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Chapter 329: People from all walks of life
Among civilian officers, people like Panda and You Huhu—who either have specialized skills, are accurate in shooting, or are skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and dare to fight and kill—still have a certain status in the army. Others, although they rely on their fanaticism for military affairs, They all became company commanders and other positions, but they had little say in the military. Except for Wei Aiwen, who relied on his outstanding acting skills and used the magic weapon of "political work" to ascend to the position of head of the political department, he is the highest-ranking among the group. Relying on his enthusiasm for artillery, Zhang Bolin took advantage of the army's current artillery, which is mainly a front-loading gun, and took advantage of this opportunity where pre-modern artillery had a limited role. He learned the shooting, drill and tactical use of front-loading guns from Lin Shenhe, and then he was in the army. occupies a place in the artillery field of the Army.
These two people naturally became the leaders of the Young Officers Club. Because of their age, the club later became known as the "80s Party Members." The "Party members of the 1980s" have great ambitions and basically conform to the four laws: passionate youth, shining riding boots, young officers, and sharp bayonets. Their minds were filled with the German counterattack in Kharkov and the "Spring Awakening". They all fantasized about wearing the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Double Swords, wearing sharp leather boots and straight breeches, standing on the King Tiger tank and commanding thousands of people. The army marched forward.
The reality is: they are wearing a very simple version of gray cotton military uniforms with no lines, cloth epaulettes lying softly on their shoulders, and armed belts-unless they are personal items they bring with them, like Wei Aiwen, they are made locally. Not to mention it doesn't look very good, but it also emits a stink of animal leather once it gets wet. There are no decorations on the military uniforms. Some people who participated in the defense of Bopu have sleeve strips on their sleeves.
Daily life is just leading the team to drill day after day - no tanks and no blitzkrieg. The first thing they did after getting up in the morning was to take their company down to the playground. Before that, they had already been drilled thoroughly by the former PLA veterans in the army in the training team, and then by several men wearing glasses. History enthusiasts used flip charts to educate all army officers on how the army "lined up to shoot" in the 19th century, the basic tactics of the army and the combat formations used. The level of everyone here is absolutely equal, whether you are a former professional soldier or a man with glasses in the 21st century, but the results after learning show that it is difficult to surpass professional standards - a company led by professional soldiers is practicing The results are obviously better than those of the 1980s party members.
People who have chosen a military career in the new time and space feel that their force value in the new time and space is as bad as in the original time and space, and their command value has increased slightly. It is obviously useless to embody the aura of kings and dominators. Everything in the army is very difficult. Whether it is the soldiers' clothes, shoes, weapons and ammunition, they all depend on the planning committee's full schedule. Every rifle and every cannon must be fought for, ammunition for training must be counted and used, and when rations are distributed, every fish for each person must be accurate.
The soldiers seemed clumsy. It took a long time for the hand holding the hoe to adapt to the weapon, and it was a long road to become a qualified soldier. The simplest one is to look to the right and it takes a whole day to teach. After a day of training on the training ground, my voice was hoarse from shouting, my throat was smoking with thirst, my arms were sore from being beaten, and my company still couldn't even form a basic formation.
After the drill, they have to go down to the company to check the housekeeping and communicate with the soldiers. Then there is the unshakable five-kilometer training every week, and the "support construction" every month. The idea of the executive committee is exactly the same as that of the socialist countries and the Romans. It believes that the participation of soldiers in social engineering construction can not only effectively utilize the labor force It can also exercise the physical fitness of soldiers.
The army that everyone has worked so hard to build is only the size of a regiment, and he is only a company commander. They are not taken seriously at all, which is far from their great ideal of being a "twenty-year-old general" and commanding thousands of troops.
Reality has taught the party members for 80 years: a powerful army must be built with one's own hands, rather than "inventing" one or two new weapons by piracy, and telling the subordinates several new tactics to make them invincible.
The militaristic ideals of the 1980s party members were thus shattered, and the Young Officers Club came into being.
The purpose of the club is to build an unprecedented continental army. Generally speaking, the size of the army is like the Soviet army, the equipment and uniforms are like the German army in World War II, and the logistics supplies and firepower are like the US military.
However, the Chuanchuan Group's main base in Hainan and the strategic situation it faced led the executive committee and the military to adopt an army-building idea that focused on the navy. The size of the Army was reduced to the level of controlling an entire county and defending bases. The size of the army, including the teaching team and auxiliary troops, does not exceed 3,000.
