It was at Yang Zhen's insistence that, in accordance with the regulations of the Northeast Bureau and the Anti-Japanese League, there were strict quantitative regulations on recruiting high school graduates every year, and high school students who had not completed high school were absolutely not allowed to join the army. Among high school graduates every year, those who want to go on to higher education must do their best to go on to higher education.
The Northeast Bureau still attached great importance to Yang Zhen's opinions when establishing Northeastern University, even though he did not know that except for the military aspects he was in charge of and the external negotiations designated by the central government, he basically did not express opinions on other matters. Second Secretary, why did he attach so much importance to education, but his ideas in this regard were finally adopted by the Northeast Bureau.
Considering Yang Zhen's ideas, the Northeast Bureau and the Northeast People's Government simply expanded the original plan a lot. In addition to the Northeast University that was already prepared to be established, a number of junior colleges were also established to meet the current urgent needs. Within the scope, the enrollment scale of Harbin Institute of Technology and Medical University has been doubled.
Now Northeastern University is currently being established. The original Harbin Medical University and Harbin Institute of Technology have begun to resume classes one after another. In addition to the Harbin Institute of Finance and Economics, Qiqihar Institute of Foreign Languages, Northeast Normal University, and the Northeast Mechanical Industry Institute that is under preparation, Northeastern University has also begun to resume classes. There are a number of vocational colleges such as the Institute of Metallurgical Industry, as well as various vocational schools that are being established to cultivate senior technical workers.
Even Guo Bingxun's old father, who had just arrived in the base area, without even seeing his son whom he had not seen for many years, was dragged by the commander-in-chief to establish a training school for urgently needed railway and bridge talents based on the Puppet Manchukuo Harbin Railway College. Jiaotong University.
Taking into account the serious shortage of teachers currently existing in the base area, in addition to lecturers and professors coming to the Northeast from Guan Nei, as well as graduates of various majors, the Northeast Bureau also tried every means to hire a group of people who had moved eastward from the Soviet Union. Various universities evacuated lecturers to Siberia.
Dozens of engineering professors and lecturers have even been hired from the United States with high salaries, especially Chinese professors and lecturers, who have become the first targets for recruitment. The focus of Peng Dingjie's work in the United States, in addition to negotiating with Americans for various supplies, is another The new task is to find ways to mobilize these people to return to China to teach.
Nowadays, the need for intellectuals in all aspects has reached the point of thirsty for talents. With the serious shortage of college students, students who graduated from the Puppet Manchukuo High School have also become a hot commodity. As these school establishment plans begin, Expand, now those high school students obviously don’t have enough points.
In addition, there are two military colleges and universities, including the Military Region Polytechnic University and the Military Region Military Medical College, as well as a series of military colleges including the Military Command School, Artillery School, Armored Forces School, and Flight School, as well as a series of military colleges that are recruited by the army every year and have relatively high educational requirements. Intellectuals are needed everywhere in the technical arms, as well as in the various large-scale factories that are being built and need to train a large number of technical workers.
At present, the entire base area, not to mention high school graduates, even junior high school graduates are in short supply. Several secretaries of the Northeast Bureau Secretariat, Director Xiang of the Military Region and Gao Yumin have heads of various departments asking for people every day, and even in some cases At some point, it got to the point where the door couldn't even be pushed open.
Now the entire base area is implementing a planned and semi-planned economy. High school graduates in the entire base area have always been based on a unified plan and are used according to the score line. All high school students and junior normal school graduates must take the college entrance examination. , uniformly allocated and used according to the standard of the score line.
Every year's high school graduates, how many are recruited by military schools, how many are selected to study abroad, how many are admitted to higher education in the base area, and how many soldiers can be recruited into the army are all strictly planned. All distribution indicators are determined by the Northeast Bureau and the Northeast People's Government. The study is based on the number of graduates and the score line. As for the allocation of college students, it is decided by the Secretary's Office.
This year's plan has been allocated in July. Now it is somewhat difficult to recruit an additional 300 high school graduates. Fortunately, the graduates of the Puppet Manchukuo High School in the new district can make up for the shortcomings to a certain extent, although these people have not yet been listed. However, there is no problem in selecting 300 people from each county to make up for the original number of people who will go to school according to the plan.
These three hundred high school graduates this year who were transferred to the aviation corps were originally planned to be transferred to form a transportation college. However, they were all transferred to the aviation corps with an order. They were so angry that they did not agree to recruit soldiers among students, and now they were ordered by the Northeast Bureau. Guo Bingxun's old father, who was appointed to establish a transportation college to train railway talents in urgent need, found Director Li who was packing his bags and preparing to leave and had a big quarrel.
Perhaps because he had spent more time in Sichuan, this old man, whose personality became more and more aggressive as he got older, firmly told Director Li that either he would transfer back the students who had been recruited to serve as soldiers, or he would pack his luggage and return to Sichuan immediately. , let alone others, he doesn’t even want to see his son again.
In the end, the commander-in-chief personally came forward, worked hard for most of the night, and personally promised to transfer 500 people to him from among the graduates of the Tongliao National High School and the Normal School of the Puppet Manchukuo in the New District, and finally completed the old man's work. Let the old man stay and work in the Northeast.
