Chapter 710: Street Fighting Exercises
For a long time, the main operational objective of China's marines has been to occupy and defend the beachhead in wartime. As for the task of advancing inland, all the tasks are to be completed by the army's combat units, and the marines are not enough to complete the large-depth operations in the interior in terms of numbers and training subjects.
Wang Sanpang naturally knows what this street fighting exercise means to the Marine Corps, and it is the first time that China's Marine Corps has gone to the cold zone to practice urban fortifications, and since such an exercise has begun, it has already shown that the leaders above believe that the Navy's responsibilities are no longer limited to defending coastal waters and island landing operations.
In the face of future warfare, the first problem that the Marines had to solve was the lack of experience in inland operations, especially the ability to independently attack urban fortifications. This time, the leaders above asked the Marine Corps and the Army to conduct an urban attack confrontation exercise, which shows that the leaders above have changed the combat thinking of the Marine Corps and fixed the target on inland attack operations, and there will be more and more such exercises in the future.
Wang Sanpang believes that in the near future, the size and number of marines will also be expanded, with more sufficient strength to meet the needs of independent high-intensity inland operations in the future.
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"Let's talk about it, what do you think about this exercise?"
In the conference room, Wang Sanpang glanced at the participants present and said, all the officers present were officers above the company level of the First Brigade of the Marine Corps, let them talk about their views on this street fighting exercise, it is also for brainstorming, after all, one person is short, two people are long, let them talk about how the Marine Corps should prepare for this exercise, check and fill in the gaps.
Chen Guohua, the commander of the 1st Marine Battalion of the Marine Corps, was the first to speak his mind after looking at the people around him.
"Brigade commander, our First Brigade of the Marine Corps has never conducted such training, that is, we are very lacking in this aspect, which also shows that we need to train a lot in the next training, but we are Marines, should we put down all the other training in order to prepare for this training? We are the Navy, not the Army. ”
No one thought that what Chen Guohua said was not a suggestion but a complaint, judging from Chen Guohua's expression when he spoke, he was really dissatisfied with the arrangement of the head above, in Chen Guohua's view, they are marines, what they need to carry out is a beach landing operation, not street fighting, this should be a task carried out by the army, what kind of excitement is their marines making up, will other troops in China be lacking, will the army be lacking?
In fact, other people at the meeting have opinions, and they don't want to let the troops carry out this so-called training in order to prepare for this exercise, and put the original training aside, and some people even think that Wang Sanpang was transferred from the army, so they will attach importance to this exercise, maybe the leaders above are just to see the situation of the Marine Corps in this regard, and they do not want the Marine Corps to develop in this direction.
After Wang Sanpang heard Chen Guohua's complaints, after seeing the expressions of other people, he nodded, he knew that there would be no fewer people present who thought the same as Chen Guohua, so the top priority was to reverse the concept of these people, otherwise if these people didn't pay attention to it, they still expected the soldiers below to pay attention to this exercise?
"I already know what Battalion Commander Chen means, but I want to ask you, if the army does not keep up after the successful landing on the beach, will we have to give up the good opportunity in front of us, because we are marines and are not responsible for the battle behind us? If you say yes, I can apply to the chief above, let the 2nd Brigade go to see this exercise, and our 1st Brigade can continue the current training. ”
Chen Guohua heard Wang Sanpang's rhetorical question, his whole face turned red, he knew what Wang Sanpang meant when he said this, if such a situation really happened, then they could only give up the good opportunity now, because their marines would not attack the fortification, they could only leave enough time for the enemy troops to consolidate their defensive lines, maybe in this case, they would need to spend a greater price to achieve victory.
"Ahem, I believe everyone has heard what the brigade commander said, in fact, our Marine Corps has always been responsible for many tasks, if you say so, these tasks actually do not belong to the scope of our Navy, but we are the Marine Corps, and the word land in the Marine Corps can already explain everything, which shows that we not only need to perform tasks at sea, but also need to perform tasks on land, and we need to do better than the Navy and the Army, otherwise, what do we want our Marines to do?"
Zheng Duo's words gave Chen Guohua a step to come down, Zheng Duo is indeed a competent political commissar, and it is very appropriate for him to say this at this time, and others no longer have any objections to this street fighting exercise because of Wang Sanpang and Zheng Duo's words.
In fact, from the world's strongest Marine Corps, the Marine Corps of country M can be seen that the Marine Corps not only needs to be responsible for the combat tasks of sea or beach landing, sometimes the Marine Corps also needs to undertake inland military tasks like the Army, so such an exercise is very necessary for the Marine Corps. But at that time, the strength of the Huaxia Marine Corps was not enough to undertake such a task.
Now as the Marine Corps becomes stronger and stronger, there will be more and more exercises in this area, and it can be said that the Marine Corps is both the Navy and the Army, and no matter what kind of mission it performs, the Marine Corps needs to do its best.
"The training for the next period of time is very simple, there is only one requirement, that is, to familiarize the soldiers with street fighting in the shortest possible time, I will give you two weeks, and after two weeks I will personally go to various units to see, I believe everyone knows that I was in the army before, so if I fail to pass the inspection at that time......"
Wang Sanpang didn't say the latter words, in fact, Wang Sanpang's meaning was clear to everyone present, although Wang Sanpang had not been to the 1st Brigade of the Marine Corps for a long time, but the people present still knew Wang Sanpang's way of doing things very well, and I believe that if the inspection is unqualified, the end will not be good-looking.