General White Tower outside Shili Villa.
In the office, Lu Ming was flipping through thick materials, including the current military system of the four provinces in the Northern Territory, the general situation of weapons and equipment, the conflict situation on the front line where the three major legions of the Southwestern Empire were confronting each other, the military system of the Royal Garrison, and so on.
The reform of the 325th Legion may be the most important turning point in the future for himself and the armed forces under his command, taking into account the wars under the same technological level in the previous life and the current military systems in various places.
He planned to reorganize the 325th Corps into four mixed brigades, plus an armored brigade directly under the military headquarters.
If things develop smoothly in the future, the mixed brigade will be upgraded to a division and it will continue stably.
The armored brigade will be formed on the basis of the reinforced regiment of the joint matrix. Of course, it is still far from meeting the standards of a true armored brigade. The skeleton is built and the muscles will slowly take shape.
There are four mixed brigades, among which the Fourth Mixed Brigade is planned to be reorganized based on the Wanzhou Guard Brigade and the Nanping Guard Regiment.
But now the Wanzhou Garrison Brigade is carrying out the task of suppressing bandits, and the Nanping Garrison Regiment has not yet truly changed its flag and is nominally still under Gao Baoshan's command. Therefore, we need to slow down and temporarily carry out the reorganization of the three main brigades.
The student regiment will be formally split and integrated into the armored brigade and four mixed brigades.
Just as he was thinking about it, the phone rang. It was a direct line to the secretary's office outside. Yu Luan's crisp voice said, "General, Li Tieheng is downstairs. Is he there?"
"Yeah." Lu Ming nodded.
"There was also a call from the hospital saying Hu Dingjin had been discharged and was on his way back to the provincial capital."
"Okay, I got it." Lu Ming smiled. He had just been sent to the hospital and had just returned not long ago. It seemed that he was just embarrassed.
A few minutes later, Yu Luan knocked on the door gently, pushed it open and stood aside. Her military rank was already lieutenant colonel. After being organized into the corps, she would naturally be promoted to colonel. She wore an olive green officer uniform skirt and a beret. Her snow-white long legs were wrapped in shiny black knee-high combat boots. She looked heroic, beautiful and sexy, which was completely different from her beautiful girlish aura in casual clothes. As the number one master among Qing'e, she could be both sweet and salty, and she practiced both Yu Luo and Yu Luo.
Li Tieheng strode in, and when he was two steps away from the table, he stood at attention and saluted, "General!"
Lu Ming smiled. Calling himself "General" was naturally a congratulations.
For example, the chief officer of the committee also called the officials in the camp, and he did not use the title of general for the time being, but "supervisor", which was also a compliment and congratulations.
They each have their own way and are well-informed.
"Tieheng, come and sit down!" Lu Ming gestured with a smile.
Li Tieheng sat on the simple wooden chair in front of the desk.
Li Tieheng was originally the training and operations chief of the Black Mountain Brigade, but his thinking was rigid, and he couldn't do well in the training of infantry and artillery coordination, which was far from the combat training content that Lu Ming wanted. Later, he was transferred to the logistics department, where he thrived like a duck in water. Now he works diligently as the logistics chief and does a very good job.
"In war, the first thing to do is to fight logistics. Tieheng, your burden will become heavier and heavier. I'll give you a book to read." Lu Ming smiled and patted a book on the table and pushed it forward.
Li Tieheng hurriedly leaned forward, picked up the book with both hands, then sat back and said, "General, rest assured, I will study it carefully!" Looking at the title of the book, it was "Logistics: The Science of War Preparation".
Picking up a document and taking a look at it, Lu Ming said, "Tell me about the logistics reserve situation we talked about in the last meeting. How come you didn't contact the meat canning factory under the Yanhuang Group that I asked you to contact?"
Li Tieheng looked embarrassed, hesitated for a moment, and coughed, "General, are you sure the introducer is trustworthy? The market price of Moutai brand luncheon meat cans is very high, and the beef content is more than 80%. Now they want to provide us with a special military version, but the standard is exactly the same as the market standard, but the price is almost half of the market price..."
Indeed, even the legion purchase price had an exaggerated discount. After all, it was not a unified purchase by the imperial army, but just a small legion of 20,000 to 30,000 people in the local area.
Lu Ming smiled and said, "I have something to tell you, but don't tell anyone else. This canning factory is mine. They process the food for us for free. We only make a profit from the depreciation of the labor and machinery, etc. This is the real cost price."
Li Tieheng was stunned.
Lu Ming added: "When the time comes, we can do random checks to see if it's the same as the ones on the market and test the meat content. If there's even a slight difference, I'll send all the management to jail."
"General, I am so terrified..." Li Tieheng stood up, his face full of shame, "General, what have you done to my troops..."
Lu Ming waved his hand and said, "Tie Heng, let me tell you the truth. I regard this unit as my private army. I am thinking about my brothers, but in fact I am thinking about myself, don't you think? So, let's keep the empty words to ourselves in private."
Li Tieheng didn't dare to respond, as this word couldn't be spread out, but the military commander was telling the truth.
"Okay, so don't worry, contact them after you go back." Lu Ming looked at Li Tieheng and smiled: "But from this incident, I have to get to know you again."
Li Tieheng stood at attention, "Yes! I understand!" He paused, "In my heart, I have always believed that the commander is the adopted parent of all officers and soldiers in this unit!"
Lu Ming smiled without saying anything, waved his hand, and indicated that he could leave.
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At the Suppression Headquarters stationed in southern Guangxi, Commissioner Zhang was absent for the past few days and everyone understood what had happened.
Commissioner Zhang said that the few days before and after he went to Montenegro to report on his work were the time when General Lu was promoted to the commander of the Imperial Border Guard Corps. As General Lu's trusted and beloved general, he naturally received the news in advance. At the same time, General Lu would also give instructions in person on the matters of bandit suppression.
Today, Commissioner Zhang returned and immediately convened a meeting of the Suppression Headquarters. Deng Youlin, the commander of the security brigade stationed in Guidong, also rushed over.
The county governors of Guidong, Guinan and Xingcheng counties, the directors of the three county branches of the Security Committee, the three county patrol captains, and the three county militia chiefs were all present.
The headquarters' central court meeting room was packed with people.
"Wanzhou will urgently build a small airship base. When the time comes, the airship can be used to help us fight bandits."
The first piece of news brought by Commissioner Zhang made the atmosphere in the conference room lively.
Lu Ming shook his head in his heart. In fact, airships would not be of much use in suppressing bandits. Even if they were used for reconnaissance, they were simply not suitable in the dense forests of the mountains.
The main purpose is to boost morale. Moreover, when building the so-called airship base in Wanzhou, a small airport will also be built. That is the highlight and it is not used to suppress bandits.
The airship base is just a smokescreen.
Moreover, today's airports are much simpler than building airship bases.
Therefore, from a military perspective, it is inevitable that airplanes will replace airships.
Looking at the participants who were eager to get started, Lu Ming smiled slightly and said, "Everyone should have heard about the expansion of our army into the 325th Corps. Yes, this news is true. General Lu has been awarded the rank of Lieutenant General of the Empire."
The commander of the Security Brigade, Deng Youlin, led the applause, followed by warm applause in the meeting hall.
Sun Pojun sat upright and nodded slightly, but did not raise his hands in snow-white gloves to applaud with everyone else.
Sun Chonggu just drank his tea by himself.
"General Lu also has instructions on the bandit suppression work." As he spoke, Lu Ming stood up and opened the official letter in his hand.
Everyone immediately sat up straight.
In the conference room, the only sound was Lu Ming's rhythmic reading.