Northeast, Middle East, Urals, Astana...

In all important areas, especially in the military areas that have experienced a certain amount of war, a large number of Wehrmacht officers are returning to China by train or boat.

More than 2,100 people attended the ceremony, starting with ordinary colonel-level officers, to general-level officers of the Central Construction Corporation, and even the four marshals standing at the top of the 2 million National Defense Force.

This can almost be said to be a feast for the Wehrmacht, and as mentioned earlier, almost all of the people who participated in this feast were the backbone of the Wehrmacht, and it could be called an elite force.

There will be so many people coming to the investiture ceremony for the same reason as mentioned earlier.

During the European War, that is, the First World War, the expeditionary force formed by the Wehrmacht made great achievements in the European theater. By the end of the war, a large number of officers should be promoted because of their exploits on the battlefield.

Most of the men here are colonel-level officers, but there are also quite a few general-level officers.

Of course, the battlefield is not the time to pay so much attention, and the losses of the expeditionary force on the Western Front are definitely not small. Many high-ranking officers and generals have also died on the battlefield, and if they have to return to China to confer titles, I am afraid that most of the expeditionary forces will no longer be able to fight in formation.

So there are many times when they are promoted directly on the battlefield in the line of fire.

For example, if a squad ends up surviving a soldier. Then when the recruits from the country are replenished, the squad leader of this squad will be the only surviving recruit.

In the same way, a platoon. A company, a battalion will be like this.

Of course, in the beginning, on the top of these people's heads, there was usually the word 'agent' stored in zài.

This is also to test whether these people have the ability to do so. Otherwise, the Wehrmacht would not have let this man be an officer because only one person had survived in his unit.

It's just because it's on the battlefield. At that time, the commanders were simply unable to find a large number of capable low-level officers, so this kind of assessment was usually turned a blind eye, as long as it was not special.......... then turn a blind eye.

Generally speaking, though. Recruits who can survive the battlefield are usually not waste. Even if the ability is poor, it is always much better than the recruits who go to the battlefield for the first time, and they are in addition to commanding operations in peacetime. The most important thing is to teach the recruits some practical experience on the battlefield.

For this. These low-level officers promoted in the line of fire are doing a good job.

And as long as they are quite good, that is, as long as they can barely pass the guò assessment, then the word 'agent' can be directly removed. With them, there will be military ranks and so on that they should have―――――― after all, it is on the battlefield, and there is no way to pay attention to it so much.

And the ranks of some low-level officers don't seem to need to be so cautious.

But this is only for low-level officers, that is, at the company and platoon level. When I got to the battalion level, I began to be much more cautious. Especially a little higher, after all, this is already a middle-level officer. And if it is a regiment commander, a brigade commander, a division commander or something, it can be called a general, and a corps commander and a corps commander can be called a senior general.

In this case, promotion or something needs to be considered carefully.

At least it must not be like those officers in front, after all, those low-level officers, even if they are promoted on the battlefield, there will be no major problems. And if it is not promoted, I am afraid that there will be problems with the organization of the entire army.

But these high-ranking generals ...

Even if it's a proxy, it doesn't seem to be a big deal?

Anyway, when the war is over, it's okay to conduct an assessment and review.

Therefore, except for some important battles, such as generals who made important contributions in important battles such as Verdun or the Somme, the rest are basically accumulated for the time being, waiting to return home.

However, when I returned to China, I only talked about the military rank, and there was no problem with normal promotion.

Especially in the later period, the scale of the expeditionary force is getting bigger and bigger, not to mention the army level or the corps level, even the group army has also appeared. At that time, the demand for high-ranking generals has also increased greatly, and if it has been suppressed, I am afraid that it will not even be able to make up the head.

As a result, everyone can also see very happily that a large number of army commanders and even corps commanders only wear the rank of major general or lieutenant general on their shoulders.

And this also embarrassed the coalition generals who talked to the Wehrmacht, and in the end they had no choice but to address each other by their position, not by their rank. After all, at some point, although the general of the expeditionary force opposite is only a lieutenant general, their position is the commander of the corps, and they will definitely be promoted to general.

Of course, this is also because China at that time had already shown its strength, otherwise, I am afraid that even if it is a general, the other party will not mind treating it with the same etiquette as a colonel.

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In any case, in the European war, a large number of officers and generals were backlogged.

Fortunately, the war did not last long at that time, basically as long as this group of people returned home, and then happily held a ceremony for the award and promotion. Who would have thought that when the war was about to end here, Russia suddenly collapsed, followed by Cai Ye, who had returned to China, led a kind of elite generals, and hundreds of thousands of troops that had just been formed in China and were originally claimed to be used in the European theater...

Those hundreds of thousands of troops marched into Russia along the railroad that had just been opened to traffic. Two-thirds of the territory that originally belonged to Russia was cut off directly from the Russians. Similarly, Cai Ye also completed an unprecedented feat because of this incident...

Of course. This is also because Cai Ye has adopted successful tactics, and there is a good foundation in advance.

For example, Cai Ye did not adopt the tactics of encroachment step by step, after all, whether it is Central Asia or Siberia, the area is not small, if it is really intended to encroach step by step, even if it is only a slight resistance, Cai Ye may not know that the year of the monkey can capture the whole of Siberia and Central Asia.

