"Comrades! The fifth battalion of the 118th regiment was officially established! ”

There was a round of applause from the audience.

That's right, this is the inauguration of the troops...... Since the soldiers of the synthetic battalion came from all over the world and did not know each other, I felt that it was necessary to at least let the soldiers know the cadres who directly led them, so I was unable to avoid the common people holding this meeting.

The meeting will be held on the basketball court, this basketball court should also be the venue of the foot school, because there is a rostrum here, so this will be very convenient and fast, just move a few tables, stools, put two small speakers, the cadres of the battalion headquarters to sit on the rostrum, and the soldiers stand in line below...... And so the meeting began.

Naturally, the instructor Wu Yicheng presided over the conference, and he was working on political and ideological work...... This is his strong point, our battalion commander and company commander are the strong point of fighting a war, and according to the practice of our army's "party leadership gun", he can be said to be half a level higher than me.

"Comrades!" The instructor waved his hand and said loudly: "This is an exciting moment, and it is also the first day that our fifth battalion has turned a new page. I hope that from the moment we turn this page, all of our commanders and fighters, all members of the Fifth Battalion, will write every stroke in the book of the history of the Fifth Battalion as a glory and victory! ”

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, ......whoa" was another round of applause.

"Now I will introduce the comrades to the commander of my battalion!" The instructor faced me and said, "Comrade Yang Xuefeng, commander of the fifth battalion! ”

As I stood up, there was another round of applause from the audience.

I don't know if it's my delusion, but I think the applause given to me is particularly warm...... However, it does not seem surprising that half of the two infantry companies below are my original subordinates. The other half were the step school students who had been looking up at me for a long time. The other new recruits have also heard a little bit about my war history...... The army is actually very realistic. Respect is such a victorious general who wins battles on the battlefield, so this applause is naturally warm.

And what about when you introduce other people...... For example, what is the chief of staff or something, the soldiers don't know what he comes from, and the applause is almost the same.

After a large number of people were introduced...... I don't know if the fighters listened to a few of them, but I started to wander before I heard half of it.

Then I listened to the instructor say: "Now please ask our battalion commander to say a few words for the establishment of the fifth battalion!" ”

A round of applause from the "...... of whoa".

I couldn't help but be stunned...... The instructor didn't tell me to speak at the meeting......

The instructor couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at me...... He thought that it would be natural for me, the battalion commander, to say a few words like this, and there was no need to say it at all!

All right! Just say a few words...... These guys are all my soldiers, what am I afraid of?

Thinking that I took the horn and shouted at the audience: "Comrades! Do you know what the purpose of our Weishenme is to form this five battalions? ”

After a pause and seeing that no one in the audience answered, I continued: "The answer is simple. I just don't want to die! ”

The audience couldn't help but be in an uproar, you must know that the spirit of this era is not afraid of death, and a hero like me, their leader will say "I don't want to die".

Ignoring their reactions, I continued, "I came down from the battlefield, and so did many of you...... So we all know very well that if you go to war, you will die, and if you want to fight, there will be sacrifices. If we are fighting with the devils, or are we exchanging our lives for the lives of the devils...... Then we also admit it, and such sacrifices are worth it. Also glorious...... However, we are the most unwilling. It is a sacrifice that could have been avoided, but because of the mistakes they made, resulting in a large number of attrition...... As for what kind of mistake it was, I won't go into details here, but the comrades know it very well, and there are tactical, equipped, and commanding aspects.

Suffer such casualties...... We are wronged! We are not reconciled! This injustice, this unwillingness, I am shouting for those brothers who will lie in that ghost place in Vietnam forever and never come back! It's for those comrades who shouldn't have been sacrificed!

Right now...... In order not to make such mistakes again in the future, in order that no one will make such an unexplained sacrifice in the future...... That's why we have this battalion, so I said that I formed this battalion because I don't want to die! ”

That was the end of my remarks, and there was silence in the audience for a while...... I don't know who took the lead in applauding, and then the applause soon sounded like a storm, and it didn't stop for a long time. That Huang Jianfu didn't even care about his identity as the commander of the tank company, and applauded while wiping tears from his soldiers when he was a soldier.

But it seems normal, if I had an experience like his...... At this time, I was said to be in the sore spot, but I was afraid that I couldn't stand it.

In fact, he is not the only one like this, all the people present who have been on the battlefield and fought more or less have experienced such a thing, and now when I think about it, I can't help but sigh in my heart, but I don't want others to find out and secretly wipe my tears.

