Yang Zhen's immigration plan seems quite ambitious. Although Li Yanping and Gao Yumin were a little surprised, when they thought that the reason he said was not without a source, both of them were silent.

Since the September 18 Incident, the two people, who have experienced many years of guerrilla warfare, are no strangers to the massacre of the people in the guerrilla areas of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and they have even experienced and seen it with their own eyes.

Moving all the people in the confrontation area north of the Songhua River and the interior of the base area will be difficult at first, but it is undoubtedly a means of protection for these people. At the very least, these civilians can be spared the devastation of the war and the massacre of the Japanese army.

If Yang Zhen's plan is really implemented according to his vision, then training these soldiers of the appropriate age among the people who have migrated north does need a competent manpower, and it must be carried out by people who have experienced frontal movement warfare. In this way, he knows the strengths and weaknesses of the troops in battle, and can adopt corresponding methods to train these potential reservists.

Yang Zhen is not wrong, Liu Changshun's personality is a little too forward-looking and inflexible. It is still very suitable to be transferred to the commander of the production and construction corps, which has actually become the largest reserve base of the entire Jidong Military Region.

As for the issue of reserve soldiers that Yang Zhen talked about, Li Yanping, who was worried that excessive conscription would affect the base area itself, did oppose it before. And the attitude is still very resolute, because in his opinion, it is undoubtedly killing chickens and eggs. After all the men of school age in the base area were conscripted into the army, and after losing the main labor force, who would plant the land? If you don't farm, what will the people and the army eat in the base area?

Because he was worried that Yang Zhen would over-expand his troops, he would go out of the rivers to fish, which would affect the people's livelihood in the base areas. After discussing with Yang Zhen the expansion of the army that night, Li Yanping took time out to carefully examine the population data of the puppet Manchurian Sanjiang Province seized in Jiamusi.

After concluding the occupation of the Jiamusi, Huanan, Baoqing, Boli, and Yilan areas along the Yangtze River, where the main population of Sanjiang Province is concentrated, the population base in the base area has greatly exceeded his expectations. In addition to the original population of the base areas, the actual population of the base area has now reached the number of millions, and there is no objection to the plan to expand the base.

In Li Yanping's view, the number of people in the base area has increased considerably. As long as the number of conscripts does not exceed a certain bottom line, it should not have much impact on production in the base areas. Even if there is, it will be controlled within an acceptable range. Therefore, Yang Zhen did not object to the idea of militarizing the residents who moved north and training reserve personnel.

Looking at Li Yanping, who was silent and did not raise objections, Yang Zhen threw out a bigger bomb that even Guo Bingxun was a little surprised: "Political commissar, there is another important reason why I decided to transfer Liu Changshun to any sub-district. That is, I want to set up a large tactical synthesis training base in the southern area of Fujin. ”

"In the future, not only will all recruits have to undergo military training there, but even the units that have completed the expansion will also be organized by brigades and regiments from time to time to conduct tactical combined drill training and infantry artillery coordinated training. If the shape allows, the two columns also return there regularly for column-level composite training. ”

"In addition to these, there are also training teams at all levels. Including the company and platoon cadres who were originally trained by the training team of the unit, all the advance cadres will be trained there for one to three months. In particular, staff officers at all levels must go through training there and pass the examination before they are allowed to take up their posts. ”

"In order to improve the technical and tactical level of the troops, let the recruits familiarize themselves with the tactics of the Japanese army before they go to the battlefield. I am going to select from the Japanese prisoners of war we have captured in previous battles who can serve us and form a Japanese tactical detachment at the brigade level. Equipped with a full set of Japanese-style equipment, including the uniform of the Japanese army, it is specially used as a sparring partner. ”

"These people are all officers and soldiers of the Japanese army who have undergone rigorous training, and they are extremely familiar with the various tactics of the Japanese army, especially the basic infantry and artillery tactics. Using them as whetstones, we can have a real understanding of the enemy and become familiar with the combat style of the Japanese army before our cadres and soldiers go to the battlefield. Especially the newly formed troops, which can give them a feel for the atmosphere on the battlefield in advance. ”

"And we can also conduct tactical drills with this Japanese detachment, and try to find out the weaknesses of the Japanese army's tactics as comprehensively as possible, and formulate targeted cracking tactics. In order to strike at the enemy more effectively in future operations. Get the most out of the battle at the lowest cost. ”

