After all, He Minying has a good foundation and a lot of practical experience. What they lack is the incompatibility with the plateau environment.
This discomfort improved immediately after they corrected their mentality and we carried out adaptive training in stages.
For example, altitude sickness, which is common among soldiers, improved immediately when we lowered the altitude to 3,000 meters. Many soldiers changed from being sick and wilted to being full of life and vigor in just two days.
Another example is the problem of different bullet offsets due to the thin air... This has formed a conditioned reflex for the soldiers and is deeply imprinted in the minds of the soldiers, and it is difficult to change for a while.
There is no trick to this, just feed it with bullets as you did when you first started practicing shooting. The more you shoot, a new conditioned reflex will naturally form in your mind.
This may be difficult for the troops of the 319th Division to do... feed them with bullets. How can there be so many bullets on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau? It would be good to have live ammunition shooting a few times a year.
This is determined by the transportation conditions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. First of all, the development on this plateau is extremely backward and the living conditions of the people are not good. This makes our army not only have to transport bullets and artillery shells, but also food and other daily necessities.
Inland transportation puts a lot of pressure on logistics.
Secondly, transportation only relied on a few simple roads for thousands of miles... There were no railways at this time, and there were not even roads near the war zone. Transportation relied entirely on manpower or animal power.
According to Staff Officer Li, during the self-defense counterattack against India in 1962, the entire eastern section of the theater only had 60,000 tons of military supplies. And of these, 30,000 tons were stockpiled in advance. The entire counterattack took more than a month.
Only 22,000 shells and 700,000 rounds of ammunition were consumed in the time.
It was also a counterattack. In the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, our army consumed 1.06 million artillery shells and 55 million rounds of ammunition in less than a month.
This also shows how difficult it is to supply supplies on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
But these are not a big problem for us. When we were doing adaptive training, the Black Hawk helicopters were useless anyway, and the pilots were idle, so without saying a word, they took on the task of transporting supplies to the combined battalion.
You must know that the Black Hawk helicopter can lift up to 4,000 kilograms of weight. Even if the transport capacity is halved on the plateau, it is still 2,000 kilograms. More than 20 Black Hawks made two trips like this...the amount of ammunition they carry is basically the same.
That's enough for us to practice.
Just like the oil seller said, "You only need to know what you are doing", the effect of feeding these batches of bullets will soon come out. Within a few days, the soldiers have almost adapted to the new offset, and it can even be said that there is considerable improvement.
Some people's marksmanship is better than on the plains.
This is easy to understand... Thin air has less resistance to bullets, which means that the ammunition is flatter or more accurate and has a longer range. The 81 bar has a range of only 400 meters on the plains to this plateau.
If you hit 450 meters or even 500 meters, it won't be a big problem.
Especially SVD sniping is more obvious, but these can only be established under windless conditions.
After training like this, it only took more than a month for us to set foot on Base No. 3 again.
At this time, when the soldiers saw this No. 3 base again, they couldn't help but feel a lot, because a month ago, several people fainted after running less than three thousand meters here. This was a great shame and humiliation for them. Now When they stood here again, they were no longer the Wu Xia Amon they were back then.
In fact, in terms of feelings, Staff Officer Li and Battalion Commander Chen should have felt more deeply.
To be more precise, it should be all the commanders and fighters of the first battalion... because in this month, they have personally experienced the process of completely defeating the combined battalion to being overtaken by the combined battalion, and even now being overtaken by the combined battalion.
"Captain Yang!" Looking at the soldiers of the synthetic battalion who were running far ahead on the runway, Staff Officer Li smiled bitterly and said: "Originally, I thought it would take you at least two months, but I didn't expect it would only be one month... You have completely adapted to life on the plateau. Now you are even doing better than us. I am ashamed to say that the battalion you are training with is the top soldier of our 319th Division!"
I actually knew it a long time ago.
On the one hand, this is because the tasks we may perform in the future are very important... Although we don't know what the tasks are at this time, we can imagine that this task is likely to affect the relationship between our country and India. One cannot handle it. It is very likely that another battlefield will be opened, which our country, which is still at war with Vietnam and has the Soviet Union eyeing covetously on the other side, is absolutely unwilling to see.
For such an important task, the 319th Division would naturally not send any troops to participate.
