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Walking down from the second floor of Yuxing Tea House, Zhang Lingyun and Wang Shizhen helped the drunk Lu Rongting get into three three-wheeled rickshaws and returned to the military camp twenty minutes later.
In the afternoon, after Lu Rongting fell asleep, he washed his face with a bucket of cold water and felt much more alert.
"Brother Shizhen, we will graduate from the preparatory course in three days. Have you chosen your major?"
Lu Rongting put the towel on the wash rack and asked casually.
"Instructor Zhou suggested that I apply for the artillery exam, and my aunt and grandmother also agreed that I should apply for the artillery exam."
Wang Shizhen replied.
"Artillery, that thing is not easy to operate!"
When he heard the other party mentioning his relatives at home, Lu Rongting had a relaxed expression on his face, but felt a sense of sadness in his heart.
Wang Shizhen's father died early and she was adopted by her uncle. His uncle died of illness two years later. She was raised by two widowed mothers. When the Great Famine broke out in 1874, she immigrated to Han with her two widowed mothers. Because her family background was in decline. He came from a scholar family and had several years of education experience. When he immigrated to Han, he was admitted to the preparatory department of the Army Officer School and studied in the same class as Lu Rongting.
Although Wang Shizhen's family was poor when he was a child, he was raised by his two widowed mothers and his life was quite manageable when the famine did not break out. When Lu Rongting was one year old, his father was framed by the villagers for colluding with the Taiping Army and was beaten to death. , mother Ou Shi had no choice but to remarry to the county town, and send some money to her son living in the country every month. After a few years, mother Ou Shi could not bear the suffering of her son in the country, so she took him to live with his stepfather in the county town, and then at the age of ten At that time, his mother died of illness, and Lu Rongting became an orphan with no one to support him. He survived the most troubled six months by working as a beggar in the county town. Finally, he met a National Defense Force intelligence officer who specialized in taking in homeless orphans, and was transported to South America. .
After 1840, natural and man-made disasters were prevalent in the Central Plains, producing millions of orphans without care each year. Except for a few of these orphans who were lucky enough to survive, most of them died on the streets due to disease, hunger and other reasons.
Children are the future and hope of a country, as well as the most precious wealth of a nation. Although these children are not the urgently needed young labor force that Han needs, out of his sense of responsibility to the nation, Li Mingyuan still ordered some intelligence personnel to be assigned to resettle homeless orphans in the mainland. work.
Like those lucky orphans, Lu Rongting was transported to the Boy Scout training camp outside Xinjing. There, Lu Rongting received five years of closed military and cultural education, and then was promoted to the preparatory course of the Army Officer School with the top score. Department study.
The Taiping Army has a tradition of forming boy scouts. In the National Defense Force, brothers Wang Dashan and Wang Xiaoshan, who were promoted to commander of the Nanyang Army and commander of the Fourth Division, were both born in the boy scout camp. In the early days of the founding of the National Defense Force, the main force of Han immigrants was young adults. Therefore, the Han Dynasty There are no conditions for establishing a Boy Scouts in China, and as batches of orphans aged around ten years old arrive in South America, how to properly resettle them has become a big problem.
Young orphans are relatively young, so using them as soldiers to fight like the Taiping Army is tantamount to a crime against the nation in Li Mingyuan's opinion. And arranging them to go to school with children with families is easy to cause problems because of their status as orphans. There were some inevitable problems. Finally, after rejecting the above two plans, Li Mingyuan decided to set up a training school specifically to train young orphans, with teachers dispatched by the government and the army to train them.
The Boy Scout training camp adopts a military management method. Here, all orphans are divided into different classes according to their age. Then, according to the different ability of each orphan to receive knowledge, they are further divided into ordinary classes and elite classes. Entering the elite class
On the one hand, the children have to receive more rigorous education, and on the other hand, they can be qualified to become members of the Han Dynasty Renaissance Youth League, and can be personally interviewed by Li Mingyuan and directly admitted to the army and navy schools.
