The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 304 Wanting an Officer

In the camp of the Army Commando Corps, on the spacious playground, more than 3,000 recruits were divided into three groups and were undergoing separate training. Under the leadership of their respective squad leaders and instructors, the recruits were trained in the most basic standard training, that is, The most basic training for recruits includes military posture, military salute, formation, command, standing still, standing at attention, taking a break, gathering, and even wearing a hat and leggings.

The sound of footsteps, shouts, commands and even the sounds of scolding and scolding filled the entire playground. Flying dust was flying in the wind in the sun, carrying a strong smell of sweat and drifting in the wind.

On the training field, the neat drill scene of more than 3,000 people looked spectacular. After the two battalions of volunteers transferred from the rear division area of ​​​​Guizhou arrived, He Wei asked Minister He for a new batch of recruits, so He Wei The minister then allocated a new military battalion in the Jianghan Division's area to He Wei.

As a result, the number of recruits in the Army Commando Corps is basically full.

After the new recruits for the Army Commando Corps arrived one after another, He Wei immediately organized the training of the troops, and the cadres and backbones who trained the recruits also faithfully implemented He Wei's basic requirements for standard coaches.

That is, although the time is shortened, the quality must not be shortened. Quality and quantity must be maintained to transform these recruits from ordinary people into soldiers.

In He Wei's view, although the playground standard coach is boring and lacks technical skills, it is an important part of building an elite army. A good playground standard coach can turn a casual citizen into a serious and lively style, and develop the ability to obey orders. His habits and intense and fast military style also laid some foundations for learning tactics and techniques in the future.

Although these things have no direct performance effect on the battlefield, they play a great role invisibly, so they must be done well!

The officers and veterans who trained the new recruits carried out He Wei's orders very faithfully, and implemented standard training with extremely strict and even harsh training methods.

Regarding the compliments brought by the plagiarized songs, He Wei showed his cheeky characteristics as a time traveler and accepted them all without any blush.

After these four stages of specialized training, the entire assault force, from veterans to recruits, from officers to sergeants, will begin to be reorganized into battalions and companies according to the predetermined organization table, and organized into an organic combat force.

According to He Wei's plan, the training of the commando team will be divided into four stages.

Of course, He Wei also understands the principle of gradual progress and the opposite of extremes. Although the main training time is very strict, during the rest period, the backbones who lead the training will still let the recruits relax and take a rest. He Wei also The cadres were specially instructed to organize some singing competitions and teach the recruits to learn to sing some military songs to adjust the atmosphere.

In this regard, the hard-core cadres who were in trouble tried their best. Some veterans taught the new recruits to sing the military song of the former Beiyang Army - War Generals of the Three Kingdoms (March of the Military Band of the Seventh Division in Liangjian), and some of their backgrounds Veterans of the former Zhang Zongchang-Zhilu Allied Forces actually taught new recruits to memorize Zhang Zongchang's poems.

For a time, some people were singing random songs on the training ground during the break, and some were reciting poems. It was like a chaotic dance.

The second stage is the basic technical training stage for recruits, which lasts for one month. During this month, all recruits must complete the use and maintenance training of rifles, pistols, and light machine guns and grenade throwing training. Each recruit must master the skills of the army. The operation and use of the most basic weapons
The third stage is the basic combat training and physical fitness training stage, which lasts for one month. During this period, all recruits must run with light equipment and heavy loads for three kilometers to exercise basic combat physical fitness. At the same time, they must complete five hundred obstacles (uneven bars, climbing poles, board wall, high platform, trench jumping, single-plank bridge and low trip wire) to cultivate the most basic tactical awareness and skills.

By then, only after passing these four stages of rigorous training can the Army Commando Corps truly become a strong army. It can be said that each of these four interlocking stages is crucial and cannot be relaxed. .

So, on the training ground during the break, the sound of this song plagiarized by He Wei was floating everywhere. Of course, in the eyes of the officers and soldiers below, this song was naturally He Wei's original work. The image in their minds has been improved a bit because of this, and he has been praised as a versatile man in both civil and military affairs.

Standing motionless for half an hour under the sun and in a puddle of rainwater was, for many people, a more terrifying task than charging with Japanese machine guns.

The first phase, the standard training phase for recruits, lasts for one and a half months. During this period, the recruits will complete the basic transformation from ordinary people to soldiers and be trained to become a soldier with the most basic qualities.

