531 Although competition is beautiful, involution is maddening (2)
Time continues to pass.
In the base areas of the 5th, 6th, 771st, 772nd, 17th and other regiments that Kong Jie had no knowledge of.
The almost crazy internal military training is still going on in full swing.
The company commanders of each regiment also didn't understand why the battalion commander, regimental commander and others came back from visiting, communicating and studying with the independent regiment.
Everyone is much stricter than usual.
Especially in military training, past goals seem to be insufficient.
The cadres responsible for training were stunned by the re-set goals one by one.
In shooting training, a small number of cadres equipped with pistols must practice rapid fire from 30 meters and reach the point where they can draw their guns quickly and accurately.
I am reluctant to practice with live ammunition, even with a slingshot, I must practice to achieve the effect.
For rifle shooting training, soldiers have to conduct rifle shooting training every day, practice aiming for an hour, and have to practice hard shooting within two hundred meters.
Special marksmen will strengthen their training and be equipped with observers, striving to achieve the level of a sniper in sniper team tactics.
The quasi-special shooters will strengthen their training and strive to break through to the shooting level of special shooters within one month.
Ordinary soldiers must strengthen training and strive to reach the shooting level of a quasi-special marksman within three months.
In order to improve the overall shooting level within the group.
After the commanders of each regiment returned to their base areas, they even issued live-fire training standards.
After the simulated shooting training reaches the standard, the soldiers can try live ammunition training.
Of course, bullets cannot be wasted. They must be used under the leadership and assistance of veterans in long-range ambushes against Japanese strongholds or some transport teams.
Even if it is a live-fire exercise, it is best to cause damage to the Japanese and puppet troops, and by the way, let the recruits feel the cruelty and reality of the battlefield to the greatest extent.
Fighting training, stabbing training, direct practice, two-person actual combat training.
Those who are incompetent will have no one to blame even if their noses are bruised and their faces are swollen.
The training of scouts is even more rigorous, including wall climbing, rappelling, rock climbing, capture, penetration, penetration, etc.
And after training for a certain period of time, actual combat exercises will be carried out directly, and tentative penetration of surrounding Japanese strongholds, villages, towns, and counties will be carried out.
It can be said to be dancing on a tightrope. Once the training fails, there is even a risk of exposure.
In bomb-throwing training, we throw the grenade upwards two hundred times a day. No one can rest unless the grenade is accurately thrown into a basket thirty meters away.
Training is required in all aspects of soil work, from the excavation of smokeless stoves in the field, to the construction of slopes for single-person foxholes, the construction of various machine gun fortifications, artillery fortifications, etc.
The training of the infantry demolition team, the laying of various booby traps, the removal of mines, blasting operations, etc. are also not left behind.
Conventional infantrymen have the same amount of training in various military skills.
Coupled with the intensity of training and the high requirements for goals, not to mention the soldiers being trained, even the company commanders and platoon commanders in charge of the training were complaining endlessly.
Many trainings are even conducted directly in actual combat, which makes many cadres in charge of training feel terrified.
"Captain, isn't this kind of training too crazy and too intense? What if something goes wrong again..."
Similar doubts and doubts appear in every group.
At this time, the leaders of each regiment would grit their teeth and shout:
"We bleed more during training, and sacrifice less when we go to the battlefield. I would rather let the soldiers sweat more and bleed more during training, even if they suffer some injuries, than watch them go to the battlefield in vain.
He lost his life."
"Is there something wrong with the training method? The training intensity is too high? Are the goals set too high?
Let me tell you, there is no problem. This is how the independent group trains. Their methods will only be crazier and more dangerous than ours.
Their goals will only be higher than ours, and the amount of training will only be greater.
But even so, if you go to the Independence League and ask around, is there any comrade in the Independence League who complains?
And I’m not afraid to tell you that the goals you currently aspire to achieve have basically been achieved.
This time we visited, communicated and studied with the Independent Regiment. We witnessed with our own eyes the solid training and strong combat effectiveness of the troops of the Independent Regiment.
Compared with others, you are just new recruits."
"Not long ago, the Independent Regiment encircled the point to fight for reinforcements and defeated six or seven Japanese brigades. The Independent Regiment easily turned around and captured Ping'an County. But why can't we do it when we get there?"
"Do you really think it's just a gap in equipment or troop strength? Let me tell you, the bigger gap is in the combat effectiveness of the troops."
"Two shoulders carry one head. The comrades of the Independent Regiment can do it. Why can't we do it?"
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Each regiment has been training recently, hoping to meet or even exceed the training standards of independent regiments.
The independent group cannot catch up for the time being, but it must not be outperformed by other groups.
"Other groups shoot helmets from 200 meters away? Okay, then let's shoot light bulbs from 200 meters away."
"What, they are fully armed and cross-country for three kilometers? Then let's add another five kilograms and cross-country for five kilometers."
"They train eight hours a day, so let's train nine hours a day!"
There is no strongest, only stronger.
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The soldiers, who were stimulated to death by the words of the cadres, stopped complaining one by one and gritted their teeth and persisted.
The trend of crazy training among various units quickly spread within the Eighth Route Army troops in the Taihang Base Area.
Soon, a situation similar to involution began to appear.
What does involution mean?
The most vivid explanation is the "inflation" of hard work.
