Ji Xingwen's arrival in the Shandong Theater was actually to prepare for training and expanding the airborne troops.

This is implemented in accordance with the overall plan formulated by the Ministry of Defense for wartime military training, and it can be regarded as one of the key development plans of the army in the past few years.

A few days ago, Ji Xingwen and his airborne regiment were ordered to set off from the Kaifeng garrison, and all the troops took Y-3 transport planes to Jinan, Shandong, and then transferred from Jinan to Ludong and arrived at General Zhang Zizhong's defense area. and an infantry regiment under Zhang Zizhong's command called two motorized infantry battalions to complete docking training.

The Ministry of National Defense's plan is to dismantle and integrate these units into the airborne forces within one year, and form an airborne force with several airborne divisions and a scale of about 50,000 people.

That is, the previously formed airborne divisions are the seeds of all troops, and now it is time for them to blossom everywhere.

To put it bluntly, Ji Xingwen and the others came here to "dig people up by order".

In addition to Ji Xingwen, several airborne regiments under the airborne division are now also dispatched to various units as designated.

Some went to the troops of Lin Zuoda and Zhang Xueliang in the northeast, some went to the troops of Hu Zongnan and Chen Cheng in the southeast, and some went to the troops in the northwest...... In short, everyone is like this, one by one, the troops go over, and then take the order of the Ministry of Defense to dig people.

Not only digging up your soldiers, but also digging up your young officers, this is not excessive, and the most important thing is that you have to supply the food, drink and Lazar of this regiment during this time.

In a word, these troops are uncles when they come.

Therefore, the various units below are quite disgusted by the arrival of the Airborne Forces. The units assigned to them are either old, weak, sick and disabled, or they are incomplete, or they use various reasons to prevaricate, saying that they are fighting on the front line and cannot complete their deployment.

It can be said that when the airborne regiments went down to pull troops, they encountered very great resistance.

But Zhang Zizhong is an exception.

After Liu Jian gave him this order, Zhang Zizhong actively cooperated, and personally selected an infantry regiment that he was most satisfied with and transferred it to the past, and transferred the young officer Huang Zheng to that side as the regiment commander.

This point made Ji Xingwen and others quite admired.

It's not that Zhang Zizhong's defense pressure is small, it's just that he can understand that all this is based on the overall situation. The Airborne Forces, an emerging branch of the armed forces, will show their might on the battlefields of the future.

Compared with Ji Xingwen, the other regiment leaders don't have such a good life.

Later, Liao Xiangdong, commander of the airborne division, complained to Air Force Minister Xu Shaozhou on the phone, "If you follow this time, even if you give him another year, it will not be enough." ”

Xu Shaozhou frowned after listening to the phone, and he said to Liao Xiangdong: "Now that the equipment and personnel have been given to you, can't you train the soldiers?" There is resistance to what you just said, do you still want to ask Minister Huang to personally go to the various units to select people for you? ”

"The documents issued by the Central Committee and the Ministry of National Defense are very clear, the selection of personnel is completely up to you, and if you don't want to solve a problem, you will know to report and ask for instructions! If you can't do it, you resign as soon as possible, and I will change the general immediately! ”

After Xu Shaozhou finished speaking, he hung up the phone with a snap.

He is naturally aware of the following situations, but he naturally can't tell the truth in front of his subordinates, otherwise they are complaining that there is no way to carry out this work.

After hanging up the phone, Xu Shaozhou reported the matter to Huang Ke.

Huang Ke felt a little tired, and after listening to it, he said: "You will ask the Ministry of Defense to send another article to various war zones and supervise it." If it doesn't work, the substitution will be replaced. The Airborne Forces are not waiting for me! ”

Xu Shaozhou naturally knew the weight after hearing it.

It is also strange to say that Huang Ke always pays great attention to some newly formed troops, and sometimes even comes to arrest them himself. Let's take the issue of the expansion of the Air Force as an example, this should have been handled by a department under the Ministry of National Defense, but Huang Ke directly bypassed the War Department and took charge of it himself.

In fact, the implementation of the Airborne Forces program began several years ago. For this reason, Huang Ke once gave special instructions and transferred personnel from various units to conduct formation tests, and Han Guang was one of the earliest batch of airborne troops.

However, due to the constraints of various resources and the impact of the war on the front, the formation of an airborne army has never been realized, and until now only an airborne division has been formed.

At present, with the continuous increase in US aid and the fact that our army has gradually been able to grasp the development of occupation, Huang Ke has thought of the topic of expanding the scale of the airborne troops.

He was well aware of the importance of the Airborne Forces in future wars, and in the later stages of this war, during the period of all-out Allied counteroffensive, the Chinese army had to fight for future development.

Huang Ke already had a rough blueprint in his heart: the chaos on the Korean Peninsula could not appear again, Lao Maozi could not be occupied, and the army in the northeast should cross the Yalu River; The troops in the south were to seize Hanoi, which was occupied by the French; The Burmese expeditionary force was to be stationed there once it was out; As for Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other Chinese lands, they must be recovered as soon as possible.

But to achieve this, we need to have strength, especially in Hong Kong and Taiwan. All these forced Huang Ke to build a powerful airborne force.

