Naturally, he couldn't dig around because he had money. He took the opportunity to place an order for 100,000 recruits, 20,000 veterans, 10,000 junior artillerymen, and 10,000 armored troops in the system mall, spending a total of 29 million silver dollars.
With the addition of a large number of system soldiers, the training of ordinary recruits becomes more and more efficient, and basically all of them can pass various military assessments.
Therefore, the more soldiers in this system, the better. Lu Xiaojia plans to raise the 400,000 to 500,000 troops to the level of non-commissioned officers as much as possible.
When the time comes for a big battle, you can follow the example of art students and directly attack.
After doing all this, Lu Xiaojia began to distribute papers to everyone. On the papers were the military ranks and organization.
Soldier: Recruit, First Class, Private
Non-commissioned officers: corporal, sergeant, staff sergeant
Lieutenant: second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain
Colonel: major, lieutenant colonel, colonel
General: major general, lieutenant general, admiral, general
While everyone was reading the content on the paper, Lu Xiaojia opened the next page of the booklet and started reading.
"Appointment letter of the 1st Armored Corps, Commander Feng Manying, Deputy Commander Yao Zijing, Chief of Staff Huang Foyin."
"Appointment letter of the 2nd Armored Corps, Commander Long Yue, Deputy Commander Qiu Qinquan, Chief of Staff Jiang Wentao."
"Appointment letter of the 3rd Mountain Army, Commander Zhang Lingpu, Deputy Commander Long Huazhai, Chief of Staff Fang Haojie."
"Appointment letter of the 4th Mountain Army, Commander Dai Kuanglan, Deputy Commander Yue Huahu, Chief of Staff Fu Zuowei."
"The 14 division commanders are appointed as follows: Lin Yi of the 1st Armored Division, Zeng Zhilong of the 2nd Armored Division, Li Yuanjie of the 3rd Armored Division, Lei Zhengyang of the 4th Armored Division, Cai Zhouqi of the 5th Armored Division, He Feihu of the 6th Armored Division, and Wang Yaowu of the 7th Mountain Division , 8th Mountain Division Sun Funeng, 9th Mountain Division Zhang Zuozhong, 10th Mountain Division Liu Yang, 11th Mountain Division Lin Juncheng, 12th Mountain Division Hu Donghao, 13th Synthetic Division Cai Zhonghu, and 14th Airborne Division Li Hanping."
After reading it in one breath, Lu Xiaojia almost lost her breath. She quickly drank a sip of tea before looking at the smiling faces of everyone in the conference room. "Among them, the corps commander is awarded the rank of general, the deputy corps commander and the army chief of staff are awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and the division commander is awarded the rank of major general."
He Feihu said with a dazzled smile, "Military Commander, you are really giving me the position of division commander as a surprise."
Yao Zijing took the opportunity to interrupt and said: "What is the military seat called? It should be called commander now."
Lu Xiaojia listened to everyone's discussion and smiled. "Haha, I will add personnel to each of your divisions. Now let me adjourn the army meeting."
After the army officers finished leaving, the conference room became empty, leaving only a few naval and air force departments.
"Commander, if you are so arrogant to our army, our navy cannot fall behind." Xu Yunfeng, the navy officer, made some indignant comments.
Deng Shichang's eyes flashed, "Yes, Commander, go and take a look at our military port. Our East China Sea Fleet only has a few destroyers and submarines. They shudder when you look at them from a distance. Our navy has made great contributions in these few battles."
After the navy representative finished speaking, the air force representative Gao Zhihang couldn't sit still anymore and stood up with a flattering look on his face.
"Commander, our air force also needs to expand. Our aviation school now has 700 pilots. You can assign them to fighter jets."
"How many people do you need in the sea and air?" Lu Xiaojia asked casually.
"Hey, hey, our air force doesn't have high requirements. Commander, just give us 200 fighter jets, 100 dive bombers, and 40 four-engine bombers. Once our air force joins the next battle, we will definitely defeat the enemy and flee. "
"Commander, our navy is slightly higher than the air force. You assign us 2 battleships and 2 aircraft carriers... Let our East China Sea Fleet deserve its name. We dare to sneak attack Fuso mainland."
