After the exercise, Lu Jianzhang held a military meeting and announced the establishment of the Third Armored Division. Except for Deng Xihou, Liu Mingzhao and Lu Chengwu, the others did not know about this matter at all. Even Deng Xihou and others only knew about it two days earlier than others. Moreover, the Armored Division is a new military branch. Everyone was completely unsure of how to form and how to form combat power.

When Lu Chengwu returned to the conference room, Deng Xihou let everyone speak freely, but his eyes looked at Xue Yue, who was sitting in the second place with his left hand. You should know that among the people present, only Xue Yue knew the armored troops the best, and he was also the brigade commander of the armored brigade, so he should have the most say in this regard.

The short man was drawn, and Xue Yue actually knew how much he had. It was actually a bit lucky to win the previous exercise. First, the army now does not know the use of armored troops, especially tanks, and he knows a little more about armored troops than ordinary people. In addition, more than half a month of strict training, he has been surprisingly surprised by an opponent. This is why he has achieved such a battle.

But it would be a bit too much to say that Xue Yue is proficient in armored combat. Even he himself doesn't think so. Moreover, after the exercise, he found that there were many problems that were unexpected in advance during the exercise. As an emerging technical branch, the formation of the armored division was not so easy.

However, when everyone looked at him, especially when Deng Xihou directly called him and asked Xue Yue to talk, Xue Yue could only bite the bullet and talk about his experience and thoughts about the armored forces.

As Xue Yue told the story, everyone gradually let go of their original restraints, especially Zhou Yinren, who was still a little dissatisfied with the results of the exercise, pointed out without hesitation immediately at the point of the weaknesses exposed by the armored forces. Deng Xihou not only did not stop this situation, but instead listened with interest. Chief of Staff Liu Mingzhao even took out a notebook and recorded the various questions raised by Xue Yue and Zhou Yinren one by one.

The meeting started from afternoon to late at night, and finally came up with a preliminary plan. The next morning, Deng Xihou personally reported to Lu Jianzhang, and was recognized by Lu Jianzhang. Next, this plan was used as a blueprint to form the Third Armored Division. If there was a problem during the formation process, it would be adjusted separately, because Lu Jianzhang knew that there was not much time left, and in two months, the Sino-Soviet battle would officially break out.

Just as the Third Armored Division was formed, the First and Second Armored Divisions were also formed in the Mongolian Military Region and Northeast China. The First Armored Division is probably the most elite and experienced among these three armored divisions. Because it was formed by Bai Chongxi on the basis of the former 78th Regiment of the Mongolian Military Region, and the commander of the 45th Division was Bai Chongxi. At the same time, Chief of Staff Zhang Zhizhong was also transferred to the First Armored Division, and the former deputy division commander Cao Wenlian was promoted to the commander of the 45th Division, and formed a group army with the 39th Division. The final assignment of the commander of the group army was somewhat unexpected and fell on Zhang Huchen. Feng Yuxiang's position of commander was ultimately unable to obtain, but he still took the position of deputy commander and continued to serve as the commander of the 39th Division.

As for the commander of the Second Armored Division, He Yingqin, stationed in the Northeast. The strongest of the three armored divisions is the First Armored Division, followed by the Third Armored Division, but the weakest of the Second Armored Division. This is not because the General Staff does not pay attention to the Second Armored Division, but because the production volume of tanks and self-propelled artillery cannot meet the requirements of being all formed in one go. Compared with the First and Third Armored Divisions, the task of the Second Armored Division is the role of defense and reserve teams. They are facing the Kanto Prefecture in the southeast to prevent the Japanese from taking advantage of the troubled waters after the Sino-Soviet War officially broke out. Therefore, first set up a rack, and then wait until the equipment production capacity is sufficient before it is all in place. This is also a temporary measure.

As the name suggests, the armored division is a unit with new weapons such as tanks and self-propelled artillery. However, because the country could not produce so many tanks and self-propelled artillery for a time, all the equipment could only be in place step by step. In addition to some of the tanks and other weapons assigned before, several batches of equipment arrived a few days after the three armored divisions were formed. However, the total number of these tanks and self-propelled artillery was less than half, which greatly affected the normal construction and training of the armored division. In desperation, each armored division could only adopt rotation training method to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

While the Armored Division was being formed, another secret force of Fang Zida was also forming an army in full swing. This force is Fang Zida's killer weapon - the Air Force.

By early 1922, the military industrial base chaired by Chen Feng had completed the second phase of the development and production of fighter jets and bombers. Through independent development and research on various aircraft reforms that occurred in the European war, China's own biplane fighter jets and bombers were successfully built.

