"Fingering? I'm here to train you from 'qualified' to 'good', not to teach you how to practice according to the rules! ”

"Zhou waits for the edict to show the right ......"

Zhou Changfeng was very angry, frowned, and said, "What do you do as the head of the division to eat?" What are your subordinates like, and they don't have points in their hearts? ”

"I can't say what I have to say," Shen Xuesheng said aggrieved and helplessly: "I was still teaching at Shuncheon (Martial Arts Academy) last month, and at the end of the month, the military department suddenly got it here with a paper order. ”

Hearing him say this, Zhou Changfeng closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "Who was in charge of the previous training?" The people who do the training department are out! ”

Within the division headquarters, there are a number of subdivisions -- the Training Section (Operations and Training), the Suppression and Pacification Section (Military Law and Daily Management), the Experience Section (Upward and Downward Lines and Internal Coordination), the Quartermaster Section (Logistics Supply), and the War Intelligence Section (Reconnaissance and Intelligence Analysis).

A major with a bitter face stepped forward and said, "Humble Liu Pu, the 107th Division is the training department." ”

"Give me an explanation."

"Hmm...... He told the commander that the quality of the soldiers in the division was relatively poor, and some of the equipment was not delivered half a month late, and the governor's office issued an order to open the division. ”

"That's the case with the conscription? Oh my God, it's broken, it's broken. Zhou Changfeng was greatly surprised, and couldn't help but feel frightened.

After a while, he waved his hand and ordered: "Collect the troops and return to the camp!" ”

"Yes."

Two green flares were lifted into the air, and the crisp sound of gongs was particularly distant in the setting sun.

Zhou Changfeng and the officers returned to the Admiral's Mansion of the Great Battalion - it was said to be a house, but it was actually a house made of I-beams and corrugated plates.

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.

In the past, he either led troops to fight abroad, or focused on the research and development projects of various weapons and equipment, but he really did not have the time to cover everything, and he never imagined that the wartime mobilization system would be so negligent.

"Didn't you take care of the Bingbei Road?" He asked.

"Uh......" Koko replied hesitantly: "We have reported it, explained the situation, and the military preparation is not in a rut, saying that we should give priority to supporting the troops fighting abroad." ”

The military preparation department is subordinate to the Department of Inspectors and Missions, and has nothing to do with the Guangdong Metropolitan Department (Military Region) and the Lingnan Metropolitan Governor's Office (Theater), and is responsible for supervising local military affairs and regularly inspecting, inspecting, and rectifying local troops.

In the current situation, the Guangdong Metropolitan Division and several military departments have unshirkable responsibilities.

The most nerve-wracking thing came, Zhou Changfeng couldn't help but knock on his head, "Let's go to a ghost Europe, clean up your house first." ”

He immediately ordered a telegram to be sent to the Ministry of War, and then began to carefully investigate the problem.

Because of the national conditions, the Ming Dynasty usually adopted the volunteer military service system, and even so, it was not worried about the number of soldiers.

Because they are voluntarily enlisted in the army, these people are professional soldiers, and the military contracts they sign, that is, the contracts are often often ten years, have long been rooted in the barracks, are well trained, and there is no resentment of being forcibly drafted, and naturally have a considerable morale base.

However, under this system, even the most ordinary soldiers had to be paid, which caused a lot of pressure on the finances of the Ming army.

To put it simply, it costs money to raise soldiers.

After the outbreak of the war, it was natural to expand the army, and the imperial court wanted to avoid the waste of military expenditure, and use good steel on the blade - the population of 600 or 700 million can be regarded as almost endless, and the limited military expenditure should be saved for weapons and equipment.

Therefore, the Ministry of War has restarted the conscription system and extensively recruited young people suitable for military service to serve in the army. These men are legally compulsory and serve only two years without standard salary.

It is roughly the difference between contract soldiers and mobilized soldiers of the Russian army in later generations.

A soldier of the Ming army who signed a military contract was paid 32 yuan per month, a living allowance of 3 yuan, and if he was married, there was also a settlement allowance of 6 yuan.

If you are ordered to go on the expedition, then the additional combat allowance will be calculated in days from the date of the opening, 1 yuan per day, which is basically equivalent to double, so this is also commonly known as "opening silver" and "double salary".

Theoretically, when recuperating from illness and injury, it should also be counted as a state of conscription, but this money is often deducted, and the military department is very loose in this situation, which can be regarded as semi-acquiescence.

In contrast, a conscripted Ming army private had no salary and could only receive a living allowance of 3 yuan per month, a settling-in allowance of 6 yuan per month (if married), and a combat allowance of 1 yuan per day.

