Yang Zhen is not a Soviet fan, nor a German fan, nor is he a American fan. He just analyzes and judges the real military situation of each participating country from a military perspective with a fair perspective of a normal and rational soldier.
quality and combat effectiveness.
Although most Chinese people in this era hate the Japanese very much. Faced with the various evil deeds of the Japanese army, they wish to expel the Japanese army completely from China at once. But as a soldier, Yang Zhen is still practical
Qiu Qiu believes that although the Japanese infantry tactics have shortcomings of one kind or another, they are definitely the best infantry tactics of all the participating countries in World War II, and they are also the tactics that are most in line with Japan's actual situation. Its weapons and equipment are also quite in line with its own conditions.
Tactical requirements.
Similarly, Yang Zhen always believed that the British army could not even reach the third-rate level. During World War II in Britain, there were almost no so-called famous army generals worth mentioning. Especially Montgomery, Yang Zhen looked down upon him very much.
He believed that this famous British World War II commander was not a famous general at all.
Rather than relying on strategy and tactics to defeat the opponent, it is better to say that he relied on absolute sea and air superiority and sufficient supplies to defeat the opponent. This guy's performance after landing in Western Europe was actually not even barely qualified. Yang Zhen
I have always believed that of all the generals of the British Army, only Alexander was barely qualified.
But the performance of its navy and air force is absolutely first-rate. Especially the performance of the air force, except for being relatively conservative in tactics and equipment use at the beginning of the war, its performance throughout the war was almost impeccable. If the tactical level is only
If I can say it right, then the level of the Strategic Air Force is superb.
Its overall strength cannot be underestimated. You can despise the British's short-sightedness in some aspects and look down on their army. But you must not despise and look down on the British navy and air force. Whoever underestimates the British navy and air force,
Then you are the only one who will suffer on the battlefield.
Drawing on advanced experience is not just empty talk for Yang Zhen. It is what Yang Zhen hopes to learn from the strengths of others, make up for his own weaknesses, and form his own set of well-established strategies and tactics.
You can't ignore your own reality and copy it mechanically. But you can't do it behind closed doors and do your own thing.
What Yang Zhen knows even more is that without experience in long-distance transoceanic flights, as well as advanced navigation equipment and talents, strategic bombing of Japan can only be a dream. Now that the British have taken the initiative to propose this suggestion, in Yang Zhen's view
It was a rare opportunity. So Yang Zhen agreed to the British suggestion without even thinking about it.
This is a good thing. Why don't you agree? I'm just dozing off. Isn't that good? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If you miss it, things will be delayed. The Anti-Japanese Alliance does not have as much capital as the Americans.
, take the airplane and forcibly pile up strategies and tactics.
After receiving the British proposal, the impatient Yang Zhen did not care whether the British proposal could be implemented. He immediately issued an order to the aviation force, asking them to immediately select 60 squad leaders or veterans with more than two years of military service.
Pilots, 300 new pilots, 300 cadres with at least a national high school education, and 1,500 air crew members form a training team to learn English first.
At the same time, the Political Department of the Military Region was required to do its best to mobilize a group of professional English translators for the aviation force. When Gao Yumin asked about the quantity, Yang Zhen only said that there are as many as needed. He also asked the Aviation Command and the Political Department to
Allocate the best combat training staff and make these translators familiar with the components and tactics of combat aircraft as soon as possible.
Yang Zhen has always attached great importance to the work of translation. You must know that if the translator is not familiar with it, the translated meaning is likely to be completely off-topic. The difference in equipment is easy to correct, as long as the approximate meaning can be translated. But the tactics and
Technically, if the translation is not in place, it can easily delay important events.
A slip of the tongue by one of these translators would have to be made up for with blood and life on the battlefield. Therefore, Yang Zhen asked the aviation force's political department to conduct rigorous training for these selected translators and to familiarize themselves with aviation equipment and tactics as soon as possible.
, and corresponding equipment.
As a result, his order almost did not overwhelm the General Political Department and the aviation force. The aviation force could provide 300 new pilots. According to Yang Zhen's order, the aviation force currently trains 1,500 pilots.
.There will be 700 people who have completed flight training by the end of the year. It is not difficult for 300 pilots.
Sixty veteran pilots, all of whom have at least two years of military service or are cadres who are squad leaders or above, can get by with gritted teeth. However, these highly educated cadres from 300 countries are a headache for the aviation force. The starting point of the army is low.
, the overall educational level is low, and these 300 cadres with a high level of national education are really a bit strenuous.
As the aviation force that gives the highest priority to the troops in the entire Anti-Japanese Alliance, there are quite a few cadres with high national education, and 300 of them are not completely unavailable. But these cadres are now the main force in ground support. If too many cadres are transferred at once
, is to affect the combat readiness of the aviation force. But no one dares to carry out the order issued by No. 1.
For all senior cadres of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, if it is said that because the political commissar is a generous person, his orders can still be negotiated to a certain extent if he is a bit dishonest. The order of No. 3 is not without room for negotiation. So the order of No. 1
Order, but no one dares to compromise on execution.
