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The second year of Tianfu was the year of great military expansion of the Lu Long Army. The standing army suddenly tripled from less than 20,000 to 55,000, of which officer training was the focus. Bailangshan Military Academy held three training sessions in a row.
Known as the new phase one, the new phase two and the new phase three, more than 500 senior officers and nearly 5,000 junior officers were trained! This large-scale officer training barely met the Lulong Army's large-scale military expansion needs, and the five
The structure of the Army and the General Staff Office was finally set up.
However, the negative consequences of this large-scale training are also vividly reflected in the war.
During the Dawangzhuang-Jiangjunmiao battle, many grassroots officers experienced chaos in their command of the battle. Not only did various problems occur on the frontal battlefield, resulting in more casualties than expected, but also during the pursuit and encirclement of Wei Bo.
Many deficiencies were also exposed during the defeat, causing Huangfu Jun and a large number of Wei Bo's remaining soldiers to flee back to Weizhou.
What is even more embarrassing is that Huangfu Jun also rescued Cheng Gongxin and Li Gongji who were surrounded in Nanpi, which made the Cangzhou Military Headquarters and even the Military Staff General Administration of Jiedu Prefecture furious.
Therefore, at the post-war summary meeting, many officers expressed their reflections on the expansion of military training at Bailangshan Military Academy. In these three military academy trainings, especially in the junior officer training classes, each instructor had to deal with an average of fifty to several dozen
Teaching tasks for hundreds of military cadets.
For example, take the non-commissioned officers Luo Yuanan and Qin Laogen who were urgently transferred to the military academy as an example. They have been promoted to third-level non-commissioned officers and fourth-level non-commissioned officers respectively due to their merit. In the "Small-scale Infantry Tactics" class they are responsible for teaching, the professor
The target is junior officers who are about to be promoted to team leaders. The two of them need to teach five classes of students respectively. Each class has a quota of 50 people, totaling 500 people. It is impossible for 500 people to start classes at the same time. They can only teach in turns, with an average of 500 students per class.
It takes three days for each class to have one lesson. In such training, it is naturally impossible for these junior officers, who have the largest number of people, to perform very well.
Therefore, the plan of the Training Department is to reduce the number of trainees at Bailangshan Military Academy starting from the first month of the third year of Tianfu, so as to standardize officer training. The senior classes above the battalion level will recruit fifty people per period, and the junior classes below the battalion level will recruit 50 people per period.
Five hundred people will be recruited in one period. The Combat Training Department also proposed a plan to extend the training period. Both the advanced and junior classes will be extended to six months. Through such adjustments, it will meet the needs of regular military construction.
But this plan was rejected by Li Chengzhong. Li Chengzhong believed that Bailangshan Military Academy trained an average of more than 1,800 officers every three months. This number was indeed higher and exceeded the training capacity of the military academy.
However, he believes that the officer training program of the Operational Training Department cannot meet Hebei's military needs. If the plan of the Operational Training Department is followed, the Lulong Army can only expand one standing army every year. If it wants to expand the army to 100,000, it will have to wait until six years later.
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The plan proposed by Li Chengzhong is to reduce the number of people trained, but not reduce the training time. The number of people trained is 100 people in the advanced class and 850 people in the junior class, a total of 950 people. With the small number of people, the intensity of the training will be natural
It is quite big. Although it is not as long as six months of training, it can at least last four to five months.
The fundamental purpose of this plan is to coordinate with the three major recruit training camps to expand a standing army at an average rate of three months. Li Chengzhong's idea is that the fourth army is expected to be established in the third year of Tianfu. By the beginning of the fourth year of Tianfu
At that time, the Lulong Army's standing army reached a scale of 90,000 people. Among them, nine field armies totaled about 62,000 people, 22 reserve brigades, 77 reserve battalions totaled about 20,000 people, and ten logistics battalions totaled more than 5,000 people. The General Administration of Military Staff
There are a total of more than 2,000 people in the four departments and two bureaus (including the security battalion and the stationed personnel of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics).
In this war to unify Hebei, the Youyan Security Corporation and the Liaodong Security Corporation played an irreplaceable and important role. They were responsible for dirty work, tiring work, and military operations that could not be dispatched in the name of the Lulong Army.
The company has made outstanding contributions, for which Li Chengzhong and the General Administration of Military Staff are quite satisfied.
In Li Chengzhong's mind, the status of these two major security companies has been improved a lot. He has included these 5,000 people in his military system. Han Yanhui also requested military support for the two major companies, hoping that the two major
The company can expand to 10,000 people.
If we add them, Li Chengzhong would have a standing force of 100,000 by the beginning of the fourth year of Tianfu.
In addition, in the plan of the General Administration of Military Staff, the "Lulong Jiedufu Military Service Regulations" will be officially implemented this year. If all goes well, by the end of Tianfu 4th, the Lulong Army will have more than one million people after two years and 48 days of military training.
With high-quality soldiers, at least half of whom are young men who can be enlisted directly after simple training, Lulong's war potential will be greatly improved, and the situation of insufficient troops will be fundamentally changed!
Therefore, it is relatively unwise to attack the Xuanwu Army on a large scale. In the final analysis, Lu Long's foundation is not deep!
However, Li Chengzhong would not sit idly by and let the Xuanwu Army quickly pacify Wang Shifan of Qingqing. He could not move the whole army south, which would at least cause some trouble to the Xuanwu Army. The plan of the General Administration of Military Staff was to support Wang Shifan as much as possible and try to overcome the resistance of the Pinglu Army.
It can be postponed until the end of the year.
