When inspecting the 8th Infantry Brigade, Luo Zhixue focused on asking about the training of new recruits, especially physical training. At the same time, he also told the Staff Training Department, Xiangyang Recruit Camp and others:
"Physical fitness is one of the important weapons for our army to defeat the enemy. Only with strong physical fitness can soldiers support rapid maneuvers and change formations on the battlefield, thereby winning opportunities for combat."
"In the previous series of battles going south, the reason why our Hometown Protection Army was able to fight so smoothly was because we relied on our own feet."
When Luo Zhixue spoke, the generals behind him kept nodding. They also knew the importance of Luo Zhixue's words.
Since the Baoxiang Army went south, it has experienced many battles including the Battle of Zhaozhuang, the Battle of Nanyang, the Battle of Xiangyang, the Battle of Sanyuanzhuang, and the Battle of Yuzhou. In this series of battles, the Zhaozhuang Battle was relatively normal. The armies of both sides were in the Zhaozhuang area. The confrontation has been going on for half a month.
But in the subsequent series of battles, the main force of the Baoxiang Army was driven by constant rapid maneuvers.
In the surprise attack on Xiangyang, the defense army marched more than 100 kilometers in just a few days, moving directly south from Nanyang City and directly into Xiangyang City.
Before the Ming troops in Huguang, Yunyang and other places could react, they had already reached Xiangyang City and captured Xiangyang with the cooperation of internal agents dispatched in advance.
The subsequent Battle of Sanyuanzhuang and the Battle of Yuzhou were even more typical mobile warfare.
The Baoxiang Army first marched tens of kilometers north and intercepted the main force of Lu Xiangsheng's troops directly in the wilderness, preventing Lu Xiangsheng's troops and Sun Hongcai's troops from converging, thus laying one of the foundations for Sanyuanzhuang's victory.
The subsequent Battle of Yuzhou also gave full play to the rapid maneuverability of the Baoxiang Army. They went all the way north from Xinye and reached Yuzhou in just six or seven days.
Not only did they rescue Yuzhou in time, but the army pressed forward before Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong could react, forcing Zuo Liangyu and the others to engage in a decisive battle with the Baoxiang Army without much preparation. The army protecting the country won the battle.
In this series of battles, the main force led by the 1st Infantry Brigade moved hundreds of kilometers back and forth and fought many battles. This was so that the Baoxiang Army could maintain the front line even when the main force was sparse and the troops were in short supply.
And all of this is based on the good physical fitness of the soldiers of the Baoxiang Army.
Without good physical fitness, it is impossible to maintain this fast and mobile combat mode.
Therefore, physical fitness has always been a training item that the Baoxiang Army attaches great importance to, especially during the recruit training period.
Why does the Baoxiang Army set up special camps for new recruits instead of recruiting recruits and assigning them directly to various units for training?
To a large extent, it is to give these newly recruited recruits a buffer time, allowing them enough time to replenish a large amount of nutrition and conduct physical training.
To put it bluntly, it’s just a period of recovery...
The food supply during the boot camp is also the best, and the food is better than in the combat troops.
Rice and noodles are not only filling, but there is also a supply of high-protein foods such as meat, fish, poultry eggs, and soy milk.
Only in this way can the recruits quickly replenish their nutrition and conduct corresponding physical training.
In addition to physical training, training such as formation and basic combat skills will be conducted.
This shows that the Baoxiang Army attaches great importance to physical fitness, and good physical fitness brings great strategic and tactical advantages to the Baoxiang Army, which in turn makes the Baoxiang Army pay more attention to the physical fitness and rapid maneuverability of the soldiers.
When inspecting the 8th Infantry Brigade, Luo Zhi learned to pay attention to the physical fitness and basic formation of the soldiers of the 8th Infantry Brigade.
As for more complicated things, there is no need to examine them for the time being, because they don't know how to...
In just a few months, if you can supplement your nutrition, improve your physical fitness, be able to form a basic queue, and know how to follow orders, that's pretty much it.
As for things like combat skills, the cooperation between soldiers, and the cooperation between queues, things like that still need to be developed slowly.
These new recruits will continue to train for a few months and fight a few more battles, and they will naturally become veterans.
Now, I can't be too demanding.
After inspecting ordinary soldiers, Luo Zhixue announced the appointment of a series of mid- to senior-level officers of the Eighth Infantry Brigade that day.
As many people had expected, the post of commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade was transferred from the former deputy commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Li Duo, and promoted to colonel.
The remaining deputy brigade commanders and three infantry battalion commanders were also appointed one by one by Luo Zhixue, namely Lai Wencheng, commander of the 22nd Infantry Battalion, Huang Lun, commander of the 23rd Infantry Battalion, and Huang Lun, commander of the 24th Infantry Battalion. Battalion Commander Zhou Jie.
It is worth noting that these three battalion commanders are all students in the military school accompanying the battalion.
When Luo Zhixue captured Nanyang City, he wanted to set up a military academy with the battalion. After capturing Xiangyang City, he would officially set up the academy in Xiangyang City and select middle and low-level officers with basic education for training.
