All-army dress

During the Northwest Army period, the 81st Division's division headquarters has been following Zhang Zizhong's beloved general, that is, the current commander of the 241st Regiment. At this moment, he was sitting opposite Zhang Zizhong with a frustration, constantly complaining to Zhang Zizhong in front of him one after another?

"Teacher, what's this? I really feel aggrieved for you. Before joining the Ninth Army, when you were in the Northwest Army, you were already in the rank of lieutenant general. If you enter the Ninth Army, don't say anything else, at least you have to ensure that your rank remains unchanged. However, I didn't expect that the Ninth Army would directly demote your rank to become a major general. It's a very deceptive thing..."

Compared with the angry leader Tang Guangrui in front of him, Zhang Zizhong seemed much more calm. With an incredible look on his face, he glared at the other party fiercely and said, "Old Tang, don't talk nonsense, be careful that disaster comes from the mouth..."

Then, he continued to ask Tang Guangrui: "Old Tang, do you know that among all the division commanders of our Ninth Army, the first group of veterans who followed the commander-in-chief, including the current Deputy Commander Li Guanghua, who is currently in the Army Headquarters, what are the ranks of the unified rank awards in this unified military rank?"

"I tell you, they are all in the rank of major general. Even Zhang Huxiao, the commander of the Guard Division, who holds three main brigades and has a total strength of 30,000, was only awarded the rank of major general. We, who have just joined the Ninth Army, can be on par with these elders and have been awarded the rank of major general. What else are there to be dissatisfied with..."

"Besides, what are military ranks? In my opinion, these are all false. According to the latest military rank promotion system within the group army, as long as I want to make more military achievements in the future battlefield, the rank of major general on my shoulders will definitely become a lieutenant general immediately. However, one thing you need to know is that for us soldiers, the most important thing is not the military rank, but the real military position in the army..."

"Even with the rank of major general, our military post is also a division commander. Look at a main division we are under now. Think about the main division in the Northwest Army. Are you not satisfied?"

Facing Zhang Zizhong's repeated rhetorical questions, although Commander Tang Guangrui did not speak. However, from the unyielding expression on his face, Zhang Zizhong could clearly feel that there was still a very strong dissatisfaction in Tang Guangrui's heart.

After glaring at the other party again, Zhang Zizhong had to remind him: "Old Tang. Don't blame me for not reminding you. We are now in the Ninth Army, not the Northwest Army. Don't bring the one in the Northwest Army to the Ninth Army. You must know that the military law of the Ninth Army is not a joke..."

Seeing the disdainful expression flashing on Tang Guangrui's face. For the future of his confidant general, Zhang Zizhong couldn't help but sigh and said, "Old Tang, I don't want to say anything more about what you did in the 241st Regiment... Here, what I want to win you is that the 241st Regiment is not your 241st Regiment, but the 241st Regiment of the entire Ninth Army."

"At this time, the General Command just issued a military order: All officers at the regiment level and above of the Ninth Army will implement a new rule and system from now on. All officers at the regiment level and above will serve as officers in a unit for a period of time, except for special circumstances, will not exceed three years. In other words, no matter what kind of iron connection you operate the 241st Regiment into, sooner or later, you will be transferred from the 241st Regiment. At that time, if your next regiment commander discovers that you make small moves in the 241st Regiment, holding small groups, and being stabbed to the superior authority, waiting for you, must be the 9th Army's severe military law sanctions..."

At this moment, Tang Guangrui was really scared. As a soldier, he knew very well that once this system was fully implemented within the Ninth Army, what would be waiting for him. A trace of panic finally appeared on his face that was still disdainful. He quickly asked Zhang Zizhong.

"Master, what should I do? You must save me, you must save me..."

