During the three-month phase of land warfare training, the training content includes intelligence gathering, infiltrating buildings from the ground or air, long-range reconnaissance and patrol, close-range group tactics, long-range sniper attacks, hand-to-hand combat, dagger hand-to-hand combat, knife and stick combat, high-speed escape and driving jishu, handling explosives, infiltrating enemy lines, capture skills, handling prisoners of war, parachute jishu and parachute operations in various climatic conditions, self-rescue in extreme environments, and providing battlefield medical assistance.

For these difficult professional training projects, a number of people have to be eliminated in the previous special training teams. However, this special training unit completely regarded them as fun and easily completed the contents stipulated in the "Outline."

The most shocking effect was the second war experiment class that Chief Instructor Zhang Ming took in combination with the two wars that had just broken out. In order to broaden the horizons of the special training soldiers, Zhang Ming focused on analyzing the prospects of these two wars.

The first lesson is an analysis of the prospects for the Iran-Iraq war, which broke out on September 22. He focused on the analysis of the tactical performance of Iraq and Iran in the war, such as city raids, chemical weapons attacks, ship raids, and attacks on oil fields, and other means of warfare such as destroying the enemy's logistics and economic facilities.

He believes that as developing countries with relatively developed military strength, although both countries are equipped with and use a large number of advanced weapons in the war, such as Soviet-style MiG-25 fighters, US F-14 fighters, French-style Exocet missiles, and advanced helicopter gunships, this war is still a nondescript "layman's" war.

For example, information warfare, electronic warfare, and air-ground integrated operations have disappeared, and even long-distance assault operations of armored clusters formed after World War II, airborne operations behind enemy lines, and other methods of cluster operations and modern combat methods have not appeared. However, trench warfare, crowd attacks, and other common attack methods during the first Shijie war, were quite common. There were even brutal scenes of unarmed civilians, supported by fanatical religious beliefs, charging in groups and stepping on landmines.

Zhang Ming analyzed, "Before the Iranian revolution in 1979, the people of country M supported Iran's attack on Iraq. After the Iranian Revolution, the people of Country M supported Iraq in attacking Iran. The people of country M are the real masterminds behind the Iran-Iraq war. Iran and Iraq, on the other hand, are puppets in the hands of the people of country M, fighting a 'war between two laymen who carry modern missiles but punch and kick'! ”

The second lesson was the first war in Afghanistan, which broke out last year. Zhang Ming believes that the war of the Polar Bears' large-scale invasion of Afghanistan that broke out in December last year will eventually lead to an embarrassing end for the Polar Bears army due to the limitations of its combat methods and logistical support, repeating the mistakes of the M Army's fiasco in Annam in the sixties and seventies.

Zhang Ming believes that the Polar Bear army gathered the superior strength of 10 divisions, invaded Afghanistan on a large scale, and quickly occupied the whole of Afghanistan. However, the large-scale sweeps and targeted clearances of the polar bear army have had little effect on the Afghan guerrillas in the mountainous country, and the polar bear army will eventually fall into a protracted strategic stalemate and war of attrition.

"The fundamental constraint is logistical support, and modern warfare is precisely fought with war support capabilities!" Zhang Ming said. During the war of aggression against Afghanistan, the Polar Bear army could only invest about 100,000 troops at most, due to a serious lack of logistical support capabilities. A motorized infantry division participating in combat operations needs to supply 700 to 800 tons of supplies every day. A regiment of combat helicopters needs 400 tons of supplies per day.

Afghanistan is a landlocked mountain country, with 4/5 of the country's area being mountainous, with neither railways nor seaports. Air transport can only solve the supply volume of 200-300 tons per day, which is tantamount to a drop in the bucket for a modern army of 100,000 people. Therefore, since the beginning of the war, most of the logistics and supply tasks of polar bears have relied on trucks to transport.

