Although the disaster relief is mainly responsible by Shanghai **, Qingdao's East China ** also attaches great importance to this disaster relief operation, because this is the first large-scale disaster relief operation in East China, and it also has huge political goals. It is carried out on the territory of the Qing court. The situation is extremely complicated. Therefore, the Shanghai disaster relief command headquarters will send a report to Qingdao every day to introduce the disaster relief situation. The Qingdao Executive Yuan will also avoid a certain amount of time every day to discuss reports sent by Shanghai and study disaster relief issues.

The Shanghai Disaster Relief Command Headquarters sent inspection teams and interview teams to the disaster relief camp, and also stated that the first phase of the disaster relief work has basically ended, and the disaster victim shelter camps have basically been established. The next step is to shelter more victims and try their best to organize the victims to prepare for production and self-rescue after the flood recedes. Therefore, the Shanghai Disaster Relief Command Headquarters also sent a phased summary report to East China **.

East China ** also organized personnel to discuss the report and gave high praise to the work of the Shanghai Disaster Relief Command Headquarters. Because the disaster victim shelter camp has been fully launched and more than 600,000 victims have been accommodated, which has achieved quite good substantive and social results.

Wang Yunpeng said: "They did a good job this time! They were able to turn disaster relief work into this situation in more than a month."

Xu Jichao also said: "Yes! Now our disaster relief operation has achieved good social results. To be honest, from the perspective of social effects, the influence of this disaster relief operation is no less than the victory of a war."

Xia Bohai said: "So far, the effect is indeed good, which also shows that our original decision was correct. However, the achievements we have made so far have been carried out without any interference. This is because the Qing court's reaction was too slow, and the local officials of the Qing court were unwilling to be troublesome. Our disaster relief operations have helped the local officials of the Qing court to a certain extent to solve the problem of the victims, so our disaster relief work has not been disturbed much. But now the Qing court has obviously reacted. In Beijing, the Qing court has already made a request to stop the disaster relief, and in the local area, Anhui Governor Enming has ordered local officials to expel our disaster relief personnel. Now it seems that the next one is the real test."

Wang Yunpeng said: "Yes, there may be complex struggles later, and we need to be more careful."

Xu Jichao said: "What actions will the Qing court take against us? Will the troops attack our camp?"

Wang Yunpeng shook his head and said, "I don't think this possibility is great, because we have stationed troops in every camp, and it is difficult for the Qing court to transfer the Beiyang New Army from Hebei. The strongest army in the Yangtze River Basin was the Hubei New Army founded when Zhang Zhidong was still alive, but the total force was less than 20,000. Moreover, the governor of Huguang Zhao Erxun is a smart person. It is impossible to mobilize the Hubei New Army to attack our camp at this time. Except for the Hubei New Army, the troops in other places are not enough to filter. Of course, it is estimated that officials in these places dare not start a war against us. I am afraid that other methods will be used to deal with us. After all, this approach is too passive in public opinion."

Xu Jichao said: "So what method will be used to deal with us?"

Wang Yunpeng said: "According to the calculations of the Ministry of Security, we can use local bandit forces or disaster victims who have already had large-scale riots to deal with us, so that the government can put aside the trouble and avoid many troubles."

Xia Bohai nodded and said, "Notify the Shanghai Disaster Relief Command Headquarters to require all disaster relief camps to strengthen security, and require the Ministry of Security to strengthen intelligence collection and provide early warnings to the disaster camps in advance."

Wang Yunpeng said: "Yes."

Xia Bohai said again: "How is the situation in the Northeast? Things in the Northeast should be almost done now. You can transfer Lao Qin back. Now we still need Lao Qin."

Xiao Jianjun said: "He is discussing the army reform with the command center. As long as this matter is finished, Lao Qin can come back."

After the People's Army defeated the Mongolian army and occupied Chifeng, the situation in the Northeast was basically settled. The last thing was the army's restructuring. The reason for putting the army's restructuring work in the Northeast was because the Northeast region was vast and bordering Russia, North Korea, Mongolia and other places. Now about 60% of the troops in East China are all arranged to be stationed in the Northeast region. Even if the army's restructuring is completed, the Northeast Management Committee and the Northeast Theater Command, the two temporary war institutions, the Northeast Theater Command, have withdrawn, and sufficient troops must be maintained in the Northeast region. Therefore, the army's restructuring is completed in the Northeast region to ensure that after the restructuring, sufficient troops are still maintained in the Northeast region.

Now the People's Army has a total of 6 armies, each with 4 divisions, 2-3 reserve regiments, and several other auxiliary regiments, so there are 24 divisions and 15 regiments, with a total force of about 450,000.

