Several veterans gave various explanations.
"Chief of Staff, we all understand the truth."
"But we are really not good at studying. We are just a bunch of rough guys."
"We will never be vague in a war. In water and fire, even if our heads are gone, we will never frown. But if you insist that we read and read and become educated people, we really can't do it, otherwise Just forget it?"
The severe reaction was much more intense than everyone imagined.
"Don't use being a big boss as an excuse. No one is born a cultured person!"
"Let me tell you, a man who dares to die is not a true man. Only a man who dares to die but still survives on the battlefield is a true man!"
"How easy is it to die? Just close your eyes and rush forward. There will always be a bullet that hits you, and your name will be on the wall of heroes or the monument from now on."
"It's easy to die in battle, but the hard part is to defeat the enemy and survive!"
"Not only must you survive the battlefield, but you must also lead more comrades to survive the cruel battlefield. That is the real skill!"
"In order to keep my comrades alive, it's nothing if I have to work hard."
"Listen to me. You are not teaching a lesson for yourself, but for your comrades-in-arms. You are teaching a lesson for thousands of compatriots across China. Do you understand?"
Yan Yan didn't say this casually, but he really thought about it.
It is a fact that the grassroots officers and soldiers of the national army were very brave on the anti-Japanese battlefield and were not afraid of sacrifice.
However, most of the grassroots officers and soldiers of the national army are illiterate. When fighting, they only know how to act recklessly and do not know how to use their brains. This is also an indisputable fact.
Let’s not talk about other units, let’s just talk about the 1st Battalion of the 524th Regiment, a serious battalion of the Central Military Forces. However, only company-level officers are graduates of the Central Military Academy. Officers below the company deputy level are basically illiterate. A big boss, someone who has attended a private school for a few years is considered an educated person.
Not to mention the soldiers below, they are basically all illiterate.
Can such an illiterate bastard become an excellent officer?
Can such an illiterate boss instill in them the theory of leading troops?
The answer is obviously no. They can't even manage themselves well, so they still lead troops?
Therefore, Wu Jie's literacy class was not an ordinary literacy class. It was actually a crash course for officers, but Yan didn't mention it.
I didn’t say it, of course because I was too sensitive.
How many guns? A crash course for officers? Do you want to be a principal or something?
Therefore, Yan Yan could only organize a crash course for military officers under the guise of a literacy class.
The veterans who graduate from this literacy class will become the grassroots officers of the Songhu Independent Regiment after a large-scale expansion in the future.
"Lessons for comrades in arms? Lessons for compatriots?"
The brains of those veterans obviously couldn't keep up with severe thinking.
The explanation is clearly that we are teaching, so how can we become teaching for comrades and compatriots?
Yan Yan could only helplessly explain: "If you don't go to class and you don't know how to read, can you understand the symbols on the map? If you don't go to class and don't know how to read, can you understand the plan made by the staff? If you don't go to class and don't know how to read, you know how to calculate and distribute ammunition. ?"
"But, what do we do if we know this?" The veteran looked confused. "When the war comes, we will just follow the squad leader and be done with it."
"What if the monitor dies? What will you do?"
"If the squad leader dies, then follow the squad deputy."
"Then if the squad deputy dies too, who else can you follow?"
"Don't say you're dead too. What if, if you're still alive, what would you do?"
The veteran didn't know how to answer. I really never thought about this. How could I know?
Another veteran frowned and asked: "Chief of Staff, what if we take this literacy class and know a few words and know what to do?"
"Yes." Yan Yan said solemnly, "As long as you attend this literacy class and know enough words, when you go to the battlefield, even if you are the only one left, you will never be confused and still know how to fight. manage."
After hearing this, Xie Jinyuan was basically sure what Yan Yan wanted to do.
At that moment, Xie Jinyuan also said with a straight face: "It's for your own good to make you literate. In the future, you won't have to ask a clerk to write a suicide note for you."
"Oh." Several veterans could only return to class gloomily.
Okay, the group leader has already spoken, so let’s go back and attend class honestly.
After watching several veterans walk away, Xie Jinyuan was about to tell Yan Yan about the crash course for officers when a sentry from the east building ran in.
