The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 311 Personnel and Appeals

At present, half of the tenth batch of Huangpu graduates in the national army are still in the rank of lieutenants, and a few have been promoted to captains. He Wei has been promoted and made a fortune himself, so naturally he cannot treat his brothers below badly.

Fang Jing and Chen Xinsheng both graduated from the tenth phase of Huangpu Military Academy, and their military ranks were all lieutenants. After the establishment of the Army Commando Corps, it was natural for them to be promoted from lieutenants to captains. Although Hu Zhaowu was not from the Huangpu Military Academy, but from the Huangpu Affiliated Officer Training Course. , but with seniority, he should be promoted to captain.

But it would be inappropriate to promote these three to the rank of colonel by two levels in a row.

In the national army, many seniors from the eighth phase of Huangpu and even the seventh and sixth phases of Huangpu are still holding the rank of major. Even though juniors like Fang Jing have made military exploits, it is still inappropriate to be promoted beyond the rank. Even if If He Wei dares to do this, he will not agree to it even if he reports to the superiors.

Regarding the military ranks of the battalion commanders Fang Jing, Hu Zhaowu and Chen Xinsheng, He Wei thought about it again and again but could not come up with a good solution. He simply opened up the situation and simply raised the military ranks of several people by one level and then appointed them as usual. As the battalion commander, this means that these three people will fill the vacancy of the battalion commander with the rank of captain.

The captain and battalion commander does seem a bit strange, but there is no other way. Anyway, this Army Commando Corps is He Wei's boss. Even though such an appointment is against the norm, others can't say anything.

Moreover, this kind of situation is only rare in the Chinese army, but it is not uncommon in the Japanese army. Some captains in the Japanese army have the rank of captain, and even in the independent mixed brigades created by the Japanese army in the middle and late stages of the war, There are also cases where one holds the rank of lieutenant and serves as a group leader.

He Wei's move can be regarded as learning from the enemy.

In this way, He Wei quickly finalized the appointment of several battalion chief officers.

Fu Chen was promoted from captain to colonel and served as the commander of the First Infantry Assault Battalion of the Assault Corps after the formation of the army. Fang Jing and Hu Zhaowu were promoted from lieutenant to captain and served as the commanders of the First Infantry Assault Battalion and the Second Infantry Assault Battalion of the Assault Corps. Chen Xinsheng was also promoted to captain and served as the commander of the artillery battalion of the Assault Corps.

After finalizing the candidate for the chief officer of the main battle force, He Wei then considered the candidate for the chief officer of the troops directly under the commando corps.

According to the original plan, the troops directly under the Assault Corps will include a special agent company, a communications company, an engineer company, a baggage company and a health team.

As for the company commander of the special agent company, He Wei didn't have to think too much and he promoted Yang Biao, the former special agent platoon leader of the special agent battalion. This guy also fought bravely in Jinling.

However, after all, Yang Biao was born in the army and had no systematic education in a military school. Fighting relied on bravery, blood and experience. Fighting can definitely be called heroic. He is barely qualified to be the chief officer of a special agent company directly under the corps, but he is far from a He is still far from being a qualified commander of a grassroots combat company and needs constant training, so He Wei doesn't want to transfer Yang Biao to a grassroots combat company as a company commander yet.

Not to mention anything else, the firearms currently equipped by an infantry company in the Assault Corps include rifles, light machine guns, general machine guns, and mortars. If you want to command such a company armed with various automatic firearms, you can only rely on bravery. Being angry is absolutely unacceptable.

He Wei asked Yang Biao to be the spy company commander with the intention of keeping him by his side for training, which was also a good thing for Yang Biao.

The commander of the communications company, He Wei, is planning to promote Second Lieutenant Sun Xisheng, the former communications platoon leader of the special agent battalion. Although he is from the infantry section of the 11th phase of Huangpu, he was sent to the Army Signal Corps School after graduating from the military academy to receive specialized communications training. , also performed very well in the Battle of Jinling and did not cause any communication problems with the secret service battalion.

Therefore, He Wei planned to promote him to the lieutenant commander of the communications company directly under the commando corps.

After finalizing the candidates for the chief officers of the special agent company and the communications company, He Wei faced another difficulty in selecting the chief officers of the engineer company, baggage company and health team.

Let me talk about this engineer company first. It is actually very important for the operations of the assault force. The mobile transportation of the army cannot be separated from the engineers, but He Wei does not have any engineer officers who can step up.

