The Fourth Disaster Begins at the Dawn of the Millennium

Nilesh's team cleared out police outposts near several "strategic villages" and thereby liberated many farmers, allowing them to return to their homes. The farmers were jubilant, but when they returned, they found that their hometowns had been razed to the ground by bulldozers. The Tata Group's guards had a tense standoff with the farmers, claiming that the Tata Group had purchased the land here from the government and that the farmers had no right to enter.

The player followed Nilesh's team to fight for several days and returned to the base in the forest. It was more chaotic than before. A large number of farmers were forced to enter the forest to seek help from the Maoists because they had lost their land. This certainly made it easy for the Maoists to obtain more troops, but in order to make these troops truly combat-ready, they still needed time for training, weapons and equipment, and food.

But for the Maoists, time, weapons and equipment, and food are all insufficient, especially weapons and equipment, which are basically captured and cannot be stably supplied. Once the intensity of the fighting increases, the Maoist armed forces will quickly consume their equipment stocks and face the situation of waiting to die.

The player met Singh again here. He was temporarily arranged to take charge of the work in this base because the first two leaders of the base were assassinated one after another by the Indian special forces, and in general, the People's Guerrilla Army's counter-encirclement and suppression was not as smooth as before, and Nilesh's team encountered only a few easy situations.

Singh also mentioned that the Tata Group has penetrated deep into the Maoist sphere of influence. "The Red Corridor we control is, to some extent, a resource corridor. Since the discovery of high-grade iron ore in this area, the government and enterprises that were originally indifferent to this place have all cast greedy eyes on it. The state government has secretly signed contracts worth tens of billions of dollars with large companies like the Tata Group. The purpose is naturally to mine in this land. This is why the police force and the government are so serious about encircling and suppressing us. The encirclement and suppression of us is no longer just for political achievements, but also for economic interests..."

The Indian government stipulated that the Tata Group pay very low mining fees. For mining these high-grade iron ores, the company only paid the government 10 to 50 rupees per ton of iron ore, while the price of iron ore in the international market has exceeded 10000 rupees per ton. Such huge benefits certainly attracted the Tata Group and actively signed contracts with local governments.

But those contracts were only treaties written on paper. In order to turn these treaties into real wealth, the peasants had to leave their homes. However, the peasants had been organized by the Maoists, so how could they leave honestly?

As a result, large companies began to provide funds for the government's "military suppression". The well-funded local police and the Central Reserve Police Force invited Mossad as instructors to help them train special forces to assassinate Maoist armed leaders, thereby throwing the Maoist organization into chaos. Some special equipment was also introduced to India, such as thermal imaging equipment, which enabled the police force to gain an advantage over the Maoist armed forces at night.

"We have food reserves, and it is not difficult to buy from merchants. As long as the price is higher, there will always be merchants willing to break through the blockade and sell us food; time... We can also rely on the vast guerrilla zone to deal with the enemy; but weapons and equipment cannot grow out of the ground, even if we have money, we can't buy them..."

"Rich? How much money?" the player asked casually.

"Not much, just some gold that is inconvenient to sell..." Singh replied, "Those religious people who have committed many evil deeds are also the targets of the guerrillas. There is a lot of gold in those temples..."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier!"

"Ah? You...you also have channels to buy and sell arms?" Singh was obviously stunned. He knew that the player must be more than just his apparent identity. Which NGO would come to the Maoist territory? Moreover, his tactical skills were so high, and it was obvious that he had been in the army. But Singh did not expect that the visitor was so complicated.

"Of course, I know the commander of the East Timorese army, and they have a backlog of weapons stocks and are looking for buyers......"

Chapter 219: The Soviet Union is Dead, but Soviet Aid Remains

Players will soon have to move with the Maoists in this camp. It is said that the Indian government has deployed more than 10,000 police forces and various "returning groups" here. The guerrilla army is obviously unable to withstand such an attack. People can only continue to retreat, go deeper into the forest, or retreat to the neighboring state.

