The Fifth Army's training in the vicinity of Jeonju lasted for more than a month, and the training brigade also participated in the exercises and training as part of the new 22nd Division, and the scale of the exercises was the largest Zhang Wei had ever seen, with more than 50,000 men in one army, 80 tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft machine guns, and anti-aircraft guns.

In order to enhance coordination and cohesion, different units also conducted coordinated drills, and Zhang Wei was fortunate enough to cooperate with the officers and men of the other two infantry divisions and the units directly under the army, thus gaining a general understanding of the situation of the entire Fifth Army.

When dealing with the officers and men of the units directly under the Fifth Army, Zhang Wei had a rough idea of the Fifth Army's current background: The Fifth Army had more than 80 light and heavy tanks, antiaircraft machine guns, and anti-aircraft guns, all kinds of equipment, armored forces, anti-aircraft firepower, engineers, cavalry, and other units.

However, the fly in the ointment is still in terms of artillery fire, Zhang Wei found that the troops directly under the army did not have artillery at all, and the weakness of the whole army was the lack of artillery.

There is no artillery capable of providing fire support to lower-level units, and at the divisional level, the divisional artillery of the new 22nd Division is an 82 mortar battalion.

The situation of the 200th Division and the Honorary 1st Division was better, but it seems that only the Honorary 1st Division was equipped with barreled artillery, a 75th Mountain Artillery Company, and the whole army still lacked barreled artillery.

Compared with the Japanese army, even the Fifth Army still has the shortcomings of insufficient artillery support.

The infantry armament is very good, both in quantity and quality are excellent, the rifle is basically 79 zhongzheng, most of the light machine guns are Czech, the heavy machine guns are mainly made in the country, the Soviet-style heavy machine guns are not very easy to use, and only the anti-aircraft machine gun units are in use.

Combatants are guaranteed a steel helmet, riflemen are given a bayonet, officers are equipped with domestic gas masks, and soldiers are equipped with makeshift gas kits.

In terms of personnel, the new 22nd Division and the 200th Division have more recruits, but they are also the rear that can currently provide relatively good quality soldiers; although the soldiers are all captured, they can also be divided into 369 and so on, and the main and secondary are good and bad, and those assigned to the Fifth Army are basically tall soldiers drawn from the short ones.

The Honorary First Division is extremely eye-catching, and most of the soldiers in this division are veterans who have returned from wounds, and some have been wounded twice or even three times.

The soldiers of the 1st Honor Division generally fought with the Japanese for more than a year and have relatively rich combat experience, and their tactical movements and performance during the exercise were certainly stronger than those of the recruits of the other two divisions.

However, Zhang Wei did not think that the Honor Division could be ranked in the leading position of the Fifth Army, and observing the drills of the Rong First Division, the soldiers' performance was very good, and their tactical movements and shooting results were excellent, which were all excellent qualities that were not possessed by recruits and unique to veterans.

If a unit wants to have combat effectiveness, it must not only rely on the soldier class, but also the officer class, and the problem of honoring the first division appears in the officers.

Zhang Wei found that their grass-roots officers did not have a very strong ability to organize and command battles, and this was clearly reflected in the exercise.

The quality and level of grassroots officers are not worthy of those veterans who have returned from injuries.

Most of the soldiers of the Rongyi Division have returned from injury, but the officers are not, and many of them are graduates of military cadets or promoted from the ranks, and their combat command ability is not strong, and they have not undergone special training.

In the confrontation on the same scale, Zhang Wei felt that the new 22nd Division would not be worse than the 1st Rong Division, at least the grassroots platoon commanders of the 22nd Division were trained by the teaching brigade, and their abilities in all aspects were stronger than those of the 1st Rong Division.

After day after day of all-army training, we finally waited for the inspectors of the Central Military Commission, who came with a mission to inspect the Fifth Army, conduct a spot inspection of the Fifth Army, personally observe the exercises of the Fifth Army, and evaluate the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Army.

The CMC has given generous conditions to the Fifth Army, but it is not for nothing, and the method of inspection and inspection is also very simple and clear; the whole army first ranks up to receive inspections similar to inspections, and then conducts military exercises as the standard and basis for the inspection of CMC personnel.

Zhang Wei's teaching brigade, as a formed unit of the new 22nd Division of the First Army, will soon participate in this review.

The state's training life has not been slow, and large-scale inspections and proofreadings have been carried out in hot weather.

The division headquarters issued orders to the teaching brigade, the regiments, and the units directly under the divisions.

Proofreading is the formation of the whole army, and in this regard, it is more like a face-saving project than exercises and combat training.

Show the inspectors the spirit of the troops, relying on the number of people and queues to form a prestige.

Show the inspectors what the troops that have spent so much money are like.

In order to do a good job in the parade, the army and division have made detailed regulations on the positions and formations of each part, and have also informed the troops that it is best to put the best soldiers in the first column.

In the end, the goal is to show the "majesty" of the troops as much as possible.

When Zhang Wei first received the order for the review, he looked at those cumbersome queue requirements, he was actually quite annoying, and even the way and formation of the queue, and even the requirements for selecting sturdy soldiers.

The taste of face engineering and formalism is too heavy.

I talked to everyone about the orders and the squadron leaders, and at first they were all complaining, flashy, and very laborious!

But if you think about it carefully, there is no way to do it, officers at all levels of the Fifth Army have always paid attention to actual combat, and the view of Chief Du and Qiu Maniac is that training is more important than combat, and there must be a reason for doing so.

From the point of view of the people of the Central Military Commission, they can't always show them guns and artillery every day, and for them, it is still a direct way to show all aspects of the troops.

Let the old men of the Military Commission look comfortable and look majestic, and the troops will be able to get better treatment and fight better wars.

Mu Chao also told some gossip that some second-rate troops, in order to meet the inspection and look good, deliberately trained a group of soldiers with better quality to come out.

Compared with these troops, the Fifth Army is really nothing. If you serve the superiors well, it will be good for the troops.

In the eastern suburbs of Quanzhou, the Fifth Army's huge field training ground was also the site of the parade, and Zhang Wei's teaching brigade arrived at its designated position ahead of the other units in the division.

The surrounding "crowds" and "roaring and shaking the sky" all the troops went to the venue in advance to make preparations, and went to the eastern suburbs one after another.

Heavy equipment, tanks and anti-aircraft machine guns, cars, etc., which participated in the parade came earlier.

"Each squadron organized its teams, stood in a three-way horizontal line according to the regulations, and the heavy fire squadron stood on the left side, lined up the heavy machine guns and mortars for me, and loaded the bullet chain!"

In a somewhat noisy environment, Zhang Wei asked the squadrons to stand in accordance with the planned formation.

The three infantry squadrons stood in three horizontal columns, the heavy fire squadron stood to the left of the infantry squadron, and in order to increase the prestige, heavy machine guns and mortars were lined up and laid out.

All rifles were loaded with bayonets, and the soldiers in the first row wore coarse cotton white gloves issued from above, and looked uniform.

The organization of the teaching brigade was very fast, and Zhang Wei's orders were carried out excellently.

"The infantry squadron is assembled and lined up!"

"The heavy fire squadron is assembled and lined up!"

"The engineer platoon, the baggage platoon is assembled and lined up!"