This is the difference between the two types of soldiers.

At the same time, the wartime infantry divisions from the 100th onwards all used a mix of two types of soldiers—two or three people from each infantry squad were volunteers, and the rest were conscripts.

For the officers of the Ming army, the sense of disparity was very large, and the former subordinates were all volunteers - obedient and serious, full of energy, and hard-working.

But now, so many conscripts have suddenly come, and there are often cases of resentment and passive sabotage, and there are even many cases of being insulted and bullied by veterans or officers, and shooting black guns in anger.

Thus, an invisible barrier was created.

There is another objective reason for Liu Pu's complaining about the poor quality of the soldiers -- the shortage of training time and training equipment.

After serving in the service, a recruit will be sent to the nearest training ground, where he will receive 30 days of basic training; Then they were divided into different branches and received 60 days of professional training; Finally, they receive 30 days of field training.

After completing a total of about four months of training, the recruits are dispersed to the front-line units or formed into new units.

If it is the latter, then when a new infantry division is formed, it will have to conduct three full-division contract trainings, about one to two months, which is what Liu Pu called "three major joint trainings."

However, due to the multi-front operation, both replenishment and expansion of the army, the demand for soldiers has increased sharply, so the original training time has been cut a lot, and many recruits can be qualified after three months of training.

The 107th Infantry Division and the 108th Division had only had time to complete a divisional contract training before they received orders to prepare for Moresby.

"Alas!" Zhou Changfeng sighed, "The unpaid tuition will have to be paid sooner or later." ”

Obviously, the Ming Dynasty had no experience in the organization of conscription troops in wartime, and there was no precedent to follow, and if the precedent was traced, it could only be found in the history books.

But fortunately, it is not too late to find out, and it is not too late to make amends.

In addition, it is fortunate that the Ming Dynasty relied on a well-trained standing army to achieve a series of brilliant victories in the early stage of the war, and now it is a stage of strategic stalemate, and there is plenty of time to solve the problem. Otherwise, if the current battle situation is urgent and there is no success, then the undertrained divisions will still have to be pulled into the battlefield.

"Zhou waiting, shall we continue to make up the training according to the regulations?" Shen Xuesheng asked.

Zhou Changfeng raised his hand and looked at his watch, and said, "Well, let's continue to practice first, make up for the class, don't think about the higher level if you haven't practiced the basic things well." ”

"Yes."

"Then you two pick a few familiar staff officers, and we'll do a war game."

Shen Xuesheng was a little surprised, he and Zeng Mu, the commander of the 107th Division, glanced at each other.

Is this to examine the skills of high-ranking generals? You'll have to behave well!

The preset scenario of the wargame deduction is that the red attack is the blue defense, the red side is the two Ming army divisions commanded by Shen Xuesheng and Zeng Mu, and the blue side is an American army division commanded by Zhou someone.

Once the preparation is complete, the deduction begins.

Zhou Changfeng was worried about the average level of the senior generals of the Ming Army, who were often good at theory and good at paper and war games, but mediocre in actual combat.

Once affected by the ever-changing and unexpected circumstances of actual combat, generals will feel uncomfortable and difficult to effectively control the actions of their subordinates.

Correspondingly, there are indeed a very small number of geniuses who are self-taught, and who have little experience in the past and can command large corps battles with ease.

However, there are very few such people, and the vast majority of ordinary high-ranking generals of the Ming army belong to the "academic school".

The "academic faction" seriously lacks actual combat experience, and they often have exploited in border conflicts when they are young, but the kind of battles with as few dozen men as few as a few hundred people are meaningless, and the difficulty of commanding a detachment is very different from commanding a large corps.

In this crucial actual combat experience, nine out of ten of the senior generals of the Ming army are inferior to Zhou.

Zhou had commanded battalion-level detachments in its entirety from the beginning, then regimental units in Spain, and then began to lead brigade-level units such as the 1st Marine Brigade.

"Okay, that's it, that's it."

After completing a crisp defensive counterattack, he calmly retreated with the perimeter of one enemy and two - one division of the blue side delayed the two divisions of the red side for six days, and finally retreated in formation.

In fact, the U.S. infantry division is usually attached to an independent tank battalion, but it was not given in this war game.

Zhou Changfeng picked up the teacup and drank it all, wiped his mouth, and glanced at the two opposite, "Your theoretical skills are all passable, but in actual combat, it is not so simple, maybe this battalion is lost for a while, that battalion is bombed for a while, and another regiment loses contact for a while...... Don't focus on how to defeat the enemy, first be able to control your troops with ease. ”

"What Zhou Beizhao said is extremely true!"

