While Yang Xianjin's company was step by step gaining a foothold in the market, the training in the army also reached a new level... Airborne training was conducted on the soldiers of the Agent Company!
Airborne training is undoubtedly a very important link... Because of this kind of air-step coordination tactic, everything can be said to be based on successful airborne... If the infantry is not thrown safely and accurately
Deliver to the destination... Then everything else can't be implemented even if it's so sophisticated, so we dare not neglect this link. Before implementing this training... we spent a few days to let
The staff officer communicated with pilots such as Zheng Liangqiang and others, and thus formulated feasible training subjects.
But what makes me feel a little regretful... Even experienced pilots such as Zheng Liangqiang don't know much about helicopter airborne...
"How come you don't know much?" I couldn't help but ask strangely after hearing this: "How do you perform your rescue mission?"
"Battery Commander..." Zheng Liangqiang said helplessly: "You don't know the training situation of the troops before, and it is particularly dangerous to land with helicopter parachutes... Spiral slurry will cause the airflow around the helicopter to chasm, and if you accidentally parachute,
It will be entangled, and the failure rate of this Zhiwu is high... It would be nice for paratroopers to jump at high altitude on a transport plane... How could there be helicopters parachuting! We usually do rescue missions with plane landing...
If conditions do not allow, use a rope to surrender!"
Cable landing is relatively easier than parachute landing... I understand this, but the reason is actually very simple. If you are cable landing... the helicopter only needs to be stable at a certain height, and then the infantry will slide down with a rope. And the parachute is enough.
If you descend... first, you need a terrain suitable for parachute landing, then the helicopter must be at a certain height, and finally the infantry must have the ability to parachute landing, and it is quite dangerous... These dangers include whether parachutes can open the parachute smoothly, and
Whether to land smoothly, etc.... Because the helicopter parachute is generally not high at a height, the paratroopers don’t have much reaction time, and the time to open the parachute should be just right. Therefore, the difficulty will be much greater than that of ordinary parachutes!
But the problem is...
Because I have experience in fighting the Soviet army, I know very well that sometimes it is not allowed to surrender due to conditions... For example, when the enemy blocks certain places with mortars, and when the enemy has strong air defense firepower
...If you use a rope to land at this time, the helicopter will hover in the air without moving... It is simply a target for the enemy to attack!
So parachute is a must... Without parachute, it will bring great restrictions to our aerial step coordination tactics, or it will bring great dangers during combat, which may also bring about the possibility of this.
The failure of the entire battle plan!
At this time, I couldn't help but admire the Soviet paratroopers... When they used helicopters to airdrop, it was the entire battalion airdrop... and we just want to airdrop a company now and it's difficult for us to airdrop a company!
But then again... the Mi 8 used by the Soviet army for airdrops is much better than our Zhiwu in terms of space and stability. In addition, their long-term training accumulation... to do this
It's not a difficult thing!
On the contrary, we have to use backward equipment to explore ourselves without experience to learn from. Of course, this is not something that can be compared so simply!
"Otherwise..." I thought about it and said, "Training starts with the relatively easy and familiar rope landing, and the parachute landing... We should also follow the policy of steady and steady progress and step by step from simple to traditional Chinese, that is,
First train ordinary parachute diving... After mastering the various key points of parachute diving, then learn how to lower altitude parachutes for helicopters!"
"Yes!" All the staff responded and began to formulate training subjects according to my order.
I also participated in these trainings... The reason is that as a battalion commander, I am very likely to need to command on or near the battlefield...
Regarding command... In this era, the commander of our army's troops personally visited the battlefield to command. The reason is that the troops pay attention to equality between officers and soldiers, and coupled with the education of spiritual atomic bombs, many senior commanders believe that it is not allowed to go to the battlefield to command.
Being greedy for life and fear of death will not inspire the morale of the soldiers.
I personally think this is actually a manifestation of our army's low quality... because senior officers should command more strategic and tactical levels and coordinate and coordinate the entire army, rather than go to the battlefield to command a certain person
The troops fight face to face with the enemy!
This is also the reason why as a battalion commander... I rarely command a certain unit directly on the battlefield, unless it is a last resort!