But don't expect instructors. Luo Zhixue couldn't find any instructors who understood modern warfare to teach them.
At this stage, the students in the camp schools are actually more organized to discuss and learn from each other.
But no one can teach them...
On the one hand, the training content is to learn traditional military books, such as Sun Tzu's Art of War, Ji Xiao Xin Shu, and military training records.
However, learning these traditional military books is only for reference. If you only learn this stuff, you can only reluctantly lead a traditional mixed brigade!
If you want to lead each new main force, you have to learn other things, that is, the Baoxiang Army's own training methods and tactics.
Because this new tactic has no previous teachings, and there are no traditional military books to refer to, so they also discuss and learn from each other while compiling teaching materials!
Nowadays, it has been compiled into "Infantry Drill Code", "Artillery Drill Code", "Cavalry Drill Code", "Luggage Drill Code" and "Tactical Application".
These five books summarized from the actual war experience of the Baoxiang Army are currently the core teaching materials in the camp schools of the Baoxiang Army.
It mainly talks about the application of various new tactics, such as how to create infantry square formations in new tactics, how to arrange artillery, how to cooperate with cavalry, etc.
The next step is to analyze and learn from the battle cases of the major rural protection armies.
Especially the three large-scale field battles: the Battle of Zhaozhuang, the Battle of Sanyuanzhuang, and the Battle of Yuzhou.
The Hometown Protection Army has detailed written records of these battles, including battle reports, memories, etc. of each officer. The books compiled from each battle can be tens of centimeters thick, allowing the officers to have a comprehensive understanding. How did the Baoxiang Army fight?
Generally speaking, the officers who received training in the battalion school mainly learned the fighting methods of the Baoxiang Army, and they were not only learners, but also summary writers of various teaching materials, not pure students.
At present, this group of people have completed their studies one after another, and some of them have been reused. For example, the three people who served as battalion commanders of the 8th Infantry Brigade this time are all students who studied in the battalion school.
Others stay directly in school as instructors.
In other words, it is actually only now that there are formal instructors in the Baoxiang Army Camp School.
In the future, Luo Zhixue will select outstanding junior officers and non-commissioned officers with basic education from across the army to study as students in the battalion school.
This group of students will become the first formal students of the Suiying Military Academy. The initial academic system is three months of theoretical study and three months of internship, for a total of half a year.
This time, they are not allowed to retain their positions and lead troops on weekdays, but can only squeeze out time to study part-time. Instead, they study full-time.
To speed up the learning process, there will be no free time from morning to night.
Luo Zhixue has tentatively determined the number of this batch of students to be 100, and they will be selected internally.
As for recruiting students from outside, it is estimated that not many scholars will come to the Home Guard Army to serve as soldiers these days. Even if they want to become thieves, they are basically going to become civil servants.
Very few traditional scholars would come to join the army, and even many would not be happy to be officers.
So it can only be internal admissions.
At the same time, considering the current shortage of manpower among various officers, it is impossible to send too many middle and low-level officers to study, so Luo Zhixue decided to except the formal class for half a year.
Short-term, one-month part-time training courses will also be set up.
Specifically, each unit is asked to rotate and send middle- and low-level officers to study, one batch per month, and strive to allow more middle- and low-level officers to receive systematic learning through batches of rotation learning.
Corresponding to the training of officers, there is also high-level literacy education covering the entire army for officers.
After all, the educational level of officers at all levels in the Baoxiang Army is really poor, and many of them are illiterate.
To learn all kinds of new tactics, you don't have to have a basic cultural level.
I can’t even understand the textbook, so what else do I need to learn...
Therefore, before they can learn, they must also receive literacy education and learn basic reading, writing, arithmetic, etc.
Love reading books
After completing the inspection of the 8th Infantry Brigade and the subsequent appointments, Luo Zhixue formally summoned the relevant generals including the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs and instructed the camp military academy to be renamed the 'Xiangyang Officer Academy'.
And the first formal class and further training class were opened.
As soon as he finished the affairs of the Officer Academy, Luo Zhixue summoned government officials such as the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Ethical Education, and the Ministry of Industry, and requested that a school be set up under the Ministry of Ethnic Affairs to train all kinds of civil servants, called "Xiangyang". Government Affairs School'.
The school is required to train current middle and low-level officials in the Baoxiang Army. It can set up formal classes and refresher classes of varying lengths to train existing officials in batches.
At the same time, it is also the time to recruit students from outside. After relevant government affairs training, they will be assigned to serve in various yamen.
After arranging this, Luo Zhixue did not stop, but continued: "In addition to this government affairs school, set up another science and engineering school."
"This science and engineering school selects smart young people from all over the country as students, specializing in arithmetic, geometry, mechanics and other physical subjects."
"The treatment will be favorable, and all those who enter the school will be awarded the seventh rank immediately!"
As soon as these words came out, Guo Quanshu and others showed expressions of confusion and even incomprehension.
