Chapter 325: The captain is also the section chief
A few days after receiving the weapons and equipment of the complete division, Zhang Wei perfected and refined the details of the establishment of the teaching brigade, wrote them down, and submitted them to Qiu Maniac, who had no objection after reading them.
There is nothing wrong with Zhang Wei's teaching brigade, which is strengthened on the basis of the original infantry battalion of the national army, and is similar to a weakened version of the Japanese infantry brigade.
Madman Qiu had allowed Zhang Wei to leave his weapons according to the formation of a battalion after transporting his equipment.
Zhang Wei just took the opportunity to reserve weapons for the teaching brigade in advance, and he left behind 350 79 neutral rifles, 30 Czech light machine guns (according to the number of establishments, a battalion should be 27 machine guns, Zhang Wei made up a whole group), 9 ZB37 heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft mounts imported with the guns, ammunition boxes and maintenance accessories, and 30 German-made original Mauser 20 rings.
These equipment were not distributed, because Zhang Wei only had the 300 brothers in the preparation battalion, and the establishment was incomplete, and the brigade could not be formed now, so these equipment were temporarily sealed first, and the brothers were asked to use the weapons brought by the preparation battalion first and wait for the replenishment of personnel before allocating them.
As for the grenadiers and the 82 mortar, the grenadier belongs to the new equipment, and the 82 mortar is considered a heavy weapon, and Zhang Wei cannot directly retain the new weapons and heavy equipment, so he can only wait for the division headquarters to allocate them.
And these days, the weather of the new 22nd Division is also changing with each passing day. First of all, the officers gradually arrived, especially the subordinate regiment commanders had all arrived, and the battalion, company, and platoon officers of the military headquarters who were ahead of the grassroots level issued orders to these four regiment commanders.
Under the new 22nd Division, there were three regiments, the 64th, 65th, and 66th, as well as a field supplementary regiment.
According to the order of the military department, the head of the 64th Regiment was Colonel Xiong Xiaosan of the 6th Huangpu Regiment, Zhang Wei, the head of the 65th Regiment, had already met, and Colonel Deng Junlin, the head of the 5th Huangpu Regiment, and Colonel Liu Junsheng, the head of the 66th Regiment, graduated from the 6th Huangpu Phase, like Xiong Xiaosan.
In addition, there was a divisional field supplementary regiment, the commander of which was Colonel Zhou Jian.
However, these three regiment commanders were not the first officers to receive a letter of appointment within the new 22nd Division, before that, Qiu Maniac fulfilled his promise and issued a letter of appointment to Zhang Wei in advance, and regiment-level officers need to be approved and reviewed by the army before they can be appointed.
Zhang Wei's latest position is to be the chief of the second section of the operations department of the new 22nd division, and after a period of time, he will become the captain of the teaching brigade of the new 22nd division and the major chief of the second section of the operations department.
Each division of the National Army has eight major departments, namely: the Operations Department, the Ordnance Department, the Military Medical Department, the Military Justice Office, the Staff Office, the Quartermaster Office, the Adjutant General's Office, and the Political Department.
The organs directly under these divisions, commonly known as the Eight Divisions, can be traced back to the period of the Beiyang New Army, and after years of warlord warfare, they have gradually been transformed into the eight major departments in the current military organs. Zhang Wei's post was in the division's operations department, and the division's deputy division commander was in charge of the operations department, Chief Liao.
The current situation of the new 22 nd Division is that Chief Liao is mainly in charge of operations, while Chief of Staff Chai Zhao does not have much power, and he is in charge of staff officers and part of logistics.
Most of the staff officers are freshly graduated and inexperienced cadets, or even some of the attached officers who have been sent in, and the efficiency of the staff office is not very high, and many units do not even expect the staff office to fulfill its basic function -- formulating and studying operational plans.
Therefore, the specific operations of the new 22nd Division were implemented in the operations department in charge of Chief Liao, and the chief of the operations division has not come now, and Zhang Wei is directly under the orders of Chief Liao.