A camp can be dismantled in a few minutes and then quickly moved. During the anti-encirclement and suppression war, no camp could stay in one place for more than two days. On average, a Maoist team walked 25-50 kilometers a day in the forest, or even more depending on the specific situation. Almost every one of them was a master of jungle cross-country. Each guerrilla had to march on foot with a heavy bag containing a uniform, a cup, a thick plastic sheet for sleeping, thread and needles, some medicines and books. There would also be some things, such as a toothbrush and a knife and a flashlight, as well as ammunition.

When it was time to go to bed, they spread a plastic sheet and covered themselves with a blanket. For their guests, the players, they spread a scarf on the plastic sheet and spread another plastic sheet over the players' heads to block out the morning dew.

If there is no fighting, the remaining time is often spent in political and military classes. There are frequent patrols in this area. But there is also free time, and the guerrillas read, write, and listen to the radio, which is the only way for them to keep up with developments around the world. The BBC news program is always popular, and they listen to it every morning and evening. Even if someone does not understand English, those who know English will act as interpreters. As for the local radio station, it always broadcasts negative news about the Maoist guerrillas, but they believe that even negative news is news, so they keep listening.

Players from outside were also the first to be asked questions by the guerrillas. They asked the players about the situation of the people in Delhi: Do they have jobs? How much money do they earn? How do they live? They also asked the players why the European revolution did not succeed when Marx and Engels were alive? Is there still class struggle in Europe now? Why did the Taliban and other jihadists use bombs to attack civilians instead of targeting the US military as their main target? Some of the players could answer these questions, some could chat casually, and some could not answer them at all.

Players will also listen to the radio with them. In the radio, the Indian military announced: "We have destroyed more than seven hideouts of the Maoist guerrillas, seized a large number of camping materials and weapons of the Maoist guerrillas, and achieved a major victory in the fight against banditry."

At this time, except for the player, everyone sitting next to the radio laughed. The player was very surprised and asked everyone why they laughed. Then the guerrilla explained: "In order to reduce the baggage and materials they carry and increase the marching speed, the guerrillas deliberately left these items behind for the Indian army to report back. After all, according to the internal regulations of the Indian army, all items seized from the guerrillas, even pots and pans, are considered trophies and are considered meritorious service. In this way, it is good for both of us, the Indian army can safely make meritorious service, and the guerrillas can successfully escape pursuit."

This can be testified by the players who stayed in the cities in India. They bought newspapers and saw the news pictures published in the newspapers. The so-called "captured materials" were just some pots and pans and a few colorful tents for shelter from wind and rain. The only offensive weapons were a few rusty arrows. Even the bows for shooting could not be found, let alone heavy firepower such as machine guns and grenades.

"The content of your proposal is not something I can decide. You need to communicate with Janapati, who is our general secretary. This matter must be passed at a meeting of the Politburo. However, personally, I agree very much. Gold is only valuable when it is exchanged for supplies. The People's Liberation Guerrilla Army is still too weak. We need a more regularized People's Liberation Army. Otherwise, we will be too passive when facing India's large-scale encirclement and suppression. It is hard to say whether we will be beaten into a roving bandit armed force one day..."

After saying goodbye to Singh, the player will meet with the core leadership of the CPI-Maoist. This was originally part of the interview plan. However, after the player exposed his "wild and wide-ranging" nature, this was destined to be more than a simple interview.

The sun shines through the dense leaves, casting mottled shadows on the ground. Deep in the forest, the air is filled with the smell of soil and rotten leaves. This is a sparsely populated forest in central India, but it is the camp of the core leaders of the Indian Maoists who have a bounty of 1 million rupees on their heads. The camp is surrounded by guard posts and fully armed guards are patrolling.

At this moment, there were two people sitting in the hut of the camp. One was the Maoist leader Janapati. He was wearing simple khaki clothes and glasses, more like a scholar than the terrorist promoted by the government. The person sitting opposite him was naturally the player. On the table were neatly arranged weapons inventory documents and a satellite phone, but the two sides had more to talk about than just these things on the table.

