Glorious Mission 1937

() In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, the entire 61st Army has launched a massive military training campaign in recent days. At the same time, the military headquarters of the 61st Army announced in a high-profile manner that it will hold a military parade in Datong on the [-]th day of the first lunar month. At that time, the KMT and the Communist Party will be invited And the main generals in each theater watched the ceremony.

However, in the dark, through continuous training in the field, a large number of elite troops broke away from the main force and assembled at the predetermined location, preparing to implement the new order of the military department.

On the night of January 1938, 1, Chen Feng saw off the 13 infantry battalions ready to go in Jining. According to the strategic decision made by the military department, these 15 battalions would be sent to Kangbao, Guyuan, Fengning, Chengde, 15 cities and counties including Longhua, Weichang, Chifeng, Harqin Banner, Yangyuan, Yuxian, Laiyuan, Lingqiu, Hunyuan and Tangxian.Relying on the favorable local terrain, launch a national guerrilla war.

In order to meet the needs of guerrilla warfare, Chen Feng reorganized the battalions.The reorganized battalion has three combat companies, one guard platoon, and one reconnaissance platoon. The battalion headquarters has a chief and deputy battalion commander and chief of staff, all of whom are major officers.Each combat company has three combat platoons and one fire support platoon, with a total of 148 people, and the total strength of the battalion is 526 people.

In addition, each battalion is equipped with 324 rifles, 15 light machine guns, 8 heavy machine guns, one anti-aircraft machine gun, and two 60mm mortars.In order to solve the problem of ammunition replenishment in the enemy's rear, all the weapons and equipment in each battalion were replaced with Japanese-made equipment except for high-speed machine guns. In addition, each battalion needed to prepare three sets of military uniforms, one for the Japanese army, in addition to a pair of tattered peasant clothes. Standard military uniform, one set is the military uniform of the Kuomintang Central Army.The other set is the earth gray military uniform of the Eighth Route Army.

Finally, each battalion and company commander issued a copy of "Theoretical Analysis of Guerrilla Warfare and Analysis of Battle Cases" written by Chen Feng.In addition, Chen Feng also gave the main officers of each battalion company a promise, that is, for a period of one year, he will send someone to assess the record of each battalion after one year, as long as they are not standing still, they will be considered qualified, and all officers and soldiers will pass the test after passing the test. Promoted to a higher rank.In addition, if you have the ability to make the army develop rapidly during this year, you will be rewarded heavily.If you recruit [-] people, the soldiers will be promoted to squad leader; if you recruit [-] people, you will be promoted to platoon leader; if you recruit [-] people, you will be promoted to company commander;

In addition, the total strength of each battalion reached 3000, and the unit designation was directly upgraded to regiment.Battalion commander promoted to regimental commander.When it reaches 7000 people, it is directly upgraded to a brigade, and the head of the group is promoted to the brigade commander.Reaching 3000 people were directly promoted to divisions, and brigade commanders were promoted to division commanders.

It is more inspiring not to get promoted and get rich. Besides, after being in the 61st Army for such a long time, all battalion commanders have a certain idea of ​​the combat effectiveness of this unit. Not to mention guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.

Every once in a while, Chen Feng would take turns training the battalion and company level officers of each division and brigade.The training time is sometimes as long as ten days and half a month, and sometimes it is only three or two days.Although the length of time is different and the quality of personnel is also different, these officers have a clear idea of ​​what guerrilla warfare is and how to fight it well. After all, guerrilla warfare is not a esoteric tactic.As long as people with not stupid heads can understand the principle, these troops not only do not reject going to the enemy's rear, but look forward to it.

After sending these troops away, Chen Feng began to prepare for the establishment of the 61st Army's own military academy, with the order to build the military academy.The hardware facilities are not a problem, but only the instructors and lecturers are hard to find.The military instructor is fine.Among the group of people sent by Delixi, there is no shortage of such talents. Many of them are former teachers of the Berlin Military Academy in Germany. Coupled with the officers he personally trained, it should not be a problem to serve as ordinary teachers.

However, the military academy is not only a cradle for training officers, but also a place for training political workers and technical arms. These are the shortcomings of the 61st Army.After much deliberation, Chen Feng still decided to set up the military academy first, don't set up too many stalls, and just set up a few majors at the beginning.

After several days of preparation, the 61st Army Officer Academy started in Tianzhen, Fengzhen, and Sumu Mountain in the middle of Xinghe.Chen Feng is the principal of the school, and Chief of Staff Yang Yi is the dean of education, in charge of the daily work of the school.

The school consists of 8 disciplines: Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Engineering, Staff, Radio, Military Medicine and Special Warfare. According to the plan, the first batch of students will be recruited from the active forces with junior high school education and above. Officers study.