The first section of the operations department is in charge of personnel, and Zhang Wei's second section is in charge of issues related to combat operations, that is to say, it undertakes a part of the staff business, and when formulating the combat plan, the operations department must be together with the staff office, and it still has a certain amount of power in its hands.
The matter of teaching the brigade has also come to fruition. On the issue of the establishment of the teaching brigade, when Zhang Wei received the letter of appointment, Qiu Maniac gave him a thorough understanding and reported it, and Chief Du basically agreed, and Qiu Luozi actually agreed with the matter of teaching the brigade, he has always attached importance to training, and said a few words to Chief Du, according to what he said, Chief Du agreed to the establishment of the teaching brigade.
Madman Qiu did not report Zhang Wei's establishment form, because the establishment of this teaching brigade was really large, with two or three hundred more people than an infantry battalion, and the momentum was too loud and conspicuous, so Madman Qiu reported to Commander Du that it was a "battalion-level unit." Since Madman Qiu said that it was a battalion-level unit, Commander Du planned to prepare to allocate military salaries and supplies according to the standard of an infantry battalion.
It's just that the number of the teaching brigade has not yet been officially approved and finalized, so Zhang Wei can only be a section chief now, after all, the newly established teaching brigade has a lot of formalities to go through, and it is necessary to finalize the number, approve the military salary, and determine the salary.
Only when these steps are completed and the documents are sent down, can Zhang Wei's teaching brigade be regarded as a regular army that eats imperial food, otherwise it will be a black army!
The standard and supply salary of a battalion cannot meet the needs of this teaching corps of more than 800 people, and the rest of the military salary and supply will have to be paid by the new 22nd Division itself.
Zhang Wei was still very happy to hear that his teaching brigade was about to be set and his salary had been settled, and at the same time, Qiu Maniac also told himself, saying that it was enough to concurrently serve as a section chief in the War Department, and he didn't have to take care of things in normal times, and there was no use in managing them anyway.
But it is not without benefits to Zhang Wei, this position plays a role in brushing up qualifications, Zhang Wei's previous service experience is basically a company and battalion commander with soldiers, and there is a lack of managers who are staff officers and staff members in the organs, and this time it can just be filled.
There are also advantages to serving in the future.
Zhang Wei's main business is to teach the brigade, and even if he is a nominal section chief in the combat department, but in wartime, when the combat department and the staff office need to make a combat plan, Zhang Wei can still participate in it as the second section chief.
Everything has to be prepared for a rainy day. Before the establishment of the teaching brigade was approved, Zhang Wei had already obtained most of the equipment, but now there is still one thing missing, that is, soldiers, and now there are only more than 300 brothers in the preparation battalion.
According to the establishment, there are still about 500 people, and they must be replenished as soon as possible.
The soldiers of the teaching brigade must not come casually, and their quality must be as high as possible, and at present, the more than 300 brothers under his command are all veterans, and their combat effectiveness is guaranteed.
For the rest of the people, it is obviously impossible to achieve all the veterans, Zhang Wei plans to find veterans as much as possible, and at the same time, add recruits with better quality and physique, but also have to wait for the new recruits to be in place.
Zhang Wei's various requirements, Qiu Maniac basically satisfied, whether it was weapons or establishment, and also found Zhang Wei an extremely easy part-time position, Zhang Wei was quite "shameless" from Qiu Maniac to bring a platoon of the New 22nd Division Special Service Company, and even the platoon commander of this platoon with all the soldiers over.
The spy company is basically a veteran, but the madman Qiu is also generous, and after laughing and scolding, he gave this platoon to Zhang Wei.
After getting a platoon of veterans, Zhang Wei was going to change them into a combat engineer platoon, but the recruits could not do this kind of work even digging and assault operations, and it happened that the platoon commander of this platoon was also a non-graduate of the engineering department of the military academy.
With more than 300 veterans of the preparation battalion and a platoon of veterans transferred from a special service company, plus weapons, the shelves of the teaching brigade were gradually erected.