The first branch of the Central Military Academy moved to Hanzhong in 1938 and ended in 1944, training cadets for four sessions. According to the terms of the headquarters of the Central Military Academy, they are the fourteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth periods. When the earliest fourteenth period arrived in Hanzhong, the teaching facilities such as playground barracks were still under survey and design, so the instructors and trainees were temporarily stationed in the ancient Hantai and North Campus on Handong Avenue.
The Holy Water Temple in Nanzheng County, where the first branch of the Central Military Academy was stationed
There are about 600 cadets in the fourteenth batch, and they are organized into the Fourth General Corps according to the sequence of the Central Military Academy Headquarters in the same period, and there are two brigades under it, and the chief team leader Is li Qiang. In the summer of 1939, due to the Japanese invading forces invading the suizhou and Zaoyang areas in the west, the Kuomintang Military Committee organized the "Battle of Suizao" to block it, the battle was fierce, and the front line was tight, so all the cadets of the fourteenth batch called for early graduation and immediately went to the Hubei battlefield to join the fierce battle. The cadets, who were not afraid of tigers, fought with the superior forces of the Japanese army in Zaoyang, Macheng, and other places, and with tenacious combat effectiveness, blocked the fierce And vicious Japanese Kou on the front line of western Hubei, so that they could not cross the thunder pond for half a step, ensuring the safety of southern Shaanxi and eastern Sichuan.
The office of the first branch in the Holy Water Temple in Zheng County, South Hanzhong
In the autumn of 1939, the first branch enrolled the sixteenth batch of cadets, organized into two corps. The Tenth General Brigade was stationed in the north of Hanzhong City, with Wuxiang Township as the center, and the commander-in-chief was Li Jie, a major general of the Nationalist Army. The Tenth General Brigade is divided into two brigades, the first and second brigades, each of which is divided into four squadrons, and each squadron has three districts and nine infantry squads, with 12 to 16 cadets in each squad. The squadron is the basic unit for teaching and training, and is stationed in the villages under Wuxiang Township, such as the first brigade of the heavy squadron was stationed in the east village of Wuxiang Town, and the second cavalry squadron was stationed in Shengjiachong, Wuxiang Town. There are more than 1,000 students in the Tenth Corps, most of whom are local youths in Hanzhong, who have high hopes from their fathers and brothers because they are studying in their hometowns, so they study hard, train seriously, and have a high comprehensive quality. The 11th General Brigade was stationed at the Holy Water Temple on the south bank of the Han River and was organized into the 3rd and 4th Brigades. The captain is Chen Jiguang, and the captains are Zhong Yongzhen and Cai Xiangcheng. The corps is also divided into eight squadrons with a total of 960 cadets. The sixteenth batch of cadets graduated at the end of the spring of 1940 and were assigned to hu Zongnan's units in the Ninth Theater of Operations for appointment as probationary platoon leaders.
Zhu Shaozhou, director of the first branch of the Central Military Academy
In February 1940, the First Branch School began to recruit the seventeenth batch of cadets, giving priority to the formation of more than 400 students exiled from the occupied areas into an enlistment group and placed them in the barracks of the military academy near the Holy Water Temple. The opening ceremony was then held in early April for the young students who had registered for the examination, including the screening of height, physical fitness and vision screening, as well as the cultural curriculum test. The 2,100 recruited cadets were divided into two corps. The 18th General Brigade had jurisdiction over the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Brigades, and the Headquarters headquarters was located in the newly built barracks of Shiyan Temple at the foot of Tiantai Mountain; the 19th Headquarters had the 4th and 5th Brigades under its jurisdiction, and the Headquarters headquarters was still stationed in Nanzheng Shengshui Temple, and later all of them were relocated to the headquarters of the First Branch of Shiyan Temple in the summer of 1941. Due to the large number of students in the seventeenth period, coupled with the fact that the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was already in a stalemate stage at that time, and the Japanese-Kosovarian military offensive was also effectively contained, the school system was slightly longer, and it was not until December 1941 that the graduation period expired.
