Chapter 59 Meetings

Chapter 59 Meetings

After all, I also knew that after our army cleared out the remnants of the enemy in Dong Deng, it would soon launch an attack on the front line of Lang Son, so I didn't dare to 'waste' half a minute, so I asked the three companies under the battalion to elect several candidates for company commander. Of course, the native of his hometown must be among them, and he is the central figure who can "control" the two new companies that I joined.

After the information of the company commander candidates was reported to the regiment headquarters, the examination and approval came down quickly.

The commander of the fourth company has not changed, it is still Xu Yongjian. What Xu Yongjian said earlier made me sure that he would easily accept the tactics of our company. My purpose is to hope that the soldiers will die a few fewer people on the battlefield, not to form gangs to consolidate their own power, so it doesn't really matter if it's my people or not. In addition, this also shows to a large extent that I am not nepotistic, and the soldiers of the fourth company naturally have nothing to say.

I was originally the commander of the fifth company, but after I was promoted to battalion commander, there will inevitably be someone to replace me, and the person who replaced me is Li Zhifu, the deputy company commander. It's funny to say, Li Zhifu was originally the company commander of the fifth company, but because of my reasons, he couldn't stay in the position of company commander and was demoted to deputy company.

Li Zhifu still has a lot of combat experience, and he also has experience in managing and commanding companies, but because his combat concept was completely different from ours at that time, his command seemed to have been completely overshadowed by me. But now, after fighting with me for so long, he has fully embraced the tactical ideas of our troops, so having him back as a company commander is arguably the best option.

But to be honest, I originally wanted Li Shui' Bo to be the company commander, but considering that he is a sniper, all the interest is now in improving the sniper level, and if he is made to the position of company commander, it means that there are more things to distract him, which is likely to keep him busy, and he really has no experience in managing a company. Besides, all the soldiers of the Fifth Company will consciously and actively use my set of tactics, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with letting Company Commander Li serve as the company commander, so it was decided.

Needless to say, the commander of the sixth company is naturally from his hometown. As an instructor, he has already had batches of recruits from ordinary people to soldiers under him when he was in the new barracks, so I believe that he can be qualified for the post of commander of the sixth company.

As for Zhou Changxiang, the company commander must not be able to be. It is also inappropriate to remove his company commander, after all, he still has some ability and has made meritorious achievements, and if he is removed without any reason, it will not only hit his personal positive 'nature', but also the positive 'nature' of the entire company to a certain extent. Because the soldiers of the Sixth Company looked at it, although they didn't say it in their mouths, they thought in their hearts...... As soon as this new battalion commander came to power, he removed the company commander who had made meritorious service and killed the enemy. Not only can they not be promoted, but they will also be removed......

This is also not conducive to the work of the hometown people, after all, he is a member of the fifth company, and the soldiers of the sixth company will naturally regard the hometown people as "related households", so they will openly and secretly confront him. This is certainly not what I was hoping for. Considering these, I finally arranged Zhou Changxiang as the deputy battalion commander.

This deputy battalion commander sounds like he is one level higher than the company commander, but there is a company commander below who is in charge of the company, and a battalion commander above who is commanding...... So the deputy battalion commander has a nice name, but he doesn't have much real power.

Zhou Changxiang himself has no opinion on this arrangement. Not only did he not have an opinion, but he was also a little complacent...... Promoted, this is a good thing for people who are a little conceited or love face, no matter what. In other words, I am afraid that this is a common problem of readers in this era, a little conceited and arrogant, and face is more important than anything else.

Since Zhou Changxiang himself has no opinions, the soldiers of the Sixth Company will not have any ideas. Their company commander was promoted, so it was normal to find a capable soldier to be their company commander. People in their hometowns are like that, no matter where they go casually, anyone will be able to see that they are not a veteran who is easy to mess with, so the appointment and dismissal of cadres was quickly decided.

As soon as the three company commanders are confirmed, then the rest of the things will be easy to handle, and it is not up to the company commander to decide how to train the troops.

Knowing that time was running out and that the troops would most likely begin to turn to the offensive in the direction of Lang Son in a few days, I gathered the main cadres of the battalion that night. However, although there were only three companies, the company commander, deputy company commander, and instructors were still crowded and filled.

"As far as I know......," I said after giving a brief introduction to the cadres, I said straight to the point: "Our battalion's clean-up task has been basically completed, but because the Vietnamese army agents in some local areas are still relatively stubborn, and the clean-up is not going smoothly enough, so our army has not taken any further action for the time being, and I think we should make good use of this free time to take a break from the troops." After all, there have been major changes in the command structure of our army recently. As you know, I have just taken up the position of battalion commander, and I have no experience yet, and I am not familiar with many affairs, so I still need the strong support of my comrades."