Hebei under the control of the Lu Long Army and Henan under the control of the Xuanwu Army have a long border, stretching more than 800 miles from east to west. This border line looks very long and flat, with almost no strategic victorious potential, but in fact
But they are separated by a large river, which stretches from west to east to the mouth of the sea. This large river is a natural barrier between the two sides.
In this era, the military significance of such a large river is huge. It only requires a small number of troops to almost divide the two sides of the river into two different worlds. If you want to attack across the river, the organization is so difficult that any superior
No one dares to try it easily. To put it bluntly, this is a natural chasm! Even if a sneak attack is used to force the army to cross the river in a small boat, it may be successful in the early stage, but the subsequent baggage and backup pressure will easily cause the army to collapse quickly.
Once the enemy reacts and sends troops to counterattack, the army crossing the river will become truly alone.
In the past ten years, one of the important reasons why the Xuanwu Army has been frantically fighting for Hezhong is that it hopes to attack Hebei from the Hezhong area. However, such an advance route is very difficult, so the Xuanwu Army has not been able to fundamentally affect Hebei.
Pattern. It was not until Wei Bo turned to Xuanwu that the Xuanwu Army crossed the Yellow River and entered Hebei. It was precisely because of Wei Bo's help that the Xuanwu Army was able to assemble tens of thousands of heavy troops on the battlefield in Hebei and defeat Liu Rengong in one fell swoop.
Up to now, due to the war between the Lulong Army and the unification of Hebei, the Yellow River has once again become the natural chasm between the two armies. However, the two armies are not completely isolated. Hebei and Henan still border on two places.
Part of the area was under the control of Yuan Xiangxian. Liu Chongba still occupied Dizhou in the southeast corner near the Bohai Sea. Weizhou and Dizhou were both north of the Yellow River. These were the only two ways for the Xuanwu Army to send troops to Hebei.
Leaving aside the Weizhou controlled by Yuan Xiangxian, the General Military Staff of the Lulong Army believes that the advantages of retaining this Xuanwu enclave outweigh the disadvantages. Regardless of the pros and cons, Weizhou is the closest place in Hebei to Xuanwu's hometown Bianzhou. Once Weizhou is
If the state takes action, it will inevitably trigger a strong backlash from Xuanwu. This is not the result Lu Longjun wants at the moment.
As for Liu Chongba's Dizhou, it has become a thorn in the side of the General Military Staff. Dizhou straddles the north and south of the Yellow River, and lies between Hebei and Qingqing. Pulling out this thorn is the first consideration for Lu Long's army to move south. Once
Taking Dizhou will not only establish an advance base on the south bank of the Yellow River, but also more directly support Qingqing. It is also an important measure to change Hebei's strategic posture.
Anyway, you can't be the only one to attack me. I don't have a chance to fight back, right? Xuanwu can cross the river from Weizhou to attack Hebei, and Lulong must of course be able to cross the river from Dizhou to threaten Henan!
The military deployment of the Lulong Army was also arranged according to this strategy.
In the direction of Weizhou, the Mozhou Army marched south after conquering Chengde and settled in Neihuang; the Yingzhou Army, which had completed the "peace march" in Yizhou, Dingzhou, and Hengzhou, also moved south and arrived at Xiangzhou. The two armies exchanged views with each other.
As the horn, it formed an east-west pincer attack on the Weizhou enclave occupied by Yuan Xiangxian. At the same time, the Logistics Department mobilized the fifth battalion of logistics troops to build a grain platform base outside Weizhou City to solve the problem of transshipment. In addition, the Training Department also mobilized some
personnel, preparing to establish a Weizhou recruit training camp in Weizhou City, with a designed training capacity of two thousand.
The Cangzhou Army marched eastward along the Yellow River and arrived in Pingchang, Texas. The Huaiyue Allied Forces stationed in Leling and Wudi in the south of Cangzhou. The two armies joined forces to prepare for the Dizhou Campaign.
Because the hinterland of Hebei Province was too empty, the Youzhou Army stationed in Cangzhou for less than a month, then went north again and was transferred to the Fanyang camp. Such military orders made the capital commander Meng Xuxing and the capital's education envoy Wang Yibo complain incessantly.
It's not that I'm tired, but that there's no battle to fight. Seeing that the Cangzhou Army and the Huaiyu Allied Forces defeated Wei Boya's soldiers, and the Mozhou Army captured the Chengde Army, even the Yingzhou Army, which is recognized as the weakest, went to Yiwu for a tour.
, only they didn’t catch anything. The two of them were really unwilling to do so.
However, the current situation of the Lulong Army is such that there are only five armies in total, and it is impossible for them all to fight on the outside. Moreover, the reserve brigades and battalions in various states and counties have not yet been completed. In any case, one army and horses must be left to defend Youzhou. Lu Longya
Naturally, the Youzhou Army, known as a soldier, cannot escape. Moreover, Marshal Li also made it very clear that he successively captured the three towns of Yiwu, Chengde, and Weibo. The land of Hebei was full of defeated soldiers and yongyong. Without troops and horses to guard and suppress them, these defeated soldiers and yongyong were everywhere.
No one can stand the troubles that occur every day.
Fortunately, the General Administration of Military Staff also made corresponding arrangements and ordered the Youzhou Army to dispatch a single force to capture these defeated soldiers and suppress the unruly soldiers. This was at least some soup left for Meng Xuxing and Wang Yibu to try.
Better than nothing.
On the day they evacuated Cangzhou, all the officers and soldiers of the Youzhou Army looked at the direction of Dizhou that was gradually receding behind them. Everyone sighed. The whole army was as dejected as if they had lost a battle. (To be continued.)