After spending several days making the Iranians understand the role they would play in future wars, Cai E and Forooji finally began to discuss specific issues. "Based on your country's economic situation and personnel base, China believes that

The number of troops your country maintains before the war breaks out should not exceed 400,000.

Too few are not conducive to military expansion and fighting, while too many are beyond the limit that your country can bear." China wants to defend northern Iran, so it does not want Iran to lose all its human resources in this war, let alone

In wartime, it is not that the more cannon fodder, the better. Cannon fodder also needs equipment and food.

The scale of this peacetime force was formulated by Xu Jie based on the historical situation of Iran. You must know that historically Iran only had about 10 army divisions in World War II, and they were not the large-scale divisions in the West.

Before the collapse of the Pahlavi dynasty, the size of Iran's entire army was only about 450,000. Now China's quota of 400,000 for Iran is quite high. And even if the 400,000 troops exclude the air force,

In addition to the Navy and the Navy, the remaining troops will also be divided into two types of troops. One is the defensive troops with poor equipment, low training level, and lack of mobility. They will be stationed in major cities and fortification areas to serve as defense and defense forces in key areas.

To ensure the stability of the rear, probably less than 150,000 of the troops are used for field operations. These troops will be equipped with heavy equipment and sufficient vehicles to ensure mobility, and will serve as an important auxiliary force for the Chinese Army.

After looking at China's equipment list, Forooji expressed his disbelief at China's request for the Iranian Army to equip a large number of armored vehicles and trucks. According to his understanding, these "excessive" trucks and armored vehicles were used to replace machine guns and artillery.

It will be larger. It is difficult for Forugi to understand why the tonnage and cost of the tanks equipped for infantry are not weaker than the Type 26 tanks. Could it be that these infantry cannot ride on heavy-duty trucks and have to hide in a thick tin can?

?

"When fighting against the highly mobile German Army with relatively limited troops, we also need to have a large number of transportation vehicles. Otherwise, these troops will be trapped in strongholds and be slaughtered by others. As for armored vehicles, they will be like isolated troops.

? In the eyes of our Chinese army, the value of weapons is lower than personnel. As long as there are enough

With the industry and raw materials, it only takes a few days for a tank to start from cutting steel plates to being fully assembled off the assembly line. The assembly line allows most weapons to be mass-produced, but not the personnel. Veterans and experienced officers are the only ones.

They are the skeleton of an army. In order to protect these precious resources, it is not a luxury at all to equip them with armored personnel carriers.

What's more, tanks require the cooperation of infantry, so we must provide the infantry with a platform with certain firepower and good mobility." Cai E's tone was very gentle, but the doubtful decision revealed in it made Foruji

I had to give up my own ideas.

"We will focus on building two mechanized infantry divisions. Their equipment level will be no lower than China's ordinary mechanized infantry divisions, and they will have more self-propelled anti-armor firepower. Their firepower standards are between mechanized infantry divisions and armored divisions.

.The full establishment of each division will be around 15,000 people, although they will not be assigned a complete heavy

Tank battalions, but we will still ensure that they have four fully formed armored battalions, two of which will be medium tank battalions, and the other two battalions will be tank destroyer battalions." Since it is the main auxiliary force of the Chinese army, then

This force must be able to take on certain heavy responsibilities when necessary! So you must not be stingy on equipment.

These two armored divisions will be the main auxiliary force for China to attack the Kirkuk area. They will be responsible for the security of the flanks of the Chinese armored forces. In terms of preparation, although there is no heavy tank battalion, it has been replaced by a tank destroyer battalion.

, so it will perform better than tanks in defensive operations. According to the understanding of the Chinese Army, you can't attack, but you can always stick to your position and shoot black guns?

Not only in terms of tanks, but also in terms of self-propelled anti-tank guns and long-range artillery. Compared with the ordinary Chinese armored divisions, these two divisions have not shrunk much. Although the number of long-range artillery with a range of about 25km is less, they have increased a lot.

caliber mortars and grenades

The number of guns is not much worse than that of the Chinese Armored Division in terms of medium and short-range firepower projection. Because the Iranians love rocket launchers, weapons with simple structures, ferocious firepower, and low prices. The number of rocket launchers in the Iranian division is even greater than that of the Chinese Armored Division.

There are even more armored divisions.

What has really shrunk more seriously is the infantry fighting vehicles in each mechanized infantry battalion. The number of infantry fighting vehicles in the Iranian Armored Division is only about half of that of the Chinese Armored Division. Although the number of armored personnel carriers is more, it is definitely not more than 80%. This

The reason is naturally that Iran lacks sufficient funds to

Purchasing these seemingly "less important" weapons. On the other hand, it is unnecessary. China does not need the Iranian Army to rush to the front line. They are more covering the flanks and rear, and the threats they face are relatively small.

