Chapter 35: Military Training (1)
After dinner, Chen Xiuwen asked the Chief Secretary to bring the account book to the company headquarters to see him. The Chief Secretary followed Zhang Zhengjie from the 19th Route Army. Zhang Zhengjie has always been strict in the army and the Chief Secretary is considered honest. However, after all, once the emperor is a minister, the Chief Secretary dared not dare to deduct food and pay openly, but when purchasing, he still has some greed for small gains. When Shen Xiuwen looked through the account book, he was always a little scared.
"Why do you only eat meat and fish once a month? Brothers have so hard training. How can you keep up with the nutrition of eating these vegetarian food?" Chen Xiuwen closed the account book and said with a frown.
The chief of staff suddenly broke out in cold sweat and quickly explained: "Company Commander, I dare not deduct the food and salary of my brothers." As he said, he said with a bitter face: "The brothers' food expenses are only two yuan acres every month, and they eat like this, and they are tight every month at the end of the month."
In this era, the National Government was still in a difficult situation. Although the national government unified the whole country, the only places that the National Government could control were Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi. The warlords in other provinces nominally surrendered to the National Government, but in fact they were all independent and did not pay the fiscal revenue at all. Instead, they had to ask the National Government for this and that. In addition, in recent years, the suppression of the Communist Party, the pacification of warlords, the 128th Shanghai War, and the Great Wall War, the military expenditure was very large. Even the direct troops such as the 88th Division were not enough food and salary. In addition, the inevitable deductions were inevitable, and there were not many companies that fell to the grassroots level.
Chen Xiuwen couldn't help but sigh, took out a hundred dollars of ocean from his suitcase, and handed it to the somewhat stunned chief of staff, saying: "In the future, we must ensure that brothers can eat two braised pork meals a week. In addition, even if the daily meals are not meaty, the oil and water must be sufficient. This hundred dollars of ocean is temporarily used as the monthly food expenses. However, in the future, you must keep the account clearly for me, how much money you receive every month, how much money you spend, and how much balance you have. How much rice, how many vegetables, how much meat you bought every day, how much rice, vegetables, and meat you cost, and how much money you make a pound of rice, vegetables, and meat, and every transaction. If there is any mistake, don't blame me for being ruthless at that time."
The chief officer stared blankly at the hundred dollars in his hand. He has been the chief officer for many years, and only the chief officer who has withheld food and pay, but he has never seen the chief officer who has taken money to improve the food of his brothers. His nose was sore and his eyes were hot and said, "Please rest assured, the company commander, you must be serious and remember it honestly. You will never be greedy for the brothers' wages of a penny."
Chen Xiuwen waved his hand and said, "It's not that I want me to rest assured, but that the brothers in the entire company should be relieved. In the future, the accounts you keep every day should be made public to the entire company and the accounts will be settled once a month. In addition, my salary will be paid every month, and the salary of Platoon Leader Cheng will be used as the food expenses for the brothers."
As a captain officer, Chen Xiuwen's salary was eighty yuan a month, and Cheng De'an was sixty yuan. One hundred and forty yuan was distributed to the brothers in the company, and almost one yuan a month was added to the food expenses of the ocean, which was enough to allow them to eat two braised pork meals a week.
As for these wages, Chen Xiuwen didn't even see them. The pocket money given by his family was enough for him to spend. Cheng Dean was the same. His father, the landlord in Shandong, felt sorry for his son and sent him a lot of money every month. Anyway, this kid was not a shortage of money, so Chen Xiuwen simply decided to pay his salary.
After the chief officer left, Chen Xiuwen began to formulate a new training plan. Although the training plan of the German consultant was very advanced in this era, there were still many shortcomings for Shen Xiuwen, a time traveler who had experienced two years of modern military training. Chen Xiuwen simply brought out the set of military training that year.
"No, this is absolutely not possible." After reading the new training plan formulated by Chen Xiuwen, the head of the third platoon Huang Likui suddenly shook like a rattle. "Isn't this kind of training a slap?" Huang Likui said in a bad tone.
Although Zhang Zhengjie has always been strict in the military, he frowned after seeing Chen Xiuwen's plan. He was not as impulsive as Huang Likui. Last night, the chief officer came to him to report that Chen Xiuwen himself took out 100 yuan of food expenses in the company, and also used all his monthly salary for him and Cheng De'an in the future to improve the food.
After hearing this news, Zhang Zhengjie didn't sleep all night. If Chen Xiuwen's actions in the canteen were suspected of having a show, then what was he doing? Is it just for himself to eat better? Then there was no need for him to do this. One hundred and forty dollars was enough for him and Cheng Dean to spend their own money, and no one said anything. Contributing all his salary to improve the food of his brothers is probably not as simple as buying people's hearts. But after reading this training plan, Zhang Zhengjie had only two words in his mind at the beginning, which was crazy. But when he thought about it carefully, he felt that Chen Xiuwen was not trying to mock people or establish his authority. He just wanted to do this. Implementing and subsidizing food expenses and allowing brothers to improve food is entirely to implement this training plan and supplement the necessary nutrition for the brothers. However, in his opinion, this training plan is still incredible. Not to mention soldiers, even if he and Huang Likui practice, it may be difficult to persevere. Moreover, in addition to a large amount of physical training, queue training, individual quality training, overall coordination training, and local work, there are also internal training, requiring the quilts to be stacked like tofu blocks, and the barracks must be kept clean, and all items have regulations. What's more exaggerated is that after dinner every day, there are also an hour of cultural study, requiring soldiers in the entire company to read and write within half a year, and simply add, subtract, multiply and divide.