But if it's a one-size-fits-all tactic, of course. It can also be said to be a tactic of closing the door and beating the dog...

This tactic was successful, as it mainly separated the population of Russia in Siberia from the population of the European part. This made it impossible for the European side to provide any support to the Siberian side, and then Cai Yi only needed to slowly solve the Russian forces in Siberia.

There is no need to worry about the problems that this part of the people trapped in Siberia can cause to themselves.

After all, Russia did not have much population in Siberia in the first place, and industry was almost completely impossible to talk about. As long as they can be separated from the European side. So that they could not accept support from the European side. At the same time, if they have the ability to block the European attack, then they only need to slowly solve this part of the Siberian force.

Cai's military action at that time can be said to have shocked the whole world, but the success of this operation was mainly based on two points. One point is that China already had a relatively large national strength at that time, whether it was industrial or otherwise, in addition to Yan Shao's previous foreshadowing for this plan.

For example, if it weren't for the direct railway to Central Asia, it would be impossible for Cai Ye to cut directly to the point. Divide Russia in two. Again, in order to be able to achieve this plan. Yan Shao also accumulated a large amount of materials needed for the plan, without which it would be almost impossible to make the plan successful.

In any case, because this operation has added a large chunk of territory to China, it has added many people to the list of people who need to be promoted.

In the end, the group of people in the European war had to wait for a while, and when the situation on the European side stabilized a little, they would have a promotion ceremony together.

Then, when the situation in Siberia finally stabilized, the Korean War broke out again.

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The outbreak of the Korean War made the promotion ceremony have to be suspended again, which naturally made many generals waiting for promotion angry. After all, these army commanders, corps commanders or something, it is not a day or two that the wearer is one level lower in rank, and sometimes it is even the same rank as his subordinates.

Can you imagine that a corps commander only has the rank of major general, and the commanders of several infantry divisions under his command are all major generals?

That's why they're so angry with the Japanese. After all, it was because of the Japanese that their promotion was terminated. It is absolutely impossible to say that they are not angry, and it is obviously impossible for them not to wait, whether it is because of the war, or in view of the new group of people who need to be promoted after the war.

In the end, the Korean War was finally over, and they could finally get their wish.

But let's be honest...

"When Yuan Shikai died some time ago, it really scared me..."

Sitting in his seat, almost indifferent to the sumptuous feast at the table, a general wearing the rank of major general on his shoulder turned sideways and whispered to his colleagues next to him.

Hearing his words, the person next to him nodded in agreement. "Yes, especially when I heard that the president and the prime minister were all going to Xiangcheng, I thought it would be postponed again this time..."

These words immediately aroused a voice of approval at the banquet.

For these people in the seat, Yuan Shikai is dead, and it's not a big deal. It's not that they don't know who Yuan Shikai is, after all, no matter how much the National Defense Force uses young people, now a general who can reach the level of a major general is also in his 30s.

And now the Kuomintang government has only been established for more than six years, so no matter what they do, it is impossible not to know Yuan Shikai, this man who was once the overlord of North China.

It's just that these people are either promoted from the military. Either they simply came out of Anhui, even if some came out of Beiyang. Back then, it was just an ordinary small role, and there was not much recognition and recognition of Yuan Shikai and Beiyang's identity...

Therefore, after learning that Yuan Shikai died. At the same time, when Yan Shao and some other important ministers also ran over to pay respects, their first reaction was not to feel sad, but to worry that the ceremony of conferring the title would be postponed again.

Everyone has been looking forward to this ceremony that has been postponed many times, and if it is postponed again, everyone will really be a little unbearable.

Fortunately, this does not seem to be the case, and the government has only announced that the ceremony will be postponed for three days.

Three days. Although many generals and officers couldn't wait, they were still willing to endure a small amount of patience for three days...

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Anyway. As a heavy ceremony that had been postponed for a long time, Yan Shao naturally couldn't make this ceremony look too shabby. It is also because of this relationship that Yan Shao can almost be said to have invested a lot of money at all costs, which makes this ceremony seem unusually grand...

Not only a qiē in the banquet. Even the whole banquet. In fact―――――― in addition to Yan Shao's presidential palace banquet hall, I am afraid that there is no second indoor banquet hall in China that can accommodate nearly 10,000 people at the same time.

If I had moved to another place, I would have had to hold it in the open air.

After all, there are more than 2,000 generals and colonels who have been promoted this time, not to mention that there are many guests who came to celebrate.

The most important point is that the number of guests should not be less than the number of officers and generals promoted, right? As a result, although the person in charge of the selection of guests has been selected as much as possible, in the end, the number of guests and those generals and officers who came to the banquet has reached tens of thousands...

"It's really grand enough...", sitting in the main seat. Looking at the surroundings, a socialite who was invited to come couldn't help but exclaim.

"yes," the other couldn't help but nod. I've long heard how magnificent this ballroom really is. But I never had the chance to see it, but when I saw it today, it really deserved its name..."

While these people were still talking there, a bell suddenly rang from the banquet hall. Hearing the bell, the banquet hall, which was still a little noisy, suddenly fell silent, and then you could see an official who seemed to be the master of ceremonies coming up to the stage...

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