"Regiment leader, chief of staff, translator Zheng wants to see you two."
"Translator Zheng?" He asked with a serious smile, "Captain, it seems that the British army is about to withdraw. This Zheng Xiafei was probably assigned by the British army to deliver the message."
After saying that, Yan Yan asked the sentry to call Zheng Xiafei into the front hall of the east building.
"Thank you, Commander, Chief of Staff Yan." Zheng Xiafei saluted with a military salute, and then said, "Colonel Edward asked me to bring you a message. The Central Bank Building will be officially handed over to your Songhu Independent Regiment. I hope you can make good use of it. This building killed more Japanese soldiers.”
Xie Jinyuan said with a straight face: "Please tell Colonel Edward that our Songhu Independent Regiment will not let him down. The Bank of China Building will become a meat grinder for the Japanese army."
Yan Yan continued: "We also hope that the British army can be tougher."
"An empire on which the sun never sets should have the appearance of an empire on which the sun never sets."
"Don't let the Japanese just scare you and make you lose your bottom line."
"Uh, okay, I will definitely bring what you two sirs have to Colonel Edward."
After seeing off Zheng Xiafei, Xie Jinyuan shouted again: "Send my order. The 1st and 2nd companies will immediately enter the Bank of China Building to garrison."
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After the 1st and 2nd companies were transferred to the Bank of China Building, only Tang Di's 3rd company and Zhou Dafa's artillery platoon remained in the Sihang Warehouse.
"Chief of Staff, we don't have enough troops."
"How about dismantling the new barracks and filling them into various main companies?"
When there was only one platoon of Yang Deyu in Sihang Warehouse, Yan Yan created a new recruit platoon to accommodate the young people who came across the river to join the army.
After the 1st Battalion of the 524th Regiment was merged into the Songhu Independent Regiment, the recruit platoon was combined with Yang Deyu's 1st platoon, plus one hundred veterans transferred from the 1st Battalion to form the 2nd Battalion.
However, in the past two days, young people swam across the river to join the army, and the number was even greater, so Yan Yan established another new military camp.
The recruit camp now has more than 300 recruits.
That's right, more than 300 young people swam across the Suzhou River in the past two days to join the army.
The current organizational structure of the Songhu Independent Regiment is as follows: the 1st Battalion has about 200 troops, the 2nd Battalion has more than 100 people left after the fierce battle last night, the artillery platoon has more than 20 people, and the new battalion has more than 300 people. The total strength of all the troops is already More than six hundred people.
Xie Jinyuan hoped to dismantle the new military camp and replenish the 1st and 2nd Battalions.
However, Xie Jinyuan's suggestion was severely rejected.
"No, these recruits have never even touched a gun, and they have never had a chance to see blood. Let them be incorporated into the main companies now. It will be fine if the Japanese don't attack. If the Japanese attack, they won't be able to survive even a single battle. .”
In fact, some words don’t need to be said too straightforwardly, everyone understands them.
The atmosphere of the National Army cannot be compared with that of the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army has an excellent tradition of veterans leading new recruits. Many times veterans would rather sacrifice themselves to protect the new recruits. However, there is no tradition of old leaders leading new recruits in various units of the National Army.
If they are fellow villagers from the same place, that's okay, and they can still have a sense of helping each other. But if they are not fellow villagers from the same place, then I'm sorry, it's not bad if they don't pull recruits to block bullets, but it's absolutely not possible to help recruits. existing.
Therefore, in the national army, the casualty rate of new recruits is often frighteningly high.
Yan Yan does not want these young people who came to join the army with enthusiasm to serve their country to have to endure the cold looks of veterans while fighting for their country!
It is also because of this that when the 2nd Battalion was formed, Yan Yan did not dismantle the recruit platoon, but directly organized the recruit platoon into a 4th company. He also arranged for Zhu Shengzhong to be the commander of the 4th company. Yan Yan planned to build Zhu Shengzhong's 4th company into a company. The main force of the 2nd Battalion.
Therefore, Severity will never break up the recruit camp.
The best thing is to organize the entire recruit battalion into 3 battalions.
But officers can draw veterans from fraternal units.
However, the time for adaptation is not yet ripe.