The new fighter jets are much more advanced than the first generation of fighters during the European War. Although they are still single-seat double-layer wings, their flight speeds are far higher than the most advanced Folk D.vii model in the European War at that time. They abandoned the 110-horsepower engine and adopted a more advanced and reliable new engine, making their combat radius reach 420 kilometers, almost twice the best fighter jets during the European War.

In addition, the newly developed fighter jet is not only equipped with machine guns, but also with air cannons, which strengthens air combat and ground support firepower. From a technical point of view, this fighter jet has completely surpassed the existing models of Western countries and was named "Siyalang" fighter by Fang Zida.

The Overlord Bomber was also formed at the same time as the Sky Wolf fighter. The Overlord Bomber is an upgraded version of the original German Gotha bomber. In addition to replacing the latest developed engine, Chinese technicians continued to use four engines as power, making its bomb load capacity from the original 2,000 kilograms to 3,500 kilograms, and the range was almost increased by 50%. It can be said to be a very excellent heavy bomber.

After these two aircraft were finalized, mass production began. By February 1922, the Chinese Air Force had 520 Sirius fighters and 130 Overlord heavy bombers. This powerful air strength can be said to be the best in the world, but due to the confidentiality of the Chinese side, it is still unknown to outsiders.

With the aircraft, pilots are the most important. Fortunately, Fang Zida had already made arrangements, and the formation of the air force was also quietly carried out after the aircraft was formed. As a new branch of military service, Fang Zida did not directly form an air force in the Ministry of National Defense, but secretly established this organization in a confidential manner. In order to show his importance to the Air Force, Fang Zida personally served as the commander-in-chief of the Air Force. At the same time, he instructed Chen Feng to step up the development of fighter jets and bombers for aircraft carriers in order to achieve the comprehensive development of the Air Force.

The Air Force has initially formed five air divisions, each air division has three air regiments, each regiment has three flight brigades, and one brigade consists of three flight squadrons. Each division has 80-90 fighter jets, and in addition to pilots, there are also a large number of ground personnel, commanders, etc. At the same time, air force bases and airports are secretly built in the northwest, Mongolia and Northeast to make logistics preparations.

The beginning of 1922 was calm, and no major events occurred at home and abroad. Although the Sino-Soviet War had declared war as early as last year, for more than half a year, neither side directly started the war. This strange phenomenon made Western countries, which were originally extremely excited, gradually lost interest. In almost everyone's eyes, the Sino-Soviet War became a ridiculous joke. Moreover, because winter had not yet passed, the civil war between the Soviet government and the orthodox government of the Russian Empire temporarily stopped.

The Japanese in Liaodong are still sneaking. According to the information from Jin Jiu, the Japanese side is indeed unwilling to fail and are inciting the Qing Dynasty's old men and Mongolian princes to provoke civil war. However, the effect is not as good as they imagined. Perhaps it was the terrifying incident in China last year. The Chinese government took decisive action and gave a heavy blow to scare these guys with low vision. Except for a few young and angry people, most members of the former sect and society party said that they would take a look and slow down. This result made the Japanese very dissatisfied, but there was nothing they could do. My younger brother dared not come forward. He, the boss, could not go bare-handedly, right?

You should know that there is still a ceasefire between China and Japan. Theoretically, the war has not ended. Once the Japanese jump out in person at this time, they will not only be condemned internationally, but also the Japanese military will not have the confidence to win the battle. They only hope that the war between China and the Soviet Union will break out substantially as soon as possible, and then incite the remaining old men and young men of the Qing Dynasty to cause chaos and take advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

In order to achieve his goal, Japan forced the clan members to make up their minds, and the other was the Special High School secretly contacted the Soviet government and poured the soup. It promised a lot of benefits and instigated Stalin to attack China first, causing the Soviet War to officially break out.

But Stalin is so easy to fool? This is a guy who has never taken advantage of it. Moreover, in the Russian civil war, Stalin doesn't want to officially start a war with the Chinese government. It's okay to fight verbal wars. Once he really fights, he is not sure to win the war. Now he has a tacit ceasefire with the Chinese government. This is a very favorable situation for him. Is it possible that if you are a little Japanese who is talking, let him give up the revolutionary cause of unifying Russia?

However, Stalin didn't say anything. When the Japanese came quietly, Stalin did not refuse, so he simply asked Japan for a lot of assistance and asked Japan and him to send troops to attack China at the same time. Only then did he agree to agree to the Japanese request.
Chapter completed!