The suggestions that the player put forward to Ganapathi have gone beyond the scope of the simple arms business. From a military perspective, the player put forward his own views on the Maoists and the guerrilla army in recent days:

"Guerrilla warfare is indeed an effective way for a weak force to fight a powerful enemy under certain conditions, especially when the enemy is strong and we are weak, or when the enemy is large and we are small. The flexibility, mobility and mass base of guerrilla warfare make it an important form of warfare. However, although guerrilla warfare has its advantages, if it relies too much on guerrilla tactics without standardizing and developing them, it may lead to some negative "guerrilla habits". These days, I have seen some advantages of the guerrilla army, but I have also seen some "guerrilla habits" that must be corrected as soon as possible, such as loose organization, lax discipline and lack of unified command. In the future, the CPI-Maoist will move out of the forests and rural areas and advance to the plains and cities. Sooner or later, the guerrillas will face the problem of transformation to regularization and modernization."

As an Indian Communist Party armed force that is relatively familiar with the history of the Chinese revolution and takes Mao as its teacher, its leader Ganapathy is not unaware of this. He did not fiercely refute the player's foreign friend's statement, but just said politely and with a hint of helplessness:

"I know that in China's revolutionary history, in addition to the guerrillas, there must be a backbone force, that is, the Chinese Red Army, which later became the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and the People's Liberation Army. But my comrades in the Politburo and I do not have the military talent of Chairman Mao in China, nor do we have a backbone military force that has received formal training like the Whampoa Military Academy."

"I understand. This is exactly why I came to visit you. I believe you have already learned from Singh that I have a good relationship with the East Timorese army. They also want to make some money for national construction. Therefore, not only can we sell arms to you, but we can also arrange for a group of East Timorese officers to provide you with formal military training. They have rich experience in using Soviet weapons, and have experience in frontal combat from guerrilla warfare to establishing a regular army."

Well, although this aid comes from a small third world country like East Timor, it is better to have it than not to have it. But Ganapathi suddenly felt something was wrong. How could a small country like East Timor, which had just driven away Indonesia and had not yet officially established a country and became a member of the United Nations, think of exporting military guidance to the Communist Party of India and the Maoists? I have never heard that the Tongan Revolutionary Front is so strong...

But, no matter what the purpose is, as long as the batch of arms on the list is successfully delivered, the CPI-Maoist will pay gold. If East Timor is really willing to take a huge risk to send military instructors over, the CPI-Maoist is also willing to use gold to pay for training fees.

Ganapathi extended his hand to the player and said bluntly: "We know that these weapons and equipment, as well as more valuable military training, cannot be bought with money. Thank you for lending us a hand when we are in trouble. How should I address you, foreign friend? The name attached to the NGO organization should not be your real name."

"You can just call me Joffe, that's part of my real name (game ID)."

At the same time, the player who talked so much in front of Ganapathi applied to join the chat group for players who stayed in East Timor, @ed all members, posted a message and some screenshots of the conversation, and then copied the same content and posted it to the large group. The content was roughly:

"Which brothers want to develop the Indian copy? There is a good deal here to exchange gold for arms. In addition, I talked to their general secretary and successfully persuaded him to accept our military assistance and help them regularize their military. The Communist Party of India is going to set up a military school. There are a series of positions that are short of people, including the principal, military instructor, director of the training department, director of the political department, director of the munitions department, and tactical instructors."

After a while, someone in the group said: "I'll sign up for one! I'll sign up for the principal!"

"Brother, even though this military academy is just a makeshift one, it is still a military academy after all. If you don't have some skills, can you handle it?"

"I may not be able to do it, but my father can. He used to be a regiment commander in the army, and now he has been transferred to the local area and assigned a position as a researcher. There is not much work to do every day. If I encounter a problem that I am not sure about, I will ask my father to come down and guide me. By the way, this guidance to the Communist Party of India is almost enough...

Chapter 220: The Jungle is ablaze with fire

While waiting for the arrival of weapons and instructors, the player using the alias "Yue Fei" had the opportunity and time to see the situation in the core liberated areas of the Maoists.

First, in the rural areas of the liberated areas, land reform can be said to be the most advantageous weapon for the Maoists to win over the lower-class peasants. Notorious landlords have been eliminated, others have fled to the cities, and many smaller landlords have surrendered before the peasant committees. The call for "all power to the peasant committees" is taking shape, and the Maoist regime organizations are firmly rooted in these areas. A large number of people who were struggling on the survival line fifteen years ago have become farmers with at least three acres of land and one or two crops today. This has greatly changed the economic situation of the poorest people.

