Chapter 914 Railway Force Development

"Haha, Commander, I really can't hide it from you!"

Facing Gu Chengyuan's revelation, Deputy Commander Zhang Zhenguo of the theater did not show the slightest embarrassment. After all, with his rank and being in the military system, his face had long been bulletproof.

You have to know that the army is different from any other unit outside. Leaders of other units will at most be hypocritical and criticize you. At most, they will be more stern and throw documents. But what about the army?

They start by pointing at your nose and scolding Tian Wenjing, and when they get excited they can even promote you up and down, left and right repeatedly. In this respect, military academies and military camps are basically the same.

Compared with male squad leaders, female squad leaders are even worse in this regard. The means of scolding and training (corporal punishment) are more humiliating. The male soldiers blush when they hear it...

For example: You can’t squat down, right? There’s an XX below, you squat faster than anyone else!

For example: The quilt you folded is more wrinkled than an old woman’s X!

For example: The edges and corners of the ones I made with X-clip are clearer than those you made with plywood...

...and so on

As a result, under this tough style from top to bottom, even senior military officers would scold their subordinates by "starting with mom and ending with B". After all, senior officers also rose from the bottom.

This has led to many senior military leaders with more temperamental personalities typing out the minutes of their meetings in a text format that is almost entirely filled with *******, using *** as commas.

So to be fair, Gu Chengyuan, as a theater commander and a military leader, is a person of rare high quality. Under such circumstances, it is naturally impossible for him to break the defense of an old soldier like Zhang Zhenguo.

After all, the leader didn’t even scold XX, so what’s there to be embarrassed about?

"Tell me, what's the matter? It can't be a small matter that makes you, Deputy Commander Zhang, beat around the bush like this, right?" Gu Chengyuan ignored the other party's flattery and asked again.

Thinking of the main topic he was going to talk about next, Zhang Zhenguo subconsciously became serious, took out a document from the camouflage briefcase beside him, and said in a deep voice:

"Commander, please take a look at this. This is the short- and medium-term development plan drawn up by our Railway Command!"

"Development plan?" Gu Chengyuan raised his eyebrows as he took the document.

Have you thought it through? Are you going to start working on it?

Gu Chengyuan was actually very clear and understanding of Zhang Zhenguo's psychology during this period, otherwise he would not have turned a blind eye and given him the railway troops as compensation.

After all, no one would understand or feel burdened by the unreasonable adjustment of positions and apparent promotion and hidden demotion.

But this is the reality. No one can treat everyone equally. There must be differences in closeness and distance.

Compared with Zhang Zhenguo, with whom he had no deep relationship, Gu Chengyuan naturally wanted to promote Wu Bin, who had been with him all the way, to be the chief of staff of the theater. Since Zhang Zhenguo was blocking the way, he could only let him give way temporarily.

Everyone likes a fair leader, and everyone hates a mean and ungrateful leader. But you have to know that in most cases, "emotion" and "reason" are in conflict, and people's attitudes towards "emotion" and "reason" are different from different standpoints.

For a leader with whom you have an average relationship, you undoubtedly hope that he or she will be fair. For a leader with whom you have a good relationship, you definitely hope that he or she will be considerate.

Therefore, the most important ability of a leader, or the so-called strong leadership, is essentially the ability to divide the cake and divide the cake well.

As a distributor of benefits, the leader must first consolidate his leadership position by safeguarding the interests of his followers, because only when the leadership position is consolidated will he have the power to discuss distribution.

Therefore, it is inevitable that various "factions" are formed according to closeness and distance, because as a leader, you must protect the interests of those close to you, otherwise who will care about you? Who will help you implement your political ideas?

Have you ever heard of people in the world working for free without any salary?

So many times we have to admit that most people are not that noble, but rather vulgar. If we want to drive them to fulfill our political ideals, we have to distinguish between close and distant relatives.

Just like Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty, judging from the results and policies of his administration, he was undoubtedly an idealist and nationalist with political ambitions, but at the same time he was also the most powerful official and the biggest faction leader at the time.

The 'top of the hill' is a helpless reality, but the direction the 'top of the hill' slides towards can be the ideal!

Fortunately, the key backbones of the entire Zhongzhou war zone are 100% loyal to Gu Chengyuan, so even if there is an occasional uneven distribution, at most they will just sulk in private.

You must know that throughout history, no matter whether you are a great leader who appears only once in thousands of years, or a general or a prince with great abilities, there will always be people who dare to kill you for their own interests.

Therefore, just from the point of view of "human heart", we have to sigh that the system has really taken the cheating to the sky.

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As Gu Chengyuan opened the document and read it with great interest, Deputy Commander Zhang Zhenguo of the Theater also began to report in the role of the commander of the railway forces.

"Report to the chief, after collective research and discussion by the Railway Command, in the face of the current problems of the railway troops such as shortage of manpower and insufficient firepower, our future development plan for the railway troops is as follows:

First, if you approve this development plan, the Railway Corps is expected to complete the conscription of 2 soldiers and the reserve conscription of 8 soldiers in two weeks. We call it '4+8'!

Later, these troops will be invested in the development of the railway forces, which includes "building core combat power", "building strategic guarantees", and "production, construction and development".

The core combat force is expected to build 12 brigade-level field forces around the three major transportation trunks of the "Yenan Transport Line", "Yetong Transport Line" and "Yeyu Transport Line", including infantry, artillery, armored forces, long-range firepower forces, cross-regional mobile forces, land aviation forces, and railway engineering support forces.

Hearing this, Gu Chengyuan subconsciously exerted force on the hand holding the document. How could this be a plan to develop the railway troops? According to this development, the railway troops would become a group army...

This seems to be seriously inconsistent with the image of the railway troops in my mind. The railway troops in my mind are more defensive in nature. If this development plan is followed, the offensiveness of the railway troops will be almost maximized.

All attack, no defense!

Moreover, Zhang Zhenguo's appetite is not small, he asked for 12 troops... Currently, the entire war zone only has about 20 troops, and he wants to mobilize half of the war zone at once...

Thinking of this, Gu Chengyuan pondered for a moment and decided to cut it in half. It was not because he was afraid or anything, but mainly because he took into account that the military-industrial logistics system established in the current war zone could not afford so much.

It is easy to recruit soldiers, but how to support the subsequent weapons and ammunition? How to support the logistics? How to implement and guarantee the welfare policies for so many people?

Recruiting soldiers is not like playing a game where you just click the mouse and forget about it. The arrangement of welfare policies for a soldier involves all aspects, and the corresponding adjustments to the logistics system are even more exaggerated.

Taking such a big step at once can easily lead to failure.. More importantly, it is not cost-effective...

It is totally uneconomical to over-invest limited resources in defensive forces with low output...