Lu Rongting received a saber as a gift from Li Mingyuan at the graduation ceremony of the Boy Scout training camp, and was also favored by the instructor after he was promoted to the preparatory department. However, while studying hard, Lu Rongting could not help but feel tired sometimes. Every day
At this time, the success that his mother had hoped for became the motivation for his hard work. In his heart, he always had the idea of becoming a general, leading his soldiers to catch the murderers of his father and avenge his father, and then
The bones of father and mother were transported to the Han Dynasty and their parents were given a glorious joint burial.
"Brother Lu, are you planning to apply for the cavalry exam?"
Wang Shizhen poured the water on her face outside and did not notice the change in Lu Rongting's mood. She smiled and said, "Brother Lu served as an intern in the Cavalry Battalion of the First Division for one year. Even Chief Zhang praised Brother Lu for his riding skills. If Brother Lu
Apply for the cavalry department, and depending on Commander Zhang’s regard, you might be able to become the deputy commander of a cavalry company directly after graduation.”
"It's not as simple as what brother Wang Shizhen said." Lu Rongting shook his head and disagreed with his statement.
"After the establishment of the National Defense Forces was changed, in addition to the cavalry division, there were only four division-affiliated cavalry battalions and three brigade-affiliated cavalry companies recruiting cavalry officers. There are only a few promotion positions for cavalry officers. If you want to be promoted to a school-level officer, you don't know how long it will take.
How many years."
The Han Kingdom is located in the Pampas prairie. It has adapted to the natural environment and has been adhering to the policy of introducing high-quality horses for many years. Now the National Defense Force no longer lacks qualified war horses. In addition to being used as war horses, the horses produced in the racecourses are very large.
Part of it was allocated to the Zichong troops to transport weapons and supplies.
The abundant source of horses met the demand for war horses, but it could not change the trend of the gradual decline in the importance of cavalry units in the National Defense Forces.
Imitation rifles, 75mm field guns, and machine guns are increasingly inhibiting the cavalry troops. Because of the need to fight Argentina, the National Defense Forces expanded the cavalry brigade into a cavalry division. However, after adopting the new four field divisions,
Among the three independent mixed brigades, only one cavalry battalion and one cavalry company were retained. Compared with the Japanese division-level troops and the town troops of the Manchu New Army, the number of cavalry was much smaller.
The second expansion of the National Defense Forces increased the equipment rate of artillery, machine guns, mortars and other weapons, as well as new arms such as engineers, communications squads, and surveying and mapping corps.
The new military organization is based on the organization of the main belligerent countries in World War I. After adaptive modification, the specific data are as follows:
IDF standard infantry company:
It includes three infantry platoons, a machine gun platoon, a Zi heavy squad, a company headquarters, 10 carriages, and 13 horses.
1st machine gun platoon: two heavy machine guns, four light machine guns, three carriages, a second lieutenant platoon leader, a sergeant major and deputy platoon leader, a light machine gun team leader noncommissioned officer, a heavy machine gun team noncommissioned officer, a noncommissioned infantry squad leader,
One officer, four non-commissioned officers, and 23 soldiers. A total of 28 people.
2nd Rifle Platoon: Three infantry squads, each squad consists of ten people.
One second lieutenant platoon leader, one sergeant major and deputy platoon leader, three sergeant squad leaders, 27 soldiers, a total of 32 people.
3 Zichong squad: one sergeant squad leader, nine soldiers, and seven carriages.
4th Company Headquarters: One captain, one company commander, one lieutenant deputy company commander, five professional noncommissioned officers (surveying, mapping, communications, etc.), one noncommissioned officer squad leader, and 9 soldiers, a total of 15 people.
A standard infantry company includes a captain company commander and a lieutenant deputy company commander, a total of 151 people.
