"How is it, how is it?" Chen Shengde asked me excitedly when he saw me: "It feels good to have the first time skydiving!"
"It's okay!" I looked at the soldiers who had just gathered together and said, "But, if we were fighting with the Vietnamese devils now, I'm afraid that half of the people who could gather here would be a problem!"
Chen Shengde nodded silently: "We also know this problem. Now the entire army is undergoing major reforms, but our airborne troops are not moving. This is because we have not been on the battlefield and do not know where to change.
, I don’t know how to change it. On the other hand, it’s because of the limitations of conditions that I can’t change it even if I want to!”
I understand the conditions and restrictions that Chen Shengde mentioned. He refers to transport aircraft and parachutes. Our army now uses this kind of transport aircraft in large quantities. It can only carry a dozen people. The parachute determines that individual soldiers can only carry them.
With such a little equipment, the airborne troops will do the same.
After I returned, I immediately held a meeting on the problems exposed during training. Of course, this meeting was also indispensable to Chen Shengde and his several advisers.
"Comrades!" Zhao Jingping looked at the cadres in the conference room and said, "The first airborne can be said to be very successful. In addition to five soldiers who suffered minor injuries after landing on the stone ground, three soldiers were hung in the tree.
Outside of the airborne training, there were no other major accidents!”
The cadres immediately burst into laughter and their eyes turned to Liang Lianbing.
Liang Lianbing immediately raised his head and shouted at them, "What are you laughing at?! I'm not the only one hanging on the tree!"
Unexpectedly, the cadres laughed louder after saying this.
I knew what they were laughing at, because Liang Lianbing was not only hung on the tree, but also wrapped around the paracord and hung upside down on his head and couldn't move, which made him feel very embarrassed in front of his hands.
But these seem to be normal. They will be hung on trees because this generation of umbrellas cannot control the direction. Even if they know that there is a tree or even a cliff under their feet, they can only watch themselves fall. There will be a few soldiers' feet.
The injury was caused by the strong impact when landing, and the ground was still rugged and uneven stones, so even if the soldiers were in a standardized manner, they would still be injured.
"Of course!" Zhao Jingping continued: "This is inseparable from the help of the comrades from the airborne troops. Let us thank them with applause. I hope to continue to work hard in the future!"
A burst of applause soon broke out in the conference room, and Chen Shengde and his friends stood up and saluted the surroundings.
"But..." Then Zhao Jingping changed his sentence: "This training also exposed many problems. The most intuitive thing is the problem of too large dispersion area. Comrades all know that this is directly related to the survival of the paratroopers.
At the time, the smaller the dispersion area, the better. This not only facilitates the gathering of troops, but also prevents paratroopers from falling outside the target area..."
"Staff Officer Zhao!" King Chuang interrupted Zhao Jingping and said, "The fundamental reason for this problem is that our military umbrella tools are not advanced enough. It is meaningless for us to discuss this issue!"
"Yes!" Ding Chengdong agreed with the words of the King of Chuang: "We have seen the paratroopers of the Soviet devils. Their parachutes can also control the direction and glide for a distance in the air, which allows their paratroopers to control or control roughly
Your own landing location. Since this is the case, just let the military industry improve the parachute drop!"
"Improvement is a must!" I said: "But the problem is that military industry improves parachutes not that fast, but our exercise mission is imminent. If it is a war now, we can let the enemy stop and wait, wait for us
Will the military industry improve the parachute before firing?”
After I said this, King Chuang and Ding Chengdong were speechless.
"The battalion commander is right!" the instructor continued: "Warning is about making full use of the existing equipment in your hands and giving full play to the role of these equipment. If everyone wants to wait for military industry improvement, then fighting against Japan is
How did you fight? How did you fight against the Kuomintang? How did you fight against the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea?"
"But..." King Chuang said with some dissatisfaction: "What can we do if there are any defects in equipment?"
After saying this, everyone was speechless, and many cadres even turned their attention to Chen Shengde. Chen Shengde could only smile bitterly. They had never considered such things before, nor discussed them.
This is not surprising. The airborne troops of this era are actually more like infantry who can jump, and this has just been through ten years... Just as Chen Shengde and other airborne troops said, they mostly train for training.
It is rare to use hot air balloons and umbrella towers to parachute several times a year, so where can I study the issue of whether the scattered area is large or whether it is suitable for a real battlefield.
