I want to be emperor

Chapter 489 Rotation and Reorganization
In order to continue to attack the national strength of the Eastern Captives, in April this year, the top leaders of the Chu army formulated a plan, hoping to consume the enemy's vital strength, money, food and weapons through continuous attrition operations.

Prepare for the final attack.

But the attrition campaign had only been going on for a few months, and some generals on the front line said that the casualties were too great to continue.

It would be fine if there were really heavy casualties, but in fact there were not many casualties. Last month, that is, in August, more than 600 people were killed or injured on the front line of Shanhaiguan Pass.

How much do you think?

But you have to know that the Chu army has completed three months of basic recruit training in the army recruit camp in Tianjin, and there are more than 5000 recruits waiting to go to the front to replenish the battle damage!

This is still purely recruiting new recruits, without counting a large number of strategic reserves in the rear.

The casualties of more than 600 people in one month are nothing to the hundreds of thousands of Chu troops.

But even so, some generals on the front line still said that the casualties were too great to continue the fight.

In this regard, Luo Zhixue felt that there was a very bad concept in the army: too much pursuit of low casualties.

War itself is a very cruel thing, and the benevolence of a woman is unacceptable.

It's not that pursuing low casualties is bad, but it depends on the situation.

Yunnan and Guizhou fought against some remnants of the Western Ming Dynasty and the guards with low combat power. Naturally, you can fight with low casualties.

However, when you faced the Shangdong captives on the front line of Jiliao, and stubbornly pursued low-casualty combat, this is purely a brain problem.

The Chu army is not a real elite army, invincible per capita... To put it bluntly, they are better equipped, more people, more people, and better food.

The advantage is there, and it is even quite big, but it is definitely not to the extent that after the Chu army kills them, the Dongcap people in front collapse and run away.

Dongyao people are not clay sculptures, they will stand up for you to fight, let alone those guard soldiers with low morale in the previous Ming Dynasty with low morale and almost no will to resist.

It involves a very crucial fact.

That is, after the Great Chu Empire replaced the Ming Dynasty, the roles of the Central Plains Dynasty and the Eastern Captives had been reversed.

In the past, it was the Dongyao people who fought against the Ming Empire, and the Dongyao people were the attacking side.

But now, the Great Chu Empire is the attacking party, sending troops eastward to harass and destroy it from time to time. Many Dongren gnash their teeth when they talk about the Great Chu Empire...

Looking at it from the perspective of Dongyao people, they must fight desperately to defend their home and country!

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After reprimanding the Army for its hypocrisy, Luo Zhixue also came up with a solution, which was to rotate to the front line.

In the previous attrition operations, the troops stationed on the front line of Jiliao continued to fight again, and at the same time, the rear would continue to replenish them with new recruits.

Although this situation can also maintain the number of soldiers on the front line, for those soldiers who have been on the front line, the psychological pressure is very great.

Watching the comrades around them die one after another, and then replaced by recruits one after another, they will be filled with a kind of pessimism, feeling that they will fall down sooner or later, and they will never be able to return to their hometown.

To a certain extent, in August, the generals on the Jiliao front generally requested to stop the strategic attrition operation, which is also due to this factor.

Seeing his subordinates die one after another on the front line, and this kind of continuous casualties, because the attrition battle will continue for a long time, as if it will never end, even the generals will feel uncomfortable.

For this reason, Luo Zhixue personally decreed that the combat troops on the Jiliao front, especially the Shanhaiguan front, be rotated.

A troop goes up to fight for a month, and then withdraws to the rear to rest after a wave of consumption.

Then other new troops will go on top and continue to fight.

Anyway, the total strength of the Chu army is sufficient, and continuous rotation operations can not only alleviate the pessimism of the soldiers, but also allow more troops, especially some newly formed troops, to gain combat experience and allow more officers to make military exploits.

With Luo Zhixue's order, the Chu army began a large-scale change of defense and the prelude to taking turns to fight on the Shanhaiguan front line.

Moreover, before going to the front line in rotation, the old first-class divisions will also be reorganized and changed, that is, the old first-class divisions will be reorganized into new first-class divisions before going to the front line.

As time turned to the autumn of the fifth year of Chengshun, the layout of the defense industry of the Great Chu Empire across the country has been initially completed.

At present, the national defense industry of the Great Chu Empire has formed two major bases, with Hantianfu Daye Industrial Base and Yingtianfu Dangtu Industrial Base as the core.

At the same time, it is supplemented by Changsha Industrial Base, Guangzhou Industrial Base and Tianjin Industrial Base.

As for the earliest Xiangyang industrial base, it was not large at the beginning, and later the main forces were gradually relocated to the Daye industrial base. Therefore, the scale of the Xiangyang industrial base was actually very small, and it did not switch to production of flintlock guns, but continued to produce Matchlock guns After a period of time, after the end of the Western Front War, the demand for firearms on the Northwest Front was not so urgent. At the same time, as the production of flintlock guns continued to increase, a batch of matchlock guns replaced by Class A divisions were replaced by Class B guns. Therefore, the production line of matchlock guns in Xiangyang Armory was completely stopped in order to prepare for the subsequent transfer to Chang'an.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Industry of the Great Chu Empire, many high-tech personnel from Xiangyang Armory will be transferred to Shaanxi Chang’an Armory as the main technical backbone of the Chang’an Armory that has already drawn up plans for construction, and will complete the conversion of flintlock guns in the process.

