Chapter 32: Exercise (2)

Chapter 32: Exercise (2)

"Regiment Commander" Hu Biao was tied up by the soldiers of the Seventh Company in front of his subordinates, and he was obviously unable to get over his face, so he returned the gun with a flashlight tied to his hand, and said with some unconvincing: "The method of tying the flashlight to the barrel is really good, you can free up your hands to concentrate on the gun, I can't ...... this method."

"But what?" I asked.

I didn't come up with the method of tying a flashlight to the barrel, but in modern times, I saw that there was such a lighting device in front of the guns of the special forces, so I thought about tying a flashlight to the barrel.

Having said that tying a flashlight to the barrel of the gun is really beneficial, not only to attack the tunnel, but also to free up your hands to concentrate on shooting. When you want to light up on the battlefield, you don't need to take your hands off the gun and just reach out and press the switch, and you won't lose your flashlight when the battle is tense. In addition, our army has always been good at night fighting, so I originally thought of this method to facilitate the attack on the tunnel, but I didn't expect it to be very practical on the battlefield. Suddenly, all the fighters, without exception, had flashlights tied to the barrels of their guns.

Except, of course, carbines armed with night vision devices. First, after having a night vision device, there is no need for lighting equipment such as a flashlight. The other is that the night vision device is too heavy, and the carbine equipped with it is equipped with a flashlight, which is not very convenient to move.

"It's just ......," Hu Biao replied, "This battle must really be fought......

"It won't be like this, right?" Li Pinghe, who had been standing in Hu Biao's camp and watching the battle with a telescope, walked up to him at this time.

As soon as the "political commissar" Hu Biao saw Li Pinghe, it was like seeing a savior, he took a few steps up and asked anxiously: "You have always seen clearly from the position, you tell me justice, this battle is ......"

"Comrade Hu Biao" Li Pinghe interrupted Hu Biao's words with a smile: "Commander Cui is already merciful to his subordinates, and if you really want to fight, I'm afraid you will lose even more."

"What?" Hu Biao couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this.

A company commander under the "political commissar" Hu Biao was not convinced, and responded next to him: "Even if we can't beat the position, then let's hide in the tunnel, Commander Cui, can they still get into the tunnel and fight us?" ”

Li Ping and I glanced at each other, and then said to Hu Biao and the others: "If you don't believe me, come with me and Commander Cui to the training ground of the Seventh Company to have a look?" It's better to learn from the combat experience."

"Just go, who's afraid of whom?" Hu Biao responded, he has fought a battle for so many years, and this defeat is not uneaten, but today's battle is still the most suffocating for him, so he just doesn't admit it.

I don't have any opinion on this, anyway, those training methods are not treasures, and the soldiers of the 538 regiment are not outsiders, so I took the seventh company and Hu Biao and other people towards the training ground.

The training ground is located on the anti-slope plane near the foot of the 649.8 high ground, which is the place where the enemy's artillery fire and 'firing' angles are most difficult to reach. It's just that we usually train at night, and Hu Biao and the others have to garrison their positions on the top of the mountain, so it's rare.

Ten minutes later, the group drove into the training ground with the neat footsteps of the Seventh Company. It's actually an inclined plane, and it's mainly used to simulate mountain warfare. At first glance, it looks like the rest of the position, except that there are a few tunnels in the training ground.

I thought Hu Biao would shout a few times: "Cut this is the training ground?" What's the big deal? ”

To my surprise, Hu Biao didn't say anything, just watched intently with a pair of big eyes.

I couldn't help but say in my heart, this guy is still a smart person, and he knows that the more ordinary the place looks, the more unusual it is, otherwise, he will have a big red face again.

But Hu Biao is smart, but several company commanders under him don't have such great wisdom, and after being silent for a while, someone still spoke: "Political commissar and regiment commander are training grounds?" ”

"How? "Commander Cui" Li Pinghe didn't answer his words, and turned directly to me and said: "Let the soldiers perform and learn from the comrades."

"Zhang Xiong," I called directly behind me.

"To" With a sonorous reply, a warrior of the three thick martial arts stood in front of me.

Zhang Xiong is a platoon commander of the Seventh Company, as his name suggests, he is as big as a bear, but his head is not as stupid as a bear at all. However, although the real bear is large, it is not stupid at all. If you really want to rehabilitate Xiong, it will be another tirade, so let's stop here for the time being.

People who have 'mixed' on the battlefield know that the body shape of Wu Dasanbu is generally not good for 'mixing' on the battlefield. A large volume means that the area of exposure is also large, and the probability of being hit by stray bullets and shrapnel is also large. Coupled with the fact that most of the volunteer soldiers are thin and small because of malnutrition, it would seem strange to have a tall and strong person in the ranks. Enemy snipers, or even ordinary enemies, will naturally target such people.

But the more because of this, the larger fighters who can survive will generally have a unique hand. This Zhang Xiong's unique skill is fast, and his feet are fast and his hands are also fast.

If his feet are fast, he can run fast, and when the enemy grenade is thrown in front of him, he also has a way to run out of the explosion range in an instant.

