"How's that, how's that?" When Chen Shengde saw me, he asked me excitedly: "It feels good to skydive for the first time!" ”

"It's fine!" I glanced at the soldiers who had just gathered together and said, "It's just that if it's a war with the Yue devils now, I'm afraid that half of the people who can gather here will be a problem!" ”

Chen Shengde nodded silently: "We also know this problem, now the whole army is undergoing a major reform, but our airborne troops are not moving." On the one hand, this is because we have not been on the battlefield, and we don't know what needs to be changed, and we don't know how to change it. On the other hand, because of the constraints of conditions, you can't change it if you want to! ”

I understand the restriction that Chen Shengde said, he is referring to transport planes and parachutes, and our army is now using a large number of this kind of Yun-5 transport planes, which can only carry more than a dozen people, and parachutes determine that individual soldiers can only carry such a little equipment, so the airborne troops are all like this.

As soon as I got back, I had a meeting on the problems that came to light during training. Of course, this meeting was also indispensable for Chen Shengde and several of his staff officers.

"Comrades!" Zhao Jingping looked at the cadres in the conference room and said: "The first airborne landing can be said to be very successful, except for five soldiers who were slightly injured on the feet because they landed on the stone ground and three soldiers were hung on trees, there were no other major accidents in this airborne training!" ”

The cadres immediately let out a burst of laughter, and their eyes turned to Liang Lianbing.

Liang Lianbing immediately raised his head and yelled at them: "What are you laughing at?!" I'm not the only one hanging from a tree! ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as they said this, the cadres laughed even louder.

I knew what they were laughing at, because the soldiers were not only hanging from the trees, but they were also entangled in the parachute rope and hung upside down on it, unable to move. made him very embarrassed in front of his subordinates.

But these seem to be quite normal. It will be hung on a tree because this generation of umbrellas cannot control the direction. Even if you know that there are trees or even cliffs at your feet, you can only watch yourself fall. There will be a few fighters who will be injured in the foot because of the impact force when they land, and the ground is still rough and uneven, so even if the fighters move properly, they will inevitably be injured.

"Of course!" Zhao Jingping continued: "This is inseparable from the help of the comrades of the Airborne Forces, let us thank them with applause, and hope that the cooperation in the future will continue to be strengthened!" ”

There was soon a round of applause in the conference room, and Chen Shengde and several people stood up and saluted the surroundings.

"But ......" then Zhao Jingping changed his words: "This training also exposed many problems, first of all, the most intuitive is the problem of too large a dispersion area. The comrades all know that this has a direct bearing on the survival of the paratroopers. When landing, the smaller the spread area, the better. This not only facilitates the build-up of troops, but also prevents the paratroopers from parachuting outside the target area......"

"Staff Officer Zhao!" King Chuang interrupted Zhao Jingping's words and said: "The fundamental reason for this problem is that our army's umbrella is not advanced enough, so there is no point in discussing this issue!" ”

"That's right!" Ding Chengdong agreed with King Chuang's words: "We have seen the paratroopers of the Soviet devils, and their parachutes can also control the direction and glide for a certain distance in the air, which makes their paratroopers can control or roughly control their landing place." In this case, it is enough to let the military industry improve the descent parachute! ”

"Improvement is a must!" "But the problem is that the military industry is not so fast to improve the parachute, and our exercise mission is imminent," I said. If it is a war now, can we make the enemy stop and wait, and wait for our military industry to improve the parachute before fighting? ”

As soon as I said this, King Chuang and Ding Chengdong were silent.

"The battalion commander is right!" The instructor continued: "Fighting a war is about making full use of the existing equipment in your hands and giving full play to the role of these equipment. If everyone wants to wait for the improvement of the military industry, then how did they fight Little Japan? How did you fight the Kuomintang? How was the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea fought? ”

"But ......," King Chuang said with some disbelief, "the defect in the equipment." What can we do? ”

As soon as King Chuang said this, everyone was silent, and many cadres also set their eyes on Chen Shengde. And Chen Shengde could only smile bitterly, they had never considered or discussed something like this before.

This is not surprising, the airborne troops of this era are actually more like parachuting infantry, and this is just a decade of ...... Just like Chen Shengde and these airborne troops said, most of the time they train with hot air balloons and umbrella towers, and it is rare to parachute with transport planes a few times a year, so where will they study the problem of whether the scattered area is large or suitable for the real battlefield.

