The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 308 Becoming a guinea pig
After Wang Yuanling brought these recent Huangpu 12th batch graduates and former Wuhan branch personnel who had received professional training in staff business to join the Army Commando Corps, He Wei immediately began to build the headquarters organization and staff system of the Army Commando Corps.

It can be said that the group of people brought by Wang Yuanling brought unexpected joy to He Wei.

But even so, He Wei was not completely assured of Wang Yuanling. This assurance did not refer to trust in personnel or factional struggles, but to practical application capabilities.

Although he brought a large number of military school graduates and officers with professional staff training to He Wei, this did not reflect Wang Yuanling's actual work ability, nor did it mean that Wang Yuanling could fully shoulder the position of Chief of Staff of the Army Assault Corps. stand up.

After all, studying at the Army University, the educational duties at the military academy, and the actual service in the combat troops are two different things.

Therefore, He Wei did not interfere too much in the establishment of the headquarters and staff system of the Army Assault Corps. Instead, he delegated power to Wang Yuanling. The purpose was naturally to see if Wang Yuanling was an armchair strategist who was full of craftsmanship. Lord.

You know, although the graduates of the Army University have produced many elites and are now considered to be rare and sought-after goods in the national army, these people generally lack actual combat experience and experience in the grassroots troops, so there are many masters who are skilled but weak. .

Many Army University graduates had only the rank of captain or even colonel before enrolling, but after graduation they were suddenly promoted to lieutenant colonel or colonel, which caused many jokes and combat accidents.

The famous Huangpu fifth-term graduate Guo Rugui and Guo Xiaogui, this old man was only a captain officer before he was admitted to the tenth term of the Army University. Before entering the school, he only had the experience of captain company commander, and his subordinate was the colonel chief of staff of the 14th Division. , less than 30 years old.

However, in the first battle of the Songhu Battle after Guo Rugui took office, he used two infantry regiments to attack at night. One regiment attacked frontally and the other detoured behind the enemy's rear to attack the enemy in front of them. The tactical deployment was sound and logical, and he was sure to get high marks in the exam.

However, due to lack of experience, Chief of Staff Guo missed two small rivers when looking at the map. The two regiments that attacked at night were blocked by the small rivers. The offensive was chaotic and suffered heavy casualties, causing the attacking troops to pay a heavy price in casualties.

Among the 10th graduates of the Army University at the same time as Wang Yuanling, there was a man named Mao Jingbiao. Before being admitted to the Army University, he was just a major staff member with no actual combat experience or team service experience. After graduation, he served as the colonel chief of staff of the 10th Preliminary Division. In one battle, when the troops launched an offensive, he saw Japanese air strikes and urgently ordered a retreat for cover. However, because of his inexperience, he did not know that troops would easily collapse when retreating in front of the enemy. As a result, the entire th Division almost collapsed.

With this bloody example in front of him, He Wei couldn't help but be extremely cautious.

So He Wei still planned to give Wang Yuanling a probation period secretly. If he was a real person, that would be good.

If he was a scumbag with a smooth surface, then He Wei would definitely not keep him. At most, he would try to find a good job for him because he could help him recruit a large number of talents, and also give him some money to repay him. Just a favor.

But Wang Yuanling's performance was beyond He Wei's expectations. He was not only theoretically thorough, but also very good at practical applications. He was by no means the kind of person who "talks Hindenburg and keeps silent Tan Lunborg" to the famous people at home and abroad. Zhao Kuo boasted about the battles and talked about them, but when he really started to do things, he pulled his crotch.

On the contrary, this person does things vigorously and courageously.

After Wang Yuanling found out about the situation of the Assault Corps, he immediately came up with an organizational plan and construction system for the Assault Corps headquarters and staff system, and immediately set up the framework of the headquarters and the staff organization.

After this, He Wei was completely relieved of Wang Yuanling's abilities, and he opened up his experience before time travel to discuss with him the organization of the headquarters and staff systems.

He Wei and Wang Yuanling analyzed the current organizational situation of the Army Assault Corps, and after summarizing and sorting out the current systems in Germany, Japan and various Western countries, He Wei decided that the headquarters of the Army Assault Corps would be directly under a staff office, and the staff office would It is divided into five departments according to different functions.