Therefore, in this case, the use of heavy-duty vehicles to transport infantry was tolerated.

In terms of heavy equipment, the two Iranian armored divisions are more or less inferior to the Chinese, but in terms of light weapons, especially 60mm and 82mm company platoon mortars, the equipment of the Iranian infantry is definitely not worse than the Chinese, at least on a large scale in the Chinese

This was the case before the introduction of assault rifles. Some of these weapons were allocated from the Chinese arsenal, while others were produced under license. The number of semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns in each infantry squad

The amount of firepower is almost half. This firepower standard even exceeds the level of ordinary infantry squads of the German Army. China and Germany both have mg machine guns, and except for machine guns, the German infantry is equipped with Mauser rifles and submachine guns in half, which is naturally not as good as these two.

The Iranian armored division and China have a high firepower density. As for assault rifles? These things can only be equipped on a large scale by well-oiled paratroopers. Does the German Army have any plans to replace them on a large scale?

According to the standard of 150,000 field troops, these two divisions have about 30,000 people. After excluding some logistics units and military-level units, there are still about 100,000 personnel. These troops are enough to form about 8

Infantry divisions are used to fill defense lines and defenses. Compared with the two armored divisions that China and Iran have focused on building, the remaining ordinary infantry divisions have better mobility and

In terms of firepower, they are quite inferior. To a certain extent, they are also considered defense-focused troops. In order to save costs, most of the armored units equipped by these troops are assault guns or tank destroyers, and the number of tanks is small.

.The number of long-range artillery has been further reduced, and howitzers, mortars and even infantry artillery are used to make up for it. At the same time, the infantry weapons are also inferior.

In addition to the established troops, China also plans to establish a specialized armored firefighting team for the Iranian troops. Except for the two elite armored divisions, according to Chinese standards, the mobile anti-armor firepower of other Iranian troops can be described as lacking.

.At the same time, considering that the Germans are also equipped with infantry fighting vehicles, these fast-running vehicles will pose a huge threat to the truck guns with poor defense. Therefore, in order to make up for the lack of mobile anti-armor firepower, China established a

Several independent anti-armor teams

In addition to equipping a certain amount of tank destroyers, some Type 26 medium tanks, assault guns and infantry fighting vehicles will also be arranged to cooperate with the tank destroyers. After all, before entering the position, a tank destroyer without a turret is better than a tank.

more likely to suffer

When ambushed by the opponent's tanks and infantry, tank destroyers are only better than tanks when using black guns! What's more, this unit not only has to make up for the lack of anti-armor firepower, but also separates the opponent's army and anti-infantry when necessary.

Firepower is also important.

This is the arrangement of the Army. As for the Air Force, China divided the Iranian Air Force into two parts to form two aviation armies. Each air force has about 400 aircraft. One of the parts is naturally the frontline air force, which is used for

To undertake the task of theater prevention and control, in addition to some transport, reconnaissance and liaison aircraft, the remaining main force of the entire aviation force is divided into 15 squadrons.

, the number of fighter jets in each squadron is between 16 and 20. Another aviation force is deployed on the coast of the Caspian Sea. In addition to 8 fighter squadrons responsible for coastal air defense operations, this aviation force also has about 4 torpedo aircraft.

and dive bomber squadrons. The main mission of these attack aircraft is to ensure the safety of the Caspian Sea route. They also serve as the seed force of the Iranian naval aviation.

It stands to reason that it is necessary for Iran, a country with a small sea area, to develop a large navy? Generally speaking, it is not necessary. Even Xu Jie believes that it was unnecessary to order 4 Kidd-class warships from the United States during the Pahlavi Dynasty.

, think about it, the 1970s and 1980s

00-ton destroyer, equipped with anti-ship missiles, Standard 2, anti-submarine helicopters and towed sonar, Dadongdong. Why would Iran buy them? Are there any powerful naval hostile forces in the Middle East? No! Iran has a vast sea area that needs to be protected.

No? No!

But this dimension is different. Due to political reasons, China cannot openly organize a fleet to fight against the Allies in the Iran War. Germany is taboo about completely falling out with the Allies, and China is also taboo about completely falling out with the Allies.

Therefore, China needs to arm Iran. As for whether the Iranian navy's military port can be saved, this is not a matter for China to consider. It can escape before the war breaks out.

Just go out, the port is definitely not available. As for how much of the fleet can be left, it really depends on the level of the Iranians. On the one hand, the purpose of the Iranian fleet is to threaten the maritime transportation lines of the Allies, and on the other hand, it is to let

Germany turned its attention to the northeast and entered into a fight with the British. The latter even had a higher priority than the former. Xu Jie was even ready to make the Iranian fleet useless!

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