After resting for another two days, the fighters returned eight or ninety percent. Of course, there are also those who are far away, but they are still on the road or have just arrived at home, and we will not wait for them for the combat effectiveness of the entire army, so a new round of training will begin.

Training this thing, if you want to practice, it can be said that you can't finish practicing it for a lifetime...... Individual attack, squad attack, company attack; squad defense, platoon defense, company defense; Bomb throwing, jungle shooting, infantry cannon coordination......

Just the list of training subjects is a big stack, and it takes a month to train casually every day.

However, we are a synthetic battalion, and the focus of the synthetic battalion is to enable the soldiers to jump out of the old tactics and change the functions of the troops, so the focus is still on the training of infantry and artillery coordination.

In addition to the previous follow-up training, the infantry training was soon added to the coordinated attack and infantry tank self-rescue training.

It is not very difficult for us to carry out the coordinated attack, because many of us have fought against the more devils, and we will fight as we like on the battlefield...... After all, people have fought on the battlefield for decades, and they can't be wrong with learning things that have been tested on the battlefield.

So the fighters began to study and estimate the dead spots of enemy artillery fire in various terrains...... This point is very important to the tank troops, if the tank units are exposed to the enemy's artillery fire, then even if they have excellent military qualities, it will be in vain, and more than half of them will basically be wasted when the artillery fire comes.

But then again, because the soldiers have learned the observation and calculation of artillery coordinates before, it is easy to estimate the dead angle of the opponent's artillery fire now...... As long as enemy artillery observers do not see. Or maybe there is a high ground on the opposite side that the enemy's shells can't cross, which is the dead end of their artillery fire!

From this point of view...... In fact, these learnings on the battlefield are also the same. What infantry tactics is this. Artillery tactics...... When I learned that the boundaries between zuihou and each other became more and more blurred, they all seemed to be connected.

The more advanced is the self-rescue aspect of the tank......

This tank self-rescue was originally learned only by tanks...... According to the thinking of ordinary people, this infantry does not have tanks, so why should they learn tanks to save themselves...... But you must know that tank crews drive tanks, and if they encounter tanks on the battlefield and get stuck in the mud and can't get out...... This situation is very common in Vietnam, especially during the rainy season.

At this time, if you still have to get out of the tank, you can save yourself...... Knock out one or two tankmen by Vietnamese fire, all right! This tank is basically scrapped.

It is important to know that the coordination of the tank is divided into the coordination inside the tank and the coordination of the outside. Needless to say, the external coordination is the coordination of the infantry tank and the artillery tank that we have been practicing, and the internal coordination is the coordination of the gunner, the second artillery soldier, the driver and the commander in the tank...... This requires four people to train for a long time and cooperate for a long time to achieve a certain tacit understanding in order to do a good job, and only in this way can a tank give full play to its combat effectiveness. The kind of situation where anyone who gets into a tank can use it well...... It only appears on TV and in movies.

Therefore, for the purpose of protecting the tanker, but also to ensure the overall combat effectiveness...... It is necessary to train infantry in tank self-rescue.

The way, naturally, is for tankmen to give lessons to infantry...... Anyway, I don't know how to do it, I can't teach it if I want to, and it wasn't until then that I noticed that each tank had a "self-help log" on the back.

The so-called "self-rescue wood" is actually a hardwood with a diameter of about 30 centimeters, the same length as the width of the tank, and it is usually tied to the back of the tank's butt...... Covered by the dust, mud, water, or something. It's the same color as the rest of the tank, and you can't really spot it if you don't pay attention to it.

Just this rotten log can save the tank from the mire? At first, the soldiers and I didn't believe much...... But after the demonstration operation of Huang Jianfu and his party. We still have to believe it.

The method is actually not difficult, that is, when the tank is stuck in the mud...... On the tracks in front of the tank, make a rope sleeve on the left and right with a steel rope, and then thread the "self-rescue wood" into the rope sleeve...... In this way, as soon as the tank is started, although the track is still slipping in the muddy water, the rope sleeve will be driven by the track to lead the "self-rescue wood" to press down on the track...... So the friction increases, and the tank slowly drives forward a little bit, and then repeats this action until the tank is out of the mire.

Of course, this is a self-help method for tanks to sink into relatively shallow silt, in deep swampy areas...... That's actually very simple, that is, use a few more "self-help woods", which are connected to each other by steel ropes...... Then the motor starts as soon as it starts...... The tank soon came out along the wooden raft.

is the so-called 360 lines, the line is the champion...... In fact, the same is true for those of us who are soldiers and fight, each branch of the army has its own "unique skills", and what I am doing now is actually to integrate our own unique skills.