This song has clear lyrics, is easy to learn, and is catchy. It is not only easy to teach and sing, but also has the function of helping new soldiers become familiar with the rules and regulations and personnel system of the army. It has quickly been unanimously praised by the backbone and new recruits. welcome.

As for the National Army Army song, which was very famous before He Wei crossed over, with the lyrics "The wind and clouds are rising, the mountains and rivers are moving, and the Huangpu Army is building with great momentum", in fact, it has not been born until now, because the National Army Army still does not have its own military song. Song, this Army military song that often appeared in later anti-Japanese war dramas, was actually born in the 1960s.

In the end, He Wei, who was still dumbfounded, took action himself and plagiarized a song he had learned in an old movie before time travel. The lyrics read: "When you join the army, you first become a top soldier, your immediate boss is the squad leader, and above the squad leader is the platoon leader. Above the commander are the company commander, the company commander, the battalion commander, the deputy regimental commander, the regimental commander, the brigade commander, the chief of staff, the corps commander, the division commander, and the commander, all of whom are inferior to the chairman of the committee!”

"Everyone is here, ready!"

But although He Wei's idea was good, it also made some jokes. Singing was good, but the problem was that the backbones who led the training did not know what songs to teach and made it difficult.

The fourth stage is the specialized training stage. After completing the first three stages of training, all recruits will begin to undergo subject and specialty education to determine future combat positions for each person, such as riflemen, mortar operators, ammunition soldiers, Machine gun assistant shooters, etc., recruits with the same majors will be gathered together for one and a half months of specialized training.

The training has only been started for more than a week. Although most of the recruits of the Army Commando Corps are hard-working farmers and workers, there are still many recruits who can't stand it under the extremely strict standard coaches. This doesn't seem like much to the standard coaches on the playground. It is a big move, but you must not underestimate the skill of tightening the abdomen, raising the chest, and standing firm. It is a strenuous task that many strong men will faint from exhaustion.

The new recruits who are undergoing rigorous training on the coaching ground are all covered in sweat and their clothes are soaked. Sometimes some of them faint and fall to the ground due to lack of physical strength. This shows how difficult it is. The most basic spirit and willpower of soldiers are also due to the training. This standard of coaching emerged bit by bit from all the training.

In fact, the only ones who can sing serious military songs are officers from the Whampoa Military Academy, and the songs they can sing are only the school songs of the Whampoa Military Academy.

In the center of the playground, more than 400 officers and soldiers were standing at attention with wooden guns in the right position. Compared with the many recruits of the Army Assault Corps, these more than 400 officers and soldiers seemed out of place.

Half of these officers and soldiers are sergeants with the rank of corporal, sergeant, and staff sergeant, and the other half are officers with the rank of warrant officer, second lieutenant, lieutenant, or even captain.

Among them were dozens of military academy graduate officers wearing round military academy student collar badges. A former second lieutenant officer of the secret service battalion with a white armband stood in front of the queue, holding a wooden gun and shouting at the top of his lungs: "Pay attention to the air, the knife, and the body to be consistent. Use your heels hard, move your center of gravity forward quickly, and push hard." Step with your feet to activate your leg, waist, and arm strength, lift the gun butt two inches below the right chest with your right hand, and prepare to stab with all your strength with your left arm!"

"Thrust, thrust!"

"Kill!" Hundreds of voices gathered together, hundreds of wooden spears thrust out fiercely, and the momentum formed was indeed terrifying.

The second lieutenant officer walked into the queue, nodded after looking around in the queue, walked out of the queue again, and said loudly: "Block the attack, prepare, thrust, thrust!"

"kill!"

"Anti-stab, prepare, thrust, stab!"

"kill!"

"Top shot!"

"kill!"

"Downstroke!"

"kill!"

Sonorous and powerful shouts of killing continued to be heard. Not far from the team, He Shaozhou, the commander of the 103rd Division, nodded frequently while looking at it, He Wei's expression remained normal.

"Sir, this is my improved assassination technique. I first developed it during the Battle of Xinkou. It's actually very simple. There are only four moves, one is chopping, the second is direct attack with the butt of the gun, and the third is the upward attack with the butt of the gun. , the fourth is to shoot down with the butt of the gun. This bayonet fight requires a lot of effort. We are no better than the Japanese and have suffered a lot in this. I only realized this after fighting against the Japanese. When bayoneting, the bayonet is used exclusively for stabbing, but the rifle butt is rarely used for attacks, so I added the rifle butt to the assassination training. "

He Wei said.

