Chapter 1142: Hot Weapons Military Reform
In early January of the third year of Da Ming, the resettlement of the newly joined tribesmen began. The most important thing for the resettlement work at this stage is to open up the arable land first, so that the newly joined people can be self-reliant as soon as possible.
In order to help these newly joined people open up the wasteland, Luo Chong also ordered two rotary tillers to be drawn from the mechanized farm in Liuyang County to help the 4,000 immigrants from Qiongzhou Island to reclaim wasteland and plant corn.
The tribe provided people and agricultural machinery to help these immigrants plant the first season of grain, and the officials of the place where they belonged had to lead these newcomers to build their houses before the summer grain harvest. In this way, they had houses and land, and when the summer grain was harvested, they could do it themselves. With a stable residence, a stable source of food, and grain reserves at home, this group of people was completely stabilized. The
situation in the eight counties of Hanyang in the north was much simpler. The remaining 8,000 people were directly divided equally into eight counties. Each county only received 1,000 immigrants, at most more than 200 households.
The eight counties of Hanyang are all old counties, and each county is divided into several counties. If these people are divided equally into the county towns below, each county will have only 50 households, which is very easy to arrange. If they want to open up wasteland, the neighbors will help them, and the first quarter will be over. If it doesn't work, there are still many tractors in Liuyang County, and they can just use a few to open up wasteland for them.
Even these northern immigrants can temporarily not open up wasteland, and let them cultivate the official fields of the government first. Anyway, some people will definitely be moved to the capital after the New Year. When they leave, the land and houses will naturally not be taken away, so the land of these people can be redistributed to the new people, and they will not even need to open up wasteland.
Qiongzhou Island must be opened up because Guanhai County and Chaoyang County originally had few people, and most of the land was not reclaimed, so it was necessary to open up wasteland again.
At the same time, just when Qiongzhou Island and the eight counties of Hanyang in the north were resettling immigrants, the Tangpan Line Railway in the original Tang tribe was finally completed.
The Tangpan Line Railway starts from Tangcheng County, which is the opposite bank of the river from Takumi County, and extends to the quarry in Panshi County. After the railway was completely connected, Xingang County shipped another train to meet the transportation needs of the Tangpan Line. Luo Chong's promise to You Zhi that he would deliver the stone materials to the capital in the spring can now be fulfilled.
The two trains run back and forth on this new line, transporting various bricks, stones, and building materials mined from the quarry to the bank of the Liuyang River, and then shipped to Takumi County on the opposite bank. After reloading, they are transported to the construction site in the capital.
With this large amount of building materials input, the construction speed of the capital is gradually accelerating.
In February of the third year of Da Ming, a freight fleet was sent from the north again, and it also brought what Luo Chong urgently needed. There were more than a dozen ships full of arms, which enabled him to immediately complete the military reform of the Han tribe.
The weapons shipped this time included 30,000 new standard type II bolt-action rifles made of molybdenum steel, and a bullet production line.
With these weapons, the Shen Ce Guards who had followed Luo Chong to the south before finally came in handy.
The Shen Ce Guards of the battalion that Luo Chong brought before were originally prepared to send the resigned soldiers to the various guards of the Han tribe to help other armies replace their hot weapons.
From now on, all armies of the Han tribe will enter the era of hot weapons.
Although the garrisons in those places can only use bolt-action rifles, even if they are just bolt-action rifles, they are almost the most advanced weapons in the world. Semi-automatic rifles that are better than bolt-action rifles are also owned by the Han tribe. It seems that there is nothing wrong with bolt-action rifles claiming to be advanced in the world?
After the arrangement personnel received this batch of weapons, Luo Chong immediately began to make arrangements, as well as the reorganization of the Han tribe army.
With the introduction of hot weapons, the combat effectiveness of the Han tribe army will definitely be greatly improved, so there is no need to continue to maintain so many troops.
Now the hot weapons army of 2,000 people can beat the cold weapons army of tens of thousands of people. Why keep so many soldiers? This will only waste money and food.
There are so many military salaries to support so many soldiers. It is better to turn all these people's wages into hot weapons and equip the remaining elite.
Disarmament must be disarmed, and Luo Chong has already started the disarmament action. The Bao Taowei who just transferred to the engineering corps a few years ago is the best example.
The batch of soldiers who were recruited before have been soldiers for many years. These people should be sent home to recuperate and contribute to the population growth of the Han tribe.
In addition, the industrial process of the Han tribe is very fast now, and more and more factories are being built. Under such circumstances, there will definitely be a shortage of workers, so Luo Chong can also arrange those dismissed soldiers well.
