Training will begin as soon as the formation is completed... In fact, there is no time or condition to conduct more training. It is just to make the troop members, superiors and subordinates familiar with each other. Otherwise, once a war breaks out, even your superiors will
If you don't know them, the organization will soon become a mess.
It doesn’t even need to be a war. If you don’t know each other, just marching may cause similar chaos... When a car breaks down or a traffic jam occurs, after the trouble is cleared and the traffic is smooth, you look up. Oh no, they are all strangers.
Face, which army is your company?
So this training is to perform some routine actions under the command of superiors, such as getting on the car, getting off the car, spreading out according to the battle formation, etc.
If there is anything else, it is that each platoon arranges a few soldiers to learn how to drive a car from the driver.
On the one hand, if the convoy is driving for a long distance, several people must take turns to drive. It is impossible for the driver to drive from start to finish by himself without eating, drinking, or sleeping.
On the other hand, if the driver is injured or killed in battle, someone else will be driving the car.
The problem is that I only have a few days, so I can only learn a little bit.
Shulka is honored to be one of them... He has several years of driving experience in Hyundai, but he drives an automatic transmission.
Shulka originally thought this was not a big problem, because he also drove a manual transmission when he took the driver's license test, and it only required an adaptation process.
But when he actually got into this GAZ car, he discovered that this was not the case at all:
First of all, this thing has no driving experience at all, but this seems understandable. The army advocates Dora running quickly, and no one will consider the driver's feelings.
Then it is difficult to start and shift gears. You have to hold the "Z"-shaped starter lever to the front of the car to manually start it like a tractor. Even turning the steering wheel is a physical job (there is no power steering).
What's even more exaggerated is that the rear view mirror is just a decoration. You can't see anything behind it at all. When the car is driven, the screws and windows of the rear car make a "crack" sound, as if they are falling apart.
It's normal for something to fall off occasionally.
If this car were a Hyundai, it would be a killer on the road.
This is true for Shulka, who has several years of driving experience, let alone soldiers who have just learned to drive.
So it is not difficult to imagine what kind of danger the Soviet army faced in the battle. The lives of a whole bus of people were handed over to a novice who had just learned to drive. What's more terrible is that the Soviet soldiers thought this was normal.
"Don't worry, Comrade Sergeant!" The thief said to Shulka in the back compartment while driving the car awkwardly: "Anyway, on the road full of mud and puddles, its speed is like a snail.
, do we need to worry about the snail hitting something?”
This seems to make sense. Even experienced drivers can only drive three or forty yards on the Soviet roads in the rain.
"Where else can we fall?" The veteran said: "The most we can do is roll to the side of the road and then turn over. We can push it upright and continue driving!"
This seems to be true. Ninety-five percent of Ukraine is plain. As far as the eye can see, it is empty. Even if the car deviates from the road, there will be no big problem.
"It's no big deal!" said the actor. "What could be more dangerous than German bullets and shells?"
This is indeed true. Compared with the battlefield, the dangers of driving are nothing to mention.
"Boys!" the driver finally concluded: "Bring on the courage you have when fighting the enemy on the battlefield, and you will soon find that driving will be as easy as driving a woman!"
The soldiers in the carriage "coaxed" and started laughing.
The driver was assigned along with the car. He was over forty years old and his name was Alekovich. The soldiers usually called him Uncle Alek.
Hearing what Uncle Alek said, Shulka no longer struggled. After all, Uncle Alek had more say in the cars of this era... Maybe this was also the Soviet driving style.
But Shulka had just half let go when he saw Uncle Alek taking out a bottle of vodka from under the driver's seat, opening the cap and smelling it. After letting out a sigh of appreciation, he raised his head and drank a few sips as if no one was watching. Then he drank the wine again.
The bottle was handed to the thief who was driving.
"Have a few bites, young man!" Uncle Alek said, "Believe me, this will make you learn faster!"
Shulka had a black line on his face:*%&*￥
These are just minor problems, the big problem is the tanks.
Shulka attended a meeting with Gavrilov on the third day.
This meeting was convened by General Kilponos... As mentioned before, the 9th Mechanized Army was organized by the General himself.
"Comrade Shulka!" After a few minutes of opening remarks, General Kilponos called Shulka to the front.
"Tell me what you think!" Admiral Kilponos handed the baton to Shulka.
This made the people present at the meeting look askance. They didn't understand how General Kilponos could let a sergeant preside over the meeting.
"Sir!" Shulka stood up and saluted them first, then pointed his baton at the tank model on the sand table and said: "We have always regarded tanks as equipment attached to the infantry and used to coordinate infantry operations.
Even in the tank division, we still use tanks as tools to cover infantry attacks. Now, we have to change their primary and secondary relationships, that is, the tanks are concentrated to attack the enemy, and the infantry is the role of cooperating with the tanks!"
These words immediately caused a commotion in the conference room.
"This has been proven to be a wrong tactic, Sergeant!" The speaker was Major General Tolichka, commander of the 9th Army.
Shulka had already learned a lot about their relevant information before this.
"No, Comrade General!" Shulka said: "On the contrary, it has been proven to be the correct tactic! Because this is the tactic used by the Germans!"
"You mean we have to learn from those invaders?" Major General Tolichka looked at Shure angrily.
"General!" Shulka replied without hesitation: "The Germans used rifles and machine guns. If we cannot be the same as those invaders, should we switch to using bayonets to fight them?"
Major General Tolichka was speechless.
"That's right!" Admiral Kilponos interjected: "I think I should say a few words: Comrade Major General, and everyone here, I hope you understand... This is war, do you understand?
This is war! War means that as long as the tactics are correct, we should not distinguish ourselves from the enemy, because it can protect our motherland and people from invaders!"