Warlord: Red Alert Base, I challenge the whole world alone

After a few days of accumulating funds, Jiang Hua had more than five million available funds, which was enough to form the Fifth Infantry Division.

The organization of the 5th Infantry Division is similar to the previous one, with not much difference.

However, in order to continue to strengthen the division-level support firepower, Jiang Hua decided to further strengthen the artillery strength of the division-level troops.

He had also discussed this decision with Ling Liang, the Chief of the General Staff, and it was completely in line with the current national conditions.

The ancient country has a complex terrain with very few plains. The south, where the terrain is slightly better, is densely covered with water networks, so it is not very suitable for the deployment of large-scale mechanized troops.

Of course, being unsuitable doesn’t mean you can’t fight, it just means you may not be as fierce as Sandezi when fighting.

After all, the place where Sandezi launched the blitzkrieg was on the Great Plain of East Europe.

Therefore, strengthening the artillery strength of the troops is more cost-effective and can play a greater role.

Previously, Jiang Hua strengthened each infantry regiment with an infantry artillery company, equipping it with three additional SIG 33 150mm heavy infantry guns.

Now we add another artillery company and a logistics support company to form an artillery battalion with the heavy mortar company.

Such a regiment's heavy firepower includes 4 120mm heavy mortars and 6 150mm heavy infantry guns, further strengthening the firepower at the regimental level.

In this way, the three regiments will have 18 150mm heavy infantry guns.

An anti-tank company will also be added to the battalion-level units to strengthen their anti-tank and anti-fortification capabilities.

The anti-tank gun equipped is the M18 57mm recoilless gun.

This thing is a "portable artillery" that the Eagle Sauce only started to equip in early 45. It can fire high-explosive bombs, armor-piercing bombs, shrapnel bombs and smoke bombs.

Although this thing is not as good as the Bakazu rocket launcher in anti-tank capability, its range is longer than that of the Bakazu, and the effective straight-line range can reach 450 meters.

If it is lifted up and fired in a parabolic trajectory, the maximum range can reach 4 kilometers.

So this thing is a personal cannon for infantrymen, which can be fired from the shoulder or a monopod, and is very flexible.

As for the infantry company, it is still equipped with 60mm light mortars as its main supporting firepower.

In the divisional artillery units, in addition to the A-19 cannon regiment, the howitzer regiment plans to add another 152mm howitzer battalion.

Such an artillery regiment has three 122mm howitzer battalions, two 152mm howitzer battalions and one Katyusha rocket launcher battalion.

Further increase the number of large-caliber heavy artillery to enhance firepower intensity.

Although the number of troops added this time is not large, the number of logistics support troops required is not small.

Therefore, the strength of the infantry division increased from 1.8 to 2, and the number of vehicles responsible for logistics support increased to more than 2400.

For a division like this, the artillery can be described as completely insane.

At least for now, no division-level unit of the great powers has such a crazy artillery deployment.

But this didn't matter to Jiang Hua. The more cannons he had, the safer he felt.

Of course, the pressure on the logistics support forces will definitely be greater, and this is beyond doubt.

If the logistical support cannot keep up, these artillery pieces will be no more useful than fire sticks.

Therefore, Jiang Hua also pays special attention to the logistics support capabilities of the troops.

Logistics support and transportation are closely related.

The traffic situation in Beire Province is not particularly good now, it can even be described as terrible.

If we want to fight our way out, the roads in Beire Province must be rebuilt.

Jiang Hua plans to set up an engineering corps specializing in road construction.

In modern time and space, he heard of the Railway Corps, whose mission is to carry out engineering construction and support tasks.

During wartime, it is responsible for the emergency repair and construction of railways, roads, airports, tunnels, bridges, communications, etc. in the war zone.

In normal times, they are responsible for the construction of various infrastructure tasks such as railways and highways, and are an engineering and technical force.

Jiang Hua also wanted to set up such a force, which would be much more efficient in terms of efficiency and other aspects than conscripting civilians for construction.

He told Ling Liang about this idea and let her be responsible for its implementation.

Ling Liang quickly came up with a solution.

This type of division is also named the Fuxing Army Engineering Division.

It is composed of division-regiment-company-platoon-squad, and the battalion-level organization has been cancelled.

Each engineering division has five regiments under its command. Each regiment has different responsibilities and will be organized according to the tasks that each division needs to undertake.

It consists of the line regiment responsible for communications and electricity, the pontoon bridge regiment responsible for bridges, the highway regiment responsible for road construction, the railway regiment responsible for railway construction, and the infrastructure regiment responsible for the construction of airports and military facilities.

Each regiment is under the jurisdiction of several company-level units with different divisions of labor.

With this organization, the total strength of the division is about 10,000 people.

It was initially decided to form three engineering divisions. Except for the core members, all soldiers would be recruited from society and no Red Alert soldiers would be used.

As for weapons, they are mainly equipped with light weapons, and there is no need for artillery or anything like that.