What does it mean?
The most straightforward explanation is that if you work hard, others will work harder than you, so when you compare the results you achieve with others, they will appear mediocre, as if you didn’t work hard. This is basically what it means. ……
This trend is far from over at this point, it is even just the beginning.
The contents of the involution are not limited to the crazy military training within the Eighth Route Army.
It also includes the production of equipment and ammunition that each regiment cooperates with the independent regiment repair institute.
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When the heads of each group leave after the independent group visit, exchange and study conference.
Kong Jie discussed with the regiment leaders how to cooperate in arms production among the regiments' repair shops.
The main content is naturally the core technology of arms production provided by the independent regiment's armory, and other regiments are responsible for some production processes.
This involves a point, the issue of who provides the raw materials.
If an independent group provides raw materials and the final core technology, your other groups are only responsible for outsourcing and undertaking some processing procedures.
Then you don’t have to think about it.
After this batch of equipment and ammunition is produced, each regiment will naturally receive the smallest share.
But if your regiments provide their own raw materials, and contract many simple but time-consuming and labor-intensive processes for the production of equipment and ammunition.
If the independent group is only responsible for the final core technology processing.
Then the equipment share that each group can finally obtain will naturally be much richer.
As for the leaders of each regiment, even using their cerebellum can guess what they are thinking.
I am definitely willing to make a lot of money and get more equipment.
Therefore, a series of raw materials can be used to produce grenades, explosives, bullets, artillery shells, guns and other raw materials.
For example, steel, copper, iron and other metals used in the production of arms, corresponding rails, copperware, copper coins, wires, ironware, etc.
In order to encourage farmers in the occupied areas to produce, the Japanese even sold fertilized field powder that could be used to make explosives.
It soon became a resource that the leaders of various regiments were vying for.
And if you want to get these raw materials, the fastest way is to go to the little devil.
The rails for Japanese transport trains, the wires used for communications, and some equipment at power supply stations have all become the favorite objects of looting by the Eighth Route Army troops of various regiments.
Wherever the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army passed by, they left absolutely no grass behind. Even a screw would not be left behind by the little devil.
Just like that, in less than a week, more than 500 sections of railway tracks in the Japanese-occupied areas around the Taihang Base were missing. The total weight of the missing railway tracks exceeded a thousand tons.
Along the entire railway track, only bare rubble was left, not even a single sleeper or even a rivet was found.
The Japanese wires connecting various counties and cities for communication were cut in more than 70 places, and the total number of stolen wires exceeded 5,000 meters.
The most ruthless regiment even blew up the bridges built by the Japanese with reinforced concrete, then smashed the steel bars out of the concrete and brought them back to the regiment as raw materials for production.
Some groups that are quick to move have exhausted all available resources around their bases and guerrilla zones, and even go to the areas around other groups to grab them.
A series of sudden incidents scared the little devils in many surrounding counties. They thought that the Eighth Route Army troops were going to take advantage of the main force of the First Army to fight in southern Shanxi and launch another large-scale raid!
Full of panic, the Japanese defenders in various counties quickly switched from offense to defense, shrinking their forces, and even gave up on some small strongholds in the Eighth Route Army's guerrilla areas, and gathered their forces in some large strongholds, counties, villages and towns.
Simply withdraw from the vicinity of your Eighth Route Army base and see what else you can do.
As time continued to ferment, the crazy involution in each base area actually caused the surrounding Japanese troops to no longer dare to show their faces.
All the nearby rails that can be pried have been pried, all the bridges that can be blown up have been blown up, and all the wires that can be cut have been cut.
Suddenly, it was hard to find anything.
The involution at this time may need to be explained differently - the Eighth Route Army regiments are competing to make more efforts to compete for limited resources, which has led to a significant decline in the number of seizures by each regiment.
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Niukou Village.
It was already two days after the news reached the regiment headquarters. Kong Jie was speechless when he learned the news.
Originally, I just wanted to make each regiment aware of the shortcomings in troop training through an internal exchange and learning, strengthen the training of the troops, and vigorously develop the construction of the base area.
Who would have thought that it would evolve into the situation in front of us.
Fortunately, when the involution is focused on the training and operations of the troops, it is more biased towards healthy competition.
This is not an involution that fully fits the meaning of later generations.
At least in such a competitive atmosphere, each regiment can start training its troops.
However, Kong Jie knew that this was not the way to go. He had to find a new outlet so that the energy of the cadres of each regiment could be used in the right direction.
In the end, Kong Jie set his goal on assisting the economic construction of each regiment.
When each regiment's troops engage in training and operations, the soldiers consume a lot of physical energy and need to eat more. If the economy is not improved and they only train without supplementing nutrition, big problems will arise.
"Have the first batch of cigarettes, chicken essence, and soju been shipped to the group that wants to be an agent for sales?"
At the regiment headquarters, Kong Jie called Dong San, the head of logistics, and asked.
Dong San smiled and said: "Captain, we have done everything, but as a result, the demand for our products has suddenly increased. Whether it is our cigarette factory, chicken essence factory, or winery, I am afraid we have to expand the scale."
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Kong Jie said: "Then continue to expand. Now is the time to make money, we can't stop.
As the old saying goes, the timid will starve to death and the bold will die of starvation. We would rather starve to death than starve to death."