In the core liberated areas, we can finally see some Maoists engaging in economic construction and infrastructure construction. The Maoists built roads, schools, drainage systems, water supply facilities in these "bases", and in some places even undertook irrigation projects such as building dams and dikes. Most of the projects were built through the voluntary labor of villagers and "reasonable burdens" (that is, the Maoists' tax system). For large projects such as dams, the Maoists will also assist in construction by requisitioning tractors and trucks owned by rich peasants for compensation. Once these large projects are completed, some of them can irrigate 1000 hectares.

Those Maoist cadres also introduced to the players: "Our party opposes superstition and encourages a scientific atmosphere. Many irrational traditional customs among the people are gradually changing." For example, in terms of caste oppression, the party's requirement is to abolish caste concepts and call each other comrades. Outside the party, they do their best to help the people break the caste concept. Inter-caste marriages, which were unheard of before, are now being carried out with the full support of the Maoists, even if they are opposed by family or village elders. The Maoists also attach importance to ending the oppression of women. Collecting dowries has been banned. Even if there are still people doing it, they can only do it in secret.

In addition to the above content, "Yue Fei" also wandered around freely and saw other aspects of the base.

A group of people in simple clothes were busy setting up a makeshift tent. They were quick and efficient, and the tent was quickly set up. The members of the Maoist medical team began to set up a simple diagnosis and treatment table. Before starting work, they made a final check of the vaccines in the portable refrigerator to ensure that they were not damaged during transportation.

The members of these medical teams all look very young. In fact, their medical skills are as immature as their age. Doctors who have received systematic medical education will not come to the rural areas with harsh living conditions to make a living. In many cases, the Maoists can only send key members to the cities to "learn from masters" in various ways, or buy medical books to study on their own, or in some gray areas, ask those doctors who want to make extra money to be trained as Maoists' "barefoot doctors."

The training content is naturally in the form of a crash course. Since malaria, cholera and elephantiasis are the three main local diseases, the doctors mainly explain the symptoms of these diseases to the "barefoot doctor" trainees and distribute the corresponding medicines to them. Each medicine has a different color, so that the trained "barefoot doctors" can provide some of the most basic treatments to patients.

"Won't these 'barefoot doctors' mix up the drugs? Or make misdiagnoses?"

In response to the player's question, the Maoist cadres here said awkwardly: "We can't guarantee that this won't happen. But we will strengthen training as much as possible, or let several barefoot doctors diagnose together to reduce the possibility of this happening."

"Joffe" also saw the education in the Maoist base areas. In these schools managed by Maoists, teachers use some modern teaching equipment if conditions permit. For example, they play videos in history and science classes to show biological evolution, solar eclipses, lunar eclipses and other phenomena.

The player wandered around again, and then sneaked into a school to sit in on a science class. These schools had almost no strict access control, and the people sitting in the classroom ranged from a few years old to teenagers. From time to time, some adults would come to sit in. For example, some people took his history class as a story, and some came to his math class to learn the most basic arithmetic to facilitate business. The teacher on the stage only knew that the person who sneaked in was a foreign reporter, so he didn't feel uncomfortable at all, and just continued teaching. He turned around and drew a big circle on the blackboard, and then put a small dot in the center of the circle.

"This big circle," he said, pointing to the blackboard, "represents our solar system. And this little dot is our Earth."

A little girl sitting in the front row raised her hand and asked timidly, "Teacher, my grandma said that we live on the back of a big turtle. Is this true?"

There was a chuckle in the classroom. The teacher did not criticize the girl, but just smiled and replied: "This is a very interesting idea, but in fact, we live on a planet called Earth, which rotates freely in space." Then he continued to draw other planets on the blackboard and explained: "In addition to the Earth, there are several other major planets, and they all revolve around the sun."

The teacher continued his enthusiastic lecture. "Now, let's talk about the moon." He drew a new circle on the blackboard. "The moon is the Earth's satellite. It revolves around the Earth, just as the Earth revolves around the sun."

This is more of a popular science class than a science class, the kind that teaches "100,000 Whys". At the end of the class, the teacher talked about a bigger topic: evolution. He drew a series of simple pictures on the blackboard, from fish to amphibians, and then to mammals. "How did life begin? How did we humans come from? These questions have troubled scientists for a long time. A scientist named Darwin proposed the theory of evolution. He believed that all organisms gradually evolved from simple forms to complex forms."

