Rise of Australia

Chapter 107 Teacher, Deputy Teacher and Instructor (please subscribe!)
Australia's military expansion program has achieved initial success.

During the week from February 2 to February 21 alone, tens of thousands of people went to the conscription offices in various places to sign up.

Due to the limitation of the number of recruits, most of these applicants may be screened out in the future, and only some young people with flexible minds and strong bodies will be selected to join the army.

Those who successfully sign up for the election will conduct a week-long training in the local city.

During this week's training, those who are really suitable to join the army will be screened out, and the rest will be repatriated with a sum of money.

Each city will have a certain conscription quota according to its population. Even Sydney, the capital of Australia, has a conscription quota of only 4000 people this time.

The entire conscription took more than three weeks, and nearly 3 applications have been received.

The Ministry of National Defense also took the opportunity to stop the conscription plan. It is still no problem to select 3 recruits from these 5000 people.

For other people who were not selected, the Ministry of Defense also distributed a severance payment of one pound each.

It also makes those who are not picked not too disappointed.After all, according to the current per capita income level in Australia, one pound is already the monthly income of most Australians.

A month later, on 1902 March 3, 20 veterans and [-] recruits were integrated into Australia's first regular division, the First Australian Defense Division.

Arthur also personally attended the inauguration ceremony of the First National Defense Division, and personally appointed the division commander of the First National Defense Division.

Because it is preparing for the expansion of the army in the future, the number of officers in the First National Defense Division is very large.

The senior officers of the [-]st Division consisted of Divisional Commander John McClain, Deputy Divisional Commander Jürgen Schüle and Instructor Bernhard Lange.

Division Commander John McLean was one of the senior generals in Arthur's Guards. He was trustworthy in terms of military quality and loyalty, and he was naturally the best candidate for the commander of the First Division.

The deputy division commander, Jurgen Schuler, was a senior general of the Australian garrison before, and he also showed great potential after reorganization.The deputy division commander of the first division is also honing his position. If he can be sure that his ability and loyalty are no problem at the stage of serving as the deputy division commander, then he should be the division commander of the second division in the future.

Bernhard Lange's identity is the most special.Bernhard Lange was the team left by Duke Arthur to Arthur, but his abilities were somewhat special.

When it comes to martial arts, that is, the ability to handle government affairs and lead the army, Bernhard Lange can only be regarded as barely qualified.

But Bernhard Lange has a special advantage, that is, he is good at speeches, and his speeches are extremely deceptive.

This characteristic is a bit similar to that of later generations of heads of state. When Bernhard Lange gave a speech, he could always mobilize the emotion and resonance of most of the audience.

This ability is weak in some aspects, but it is extremely important in some special aspects.

Arthur decisively made him the person in charge of ideological education in the army, and asked him to choose talents to form his ideological education team.

The result is obvious, Bernhard Langer completed his task very well, let the veterans who had been trained before understand how important it is to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism.

After the reorganization of the army, Arthur also let him continue to be the instructor of the first division.The position of instructor was specially set up by Arthur. As one of the senior generals of an army, the instructor is mainly responsible for the ideological education of all soldiers and officers of the army, and is mainly responsible for the logistics of the army.

Although it seems that the role of instructor should have the lowest voice among the three senior generals, it is actually the opposite.

Arthur gave the trainer a lot of power. In addition to being unable to directly command the troops to fight, the usual ideological work objects even included the division commander and deputy division commander.

This also directly made the role of instructor the number two figure in the first division, with power directly above the deputy division commander.

The three senior officers of the First Division are also like a triangle, each with its own area of ​​responsibility. While not affecting each other, they can supervise each other to ensure that the army will not have any problems.

The first division is stationed in the mountains, where they will train for at least one year, and then split into small units based on regiments, stationed around Australia and New Guinea.

In order to ensure the logistical supply of these soldiers, as well as the various ammunition and supplies they need for training, under Arthur's suggestion, the Ministry of Transport directly built a road leading to the military area, mobilizing more than 3000 aborigines to make this road 20 Many kilometers of road were completed before the soldiers arrived.

This mountainous area will also become a camp for training the Australian army in the future, and will train batch after batch of excellent soldiers for Australia.

In terms of material supply, the Ministry of Defense is also unceremonious.Like the previous military training, it is ensured that each soldier has meat in at least two of his three meals a day, and eats at least one catty of meat a day.

The food supply is even more varied. There are at least five delicacies to choose from for each meal, and the patterns will change every day.

Arthur was very generous with the food supply for these soldiers, and there was only one requirement, and that was not to waste it.

Under the supply of at least one catty of meat every day, accompanied by a lot of physical training, the physique of these recruits changed day by day, and in just one month, a lot of meat hung on their bodies.

Arthur was satisfied with this progress.To a certain extent, the strength of soldiers also represents the combat effectiveness of soldiers.

No one wants to see the soldiers of their country who are so skinny that they can be blown down by the wind, let alone take part in the battle.

Under Arthur's philosophy, the Australian army should be an excellent army that looks strong and is actually even stronger.

Even if it takes a lot of money and supplies to train these soldiers, Arthur will not hesitate.

For this reason, military factories are working overtime to produce weapons, equipment and ammunition.Whether it is a Lee Enfield rifle, a CA-1 machine gun or a MA-96 Maxim machine gun, a lot of equipment is required.

With round after round of target training and weapon training, the ammunition consumption of these weapons is a huge number.

Arthur's military factory was in a state of overtime production during this period, and even recruited round after round of workers for this.

One after another, Lee Enfield rifles, MA-96 Maxim machine guns, and CA-1 machine guns were delivered to the barracks and dispatched to soldiers for use.

This also makes the First Division more and more like a regular army, marching towards the elite troops.

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