Chapter 19: A Shocking Challenge
Today, there is a hot topic in the entire Central Military Academy: Xia Chao wants to challenge all the cadets and instructors of the whole school, as long as it is the prescribed subject of the Central Military Academy, no matter what the subject, whether it is the instructor or the cadet, as long as he can win the battle, he is willing to accept the crime of disrupting the school system and accept the punishment. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zhou Mingdong, the captain of the second brigade, called Liang Guodong, the captain of the first brigade: "Old Liang, I heard that Xia made a military order for that kid to challenge all subjects, all instructors and cadets in the whole military academy, is it true?" ”
Liang Guodong said: "It's true, although this kid is arrogant, he is very righteous, do you know the cause of this incident?" ”
Zhou Mingdong said: "I admire this kid, he is relieving Zhang Education and General Wei Caier." Originally, I lost last time, and I'm going to get it back this time, but for this kid's sake, I won't bet with you. ”
In the Nationalist Army, it is not a new thing for officers to be promoted by skipping ranks, and Chairman Chiang often does this, and there are many young generals in the Nationalist Army, all of whom have come up in this way.
However, it was at the beginning of the founding of the national army, and the army developed rapidly, and with the continuous expansion of the troops, the officers were promoted very quickly. The same is true in terms of GCD, when he became a corps commander in his 20s, there are not a few army commanders and division commanders. As the development of the armed forces gradually stabilized, the armed forces began to pay attention to seniority. There are also more rules for the promotion of officers.
At present, the national army is no longer expanding, but is being reorganized, and the promotion of officers is even stricter. It's okay to skip the ranks, but you have to give people a reason to be convinced, otherwise it will cause public outrage.
What Xia Chao has to do now is to give General Zhang Zhizhong and General Wei Caier a convincing reason, if Xia Chao is indeed outstanding, then they can promote Xia Chao with confidence, and others will not say anything. There was also no reason for the Military Command to stop it.
Military schools are for training officers. Although Xia Chao showed several basic personal skills, he can only be said to be an excellent soldier, and what an officer requires to master is far from limited to this.
The Central Military Academy is divided into infantry, artillery, engineer, baggage, gendarme, and political sections. Each subject has its own professional requirements, and it is unimaginable that a student can master these subjects at the same time. This is not possible unless it is an officer who has been in the army for more than ten years and has managed the army for a long time.
After all, Xia Chao was just a recruit, and in school, he had never been exposed to these professional courses at all. He actually challenged all the subjects. Most people think that he is young and arrogant, and the goodwill that he has accumulated from his past excellent performance has been weakened a lot.
Most people think he's trying to get in the limelight.
Xia Chao just wants to be in the limelight, but his purpose is not to be famous, but to establish his status and have a certain right to speak. Otherwise, when the war breaks out, how much of a role can he play as a small soldier, relying only on his own strength?!
This incident was regarded as a new thing by the people, and it was widely circulated, and it even reached the ears of Chairman Chiang of the Supreme Military Commission. He had a little impression of this incident: General Wei Caier had called him and mentioned the Xia Dynasty. He said he wanted to find out about the situation.
Chairman Jiang asked Wang Shihe, the chief of the guard, to sort out the materials of the Xia Dynasty and learn about his deeds, which aroused his interest. He happened to have the idea of inspecting the Central Military Academy, so he asked the attendant's room to inform the Central Military Academy that he would visit the competition between the summer dynasty and the school.
This time, it set off an uproar!
General Zhang Zhizhong couldn't sit still in the first place, his pressure was too great! He immediately sent someone to summon Xia Chao again.
"Celestial Empire, if the chairman wants to come and watch your challenge in person, this matter will be too big. Are you sure or not, if you really can't, just tell me, and I will report to the chairman, just say that it is a false rumor, and cancel this competition. General Zhang Zhizhong said worriedly.
When I heard this, I was a little anxious. He finally seized the opportunity to show his face this time, but he couldn't just leave it at that. He said: "Uncle Zhang, don't worry, I don't dare to boast like this without this certainty." So you can test it now. ”
General Zhang Zhizhong is a strict person, and he called Xia Chao to come over, just to understand the real strength of Xia Chao. He had already sent someone to summon Colonel Hans and Li Meng, the Minister of Training, and asked them to inspect the Xia Dynasty in person.
The first to ask the question was Li Meng, his topic was what were the main equipment of the German Mechanic, and he wanted to see the scope of Xia Chao's knowledge, after all, these were beyond his reach as a student.
Xia Chao typed the word German mechanic into his mind, and the data was immediately clear.
He said: "At present, the main armament of the German armament division is 150 mm field heavy artillery (i.e., German FH-18), 37 mm anti-aircraft guns (i.e., German Pak 35/36), Mauser 24 rifle, Czech-made ZB26 light machine gun and 20 mm machine gun of Ore-linkon in Switzerland, in addition to Siemens communication equipment, Zeiss telescopes, German light tanks, bridging equipment, anti-aircraft searchlights and other equipment. ”
In fact, for the specific equipment model, Li Meng has not been in contact for a long time, and he has not remembered it, so he took the manual to see if the summer dynasty is accurate. Hearing Xia Chao's explanation, he nodded frequently.
Xia Chao continued: "The 150 mm field artillery (i.e., the German FH-18 type) was developed from the sFH13 field gun of the First World War, which was the main equipment of the Wehrmacht's heavy artillery battalions, each battalion was equipped with 12 guns, the maximum firing range of the sFH18 was 13370 meters, and the muzzle velocity of the shells was 520 m/s. FH is the meaning of (Field Howitzer), that is, field howitzer, also known as sFH18, s is the first letter of the German long-range. FH18 was jointly developed by the German company Rheinmetall and Krupp during the period from 1926 to 1930, Rheinmetall developed the gun body, and Krupp developed the gun mount, mainly relying on 8-ton half-track vehicles to tow and maneuver. ”
Xia Chao did not explain in detail the specific parameters of this type of artillery, but talked about its history. Even Li Meng didn't know this, so he set his sights on Colonel Hans.
Colonel Hans said: "He is absolutely right. Then, he said to General Zhang Zhizhong: "I will not ask him questions, I fully believe in his ability." ”
The performance of the Xia Dynasty made General Zhang Zhizhong very satisfied. Despite this, he still further investigated Xia Chao, and he and Xia Chao and others came to the Tactics Teaching and Research Department of the Training Department, and he wanted to test Xia Chao's tactical level.
He set a topic, two infantry battalions with one platoon each of artillery and engineers, to conduct offensive and defensive combat wargames. He personally served as the commander of one side.
Xia Chao did not save face for General Zhang Zhizhong, and defeated him easily regardless of offense and defense.
General Zhang Zhizhong is now relieved: Xia Chao does have the capital to argue with the instructors of the Central Military Academy. He asked the summer dynasty to prepare for the arrival of Chairman Chiang at any time.
Not long after Xia Chao left, the secretary, Colonel Liu Yuqing, sent a piece of news, which made General Zhang Zhizhong's brow furrow again.