Commander Zhang Zizhong said with a look of regret: "It goes without saying that if it weren't for saving you, would I tell you these unreleased news in advance...":

"When I went to Jinan for a meeting this time, I have recommended to the Commander-in-Chief to go to the Military Academy directly under the Group Army for a year of study. After the study is completed, the headquarters will redistribute it according to your grades. You must be clear that this matter is your only opportunity. If you grasp it, it will be no problem to be a regiment commander or even a division commander in the future. Okay, go down and prepare well and make some small moves in the 241st Regiment, wipe them all clean and don't leave any tails left. The new leader of the 241st Regiment sent by the headquarters will go to the 241st Regiment to hand over to you in two days..."

Although Tang Guangrui did not come to the Ninth Army for a long time, he had a certain understanding of the military academy where the Chief of Staff under the Ninth Army was personally the chief of education. It can be said that all officers who have passed the rotation training of the military academy and passed the assessment were promoted without exception.

Now, my military rank is already a colonel. Once I pass the military training and assessment of the academy, my military rank will be directly promoted to the colonel. At that time, if I am in a field division, I may serve as the chief of the main regiment or the division-level adjutant. Of course, if I am lucky and assigned to the local army, I can serve as the division commander as the colonel, and complete the huge leap from the regiment commander to the division commander at one time.

Thinking of this opportunity that belongs to him, Tang Guangrui's just worried that had just become empty. With expectations for his future, he said to Zhang Zizhong with gratitude: "Thank you for your cultivation. I will definitely not forget the love of the teacher..."

Zhang Zizhong couldn't help but smile bitterly on his face when he expressed his loyalty to his subordinates. He said, "Old Tang, you said it wrong. All of this is not given to you by me, Zhang Zizhong, but by the Commander-in-Chief. Even if you want to thank you, you have to thank the Commander-in-Chief for your loyalty to the Commander-in-Chief..."

A few days later, the Ninth Army, which unified the ranks of all officers and soldiers in the army, began to officially change all field troops in the army.

At the command of the commander-in-chief Li Guosheng, trucks loaded with various weapons and ammunition, under the command of the guidance officers sent by the group army headquarters, drove out of the military warehouse and headed to their final destination.

In the 80th Division outside Zaozhuang City, the division commander Gao Shuxun was taking all the troops at the regiment level and above in the division to gather at the gate of the military camp, waiting for the arrival of Colonel Xiong Shaowen, deputy chief of staff of the General Command...

"Boom..." As a faint roar of the engine, it slowly spread from far to near to everyone's ears. A huge convoy of dozens of cars finally appeared in Major General Gao Shuxun's eyes.

"Teacher seat, the convoy is here..." Chief of Staff Huang Kequan, who was standing next to Gao Shuxun, reminded with anticipation.

While speaking, he walked directly in front of the entire convoy. A truck full of guards and a brake stopped on the road less than twenty meters away from Gao Shuxun. At the same time, the entire convoy also stopped.

The division commander Gao Shuxun, just as he was about to walk towards the convoy, the door of the head-on passenger cab had been opened. Immediately afterwards, a middle-aged soldier with the rank of colonel jumped out of the passenger cab. Seeing Gao Shuxun walking towards him, he quickly met him.

Although Gao Shuxun's military rank is one level higher than Deputy Chief of Staff Xiong Shaowen, because Xiong Shaowen comes from the General Staff of the Group Army, Gao Shuxun still saluted a military salute and said, "Captain Xiong, welcome to my 80th Division to guide the work."

Facing Gao Shuxun's military salute, Xiong Shaowen, who was only the military rank of colonel, dared not accept it. He quickly returned a military salute and said, "Team Gao, you are serious... I am here to learn from you and the entire 80th Division. At the same time, through this trip, I conveyed several orders from the Army Headquarters to you. By the way, I will escort all the equipment and ammunition needed for your division to change this time. I will be ordered to escort you..."

Since he had expressed his due respect to the people from the headquarters, Gao Shuxun did not waste much time on this topic. He walked into the military camp and asked bluntly: "Chief Xiong, I don't know what order the headquarters has issued to us, whether it is a military order for the specific dressing of the troops..."

