Chapter 107: Commander, Deputy Commander and Instructor (Please Subscribe!)

Australia's military expansion plan has achieved initial success.

In just one week from February 21 to February 27, tens of thousands of people went to various recruitment offices to register.

Because of the limit on the number of recruits, most of these applicants may be screened out in the future, and only some young people with flexible minds and strong bodies will be selected to join the army.

Those who successfully registered will undergo a week-long training in the local city.

During this week of training, those who are truly suitable to join the army will be screened out, and the rest will be repatriated with a sum of money.

Each city will have a certain number of recruits based on its population. Even Sydney, the capital of Australia, has a recruitment quota of only 4,000 people this time.

The entire recruitment took more than three weeks, and nearly 30,000 people had already registered.

The Ministry of Defense also took the opportunity to stop the recruitment plan. It is not a problem to select 15,000 new recruits from these 30,000 people.

For other people who were not selected, the Ministry of Defense also distributed one pound of severance pay to each of them.

This also made those who were not selected not too disappointed. After all, according to the current per capita income level in Australia, one pound is already the monthly income of most Australians.

One month later, on March 20, 1902, two thousand veterans and fifteen thousand recruits were integrated into Australia's first regular division, the Australian First Defense Division.

Arthur also personally attended the founding ceremony of the First Defense Division and personally appointed the commander of the First Defense Division.

Because it is preparing for the future expansion of the army, the officers of the First Defense Division are very large.

The senior officers of the First Division are composed of Division Commander John McLean, Deputy Division Commander Jurgen Schüller and Instructor Bernhard Langer.

Division Commander John McLean is one of the senior generals in Arthur's Guards. He is trustworthy in both military quality and loyalty, and is naturally the best choice for the commander of the First Division.

Deputy Division Commander Jurgen Schüller was a senior general of the Australian garrison before, and he also burst out with considerable potential after the reorganization. The position of deputy commander of the first division is also a training position for him. If his ability and loyalty can be confirmed at the stage of deputy commander, then he should be the commander of the second division in the future.

Bernard Lange's identity is the most special. Bernard Lange is the team left by Duke Arthur to Arthur, but his ability is somewhat special.

When it comes to civil and military affairs, that is, the ability to handle government affairs and the ability to lead the army, Bernard Lange can only be considered barely qualified.

But Bernard Lange has a more special advantage, that is, he is good at speaking, and his speeches are extremely persuasive.

This feature is a bit like the heads of state in later generations. When Bernard Lange speaks, he can always mobilize the emotions and resonance of most of the audience.

This ability seems useless in some aspects, but it is extremely important in some special aspects.

Arthur decisively made him the person in charge of ideological education in the army, and let him select talents and form his ideological education team.

The result is obvious. Bernard Lange completed his task very well, and made the veterans who had received training before understand how important it is to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic.

Now that the army has been reorganized, Arthur also let him continue to be the instructor of the First Division. The position of instructor was specially established by Arthur. As one of the senior generals of a unit, the instructor is mainly responsible for the ideological education of all soldiers and officers in the unit, and is secondarily responsible for the logistics of the army.

Although it seems that the role of instructor should have the lowest voice among the three senior generals, it is actually the opposite.

Arthur gave the instructor a lot of power. In addition to not being able to directly command the troops to fight, the usual ideological work objects even include the division commander and the deputy division commander.

This also directly made the role of instructor the second person in the First Division, and the power directly surpassed the deputy division commander.

The three senior officers of the First Division are just like a triangle, each with their own areas of responsibility. While not affecting each other, they can supervise each other to ensure that there will be no problems in the army.

The First Division is stationed in the mountains, where they will be trained for at least one year, and then divided into small units based on regiments, stationed around Australia and New Guinea.

In order to ensure the logistical supply of these soldiers, as well as the various ammunition and materials needed for their training, at Arthur's suggestion, the Ministry of Transport directly built a highway leading to the military zone, mobilizing more than 3,000 indigenous people to complete this more than 20-kilometer highway before the soldiers arrived.

This mountainous area will also become a camp for Australia to train its troops in the future, training batches of excellent soldiers for Australia.

In terms of material supply, the Ministry of Defense is also unceremonious. Just like the previous military training, it is guaranteed that each soldier has at least two meals with meat every day, and eats at least one pound of meat every day.

The food supply is even more varied, with at least five kinds of food to choose from for each meal, and it will change every day.

Arthur is very generous with the food supply for these soldiers, with only one requirement, that is, no waste.

With at least one pound of meat per day, accompanied by a lot of physical training, the physique of these recruits changes every day. In just one month, they have a lot of meat on their bodies.

Arthur was satisfied with this progress. The strength of the soldiers also represents the combat effectiveness of the soldiers to a certain extent.

No one wants to see the soldiers of their own country skinny and bony, looking like they can be blown down by the wind, let alone think about participating in the battle.

In Arthur's concept, the Australian army should be an excellent army that looks strong and is actually stronger.

Even if it costs a lot of money and supplies to train these soldiers, Arthur will not hesitate.

For this reason, the military factory is working overtime to produce weapons and ammunition. Whether it is the Lee Enfield rifle, the CA-1 machine gun or the MA-96 Maxim machine gun, a large amount of equipment is required.

With rounds of target shooting training and weapon training, the ammunition consumption of these weapons is a huge number.

Arthur's military factory has been working overtime during this period, and even recruited rounds of workers for this.

One by one, Lee Enfield rifles, MA-96 Maxim machine guns, and CA-1 machine guns were transported to the barracks and sent to the soldiers for use.

This also makes the First Division more and more like a regular army, and is moving towards becoming an elite force.

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