"500,000 is enough, definitely enough!”
Seeing that their commander had relented, Yang Yuting, Bai Yuxi, Guo Songling, Ma Zhanshan, and the others beamed with joy.
When General Jiang Xiong ruled the Black River Forest, he insisted on the policy of elite troops. He did not pursue quantity, but stubbornly pursued the quality of the army.
Before Jiang Xiong became the governor of Black River, the private bandit army under the Jiang family was only fifty thousand at most. They were divided into three infantry divisions and two heavy artillery regiments. They were organized into divisions, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, and squads. The infantry training program was also strictly based on the Army Code that Jiang Xiong personally formulated.
In addition to the soldiers 'military-like management, the officers also went through a long period of professional training.
The first batch of Jiang Family's private army that followed Jiang Xiong to rule the Black River and Green Forest had strong combat strength and excellent weapons and equipment. They were much stronger than the Russian Fusang Army.
Back in 1898 in the parallel world, the bandits were already equipped with large quantities of Stern submachine guns, Mauser 98K rifles, and Maxim heavy machine guns. Have you ever seen them?
Therefore, in 1898 in Parallel World, 50,000 of the Jiang family's private army led the citizens of Black River to fight against hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers. In the end, the Jiang family's private army lost 35,000 soldiers and the civilian militia lost 100,000 soldiers. They killed 260,000 Russian soldiers, repelled the invaders, and protected Black River.
Later on, Jiang Xiong became the governor of Black River and vigorously developed the industrial, educational, and economic industries. The number of Jiang's private army soared to 750,000, and they once again clashed head-on with the million-strong alliance army of Russia and Fusang.
The intensity and scale of this battle shook the world! More than half of the Jiang family's private army had died, and the Russian and Fusang allied forces had suffered heavy casualties. Less than 100,000 soldiers had escaped from the Black River.
It was also because of this battle that Jiang Xiong's position in East Asia was completely established. He was known as the Far East Madman and later established his faction to rule the Northeast.
It had been more than 20 years since the formation of the new Feng army. They still carried out the policy of elite soldiers. At their peak, they only had 1.1 million people.
The army had 700,000 soldiers, the air force had 150,000 soldiers, and the navy had 250,000 soldiers. All of them were young adults with junior high school education or above.
Last year, the army was expanded by 300,000. This year, it was expanded by 500,000. The number of soldiers in the army would reach 1.5 million.
As a general, who didn't like having more soldiers?
Yang Yuting smiled." Commander, expanding the army is easy. The Zheng Manor will publicize it. We can recruit 500,000 new soldiers in three months at most. What about the weapons and equipment?" Or bolt rifles?"
Jiang Yun 'an raised his eyebrows and glared at Yang Yuting.
"What's wrong? Bolt-type rifles are no longer worthy of your attention?”
"No, no, no. I just think that semi-automatic rifles are better. I don't mean to dislike bolt rifles.”
Yang Yuting explained, but the disdain in his eyes was not restrained at all.
Jiang Yun 'an was speechless. He really wanted to order the production of the Type 1927 semi-automatic rifle to stop.
The Type 1927 Semi-Automatic Rifle was a new type of Semi-Automatic Rifle in the Type 1927 family. They were the Type 1927 Semi-Automatic Rifle (56.5), the Type 1927 General Machine Gun (PKM), and the Type 1927 Submachine Gun (Bobosha).
Since 1927, the Feng army had begun to replace the 1927 gun family. However, due to the economic decline, the speed of equipment replacement was relatively slow. So far, only one-third of the guns had been replaced.
The army wanted to upgrade their weapons, but the navy didn't? The Air Force didn't want to?
Compared to the weapons and equipment of the army, the navy and air force were the real gold-devouring beasts!
Burning money, constantly burning money. From 1907, the navy was established, and in 1916, the air force was established. In order to build a navy that could compete with the foreign powers, Jiang Xiong had invested too much effort.
After 22 years of construction, the Feng Navy had a total of 1.06 million tons. It had four Tanaka class battleships with a full displacement of 47200 tons and three triple-mounted 406 mm main guns. It also had 12 Fengtian class heavy cruisers with a full displacement of 18400 tons and eight 203 mm main guns and 12 105 mm high-altitude guns. It had seven aircraft carriers with a full displacement of 21000 to 41000 tons and 45 destroyer with a full displacement of 2,000 to 4,500 tons. There were 114 submarines, and the naval strength was slightly stronger than the Fusang Dwarf.
Not having enough money was the root cause of Jiang Yun 'an's worry. It was because raising an army was too costly. If he did not solve the financial crisis soon, the Feng lineage would probably have a big problem.
"Let's wait for the semi-automatic rifle first. The quality of the Fengjun's individual soldiers and their weapons and equipment are superior to the Polar Bear Fusang. There's no need to stubbornly pursue firepower.”
"Commander, but my teacher said that if a problem can be solved with firepower, we shouldn't let the soldiers charge forward…" Bai Zixi said tentatively.
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Fear of insufficient firepower?
Jiang Yun 'an rolled his eyes. He was so tired.
The old man was a transmigrator from the future!
All gardeners had a disease. Strictly speaking, this was a genetic disease that all gardeners had. It was called insufficient firepower phobia.
How serious was this illness? When playing games, he would not fight with the enemy until he had collected a few hundred bullets. He still had 20 bullets in his magazine, and he had to change it.
If the phone was not fully charged, even if it was already 98%, it had to be fully charged before going out.
Jiang Xiong had a phobia of insufficient firepower, and he pursued the supremacy of firepower. If he was poor, he would spread his tactics, and if he was rich, he would cover the battlefield with firepower.
What kind of students could this kind of teacher teach?
From top to bottom, the Feng army was full of people with fear of insufficient firepower. There were even strange incidents where soldiers did not receive the minimum standard of 150 bullets before the war, and after the war, they wrote letters to the command headquarters in anger.
Of course, Jiang Yun 'an also had a phobia of insufficient firepower. If it were not for the fact that the conditions did not allow it, he would have wanted to equip the Feng army with automatic rifles.
"You don't know how expensive rice is. I believe you know better than me how much ammunition a semi-automatic rifle consumes.”
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