After the meeting, the instructor sighed and said to me, I don't need to make a draft when I speak, just a few words will go to the hearts of the soldiers, which makes the soldiers clear about the purpose of forming the fifth battalion, and also know the goal of training, and it will be much easier to do work in the future!

What the instructor doesn't know is...... These words of mine are not casual words, but real experience with the blood and life on the battlefield. It is precisely because of this personal experience that we can understand the thoughts, thoughts, and hopes of the soldiers who have also come down from the battlefield, and only then can we resonate with them in just a few words.

After the meeting, I set aside a day for the soldiers to rest, and the soldiers of all branches and units can use this time to get to know each other, communicate and interact.

This kept the instructors and instructors busy, and I and my staff officers were busy working out the training schedule and various training jihua.

The timetable is still a small problem, and our training has been fixed from the very beginning to be mainly the coordinated training of the three arms of infantry, artillery, and tank, so the arrangement of this timetable is to take a three-day cycle, which is the infantry tank, the infantry artillery, and the artillery tanker. In other words, it is a combination of two and two to carry out coordinated training, and the units that are not combined in a single day will carry out tactical training of individual arms or carry out coordinated training as needed.

For example, the first day is infantry and tank cooperative training, so the artillery and engineer will either be trained separately, or they can also be trained under the guidance and coordination of the artillery staff and the engineer staff as needed.

Obviously, the focus is on the synergy between the infantry and the rifling. The reason for this is simple: the infantry is a human being, the foundation of the army, and the one variable that can most affect the outcome of the war.

Of course, this is not to say that other arms are not important, but in actual combat, tanks are often limited by the terrain and have limited combat effectiveness, and artillery cannot become the main body of the battle because of the anti-slope tactics and its uncertainty, so there is no doubt that the infantry is still the protagonist, which is determined by the elements that make up the infantry.

People, they will not be limited by the terrain like a tank, or they will not be affected by the terrain so much, and they will not be helpless because the target is hiding in the dead corner of the anticline. At the same time, because people also have wisdom and life, they can flexibly respond to various situations on the battlefield and even change themselves to adapt to the battlefield environment.

In the final analysis, the other classes are actually people operating some tools, such as tanks, artillery, and cars...... Infantry can greatly expand their capabilities if they are used well, otherwise it may be a simple stack of firepower or sometimes counterproductive.

What we need to solve is the problem of using these tools.

The staff officers still have a clear idea of the procedures for these trainings, for example, they have formulated what training jihua has listed in detail the training time, training venues, types of troops, and what goals to be achieved......

Some things are so programmed and standardized, and it's also haode, so that at least you won't catch a handful here and there, and you look like a headless fly, and you've been busy for a long time without a goal and don't know what you're busy with.

But it is enough for a staff officer to do these things, for me, the battalion commander...... What kind of problem is still on my mind.

In this regard, I have an innate advantage over staff officers, first, because I know what the modern coordinated war is like, and second, because I have been on the battlefield and know where the coordination problem between infantry and artillery is.

Therefore, I, the battalion commander, am more inclined to find problems, raise problems, and solve problems through training...... Discover new problems in training and ask questions...... Let the staff officers complete the work of organizing and proceduralizing these problems.

Another problem that needs to be solved is the logistics of the troops...... As we all know, logistics is the foundation of an army's combat effectiveness, and without logistics, everything is in vain, especially for a composite battalion with multiple arms and services, without the support of logistics, it is easy to fall into the chaos of ammunition supply.

But we're not there yet...... The reason is that this infantry school has a logistics department, and there are sufficient ammunition reserves in the base, and you must know that these ammunition reserves are enough for the whole training of a division...... What can we count by adding an artillery battalion and a tank company, not to mention that we have just started training and have not yet reached the level of live-fire firing or live-fire exercises!

This did not require much ammunition, so naturally the logistics troops did not begin to be formed...... The synthetic battalion is still in the stage of running in pairs and pairs of various arms, and is still in the stage of discovering and solving problems.

However, it is still necessary to take precautions, mainly because in the process of training, we may continue to have various needs for equipment, such as anti-tank missiles, such as communication equipment, and so on......

I will leave this issue to Zhao Jingping to deal with, he and another infantry staff officer named Lu Zhaolin are both from the General Staff Department of the Military Region, and I have considerable reason to believe it...... The two of them were sent down by Commander Zhang to observe our entire training process.

Therefore, asking him for equipment is almost like asking Commander Zhang, who can take care of this logistics except him? (To be continued......)