The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 477 Chairman's Will
After learning that the Chairman's Secretariat was going to send someone to participate in the Military Commission's review of the Assault Corps, He Wei was really confused. Why did the Secretariat have to interfere in the Military Commission's review?
Of course, there was anxiety and fear. After all, this was the attendant room of the bald principal He Wei. How could He Wei be calm and not have any doubts in his heart?

The full name of this agency is "The Secretariat of the Chairman of the Military Commission of the National Government." As for its role and status, it is incomparable. First of all, it is a trusted work unit around President Chang. Secondly, it is a powerful ruling agency that directly follows the will of President Chang. The Secretariat is led by the supreme leader, President Chang himself. All parties, governments, and military circles of the National Government, as well as all parties in the government and the opposition who have direct contact with President Chang, almost all have to contact President Chang through the Secretariat. President Chang often makes major strategic decisions and personnel promotions and demotions based on the reports or opinions submitted to him by the Secretariat. This agency is equivalent to an inner court ruling agency directly led by President Chang, which is above all the military and political agencies of the National Government.

If it were placed in ancient times, it would be equivalent to the Ouchi. The importance and core status of its status need no further explanation.

Now the Secret Service Office was going to send someone to watch the review of the Assault Corps. He Wei had reason to suspect that this might have been instructed by Principal Chang himself. After all, the Military Commission had already informed He Wei in advance who would participate in the review and approximately when it would take place.

It is now June, and there is only a little over a month left until the July inspection and review. Suddenly, a telegram was sent to the Assault Corps to inform He Wei's attendant room to join in. Obviously, in the original review plan of the Military Commission, the people in the attendant room were not in the sequence of reviewers and inspectors. They were obviously added in suddenly.

In theory, it was not the top leader, President Chang,'s turn to worry about the fact that the Assault Corps, which was not even a division-brigade unit in terms of its superficial organization, was reviewed by the Military Commission.

But it was not surprising that He Wei did such a thing to Principal Chang. Principal Chang would often make some cross-level command actions when he was in a whim, or go deep into the grassroots to care about some trivial matters at the grassroots level. He Wei had encountered similar things when he was studying at the 11th term of the Whampoa Military Academy in Jinling, and had heard a lot about it. For example, in the 24th year of the Republic of China, Jinling was preparing to plant trees in the city in order to beautify the urban environment. When Principal Chang learned about it, he greatly appreciated it and directly issued an order to the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps stationed in Jinling at that time, personally instructing the Teaching Corps to plant trees (this matter is supported by documents and is not made up by the author)
Another time, Principal Chang suddenly had a whim and went to check the stables in the barracks of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps. He found that the stables were not clean and tidy. He was furious and scolded the captain of the Teaching Corps, Gui Yongqing. In the end, in order to prevent Principal Chang from making sudden inspections, Gui Yongqing had to install a batch of small warning lights in the barracks of the Teaching Corps so that they could give timely warnings when Principal Chang made a sudden inspection.

From these small matters, it can be seen that it is common for Principal Chang to do things that are not his concern once he gets a whim. He Wei also took into consideration that the Assault Corps is different from ordinary troops after all. It is a well-known Central Army field force with an impressive record of combat performance. In addition, it is currently responsible for combat readiness tasks near the temporary capital. It is the only Central Army direct force stationed in the temporary capital and has an extraordinary status.

Therefore, it is very likely that Principal Chang suddenly had the idea to instruct his attendant office to watch the review, roll call and combat exercises of the Assault Corps, his own direct troops. And the only person who has the power to suddenly instruct the attendant office to send people to the grassroots troops is Principal Chang. In short, the more He Wei thought about it, the more he felt that this was Principal Chang's work.

He Wei had some guesses in his mind, but he was not sure. However, this matter was of great importance after all, so he could not help but be careful. After all, the attendant's office was an institution personally commanded by Principal Chang, and its reports could be heard by the emperor. If this matter was really assigned by Principal Chang himself, then the performance of the assault corps in the military commission's review and exercises would definitely reach Principal Chang's ears.