It is said that once when he took a few soldiers to grab his tongue, he suddenly broke into the enemy's bunker like a small 'chicken', and broke the necks of three enemies with a few clicks, and the enemy didn't even have time to scream. When it was over, he dragged a frightened captive out......

It is precisely such a person who can join the Seventh Company and become a platoon commander

I took out my pocket watch and waved at him, saying, "Second Platoon is ready to act, fifteen minutes"

"Yes," Zhang Xiong answered, and without saying a word, he pulled his troops out and divided them into several teams on the training ground, and the cold-gun troops of Yang Zhenshan's squad immediately found a favorable position behind them.

Just when Hu Biao and the others looked at the big 'puzzled', I shouted into the pocket watch: "Start"

With a snort, it was like a gust of wind, and the troops led by Zhang Xiong were divided into three parts in squads, each holding a rifle and submachine gun in their hands, and under the cover of Yang Zhenshan and other sharpshooters, they covered each other's 'alternate' advances. Yang Zhenshan and Zhang Xiong also 'exchanged' with each other through walkie-talkies, streaming all the information on the battlefield and suspicious locations.

Sometimes it was Yang Zhenshan who told the front which positions might have the enemy lurking, and sometimes it was Zhang Xiong or several squad leaders under him who informed the soldiers of the cold gun unit that there might be hidden enemy positions, and asked the soldiers to verify through night vision devices.

Hu Biao and the others looked at it and were a little puzzled, at least their troops of the 538 Regiment came to "fight" in the drill just now, and at this moment, there seemed to be no one on the training ground, so they didn't understand Zhang Xiong and the others' posture as if they were facing a big enemy and acting like a play.

But they soon learned that it wasn't acting

Because at this time, several heads wearing steel helmets suddenly appeared on the battlefield......

"Bang bang......" a few times, the guns in the hands of the soldiers rang out, and several steel helmets were beaten far away with a "sonorous" crisp sound.

These sudden gunshots startled Hu Biao and the others, and someone shouted on the spot: "Isn't this a drill?" Why did you really come and shoot people to death......"

Then Dingqing looked at it again, and where those heads were real people, they were just a few wooden bumps wearing steel helmets, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Seven o'clock position, three hundred meters, two sharpshooters at four o'clock, two hundred meters, two machine gunners" Zhang Xiong promptly reported the situation at the front to the cold-gun troops in the rear.

Yang Zhenshan immediately ordered: "One group, four groups, seven o'clock position sharpshooters." The third group, the four o'clock machine gunners"

"Bang bang, bang ......" The gunfire soon rang out, and in the darkness, with we could barely see anything, there were several more sounds of steel helmets falling, and it was clear that the soldiers had all hit.

Then, in all corners of the training ground, many of these dummies wearing steel helmets suddenly appeared, some of them ran quickly, some of them emerged from prominent positions, and many of them even carried guns...... It was as if an ambush was holding back the soldiers' advance.

And the soldiers are also meticulous, for the target that can be hit and the target that may pose danger to themselves to make a correct assessment, sometimes hiding and sometimes jumping, sometimes the combat unit attack, sometimes by the cold gun troops, a 'fine' and brilliant battle in front of us vigorously unfolded, only to see Hu Biao and others overwhelmed, dumbfounded.

Just like in the movies now, when those SWAT officers are training to rescue hostages, a dummy suddenly appears in the corner or behind the house, and I think of this kind of training from that. The difference is that the wooden bump with the steel helmet has a smaller and harder target to hit.

Of course, I also know that the best training is to fight on a real battlefield. But on the real battlefield, casualties are inevitable, and the Korean battlefield is extremely brutal. Although going to the real battlefield can temper the soldiers, it is possible to kill more than half of the soldiers in a single battle. This outcome is clearly not what I wanted, nor was it what I was building this force for.

This kind of simulation training can solve such problems, and it can form a battlefield atmosphere and cooperate with each other for the soldiers as much as possible. In addition, they are originally veterans, and they have never been on a real battlefield before, so the simulation is more and more 'forced'.

I believe that after they have been tempered like this on the training ground, one day when they do go to the battlefield, the casualties will definitely decrease.

"What are you talking about?" I saw several company commanders under Hu Biao whispering 'private' words, so I asked.

"Report to the regiment commander," a company commander 'stood up' and saluted: "Company Commander Zhao said...... He said that the comrades of the Seventh Company already knew exactly where these dummies were placed, so it would be so easy to fight."

"That's wrong, they don't know the location of the dummy in advance," Li Pinghe replied on his behalf when he listened: "Commander Cui's three platoons of the Seventh Company are trained in a competitive way when the first platoon attacks is the second platoon, and when the second platoon attacks, the dummies are three rows, and so on, which platoon has the best results, and which platoon will be given priority to which platoon is for this, and these platoons are racking their brains to play tricks on each other, for fear that other platoons will surpass themselves."

As soon as Li Pinghe explained this, Hu Biao and the others had nothing to say.