"If you want me to say ......," Ding Chengdong stood up and said: "Let's use this transport plane to parachute just for practice, and in the end we still have to use a helicopter to parachute, so let's let the helicopter hover in the air and let the soldiers jump down!" In this way, the dispersal area is not large! ”

Zheng Liangqiang shook his head and replied: "It is unrealistic to let the helicopter hover and parachute, on the one hand, it will be very dangerous for the helicopter to hover on the battlefield, and on the other hand, it is also dangerous because the hovering parachute jump is also dangerous, and the parachutists are too concentrated and prone to accidents!" ”

Chen Shengde nodded in favor of Zheng Liangqiang's statement, after all, they are all often flying in the sky and are experts in these aspects.

After staring at the map of our airborne target today, I said: "Comrades, have you ever thought about why the paratroopers in our airborne area are all uneven in all squads and platoons?!" ”

"That's because the planes aren't spaced too apart!" Chen Shengde replied without thinking about it: "For example, the first shift is on the No. 1 transport plane, the second shift is on the No. 2 transport plane, the Yun-5 is small in size and not spaced apart, and the two fighters jump out of the cabin almost at the same time, and they are almost affected by the air current, so they will be closer to each other, and it will be easier to assemble!" ”

"Oh!" I nodded: "What if...... Shall we break it down in advance? Wouldn't it be easier to rally if it falls to the ground? ”

"Break it up beforehand?" Hearing this, Chen Shengde couldn't help but be stunned: "How to dismantle it?" ”

"Easy!" I said, "For example, if we have ten transport planes and a squad of ten people, let's assign these ten people in a squad to these ten planes and put them in the same number in the queue, that is, try to let them jump at the same time, so will the squad be more concentrated when we land?" ”

"Oh!" Chen Shengde half-opened his mouth, and it took a long time before he replied: "This method...... It's easy, and it sounds reasonable, even if there is still some distance between them, they land almost at the same time, at least they don't have to wait for all the members to land before rallying one by one! ”

"And ......" Zhao Jingping continued: "After a squad is assembled, it can quickly form combat effectiveness, and it can provide cover for the assembly of other squads, and it will not be as chaotic as before!" ”

"That's right! This idea is good, you can try it! The instructor nodded in agreement.

This method was quickly used in our second skydive training.

To our surprise, the results were even better than we expected...... While this airdrop method doesn't change the dispersion area at all, it does make the distance between the fighters in the squad shorter, making it easy for the members of the squad to rally.

Once the squad is assembled, it means that they have the command of the squad leader, and it is much easier to contact other squad leaders or platoon leaders through walkie-talkies and assemble further.

So for the second airdrop, our assembly time only took about eight minutes, which was almost half the time of the first build.

Of course, because we only have eight transport planes in our base, we can only experiment with eight people in one squad.

However, this was not a problem soon, because Chen Shengde sent a report to the airborne troops, and the airborne troops soon sent eight more transport planes over, so that the number of our transport planes increased to 16 at once.

I was a little embarrassed about this, so I said to Chen Shengde: "Battalion Commander Chen, we are just training, we don't need so many transport planes, not to mention that there are not many transport planes in your airborne troops......

I say this because I remember that we only transferred eight planes before, which made Chen Shengde and others feel distressed, and now these sixteen planes are not even more psychologically unbalanced.

"Battalion Commander Yang said so, and he saw the outside!" Chen Shengde replied: "It doesn't matter how many more, I originally only asked for four, ten for us to train, and two for maintenance." But as soon as my superiors heard my report, they said, 'No, can't such an important training be delayed?' What to do if two are not enough for maintenance! Send eight more'! ”

"Your superiors ......" I can't help but be surprised by such an attitude towards the Airborne Forces.

"Nothing strange!" Chen Shengde said with a smile: "In the report, I said the mission of your synthetic battalion and your tactics of dismantling and forming in advance and then airdropping, and our airborne troops practiced according to this tactical idea at the first time, not to mention it...... The effect is so much better than before! In this case, it is strange that the superiors do not support the training of the synthesis camp! ”

"Oh!" When I heard this, I couldn't help but suddenly realize, and at the same time, a sense of accomplishment arose in my heart...... It is important to know that they are airborne troops, and although they have very little training due to 10 years and financial reasons, it is only right to say that the airborne troops should have more experience in this field.

However, my reforms and innovations can still be taken seriously and adopted by them, which is enough to make me proud in my heart.

However, I know that what we have done now is far from enough, and I can even say that this is only the beginning, because there are still many problems in our paratrooper units...... That's when I realized that training a paratrooper like the Soviets was far from being as simple as I imagined. (To be continued......)

PS: There is a shift after twelve o'clock