Li Yanping tried to find a way to transfer the 300 high school graduates to the aviation force. Although he made many demands, it was indeed his best effort. At the beginning of the year, Xiong Dazhen wanted to recruit more graduates from national high schools to train as technical personnel. The worker was even pointed at the nose and severely criticized by Yang Zhen.
The military region has allocated to the aviation force this year, and the quota of new recruits that can be recruited from high school graduates and normal school graduates is only 170 people. This small number is still considering the special technology-intensive nature of their army. circumstances, special care was given.
Not only did the armored soldiers only give one hundred, but the equipment department also intercepted fifteen of them. Chen Hanzhang was so angry that he sent a telegram to Xiong Dazhen on the Tongliao front line. The two of them argued over the telegram for most of the time. In August, even Gao Yumin, the director of the Political Department, was also unlucky and was severely scolded by his old comrade Chen Hanzhang in a telegram.
Although there was a lot of turmoil because of Yang Zhen's order, Haolai spent a full month in accordance with Yang Zhen's request to form a team to study in the UK. , but these people are only a preliminary selection. As for how many people can actually be selected, it still needs to be determined after political review.
This was Li Yanping's only request after he asked the aviation force to recruit these 300 high school graduates. In Li Yanping's words borrowed from Yang Zhen, the cadres and soldiers who went to study in capitalist countries must be politically qualified and have strong military skills. , even 100% reliability is not enough, only 200% is enough.
While waiting for the political review, these cadres and soldiers who were transferred were studying English unexpectedly, while the 300 people who were transferred had just put on their military uniforms, and their excitement had not passed yet, and they were still learning with those who taught them. The English translator worked together to learn techniques unexpectedly and became familiar with aviation equipment and tactics.
It's just that the aviation force is now running wild, which is a bit counterproductive. They only want to learn from the advanced experience of the British. As for the source of bombers for strategic bombing against Japan, they don't have much hope for the British at all. Yang Zhen, whose main hope is on the Americans, doesn't know yet.
He had been thinking about these three types. He originally thought he could only covet them in vain, but now he has been reduced to the point where he has to beg for food from the Americans. The British, who have no spare capacity to provide massive assistance to him, will use these three types of strategic bombers. Stirling bombers will provide a large amount of assistance to the Anti-Japanese Alliance in half a year.
After the Japanese successively captured Malaya, Singapore, and Burma, and put their bayonets on India's chest, they faced increasing pressure on the battlefield in Southeast Asia, especially the British, who had the possibility of an overall attack on India by the Japanese at any time. More urgently than the Americans, the Anti-Japanese Alliance needed to relieve its pressure on the battlefield.
The British, who always have greater pressure and greater motivation, took action. At the beginning, they were even more generous than the Americans. They gave the first batch of 120 Stirling bombers and another 100. Hurricane fighter aircraft, one hundred and sixty Blenheim light bombers, and seventy Wellington medium bombers.
Moreover, with the participation of the Americans in the war, the Japanese invaded India and Australia, and controlled a considerable part of the territory in India and Australia, and formed a long-term confrontation with the British and Australian troops. It is also getting bigger and bigger. Although it is obsolete equipment, it is enough to deal with the Japanese.
Hurricane fighter, Stirling strategic bomber, Wellington medium bomber, Blenheim light bomber, Crusader cruise tank, Covenant cruise tank, Maltida II and Valentine infantry tank, although the number is not as good as that of American products , the quality is also somewhat different from American products.
The British even used their own second-hand goods to encourage the Americans to replace some of the M-4 medium tanks, M-3 light tanks, and various fighter jets that the Americans had originally provided to the Anti-Japanese War, which had better performance than the tanks they made themselves. and bombers.
But in any case, it arrived earlier than the US aid in terms of time, and throughout 1942, the number has always exceeded that of the Americans. Although the British aid was mainly aircraft, the amount of equipment on the ground was not much, only more than a thousand A British-made tank, but those heavy bombers really solved the urgent need for the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
The British aided the Stirling heavy bombers. Although there was still a gap in performance between them and the American heavy bombers, their British measurement and calculation units also caused a lot of trouble for the Anti-Japanese Alliance in their use, at least such as gallons and pounds. The imperial unit of measurement is still very unfamiliar to the Anti-League people.
Moreover, this kind of large four-engine bomber is not suitable for modifying special aircraft due to its overall structure. In particular, it cannot drop some special bombs and large-tonnage bombs. In addition to removing the bomb bin and changing it into a glider tractor, it is usually used as a glider tractor. It can only be used purely as a bomber, and its uses are far less extensive than those of American bombers.
However, among the several bombers used by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the bombing of Japan, the first batch of bombers to arrive in large numbers were not as good as the US-made B-24 bombers in terms of final equipment quantity, but they also occupied an important position in the Anti-Alliance strategy. One-third of the bomber fleet.
Before the large-scale arrival of American bombers, these Stirling bombers that arrived first assumed the main force of bombing Japan for a long period of time. It was not until the end of 1943 that a large number of B-24 bombers assisted by the Americans arrived. , due to quantity reasons, has always been the main bomber responsible for the Anti-Japanese bombing.
Even though a large number of US-made bombers are in place, these sufficient British-made heavy bombers have not been transferred to the second line like their companions who stayed in the UK, or served as trainers or glider tractors. Together with the bombers, they became the main force in the Anti-Japanese bombing campaign.