Su Yonglin has always attached great importance to education in the military.
In addition to ideological education, military education and cultural education are also of great concern.
After the reorganization of the army, he clearly stipulated that the Guidance Department is responsible for ideological and cultural education, while military education is the responsibility of the military training team organized by the army itself.
In terms of ideological and cultural education, the Guidance Department has been run relatively proficiently.
From the study classes held by the Guidance Department headquarters for officers at all levels to the study groups held by internal military instructors for soldiers, each has its own area of responsibility, and no level will be left behind.
Soldiers are required to read and write 300 words as the basic literacy standard, while middle and low-level officers must read and write more than 500 words to be considered qualified.
After completing the literacy task, the soldiers will have a certain ability to learn by themselves.
They will quickly form their own worldview and outlook on life, take the initiative to acquire knowledge, and their cultural level will make a qualitative leap. The whole person will be completely different from the past and become more like an individual.
Needless to say, ideological education is carried out every day.
At the level of military education, Su Yonglin also implements a layer-by-layer responsibility system.
Most of the senior officers in the Corps were brought up by Su Yonglin himself. From ideas to culture to military fields, they were all inherited from Su Yonglin. Then they followed him on the battlefield and summed up a set of operations against the Jin Army. method.
Along the way, they have won battles and suffered losses. They have considerable combat experience, and they also have the foundation laid by Su Yonglin early on. It is not difficult to pass on what they have mastered to middle-level and grass-roots officers.
After the army was reorganized, everything became regular. The Jin army was beaten badly and would not go south for a while, so the army also had more daily time.
Su Yonglin would not let them slack off in daily life. In addition to practicing military techniques, cultural studies were the most important.
Su Yonglin asked the senior officers of each army to form a military training team, whose mission was to recruit middle-level and grass-roots officers and teach them military knowledge.
Including how to march, what logistics are needed, how to set up camp, what tactics to use on what terrain, etc.
The senior generals spoke at the front, while the middle-level and lower-level officers listened at the back. They took notes while listening, and raised their hands to ask questions if they didn't understand anything. They couldn't pretend to understand.
Before the start of each lecture, students must be randomly checked and asked questions about the previously taught knowledge. Those who answer the questions will be considered qualified, and those who fail to answer will be punished and reviewed.
If you have a negative attitude towards learning, you will have to face the instructor's talk. If you refuse to change despite repeated admonitions and have a bad attitude, you may even be dismissed from your officer position and become a top soldier.
After the middle-level and junior officers have completed their studies, they return to their own units and pass on the knowledge they have learned to the soldiers below, so that the soldiers can learn from them.
Learning is not just stupid listening, and a good memory is not as good as a bad pen. Soldiers also have to make use of the characters they have only recently known, and hold the pen with the hand that holds the knife and the gun to make relatively difficult records.
That is another dimension of learning and application.
During this process, many soldiers complained that learning was too difficult.
These soldiers all said that learning was so difficult that they would rather go out and stab a hundred times with their spears than rack their brains to learn to write with a pen.
In response to this situation, Su Yonglin attached great importance to it. The officials in the Guidance Department and the Guidance Department held a meeting to share their opinions, and then the Guidance Department was responsible for implementation.
Then the instructors went into battle, gathered these soldiers together, presented facts and reason, and told them the difference in daily life between illiterate people and literate people, and what the difference was in their future future.
"It's like someone borrowing money from you. He borrows 500 ren. He is literate and you are illiterate. If you lend him 500 ren, he writes you an IOU of 500 ren, or even 5 ren. Anyway, you don't know how to do it. Literacy, how much he writes is his business, what does it have to do with you?"
These words were very touching. The soldiers looked at me and I looked at you, with frightened expressions on their faces.
Some soldiers expressed doubts.
"Students generally don't have such wicked people, right?"
"No?"
The instructor looked at the soldier with a look that said he was too young: "Educated people bully illiterate people. Anyway, you are illiterate. You know what he wrote. Maybe he still wrote it because you asked him to borrow it." I paid you five hundred Wen, but I’ll bite you, let’s see what you do!”
The soldiers gasped one after another, feeling that the situation was not good and that learning seemed necessary.
If that’s not enough to get everyone moving, what’s next is even more important.
"Now the rules and regulations in the Corps have been clarified. If you want to become an officer from a soldier to a leader of a squad, you must know at least 500 words. The commander-in-chief has said that soldiers who do not want to be generals are not good soldiers. Ask yourselves. , are you a good soldier?
Outside, studying and practicing calligraphy are opportunities only available to the upper class. People like us will end up facing the earth with our backs to the sky all our lives. If we want to study and practice calligraphy, we have to look forward to being reincarnated and joining a good family in the next life. There is no hope in this life.
Now that you have entered the corps, the commander-in-chief has put in front of you the opportunity to study, learn calligraphy and turn yourself around, and invites you to learn. You two are afraid of hardship and tiredness. You have to give up the good opportunities in front of you. What can you be expected to do in the future? "
These words are also very touching.
The instructor's words made the soldiers blush with shame, lowering their heads and unable to say a word.
After some ideological mobilization, I never heard of any recruits refusing to study because they were afraid of hardship and tiredness.
Therefore, within the entire Corps, the culture of reading and learning calligraphy has become a kind of political correctness, a trend, and a trend that people will laugh at if they don't work hard at reading and learning calligraphy.
Su Yonglin also took the opportunity to hold a literacy competition in the army, organizing soldiers to compete in literacy and preparing various prizes.
A book, a writing brush, a small bottle of ink, a small refined dagger, or a chance to have a snack.
The soldiers were even more motivated to read and practice calligraphy.
With such a foundation, when the officers teach them the basic knowledge of marching, fighting, and setting up camps, they can listen to it, remember it in writing, and learn, experience, and understand.
They are qualified to become reserve officer cadres.
Moreover, Su Yonglin is not a talkative king who only talks but does not do anything. If he learns something here, he can immediately apply it there - the battlefield of Xiongzhou Bazhou.
Each army will make full use of the knowledge they have learned on the battlefield. When they rest and reorganize after the battle, Su Yonglin will personally lead senior officers to hold a seminar to review the battle, discuss the gains and losses of the battle, and summarize experiences and lessons.
Whoever commands the army well and achieves good results with very few casualties will be personally praised by Su Yonglin.
If someone's command is not good and the army suffers greater casualties, Su Yonglin will analyze the reasons with him.
After analyzing where the problem lies and what caused it, everyone takes notes together and keeps them in mind so as not to make mistakes next time.
Then the senior officers went back to convene a meeting with their subordinate officers to discuss and conduct a review to discuss whether the orders they conveyed during the battle were well executed.
What they did was basically the same as what Su Yonglin did.
If a person performs a task well, he will be praised and credited. If there is a problem with the task, he will take out his problem, analyze it in detail, record his demerits, and strive not to make similar mistakes next time.
After these officers completed their study and review, and returned to their respective units, they began to contact the grassroots soldiers, and conducted another small-scale review to discuss the battles they had experienced before.
They review their own gains and losses when performing superior tasks, as well as what soldiers did when executing their orders, and the mistakes they made.
Who did not carry out the order well, who made a mistake, who did well, made up for the mistake, how to improve in the future, and how to ensure that such mistakes are not made.
These officers need to fully discuss, study and confirm with their soldiers.
In this way, we constantly summarize our experiences and reflect on our mistakes, reviewing and reflecting from top to bottom.
Soon, the entire corps quickly formed a habit from top to bottom of holding tactical seminars and reviewing battles after a battle. The atmosphere of learning and reflection was very strong.