"Yes, if you can't even control your subordinates, you can talk about defeating the enemy, Zhou Beizhao couldn't be more right."

Over the next five days, the 107th and 108th Divisions spent remedial training to improve a number of problems exposed during the surprise inspections, and then completed the division-wide contract training.

During this period, the equipment and ammunition required by the joint training battalion applied for by Zhou Changfeng arrived one after another, and the weapons and equipment replenished to the two divisions also followed.

In order to carry out more appropriate and realistic infantry artillery coordination and infantry and tank coordination training, tons of empty ammunition and smoke practice shells were transported to the Qiongya Joint Training Camp.

There are no tanks here? Then ship it immediately!

The large number of tanks that had accumulated at the wharf in the Tianjin port area finally came into use, and 50 Type 37 light tanks were loaded onto the train and crossed thousands of miles from north to south to Qiongya.

When they received the goods, the soldiers found out that the tanks had actually left the factory in April, and the sun and rain for several months had caused rust in some places, and even the inside of the tanks had a faint musty smell.

The officers and men of the repair institute seized the time to refurbish these extremely old-looking tanks and make them look brand new, and 20 of them were painted with large white five-pointed stars and disguised as US tanks.

Zhou Changfeng's regulations for intensive training in actual combat have been printed, and at the same time, he is taking time out every day to compile his own "book" -- "Nanyang Operations Compendium."

This charter made the officers of the 107th and 108th Divisions tremble.

Thirty days of physical strengthening? A 15-kilometer march in the mountains in full gear? Thirty kilometers of lightly armed mountain forced march? Infantry Technique and Tactics Enhancement?

The most outrageous thing is that there is also a thriller subject in which the infantry rides on a chariot and launches an assault under the cover of artillery Xu Jin's fire.

Shen Xuesheng felt a little breathless, he felt that the standard of physical training seemed to be too high, and there were many subjects that were unheard of.

There is a stereotype that demolition and obstacle removal is the function of an engineer unit, and the infantry only needs to handle some simple tasks, but this charter requires every infantry to strengthen the practice of blasting operations.

And this is just one subject under the category of "Infantry Technique and Tactical Enhancement", in addition to the infantry anti-combat vehicle, infantry anti-airborne and so on.

"Why do you want to practice so much?" Zeng Mu, commander of the 107th Division, was surprised.

"Why?" Zhou Changfeng smiled slightly, "The battlefield is unpredictable, sappers can't come as soon as they say, and the battle defense artillery may also go wrong." There are not too many skills, and the more individual skills there are, the higher the combat efficiency of the detachment. ”

In view of the different national conditions and different backgrounds, Zhou Changfeng naturally did not copy the rigid formula.

The Ming Army has its own characteristics, different from any army in history, and is essentially an imperialist semi-heavy army - strong infantry artillery firepower, average organizational efficiency, insufficient motorized equipment, both offensive and defensive, good at small and medium-sized (below division) battles, and clumsy in large corps operations.

At his request, the Qiongya Joint Training Camp hung up banners, painted slogans, and pasted posters.

Words such as "the enterprising spirit of the infantry is the cornerstone of victory", "artillery is the god of war to defeat the enemy", "serve the country with loyalty, defeat the enemy", "practice hard to kill the enemy", "sweat more in peacetime, and shed less blood in wartime" and so on.

"It's almost, start practicing!"

"Order!"

From the very beginning, the training entered an unprecedented white-hot stage -- the ten-mile lightly armed cross-country in the early morning became fully armed, the one-mile obstacle crossing assault changed from the original three to four, and the shouts of melee training between the battalions shook the earth......

Even in order to add to the fun, the division's artillery was ordered to use two rounds of live ammunition to celebrate the "opening of business" of the Qiongya Joint Training Battalion.

I saw hundreds of officers and soldiers following the more than 20 tanks lined up to attack, smoke billowing and dust flying!

The field artillery group was also firing at the same time, and in order to facilitate the control of the Xu Jin firing, the artillery group was divided into two groups and fired alternately, always maintaining the shell landing point at a distance of 200 meters in front of the infantry detachment during the impact, until the infantry detachment broke through into the enemy position and then switched to blocking or obstructing fire in depth.

"Yes, it's a little more presentable."

Zhou Changfeng, who was sitting behind the gun mirror, suddenly thought of the general communication difficulties in the coordinated advance of the infantry tank, perhaps an additional telephone at the rear of the hull should be added to some tanks?

Just as he was thinking, a communications staff officer suddenly came up quickly and said to him: "Report! The military department called and summoned you back to Beijing to report on your work. ”

(End of chapter)

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