PS: This time I was late because of a power outage. I didn’t call until after twelve o’clock. I pushed out two chapters overnight. I hope all book friends will support me.
In addition, I have to thank the book friend "Muyu Fossil". Some habits are developed without knowing it, such as ellipses... I use them too much without knowing it. Thank you for reminding me!
The training went very smoothly under the guidance of the soldiers of the airborne force. In addition, the soldiers of the special agent company were relatively knowledgeable and well-founded, so it took just over a week to master all the details of parachuting and the movements when landing.
It is said that skydiving in this era is not as easy as modern skydiving. In modern times, even ordinary people can participate in skydiving after practicing for a period of time. Needless to say, the reason is that the parachute equipment is more advanced and safer.
At this time, the parachutes used by our military are still the first generation of paratrooper parachutes. Even if you have received professional training, it is common for people to fall and get injured during parachuting. It is precisely because of this that the quality of the agent company is still
It takes more than a week to practice again and again until every soldier has mastered the parachuting process.
However, this cannot be justified because of lack of skill. It has been just those few movements that have come and gone for more than a week. In addition, every soldier has an airborne soldier watching next to him. If there is any mistake, he will immediately
This would lead to a scolding, so the soldiers soon became familiar with this routine.
After completing these exercises, Dao Scar and the others sighed: "I originally thought that skydiving was just about hanging an umbrella on the back. As long as you were brave enough to jump down, it would be over. I didn't expect that there are so many tricks... This is really three
One hundred and sixty lines, you will be the number one scholar!"
I also have a deep understanding of this, because soon all the battalion cadres including myself participated in the training course.
This is because considering that airborne operations often require deep combat behind enemy lines, if our battalion headquarters did not parachute with the soldiers for remote command, various problems would most likely occur.
For example, the command is not fast enough. This is very important on the battlefield. When the battle is at its peak, even a second delay may affect the entire result. Remote command undoubtedly has a big disadvantage in this regard, because it
There must be a process in which a battlefield correspondent summarizes the situation and reports it to the headquarters, and then the commander issues orders. Moreover, the battlefield situation may not be reported accurately, so fighter planes often slip away under the nose in vain.
Another example is that it is very possible because of the loss of command.
Airborne operations involve jumping directly to the enemy's rear, which makes it impossible to lay telephone lines, which means that the communication between the troops and the headquarters can only be completed through radios and walkie-talkies. However, the enemy is not a fool. They often come here.
When radio signals are interfered with, the troops are likely to be passively attacked.
It is precisely for these reasons that it is necessary for us to airdrop the headquarters to the target location for on-site command. This makes some staff officers a little embarrassed.
For example, Zhao Jingping, who participated in the Anti-Japanese War and fought against Japan, is already in his fifties this year. It is really difficult for him to go skydiving at such an age. Besides, our skydiving is still quite dangerous.
So I said to Zhao Jingping: "Old Zhao, please don't participate in the skydiving. There are other staff here!"
"This is not possible!" Zhao Jingping replied without thinking: "If I don't parachute, it means I can't participate in the battle. Who will lead the staff then?"
What Zhao Jingping said is really right. You must know that Zhao Jingping is like my right-hand man. Under his management, the staff department can always handle all kinds of troublesome matters very well, so I will not say anything anymore. This also makes
I realized something. In the future, it is necessary to reduce Zhao Jingping's burden and train a new general staff.
Later I found out that Zhao Jingping still had an injury on his leg...the injury was from the fight with Little Japan, but he never said anything, so no one knew about it.
In fact, it was not only Zhao Jingping and several older cadres who were in trouble, but also Chen Shengde and several other cadres of the airborne troops.
"Battle Commander Yang!" Because we were both battalion commanders, we added a last name in front of the battalion commander to distinguish him. Chen Shengde said to me with some embarrassment: "When you are training...if you make a mistake in your movements, we will scold you."
Is it better or not to scold me?"
"Scold! Of course I have to scold!" I said: "When we get to the training ground, there are no battalion commanders or staff officers, only instructors and students!"
"But Battalion Commander Yang..." Chen Shengde was still a little embarrassed: "This is not very good!"
"What's wrong?"
"Think about it!" Chen Shengde lowered his voice and said: "The agent company is your soldiers. If we scold you, will your soldiers be convinced? Then they will all be glaring at us... Let's talk about it.
, this will also make you lose face in front of your subordinates!"
