Chapter 131: Military Cooperation (Part II)
When Wang Guorui and Hai Jing finished discussing military cooperation, Wang Guorui came to the Taiwan Military Academy for inspection, and Li Fusheng, executive vice president of the Military Academy, took the initiative to come over to greet Wang Guorui. Li Fusheng was originally a regiment leader, and now he was transferred by Wang Guorui to be the executive vice president of the Military Academy, but he was actually in charge of the affairs of the entire Military Academy.
"Lord Wang, our current military academy has recruited a lot of students from ordinary soldiers, all of whom are quick and agile people. They will come in and learn about our military knowledge, and then they will serve in the army. At present, we have more than 300 students, but there are fewer instructors. Li Fusheng said.
What Li Fusheng said is also a huge problem, that is, there are too few instructors in military academies, or too few people in the army who can be qualified for the post of instructors. First of all, Wang Guorui's army is full of a large number of clones, and it is okay for them to lead a small army to fight, at most, they will carry out some basic training step by step. But basic training is to train soldiers, and training officers must use another method, which clone soldiers cannot have. Therefore, it is necessary to use natural person instructors, but at present, there are too few natural persons in the army who are qualified for the position of instructors.
The main reason is that in the past, those officers were all from the green battalion, and the literacy rate of these green battalion soldiers was too low, and there were not many literate ones. Although they have learned a lot of things on the battlefield before, this is just experience, and it is too good to want to pass on this experience to ordinary people. Since ancient times, there have been many famous generals, but why are there so few who can turn their experience in leading troops into paper books on the art of war? In fact, it is a culture. There are also various questions about the methods of imparting knowledge. It has been proven that a good scientist is not necessarily a good teacher. Therefore, the military does not have its own cultural knowledge, so it is simply impossible to want them to pass it on to those students with a lower cultural base. And this qiē is a matter of cultural level, the cultural level of the Chinese army is too low to be able to sum up the experience on the battlefield on paper. It was then passed on to future generations of officers.
"You don't have to worry about instructors. We have brought in a group of Germans as instructors, and we will send some of them to the Germans to teach them new tactics. And then we will have Germans here as instructors, and our instructors will go to Germany for exchanges, so that the two sides can complement each other. ”
"The reason why we want Germans to be instructors is so that they can bring their rigorous style and good traditions with them. Our army has risen too fast, and its foundation is not very stable. There is no long-term fine tradition, and it does not have enough influence on the style of the army. There are even many armies that still have the atmosphere of green battalions in the past, which is very bad, so we must strictly manage it. Of course, it is useless to punish me, we must start from the roots, from these new officers at the grassroots level. These cadets will be the successors of our officers in the future, so we have to start with them. In this way, we can gradually improve the atmosphere in our army. ”
The reason why Wang Guorui invited German instructors to come over is because German instructors are currently the best army instructors in the world. Not one of them. The basic tactical literacy of the German instructors, as well as various military styles, are very good, even better than the current army under Wang Guorui. In the army under Wang Guorui, there are many officers from the Manchu Green Battalion in the past, although these Green Battalion officers have no major problems, there are many minor problems. But these small problems add up. That's also a very huge problem. Therefore, these problems must be corrected, otherwise sooner or later there will be problems in the army. The collapse of a thousand-mile embankment in an anthill is a lesson that cannot be ignored.
So judging from the officer's style and various conditions, the German instructors are very good. They have solid fundamentals. It can be taught well to their own army for learning. And Wang Guorui's army rose too fast, although it has very advanced tactical ideas, but it is not solid in the most basic things. It's like a building that's very tall, but the foundation isn't deep enough. Although such a building looks very glamorous for a while, who knows when it will collapse. So if you want to lay a solid foundation, you have to invite some instructors from outside to help you solve the affairs of these low-level officers.
Of course, this can also be slowly tamped on its own, but this time is too long. There wasn't enough time to lay the foundation. And if you want to complete it quickly, you can only ask a foreign teacher. Therefore, Wang Guorui discussed with the German minister Hai Jing, and the two sides carried out military cooperation. The Germans sent instructors to help Wang Guorui train grassroots officers, which was very helpful for Wang Guorui to consolidate the foundation of the army.
