Chapter 155: Building and Learning
While Xia Lin was busy writing the first edition of his manuscript for the political propaganda of the New Army, all the soldiers of the New Army had experienced what it was like to shoot with a Type 2 rifle.
Seeing the plate armor that the officers showed them that was easily penetrated by the Type 2 rifle, and probably understood that the rifle was a more powerful crossbow arrow, their fear of the knights who were high above and could take their lives at every turn dissipated a lot.
Completed the daily quota of 40 rounds of shooting training, followed by throwing training.
Since the current production capacity of the gun factory is all inclined to the bullet and shell production line, in order to ensure the handnade reserve in battle, these soldiers are only issued with an ignition grenade, and the remaining one has a fuse that can be pulled out and cut off, but there is no training shell filled with explosives.
After 20 repeated throwing training, each recruit finally had the opportunity to light up his grenade, and after counting one, two, three, four, silently, he threw the grenade into a predetermined circle about 30 meters away, "Boom!" Looking at the scene of the explosion, they realized that the strange iron ball actually had such a powerful power.
As for the originally scheduled bayonet training, Xia Lin felt that there was no need to arrange it for a limited two-week plan to affect the effectiveness of the training camp, although he equipped the Type 2 rifle with a bayonet, but it was to fight against ordinary infantry.
Xia Lin was skeptical about how much a bayonet like this would be useful against a knight in armor who was skilled in martial arts, so he simply removed this aspect from the two-week plan.
Anyway, when the time comes, when you need to fight in close combat, it's a big deal to use the standing armed forces of each chamber of commerce to put them in front, and then let the new army put cold guns in the back to harvest.
After completing a day of training that was completely different from the previous ones, the recruits still had some unfinished meanings, after all, it was the first time to touch rifles and grenades, and it was inevitable that there was some novelty and excitement.
The artillery company on the other side showed disdain when they saw the elated appearance of this group of infantry, but they all took turns pulling the artillery to bombard a shooting range by the river that had cleared the separation zone in advance.
Although they had also tried the power of the rifle, it was not a grade compared to the cannon, and it was obviously still like a thunderbolt, and the cannon that could easily smash the target was more in line with their appetite.
By the end of the training, the soldiers took turns taking a hot bath in the large bathhouse, and it was time to start the evening cultural class.
Bard and Pearlman, together with the twelve selected by Xia Lin from the two infantry battalions and an artillery company directly under the New Army during this time, came to his office in the logistics building as the chairman of the company-level soldiers' committee according to Xia Lin's instructions, and Xia Lin immediately sent copies of these two articles.
These fourteen people are all selected by the non-commissioned officers in the previous non-commissioned officers to be included in the list of recommended people, although due to various factors, such as the cultural level does not meet the requirements of the platoon commander, but they still have a certain prestige in the eyes of the soldiers around them.
As long as such a person can accept Xia Lin's thoughts, then he will be a good chairman of the soldiers' committee, and as for the soldiers' commissioners in the various squads at the lower levels, they will naturally let them choose slowly.
"I'm sure you also know that I let you take a break from your culture class tonight for the sake of the Soldiers' Council.
I will have a 27-member soldiers' committee in each company of the New Army, and you will be the chairman of the company committee responsible for liaising with them."
After Xia Lin finished sending his things, he returned to his chair, looked at these immature or mature faces, and took out a blackboard and hung it on the wall behind him.
"I said a little bit about your duties in the morning, but some of the committee chairmen may not have been in the first cafeteria, so they didn't hear it.
Now let me explain again that the existence of the soldiers' committee is to solve all kinds of problems encountered by the soldiers of our new army in their lives, training, and battles.
In addition, as the chairman of the committee, you have to learn a lot of knowledge, including the reasons and purposes for the formation of the new army, so that you and the soldiers know who the new army is fighting for, and at the same time strictly enforce the "new army
Disciplinary regulations in the Code of Conduct for the Corps Infantry.
In life, you have to be considerate of the soldiers, do your best to solve their problems, in training, you have to be the first, strive to be the top, and in battle, you have to be the first to lead by example.
Specifically, the chairman of the soldiers' committee has two powers, the first is the power to convene a soldiers' committee, and as long as it does not interfere with the normal conduct of military affairs, you can request the officers at all levels to convene a soldiers' committee at any time.
The second is the power of supervision and communication, which allows you to supervise officers and enlisted men at all levels, to ensure that the soldiers comply with the disciplinary regulations of the Forces nouvelles Infantry Conduct, to ensure that the officers do not physically punish the soldiers or give unreasonable orders, and to communicate the needs of the lower ranks directly to me, the General Chairman.
But be careful, unless the military commander loses the ability to command in battle, you have no command power!
Now you can ask any questions as soon as possible, and then we will start the first class of the committee."
After emphasizing the specific positioning of these chairmen in the new army, Xia Lin then said to these new chairmen who were carefully pondering their words.
"Report! Deputy Head Xia Lin, what is our monthly salary after we become the chairman?"
After listening to Xia Lin's words, a young man immediately got up and raised his hand to report with some confusion and asked.
"The Soldiers' Committee is divided into three levels, the first level is the squad, and each squad has three soldiers' members, and they all retain their original ranks and ranks up to the company level of 27 people.
The second level is the chairman of the committee in charge of the soldiers' committee of each company, that is, the position you hold, and your rank is the same as that of a company officer, and you are treated the same.
The third level is me, as the general chairman of the Soldiers' Committee of the New Army, and you can directly submit the various affairs reports produced by the Soldiers' Committee to me for archiving and retention."
Although the question sounded a bit coppery, Xia Lin patiently explained.
He didn't expect these newly selected chairmen to be able to selflessly dedicate themselves to their ideals like some kind of existence in the steely army in his previous life.
Even if they had to ask for that, they would have to wait until Xia Lin had drawn a blueprint for them, the chairmen, that they were willing to follow and fight for.
"Company? I understand! Deputy Head Xia Lin!"
The young man sat back in his seat thoughtfully, probably thinking about what the salary level was for the company rank.
According to the seventeenth salary system of the new army, a company-level officer is at least a second lieutenant, that is to say, the salary is at least 1 gold lunt and 40 silver mar a month.
"Alright, if you don't have any other questions, let's talk about these two articles that you need to study tonight!
There are probably a few chairmen who don't know how to read, so you can find literate people to learn from each other, and after you finish your studies, I will send you to each squad and platoon to select the soldiers' committee members and form a soldiers' committee."
After waiting for a while, seeing that no one continued to ask questions, Xia Lin clapped his hands, summoned these somewhat uncertain chairmen, and then wrote the titles of the two articles "On God-endowed Human Rights and Natural Human Rights" and "The Relationship between the State and the People" on the blackboard with chalk.