2nd Infantry Battalion:
It includes three infantry companies, a mortar platoon, a heavy machine gun platoon, a light machine gun platoon, a heavy platoon, a communications squad, and a battalion headquarters.
1. A mortar platoon: one sergeant major, three noncommissioned officers, nine 55mm mortars, and 20 soldiers, a total of 24 people.
2 Heavy Machine Gun Platoon: 4 heavy machine guns, 18 people in total.
3 light machine gun platoon: 6 guns: 24 people.
4 Zi rearrangement: 32 people.
5 Communication class: 10 people.
6th Battalion Headquarters: a guard platoon of 32 people, a major battalion commander, a captain deputy battalion commander, three battalion officers, and five non-commissioned officers, a total of 42 people.
An infantry battalion includes a major battalion commander and a captain deputy battalion commander, a total of 561 people.
3rd Infantry Regiment
: 3 infantry battalions, an artillery company, a Zizhong company, and a regiment headquarters.
1 Artillery Company: three artillery platoons, one light machine gun platoon, and one infantry guard platoon.
9 75mm field guns and 3 light machine guns.
There is a captain company commander, a lieutenant deputy company commander, 5 sergeants, 18 non-commissioned officers, and 130 soldiers, a total of 155 people.
2 Zichong Company: 151 people.
Regiment 3 headquarters: a guard company of 151 people, 15 professional officers in the headquarters, 20 non-commissioned officers, and 32 soldiers, a total of 218 people.
The regimental commander is a colonel, and the deputy regimental commander is a lieutenant colonel, a total of 2,207 people.
4th Infantry Division
: three infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, one reconnaissance battalion, one cavalry battalion, one engineer battalion, one Zichong battalion, and one division headquarters,
1 Cavalry Battalion: Ten men per squad, three squads per platoon, 32 men, three platoons per company, 151 men, three companies per battalion, 560 men. 600 war horses and 400 pack horses.
Battalion commander major or lieutenant colonel.
2 Artillery Regiment: 36 105mm howitzers,
There are 480 carriages, 100 trailers, and 2,000 draft horses.
There are 2,200 officers and soldiers.
3. Reconnaissance Battalion. The Zichong Battalion has the same number of people as the Infantry Battalion, with 560 people respectively.
The division commander is a major general or lieutenant general, and the deputy division commander is a colonel or major general, with a total number of 12,000 people.
In the new establishment, the first-level non-commissioned officer level of sergeant major was added, bringing the level of sergeant major of the National Defense Force to four levels, which are divided into corporal, sergeant, staff sergeant and military commander.
When soldiers who have not attended a military academy are promoted to sergeant major, as long as they are under 30 years old, they can apply for the preparatory course of the Army Officer School. After passing the preparatory department graduation examination, they have the opportunity to be promoted to a battalion-level officer.
Except for the Pampas, Chile, Paraguay, the Brazilian plateau and other places around Han were not suitable for cavalry operations. Therefore, Lu Rongting gave up the opportunity to apply for the cavalry department and chose the infantry department with a brighter future as his major military major.
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"Brother Lu is very good at riding. Among the new batch of German instructors who are about to teach, there is an aristocratic cavalry officer named August von Mackensen. I heard that he once served in the Franco-Prussian War.
Great work, Brother Lu gave up his cavalry training and missed the opportunity to get to know August von Mackensen. It’s a pity.”
Wang Shizhen was not the warlord leader who later became a big boss in Beiyang. At this time, she was simply thinking about Lu Rongting.
"Captain Augusta is an excellent soldier. It is indeed a pity that we cannot learn cavalry skills from him. However, there are still some German officers in the delegation led by Count Gottlieb von Hazeler.
There are outstanding officers like Captain Remus von Walch, Hermann von Eichhorn, Captain Kolmar von der Goltz, etc. If you choose the Infantry Division, you can still learn from them.
Excellent tactics.”
"Well, Brother Lu is excellent in all military skills. Even if he doesn't choose the cavalry department, I believe Brother Lu can do well."