But building an army is not a joke, he is not a god, he can sprinkle beans into soldiers, even if he scatters beans into soldiers, then there are so many equipment?

That's why it came to mind to draw from the existing troops in batches. Huang Ke calculated that there were now nearly one million troops on the front line, and the transfer of tens of thousands of people from them would have little impact on the overall situation of the war. Moreover, the transfer and formation of combat units can not only quickly build combat effectiveness, but also facilitate the next round of expansion, so he decided to transfer them from various units.

It's just that I didn't expect the people of the troops below to protect their shortcomings, and they actually thought of the law and confronted the above.

This made Huang Ke very angry.

At a regular meeting of the Ministry of National Defense held in the afternoon, Huang Ke became angry. He slapped the table and said, "What's going on with the generals of some troops?" Is it because you are fighting a war outside, or do you want to support your own troops? The overall situation of the central authorities set out to form an airborne army, and a few troops were transferred to confront the central authorities. What is the use of such an army even if it is capable of fighting? ”

Huang Ke's words can be described as word by word, you must know that the most feared thing in any period is that the tail will not fall, and the army will be even more serious. If you are given the sin of "supporting the army and respecting yourself", it is estimated that you will not be able to wash it away by jumping into the Yellow River.

After this fire was fired, Army Minister Jiang Zhongzheng hurriedly stood up and said: "Mr. Commander-in-Chief, this is a dereliction of duty in my work. When I go back, I will definitely investigate this matter strictly, and if I dare to confront the central authorities, I must hand it over to the Judge Advocate General's Office. ”

After Jiang Zhongzheng expressed his position, Huang Ke still said with a cold face: "Then I'll wait for your good news." ”

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Ji Xingwen is a huge smoker, and since the United States began to provide large quantities of aid, he has smoked camel cigarettes. After lunch, he and several of his officers strolled through the training grounds.

In the past few days, the instructor has conducted basic parachuting training for the newly transferred veterans, but these guys are either lazy and passive slacking, or the movements are not standardized, in short, the training is troublesome.

"I still like to train new recruits. This recruit doesn't understand anything, and he learns whatever you teach him. It's like this group of veterans, who have a lot of stinky problems on their bodies, and they can't manage it if they want to. Xie Zhiguo, the deputy head of the regiment who was in charge of training, complained.

Ji Xingwen glared at him and said: "If you can't train soldiers, you don't have the ability, which soldiers will train if they are chaotic, I don't believe there are soldiers who can't be trained!" ”

Battalion Commander Chen Ming, who went to train on the side, complained after hearing this: "Regiment commander, don't you know, I haven't trained a few platoon commanders in the morning, do you know what people say?" The platoon commander said, 'Lao Tzu is fighting in the front, and you are nesting in the rear, but now you are training me!' Tell me, 'How can such a person be trained?' ”

"yes, that's the case on my side." Another battalion commander in charge of training also shook his head and sighed.

Ji Xingwen took a sharp puff of his cigarette and walked forward.

"Captain Ji, wait a minute." He hadn't taken a few steps when he heard someone calling out to him from behind. Everyone looked back and saw Huang walking towards this side.

At this time, it was a noon lunch break, and the officers and men were resting, and there were only a few of them on the empty training ground.

Ji Xingwen stopped, and Huang Zheng walked over quickly. He and this Huang Zheng belong to an equal relationship of docking, but in addition to work, they don't have much docking on weekdays, because his impression of this "Captain Zhao" is very average, and it is neither good nor bad.

"It's Captain Zhao, is there something wrong?" Ji Xingwen asked.

Huang Zheng stopped, nodded and said hello to several other officers, "It's really something." Let's go over there and talk. ”

Ji Xingwen didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Huang Zheng's gourd, so he had to follow him to a small resting pavilion next to him and sit down.

After taking his seat, Huang Zheng said straight to the point: "I have noticed that the officers and men have been somewhat resistant to training in the past few days, and I think this is not only because of some emotional factors, but also because the existing structure and framework are familiar to them, so it is easy for the officers and soldiers to form a small circle and thus exclude them. In my opinion, let's disrupt and reorganize the formations and squads of various units and battalions, and even down to the individual, so that there will be no small circle between officers and men, and we will be able to better promote the development of training. ”

As he spoke, Huang Zheng handed over a draft document: "This is my preliminary plan, you can take a look at it." ”

That's a good idea! Ji Xingwen felt reliable when he heard it, he took the plan handed over by Huang Zheng, and after reading it, he felt that this guy still had two brushes.

However, if you want to move in this way, you can only move in a big way. Not to mention the time-consuming process of disassembling and reorganizing the ranks of thousands of people, the question is whether the commanders can agree?

He thought about it for a moment and voiced his concerns. Unexpectedly, Huang Zheng waved his hand after hearing this: "The Ministry of National Defense has a clear rule that it can be reorganized according to the training requirements, if you think it is inappropriate, I will go and talk to General Zhang Zizhong and your division commander Liao Xiangdong." ”

"You're going?" Ji Xingwen and his subordinates were a little surprised.