The selection of soldiers was solved because of Xiao Liu's sentence.

But in fact, this is only part of the solution to the selection problem, because our selection must be carried out in a regiment.

This is not a restriction given by Commander Xu, but we take into account one point: If the purpose of our training regiment training is to provide a template for reform for the entire force of the Airborne Forces, it should be reproducible. That is, our training, including the initial selection, can be carried out in other units.

In this way, if we were to select the elite from all over the army to form a regiment, problems would ensue...... The second regiment could only be selected from among the remaining sub-optimal soldiers, and the third regiment had to be selected from among the second-best soldiers...... This is repeated, and by the time of the last few regiments, they can only be short and tall.

To put it simply, there is no replicability, and whichever regiment is formed first will have an absolute advantage.

From this point of view, we finally decided to implement a "one-to-one" approach in the selection of troops, that is, to select from one regiment what we need, and to transfer those who are insufficient or cannot be provided by the Airborne Forces from other units.

The advantage of this is that once the training regiment is successful, that is, the result of the training is to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops in a large way, then other regiments can easily follow suit. In addition, the original command structure can be basically maintained during the transformation of training, so that the training can be carried out in an orderly manner.

It's just that this makes the soldiers of the 267th Regiment (false number) who were selected very nervous......

The commander of the 267th Regiment is called Wu Longxin, and this is also the regiment that Commander Xu arranged to cooperate with our synthetic battalion early in the morning. I had an impression of this Commander Wu before, and when I told Commander Xu that it might not be appropriate to just use a regiment for training. This head Wu almost rushed with me.

From this point of view, this head Wu still has a strong sense of self-esteem and collective honor...... But then again, the vast majority of cadres and fighters in the Airborne Forces are like this. It's all made up of party members and backbones. Naturally, this ideological advancement is not comparable to that of ordinary troops.

It is somewhat ironic that the previous Commander Wu was still firmly on the side of Staff Officer Xu, that is, he opposed such a drastic reform as the synthetic battalion.

However, I don't think that this Commander Wu did this because of his lack of strategic vision or lack of wisdom, etc., he simply hoped to retain more of the "bloodline" of the Airborne Forces.

Judging from these aspects, I thought that this Commander Wu should be a cadre who loves soldiers like a son...... He was obviously reluctant to let his comrades or subordinates leave the airborne troops.

Later, I learned that there was still a big gap between reality and my imagination, and this Wu Longxin was just selfless to his subordinates, and he was ruthless enough to train his subordinates to death, so that his subordinates secretly called him "Heartless Regiment Leader".

However, this does not seem to conflict with my speculation. Because sometimes as a cadre, "loving soldiers like sons" often expresses Xiàn as "ruthless" to his subordinates during training, in order not to want his subordinates to "bleed" on the battlefield.

"Battalion Commander Yang!" When Wu Longxin came to our battalion headquarters to report, he shook my hand with a blushing face: "Although I think what you said also has some truth, I reserve a little opinion for the time being. But don't worry, I will fully cooperate with your training, and I also hope that through guò training, our army's combat effectiveness will be raised to a new level. ”

As soon as I heard this, I thought it was interesting, it is true that our soldiers demand absolute obedience to orders, but obedience to orders is not to obey dead orders, and if this airborne force wants to find cadres who absolutely obey orders, it is a lot of random ones, but if you want to find a few people who can obey orders and have their own ideas. I'm afraid there are only a few. And it is precisely such cadres that they can stand alone.

"No problem!" So I wasn't upset by Wu Longxin's words. Instead, he replied very simply: "Let's use the facts to speak and see if we can really make a name for ourselves by doing this!" ”

Later, I learned that the reason why Regiment Commander Wu was not optimistic about our training was not only because he subjectively did not want the airborne troops to be disarmed, but also because he believed that the combination and close cooperation of various arms of the army between a regiment were quite complicated, and that if it was well organized on the battlefield, it would be synthesis, and if it was not well organized, it would be chaos.

What he thinks is indeed reasonable, and the synthesis of our synthetic battalion before was also at the battalion level, and now it has to be developed to the regimental level, and it is still under the premise of the airborne troops, and the difficulty has increased by a level.

This attitude is the attitude of the senior cadres of the 267th Regiment, and at the level of grassroots cadres and soldiers, there is a tense and oppressive atmosphere.

