The selection of Bingyuan was solved because of Xiao Liu's words.
But in fact, this is only part of the solution to the selection problem, because our selection must be conducted in one group.
This is not a restriction given by Commander Xu, but we consider that if the purpose of our training regiment is to provide a reform template for the entire airborne troops, it should be replicable. That is, ours
Training, including the initial selection, can be carried out in other troops.
In this way, if we select elites in the entire army to form a regiment, problems will follow... The second regiment can only select the remaining sub-quality soldiers, and the third regiment must be
Select the best soldiers... After repeated repetitions, they can only be shorter and taller when they reach the last few regiments.
Simply put, there is no replication, and the group will have an absolute advantage if it is first formed.
From this point of view, we finally decided to implement a "one-to-one" transformation method when selecting soldiers, that is, select some of the people we need from a regiment, and the insufficient or airborne troops cannot provide the source of troops from
Other troops were mobilized.
The advantage of doing this is that once the training team is successful, that is, the training result is to greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, then other teams can easily follow. Moreover, they can basically maintain the original state during training and transformation.
The command structure enables training to proceed in an orderly manner.
But this made the selected warrior of the 267th Regiment (false number) very nervous...
The commander of the 267th Regiment is Wu Longxin. This is also the regiment that Commander Xu arranged to cooperate with our synthetic battalion training in the morning. I had an impression of this regiment before. When I told Commander Xu that it was just a regiment to train, maybe it wasn't
When the right time, this Captain Wu almost became anxious with me.
From this point of view, Commander Wu still has a strong sense of self-esteem and collective honor... But then again, most of the cadres and soldiers in the airborne troops are like this. They are all composed of party members and backbones.
Naturally, the advanced nature of thought is not comparable to that of ordinary troops.
It is ironic that before, Commander Wu was still firmly on the side of Staff Xu, which was to oppose such drastic reforms as the Synthetic Battalion.
However, I don’t think that Commander Wu did this because of insufficient strategic vision or lack of wiseness. He just hoped to retain more of the “bloodline” of the airborne troops.
From these aspects, I thought that Commander Wu should be a cadre who loves soldiers like his son... He obviously was reluctant to leave his comrades or subordinates to leave the airborne troops.
Later I realized that there was still a big gap between reality and his imagination. Wu Longxin was just selfless towards his subordinates and was ruthless to train his subordinates to death. So much so that his subordinates secretly called him "Captain Wuxin".
However, this does not seem to conflict with my guesses, because sometimes as a cadre, "loves soldiers as if they are sons", they often show "ruthlessness" towards their subordinates during training, so that they do not want their subordinates to "bleed more on the battlefield"
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"Captain Yang!" When Wu Longxin came to our battalion headquarters to report, he shook hands with a blue face: "Although I think what you said makes sense, I will keep some opinions on some things for the time being. But don't worry,
I will fully cooperate with your training, and I also hope that through training, our army's combat effectiveness will be improved to a new level."
I find it interesting when I hear this. It is true that our soldiers require absolute obedience to orders, but obeying orders is not a person who obeys dead orders. Moreover, if this airborne troops want to find cadres who absolutely obey orders, they are just random.
There are a lot of people, but if you want to find a few who can obey orders and have their own ideas, you may not have a few. And it is precisely such cadres that they can stand alone.
"No problem!" So I was not unhappy about Wu Longxin's words. Instead, I replied very simply: "Let's just use the facts to see if this can really make a name for it!"
Later I learned that the reason why Commander Wu was not optimistic about our training was not only because he did not want the airborne troops to disarmament, but also because he believed that the synthesis and close cooperation of various troops among a regiment was quite complicated.
If you are well organized on the battlefield, you are synthesized. If you are not well organized, you are chaos.
What he thought was indeed reasonable, and the synthesis of our synthesis battalion was also at the battalion level. Now it is to develop to the regiment level, and under the premise of airborne troops, the difficulty has increased in number.
The senior cadres of the 267th Regiment have this attitude, and there is a tense and depressing atmosphere at the level of grassroots cadres and soldiers.
Because everyone knows that the "select" they are facing now is likely to be another term for "disarmament", that is, if they are not selected, they will almost mean they will be laid off and kicked out of the airborne troops.
