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Saturday, March 11, 1623.

On this day, after a week of sorting out and summarizing opinions, the Army Command issued a "Research Report on Military Equipment and Logistics Support" based on the practical problems exposed in the Northern Campaign.

This report summarizes many problems and shortcomings related to the military equipment and logistics system in service before and after the Northern Campaign. In addition to the Senate and the Ministry of Defense, several major military monopolies, including General Industries Corporation and North Industries Corporation, participated in the review of the contents of the report.

The tremendous power of the organ and tube guns in this war and the pull of the wind table still did not hide its fatal flaws. The huge size and weight severely limited the ability of the troops to deploy firepower in attack and defense, and also placed great demands on the operation of soldiers.

The 22A rear-loading rifled Mini rifle has good power and range, but the bolt structure is complex, and it is very troublesome to disassemble and clean, and once it is contaminated by sediment in rainy days, it is difficult to dispose of it in a short time.

The merit of the grenade this time is not small, but the original design charge seems to be too much, the body of the projectile is also heavy, the throwing distance is affected, and the killing range is too large, and there are some accidental injuries during the defensive battle of the Albany base camp.

The most criticized is the 60mm mortar, the combat weight is not mentioned, there is no anti-shell repeated reloading design, a mistake, almost led to the destruction of the entire camp!

Inland waterway transport capacity is still a major internal bottleneck for the defense and social production of the entire country, whether it is the army or the navy. All lack their own exclusive logistics scheduling capacity. This inevitably entails the diversion of non-qualified civilian transport vehicles.

In addition, the rubber waterproof raincoat has not been produced and equipped with the army for a long time, the transportation and storage of canned clay bottles is very inconvenient, the maintenance of the improvised radio station is more difficult, the anti-seepage quality of some military boots in rainy days is low, and the strict zhòng lacks melee firepower...... In all cases, this report, which is full of all kinds of spit and spit on the whole, makes several major military suppliers unhappy, and at the same time, they also see more military orders.

The report content review meeting finally started with the case of Yang Wenwen, a military boots supplier, and entered the supplier's complaint link. On the grounds that the military's bid was too low, Yang Wenwen resolutely opposed the difficulty of the workmanship quality of the military boots; Lin Youde of NORINCO implicitly said that in the current environment of the 17th century, the 22A rifle must not be viewed from the perspective of the 21st century. Sediment contamination in rainy days is a problem, simplifying the structural design is no less difficult than redesigning a rifle, and the military should also consider more spare rifles and parts to solve the problem, as for the mortar anti-reloading design. It can be fully reflected in the next batch of product improvement; Jiang Zhaolong of General Industries Company patted his chest and promised that he could launch an organ machine gun with its own small wheel, and it would not be difficult to reduce the weight of the whole gun by more than ten kilograms.......

A military operation costing more than $200,000 has finally come to an end, and the apparent results are basically in line with expectations, and the shortage of future mining labor has been greatly alleviated. But the casualties were so heavy and the supplies were spent so much that all the people, including some of the angry youth in Congress, lost their voices.

Lieutenant Deng Jian's serious injuries would take at least several months to heal, while Second Lieutenant Li Hao's broken leg bone was declared a lifelong disability.

Second Lieutenant You Nanzhe, who replaced Lieutenant Deng Jian in assuming supreme command, was unreasonable. But at least from the level of military law, Li Hao's reputation was preserved to the greatest extent, and the truth was also concealed from the outside world. A "misfired" bullet shattered Li Hao's leg bone, and the "seriously wounded" Li Hao returned to the rear with the navy's inland river patrol boat as a matter of course.

But a summary of an internal military report still made Chen Liwen furious. The poor military character of the officer corps of the Northern Campaign was finally exposed in the course of this largest military operation to date, and there was even an incident of the escape of Li Hao, a second lieutenant in the machine gun platoon.

If the escape had happened to a 17th-century native, perhaps any officer would have had no hesitation in shooting him on the spot. But there was the Qiao Daqiang incident before, and now there is the Li Hao incident, which fully exposed the different subtexts within this group in dealing with this new country and people.

The internal double standards and the entanglement of national law and military law make it difficult for the authorities to look at the sensitive aspects of the country in a truly fair and just manner.

