Chapter 1908 Studying Abroad Life
Having eaten like this before they arrived, the mood of these new students was a little low, but at the same time it also made them realize that studying abroad is not as easy as they imagined. If they don't work up their spirits, God knows. How will this vicious ancient instructor deal with him?
Haihan's military management is extremely strict. Most of the North Korean students have experienced this firsthand at the Datong River base. Now it seems that this strict style has been cultivated since the military academy training stage, and judging from Gu Wei's attitude just now, Haihan should be planning to train them with the same standards.
If we consider it from the perspective of learning skills, such strict requirements are certainly a good thing. At least it shows that Haihan's training is more serious and does not intend to paddle in the process. This means that students can learn here. Real skills, rather than just going all the way to complete the task.
But everything has two sides. Although it is good for Haihan to take this matter seriously, it means that North Korean students will suffer more during the training process. Haihan did not give a clear time limit for studying abroad before coming here, but it was at least more than half a year. This may mean that if they cannot complete the training course within the stipulated time, the time for studying abroad may continue to be extended until they can Until graduation.
Moreover, during this period, these officer cadets will probably be the most depressed group of people in the study abroad team. It is basically difficult to have a vacation away from the army base. Until graduation, except for officially organized outings, most of their time will be spent in the camp here.
However, the current North Korean students are still new to the base and are completely new to the base. They will not feel that there is anything wrong with this environment for the time being. After they retreated here for a month or two, they probably began to miss the urban area of Sanya that they had glanced at when they came here.
Immediately, officers took these cadets to the camp to arrange accommodation. The barracks at Luhuitou Base were accommodated according to the establishment of ten people per class, so the fourteen North Korean cadets were divided into two groups, and ten of them lived in one room. , the remaining four people, including Andao Shi, lived in another room with several Ming army officers from Fujian.
These Fujian officers came a few days earlier than An Daoshi and others. They had already completed all the admission procedures, even received their training uniforms and other personal belongings. They had also watched the graduation examination of the previous batch of trainees with them on the sidelines.
The Fujian Ming Army has cooperated with Haihan for many years and is one of the strongest allies with Haihan. Before Haihan officially founded the country, it has been secretly sending overseas students to Sanya to learn military skills. For the young officers of the Fujian Ming Army, going to Sanya for further study is almost the only way to be promoted, and Xu Xinsu selects some outstanding newcomers almost every year and sends them here to be trained by Haihan. Nowadays, the young officers in charge of the Ming Army in Fujian basically have the experience of going to Sanya for further study. For example, Xu Jiaqi and Xu Yuzhuo, descendants of the Xu family, even came here more than once.
For students from Fujian, even if it is their first time to come to Sanya, they will not be too unfamiliar here. The various experiences their predecessors gained here have been passed down to the newcomers in almost every detail. How to live here, how to get along with instructor Haihan, and even what they need to learn, these new students already know everything about it before coming to Sanya, and this is something that the North Korean students will never be able to catch up with. Gained an advantage.
Fujian has sent many groups of officers to study in Sanya over the years. In fact, the Fujian Ming Army can internally introduce the old to the new with some relatively basic military theoretical knowledge and combat skills. There is no need to send people to Sanya to learn. But Xu Xinsu still insisted on this arrangement and had no intention of changing it.
For the Fujian Ming Army, sending people to Sanya for further training was not only for learning advanced military knowledge and adapting to Haihan's command system, but also for certain diplomatic purposes. In this environment, young officers can have the opportunity to make friends with Haihan and soldiers from other countries. By the way, they can open their eyes to see the most prosperous trading port in the South China Sea and understand Haihan's customs and enthusiasm. These are all valuable gains. As for spending more military expenditures for this, it was not a problem for Xu Xinsu, who was determined to hold Haihan's thigh tightly.
Of course, Xu Xinsu didn't spend a lot of money to send them to travel around the world. With such good conditions, at least their academic performance should not be worse than that of their predecessors. If you can't even do this, then don't expect any promotion after returning to Fujian.
"I heard that you are from North Korea. Can you understand what I am saying? From now on, we are going to live under the same roof, why not get to know each other first?"