"With this kind of unit, we have a lot of combat experience, so we don't have to go to the battlefield and exchange the lives and blood of our soldiers. Crossing the river by feeling the stones, after all, is not a long-term solution. Forming a long-term and effective training system and means is what we should do now. ”

"The construction of such a comprehensive training base, which has a bearing on the follow-up development of our army, cannot be done without a commander who has been tested in actual combat and has rich experience. This is also the main reason why I insisted on transferring Liu Changshun, a person who had been tested by war and had experience in synthetic operations, to serve as the commander of the First Division. In addition to the Production and Construction Corps, the primary task is to set up this comprehensive training base. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen looked at the few people in front of him who were stunned by his own whimsical ideas, which might seem a little whimsical to them, and continued without care: "Although I don't want to admit it, there is one thing we have to admit is that the combat quality of the grassroots officers of the Japanese army, especially the battlefield command ability, is still far from ours.

"Only by learning from their strengths and correcting our own shortcomings can we eliminate them more effectively at the lowest cost. It is also a first-hand means of learning war in war. ”

"To be honest, I also wanted to use the graduates of the regular Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School among the Japanese prisoners of war as our training teams at all levels, especially the military commander's training team and the staff training team that we are currently lacking as basic instructors."

"Although I don't want to admit it, the reality tells us that the grassroots officers of the Japanese army who have been rigorously and formally trained by its army non-commissioned officer school are indeed far superior to those of our cadres trained in a crash course such as the training team."

"In the case of a shortage of qualified instructors in our teaching teams at all levels, it is a pity that these people are not needed. If we can select some of the captured Japanese officers who are willing to serve for us to serve as instructors at all levels, we can cooperate with this imaginary enemy unit composed entirely of the original Japanese army as a whetstone. It can effectively make our army's su zhì have a big improvement in a short period of time. ”

"It's just that some people are worried that these people are playing tricks, not contributing to their work, deliberately distorting the teaching content, and even encouraging our students at all levels to defect, so they didn't implement it. However, although these people cannot be used directly as instructors, it is still possible to compile some basic teaching materials. ”

Yang Zhen's decision was not made on a whim, but his true thoughts. The idea was already in place long before the campaign. The reason why he came up with this idea was that the army was faced with a shortage of military instructors at all levels, and most of them could only rely on temporary military commanders at all levels.

This is also why Yang Zhen can only concentrate on the battalion regiment-level cadre teaching team and the staff officer teaching team. The training of cadres at other levels will be carried out in their respective units. Because he really doesn't have the energy, he has too much to do with the situation that military and political commanders at all levels cannot leave the army for a long time.

Although these instructors who were temporarily transferred from the army have rich practical experience, their theoretical foundation is extremely lacking. Many people even read the most basic homework of military commanders, such as looking at maps, and they only learned it when they were in the secret camp of the old black top.

In the training of grassroots cadres, most of them will only take the textbooks compiled by Yang Zhen and read from the textbook, and at most add their own practice, that is, their own local experience. Many of the students taught in this way are leading the troops according to the experience of their own instructors, and they cannot form a unified style. But under the pressure of reality, it can only be maintained temporarily.

Compared with the cadre teaching team that has uneven levels, but relies on its own experience, or follows the script, but can barely deal with it. The puppet Manchu high school students who themselves were selected to join the army formed a staff teaching team, although because the starting point was relatively high, and although the level was much better, it was even more strict in terms of instructors.

In the staff training team, which trains the combat staff officers who are most lacking in the troops, Guo Bingxun was almost all doing it alone at the beginning of the compilation of instructors and teaching materials. Later, after cultivating some talents, the situation improved slightly, and although there was still a shortage of teachers, there were more or less people who could help.

Those staff officers, who had been trained in the early stages and had to deal with the heavy workload of the troops, which were almost overwhelmed by the lack of manpower. On the one hand, I have to do everything possible to find time to change shifts and go to the staff training team as instructors to teach new juniors and younger students.

This kind of taking care of both ends makes the staff officers at all levels, who themselves have a limited number of people, even more lacking in skills. Under the circumstance that the army began to expand on a large scale, the staff officers at all levels, who were already lacking, had now become the first difficult problem facing Yang Zhen.