"Okay, it's true that I gave you the person to train! The second lieutenant officer under your command is also very capable. At first glance, he is a good assassin. He draws the gun, retracts the gun, and stabs the gun in a smooth and powerful manner."

He Shaozhou sighed repeatedly.

He Wei looked at the officer who was organizing the training and smiled and said: "This second lieutenant is also a graduate of the eleventh batch of our Huangpu Military Academy. His name is Ding Jiaju. After graduation, he was assigned to serve in the Jiangsu Security Corps. He wanted to go to the front line to kill the enemy. He left the army and ran to Jinling. I happened to be organizing a special agent camp at that time, so he came to my special agent camp and became an infantry platoon leader. He was a good cadre. "

At this time, the more than 400 people who were practicing assassination exercises on the training ground were not from the Army Commando Corps, but sergeants and officers from the 103rd Division. Previously, He Wei had promised to help He Shaozhou train sergeants and officers. , after the new recruits of the Army Commando Corps began training, He Wei also accepted the officers and sergeants sent by He Shaozhou as promised, and began training for the officers and sergeants of the 103rd Division.

The training for them is naturally different from that of new recruits. After all, He Shaozhou sent sergeants and officers, all of whom are veterans. They certainly cannot be trained with the coaching subjects of new recruits. He Wei implemented tactical training, education and technical training for them. educate.

The content of the training was subjects such as infantry team tactics and assassination techniques that He Wei had previously compiled by himself, which were different from the general training manuals popular in the national army.

He Shaozhou and Minister He helped He Wei so much and reciprocated the favor. Naturally, He Wei had to work hard to help them train officers and soldiers. Therefore, a group of key officers and sergeants with rich practical experience were specially mobilized to train these friendly officers and soldiers.

He Shaozhou often came to observe and was very satisfied with He Wei's training.

Today, He Shaozhou happily rushed to the Army Commando Corps' camp to inspect, just in time for the assassination training. After seeing it, he praised him again and again.

"Yes, speaking of which, many of the officers I sent for training are newly distributed military school graduates. My division has expanded all of a sudden. There were not many officers to use. Now the army has strengthened its arrogance, and the officers' There are even more gaps. The students from the 12th phase of Huangpu just graduated a few months ago. I asked for 60 of them at one go. The quality of these new military academy graduates is good, with both academic and technical proficiency. What is missing is practical experience. Your teachings are very good. Your people are all elites with rich combat experience, and they can make up for their shortcomings. "

He Shaozhou pointed at the officers who were practicing assassination techniques. Most of the officers with round collar badges in the team had green and immature faces. These people were the graduates of the military academy that He Shaozhou mentioned.

After He Shaozhou mentioned the graduates of the military academy, He Wei's expression became solemn. The 103rd Division had a large shortage of officers after its expansion and formation, but the Army Commando Corps was bound to face the same problem of officer shortage when it was established.

He said: "Sir, I won't beat around the bush. In fact, my Army Commando Corps is the same. It is just training new recruits. The situation of the officers is not bad, but once the army begins to be formally established, there will definitely be a large number of vacancies. My The old base only has one battalion brought out from Jinling, and the number of officers must be insufficient. I am afraid that it may not be able to make up for it by promoting the original cadres and veterans. I also want to add some military school graduates. I don’t know if I report it directly. Minister He asked for additional information, or should we contact the Military Commission?”

Hearing that He Wei also wanted to add graduates from the military academy, He Shaozhou said: "Gee, this matter is really difficult to handle. I have contacted the military academy before, and now the Central Military Academy has moved to Sichuan Province. The Huangpu twelfth batch of students from the Central Military Academy I graduated in January this year, and the distribution has basically been completed. The Huangpu 13th batch at the school is scheduled to graduate in September this year. At this juncture, it is really difficult for you to find someone. I don’t know the situation of those branch schools. ”

Seeing that He Wei had trained the sergeants and officers he sent well, He Shaozhou was very interested. Seeing that He Wei encountered a problem, he was happy to help out.

He Shaozhou thought for a while and said: "Well, I am quite familiar with the supervisors of the Central Military Academy's main school and several branches. I will help you contact them to see if they want to work in your army. The troops have not been distributed yet. A graduate of the military academy, just wait and I will let you know when there is news."

(End of this chapter)