After the construction of the Chang'an Arsenal is completed, the defense industry layout of the Great Chu Empire will form a layout of two major and four middle schools.

In addition, there are three independent vertical arsenals, namely the Dangtu Heavy Artillery Factory, which focuses on the production of large-caliber army howitzers, the Hantian Heavy Artillery Factory, which focuses on the production of long-barreled heavy artillery, and the Zhenjiang Ammunition Factory, which specializes in the production of various types of ammunition.

Each of the two large and four medium arsenals will rely on the supporting industries in the local industrial base to form a comprehensive arsenal capable of producing cold weapons such as flintlock guns, conventional artillery, ammunition, armor and swords.

It's just that the scale and the specific focus of weapon production are different.

For example, the Hantian Armory, the focus of this arsenal is mainly field artillery for the army, and the factory supplies more than 70.00% of the three types of field artillery of the two and a half catties, five catties, and nine catties of the Great Chu Empire Army.

Dangtu Arsenal, on the other hand, focuses on the production of new flintlock guns. This arsenal is a large-scale comprehensive arsenal established after the development of new flintlock guns. From the very beginning, a large-scale three-phase flintlock production line construction plan was finalized. , At present, two production lines have been completed, with an annual output of [-] pieces, which has exceeded the annual output of [-] pieces of Hantian Arsenal.

And after the third phase of the flintlock production line is also completed, the emergency annual production capacity of the factory will reach 15, which is three times that of the Hantian factory.

It far exceeds the production scale of other arsenals whose planned annual output is no more than [-] to [-] pieces.

Of course, this production capacity refers to the overtime work during the war, regardless of the cost of the production capacity. If the war is over, especially after the killing of the Eastern Captives, the production lines of the major arsenals will resume normal production. The annual production capacity of guns is expected to be reduced to about [-] to [-] pieces.

But now, the war is not over yet. Is the Chu army still using troops in Yunnan, Guizhou and the northeast? At the same time, the northwest, Sichuan, the north and even the inland areas still need frequent low-intensity military operations such as suppressing bandits and eliminating various illegal armed forces. The most important thing is that the Chu army has not yet completed the comprehensive refitting of the new flintlock guns.

Therefore, major arsenals are still working hard to expand production capacity.

Against such a background, the first-class divisions in the Chu Army have also gradually entered the stage of dressing up. After all, the No.20 Sixth Division and No.20 Seventh Division of the current Sixth Army have completed training, and the No.20 The preparation plan for the Eighth Division and the No.20 Ninth Division was suspended.

The main reason is that the army is under a bit of pressure on military expenditures, and the army is now focused on refitting the existing first-class divisions, and at the same time wants to expand the size of the cavalry, so the No.20 Eighth Division, No.20 The plan for the preparation of the two divisions of the Ninth Division.

According to the deployment area, the tasks faced will be reorganized and replaced in batches.

The main principle is to reorganize and change equipment first, and then transfer to the front line to replace the old first-class divisions fighting on the front line.

The first batch of troops consisted of three troops, the Fourth Division, the Eighth Division, and the No.20 Division currently in Xuanda and Shanxi.

After these three divisions have finished changing their outfits, they will be transferred to Jiliao, especially the front line of Shanhaiguan, to replace the first, tenth, and No.11 divisions that have been engaged in a long-term war of attrition in Shanhaiguan.

In addition, the No.13 division stationed in Guangdong will be reorganized and reorganized to participate in the follow-up Yunnan-Guizhou campaign, so that the troops on the front line of Yunnan-Guizhou can be replaced to the rear for reorganization and reequipment.

The flintlock gun is not afraid of damp and light rain, so it is more suitable for combat use in the mountains and forests of Yunnan and Guizhou than the matchlock gun.

However, the Yunnan-Guizhou frontline fought relatively smoothly. Apart from the difficulties in marching and supply, there was actually no stubborn resistance from the enemy. Therefore, it is still unknown whether the Yunnan-Guizhou frontline can wait until the No.

But when it comes to war, it is always better to be prepared first. Even if it is not needed to fight Yunnan and Guizhou, the follow-up No. 13 division will be able to take on the important task of border defense.

According to the army's plan, it is planned to complete the refitting plan of all first-class divisions within two years. After the reorganization of first-class divisions is completed, it is planned to use three years to refit the second-class divisions. The entire refitting plan is planned to last for five years. more than a year.

Five years is already considered fast, which means that the arsenal behind the Chu army needs to produce at least 10,000+ new-style flintlock guns every year in the past five years.

According to the decree, the No. 20 division deployed in Youzhou City became the first old-style first-class division to undergo a facelift.

(End of this chapter)