Li Hao's army expansion plan was very big, but Wang Hong was not scared!
After partnering with Li Hao, he didn't know how many times he had encountered this scene before him!
If you were frightened every time, you would definitely have a heart attack!
But after Li Hao finished expressing his thoughts, he did not speak, neither affirming nor denying!
Lying on the table, holding a pen in his hand, he keeps writing something in the notebook, sometimes frowning, sometimes relaxing!
After waiting for two minutes, I picked up the calculated list on the table and answered with a serious look!
"Captain, I just did the math. According to your expansion plan, our garrison regiment will have five main battalions, one mobile battalion, one guard battalion, one artillery battalion, and one cavalry battalion!"
"The total strength of the main force alone exceeds 6,000. Is this still a regiment?"
"In addition to the main force, there are also four county brigades under our control and various district squadrons. The total number must be more than 3,000 people!"
"This is equivalent to the fact that after the troop expansion is completed, the troops commanded by our garrison will directly exceed 10,000 people, which is almost a main division!"
"I won't say whether our superiors will agree to our expansion of so many troops at once. What worries me most is whether our base can support so many troops!"
"There are more than 10,000 people, and they are all full-time troops!"
"To ensure combat effectiveness, the troops must be well fed, and they must also eat a certain amount of oil and water. Not to mention salt, there must be an adequate supply!"
"If the grain, oil, salt, vegetables, pork... that everyone eats every day are all converted into grain, three kilograms of grain per person per day will not be enough!"
"With more than 10,000 people, we need more than 10 million kilograms of grain a year!"
"Forget it, the combined annual grain taxes of Lingqiu, Laiyuan, Guangling, Hunyuan and the four counties can just feed so many troops!"
"In addition to meals, our troops also need to receive allowances. The troops also need bullets and artillery shells to fight. They need to buy medicines when they are injured. They need to pay pensions if they die...: These all require money!"
"Relying only on the shares of several factories in the base area, even if it reaches the planned production capacity of the group leader, it can only cover one-third of the funds at most, and there is nothing we can do about the rest!"
"Captain, your expansion plan is huge and perfect!"
"Once perfected, the garrison will definitely make a qualitative leap, and the entire base will become impregnable because of the existence of these troops!"
"However, with the current strength of the base area, it is impossible to support so many troops!"
"The strength of the four counties is not much different. Each county has reached its limit by supporting 2,000 full-time workers!"
"These two thousand people include not only the main force and local troops, but also our local cadres!"
"Excluding them, the total strength of the main force and local troops that each county can bear cannot exceed 1,800 people!"
"According to your expansion plan, Captain, except for Hunyuan, which did not exceed the standard, Guangling, Laiyuan, and Lingqiu all exceeded the standard!"
"So I suggest:: Considering the affordability of the people in the base area, our stalls should not be so big at one time!"
"The total strength of the main force and local troops should be reduced to less than 8,000 people as much as possible!"
"At the same time, vigorously develop guerrillas and hide troops among the people!!"
"They are semi-full-time troops, and the burden on the base area is small! The cost of feeding one full-time soldier can at least feed four semi-full-time guerrillas, and possibly even more!"
This question is indeed too simple for Li Hao!
When the garrison regiment was still an independent regiment, its base area was only one county, Lingqiu!
At that time, there were at least 3,000 people in the main force plus local troops!
At its peak, there were 4,000 people!
Now the base area has suddenly expanded four times, and the population has increased more than five times!
Li Hao naturally thought that if the base area was four times larger, the number of troops he could feed must be four times as many!
He ignored a problem!
The reason why Lingqiu County can support so many troops is because there are several factories in the base area to support them!
The base area expanded four times, but the profits of those factories did not increase with it!
As one goes and the other goes, the base area can no longer support four times as many troops!
Thinking of this, the first idea that came to Li Hao's mind was to expand the scale of several factories!
But he rejected the idea as soon as it came up!
Several factories have been expanding their scale. Due to various reasons such as raw materials and space, they are still far away from the scale they have set long ago. They will continue to expand their scale and quadruple their profits to the current level.
You may not be able to wait!
Therefore, it is too difficult to solve the problem raised by the political commissar by expanding the scale of the factory!
Before the soldiers and horses move, food and grass go first. This is what I just said!
No matter how perfect the expansion plan you propose is, or how big the garrison regiment's stall is, as long as there are problems with logistics, the troops will have problems!
For a time, Li Hao also wavered in his expansion plan!
But this idea only flashed in my mind and then disappeared, and then I answered with absolute certainty!
"No, the expansion plan remains unchanged!"
"The stall is too big, and we will face many difficulties in the future. However, the situation forces us to expand our troops in one go!"
"Political Commissar, think about it, our garrison has become a serious problem for the Japanese from the moment we guarded Lingqiu. Will they watch us occupy such a large territory, then slowly digest it, and finally develop into a more powerful force?
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"Won't!"
"They will definitely try their best to prevent us from digesting this hard-won victory, prevent us from further development and growth, and buy time for them to mobilize their troops to besiege us!"
"When that time comes, if we don't have strong enough military strength, how can we protect ourselves?"
"Abandon these unwarranted victories and return to Lingqiu and the ravine!"
"Not only am I unable to accept such a result, I believe you, political commissar, cannot accept it either!"
"It's not the style of our defense team to vomit out the fat after eating it!"
"So the expansion plan I just proposed cannot be moved!"
"The main force and the local troops should have as many people as they should. No one person should be less, and no one should be more!"
"Besides, political commissar, you just proposed the idea of hiding troops among the people, which is a very good idea!"
"I have decided that in addition to the main force and local troops that are fully out of production, the villages in the base area will also form a large number of semi-off-the-job guerrillas!"
"With the existing population in the base area, without affecting production, there is no problem at all in setting aside the 10,000 main force and local troops and forming another 5,000 semi-full-time guerrillas!"
"In the future, they will be the best supplementary soldiers for the main force and local troops!"