Chapter 84 The Birth of the Northeast Expeditionary Coalition
The topic of Japan came to an end. The topic came back to the issue of sending troops to the Far East and Mongolia. Li Changgeng asked the Feng army to send five divisions to the Far East and formed five reserve divisions. Heilongjiang sent five divisions and one cavalry brigade, and five reserve divisions were also formed. He also formed the General Command of the Northeast Expeditionary Alliance, Zhang Zuolin was the Commander-in-Chief of the Alliance, Li Changgeng served as the Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Jiang Baili served as the Chief of General Staff, Sun Liechen, and Xu Lanzhou served as the Deputy Chief of General Staff. Cao Rulin, who had just been burned, ran to the Northeast and was appointed by Li Changgeng as the Foreign Affairs Chief of the Alliance, Yang Du was appointed as the General Secretary of the Alliance Army, and Wang Yongjiang served as the Logistics Minister of the Alliance Army. With the finalization of the Northeast coalition, the matter of sending troops to the Far East and Mongolia was brought to the table one by one. Of course, the first thing was naturally the issue of coordination and unification of the army.
The organization and equipment of the two provinces at the division level are the same, and the 5535 system of the master regiment is organized, so the coordination is not too difficult, both are:
An infantry division has a division commander, two deputy division commanders, one chief of staff, one deputy chief of staff, one training section chief, one logistics section chief, one deputy chief of logistics section chief, one propaganda section chief, one deputy chief of publicity section chief. A division has five infantry regiments and a 105 light howitzer regiment, plus an automobile battalion, one communication battalion, one guard battalion, one repair battalion, one division hospital, and one division organ.
One regiment has a regiment commander, two deputy regiment commanders, one regiment chief of staff, one regiment deputy chief of staff, one training section chief, one logistics section chief, one deputy logistics section chief, one propaganda section chief, one deputy propaganda section chief, one regiment has five infantry battalions and a 75mm howitzer battalion, one automobile company, one repair company, one communication company, one regiment hospital, and one regiment agency.
One infantry battalion is a battalion commander, two deputy battalion commanders, one battalion staffer, one propaganda committee member, one battalion has three infantry companies and an 80 mortar company, plus a communication platoon and an ambulance platoon.
One company commander, two deputy company commander, one propaganda document, one company has five platoons and one machine gun platoon, plus a 60 mortar squad, an ambulance squad, a kitchen squad, a communications squad, and a reconnaissance squad.
One platoon has a platoon leader, two deputy platoon leaders, and one platoon consists of three squads.
One squad has a platoon leader, two deputy squad leader, and one squad is composed of twelve soldiers.
In this way, the number of troops in a division reached 24,000. Deleting the deputy positions who formed the reserve division, there were more than 22,000 left. The number of troops sent by ten divisions of the Heifeng army was more than 220,000.
At this time, we have to say that the weapons and equipment of the Northeast Army, especially the artillery equipment, are super luxurious combinations. The main artillery equipped by the division's artillery regiment is the 105mm cannon of France's Schneider 1913, while the regiment's artillery battalion is equipped with the Schneider M1897A3 type 75mm field gun. The mortar is the 1917 Qiming company-class 80mm mortar and the 1917 Qiming class 60mm mortar developed by the Heilongjiang Arsenal.
A single soldier is equipped with a Mauser 98 rifle, two hundred rifle bullets, five wooden grenades, a small shot pistol, and an engineer shovel. To have these equipment, it has to be said that the great achievements made by Li Changgeng, who created the Heilongjiang Arsenal through the opportunity of a war.
When the factory was first established, it did not have the ability to produce guns and ammunition at all, but it could not withstand Li Changgeng's idea ahead of time. We cannot produce guns, but we can make accessories and assemble guns. A new industrial term was thought of by Li Changgeng, which was the processing of materials.
Whether it is the Allies, as long as you transport the gun accessories that we cannot produce, we can produce the remaining parts to complete the entire gun assembly.
At first, both sides did not trust China's weapons production capacity, but when the smokescreens produced by the Heilongjiang Arsenal were popular in the European battlefield, Germany first began to pay attention to the newly established Heilongjiang Arsenal and tried to send a batch of two thousand Mauser 98 accessories. Unexpectedly, in less than a week, two thousand Mauser 98 rifles were sent back to the ship. After arriving in Germany, the Germans were surprised to find that although these guns were not as good as those produced in their own country, they were not much different, and greatly saved their own human resources and the price was lower than domestic production.
Seeing the benefits, Germany not only sent out gun accessories, but also some simple parts production equipment. Li Changgeng's arsenal continued to grow with low profits, from the initial assembly of guns to the later production of entire guns, more and more orders and a wide variety of weapons were produced at the Heilongjiang arsenal and put into the European battlefield.
When the British found the four Chinese characters made in China on the seized weapons, they found Li Changgeng because only the products produced in all Li Changgeng's factories would be marked with the four characters made in China.
At that time, China was still a neutral country, and Britain could not stop Li Changgeng from doing business with the Germans. In no way, they had to choose to cooperate with Li Changgeng. So a strange scene occurred in the Heilongjiang Arsenal. In a factory, three production lines produced guns from different countries. This production line produced German Mauser 98 rifles, another production line produced British Enfield rifles, and another production line produced Russian Mosinna dry rifles. Then these guns and ammunition were loaded on ships and transported to European battlefields. American newspapers jealously commented that Li Changgeng was the best Chinese who was good at doing business.
The French, who were beaten by Germany, were so excited when they saw Li Changgeng's production model, which meant that France could dedicate more lives to the battlefield. Li Changgeng did not disappoint the French. From artillery assembly to production of spare parts, the French gradually moved the entire set of artillery production equipment into Li Changgeng's arsenal.
When World War I reached the late stage, as China joined the war, the Heilongjiang Arsenal fully produced weapons from the Allied Powers. The British were surprised to find that the Heilongjiang Arsenal had exceeded the output of the entire French Arsenal in terms of single product. The French even said humorously that if the war was over, the French would just fire the gun on the front line, and the Chinese would do the rest.
With the ceasefire in World War I, the Heilongjiang Arsenal not only made huge profits, but also replaced the entire army of Hei and Feng provinces. It was with such strength that Li Changgeng had the confidence to regain the Far East and Mongolia.
More than 200,000 troops took action against the Far Eastern Republic, which had only tens of thousands of raiders and scattered troops, which was purely a killer, so the main goal of this time was to block the Soviet Red Army. However, Li Changgeng was confident that the Soviet Red Army would give up fighting with the Northeast coalition for the Far East. Because when the Soviet Union was preparing to withdraw from World War I, the Allies disagreed, so the Soviet Union had to unilaterally sign the Brest Peace Treaty with Germany. After several twists and turns, they promised to compensate nearly 1.21 million square kilometers and 6 billion Mark of Mark before the Soviet Union escaped. Although the territory of the Far East was larger, it was not comparable to that of the Soviet Union's compensation to Germany in terms of strategic or economic conditions. With the support of Western countries for the Northeast coalition, the Soviet Union would definitely not be able to consume the Northeast coalition!
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