"Li Delin asked us to attack to the south!" Fan Chong looked at the letter in his hand and said.

"Oh? Didn't Li Delin know that we were still involved in several armies of devils? Meng Xiang is also a little strange, although the vanguard army has not attacked again recently, but the devil has to guard against it, and he has surrounded it in a circle. greatly involved the team of devils who went south.

"The Huai River side has been tight recently, and part of the 9th and 18th Divisions of the Japanese Army are also involved in the battle, plus the 13th Division is attacking with all its might. The defenders along the Huai River suffered heavy losses. Fan Chong said, and several staff officers next to him kept moving the small flags on the sand table, "Xuzhou is also a little tight, the Fifth Division occupies Yuezhao and Juxian, and a wing of the 114th Division captures Yishui all the way. A wing of the 10th Division and the 16th Division had recently conquered Qufu and were attacking Zoucheng; A wing of the 108th Division and the 109th Division had also attacked Yanzhou. ”

"In that case, there aren't many troops left around us!" Meng Xiang looked at the sand table and smiled.

There are most of the 16th Division on the front line of Jinan, the 104th Brigade of the 108th Division is holding on the Yellow River, and most of the 114th Division is guarding Gaomi and Zhucheng in the east. To the south, the 10th and 5th Divisions blocked the southward passage of the vanguard.

Although surrounded on all sides, these armies did not pose much of a threat in the eyes of the vanguard army, which was now gradually improving. After a month of run-in training for recruits, the combat effectiveness of the 54th Army has improved by leaps and bounds.

"Then let's attack in the south, take Mengyin and Yinan in, and confront the devils across the Yishui and Yihe rivers. Let's let the 41st Division go first! After grinding my teeth for more than a month, it's time for the event to move! Meng Xiang looked at the sand table and ordered, the 41st Division is the old foundation of the vanguard army, and the reorganization will be completed the fastest. And the rest of Huang Baitao and others are still training recruits and integrating the team, and it is not suitable to attack now.

"At that time, as soon as Mengshan and other places start, most of the mountains and hills in central and southern Shandong will already be in our hands." For this old Yimeng area, Meng Xiang also sighed a lot in his heart. After sighing for a while, he suddenly remembered something again and asked Fan Chongdao:

"Wencang, I heard that your teacher is here?"

Fan Chong smiled and nodded: "He has been in poor health recently, I specially accompanied him to the first hospital for a check-up, and he still needs to recuperate." ”

"Hmm!" Meng Xiang nodded slightly and said, "After a while, I'll go and visit him." Now let him recuperate. However, ...... thing about that military school? ”

"The teacher said to think about it first. There is no hurry. Fan Chong narrowed his eyes, and he also had some regret in his heart. The strength of the vanguard army at this time is definitely enough to dominate one side, but the name is not loud enough. The teacher also had a lot of scruples at this time, and he didn't dare to make promises easily.

"Yes!" Meng Xiang also had the same regret in his heart.

At this time, the vanguard army was still not famous enough, and it was in danger, and it was repeatedly frustrated to recruit celebrities. This made him more determined to cultivate talents.

With the increase in the number of ordinary soldiers, it is not enough to rely on the leadership of clone soldiers to improve combat effectiveness. In addition, there is an obvious shortage of staff officers around him, and he recruits them from outside, but most of them are divided up by other forces.

Inspired by Lao Jiang's Whampoa Military Academy Iron Bucket Formation, Meng Xiang also had the idea of establishing a military academy. There are ready-made clones to teach qualified instructors on a primary basis, and it is not a problem to build a military school of the elementary level. The clone officer demonstrates the basics, but when it comes to high-level planning, it's much worse. It's just that high-level military personnel are scarce, and they can only rely on the existing officers of the vanguard army to teach flexibly.

Thinking of the greeting of Cai Yuanpei of the Jixia School Palace, there were examples of big bulls coming to vote, and Meng Xiang believed in the effectiveness of the tree banner even more.

Jiang Baili is undoubtedly a very good military banner. With the name of the principal of the Baoding Army Military Academy, if he becomes the honorary principal of the Pioneer Military Academy, it is still very easy to recruit talents.

An army that has not been ideologically nurtured is not a qualified modern army, and with all sides mixing sand here, the loyalty of the clone soldiers alone is not enough. Undoubtedly, Meng Xiang also attaches great importance to the furnace rebuilding function of the military school.

