Floods, famines, and wars caused the entire land of China to be filled with refugees.
Many refugees gathered around the big cities like Yanjing, Jinwei, and Shanggu. Not only did it cause a huge burden to the government, but it also seriously affected social stability.
The refugees did not have anything to eat. If someone encouraged them, it would be easy for something to happen.
Recruiting young and strong refugees into the army could not only solve the problem of soldiers, but also play a certain role in social stability.
Under Yuan Baocen's orders, the 7th division headquarters set up dozens of recruitment points around Yanjing, Jinwei, Shanggu, and other cities.
"Recruiting soldiers. Those who are healthy, under 30 years old, and don't smoke can join. Those who could read were prioritized. If they were selected, not only would they have three meals of steamed bread a day, but they would also receive four taels of silver as their monthly salary. There was also five taels of silver for the settling down allowance!”
The 7th Division offered generous conditions, which tempted many refugees.
In this era, being able to eat one's fill was already very good. If there was still money to support their families, most people would be willing to do it.
This caused a long queue to form at the 7th Division's recruitment point. Countless refugees who had nowhere else to go wanted to join the 7th Division.
"Commander, the recruitment went very smoothly. We recruited more than five thousand people on the first day. In this case, we will be able to recruit enough soldiers in three days at most.”Chief of Staff Zhang Xiaozhun was very excited.
"Yes! However, I never said that the 7th Division would only recruit 12,000 people.”Yuan Baocen smiled.
"Uh, Commander, what do you mean?”Zhang Xiaozhun was a little confused.
The military system of the Northern New Army was set. A division only had 12,512 people.
"Yes, teacher!"
Ten minutes later, Jiang Baili and the other brigade commanders gathered in Yuan Baocen's office.
Yuan Baocen threw a document on the table. This was the plan that he had spent three days to complete.
Jiang Baili, Zhang Xiaozhun, and the others immediately gathered around to read the proposal.
"Hiss!"
After reading only a few pages, everyone could not help but gasp. Wasn't Second Young Master Yuan's spending a little too big?
According to Yuan Baocen's plan, the 7th Division would have 14 people in each squad, equipped with 14 Mauser 1898 rifles, and the squad leader and deputy squad leader would be equipped with a revolver.
The four squads formed a platoon. In addition to the platoon leader, deputy platoon leader, signalmen, and medics, each platoon had 52 people.
Three platoons formed a company. In addition to the company commander and deputy company commander, there was also a fire team. The fire team was equipped with two MG08 heavy machine guns and two 37mm rapid-fire machine guns. Each company had a total of 200 people.
Four companies formed a battalion. The battalion headquarters consisted of a recon platoon and a heavy firepower platoon. They were equipped with four MG08 heavy machine guns and two 47mm rapid-fire machine guns. Each battalion had a thousand men.
The three battalions formed a regiment. The regiment headquarters consisted of a reconnaissance company, a cavalry company, and a mountain cannon company, equipped with six 75mm mountain cannons. Each regiment had a total of 3,800 soldiers.
The two regiments formed a brigade, and the brigade headquarters had a four-company artillery battalion. Two companies were equipped with six 75mm field artillery, and two companies were equipped with six 75mm mountain artillery. The entire brigade has a total of more than 9,000 troops.
The two brigades would form a division, and the division headquarters would also have a cavalry regiment, an engineering regiment, a logistics regiment, and an artillery regiment. The Artillery Regiment consisted of an artillery battalion equipped with 24 105mm light howitzers and two artillery battalions equipped with 24 75mm field guns. The total strength of the division was 28,000.
"Teacher, isn't this a little too much? It was already more than two divisions of the Northern Army.”Jiang Baili was shocked.
"That's right! Commander. Their weapons and equipment also greatly surpassed the other troops. The other divisions were only equipped with 24 heavy machine guns and 54 cannons. Excluding the rapid-fire cannons, the Level 3 Artillery Corps of our exploration team is equipped with 24 105mm light howitzers, 72 75mm field cannons, and 48 75mm mountain cannons. There were also 24 47mm rapid-fire cannons and 72 37mm rapid-fire cannons. The number of heavy machine guns had also reached 96, which was already four times that of the other divisions!”
"Commander, even the Japanese army can't compare to us in terms of equipment, right?”Feng Huanzhang sighed.
" Yes." Yuan Baocen nodded." Compared to the Japanese army, our individual soldiers are much weaker." "Therefore, we can only try our best to make up for it with weapons and equipment. This way, we will have the strength to fight against the Japanese army.”
Yuan Baocen looked at everyone and continued,"I have a feeling that the Japanese are still harboring evil intentions towards us. Perhaps it won't be long before we start fighting with them. Therefore, we must be prepared. I'll think of a way to get the weapons and equipment. I only have one request, and that is, after equipping these weapons, when we face the Japanese one day, we must kill them!”
"Yes, teacher!" Everyone answered heroically.
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