Chapter II: Reorganization and Training
"I approved your vacation." Beslone clenched his fists happily in a paybox booth. "Oh, it's not because you're famous and meritorious, it's because you've been transferred to a military academy as a teacher, so it doesn't matter if you come back in a week."
With a snap, Besron fell straight from heaven into the ice cave. "Dut...... "By ...... time he came back to his senses, the phone had already hung up. Besson hung up the microphone in frustration and took the five dime coins that had fallen out of the telephone.
Just after half a day to appease Recca and want to take a leave of absence, he found that he had been transferred from the front line, and Besron now wants to die.
It is true that the new district does not need heroes to stand in front of the podium to raise donations, and once they have made meritorious service or participated in a certain number of battles, indigenous officers and soldiers will be directly transferred to military academies to receive deeper learning.
Of course, this can also be understood as a new-age version of swapping defense zones, mixing sand and playing power. There are no factions in the army, and there are all kinds of strange things, and it is inevitable that there will be gangs and factions based on the structure of units and regions. It's like iron rusts, it's a natural thing.
However, the modern army just does not allow such a thing to happen to some extent. Everything is subject to orders, and no matter how large a small group is, there can be no disobedience. The promotion and transfer of non-local officers is itself an act of dismantling small groups, not to mention the fact that at least three months of short-term training will be required, and in the future, senior officers will be given long-term training for one to two years to see who can still hold up those small groups.
However, for a quasi-"god of war" like Beslon, the existence of the military academy is mainly to keep this spiritual flagpole and his fighting skills. Skill is such a thing, some people are born with it, and some people can't learn it in their lifetime without guidance. Not to mention any courage and luck, the difference between minutes and seconds in war is the difference between a hero and a fight.
At the same time, the inclusion of the flagpole in the military academy will also help more young men to join the army. It is true that only tens of thousands of regular troops can defeat the Western Expeditionary Army, but after hundreds of thousands of routs run all over the ground, how can the security in the central and eastern parts be guaranteed? Even if these hundreds of thousands of people are domestic pigs, domestic pigs can run fast! How long does it take to catch it? How long will it take for law and order to deteriorate? Therefore, expanding the army until it remains in the same order of magnitude as the Western Expeditionary Army has become one of the solutions to the problem. The second plan was to cut off the supply of the Western Expeditionary Army, force the Western Expeditionary Army back to the coastal areas, and then slowly develop the transportation and ruling conditions in the central part of the country, and drive them out to sea.
Of course, Beslon didn't understand the door in an instant, not only did he not understand, but this advanced experience was not something that any wise man in the land of Elta could come up with by pinching his beard. He only knew that after being transferred to the front line, he personally defeated the bandits of the Double Moon Church, and half of his dream of making a name for himself was in vain.
Although he wore Elta's Medal of Independence and Freedom on his chest, Beslonben felt that he would not stop there. But it's too late to say anything, and that order will soon be sent to the mailbox of his troop dormitory, it's an order. And the order is non-negotiable.
Outside the phone booth, Reika, who was waiting for the results, looked very happy. "What I like is the most real Bethlon, not the big hero who has a national reputation." Taking Bethlon's hand, Reka responded to Bethlon's complaints. The brim of Bethlon's hat was lowered, and he wanted to say something but didn't say it.
Just as celebrities marry celebrities are generally celebrities, the pressure that such top public figures bring to their partners is also obvious. If Besson hadn't worn that twenty or thirty round-brimmed hat, nine out of ten people on the street would have started shouting to surround the hero - maybe Beslon would have changed his mind if he could withstand the pressure of being always exposed to the spotlight but always surrounded by flowers? How much pressure is it to be put in the spotlight together? That's something Reika can't try.
The transfer of Beslon and 14 other indigenous officers and soldiers to military schools was only a small part of this reorganization. Originally, the new army, which was not in the battalion-company area, did not practice the three-three system, but this time the number remained unchanged, and three regiments were conjured out of thin air. The other three infantry regiments of the new formation were still empty shelves. Unlike the other six main regiments, the cadres below the company level of these three regiments will be natives. The training and positions of the natives are promoted at the same time, and in the end the Elta people will have their own division commander, their own army commander and their own chief of general staff, but not yet.
At the same time, in view of the problem of insufficient firepower of key defense units, the units carrying out the defense of key points have added one Type 56 light machine gun per squad, and replaced the Type 67 with a more reliable Type 80 general-purpose machine gun. Beslon was able to kill in and out with a machine gun, thanks to the fact that the Type Six or Seven in his hand did not malfunction. Otherwise, Besron would have to face hundreds of enemies and wear asbestos gloves to troubleshoot - and there would be no god of war.