"I want me to say..." Ding Chengdong stood up and said, "We use this transport plane to parachute by just practicing, and in the end we have to parachute by using helicopters. At worst, we can let the helicopter hover in the air and let the soldiers jump down! This spreads the area as well.
It's not big!"
Zheng Liangqiang shook his head and replied: "It is unrealistic to let helicopters hover and skydiving. On the one hand, there is a great danger to hover on the battlefield. On the other hand, it is because hovering skydiving is also dangerous, and the parachuting personnel are too concentrated.
Things are prone to happen!”
Chen Shengde pointed to the point of approval of Zheng Liangqiang. After all, they all fly in the sky and are experts in these aspects.
I stared at the map of our airborne target today and thought about it, and then I said, "Comrades have you ever thought about why the paratroopers we airborne down had their own squads and platoons of soldiers all mixed together?"
"That's because the planes are not very spaced!" Chen Shengde replied without thinking: "For example, Ship 1 is on the No. 1 transport plane, Ship 2 is on the No. 2 transport plane, and the size of the Yunwu is not very spaced, and two soldiers are almost the same.
At the same time, jump out of the cabin. The impact of airflow is similar, so they will be closer and easier to gather!"
"Oh!" I nodded: "What if...we disassembled the structure in advance? Would it be easier to assemble when it fell to the ground?"
"Disassemble the organization in advance?" Chen Shengde was stunned when he heard this: "How to disassemble it?"
"Simple!" I said: "For example, we have ten transport planes, and one shift has ten people, so we will assign the ten people in the ten planes to the same number as the queue, that is, try to get them as much as possible.
At the same time, will the class be more concentrated when landing like this?"
"Oh!" Chen Shengde opened his mouth halfway, and after a long time, he replied: "This method...is simple and easy to use, and it sounds reasonable. Even if there is still a distance between them, they almost land at the same time.
Yes, at least you don’t have to wait until all the members landed before gathering one by one!”
"And..." Zhao Jingping continued, "A squad can quickly form combat power after a squad gathering, and can provide cover for the assembly of other squads, and will no longer be as chaotic as before!"
"Yes! This idea is good, you can try it!" The instructor nodded in agreement.
So this method was quickly used in our second skydiving training.
What surprised us was that the effect was even better than we thought... Although this airdrop method generally did not change the area of the spread, it shortened the distance between the soldiers in the class, which made the class
Members within easily assemble.
Once the squads gather, it means that they have the command of the squad leader, and it will be much easier to contact other squad leaders or platoon leaders through walkie-talkies and further gather.
So for the second airdrop, our assembly time only took about eight minutes, which was almost half shorter than the first assembly time.
Of course, because we only have eight transport aircraft in our base, we can only use eight people in one class to do the experiment.
However, this soon became no problem, because Chen Shengde reported to the airborne troops, and the airborne troops quickly sent eight more transport aircraft, which increased the number of transport aircraft to sixteen.
I was a little embarrassed about this, so I said to Chen Shengde: "Capital Commander Chen, we are just training, we don't need so many transport planes, not to mention that there are not many transport planes in your airborne troops..."
I said this because I remembered that we had just transferred eight aircraft to the scene before, which made Chen Shengde and others feel distressed. Now these sixteen aircraft are even more psychologically unbalanced.
"Battleman Yang said this and saw it!" Chen Shengde replied: "It doesn't matter if there are a few more aircraft. I originally just asked for four aircraft, ten aircraft for training and two for maintenance. But when my superiors heard that I was
The report said, "No, such an important training cannot be delayed? What should I do if two aircraft are not enough to repair it! Send eight more aircraft to go"!"
"Your superior..." I was surprised by the airborne troops' attitude.
"Nothing is strange!" Chen Shengde laughed and said, "In the report, I have told you about the task of your synthesis battalion and your tactic of disassembling it in advance and then performing airdrops. Our airborne troops will follow this as soon as possible.
After practicing tactical thoughts, let alone... the effect is much better than before! So, it would be strange if the superiors do not support the training of the synthesis camp!"
"Oh!" I couldn't help but realize it when I heard this, and a sense of accomplishment arose in my heart... You know, they are airborne troops. Although they have little training due to ten years and financial reasons, how can the airborne troops be here?
You should have more experience in terms.
However, my reforms and innovations can still attract their attention and adoption, which is enough to make me proud in my heart.
But I know that what I am doing now is not enough. It can even be said that this is just the beginning, because there are still many problems with our paratroopers... It was only then that I realized that I wanted to train a team like the Soviet devils.
The paratrooper is far from as simple as imagined.