Chapter 98: The Falklands War (17)
One thing I have to admit is that the British soldiers' plain zhì is quite good.
Of course, this is also relative to our troops before 79 years...... At that time, our troops were generally lacking in training, and a considerable number of soldiers had never even seen such ordinary equipment as bazookas, let alone mortars with longer range and greater power.
After 79 years, our army's su zhì is much better, after all, it has experienced the baptism of the battlefield, and if you have not seen bazooka and mortar on the battlefield, you will make others laugh, and even on the battlefield, a considerable number of soldiers will spontaneously learn the operation of bazooka and mortar, which are common infantry equipment.
The reason is very simple, there are often cases of rocket launcher shooters or mortar gunners being killed or wounded in battle, so it is quite necessary to learn the operation of these equipment for the sake of the whole army and for the sake of their own lives.
And the British soldiers did not have this process, although they said that they had not fought for decades, but the operation of mortars was not a problem.
The British are rich, so there is no need to "do it yourself" like our army, and what the British soldiers have to do in the army seems to be to eat and sleep in addition to training, and there will naturally be more people who can shoot mortars after a long time.
But to my surprise and the soldiers, these Brits were a big headache for us in calculating the coordinates.
"Battalion commander!" During the training, Liang Lianbing asked me a little angrily: "Didn't you say that these British people have a high level of culture?" No matter how much your brain can't turn around, you can't teach such a simple trigonometric function! ”
"Our cultural Cheng is not high!" Xu Jianping replied next to him: "Most of them have only completed compulsory education. Only a handful of them went to college. ”
"Compulsory education?" Hearing this, the soldiers couldn't help but be stunned.
It's no wonder that Liang Lianbing didn't know what compulsory education was, and compulsory education in my country only started in 86, that is, three years later. So now, ordinary people have never even heard of the word "compulsory education".
"Oh! It's almost the equivalent of ...... Our education level above junior high school and below high school! I explained.
This is what I deduced from the data. The British school system is different from China's, we are divided into primary school, junior high school, and high school, while the United Kingdom implements 11 years of compulsory education, that is, six years of primary school, five years of secondary school, and if you want to go to university, you have to study for two years of "extended education".
The British military service system requires the completion of compulsory education before they can become soldiers, so most of them have studied for eleven years, according to the time of study. That's pretty much the same as being above our junior high school and below our high school.
"This cultural process is not high?" Liang Lianbing said with an inexplicable expression: "It's all ...... This is almost a high school student, how can it be counted? ”
"The cultural process of your troops is ......," Xu Jianping asked me with some confusion.
"Most of us haven't read a book!" I was a little embarrassed to explain: "It would be nice to have a few literate people in a company in our army!" It's better now, a few years ago, when I fought with the Yue devils. Many company commanders don't even know how to look at a map! ”
"How is that possible?" Xu Jianping stared at me with a pair of big eyes, and then looked at Liang Lianbing and other Chinese soldiers: "If you haven't read, how can you calculate coordinates so quickly and accurately!" ”
The reason why Xu Jianping knew that we, the Chinese soldiers, calculated the coordinates quickly and accurately, was because he had performed in training.
The British don't believe anything about this, they don't believe in what they see as having to do with a laser rangefinder. In these Chinese soldiers, the results can be tossed in a few seconds with just a few simple instruments.
But this could not help but be unbelievable to the British soldiers. Because the results we calculated were almost not much different from the results calculated by their laser rangefinders, and the shells that were fired were still accurate one by one.
So a new problem arises, you must know that the laser rangefinder is not cheap in this era, and even the British army is only equipped with artillery units. And if our company wants to disperse into several parts, such as conducting guerrilla warfare in squads, it means that each squad must have at least one laser rangefinder to be able to fight.
Moreover, even if Britain is not short of money and we can afford to equip it, it is clear that this is not suitable for guerrilla warfare...... What if this rangefinder is damaged in the course of the battle? What if something goes wrong? These situations are often seen on the battlefield where bullets are raging. And once this result occurs, it means that the British will lose their role in a class.