I said it with my lips, but I thought it in my heart...... Isn't it just a battalion commander, Lao Tzu has done it all, and he has commanded a team of three or four thousand people, so what's so difficult about commanding these three or four hundred people. But if you think so, you can't say that. The current era is different from the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea...... Everything is modest, everything is low-profile, and everything is about a set of words and a set of hearts...... Sometimes it's even in the army

"Battalion Commander Cui is modest" As soon as I lowered my posture like this, someone immediately raised me: "Although we are not from the same unit as Battalion Commander Cui, we have all heard the name of Battalion Commander Cui......

"That's it, I've heard about it for a long time."

"I knew it after the Fifth Company attacked Dongxi"

"Dongxi Rush is quite powerful, tell me to ...... That fight against the ghost tun really opened my eyes, others can't beat a regiment, as soon as Battalion Commander Cui led people up, it was easily solved"

"It's that Battalion Commander Cui commanded two infantry companies plus a tank battalion when he was fighting Ghost Tun, isn't it all very good? How can that be called inexperienced?"

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As soon as I spoke, the warrior began to chatter. I really didn't expect my reputation in the army to be so good, and listening to what those soldiers said, it seemed that I could be the battalion commander because everyone expected me to be the commander, and they were willing to fight under my command.

But then again, it's actually quite normal. My performance on the battlefield is obvious to all, and other units may not know about it, but the fourth and sixth companies in the same battalion must be the first to know. It can even be said that they are clear about when our troops will set off, how they will win, and when they will return.

Moreover, the soldiers on the battlefield actually have a little 'selfishness', and they all hope to fight with capable commanders. This is not only because fighting with capable people gives you more chances of survival, but it has also been proven that the more you fight with capable people, the better the battle will be, and the more dangerous it will be. The reason is very simple, once we have completed the task 'outstandingly', then the superiors will assign more important and dangerous tasks to us next time.

Most of them are actually unwilling to follow the incapable people to suffer that nest...... The so-called "one soldier bears, one will bear a nest", which means that if the soldier is a bad seed, then it is okay, there is only one, if the general is a bad seed...... That litter isn't much better.

Thinking of this, and seeing that the enthusiasm of the soldiers is so high, I think there should be no problem in implementing new tactics in the company. But I soon learned that there was still a gap between the truth and the imagination.

"The comrades look up to me, Cui Wei is very 'excited'" I almost didn't arch my hands like walking the rivers and lakes: "Since the comrades think that our Fifth Company is fighting well, then I want to use the tactics of the Fifth Company to train the troops, I don't know what the comrades' opinions are?" ”

To my surprise, apart from the consent of a few key figures such as the hometown and Xu Yongjian and Li Zhifu, no one else was silent.

"Do you have any opinions, comrades?" I couldn't help but ask suspiciously, and then encouraged: "If you have any opinions, you can only solve them if you have to raise them."

The "battalion commander," a cadre who was conscientiously taking minutes of the meeting, stood up and said: "Actually, the tactics of the Fifth Company are very good, and this is obvious to all. The casualties are small and the results are large, to be honest...... As long as we are the ones who go to war in person, no one will not want this"

"Yes," chimed in, "who would want to sacrifice?" If you can complete the task with a few fewer deaths, only a fool would be unwilling"

"Then why are you doing that?" When I heard this, I was even more suspicious.

"The question is......" The cadre who spoke continued: "The battalion commander also said just now that we will continue to attack to the south soon, and we only have a few days, can we learn the tactics of the fifth company?" If we learn for a few days and become a 'fur', will our casualties on the battlefield be greater? ”

"Hmm" I understood when I heard this, it turned out that the soldiers were still worried about this.

Still, this concern seems to be justified. The most taboo thing to do when fighting a war is whether you can go up or down, and the so-called fighter plane is fleeting, and sometimes a quick and wrong decision is better than a slow and correct decision. So...... If the fighters are not skilled enough to use the new tactics, it is indeed possible that the situation described by this cadre will occur.

After thinking about it, I replied: "It's not that this problem can't be solved, we need to get the soldiers to use the new tactics to attack, defend and build fortifications as soon as possible." Not only that, but each of our companies also had to select a few soldiers with good marksmanship to serve as sharpshooters to confront the Vietnamese army. You've all 'fought' with the Yue Devils, and you know that some of the Yue Devils will always hide in the shadows and shoot at us......"

"Yes, yes, a few days ago, when our company was on a clearing mission, we encountered one, which caused our entire company to lie on our stomachs for an hour and couldn't move."

"We ran into it when we were probing, our guns were not as far as theirs, and we didn't know where the enemy was hiding, so we didn't have a way to take them."

"The best way to deal with sharpshooters is sharpshooters," I grabbed the sniper rifle placed next to me and continued: "The more devils use such a rifle, its 'firing' range will reach more than a thousand meters, and the 56 and a half in our hands is less than half of the 'firing' range of others, of course, we will suffer, but as long as we have confidence and courage, we can also capture the enemy's sniper rifle with the 56 and a half captured in our hands."

