Bright pine torches were lit on the playground, and the personnel gathered in squadrons.
The blackboard was made locally, and the wooden board was painted with black ink, or it was a painting table from a wealthy family, or the top of the Eight Immortals table was used as a makeshift. Only the chalk was sent from Lingao - transporting wooden basins, and "non-combat" materials such as chalk were used
Minister Hong complained endlessly: These things have greatly increased the complexity of logistical supply transfer.
The instructors are naturalized civilian cadres and military officers in Wuzhou, and they are all holders of at least a second-class diploma. The content taught is mainly literacy.
The literacy rate in this time and space itself is not high. Most ordinary soldiers are from the bottom of society, and the proportion of illiterates is very large. According to the preliminary survey when they joined the army, most of the soldiers' literacy level can only recognize their own names: of course, these names are extremely
Simple Chen Da Wang Fifteen or something like that.
Wei Aiwen of the Political Department of the General Staff clearly pointed out in the "Cultural Education Instructions" issued to the entire army that "cultural education" and "political education" are inseparable. "Political education" must be carried out in a subtle way along with cultural education. To this end,
, the Truth Office and the Political Division specially compiled a special "Military Cultural Education Textbook" and revised it every year according to changes in the current situation.
The content of the latest "Textbook" has been specially added for the mainland strategy, such as: "We must save the suffering compatriots", "The oppressed people rise up to welcome the Senate", "Overthrow the tyranny of the pseudo-Ming Dynasty", "The Senate is coming.
Examples of slogans such as "Everyone has food to eat" - the soldiers learned that they can directly use them as slogans on the wall. It is said that this idea came from Xie Yuanlao, and Xie Yuanlao was a man who especially liked to talk about "the role of propaganda"
That’s why Qian Duo, the veteran, especially told me: We must pay close attention to the cultural and political education of the National Army.
The initial education is literacy training, starting from teaching simple basic words, and then gradually teaching some words and short sentences related to military and politics. It can be regarded as a step-by-step process.
However, for the new recruits of the National Army who had been trained all day and had just had a meal, cultural learning was no more than a lullaby. Within a few minutes, some of them dozed off - and at least they were used by the instructors with military sticks.
He was beaten awake and forced to stand and listen to the lecture.
So the entire playground was filled with the screams of soldiers who were beaten with military sticks and the scolding of instructors, mixed with the sounds of yawns one after another.
At the end of the thirty-minute class, most of the soldiers had not learned a single word, but they received a lot of beatings.
The sound of "dismissal" made the sleepy-eyed soldiers feel like they were being pardoned, and they quickly went back to sleep.
Yang Erdong was forced to stand for half an hour because he was dozing off, and he yawned for half an hour, with tears and runny nose coming out. His whole body was sore and painful, and his vision was blurry. The figure of "Mr." was in front of the table.
He was wandering around, but couldn't see or hear clearly what he was doing. He didn't even hear "disband". Finally, Li Pudun pulled him back and finally came to his senses and went into the house to sleep.
After a day of toil, everyone was exhausted and fell asleep on the bunk. As a result, before dawn the next day, the reveille signal was sounded in the camp. Most of the soldiers who were unfamiliar with the reveille signal did not react in time.
It wasn't until the "dong dong" sound of the gathering drum that people were called out from their bunks.
So the three squadrons stood in military posture on the playground for a long time, suffering from cramps in their legs and feet plus ruthless whippings with military sticks - anyone who screamed would be given an extra kick by the instructor and "like a pussy" ” comments.
The soldiers were treated like this, which made the newly recruited soldiers complain endlessly. Although the Ming officials also beat people, and the beatings were more severe, after all, they rarely practiced on weekdays, and the chances of being beaten without seeing the officials were naturally much less. .This Australian military officer hangs around in front of his eyes every day, giving out an order from time to time. If he doesn't understand it and is stunned, he will be beaten.
Human potential is endless. Soon, the problem of not being able to understand the instructor's accent will no longer be a problem.
Every day is endless queue training: wake up to the sound of the bugle, tidy up the house, assemble the team, physical training, have breakfast, queue training, lunch, queue training, dinner, cultural classes, and then go to the playground to assemble the team and run. After a few laps, we finally lined up and went back to the dormitory to sleep. The days were boring and difficult.
"We have all become beasts of burden!" Li Pudun muttered secretly among the soldiers. In addition to eating and sleeping, he walked endlessly on the playground every day. If the instructor was displeased, he would have to do extra "night drills" or "Night emergency gathering" and other tricks to torment the soldiers.
The most terrifying thing is the "examination", which starts from the simplest thing of writing your name, to memorizing "Fubo Military Discipline Regulations"; "Battle Formation Instructions", "Military Manual"... and then to reciting the three documents issued by the Truth Office. Important theoretical articles: "The Holy Ship and the Dawn", "The Senate is the Only Government of the Chinese People", "The Senate is the Morning Star of the Communist Party".
