"Brothers, thank you for your hard work!" Liu Lang solemnly raised his hands in a military salute when the queue passed by him.
"Thank you sir!" the marching queue shouted in unison.
"Long live the Chinese National Revolutionary Army!" Liu Lang shouted again.
"Long live the Chinese nation!" the soldiers roared in unison again.
The roar was earth-shattering and echoed in the vast independent regiment training ground.
The lieutenant generals and major generals collectively smiled bitterly. The slogan of the Independence Regiment is really big enough. Long live the revolutionary army and long live the nation. No wonder the colonel leader is not popular with a certain principal! He already has two Blue Sky and White Sun medals on his chest, but
He is still a junior colonel, but he is the number one colonel in the Republic of China. Many lieutenant generals and generals do not have this honor, but they only have a slightly ironic honor.
This man even designed the slogan of his regiment so uniquely that he was not loyal to a certain principal or the political group he belonged to, but to the nation. The soldiers used their own answers to tell everyone present that their allegiance is always only to their own nation.
, Chinese nation.
However, when listening to this slogan, there is always something unspeakable surging in people's chest, as if if they don't shout it out like that with them, they won't feel happy.
If they wait a few more years and see the Republic's Military Parade, which is much larger than the 2,000-plus people of the small independent regiment, they will understand what the emotion surging in their chests is that they don't even know.
National pride is the emotion that only people who regard themselves as members of the Chinese nation will feel when they hear the words "Long live the Chinese nation."
In this era, it’s not that they don’t have a sense of national pride, they just haven’t awakened yet.
Following behind were the remaining two infantry companies of the first battalion, led by two company commanders, who appeared one after another.
However, due to confidentiality reasons, all infantry companies participating in the military parade are not allowed to carry machine guns and artillery, and the new semi-automatic rifles and pistols that have begun to be gradually equipped with troops are not allowed to be brought into the venue. Therefore, the infantrymen still carry Hanyang-made rifles, and their firepower is
The officers and soldiers of the platoon had no one to take advantage of, so they had to temporarily take out rifles from the warehouse to make up the numbers. Most of the pistols worn by the officers were shell guns.
However, even so, an infantry battalion with more than 600 troops still made a group of Sichuan Army officers take a breath of cold air. No matter it was a heavy machine gun or a light machine gun, the troops participating in the military parade did not carry it. This is easy to understand, and it may not be the case.
The large number may affect the appearance of the queue, or it may be necessary for confidentiality, but the number of people cannot be faked, this is a full complement!
Whether it is Fan Shaozeng's 4th Division or Zhang Yan's 61st Brigade, an infantry battalion with a strength of about 400 to 500 is considered very good. A battalion of more than 300 people is the most normal thing. Why is the establishment given to 500?
But there are never enough staff? This naturally has to start with income.
The salary of a major general in the national army should have been 320 yin, but the National Government started to implement a national crisis salary in 1932, which directly changed it to 160 yin, and that of a lieutenant general was 200 yin. Compared with the monthly income of ordinary people, it is only about 10 yin.
, the generals' salaries are still quite rich no matter how much they are reduced.
However, as a general, as an upper-class person, his salary is not only to live at home, he also has to welcome people to and from home, right? In addition, he has to hire several helpers at home, and his salary of about 200 is naturally
It doesn't work anymore. Then of course you have to find another way to make money. When you are a general, the easiest way to find another way to make money is to think of ideas from your soldiers, which is commonly known as drinking the blood of soldiers.
It doesn't matter if you deduct military pay a little. The characteristic of the Chinese is that as long as you don't go too far, they will generally tolerate it. However, this is not a long-term solution and may easily trigger mutiny. So what should we do? The simpler and safer way is
If I have to pay 5,000 for officers and soldiers, I will only recruit 4,800 soldiers and eat 200 people for free, which is thousands of dollars a month.
It’s just an empty staff of 200 people. For a brigade, the impact is naturally not very big. But if it works well, the regiment commander will think, then I can eat 100 people on empty wages. The battalion commander will also think, I can also eat 50 people.
, the company commander also has to eat more than a dozen people. This is good. If you do this from top to bottom, if a full brigade has 5,000 people, in the end there will be 4,023, even if it is the commander of the brigade
They are very honest.
As for the Sichuan Army, it is even more serious. Because there are wars in Sichuan Province every year, the people have already been in dire straits. They are all going to war to seize territory, and who will do the economy? Not to mention poverty, a group of warlords headed by Liu Xiang are still trying their best to expand the army.
, Chairman Liu currently has 52 regiments of troops, and he has no money to support so many soldiers. What should we do? Cut the military pay! A regular second-class soldier in the national army earns 7 silver dollars per month. When he arrives in Sichuan, the corresponding
It would be good if the sergeant could get 4 yuan.
Do you imagine where Master Fan got the money to spend 340,000 silver dollars to repair his house? It's all a waste of money! His division is said to have tens of thousands of people, but in fact it only has less than 7,000 people.
This situation also exists in the famous and powerful 19th Route Army, but it is not as corrupt as the Sichuan Army, and the empty formation rate of a regiment is only about 10%.
