Chapter 44 Compulsory Military Service

After the reorganization of the army, Chen Zeyu conferred military ranks on all officers and men of the navy and army.

In this respect, the rank system of the army of the republic is completely copied from the Western countries, from top to bottom, divided into generals, lieutenant generals, major generals, and brigadier generals; Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major; captain, lieutenant, ensign; sergeant, sergeant, corporal; Private and private.

Except for Chen Zeyu himself as a general, because there was no military merit at all except for Seris's War of Independence. Among the highest-ranking divisional military commanders, Chen Zeyu was only awarded the rank of colonel.

The non-commissioned officers and students who served as the commanders of the first eight integrated divisions of the Republic Army were Yang Junyao, Zeng Pu, Zhang Xudong, Fan Wenfang, Ma Wenyu, He Liang, Liu Chao and others.

After the establishment of the eight reorganized divisions was thus completed, there were 184,000 troops, and then Chen Zeyu of these eight division-level units held a grand and solemn flag-awarding ceremony for their troops one by one.

In this way, there are still 16,000 people left from the original 200,000 people, of which Chen Zeyu is divided into two halves according to the level of military quality.

Among them, Chen Zeyu arranged for some of them to enter several military academies as military instructors, and some of them were included in the State Security Bureau, special police units, and secret police organizations that had just been secretly formed. The last group of the rest were all taken up paramilitary positions in the police, firefighting, railway maintenance and other units in the various sub-districts of the Republic.

According to Chen Zeyu's idea, the Ministry of National Defense soon improved the compulsory military service system of the Seris Republic.

In principle, all young people of the republics are required to participate in military service for at least two years, both in order to improve the military quality of the Serris youth and to expand the reserve forces of the Seris in all branches of the army.

Under the new system, with Seris's current population of nearly 20 million, the army could be expanded from 184,000 to a maximum of 2 million troops in less than a week if emergency call-up were carried out.

However, in view of the fact that the external environment of the republic is still relatively quiet, and on the other hand, in order to reduce the burden on the budget, the entire military service system is still at a minimum state of operation.

Young people of school age in the Republic only need to take turns to spend about 36 weeks in two years to receive military training at the People's Armed Forces Departments in various regions, and many of these young people are paramilitary members who participated in the armed forces of the Chinese League in the early days, and their personal qualities alone are not necessarily inferior to those of the active troops.

In addition to the more than 18 million Chinese who have long occupied the majority of the republic, there are about 1 million Bicol who are very friendly to the Chinese community.

In addition, the local natives of many other ethnic groups had participated in the anti-Chinese incidents instigated by the colonizers in the early years, and because of the blood of the Chinese people in their hands, they had been harshly purged by the Chinese armed men who gradually occupied the main body in the past ten years.

Coincidentally, modern genetics has proven that the remaining million Bikol people are actually descendants of Chinese Miao descendants who immigrated to East Asia in the early days. Therefore, in dealing with this group of Bicol people, the government of the Republic has shown a rare charitable side. In addition to being treated in the same way as the Chinese in terms of the treatment of the domestic people, the targets of this army reserve call-up have gradually begun to accept them.

Chen Zeyu has begun to start with the ethnic kinship part, on the one hand, at the same time to promote urbanization and the flow of people in the Bicol settlement, so as to gradually integrate them in the shortest possible time, so that they can truly become a member of the Chinese people. In the household registration book issued for them by the Department of Civil Affairs under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic, they have been given the new identity of all the people, the Miao people.

With regard to the training of young conscripts for the reserves, the Ministry of People's Armed Forces, which is under the management of the Ministry of National Defense, has not relaxed at all.

Because the length of military service has been greatly shortened, the military instructors in the Ministry of People's Armed Forces have greatly increased the intensity of military training in the remaining 36 weeks.

In addition to the soldier shooting training that is completely stacked with bullets at any cost, the instructors will not let go of all kinds of armed cross-country, swimming, and hand-to-hand combat, and in contrast to these, what makes all reserve soldiers the most difficult to parry is the unique eight-week queue marching training that is unique to the Republic.

What these trained would-be soldiers didn't know was that these were already Chen Zeyu's deleted version of the Republic Queue training. Thinking of the perverted marching phalanx of 10,000 people in another time and space, the instructors of the People's Armed Forces Department of the Republic have lowered their requirements a lot.

Even so, after a few weeks of training in the queue, the military personnel who had gone to inspect the various regions still praised the military drills of the reserve soldiers in the establishment of the People's Armed Forces Department, and they no longer had a skeptical attitude towards the reserve system, which they did not approve of.

Although the composition and intensity have been reduced, the marching training of soldiers in the country will always be a necessary training subject in all branches of the military of the Republic of Serris, and this is an important way to train the collective consciousness and teamwork of the officers and men of the troops.

After eight weeks, these young military youths will be undergoing an increasingly brutal follow-up training program.

All kinds of armed cross-country, swimming, and fighting white-knuckle combat training content, some of the armies of other countries at this time may have, some have never heard of it at all, and some are even simply scouts and special forces training projects in previous lives. Due to the gradual increase in the intensity and difficulty of training, there have been repeated incidents of injuries and bleeding among young people trained and serving in the people's armed forces departments in various localities.

Wounded soldiers are also constantly coming to serve in military hospitals affiliated with the military in various localities.

While grinning with their teeth as they were "served" by the doctors, these would-be soldiers showed a look of indifference on their faces one by one, as if they were looking forward to the next training content.

In Chen Zeyu's view, it is not enough for an army to have excellent equipment.

On the contrary, the spirit of the cultivated and tempered group of a wounded, well-trained army is by no means comparable to the conceit and vanity of a standing army glued together by rules and disciplines alone.

This kind of thing, which is independent of dogma and equipment, Chen Zeyu calls it the soul of the army.

The military spirit is not only martial arts, not only martial virtues, but a kind of belief that can make all the officers and men of their own army ignore all known and unknowable dangers, and hand over all their most precious things to their superiors for safekeeping.

If an army can maintain normal order under extremely heavy artillery fire, not give an inch in the face of real danger, and be able to not only be proud of victory, but still be able to obey orders peacefully in the predicament of defeat, not lose respect and trust in superiors, and have its own wisdom at the right time, this is the military soul in Chen Zeyu's eyes.

When they put their own honor and the interests of their country first, such an army will no longer fear death, and they will be a force that prays for death in every battle!

Historically, the military spirit, a spiritual power that has always been rare, can only be obtained from two sources.

The first is that the army, under the leadership of its commander, has gone through wars and won victories - victory after victory.

The second is that the military often endures extreme fatigue and hardship, and it is only in the fatigue and hardship that the military can realize its own strength. The soldiers were as proud as they had overcome the dangers they had overcome because of the fatigue and hardship. Therefore, it is only in the land of constant activity and toil and hardship that the bloodless military spirit can blossom and grow.

Maybe it is more valuable to get it directly on the battlefield, but Chen Zeyu doesn't want his soldiers to always rely on continuous casualties to accumulate these, just like the Sino-Japanese war in the previous life, although it was great, but the price was equally expensive.

This is something that Chen Zeyu resolutely wants to put an end to, standing in a training ground of the People's Armed Forces Department in the capital Seris, Chen Zeyu looked at the young soldiers who were training with live ammunition on the field, and narrowed his eyes.

Watching them sweat like rain under the scorching sun one by one, Chen Zeyu curled his lips.

That's them...... In the future, it will become a sword in their own hands, "reclaiming" the living space that the Chinese people deserve in the future......