At the end of July 2044, the Thirteenth Army began to change clothes.

Adaptive training and dressing change are carried out simultaneously, that is, the troops that have completed dressing change work will immediately go to Guangxi and Guangdong for targeted training.

In combat in India, the first thing to consider is the impact of high temperature and high humidity environments, the second thing to consider is the dense river network in northern India, and the last thing to consider the impact of tropical climate on officers and soldiers. Relatively speaking, the southern part of Guangxi and southern parts of Guangdong and northern parts of India are most similar.

In fact, this is also the main reason why Qi Kaiwei chose the Thirteenth Army, because the main base of the Thirteenth Army is Chongqing, which is also hot and humid in summer. In addition, most of the officers and soldiers of the Thirteenth Army come from the southern region and can adapt to the tropical climate faster.

At that time, the first one to change out was the First Three-Year Independent Armored Brigade.

When the military region system was changed to the theater system, the army only retained the main group army number. The combat troops at all levels under the group army changed their numbers, and there was a set of reference standards, namely, the division-level units were added one after the group army number, and the division-level units were even, and the brigade-level units were odd. The division-level brigade and brigade battalion added one after the number of the subordinate troops, and the company and platoon-level troops were indicated in Chinese numbers. For example, the number of the First Armored Battalion under the First Three-Year Independent Armored Brigade was the First Three-Year Armored Battalion, while the battalion's first company was the First Armored Company, and the first platoon of the company was the First Tank Platoon. Compared with the original number, the new number can better clarify the affiliation between each unit.

In the Thirteenth Army, the First Three-Year Armored Brigade is the absolute ace force.

The brigade consists of the 1311 Armored Battalion, the 1312 Tank Battalion, the 1313 Armored Battalion, the 1314 Mechanized Infantry Battalion, the 1315 Artillery Battalion, the 1316 Rocket Armored Battalion, the 1317 Air Defense Battalion, the 1318 Communication Battalion, the 1319 Logistics Battalion and the 1310 Brigade Department Battalion. Under the brigade battalion, the 11319th Logistics Battalion and the 1310th Brigade Department Battalion, the 11310th Brigade Battalion, the 11310th Brigade Battalion, the 11310th Brigade Battalion Battalion, the 11310th Brigade Battalion Battalion, the 11310th Brigade Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battalion Battal

The number of officers and soldiers was 5,336, and the number of combat personnel was 3,684. In terms of equipment, the Tank Battalion had 42 main battle tanks (i.e. anti-armored combat platforms) and 14 reconnaissance vehicles (i.e., multi-purpose combat platforms). The Armored Battalion had 24 main battle tanks, 26 infantry fighting vehicles (i.e., multi-purpose combat platforms) and four reconnaissance vehicles. The Mechanized Infantry Battalion had 12 main battle tanks, 39 infantry fighting vehicles and four reconnaissance vehicles. The Artillery Battalion had 28 self-propelled artillery.

(i.e. the artillery type of fire support combat platform) and six reconnaissance vehicles. The Rocket Arsenal Battalion has 22 self-propelled rocket launchers (i.e. the rocket launcher type of fire support combat platform) and six reconnaissance vehicles. The Air Defense Battalion has four air defense command vehicles, sixteen self-propelled anti-aircraft guns (i.e. the anti-aircraft guns of air defense combat platform) and twelve air defense missile launchers (i.e. the air defense missile type of air defense combat platform). The Communications Battalion has four communication command vehicles and four four reconnaissance vehicles. The Logistics Battalion has four command vehicles and twelve engineering

The emergency repair vehicles (i.e., engineering platforms) and more than 80 transport vehicles of various types, including the brigade battalion, the entire brigade has a total of 102 main battle tanks, 1132 armored vehicles of various types, 50 artillery and rocket launchers, 28 anti-aircraft guns and self-propelled air defense missiles, and nearly 200 other vehicles. In addition, the company-level infantry units are equipped with 124 large-caliber mortars, 232 sets of individual anti-tank missile launchers, 86 individual air defense missiles, and 468 rocket launchers.

Whether in terms of military strength or equipment, the First Three-Year Armored Brigade is strong enough.

More importantly, in addition to the lack of logistics support capabilities, the First 31 Armored Brigade has extremely complete independent combat capabilities. Of course, logistics support is a common problem in the army of all countries and has never been effectively solved. Therefore, the logistics support troops are generally placed at the level of the group army, and during combat, they are allocated by the group army headquarters according to the actual situation of each unit.

If the help generated by advanced equipment is included, the combat effectiveness of the First Three-Year Armored Brigade is no less than that of the armored divisions of other countries.

At the end of that year, after completing adaptive training, the First 31 Armored Brigade urgently went to the Leizhou Peninsula. Without any preliminary reconnaissance, it conducted a practical confrontation exercise with the 422nd Armored Division stationed there. In order to increase the difficulty of the exercise, Qi Kaiwei notified the 131 Armored Brigade two hours before the exercise began, and did not inform the opponent that it was the ace force of the 42nd Army. Even so, the First 31 Armored Brigade still gained an overwhelming advantage in the exercise, forcing the 422nd Armored Division to admit defeat.

