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Walking down from the second floor of the Yuxing Teahouse, Zhang Lingyun and Wang Shizhen helped the drunk Lu Rongting to get into three three-wheeled rickshaws and returned to the barracks 20 minutes later.

In the afternoon, after Lu Rongting came to sleep, he washed his face with a bucket of cold water, and his spirit was much more sober.

"Brother Shizhen, we will graduate from the preparatory department in three days, have you chosen your major?"

Lu Rongting put the towel on the wash rack and asked casually.

"Instructor Zhou suggested that I apply for the artillery examination, and my mother and grandmother also agreed that I should apply for the artillery examination."

Wang Shizhen replied.

"Artilleryman, that's not easy to manipulate!"

Hearing the other party mention his relatives at home, Lu Rongting had a relaxed expression on his face, but there was a sour feeling in his heart.

Wang Shizhen's father died early, after being passed to his uncle, his uncle died of illness in less than two years, and was raised by two widowed mothers since he was a child, and when the great famine broke out in 1874, he immigrated to Han with his two widowed mothers.

Although Wang Shizhen's family was poor in childhood, he had two widowed mothers who raised him wholeheartedly, and his life was okay when there was no great famine, and when Lu Rongting was one year old, his father was framed by the villagers for colluding with the Taiping Army and was beaten to death, and his mother Ou Shi was forced to remarry in the county town, and sent some silver money to his son who lived in the countryside every month, and after a few years, his mother Ou Shi couldn't bear to let her son suffer in the countryside, so she took him to live with his stepfather in the county, and then at the age of ten, his mother died of illness, and Lu Rongting became an orphan with no one to support, After the most troubled half a year by begging as a beggar in the county town, he finally met the intelligence officers of the Wehrmacht who specialized in taking in homeless orphans and was transported all the way to South America.

After 1840, natural and man-made disasters were rife in the Central Plains, producing millions of orphans without support every year, and most of these orphans died of disease and starvation due to disease, hunger and other reasons, except for a few who were lucky enough to survive.

Children are the future and hope of a country, and they are also the most precious wealth of a nation, and although these children are not the urgently needed young labor force needed by the Han State, out of a sense of responsibility to the nation, Li Mingyuan still ordered a part of the intelligence personnel to be responsible for the work of relocating homeless orphans on the mainland.

Lu Rongting, like the lucky orphans, was transported to the Boy Scout training camp outside Xinjing, where he received five years of closed military and cultural education, and then went to the preparatory department of the Army Military Academy with the highest grades.

The Taiping Army has a tradition of forming a boy scout, Wang Dashan and Wang Xiaoshan, brothers who were promoted to the commander of the Nanyang Army and the commander of the fourth division in the Wehrmacht, were all born in the boy boy battalion, and in the early days of the establishment of the Wehrmacht, the main force of Han immigrants was young and middle-aged, so there were no conditions for the establishment of scouts in the Han country, and with the arrival of groups of orphans aged about ten years old in South America, how to properly settle them became a big problem.

In Li Mingyuan's view, using them as soldiers to fight like the Taiping Army is tantamount to a crime against the country and the nation, and arranging them to go to school with those children with families is easy to cause some inevitable problems because of the identity of orphans.

The Boy Scout training camp adopts a militarized management method, where all orphans are divided into different classes according to their age, and then divided into ordinary classes and elite classes according to each orphan's different ability to receive knowledge.

Lu Rongting received a saber from Li Mingyuan at the graduation ceremony of the Boy Scout training camp, and after being promoted to the preparatory department to study, he was also favored by the instructors, but when he was struggling to study, Lu Rongting couldn't help but feel tired sometimes, whenever this time, his mother had hoped to get ahead became the driving force for his hard work, and in his heart, there has always been a thought, that is, to become a general, lead his soldiers to catch those murderers who killed his father to avenge his father, and then transport the bones of his father and mother to the Han Kingdom, to hold a beautiful funeral for the parents.

"Is Brother Lu going to apply for the cavalry?"

Wang Shizhen splashed the washed water outside, did not notice the change in Lu Rongting's mood, and said with a smile, "Brother Lu has been serving in the cavalry battalion of the First Division for one year, and even Chief Zhang praised Brother Lu's riding skills. ”

"How can it be as simple as what Brother Wang Shizhen said." Lu Rongting shook his head, disagreeing with his statement.

"After the change in the establishment of the National Defense Force, in addition to the cavalry division, only four divisional cavalry battalions and three brigade cavalry companies recruited cavalry officers, and there were only a few cavalry officers who were promoted.

The Han State is located in the Pampas steppe, adapted to the natural environment and has been adhering to the policy of introducing excellent horses for many years, and the current national defense force is no longer short of qualified war horses, and a large part of the horses produced in the horse farm are allocated to the Zizhong army to transport weapons and materials in addition to being used as war horses.

The abundant supply of horses met the demand for war horses, but it did not change the gradual decline in the importance of cavalry units in the Wehrmacht.

Imitation rifles, 75-mm field guns, and machine guns have an increasingly inhibitory effect on cavalry units, because of the needs of Argentine operations, the Wehrmacht has expanded the cavalry brigade into a cavalry division alone, but among the four field divisions and three independent mixed brigades newly established, only one cavalry battalion and one cavalry company are retained, and the number of cavalry is much smaller than that of the Japanese divisional and regimental units and a town unit of the Manchurian New Army.