Of course, there are many such troops. If it were before the Far East War, there were even more. However, the total territory of East China now reaches 3.5 million square kilometers and has a population of more than 85 million. The army's troops should be kept at around 600,000 to be enough.

Although the Far East War was won, the Army, like the Navy, had many problems in organization and needed some modifications and adjustments.

The first problem is the size of the army. Now the organizational force of an army is between 70,000 and 75,000, which is not a big problem in large-scale wars. However, in small and medium-sized wars, there is a bit of embarrassment of not being able to go up or down, because if you are dealing with small-scale wars, the 70,000 troops are obviously too much, and it is not enough to deal with medium-sized wars and other large-scale wars.

The Army Department decided to reduce the size of the original army and officially named it the Field Army. At the same time, like the Marine Corps, the brigade level is also added to the army, so that the configuration and mobilization of troops is more flexible. One field army has 2 divisions, 1 brigade, and an artillery regiment. In addition, according to the actual situation of each field army's garrison, it can also be equipped with troops such as cavalry regiments, heavy artillery regiments, armored trains, etc. The force of a field army can be controlled between 45,000 and 45,000 left. Now the East China ** Army has a total of 12 field troops, with a total of about 500,000 troops, plus the Shanghai Marine Corps' more than 80,000 troops, with a total of about 600,000 troops. This army scale is also in line with the current region and population of East China **.

However, the field army is the basic organization of the People's Army. Above the field army, a group army is set up. Two larger organizations of the Front Army. In peacetime and small-scale wars, it is enough to only maintain the organization of the field army; when a medium-scale war occurs, 2-3 field army is concentrated to form a group army; when a large-scale war occurs, 3-5 group armies are concentrated to form a front army to deal with it. In this way, the People's Army Army forms a three-level organization of the field army-group army-front to deal with wars of different scales.

There is another issue that is not the army organization, but because the territory of East China is now greatly increased, and the Northeast, Shanghai, and Borneo are not connected to Shandong. Therefore, the military arrangement and defense zone need to be reasonably allocated and arranged. Of course, Borneo is an island, and the Marine Corps is currently stationed. The army can ignore it for the time being, but how to allocate the troops stationed in Northeast China. In addition, East China has formulated a plan to overthrow the Qing court and establish a new China. Considering the arrangement of the army, the defense zone must also take into account the adjustments after the establishment of the new China. This adjustment is as small as possible, so don't start over again.

After discussion, the Army Department decided to set up five military regions in the northeast, southeast, central, northwest and southwest. After the establishment of the New China, these five military regions can be directly corresponding to the arrangements across the country.

At present, the troops distributed in the 5 military regions are:

The Northeast Military Region, commander Qiu Yahui, has the 2nd, 7th, 8th, and 10th Field Army; stationed in the Northeast region, with the headquarters in Shenyang; each field army is equipped with a cavalry regiment, the 2nd and 8th Field Army is equipped with a train unit, and the 7th, 10th Field Army is equipped with heavy artillery regiments. The task of this military region is to guard the Northeast region. Since the guard area is the largest and borders with Russia, North Korea and Mongolia, it is also arranged with the most troops. Of course, the Northeast region also requires so many troops.

The Southeast Military Region, commander Liu Tie, was in charge of the 1st and 9th Field Army; he was stationed in Shanghai, with the headquarters in Shanghai. The mission of this military region was of course to guard Shanghai and also to manage the Yangtze River Basin. However, since Shanghai itself is not big and there are Marines stationed in the military region, the military region only has two armies, and the combat direction is mainly in rivers and lakes, so there are no cavalry or heavy artillery regiments.

The Central Military Region, commander Zhang Zhengjie, has the 3rd, 4th, and 11th Field Army; stationed in Shandong, with the headquarters in Qingdao, including a cavalry regiment of the 3rd Field Army, the 3rd Field Army is equipped with a train unit, and the 11th Field Army is equipped with a heavy artillery regiment. The task of this military region is to guard Shandong, which is the center of East China, and its troops are naturally strong. In addition, the garrisoned Marines are not much worse than that of the Northeast Military Region.

The Southwest Military Region, commander Jin Suidong, has the 6th and 12th Field Army; stationed in Henan, with the headquarters in Luoyang, each field army is equipped with a cavalry regiment, and the 6th Field Army is equipped with a heavy artillery regiment. The task of this military region is to guard Henan and cut off the north-south connection between the Qing court. The two field armies are indeed a little less, but Henan is connected to Shandong. In fact, Shandong's garrison forces are somewhat oversupply and can support Henan at any time.
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