On the bright side, if the performance is excellent and the people from the attendant's office who come to review are satisfied, then there will naturally be great benefits. By then, if Principal Chang is happy, perhaps his previous plans to motorize several directly affiliated companies can be smoothly implemented, and there may be other benefits that are still unknown.

But if anything goes wrong during the review or exercises, or if the people in the attendant's office are not satisfied, and they report it to Principal Chang, the consequences will be disastrous.

If he messed up and let Principal Chang know that he had not led the troops well, based on his past military achievements and his status as a Whampoa student, Principal Chang might not necessarily take any action against He Wei, but it would certainly have some impact on his grand plans for the assault corps, and his own future would certainly be affected.

He Wei certainly cannot take this lightly.

So, on the one hand, he continued to focus on the training of the troops, and on the other hand, he sent Wang Yuanling to use his connections to find out about the matter.

Wang Yuanling is a graduate of the regular class of the Army University. Army University graduates are not only highly valued in the field troops, but are also sought after by the front-line field troops upon graduation. They are very successful in the high-level military and political agencies of the National Government. It can be said that they are spread throughout the high-level military agencies of the National Government. Even in the Secretariat, there are many staff officers, senior counselors and military advisory decision-makers who graduated from the Army University.

Therefore, Wang Yuanling's network of relationships is naturally more extensive and well-informed than He Wei's. He Wei's network of relationships is strong enough. Minister He Jingzhi of the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs and General Xiao Shanling, deputy commander of the gendarmerie, are all He Wei's connections. But how could He Wei possibly ask bigwigs like Minister He and General Xiao for such a trivial matter?

Therefore, this task naturally fell on Wang Yuanling.

A week later, it was the routine equipment maintenance day of the assault corps. He Wei was reviewing documents in the office. Suddenly, the office door was pushed open. He Wei looked up in surprise and saw the Chief of Staff Wang Yuanling who was panting. He Wei was also stunned. Wang Yuanling had always been calm and steady, and always paid attention to military etiquette. It was indeed a bit strange that he came in without even knocking.

But before He Wei could open his mouth to ask, Wang Yuanling said anxiously: "Captain, the matter you asked me to inquire about has been solved."

"The incident in the chamberlain's room?"

He Wei asked.

Wang Yuanling nodded and said, "Yes! I found out, Captain, you guessed it right. The people sent by the attendant office to participate in the review and inspection of our team were indeed appointed by the principal."

He Wei was startled when he heard this, and then he stood up, pointed at the sofa and asked in detail with a serious expression: "Brother Yuan Ling, sit down and tell me slowly."

Soon, Wang Yuanling explained the general process of the matter. In fact, the matter was not complicated, and it was similar to what He Wei thought. It turned out that although the assault corps had not yet accepted the inspection and review of the Military Commission, the Military Commission had started the inspection and review of various troops across the country in January this year, and many troops had completed the review. This review was also of great importance. After all, it was a comprehensive test of the combat effectiveness of the troops under review, which was related to the combat effectiveness level of the entire national army. Therefore, Principal Chang was also extremely concerned about the large-scale review and review of the Military Commission. According to a classmate of Wang Yuanling who was a staff officer in the aide-de-camp, it seemed that when Principal Chang asked the Military Commission about the performance of the various troops in the review, he learned that the assault corps stationed near the temporary capital would also participate in the review and organize exercises, and had not yet been reviewed.

As a result, Principal Chang really became interested in the Assault Corps despite his busy schedule, so he suddenly decided to ask the Military Affairs Office to send someone to accompany the Military Commission to review the Assault Corps and check its combat effectiveness.

In short, the cause and effect of this matter was almost the same as He Wei had guessed. It turned out that Principal Chang was acting on a whim.

Wang Yuanling spoke like a machine gun. After he finished telling all the information he had gotten, he gulped down a bowl of tea and said, "Captain, this is roughly what happened. I have no idea whether it is true or not, or the details of what happened. The information from my classmates may not be accurate, and they are not convenient to disclose some things. This is all I can find out now."

He Wei nodded slightly, and said thoughtfully: "This information is enough. Anyway, this matter involves the principal, which is already a serious matter. Haha, the importance of this inspection exercise to our team will rise to a higher level. We must do our best to perform well."