After these people retire and demobilize, Luo Chong can arrange them to various state-owned factories, give them formal staff establishment, and let them have no worries about food and drink for the rest of their lives.
Moreover, these soldiers who have undergone several years of professional military training will be able to transform themselves into workers more quickly and conveniently. They are good at learning skills, and are very disciplined and responsible. If they are placed in state-owned factories and trained a little, they will definitely be talents.
It is also simple for those who do not want to work in factories. After getting credit and being promoted, they can go home and get a few more acres of good land and go back to farm.
In addition, the administrative aspect is also short of manpower. For example, the police system that Luo Chong is going to create needs a large number of talents with military qualities to join.
These retired soldiers can also serve in the police system that is about to be assembled, and they will also have the opportunity to use guns in the future.
After all, Luo Chong had already asked the Power Research Institute of Xingang County to produce police pistols and shotguns. In the future, these can be equipped for police use. I think there will definitely be a large number of retired soldiers willing to join this business.
With these safeguards after retirement, we can achieve a smooth and safe disarmament. If those soldiers fight for the tribe and don't care about anything when they go home, they may rebel directly.
After arranging the life of the retired soldiers, Luo Chong began to order the Shen Ce Guards to move into each guard post of the Han tribe and become instructors to train all soldiers in hot weapons training.
The disarmament action is impossible to be so fast. This disarmament can be carried out through this training, and the elimination system is adopted to disarm.
For example, when training shooting, according to the training results, those with good marksmanship will be left for reorganization, and those without shooting talent will be directly demobilized and go home to work in the local area.
There are two advantages to doing this. First, it screens the combat level of soldiers and improves the combat capability of the army. Second, it can conduct a systematic hot weapon training for those soldiers who have never touched a gun in advance, so that if they transfer to the local police system in the future, they will not even know how to use a gun.
In addition to 30,000 standard type II rifles, a large number of finished bullets, and a bullet production line, the transported munitions also included 600 general-purpose machine guns.
The local garrisons of the Han tribe were equipped with two machine guns per platoon, so a garrison, or a regiment, would need 60 machine guns.
These 600 machine guns were enough for Luo Chong to equip ten garrisons.
However, after the disarmament, it was impossible to have so many local garrisons left.
Take the six garrisons on Qiongzhou Island as an example. The total force was 15,500. The Leopard Guard had been disbanded before, and there were still 13,000 people.
Among them, the Cavalry Guard stationed in Xinhua County, Qiongzhou Island, had a total of 3,000 people. Luo Chong planned to withdraw all of this force, and then transfer them to the grassland, and then transfer the most capable Qianniu Guard stationed in Zhangwu County on the grassland to the capital to serve as his own imperial guards.
Luo Chong's current imperial guards only have the Jinwu Guards, which mainly serve as the honor guard and personal guards, the imperial guards for intelligence work, and the Shen Ce Guards, which is the strongest pure firearms army. However, these two armies are all infantry and lack mobility.
Without a strong mobile force as the imperial guards, it always feels like something is missing.
In the future, if the border is broken by the enemy, or if a garrison rebels, Luo Chong will not even have an imperial guard that can move quickly and flexibly, which will be very embarrassing.
So Luo Chong wants to transfer the most powerful cavalry guards, the Qianniu Guards, to his side as imperial guards, and let the 3,000 Xiaoqi Guards on Qiongzhou Island take over and guard the grassland.
The remaining four guards on Qiongzhou Island have abolished the Baotao Guards and transferred the Xiaoqi Guards, leaving a total of 10,000 people.
After the hot weapon replacement training, those with excellent shooting performance are selected and directly reorganized into three regiments, all reorganized according to the modern organization. The three regiments are merged into a brigade to be responsible for the defense of the entire Qiongzhou Island.
The extra people, that is, those who were eliminated, were sent home directly and allowed to retire.
Then there are the Tiger Guards, who are currently responsible for the defense of the eight counties of Tangcheng.
Because the Tang tribe has just been incorporated into the Han tribe for less than half a year, the political situation is still unstable. Now is not the best time for reorganization or training, so Luo Chong, the Tiger Guard, does not plan to move for the time being.
Then there are the three counties of Honghu on the grassland, namely the 3,500 cavalry of Longxiang Guard stationed in Kaiyuan County, the 4,000 cavalry of Qianniu Guard in Zhangwu County, and the 3,000 cavalry of Jinghai Guard in Binhai County, with a total force of 10,500 people.
