Volume 8 Hundred Years of Resentment Chapter 51 The Tip of the Knife
The ringtone rang out quickly, and Li Dongshi turned over and jumped up, kicking his foot that was still lying.
"What are you doing... Emergency... Emergency gathering!"
"Get up and gather outside in two minutes." Li Dongshi shouted and said to Zhang Zhi, "Let the platoon leader come over, I'll go to the battalion headquarters to see the situation and come back soon."
Zhang Zhi nodded, his movements became much more nimble.
After the end of the Peninsula War, Li Dongshi was promoted to the acting company commander of the 3rd Company of the 1533rd Battalion, and then went to the National Defense University for two years to receive training before officially becoming the company commander. The five elders fought very fiercely. Only the company commander of the 1st Company and 3 platoon leaders in the battalion where Li Dongshi lived until the end of his victory. Dozens of officers, including the chief of staff of the battalion, died in the battle. After Li Dongshi was promoted to company commander, Zhang Zhi was promoted from a non-commissioned officer to an officer and became an instructor of the 3rd Company. Other veterans who lived from the battlefield either became grassroots officers or became non-commissioned officers.
At that time, the 153rd Brigade was airborne and promoted hundreds of soldiers to an extraordinary promotion, which also attracted a lot of criticism.
According to the system of the Republic, unless you have the opportunity to study in a military academy during your service, it is difficult for soldiers like Zhang Zhi to become officers. Generally speaking, officers are trained by major colleges, and the army is only responsible for training non-commissioned officers. It is indeed unprecedented to promote hundreds of soldiers to officers.
In order to preserve bone strength, veterans must be left behind.
The 153rd Airborne Brigade dared to be the first to try it, and the General Staff Department could only turn a blind eye. Then several other troops with relatively large casualties, such as the 163rd Airborne Brigade, which participated in the Qinghe Blocking Battle, did not have such good luck. After the second round of military reforms began, the Ministry of National Defense first adjusted the non-commissioned officer system, strengthened the status and role of non-commissioned officers in grassroots troops, and made non-commissioned officers the main combat force of grassroots troops. In this way, most veterans lost the opportunity to be promoted to officers and could only fight for senior non-commissioned officers.
Li Dongshi is lucky and lucky.
Soon, several company commanders came to the battalion headquarters.
Unlike ordinary local troops, the airborne troops do not have a logistics support force. There are much more combat companies. Take the 1533rd Battalion as an example. There are 6 combat companies. However, the company-ground organization is much smaller than that of ordinary infantry companies. There are only 9 combat squads, and there are only 96 people in the case of a reconnaissance squad and a company guard squad.
"We just received the combat order. We boarded the plane in an hour." Battalion Commander Lieutenant Colonel Dou Weixin began to introduce the situation. "Each company must prepare for combat within fifteen minutes to collect the equipment from the logistics department. Act according to the scheduled plan. The 3rd Company took the lead, and the 1st Company followed the 2nd Airborne and his three companies and took the second batch of transport planes to set off."
When Dou Weixin introduced the situation, the battalion chief of staff Tu Wenlong sent the combat order to the company commanders.
"Is there any problem?"
"Where is the destination?" Li Dongshi immediately asked. As the leading force, he must figure out the combat destination.
"It's not clear yet." Dou Weixin glanced at Li Dongshi and said, "The brigade headquarters will issue relevant combat orders only after the troops set off. Is there any problem?"
No one asked the question because except for the unclear airborne location, everything else was explained in detail in the combat order.
"Go and prepare now."
Just as Li Dongshi was about to leave, Tu Wenlong pulled him and asked him to stay.
"The situation has changed." After the other company commanders left, Dou Weixin took out a cigarette and lit one for Li Dongshi first. Because Dou Weixin was transferred from other battalions to the 1533rd Battalion, he respected veteran grassroots officers like Li Dongshi very much. "I just went to the airport to see the plane and replaced it with y-115b, and the combat destination must have changed. The brigade commander called me and was the first batch of airborne troops to meet with the special forces and obey the command of the special forces. You should pay attention."
"Special Force?" Li Dongshi immediately frowned.
Since the General Staff established the direct special forces headquarters, and took over the command power of the special forces, and demoted the special forces originally affiliated to various military regions and units to reconnaissance units, "special forces" has become synonymous with "mysterious forces". It is undeniable that the combat capabilities of the special forces directly under the General Staff are very strong.
Generally speaking, special forces are alone and rarely cooperate with other combat troops.
"The situation is a bit tricky. Just follow the orders, don't think too much about anything else."
"I understand, when you go to the front line, follow the command of the special forces."
Dou Weixin nodded and asked Li Dongshi to go back to organize the troops.
If we only deal with A San, we don’t need to dispatch special forces at all. The airborne troops have enough ability to seize the front-line airport and complete combat missions.
15 minutes later, more than 90 officers and soldiers from the 3rd Company boarded a y-15b transport plane one after another.
Unlike in the past, the airborne troops set out on foot, and the transport planes were not loaded with airborne combat vehicles. In other words, Li Dongshi and others must play the role of "infantry".
This adjustment made many airborne soldiers feel uncomfortable.