The senior government officials are not unaware of the stubborn disease of drinking the blood of soldiers, but it is almost a common phenomenon. Can you arrest all the generals who lead the army? Besides, the generals have no money, and the money they collect comes from
Where does it come from? As long as you don't go too far and turn a blind eye, it's fine. Things like "you are good to me" are not only applicable to the relationship between men and women. It can also be used between officials.
You said they were surprised to see nearly 700 people in one battalion and three infantry companies of the Independent Regiment! This is not full strength at all, it is super strength! One battalion can almost catch up with most of their regiments.
Could it be said that the 3,000-person independent regiment is completely full? Looking at the team of more than 2,000 people, and deducting those who stayed at their regiment base and those responsible for surrounding security, there are really not many people missing.
Starting from Fan Shaozeng, to a group of school officers and lieutenants, they looked at the colonel standing at the front with a majestic figure as straight as a pine tree, and their hearts were filled with admiration.
Although they are used to drinking soldiers' blood and feel uncomfortable if they don't drink it, it doesn't mean that they don't admire people who don't drink soldiers' blood.
"Despicability is the passport of the despicable, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble" is only something unique to a certain era, and does not apply to the entire history of mankind. Most of the time, there is a kind of spirit called righteousness, which actually does not even apply to you.
All enemies can't help but respect him.
"What is coming to us now is the First Company of the Death Battalion of the Independent Regiment. The leader is the commander of the death battalion, Major Zhou Shiyu. Standing next to him is the commander of the First Company, Captain Xiang Qian. The predecessor of the death battalion is the Death Battalion of the Independent Regiment.
In the Battle of Gushan, the Death Company alone blocked thousands of people from the 1st Brigade of the 8th Division. They withstood the 150mm grenade and heavy artillery bombardment for a day, annihilating 800 enemies and shooting down two enemy planes. 160 people were killed in the battle, and 160 people were killed due to injuries.
18 people were disabled and retired, and only 28 people, including Zhou Shiyu, were able to reorganize the death camp, but they still succeeded. It took them two years to achieve nirvana and be reborn..."
Following Zhang Ruhao's roar, Zhou Shiyu and Xiang Qian led their troops into the training ground, and their momentum was not even half worse than that of the previous battalion.
"If it doesn't move, it's like a mountain; if it moves, it's like fire" is perfect for the troops in front of us.
Of course, what attracted the most attention of the girls was the leading major and captain. These two were different from the two dark-faced Chi Dakui and Ling Hong. Both of them had the appearance of handsome scholars, coupled with handsome military uniforms and
With a masculine pace and this kind of handsomeness, given to a white horse, he is the true Prince Charming depicted in the book.
The dark horse prince and the charming prince have all finished, followed by the bayonet battalion, and then the rock battalion. After the infantry battalion holding rifles has finished, there is the extremely eye-catching artillery battalion phalanx.
What attracts attention to the artillery battalion is not how neatly they march, nor is it the fact that their phalanx has the largest number of people, with more than 300 people. Rather, it is that they carry four mountain cannons that have been scrubbed brightly, each composed of 8 strong horses.
The horse pulled into the training ground.
Naturally, the vast majority of the common people have never seen cannons. When they see the four mountain cannons, most of them just express their novelty and don’t have much other ideas. But it is different in the eyes of lieutenant generals and major generals. They all know the goods.
, these four big guns are not the old Third Reich-style cannons in their divisions or brigades. They are Bofors mountain cannons that the government imported from Sweden only three years ago.
Zhang Yan, in particular, knew very well that Zhang Zhizhong's Fifth Army, who had fought alongside them, had used this newly imported Bofors Mountain Cannon to inflict great damage on the Japanese invaders. Unexpectedly, the Independent Regiment actually
I have four doors.
They didn't know that Liu Lang didn't even have half the strength of the current artillery battalion. The independent regiment originally only had two Bofors mountain guns, but with the help of Big Boss Yu, the purchasing group of the Third Reich and the government the year before,
Dawei made some connections and ordered 10 more doors from the Swedish Bofors Company in the names of Lao Yan and Chairman Liu. However, the two of them only got 2 doors each, and the remaining six doors were shipped in November.
All the arriving goods were quietly dragged to the independent group.
Although the current artillery battalion has not yet been equipped with the main artillery storm rocket launcher under development by the independent regiment, there are already as many as eight Bofors mountain cannons, which can definitely compete with the Japanese artillery battalion equipped with 12 Japanese mountain cannons.
One is longer than the other.
They did not goose-step like infantry, but walked slowly to Liu Lang and others. The leading artillery major ran to Liu Lang and stood up and saluted: "Sir, the artillery battalion is ready. Please give the order, sir."
"Pass my military order, you can fire." Liu Lang also raised his hand and returned the salute.
Can we fire? At this moment, most people who heard their questions and answers were probably confused.
Isn't it just a military parade? Why did they use live ammunition?
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Ps: Yesterday, I made an appeal in the Fengyue chapter, and the monthly voting list actually reached the fifth place in the military category. I am so grateful, thank you book friends. I sent you a 3000-word chapter.