After jumping the umbrella a few more times, the soldiers quickly became familiar with parachute driving.
But skydiving is far from that simple. The reason is that our skydiving is for war, and the battlefield and climate are not chosen by us. Therefore, what soldiers need to practice is to be under different terrain, different climate and even at different altitudes.
parachute.
Different terrain and different climates are easy to understand. This is determined by the location of the battlefield and the timing of the battle at that time. As for why you need to practice skydiving at different altitudes, this is determined by the specific conditions.
For example: the area of the landing point is very small and is still in hilly and mountainous terrain, then the height of the skydiving should be reduced as much as possible.
Low height means small scattered area, small scattered area means paratroopers are more likely to land at the predetermined location. Otherwise... even if the mountain terrain is just a little bit off, it is very likely to jump to another mountain and cannot be matched with it.
The main force gathered.
If the enemy's air defense force is likely to be at the position where you want to jump, then you should choose high-altitude parachuting as much as possible... The higher the altitude, the harder the enemy's air defense firepower will hit the plane. This is especially useful to us
, because we plan to use Zhiwu to conduct parachute combat in the future, the lack of defense of Zhiwu seems to have destined to have to parachute at high altitude.
But this is not necessarily the case, because based on our current relationship with the airborne troops, it is not a problem to borrow or call a few Yunwu or even Yun6. It is just that in the Vietnam battlefield, military applications such as Yunwu and Yun6 are used.
Transport aircraft are not suitable for participating in the war, so it is better to use helicopters in actual combat.
If we talk about exercises, our Blue Army simulates the Soviet devils. The Soviet devils also have several advanced transport aircraft, so there are no restrictions in this regard.
Of course. These trainings are not achieved overnight... This is how training is, especially technical troops like paratroopers, who are even more anxious and unable to eat hot tofu.
If Chen Shengde said, especially our agent, we cannot be anxious.
He has had a lot of contact with the soldiers during this period, and he knows more or less how our synthetic battalion was formed or what kind of glorious history it has. So he knows that every soldier in the synthetic battalion can be said to be
What if the army’s wealth is anxious and several serious injuries have to be discharged from the army?
This is by no means an exaggeration. Chen Shengde said when introducing his experience: "Don't think the ground is safe, because our paratroopers landed with impact force of dozens of kilograms. So the things on the ground that usually look very ordinary are actually
They are full of murderous intent. For example, we have been in the airborne army. There have been many accidents during the training process over the past decades. There are still countless cases. The fractures and other things are trivial matters. Some martyrs were pierced by branches.
Some martyrs hung on the wire and burned coke, while others were cut into two pieces by the iron wire for drying clothes…”
"So during the skydiving process, especially when landing, you must carefully observe the landing site!" Chen Shengde explained earnestly: "Once you find similar dangers at the landing site, then follow the methods you teach during training
Try to avoid these dangerous places!"
It is precisely because of the many dangers that the training subjects formulated by Zhao Jingping and others are very cautious.
However, this does not seem to be very difficult for them, because they are also part of the training parachuting. So they have a good understanding of the training progress and difficulties, and then cooperate with the opinions of Chen Shengde and others.
.So, the skydiving training was promoted step by step from simple to traditional, from easy to difficult.
With Zhao Jingping and other staff members to complete these tasks, I can turn my energy to other directions.
What makes me most troubled is the combat effectiveness of the paratroopers.
"Battleman Yang!" On this day, I summoned Chen Shengde and several of his staff to the office. After the guards poured tea for them, I asked: "I want to know your paratroopers' daily training and exercises.
How did it happen?"
"Training is similar to infantry except skydiving!" Chen Shengde replied a little embarrassedly: "For example, when there is no skydiving training, you can just find a mountain to conduct tactical training. Moreover, due to the limitations of funding and conditions, this is done on the ground
The tactical training accounts for the majority!”
"Well! That is to say, most of the training you are training is the infantry?"
"Well!" Chen Shengde nodded: "So other troops call us infantry with umbrellas. Although we don't want to admit it... but sometimes we think that using this word to describe us is really fucking like!"
Because Chen Shengde is the same battalion commander as me, and has become familiar with each other during this period, he speaks like a friend without any scruples, and he accidentally swears comes out.
"Battery Commander!" one staff officer added: "In fact, sometimes we feel that we are not even as good as infantry because our firepower is too weak!"
"Yes!" Another staff officer said, "You know too, Battalion Commander Yang. The transport aircraft has limited load capacity and the parachute carrying capacity is limited, which makes it very few weapons we can carry. The infantry is always a car or cannon.