Major Will couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "It seems that we British people are indeed not suitable for guerrilla warfare. It's good that we don't have to fight guerrilla warfare! ”
"Comrade battalion commander!" Seeing that I didn't answer his question, Xu Jianping continued to ask, "You were joking just now!" ”
"No!" I said, "I have not answered you." It's because it's a painful process. Like you said, most of them haven't read a book, so how can they calculate these coordinates quickly and accurately! But you have to understand that on the battlefield, if you don't calculate these coordinates quickly and accurately, it means death! ”
"Oh!" Hearing this, Xu Jianping nodded as if he understood something.
He grew up in England, and of course he knew that human potential was unlimited, so he naturally knew that under the threat of death, no matter what miracle happened, it could be said to be normal.
And even if the British soldiers have a considerable level of education, they can't compare with us in calculating the coordinates, because they don't have any pressure in these aspects, not even in terms of employment and life, maybe they use computers to do a simple multiplication operation when they go to school, so how can they compare with those of us who have fought on the battlefield!
"Then don't teach them how to calculate coordinates!" I said: "In the future, the squad leader will calculate the coordinates of the training, and then report the Zhuyuan to other people!" ”
"Yes!" Liang Lianbing couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, so things were much simpler.
"Battalion commander!" At this time, Major Will was next to him and said, "I think we can practice in another place, and by the way, we can also practice marching and building new positions, what do you say?" ”
"No, Major Will!" I refused: "It's time for soldiers to get used to using mortars, and I'll do it when the time is right!" ”
Seeing that this was once again rejected by me, Major Will couldn't help frowning.
In fact, Major Weir is right, to be familiar with the use of mortars, you don't necessarily have to practice in one place, you can also practice in another place, and frequent changes of positions are closer to actual combat, after all, what we practice here is to use mortars to fight guerrilla warfare.
But I don't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, if I don't want to, I don't want to, no matter what you Major Will say, I just pretend I don't know...... Seeing that I'm not happy, you will withdraw me and find someone else! Anyway, we Chinese who can be called guerrilla warfare experts in this area, and if you can find it, you can find it.
I did this not because it was vexatious, but because after careful analysis of the map and the water depth around the port of "Ritte Viken", I determined that the waters in this area were the most suitable locations for the reconnaissance of Argentine submarines...... To the south is South Georgia, to the east there are reefs, to the north is the main direction of the British fleet and ships entering and leaving the port, not to mention many frigates, as well as a large number of anti-submarine helicopters.
If I were the commander of the Argentine submarines, I would have chosen this west, because the water is deep enough for light submarines to operate in the nearby waters, which is why most of the British ships choose to enter and exit the port from the north, and the view from the inside to the port is also very good, which is a very ideal observation spot.
In other words, I have now determined two points: one is that because of historical knowledge, it is determined that Argentine submarines will come, and the other is that according to the sea situation, it is determined that most Argentine submarines will appear in this water.
In this case, I will not give up on the high ground we are training in.
In fact, this qiē was all intentional on my part, including the sudden change in our training to guerrilla warfare with mortars...... I'm not really trying to teach the British how to play tactics, but I hope to have the equipment to deal with submarines.
What can the infantry do against submarines?
Strictly speaking, no, the submarine is in the sea, and it is hiding in the depths of the sea, and if the infantry wants to hit the submarine, it is basically a dream.
But in my plan I thought it was possible...... If the Argentine submarine wants to reconnoiter in these waters, that means that it will definitely send out the surface to peep through a periscope.
To be honest, in this case, it is very difficult for us to do any damage to it even if we have mortars, because we can't tell from a periscope that the submarine is horizontal or vertical or whatever.
But what if dozens of mortars fired at the periscope at once?!
That's my plan, and I even had the guards and a few communicators with binoculars keep an eye on the surface of the sea all the time, and report to me as soon as they found something like a "cylinder" sticking out of the sea.
In other words, we are now ready for everything, and we only owe the east wind.
But who knows if this Argentine submarine will come? Maybe this submarine is so stupid, it is not necessary to choose the north side, that is, the side where there are many British warships, to observe, otherwise how could there be an incident in history when the British army discovered the submarine!
Or maybe things are still like the development of history, and in the end it was the British who discovered the submarine before me, then I am afraid that in the next few days, I will only have to stay on this desert island to train these British! (To be continued......)