Chapter 331: The Kwantung Army that put down the shelf
But the deployment of Washizu lead in terms of troops, it seems that all the elites are concentrated, but it is not without weaknesses. Its two divisions were reorganized after being heavily damaged in last year's battle. The veterans and junior officers were almost all wiped out in last year's battle.
A large number of recruits who were re-replenished did not complete all the training because of the tense war situation, and only completed the first two-month training, and only one-third of the second phase of training, and were pulled to the battlefield in western Liaoning because of the tense war situation. In other words, the newly recruited recruits of these two divisions have only completed two-thirds of the training of recruits that had already been reduced by half.
At present, although the two divisions and regiments are completely organized and fully equipped on the surface, their overall military quality is far from being comparable with that of the beginning. Not only because of the shortened training time of recruits, but also because of the decline in the quality of recruits. What's more, because there are too many grassroots officers who have died in battle, most of the people who have been supplemented are reserve officers, as well as a large number of squad leaders who have come out of short-term training courses.
In particular, the officers at the level of squad leader of the two divisions and regiments were basically all selected from the special agent Cao Chang, Cao Chang, and Jun Cao after a short period of training. At the squadron leader level, 70 percent are reservist officers who have been mobilized for the second time, or officers who have been reinstated and then returned to active duty. Graduates of the Army Noncommissioned Officer School account for less than 30 percent.
In order to cope with the development of the war situation, a large number of expansions, coupled with the huge casualties before. At present, the Japanese Army relies solely on graduates of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and it is no longer possible to meet the needs of grassroots officers. The rapid development of the war situation and the huge casualties have made it impossible for the Japanese army to wait patiently for the graduates of the army non-commissioned officer school.
In addition to mobilizing a large number of officers who were transferred to the reserve because their service period had expired and could no longer be promoted, they were mobilized to serve again. and reserve officers within the original national mobilization system, and shorten the number of years of study at the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and expand the number of enrollments.
Recruits who have completed secondary school and who have performed well in the recruit training phase are also selected from among the recruits who have completed all their training in each unit. A number of people are selected to be transferred to the training team to become officers and non-commissioned officers, which is the so-called type A and type B candidates.
After completing the training, the Type B candidates are transferred to the Non-commissioned Officer Education School for five months of training as a sergeant, and then they are assigned to the original unit as a sergeant or sergeant. After completing five months of basic training, Category A candidates enter the Army Reserve Non-commissioned Officer Schools in various places, and after eight months of training for junior officers, they become squad leaders of the arms.
Of course, among the Japanese Army, these people are not qualified to apply for the Army University, and they rarely have the opportunity to be promoted to the rank of captain or above. At least for the time being, the Japanese Army is extremely rigid in its personnel system, and the room for promotion is extremely limited.
Because they do not have a diploma from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, nor do they have a diploma from the Land University, which is known as the cradle of Japanese army generals. Graduates of regular non-commissioned officer schools are rarely promoted to generals without a diploma from Lu University, let alone these special officers who are privately called pheasants?
That is to say, the original Japanese army completely changed the original system of training reserve officers to training active-duty officers, mainly lower-level officers, of course. However, there has been no change in Japan's officer promotion system. This method of training officers was only a temporary measure adopted by the Japanese army in order to supplement the large number of junior officers killed in battle and to continuously expand the number of troops.
In the Japanese Army, this kind of non-land non-military graduates who have been selected through recruit training and trained are called special service officers. It is the lowest level in the entire officer system of the army. Even if you are promoted to lieutenant, you will always be ranked behind the second lieutenant who graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School in terms of rank and promotion order. Once a squadron leader dies in battle, it is always those non-commissioned officer school graduates who take over the command.
That is to say, your colleague is a graduate of the non-commissioned officer school, no matter how long the seniority is, but as long as there is a vacancy for the squadron leader, they will still be in front of you. Even if you are a lieutenant as a special service officer, you must salute the second lieutenant who graduated from the non-commissioned officer school. When people bow to you, they give you face, and you have to suffer if you don't give it.
Originally, such officers only existed in some security divisions, independent mixed brigades, and independent garrisons in North China. First of all, this system of selecting and training officers was developed, and the infantry school of the Chinese Dispatch Army was established, which was also used by the Chinese Dispatch Army to train these people.
Such officers are rarely assigned to subordinate divisions of the Kwantung Army, and such army field divisions. Graduates of the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School are the only option for the Kwantung Army. At least until last year, the Kwantung Army was a graduate of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School.
However, last year, a large number of lower-ranking officers of the Kwantung Army died in battle, and the officer training system could not keep up with the massive expansion of the army in the homeland. In order to fill the huge shortage of junior officers, the Kwantung Army, which has always been a picky eater, does not care about the so-called dignity of the Japanese Army. Even in the training of junior officers, it is even more extreme.
There is no way to do it, according to the current system of Class A and Type B candidates in the Japanese Army, from recruits to non-commissioned officers to officers, after layers of selection, it takes a total of one and a half years to add various trainings, and the Kwantung Army really can't wait. Simply from the active duty non-commissioned officers, after the selection is carried out for three to six months of training.
According to the regulations of the Kwantung Army, the training period for the special agents Cao Chang and Cao Chang to be transferred to officers was three months, and the training period for military Cao to become an officer was six months. Sergeants below the rank of military cao are still trained according to the standards of local training. Of course, these special agents Cao Chang, Cao Chang and Jun Cao, who have become officers, also have to go through a strict examination before they can graduate.
