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During the Spring Festival this year, Zhao Zhenzhong was particularly busy.

On the first and second grade of junior high school, Zhao Zhenzhong took Li Yuntian to Zhou Luxue, Sui Shiqing, Lord, James and others to pay New Year's greetings. Except for James who met Zhao Zhenzhong when he returned to China, the others met Zhao Zhenzhong for the first time after half a year, so they were naturally extremely enthusiastic. Through this New Year's greeting, Zhao Zhenzhong not only reached a consensus with Sui Shiqing, Lord, James and others on the development of Sihai Industry, but also received their promises to assist in the transportation of materials. This made Zhao Zhenzhong and Li Yuntian much easier.

In the third year of junior high school, Zhao Zhenzhong took some workers from Sihai Industrial Bicycle Factory to the warehouse of Qingdao Wharf to assemble cars. On the same day, Zhao Zhenzhong led everyone to assemble the four cars, and saw that the workers were familiar with the relevant procedures and could assemble them by themselves in accordance with the drawings, so he decided that the subsequent work would be done by themselves. In the fourth year of junior high school, Zhao Zhenzhong instructed Li Yuntian and Liu Chengshan to continue organizing personnel to unload the ship, and then rushed to the Yimeng base through Dazhushan again.

Since this time we brought a material transportation team to the base area, and we had to avoid the blockade line of Shandong authorities' troops, we set out from noon at the fourth day of the lunar month and did not enter the base area until the evening of the fifth day of the lunar month.

On the sixth day of the lunar month, Zhao Zhenzhong first did the first thing to set up a high-power radio station. After communicating with Zhou Tian, ​​Zhou Hao and others from the United States, he sent New Year greetings to overseas students in the United States through radio waves. Then, Zhao Zhenzhong briefly introduced the current situation of the base area to Zhou Tian and others, proposing that the construction of Huamei Company in domestic branches should be accelerated, and the construction of domestic base areas requires help in materials and equipment. At the same time, he also agreed on the time for regular contact between the two parties.

It was morning in this base area, and it was already night in New York. Zhou Tian and others, who had been concerned about Zhao Zhenzhong since leaving, were extremely happy after receiving the telegram taken by Zhao Zhenzhong. According to Zhao Zhenzhong's request, Zhou Tian, ​​Zhou Hao and others adjusted the material transportation arrangements and added corresponding equipment to the next batch of materials transported to China. Of course, it also accelerated the progress of Huamei Company to establish a branch in China.

After finishing all this, Zhao Zhenzhong summoned Gu Haichuan and others to discuss the future organization and air defense of the guards.

The Guards are not counted as engineer battalions that are busy with engineering construction. The combat force alone has reached more than 50,000, of which more than 46,000 people are in the Yimeng base area. In addition, there will be another 30,000 new recruits this year. If they are still organized according to the previous organization, they will obviously not be able to adapt to the needs of combat command. Besides, it is just a good opportunity to distribute more than 12,000 new recruits who passed the training before the New Year, and in one step, the organization framework of the Guards will be determined in the next few years.

At this meeting, the organization of the existing departments of the Guards has undergone major changes:

The Reconnaissance Brigade directly under the headquarters was reorganized into a special combat brigade, with the brigade commander Yang Tianming; the brigade has 5 brigades under the jurisdiction of the brigade, with a full 7,000 people, currently 4,900 people and a shortage of 2,100 people;

The two artillery battalions directly under the headquarters were added to the recruits and some command personnel were adjusted to form the artillery brigade of the Guard Army, and the brigade commander was appointed by Zou Degui. The brigade's commander was under the jurisdiction of three heavy artillery regiments, which should have 155 heavy artillery 24 and 105 heavy artillery 48, with an organization of 6,300 people. Now there is a shortage of 105 heavy artillery 12, and a shortage of 2,100 troops;

The two teaching brigades directly under the headquarters merged to form the escort army teaching brigade, and the brigade commander was appointed by Xu Chaoyuan. The brigade has 5 teaching battalions under its jurisdiction, with a staff of 3,000 people, with a current force of 1,400 people and a shortage of 1,600 people;

The Dazhushan Base Garrison and three artillery battalions merged to form the Dazhushan Garrison Brigade, with the brigade commander Liu Chengshan; the brigade commander is under the jurisdiction of two infantry regiments and one artillery regiment, with an organization of 7,200 people, with a current force of more than 4,600 people and a shortage of 2,600 people;

The five combat regiments were expanded into 5 combat divisions. In addition to the transfer of Liu Jifeng to replace Zou Degui as the division commander of the unit, the commanders of the other four divisions were all appointed by the original regiment commander; each division was composed of more than 15,000 people, with 4 infantry regiments and one artillery regiment; among which the infantry regiment was composed of 3,000 people per regiment, the artillery regiment was composed of 1,800 people, and the remaining 1,200 were directly under the division headquarters. Currently, the troops of each division are 8,020 people, and the shortage of 6,980 people.

After announcing the organizational adjustment plan with everyone, looking at everyone's expressions, Zhao Zhenzhong said: "The Americans now have more than 22,000 people in each division, which is more than 7,000 more than our organization, but each division has an auxiliary force of 3,4,000 people. If we really want to compare, the combat personnel of each division are not much smaller than them. Of course, this organization is adopted to adapt to the guards' combat in the Yimeng base area, and there is no need to consider too much engineering, medical soldiers, baggage soldiers, etc. If we want to open up bases in other places in the future, we must also add these auxiliary troops, and the number of personnel in each division will increase."

