Chapter 133: Skydiving (2)
After a few seconds, you feel someone pull on your back, and the parachute opens.
At this time, my vision and thinking gradually became normal, and when I looked to the side, it felt good...... With the whirring wind in your ears and the blue sky and white clouds all around, it's a bit like floating on the sea in a life jacket, or coming to a paradise that no one has ever touched before.
This freshness, this tranquility, and a sense of seclusion are not words to describe. It's no wonder that there are so many skydivers in modern times, and at this moment I almost forgot that I was in another era, that I was still in the war years......
Thinking of this, I suddenly hit a spirit, we are not here to parachute to play, but to use parachuting to fight!
So I quickly turned my eyes around, and the soldiers jumped out of the plane one by one, and soon there were white umbrellas like dandelions floating in the sky.
However, I was not in the mood to enjoy the view, and instead focused on the distance between the paratroopers.
This is the experience that Chen Shengde told me, and when he was training me to parachute, he also talked about some problems about paratrooper warfare by the way.
Chen Shengde is an expert in this regard, after all, he has been in the paratrooper unit for so many years, and even if he has never fought a war, he has done a lot of training, exercises, and so on...... It is said that this paratrooper unit has really never fought a war, and its establishment happened to be in the era of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, and the airborne unit had just been established at that time, and of course it was impossible to send it to the Korean battlefield immediately. After that, there was basically no chance to go to the battlefield until the 79 self-defense counterattack...... The airborne troops lost another opportunity to go to the battlefield because they were not suitable for parachuting in terrain like in Vietnam and because the air force did not participate in the war.
And because of that. Chen Shengde: These paratroopers are envious, jealous, and hateful to our synthetic battalion!
Just like Chen Shengde told me secretly: "Battalion Commander Yang." In fact...... At the beginning, we airborne troops had ideas for your synthetic battalion. There's nothing left to say about this idea......"
"Oh? Tell me about it! "When I heard this, I was interested, it turned out that this Chen Shengde still has something to hide!
"That's right!" Chen Shengde said with some embarrassment: "There is another opinion, that is, we have no chance to go to the battlefield, and your synthetic battalion is running around in the world, many people in our airborne troops are not convinced, our quality is not worse than you, why can you fight everywhere, we just can't move in the camp, and now we have to train with you...... So this thought is infuriating! ”
"So there's such a thing!" Hearing this, I couldn't help but laugh: "I said Camp Commander Chen." You guys are cheap, and you still sell well, don't you? If you really go to the battlefield, you will think differently! ”
"I believe this!" Chen Shengde nodded: "So we actually admire your synthetic camp tightly in our hearts, you are heroes, real heroes!" ”
"You can't say that." I was a little embarrassed when Chen Shengde said this: "You are also heroes, you train so hard, and your quality is not worse than ours!" ”
Chen Shengde just smiled: "Just like you taught me, there is only reality on the battlefield, you have been tested on the battlefield, and we ...... Who knows if we are good or bad on the battlefield without fighting! ”
I didn't have anything to say when I heard this, because I think what Chen Shengde said made sense. In fact...... I even feel that the paratroopers of our army in this era are not suitable for the battlefield at all, and they cannot keep up with the rhythm.
This is not to say that the quality of the airborne troops is poor, but it is precisely because of their good quality and their toughness in fighting wars that people are even more worried.
The reason is simple. In addition, because of the problem of the carrying capacity of parachutes, paratroopers can only carry light weapons, so if the airborne troops of this era really carry out their tasks like airborne troops, that is, "one person, one umbrella, one gun" parachuted behind enemy lines, I am afraid that a tragedy will happen.
I believe that this is also one of the reasons why the higher authorities did not send paratrooper units to the army, because since the beginning of the self-defense and counterattack war, a considerable number of cadres in our army have realized that our army's tactics, quality, and equipment have been unable to keep up with the times.
However, many experiences of the airborne troops are still worth learning and learning from, such as the experience of parachuting, and Chen Shengde also told me: "When parachuting, the commander should pay attention to observing the landing points of each paratrooper, such as how wide the distance of the paratroopers is, or which group of people is carried to other places by the air current, so that when the paratroopers descend to the ground, they can concentrate in the shortest time, otherwise the paratroopers will become 'skirmishers', 'skirmishers' who are eaten by the enemy piece by piece!" ”
This experience is undoubtedly very useful for the airborne troops of our time, especially for us who are still using the first-generation paratrooper parachute, because the first-generation paratrooper parachute is basically resigned to fate as soon as it jumps down, and it is difficult to choose and control or even control where it can land. Unlike modern parawings, it can glide in a controlled direction while in the air.
That's why I pay attention to the distance between the fighters when I'm in the air, and I feel that the dispersion area is too large, and I can see that the dozen or so people at the head and tail have jumped down and pulled away for hundreds of meters.
Of course, this may also be the reason why the fighters did not jump out of the parachute jump for the first time was not tight enough, but when you think about it...... This plane is loaded with a squad of soldiers, and the head and tail of a squad of soldiers have been pulled apart by several hundred meters, and it is difficult to say when the assembly time and the accidents that may occur in the middle.
You must know that the enemy is not a wooden man, and the infantry has a famous saying when dealing with paratroopers, that is, "fight fast with speed".
To put it simply, the paratroopers are a kind of "fast", and the ground troops must deploy their positions to attack the paratroopers at a "faster" speed!
This tactic is both simple and practical, because the paratroopers can be said to have no defense in the air, and if the ground infantry can quickly set up defenses at the paratrooper parachute jump point, then the paratroopers can basically be said to be looking for death.
And the fact that we have such a large dispersion determines that the enemy is likely to arrive before we can assemble and organize our defenses.
As I thought, despite the good quality of our agent company and the open terrain we chose for our first parachute jump, it still took more than ten minutes for the troops to assemble.
The reason why it takes more than ten minutes is because it takes time to collect the umbrella, and the other is because once the squad leader arrives on the ground, he can't find his own soldiers, and the soldiers can't find the squad leader...... To put it simply, the entire structure has been disrupted, and there are soldiers of any squad and platoon who can gather together. (To be continued......)