"Oh? Where are the shortcomings? Please also speak up! Li Wentian's words surprised Song Zhewu a lot, he always thought that his Fourth Route Army was outstanding in all aspects, but he didn't expect Li Wentian to discover the shortcomings of the Fourth Route Army!

Li Wentian looked at Song Zhewu and said: "Commander-in-chief, I have been in the Fourth Route Army for a short time, and some problems may not be very clear. ”

Song Zhewu waved his hand and said a little anxiously: "Canxuan, you should say quickly, where is the deficiency of our Fourth Route Army?" ”

Li Wentian said solemnly: "In terms of individual soldier skills and the cooperation of small units, our Fourth Route Army has done a very good job. However, I have talked to many officers above the battalion level of the 1st Division, and I have also asked them about their understanding of the tactical coordination and strategy of large units, and my feeling is that most of them are very unfamiliar, and can even be said to be unfamiliar. I think our Fourth Route Army should make more efforts in this regard, for example, in the regular training, it should conduct more large-scale confrontation exercises for those with surnames, especially large-scale mobile confrontation exercises. Otherwise, it will not be conducive to improving the command and adaptability of officers at all levels, and they will not be able to quickly grasp the enemy's weak points and carry out effective counterattacks in battle. ”

Song Zhewu let out a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "Canxuan is worthy of graduating from the sixth phase of Baoding Military Academy, and he can see the shortcomings of our Fourth Route Army at a glance. At the beginning of the 26 years of the founding of our Fourth Route Army, except for me, Chief of Staff Xiao, Division Commander Zhang, and a few other people who knew military affairs, the other nearly 20,000 people were peasants, students, and a small number of workers who did not have any military knowledge, and there was not a single officer at all levels, and these officers were all taught by a few of us. When we arrived in Laiyuan in July last year, these people had only just cultivated their basic qualities as officers, and to put it mildly, they were equivalent to graduating from a crash course for officers, and as soon as they graduated, they took up the post of senior officers. Instead of starting from the platoon commander and rising up the ranks, some people are directly battalion commanders and deputy regiment commanders. These people are promoted too quickly, just like a baby who has been urged to grow up by a lot of nutrients and hormones, although he has grown very tall, but he is still a little deficient in calcium, which is just right to supplement calcium for the Fourth Route Army. ”

Song Zhewu smiled bitterly and said: "I can tell you a secret, the reason why the establishment of our Fourth Route Army is so special, in addition to wanting to use the army as an imaginary enemy, there is also a very helpless fact, that is, I don't have so many qualified officers. The basic skills of soldiers can be obtained through high-intensity training, but the cultivation of officers' tactical awareness and strategic literacy is not so simple. I originally wanted to let them accumulate more experience through some actual combat, and let them return to Laiyuan and then let them return to the furnace, but it just so happened that you can see that you are a graduate of Baoding Military Academy, and you have to help me. ”

"Okay, I'll help the commander-in-chief do some training." Li Wentian really didn't want to fight a civil war anymore, especially because he was very afraid of fighting against his former colleagues in the Northwest Army, and if he could do training, he could avoid going to the battlefield.

Song Zhewu couldn't help but be very happy when he heard that Li Wentian was willing to train troops for him, although he and Xiao Guodong, Zhang Yafei, and a few others could do this, but now after all, it was a troop of more than 200,000 people, and they had a lot of things to do, so they couldn't get out of it at all. Song Zhewu originally wanted Li Wentian to do police and reserve training and management work in the future, but according to Song Zhewu's estimate, it would take another year, and if a talent like Li Wentian was left idle in this year, it would be a big loss. was worried about arranging something for Li Wentian to do, but Li Wentian took the initiative to ask for something to do, which was the same as Song Zhewu's meaning.

You must know that the Baoding Military Academy is the earliest and most formal military school in China, with a two-year school system and more than 6,000 graduates, many of whom later became instructors of the Huangpu Military Academy. There are Baoding students in the Kuomintang and [***]. If you count from the Beiyang Military Academy, Baoding has trained nearly 10,000 officers, of which more than 1,600 have obtained the rank of general. Compared with Baoding Military Academy, Huangpu is a crash course. The first phase of Whampoa only studied at the school for 8 months, and the subsequent periods were only one year. After Li Wentian graduated, he went from platoon commander and company commander to brigade commander of the Northwest Army, who paid the most attention to military merit and promotion. Even in the current Fourth Route Army, only Tao Rong can compare with him. If there is such a talent to train officers for him, it would be strange if the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Route Army was no longer on the next level!

