Chapter 10 Chariots, the wings that carry the infantry

The days of training are fulfilling, the days of training are boring, the days of training are painful, and the days of training are happy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The mixed smell fills the life of local college student soldiers.

However, judging from the dark skin, neat steps, loud slogans, and vigorous heroic posture of the student soldiers, the results of the training are remarkable.

Platoon Commander Li Bo happily watched the growth of the trainees and did his duty as if he were nursing his own children. When I go out for exercises in the morning, I always arrive five minutes earlier than the students, go to bed late, and after the lights go out, when everyone falls asleep, I quietly touch into the dormitory, wear a pair of cloth-soled shoes, and use a flashlight covered with a black cloth to fold the quilts and put slippers for the students, almost every day.

At first, the students did not notice such details, until one day, when the pickets of the regiment came to inspect and praised the class for how well the items were placed, everyone knew about this phenomenon. The first thought of the students was that they had met a "god", how could they put their shoes crooked before going to bed and tidy themselves the next morning? It wasn't until one night, when Yang Wenbin went to the toilet in the middle of the night and met Platoon Commander Li, who was just about to enter the door, that the secret was revealed.

As the days passed, everyone became accustomed to an intense and fulfilling life.

On this day, it happened to be Friday, and the original plan for the morning was queue training.

However, after the training team assembled at the football field, the subject assigned by Deputy Instructor Li Lihai was changed to observe the "car (artillery) field day."

Everyone was very excited, because, although they came to the mechanized unit and saw so many pictures of the soldiers of the company training in vehicles, they had not seen the real tanks and armored vehicles of the real king of land warfare ----.

"Turn left, walk in unison, one-two-one, one-two-one...... Born in the artillery fire, famous in the smoke of gunpowder, ---- sing together! The shift leader gave the team song.

"Born in the artillery fire, famous in the smoke of gunpowder, our team has a glorious tradition, bloody northern Xinjiang, chasing the Central Plains, attacking like a tiger, defending like Mount Tai, Liaoshen, Pingjin to play a regimental prestige, the Korean battlefield to create a miraculous feat. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and well-known in disaster relief, our team has a glorious history, a company of heroes, advanced figures, as bright as the Milky Way, as many as stars, striding forward towards modernization, vowing to make new contributions to the people. "The cadets carried red shoulder plates, marched neatly, sang high-spirited military songs, and walked in the direction of the armored vehicle yard.

The armored vehicle yard is located in the western part of the camp, covering an estimated area of tens of thousands of square meters, the size of dozens of football fields.

The officers and men of each company carried the company flag, sang the queue song with high spirits, and marched towards the depot. The gate of the depot is very imposing, and there are two soldiers standing guard with guns on the gate company. The gate is electrically powered and left open to welcome the soldiers who come for maintenance. Before entering the gate, the attendants of each company reported to the depot attendant the number of people participating in the depot day.

It's the turn of the local college student training team, the squad leader on duty is in the whole team, running to the duty officer, saluting and reporting, "Comrade on duty, the local college student training team participated in the parking lot day, there should be 24 people, but there are 24 people, please instruct!" After the depot attendant gave the order that he could enter, he led the team into the depot.

Facing the gate, there is a tall quadrangular monument-like building, about ten meters high, on top of which is a model of an armored vehicle, and the marble exterior decoration is engraved with the four big characters "Armored Vehicle Yard".

The entire parking lot is surrounded by a red three- or four-meter-high brick wall, and nothing inside is visible from the outside.

After entering the venue, Deputy Instructor Li issued the order and requirements for observation.

"According to the plan of the regiment, the training content of this morning has been changed to a car park observation day. Depot Day is a regular system established by armored mechanized units for the maintenance of vehicles, and is an important means to maintain the integrity rate of equipment. The content of today's observation is, first, to observe the main weapons and equipment of our team and understand their basic performance. The second is to observe the basic content of daily maintenance, so that everyone has a preliminary intuitive impression. The first requirement is to obey orders and obey commands. Do not touch weapons and equipment, especially do not press buttons randomly. The second is to pay attention to confidentiality. It is necessary to abide by the rules of secrecy, only to keep in mind the parameters of weapons and equipment that they have learned, and not to discuss them in letters and telephone calls, so as to strictly prevent leakage of secrets. After the arrangement, Deputy Instructor Li asked, "Can you do the above requirements?" ”

"Yes!" The students replied loudly in unison.

At this time, the tracked vehicles in each field have been driven out of the garage, with the front facing forward, in a neat row in front of the warehouse.

The first thing to look at is the tank area. Rows of tanks stood proudly there. Gathering the cadets in front of and behind a tank, a corporal began to introduce them.

"This is the main battle tank that my regiment is equipped with, the Type X-9 tank. Let me introduce its combat technical performance: the total combat weight is XX tons, the crew is 4 people, the unit power is 20 horsepower per ton, the length of the vehicle is XX meters, the height of the vehicle is XX meters, the fuel consumption is 300 liters per 100 kilometers, the maximum travel is XXX kilometers, and the average speed is 50 kilometers per hour. The maximum slope is XX degrees, the width of the trench is X meters, the wading depth is XX meters, and it is equipped with one XXX mm tank gun, two XX mm tank mechanisms, one XX mm high-body machine gun, XX shells, and two radio ......"

