Chapter 349: A Military Cadet with Worrying Quality
After entering the military academy, the military academy students will first be given military training education, and the so-called cultivation education is to cultivate the military temperament of military cadets in accordance with the method of training the big soldiers.
Let the students stand in line to practice, carry out militarized management, militarized training. After a few months of training, the formal course will be taught, and the batch of students that Zhang Wei is about to accept is really flattering in the tactical course.
This group of students only studied for a little more than a year, and the study time was greatly shortened due to the tension of the war, and the time for studying various subjects was even shorter. According to the archives, most of the graduates of the 14th batch came from the relocated Tongliang campus, and the rest came from branch campuses in other districts.
In terms of personnel composition, most of them are young students who apply for the examination, and some of them are civil servants recommended by government agencies, and these civil servants are also government workers of the same age.
Theoretically, they were supposed to be educated in company and platoon tactics, but the way these students were educated was by copying notes and giving brief explanations from instructors.
They have learned all these things in the tactics of the infantry, the construction of cities in the field, and the organization of marching columns, but the time to learn them is too short, and they can't learn everything well! The operation of weapons and equipment is also very pitiful, and each rifle has fired dozens of rounds.
The heavy weapon operation only had one live fire from the mortar, and the heavy machine gun almost never fired at all, and the rest of the time it was fiddling with the weapon. The more he looked at this file, the more Zhang Wei felt that it was not good, at this level, what kind of war command did the officers he taught?
Looking at the textbooks they use, there are a mixture of fish and dragons, some left over from the former Qing Dynasty, and some before the First World War, Soviet textbooks and German textbooks, which are very confusing. In terms of this level of education and the time of education, not to mention compared with Japanese officers, they are 18,000 miles behind Zhang Wei and Qiu Wei.
At that time, Zhang Wei and Qiu Wei had a three-year school system, and although the quality of teaching was not very high, in three years, even by cramming education, they could train a relatively qualified grass-roots platoon-level commanding officer.
In fact, the national army does not pay enough attention to military education, and there is a kind of atmosphere in the troops, first-class people, officers who mix well to become commanders and commanders in field units, that is called magnificent! His subordinates have money and soldiers, economic and managerial rights, money, guns and tickets.
Second-class people, they are almost mixed, to be a staff officer, the staff officer has no command power, including the chief of staff, although he has a long word, he still does not have much power in his hands, but he is not far from the position of the commander of the army.
The worst third-class people are to go to military academies to become instructors, and the instructors of military academies are all people who can't get along in the first two classes, and many dismissed officers in the army are also sent to military academies as instructors in the end.
Military education is obviously the most important thing that should be taken seriously, but it has become like this, and the atmosphere within the national army can be seen. With such instructors, how can you teach qualified students?
These students are all going to be platoon commanders in the army in the future, and they will personally go to the front line to fight the Japanese army, and they are front-line combat officers, and in terms of their education level in military schools, they can barely be regarded as non-commissioned officer education.
Zhang Wei firmly believes that asking them to go to the battlefield to fight is simply a matter of disregard for human life. This creates a vicious circle and a waste of resources.
According to the enrollment requirements of military academies, those who can apply for the examination must be young people between the ages of 18 and 24, and have a high school degree or above; after the start of the war, the officers on the front line suffered heavy casualties, and the officers trained before the war suffered more than half of the casualties in the first year of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the commanding officers of the grass-roots units were forced to promote a large number of soldiers from the ranks and use soldiers with combat experience to fill their posts.
It can be said that these soldiers with combat experience are qualified soldiers or non-commissioned officers, but it is not enough to let them serve as officers to command the troops to fight, and it is a helpless move.
There is a huge shortage of officers graduating from regular military academies, and for this reason, the Central Military Academy has opened branch campuses in various localities, and at the same time appropriately lowered the enrollment standards in the hope of recruiting more officers.
Although the standard is lowered, the quality requirements for students are still not low, in the past, students with high Chinese or above, after the reduced requirements, students with a junior high school diploma or above can apply for the examination.
The proportion of people who know how to read and write in the country is not high, and the young people of school-age who have a junior high school or high school education or above are even rarer.
There are a lot of soldiers, and it is really not possible to rely on catching strong men and catching ordinary people, educated young people, if they die, they will die, and it is impossible to train them quickly, and the training cycle of high school or above culture is more than ten years.
There is no doubt that this is a waste of these officers' seedlings after a rough education, and the rough education has led to a large number of casualties among these limited officers on the battlefield, and the gap of officers is getting bigger and bigger, and then in order to fill the gap, they use more crude education to train officers, and so on creates a vicious circle.
It can only make the troops weaker and weaker, and the combat effectiveness is getting worse and worse.
The burden on his own body is really not small, and the upcoming training is actually a re-education of military cadets, strengthening their existing basic education, and making them qualified officers as much as possible.
The matter was urgent, and Zhang Wei could only pursue the fastest and most effective way to train them, and one of what these cadets lacked was a sophisticated education in tactics, and the other was the lack of their own military quality.
According to their training time, the "military training" of this group of students is not long enough, and the enlistment period is basic military training, so that the students have a clear understanding of the army, and let them develop a military temperament, first to be a soldier, before they can be an officer.
Their numbers are just enough to form a company, so Zhang Wei will do just that, organize them into an infantry company, and carry out re-education in the tactics in the books when they are not on the training ground, and let them practice in the company units on the training ground, practice the tactics learned in the books, and combine theoretical explanations with practical exercises, which is the best and fastest way to improve at present.
By the way, it can also help the cadets improve their ability to use weapons and the combat quality of individual soldiers, and in the future, they will have the combat quality of the soldiers who are no less than the soldiers, and the survivability will naturally become stronger.
Grass-roots officers will fight the front line, and if their own fighting qualities are not up to standard, they will be very likely to die suddenly on the battlefield, and when the grass-roots units lose their officers, chaos will inevitably ensue.
Without officers in control of the rank-and-file troops, the troops that have lost their organization can have a cascading reaction that affects the entire front!
Improving the quality of these future grassroots officers of the new 22 nd Division is of great significance, and if they do a good job, the combat effectiveness of the whole division will be raised to a higher level.