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Chapter 169 Graduation Ceremony (1)

In November, Whampoa Tongliang Campus, the official course has ended.

The Tongliang branch school has set up a platform for the graduation ceremony in the competition field, and now the Huangpu students of the first team of the [-]th term are waiting for the formal graduation ceremony and awarding ceremony.

In fact, the students of the enlisted corps, their military ranks have been released one after another, and as soon as the official graduation ceremony is over, they will be able to take office after receiving the certificate of commission, and officially become a member of the national army sequence.

The 80 people in the advanced class and the military teaching team left suspense. The arrangements for the advanced class will gradually come down in these two days, and the 30 people in the military teaching team will be on the day of the graduation ceremony. The school councilor personally awarded the honor!
Of course, some of the school committee members must not be able to come, such as General Zhang Wenbai, the former dean of education.The conflict with the Chairman of the Military Commission during the Battle of Songhu and the Changsha fire that caused a sensation all over the country completely brought his reputation to the bottom, especially the one in Changsha where more than 2000 people were directly burned to death and more than [-] people were left homeless. The fire incident caused him to be annoyed by the committee chairman who single-handedly promoted him, and directly removed his position as the provincial chairman.

Although he was only in accordance with the usual practice, he was ordered to implement the scorched earth policy when he evacuated Changsha, so as not to capitalize on the enemy.But in the end, it was his subordinates who were panicked when Yuezhou fell, and did not do things effectively. The fire was ignited by mistakes, which caused the current local people to boil.

When the chairman arrived in Changsha, he saw that the ancient city of more than 2000 years was in ruins, and he set it on fire by his own mistakes. He scolded in front of everyone: "Inappropriate employment, lack of talents, so ignorant and incompetent!"

Although the name was not called, everyone knew that it was Zhang Wenbai, the chairman of HUN Province.

So even though he was the former superintendent of education, he must have lost face.

Now, the military ranks of the enlisted corps cadets who have settled are all starting as warrant officers, and because of the Whampoa Military Academy, the salary after entering the army is the same as that of a second lieutenant, so as students in the advanced class and military teaching team, their military ranks must be higher or higher. Low, the ranks awarded can be imagined!

In dormitory 114 of Qinglong Town, everyone was discussing their future, especially Li Chong, Li Mengqing and Tang Zhicai who were temporarily unaccounted for.

"Old Li, which unit do you think we will be assigned to?" Tang Zhicai put down the book in his hand and said.

"How could I guess this, hey, my family, how did your family arrange you?" Li Chong leaned down from the bed, knocked on the bedpost and asked Li Mengqing.

Li Chong thinks that Li Mengqing, whose family background is so powerful, would not allow him to go to the battlefield. He entered the military academy for the purpose of accumulating contacts and training himself, and now the goal has been achieved.

Li Mengqing sighed and said, "The last time I went home, I had a bad time with my father. He wanted me to stay in Chongqing, and my uncle would arrange for me to work in the political department."

"This has a future!" Everyone exclaimed. The so-called Political Department is the famous "Political Department of the Military Commission of the National Government". With the help of his uncle's relationship, it is a natural way to get promoted quickly without bloodshed. .

This is the benefit of the background sky.

But Li Mengqing was obviously unwilling to follow the established path of the family, and said helplessly, "I'm already in my twenties, and I don't want to live on the path arranged by my parents."

Well, people without a background will not understand the feeling of having a background but living like a puppet.

Two days later, the results of the advanced class arrangement came out: Tang Zhicai was awarded the rank of lieutenant, and the instructor said that he would definitely start as a company commander, but the specific units were still being arranged.

It's not that it's not easy to arrange, but there are too many vacancies!

From the Battle of Songhu to the now-concluded Battle of Wuhan, the national army's loss ratio was horribly high every time, and the huge casualties led to a shortage of cadres below.

The vernacular is: there are radish pits everywhere, but the good quality radishes are those who graduated from military academies.

Therefore, the above must consider comprehensively and put these radishes in the most valuable places.

Two days later, news came from above that the graduation ceremony would be held on Saturday, one day later, and everyone was dressed neatly.

Early the next morning, the graduation ceremony was held as scheduled.

On the stage set up in the competition field, the chairman, his wife and a group of school council members attended the graduation ceremony.

Chen Chengji, the Minister of Education, personally acted as the host of the ceremony.

At the end of November in the cold wind, the bosses on the stage and the 14 Whampoa graduates from the No. 699 No. [-] Corps took off their student military uniforms and changed into official military uniforms and stood upright.

The first corps of the 699th term entered the school last autumn and experienced an unprecedented journey westward. Now, after more than a year of study, [-] students of the first corps are about to graduate.

Although the time limit for this group of students to study at the school is reduced by half compared to before, but firstly, the source of students for this group of students is very good, many of them are young people from universities in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and secondly, their experience has been enriched by the difficult journey to the west. This is also the reason why the first team of the [-]th term and the second team obviously entered school only one month apart, but at this moment the first team was able to graduate early.

"Everyone is there, rest a moment, stand at attention! First, please give the principal a speech!"

After Chen Chengji, the chief of education, stepped aside, the chairman of the committee, who was in military uniform without a military cap, stood in front of the microphone and said:
"Congratulations to all of you who graduated from the Central Army Academy today!"

After the military academy moved to Nanjing in March 1928, the Whampoa Military Academy was called the "Central Army Officer Academy" in public and official documents.

Then the chairman first talked about the glorious history of the military academy out of script: "For a long time, the army officer academy has been the source of revolutionary military affairs and the backbone of armed combat!..."

Then I summarized the history of the Anti-Japanese War from July last year to October this year and gave encouragement to the students, because these graduates are about to go to the battlefield.

"The Sino-Japanese war last July last year until October this year, until the successive fall of Guangzhou and Wuhan, during the 10 months, the Central Army, with the young and strong officers of the Army Academy as the core, threw their heads and blood on every major battlefield... …We have lost many cities, and the country is facing a crisis of life and death, but at the same time we found that after the Japanese captured Wuhan, they failed to immediately launch an offensive on Changsha, Nanchang and other important inland cities. What does this mean?"

The chairman raised an index finger and gave the answer forcefully: "It's not that their strategy didn't take this into account, but that their strength has been exhausted! Based on this conclusion, it can be completely proved that the Japanese will never destroy us." , then it can be disproved that we can completely defeat the enemy!"

After pausing for a moment, after the applause fell, the chairman continued, "I call the stage of the war of resistance in Guangzhou and Wuhan the first stage, then we will enter the second stage of the war of resistance, that is, our The stage of turning defense into offense, turning defeat into victory!..."

The speech lasted for a full hour, and the chairman of the Central Committee did not take a sip of water. Except for being interrupted by applause several times, he continued to give a powerful speech.

Finally, the chairman clenched his fists and said, "You will go to the battlefield. In the end, I will give you a word: sacrifice is not at the last moment, never sacrifice lightly! I hope that you will set foot on the front line of the Anti-Japanese War in the future." At this time, always remember: You can die at any time, and survive every step of the way!"

(End of this chapter)