"Did we really evolve from monkeys?" a little boy asked directly before he even raised his hand, and then laughter broke out in the classroom.

The teacher was also amused and replied, "Not exactly. We share a common ancestor with monkeys, but we did not evolve directly from monkeys."

All these experiences made "Joffe" feel as if he had returned to the Soviet area in the 30s. He also discovered some experiences that might not have been seen in the Soviet area in the past. For example, he heard that the Maoists actually set up a forest protection department, stipulated that indiscriminate logging was not allowed, and organized the people to replant trees. This is not because the Maoists are idle, but because there are many places in the areas where the Maoists have taken root, which are forests. The forests provide them with shelter, and the output of the forests provides the Maoists with products for trading. Protecting the forests is actually the Maoists protecting their "basic base", and indiscriminate logging is actually digging up their own roots.

The Maoists have their roots in the forest, so the military academy that was to serve as the "Cradle of the Indian Liberation Army Revolution" was naturally also located in the forest.

The morning mist had not yet dissipated, and the sun shone through the gaps between the leaves onto the ground. The mottled light and shadow added a bit of mystery to the forest. In a small open space in the forest, dozens of young people in camouflage uniforms were doing physical training. Under the command of the instructor, they did push-ups in unison. In a small open space not far from them, another group of trainees were conducting tactical drills. They held wooden sticks and simulated the use of rifles, while the instructors instructed them how to hide, aim and shoot. Although the conditions were limited, everyone was fully focused and tried to master every action. Occasionally, the instructors would lead them into the deeper jungle for field exercises to learn how to survive and fight in complex terrain.

Behind them is the crude but fully functional "Naxalite People's Liberation Army School" built by the CPI-Maoist. There are two sentences written on the left and right of its gate: "Please find another way if you are pursuing profit and power" and "Do not enter this gate if you are afraid of difficulties and dangers."

Before the instructors and arms arrived, the work of selecting educated and politically firm people from all Maoist party members and activists to enter the military academy for further studies had already begun. The CPI-Maoist injected the "best fighters" into the academy, hoping that these people with the greatest potential could grow up as soon as possible under the training of foreign instructors.

Chapter 221: Raging Waves, Flying Red Flags

The forest was filled with a damp and sultry atmosphere. The dense tree canopy blocked most of the sunlight, and only sporadic beams of light shone through the gaps between the branches and leaves onto the open space in the forest. The air was filled with the fragrance of soil and plants, and occasionally the sound of birds and monkeys could be heard from afar, adding a touch of vitality to this silent jungle.

Deep in this seemingly peaceful forest stands a military academy of the Maoist armed forces. Four hundred young students and dozens of senior officers are standing in a clearing in neat rows. In front of them is a tall flagpole, and at this moment, a bright red flag is slowly rising.

The trainees were dressed in the same dark green military uniform, with pistols on their waists and rifles on their shoulders, standing in four rows in a neat and orderly manner. Most of them were young people in their early twenties, with firm faces and determined and enthusiastic eyes. Although their clothes were soaked with sweat, everyone stood up straight and stared at the flag rising in front of them without moving.

In front of the trainees were dozens of "Tongkat officers (actually we are corporate warriors of Giant God Company!)" in camouflage uniforms. The officers also stood straight and stared at the flag-raising process intently.

As the majestic melody of the Internationale echoed in the forest, the bright red flag slowly unfolded in the breeze and gradually rose to the top of the flagpole. The song and the flag fluttered together, announcing their existence and ideals to the entire forest.

Standing at the front of the team was an equally young man, their school principal. It was said that he had been the commander-in-chief of the Western Division of the Tongan Revolutionary Front. The Tatamailau Mountain guerrillas led by him grew from 400 remnants in extreme difficulty to a force of several thousand people, and played a huge role in the major counterattack against the Indonesian army. Such a person who can run a team and lead troops in battle is also the talent that the CPI-Maoist urgently needs.

As the flag rose to the top, the last note of the Internationale gradually dissipated in the woods. Yu Bo controlled the character in the game, their principal, and slowly turned around to face the cadets and officers behind him. His eyes swept across every young face, as if he wanted to firmly engrave their appearance in his mind.

