Anti-Japanese War: I have a million soldiers and you call me a division commander?

"The Guard and Reconnaissance Regiments will remain unchanged, maintaining their original personnel and size, but their salaries and ranks will be increased, becoming deputy brigade-level units."

"The Chemical Defense Battalion has been disbanded, and its personnel have been assigned to the Recruit Base to train new recruits."

"Once we have our own flamethrowers, we won't have to wait for weapons and people to come. We can directly establish corresponding flamethrowers in each regiment and battalion, increasing the firepower density and weaponry diversity of the frontline combat troops."

"Establish a communications support battalion of 500 people."

Listening to Chu Feng's words, Uncle Zhao Wu wrote and drew some numbers. He paused, raised his head, and said, "Division Commander, if you count it this way, our 1st Independent Division, including the division headquarters, has 10,000 people."

"That's 26,000 more than the 130,000 you mentioned before!"

As soon as Uncle Zhao Wu said this, the other three partners were stunned. Then they counted and found that there were indeed 156,000 people!

"Cough cough!"

Feeling everyone's gaze, Chu Feng coughed lightly, feeling somewhat embarrassed, and said, "Well, I didn't include the flight base at the beginning because I was always hesitant about whether to continue developing the current flight base or to establish multiple branch bases."

After hearing Chu Feng's explanation, the four partners were stunned.

They don't have a detailed understanding of the development of the flight base, but they know that their own air force is very powerful.

It was only when Chu Feng mentioned the flight base that they realized that the scale of the flight base was about to exceed 20,000 people.

"Is such that!"

Seeing everyone's confused eyes, Chu Feng explained: "At our current flight base, not only do a large number of fighter jets and bombers take off and land every day, but there are also training planes for students and our large cargo planes."

"Although the flight base has expanded to ten runways, as the number of aircraft increases and the missions become more diverse, I'm considering establishing a branch base."

"At the same time, we will establish an airport specifically for the takeoff and landing of large and medium-sized transport aircraft, specifically for transporting cargo and supplies. The flight academy will also be separated and an airport affiliated with it will be built."

"These things are not something that can be completed just by starting construction. Not only do we need supporting ground crews, but we also need security personnel and air defense forces. There are also issues such as site selection, road construction, and railway construction."

After hearing Chu Feng elaborate on the problem, the four partners couldn't help but frown.

They didn't expect that this would involve so many things and departments. Compared with the expansion of the troops, it only required the arrival of new recruits, weapons and equipment, and a training site.

As for barracks and training grounds? All we need to do is provide the building materials, and the troops can do it themselves.

"Commander, I think the cargo airport is very important!"

Uncle Zhao Wu pondered for a moment and was the first to express his opinion, saying, "Our transport planes have a very large cargo capacity. We will definitely be taking off and landing frequently in the coming period."

"This will squeeze the Air Force's training time and affect its combat readiness."

"In addition, our 1st Independent Division has attracted much attention. I believe more and more people will choose to fly to our 1st Independent Division. One reason is that it is close, and the other is that it is safe."

"We can't land at our military airport every time we come here. It's not conducive to confidentiality."

"Besides, our cargo planes will increase in the future, requiring more land. We will also need to build roads, railways, transit warehouses, etc. in the surrounding area."

After hearing what Uncle Zhao said, the others nodded in agreement.

Wang Tiezhu followed suit, saying, "Our flight academy has been established, but it has always been tied to the flight base. This was fine before when we had fewer planes and fewer people, but now it's time for it to become independent."

Li Mingqiang also agreed with a smile: "Don't put all your eggs in one basket. We should also have three burrows. Aircraft are very fast. A distance of dozens or even hundreds of kilometers is not far for them."

"But anything can happen in wartime. Ten minutes, twenty minutes, even five minutes can be fatal at a critical moment."

Listening to his partners' conversation, Chu Feng nodded slightly and said, "Okay, then we will build four new airports, including a large cargo airport, between Guang County and Wei County."

"From now on, all cargo and passenger planes will land at this airport."

"A military airport is being built between Tianzhen County and Yanggao County, where two fighter squadrons and one bomber squadron will be stationed."

"As for the third one, it will be placed in Shuozhou County, where two fighter squadrons will be deployed."

"At the same time, the flight academy will be relocated to Yangyuan County, and the fourth airport will be affiliated with the flight academy."

At this point, Chu Feng looked at his partner and said, "Four airports are being built at the same time. Three military airports are easy to build. The construction cost of each one is 20 yuan."

"The only civilian airport will cost at least one million yuan. If you include the surrounding supporting facilities, all four airports will cost around three million yuan."

"Besides that, the 20,000 people at the flight base are not enough. We need to add another 10,000."

"Among them, the flight base and the civilian airport require 12,000 people each and 10,000 people each. The remaining three military airports only require a few hundred people each. The flight trainees are responsible for their own training."

"The remaining two military airfields each have around 4,000 people."

The four partners twitched their lips. Although they had money now, it still hurt to have so many extra expenses at one time.

“Build it, we must build it!”

Uncle Zhao Wu, who was known for his tight budget, was generous for once and said, "We can still squeeze out this money if we grit our teeth."

"Anyway, after a while, we can use the devil's money to buy supplies on a large scale. We have no shortage of money!"

The four partners agreed, and Chu Feng smiled and said, "The flight base is still a brigade-level unit, and the base airport is the No. 1 Airport, a deputy brigade-level unit."

"Among the other two military airports, the one in Yanggao and Tianzhen is the second airport and belongs to a regimental-level unit."

"Shuozhou's airport is the third airport and also belongs to the regiment-level unit."

"The Flight Academy is a regimental-level unit, and the airport is the academy's airport, so it doesn't have an official designation."

Chu Feng paused slightly when he said this, then looked at his four partners and said, "Before, in order to confuse the enemy and because our air force was relatively weak, we didn't give the flight base an official number."

"It's a flight base both internally and externally."

"This time, I think we can change the name of the flight base. Since it's a brigade-level unit, how about their new designation be the 1st Independent 1st Division Air Force 1st Brigade?"