"Company Commander, isn't this training too much? Is it necessary to have internal affairs and cultural learning?" Zhang Zhengjie said in a relatively tactful tone.
At this time, Cheng Dean, who was standing by, interrupted with disdain, "You can't persist in this training? Let me tell you, when I was training with the company commander and I in the teaching team, the training volume was much larger than that. We can do it, why can't you persist?"
In fact, Cheng Dean's words were a bit too exaggerated. When they were training, they came one by one in stages, and there was neither internal affairs training nor cultural learning. Moreover, enlisted students in military academy were originally higher in comprehension and willpower than ordinary soldiers. However, many of Chen Xiuwen's training plans were combined, which undoubtedly increased the intensity and difficulty of training.
Cheng Dean is Chen Xiuwen's man, and a platoon leader who is as tough as himself came to the company. Huang Likui had disliked Cheng Dean, especially during the morning fucking, when Huang Likui saw that the two thorny squad leaders in the second platoon were talking and laughing, and felt even more uncomfortable. Now that Cheng Dean was excited, he jumped up and said, "Who said I can't do it anymore? Why don't we compete?"
Cheng Dean was not a stable person, so he stood up immediately and said, "Little girl, it seems that if you don't show off your skills, you really don't know how high the world is."
"What are you doing, Likui, sit down for me. The company commander is here, what do you think of this?" Zhang Zhengjie shouted loudly.
Hearing Zhang Zhengjie's voice, Huang Likui was very dissatisfied, but he still snorted at Cheng Dean and sat down reluctantly. Cheng Dean smiled proudly and stopped stimulating Huang Likui. He glanced at Chen Xiuwen and sat down.
Chen Xiuwen looked at all this with a smile and did not say anything. He knew that Cheng Dean was deliberately provoking Zhang Zhengjie and Huang Likui just now. The situation just now proved that Ma Congping reported that Huang Likui did listen to Zhang Zhengjie. Moreover, Chen Xiuwen also found that Huang Likui was a simple person and was easily aroused. Such a person would be honest and obedient once he was impressed. However, Zhang Zhengjie was very calm and good at forbearance. Chen Xiuwen admired such a person very much. But at the same time, Chen Xiuwen also made up his mind that such a person would either use it for himself or ask him to leave.
"Company Commander, I mainly consider the ability of my brothers to bear it. To be honest, I may not be able to persist in such training." Zhang Zhengjie frowned and continued to express his opinions. Just now, he saw Chen Xiuwen sitting and watching Huang Likui and Cheng Dean's argument but he didn't show any expression. He felt more and more that this company commander, who looked only in his early twenties, was really not simple. Therefore, his words seemed a little weak without realizing it.
Chen Xiuwen smiled slightly and said, "Deputy Company Commander Zhang, this training has not started yet. How do you know that your brothers can't stand it?"
Chen Xiuwen's words from Deputy Company Commander Zhang made the muscles on Zhang Zhengjie's face twitch twice. He understood that Chen Xiuwen was reminding himself that he was the company commander here and he had the final say.
"Deputy Company Commander Zhang, the training I designed is not to make fun of the brothers, nor to use these to achieve some purpose." What does the second half of Chen Xiuwen mean? Zhang Zhengjie and Huang Likui's hearts were clear. Huang Likui's face still had a very dissatisfied expression, and Zhang Zhengjie was sitting there listening silently at this time.
"Indeed, such training is indeed very difficult. When I was receiving this kind of training, I felt it was impossible to complete at first. But I still survived it. Not only did I survive it, but all our brothers survived it." When Chen Xiuwen said this, Cheng Dean whispered: "That's it."
Cheng Dean probably thought that Chen Xiuwen was talking about the training he was in the teaching corps two years ago, but in fact, Chen Xiuwen was talking about his training when he was a conscript in later generations. The training at that time was indeed very difficult and very hard for Chen Xiuwen.
"But the hard training is actually a training of will. As soldiers, we must have the will of steel. Even if there is a rain of bullets ahead, we must dare to rush forward when it is time to charge." As he said that, Chen Xiuwen sighed softly and said, "Deputy Company Commander Zhang, you are from the 19th Route Army. You should have participated in the 128th Songhu War, right? You should know that if our soldiers are in one-on-one situation, they are definitely not opponents of the Japanese army."
When talking about the Battle of Shanghai, Zhang Zhengjie suddenly remembered the battlefield filled with smoke. He had personally experienced a company that could not resist the attack of a small team of Japanese soldiers. In addition to the differences in equipment, what is more important is the gap in the strength of individual soldiers. He couldn't help but nodded solemnly.
"If we want to shorten the gap with the Japanese army now, the most important thing is to rely on hard training to hone our will. We sweat more before the war and less bleeding during the war. Only in this way can we completely drive the Japanese devils out of China's land in the future."
"Company Commander, are you saying that our current training is for the purpose of fighting the Japanese in the future?" Zhang Zhengjie suddenly stood up and said excitedly.
The 128th Battle of Shanghai made the 19th Route Army famous all over the world, but thousands of Guangdong soldiers fell on that land forever. The soldiers who died were Zhang Zhengjie's brothers of life and death.
Chen Xiuwen nodded and said, "Japan's ambitions for China will never die. Sooner or later, there will be a battle. We can only be prepared now and wait for this day to come."
Zhang Zhengjie nodded solemnly, took a deep breath, and said word by word: "Company Commander, I agree with your training plan. I not only want to participate by myself, but also lead my brothers in a row to pass such training."
Chapter completed!