The former site of the office of the first branch of the Central Military Academy in Hanzhong
In the summer of 1942, on the occasion of the eighteenth enrollment of cadets, Kuomintang Army Lieutenant General Liu Zhongdi came to Hanzhong to take over the post of director of the first branch of the Central Military Academy. After taking office, Liu Zhongdi put forward the policy of running a school by strengthening the education of students in cultural classes and improving the comprehensive quality of students. Therefore, the Fourth Regiment of Enlisted Students of the Military Training Department of the First Branch School was set aside separately as a teaching base for pilot liberal arts and sciences, and the regimental headquarters was located at the Holy Water Temple on the south bank of the Han River, with Major General Xiao Yulin of the Nationalist Army as the regimental commander. At the same time, a branch school also revised the enrollment charter, stipulating that from the eighteenth period, students applying for the school must first enter the Wusheng regiment for one year and pass the examination before they can be admitted.
Zhu Shaozhou, director of the First Branch of the Central Military Academy, wrote a birthday speech for the people
In view of the equipment superiority of the mechanized infantry of the Japanese invading army, Liu Zhongdi also initiated the tactical training class of the mountain corps according to local conditions. To this end, he mixed a group of recruits from Sichuan and Guizhou into a mountain regiment, with Gao Jian, a mountain tactics expert, as the regimental commander, who specialized in teaching mountain warfare techniques. After more than a year of hard training, when the first branch school was closed in 1944, the mountain regiment conducted a large-scale live-fire exercise in the Tiantai Mountain area, and the technical and tactical level of officers and men was excellent. After that, the mountain regiment was expanded from the Kuomintang Military Committee to the 42nd Mountain Division, with Liu Zhongdi as the first division commander, and went to Hunan to participate in the final battle against the Japanese invading army, with brilliant results.
The slogan of Sun Yat-sen's "Premier's Will" written in the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangzhou
The First Branch of the Central Military Academy was founded in the most difficult and difficult years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and at the personal initiative of Chiang Kai-shek, chairman of the Kuomintang Military Commission, the school had high standards, a complete organization, a clear division of labor, and strict management. At that time, the directors of the first branch were all lieutenant generals of the National Army, and the chiefs and chiefs of the various divisions were awarded the rank of major generals of the army; the captains of the brigades were generally colonels, and the squadron leaders were lieutenant colonels and majors; and the district captains were generally captains and lieutenants. It is worth mentioning that in order to strengthen the ideological education of the cadets, each squadron has a supervisor responsible for political work, usually a captain-level officer, who assists the squadron leader in managing the life and study of the cadets. In order to smooth the upload and distribution of the training plan, the headquarters headquarters has a section corresponding to the major of the school headquarters; the brigade headquarters has full-time personnel such as clerks, quartermasters, and adjutants; and the squadron has a special agent and secretary for handling logistics affairs.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek inspected the troops
As an important core department of the first branch of the Central Military Academy, the Main Responsibility of the Education Department is to manage the military instructors at all levels and daily training of the whole school. At most, there were nearly 100 military instructors, and they were taught according to the characteristics of infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers, communications, and reinforcements. Instructors generally range from major to colonel, and are basically filled by honors students who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy in the early days. The Education Department has a chief instructor, who has always been the major general of the Nationalist Army, Shi Guojun, who directly controls the practice camp of the school headquarters and is also in charge of the school's security and public security work.
The Han Middle East Gate Bridge Market in the 1940s
It is precisely because the Education Department has a pivotal position in the first branch, so it also attaches great importance to the candidates for the past directors, which not only requires old qualifications, but also requires high level. For example, the first director of the division, Zhang Luhe, graduated from the Sixth Infantry Section of the Baoding Army Officer School in his early years, became the deputy officer of education of the senior class of the Whampoa Military Academy in 1926, and had contacts with Comrade Zhou Enlai, then director of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy; in July 1933, he became the attached company of the Officer Education Company of the Central Military Academy in Nanjing, and had a colleague with Zhang Zhizhong, the "General of Peace" who was also the company commander; in March 1939, he was transferred to the major general of the Education Department of the First Branch of the Central Military Academy, and in April 1941 he was promoted to deputy director of the First Branch After the completion of the first branch, he was appointed as the administrative inspector and security commander of the sixth district of Shaanxi Province in January 1945, and served as a local official in charge of Hanzhong for more than three years. When Hanzhong was liberated in December 1949, he was captured by the People's Liberation Army as a senior senator of Lieutenant General Hu Zongnan's headquarters, and after reform, he was pardoned and released, and settled in Hanzhong in his later years and spent the rest of his life in peace. (To be continued)