1943 In March, the Legislative Yuan of the National Government promulgated a new military service law, expanding the scope of conscription and narrowing the scope of probation. Young students are encouraged to join the army, and students are required to keep their school status during their service, so that young students, especially college students, have eliminated their concerns about their school status.

1943165438+1On October 23rd, 28 teachers and students from Sichuan Santai National Northeastern University, headed by Zhao, and 100 middle school students asked the county government to join the expeditionary force to kill the enemy. 1943165438+10/5, Xu Siping, chief of staff of Sichuan Military Region, attended the Prime Minister's Memorial Week of Northeastern University and delivered a speech, talking about the reasons why intellectuals were required to join the Indian army, saying that this was the need to "expand the expeditionary force and open up the Yunnan-Myanmar road". There were 15 boys and 4 girls applying to join the army. Xu Siping wrote to Chiang Kai-shek and suggested that the youth military movement should be extended to the whole Kuomintang-controlled area.

1943 65438+In February, the Military Service Bureau of the Ministry of War of the National Government promulgated the Measures for Students' Voluntary Service, which stipulated: "Anyone who wishes to perform military service in a school above secondary school shall be at least 18 years old."

1September, 944, Chiang Kai-shek called for "100,000 educated youths to join the army" and promulgated many special preferential regulations for educated youths to join the army, such as leaving their jobs without pay; Students retain their school status; Family members are given preferential treatment by the families of anti-Japanese soldiers. The government has made a big splash in the society, and newspapers and slogans have intensified their propaganda.

Chiang Kai-shek194410 12 said: "First, ordinary citizens should change their psychology about military service in the past, so as to actively apply for military service and enrich their fighting forces. The second is to make people change their attitude towards the Kuomintang in China, understand the spirit of sacrifice of the Kuomintang in China, accept the leadership of the Kuomintang, and jointly accomplish the revolutionary mission. The latter is more important than the former.

1944101October 2 1 day, Chiang Kai-shek issued a slogan that made young people excited: "One inch of mountains and rivers and one inch of blood, 100,000 young people and 100,000 troops", which at one time formed a craze for young intellectuals to join the army in many places.

Since then, the Youth Expeditionary Force has rushed to the front line and was demobilized in the autumn of 1946. According to Huang Wei, a former deputy director of the comprehensive department of young intellectuals' compilation and training, in the article Memories of the Youth Army, from September 65438 to September 0944, nearly100000 young intellectuals were recruited one after another.

The training period of the youth expeditionary force is three months, and the training subjects range from weapons to tactics, with equal emphasis on disciplines, skills and concepts. The Youth Expeditionary Force is also divided into artillery, infantry and engineers. After entering the camp, we should train in groups according to education, physique and volunteers. After short-term training, each division was formally incorporated into the regular army. Nine divisions of the Youth Army are respectively affiliated to the 6th Army, 9th Army and 3 1 Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and quite a few of them have been transferred to the New 1 Army, the New 6th Army, the New 5th Army, the trench car 14 Regiment, 15 Regiment and the Gendarmerie 3, 4/5 Regiment. More than 500 students from 20 1 division went to India. More than 250 students from the 203rd Division went to India, including 48 translators and 4 students sent to aviation schools. The number of trainees from the 204th Division to India is 1074, and the number of trainees from the 207th Division to India is several hundred. The total number of young soldiers assigned to the Indo-Myanmar Expeditionary Force is 1000. After graduating from training in India, they were quickly sent to the front line of India and Myanmar to work as technical arms such as transportation, tanks and chariots. The Youth Army has successively participated in major counter-offensives in northern Myanmar, such as Myitkyina, bhamo, Namkham and Lashio, and played a positive role in opening up the China-India highway.