You must know that the original establishment of only three brigades in the field army, plus three army divisions, has already stretched the staff officers. In addition to the candidates for each brigade, Yang Zhen, who is the commander of the military region, and Guo Bingxun, the chief of staff of the military region, have less than ten staff officers around them.

And these 10 people are responsible for all the staff operations of the entire military region, such as tactics, surveying and mapping, training, queues, intelligence integration, and even communications and secrecy. It's usually easy to say, and I can barely cope with it. But once the war is almost busy, it often happens that you can't take care of your head and feet.

Many tactical problems, even the most basic tactical problems, Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun have to deal with them personally. Not only did Lang spend a lot of time that was precious during the war, but it also involved a lot of energy on the part of two people. When the time came to wartime, the cadets of the staff training team could not spare time when the senior brothers who acted as instructors could not spare time, so they could only release pigeons and study on their own according to the tutorials.

Staff officers, who were already overstretched, have quadrupled in size, and there is an even greater shortage of qualified staff officers. The emergency transfer of some company and platoon officers has not only affected the combat effectiveness of the grassroots units, but in many cases these personnel who have not undergone systematic training are simply incompetent. has really become a blind staff officer as later generations say.

Although Yang Zhen did not want to admit it, after a battle on the battlefield, Yang Zhen also had to admit that although the senior officers of the Japanese army were known for their brute force many times, their grassroots officers who had undergone formal and strict training were indeed outstanding. Not to mention the basic skills, the initiative is also very strong.

In addition to some high school students, a large number of Japanese officers have gone through three years of local junior military academies, two years of central junior military academies, and two years of army noncommissioned officer academies, for a total of more than 10 years.

If the German staff officers in World War II were the best staff officers of this era, then the grassroots officers of the Japanese army, who have undergone more than ten years of professional training, can be said to be the best grassroots officers in the world. The most important thing is that these junior officers are not as rigid and rigid as the top brass of the Japanese army. The technical and tactical level is definitely the best in the world.

It was with this understanding that Yang Zhen wanted to choose some of the Japanese prisoners of war to serve him. At the very least, he can act as a technical and tactical instructor at all levels. It was only out of physical and safety considerations that he had to scruple about it.

And the establishment of imaginary enemy forces, which was a common practice among almost all military powers in later generations, was also an idea he had for a long time. Organize troops to conduct realistic and strict combined training of various arms after battle, and use captured Japanese prisoners of war as whetstones, so as to improve the technical and tactical level of the troops in a relatively short period of time. In addition, we should find out the shortcomings in the training of the troops in the shortest possible time, and provide first-hand information for the training, operations, organization, and equipment adjustment of the troops.

This large-scale comprehensive training base that he conceived was modeled after the Fort Irwin training base of the US Army and the Baicheng training base of the People's Liberation Army. The reason why I chose Fujin is because the terrain there is relatively complex, and it basically has the main terrain of the North Manchurian region. Moreover, there is a fortress of Fujin built by the Japanese army, which can be used as a training base for fortification.

Although the construction of this fortress had just begun, it was lost due to the war. However, the infrastructure has been built, and the various fortifications have been largely completed. It can be used as a ready-made training ground for troops to tackle tough problems and to develop offensive tactics.

Compared with Li Yanping and Gao Yumin, who did not understand Yang Zhen's idea, Guo Bingxun, the only one among several people who had studied abroad, was also shocked by Yang Zhen's idea, but he only understood the true intention of Yang Zhen's idea after a little thought.

After thinking about the cause and effect, Guo Bingxun immediately expressed his support for Yang Zhen's idea of using Japanese prisoners of war to form a confrontational unit using the original equipment and tactics of the Japanese army, which was used as a whetstone in the training of the troops. He even expressed support for Yang Zhen's desire to use Japanese prisoners of war as basic instructors for teaching teams at all levels.

In Guo Bingxun's view, although Yang Zhen's thinking is a bit advanced, it is very suitable for the situation that the expansion of the army is imminent. After the expansion of the unit is completed, the regimental level is based on the formation of this Japanese brigade and takes turns to train their hands, so that the new recruits can come into contact with the battlefield as soon as possible. The newly formed troops can also enter the state as soon as possible, which is extremely conducive to the growth of the troops.

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