Because everyone knows that the kind of "selection" they are facing now is very likely to be another word for "disarmament", that is, if they fail to choose, it will almost mean that they will be cut or kicked out of the airborne forces.

So they all used their strength to carry out various competitions according to the requirements of the company commanders of the synthetic battalion, such as physical fitness, marksmanship, tactics, etc., for fear that they would be eliminated if they were not good.

Of course, there will definitely be people who will be eliminated in the end.

After several days of training and observation, we selected more than 1,500 people from the more than 3,000 people in this regiment...... This rate is smaller than our previous estimate of the need to cut three-fifths.

However, this is also normal because we are only the number of people who start training.

Training this thing usually needs to leave some redundant soldiers, for what this needless to say, it is obvious that the last elimination system is adopted, and all the fighters who lag behind in training will be "kicked" out regularly, and only in this way can the soldiers of the whole army rush forward frantically like a sheep.

However, although this proportion is large, it still has a great impact on the regiment...... The impact is mainly on fighters who are not selected.

In the case of this group of soldiers, their future is conceivable, and in a certain sense, they already belong to the part of the group that has been eliminated and are about to leave the troops, and now they are only given suspended sentences, so that soon an atmosphere of pessimism, disappointment, and frustration permeates these troops.

What they don't know, however, is that this is precisely the time for us to open our eyes to selection.

The reason is very simple, the members of the troops we want, such as the sniper company and the special agent company, and even the tactical company, also require a good psychological element, and whether the psychological element is good or not, the more obvious it is in adversity.

For example, several soldiers in the army stood up and shouted at their comrades: "Comrades! If you are eliminated, you will be eliminated, no big deal! It's gold that can shine anywhere, and even if we go to ordinary troops, we can also fight devils! ”

"That's it! Maybe we've beaten more devils than them! ”

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Then it won't be long before these soldiers will be recommended by their superiors to join the training regiment under various names, such as being an excellent cadre, for example, having made meritorious contributions.

The reason why we recommend under various names is because we can't make it too obvious. Once the soldiers know that if they can be admitted just by saying a few morale-boosting words after being eliminated, then the next time it won't work.

As for their physical fitness or tactical movements...... First of all, the soldiers of the Airborne Forces will not be inferior in these aspects. Secondly, physical fitness can be improved when you enter the training group, and tactical movements even have to be relearned, so it is not so important.

On the other hand, those who run around happily as soon as they know that they have been selected for the training regiment, or who do not look at the eliminated fighters with a straight eye, do not know that their names have been quietly written down by us, and it will not be long before they will be kicked out of the training regiment because of some unsatisfactory results or other reasons.

This was followed by the transfer of a new group of new blood from other units to supplement the training regiment.

This group of new blood is the 267th Regiment's insufficient snipers, machine gunners, gunners and anti-tank shooters, etc.

Among them, anti-tank shooters and snipers were previously unavailable in the Airborne Forces, so most of them were transferred from other units. Machine gunners and gunners are already available in the airborne troops, but there are not many airborne troops in the first place, for example, there are only more than 200 mortars in a regiment...... The limitation of the bearing capacity of the wing makes it useless for them to have more.

Now we have to increase the proportion of these heavy equipment, and in addition to weeding out some unqualified gunners, this part of the army will account for a large proportion of the transferred troops.

Among them, it is worth mentioning the armored forces.

Originally, according to the meaning of Zhao Jingping and his staff officers: At this time, our air force did not have the ability to airdrop heavy equipment such as armored vehicles and tanks, so it did not seem very necessary to introduce armored units into the training regiment.

At first, I also thought that this idea made sense, and the lack of airdrop ability means that there is basically no such equipment in combat, so what do you usually practice for? In addition, my historical knowledge told me that it would take at least twenty years to master the technology of airdropping these heavy equipment, and there would be no need to practice Butan coordination.

But after thinking about it, I felt that something was wrong......

First of all, the airborne troops often need to cooperate with friendly troops when performing tasks, for example, friendly troops are surrounded and need airborne troops to reinforce, in extreme cases, if an armored force is surrounded and the airborne troops have not practiced infantry coordination, then I am afraid that we will be in a dilemma.

Even the Airborne Forces have a mission to be used as a rapid reaction force, that is, to enter the frontal battlefield in advance to catch the enemy by surprise, and the infantry will follow up with reinforcements. At this time, there will also be step tan synergy.

As the so-called opportunity is reserved for those who are equipped, it is also necessary to practice this step of synergy. (To be continued......)