The commander of the military region has been informed that General Belekov's weapons design bureau will be dispatched today. They are all the country's elites. Of course, if they want to transport a large group of people, they cannot use simple trucks. It would be bad if they get sick due to the cold wind.
A fleet of fifteen cars in total drove into the Academy of Sciences.
The arrival of many vehicles was completely unexpected by Yang Mingzhi. Seeing the arrival of the convoy, Yang Mingzhi led all the people to form a team outside and piled up several large boxes containing all the guns and ammunition.
After all, it was an important operation. Wearing a military uniform, Yang Mingzhi also carefully wore all the medals.
He still doesn't know how shocking this outfit will be to the recruits training at the shooting range.
The convoy arrived safely. The commander of the military region, Medvedev, who was in a good mood, was also dressed in military uniform. He got out of the car and walked straight towards the man with the most medals.
"General Berekov, I know that your team is huge. You see, the vehicles I have prepared are enough to pick you all up."
"Yes! Thank you very much. Indeed, for our design bureau, today's action is related to our honor."
"It is destined to be a great success. Look!" Medvedev winked. Yang Mingzhi looked sideways and saw Felyudov and Kasteura standing here. "I have heard that they are stranded.
Important mission in Novosibirsk. They will serve as important witnesses for today’s action.”
Yang Mingzhi nodded. He didn't want to talk anymore with the two old guys from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They had already made an agreement on the train.
After coming back to his senses and looking at the military region commander's research, Yang Mingzhi urged: "Let's not waste any more time and seize the time."
"Okay, obviously you have made all preparations. Let's set off now. Get in the car, young general, and others."
The mighty motorcade rushed towards its destination.
In the past few days, Yang Mingzhi had only entered the city a few times, and those were to go to work, and he had no time at all for even a minimum of shopping.
Yang Mingzhi's understanding of this city is still very limited. He didn't even get a city planning map, so when the convoy entered the suburbs, the scenery here was completely unfamiliar.
Through the car window, he saw some black shadows in the distance, like a large group of mammoths moving slowly across the vast land. After a closer look, he realized that they were large combine harvesters. In just one day and night, it was impossible to harvest wheat.
Completed, the machines did not stop, they were still harvesting wheat.
The wheat harvest is other people's business, and the connection with the army and the weapons design bureau seems to be only the supply of food.
The bumpy road gave Yang Mingzhi a familiar feeling during this "march". The road was bumpy, surrounded by harvested farmland, but the woods were in the distance. The environment was a bit like the Pripet Swamp, but the climate here was really cold!
The morning fog has dispersed, the sun is flickering in and out among the clouds covering the sky, and the climate change has begun to gradually change.
The earth is vast and the sky is a little hazy. Those who witness this scene will inevitably feel a little melancholy.
Perhaps a sunny morning is the best time to experiment with firearms? Yang Mingzhi knew that he had no choice.
The military shooting range was getting closer and closer. Before the convoy arrived at the shooting range, Yang Mingzhi really could no longer sit calmly.
He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes vigorously. After his eyes were in optimal condition, he saw a large number of white tents suddenly appearing in the distance.
"Wow! I thought that leaving the city, the nearest settlement would be far away. What's going on?! Why are there so many tents in the wilderness? They are residential areas?!"
"No!" The military commander sitting in the co-pilot immediately explained that the people living in the tents were the latest recruits.
Medvedev was actually a little surprised. As a general, Belekov didn't know that there were many new military camps around the city? This fact is well known to everyone in Novosibirsk. Besides, many citizens' sons are here.
Recruit camp for training.
The vast land made the convoy very small. If Yang Mingzhi could control the drone to take a bird's-eye view from a high altitude, he would be able to see that the wasteland had been artificially improved, and a large number of white tents had already formed a huge military camp.
Medvedev felt that since his colleagues did not understand that it would take some time for the convoy to reach its destination, he would take this opportunity to explain it by the way.
It turned out that the shooting range that Yang Mingzhi was about to arrive at belonged to a giant recruit camp.