It is precisely because of this reason... Zhao Jingping and others advised me not to participate in these trainings. On the one hand, they thought it was not very necessary... I just need to command in the battalion department! On the other hand,
It is because they think these trainings are relatively difficult and dangerous... If my battalion commander is injured, many decision-making problems in the army will be stopped!
But I think the situation is a bit special now...
First of all, as a commander of a unit that uses helicopter maneuvers, I must have a certain degree of understanding of the various operating steps of helicopter maneuvers, such as the conditions, difficulty, and when is the suitable rope-down? What is the rope-down?
The danger, how much time is needed, etc...
There is a saying that "it is always shallow to know what you know on paper, and you must practice it yourself." This means... To truly understand something, it is far from enough to see it on paper.
, there must be practice.
This is the same... If I only pass some data on paper to helicopter maneuvers, then when I really plan a battle, I can't have that sensitivity, or I can't put myself in it, when I'm really planning a battle, I can't have that kind of sensitivity, or I can't have it.
Into this battle...because I have never even taken a helicopter!
This is also why... on the Vietnam battlefield, many commanders of our army are blindly commanding... You don't have military knowledge, but there are also... Many of them graduated from military academy, but they don't understand the actual situation... Theory and
Practice was completely out of touch. So a series of orders were issued that seemed feasible to them, but in the eyes of the frontline troops!
I wouldn't allow this kind of thing to be repeated in my army... So not only did I participate in the training myself, but also took the entire staff to participate in the training together!
This is a pain for Zhao Jingping, the staff officer... You know, they are all ducks... They are either infantry, artillery, or tanks... They have never been on the sky and boarded the plane, and they are all
At such an age... can you stand this trouble?
The hardest thing is...what they have to carry out their own training plan...
When they were formulating a training plan... they thought about how to practice hard, but they didn't expect that it would fall on them now!
For example, the first thing was a flight experience... This experience does not mean that the soldiers were sitting in the helicopter to visit, but rather that they simulated actual combat and did various avoidance actions in the air... Simply put, with the command, the helicopter pilot
I just don’t care that there are more than a dozen people in the cabin... Imagine that there are anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns in front of me, turning left and right, sometimes high and sometimes low, sometimes slow and sometimes fast...
This may not sound like nothing, but it can't stand these soldiers who are flying for the first time... So they vomited very much shortly after they started, and they all spit out all the food they had eaten yesterday...
Originally, many soldiers were full of curiosity and longing for the first flight experience, but this time... they completely broke all their good impressions!
Although this is not the first time I have taken a plane, the pain is that I have never taken such a plane... So I am not much better than the soldiers under my command... Fortunately, this helicopter is not big, and a helicopter can only be loaded
Eleven people... Except for two of them, my guards, all the others are staff members...
We all look like we are half-human, so no one talks about anyone... So after getting off the plane, we have a tacit understanding and walk off the plane as if nothing has happened... It's just a pain.
Two guards wanted to secretly destroy the "evidence" on the plane behind!
On the other hand... I think the reason why we commanders must participate in training is that I think our troops respond quickly...
In fact... when training our army's agent company to cooperate with helicopters, the "Alpha" troops invested by the Soviet army in Afghanistan always flashed in my mind... The quick attack of this army was withdrawn to me very deeply.
Impression.
Although this army was almost wiped out in the trap I set... But the battleground of winning and losing is not applicable to tactics, and it does not mean that the Alpha troops were defeated by us, theirs
Tactics are useless!
On the contrary... As a modern person, I know very well that one is the trend of the special forces.
So I often train my agent company based on the "Alpha" troops I have seen before... Zhao Jingping was quite puzzled about this...
"Battery Commander!" Zhao Jingping said: "I heard that the combat methods of the Alpha troops are used for domestic counter-terrorism... We... are used on the battlefield. Can this be applicable?"
"It doesn't matter!" I replied: "Sometimes... we just want to fight the enemy as terrorists!"
I said this without basis... Just like when we trained the Agent Company before, the more elite the troops, the less they should have too much entanglement with ordinary troops. It's not cost-effective...
A group of special forces who have various skills... can climb mountains, parachutes and drive tanks, but they are compared with ordinary soldiers with gun skills. Although the special forces have a greater chance of winning, it is actually a loss-making business!