Since the beginning of the mainland conquest, many institutions of the Senate have gradually moved to Guangzhou. Although some of the headquarters have not moved, they have only set up branches in Guangzhou. However, with the large number of businesses and the so-called branches becoming larger and larger, the headquarters has become something like a stay-at-home office.
Some departments have begun to relocate as a whole.
The General Staff and the Army were the first central agencies of the Senate to move to the mainland earlier. According to the decision of the General Assembly at the end of 1635, various central departments first established offices in Guangzhou. However, as the military struggle continued to deepen, the General Staff and the Army still
Overall relocation. After all, the focus of the mainland strategy is on ground combat, but the General Staff and the Army Department are across the sea, which is not conducive to military struggle.
When I first arrived in the mainland, the conditions were very limited. The General Staff and the Army got together and settled at the Yuanming Military Academy in the east of Guangzhou. It was surrounded by fences. Except for some old houses, most people set up tents to work.
The field battle lasted for nearly half a year, and since most of the veterans were assigned to the replenished front-line troops, they had to make do with tents.
Naturally, no one can bear such a simple environment. The war has entered a stalemate stage, and Director Hong of Lianqin has been staking his claim.
Outside the east gate of Guangzhou, close to the Pearl River, a piece of land was circled, roughly around the Dalu Road in the old time. It was used to build a new headquarters. This time the tents were replaced with simple rooms, and the original barbed wire + bamboo fences were also replaced with
A formal brick wall was built. After that, bastions, supporting barracks, trenches, and forts were added to the wall. They were built one after another to become a military fortress to defend Guangzhou. The simple houses inside were also converted into buildings one by one. By the beginning of 1637
, this place, which was temporarily named "South China Command", finally demolished all simple buildings. Office buildings, wired telegraphs, special docks, dormitories, tap water towers, coal piles, boiler rooms, bathhouses and other infrastructure are basically in place.
It became the Army's largest stronghold in Guangzhou.
The General Staff and the Army Department also moved to Guangzhou. Following this, some training bases previously set up in Hong Kong also moved to the mainland. However, Hong Kong's conditions still have too many limitations and limited water resources.
, placing too many large institutions there will affect their daily operations.
The Army and the General Staff are still crowded into an L-shaped three-story building for the time being, but the conditions are much improved compared to before. Some veterans joked that if hostile saboteurs send a rocket to this building, the Fubo Army will directly
He became half paralyzed.
After the main battles and bandit suppression battles have basically come to an end, both the Fubo Army and the National Army have entered a rest stage. The work of the General Staff and the Army Department has become relatively easy, and they can focus more on troop building and training.
The army has demonstrated its value as the number one gold-eating beast of the Senate in almost two years of mainland conquest and security wars. Naturally, many problems have also been exposed. So these problems have evolved into whether the military system needs to be reformed and whether weapons are needed.
Don't have a big discussion about upgrading.
These two topics are considered annual topics in the Senate and are discussed every year. The conclusion is...nothing.
As a veteran of the First Weapons Design Bureau said angrily: "The power of inertia always exceeds the desire for technological change." This is true, but the reason why inertia is great lies largely in the need for technological change.
costs and benefits.
Contrary to what the elders thought, military managers, whether it is the military of the Third World or the US military that is alone in seeking defeat after the Cold War, are not interested in "technological leadership" in essence, but consider "cost" more.
Of course, as a general, the more advanced the weapons, the better, preferably the Zentraedi stone-breaking technology. But weapons are essentially a kind of "waste" that has no output but only consumption. Army managers have to
Consider maintenance and operation costs.
In April 1637, spring was in full bloom in Guangzhou. Various flowers and trees in the General Staff Courtyard were in bloom, bringing a touch of bright color to the place. Fubo Army General Staff General Secretary Dongmen Chuiyu was in the L-shaped building in the east gate.
Looking at a letter in the office upstairs.
Although his title has not changed from beginning to end, he has always been "Permanent Secretary of the General Staff", and he has never actually served as a military officer or been in charge of an important department, but Dongmen Chuiyu's military rank has steadily risen. If he hadn't been more modest
, insisted on refusing promotion, and now can hold the rank of major general.
Although Dongmen Chuiyu was still a colonel, he was the most powerful veteran officer in the Fubo Army--one of them.
Although according to his military rank and position, there are several veteran generals and comrades before him, as well as the Minister of War, but being in charge of the daily affairs of the General Staff greatly exceeds the power he possesses.
In his office at the moment, the Dongmen elder is writing a reply letter.
The letter is an official letter from the Danzhou Industrial Zone Management Committee, and the content of the letter is about the "Lianqin No. 37 Arsenal".