At the end of August, the Siberian Military District received an emergency order from Moscow to immediately suspend the training of existing recruits. All so-called unqualified recruits were reorganized and sent directly to southern Russia. In addition, ten divisions were trained intensively.
Complete the training of five infantry divisions by at least November.
Therefore, Medvedev had all his plans and only had sixty days to complete Stalin's so-called training mission of five reorganized infantry divisions.
According to the new infantry division standard formulated in early 1942, five integrated divisions equaled 55,000 men. Since the Siberian Military District still had sufficient manpower, the so-called five divisions could form a 60,000-strong army.
For the criss-crossed Eastern Front battlefield, five ordinary infantry divisions composed of 60,000 people are difficult to become the backbone. However, if the number of such grassroots troops is large, they can also complete qualitative changes. In the current composition of the Soviet army, a huge proportion of troops trained in assault
, and their enemies were indeed well-trained. The Soviet army had to rely heavily on their superiority in military strength to carry out large-scale military operations.
The Siberian Military District is a very large military district. There are three huge recruit training camps on the outskirts of the largest city, Novosibirsk.
Yang Mingzhi is about to arrive at the last military camp built in the city. For this reason, a large number of wooden barracks have not yet been completed, but the recruits have already begun daily training. They have to live in canvas tents temporarily until qualified barracks are completed.
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But for them, the time they enjoy the wooden barracks is short-lived after all. They will eventually be passers-by in this military camp. The soldiers already know their training schedule, and they are given a maximum of nine weeks to learn military operations.
When the time comes, all the people trained in the military camp will be organized into an infantry division, rush to their own battlefield, and face their own fate.
Listening to the military region commander's introduction, Yang Mingzhi's heart pounded.
He had to worry and said: "The leader is really too anxious. The training time for new recruits is only two months. How can such soldiers become strong soldiers in every battle?"
"Then it depends on them." Medvedev is not a fool. Of course he knows that the military training time is too short. Such new troops are simply better than the militia armed with assault.
Militia troops can also perform epic battles, but their technical and tactical skills are poor and they are likely to suffer casualties quickly. There are also many people who run away due to poor organizational discipline.
Medvedev let out a long sigh and could only comfort himself by saying: "We have a big task now, which is to teach these new recruits how to abide by discipline. A poorly disciplined army, even with your superior weapons, is just a bunch of rabble."
.As for the key shooting training, when recruiting soldiers, we have always given priority to recruiting young people with shooting experience, especially the sons of forest hunters. So I have recruited many natural shooting elites, and the next step is to train them from stragglers.
Become a team.”
Yang Mingzhi nodded and couldn't help but sigh: "Maybe that Vasily Zaitsev is receiving training."
"What? Zaitsev? Training with me? Your friend?"
"No!" Yang Mingzhi immediately shook his head and did not elaborate on the matter.
Yang Mingzhi indeed remembered wrongly. Zaitsev's hometown was in the Ural Mountains, more than a thousand kilometers away from Novosibirsk, although that man was indeed an excellent forest hunter.
Speaking of Zaitsev, in that dimension, he was a member of the 284th Infantry Division, and the unit was formed after the war broke out.
Major changes have taken place in this dimension. The 284th Infantry Division became the last Soviet infantry division formed before the war. Its composition also came from troops removed from the Far East Military Region, and the main composition of the soldiers was actually Belarusians.
Belekov mentioned this name but did not want to say more. Medvedev deliberately added a few words: "If that is your friend, I can promote him. I think your friend must not be an ordinary person."
Hearing this, Yang Mingzhi couldn't help being happy, and simply made some excuses: "I hope to make friends with that Zaitsev. Yes, I once said a few words to that young man. At that time, a man who loved the Soviet motherland
Forest hunter, a natural sniper who is very good at hunting rabbits. The cunning hare can hardly find Zaitsev in the forest, but Zaitsev actually doesn't care how the rabbit runs and can kill him with one shot! I think,
His excellent marksmanship can deal with the Germans as easily as hunting rabbits."