There are only 2-3 strategic roads from the polar bear border to the hinterland of Afghanistan, and there are many dangerous mountains on the way. A fully loaded military truck, moving in formation, can only reach speeds of up to 50 km / h. A large supply convoy can only march at a speed of about 20-25 km/h, and the distance between vehicles is about 50 meters.

And in a highland area like Afghanistan, vehicles can usually only carry 1/2 of the supplies in the plains. Even without guerrilla attacks, the maximum transport volume would only reach 3,000 tons per day, and the actual supply would only be about 1,500 tons per day. With such a small amount of materials, it can barely maintain sustained combat operations on the scale of 2-3 divisions.

Based on this, Zhang Ming believes, "Looking forward to the outcome of the war, I can assert that the polar bear army will be defeated." In the Zuihou of the experimental class, Zhang Ming asked the question, what lesson should the "ghosts" learn from a war between laymen? What should we learn from an unwinnable war?

The members of the special training team answered the instructor's questions with harder training and first-class training results. After several months of study and training, they overfulfilled their learning tasks one by one. Out of 17 subjects, 11 have been completed, and 9 team members have all been A's. At the same time, with the deepening of learning, the unique personal qualities, and the strong collective combat effectiveness of each tactical squad have gradually begun to show.

Zhang Ming and the coaching team have evaluated their tactical quality one by one many times, and what they value most is the four-person tactical combination of Yu Songyuan, Lin Tao, Liu Guodong and Lin Zhumin. Among them, Yu Songyuan is the most admired, wise and brave, and will be an extremely excellent tactical expert in the future. And Lin Tao and Lin Zhumin are natural killers and assaulters. Liu Guodong is an all-round mechanical, electronic, engineering expert and super sniper.

The coaches all agree that these four are a perfect match, and if they form a tactical squad, there will be no difficulty in preventing them from completing all kinds of difficult and dangerous tasks.

Zhang Ming's mind is clearer than anyone else, he racked his brains, came up with one trick after another, constantly increased the difficulty of training, and honed the special training team in all directions, almost to the point of poor donkey skills.

Zhu Jun suggested: "I suggest that from now on, while the basic tactics and jishu courses are carried out, the proportion of actual combat training should be increased. Let this group of stinky boys coaxed by cattle go for a walk on the battlefield with real knives and guns. This training method may be the best for them! It is only in the atmosphere of actual combat that it is possible to identify whether it is a mule or a horse, sand or gold. ”

Most coaches think so, but there are also coaches who don't believe in evil, and Du Tongren, the swimming and underwater skills coach, is one of them, and he planted a big fight.

Swimming and diving training is a must for the "ghosts". In the 50-meter × 100-meter specialized swimming pools of the training camps, the special trainees should reach the speed of swimming above and below the water specified in the "Outline" and the minimum duration of breath-holding without diving equipment when they swim in a standardized swimming style and combat side swimming, in underwater diving and underwater survival training, and in carrying or without diving equipment, underwater assault rifles, and other weapons and equipment.

The main purpose of this training is to help the "ghost" overcome the loneliness and fear in the underwater environment, and improve the psychological endurance, behavioral self-control and confidence to overcome difficulties in the dangerous environment.

During training, the trainees are thrown into a two-and-a-half-metre-deep pool with their hands and feet tied, and they must find a way to surface to breathe oxygen and then complete the prescribed actions of drowning prevention training. The order is to float up and down the water, float on the water, swim 100 meters on the water, flip the body on the water, retrieve the underwater items with your teeth, and then float on the surface again.

During the training of carrying a gas cylinder, the instructor will sometimes suddenly pull out the trachea of the special trainer, or turn off the air supply knob, or tear off the air hood violently. The special training soldiers must master the essentials of underwater ventilation by themselves, complete the prescribed actions, and practice super underwater desperate survival skills.

Because Yu Songyuan has unique skills in underwater ventilation and breath-holding, he usually teaches Jishu when swimming in the swimming pool or ocean, and the team members have made rapid progress in diving and underwater survival training, and they have basically mastered the content stipulated in the "Outline" before the training begins. Therefore, in training, of course, there is less "torture" from the coaches.