There is no need for too much ideological indoctrination, and the name of patriotic education and teacher morality alone is enough to make Meng Xiang feel at ease. As the principal of the military academy, Meng Xiang plans to follow Lao Jiang's example and carry it himself. Although it may make Lao Jiang more suspicious, the increasingly large vanguard army is destined to be no longer low-key in the future.

Meng Xiang became the principal, and he also needed to be convinced. Although he did not understand military affairs, he was definitely able to bluff a large number of people by virtue of the advanced military concepts of later generations. In the early stage, he was mainly faced with the internal officer training of the Vanguard Army, and he deserved to be the principal.

The construction of the military academy began a few days ago. Again, all of them are fortress buildings, which is more in line with the characteristics of military schools. Buildings with base involvement are also fast, and it won't take long for them to be put into use.

The location was set in Guangrao. Later generations advertised that it was the hometown of his grandson.

Guangrao, located by the Yellow River, close to the mouth of the sea, but unfortunately the terrain is a little single. However, there is a lot of saline-alkali land in the place, and the site can be drawn large, which provides a good foundation for future upgrading and expansion. As for what others said about the proximity to the front line of the Yellow River, the danger is great, this Meng Xiang scoffed. Even military cadets are soldiers, and if they are not always vigilant in danger, are they still carefully cultivated in the large rear greenhouse?

As for the gimmick of the grandson's hometown, it is indeed not bad, although later generations have been arguing whether it is to benefit the people or Guangrao, and there has never been a clear and convincing statement. Meng Xiang didn't want to engage in this gimmick, but at this time, Huimin County was still on the north bank of the Yellow River, under the control of the Yue Army. And Guangrao in later generations was once under the jurisdiction of Huimin County, so Meng Xiang did not have to worry about the disputes of later generations, and directly settled in Guangrao in the area controlled by the vanguard army.

This also caused more disputes between the two places, and it also became a hot topic in the academic community to dispute his grandson's hometown. But at this time, Meng Xiang couldn't take care of it, so he built the military academy first.

When choosing a name for the military school, Meng Xiang once gave full play to the thunderous characteristics of an Internet otaku and directly named it Wusheng Military Academy.

Meng Xiang gave full play to the eyeball effect of later generations, as long as others heard this name, they would inevitably leave a deep impression. That's enough. The grandson and his old man can also afford the title of martial saint.

With the name of his grandson, he has now attracted a big cow to come.

"This Li Yuyue actually has such knowledge!" Meng Xiang shook his head, sighing for his loneliness in the future.

Not to mention a series of titles, the gentleman was a famous Chinese military scientist during the Republic of China, the advocate and builder of the modern Chinese military theory system, compiled the "Chinese Military Science Department", and was known as the first person to study Sun Tzu. Although Meng Xiang didn't know it at this time, with the "Plan for Victory in the War of Resistance" written by Li Yuyue in October last year, it was enough to prove his extraordinary.

The formula he proposed for the victory of the War of Resistance is "(armed war of resistance + diplomatic war of war + economic war of war + spy war of war + propaganda war of resistance) ×the whole country is unanimous and persevers to the end = it is said that the capital will be defeated and China will win", which made Meng Xiang greatly appreciated.

He was also the first to propose a protracted war in the article, which was earlier than what Taizu and others said. He believes that China will have to fight a protracted war for at least three years, while China has the conditions to fight for five to 10 years.

When Li Yuyue got Meng Xiang's promise to open a discipline specializing in the study of Sun Tzu's soldiers, he resolutely left everything else behind and came to the vanguard army.

"It's a pity, Yang Jie can't come!" Fan Chong sighed. Meng Xiang sat speechless.

Yang Jie was a recognized authority on military theory in the Central Army, having served as the chief of staff of the old Chiang and the chief of education of the Army University. Many of the officers of the Whampoa Department were actually students of Yang Jie. He had just obtained the rank of general and became the deputy head of the Military Command Department, with a high position and power, and he was close to Lao Jiang, which directly made Meng Xiang extinguish the idea of recruitment. He naturally didn't know that Yang Jie later changed from pro-Jiang to anti-Jiang, and was stabbed to death, even if he knew, it was useless, Yang Jie was still very loyal to Lao Jiang at this time.

"Has the location of the Air Force School in Weixian been determined?" Meng Xiang changed the subject.

The Wusheng Military Academy is just an army school. And what the vanguard army lacked at this time was naval and air force talents.