Although it is called "Joint Logistics No. N Arsenal", in fact, the joint logistics does not specifically manage and build the arsenal - this is still a matter for the industrial department, so this matter is still negotiated through a letter from the Industrial Zone Management Committee.
The letter was not written by a certain elder. This kind of handwritten official letter is called a "memorandum" in the system of the general office, which is the highest level. It was signed by the director secretary of the management committee. The content was about the establishment of Factory No. 37.
This matter is finally here. Dongmen Chuiyu thought when he received the letter.
The rifle was designed in 1635 and finalized in 1637. The trouble came after it was finalized.
Now that the prototype has been finalized, the Weapons Design Bureau will carry out the replacement according to the proposal requirements. The Planning Institute naturally solicits opinions from relevant departments and the replacement plan.
There are many benefits to the new breech-loading rifle, and this requires no proof. It can be seen by just one person, not to mention that the elders have already peeked at the answers to the homework.
So the General Staff wrote a very detailed report. First of all, it highly affirmed the excellence of the weapon: This is a revolutionary new rifle. After its equipment, the existing tactical system of the Army will be completely changed.
The problem lies in the sentence "the entire tactical system has changed".
Weapons determine tactics, and tactics determine organization. Although the Minie rifle was an improvement over the flintlock rifle, it did not change the weapon's projection speed in general, so the army in 1860 was still the one that lined up to shoot. By the time France got three,
The basic tactics used by Austria and Prussia at the beginning of the German Unification War were still the rows and columns of the muzzle-loading gun era - although they had already used breech-loading rifles.
If the Army undergoes a comprehensive change of equipment, it means that the existing Army training, organization and tactical systems will be abolished. The Army will undergo comprehensive retraining and reorganization. The old tactical system has been dismantled, and the new one has not yet been formed, and the army will be in a state of insecurity.
Weak state. For soldiers, it may not have much impact, and they can adapt to the new weapons in a few months of training.
But it was tragic for the officers.
After long-term practice and exploration, the veterans of the army system have completely understood the line tactics. The training and education of officers and sergeants are also based on this tactical principle. Although there has not been a serious field battle so far, after many years
The experience summarization and exercise training basically determine the organization method of large-scale battles.
If the tactics are redesigned, the Army will directly lose its active field combat capability. Large-scale battles can only use defensive counterattack tactics.
We are now in the state of conquering the mainland. Attacks by the Ming Army, the Peasant Army, the Manchu Army, or armed uprisings by local forces may occur at any time. The Army will be in a state of long-term combat readiness and ready to engage in battle at any time. Large-scale changes in the organizational structure and tactics of the army are bound to occur.
It will cause confusion.
The army is the basic guarantee of the political power and cannot be chaotic. Therefore, the most ideal way is to establish new troops without affecting the combat capabilities of the existing troops. The new troops use new weapons and new training. As a result, the size of the army suddenly increases.
Needless to say, since the new rifle has an absolute advantage over the Migne rifle, the new unit must be filled with veterans in key positions.
It is basically impossible for a veteran to serve as a battalion-level officer.
Therefore, the veteran officers of the army have a mixed feeling of love and hate about the comprehensive change of uniforms.
Naturally, they want their troops to be well-equipped, but they don't want to have to start over everything they have built.
From Lianqin's point of view, it is quite unkind.
After the Continental War begins, as the control zone deepens, the battle lines become longer and longer, and the size of the army will become larger and larger. The Type 1637 will cause extremely huge pressure on logistics and industrial production capacity. Especially the consumption of ammunition and the supply limit.
Comrade Thorpe pointed out in the report that under the new tactics, soldiers were in a scattered state and lacked the control and command of officers. In complex terrain and fierce battles, soldiers would tend to fire preventatively at suspicious targets in order to prevent potential enemies from launching attacks.
Defeat more enemies before attacking. This objectively increases the consumption of bullets.
Fully automatic weapons will not, because soldiers know that the weapons in their hands can fire a large number of bullets in a very short time and knock down multiple targets.
Minie rifle soldiers know that there is only one bullet in the gun and it takes a long time to reload, so they will be more cautious when shooting.
If you switch to a new type of rifle, the increase in ammunition consumption will be unpredictably large.
Since the inland areas are still in the original 17th century, transportation costs are extremely high. If new weapons are used, the huge ammunition consumption, logistics requirements and costs will be beyond imagination.
Under the traffic conditions of the 17th century, the ammunition consumption of front-loaded weapons was consistent with logistical limits.
Lianqin stated that the weapons are advanced, but we can only supply the most suitable. Advanced does not mean suitable. If we want to fully replace the Type 1637, we will need to add a large number of transportation tools, boats, carriages, livestock, etc.
The Navy's report was very simple. It just said that this gun is good and if the length can be shortened, it can be used as an excellent naval rifle. It also emphasized that the Navy is very equipped with this new rifle.