Chapter 24: Military Training (3)

Of course, a company can't always revolve around a heavy machine gun, and the rest of the soldiers, Koval, according to the existing conditions, divided a company into a machine gun platoon, an shooter platoon, and an assault platoon. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

Because of the constraints of weapons, the machine gun platoon has a heavy machine gun squad and 2 ordinary squads. The heavy machine gun squad selects strong soldiers to control the machine guns, and can also quickly move machine gun positions during combat. The caliber of the MG-08 heavy machine gun is 7.92mm, the length of the gun is 1175mm, the weight of the gun is 62kg (including the H-shaped gun carriage), the body weight is 26.4kg, the barrel length is 719mm, the theoretical rate of fire is 450 rounds, the 250 bullet chain feeds, the barrel adopts the water-cooled cooling method, and the water-cooled sleeve can be filled with 4 liters of cooling water.

A squad of soldiers is responsible for anti-machine guns, machine gun racks, cooling water, bullets and other items. The other two squads were responsible for covering the machine-gun squad and constructing replacement positions.

There is one shooter class in the shooter platoon, 2 ordinary classes. Based on a month's worth of marksmanship, Koval selected the soldiers with better grades to enter the marksman class, and they used Koval's corrected Mauser rifles for long-range precision shooting.

The assault platoon has one assault squad, 2 ordinary squads. The assault squad chooses soldiers who are agile and agile. The assault squad was armed with a Burgman MP-18 submachine gun that Koval had acquired from logistics. Caliber: 9X19mm, gun length: 815mm, gun weight: 4.17kg (empty gun weighs 4 kg), ammunition feeding method: 32 rounds of magazine (32 snail drums use 9x19 mm Luger pistol cartridges), rate of fire: 400 rounds / min, muzzle velocity 380m / s, firing range 150 meters. The Bergman submachine gun was a new weapon that the German army only began to prepare for the troops in 1917, so the average officer did not know its fame, so Koval took the opportunity to get a few more.

Many people know that many weapons were used in World War II, but they don't know that they were conceived in World War I. Submachine guns, semi-automatic rifles, automatic rifles and other weapons have already begun to appear in World War I.

In the later part of World War I, the German army adopted a small detachment called "storm commando" in order to break the deadlock of trench warfare, when the weight of machine guns was not suitable for individual portability, and it required close firepower and light and reliable individual use of small arms, in 1917, Germany developed automatic weapons using pistol bullets to cooperate with the assault tactics of infiltrating and breaking through trenches.

The direct platoon of the battalion headquarters was divided into a heavy machine gun squad, an shooter squad, and an assault squad.

Depending on the condition of the adjusted weapon, Koval devised two of the most commonly used tactics to practice. When defending, three companies cooperated to build positions around four heavy machine guns for defense, the marksman squad conducted long-range precision fire, and the assault squad acted as a reserve to prevent enemy surprise attacks.

During offensive battles, the ordinary squad is responsible for maintaining the needle and thread, and the machine gun squad suppresses the enemy's firepower points, especially the enemy's machine guns, first using sniper fire to gradually weaken the enemy's firepower and morale, and when the enemy's firepower is exhausted and there are flaws, the assault squad is responsible for breaking through.

The platoon platoon directly under the battalion headquarters can strengthen the positions of various positions according to practical needs.

Of course, in this process, Koval promoted those officers and soldiers who performed well to the appropriate positions, and Koval completely mastered the whole battalion, was familiar with the distribution of the combat effectiveness of the whole battalion, and could deploy troops as quickly and reasonably.

Koval looked at the list of officers of the entire battalion in front of him, and a smile appeared in his heart, and this feeling of swaying others and treating others as pawns made him intoxicated again.

Koval couldn't help but take a deep breath, constantly reminding himself not to indulge in this illusory feeling.

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March 5, 1919.

"I hereby order the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment to immediately follow the regimental headquarters this afternoon!" Koval looked at the documents the herald had brought, lost in thought. In my heart, I have the expectation of being able to realize my ideals, but also the doubt that I am about to face death on the battlefield.

The time is really tight, although it is already March, the weather is still very cold, and the temperature at night is more than ten degrees below zero. Koval checked the supplies and ammunition that had been urgently delivered, there were enough bullets and enough food. Kovars thought about it and felt that something was missing.

"Clothes, how can you go out to fight on such a cold day and don't have enough warm clothes? Do you want everyone to freeze to death? Koval cursed inwardly.

"Brother, do you have any warm clothes on it?" Koval handed over a cigarette and asked the officer who was transporting the supplies.

The officer lit a cigarette and took a hard puff, and said with a grin: "Oh, four marching tents, it's enough!" ”

Four tents, this is where the officers work.

He glanced at Koval's surprised look and comforted: "The supplies of the army, the shells are in front of the bullets, the bullets are in front of the grain, and the food is in front of the clothing. With so many military supplies to be dispatched all at once, where is the turn to get clothes! ”

After thinking about it, Koval understood that most of the supplies of the Polish army were left behind by the German army. Germany surrendered and did not fight, all kinds of weapons can be left, but clothes must not let them stay! Therefore, the Polish army received a large number of weapons from the German army, but there were not many such supplies as warm clothing.

And the senior officers do not know much about these situations, and few generals can know how to bring more clothes, and in the minds of those staff officers who arrange various plans, in order to best complete the task, in order to make the most beautiful plan, they only care about how many people, how many guns, and how many guns and how many cannons are sent to the front, and clothing is the last in their hearts about military supplies. As for the few unlucky people who froze to death in the army, naturally it has nothing to do with the overall situation, and no one will criticize them for this.

Finally, one day, it was because of these details that Napoleon would defeat Moscow, and Hitler would let his million-strong army freeze to death and frostbite hundreds of thousands of people, missing the opportunity to capture Moscow in one fell swoop.

Koval thought, knowing the damage that no warm clothing would do to the morale and combat effectiveness of the army. Koval called the three company commanders over to discuss it.

"We need to buy enough warm clothing by noon, and we can't let the soldiers sleep on the snow." Koval said worriedly. "What do you usually use in the army to keep out the cold?"

"The trenches are all dug with fortifications and blankets." Alex replied.

"Where there are blankets in the army warehouse, they are taken away by the officers." Locke said.

"The army's warehouses can't be counted on, so we have to go to the market and buy some ourselves, and if we can't buy them, we have to buy some from door to door." Koval said through gritted teeth.

"There isn't enough money in the camp." Parker said solemnly.

The Polish government had just been established, and it had to expand its army, to buy weapons, to pay the salaries of its employees・・・・・・ and the army's outrageously low salaries were all sustained by the patriotic feelings and heroic ambitions of the people. As for the military expenses in the battalion, there is almost none.