Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 170: Cave Academy Sets Sail
Dawn Institute.

It was a lively September, and a group of aspiring young people moved into the newly built cave academy of the Dawn Institute.

The Anti-Japanese Military and Industrial Special Technology Department, which had been postponed for more than a year, finally gathered the first batch of students in the border area and reopened.

Now there are five classes in total. Among them, the chemical engineering class, mechanical processing class and metallurgy class are the first batch of students established in Yangcun. After more than a year of fighting, one third of the old batch of students have suffered casualties.

The Military Special Technology Department, which was born in Yangcun, was born at the wrong time.

Less than two months after its establishment, the boss Ren Zhong ran away to recruit people everywhere, and then went directly to the border area to open a new base.

In this way, the first batch of dozens of students were only led by Gao Kaiming, Xu Jiuchen and Zhao Gang. They basically worked and studied part-time. After studying for half a year, they made no progress in theoretical knowledge and still had only a superficial understanding. However, their practical experience caught up with the level of master workers. Originally, after Ren Zhong had gained a foothold in the border area, he wanted to move the military special technology department to the border area research institute and let it take root there.

However, there was a serious food shortage in the border area, and Ren Zhong had difficulty even ensuring the supply of research institute personnel, so he delayed this matter.

Who knew that the Japanese would launch the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain and a sweep against the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, and the trainees had to follow them to fight all the way. Since most of them were soldiers selected from the army, when they encountered the enemy on the way, the trainees of the special technology class consciously took on the tasks of being the vanguard and the rearguard. Although the intensity of the battle was not high, after fighting for several months, they still suffered a lot of accumulated casualties.

After the autumn harvest in 41, when Ren Zhong had plenty of food, he put the matter of running a special military engineering school back on the agenda.

There is an extreme shortage of talent in the Liming Institute now. On the one hand, Ren Zhong relies on constant correspondence with experts within the institute to poach talent from all over the country, and on the other hand, he has to train talent on his own.

After all, the current education system cannot teach people well in many disciplines because the differences in knowledge levels are too great. Whether it is in universities or middle schools, the teaching materials and teaching content can only meet some very basic applications.

What Ren Zhong is now telling everyone that they need to study and understand is considered top-notch in this era. Even most PhDs returning from abroad need to study before they can keep up with the information provided by Ren Zhong.

This training process cannot be avoided in any way.

It just so happened that he was still carrying the brand of the Military Industry Special Technology Department. After Ren Zhong stabilized the Dawn Research Institute in the border area, he put up the sign again.

And the first batch of old students were summoned to the border areas. These were the elites selected by Ren Zhong in the beginning. They might have weaker foundations, but they were smart and the key was that they were really determined to learn and devoted themselves wholeheartedly. Therefore, although they were doing the same factory work, they learned faster than the workers and were also good at thinking about improvements and enhancements.

Therefore, Ren Zhong had high expectations for these old subordinates. Although there were only more than 60 but less than 70 people left in the three squads, Ren Zhong directly asked Staff Officer Ye to bring them over from the Eighth Route Army Headquarters.

Next, Ren Zhong started to recruit new students based on these old students.

According to the current operating conditions of the Liming Institute, Ren Zhong plans to run about 10 classes and enroll more than 500 people. Now the construction of the Liming Institute, which covers an area of ​​nearly 3 square kilometers, has taken shape. Based on the accommodation conditions of 8 people in one room, Ren Zhong has planned 100 new cave dwellings.

80 rooms are used as dormitories, and 20 rooms are used as classrooms and study rooms/libraries.

Among them, 10 super-large caves are 25 meters deep and 12 meters wide, supported by steel frames. They are arranged in a 20*10 pattern and can accommodate up to 200 people, serving as large classrooms and libraries.

This large classroom can accommodate up to four classes taking classes or lectures at the same time.

The other 10 cave dwellings are smaller, built according to the standard of 15 meters deep and 12 meters wide, with seats arranged in a 12*10 pattern, so that 1-2 classes can have classes, and can also accommodate everyone to study in the evening.