Lu Xiaojia could understand the requirements of the Air Force. After all, there were about 700 pilots in the aviation school, and of course most of them were still in the rookie stage.
And just a few people in your navy dare to reach out for aircraft carriers and battleships. Can you do it?
During this period, the East China Sea Fleet was also idle. It took about 2,000 people from the army and opened training courses to train sailors, but the time was too short.
"Okay, I have to consider your request, especially your navy." Lu Xiaojia could only play careless, mainly because there is no war now.
"I'm a little tired, let's dismiss the meeting!"
Seeing this, the remaining people knew that Lu Xiaojia wanted to think about it, so they left wisely.
After everyone left, Lu Xiaojia sighed. He still had 330 million in his hands, most of which were the results of raids on Yu and Huai provinces.
At least 300 million must be prepared for transportation, railways, education, industry, etc. After all, the finances of the two provincial offices have been basically eaten up by those moths.
At present, the military can only take its time. Lu Xiaojia is preparing to equip the tanks of the two armored divisions.
Open the system and finally select the Sherman medium tank and the M5A1 Stuart light tank.
The Sherman medium tank is a large family. During World War II, the Sam State produced this tank on a large scale and widely equipped its troops.
It has a total of 11 types of vehicles with a total of 32 vehicle models, including amphibious tanks, rocket tanks, fire-breathing tanks, mine-clearing tanks... and so on.
It has a variety of modified tank bodies, engines, turrets, tank guns, suspensions, tracks, etc., with different equipment configurations. The body parts that make up the tank are highly compatible.
Although this kind of tank has thin skin and big stuffing, it is often beaten and unable to fight back when faced with Hans's "Tiger and Leopard" zoo. It is even nicknamed "Langson Lighter" by Sam's own armored soldiers.
But there is no doubt that "Xie Mantou" is an excellent tank. First of all, its cost is not high. The cost of a single vehicle is about 35,000 US dollars. In the system mall, the price of a single vehicle is only 22,000 silver dollars.
The M4A3 is the later model of the Sherman tank family, using a welded body and a cast turret. The front sloped armor is 64 mm, the sides are 38 mm, and the turret armor is 76.2 mm.
The picture shows the M4A3 Sherman medium tank
The total combat weight is about 30 tons, and it is equipped with an M3 75mm L/40 cannon, 2 M1919A4 machine guns, and 1 Browning M2HB anti-aircraft heavy machine gun.
Equipped with a 350-horsepower R975 gasoline engine, the theoretical speed can reach 48 kilometers per hour and the longest range is 193 kilometers.
Equipped with the HVSS gun vertical stabilizer, it can accurately aim at the target and fire while moving.
Lu Xiaojia first purchased 200 M4A3 Sherman medium tanks and 140 M5A1 Stuart light tanks, and then purchased a derivative version of the Xie Mantou family.
They are 40 Sherman "Organ" rocket launcher tanks and 20 Sherman POA-CWS-H5 Spitfire tanks.
The H5 flamethrower tank is based on the original M3 75mm tank gun and is equipped with a POA-CWS flamethrower. Its on-board fuel capacity is 290 gallons, and the flame can reach up to 90 meters.
Sherman POA-CWS-H5 flamethrower tank
The Sherman "Organ" rocket launcher tank has the same principle as the Spitfire tank. Based on the original Sherman M4A1 tank, a T40 rocket launcher is installed, equipped with 20 tubes of 7.2-inch rockets.
The picture shows the Sherman T40 organ rocket launcher tank
To make up for the missing hundreds of SdKfZ232 eight-wheeled heavy armored reconnaissance vehicles and SdkfZ222 reconnaissance armored vehicles, a total of 8 million silver dollars were spent.
"Holy shit, the bulk of this armored division is actually in tanks and armored vehicles." Lu Xiaojia couldn't help but sigh, arming an armored division actually costs 13 million silver dollars, not counting subsequent expenses.
