Chapter III: Armed Police Company
Immediately following Deputy Director Xie and others to the base was a force of more than 200 people.
The reason why this force will be more than 200 people is because it is planned to eventually reduce it to a company, which is already more than 100 people.
According to our training habit, we use the last elimination method, so the number of troops at the beginning of the formation is always a part more than the planned number.
But then I learned that the armed police force is not enough to be just a company, even if we are experimental, even if we are only cooperating with the public security bureau of a certain provincial city.
The leader of this unit is Daniel Zhang, and it is said that he also made a first-class merit in the self-defense counterattack.
After asking, I know that this is true...... This matter is recorded in his files, but since I have been the battalion commander, I have a headache when I read the text or the file, and sometimes I prefer to know what kind of soldiers are under him by talking or chatting. At the same time, I also think that this is more conducive to me and my subordinates to understand each other, and at least there are movements and expressions when communicating, right? From these casual movements or expressions, I can see some of the other person's personality.
For example, in this Daniel Zhang, when talking about the reason for his meritorious service, that is, when he talked about how he blew up the three pillbox fortifications of the Yue Devil in succession to clear the offensive obstacles for the troops, I was very surprised that he described it in a very flat tone...... If someone else asks about their merits, they will inevitably add a few modal words or some exclamations that have nothing to do with the content.
For example, it was really dangerous at the time, but I was only thinking about something; For example, for the sake of the motherland and the people, I don't think much about it.
Words like these are always on the lips of people in this era. But Daniel Zhang didn't say that. It's a very calm drawing. It's like a third party is saying something that has nothing to do with them.
So after he finished speaking, I followed up and asked Daniel Zhang: "Why did you do this at that time?" ”
Daniel Zhang face was full of puzzlement, scratched his head and asked, "Is this...... Isn't that what should be done? ”
Then I understood that he was doing it as if it was his responsibility, and there was no reason for it, and he thought that everyone would do that in that situation.
I don't know if it's a sense of responsibility or naivety or stupidity or whatever, but I know at least a little bit about a soldier like him. In the face of danger and difficulty, it is impossible to flinch or even hesitate.
This is important for a warrior, because sometimes it only takes a small price to crush an enemy or open a breach of the enemy's defenses, but some warriors think:
"Should I go up or shouldn't I go?"
"No one else is on it, am I risking my life to get on it?"
"I'm old and young, what if I can't come back?!"
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So the fighter plane disappeared in this hesitation, and it was gone forever, and it was too late to regret it later.
Just like Daniel Zhang even carried the three bunker fortifications of the Yue Devil, he actually didn't think about anything, and when he saw the opportunity, he hugged the explosive bag. After blowing up one bunker, before the Yue devils reacted to the other bunker, that is, the Yue devils of the other bunker thought that the bunker on the right wing was still under the control of their own people...... This is determined by the fact that the bunker is not very sensitive to the outside world. In this respect, the bunker is similar to the tank, it also has a thick defense, only a small window to the outside, and the bunker is still shooting out when the battle is in the heat of battle, so it is normal not to find that the bunkers on both sides have been lost.
So Daniel Zhang without thinking about it, he ran to the second bunker, and then to the third...... If it weren't for the fact that the grenades had run out, I suspect he would have run to the fourth and fifth as fast as he could.
So the things on the battlefield are indescribable, sometimes a company of people storms and fights, and they can't take a pillbox for half a day, and sometimes a person can take a few in succession without even missing a single hair.
The reason for such a big difference is whether there is a fighter and whether it can seize this fighter immediately.
It is precisely because of this that I decided to let Daniel Zhang continue to serve as the company commander of the armed police company, although I didn't know what his military skills were at this time...... As a commander, it is more important to be calm, composed, and decisive on the spot, and military quality is secondary.
When it was time to start training, it made Zhao Jingping and his staff feel very headaches.
"Battalion commander!" Zhao Jingping found my office on the afternoon of the arrival of the armed police company: "Look...... Our staff officers are either infantry, tanks, artillery, or even air force officers, but there is no armed police force, and this training section ......."
As soon as I heard Zhao Jingping's words, I felt that it was true, we are all soldiers in the war, and now we are coldly asked to train a police force, which is a bit of a feeling of rushing ducks to the shelves.
