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Chapter 273 China¡¯s participation in the war

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    Comparing the firepower equipment of an ordinary German army division, we can see: 2 brigades and 4 regiments (infantry), each regiment has 1 mortar company and 6 launch barrels.  And machine guns spread to the squad.  The heavy firepower is an artillery regiment under the division's jurisdiction, equipped with 60 75mm gun or 105mm cannon.

    As for China's best army divisions, they have the same structure (at this time, China's divisions followed Germany's, and they were all 2 brigades and 4 regiments). Each regiment only has 1 heavy machine gun company (Maxin water-cooled type), 4 to 6 machine guns, and the division  The artillery regiment has 54 75mm mountain guns or field guns.

    Remember, there are currently only 6 such divisions in China. The other units are considered first-rate and are only equipped with an 18-gun artillery battalion. The even worse ones are the no-name units with "no artillery in the artillery unit and no horses in the cavalry unit."  mentioned.

    What needs to be known is that German Army divisions have always fought under the suppression of the enemy's firepower by the superior artillery force. These military artillery has a caliber of more than 125mm

    ¡° Moreover, Germany¡¯s logistical support capabilities, troop mobility, and training quality of its officers and soldiers are not comparable to those of the Chinese army.  For the same division, the German division can be worth 3 to 4 Chinese divisions!  This is the gap in national strength, and there is no doubt about it.

    This is still the best time in modern China. In the official history of the Korean War between China and the United States, the Volunteer Army has not been able to absorb the U.S. Army into an organized regiment. China has not even completely wiped out a U.S. battalion. There is no precedent!

    Therefore, if Duan Qirui wants to join the war at this time, it will cost a lot of money, and it is inevitable that he will be dissatisfied by President Feng Guozhang, who replaced Li.

    Before, Zhang Guogan, who had been working hard to mediate the dispute between the government and the Yuan, urged Duan Qirui to welcome Li Yuanhong's restoration.  He said: "Relatively speaking, it is actually easier to work with Li Yuanhong, because he has no soldiers and has just experienced setbacks, so he will learn lessons; while Feng Guozhang has military power and is a new official, so he must be aggressive and aggressive when encountering difficulties.  It¡¯s harder to deal with.¡±

    Zhang Guogan's analysis is very sensible, and it is entirely out of his love and affection for Duan Qirui.  If Duan Qirui can accept it, he can learn from the ancients and create a new win-win situation.  It's a pity that he was very worried about Li Yuanhong's dismissal of him, so he finally abandoned the official position for personal reasons, forgot his loyalty with anger, and rejected this suggestion.

    ??Feng Guozhang, the old Beiyang man, entered power in Beijing. Together with Foreign Minister Wang Shizhen, the three Beiyang "dragon, tiger, and dog" brothers began their honeymoon career that should theoretically be like glue.  They relived the old friendship between the "Three Heroes of Beiyang" and said, "We old brothers are three in one body, regardless of the president, prime minister, or chief minister. We just want to work together to do things. From now on, there will no longer be any disputes between the government and the court."

    ? In fact it is not.

    Friendship is friendship, politics is politics.  The first thing Duan Qirui did after he came back to power was to increase the power of the cabinet and make the president completely a decoration.  Duan Qirui made great contributions to the development of the Republic of China three times in a row, so he was known as the "Three Creations of the Republic".  "Three Creations of the Republic" is Duan Qirui's political capital and his magic weapon to elevate himself and attack others, so he often prides himself on this.

    He and Li Yuanhong had a big dispute over power. Li Yuanhong lost because he had no backing; but when Feng Guozhang, who was not weak in power, came to power, the two gradually started to quarrel due to political differences.

    Although Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang belong to the same Beiyang camp, they belong to different factions: the Zhili clique and the Anhui clique.  The two enemies actually officially fell out with each other before President Yuan's body was still cold, and the generals from various provinces also joined forces, thus forming the most spectacular factions of the Beiyang warlords and Anhui in modern Chinese history.