There are no classes in the military school, but only the numbers at the brigade and squadron level, to show that these people may be dragged to the battlefield collectively at any time.Except for the Special Warfare Division, which has a brigade of 800 people, each discipline has 2 squadrons with 150 people in each squadron. The entire military school has a total of 2900 people and 88 teaching staff.

When these students were secretly sent to Sumu Mountain and saw this beautiful school hidden deep in the mountain, everyone was shocked, it was so beautiful.

In fact, it was no wonder that these students were so surprised, even Chen Feng himself was not much better than them when he saw this school for the first time.The school has a total of 8 buildings, three training grounds and an underground warehouse, including 2 teaching buildings and 6 dormitory buildings.All the buildings are half-above and half-underground structures, with three floors underground, two floors above ground, and stairs connecting the underground and the ground.

The upper two floors of the two teaching buildings are used for teaching, and the lower three floors are the combat center and various laboratories for various battle deduction, and there is also an extremely large library.

Chen Feng personally inspected it. This library has a collection of 120 million volumes, including foreign languages, literature, art, humanities and social sciences, life, academics, ancient books, philosophy, tourism, law, religion, history, geography, politics, military affairs, and psychology. , and if books that have appeared 37 years ago can be found here, it is really a treasure trove.

The most important thing is that books on war theories that are popular in all countries in the world are also available here, such as Italy Duhet's air force war theory, Germany's small army (special forces) theory, and even simple armored assault theory.

In addition, the library also has the most detailed world map in the world, including Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, including China.

What made Chen Feng most satisfied were the two huge training grounds. One was an open-air ordinary training ground, covering an area of ​​more than 300 mu. Usually, there would be no problem for the students to carry out daily training here. Special treatment, the runway is made of hardened cement, with a lawn in the middle, filled with various training equipment, such as logs, oil barrels, ladders, barbed wire, mud pits, blood pools, there are only unexpected things that are not here.

On both sides of the training ground are shooting ranges. The weapons and equipment Chen Feng transported from Daqingshan, which are equipped by the 61st Army or can be produced by the 61st Army, as well as the standard equipment of the Japanese Army are brought in. Every day, all soldiers have to conduct half an hour of Live ammunition training, this is an order personally issued by Chen Feng.

The other training ground is the field training ground. It is in the vast forest of Sumu Mountain. The entire forest is a training ground. There are not only large animals such as wild boars, wolves, leopards and tigers, but also swamps, cliffs, and virgin forests. Special terrain is the best training ground for training special forces. With such a training ground, Chen Feng is confident that he will be able to train a real special forces team in the next one to two years or even less.

Although some things in this era are irreplaceable, such as advanced weapons and equipment and the education level of soldiers, etc., these limit the development and improvement of special forces.But this era also has an advantage that future generations cannot have, that is, this era itself.Those special forces of later generations were all soldiers in peacetime, no matter how well-trained their skills were, it was difficult to conceal the disadvantage that these special forces had never been on a real battlefield.

From the perspective of warfare, soldiers who have not been on the battlefield, have not been injured, have not seen human blood, and have not killed anyone are all recruits. Infiltration operations, etc., there are almost no real soldiers who have been born and died.

But it is different here. In this era, soldiers are destined to be on the battlefield, and they have to fight the enemy to the death. Either you die or I die.Injuries are commonplace for them, even if they will never get up that day, it is normal. This era is the best training ground for special forces.It takes about two years to train a qualified special soldier in later generations, but in this era, at most one year is enough. Actual combat is the best way to train soldiers.Some things may not be successful if practiced thousands of times on the training ground, but it may be enough on the battlefield once.

What's more, later generations of military training talk about death indicators, but there is no such thing here, because everyone may die in the next moment, so the so-called death indicators are useless at all, and the special forces trained under such conditions will be even more fierce , more powerful.

It is not a secret that the Military Academy is in the 61st Army, but no one knows where the Military Academy is located, and all the communication between the Military Academy and the military headquarters is through a secret radio station, and the password is changed every once in a while. Chen Feng is Worried that the location of the military academy will be sent bombers to bomb after being detected by Ri himself, that's a big problem.

After the matter of the military academy was dealt with, Chen Feng devoted a large part of his energy to the construction of the administrative office. This year, due to the lack of natural disasters, the grain harvest was bumper. However, due to the strength of Chen Feng and the 61st Army, a large number of refugees were attracted. And the influx of students into the defense area of ​​the 61st Army has brought huge pressure on the security of the defense area and other aspects. Moreover, Chen Feng judges that more refugees will flee here next year, and the pressure on the administration will be even greater. , so the construction of the administrative office is imperative. (to be continued...)