"Although there are many more than 12,000 people in total, we can only wait for the training of new recruits to be added. This year, in addition to doing regular training and learning local dialects, each division and brigade in the base area must have at least one battalion of troops to learn riding. At this stage, the maneuver power of cavalry is still an indispensable part of our domestic combat."

"But sir, there are not so many horses in our base area at all." Gu Haichuan reminded.

"I know this." Zhao Zhenzhong nodded and said, "I will go north in a few days to see if I can get some good horses from outside my mouth."

"Sir, the troops are short of troops, and can be supplemented by training new recruits. How can the 12 105-caliber heavy artillery pieces that are short of troops in the heavy artillery brigade be replenished?" Zou Degui asked.

"We will find ways to build the 105 heavy artillery that are missing in the future. Now each division has artillery, and the ones from the heavy artillery brigade are enough to solve the needs of the base area in artillery support." Zhao Zhenzhong finished speaking and joked again: "Zou Degui, he has lost the opportunity to be a division commander. Do you have any ideas?"

"Hehe, the division commander has nothing but the more soldiers he has, and it's not as satisfying as he is to fool those big guys." Zou Degui smiled proudly, "Sir, I said before, 'A cannon fires, 10,000 taels of gold', which is the business that suits me."

After hearing his words and looking at his complacent look, everyone present couldn't help laughing.

"Whether the division commander or the brigade commander is just a position set for the current needs." Zhao Zhenzhong said, "The Yimeng Base Area has limited the size of the guards to be too large due to population, area and other factors. However, after the second base is opened in the future, it will definitely be a good place for development and growth. At that time, we will have more infantry divisions and even artillery divisions, which need more commanders. As long as you work hard to improve yourself, you will definitely have the opportunity to let you play your abilities."

Zhao Zhenzhong's words made everyone here excited.

After the preparation problem was solved, Zhao Zhenzhong came up with the air defense combat plan he had formulated and handed it over to everyone for circulating. After everyone browsed it roughly, Zhao Zhenzhong explained the details of the issues.

"Sir, if we only rely on heavy machine guns to solve the problem, we may not have enough firepower in our units." Zhang Mingrui said after thinking about it.

"You can call some heavy machine guns from the equipment we stock first. After a while, the situation will improve after we get the large-caliber heavy machine guns we purchased." Zhao Zhenzhong said, "Now, it is enough to deal with the biplane equipped by various domestic forces with heavy machine guns."

The large-caliber machine gun that Zhao Zhenzhong mentioned refers to the 12.7-caliber air-cooled m2 heavy machine gun produced in the United States. Although the classic m2hb with heavy barrels has not yet been released, with the m2 as a basis, Zhao Zhenzhong is confident that he can let that classic be released in advance.

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Zhao Zhenzhong stayed in the base area for 3 days this time. On the evening of the eighth day of the lunar month, another person returned to Nanyao via Dazhu Mountain. On the morning of the ninth day of the lunar month, Zhao Zhenzhong and Li Yuntian rushed to the Mobil special wharf and prepared to take a boat north to Tianjin together. There were also 10,000 tons of grain and 30 assembled trucks heading north with the ship.

However, when James, who accompanied Zhao Zhenzhong to the north, he looked at the 20,000 tons in front of him and said to Zhao Zhenzhong with a wry smile: "Zhao, this ship is too big to go to Tianjin. The dock over there cannot dock such a large ship at all."

After hearing James' words, Zhao Zhenzhong and Li Yuntian looked at each other and said in surprise: "No way? Tianjin is a big port, why can't they dock 20,000 tons of ships?"

"Zhao, Tianjin is indeed a big port, but the berths there are basically only docked ships below 3,000 tons, and a few can docked ships at 5,000 tons. As for berths that can dock ships of 10,000 tons, there is no one there." James shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands and said, "It's the Qingdao side. If Courtmann hadn't heard White's words, dredged the channel and increased the water depth near the dock, he wouldn't have stopped more than 20,000 tons of ships."

"Good things are so hard." Zhao Zhenzhong smiled bitterly, "Mr. James, can you help find a suitable transport ship as soon as possible now? You know, these foods are used to help disaster victims. If they can be transported one day earlier, they will starve many people to death."

"Zhao, I can try it out at other ships, but if you want to rent a ship as soon as possible, you will have to pay a certain fee for the other party." James said.

"As long as you can transport it as soon as possible, the cost will not be a problem." Zhao Zhenzhong said helplessly.

The construction of Tianjin Harbour Wharf was indeed very early, but before the 1930s, most of the wharfs were brick or stone wood structures, with a water depth of about 5 meters and could only dock more than 2,000 tons of ships. Of course, there were also a few wharfs built with concrete that could dock about 5,000 tons of ships, but that was basically controlled by foreigners.

Seeing James contacting the cargo ship, Zhao Zhenzhong sighed: "It seems that we still need to build our own special dock."

"It's really inconvenient for us to use other people's docks." Li Yuntian also nodded in agreement, "Uncle Master, it seems that we have to organize manpower to unload and load the ship."

"After James found the ship, he stopped unloading the steel and copper ingots, and concentrated on loading the grain stored in the warehouse and the assembled cars onto the ship he found. After finishing the work here, he was busy unloading other supplies." Zhao Zhenzhong said, "We will have to delay at least one day."

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On the afternoon of the tenth day of the lunar month, Zhao Zhenzhong and others took a cargo ship with a load of 3,000 tons found by James, and left Qingdao Pier with grain and trucks to Tianjin together. They began his journey north and west.
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