The second expansion of the Wehrmacht increased the equipment rate of artillery, machine guns, mortars, and other weapons, as well as new arms such as engineers, communications squads, and surveyors.

The new military establishment is based on the strength of the main belligerents of World War I, and after adaptation, the specific data are as follows:

1. Standard infantry company of the Wehrmacht:

It includes three infantry platoons, a machine gun platoon, a Zizhong squad, a company headquarters, 10 carriages, and 13 horses.

(1) Machine gun platoon: two heavy machine guns, four light machine guns, three carriages, a second lieutenant platoon leader, a sergeant major and deputy platoon leader, a light machine gun team leader non-commissioned officer, a heavy machine gun group non-commissioned officer, a non-commissioned officer infantry squad leader,

One officer, four non-commissioned officers, twenty-three soldiers. A total of 28 people.

(2) Rifle platoon: three infantry squads, one squad of ten people.

One second lieutenant platoon commander, one sergeant major, deputy platoon commander, three non-commissioned officer squad leaders, 27 soldiers, a total of 32 people.

(3) Zizhong squad: a non-commissioned officer squad leader, nine soldiers, and 7 carriages.

(4) Company headquarters: one captain company commander, one lieutenant deputy company commander, five professional non-commissioned officers (surveying and mapping, communications, etc.). A non-commissioned officer squad leader, 9 soldiers, a total of 15 people.

A standard infantry company includes a captain and a lieutenant and deputy commander, with a total of 151 personnel.

2nd Infantry Battalion:

It includes three infantry companies, a mortar platoon, a heavy machine gun platoon, a light machine gun platoon, a heavy platoon, a communications squad, and a battalion headquarters.

(1) A mortar platoon: one sergeant major, 3 non-commissioned officers, nine 55-mm mortars, 20 soldiers, a total of 24 people.

(2) Heavy machine gun platoon: 4 heavy machine guns, a total of 18 people.

(3) Light machine gun platoon: 6 units: 24 people.

(4) Zi rearrangement: 32 people.

(5) Communication class: 10 people.

(6) Battalion headquarters: 32 people in a guard platoon, a major battalion commander, a captain deputy battalion commander, three battalion officers, five non-commissioned officers, a total of 42 people.

An infantry battalion includes a major battalion commander and a captain and deputy battalion commander, with a total of 561 people.

Three infantry regiments

: 3 infantry battalions, 1 artillery company, 1 Zizhong company, 1 regimental headquarters.

(1) Artillery company: three artillery platoons, one light machine gun platoon, one infantry guard platoon.

9 75-mm field guns, 3 light machine guns.

One captain company commander, one lieutenant deputy company commander, 5 sergeant majors, 18 non-commissioned officers, 130 soldiers, a total of 155 people.

(2) Zizhonglian: 151 people.

(3) Regiment Headquarters: 151 guards company, 15 professional officers, 20 non-commissioned officers, and 32 soldiers, a total of 218 people.

The regimental commander colonel, the deputy regiment commander lieutenant colonel, a total of 2207 people.

Four Infantry Divisions

: three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a reconnaissance battalion, a cavalry battalion, an engineer battalion, a Zizhong battalion, a division headquarters,

(1) Cavalry battalion: 10 people per squad, 3 squads per platoon, 32 people, 151 people per company with three platoons, and 560 people per battalion with three companies. 600 war horses and 400 pack horses.

Battalion commander, major, or lieutenant colonel.

(2) Artillery regiment: 36 105-mm howitzers,

There are 480 wagons, 100 trailers, and 2,000 pack horses.

2,200 officers and soldiers.

(3) The number of reconnaissance battalions and Zizhong battalions is comparable to that of infantry battalions, with 560 people respectively

The division commander is a major general or lieutenant general, and the deputy division commander is a colonel or major general, with a total number of 12,000 people.

In the new establishment, the rank of non-commissioned officer of the first class of sergeant major has been added, bringing the number of non-commissioned officers in the Wehrmacht to four levels, which are divided into corporal, sergeant, sergeant, and military chief.

Soldiers who have not attended a military academy can apply for the preparatory department of the Army Military Academy as long as they are under the age of 30 when they are promoted to sergeant major, and have the opportunity to be promoted to a battalion officer after passing the graduation examination of the preparatory department.

In addition to the pampas steppe, Chile, Paraguay, and the Brazilian plateau around the Han Kingdom were not suitable for cavalry combat, so Lu Rongting gave up the opportunity to apply for the cavalry department and chose the infantry department with a broader future as his major military major.

"Brother Lu's riding skills are not to mention, in the new batch of German instructors who are about to teach, there is a noble cavalry officer named August von Mackensen, I heard that he once made great contributions in the Franco-Prussian War, Brother Lu gave up training cavalry, and missed the acquaintance with August. Feng. Mackensen's chance, it's a shame. ”

Wang Shizhen was not the warlord leader who became the Beiyang boss later, and at this time, he was thinking about Lu Rongting simply.

"It is a pity that Captain Augusta is a good soldier and it is a pity not to learn cavalry from him, but the delegation of German officers led by Count Gottlieb von Hazelle included such officers as Captain Remus von Vorch, Hermann. Feng. Excellent officers such as Eichhorn and Captain Colmar von der Golz chose the infantry section to learn excellent tactics from them. ”

"Okay, Brother Lu's military skills are very good, even if he doesn't choose the cavalry department, I believe that Brother Lu can do very well."

Wang Shizhen smiled. ……