The army is in the hands of "their own people", and almost all the people who cross it do not have to think about it at all. Even if the quality is uneven, the army is both the army and the navy. There is a feeling of "dragging mud and water", but people still firmly believe that the minimum sense of security can only be brought by their own people.

If Qiao Daqiang only embodies the uncontrolled venting of the sins of the little people in a confused period, then Li Hao, as the commander of the army, finally uncovered some of the subtexts in everyone's hearts that can only be understood and cannot be spoken, making everyone shudder and difficult to say. The sense of security is gone.

Can a group of "own people" who are "fearless" and find it difficult to truly accept the constraints of the rules in their hearts can really safeguard "the core interests of their own people"? This problem is in the government. In Congress, it has caused private discussions and even quarrels.

There is a certain proportion of views on calmly understanding Li Hao's behavior, and there are many people who spurn Li Hao's behavior, but they only frequently inquire about the final results of the Ministry of Defense and the Army Command.

In any case, however, the attitude of the Army Command this time is very clear: the "cronyism" system of appointing officers will inevitably allow certain hidden dangers to be infinitely magnified in the days to come. As for the military, which is a tool of violence that is in the highest interests of the state and the ruling class, it is intolerable to be mixed with something that is outside the rules.

Soon after, in the Congress, Li Hao completely became a name that everyone did not want to mention publicly. Li Hao was forcibly discharged by the Army Command on the grounds that he was physically disabled and no longer fit for service, and he was destined to be marginalized from then on. However, the problem of building the officer corps exposed in the Northern Campaign must be taken seriously.

Officers with rich combat experience are so rare, and the active-duty non-commissioned officers who have been trained with great difficulty have suffered heavy losses in this northern campaign. Army Command. When holding the roster. When he saw the list of fallen non-commissioned officers who had served for nearly two years, Chen Liwen couldn't help but flip the table.

The establishment of regular military academies and non-commissioned officers and the training of truly qualified field military commanders have become the unanimous viewpoint of Defense Minister Zheng Quan and the commanders of the two services. When the report was presented to the National Assembly by the Cabinet, there was hardly any opposition, and the vote was unanimous.

The ground war ended, and the Iroquois Indian Alliance, which was dominated by Mohokks and Senecas, suffered heavy losses. The peace talks faction, headed by Minister of Immigration Li Xiang, submitted a peace proposal to the government and the National Assembly, and under the guidance of the idea of accepting what is good at it, the government was authorized.

After Li Xiang's several rushes. Having made contact with the Mohoks on the other side of the creek northwest of West Point, the Mohoks may have to be forced to accept the opportunity to give up large tracts of land in exchange for peace and trade, but the negotiations will be a lengthy process, and it will be necessary to continue to combine some military repression.

state for quite some time after that. There will no longer be excessive worries about military threats in the land periphery, and the need for military expansion on land will also be constrained in the face of many practical problems. The establishment of the "West Point Army Academy" on the side of the military base in West Point has become one of the top priorities of the Department of Defense and Army Command this year.

In accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Defense and the Army Command on the reorganization of officers, all officers will be questioned by the Ministry of Defense about the performance of their duties, and officers who are proved to be unable to truly assume military command responsibilities will be transferred to civilian positions in logistics or retired, and all officers below the rank of lieutenant will undergo formal military education ranging from one to two years at the future West Point Military Academy.

Similarly, a group of non-commissioned officers who have grown up in actual combat will send some of the best of them to West Point for officer training. In the future, they will take over the grassroots command of the Crossing Masses in charge of the army. For the selection and training of non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level, we will also try to carry out a variety of methods, and it is not necessarily necessary to use actual combat promotion as the only means.

Relying on the advantage of a greater technological gap, the navy did not suffer actual hardships in the previous naval battles, but the army's problems in the northern campaign also sounded the alarm for the navy, and the military quality of naval officers was not necessarily better than that of the army. Therefore, the Navy will also set up the "Long Island Naval Academy" in the newly built naval base in the Long Island New Area, and the charter system is slightly different from that of the Army.

Both West Point and the Long Island Naval Academy will be taught by a very small number of people with formal military education and command experience.