Deputy Chief of Staff Xiong Shaowen nodded without comment and responded: "Team Gao. It's true... After this dressing change, the camera will cancel some troops and troops within the Ninth Army..."

"Uh...cancel the troops..." Gao Shuxun asked in confusion.

Because, in Gao Shuxun's eyes, the equipment of every level of the Ninth Army is the most perfect in the country. Such a perfect equipment has to be changed, which has to surprise Gao Shuxun. He stared at his eyes full of doubt and waited for Xiong Shaowen to answer.

Deputy Chief of Staff Xiong Shaowen did not ask Gao Shuxun to wait too long. He pointed to the convoy that had slowly entered the military camp and explained: "Team Commander Gao, this time for the change of clothes, our Ninth Army will be equipped with a group of completely independently developed and produced new machine guns to replace the Czech light machine guns and Maxine heavy machine guns that are currently in service in the army..."

"Once this new machine gun is equipped with the troops, our heavy machine gun troops will be completely eliminated from the troops' organization..."

After listening to the explanation of Deputy Chief of Staff Xiong Shaowen, Commander Gao Shuxun almost subconsciously asked: "Chief of Staff, what new machine gun is so powerful that even heavy machine guns can be replaced?"

Xiong Shaowen smiled and did not answer immediately. Instead, he turned around and issued several very mysterious orders to the guards behind him. Under everyone's gaze, the guards quickly rushed towards a truck parked not far away from everyone.

In less than half a minute, a light machine gun was pushed, except for the lack of magazines, with a longer barrel and thicker barrel... In other aspects, it was basically not very different from the Czech light machine gun. In addition, a box of ammunition was carried by two guards.

Xiong Shaowen pointed to the machine gun on the guard's shoulder and said, "Teacher Gao, it's this new machine gun... I don't know where the shooting range of your teacher's training ground is. Let's go to the training ground to try it out and see the real power of this new machine gun.

At the live ammunition range of the 80th Division, the guard carrying a new machine gun on the shooting position quickly mounted the machine gun on a simple machine gun tripod and fixed it on the sandbag in front of it. Then, the ammunition supplyer behind him quickly opened the ammunition box, pulled out the ammunition chain, and inserted it into the ammunition box very accurately. One hand held the ammunition box, and the other hand held the ammunition chain hanging between the machine gun and the ammunition box.

The entire machine gun supply process only took five seconds. Under the dazzling gaze, the machine gunner was very experienced in loading the machine gun in his hand. Then, he pulled the trigger mercilessly at the machine gun target three hundred meters away.

"Dadadada..." The sound of cutting trees by chainsaw sounded from the machine gun position, and a fiery red flame tongue that was half a meter long spewed out from the thick muzzle of the machine gun. Immediately afterwards, the machine gun target made of wooden boards hundreds of meters away was torn to pieces by this dense rain of bullets in just a blink of an eye.

And just as everyone behind him was still immersed in the shock of the power of the machine gun, the bullet links of a total of 300 rounds had been shot by the machine gun.

The gunshots stopped, and Gao Shuxun and others could even see the heat coming out of the barrel due to heat.

Seeing Deputy Chief of Staff Xiong Shaowen with a smile in front of him, Gao Shuxun suddenly reacted from his shock. Because, with the igneous eyes that he had learned from his decades of military career, Gao Shuxun was sure that this machine gun will definitely become the overlord of the future battlefield in the near future.

With a strong expression of expectation, he quickly asked: "Chief Staff Xiong, I wonder if you can introduce us to the specific data of this new machine gun..."

"Of course. After all, this machine gun will be equipped with troops soon..." Deputy Chief of Staff Xiong Shaowen replied without comment.