The ambush and blasting tactics used by the Forces nouvelles in the opening battle were also well received by the instructors and battalions. When the military is inferior, knowing the enemy's advance route in advance and using explosives to kill and damage the enemy's living forces to the greatest extent is the most correct answer. Being raided like the Battle of the Ferry is too embarrassing to win.
At the same time, the huge iron puppet also made a deep impression on the 2nd Infantry Regiment. It could not be stopped by the non-recoilless gun, and once it was a single light infantry, the consequences would be unimaginable. Light infantry needed a weapon that could be carried in squads, at least in exchange for an Iron Giant.
However, this weapon is not powerful enough to affect the armored vehicles equipped by the Forces nouvelles, and it is better to be disposable. The reason is simple, what to do if the enemy captures it?
The power can't be too great, then the answer is already coming out, the Type 90 armor-piercing grenade. One rifleman in each squad underwent additional training, armed with a modified muzzle device and several grenades. The armor-piercing thickness of the Type 90 grenade is only 80mm, and of course, the power of cast iron and mild steel armor has increased further, but it still cannot threaten the iron turtles at all.
The reorganization was followed by the whole training. When the soldiers returned to the barracks tomorrow, the first thing they faced was various orders. Then new units were put into training. In addition to running-in training and dress-up training, there are many subjects to be trained for the central offensive that may start next. Being able to fight a good defensive war does not mean that the offensive war can be foolproof, the elongation of the supply line and the reduction of the supply level, and the various outflanking and cutting maneuvers also affect the success or failure. Being able to travel longer distances in a day and night to encircle the encirclement will make it less difficult to catch pigs, and more enemy troops will walk hand in hand into the POW camp without wasting gasoline and bullets in pursuit.
The action of cutting off the enemy's main force and encircling more than 100,000 people also posed a new challenge to the cohesion and willpower of the troops. Imagine how much pressure the outflanking troops that block the enemy's retreat will be when they are blocked from the front of the enemy and retreat. Again, 100,000 pigs rushed in one direction, which is also a pressure that cannot be underestimated.
Logistically, the engineering corps needed to further complete courses that were not completed before the start of the war. Without the construction of smooth and simple roads and bridges, the arrival of logistics vehicles will be nothing more than. And the Forces nouveau troops, who did not have an adequate supply of ammunition, could not compete with the mages with bayonets.
The nine regiments also needed more logistical vehicles than before, and the Forces nouvelles were at this time severely short of mechanics and drivers. There's no way, practice! You don't need to know why the driver is fast, two months is enough.
Of course, three of the regiments were not front-line combat regiments, but were prepared to be used to maintain the security needed in the newly liberated areas. Based on the consideration of future transfer to the police system, the original police department will be put into active duty as the command structure. And the training they receive is also different from that of other armies, ranging from law and order clearance to anti-guerrilla warfare, anti-infiltration, reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, and even firefighting.
The purpose of the other party's insistence was also quickly ascertained, that is, magic fans. And now that there are nearly three months left before the harvest season of magic powder, all Sierta has to do is to take the initiative within two months and take a large piece of the magic powder production area for himself. If this is not possible, the air force can be directly dispatched to burn down the vast fields. In short, the Bimonthly Church can't be allowed to get anything that will help improve its combat power.
The fields where grain and magic powder crops are planted are green from the air, and from a humanitarian point of view, it is really not suitable to start burning now. The same argument was rejected for the proposal to sink all the ships on the river, many of which were carrying blister copper and exploiting the Church of the Two Moons. Moreover, according to the survey, the Bimonthly Church is also feeding more than millions of people in Erta with the minimum food ration standard, which cannot be regarded as a great good deed - although it feeds and exploits them by working for themselves, it must not spoil the "good intentions" of others.
At the same time, Doniva did not want his country to sacrifice too much in this war of unification. There are few aborigines on the side of the western border, and the defense of the Western Expeditionary Army has made it lose its former glory. If such a scene spread to the entire territory of the territory and the entire eastern territory, the losses of Elta itself and the difficulty of advancing would increase exponentially.
In the event of an all-out assault on the logistics of the Bilunar Church, the most likely thing is that the food supply will no longer be able to meet the minimum needs of the serfs. The greatest threat was that the Western Expeditionary Army would most likely kill the grain-hungry serfs and other Elta in exchange for a guaranteed food supply for the successful retreat. And whether it is a major or secondary consequence, the future blow to the country is obvious.
The pig does look like meat on a cutting board, but whether the pig crushed the bottles and cans before being put down, or fell into the butcher's net bag, is a science.