According to the base's weapons support, the army can pile up a powerful team by filling the cannon fodder with a sea of people. The navy and the air force are relatively more technologically stronger, and they cannot be developed into strong armies just by relying on experience.

So, with a stroke of the pen, an air force school and a naval school were also established.

"Qiao Guan of Changle, that place is good, relatively safe, very suitable." Fan Chong nodded, he didn't know that Meng Xiang had just moved a military airfield there in the later generations.

Weifang is located in the plain area, open and unobstructed, suitable for flight training. It is also the land of kites, and it can be regarded as a little connection with the origin of airplanes.

"It's not very appropriate to use military fighters directly, right?" The paradigm refers to the issue of the Air Force's trainer aircraft.

Meng Xiang has rummaged through, but the base just doesn't produce training planes. It is only possible to get on the fighter directly. It doesn't have to be too good at first, the primary is directly a biplane of the First World War, cheap and affordable. Intermediate cadets can train directly on airplanes from the post-World War I to the pre-World War II era. Advanced trainees can get on the latest aircraft directly after a series of confidentiality measures have been confirmed.

I don't know if it's fighters, bombers, torpedo planes, etc.

However, although these fighters are convenient, they are very different from training planes after all, and at least they are prone to accidents without the accompanying guidance of instructors.

"I'll arrange for someone to modify it!" Converting military aircraft into training aircraft is not very complicated, engineers can do it. Preferably, the trainees participate in the modification together, so that the structure of the aircraft can also be more intuitive.

There is no worry about recruiting personnel, and there are quite a few interested personnel in the army.

At this time, a large number of selections have begun on a voluntary basis. There are also many enthusiastic intellectual young people pouring in from all over the country, Meng Xiang was not directly placed in the army, and now he can also choose from it.

With their enthusiasm and a good basic culture, it is quicker to master certain skills. With one-on-one instruction from clone instructors and enough aircraft for them to practice, I believe it will take less than three years to become a qualified fighter pilot.

Even if you participate in more battles of average intensity, you can grow up in a year. War matures quickly.

"I think we're going to need a proper Chief of Staff for the Air Force. After all, I don't know much about the Air Force. Fan Chong was silent for a while before he spoke. He is now not only the chief of staff of the 54th Army, but also the chief of the general staff of the Vanguard Army. However, he did not have much research on the Air Force and other branches of the armed forces, and could not provide timely and reliable staff advice. So he took the initiative to bring it up.

The General Staff of the Vanguard Army now has two staff offices, the Air Force and the Navy, but they are all in charge of young people with little experience and rigid and inflexible clone officers, and there is a lack of people who can control the overall situation.

"Shen Dexie is not bad, I had a good relationship with him when I was in Beiyang. He has studied all of them in the Navy and Air Force, and it is quite in line with the conditions you said. Fan Chong recommended that for the future aircraft carrier arrangement, Meng Xiang deliberately looked for talents who were familiar with both sea and air, but unexpectedly, Fan Chong directly recommended one.

Meng Xiang has these lists in his hands, but the specific situation of the individual is limited to the wind evaluation, and cannot be used as the main reference for employing people.

Shen Dexie is now with the rank of colonel. After the fall of Nanjing, as the first commander of the Air Force in Nanjing, he was somewhat silent. Originally, he was not very close to Beiyang, and he also had a tendency to be marginalized at this time. In this regard, Meng Xiang believes that there is still another opportunity to win over.

Compared to the Air Force School, which can be built from scratch with the help of bases and cloned officers, the situation at the Naval School is a little more complicated.

Originally, Yantai and Qingdao each had a naval school, which belonged to different forces. The Min faction and the Shen faction were intertwined and complex, and only the Raiden faction and the Yue faction, which were directly under the central government, were slightly weaker. For this reason, as soon as Meng Xiang thought of the various relationships provided by Rat Er, his head grew twice.

Meng Xiang's later generations are naturally clear, and their ending is also a little known. Military personnel should regard the national interest as the supreme belief in everything, and a weak navy of the world's third-rate is still divided into factions, narrowly leading the country by region, and excluding dissidents, which is disgusting.

"In the future, there will be only one navy, and that is the Huaxia Navy!" Meng Xiang already had the idea of integrating them in his heart. Now that the Central Navy has been beaten by the devils and is about to become an army, this is the right time for the vanguard army to cut in.

"It's just, where is this naval academy built?" Meng Xiang kept muttering in his heart.