The first person to speak on stage was not the principal, but General Secretary Ganapathy, who attended the opening ceremony with the principal:

"Comrades, today is the day you officially enter the Revolutionary Military Academy. I know that many of you have made great sacrifices to come here. Some have left their families, some have given up their studies, and some have even risked their lives. But I want to tell you that your sacrifice is worth it. Because you are fighting to create a more just and equal society. But from now on, you are no longer just ordinary guerrillas, nor are you just ordinary students. You are pioneers who shoulder the heavy responsibility of liberating the people and changing the destiny of the country."

Ganapathi continued:

"Look at the comrades around you. They will be your future classmates who will study hard with you and your comrades who will fight side by side with you. In the days to come, you must trust each other, help each other, and grow together. Only with sincere unity can we fight our way out and guide the oppressed people to rise up and take charge."

Amidst the applause, it was finally the principal's turn to speak. He didn't say anything polite, and he started off by saying:

"Your general secretary told me that you are all carefully selected talents from all aspects. From today on, you are a member of our military academy, but don't think you can relax after entering this door. The road ahead of you will be extremely difficult. After all, war is not a joke, but a contest of life and death."

The principal's eyes swept across the faces of every student like a knife. "Here, you will experience unprecedented harsh training. From today on, every day, from sunrise to sunset, you will struggle to the limit. Physical training, tactical learning, political theory, none of them is easy. These trainings may make your mind and body feel unprecedented pain and fatigue at the same time, and even doubt why you came here. But remember, only by withstanding these tests can you grow into a qualified commander of the revolutionary army."

He paused, looked around to make sure everyone was listening, and then continued: "Some people may think we are too harsh and too inhumane. But I want to tell you that the road of revolution is never comfortable. If you want an easy life, you can leave now. Those who stay, be prepared to endure hardships."

At this point, the principal's tone suddenly softened:

"I hope you understand that we are so strict because we know how heavy the responsibility is. In East Timor, I have seen too many young lives sacrificed due to command errors, casualties that could have been avoided. Everyone who graduates from here will become a future commander. By then, every decision you make may be related to the life and death of the soldiers. A major mistake may lead to the failure of the mission and cause a heavy blow to the revolution. And such consequences will eventually be borne by countless innocent people. Think about the people we are fighting for. Every day they suffer is our responsibility. The stricter we train, the more likely it is that their suffering will end sooner in the future. This is why we must be so strict with ourselves."

After the principal's speech, the entire military academy fell into a brief silence. Everyone was digesting what they had just heard and thinking about their future and responsibilities. The breeze blew through the treetops, bringing a hint of coolness, as if it was nature's encouragement to these young revolutionaries.

Suddenly, a young student raised his right fist and shouted loudly: "For the revolution!" This shout was like a spark, instantly igniting everyone's enthusiasm. Then, the entire military academy erupted in deafening shouts: "For the revolution! For the people!"

The sound echoed in the forest, startling the birds in the treetops. At that moment, everyone felt their heartbeats speed up and their blood boil. As the passionate shouts gradually subsided, the principal turned to face the flagpole again, and the bright red flag was still fluttering in the breeze.

The most urgent task for the military academy is to train a group of qualified company and platoon commanders (because the CPI-Maoist does not yet have the ability to launch military operations involving thousands of people). In fact, some of them have already commanded guerrillas at this level and have also explored their own experience in actual combat. However, not everyone's "wild ways" are effective. The best way to promote those "wild ways" is to come to the military academy, summarize and condense them into written content, so as to form experience that can be replicated by everyone.

Since the goal is to train company- and platoon-level cadres, the first step of the military academy is to specify the teaching objectives, that is, what kind of company- and platoon-level cadres to train.

The platoon leader has the following to do: first, lead the whole platoon to implement combat readiness measures and command the whole platoon to complete combat tasks; second, lead the whole platoon to complete military and political training tasks and improve the military and political quality of all platoon members; third, lead the whole platoon to abide by laws and regulations, strictly implement rules and regulations, maintain regular life order, and develop good work style; fourth, educate the whole platoon to take care of equipment and strictly implement the maintenance, storage and use regulations of equipment; fifth, help the squad leader and deputy squad leader improve their organizational command ability and management and education ability; sixth, grasp the ideological situation of the whole platoon, care for the soldiers, do a good job in ideological and political work, enhance unity, and ensure the completion of various tasks. Seventh, educate and supervise the whole platoon to strictly keep secrets, implement safety measures, and prevent various accidents and cases.

