Chapter 814: Combat Support Battalion

Battalion-level direct fire is a kind of training with a high degree of difficulty in artillery shooting training. The test is the ability of the fire support unit to provide fire support to its own assault force in a state of motion.

As early as 20 years ago, the method of ground fire support from fixed artillery positions was no longer reliable, and artillery units had already been converted to self-propelled ones, with the aim of quickly changing positions to evade the blows of the enemy's counter-artillery units.

On-the-go fire support can be more adaptable to the ever-changing battlefield situation.

With Li Mu's order, twelve eight-wheeled armored vehicles carrying 105 mm rifled guns rushed out of the concealed position, and all the direct fire of the three battalions was this. It's hard to imagine these high-road beasts swooping out at speeds of 100 kilometers per hour and off-road speeds of up to 40 kilometers per hour.

The speed was extremely fast, and Yu Ming's confidential staff officer was dumbfounded. He was a man who had seen the big scenes, and he was also very familiar with the operation of armored forces, but it was the first time he had seen an armored column fire on the same target at such a high speed.

The test is not only the level of equipment, but also the level of the officers and men who operate these beasts.

"Boom!"

A dull sound came, the sound of twelve 105 guns firing at the same time was almost uniform, and a puff of white smoke came out of the muzzle of the guns almost at the same time.

Yu Ming's eyebrows jumped, and he asked, "How far is the distance?"

When Xu Zhan was still mentally arithmetic, Yu Ming's confidential staff officer Xiao Zhu replied: "About a thousand meters." ”

At the same time, Xu Zhan also estimated that he regretted that he had not learned about the specific training of the third battalion in advance. The distance of each shot is different, and not all of them are defined at a kilometer.

"One kilometer, all the starters hit, right?" Yu Ming raised his binoculars and looked over.

Xiao Zhu immediately replied, "All hits, standard covering shots, and the impact points are very densely dispersed." ”

Yu Ming became serious.

This level surpasses all the armored and artillery units in active service. You know, the 105 guns of the third battalion were fired in a marching state at high speed and off-road.

The firing did not end, the second salvo began immediately after, the interval was very short, the dust and smoke of the previous round of fire were raised, and the shells of the second salvo were in place. It was still a high-explosive warhead, and the simulated position of the bombing was not visible at all, and the mountains under his feet were trembling slightly.

The troops suddenly changed formation, and the twelve 105 guns quickly changed from a marching column to a marching horizontal formation, and in the process of transformation, the muzzles of the guns were always pointed at the target.

Another salvo was fired, and the simulated position, including the sky above, was completely covered in gunsmoke, dust, and rubble flew everywhere. After two volleys of fire, the troops all stopped, and in the state of stopping, the vehicles fired freely at the fastest rate of fire.

Suddenly, there was a sea of fire on the opposite mountain.

That kind of scene can't be felt without being there.

When the smoke cleared, Yu Ming nodded slowly and said to Xu Zhan, "A large amount of military spending has not been wasted in vain, this level is very good." ”

Xu Zhan straightened his chest slightly, and said, "Since the start of the training, our regiment has paid close attention to military training, and as far as the third battalion is concerned, this kind of tactical shooting training alone has to be carried out twice a week. So much so that the four battalions, which were responsible for arranging the simulated positions, sometimes had to arrange the positions overnight. ”

Glancing at Xu Zhan, Yu Ming said, "Twice a week, eight times a month." Is a million enough?"

Xu Zhan was stunned for a moment, lowered his head in embarrassment, and his voice was a little embarrassed, "This, it is estimated that it is not enough." ”

In the distance, the troops began to assemble to summarize the situation, and an open-top warrior rushed over, and soon the warrior carried Li Mu to this side, obviously Li Mu received a notice and knew that the head of the military region was watching here.

Trotting over, Li Mu saluted Yu Ming, "Report! Li Mu, deputy head of the 107th Regiment, reports to the chief, good chief!"

"Xiao Li. Yu Ming returned the salute and smiled.

Six years ago, the military star in front of him was still a senior soldier under his command, but now he is a military cadre at the lieutenant colonel and deputy regimental level. It's really emotional.

"Some people say that I am riding a rocket and going up, which is not true. Yu Ming smiled and pointed at Li Mu and said to the people around him, "You joined the army eight years ago, and now you are the deputy commander, and you are the one who rides the rocket." ”

Everyone laughed.

