Therefore, the training of airborne troops is high-intensity from the beginning.
The training of commanders is particularly difficult because they have to complete the same training as the soldiers, and then have to take time to learn command while the soldiers are sleeping.
The reason for this is because in parachute combat, there is no distinction between commanders and ordinary soldiers. They are all treated equally and must march... This is determined by the distance after parachute landing. Reality does not care whether you are a commander or not, and it will not depend on you.
The company commander will parachute you near the target.
This leaves the commander with only four or five hours of rest and sleep every day.
Among them, the most difficult one is definitely the company commander. After all, he has to learn command and air-ground coordination. It would be good if he can get four hours of sleep a day.
Soldiers generally ensure six hours of sleep...and do not engage in assault training during sleep. This is not very necessary for airborne troops.
Because the airborne troops are active in combat, they are prepared to parachute into enemy-controlled areas to launch attacks on the enemy. They rarely encounter enemy surprise attacks while sleeping.
High-intensity training is accompanied by high-standard food standards.
This is Wang Xuexin’s request.
Because if the food cannot keep up and the training level is maintained at this level, it is very likely that the soldiers' bodies will collapse before they go to the battlefield.
Wang Xuexin didn't think much and sent a telegram to the headquarters requesting special food subsidies for the airborne troops.
At first, the commander thought he was just adding food to the airborne troops, so he replied: "How much can it cost? No problem. If you want to train elite soldiers, of course you can't let them starve!"
The commander thought to himself: Although our Eighth Route Army is poor, we still have no problem raising this 2,000-man army.
But Wang Xuexin immediately proposed: "Each person will add a pound of rice and a pound of cabbage every day, and the whole group will add a pig every day!"
The chief was stunned when he saw this request.
The first two items are not big problems. If each person adds one kilogram of rice and one kilogram of cabbage every day, the whole group will have more than two thousand kilograms of rice and two thousand kilograms of cabbage. It is still affordable.
But one pig every day... How many months of training will it take to eat hundreds of pigs?
The commander called back: "Comrade Wang Xuexin, you also know the situation of the army. It is not easy for every army now. Soldiers rarely have a bite of pork during the Chinese New Year, but the airborne troops are required to eat pork every day. Isn't this a bit excessive?"
"Chief!" Wang Xuexin telegraphed back: "First of all, the airborne troops have very high physical requirements. Without enough fat and protein, it is difficult to ensure that the soldiers train intensively and play their role on the battlefield. They are different from the mechanized troops. The mechanized troops
They rely on four wheels, but they rely on two legs!"
The chief thought about it and thought it made sense.
Although marching relies on will, if on the basis of the same will and physical nutrition are strengthened, does that mean that there will be faster marching speed and stronger combat effectiveness?
In this regard, we cannot "not give the horse grass to eat but also want the horse to run away"!
However, the chief did not rush to agree. He asked again: "What else?"
"Secondly!" Wang Xuexin continued: "During the training of the airborne troops during this period, we found that many soldiers were not competent. After eliminating them, we need more and better sources of troops to supplement the troops..."
Then the chief understood that Xiao Dongbei did this to seduce the "pork" course.
This trick is really useful.
Because as the commander said, ordinary troops rarely have a bite of pork even during the Chinese New Year, but airborne troops can eat meat every day... This is for the Eighth Route Army soldiers who have been eating sweet potato porridge for many years and are always half hungry and half full.
It's unimaginable, it's simply their dream life.
Sure enough, when Wang Xuexin deliberately released the news, it immediately caused a sensation in various troops, and thousands of people immediately signed up to join the airborne regiment.
What Wang Xuexin has to do is to constantly eliminate the soldiers whose physical fitness cannot keep up with the training rhythm... Although Wang Xuexin doesn't want to do this, fighting is not a child's play. Failure to meet physical fitness standards on the battlefield is likely to affect the marching speed of the entire army.
, considering the combat effectiveness of the entire group, they must be eliminated.
For those who are selected, the most basic requirement is to have a certain physical foundation.
In this regard, or rather in "these" aspects, Yingjiang's airborne troops are clearly unqualified.
Because the Yingjiang Airborne Forces directly use the entire unit for conversion.
For example, the 82nd Airborne Division was formerly the 82nd Infantry Division.
The 101st Airborne Division, its predecessor was the 82nd Motorized Infantry Division.
Adapting a complete unit means that they have not implemented an elimination system in terms of physical fitness, which means that they must be uneven. If the army still maintains the organization and even equipment of an infantry division, it means that they still have not done a good job in some aspects.
Prepare to be broken up after airborne landing.
Captain Derek, as they said, has only been conducting parachute training for the Eighth Route Army's airborne troops.
At first, I used a high platform to skydive, that is, I did not use an airplane. Instead, I found a cliff with a gentle wind, and then built a wooden platform on top of it that was more than ten meters above the cliff. I practiced skydiving here every day.
The reason why we have to reach out more than ten meters is because we are worried that the students, because they are beginners and cannot grasp the timing of opening the parachute, will be blown by the wind and hit the cliff at the moment of opening the parachute, or the parachute will be caught on the stone hook on the cliff, causing unnecessary accidents.
casualties.
This highland with an altitude of more than 500 meters was called "parachute mountain" by the Eighth Route Army, and the cliff was also named "parachute cliff".
Eighth Route Army soldiers carry their equipment and climb this mountain every day as part of their physical training.
Derek and a group of instructors were stationed directly on the mountain, and Eighth Route Army soldiers brought them supplies every day.
This was actually Wang Xuexin’s intention. It was said to be “convenient for instructors to teach without having to go up and down the mountain every day!”. In fact, Wang Xuexin did not want Derek and others to interfere...
To be precise, he didn't want Derek and others to know about the Eighth Route Army's training plan.
The reason why he was so guarded against instructors like Yingjiang was because Wang Xuexin knew that the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division of Yingjiang was Li Qiwei.
This guy was no ordinary person. He invented "magnetic tactics" on the battlefield of the Volunteer Army in the future, that is, always keeping a distance from the Volunteer Army but "sticking" to the Volunteer Army until seven days had passed when the Volunteer Army's supplies were exhausted before launching a counterattack.
This tactic caused a lot of trouble for the volunteers.
Wang Xuexin thought, if Li Qiwei were introduced to more advanced and mature parachute tactics at this time, would Li Qiwei pose a greater threat to the volunteers in the future?
Soon after, Wang Xuexin realized that he had made a mistake in this regard.