Yes, what about us? Just one gun and a few grenades!"
"Tell me about your equipment!" I asked: "It's the equipment you were doing during the actual combat exercise!"
Although I know they will not be equipped with any heavy weapons, I still want to know more specifically.
Chen Shengde replied: "In addition to individual weapons, there are rocket launchers, sixty-year guns, eighty-second guns, one hundred mortars... There are very few mortars on one hundred, because the shells are too heavy, sometimes depending on the situation.
I can use mortars with a caliber of 120 mm, but to be honest, this thing is not suitable for actual combat. The batch of shells that I finally dropped were finished in two and a half, and it was not convenient to maneuver. In addition, there are 82-No,
But because it is similar to a heavy mortar, the number of equipment is not large. The main thing in terms of machine guns is to be equipped with Type 67. That's all!"
Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but frown: "If you want to attack such firepower, especially attack the high ground where the Vietnamese army is stationed, it will be very difficult!"
Chen Shengde nodded in agreement: "Although our airborne troops have never fought a war, our superiors often arrange for us to go to the troops that have fought to communicate and learn. During this exchange, we also learned how the Vietnamese Japanese fight.
This has also attracted the attention of superiors. For example, most of us are light weapons with short range, while the Japanese are often used to shoot flat-fire anti-aircraft machine guns with long range and powerful range. It can be said that only one or two anti-aircraft machine guns are needed for a high ground.
We can't do anything to them!"
This is what I want to say. Although the mortar is far enough, it is difficult to threaten the anti-aircraft machine gun hiding in the bunker. Other equipment such as 82 No, Type 67, etc., have a range that is not as far away as that of the anti-aircraft machine gun.
The equipment volume is still very small, so if you want to take over the high ground of the Japanese, you will probably have to use your lives to pile it up.
However, on the other hand, paratroopers are a unit with a special mission. The special mission mentioned here refers to them exploring deep behind enemy lines to occupy important military goals. This mission determines that paratroopers cannot use their lives to pile up.
And it should be more likely to win with less, otherwise it would not be of much significance in actual combat.
"This is how it goes!" After thinking about it, I said to Chen Shengde: "In order to make it easier to understand the combat effectiveness of your airborne troops more clearly, let's do an exercise!"
"Exercise?" Chen Shengde was stunned.
"Yes!" I said: "The two sides of the exercise are your airborne company and our agent company..."
After thinking about it, I continued: "Our agent company is the Blue Army, responsible for garrisoning a bridge, which is an important supply line for the Blue Army. The mission of the airborne troops is to airborne and blow up the bridge.
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My setting has actually greatly reduced the difficulty of the Red Army, that is, the Airborne Company. You should know that as an airborne force, its most common task is to occupy this bridge and prevent the enemy from blowing it up to block it.
The troops advance.
There is no need to say more about which is the best between bombing and occupying.
"Captain Yang!" Chen Shengde said with some embarrassment: "Didn't you deliberately laugh at us!"
"Yes!" A staff officer also echoed with a little embarrassment: "You are veterans of the hundred battles, each of them is an elite of the elite soldiers, and they are well-equipped. But we are new soldiers who have never fought a war before.
Eggs…”
This is a bit exaggerated to say that the new recruit is a bit of an exaggeration, but from the perspective of whether you have ever been on the battlefield, it is indeed a new recruit is a real exagger.
"You can't say that!" I smiled and patted Chen Shengde on the shoulder: "What jokes do you and me do not make fun of you? My soldiers will not make fun of you, because you are all their masters.
.This exercise mainly wants to see what equipment and tactics are flawed in the airborne troops. Only after we find the problem can we find ways to improve it! This is related to the reform of your entire airborne troops."
Chen Shengde hesitated for a while before nodding and said, "What Captain Yang said makes sense. Although I know I can't beat you, if I don't look ugly in front of you, our troops will eventually be on the battlefield.
At a loss... I'm going to give it my best now!"
"That's right!" I poured another cup of tea for Chen Shengde and others and said, "Actually, there is nothing ugly about it. For example, our synthetic battalion is now working hard to learn the tactics of the airborne troops. We are like this.
Pull it out and practice it, learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses and communicate with each other's strengths and weaknesses!"
In fact, my purpose is really that simple. I want to see what level the combat effectiveness of the airborne troops is, or what kind of reforms we should carry out. But as the airborne troops... their ideas may be completely different.