Among the officers in the original old spy camp, most of them came from the infantry and artillery departments in the military academy, and almost none came from the engineering department. Among the new batch of Huangpu 12th batch graduates brought by Wang Yuanling, there were quite a few students from the engineering department. , but they just graduated from the military academy in January this year. They are all a bunch of idiots, and He Wei can't use them.

Not to mention the health team, which is also a necessary unit of the combat force. The assault corps is such a large and reinforced regiment-level unit, and the health department required is not small. However, He Wei does not even have half a military medical officer. There are not even a few nursing soldiers, so the health team is also an urgent problem that needs to be solved.

The baggage company is a unit with low technical content compared to the engineering company and health team, and it is not a front-line combat unit. There was a baggage platoon in the original secret service battalion, and the platoon leader was from the Xinkou Battle. He Wei's old squad leader Ge Guicai was following him, but He Wei didn't want Ge Guicai to be the company commander.

Although Ge Guicai once served as the baggage platoon leader of the secret service camp, the baggage platoon of the secret service camp basically never did any serious baggage service. All they did were shady and dark jobs such as ransacking Wang Zhaoming's mansion.

In He Wei's future plans, he does not intend to leave similar matters to the regular troops within the Assault Corps' organization in the future. In his vision, the Assault Corps' baggage company will be a force that fully guarantees the Assault Corps' combat success. A professional support company for the transportation of real-time logistics ammunition and materials.

The baggage service is also a very knowledgeable military branch. Although it is not a military department that goes to the front line to fight for the goods, the baggage service can be as small as how to bundle ammunition boxes and ration bags, or how to replenish the baggage as quickly as possible. There are many things to say.

Otherwise, there would not be a special supply department in the military academy that goes hand in hand with the infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineering and other major military departments.

He Wei has also seen the training manual used by students of the baggage and military department. The subjects they need to master are also very complex, including railway transportation, air transportation, ship transportation, automobile transportation, packhorse transportation, human transportation and related professional courses related to the army's wartime supplies. They are all within the scope of their studies, and they even have to learn the principles of automobile structure, driving and repair theory, water, land and air transportation, depot operations and control and dispatching, which are considered very advanced subjects nowadays.

Students in the infantry science department also need to master the tactics, weaponry, marksmanship, fortification, air defense, anti-virus, surveying and mapping subjects that infantry science students need to learn.

In short, cultivating a qualified baggage troop officer is actually no less difficult than cultivating an infantry officer. Similarly, a baggage troop unit cannot be managed casually. It must have sufficient professional capabilities.

Although Ge Guicai has served in the army for a long time and joined the army during the Great Revolution of the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition, he is only a senior squad leader of the infantry unit and an old sergeant in his thirties. His education level is not enough, let alone He received a specialized military school education and was promoted to the rank of warrant officer by He Wei before the Battle of Jinling.

Moreover, in terms of personal feelings, He Wei did not want Ge Guicai, the old squad leader who had a deep relationship with him and gave He Wei a lot of support at the beginning of his time travel, to risk his life in the front-line troops again.

Although the baggage company is not as dangerous as the combat company, in times of crisis, it still has to brave the enemy's fire net to risk death to replenish supplies for the frontline troops, which is also quite dangerous.

Therefore, He Wei plans to promote Ge Guicai to one level and make him an associate of the Logistics Department. He will continue to follow Li Youcai to do some business and dirty work that is not open to the public, such as making money, and do some easy and wealthy errands. This can be regarded as He Wei's selfishness. As for the candidate for the company commander of the baggage company, it is best to find a professional officer with a background in the baggage department.

After He Wei thought about personnel appointments, he suddenly felt that the talents under his command were still quite insufficient. Not only were the chief officers of the units directly under the corps not fully equipped, but there was also a lack of officers at the grassroots level.

Although with the arrival of Wang Yuanling, more than 30 graduates of the twelfth batch of Huangpu Military Academy were added to the Army Assault Corps, as the various tasks within the Corps progressed, He Wei discovered that these military academy graduates still could not stop the assault force. There is a gap among junior officers in the corps.

Not to mention anything else, just talk about the five departments under the Staff Office. Each department requires at least five or six staff officers, which requires thirty officers in one breath.

The main body of these staff officers must be military school graduates with excellent cultural quality and specialized education in military schools. As a result, there will be many gaps in the officers of the grassroots units of the assault corps.

Therefore, He Wei still had to find a way to continue to supplement the commando force with grassroots officers as much as possible.

After He Wei transcribed the outline of the personnel appointments on paper, he sighed with a wry smile: "It's not easy to be in charge."