Wang Yuanling also agreed with this. He nodded and frowned and said, "That's true. If there is a problem with our review and exercise, and the people in the attendant's office report it to the principal, things will be difficult to handle. We are all the principal's students, and we must not let him down. In this review, we must perform well and give him a good beating. We must also continue to strengthen our existing training, and the plan for the joint combat exercise must be as perfect as possible."

Wang Yuanling seemed worried, obviously more worried than He Wei about the review and exercises of the Commando Corps that were specifically nominated by Chiang Kai-shek, and this was also common sense.

For the vast majority of Whampoa students, Chiang Kai-shek holds a transcendent position in their hearts. Many people admire him to an unprecedented level, and it can even be said that they have unconditional belief and worship in him. The same is true for Wang Yuanling. Otherwise, he would not have lost his composure and rushed into He Wei's office just now.

Just as Wang Yuanling said, after knowing the inside story, the Assault Corps must perform well in this inspection and review by the Military Commission. This is the only right way.

However, He Wei thought that the various training subjects of the assault corps and the routine subjects of the joint combat exercises in the review had been trained to the extreme. The training intensity, training duration, and the number and intensity of live-fire training had all been stretched to the limit.

If He Wei wants to stand out in this review, he may have to come up with something new and interesting in some special subjects or difficult subjects. Only in this way can he benefit from the inspection and exercise of the assault corps.

After a moment, He Wei suddenly said, "Brother Yuan Ling, do you know how the Military Commission reviewed the performance of the various troops this time?"

"Oh, I've inquired about this as well. Currently, the review of most of the troops has ended. The Military Commission has ranked the troops on review in two levels: army level and division level. The top one is Du Yuming's Fifth Army. The Fifth Army was originally stationed in Dong'an, Hunan. In March, it accepted the review of the Military Commission's review team. Every day, one regiment was reviewed. Finally, the entire army went to Jieshou, Quanxian County, Guangxi, to conduct a regiment-level joint infantry, tank and artillery confrontation exercise. The entire process was conducted with live ammunition, which was extremely realistic. It is said that the review committee members felt like they were on the battlefield in person."

"In the review results of the troops in each theater of operations, the Fifth Army ranked first among all the military units in the country, and the newly formed 22nd Division ranked first among the Fifth Army."

Upon hearing that the Fifth Army was ranked first, He Wei's expression was a little strange. At the beginning, he heard Wang Yuanling mention the powerful manpower and equipment of the Fifth Army, and out of envy, he had the idea of ​​motorizing several direct companies of the Assault Corps. He did not expect that the first place in this review would really be the Fifth Army.

Of course, the competitive spirit of striving to be the best in everything also arose in his heart. For some reason, he wanted his assault corps to surpass the Fifth Army and seize the Fifth Army's current top review score in the country, so that the assault corps could take the top spot.

"The Fifth Army performed so well. It seems that all those tanks and heavy equipment were not given for nothing."

He Wei sighed.

Wang Yuanling also said: "Indeed, almost all the tanks in the National Army are equipped in the Fifth Army. The Fifth Army's equipment features a large number of tanks. They are naturally good at coordinated attacks with infantry tanks. This is their feature, and of course it will shock the group of people who came to inspect from the Military Commission."

After Wang Yuanling finished speaking, He Wei turned his head and looked at the sky outside the office window, muttering, "Specialties, specialties, specialties really make a difference in exercises. The Fifth Army has special subjects, and our corps must also have special subjects."

Wang Yuanling asked with some confusion: "Captain, what do you mean?"

At this time, He Wei suddenly changed the subject and said loudly, "Brother Yuan Ling, since we have undertaken the combat readiness mission of defending the temporary capital, and the primary combat readiness mission on paper is to guard against the Japanese airborne troops, then this is our specialty. I think the anti-airborne subject in our joint combat exercise plan should be revised. I will personally handle the revision of the exercise plan for the anti-airborne subject. You go and coordinate with the Military Commission to see if you can contact the Air Force. I want to bring the Air Force in this time and conduct a good anti-airborne exercise!"

(End of this chapter)