When Chen Shengde said this, I think it is true that these soldiers in the combined battalion, if they scold themselves or even beat them a few times during training, they only know how to obey orders, but even for us superiors...if they scold us, they will follow
It's like scolding their parents. Just like when we entered the military academy, we also encountered this situation. The instructor whose last name was almost couldn't stand down.
"Let's do this!" Zhao Jingping interjected from the side: "We cadres will train separately from the soldiers. If we can't see it, there won't be any trouble!"
"That's a good idea!" I said.
Chen Shengde also nodded in agreement.
But in fact, when it came to training, Chen Shengde and others were very polite to us cadres, especially Chen Shengde, the battalion commander... Maybe he knew that the training of our combined battalion might be compromised because of the rear-mounted reserve parachute.
Reform that affects the entire airborne force. And make the air force
The troops benefited from this, so when he was training me, he would even explain the details of every action, such as why I should do it, what kind of accidents might occur if I didn't do it, etc. Even at the end of the training, he would
He will serve us tea and water diligently.
Later, I asked Chen Shengde if there was any reason for this. Chen Shengde smiled awkwardly and replied: "That's not true? This is related to the interests of our entire airborne force. If this is done to the superiors or comrades in the airborne force,
If you know that we have slowed you down, you will have to skin me!"
Hearing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly. Just a few days before and after this, the attitude of the airborne troops towards us changed from underground to heaven.
After more than a week of training, it should be eight days of training to be precise.
On the eighth day, based on the training situation, Chen Shengde felt that we could already perform a real jump.
"Sure enough, they are soldiers from the combined battalion!" Chen Shengde said: "If we were to train new recruits, it would take ten days and a half!"
"How can it be the same!" I said, "We are all veterans, not to mention that every veteran has a master teaching us!"
Chen Shengde smiled and shook his head without saying anything.
In fact, what Chen Shengde wants to say is that there are no new recruits joining the airborne troops, they are all selected from each unit with outstanding performance or good quality.
Soon we took a car and arrived at the airport in the base with all our equipment.
This airport was temporarily transformed for transport aircraft. Unlike our helicopter airport, which was transformed from a basketball court, this airport was specially built for transport aircraft.
However, this so-called airport is not as complicated as we imagined, that is, a few spacious cement roads serve as runways, and then several aircraft castles are built next to the airport, plus a few simple houses for storing parts and miscellaneous things.
That's it for things like that.
When I saw this Y-5, I realized why it could only carry a dozen soldiers... It looked like an old-fashioned aircraft from World War II, with a propeller in the nose and two wings.
I couldn't help but marvel: This kind of aircraft may have become an antique long ago in other countries, but our country is still using it. Not only is it still used, the airborne troops are even jealous because of the use of our combined battalion!
Later I learned that if the Yin5 is calculated according to the age of the Soviet Union, it is an An-2 transport aircraft in the 1940s. If it is calculated according to the age of our country, it is a thing that was put into mass production in 1958. It has been in service for several years now.
Ten years.
I sighed for no reason in my heart, but didn't say anything. After getting off the bus, Chen Shengde and the other cadres got into the plane and took their seats inside.
With the sound of propellers, the plane quickly took us into the sky.
A few minutes later, I looked out the window and all I saw were houses like pigeon cages and hills. At this time, I felt nervous for no reason... Do I really want to jump from such a high place?
Although I have long been a veteran who has experienced life and death several times on the battlefield, sometimes the more veterans, the greater the psychological pressure, because we know the feeling of death, and we also feel that on the battlefield, under the enemy's gun
None of them died. It would be such a loss if they were so glorious during training.
And I thought about it a little more. The equipment of this era is not very trustworthy, such as the tanks that break down while walking, the submachine guns that often malfunction, and even the helicopters we use have constant problems, then if...
…What should I do if something goes wrong with the parachute?
At this time, I wanted to fight a war in exchange for this parachute jump, but I knew I couldn't do it... because I was surrounded by my subordinates. If I had stage fright and gave up on this plane today, then I would
Don't hang out in this army.
Soon the skydiving preparation bell rang. I gritted my teeth and took the lead in getting up and lining up in front of the open hatch.
Chen Shengde said loudly to us: "Comrades! Don't be nervous, keep in mind the key points of daily training, as long as you follow them, there will be no problem!"
He said and patted my shoulder kindly: "See you on the ground!"
"Ready... to jump!"
I jumped out of the cabin door in a hurry, but I regretted it as soon as I jumped out... This is a completely different experience. To put it bluntly, this feeling means that there is no reliance or support. What happened?
No one can help you. You have no idea what the surrounding scenery is. You just feel dizzy.