Among them, the first section of the staff office is the personnel section, the second section of the staff office is the intelligence section, the third section of the staff office is the combat training section, the fourth section of the staff office is the logistics section, and the fifth section of the staff office is the communications section.

These five departments under the Staff Office can fully handle the business processing generated by the daily operations of the Army Commando Corps.

Whether in peacetime or wartime, these five departments are under the control of Chief of Staff Wang Yuanling, and various general affairs will naturally be handled by the subordinate departments, while Wang Yuanling is directly responsible to He Wei.

In this way, He Wei can concentrate on the command and training of the troops and be freed from those trivial and messy things.

Now that the airs are in place, the interior below must also be strictly controlled. The chiefs of the five departments under the staff office are naturally the officers brought by Wang Yuanling who have been trained by the Army University staff class.

As for the staff officers of each department, He Wei decided to conduct selections within the entire corps. The selection targets included not only the current officers of the Army Assault Corps, but also the batch of military academy graduates brought by Wang Yuanling.

The chief of staff and the section chiefs under the staff office are the leaders and leaders, but it is actually the staff officers under each section who do the real work. These people are the real business executors, and they are no less important and critical. Yu section chief and supervisor.

A good staff officer can bring great convenience to the army's operations, but a bad watermelon staff officer can cause endless harm and even kill thousands of people. A small mistake by the staff officer can lead to serious consequences on the battlefield. It is an irreversible defeat that endangers the overall situation.

Therefore, He Wei asked Wang Yuanling to select the best from the best and the best from the best when selecting staff officers, and to select and train the best among the officers in the entire corps.

And He Wei's training requirements for staff officers seemed a bit harsh even to Wang Yuanling, an outstanding graduate of the Army University.

He Wei's requirements, simply put, are four skills: reading, memorizing, calculating, and drawing.

To be able to read means to be able to interpret maps. Terrain is the basis for the enemy and us to decide on combat operations. Staff officers should be very familiar with the terrain of places they have visited. They should also be familiar with the terrain of places they have never visited. All battles, tactical locations and important towns and villages in areas related to the operations of their own troops are of great significance to military operations. Mountains, rivers, roads, bridges, ports, etc., must be familiar with their relationships and locations by frequently reading maps. The scale, elevation, coordinates, symbols of various terrain features, etc. on the map must be well understood. Make it clear.

To memorize means to memorize the basic situation of both the enemy and ourselves. Memorize the organization, equipment and strength of your own troops, and memorize the numbers, sequences, strength, and tactical characteristics of the Japanese troops. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you provide reliable information and valuable suggestions for the headquarters to make decisions. To be able to calculate means to be able to calculate various data necessary for the headquarters to make decisions. For example, calculate the movement speed of the enemy's various services and arms, the range of various artillery, the power of various weapons, the density of troops and firepower, etc. These are indispensable and important information when making decisions in modern operations. To this end, staff officers must memorize the tactics and technical performance of various services and arms, and learn to use mental arithmetic, written arithmetic, slide rules and other calculation tools to perform calculation operations. In order to provide timely and accurate data support for the decision-making of superior headquarters.

Be able to draw, that is, draw determination plans, troop deployments, firepower allocation plans, etc.

In addition, staff officers should also have a certain level of operational and tactical theory. In addition to the basic work of a staff officer, they should also have a certain level of commander, so that they must both participate and plan.

This series of requirements put forward by He Wei are completely based on his experience as a time traveler and the combat needs of the modern army.

The situation of modern war is extremely complex. War will carry out various operations at the same time in the air, on the ground, on the sea, under the sea, in the front and in the rear. It is a large force, three-dimensional, large depth, joint operation of multiple arms, including reconnaissance, communications, rear service, etc. The requirements in all aspects are much higher than those in the era He Wei currently lives in.

Wang Yuanling also said that He Wei's requirements were a bit too strict, but He Wei remained unmoved. After all, only high standards and strict requirements can train capable staff officers. It is better to be strict than lax.

He Wei is also looking forward to what kind of sparks his strict requirements will eventually collide with the staff of the Assault Corps and what kind of final effect it will produce.

On this day, shouts of killing and drills were heard one after another in the camp. The officers and soldiers of the Assault Corps were undergoing intense and rigorous training as always. In the captain's office, He Wei was leaning on a rocking chair with his eyes closed to rest.