As soon as Andao Shi and others settled down, a Fujian officer who looked to be in his early twenties came over to say hello. As the first person to compete in Datongjiang, Andao Shi has now become the leader of this study abroad team. He immediately stood up and responded: "Before I came to Sanya, I learned Haihan Mandarin, and I have no problem in daily conversation. I'm following. Andao-seok, the military commander of Pyongyang Prefecture, North Korea’s National Pyongyang Province.”
In fact, An Daoshi's official position was just a false one. Before the War of Resistance against the Qing Dynasty, he was just an ordinary officer. He only commanded about a hundred or so troops, all of which were accumulated by fighting with the Haihan Army in the second half of the war. After his military exploits, he was selected to be sent to the Datongjiang base for training. After obtaining the qualifications to study abroad, North Korean officials considered that the officers studying abroad must have a decent status to facilitate their activities in Haihan Kingdom, so before they set off, they all received surprise promotions, and Andosi was promoted several levels in a row. After getting this official position - of course, there are currently no corresponding troops for him to command, and even the military salary has not been paid according to the grade of the new official position. It is just a title that sounds more powerful.
The Fujian officer obviously did not understand what level of position An Daoshi was talking about, but this would not prevent him from getting close to the Koreans: "It turns out to be Mr. An, whom I have admired for a long time! I am at the Chongwu Institute of Yongning, Quanzhou, Fujian Qianhu Dong Shangyi”
"Master Dong, you are polite!" An Daoshi also bowed quickly, and then introduced several of his companions to him.
Dong Shangyi's official position is not a false position like that of Andao Shi's temperance envoy, but he actually has more than a thousand soldiers under his command. As for why he was able to serve as a guard officer at a young age, it was naturally because of his unusual background. Dong Yanyun, the number one aide around Xu Xinsu, is Dong Shangyi's old father. Although he is not a descendant of the Xu family, but with the care of his father's generation, he may enjoy better treatment than the children of the Xu family's side branches.
Dong Shangyi is Dong Yanyun's fourth son. Although he is young, he showed his military talent before he reached adulthood. However, as a counselor and civil servant, Dong Yanyun still hopes to train him to follow his own path. After all, joining the army still carries relatively high risks, and being a civil servant can also take the upper-level path. But after Xu Xinsu heard about Dong Shangyi's situation, she believed that there was no need to restrict Dong Yanyun's development. There were obvious conditions for Dong Shangyi to join the army and lead troops earlier, so why force him to play with his pen? So a few years ago, with Xu Xinsu's special approval, Dong Shangyi, who had just grown up, entered the military service. At first, in order to reassure Dong Yanyun, he was only arranged to be an attendant military attache in the Zhangzhou Guards. Later, he found an opportunity to arrange for him to receive training at the Haihan Base in Penghu, and then he was sent to Yongning Guards to serve as a general flag. A year later, he was promoted to 100 households. Last year, because of his performance in the internal competition of the Fujian Army, Because of his outstanding performance, Xu Xinsu promoted him to the Qianhu of Chongwu Institute, and at the same time he became the youngest Qianhu of many health clinics in Fujian. His promotion speed was enough to make most people envious.
Although Xu Xinsu has long had the actual power to appoint military positions in Fujian, the positions appointed by the Fujian General Soldier are not as glamorous as those directly appointed by the Ministry of War. For this reason, Xu Xinsu even used her contacts in the Ministry of War to get Dong Shangyi a formal letter of appointment stamped with the seal of the Ministry of War, which showed how much he attached importance to him - of course, this also included the element of rewarding his old subordinate Dong Yanyun.
Xu Xinsu helped pave the road. Naturally, Dong Yanyun could no longer refuse the kindness of his boss. In addition, Dong Shangyi himself was also willing to take the road of joining the army, so he followed Xu Xinsu's arrangement and let his son walk on this road. Went down.
