Ma Xicheng said this and flipped through the folders and continued: "There are two other Japanese mountain cannons that are designed to be very effective. One is Meiji Type 41, with a diameter of 75 mm, a total weight of 725 kilograms, a total length of 4.32 meters, a width of 1.2 meters, a barrel length of 1.32 meters (18 diameters), a number of 10 people, a maximum shooting elevation angle -8~25 degrees, a maximum firing rate of 10 rounds/min, an initial velocity of 360 meters/second, and a maximum range of 6,300 meters. The types of ammunition are usually equipped with ammunition (grenades), grenade shots, armor-piercing bombs, armor-piercing bombs, and white phosphorus bombs. According to our intelligence, the Japanese army used this cannon at a brigade level, with a special squadron, four gates, and each cannon is equipped with six mules and horses.

The other is a 150mm 12-caliber howitzer (imitated with Japanese Meiji Type 38), with a length of 1800mm, and a two-wheeled single-legged gun mount, with unknown bolts. The ranks weigh 1850 kilograms, and are pulled by six horses, equipped with grenades and armor-piercing grenades, which are divided into one, two and three loads, with an initial velocity of 275,200,150 meters per second, and a maximum range of 5900 meters. We got this kind of gun through the relationship between Shanghai, and tried it at the test booth. It is very good to use for attack. The general city wall can be knocked down with just one shot. Both guns can be imitated, but my suggestion is to design two guns that belong to us based on these two Japanese guns to meet the needs of our army's use."

Ma Xicheng drank a sip of water and entered the last and most critical part of his speech: "Master, and everyone here, the most important thing to improve our army's firepower is to reduce the firepower configuration that originally belonged to the division level to the regiment level, and reconfigure the division level firepower. Last night we worked overtime until late at night. After summing up with Minister Wan, the conclusion that all the mortars of the regiment level were all allocated to the battalion company level, and the platoon level was equipped with grenade cannons and a small number of mortars. The original division level was allocated to the regiment level, and the original division level was allocated to the regiment level, and each regiment was unified into ten. In terms of quantity alone, we have already overwhelmed the Japanese wing. At the same time, in order to ensure the range of the regiment's firepower, I suggest that the regiment level be equipped with five 29 times mountain cannons. As for the division level, the division level was based on thirty new guns that imitated and upgraded 41 guns and ten new howitzers, the division level firepower line

The installation is relatively slow, and we need to train enough qualified artillery and artillery observers to complete it in one go. At the same time, I would like to ask everyone to pay attention that once such a large-scale installation is carried out, the entire army's funds will be tilted towards the artillery without hesitation. Once the cannon is fired, the shell and the barrel are worth tens of thousands of taels of gold. The original infantry weapons are only worth the money. The only thing we can do is to absorb the defects of the Hanyang manufacturing, return the current Hanyang manufacturing to factory processing, and reduce the faults during use. The subsequent rifles are mostly designed and produced according to this. In terms of machine guns, we can only make up for the shortcomings of heavy machine guns by increasing the production number of light machine guns. After all, a heavy machine gun is too expensive, about 20,000 yuan. My report is completed, thank you everyone."

No one applauded, and everyone was shocked by this firepower upgrade plan. If this was true, then what else could be fought in the future? A heavy artillery bombardment was scrambled, and the infantry took a walk to receive the position. This kind of firepower configuration is probably even if Japan, the most powerful army in Asia, is coming. It's so awesome.

Wan Yaohuang was happy when he saw everyone being stupid. He stood up and said, "Minister Ma didn't say anything just now. Let me add that if we arm our youth army according to this new configuration, then the current division and regiment level need to be supplemented with a large number of transport personnel. In this way, the original plan to rely on civilians and husbands to cooperate in combat will become unrealistic, and it is easy to cause problems. It is amazing to mix into spies and other things. So I think the current division and regiment level personnel should also be expanded. In general, each division must be expanded from more than 16,000 to 20,000 or 22,000 people so that our firepower can be maximized. After all, if the ammunition is not supplied, these heavy weapons can only be used as decorations. And once this is configured, our army will depend on traffic conditions more severely than the Beiyang Army."

Everyone whispered again. It was obvious that neither Ma Xicheng nor Wan Yaohuang agreed with Wang Zhenyu's idea of ​​building the army, especially when Anjiang has spent a lot of money, built railways and started industries, but only input and output, these senior officials have already believed that the commander had gone to the misunderstanding of the Westernization Movement.

Wang Zhenyu felt silent in his heart. It seemed that the road to modernization of the army was really difficult to walk.

It is so difficult to promote a cannon. If you play with planes and tanks in the future, your grandsons will all jump out and accuse me of being a prodigal person.