The company commander is basically upgraded on this basis. The political instructor, who is established at the company level, is the person in charge of all company personnel together with the company commander and is jointly responsible for the work of the entire company. Among them, the political instructor bears the main responsibility for the political work of the entire company.

In the goals set by the military academy, platoon leaders and company commanders will become "all-round talents" who will assume leadership and command responsibilities such as combat readiness, training, management, operations, and ideological and political work. After all, in actual combat, the situation of grassroots combat units is "small but complete", and in addition, soldiers will also have "moral role models" expectations for grassroots commanders and fighters. Therefore, an excellent grassroots commander and fighter must meet the requirements of "combining combat and training researchers and practitioners, integrating managers, commanders, and leaders, and involving many roles such as commanders, leaders, educators, instructors, researchers, and coordinators."

"This is fucking training supermen... Can we really do it?" "We can only bite the bullet and work towards this goal. Didn't you see that when I presented this training plan, the general secretary and the members of the Politburo of the CPI-Maoist Party all had their eyes shining..."

Chapter 21 Training Program for the st Century

Once technological advances can be used for military purposes and have been used for military purposes, they will immediately and almost forcibly, and often against the will of the commander, cause changes or even revolutions in the way of fighting. The progress of science and technology is first reflected in the military and causes changes in weapons and equipment, command systems, and command methods.

These changes will require all officers, including grassroots commanders, to improve their quality.

This requirement is not only reflected in the mastery of new military science and high technology, but also in the comprehensive mastery of officers' "time, geography, people" and other aspects. The mastery of this comprehensive knowledge and the enhancement of adaptability are based on education in non-military fields (generally speaking, "general education").

Therefore, the training of such grassroots commanders requires not only extensive knowledge, "knowing astronomy and geography" (knowing both modern scientific and technological knowledge and knowledge of the humanities and social sciences), but also familiarity with basic knowledge of officers such as military thinking, military technology, and military academics, as well as professional knowledge such as tactics, technology, command, leadership, and management, and they must be loyal to the country, the people, and the party in terms of ideology and morality.

At the same time, the training goal set by the player for this military academy is obviously not to pull out a group of quick-trained officers who have been trained for a few months to serve as consumables, but to point out: "Grassroots commanders are growth-oriented officers and are the seedlings of future middle and senior commanders."

From the perspective of officer development, junior commander training is in the position of "basic education" for officer training, laying the foundation for development. It is "basic education" for lifelong development and has the requirement of "laying a solid foundation for future careers as senior officers". Therefore, this basic nature is mainly manifested in laying a solid "foundation for career development" and requires laying a solid foundation for human development.

Only in this way can these qualified company- and platoon-level cadres become qualified battalion- and regiment-level cadres in the future, or go further and command brigades, divisions, and armies.

This high starting point actually made some people in the CPI Maoist leadership somewhat skeptical. They felt that if the same resources were used to train quick-trained officers, more officers could be trained. However, if they followed the path provided by the players, the number of officers trained would be limited. But "Yoffe" also told them, "If you know the army led by Chairman Mao in China very well, you should know that since its birth, that army has been armed with advanced ideas and is a modernized army with culture. The gap between them and the enemy lies in weapons and equipment, not in ideas, tactics and methods of warfare."

From a long-term perspective, if these young people are not trained to become talents with solid foundation and strong political integrity, the subsequent development of the army may easily go astray. Especially in the future, when the Maoist armed forces expand their bases and want to expand their army, without a group of strong backbones to support them, the overall quality of the army may easily collapse.

