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There are only 9 years left for the "Great Wall Watch" mission, and time is still very tight. Xu Le did not delay any further. Except for some necessary matters, he handed over all power to Jiang Feng.

Drawing on the experience of the 1st Aviation Brigade in the Lancang River Campaign, Xu Le noticed that in air-to-air combat, the J-5's machine gun power and rangefinder far exceeded those of the Japanese fighter planes.

However, the J-5 did not achieve the desired effect when using rockets to attack the ground. The main reason is that the warhead of the 57mm caliber rocket is too small. It is not powerful enough for ground attacks and is even less powerful than a mortar grenade.

When he was in Shanyang before, he didn't really feel sorry for the rockets and asked the Air Force to unload them, but because rockets of this caliber were better than the best but worse than the worst. They could not be used to attack the Air Force for the time being, and they were not qualified for ground attacks. The price of each rocket was 1 military merit point, and the cost-effectiveness was really too low.

[This is a mess... The previous setting was that the system-standard 57 rockets were free, but later I unknowingly wrote it as 1 military merit point per rocket, which is fine! ]

Therefore, while replenishing the H-6, he also purchased the HF-14 rocket launcher separately in the system, which can carry 4 130mm rockets.

A single rocket weighs 46 kg, and its warhead is a 17 kg high-explosive warhead. Its power not only exceeds that of a 122 mm artillery shell, but its range also exceeds 7 km.

Moreover, this is specially used for air-to-ground strikes, and its accuracy has been greatly improved!

A single launcher is cheap, requiring only 200 military merit points, while each 130 rocket costs 5 military merit points, which is 500 times that of an aerial bomb, but it has many advantages.

It is the best choice to equip the Q-5. As for the H-5 and H-6, they can also be mounted, but this is tantamount to a waste of hanging points. After all, the bomb load of a bomber is not comparable to that of an attack aircraft. A 250-kilogram bomb hung on one hanging point far exceeds the 130 rockets.

The J-5 is an attack aircraft, used to carry out low-altitude strikes. It can carry out ultra-precise strikes when equipped with rockets, which is a very good combination.

Purchase 15 launchers and 500 rockets for 5500 Merit Points.

The J-5 is a fighter jet. Due to its performance limitations, it cannot carry rockets and can only rely on machine guns to fight.

However, Xu Le had no intention of using the J-5 as the main fighter jet of the Air Force. The J-5 trainer was used for learning how to fly, and the J-5 was used for pilots to practice. One actual combat flight could gain more experience than flying a trainer aircraft 10 times.

The transition from propeller to jet is too big and cannot be made in a short time.

Due to the limitation of military merit points, Xu Le did not replace the fighter jets of Aviation Brigade 2. Even if he wanted to replace them, he had to replace them with Aviation Brigade 1 which was fighting on the front line first.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Le convened the senior leaders of the 88th Army of Shanxi Province and issued an order to reform the size of the army.

Before setting out for the Yunnan Province, Xu's army and the 88th Army were at the same level and were organized into army-level units.

Now Xu Le has designated Xu Family Army as the military's internal designation. No matter how the army grows and develops in the future, Xu Family Army will be the final designation!

Just like the National Guard, it represents the military force of the Tang government.

For example, before the full-scale war of resistance against Japan, the Ma family army, the Northwest Army, the Northeast Army, the Yunnan Army, the Guangxi Army and a series of other local armies were independent armies with autonomous rights!

The 88th Army became a military-level organization under the Xu Family Army. Xu Le will only have one title in the army from now on, that is, Marshal, and no longer Junior Marshal!

The handsome man at this time is not the handsome man he used to be, but a marshal!

Yes, Xu Le proclaimed himself marshal!

[Damn, Chapter 242 seems to be messed up... Hahahaha, it’s a mess, never mind...]

In the past, the rectification was done on the grassroots units, but this is the first time that the high-level organization has been changed.

There was no opportunity before, but there is an opportunity now. Commander Jiang will not care. In order to facilitate future operations, it will be changed all at once.

The military ranks of the troops were reformed by adding a new colonel, which was the exclusive rank of Xu's army.

New recruits are privates and have no military rank. After completing training, they become corporals. The highest rank of a soldier is sergeant.

The squad leader's rank is sergeant or staff sergeant, and in special circumstances, he can also be an officer.

The platoon leader corresponds to the regular platoon level, and the rank is second lieutenant;

The company commander corresponds to the company level and the rank is captain;

The battalion commander corresponds to the battalion level, and the rank is major;

The head of a regiment corresponds to the regimental level, and the rank is colonel;

The brigade commander corresponds to the brigade level, that is, the deputy division level, and the rank is colonel;

The division commander corresponds to the division level, and the rank is major general;

The army commander corresponds to the army level, and the rank is lieutenant general;

The above are all basic military ranks. If there are special circumstances, they will be adjusted up or down one level on this basis. For example, a battalion commander can be promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel at the deputy regimental level.

[Take what you write as the standard. If you take it too seriously, you will be in a lot of trouble! ]

The army has become independent and there are new military ranks, so the army's organization must also be slightly adjusted.

Jiang Feng officially resigned from the post of Chief of Staff of the 88th Army and took up the post of Chief of the General Staff, which is at the level of a major military region, one level above the army level, and his rank is tentatively set at lieutenant general.

In the short term, Xu Le did not plan to confer the rank of general on anyone. He did not want to have a large number of generals in the army in the future, which was why he added the rank of colonel and demoted the original lieutenant general division commander to a lower level.

Wang Dafu served as the commander of the 88th Army, and the troops under his command were also re-planned to consist of troops stationed in Shanxi Province, namely the 2nd Armored Division, the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division, the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division, the 102nd Motorized Infantry Division, the 2nd Artillery Brigade, and the 2nd Air Defense Regiment directly under the army.

The troops currently stationed in western Yunnan are organized into the 176st Army, with Fang Yue as the army commander. It is composed of the 3th Armored Division, the 4rd Mechanized Infantry Division, the 101th Mechanized Infantry Division, the 1st Motorized Infantry Division, the st Artillery Brigade, and a directly-controlled machine gun regiment that has become an illegal household registration from having no household registration, and its commander is An Jiehui.

The former independent guard brigade is temporarily under the direct jurisdiction of the headquarters and is still stationed at the Meidongshan headquarters!

The reason why Xu Le did not publicize this change internally was that it was an agreement between him and Commander Jiang. Unless there were special circumstances in the future, the 88th Army would continue to defend Yunnan Province as the National Guard.

The First Army is an illegal entity, at least on the surface it is not recognized by the Military Commission headed by Commander Jiang. As for secret matters, it has finally found an opportunity to become independent, and Xu Le will not have any secret connection with the National Guard Army.

Therefore, the machine gun regiment incorporated into the First Army could only be an illegal entity. However, An Zhihui did not know yet that his own rank of lieutenant general had been demoted to colonel.

However, everyone's National Guard rank will still be retained, unless they set up their own faction in the future!

After staying in Jin Province for only four days, Xu Le left with Xu Da, and their destination was the Acropolis, their hometown which they had not returned to for two years.

After all, Jin Province is too far away from South Asia and cannot serve as a logistics supply base.

Not only are Sichuan and Kang provinces very close to each other, they are also rich in natural resources, whether it is minerals or food, which can be replenished to the troops in a timely manner. It is also Xu Le's hometown, and there are many connections made by Xu Xiao. Moreover, the Xu family army has established a resounding reputation in the past two years.

If you ask what the people of Sichuan and Kang are proud of nowadays, even children know it, and that is Marshal Xu!