After complaining, He Wei put the transcribed personnel appointment plan in his briefcase, then walked out of the office neatly dressed, called the messenger Tao Heiwa to leave the assault corps camp and rushed to the Military and Political Department.

Since the basic situation of personnel appointments has been planned, it is natural to inform the superiors. Currently, the person in charge of the personnel appointment and dismissal system of the national army is Minister He's Military and Political Department.

Since He Wei's assault corps is a force directly under the Central Military Commission and does not have a higher-level subordinate unit, promotions, appointments and dismissals of officers within the corps must be reported directly to the Ministry of Military Affairs. Therefore, He Wei inevitably has to make a trip to the Ministry of Military Affairs.

He Wei's trip to the Ministry of Military Affairs had other purposes besides reporting on personnel appointments and dismissals within the corps.

The first thing is to invite Minister He to attend the formation ceremony of the Commando Corps in a month's time.

At present, the Assault Corps is about to enter the stage of specialized training. The so-called specialized training means that both new and veteran members of the Corps must undergo professional training based on their job expertise. After this one-month specialized training, the Assault Corps will They will be organized into an army according to the organization table and organized according to various formal organizations such as companies and battalions, thus entering the next stage of collaborative training and tactical training.

Collaborative training and tactical training are all-round tactical training for companies, battalions, corps, etc. from single arms to multiple arms according to various tactical drills compiled by He Wei himself.

Although He Wei has received an order from the Military Commission to form an army as soon as possible and prepare for review, He Wei knows very well why he has been rising rapidly in recent times, and he also knows the root of the commando corps' current situation.

His biggest backer is naturally Minister He. The Military Commission urged the Assault Corps to form an army, and also came to the Assault Corps to inspect and review. He Wei must obey the order and report to the Military Commission after forming the army, waiting for the Military Commission's review.

But as for the inspection and review, He Wei still planned to leave it to Minister He, and invited Minister He to review it before the Military Commission's review.

At this time, He Wei planned to set it between the specialized training and tactical training of the troops, which is when the assault force was officially formed.

After all, Minister He spent so much thought and helped He Wei so much, and he always wanted Minister He to see real results and real achievements.

He Wei, who has been immersed in military officialdom for a long time, certainly understands this truth.

The second thing I went to the Military and Political Department was for the officers.

There is still a huge gap in the number of officers in the Assault Corps. He Wei will definitely have no way to find them on his own. Moreover, He Wei also specifically inquired. The students of the 12th batch of Huangpu Military Academy have graduated in January this year. The 13th batch of Huangpu students are the earliest. It will be September this year before graduates can be assigned to work in the army. This means that there will not be a large number of military academy students graduating recently. Under such circumstances, it will be even more difficult to find a large number of officers.

As for Wang Yuanling, the more than 30 students from the 12th phase of Huangpu and several military academy faculty members he brought last time were probably the limit of his capabilities.

He Wei now has a good understanding of the character of Wang Yuanling, the Chief of Staff of the Assault Corps. His business ability is very good, but his ability to engage in interpersonal communication and relationship building is inferior to his business ability. There are a lot of things, and this ability is most needed when looking to recruit officers.

If you don't have a wide range of interpersonal relationships and good skills in the military, it would be a fool's errand to recruit a group of officers casually.

Last time Wang Yuanling was able to bring so many people, in fact, most of it was because of his position as the education director of the Whampoa Military Academy Wuhan branch. Now that he has left his teaching position, Wang Yuanling is asked to find a group of military academy graduates or those who want to The grassroots officers who come to serve in the commando corps are somewhat "forced to make things difficult for others."

So, He Wei had to turn to Minister He for help. This matter was difficult for He Wei, but it was just a big deal for Minister He, who was in charge of the appointment and removal of personnel in the national army.

In addition to these two things, He Wei also wanted to ask Minister He about the trends of the Military Commission.

The recent behavior of the Military Commission in sending multiple telegrams to the Commando Corps to supervise the formation of troops is indeed a bit abnormal.

Although it was very reasonable to urge the Assault Corps, an elite force directly under the Central Military Commission, to form an army, after repeated urging, He Wei always felt that there was something wrong with it, and he had to guess that the Military Commission was Isn't there any new arrangement for the commando team?

But the inside story was beyond He Wei's ability to figure out. He could only seek answers from Minister He.

In this way, He Wei, full of demands and doubts, rushed to the Ministry of Military Affairs.

(End of this chapter)