Since he and Wang Yuanling established the headquarters organization and staff system of the Assault Corps, He Wei's pressure has been reduced exponentially.

Before the headquarters organization was established, He Wei basically had no time to spare. In addition to guiding training during regular class time every day, he also had to deal with eating, drinking, and various other minor matters in the army.

Now that these matters are handled by the staff office, He Wei's burden is naturally much lighter. In addition, it is now in peacetime and the troops are still training. Apart from those small matters, there are still major matters that require his commander-in-chief to personally handle them. There really isn't much, so he has been very relaxed recently and can rest for a while during the day.

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Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, followed by the voice of Chief of Staff Wang Yuanling.

"Captain, I have something important to report."

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Hearing that Wang Yuanling's tone was a little anxious and not as steady as before, He Wei hurriedly stood up and opened the door and welcomed Wang Yuanling in. As soon as Wang Yuanling entered the door, he handed a volume of documents to He Wei.

"Captain, the Military Commission and the Ministry of Military Affairs have received an urgent notice, asking us to go to Hankou Station tomorrow to pick up a batch of equipment shipped from Soviet Russia. At the same time, we are ordered to step up military training, and the headquarters must be established in June. We have formed an army and will send people to review our unit. I have sorted out the specific situation."

"Oh? Let me take a look."

Hearing that it was related to the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Military Commission, He Wei immediately became energetic and immediately started reading the documents compiled by Wang Yuanling.

To say that Wang Yuanling was not given for free, the document he handed to He Wei contained not only the order issued by the Military Commission and the Ministry of Military Affairs to the Army Assault Corps, but also the order that Wang Yuanling used his personal relationship to find out. All the relevant information, causes and consequences were clearly organized into categories, allowing He Wei to understand them clearly at a glance.

After watching it, He Wei realized what happened. To give a rough summary, it was actually two things.

The first thing is to ask the assault corps to receive new equipment, and the second thing is to urge the assault corps to speed up training.

The first thing happened because He Wei wanted to supplement the assault corps with tank defense guns. He organized a tank defense artillery company with six tank defense guns in the artillery battalion of the Army Assault Corps to strengthen the assault corps. Anti-tank firepower, so we hereby submit an application to Minister He of the Ministry of Military Affairs for the allocation of six tank defense guns.

As for valuable equipment such as tank defense guns, the Ministry of Military Affairs and Government has no authority to issue them directly. It needs to negotiate with the Military Commission. Therefore, the Ministry of Military Affairs conveyed He Wei's request for the allocation of tank defense guns to the Central Military Commission.

In the view of the Central Military Commission, the Army Assault Corps can be regarded as a key construction force directly under the Central Military Commission. It is natural to send out a few tank defense guns.

At this time, a large amount of new equipment aided by Soviet Russia was transported from Hong Kong Island to the country. This batch of equipment was mainly Army light weapons and a small amount of artillery, including tank defense guns. The Military Commission decided to give the Army Assault Corps Supplement Soviet-Russian tank defense guns.

Coincidentally, since most of the equipment shipped from Soviet Russia were weapons that had never been used by the national army before, neither the Military Commission nor the Ordnance Industry Administration of the Ministry of Military Affairs had any doubts about the performance of this batch of equipment aided by Soviet Russia. They are not very familiar with it, so it is inconvenient to directly deploy troops on a large scale.

After comprehensive consideration, the Military Commission decided to first distribute these weapons to the troops on a small scale for trial and testing, so as to gain experience for large-scale field troops.

To put it bluntly, because there is no experience in using Soviet-Russian aid weapons, we need to find a unit to be a guinea pig. First, we can see how the things Lao Maozi gives us are used, so that we can take advantage of them in a fight.

At this time, the Army Assault Corps, which happened to apply to supplement tank defense guns, was an elite force directly under the Central Military Commission. It was an excellent choice for the weapons trial unit. The Military Commission simply handed over this job to the Army Assault Corps.

The equipment allocated to the Assault Corps has therefore changed from the original six tank defense guns to six Soviet M1932 45mm tank defense guns, four Soviet M1909 76.2mm mountain guns and a batch of unknown types and numbers. Rifle machine gun small arms.

(End of this chapter)