Chapter 23 4. Overview of the Nanjing Youth Field Service Training Course

The full name of the Nanjing Youth Field Service Training Class is: Nanjing Youth Field Service Training Class of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government (referred to as the combat training class).The director is the Sixth Department of the Military Commission (Department of the Democratic Movement, Minister Chen Lifu, and the deputy director is Huang Zhongxiang (that is, the person who came to talk to us in a suit on the day we were about to leave the security command). The address of the combat training class is in the original The former site of the Central Political School of the Kuomintang. The organizational structure of the combat training class: there is a class headquarters, a brigade department and a political training department under it. The captain of the brigade is Li Bingchang, and the director of the political training department is Lei Xiling. There are three squadrons, girls are organized into a district team. Each squadron has a political instructor, there are three district teams, and each district team has three small teams. The squadron leader, district leader, and political instructor are appointed by the squadron; the team leader is appointed by the district leader Assign students.

The training content of the combat training class: (1) Military training is the main focus and takes up the most time every day.At the beginning, it was unarmed drills, standing at attention, taking a rest, and walking; later, each person was issued a rifle, trained to hold a gun, learned to aim and shoot, and finally conducted a target-shooting exercise. (2) Political training is divided into two categories: the first category is "spiritual speech".Wang Jingwei, Chen Lifu, Huang Zhongxiang, Liu Jianqun, Yan Yangchu, Lei Zhen and others all gave "spiritual speeches" in the combat training class.Wang Jingwei talked about the "Scorched Earth War of Resistance"; Chen Lifu talked about "survivalism"; Liu Jianqun talked about "one party, one doctrine, one government, and one leader"; eggs" policy.The second category is that political instructors talk about "the prime minister's legacy" and "leader's words and deeds."He told a lot of jokes, and was often questioned by the students, speechless and speechless.

(3) Common sense of field service.These include field ambulance, field communications, and field reconnaissance. Shanghai fell, Nanjing was in critical condition, and Japanese planes dropped bombs to Nanjing every day, making it difficult to carry out training normally. One night in late November 1939, the students suddenly received an order: "Emergency assembly!" The team leader Li Bingchang stood in front of the team and announced in a hurried voice: "I am ordering from the superior, all the personnel of this class, leave Nanjing tonight. Now Take the squadron as a unit, make preparations for marching, listen to the order and gather to set off." More than 50 strong students were temporarily transferred from each squadron to form a security team, responsible for the front station and maintaining the safety of the camp.Centralized transportation of luggage.The whole group of students arrived at the riverside, bid farewell to Nanjing with a very heavy heart, boarded a ship, went upstream along the Yangtze River, and arrived in Wuhu the next day, where they stayed for about 10 days.

In early December, Nanjing was in an emergency and Wuhu was under threat. The students of the combat training class started marching on foot and arrived at Yashan Town, Nanling County, Anhui Province, where they stayed for about half a month. In mid-December, Nanjing fell.The combat training squad was ordered to transfer, starting from Yashan, passing through Qingyang, Guichi, Dongliu, and Zhide, and arrived at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi. At the beginning of the establishment of the combat training class in Nanjing, the announced training period was 3 months; by the end of December, the trainees should graduate.However, the authorities of the training course delayed the training plan on the pretext of marching and wanted to extend the training period.The trainees resolutely opposed it and demanded to graduate on time and be assigned to front-line work.After a tortuous struggle, the students finally won the victory.The authorities of the combat training class held a graduation ceremony for the graduates in Jingdezhen on January 1, 1938; each graduate was given a graduation certificate and a commemorative badge.

In early January 1938, the authorities of the combat training class transferred more than 100 graduated male trainees to Wuhan, waiting for assignments. I was one of them.