This can be seen in the history of the Chinese Red Army, the Eighth Route Army, and the New Fourth Army. After each large-scale expansion of the army, the overall quality of the troops declined seriously, and the illiteracy rate increased greatly. New recruits felt bored when taking political education classes, and even had a headache when reading "On the Communist Party". When asked "What is the proletariat", some answered "The proletariat is businessmen". When asked "What is communism", the answer was "bureaucracy". In the context of such an overall decline in quality, various problems will also arise, such as regional discrimination. It is believed that new recruits from xx county are difficult to consolidate, so they are unwilling to strive for and consolidate them; for example, the concept of "If soldiers are not full, they will rob" and "It is natural for soldiers to beat ordinary people" has revived.

Such problems will certainly be encountered when the CPI-Maoist expands its military in the future.

Many Maoists were born and raised under the prevailing values ​​of the ruling class, and these ideas will not automatically disappear when they join the party. Living in a society where feudal and bourgeois values ​​are rampant, those ideas naturally influence them, and the ideology of feudalism and Brahmanism takes root in the subconscious of many people.

If such ideas cannot be completely eradicated through systematic education during military training, who can guarantee that ideas like caste discrimination will not resurface in the minds of some cadres in the future Maoist army? Then arrogance, conceit, narrow-mindedness, contempt for grassroots soldiers and other forms of superiority will follow, and the atmosphere of the entire team will be corrupted. For the future revolutionary army, it can only take these backbones first, so that there is a chance to transform these illiterate poor people into new revolutionaries and eradicate the old ideas in their minds.

Therefore, when the actual classes started, those young students who thought they would learn some profound tactics and strategies right from the start, like many college students, listened to serious college students teaching them "general education courses" in the classroom. Do you think the players in front of the screen don't want to learn those high-sounding contents? It's because these people have too many classes to make up. Even if they are talents carefully selected by the Communist Party of India Mao Zedong's Selected Works, it only shows that they are in good health and have flexible minds, but their knowledge reserves are still pitifully small.

Some people may say that this military academy is "not doing its job properly". The military academies they usually see only teach professional knowledge, but if you look at the basic conditions of the students recruited by both sides, can they be the same? In the era in which the players live, those who join the army as grassroots officers are generally college students who have received higher education, and in this military academy in the forest, those who have a high school education are all the best.

For example, when you start explaining the concept of "stealth fighter" to these students, their understanding of stealth will not be the "invisibility" brought about by "unable to be tracked by radar", but they will understand it literally, and then may ask: "Are they really invisible to the naked eye? Like a magic trick?" Or when you talk to students about "drones", students will understand "drones" as aircraft with their own consciousness, rather than unmanned aircraft.

Or the most basic map reading. Without basic geography courses, students will be confused when looking at the coordinates, contour lines, and scales on the map. In short, modern military equipment and tactics involve many abstract concepts, such as strategic significance and technical principles. Without a solid foundation, it is difficult for students to connect these concepts with practical applications.

While imparting knowledge, military academies also need to cultivate students' abilities in this process, including logical reasoning ability, clear language and text expression ability (oral and written), quantitative and qualitative analysis ability, and communication and cooperation ability. The cultivation of these abilities is crucial to whether these students can become qualified and excellent commanders.

Logical reasoning ability can help commanders make decisions quickly in complex and changing environments, analyze situations, assess risks and consequences, and develop reasonable action plans; clear language and written expression skills can help commanders clearly convey orders and instructions to ensure that subordinates accurately understand and perform tasks; quantitative and qualitative analysis abilities can help commanders analyze collected data and information and develop strategic and tactical plans based on this; good communication and cooperation skills can enable various units to share information more effectively, enhance team cohesion, and improve task execution efficiency.

With solid knowledge and abilities as a foundation, serious professional military training can achieve rapid results. As the saying goes, sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood.

The president explained this slow and inefficient way of training talents to the general secretary and members of the Politburo:

"This is actually very similar to the education provided by the base areas... Military academies cannot cram modern military knowledge into students' heads all at once, and it is impossible to train a group of firm and capable commanders and fighters in a short period of time, just as the Maoists cannot eliminate the numbness and superstition in the hearts of the general public all at once. It is useless to tell them directly that the caste system is wrong. You must first let them learn physics and chemistry, and help people understand the laws of the world by explaining the scientific principles of natural phenomena and material changes, so as to eliminate the superstition of supernatural forces; you must first teach biological knowledge, reveal the basic principles of life and the scientific basis of human health, so as to correct the superstitious ideas about disease and health..."