In the face of the huge shortage of junior officers, the former Manchurian Army School, which was now relocated to Andong in the hands of the Kwantung Army, quickly changed from an education system and system for training officers in strict accordance with the standards of the Japanese Army Noncommissioned Officer School to a training course for junior officers.
Most of the time and energy will be spent on training these fast-track officers selected from non-commissioned officers such as Cao Chang, so as to make up for the huge shortage of first-line and lower-level combat officers in the Kwantung Army. Not to mention the officers, even the training system and time for sergeants have also been shortened by a third.
In addition to the small number of graduates of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School who have been replenished by the mainland, the remaining lower-level supplementary officers of the Kwantung Army at present are basically these people, plus a group of officers who have not been promoted to the reserve after reaching the age of many years, and some of the Class A cadre candidates trained by the local Kurume Army Alternate Non-commissioned Officer School.
This has also led to a general decline in the quality of lower-ranking officers of the Kwantung Army this year. And in many ways, the drop is more than a notch. The Kwantung Army, which was hungry for food, even wanted the reservist officers of the second mobilization that they had always refused before, not to mention these officers who were born as non-commissioned officers.
The two divisions of the Japanese army in western Liaoning, although they are both veteran divisions from the number. But in last year's war, the losses were too heavy. Graduates of the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School are far from meeting the needs. This is how the junior officers who came in were all added. At least the squad leader level, all of them are the same. Coupled with the large number of reserve officers who were replenished at the same time, their fighting qualities have declined greatly compared with before.
In fact, based on the military literacy of Cao Chang and Cao Chang, the special agents of the Japanese Army, as well as the education level of their own high school graduates. If you go through short-term training, you can train a large number of qualified junior officers for the Japanese army in a short period of time. At least much better than those reserve officers who have been out of the army for many years and are busy all day long trying to earn money to support their families.
And those non-commissioned officers who have experienced the actual combat test are far better than the squad leaders who have been trained from the recruits for a long time. It has been five years since the July 7 Incident when the Japanese army invaded China. In the past five years, the Japanese army has brought great disasters to the Chinese people, but the Japanese army itself has also trained a large number of excellent non-commissioned officers.
In fact, a considerable number of non-commissioned officers from other countries, such as Cao Chang and Cao Chang, who are special agents in the Japanese army, have at least the ability to serve as junior officers. But the brainless Japanese Army, especially the always conceited Kwantung Army, had its eyes fixed on graduates of the Army Noncommissioned Officer School until at least last year.
Once the army was massively expanded and the battle losses were severe, it was mainly to recruit officers who had been transferred from active duty to reserves, as well as so-called Class A candidates trained before the war. Some of the reserve officers who had been trained before the war had already been mobilized more than once. Those officers who did not get involved in the army because they did not have a diploma from Lu University, and who were transferred to the reserves, were also mobilized more than once.
Even when forced to do so, the original first-class candidate system, which mainly trained reserve officers, was changed to train active-duty officers. I would rather be selected and trained slowly from among the recruits. The selection points were also not expanded to those non-commissioned officers who had undergone rigorous training in various specialized schools and had been tested in real combat.
It was only when the graduates of the non-commissioned officer school, as well as the so-called training speed of Class A candidates, could not meet the needs that the Kwantung Army, mainly the Kwantung Army, remembered that these non-commissioned officers such as the special agent Cao Chang, Cao Chang and Jun Cao were promoted to officers after short-term training.
However, these accelerated trainings, including the officers trained by the original Class A candidates, are only assigned to the garrison, the security division, and the garrison as an independent mixed brigade. Except for a very few exceptions, regular field divisions are absolutely unwanted.
I'd rather wait for the graduates of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School to wait for them than these officers whose quality is not much worse than that cultivated by the Non-commissioned Officer School. However, at present, the qualified junior officers are really not enough, and they have already reached the mouth of the nest that is not suitable for gold, so these people have been added to the field division one after another.
The Japanese Army, which has always been prone to extremes, has taken another 180-degree turn. It is stipulated that all officers at the rank of squad leader shall be selected from among the candidates of the first category. Students who have graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School are generally directly appointed as squadron deputy or staff officers at all levels two months after the transition to the position of squad leader.
Of course, in the Japanese Army, which is prone to extremes and admits death, there are not a few who are directly appointed as squadron leaders when there are no longer many positions for squad leaders. The situation of directly sitting at the level of squadron leader without experiencing the position of squad leader is groundbreaking in the history of the Japanese army.
But even so, it can't catch up with the battle damage. At present, as the strategic group of the Japanese army, the Kwantung Army, which suffered the heaviest losses, had no choice but to put down the shelf of the flower of the imperial army. Compared with the original use of too many secret officers, the Chinese dispatch army that they laughed at went more extremely. From among the non-commissioned officers such as the special agent Cao Chang, who are relatively old and have rich actual combat experience, they will be transferred to junior officers after selection.
These people, no matter what, are veterans who have served for a period of time. In any case, it is faster than the selection from among the recruits. If we follow the current rate of casualties in the Kwantung Army, especially the rate of loss of junior officers, by the time the recruits complete their selection and training for a year and a half, it is estimated that there will be no squad leaders on the front line.