Among them, Qianniu Guard is to be replaced and adjusted with Xiaoqi Guard, so after the replacement, there are only 9,500 troops left on the grassland.
Although the number of people has decreased a little, after all the new rifles are replaced, the combat effectiveness of the grassland cavalry will not be reduced, but will be strengthened.
In addition, Luo Chong is ready to reform the cavalry tactics of the Han tribe.
All the local garrison troops in the grasslands were trained according to the routine of dragoons. The so-called "dragoons" were first created by France. To put it nicely, they were dragoons, and to put it bluntly, they were mounted infantry.
When marching, they rode horses to transport soldiers and ammunition supplies to improve the mobility of soldiers, but when fighting, all soldiers dismounted and became infantry.
This has a lot to do with the guns in their hands. If the infantry can be equipped with a sufficient number of machine guns, they don't have to be afraid of the enemy's cavalry attack.
And because the infantry has horses to travel, they can also use such mounted infantry to chase the enemy's cavalry. Anyway, in terms of firepower, combat effectiveness, and mobility, mounted infantry is the strongest.
For example, the three grassland guards that will be reorganized this time will have 9,500 people left after the redeployment, but after the hot weapons reorganization training, some will be eliminated in the end, leaving only three regiments, one regiment guarding a county, and three regiments together forming a brigade.
Finally, there are three imperial guards around Luo Chong, the Jinwu Guard, the Shen Ce Guard, and the Qianniu Guard.
The Jinwu Guard is the largest, but on the surface, there are only about 2,000 people. Most of the rest are spies lurking in various places. The Shen Ce Guard was established the year before last, and the scale is only one regiment, but it may be expanded in the future. Finally, there are the cavalry of the Qianniu Guard, which needs to be emphasized.
The Qianniu Guard is Luo Chong's imperial cavalry, which is naturally different from the cavalry of the garrison troops in those places on the grassland.
They are mounted infantry, and their weapons are still bolt rifles and machine guns, but the Qianniu Guard Imperial Guard is different.
The bolt rifle is too long and it is inconvenient to change bullets. It is not easy to shoot on horseback, so you can only dismount and fight on foot.
But the imperial guards are different. Luo Chong is going to equip the Qianniu Guard with a semi-automatic burst rifle. Not only is the gun body short and compact, which is convenient for shooting on horseback, but it also does not need to be manually changed, which can increase the rate of fire.
Therefore, even if the Qianniu Guards were equipped with hot weapons, they were still an ace force that could shoot on horseback and fight on foot.
In addition to the copycat Type 56 semi-automatic rifles, the Qianniu Guards would also equip each soldier with an eight-round shotgun. This thing was very powerful in close combat. With one shot, not to mention people, even the warhorse under the enemy's buttocks could be knocked down with one shot.
The above arrangements are all for the army. After all the equipment was replaced and reorganized, there would be three brigades left, a total of nine regiments, plus a guard that was not temporarily involved in the reorganization, the Huben Guards.
After the Han tribe was established, all military systems would be changed to the modern division, brigade and regiment system.
There were also differences between the A-type division and the B-type division at the division level. The A-type division was the main force, and its organization was calculated based on three brigades and nine regiments. All the required weapons, food, and soldiers were given priority in supply.
The B-type division was a local guard force, with two brigades and six regiments under its jurisdiction, and all military supplies were handled at the next level.
There is a famous saying on the Internet about Luo Chong's previous life, "May I ask how many divisions God has?"
Luo Chong really didn't know how many divisions God had, but after the Han tribe completed the military reorganization, all the army added together could probably make up a Type A division, with a total of less than 20,000 people, and this is still nationwide.
Let's assume that one regiment has 2,000 people, and nine regiments only have 18,000 people. However, with the equipment of the Han tribe, one division is enough to guard the country. With just this one division, it is not a problem to beat the whole world.
Finally, after the army was arranged, the navy was left. It was also the only navy of the Han tribe, Fubowei, and it would soon be equipped with hot weapons.
However, compared with their military branches, Fubowei's replacement was very simple. All the naval soldiers were equipped with semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, and the officers were equipped with pistols, but that was all.
Apart from these two types of firearms, they currently have no other replacement tasks, because Luo Chong plans to wait a few more years, and after the Han tribe has developed a steamship, he will directly replace them with steam ironclad ships equipped with rapid-fire guns and machine guns, as well as large-caliber machine guns and torpedoes.
Therefore, the navy's replacement does not seem to be in a hurry at this time.
(End of this chapter)
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