Chapter 65: Crossing the River and Heading North
After subduing these artillerymen, Su Dao did not leave, it was now almost four o'clock in the morning, and after a while, the troops sent out should come back, instead of running back and forth, it was better to wait here. And Su Dao can also chat with this group of artillerymen and instill some of his own thoughts in them.
Sure enough, after more than half an hour, the second group of soldiers finally returned, this time bringing back some armored soldiers, these people are all armored soldiers of the Central Army, because the tanks have basically fought almost in the battle of Songhu, so many people are just circling around a few dilapidated tanks.
So much so that when the soldiers of the 99th Army found them, they were not sure if they were the people they were looking for? The armoured soldiers don't have tanks, which is completely different from the infantry not having rifles. Infantry can go up and pick up other people's rifles, and with enough training, they can still kill devils.
But where are the armoured troops? You can't drive a tank after it's blown up, right? And the number of armored soldiers is indeed very small, these are still alive, there are not many people, only a dozen people. But don't underestimate the energy of these people.
Every one of them crawled out of the corpse, and even two armored soldiers escaped from the tank wounded after lying on the tank on the Songhu battlefield. When this kind of person arrives on the battlefield, with the cooperation of advanced tanks, he will certainly be able to exert amazing combat power.
The leader of this group of armored troops was a lieutenant colonel named Liu Guodong, who was originally the deputy commander of the tank regiment, and the regiment commander was too unlucky during the battle of Songhu and was directly killed by the artillery shells of the Yue army. However, the entire tank regiment was alive, and only a few of them remained.
After being appeased, Su Dao finally took out the Soviet T-34 tanks that had not yet appeared and doubled the military salary, and then included these people in the 99th Army. Of course, Su Dao's promise was that when they trained a hundred armored soldiers, Su Dao would equip them with enough tanks.
In order to cooperate with the training of armored troops, Su Dao even did not hesitate to conduct an army-wide selection within the 99th Army, selecting all the soldiers who had gone to school, and then for Liu Guodong to select people, and finally selected 200 people for preliminary training, and then eliminated some of them.
Of course, Su Dao did not indicate how many people to eliminate, but all those whom Liu Guodong thought were unsuitable could be eliminated, and the lack of personnel, Liu Guodong could naturally make a second selection in the whole army, and he could also use his own methods or use the strength of the 99th Army to find people from the outside world.
Because the 99th Army temporarily lacked artillery, and the training of armored troops also required a certain amount of artillery technology, Su Dao ordered the artillery who had just been incorporated into the 99th Army to participate in it, responsible for explaining artillery technology to the armored soldiers. Although there may be differences in actual combat, and there are essential differences between tank guns and artillery, Su Dao has no choice but to let the artillerymen teach some basic things first, and then Liu Guodong and others are giving detailed explanations.
In short, before Liu Guodong and the others explain in detail, it is necessary to let these people understand what artillery is all about, how to judge the trajectory of the shell, and how to adjust the bullet point. Anyway, Su Dao didn't expect them to be able to fight for a while, so he didn't bother with them too much, just leave it all to Liu Guodong to be in charge.
But soon, Liu Guodong gave Su a problem. Liu Guodong first explained the training steps to Su Dao in detail, to the effect that each position should be trained separately, the driver will specialize in driving a tank, the gunner will be responsible for firing artillery combat, and the commander will be responsible for communicating with friendly forces and directing the battle, and at the same time he will be the machine gunner of one machine gun, and the deputy gunner will be responsible for carrying the shells, and he will also serve as the machine gunner of another machine gun when he is fine.
Of course, this is a training plan temporarily formulated by Liu Guodong according to the general meaning of the T-34 tank proposed by Su Dao. After hearing Liu Guodong say this, it seems that Su Dao also realized some problems. Although the T-34 looks good, the crew of his four people is really a little too chicken, at least Su Dao can imagine the hard work of the armored soldiers, but there is no way.
If it weren't for the fact that he didn't want to equip too poor tanks to the troops, and considered that there would be no powerful tanks like Germany in China in a short period of time, Su Dao would have directly equipped the Tiger King.
However, Liu Guodong's problem to Su Dao was not only how to train, the most important thing was that Liu Guodong even asked Su Dao to at least get a T-34 tank for the soldiers to train. Without actual training, no matter how much theoretical knowledge they preach, they will not be able to quickly train them to become an armored soldier.
And those who have never played with a tank are no less than having a person who can't read a single word read a newspaper and a two-year-old child telling you what gravity is. Originally, Liu Guodong was worried that the training of these soldiers would not be good, so he proposed to train them in conjunction with actual training, which would somewhat speed up the formation of some troops.
In the end, Su Dao could only reluctantly agree to Liu Guodong's request, and told him that he would get two tanks within a month for him to use to train soldiers. To be honest, let Liu Guodong train these soldiers who don't know what tanks are, and even Su Dao himself doesn't know if it will succeed? After all, there are still too few literate people in the country, and even fewer people who understand tanks.
Not to mention tanks, even artillery, the most common branch of land warfare, is popular in China, not to mention the air force and armored forces, which are even more rare than it.
Immediately afterwards, Su Dao also met with the members of the aviation school who had been invited, as well as members of several other air bases. There were quite a few people who were invited, more than 100 people, but when Su Dao asked clearly, he found out the tragedy of the matter, among more than 100 people, there were less than ten pilots, half of them were instructors of the aviation school, and the rest were all ground staff.
Holding the concept that no matter how many bones there are, Su Dao chatted carefully with these people one by one, and finally successfully brought these people under his command under various temptations. In fact, the Air Force is relatively easy to recruit at this time, not to mention the strength of the Central Air Force, there are not even a few planes that can take to the air for combat.
Coupled with the previous loss of the air force on the Songhu battlefield, the air force in China has basically been wiped out, and the remaining pilots can only look at the piles of scrap metal in the warehouse, and those planes cannot be lifted into the air because of the lack of spare parts. At this time, they only have two choices, one is to find another job, and the other is to sit here and wait for the plane.
However, at this time, except for the Central Air Force and the Central Air Force, basically no one else has an air force in their hands, which makes them have to choose to continue to stay in their respective bases and wait for the arrival of aircraft parts.
After all this was done, the sky was already bright, and many people had discovered the kidnapping case of last night, and all the troops had some losses to a greater or lesser extent, but there was no news of those who were kidnapped. And when they shouted angrily to investigate, the culprit Su Dao was already crossing the river with his troops.
Looking at the situation of the troops slowly crossing the river by boat, Su Dao secretly shook his head, should I get a boat bridge force to come out? With that thing, the speed of the troop will be greatly increased, and there will not be so many restrictions.
ps: Yesterday, although the ranger has been three watches, but the results are actually not good, and yesterday's agreement is to collect from 12 o'clock at noon today to 3000, and now there are more than 50 shorts. Ladies and gentlemen, before ten o'clock in the evening, if the collection can reach 3200, it will be added, and there are nine and a half hours, an hour is about 20 collections, I think it shouldn't be difficult, right?