The next day, the soldiers of our combined battalion took helicopters and transport planes to fly to the base of the airborne troops.
That's what soldiers are like, they can just put on their equipment and leave at any time without worries. It can even be said that not many people will care if one day suddenly disappears from this world.
This time our combined battalion can be said to have moved out in full force. The tactical company, agent company, sniper company, mortar company, tank company, etc. were all moved towards the base of the airborne troops like a big move.
Of course, due to the special characteristics of tank companies, artillery battalions, and engineer companies...these arms have heavy equipment, and there are quite a lot of them. It is still very troublesome to use transport aircraft to transport this equipment.
At the beginning, people from the airborne troops told us that we only needed people to arrive, and they would solve the equipment problems. But after thinking about it, I felt that it would be better for us to go there with our own equipment, because some of the equipment of the combined battalion was
For example, there are T62s, Soviet-style armored vehicles, etc. These things cannot be found by the airborne troops, although the airborne troops can be said to be the "proud ones of heaven" in the army. Whatever equipment they want, their superiors will try their best to satisfy them.
In addition, they were used to using their own equipment and were relatively familiar with it, so the troops were divided into two parts, that is, heading towards the airborne troops' base from land and air respectively.
My battalion headquarters and I were the first batch of airborne troops to arrive. We, the command organization, had to arrive first to see the situation before arranging and directing other troops to move in one after another.
Because it was night when we arrived at the airborne base, I didn’t notice any difference in the airport below on the plane. It wasn’t until I stepped out of the plane that I was shocked by the scene... There was already a neat row of people standing outside.
There was a row of heavily armed soldiers. When they saw me coming out, they followed the command and saluted us with a "swish" sound.
"Captain Yang!" At this time, a veteran cadre came up and shook my hand enthusiastically and said, "Welcome. Comrades, it's been hard work coming all the way!"
"Captain Yang!" Chen Shengde introduced from the side: "This is our Commander Xu!"
"Well, Commander Xu!" After hearing this, I quickly saluted Commander Xu.
At the same time, I was surprised. I was just a battalion commander. I didn’t expect that Commander Xu would come to greet me in person. This was a big honor.
After Commander Xu returned the military salute, he held my hand with some embarrassment and said: "Captain Yang, first of all, I have to apologize to you. When you asked our troops to cooperate in training... To be honest, I am a commander.
We are not very happy either, which makes our whole army have a negative thought..."
"Commander is so polite!" I quickly replied: "It was just a small matter, and it has all passed. Now we cooperate very well with each other!"
"Hey. This is no small matter!" Commander Xu replied: "If I had known that you were training like this, I would have sent the soldiers to you earlier. How dare I wait for you to come and ask for them, I regret it with my whole heart.
It’s green!”
With a coaxing sound, the surrounding cadres all laughed.
"But fortunately it's not too late!" Commander Xu held my hand again and said, "Thank you for coming. I hope we can improve this airborne force together! I have confidence in you!"
"Yes!" I stood up quickly.
The troops were quickly arranged into their respective dormitories. I don’t know whether it was because of the special treatment given to me or because of the good conditions of the airborne troops themselves. My dormitory had a two-room suite as much as possible.
But having said that, there is actually no big difference between us soldiers who have one more room and one less room. One is because we spend most of our time at the training ground. When we go back to the dormitory, we just need a sleep, and we even only need a bed.
That's almost it.
This "movement of airborne troops" did not have any special feeling for our combined battalion. We have long been used to changing places on the battlefield. On the contrary, Chen Shengde and his men became a little excited, and from time to time they were in front of us.
The soldiers explained this and that, and some even enthusiastically took the soldiers to familiarize themselves with the terrain.
"Captain Yang!" Just as I was looking at my "new home" under the light, Commander Xu walked up and asked, "Are you satisfied with our arrangement?"
"Report to the Commander! Very satisfied!" I quickly stood up and replied: "Thank you Commander for the arrangement."
"You don't have to be so polite!" Commander Xu gestured for me to sit down and pointed at a cadre he brought in and introduced: "This is Staff Officer Li! He is my right-hand assistant. Because there are many things in our military department, so there is no
I'll train with you all. If you have any needs or comments, just contact Staff Officer Li, or you can come to me, I'm always here for you!"
"yes!"
"This is Commander Wu!" Commander Xu raised his head to another cadre and said: "This is what I plan to do... From tomorrow on, your combined battalion will serve as a teaching team, and you will first train one of our regiments, Yang
What do you think, battalion commander?"
After thinking about it, I replied: "We don't have any problem, we just don't know if it would be appropriate to train with such a group."
"What do you mean?" Commander Wu immediately became a little unhappy when I said that: "You look down on our airborne troops, right..."
"Old Wu!" Commander Xu glared at Captain Wu, who swallowed the rest of his words abruptly.
"I don't mean to look down on the airborne troops." I explained: "As far as I know, most of the training of the airborne troops at present is infantry training. Is this true?"
"Indeed!" Commander Xu nodded: "In addition to infantry training, there is parachute training."
"That's what I want to say!" I said: "The direction of our training is to build the airborne troops into a coordinated force of air, infantry and artillery, so the participants should not be a regiment, but pilots.
A collection of different arms such as infantry, artillery, drivers and even engineers. Otherwise... we would have to train part of the infantry of this regiment into pilots or artillery, which is obviously inefficient and unnecessary!"
"Oh!" Hearing this, Commander Xu and others couldn't help but nodded.
"It's because we didn't think it through!" After thinking about it, Commander Xu said: "Let's see what arms are needed and how many people are needed. Commander Yang, just tell Staff Officer Li. In the worst case, we will dispatch relevant personnel from the entire army to participate.
Training!”
Hearing this, I couldn't help but smile. If most of the airborne troops were infantry... I don't know if the entire army can be put together into a regiment!