In the end, the aviation force had no choice but to ask for help from Li Yanping, the acting political commissar of the military region and the political commissar of the field army. Fortunately, Li Yanping, as the political commissar, knew the current situation of the army well. He considered if 300 national troops were to be transferred at once.
Li Yanping still made certain adjustments to the impact of highly educated cadres on the combat readiness of the aviation force.
Of course, he still supported Yang Zhen's request. He knew that three hundred cadres with high national education level was already the minimum number for Yang Zhen's goal. For this matter, Li Yanping went to the commander-in-chief specifically
.From this year's high school graduates in the base area, an additional 300 personnel were allocated to the aviation force.
Taking into account professional and basic issues, Li Yanping clearly ordered the aviation force that all of this batch of new recruits must not be transferred to the UK to study. Among the selected people, there must be at least one hundred veterans. And all selected people must go through strict
Selection and screening. A considerable part of these 300 people were trained as substitutes for them.
Li Yanping repeatedly proposed that the selected people must not only be technically qualified, but also politically strong. It would be better to find a solution if the number is insufficient, and absolutely not allow a trace of instability to appear. In Li Yanping's view, to be an imperialist
To study in the UK, one must be absolutely politically determined.
Otherwise, once someone is seduced by the glamorous world of imperialism and forgets his hard-working and simple style and his identity as a Communist Party member, then the fun will be great. If someone is seduced by the imperialists into defecting and becoming a traitor, then
It is even more embarrassing for the Anti-League.
For Li Yanping now, after so many things, although his favorable impression of the Soviet Union has dropped sharply, and he no longer regards him as the big brother as before. But after all, he had received many years of Marxist-Leninist education before. Germany, Italy, Japan, etc.
They are both imperialist and fascist countries. But the United States and Britain are still real capitalist countries.
Although it cannot be said that we are not as selfless as before, we must also take precautions to prevent any accidents. Now we are only allies because of interests, but we still need to take necessary precautions. Compared with just
Yang Zhen, the political commissar of Li Yanping, who was silently talking about making a fortune while being repelled and defensive, had to put it into action.
He repeatedly emphasized that the cadres selected for study must have strong political ideology. In his words, they must be both red and expert. It is necessary to ensure that they learn the technology, but they must not also learn the decadent ideas of capitalism. Oh, they must be red again.
The words you said were also spoken by Yang Zhen. This bottom line was repeatedly requested by Li Yanping.
In fact, at this juncture when various factories have been put into operation one after another and various technical schools have begun to recruit students, it is not easy to allocate the 300 recruits who graduated from national high schools to the aviation force. The commander-in-chief spent a lot of effort to recruit them.
Additional deployment to the aviation force from the plan.
In order to add these 300 highly educated recruits to the aviation force, the commander-in-chief did not rely on others and personally calculated the number of high school graduates this year all night. The commander-in-chief calculated in detail, even the Puppet Manchukuo High School in the new district
Graduates and graduates of normal schools are included in the calculation.
Especially under the current special approval situation, it really gave him a headache to allocate these 300 high school graduates to the aviation force. He didn't mind violating the regulations and opening this back door to the aviation force, but now he was at his door
Every day the place is blocked by a bunch of guys asking for people.
It was against the regulations at this juncture to allocate 300 people at once, and they could only be male students, which really gave him a headache. Yes, it was indeed a violation of the Northeast Bureau and the Northeast Bureau to allocate these 300 high school graduates to the aviation force.
The military region has strict regulations on recruiting high school graduates into the army.
Now the entire Northeast Bureau and the Military Region have extremely strict requirements for national high school students to enlist in the army. In the words of several members of the Standing Committee, this requirement is not to be picky about students, but to strictly regulate the number of students recruited to join the army. It is not about recruiting more, but
It’s about doing as little as possible.
This was decided after Yang Zhen argued with other members of the Standing Committee for a whole day at the Standing Committee of the Military Region, and for half the night at the Standing Committee of the Northeast Bureau, banging the table. In fact, as the commander of the Military Region, he is more knowledgeable than anyone else.
He is eager to recruit as many intellectuals as possible into the army and build the army into a cerebral army.
With the continuous emergence of new military technologies, new tactics and methods of warfare, the army's demand for intellectuals is becoming larger and stronger. And Yang Zhen, the number one military commander of the army, is even more
It has always been believed that an army with knowledge is a truly modern army. The combat effectiveness of a cerebral army is much higher than that of an illiterate army.
But Yang Zhen knows that this idea can only be thought of at most. The overall level of education in the base area is not high, and the majority of the population is still illiterate. If he wants to build a modern industry, he can only try his best.
It is possible to retain these high school students and allow them to continue their studies to prepare for the industrial construction that is about to begin and for future industrial development.
If we now recruit a large number of students who should have gone to higher education to join the army, it will indeed improve the overall cultural quality of the army in a short period of time. However, in Yang Zhen's view, this is extremely short-sighted and a huge waste of resources. Building a modern society
Industry, without a large number of intellectuals, can only be a fantasy, and that is where China's real hope for the future lies.