If there were no airborne chariots in the past, it would not have much impact on the combat operations of the airborne troops. After all, the "thin skinny" chariots were difficult to compete with the enemy's armored forces on the battlefield, and were mostly used by the airborne troops as "battlefield taxis". Now it is different. The country has spent a lot of effort to create a new airborne chariot, but it is in custody.
Waiting to stay in the rear was not useful, which made the airborne soldiers feel in their hearts
If you are uneasy, soldiers will still have to execute combat orders.
The three y-115bs took off one after another, and Li Dongshi gradually relaxed.
In any case, the responsibility of the soldier is to defend the country on the battlefield and fight for the motherland. After waiting for more than a month, he finally waited for the moment when the troops set off.
After the tension in South Asia, the 153rd Brigade was the first to enter combat readiness.
After becoming famous in the Black Blocking War in the Laos War, the 153rd Airborne Brigade almost became synonymous with the Republic's airborne troops. After the Peninsula War, the second military reform began. The 153rd Airborne Brigade had surpassed the other two airborne brigades with its powerful combat capabilities, becoming the first "strategic force" of the Republic's Army.
The so-called "strategic force" refers to a force that can set out to perform combat missions immediately after receiving the order.
In the accurate words of the party's letter, the 153rd Brigade of the Airborne Brigade is the sharpest and sharpest tip of the Republic Army, and the combat force that can best deal the enemy a fatal blow.
Whether anyone admits that the 153rd Brigade is a trump army that is a trump unit.
After more than a month, Airborne 153 has been waiting for combat orders. Fang's letter adjusted the training and attendance arrangements of the entire brigade at the end of September, requiring all troops to prepare for the operational tasks at any time while maintaining high-intensity training. To this end, Li Dongshi and other grassroots combatants not only slept in clothes for dozens of days, but also had to open one eye when they went to bed. Some veterans also wrote suicide notes in advance and were mentally prepared to sacrifice their lives for the country.
The vibration of the aircraft has weakened a lot, indicating that the transportation has reached the cruising flight altitude.
"Brother Li..."
Li Dongshi glanced at Zhang Zhi sitting next to him.
"It seems something is not right." Zhang Zhi reached out his left hand and pointed the screen of the individual computer at Li Dongshi. "Look, the satellite navigation system shows that we are flying eastward or westward."
"Shocking east?" Li Dongshi frowned.
"Company Commander, we are indeed flying eastward." Sergeant Quan Jiqiang, the guard squad leader sitting on Li Dongshi's right hand, muttered.
"We are not going to Taiwan, are we?" Zhang Zhi asked.
"How do I know?" Li Dongshi smiled bitterly.
Needless to guess, Li Dongshi knew that the fleet was flying towards Taiwan. The outside world has always believed that the Republic would use troops in South Asia and regain the southern Tibet region that had been occupied by India for decades. Li Dongshi was not a politician, so he didn't know where the Republic would use force. It was just that the above-mentioned exchanged y4c for the y-15b with a longer range, which was enough to prove that the troops did not go to South Asia but flew to a farther place.
"Brother Li..."
"Company Commander..."
"Everyone is at ease. No matter where we go, we have to fight the enemy." Li Dongshi didn't want to talk to his subordinates, and he didn't like to make a messy guess. "Snap time to maintain your energy. If you are bored, you can check your weapons and equipment. Don't ask me, I don't know where the destination is."
Zhang Zhi smiled bitterly and didn't ask any more questions.
Soon, the cabin door leading to the driving opened and more than 90 airborne soldiers in the cabin looked at the officer wearing an air force flight suit.
"Captain Li Dongshi..."
"Here!" Li Dongshi untied his safety belt and stood up.
"A order to you."
Li Dongshi nodded and went to the cockpit in the narrow aisle.
"The order I just received." The navigator on the transport plane was called Li Dongshi. "In an hour and a half, we will arrive over Taipei."
Li Dongshi glanced at the screen in front of the navigator and remembered several main messages.
"The special forces have controlled the airport. Your mission is to assist the special forces in controlling the airport." The navigator knocked on the screen and said, "The front-line commander is Major Min Ruilin, who is fully in charge of the combat operations."
Li Dongshi nodded and handed the data cable of the individual computer to the navigator.
After entering the combat orders into Li Dongshi's individual computer, the navigator asked: "Is there any other problem?"
"No, try to be more accurate in the airdrop. I don't want to run dozens of miles after landing."
"Don't worry, land directly at the airport."
Li Dongshi smiled and didn't talk much.
Judging from the combat orders received, the special forces not only controlled the airport, but also annihilated the airport defenders, otherwise the transport plane would not have landed directly at the airport.
The special forces have occupied the airport, so what are the airborne troops doing?
Although it was a bit puzzled, Li Dongshi didn't think much about it. After all, the special forces have limited troops and cannot act like regular combat troops. If necessary, the airborne troops need support.
After returning to the cabin, Li Dongshi introduced the situation to several platoon leaders.
When the troops were about to arrive in Taipei, the officers and soldiers were immediately excited. In the eyes of all officers and soldiers, regaining Taiwan is ten thousand times more important than regaining southern Tibet. If the 153rd Brigade airborne can be the first participating force to "liberate Taiwan", then the 153rd Brigade airborne will become a veritable ace force!
Chapter completed!