Listening to the introduction of the little soldier, Yang Wenbin had a headache when he heard the specific numbers, and he couldn't remember them at all. Just because he doesn't like to memorize numbers, he chose to study liberal arts, but now he still has to come into contact with these boring numbers, and he seems a little helpless.

However, in the face of this huge and genuine iron bump, he was still full of excitement.

When he was a child, there were no decent toys for him to play with, so he and his friends used sorghum straw to make machine guns and play combat games. Seeing children on TV playing with tank toys, he once thought that if he grew up, he would buy a realistic toy tank and live the weapon addiction that he couldn't get in his childhood. Now, in the face of the big toy that has appeared N times in his dreams, how can he not be excited?

After hearing the soldier's order that they could visit freely below, everyone swarmed around them. Open the tank turret, look at the crew compartment, open the cab, look at the crew compartment. Open the ventilation windows to get a closer look at the structure of the engine and transmission. Robin Li and Song Feng, who majored in mechanical manufacturing, quietly discussed the working principles of various parts there. And several other comrades were thinking about how to get this big guy in motion and how to operate it.

After seeing enough of the various parts, they reluctantly left the area and moved on to the next area---- the artillery area.

Again, artillery of various models was driven out of the warehouse, and several fighters were carrying out simple wiping and maintenance outside the car.

"Here is the main fire support weapon of our department---- self-propelled artillery, which has a high speed of movement, good off-road performance and a certain degree of armor protection, and is equipped for artillery annihilation and suppressive weapons. Its combat technical performance is as follows: the total combat weight is XX tons, the crew is 4 people, the unit power is 21 horsepower per ton, the length of the vehicle is XX meters, the height of the vehicle is XX meters, the fuel consumption is 200 liters per 100 kilometers, the maximum travel is XXX kilometers, and the average speed is 50 kilometers per hour. The maximum uphill slope is XX degrees, the width of the trench is X meters, the wading depth is XX meters, and it is equipped with a XXX mm howitzer, a XX mm high-body machine gun, XX shells, and two radio ......". ”

As with the previous venue, after the introduction, everyone is free to visit.

In Qi Bin's opinion, there is no difference between this big tank and artillery, both are tracked, both have one artillery, and both have anti-aircraft machine guns on the turret.

"Report, do I have a question for me?" He glanced at the instructor who was accompanying him next to him, and then at Deputy Political Instructor Li, "In my opinion, this tank and self-propelled artillery are the same in appearance, what is the difference between them?" ”

Another lieutenant colonel officer who accompanied the observation took over the conversation: "The biggest difference between tanks and artillery is that, first, tanks are direct-aiming firearms, and artillery is intermittent aiming firearms; The second point is that the firing range of the two is different, the firing range of the tank is within a few thousand meters, while the firing range of the artillery can reach tens of thousands of meters. ”

"Oh, there are so many performance differences!" It dawned on everyone.

The trainees solved their doubts and came to the third field, where there were rows of armored vehicles, but they were very different from the tanks and artillery they had just seen, and they only saw tracks and high aircraft, but not turrets.

After everyone had assembled, the formation in front of a car was completed, and a corporal began to introduce: "This is the main combat equipment of our department, the wings of mechanized infantry---- armored transporter. Its main tactical and technical performance is that the total combat weight is XX tons, the crew X people, the crew X people, the unit power XX horsepower per ton, the length of the vehicle is XX meters, the height of the vehicle is XX meters, the fuel consumption of 100 kilometers is 300 liters, the maximum travel is XXX kilometers, and the average speed is XX kilometers per hour. The maximum uphill slope is XX degrees, the width of the trench is X meters, the wading depth is XX meters, it is equipped with an XX mm anti-aircraft machine gun, and the radio station X department is ......"

Let's visit freely.

The cadets curiously got into the cab and crew compartment and experienced what it was like to sit in an armored car.

Yang Wenbin first jumped into the front cab, sat in the driver's seat, put on a tank cap, and closed the entrance iron cover. It was pitch black inside, and you could only see the limited world outside from the periscope, and the left and right steering sticks were cold steel.

From the passage behind the driver, he got into the crew room and found that there were more than a dozen small folding chairs near the periphery, and a small folding chair under the anti-aircraft machine gun in the middle. Open the folding chair and sit on it, facing the eye exactly where the shooting hole is. The design of the shooting hole is very ingenious, when not in use, it can be used as an observation hole, and when you need to shoot, you can remove the glass observation body and stretch out the barrel for car shooting.

Everyone sat down in turn, imagining themselves sitting in it with a gun and shooting as needed, and they were very excited.

After everyone finished the experience and got out of the car, they gathered together, and the lieutenant colonel who had been accompanying them introduced the maintenance requirements of the armored combat vehicle to everyone.

"In order to keep the vehicle in good technical condition at all times, the vehicle must be serviced regularly. According to the change of weather and the use of the situation, the maintenance is divided into first-level maintenance, second-level maintenance and third-level maintenance. ”

"In peacetime, the troops carry out regular maintenance of combat-ready vehicles every week, so the armored mechanized units have regular vehicle artillery yard days and arrange special time for vehicle maintenance. Moreover, in the winter and spring of each year, the oil and antifreeze of weapons and equipment should be regularly replaced to adapt to the changes in the weather. ”

He paused, "In peacetime, the training vehicles used in peacetime must be used and maintained at any time to maintain them in good technical condition and ensure that they can carry out combat and training tasks at any time." ”