Chapter 16 Field Training
When Ye Kong was training with a sniper. Zhang Jinquan was not idle, he was walking around the mountains and forests with the newcomers who entered the mountains in batches, trying his best to teach these guys the knowledge of the mountains and forests. The enemy-occupied areas are not only cities and towns, but also large areas of wilderness and mountains and forests, and Zhao Zhi has long placed the logistics support area for activities behind enemy lines in the mountains and forests; only in such a place can the soldiers who go deep behind the enemy lines avoid the heavy firepower of the Japanese army, and only then can they preserve their own strength and look for fighters to destroy the enemy. Therefore, in Zhao Zhi's three-month training plan, the wilderness survival training took up a month, which was the highlight of the entire training.
There were too many soldiers in the training camp, so Zhao Zhi had to put them into the mountains in batches according to the brigade establishment. Zhang Jinquan, who was in charge of leading them into the mountains to camp, didn't care about them as long as he taught them all kinds of wild vegetables and Chinese herbs on the way, how to camp safely, and how to find food in the mountains and forests. Zhao Zhi arranged for all the mercenaries to secretly monitor the camp of the new recruits, and in this month's wild survival training, Zhao Zhi only gave each of them a short knife and a bag of salt, and the rest of the things had to be solved by themselves.
How to light a fire with flint and dry thatch in the mountains, how to make a trap with branches and bamboo sticks, these things that need to be mastered in the wild, Zhang Jinquan had already taught them as early as the training camp. There are many unknown dangers in the mountains and forests, and Zhao Zhi cannot cancel this most important training because of the damp and cold mountains and forests and those potential dangers, so Zhao Zhi has already informed Chiang Kai-shek that for this field training, Zhao Zhi has prepared at least 100 training death places.
"When walking in the mountains and forests, you must remember one sentence: walk on the beam instead of the ditch, walk vertically and not horizontally, once you are found in the ditch, the commanding heights have been controlled, you will be exposed to the enemy's firepower, and you will be lined up in a column, so as not to let the enemy cover all at once, which is conducive to breaking through."
"When marching in the forest, you are not allowed to make noises, you can't speak, you can't cough, and you will find that the loud objects on your body are either fixed or thrown away, and the communication or information between them must rely on sign language transmission."
"All team members must maintain a high level of attention during the march and be aware of any wind and grass around them at all times. There are many animal activities in the forest, and if you alarm animals such as birds, you will reveal your whereabouts. ”
"Take advantage of the surrounding environment to protect yourself, for example, after a snowfall, everyone should wear white camouflage clothing and wrap their weapons in white cloth, so that they can blend in with the environment as much as possible."
"The woods are dimly lit, and ambushers can take advantage of the environment to conceal themselves, so when we march in the woods, we have to alternate cover, always aiming our guns at the front and on the flanks, and the rearguard must always be on the lookout for danger from behind. The most important point is that when marching in the mountains and forests, do not gather in groups, and it is best not to be too close to each other, so as to avoid heavy casualties caused by the enemy's dense firepower."
The new recruits who were sent into the dense forest by Zhang Jinquan remembered the things that the instructors had talked about in the camp, and after finding a dry place to hide the salt, they began to collect available materials in groups of three or five carrying their short knives. The wild vegetables and mushrooms and bamboo shoots in the mountains and forests can replenish the vitamins they need, the wild animals can replenish the protein that their bodies need, and the branches and bamboos that they cut back are the tools against the large wild animals and the materials for building camps.
"No, the trap digging is not good at all, such a thing can only stop the beast, if it is a person, these traps are not a problem at all" Zhang Jinquan pouted, lying on the ground and uncovering the grass branches and leaves covered by a trap, and looked at the trap that had just been dug below. Zhang Jinquan told the whole training soldiers about the use of traps, and the size and style of the trap that had just been dug and the disguise were all very good, but the trap was not arranged according to the requirements, and the trap was not arranged according to the requirements, and such a trap was a big pit and had no lethality at all.
Zhang Jinquan taught the trap subject in mountain tactics, and the things he taught were all unique skills passed down from generation to generation by the hunters of Xiaozhangzhuang, even if these hunters did not use a shotgun, they only carried a short knife and a few ropes into the mountain, and they could bring back the prey, and the means were so clever that even Zhao Zhi had to applaud. When he was in Xiaozhangzhuang, Zhao Zhi watched a hunter make a hunting noose with a few rattans and catch a wild boar in front of Zhao Zhi.
Mountain warfare relies on the vast jungle and unique terrain, and sometimes, those rattan branches are more useful than bullets, and Zhao Zhi doesn't want the people he taught to rely only on bullets to kill enemies. In order to prepare for this field training, Zhao Zhi studied carefully for several nights, and it was obviously impossible to teach them everything in just one month, but Zhao Zhi hoped to use this opportunity to let the soldiers in the whole training understand what mountain warfare is and experience the mystery of mountain warfare.
Zhang Jinquan, who is the leader of the mountain warfare instructor group, inspected the traps and defensive facilities set up by the soldiers one by one, planting red flags in those who are qualified, and black chess pieces in those who are not qualified, and in a matter of great effort, the mountain camp that was raided by the instructor group was full of black flags, and even the faces of the more than 200 soldiers in the camp were much darker. When Zhao Zhi went into the mountain for training, he said first, 200 points for each team, and the instructor team will deduct points if they fail to pass the inspection, and which team will deduct the points first, and then eliminate 10 people out of the game, and then restore the points to continue training until the training is completed.
Zhao Zhi's hand was ruthless enough, seeing that the camp was full of black flags, everyone's faces naturally didn't have a good look. "It's 3 o'clock now, 15 minutes later, I want to see 15 5-meter stakes that have just been cut down in your camp, and 10 points will be deducted for one minute of delay" Tang Lei, who had a calm face, looked at the watch on his wrist and gave the first training task to the guys in the camp, not to prepare food for the whole training soldiers, but also to arrange heavy training tasks for them every day, which is also the training plan formulated by Zhao Zhi after careful consideration.
If you don't increase the intensity of training, you just blindly cat in the mountains, I believe that no matter which soldier can do it, but if you add a series of training subjects, you can force these soldiers who participate in the whole training to burst out of their potential. Human potential is endless, just like a sponge that absorbs water, as long as it is squeezed properly, there will always be water. Of course, Zhao Zhi's extra training is not only about cutting down trees, but also digging trenches, transporting water from kettles from water sources a few miles away, etc., he just wants to use this kind of training to make the soldiers participating in the training adapt to life in the mountains and forests faster, so that their eyes will not be blackened in the mountains and forests.