Those days in mid-March. There was another wave of resignations in the Army, and before the official launch of the Ministry of National Defense's review and inquiry mechanism, seven officers took the initiative to apply for retirement after carefully considering their own merits and disadvantages, and the Navy. Several ensigns also announced their retirement. Since then, the number of officers in the army and navy has crossed the crowd. It dropped to less than 60 people.

While the upper echelons of the state and the military were arguing or reflecting on various issues, ordinary soldiers were much more indifferent. For thousands of years, they and their ancestors have been such anonymous characters, advancing the art of war with life lessons and numerical records.

On March 15, 1623, at the West Point Military Base, a ceremony was underway for military merit recognition and promotion.

A number of humiliating issues did not need to be publicized at all, so the promotion of heroes, the creation of heroes, and the promotion of heroes became the main ideas of Congress's curtain call performance for this Northern Campaign.

The "Congressional Medal of Honor", which represents the highest honor for military personnel, was awarded to Deng Jian, who is still being treated at the Manchester City National Hospital, and the Ministry of Defense also promoted Deng Jian to the rank of captain.

Second Lieutenant You Nanzhe was ordered to succeed Deng Jian in the face of danger, and he was able to maintain the stability and combat effectiveness of the troops at the most difficult moments, and his ability was remarkable, and he was promoted to lieutenant and was awarded the "Gold Medal for Outstanding Service".

Major He Yu, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Campaign, even though he made many undeserved mistakes, the problem itself was not something that He Yu could subjectively deal with, and the results of the campaign were not too bad, so criticism and praise coexisted, and he was awarded the "Silver Medal for Outstanding Service".

Sergeant Scott, who had just been discharged from the hospital, in view of the fact that the officer was injured and could not command his subordinates, decisively assumed the heavy responsibility of the combat command of the forward soldiers of the entire company, and the tactics were properly applied, and the deployment of troops responded in a timely manner...... Sergeant Scott's cousin, in the words of the radio station, "made an irreplaceable central contribution to the Northern Campaign" and was awarded the "Order of the Gold Star" after the Distinguished Service Medal.

Even more surprising is the fact that as of today, Scott will be promoted to the rank of sergeant major and will continue to receive a year of regular officer training for West Point after it is completed, after which he will become a real officer.

And not just Scott, almost all the surviving non-commissioned officers of the Northern Campaign, were awarded the "Order of the Silver Star". Several hard-working sergeants were promoted to sergeants, and they were also eligible to enter the future West Point Military Academy.

Corporal Makarov, with the evaluation of "outrageously brave", was promoted to sergeant. In Makarov's squad, in the end, only two small soldiers, Qiao Yan and Yu Shan, Qiao Xian was exceptionally promoted to corporal and will become a new squad leader, while Yu Shan was exceptionally promoted to private first class and became Qiao Yan's assistant.

As for the ordinary soldiers who participated in the war, everyone had a "Bronze Star Medal", the wounded plus a "Purple Heart Medal", in addition to a large number of meritorious service awards for the fallen officers and soldiers.

In the end, all the officers and soldiers who participated in the war were awarded a "Northern Campaign Medal" to commemorate this "great war".

The lively ceremony of awarding and promoting the ranks lasted almost a whole day, and at the end of the battle, all the soldiers who participated in the battle were distributed on the spot with a combat allowance for the Northern Campaign, and each received at least $40. There is also a special benefit of $500 for the disabled. The families of the fallen received a $1,000 military death pension, and the disabled and the children of the families of the deceased were directly referred to the right of permanent settlement, as well as a number of state benefits......

On the playground of the military base, the army's "Soldier's March" sounded, and all the soldiers excitedly waved their rifles and were elated.

After the ceremony, hundreds of officers and soldiers who were given a rest and recuperation vacation immediately livened up the streets and alleys of West Point Town. Under the successive victorious propaganda and propaganda of the country, the ordinary soldiers who had healed their scars and forgotten their pain were full of spirit and spent money, and the bars and restaurants in West Point Town were doing brisk business, and unmarried women were frequent.

Soon, there was another wave of military enlistment in West Point, and more than 30 stunned young people who had recently immigrated to West Point entered the barracks under the temptation of some observations.

And in the far north, on the abandoned site of Albany's landing base camp, there are 40 military graves, which, in their own unique way, proclaim that the country's northern frontier extends to this land.

(End of Volume II) (To be continued)

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