Although these three articles are not too long, they are all written in "Newspeak" and full of all kinds of new terms. Even for a traditional literati who has read books for more than ten years and has won the title of scholar Reciting words smoothly is not something that can be achieved overnight, not to mention these illiterate soldiers who have difficulty writing names. Therefore, each squadron adopts a primary school-style model of reading a sentence and then reading a sentence. Whether you understand it or not, you must memorize it first before proceeding. .Those who are not familiar with the memorization will still have a military stick and stand in a military posture to serve the lord.
Training has become a nightmare for the soldiers, so that duty between training has become the most desired thing for everyone. Standing guard, patrolling and working as a construction worker is not a good job, but this life is much better than working on the training field. When I was a soldier in the Ming Dynasty, what I was most afraid of was having to "departure." Nowadays, everyone has an inexplicable expectation for "going out on missions" and "fighting" - no matter how dangerous the war is, it is easy to live or die. Days without sleep are like years.
Finally, the day of the mission arrived. On this day, Qian Duo received an order from Zhu Quanxing, asking him to immediately send a squadron to the Fengchuan County area to escort the transport fleet on land.
There is a shoal on the Xijiang River from Wuzhou down to Fengchuan County. This shoal is not only dangerous but also shallow. Even the shallow-water gunboats of the inland river fleet cannot cross it. Only gunboats with a draft of no more than 1 meter can pass.
Although the situation was originally tense, and attacks occurred from time to time along the coast, there was not much danger for transport ships sailing on the Xijiang waterway: most of the transport fleets from Sanshui to Wuzhou used tugboats to sail in tandem, and the ships were rarely affected by the current. Guan Guan ran aground on the beach. The escorting motor gunboats had strong firepower, enough to disperse sporadic attacks on the shore. Furthermore, the Xijiang River is very wide, and the projectile weapons possessed by bandits and rioting Yao people cannot threaten most sections of the river. transport ship.
However, the most recent escort, the transport fleet was attacked on a shoal in the Xijiang Channel shortly after passing through Fengchuan County.
There are many shoals in the Xijiang waterway. In order to sail smoothly, every time you sail, you have to hire boatmen who have been sailing here for a long time to guide you through it smoothly. The maintenance navy also specially set up a number of navigation signs in various shoals.
However, when they arrived at Jieshou Beach, 19 kilometers away from Wuzhou City, the escorting naval officers found that not only were all the channel markers destroyed, but there were signs of man-made shipwrecks blocking part of the channel. Just as they were doing their best to eliminate dangers
At that moment, an armed force of unknown origin suddenly launched an attack from the shoal.
Although there were not many escorts, the firepower on the gunboats was very strong and the attackers were quickly repelled. The convoy suffered no more losses except for a few injuries. However, this attack gave the Logistics Command and Zhaoqing a
The First Brigade Headquarters sounded the alarm-the Xijiang Channel can no longer be navigated with peace of mind.
As an emergency countermeasure, under the arrangements of the First Brigade, counties along the Xijiang River began to organize escorts for the fleet. The escorts were dispatched by the National Army squadrons in each county, and they were escorted section by section. When the fleet was sailing, the National Army squadrons in each county were responsible for escorting the fleet.
The army patrols and protects by motorized boats. It conducts landing warning on the narrow river surface, commanding heights and shoals where the waterway passes. When it encounters an attack, it disembarks for disembarkation. This kind of patrol also maintains security on both sides of the Xijiang River and suppresses
The role of bandits and Yao people’s armed forces.
Qian Duo also received the same order in Wuzhou. Because Wuzhou has the largest National Army establishment, they are responsible for the largest area. They are responsible for the waterway from the lower reaches of Wuzhou to Xintan.
This channel has four shoals including Longzhou, Jieshou, Panlong, and Xintan. The water depths of the shoals vary, the deepest is 3 meters, and the shallowest is only 1 meter. The river surface is wide and sandbars are crisscrossed, although the water drop in the river is very small.
, the water flow is stable, but there are dense sandbanks and many rocks here, so it is still difficult for the fleet to navigate upstream. It takes a lot of time to cross the beach, and the speed of the ship has dropped to the point where it is slower than walking. It was the enemy who launched the land attack
Great place to raid.
Qian Duo and Zhu Si studied the map. The task was quite arduous. The length of the waterway from Wuzhou City to Xintan was about 50 kilometers. Even if the dispatched patrol team went smoothly, it would take two days to complete a round-trip patrol.
Zhu Si said: "There is no problem with Xielongzhou. It is only 3.5 kilometers away from Wuzhou City. It was originally within the scope of Wuzhou's security area, and Battalion Commander Zhu's troops often patrol there. Mainly the few sandbanks below."
"From the perspective of ensuring reliability, we must send out at least one squadron for each patrol to be foolproof," Qian Duo said. "The escort ships must sail along both sides of the strait at the same time to ensure the fastest response speed."
"Four squadrons are enough, but the problem is that they are still undergoing training..." Zhu Si began to scratch his head.
"We can only train and fight at the same time." Qian Duo said, "That's good, at least we can train the troops. As for your concern about the combat effectiveness of the troops, I think for the time being, we will temporarily mix veterans and recruits every time we go on a mission.
, and send out an integrated squadron."
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