Shijie has always been a unity of contradictions, the students are too awesome, and the teachers will be proud. But if the students are so awesome that they surpass the teachers, the teachers will also be very unhappy.

That afternoon, it was a surface combat sidestroke and freediving jishu class, and instructors Du Tongren and Huang Hongying taught the essentials of combat sidestroke, underwater apnea, and underwater diving without equipment. Both coaches were professional athletes, and then joined the "ghost" through layers of selection. Du Tongren was a player of the provincial swimming team, and Huang Hongying was a player of the Bayi team, and their professional attainments in water and underwater are well-deserved peaks in "Ghost".

Huang Hongying was explaining, and Du Tongren was demonstrating underwater. Then, let the special trainers go into the water and do the same. Although everyone's movements are not very standardized, the combat sidestroke and underwater diving speed are basically up to the requirements. So, the two coaches corrected their movements. After mastering the essentials, the underwater speed of the special training soldiers increased significantly.

After half a month of training, these special trainers were able to compete with coaches who had been professional athletes, and the two coaches were very satisfied. Especially the head coach Huang Hongying, who was in a particularly comfortable mood. However, Du Tongren found that many special training soldiers, including Yu Songyuan, still carried out their own habitual movements in combat side-swimming and underwater diving movements during non-testing, although the speed seemed to be faster.

After he raised this question, Huang Hongying thought about it for a while, and then joined him to give Yu Songyuan and the others a small stove to correct their actions. The special training soldiers are generally resistant to the dogmatic practices of the instructors.

Huang Hongying is a young woman who has just had a child, she is good-looking, and she is a swimmer, round and jade, wearing a red swimsuit, sexy and invincible. The special training soldiers who grind foreign workers like to listen to her counseling over and over again.

After practicing for a few days, one day Yu Songyuan quietly said to Huang Hongying, who was wrapped in a big bath towel, "Coach, I actually know how to standardize movements, but I can't swim fast with standardized movements, I don't know weishenme?" ”

Huang Hongying was presiding over the training, and before she could speak, Du Tongren next to her said angrily, "This set of swimming training materials is very scientific, and it has been professionally evaluated and tested by various countries. You are messing around, grinding foreign workers, I'm so angry, if you don't want to practice, get out of here! The coach's nameless fire was a little weak, and Yu Songyuan was silent and did not argue with him.

Huang Hongying said, "Let's find out the reason first, and then I have been thinking about it." So, she asked Yu Songyuan, "Do you think that using habitual movements can save more effort when swimming sideways and diving underwater?" More efficient strokes? ”

Yu Songyuan said, "Yes, I am also very distressed about this. ”

Huang Hongying said, "We'll do a test later, if you are faster than everyone else in sideswimming and underwater diving, and the underwater diving time is longer than everyone else, I will give you permission to use habitual movements, and you can pass the test." The purpose of our training is to fight, not to demonstrate the norms of movement. As long as your method is better, it's a good idea. Even, we will absorb your experience and revise the training syllabus. ”

The instructor's reasonableness gave Yu Songyuan and the special training soldiers a great encouragement. In the next surface and underwater tests, Yu Songyuan ranked first in combat sidestroke and sneaking speed, and the sneaking time was incomparable, and far exceeded the standards stipulated in the "Outline".

Huang Hongying is very excited, she is not rigid, she wants results, not action norms. She respectfully announced, "This special training team, as long as the combat sidestroke speed and underwater breath-holding time meet the requirements, you are qualified, and you will meet the requirements of the "Outline", and I will make an exception to allow you to pass all the tests." ”

The players were affirmed by the coach and erupted in cheers.

Huang Hongying is the head coach, and Du Tongren is not easy to understand, but he is not convinced, so he said, "The level of the special training soldiers is still improving, and it can't explain the problem." In this way, Yu Songyuan, you and I will compare the speed and time of sneaking, if it is indeed faster than me and longer than me, then do as Coach Huang said. ”