On December 24, the third day after the exercise, the First Three-Year Armored Brigade boarded a ferry to Pakistan.

At this time, the 132nd Armored Division, the 134th Mechanized Infantry Division, the 133rd Independent Infantry Brigade and the 135th Independent Artillery Brigade of the 133rd Independent Artillery Brigade of the 135th Independent Artillery Brigade, the 137th Independent Air Defense Brigade and the 139th Independent Logistics Brigade are about to complete the replacement work.

If everything goes well, four months later, the 13th Army will all go to Pakistan.

Of course, not all of them will be transported by sea. The two division-level troops will take land, that is, long-distance marching to the northwest region, and then enter Pakistan via the China-Pakistan Railway.

After the Thirteenth Army, the Forty-Second Army will also change its clothes.

As a group army stationed in the southern region, the 42nd Army is also good at fighting in high temperatures and humid environments. Through confrontation exercises with the 13th Army, they have gained some understanding of new weapons and equipment, and officers and soldiers at all levels are very enthusiastic.

However, it will not take until the end of June 2045 that the 42nd Army will complete the dressing change.

According to Qi Kaiwei's deployment, the 42nd Army will go directly to Kunming and enter Myanmar after the outbreak of the war. In the early stage, only engineering and logistics troops will be sent to Myanmar.

It can be said that these two armies can each support a war zone.

Not to mention, both armies have independent air defense brigades, both equipped with theater air defense and anti-missile systems. The air defense cover range is as high as 400 kilometers, and the anti-missile cover range is about 200 kilometers, which is enough to cover the entire war zone. Its combat capability is even more comparable to that of the Indian Army.

In Qi Kaiwei's words, these two armies with a total strength of 110,000 can win a large-scale ground war.

Of course, this sentence must be moisture.

Not to mention, both armies need to strengthen their logistics support forces, especially the transportation forces behind the front line, so they have to send additional logistics support forces.

In a sense, what determines the combat capabilities of the two armies is the logistics support capabilities.

At that time, the Army still had a crucial technical problem that had not been solved, namely electricity supply.

According to the equipment plan formulated by the Army, when the "Future Ground War Platform" is equipped on a large scale, a "compact power supply system" will be purchased, that is, a power supply module mainly composed of small fusion nuclear reactors, integrating power generation, substation and transmission capabilities. According to the requirements of the Army, the "compact power supply system" can be divided into multiple functional modules, but the quality of each functional module must be controlled within fifty tons, and the size must be controlled within the cargo hold capacity of the strategic transport aircraft, and it has the ability to travel on the road so that it can fight with the ground troops and can be air transported through the transport aircraft to meet the most basic tactical and strategic mobility requirements.

Unfortunately, by the end of 2044, the "compact power supply system" was still under development.

The main reason is that the technical difficulty of small fusion nuclear reactors is too great and must be integrated into a module. Even if the loading chassis is not included, the quality is difficult to reduce to less than fifty tons. At that time, the most compact design reached 120 tons, which was more than seventy tons higher than the requirements of the army, and far exceeded the carrying capacity of strategic transport aircraft. Even railways and highways were very difficult to maneuver.

Fortunately, the Army launched a backup plan in 2042.

In the backup plan, there is not much change in other functional modules. They just replace the small fusion nuclear power plant with a compact gas turbine. The power of the gas turbine is as high as 40 megawatts and the power conversion efficiency is 38%, so they can provide 15 megawatts of electricity, which can supplement the power systems of eight combat platforms in 15 minutes, or supplement the weapon systems of four anti-armor combat platforms. Relatively speaking, this logistics operation efficiency is not low, because a Type 24 main battle tank takes twenty-five minutes to fill the fuel tank, and three tankers and a logistics soldier are required to operate. Replenish the power of the combat platform is almost no manpower, and a tanker with a load of 25 tons can only fill the fuel tank at a time. In terms of personnel utilization efficiency, the "compact power supply system of the gas turbine" is even higher.

According to this calculation, a tank battalion requires two such systems, while an armored battalion and an infantry battalion only require one.

The problem is that gas turbines require fossil fuel. Although gas turbines do not have any tricky food problems like internal combustion engines. Gasoline, diesel, and kerosene can be used, and alcohol with a concentration of more than 95% or natural gas and coal gas can be used when necessary, but the output power is reduced. However, the most critical problem still exists, that is, transporting fuel itself is an extremely difficult logistical support task.

Compared with the past, the biggest change is that the supply point can be set at the rear.

In addition, because the efficiency of the motor is much higher than that of mechanical drives, energy utilization efficiency is much higher, so in the same situation, the troops' demand for fuel is slightly lower. However, this also brings a new problem that it is impossible to replenish power for tanks fighting on the frontline.

To this end, the Army specially purchased a batch of "electricity conveyor vehicles".

To put it simply, it is a logistics support vehicle that specializes in carrying fuel cells. After these vehicles are fully charged, they can go to the front line to replenish the tanks and tanks that are fighting or exchange fuel cells. In addition, tanks and tanks and tanks fighting on the front line can also be replenished with each other in a similar way.

In any case, the major changes in the power system have put forward new tests on the logistics support system of the Chinese Army.
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