    At this time, the Zhili clique's forces were mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Shandong, Beijing, Hebei, and Jiangxi, and were considered home in Beijing and Tianjin; while the Anhui clique occupied Shaanxi, Anhui, and Zhejiang, and Duan Qirui was re-elected as Army Chief for seven terms in the Central Government |  The deep connections and influence cultivated by the government.  In addition, the "Defense Movement" forces headed by Sun Yat-sen will also form a Dharma-protecting government in Guangdong and serve as the generalissimo, forming a confrontation with the north.

    The Zhili clique is supported by Britain and the United States; the Anhui clique is supported by Japan; and the Guangdong regime echoes Britain and Japan at the same time, but is not recognized by the mainstream of the international community.  If time and space had not changed, it would have turned to Soviet Russia soon, thus forming Sun Yat-sen's policy of "alliance with Russia to accommodate the Communist Party and support agriculture and industry."

    At this time, the Feng Faction has not yet completed the integration of forces and does not have relatively large energy on the political stage.  However, the disputes between the first three marked the official entry of modern China into the most chaotic era of warlords.

    With the current strength, Duan Qirui thought that he might not be able to have an advantage over Feng Guozhang. If there was an opportunity to add a few more troops, the situation would be different. This was Duan Qirui's selfish motive for supporting the declaration of war against Germany.  Since most of the country's military forces were controlled by provincial governors at this time, and the "National Defense Force" in the full sense did not yet exist, Duan Qirui wanted to take the opportunity to restart the process and recruit new troops.??Buy horses, in this way, the famous "Chinese Participating Army" is freshly released.

    This team that meets Premier Duan's wishes is initially determined to be six divisions, which will completely create an overwhelming advantage over the other Beiyang armies.  But Feng Guozhang complained because the price was too high. Hey, all the money from the treasury was given to you to expand the army. Who are you going to deal with?  !  In the end, there was no other way, and the participating armies were reduced to three divisions and three mixed brigades.

    The organization is similar to that of the Beiyang Army, but the firepower is significantly enhanced, because the artillery has actually increased, not just in vain.  These three divisions each have a complete artillery regiment, imitating the Japanese style of 36 guns; the brigade adds a 12-gun mountain artillery battalion; the regiment adds a 4-gun infantry artillery company; very importantly, the machine guns are decentralized to  Battalion level.  In terms of overall equipment strength, it is better than any division of the Beiyang Army.

    The mixed brigade has three infantry regiments and is equipped with artillery battalions, engineering battalions, and communications battalions. It is almost the same as the original guard brigade led by Zhang Hanqing (of course it is the same, Zhang Hanqing originally cloned his independent brigade)  .  The heavy artillery was temporarily unable to be raised. Like Zhang Hanqing, the structure was built first. The future establishment was to govern a field artillery battalion.  At least, in the future, in the name of "China's Participating Army," it will be convenient to ask for pay and guns, right?

    In addition, there is a training office including a heavy artillery battalion and an armored vehicle company.

    Duan Qirui took advantage of the European War to take over the Chinese participating army (because the commander was his confidant Xu Shuzheng), and its strength greatly increased.  If he finally masters it, his power will be superior to all parties and he will become the most powerful person in China after Yuan Shikai.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: We also start recruiting troops at the Tianjin station. A very normal and very troublesome problem has never been solved, and that is funding.  When the cannon goes off, there is a thousand taels of gold.  To build a new type of army that can compete with European powers on a small scale, the equipment alone is a huge expense.  A weak national treasury is not enough. In order to deal with the "war to protect the country" in the southwest and southeast, Lao Yuan almost emptied his family fortune. Where did the money come from?

    Even if China does not have the ability to build heavy weapons and lacks the funds to purchase them, it cannot build light weapons. It has to buy them from Japan, its neighbor to the east. This is really a shame for China.  But the situation is stronger than the person, there is nothing we can do!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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