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Chapter 219: Military Reform Again

[If there is still monthly ticket on the last day of this month, please throw it to Hengyi...]

Compared with the responses under the Ming court, the People's Army and the Ming court's armistice response was smaller under the People's Army's rule. It was probably because the People's Army had defeated the Ming army so many times that this armistice could no longer surprise people.

The truce has come, and hundreds of thousands of People's Army can rest and recuperate. Many People's Army soldiers have not returned home for half a year. This time, they can take vacations in batches to go home.

At the same time, Fang Nan wanted to adjust the organization of the People's Army again, mainly to adjust the army.

Currently, the People's Army has three armies, namely Wang Shengrong's First Army, Yan Han's Second Army, and He Yan's Third Army.

An army has several firearms troops under its jurisdiction, several first landing troops, several grenadier troops, several cold weapons troops, as well as female soldiers, medical teams, etc.

Each branch is under the jurisdiction of the Group Army Headquarters and is commanded by the Group Army Headquarters during combat. If a small-scale battle is carried out, a firearm unit with a certain force can be mobilized, and a mixed force can be formed to carry out combat missions.

The main reason for the current military system is that the number of firearms troops is too small. However, as the output of various firearms in Foshan Arsenal increases, the current military system will gradually become inapplicable, and Fang Nan wants to gradually reorganize the People's Army again.

The main thing is to put the various troops together to form a mixed division. One division is a combat unit, which can perform small and medium-sized combat tasks, and multiple divisions form a group army to perform large-scale combat tasks.

Fang Nan convened Hu Zhuang, Zhou Yi and others from the Ministry of War for discussion, and finally determined the plan for the restructuring of the People's Army.

The most important thing in the reform plan is the basic combat unit of the People's Army - Division.

One division general has a musket regiment, a heavy artillery regiment, a first-row regiment, a grenade regiment, two ordinary (cold weapons) regiments, plus the division headquarters, a division has a total of more than 8,000 people.

The musket regiment, heavy artillery regiment, first boarding regiment, and the grenade regiment are the main combat forces, and the two ordinary regiments are combat auxiliary, and can fight on the battlefield, and are often responsible for logistics.

A division that has been adapted must have the strength to defeat 20,000 enemies on the battlefield and can withstand at least 30,000 enemies' attacks.

Basically, it can be seen that from the time the People's Army raised the flag to the present, musketeers are still the absolute main force of the People's Army. Fang Nan really wished that every People's Army soldier would be equipped with a tiger-headed spear.

Hu Zhuang repeatedly said that he would give him a 100,000 army, and as long as there were 10,000 musketeers, he would be able to fight from Guangdong to the capital. If the 100,000 army was all musketeers, the entire Ming Dynasty would be overthrown by the People's Army.

However, even if the People's Army is given three years to produce tiger-headed guns, it will not be able to equip the 100,000 troops.

In July, Foshan Arsenal produced more than 1,400 tiger-headed guns. By the past month, the monthly output of tiger-headed guns had reached more than 1,600. If there was no major change, the monthly output of tiger-headed guns in Foshan Arsenal would not exceed 2,000 within a year, and it was almost reaching an upper limit.

In three years, it is estimated that in three years, the People's Army will have 320,000 troops of forty divisions. Forty divisions will require forty musket regiments and more than 40,000 tiger-headed guns. With the production capacity of Foshan Arsenal, there is no problem at all.

The tiger-headed guns produced by Foshan Arsenal were almost dropped and sent to the front line. Subtracting the damaged and irreparable tiger-headed guns, the number of tiger-headed guns equipped by the People's Army has reached 14,000, which is a relatively high number.

When the People's Army raised the flag, there was only one musket corps and more than one thousand tiger-headed guns. This was built in several years. As the People's Army occupied Foshan and obtained a large number of craftsmen, the production of tiger-headed guns increased rapidly, from dozens of tiger-headed guns a month to hundreds a month, and then to thousands a month.

Among them, hydraulic machine tools have also made great contributions to the production of tiger head guns.

At present, the People's Army's troops and equipment number of tiger-headed guns have reached Hu Zhuang's goal, and they can hit the Ming court's lair all the way, but this plan is not very useful, and logistics supply is a very serious problem. Even if the capital is captured, the Ming court has not been destroyed. Instead, the war has had a huge impact on the land of China. I don't know how many people will die due to the war.

The People's Army was very clear about the fact that the Ming court expanded its army. Even the agents of the Military Intelligence Department made trouble under the Ming court, spreading news such as "the Ming army was defeated and would die when they went to the battlefield", slowing down the Ming court's cross-army.

The activities of the agents did play a lot of role. Originally, many families who were unable to eat enough wanted to join the Ming army, but because they were afraid of death and refused to go, many local governments had to start arresting the strong men in order to complete the above tasks, and a lot of chaos arose.

The Ming court claimed to expand its army by one million. No one knew how much the Ming court would expand its army in the end, nor did they know how powerful the new army was. All the People's Army could do was to continuously increase its own strength. With the tiger-headed guns that were constantly equipped, the People's Army would have the confidence to defeat the Ming army with increasing troops.

When the People's Army changes, the People's Navy will also change, mainly by gradually expanding the scale of the naval fleet and preparing for the future development of the People's Army. Even if the large-scale development of the navy may take five or even ten years later, if there is no certain foundation, it will be much more difficult to develop the navy on a large scale in the future.

The Navy cannot always use transformed civilian ships as warships. The Ministry of Industry has control over several "large" shipyards, from some wealthy families searched when occupying Guangdong. Some shipyards have built warships for the Ming Navy, and now they can build several warships for the Navy.

In addition, Fang Nan also wants to train a group of ship designers to prepare for the birth of steam engines and steam ships.

The People's Army is very concerned about the Ming Navy. Western countries have embarked on a great voyage and shipbuilding technology has developed rapidly. However, in the waters around the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Navy is still the strongest. The navy of Western countries comes from afar and will definitely not be the opponent of the Ming Navy. As for the two countries that concentrate all ships to fight decisively, this has never happened, and no one can determine the outcome.

As long as you know that the Ming Navy is very strong, the People's Navy, which was not long after it was born, is far from the opponent of the Ming Navy, so Fang Nan mainly gave the navy the task. He rarely had long-distance missions, and he was afraid of meeting the Ming Navy.

The People's Army had been fighting with the Ming court, but the Ming Dynasty did not send a navy to attack the People's Army from the direction of the sea. However, no one could determine whether the Ming Dynasty would send a navy to fight after the outbreak of the next war. At that time, the People's Navy would still not be the opponent of the Ming Navy, and the People's Army's shore defense still needs attention.
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