, and now all have been delivered. In addition to assembling the troops, there are still some artillery left and a few regiments are fully equipped. Moreover, the Qingdao Arsenal can currently produce 120mm caliber artillery, so the number of artillery is not a big problem. But the problem is that now there are no soldiers who can fire artillery, or soldiers who can learn to fire artillery.

After all, artillery is not infantry. If you train for a month, you can go to the battlefield regardless of whether you can or not. However, artillery is different. Even if you don’t have knowledge of physics and machinery, you must at least have considerable cultural qualities, and at least you can understand [Caodian]. Now almost all soldiers in the army with certain cultural qualities have become artillerymen. Therefore, to expand artillery, you can only look at the effect of the army’s literacy.

The third is the lack of support and auxiliary logistics troops. The logistics of modern army is a very important link. Generally speaking, the ratio of logistics troops to combat troops is about 1:2. Now the People's Army's logistics personnel are obviously relatively small, and they are not in a single body. There are no special auxiliary troops such as engineering troops and logistics troops, which makes it impossible for the People's Army to leave the base and conduct long-distance combat.

Another problem is not too big, that is, the number of cavalry is insufficient. Although cavalry has not been the main force on the battlefield in modern times, it still has a place. It can also play a great role in reconnaissance, harassment, assault, etc., and cavalry can still play a very important position on certain characteristic battlefields. Therefore, it is obviously not enough for the People's Army Army to only have half a regiment of cavalry.

However, the development of the cavalry of the People's Army was mainly due to the insufficient number of war horses. Now the People's Army has only more than 1,300 war horses, which are basically seized from the Eight-Nation Alliance. More than half of them were Don hippos and Three hippos seized from the Russian army, while the rest were mainly Mongolian horses, with a small number of European or Arab horses. It should be said that the overall quality of the current war horses of the People's Army is still good. For the development of the cavalry, the first thing to do is to introduce a large number of horses and excellent horse breeds, and to establish their own horse breeding bases at home and abroad to cultivate their own excellent war horses. However, this will also be a long-term process.

Currently, the crossover has established a horse farm and a cavalry training base on Shandong Horse Raising Island, but the area of ​​the horse farming island is not large. Generally, it can raise about 1,500 horses. Under the extreme case, the number of horses can be raised is no more than 2,000. At present, it can only be enough to avoid being strong. Fortunately, the East China government has established two farms, and in the Fourth and Five-Year Plan, there are two farm construction projects, each farm can raise 100-500 horses. In this way, it can still ensure the supply of war horses needed for the development of the cavalry in five years.

It is expected that in 1902, there will be no large-scale wars in the East China government. Therefore, the main tasks of the army are adjusted and the establishment of the entire army, the branches of the army, and the training and cultural quality of the army will be strengthened to achieve the comprehensive development of the army, rather than rushing to expand the scale of the army.

The biggest change in the army's organization is to organize division-level combat troops on the basis of regiments, as general combat units, and such organization is in line with modern military organization. The current People's Army will be organized into 5 divisions, each division's basic combat units are three combat regiments and one large-caliber * artillery regiment, and then supplemented with other troops to ensure that each division's strength is between 12,000 and 15,000, and can independently complete normal combat.

Another task is that although the army does not expand on a large scale, it must cooperate with land reform, organize and improve the construction of militia, and regularly send professional officers to conduct a certain degree of professional training on Hi Huan to supplement the regular army. Once a large-scale battle occurs, the army can be expanded quickly in a short period of time.

As a supporting work of the civilian army, it is to form a cadre regiment, mainly composed of deputy personnel from the middle and lower military commanders and a small number of outstanding soldiers. Not only does it conduct military training, but also conduct military management training, and they are regularly dispatched to train militias. Once a large-scale expansion of the army, there will be a large number of qualified middle and lower military commanders to ensure the combat effectiveness of the new troops.

Finally, the Army also proposed an Army armor plan, that is, to start researching armored vehicles.

Although in previous battles, there were not many opportunities for armored troops to fight, every battle was at the most important time, and every use was to win. The most important battle was the Battle of Shanhaiguan, defeating the Russian army southward. This was also the greatest victory achieved by the People's Army. It was also after this battle that the People's Army had officially won the recognition of the armies of various countries. Before that, the People's Army had no success. All countries only recognized that the Navy of the Crossing Army was a maritime force that should not be despised. Therefore, the armored troops also became a trump card in the People's Army as the only army in the Crossing Army that remained fully organized.

As a latecomer, time travelers certainly know that the status of armored troops in the military and will be well-deserved kings of land warfare in the next hundred years. Although armored troops officially appeared on the battlefield in the old time and space, and they will have to wait until the late stage of World War I 15 years later, the technical foundation for developing armored vehicles is now available.

First of all, as the core technology of armored vehicles, the Otto cycle of the internal combustion engine, as well as the main representative products of diesel engines and gasoline engines, have all been invented and reached the level of four-cylinder and four-stroke; and representing the peak of the automobile industry in the old time and space, the founders of Mercedes-Benz, Friedrich Benz and Gottlieb Daimler, both established their own companies and launched their own representative products at this time. The automobile industry is the basis of armored vehicles, so it can be said that theoretically, there are basically no technical obstacles to manufacturing tanks and armored vehicles at this time, but they only need to be further improved or breakthroughs in local technology.

Although the development of armored vehicles is indeed a step late for the time traveler to start, considering that the automobile technology itself is still extremely immature at this time, and the biggest advantage of traveler is that it is familiar with the direction of historical development, including the development direction of science and technology. Therefore, when choosing science and technology, there is a clear direction for research and will not take detours or paths. In layman's terms, it is impossible to point out the wrong technology tree. Therefore, if traveler starts developing armored vehicles from now on and considers entering certain foreign technologies, it is expected that substantial results can be achieved in about ten years, so that it can overtake on the military and lead the world's advanced level.
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