So they all used their strength to play various competitions according to the requirements of the company commanders of the Synthetic Battalion, such as physical fitness, marksmanship, tactics, etc., for fear that they would be eliminated if they performed poorly.
Of course, there will definitely be people who will be eliminated in the end.
After several days of training and observation, we selected more than 1,500 people from the more than 3,000 people in this regiment... This ratio is smaller than what we had previously estimated that three-fifths would be cut off.
However, this is also normal, because we are just the number of people who start training.
Training this thing usually requires some redundant soldiers, so there is no need to say more about what it is. It is obvious that the last-place elimination system is adopted. Any soldiers with training scores behind will be "kicked" out regularly.
Only in this way can we rush forward like a sheep driving the entire army of soldiers rush forward frantically.
However, although this proportion is large, it still has a great impact in the regiment... This impact mainly comes from those soldiers who have not been selected.
For these soldiers, their future is conceivable. To some extent, they are already among the people who were eliminated and left the army. Now they are only sentenced to probation, so they are soon
There was a pessimism, disappointment and depression permeated these troops.
However, what they didn't know was that it was precisely this time when we opened our eyes wide and chose.
The reason is very simple. The troops we want, such as the sniper companies and agent companies, and even the tactical companies, also require good psychological qualities. The more good the psychological qualities are, the more obvious it is in adversity.
For example, a few soldiers in the army stood up and shouted at their comrades: "Comrades! If you are eliminated, you will be eliminated. It's no big deal! The gold can shine anywhere. Even if we go to ordinary troops, we can still fight the Japanese!"
"That's right! We may not be able to fight more Japanese than them!"
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Then these soldiers will not be recommended to the training team by their superiors under various names, such as being an outstanding cadre, such as having made contributions before.
The reason why we recommend it under various names is that we cannot do it too obvious. Once the soldiers know that if they just say a few words to boost morale after being eliminated, they can be admitted in an extraordinary way, then this method will not be the next time. It's so effective.
As for their physical fitness or tactical actions, they are not up to standard... First of all, the airborne troops will not be much worse. Secondly, physical fitness can be improved when entering the training regiment, and tactical actions must even be learned again, so It's not that important.
On the contrary, those who know that they have been selected to the training team will be happily told, or those who do not look at the eliminated soldiers with a glance, do not know that their names have been quietly recorded by us. Soon, I will be kicked out of the training team because of some unsatisfactory grades or other reasons.
Then a batch of new blood was transferred from other troops to supplement the training regiment.
This batch of new blood is the snipers, machine gunners, gunners and anti-tank shooters that are not enough for the 267th regiment.
Among them, anti-tank shooters and snipers are troops that were not available before for the airborne troops, so most of them are transferred by other troops. Machine gunners and gunners are originally available in the airborne troops, but the airborne troops are not originally available. There are many, such as only mortars in a regiment, and there are only more than 200 mortars... The limitation of the bearing capacity of the umbrella makes it useless to have more.
Now we need to increase the proportion of these heavy equipment, and eliminate some unqualified gunners, so this part accounts for a large proportion of the transferred troops.
Among them, it is worth mentioning the armored forces.
Originally, according to Zhao Jingping and his staff, our air force did not have the ability to airdrop armored vehicles and tanks to heavy equipment, so it seems that it is not necessary to introduce armored troops into the training regiment.
At first I also thought this idea made sense. Without the ability to airdrop, it means that there is basically no such equipment during combat. So what do you do when practicing? In addition, my historical knowledge told me that you should master the heavy equipment of airdrops. The technology will take at least twenty years, so there is no need to practice the coordination between the stairs and the tank.
But after thinking about it, I felt something was wrong...
First of all, this airborne force often needs to cooperate with friendly troops when performing missions. For example, friendly troops are surrounded and airborne troops need to reinforce. In extreme cases, if an armored force is surrounded and the airborne troops have not practiced the cooperation between the Intra-Tank Group. , that's probably going to make us feel embarrassed.
Even the airborne troops have another task that is used as a rapid response force, which means that they will be put into the frontal battlefield to attack the enemy off guard, and the infantry will follow up with reinforcements. At this time, the cooperation between the stairs and the tanks will appear.
As the saying goes, opportunities are reserved for those with equipment, so it is necessary to practice this step of collaboration.