Li Mu smiled honestly and said, "Chief, I just took a rocket, and I am also your soldier." ”

There was another chuckle, so they chatted a few words, and a group of people accompanied the chief down the training ground, talking as they walked slowly.

The protagonist of the conversation became Li Mu.

Yu Ming said, "I just talked to Head Xu, what is the effect of your training twice a week?"

Li Mu replied: "The effect is very good, just like the automatic rifle shooting of the infantry, only by fighting too much, can the officers and soldiers master the skills more quickly and improve their proficiency." ”

"It's good, it's good. Yu Ming said, "But you have spent too much money." ”

Speaking of money, everyone pricked up their ears, and Xu Zhan was also a little nervous. He knows how the military funds in the regiment are used and how much they are spent, and even he took several days to recover - spending money is like running water!

He was afraid of the military expenses stuck on it.

Li Mu said with a wry smile, "Old brigade commander, you don't know that most of the officers and soldiers of 107 are drawn from various different units, and they lack running-in. The above requires the formation of combat effectiveness within half a year. It's already May, and I have no other way but to spend it with money. ”

People will change, if in the past, Li Mu couldn't say this, of course, in the past, he was not qualified to stand in front of the chief and speak. He has been in the Army Academy for two years, and this deputy regiment commander has also worked for more than a year, and he has not been to the military region organs.

If you want to cry, you can't cry if you don't cry, and only the children who can cry will have milk to eat. Now 107 is not without milk, but afraid that there will not be enough milk to eat. The fully mechanized regiment-level troops will burn enough fuel to burn once for a large-displacement family car for three years. In other words, do nothing, drive the car out and walk around for tens of thousands of dollars.

What about cannons?

Take the tactical shooting training of the third battalion as an example, the 105 mm caliber shell, that is, the assault gun, can fire a variety of warheads, which can be used for both anti-armor and covering the target, which is different from tank guns, and the cost is relatively low, but it is definitely not inexpensive, but it is relatively cheap.

More than 5,000 shells are fired with high-explosive warheads, and more than 10,000 pieces are used for sub-warheads. Just now, the twelve 105 guns of the third battalion fired six salvos, and a total of thirty rounds were fired during the free fire

The six salvos were seventy-two, for a total of one hundred and two.

A simple calculation shows that this tactical shooting training alone has cost hundreds of thousands of yuan. This is not an exaggeration at all; high technology is smashed out of money, and the modern army is also smashed out of money, and combat effectiveness is inseparable from a large amount of military investment.

The army is still a pediatric, and the Air Force can spend 100,000 yuan on a single flight day of a fighter, which does not include the loss of various equipment, fighters, ground maintenance equipment, depreciation of airport construction investment, personnel training, and airspace occupancy value......

As for the navy, not to mention that a task force live-fire drill burns more than 100 million acres a week, which is not at all polite. A standard frigate is more than a billion yuan, and a destroyer of more than 5,000 tons can't take it without 500 million. If you hit an anti-ship missile, let's say that the C803, which has the largest number of equipment, will be fired for tens of millions of yuan.

In comparison, the 107th Regiment spent a fraction of the money spent on this training is not even a fraction of that of the Navy. The so-called 10-year army, 20-year air force, and 100-year navy are not only referring to the level of scientific and technological requirements of these three services, but also referring to the investment in construction funds.

Without a steady and steady investment in large-scale funding, building a blue-water navy is a fool's dream. Starting from the No. 167 destroyer, since 1997, the Chinese Navy has begun to enter the era of large-scale shipbuilding, from the early stage of small and multi-batch construction to the dumplings entering the 21st century, and then to the launching of seven or eight destroyers every year in the past few years, as well as a large number of auxiliary ships and mysterious submarines. What do these gold-swallowing beasts rely on to sustain themselves, money, a lot of money, money that occupies a very heavy proportion of the military budget.

However, the good virtue of trying to spend one dollar as two dollars has always had a large market within the military. Of course, a small number of corrupt officials are not on the list.

It stands to reason that these things are not under Yu Ming's control, but he never thinks that if he is not in charge of himself, he can acquiesce to the troops under him to spend money at will. When he was still the commander of the Third Brigade, he set a standard for evaluating the advanced company of the year -- the company's combat readiness fund should reach 100,000 yuan.

That is to say, the company must have at least 100,000 yuan in capital reserves in its account, and those who do not meet the standards will not be able to evaluate the advanced company of the year.