"Good!" Song Zhewu said happily: "Canxuan, we now have two infantry recruit regiments, one teaching brigade for officers, one for baggage, one for artillery, and one for engineers; There are also three infantry regiments, a baggage regiment, and an artillery regiment that is not fully staffed, and these regiments serve as training units for new recruits in peacetime, and can also go to the battlefield in wartime. In my opinion, when I return to Laiyuan, I will appoint you as the deputy commander of the instructor, who will be responsible for the training of officers and recruits on a full-time basis. All the current officers in the Fourth Route Army should be divided into two groups to go to the officer teaching brigade for a four-month training, and the specific courses will be arranged by you, so that Chief of Staff Tao and several division commanders will have to take one course at the same time. I will only give you 8 months for the two phases, our time is limited, do you have the confidence to do it well! ”

Looking at Song Zhewu's expectant look, Li Wentian also said happily: "Okay! Since the commander-in-chief trusts me, I will try to do it. ”

Song Zhewu was about to say something, when suddenly the sound of horses' hooves came. Looking out of the window made by Song Zhewu, I saw more than 100 fast horses running outside Nanguan, and the soldiers on the horses were all wearing khaki uniforms, and now only Han Fuyu's Third Route Army, Song Zhewu's Fourth Route Army and Tang Shengzhi's Fifth Route Army are stationed in Henan, and these people are obviously Tang Shengzhi's Fifth Route Army.

When the horse team passed the market downstairs, it did not slow down, the pedestrians on the road dodged one after another, some stalls that could not avoid were knocked to the ground, and even a few chicken coops were kicked out.

Ye Qing, who was by the other window, was a person who had practiced martial arts, his eyes were sharp, he walked over quickly, and said to Song Zhewu in a low voice: "Judging from the armband, these people are the law enforcement team of the Fifth Route Army, and there is a major general in it. ”

"Fifth Route Army Law Enforcement Team? What are they doing in Zhengzhou? Song Zhewu listened to Ye Qing's words while watching the horse team walk through the bazaar and go straight to the training ground.

The sentries on the edge of the training ground held guns to stop them, but those people did not mean to slow down at all, and rushed as soon as they let go of their horses, and the sentry hesitated with his rifle and put down his gun. In the distance, a platoon commander on duty took out a whistle and blew it, gathering his soldiers on the edge of the training ground; As he ran to the sentry who hadn't stopped the horse, he kicked in front of the sentry. Cursing in his mouth, he chased a platoon of soldiers to the training ground.

After these men of the Fifth Route Army rushed into the training ground, only a dozen people did not dismount, and the rest of the hundred or so people jumped off their horses and threw themselves into the training team. These people searched around the team, and soon more than a dozen soldiers who were training were dragged out of the team by them, punched and kicked, and there were people in the team who were fighting with people from the law enforcement team of the Fifth Route Army, and the entire training team was immediately in chaos.

Huang Dafu, who was organizing training, was still unknown when he saw the horse team rushing into the training ground, but when he saw them rushing into the crowd, he knew that it was not good, so he immediately ordered people to gather the teams on duty in the surrounding area, and at the same time notified the headquarters. Huang Dafu himself took out a pistol and ran to the place of the accident.

The soldiers who were still in the ranks of the Fifth Route Army Law Enforcement Team were immediately surrounded by the crowd, and the people of the Fifth Route Army Law Enforcement Team who were surrounded by the people saw that it was too late to pull out their guns, and their pistols were all dropped, and they were beaten by the ground, and there were more than a dozen heart-rending cries and begging for mercy in the ranks.

These people who came were not only members of the Fifth Route Army's law enforcement team, but also Hu Yisan, director of the Military Justice Division of the Fifth Route Army, who personally led the team. It turned out that since they came to Luohe and other places to station, there have been constant reports that deserters have appeared in all units, and they are all soldiers from the north. At first, Tang Shengzhi didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that it was just that these people were homesick and couldn't leave their homeland, so he just told all the troops to step up their duties, catch a few deserters and correct the law on the spot to set an example, and at the same time make up the arrears of military pay for another month. Unexpectedly, not only did this hand not stop the tide of deserters, on the contrary, there were more and more deserters, and the most serious situation was that there were groups of soldiers fleeing en masse.

From the captured deserter, he knew that there was an officer of the former Bai Chongxi Guards at Zhengzhou Station, and now he had become a battalion commander in the Fourth Route Army, and after the person spread to them about the high salary of the Fourth Route Army and the fact that it was recruiting, everyone began to flee and go to Zhengzhou to join the Fourth Route Army.

It turned out that the battalion commander was Bai Chongguang's apprentice, who graduated from the crash course of the Guangxi Army Lecture and Martial Arts Hall, and was very talented. When Bai Chongguang returned to Guangxi with Bai Chongxi, he knew that everything would be very difficult to go back this time, and for the sake of his apprentice, he wrote to Ye Changgui and asked him to take in his apprentice. As soon as this person arrived in the Fourth Route Army, he showed strong military quality and ability, and the Fourth Route Army did not lack positions, and what was lacking was such an officer, and he was soon promoted to battalion commander by Zhang Yafei. Because he held a grudge against Tang Shengzhi and Bai Chongxi, he deliberately spread the news at the station about how high the salary of the Fourth Route Army was, how good the treatment was, and so on, which led to today's incident.

After knowing what happened, Tang Shengzhi couldn't help but be furious, and immediately ordered his military justice chief Hu Yisan to take people to Zhengzhou to arrest people.

(To be continued)