As expected, things were as I thought. The next day, when Zhao Jingping and other staff discussed it, I temporarily prepared a list for Chief Xu to send it.
This list is basically based on our practical experience and considering the actual combat needs... In fact, it is not difficult to achieve this. We basically make some modifications to the current firepower configuration of infantry. Almost all ordinary infantry have passed
The war is tested, which means that their current firepower configuration is precisely the ability to suppress the Vietnamese army on the battlefield, or it can be said to be the most reasonable configuration.
An ordinary infantry battalion usually has five companies, including three infantry companies, one artillery company (the battalion belongs to the mortar company, equipped with 60MM or 80MM mortars), and one machine gun company.
Facts have proved that such firepower configuration is more reasonable on the battlefield. It is just that because the airborne troops have changed the artillery company and machine gun company to platoons due to parachutes and maneuvers, the firepower is even worse than ordinary infantry.
After discussing with Zhao Jingping and other staff, I felt that the firepower of the airborne troops was not only not weaker than that of ordinary infantry, but also stronger than ordinary infantry.
In addition, the parachute drop method mentioned before to separate equipment from people is indeed effective... This is verified by Chen Shengde and other veteran paratroopers. They are experts in parachuting, so this upper limit and this new type of parachuting
The method can only be challenged by them, and Chen Shengde's subordinates suffered minor injuries.
The reason for the injury is endless challenges. When they know that this method can overcome the insufficient bearing capacity of the umbrella tool to some extent, they will continue to challenge the new upper limit, and finally a few soldiers are in the end.
After being slightly injured due to excessive impact on the landing, it was finally confirmed that this method would allow each soldier to bring more than five to seven kilograms of equipment. It is safe to take the parachute with these equipment, that is, to put the parachute on.
The maximum bearing capacity of the tool was pulled up by several kilograms.
But don't look at five to seven kilograms just a trivial number. If a company has more than one hundred people, each with five or seven kilograms, it will be six or seven hundred kilograms of ammunition or equipment, which will undoubtedly be
To a great extent, the demand for heavy equipment by airborne troops has been greatly expanded.
On the other hand, it is also because we want to build a paratrooper with helicopters and jeeps, which can add some heavy equipment to the airborne troops.
Helicopters are much more convenient than transport machines. If the transport aircraft wants to replenish equipment or ammunition for airborne troops, they need to airdrop, and the airdrop may not be able to be dropped to the target position. If the wind blows, it may float to the enemy.
But helicopters are directly lifted at low altitudes. Jeeps can not only increase the firepower of the airborne troops but also help the troops transport ammunition. Therefore, the firepower of the airborne troops can naturally be improved to the level of infantry.
But we also know that it is far from enough to just improve the level of infantry.
On the one hand, it is because the new parachute has already landed, which is news from Li Li. The United States has agreed to our army to provide information on the second generation of paratroopers.
Regarding this, Zhao Jingping's idea is that our paratroopers are too backward... They are two generations behind the Americans, so the Americans are not wary of our paratroopers at all, and they just provide us with some materials that have been eliminated by them.
In this way, we don’t have to worry about being caught up with us, and we can do things that are smooth and humane, reflecting Sino-US cooperation.
Of course, this is still beneficial and harmless for us, and it is precisely because we will equip new umbrella tools in the near future... Equipping new umbrella tools means that the bearing capacity of the parachute will be further improved. That is, we can bring more
From this point of view, we should also equip the airborne troops with more heavy equipment, so that one day after the new umbrella equipment is put into service, we will not be unprepared.
On the other hand, the airborne troops are different from ordinary infantry. The nature of their mission to penetrate deep behind enemy lines determines that the equipment of paratroopers must be perfect in all aspects, otherwise they may suffer a great loss on the battlefield due to their "shortcomings".
For example, no matter how strong the firepower of the airborne troops are, they do not have suitable anti-tanks or anti-armor weapons, and are suppressed by the enemy because they do not have snipers, etc.
So we arranged one battalion of the airborne troops into two infantry companies, one sniper company, one artillery company (equipped with 60 guns and 82 guns), and one machine gun company (in addition to equipped with heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, they were also equipped with red swords.
73 anti-tank missile), and six helicopters are cooperated with.
The reason for six helicopters is that we found out in previous training that the five straight-line aircraft are suitable for each three as a group.
Each of these six helicopters carried a Beijing Jeep, which means six Beijing Jeeps were used as auxiliary transport tools for infantry. Moreover, these Jeep were equipped with 82-2-un, anti-aircraft machine guns, carrying 100MM and 120MM forcing
heavy equipment needed by airborne troops such as artillery.