"That's great, I've heard of the German Army, it's the number one Army in the world right now, and it would be great if they came as our instructors." Li Fusheng said.
However, Li Fusheng soon asked: "Then are we going to send instructors to Germany too?" Going to Germany as an instructor? Isn't it learning? ”
"Yes, our people also went to Germany to be instructors, and then taught their junior officers our new tactics. The Germans were very appreciative of our new tactics, so they wanted our instructors to teach them the new tactics, which would also allow them to learn the most advanced tactics in the world. Wang Guorui said.
And when Li Fusheng heard this, he was also surprised, because he didn't expect the Germans to look up to them. In this era, Chinese go to learn foreigners, and they have never heard of officers going to study abroad, but they have not heard of foreigners coming to China to learn new tactics, which is simply too surprising. Even Li Fusheng, as the executive vice president of the Taiwan Military Academy, had never heard of this matter. If it weren't for what their governor Wang Guorui said personally, he wouldn't have believed that his army would be able to let the world's first army come and learn from it.
"You have to remember that our army is not as bad as others think. Our army's tactics, the world's number one army, the German Army, also have to learn from it, so you can imagine that the gringos are necessarily advanced, and we are actually slightly ahead of them now. As long as we can keep ahead of them, then we can definitely defeat them! Wang Guorui said.
Wang Guorui and Haijing reached an agreement, that is, the two sides sent instructors to each other's military schools to teach. The Germans mainly help the Taiwanese army to supplement those basic military knowledge, and Taiwanese instructors will go to Germany to teach the offensive and defensive experience of trench warfare. Since the Germans knew how the Japanese army had failed, they also saw that the Japanese army had made great strides. The Japanese army suffered a great loss from Wang Guorui, but it did not suffer in vain, and directly made their tactical thinking improve for decades. The Germans, who had many instructors in the Japanese army, naturally knew what had happened, so they were also very interested in Taiwan's military tactical thinking, and they all wanted to learn about it. Japan and Wang Guorui were able to learn so much after the war, and if the Germans took the initiative to learn from Wang Guorui, they would definitely be able to gain more.
The Germans are not as arrogant as the British, they are very strict. And they will never be ashamed to ask, they can know that Wang Guorui's tactical thinking is very advanced after the sand table deduction, and they take the initiative to ask for learning. Wang Guorui took the opportunity to discuss with the Germans about the exchange of instructors, which made both sides satisfied. Wang Guorui needs German instructors to lay a solid foundation, and the Germans also want to learn Wang Guorui's new tactics, so that both sides can get what they need.
As for Wang Guorui's willingness to give the tactics to the Germans, it was because even if he didn't give them to the Germans, the Germans would soon be able to learn from the Japanese, at most slower. There is no country in this world that is stupid, and they must be inquiring about the tactics of the Japanese. Therefore, Wang Guorui took advantage of the fact that he was now making some preliminary deals with Germany, so that the two sides could get the maximum benefit from sending instructors to each other. Otherwise, when the gringos have learned these things from the lessons of the Japanese, then they will not need Wang Guorui to send instructors to teach, and at that time, Wang Guorui will lose the opportunity to quickly consolidate the foundation of the army.
"Lord Wang, there is no need for us to be afraid of foreigners in the future, the world's first army will learn from us, then we are afraid of a ball!" Li Fusheng said immediately, and even burst into foul language when he was excited.
And Wang Guorui also nodded silently, and the so-called "oceanophobia" of these guys finally disappeared a lot. In the late Qing Dynasty, and even in later generations, there was a lot of fear of foreigners. Those Chinese soldiers defeated the foreign army in a battle, but they actually had the courage to fight hard against the rebel army in their own country, and it has to be said that the so-called "foreign phobia" is at work. They think that foreigners are destined to be powerful, and in their hearts foreigners surpass them by a lot, so they feel afraid.
But now that I find that the world's No. 1 army has to learn tactics from me, it seems that I am not so bad. This also restored their confidence, so that they could gradually see themselves as an army on the same level as foreigners, which was very helpful for them to restore their military spirit. (To be continued......)