"Okay! Listening to what you said, I am becoming more and more interested in this Zaitsev. If that man is in my boot camp, I will promote him immediately!"
"Forget it!" Yang Mingzhi shrugged, "If you don't have merit, you shouldn't be promoted. When Zaitsev makes merit, he will be a household name."
This sentence cannot help but remind Medvedev a lot. There is indeed a well-known young heroine, Natasha Speroskina. She is the hero cultivated by Berekov.
God knows what the poor orphan went through after he became a subordinate of the general. It was so legendary! It was so legendary that it dwarfed the imagination of writers.
It is undeniable that the war gave many small people the opportunity to become famous and gain wealth through danger. While fulfilling their obligations to protect their families and the country, their meritorious deeds also brought huge personal benefits.
Medvedev believed that he had the ability to lead a group army, but the task assigned by his superiors was to serve as a military training instructor in the rear.
He learned a lot of good news from the front line. Most of the new troops who came out from the Siberian Military District had achieved military exploits. Even though the military exploits were based on the huge casualties of soldiers, they still brought great benefits to the Siberian Military District and the Siberian people.
won national honor.
There was a huge barracks surrounded by barbed wire fence walls. Yang Mingzhi saw a large number of young people wearing dark green military uniforms. How many of them were there? Medvedev proudly said that there were 20,000 people of all types in this military camp.
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Twenty thousand people! Such a large number of people gathered together to form a giant, so the tents were also connected together. Going deep into the dirt road of the military camp, Yang Mingzhi was surprised to feel that it felt like a town.
The thin lathe can only block the cold wind and has almost no resistance to noise. Without listening attentively, the clicking sound of gunfire easily reaches Yang Mingzhi's ears, and it is also mixed with a few explosions.
"Very good, your recruits are taking the time to train. I heard them operating Mosin Nagants, DP light machine guns, and even Maxims. Those explosions should be the sound of mortars, yes
A big 120mm caliber guy!”
Yang Mingzhi said casually, and Medvedev couldn't help being surprised: "Comrade, you...can you tell what kind of weapon it is just by the sound of it?"
"Isn't this weird? As long as you survive on the battlefield longer, you can easily tell the difference. Besides, it's nothing. I know some veterans who can estimate the impact point just by the whistling sound of falling shells. Haha, if our
All soldiers have this skill, and the enemy's shells can hardly cause us any casualties."
His new friend must be taking the opportunity to brag. Of course, Medvedev does not deny that the long-term survival of some veterans on the battlefield is by no means as simple as being lucky. Their excellent technical and tactical skills can prevent the body from dying in critical moments.
Most injuries.
The convoy entered the interior of the military camp, which indeed looked like a small city.
There are now a large number of wooden buildings where the motorcade is parked, and many of them have various signs on them. For example, there are hospitals, barber shops, officers' lounges, and even canteens not far away.
The most eye-catching sign is undoubtedly the "General Command Office of the New Barracks", which must be the command center of this huge training camp and military camp.
As the commander of the military region, Medvedev's work can be described as diverse. There are specialties in the field. The inherent recruitment department in Novosibirsk City has extraordinary roles and tasks during the war. In peacetime, members of this department have a large number of offices.
A veteran, now the department is full of doers.
From recruitment registration to training, these are all the tasks of the recruitment department. When it comes to the training camp, the camp commander is responsible for all operations until a large number of recruits complete the reorganization after training.
Medvedev greeted Medvedev before he arrived. Yang Mingzhi followed him out of the car and immediately saw a group of officers wearing large-brimmed hats hurriedly walking out of the office. They seemed to be apologetic when they saw the commander of the military region.
Then he apologized profusely.
Also, the commander has entered the camp, but as the person in charge, they are still sitting in the office.
Medvedev doesn't care about red tape, and he's not here to hear an apology.
"Are all the special shooting ranges I want vacated?" he asked.
"Everything is done, please check it out." said the camp chief named Gorkinov.