"That's right," the hometown man added at the right time: "Our battalion commander is the one who killed a sharpshooter with a 56 and a half shots, and then captured the sniper rifle in the opponent's hand...... It was the fifth company, and there was also a soldier in the fifth company, named Li Shui 'Bo', who also captured one of these guns with 56 and a half in the clean-up mission."

"We can, and so can you," I said, looking at the group of warriors who looked at me with envy, "I think so...... Each company selects four to five fighters with good marksmanship to join the group, and concentrates on training marksmanship and sniper essentials in peacetime, and serves as snipers in wartime. There is only one criterion for becoming a full member...... That is to kill a Vietnamese sharpshooter and capture a sniper rifle"

"I agree"

"It's a good offer"

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The soldiers were usually afraid that they were fed up with the suffering of the Vietnamese snipers, so when they heard that I was going to train a team for the Vietnamese snipers, they immediately applauded.

This is the difference between the Chinese infantry and the Vietnamese infantry in this era, our army still does not know the word sniper, and even does not know what a sniper is for, and the farthest 'firing' range of the rifle is only 56 and a half 400 meters...... In anti-slopes, mountain passes, or tunnels where artillery cannot exert its power normally, it is often the case that as long as one or two Vietnamese snipers guard the 'crossing' road, one or more of our army's companies or even more troops can be prevented from advancing

It is said that when we were in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, there were snipers named "sharpshooters" to deal with the snipers of the United Nations Army, just like Zhang Taofang and Zhang Lao, as well as the cold-gun unit I established. So it's hard for me to understand why, decades later, we don't even have a dedicated "sharpshooter". I think this may be related to the so-called tactical ideas such as "one shot can be fired if you can't shoot a second shot" or "'spirit' atomic bomb" in the ten years of turmoil, so that until now, our army has not developed a rifle that can be used in sniper warfare

"I propose," the hometown stood up and said, "This 'shooting' team will be trained by Battalion Commander Cui."

As soon as the "good" cadres heard the words of their hometowns, they applauded one after another.

I couldn't help but smile bitterly and glanced at the people from my hometown, who spread their hands and replied pretending to be very innocent: "I'm just saying what my comrades think, you're just afraid that you don't know it, the whole battalion and even the whole regiment know that you have good marksmanship, but this is really not covered, last night I saw you put down two Yue devils with one shot, and it was in the case of bad light at 500 meters......"

With a "whoop", the words of the hometown people set off a lot of sensation among the cadres. In particular, the hometown people also emphasized the "five hundred meters" and "the light is not good". There were even some soldiers who looked at me with suspicion, and it was not until they saw that I did not deny it that they were convinced that what the people of their hometown were telling was true.

It is said that the soldiers who have been using the 56 and a half for a long time and only have a range of only 400 meters, when they hear that they have hit a target 500 meters away in the dark night, and it is a double shot, they naturally look up like gods. It's just that what they don't know is that this is just an ordinary shot for a sniper.

I don't want to excuse myself when I see this situation, in fact, I think if I really want to train sharpshooters, this company is the only one I can do.

"As for how to familiarize the soldiers with the tactics of the fifth company as quickly as possible," I changed the subject and said: "I think we can use the method of using the fifth company to lead the other companies, that is, the soldiers of the fifth company can be evenly distributed to the fourth and sixth companies during training. One company leads two companies, and on average, one person in five companies is assigned two other fighters, just like a master who is responsible for the guidance and training of two soldiers, and after daily training, experience is summed up, and one or two clearance tasks can be made with a purpose, I think it will not take a few days, and the soldiers will soon be proficient in this tactic. ”

When the cadres heard this, they whispered a discussion below, and soon agreed to each other. The people from my hometown also nodded at me, indicating that it was indeed a good idea.

In fact, this is not the method I came up with, but the method used by the volunteers to train recruits during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea

In fact, these are not new things for our army, but since the turmoil of the past 10 years, the soldiers have spent most of their time engaged in production and construction, and some units are even engaged in business, and when they have nothing to do, they are engaged in ideological and political education...... So even these valuable combat experiences passed down by our ancestors have been lost

I don't think it's a little funny when I think of this, because when I went back to the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, it was the knowledge of modern warfare that played a role. And now, I have brought back the combat experience that my ancestors did not inherit during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea...... Either way, as long as the warriors can sacrifice fewer people and defeat the enemy

"Then it's decided," I concluded: "Due to the tight schedule, the training will start early tomorrow morning, and the cadres of each company will immediately convey the 'spirit' of tonight's meeting to every soldier and make them ready."

"Yes," the soldiers replied, saluted me, and then walked out of the company.

Is it possible to train them well with only a few days? I don't know very much in my heart, but I think, when the volunteer army trains recruits, isn't it only a few days? Even on the train, if you just start to practice walking in the right step, you can still beat them, and we will definitely be able to do it