After all, the accommodation was quite crowded, leaving limited space for everyone to study, so Ren Zhong simply used the classroom as a place for everyone to study. From June to September of 41, Ren Zhong led people to set up the new school.

When the old students of Yangcun moved to the border area in August, Ren Zhong raised the banner of recruiting students and selected this group of old students who had survived many battles as the recruiting team. He asked them to go to the border area for examination and enrollment based on several sets of basic knowledge tests for junior and senior high schools prepared by Ren Zhong.

By September, they had basically used up all 9 admissions spots and brought people to the Dawn Institute.

Ren Zhong did not hold any grand opening ceremony, nor did he invite any bigwigs to give speeches.

According to his knowledge, the 100 students with the strongest math knowledge were assigned to the newly opened aviation engineering and armored engineering classes. The remaining students were directly assigned to the original chemical engineering, mechanical processing, and metallurgy classes, with 2 chemical engineering classes and 3 mechanical processing and metallurgy classes respectively.

Now Ren Zhong has accumulated a large number of first-line engineering textbooks, and has also gathered the top domestic experts. No matter how heavy their tasks are, Ren Zhong will arrange for them to teach and take classes. At the same time, he will select class teachers from the students they teach to correct and tutor the classroom assignments.

Although this will waste the time of those big names, through lectures, on the one hand, they have time to systematically go through the heavy textbooks, and on the other hand, they have time to take a break from the heavy research. Relatively speaking, lectures are easier than burying themselves in field experiments.

There are so many things to do in running this school, and Ren Zhong wanted to call Zhao Gang over to be a tool, but Li Yunlong refused to do it. Zhao Gang stayed in Yang Village to cover the retreat, relying on the big cave to persist for a day and a night before retreating with injuries, which almost made Li Yunlong angry.

Now with Zhao Gang, Li Yunlong not only threw the logistics, ideological work and other miscellaneous tasks to him, but also with the arsenal, Li Yunlong found that Zhao Gang became more important. Even if he was transferred to Heyuan to recuperate, the production capacity of Heyuan's arsenal would increase by more than 10% compared to before.

So Ren Zhong's call was directly rejected by Li Yunlong.

Lao Li is also in a difficult situation now. The base area has been compressed by nearly a quarter of its space, and the Japanese troops stationed on the transportation line are far more than last year. The Japanese are now blocking key positions. There are fewer strongholds, but the defense of the strongholds is much stronger, and the time for mutual support between strongholds is shorter.

This would make Li Yunlong's small-scale sneak attack tactics basically useless, but if the scale of the mobilization was large, it would be easy for the Japanese to detect it and move in advance to predict Li Yunlong's target.

The Japanese troops surrounding the Taihang base now had at least three more divisions, keeping a close eye on the Eighth Route Army and the remnants of the Guoxuan Army that had broken through.

If Old Li wants to improve the situation, he now has to drag Chu Yunfei along.

Lao Li asked Zhang Dabiao and Shen Quan to take one company each to jump out and open up a new base, and let Wang Huaibao return to Heyuan to rebuild the 1rd Battalion on the one hand, and let Wang Huaibao learn from Zhang Dabiao's experience in developing the base on the other.

In terms of team development, Zhang Dabiao and Shen Quan are both experts, but Wang Huaibao is not as good as before, so Lao Li took him with him to train.

In this situation, how could Lao Li leave Zhao Gang?

Without Zhao Gang, Ren Zhong had to ask Staff Officer Ye for an administrative cadre named Gao Shu, who was in his early 40s. He had attended a private school and worked as a clerk in the old army. He was a man of few words and had worked in the logistics of the garrison force in a role similar to Zhang Wanhe, but he did not have to do as many things as Zhang Wanhe.

After a period of adjustment, Ren Zhong was relatively satisfied with Gao Shu, but he lacked the subjective initiative of Zhao Gang, who could carry out Ren Zhong's instructions in a creative way, so Ren Zhong could no longer be the dean of education.

After more than a month of hard work, the Cave Academy of the Anti-Japanese Military and Military Special Technology Department finally got back on track.

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