"After continuous testing and modification of the Military Industry Group, the finalized "Zhonghua-1930" high-level dual-purpose machine gun is the machine gun that everyone sees. After testing, the various data of this machine gun are as follows: the rate of fire is 800~1,000 rounds, the effective range of flat fire is 1,200 meters, the effective range of air shooting is 1,000 meters, and the 7.92 mm caliber ammunition is used, which is the same as the bullets used by our unit. Two types of bullets are completely universal on the battlefield. In addition, this machine gun uses a chain of bullets. Generally, 300 rounds of bullets are used, and the operation is very simple...."

After introduction, Commander Gao Shuxun became stunned again. He spoke in surprise at Deputy Chief of Staff Xiong Shaowen: "So amazing, damn it. With this machine gun, the heavy machine guns and light machine guns in our hands will be eliminated... Chief of Staff Xiong, I finally understand why you just said: the troops are going to cancel the heavy machine gun organization. Just the performance of this machine gun in front of you is far greater than that of the heavy machine gun, and it is also very light. A soldier can hold it and move around. It is definitely the best machine gun I have ever seen in my life..."

Deputy Chief of Staff Xiong Shaowen followed and said, "Team Gao is right. The General Command decided to replace all the light and heavy machine guns equipped in the entire army in a unified manner after he took advantage of the excellent performance of this machine gun... After the replacement, each infantry squad in the field troops of our Ninth Group Army was equipped with a machine gun. The first-level heavy machine gun organization of the battalion company was cancelled and replaced with a machine gun fire support platoon directly under the battalion headquarters, and a total of nine machine guns were equipped as a battalion-level machine gun firepower supplement..."

"At that time, among all the field troops under the entire army, each main battalion will be equipped with 45 machine guns. In terms of firepower, it has far exceeded the Japanese infantry brigade in service..."

Seeing the senior officers of the 80th Division in front of him, they were already excited by the new machine gun in front of him. Deputy Chief of Staff Xiong Shaowen immediately ordered a guard to take out a "Chinese Style One" semi-automatic rifle that had been equipped with the Special Operations Brigade. In front of everyone, he personally demonstrated this new semi-automatic rifle to everyone...

He was excited and fiddling with the semi-automatic rifle in his hand back and forth, and from time to time, he exclaimed a praise from time to time. He stared at a pair of expectant eyes and immediately raised a very realistic question: "Chief Xiong, I don't know how many semi-automatic rifles our 80th Division can be equipped in total..."

Xiong Shaowen did not hesitate and responded directly: "According to the commander-in-chief, the sergeant squad leader of each infantry squad, and the two sergeant deputy squad leader, are all equipped with this semi-automatic rifle. In addition, the guards of each battalion, regiment, and division are all equipped with this semi-automatic rifle to strengthen the firepower of the guards..."

After talking about light weapons, the next step is to heavy weapons.

Although Deputy Chief of Staff Xiong Shaowen has not spoken yet, there are many anti-aircraft guns that he has never seen before. You can clearly feel that the various heavy weapons equipped by the 80th Division will also undergo a series of changes.

Under everyone's expectations, Deputy Chief of Staff Xiong Shaowen did not ask everyone to wait too long, and spoke very readily: "According to the order of the General Command of the Group Army, all the field main divisions under the Group Army are under a 36-door field artillery regiment and a 36-door 37mm anti-aircraft artillery battalion..."

"All the field main groups under the group army are under the jurisdiction of an 18-gate mountain artillery battalion and a 12-gate 37mm anti-aircraft machine artillery company..."

"The main field battalion is under a 6-door infantry artillery company, without air defense weapons..."

"The Field Infantry Company is under a 6-door 82mm caliber medium-sized mortar platoon..."

"After changing the equipment, a field infantry division has a total of 36 75mm caliber field guns, 54 75mm caliber mountain guns, 54 70mm infantry guns, 162 82mm caliber mortars, and 72 37mm anti-aircraft machine guns."
Chapter completed!