But the show didn't end like this, after the enemy on the training ground was almost cleared, Zhang Xiong and the others quickly turned their target to the possible hidden enemy tunnel.

I saw several soldiers clinging to the wall of the tunnel and approaching the mouth of the tunnel, and then threw two grenades into the tunnel.

That's right, it's a grenade, an oval grenade for the US military.

Although the volunteers are accustomed to using grenades, it is undeniable that oval grenades have many advantages in some special fortifications and terrain, such as in tunnels or on steep slopes.

In the tunnel, if grenades are used, the low and narrow space undoubtedly greatly limits the distance the grenade can be thrown. First of all, the low top of the pit will prevent the grenade from making a high parabolic motion, and a little higher will be blocked or even bounce back and injure itself. The second is the weight and shape of the grenade, which is destined to be unable to be thrown far in the tunnel, which cannot achieve the purpose of attacking the enemy, and even often injure itself by mistake.

But the grenade does not have the above disadvantages, because it is light and spherical, and it can roll a long way in the pit with a light throw, and sometimes even use the rebound force of the impact of the pit wall to throw the grenade around the corner. Therefore, the combat grenade in the tunnel is undoubtedly the best choice.

It is not difficult to find the grenades of the American army, just like I always have no shortage of ammunition for the M1 rifle, with the support of Commander Pang, the bullets and grenades captured by the 180th Division from the American army were quickly concentrated in the warehouses of the 538th Regiment...... I don't think I will be able to use it until the end of the Korean War.

With the two "boom ......" sounds, the grenade exploded in the depths of the tunnel, and just after the explosion, the soldiers who had been waiting at the mouth of the tunnel immediately pressed the flashlight on the barrel, raised this special rifle and submachine gun and rushed into the tunnel.

Then there was a dull burst of gunfire, with the occasional explosion or two......

Of course, there is no way for us to see this battle in the tunnel, so we can only wait outside for time to go by minute.

Finally, at the fourteenth minute of the pointer on my pocket watch, the fighters came out of the pit and then made two circles towards us with the flashlight on their rifles, and the drill ended in victory

Hu Biao didn't say a word, raised his 'legs' and walked forward along Zhang Xiong's offensive line, and several company commanders of the first battalion hurriedly followed.

I know what Hu Biao wants to see, he wants to see the bullet holes in the heads of those "enemies" who have been killed, he wants to see where the "enemies" are hiding, and he wants to see the angle of the fighters' attacks...... Hu Biao is also a veteran on the battlefield, of course he will know the truth.

So when he walked down again, he sighed in front of me and said, "Commander, I'm convinced."

To be honest, I'm glad to hear that, because I know that it is also not easy to get Hu Biao's recognition, which proves that my training is effective.

Of course, whether it is effective in the end or not will still be tested by the real battlefield

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On the day of "Commander Cui", when I was discussing with Liu Shunyi at the regiment headquarters the progress of the tunnels in the front of the enemy's position on the 649.8 heights, a correspondent shouted a report and stood in front of me: "Commander Cui, Division Commander Pang, asked you to go immediately, saying that there is an urgent matter."

"Hmm" Listening to this, I couldn't help but glance at Liu Shunyi, and I wondered what there would be when this forward position was relatively stable. And listening to the tone of the correspondent, it seems that this matter is not small......

Thinking about it, I didn't dare to be slow in my hands, and after taking off the belt buckle, I took Liu Shunyi and took the guards out of the tunnel.

When I walked out of the tunnel, I found that the sky had not yet darkened, and I couldn't help but chuckle again.

In other words, although there is no fighting in the forward positions now, the cold guns and cold artillery have never stopped, and the enemy is like this, and so are we. So obviously, calling me, the regimental commander, out to run to the division headquarters during the day, although I don't mind, there is still a certain risk.

What would make Master Pang take such a risk and let me rush to the division headquarters? Don't even worry about making phone calls or sending telegrams?

I didn't know, and at the same time I wanted to know, and this curiosity prompted me to speed up.

As soon as I walked into the vicinity of the tunnel where Master Pang was, I felt a strange tense atmosphere. Along the way, I was asked for the password several times, and it was a secret whistle hidden in the grass. I remember that a few days ago, I came to the division headquarters because I wanted to discuss the plan to attack the 902.8 heights with Division Commander Pang in detail, and there was no such strict inventory at that time.

I finally came to the division headquarters, and after lifting the black cloth and hurriedly walking in, what surprised me was that Master Pang still looked very leisurely, and he was not as nervous as I imagined

"Come on, come on...... Sit" Master Pang saw that it was me, and he did not greet me politely, and motioned for me to sit opposite.

"Master Pang......" After sitting down for a while, I saw that Master Pang was only looking at the map, and I couldn't help but ask, "Today...... What happened? What instructions do you have for me to come to the division headquarters?"

"It's not a big deal" Commander Pang smiled and said: "It seems that a few people were going to 'touch' the division headquarters last night, so those comrades in the guard company were nervous like this."

"What? Someone wants to 'touch' the division? Puppet army spies? I couldn't help but be stunned.