As for military pay, it is 20% lower than that of the main force.

Although their work is very hard, it is definitely not as dangerous as that of the main division.

If their military pay is the same as that of the main division, then the main division will definitely have objections.

We are fighting on the front lines, and they are just doing hard labor in the back building roads. Why should their salaries be the same as ours?

So even though Jiang Hua knew that the engineering corps would have a hard time, he still lowered the standards for military pay, taking this into consideration.

It is human nature to worry not about scarcity but about inequality.

No matter if they are Red Alert soldiers or recruited from society.

However, even though their military pay is lower than that of the front-line combat troops, it is relatively good.

There is not much risk, just a little hard work, and you can earn so much money in a month, and it is stable. They will fight for this kind of job.

Although it is said that the monthly salary of ordinary workers in big cities in this era can even exceed 20 yuan, how many such jobs are there? And how many workers are there in ancient countries?

How much money can ordinary people earn from working in the fields in a year? It's good enough to ensure that the whole family doesn't starve to death.

So this doesn't count as exploiting them.

Instead, it has created tens of thousands of jobs and can support tens of thousands of families.

In fact, it was just as Jiang Hua thought.

When the recruitment for the engineering corps began, all the recruitment offices were crowded with people.

An ordinary soldier who was only responsible for road construction earned 9 dollars a month.

If you become an officer, your salary will be even higher.

This is the job that many people dream of.

After all, there is no need to fight a war, it's just building a road. It will be a little hard at most, but there is no need to risk your life.

The engineering corps is being formed and the training will only take a month or so, so road construction can be put on the agenda.

The first thing is to reinforce and widen the provincial roads between Guyu, Chishan, Ningcheng and Chengbei, and pave them with high-grade cement.

According to the existing provincial road construction standards, the embankment is 12 meters wide, the roadbed is 9 meters wide, and the cement paving thickness is more than 18 centimeters.

This is also the main road in the Northern Reservoir Province.

This provincial road was considered very spacious compared to today's road.

After all, there are only a few vehicles in this era.

So you don't have to worry too much about vehicles in the next ten years.

In the future, when there are more vehicles, we can just widen it.

After all, the money we have now is limited, so we should do as much as we can with the money we have.

Jiang Hua wanted to build a four-lane provincial road, but the money to build this provincial road would need to be doubled.

According to current standards, it costs about 10,000 yuan to build one kilometer of cement road on a provincial highway.

The measured distance from Guyu through Chishan and Ningcheng counties to Chengbei City is 518 kilometers.

This means that it will cost at least 520 million oceans to build this road.

If it is built as a four-lane road, it will cost at least 1300 million yuan.

There is only one provincial road, and then several county roads will be built to connect all the counties in Beire Province.

The standards of county roads are much lower than those of provincial roads, and the construction costs are also lower.

The embankment is 9 meters wide and the roadbed is 7 meters wide. When paved with cement, the construction cost per kilometer is 7000 yuan.

According to the plan, it is about 2000 kilometers.

The expenditure here is about 1400 million.

The cost of road construction alone is almost 2000 million yuan.

When Jiang Hua saw this number, the corner of his eyes couldn't help but twitch.

To make money, it seems we have to speed up the process.

Half of the tens of millions of dollars in his hands had already been spent before he even started to develop industry.

Fortunately, the landlords in Beire Province are still providing him with financial support.

The money for building roads and developing industry and agriculture all came from these landlords.

This can be considered as their atonement for the people they have exploited for many years.

In Donglai City, Qidong Province, not long after the C-47 transport that Gu Zhengyang was riding landed, a notification came from the branch base.

The naval base was built.

The Naval Base is a building that is unlocked after the Technology Laboratory is built. In addition to the Naval Base, some other buildings are also unlocked.

Jiang Hua deployed the branch base in Qidong Province with the intention of developing the navy, and the sooner the better.

After selecting a location, he chose Donglai Bay, about 60 kilometers away, as the location for the naval base.

Donglai Bay is in the shape of an inverted C, with a protrusion on each side of the inverted C.

This inverted C-shaped Donglai Bay coastline is nearly 17 kilometers away from the deep-water coastline. The water depth is between 6 and 12 meters, and the deepest water depth reaches 17 meters.

Although it is not a deep-water port and cannot build battleships of large tonnage, it can still build small and medium-sized ships.

Take the 10-ton Iowa-class battleship for example, its draft is meters.

This means that even if it is built, it cannot be driven out of this area.

Therefore, the draft of the ships built can only be within 6 meters.

However, this naval base was also specially used by Jiang Hua to build submarines.

Let’s wait until we take over Donglai City before building large ships.

According to the current rate of mass production, it won’t take more than a few days.

The moment the naval base was completed, Jiang Hua couldn't wait to see it.

He had never stopped wanting to develop the navy, and now that he was finally able to do so with the help of branch bases, he was still a little nervous.

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