Dong Shangyi had a thousand households at a young age and had no great military achievements to speak of. Of course, it was easy for him to attract gossip and even be secretly hated. Even if others dare not offend him because of his family background, if he wants to move forward, he must have enough personal strength after all. So after working as a member of the Qianhu household for a year, Xu Xinsu put him on the list of people to study abroad in Sanya with a stroke of his pen. After he returns from his studies, he will be given the opportunity to lead troops on expeditions. After he has achieved solid military exploits, he will be gradually promoted to a higher position.
Moreover, Haihan will set up a coalition headquarters in the coming year to be responsible for coordinating and commanding future joint operations. As an ally, Fujian must definitely contribute and send outstanding talents to this organization to ensure its own interests and voice. Although Xu Xinsu has many good generals under his command, he also wants to see if Dong Shangyi, who is known for his military talent, can improve his strength by studying abroad and win the qualification to enter the joint command next year.
After the two sides introduced each other, Andao Shi learned that these Ming army officers respected Dong Qianhu, who seemed to be the youngest, and the others held positions such as Baihu and General Banner. He did know a little bit about the Ming Dynasty's military system, and he knew that Dong Shangyi's position was already a full fifth-grade military attache, which was much more powerful than the empty position above his head. But being able to hold a high position at such a young age, Ahn Do-seok felt that if he had not made extraordinary achievements, it should be because of his unusual family background - several North Korean military officers who studied abroad were in the latter situation.
However, Andao Shi was not a person who knew no sense of propriety. Naturally, he would not immediately ask the other party's personal situation face to face. He would just politely chat with these Fujian officers and learn about the training arrangements.
Although Dong Shangyi was a military attache, he still inherited some of his father's traits and was quite thoughtful. After a few conversations, he realized that these people knew almost nothing about the local situation, and even didn't know much about the training content and related arrangements. No corresponding preparations were made. There is no doubt that North Korea is still a rookie in this field and does not know the ropes of studying abroad arrangements.
If you understand the training courses and related arrangements in advance and make corresponding preparations, it will definitely be easier to achieve results than those who are ignorant, and it will be easier to win the favor of the instructor. This was considered a shortcut, but the other party did not ask, and Dong Shangyi was not so kind as to take the initiative to remind his North Korean counterpart when they met for the first time. He just told the other party that personal items such as training uniforms should be collected from the logistics office, and the formal training course would start in two days.
An Daoshi asked: "Excuse me, Mr. Dong, do we all study the same courses?"
Dong Shangyi did not answer his question first, but once again got close to each other: "From now on, you and I will come and go like adults every day. Wouldn't it seem that we are at odds with each other? The instructor said that in the training camp, students are not judged based on their official positions. , it is easier to distinguish by age, so I will call you Brother An!”
An Daoshi thought it made sense. The awkwardness of this title was second to none. Wouldn't it be quite embarrassing if instructor Haihan heard the students address each other as "Sir So-and-so". Immediately he agreed to Dong Shangyi's intention and said "Brother Dong".
Dong Shangyi then answered his previous question: "Brother An probably doesn't know this. Army personnel are trained here, and the course schedule will be different due to different majors. The specific courses you need to learn also depend on your major. .”
An Daoshi said: "I came in a hurry and didn't have time to understand what majors there are. Can Brother Dong explain a few things?"
Dong Shangyi thought to himself that since you asked, I will help you, and explained patiently: "Actually, it is mainly divided into three categories. One is the command profession. Needless to say, this is infantry, artillery, and cavalry. The tactics and strategies of common arms are listed here; the second is the munitions profession, which includes ordnance manufacturing, maintenance, logistics and equipment arrangements, etc.; the third is the information profession, which is responsible for document writing, propaganda and agitation, military information collection and transmission, etc. The courses you take are slightly different. Of course, if you are a generalist, you can also choose to take them all, but the training time may be very long.”
An Daoshi frowned when he heard this. He didn't know that there were these doorways in between. No one had introduced these situations to them before. Such a detailed division of labor in General Haihan will indeed appear more professional, but it will also make it difficult for them to choose.
Of course, they must learn combat command. This is the main purpose of their coming here. But other courses also sound valuable, and they seem to be irreplaceable. But how much time will it take to complete so many courses?
(End of chapter)