On the other hand, it was because of the training during this period that I saw something in the First Battalion.
What makes me a little strange is that there has been no fighting on the Sino-Indian border since 1962, and it has been more than 20 years now, which means that this battalion should not have much actual combat experience.
But the fact is exactly the opposite. The 1st Battalion showed their rich practical experience in every aspect of training, especially in mountain tracking and combat.
Later I learned that the First Battalion had indeed participated in actual combat, but their actual combat targets were not Indian devils, but poachers... There are many nationally protected animals on this plateau, such as Tibetan antelopes, wild yaks, etc., and their fur , horns and even bones can bring great economic benefits. On the other hand, the life of the people on the plateau is very backward and poor, so some people took risks and picked up guns to start poaching. Later, this poaching Hunters have even formed an interest group.
This gave the first battalion an opportunity for actual combat. They usually trained with these poaching gangs who were familiar with the terrain and chased each other in the mountains.
But even so, our combined battalion easily surpassed the first battalion in training.
This is not something I am proud of. After all, the combined battalion is a force that has experienced so many battles and is built with advanced equipment and modern tactical theories. It is normal for it to exceed one battalion.
Of course, I also know that this kind of surpassing is only in training, but in actual combat... the combined battalion will most likely suffer due to unfamiliar terrain.
From this point of view, our decision to have the First Battalion and the Combined Battalion jointly train together was the right step, because the two forces now seem to be complementary... The First Battalion taught the Combined Battalion the experience of plateau and mountain warfare. The combined battalion taught the first battalion modern tactical concepts.
"It's time to talk about the mission we are going to perform!" I said to Staff Officer Li.
"This..." Staff Officer Li replied helplessly: "I also want to know."
As a soldier, of course I know one thing, that is, don’t ask more questions that you shouldn’t ask. But now I feel that the time has come to ask.
"That's what I think!" I said: "The superiors may not know that the training of the synthetic battalion is progressing so fast, so they haven't planned to tell us the mission yet. But the reality is... we have reached the time when we know the mission.
Only by knowing what tasks we will perform in the future or what the requirements are, can we make some targeted training. What do you think?"
After thinking about it, Staff Officer Li nodded: "What the battalion commander said makes sense, I will report the situation to the division commander immediately."
Things turned out just as I imagined. Commander Wu then called me. On the other end of the phone, he said in an unbelievable tone: "Captain Yang, I heard that your combined battalion has completed adaptive training?
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"Yes!" I said, "I believe they are ready to carry out their mission!"
"Very good." Commander Wu paused and responded: "This is much faster than we thought, but it also proves that your previous view is correct. The combined battalion is more suitable for carrying out this task. I will arrive tomorrow
Come to the base and let’s meet.”
"Yes!" I responded.
Later I learned that the reason why Commander Wu asked to meet "tomorrow" was because his location was a full seven hours' drive from our base. This was one of the reasons why Commander Wu had not met with me. After all, there was also a situation on the front line at this time.
As a division commander, he had no choice but to rush all the way to the rear.
When I heard this, my first reaction was...why not let our Black Hawk helicopter pick it up?
But in the next second, it quickly became clear that the Black Hawk helicopter was a secret weapon and would not be exposed to the Indian devils until the best of times.
"The situation is like this!" Commander Wu and I exchanged some pleasantries, then sat in front of the map and pointed to a location and said: "The location where the Indian side takes action is here, on the north bank of the Sandro River. Provoke this
The incident occurred with a detachment of India's Special Service Bureau, or SSB for short.
Let me introduce this special service bureau first. It was established in 1963 and is responsible for reconnaissance and intelligence collection on the Sino-Indian border. Most of its original members were veterans who fought with us in 1962 and performed well."
Hearing this, I couldn't help but sigh. India's move is quite powerful. It selects some good performers from the veterans to form an army... Although the Indian army's performance back then is really not flattering, it can still be taller among the short ones.
Well, not to mention that these people are quite familiar with our army's tactics because they have fought against our army.
"They initially established a post on the Sandro River." Commander Wu continued: "We didn't pay much attention to it at first, thinking it was just for observation or temporary hiding. But this year they did not withdraw. Not only did they not withdraw, but they also
Use Mi-26 to strengthen the fortifications. It seems that they will be stationed for a long time, which will be a big problem!" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!