Wang Zhenyu felt that he had to say something, but the problem was that he was the boss now, so it was easy to express his opinion. He suppressed everyone as soon as he said it, but there were also taboos. If you say too much, it would be useless.

Wang Zhenyu's eyes swept gently over everyone present, and he wanted to see who could come out to answer Wan Yaohuang and Ma Xicheng's worries.

Otherwise, smart people will always show their heads. When Wang Zhenyu's eyes swept to Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi sitting on the other side of the round table, Bai Chongxi stood up very cleverly and said, "Master, Bei Zhi believes that this plan is very good and should be implemented and implemented, and it must continue to be upgraded and strengthened in this process."

Several big guys looked at Bai Chongxi, as if they were a little unhappy with the boy's speech. Wang Zhenyu patted the table and said, "Jiansheng, please give your point of view more details, I'll listen."

Since the Marshal wants to listen, even if everyone has any objections, they can only concentrate on listening to Bai Chongxi's words.

"Master and all the commanders, please look at the sand table. If we fight with the Beiyang Army in the future, the areas that may be fighting may be concentrated in the southern regions. Although these places do not have northern railways as their support, we also have convenient transportation to use, that is, waterways. Hunan's four rivers will be located in Dongting Lake and Guangxi's Youjiang directly to Guangzhou. This is destined to be very convenient for our army to mobilize in the future. As for the future, there will be a major railway artery in the north, this problem is even more not a problem. Moreover, if our army wants to be invincible in the future, the most fundamental thing is to be strong and not rely on the wisdom of the generals and the fighting will of the soldiers. These two things can certainly have amazing effects, but in the final analysis, they do not conform to military principles. We still have to put some effort and take some thought into weapons and equipment, so I think it is necessary to upgrade the firepower."

"Okay, okay, very good." As soon as Bai Chongxi finished speaking, Wang Zhenyu took the lead in applauding, and then said three good things in one breath.

Of course, everyone could only agree, after all, no one was so stupid that he couldn't get along with the coach.

Wang Zhenyu stood up at this time: "Let's take a look at the sand table and see why we need to upgrade our firepower. I can tell you clearly that not only equipment, but also in many aspects we must start to build our youth army into the world's number one strong army. This is the focus and core of today's meeting."

Then Wang Zhenyu took the baton from Huang Shaohong and clicked in three places: Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong: "Whether or not, these three places are our next expansion direction, my plan may be told to everyone, but please keep it confidential, if there is no accident, the war will break out at the end of the fourth year of the Republic of China (1915). So after you go back, you will make all kinds of preparations with this purpose. For specific work, the General Staff and the Military Department of Anjiang will also coordinate. Once the war begins, my plan is to divide the troops into two groups and engage in a strategic decisive battle with the Beiyang Army on two battlefields."

Wang Zhenyu first walked to the Guangxi map, and the officers stood up one after another, pushed away the chairs, and followed the commander.

"My idea is that before July 4, 2018, our current eight field divisions will complete full-unit and various military training tasks. At that time, our army will reach between 180,000 or 200,000. We will set up three left, middle and right armies, among which the left armies are empty, and make a feint attack on Hubei; the middle armies are real, focusing on attacking the Sixth Division and Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army currently stationed in Hunan. The purpose of the operation is to capture the entire territory of Hunan, and the decisive battle area is expected to be in the area of ​​the decisive battle. Changde, Yiyang, and Xiangtan areas, if friendly forces appear in this process, half of the troops will be divided into Jiangxi, and then the other half of the middle army will join forces to attack the left army in Jingzhou to take Wuhan together. I analyzed that by that time, Wuhan may have a vacant defense, but it is not ruled out that Feng Guozhang, who is in Nanjing, will send the Fourth and Fifth Divisions to Wuhan to support, so this requires a strategic decisive battle in Wuhan. Heart, the right army set out directly from Guangxi, and took Guangdong to defeat Long Jiguang with one goal. Considering the strength of the civilian army there, I hope to take Huizhou at the lowest point and strangle the passage from northern Guangdong to Guangzhou. As for northern Guangdong, it would be fine to leave Sun Dapao and others. If the first stage progresses smoothly and the four divisions of the Beiyang Army were defeated by us, then in the next second stage, our goal is to go down the river. Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai must all be taken. Since our troops are limited and we have combat tasks, my opinion is to recruit some soldiers in Guangxi who do not meet the requirements of the field army but can meet the requirements of the security forces, and the number of people is about 50,000. Their mission is to protect the political work teams sent by our Guoshu Party after the field army and receive the local governments in the liberation area. Considering some special circumstances in these areas, local autonomy policies will not be implemented for the time being."

The senior generals of the Youth Army no longer remember how many times they were shocked today, but the general's huge plan still shocked them again. This general has such a big appetite.
Chapter completed!