This way the problem arises...
To form such a regiment, it is okay to say that this ordinary infantry is in the airborne troops.
But in fact, this is hard to say at all. Because the infantry we need are the kind of infantry that can report coordinates for artillery.
There is a difficulty in sniper company. This does not mean that sniper rifles are not enough. In fact, our army's Type 79 sniper rifle, which is a copy of SVD, has entered mass production, although the mass production volume is not large at the beginning.
.But it is not difficult to equip a regiment, especially an airborne soldier called "The Proud of Heaven".
The difficulty lies in the fact that there are not many soldiers who can become snipers.
Then there are also a group of talents who can use the Red Sword 73 anti-tank missile. You should know that the Red Sword 73 is the first generation of anti-tank missiles... This is the characteristic of equipment. The more advanced the thing, the more technical it requires, the more technical content it requires.
Few. Just like the cameras in our lives, they can be used to be the old-fashioned cameras that were basically professionals. With the advancement of technology and the renewal of cameras, they have become point-and-shoot machines that everyone can use.
The same is true for anti-tank missiles, which means it is not easy to master the Red Sword 73. If this thing is put into the hands of ordinary people, it can be said to be a waste.
The most difficult thing is to require a group of helicopter pilots...
Most of the aircraft used by this airborne force are transport aircraft such as Y5 and Y6, which is convenient for parachute landing, right? As for helicopters, there are also some, but only a few are assigned to field hospitals to transport the wounded.
So when we opened this list, Staff Li was stunned.
"Battery Commander Yang!" said Staff Li: "You want as many infantry as you want, but this sniper, pilot, anti-tank missile shooter... Our army does not have that many, just gather these talents from the entire army together.
I’m afraid I can’t get what a group needs!”
I was mentally prepared for this and thought about how to answer it. So I raised my head to Staff Li and said, "If the airborne troops are not enough, you can transfer them from other troops! Isn't the airborne troops the quality of each unit?
Are the good soldiers drawn to form them?"
"This..." Staff Officer Li couldn't help but look embarrassed, but he nodded and reported the situation to Commander Xu without saying anything.
Later, after a long time, there was no reply, and I kept wondering: It is not difficult for the airborne troops to do this. Could it be that the superiors do not agree to the transfer? Or did other troops not have these talents?
But thinking about it, it’s not as if our army has millions of soldiers, and it is in the stage of disarmament at this time. So just transfer the elites left by the troops after the disarmament are here!
Later I realized that I had thought things simple. The real reason was not that there were no such talents, but that it was that the airborne troops.
It was only a few days later that Commander Xu informed me to go to his military headquarters.
I knew this must be for the establishment of the training regiment, so I called Zhao Jingping to catch a jeep and rushed to the military headquarters.
As soon as I walked into the conference room of the military department, I felt the strange atmosphere inside... In fact, the atmosphere in the entire military camp has been different these days. The airborne troops no longer have the enthusiasm for us as before, and instead we can still do so in their eyes.
See resentment.
I am a little puzzled by this. We are here to assist them in training, right? Why do we hate us?
It is precisely because of this that I didn’t think about going over and asking all the questions, just thinking it was my own illusion.
But when I walked into the conference room and saw the cadres staring at us, I realized that this was not an illusion. The cadres in the airborne troops hated us, and it was very common.
But I still don't know why they hate us.
"Captain Yang, sit down!" Commander Xu also had a dark face, as if he had a difficult choice to make.
"Battleman Yang!" After we sat down, Staff Li took the list I listed and said: "We have also done research and discussion on the list you listed seriously. The training method is very novel, but it has some implementation.
difficulty!"
"Oh? What's the difficulty?" I asked.
At this time, I could feel vaguely that something was wrong with this list, but I was still a little puzzled. How could a list cause such a big change in the attitude of the airborne troops towards us?
"That's right." Staff Li said: "There are many types of troops on this list that our airborne troops cannot provide, that is..."
As he said that, Staff Li glanced at the list again and continued: "That is, we can provide the infantry company and a small number of sniper companies. We have also thought about transferring a batch of relevant soldiers from other troops. But... the airborne troops
There are only so many organizations. If you configure the troops according to your list, or even develop to the entire army in the end, it means that at least three-fifths of our army will be cut off!”
"Oh!" I suddenly realized when I heard this. No wonder the soldiers of the airborne troops had a 180-degree turn towards us.