"So be it!" I said: "Let's train this unit itself is of an experimental nature, let's learn while practicing, at the beginning of this training subject, you can go to Deputy Director Xie, and the two public security officers he brought, you can just treat them as armed police staff officers, they know better what kind of troops they need." ”
"Yes!" Zhao Jingping straightened up and went to find Deputy Director Xie.
It turned out that they really discussed something.
For example, there has been a streamlining of equipment, and the armed police force is mostly used to deal with domestic lawbreakers, and the characteristic of lawbreakers is that their weapons and equipment will not be very good, so what 56 and a half, 56 punches and the like can be called heavy equipment, so the bazookas, recoilless guns, and the like have been greatly streamlined.
By streamlining here means that there are still a small number of reservations, mainly considering that outlaws often rely on buildings or terrain to hide, so bazookas, recoilless guns are still necessary, and mortars can also be used, because this thing can hit flares, smoke bombs and the like. It's just that there aren't many cases where these things will be used, so I keep two of each.
As for weapons such as anti-tank missiles, there is no need to keep them, and it is unlikely that criminals will get their hands on tanks, and at the same time, we generally do not need very expensive missiles with a range of thousands of meters, and under normal circumstances, recoilless guns and rocket launchers can cope with it.
In terms of tactics, it is more inclined to urban warfare and hand-to-hand combat, after all, the imaginary enemy is an outlaw, and most of the battlefields are in the city. So sniping is essential, and then there are grappling, empty-handed grabbing, and so on.
As soon as I saw these training subjects formulated by Zhao Jingping and others, I felt that it was a bit of an armed policeman, so I didn't think much about it and let them train like this.
The training seems to be going smoothly, and these subjects are actually familiar to us in the synthesis camp.
For example, sniping, just call two snipers from the sniper company to be instructors, of course, the focus is on the knowledge of urban sniping.
Another example is to capture the enemy and grab the blade empty-handed, we have a ready-made kung fu master Li Zuolong in the synthesis camp.
But then I realized that it was not enough to train these people, or that the armed police trained in this way were far from meeting the actual needs.
Because this armed police company is of a real nature, since it is a real nature, it must always be used in practice...... It is not difficult to understand this, practice is the only criterion for testing the direction of our training, and only by constantly putting our troops into practice can we know what problems there are in our training, whether the direction is correct, and so on.
We determined this point before the Armed Police Company was established, and it was precisely because of this that Commander Zhang transferred Deputy Director Xie of the public security department to cooperate with us.
In other words, Deputy Director Xie's role is not only to provide us with the needs of the Public Security Bureau for the armed police force, to help us formulate training subjects, but more importantly, to provide us with opportunities to practice.
And this "opportunity for practice" is a real battle for the armed police force.
"Battalion Commander Yang!" When I was looking at the information in the office that day, Deputy Director Xie hurriedly pushed the door in and said, "There is a situation in a certain provincial city!" We've been chronicling a murderer for a year and have just received a report that he was seen home to visit his family! ”
"Well, then just go and get him!" I don't feel anything about this at all, it's just a murderer, a few people from the Public Security Bureau can solve the problem with a few pistols, why do you have to tell me what to do?!
But it's clearly not that simple......
"This murderer is not simple!" Deputy Director Xie said anxiously: "He was a soldier before, and he also fought on the battlefield, and a year ago he was punished for stealing, so he knocked the militia guarding the arsenal unconscious with a hammer, and snatched a Type 59 pistol, dozens of bullets, a 56 punch and four magazines full of bullets from the arsenal. He then killed three people with a gun, wounded one and then absconded.
The criminal had very professional reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance methods, so in the following 13 days of investigation and arrest operations, we successively mobilized more than 80,000 party, government, military, police, and civilian personnel, and set up 421 checkpoints, but instead of catching him, we caused the serious consequences of killing one person and injuring two innocent people......
"What?" Hearing this, I couldn't help but be stunned: "More than 80,000 people have not been arrested yet?" ”
"Hmm!" Deputy Director Xie nodded with shame: "That time, we made mistakes in our analysis and judgment of the case and our organization and command, and we were misled by the murderer, so we ......."
Later, I learned that there was no fuss about it, this era is different from our modern times, which are full of cameras, airports, train stations, toll booths, etc., and there are many ways to find out a person's whereabouts. But in this era, there is nothing, so looking for someone is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. (To be continued......)