The training of infantry and artillery coordination has been raised to the level of live fire...... That is, let the infantry squad come in turns, and each squad commands an artillery company, sometimes a mortar company, sometimes a howitzer company, for imaginary targets...... These targets are sometimes "bastions", "fortifications", "tanks" in the forward slope, and sometimes they are "targets in possible locations" in the anti-slope or in the blind spot of the line of sight.

In short, it is to use artillery shells to blow up, and after the explosion, the target is blown up and the impact point is scored.

The instructor felt that such training was too wasteful of shells...... In fact, this is not to blame him, the tradition of our army is to save ammunition, just like a person who has been used to saving since he was a child suddenly wants to let him go and spend his hands and feet...... I also feel uncomfortable. This was the case with the instructors and a considerable part of the staff officers in the battalion, so much so that they whispered in my ear every day...... How many shells have been fired today, and today's shells are enough for a unit on the front line to fight a battle.

Sometimes I'm a little weird...... This is not your shell, what are you distressed about!

Besides...... I think this is also completely necessary, although most of the soldiers have learned to read the coordinates and report to the yuan, but they do not have the sensitivity of the artillery bombardment targets under the command!

The so-called sensitivity refers to the fact that after learning and practicing a certain aspect too much, a correct consciousness will naturally be formed in the mind. For example, if you do a lot of math problems, you will naturally know which direction to start with when you see a problem......

In fact, there are many aspects of wars that resemble this...... If you fight this battle, you will have some experience, and then when you encounter an emergency, you will naturally know what to do is the best choice.

Therefore, it is not enough to just know how to calculate the coordinates, this is still so-so to deal with an exercise...... But if you really go to the battlefield, after reporting a set of data and hitting the artillery fire, you may not be confused......

"Is this the artillery fire I commanded? Did the enemy fight it or did I fight it? ”

"It turns out that the shells exploded so loudly and so scary!"

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If you don't even understand these situations, then you can't talk about the command and guidance in the future.

So I didn't hesitate...... Keep playing.

In particular, a company that has never been on the battlefield needs live-fire training, although this is still some distance from actual combat, but the deafening shell exploded not far ahead, at least it can also make them imagine the cruelty of the battlefield.

In terms of individual tactical training, I consciously began to change the idea of "spirit overcoming everything".

In this era, the "leftist" ideology is deeply rooted, and in many cases, not only commanders or cadres, but also those who have served in the army and even served on the battlefield, many people believe that it is "people" who rely on them to fight a war.

The "relying on people" here actually means that "the spirit liliang decides everything, and as long as you are brave enough, you can defeat all enemies".

And the strongest evidence to support this view is......

"You see, when our troops fought with Little Japan and the Kuomintang, where did they have any advanced equipment, and they didn't beat Little Japan and the Kuomintang away!"

"There is also the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the weapons we use are also made in all countries, and they have defeated the Yankees' aircraft artillery!"

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There are these facts to back it up, so it is difficult to convince them.

All I know is...... Nothing can go to extremes, the theory of weapon omnipotence is wrong, and the theory of spiritual omnipotence is certainly not right. War should be a combination of people, fighting spirit, weapons, and tactical thinking, and all aspects are very important.

However, just as Commander Zhang said, it is relatively easy to change the equipment and teaching materials, but it is necessary to change the style and thinking of the troops...... But it's not something that can be done in a few words.

So I didn't say much, I just made a little bit of a tactical fuss.

For example, it is stated that:

"What can be solved by artillery fire must be solved by artillery fire!"

"When you hear gunfire and cannonball, the first thing you need to do is not to look for the source of the sound and the enemy, but to find a place to shelter...... Because at this point, it's likely that an enemy is targeting you or that a teammate has spotted an enemy! ”

"Don't leave your teammates, because the unity is great, and being alone doesn't make a difference, and it's easy to be wiped out by the enemy."

"Be careful to cover each other with your teammates, and don't attack, retreat, or cross open fields without your teammates covering!"

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These added tactics...... In fact, fundamentally it contradicts the "leftist" thinking of the troops.

But I didn't start it ideologically, but tactically...... The same is often true of people's thinking, and if we educate from the front, it will not only fail to achieve the desired effect, but also cause great resistance.

But if you do it from a different angle...... It's like my subtle transmission to the fighters from summing up combat experience and tactical methods, so that they can be affected unconsciously.

This goes on for a long time, when they look back at their old selves...... I suddenly realized that my whole mind had changed at some point. (To be continued......)