The problem caused by the small size of the army is just like the small army during the Weimar Republic. There are few officer positions, especially senior military positions. Promotions and promotions become extremely slow. The navy already has indigenous captains and captains. The Army has yet to have an indigenous captain or company commander. This phenomenon makes people who were born in the 1980s feel very uncomfortable. The natives now have captains who are on equal footing with them. Then in the future, the native naval lieutenants will be superior to themselves in terms of military rank.
Wei Aiwen made an impassioned speech on the stage: "Our environment is a crisis-ridden environment. We have the Ming Dynasty and Jiannu on land, and Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang, and all kinds of foreign bandits on the sea. But what about the current situation of our army?" He said He looked distressed and said, "With the size of only a dozen companies, there is not even a single military horse included in the establishment. Cannons rely on people to pull them, ammunition relies on people's backs, and there is not even a shadow of a machine gun." He took a breath, "Executive Committee member He often said that the military must be patient in order to build the economy. We indeed endured it - without any complaints."
He became more and more angry as he spoke, "Although it is the basic principle of a soldier to obey orders and follow orders, I would like to solemnly raise this opinion here: the personal preference of some people on the Executive Committee for the Navy has caused the construction of the Navy Far superior to the reality of the Army.”
He cited the reality, "Since typewriters were put into production, the Army has not equipped one, and the Navy has even a special agent boat transport ship that does not have a formal ship name. Looking at the number of cannons, it is the largest and most powerful one produced so far. All the good heavy artillery belongs to the Navy. Even if the quantity is simply calculated, the total ammunition projection of the artillery on several transport ships of the Navy exceeds the projection of all the artillery of our army. Comrades, is this normal?"
"Abnormal" Zhang Bolin shouted the loudest from the crowd. The spectacular scene of a naval battleship sailing with full sails for salvo training deeply hurt him - in comparison, the appearance of his own 12-pound cannon being pulled for target practice by "replacing animals and losing soldiers" was really shabby. Poor.
"Comrades, who braved artillery fire on the front line and planted the flag of victory on the enemy's fortress? Who used bayonets to defend the regime's army at critical moments? Only the army." Wei Aiwen waved his hand and turned his head to the side, "You Let the navy send a battleship to Bairen City to stand guard and give it a try."
"Long live the Army!" The people below shouted together, stamping the floor hard with the heels of their boots.
"Comrades, history tells us: the navy is often unreliable. Who stabbed the Second Reich in the back with a despicable knife? It was the pampered sailors of the Port of Kiel who rose up and launched the fatal first blow when the Russian Empire was in turmoil. "The first shot is the sailor of the Aurora." Since Wei Aiwen became the head of the political department, his ability to incite has gradually grown. "Those army soldiers who have fought hard in the muddy trenches on the front line for four years and shed blood and sacrifice have been betrayed like this."
He spoke so excitedly, as if he was the betrayed German soldier in his imagination, and this atmosphere infected the few listeners below. Everyone started yelling too.
"The size of the Army must be expanded and the military armaments must be strengthened." He waved his arm forcefully. "We have endured for too long for economic construction. Now the Army must make its voice heard."
Qian Duo stood guard at the teaching team in the middle of the night - he was a mobile sentry. When he came back from his first patrol, he nervously reported to You Huohu, the officer on duty, that there were still people in the conference room of the teaching team headquarters. Although the doors and windows were closed, he could hear the noise and singing inside.
"It's okay," You Laohu said carelessly, "It's Director Wei who drank too much. They get together to drink one day every month. They get drunk as soon as they get drunk. When they get high, they talk nonsense, so ignore him."
After Qian Duo left, You Laohu thought about whether to register this matter in the duty log. It is a rule that the sentinel's report must be registered. But then he thought about the fact that Wei Aiwen's use of the conference room itself was recorded, and there were also records of their entry and exit into the training team camp, so there was no need for him to do anything extra. You Huhu looked down upon the nagging behavior of this group of people, but he didn't want to spread the word. They are all robes, so we need to show some loyalty.
The bells for evening prayers had just stopped. Wu Shimang, wearing a black robe and a silver cross hanging around his neck, walked out of the church with the slow and solemn steps that a respected clergy should have. The people at the door who had just finished their prayers The believers who had finished evening prayers bowed down to pay tribute to him, and some even kissed his hand. With a gentle smile, he made the sign of the cross and walked through a piece of wasteland - which the church recently bought for future expansion of the church - Wu Shimang suggested that Lu Ruohua buy a piece of land as soon as possible, otherwise the land price will be very high in the future. Hard to say.
"The land now costs me two hundred piastres. How much more expensive can it be?" Lu Ruohua didn't believe it. He had long been worried about the land price here. ,.
