Chapter 1011: Actual Combat Test!
At this time, the Battle of Rakhine was carried out very magically, the 47th Brigade and the 123rd Indian Brigade of the British Army launched attacks on the Maiyu Mountains - Dongbai and Radaidang on the east and west sides of the Maiyu River respectively, one of these two places stuck the Maiyu Mountains and the sea, and the other blocked the road on the banks of the Maiyu River, and the westernmost sea and the easternmost Rakhine Mountains were theoretically impassable, so the whole campaign basically revolved around these two towns. And there were only two Japanese brigades defending here.
The Japanese army had already miraculously withstood the repeated attacks of the British army here. The Japanese used grenades, Molotov cocktails and infantry guns to repel the attacks of British tanks.
"Your mission this time is to blow up the Japanese warehouses here, and harass the Japanese reinforcements to the Rakhine Mountains along the way."
Lambgar Training Camp, Stilwell's office, where Feng Ye is receiving military orders; Stilwell kept in mind the agreement between him and Feng Yi, and it was difficult to say that this military operation was to assist the Japanese army in attacking Achab, and it could only be said that it was a simple infiltration mission.
"When are you leaving?"
Feng Yi frowned and asked, Stilwell was pointing to western Burma, he didn't know what this strange mission meant; However, this is their first mission, just to blow up the warehouse, and he can't object to it, after all, this is the first mission, and it's not good to get into a stiff fight with Stilwell like this.
"Six squads, a total of four hundred and fifty people, this is the first battle since the formation of the commando, I will send you six more military doctors, I hope you will win."
Stilwell did not answer Feng Ng's question, but directly asked Feng Que to go with the absolute elite.
"Yes, I'll lead the team myself."
Stilwell nodded, the first time he went out on a mission, even if Stilwell didn't say it, he would personally lead the team, no one could say the current situation in Myanmar, no matter who led the team, he would not rest assured.
"Tomorrow evening, get ready to board, and the transport will drop you directly near Wei Lang."
Stilwell looked at Feng Ye, this is how paratroopers enter the battlefield, and it is also what the commandos must master.
"Parachuting? Or in enemy-occupied territory? ”
There was doubt in Feng Yihu's suspicious voice, and he felt that this combat mission was a bit not simple.
"Why, after training for so long, are you still afraid of skydiving?"
Stilwell's words were tinged with distrust.
"Sir, even if we want to be familiar with parachuting, we don't need to be in enemy-occupied areas! We skydived here and walked for a few days to get to the place. ”
Feng Yi pointed to Budidang, this is the control force of the British and Indian army, anyway, the British army is now considered an allied army, at least they will not shoot at them.
"The mission of the paratroopers is to land in enemy-occupied areas, this is a level you must pass, go and prepare!"
Stilwell didn't explain anything more, and asked Feng Ye to hurry up and prepare, the troops who had just finished training only had a day and a half of rest, and as for the afternoon training, of course, there was no need to continue.
Six squads, the first battle of the commando team is, of course, to use the most elite six squads, each squad has five attack groups, each group of fifteen people; Of course, because it is fighting behind enemy lines, each squad will also be equipped with a signal unit, consisting of three signal soldiers, carrying a walkie-talkie and a radio.
The standard configuration of the commando team is based on the establishment of the US army, and each group consists of a squad leader, 2 scouts, 3 automatic rifle teams, 4 infantrymen, 2 snipers, 2 demomen, and 1 deputy squad leader.
As the name suggests, scouts are the first to die when they encounter a fire strike, and the standard equipment is Thomson, because they receive the enemy very suddenly, and they need greater firepower to respond to emergencies, and they need to be suppressed by fire at the moment of receiving the enemy.
The automatic rifle group has only one M1918A1 Browning light machine gun, which plays the role of fire suppression and continuous fire, but the biggest feature of this light machine gun is that there is no barrel that can be quickly replaced, and continuous shooting is easy to overheat the barrel, and the light machine gun of the same period is much worse in terms of fire continuity, but only one person operates it is its advantage, and the other two are riflemen with M1 Garand, whose responsibility is to help the machine gunner carry ammunition as much as possible; In the same way, they are also secondary marksmen, and if the Heavy falls, these two riflemen are to be replaced at any time.
The rifle crew consisted of 4 people, armed with an M1 Garand.
The two snipers use bolted Chuntian M1903 rifles, but the two of them do not snipe at the same time, but use Chuntian's M1 grenades, so one of them is a grenade and can fire grenades including anti-tank grenades, fragmentation shells, smoke grenades, signal flares, white phosphorus grenades and so on, of course, at different times, maybe they are both grenades, or they are sniping at the same time.
The task of the Demoman is very simple, they generally do not participate in the attack, they are responsible for carrying a bazooka, doing the work of sapper demolition, and the two of them use carbines, because this weapon is only a weapon of self-defense in the US military.
One deputy squad leader is left to assist the squad leader in his or her tasks, doing chores that the squad leader sometimes doesn't bother to do (such as checking ammunition reserves, etc.). The squad leader will usually lead the scout to the front to reconnoitre, and at this time the deputy squad leader will take over the command, and similarly, he also uses Thomson.
In addition to these, officers above the squad leader will be armed with M1911 Browning pistols, and each soldier will carry an oval grenade.
If you want to parachute from the air, then naturally they can't have too much ammunition with them, and the other ammunition will also be thrown on the ground by parachute, and they will find it themselves after they land.
In the frequent parachute training, Feng Yi understood one point, that is, the amount of ammunition will directly affect the safety of the soldiers' landing, so this parachute jump, he ordered all the brothers to carry only one magazine or bridge clip in addition to the bullets in the gun, and the rest of the ammunition through the parachute.
"As long as we land on the ground, there are enough bullets in the gun for us to recover the ammo around us; Rest well, brethren. ”
Feng Ye finally selected the six squads for the first mission, plus the three-person communication squad and military doctors of each squad, a total of 476 people received the order to set off.
"Commander, why don't you take me! Let me go too! ”
"Captain, I'm going!"
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After selecting the action team members, Feng Ye had just returned to the dormitory to prepare for rest, and there were a few uninvited guests in his dormitory; It was Min Fei, Wang Ning and Zhang Chuan.
"What? Now you all want to fight so much? ”
Feng Yi looked at several officers in surprise, his operation, the six squad leaders, that is, the original five company commanders, Liang Hao, Luo Da, Zhang Dajiang, Ma Guang, Li Rui, he personally led a team, exactly six squads.
"Commander, such good equipment, isn't this a scourge little devil? We are going to take revenge, to avenge our brothers who died in Burma. ”
Min Fei held his head high, half of his brothers in his battalion were still there on the battlefield in Burma, and he wanted to go back.
"It's not like no one is going to your battalion, didn't your third company commander bring a squad?"
Feng Yi frowned, this sortie, Liang Hao and Luo Da were selected from the original assault team and guard company, Zhang Dajiang was from the original 87th Regiment, Li Rui was the first company commander of Min Fei's first battalion, Ma Guang was the first company commander of the second battalion, and as for Zhang Chuan's third battalion, because only one company commander survived, he personally led the third battalion to attack.