Financially, the above allocates the company's expenses according to the standard, mainly for food. In order to deduct a little money and save it, some companies tried to find a way to eat food, and once they were found, they were severely criticized. For another example, if the company wants to buy a large-size flat-screen TV to hang in the club, this money cannot be reported, and there is no such item in the equipment, so it can only pay for it itself. Where does the money come from, usually save it, and if you can't save it, you can only find a way from other places.

It's not enough to just be able to spend money, you have to be able to save money, but it's not enough to just save money, you have to learn to spend money.

Li Mu's original Third Brigade, that is, when Yu Ming was in charge of the Third Brigade, a strange company appeared. The military training and other things are not very good, but the combat readiness funds are as high as more than 200,000 yuan! It is almost twice that of many companies, and this has also been praised.

However, Li Mu knew, and Yu Ming also knew, that soon, the relevant supreme instructions would come down, and the troops would no longer regard engaging in by-products as one of their missions, but would devote all their time and energy to military training. The 30-year period of endurance has resulted in excellent agricultural and sideline production activities of the troops. Not to mention the army farms and various production bases that are everywhere, they are the barracks of combat troops, and there have always been pigs and vegetables. During the period from the end of the afternoon exercise to dinner, sometimes I don't do physical fitness, and I work all the dishes.

In those days, if you didn't do it, you would have to go hungry, because military spending was very limited, and many times you relied on self-reliance. To be precise, this tradition begins with the spirit of Nanniwan during the Red Army period.

Nowadays, what is advocated is professionalism, soldiers are fighting, everything revolves around combat effectiveness, and you can't raise pigs and vegetables to get combat effectiveness.

Yu Ming knew about these situations, but he still had to warn the leadership of the 107th Regiment that the money should still be spent leisurely.

"Before coming to you, I went to the Third Brigade. Yu Ming said.

As soon as Li Mu heard Yu Ming mention the old troops, he pricked up his ears and became a little more serious. The roads I have traveled and the troops I have served in are the same as the places where I have worked in schools I have studied, and there is a natural sense of closeness and plot, and every movement and stillness is very concerning.

"The artillery regiment of the 3rd Brigade is armed with new MLRS. When I arrived, they happened to be doing shooting training, and it cost 500,000 yuan to shoot a shot. Yu Ming pointed to the twelve 105 guns lined up over there from a distance, and said, "You have only twelve vehicles here, and the money used up is almost equal to the money of an artillery regiment." In my view, working hard to improve combat effectiveness in the limited live-ammunition firing is something that your team should focus on. ”

Xu Zhan said yes again and again.

Li Mu said, "Chief, the three battalions have a total of 30 pieces of equipment, as well as nine 120-mm mortars and nine self-propelled integrated air defense systems. In the future, it will be equipped with a company of multiple rocket launchers, and the specific model has not yet been determined. By that time, the third battalion would be a large battalion. I remember that the tank battalion of the 3rd Brigade was a large battalion, and they spent no less money on a live firing than the artillery regiment, right?"

Yu Ming then smiled and nodded at Li Mu, "You just say the flowers, I still say the same thing, we must control the training cost." It's all like you, how much money is enough for you to build?"

Li Mu immediately smiled and symbolically straightened his chest, and said, "Don't worry, chief, we will do everything possible to control the cost of training." ”

Walked to the place where the vehicles were assembled, and the chief looked around the vehicles, what should the soldiers do. Li Mu introduced the technical performance of this equipment on the side, and added at the end, "The Type 09 wheeled assault gun is not only two more wheels than the Type 02, but also has stronger survivability, faster speed, and more space, which is basically an upgrade of one level." All the weapon systems of our regiment are based on the Type 09 armored platform system, with a high degree of modular design, turning an assault gun into a mortar, which can be completed by the service personnel in half an hour. ”

The Type 09 wheeled armored platform is the most basic equipment base of the 107th Regiment, and it is also the so-called hardware base, and the more important command and control system cannot be seen here.

Compared with these things that can be seen and touched, as a senior general with a double master's degree, Yu Ming is more interested in the army command and control system and the army tactical data link that the 107th Regiment is testing.

So he asked, "How do you connect the combat units?"

Li Mu pointed to the armored car without a turret on the very edge, which was tightly wrapped in a camouflage net and couldn't even be painted, and said, "Chief, please come here." ”

The group went that way.

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