Chapter 506: Exercises
The exercise of the paratrooper school was held on a large hill near the paratrooper school, on which there were positions built by Cao Zijin, Guan Shijie, and Tetsujiro Yamaoka according to the Japanese army's teachings.
It was the newly trained 1st Division that attacked, and the other troops blocked the entire vicinity of the mountain, so that civilians could enter it by mistake.
To the surprise of Commander Chiang of the Kunming garrison, he thought that this was just an exercise in the name of a exercise, but in fact it was just an operation to put himself under house arrest. But after arriving at the scene, he found that both the defender and the attacker were in the actual combat state on the battlefield now.
And what disturbed him the most was that he, along with Zhang Sixing and his adjutants, including Hansen, flew into the sky on an air defense generator. Although he suspected that this was just a means for Zhang Sixing to put himself under house arrest, when the airproof balloon flew into the sky, he found that looking at the exercise from the sky was like watching a wargame deduction on the sand table.
The first thing to do was of course an artillery battle, but there was no artillery on the Fruit side, so only a few guns and some pre-set explosive points exploded. The momentum was so-so, which made Commander Chiang look down on the paratrooper school a little.
It feels like they're blowing quite loudly, but that's what the equipment looks like.
But he was a soldier after all, and he immediately saw the doorway.
The infantry of the fruit army in the exercise dealt with 3,000 casualties in accordance with the referee of the exercise, and then began to attack in formation. Although they were also infantry line operations, their combat methods were much more than Commander Chiang expected.
The infantry divided into small groups, basically leaping forward in groups of three. The infantry advanced in front, with heavy machine guns in the rear and a small artillery gun similar to a grenadier for cover fire.
Looking at the trenches on the hills, dense fire poured down, and the shells exploded into clouds of smoke. Both the density of the shots and the momentum on the battlefield are almost the same as the real battlefield.
Commander Jiang looked at Zhang Sixing, who had been holding the telescope since he came up. Seeing that he was completely unmoved by such a battlefield, he couldn't help but ask in surprise,
"Principal Zhang, it's really a fight, how many people have died in such an exercise."
In fact, as mentioned earlier, this kind of exercise, which does not require large-scale maneuvering on the battlefield, soldiers wear heavy body armor. Similar to Maozi's combat engineers, they all wear heavy armor based on steel.
However, at the time of Zhang Sixing, there was this kind of steel protective equipment with fiberglass sheets, and all the armor pieces were arranged in the shape of fish scales to achieve maximum protection.
Therefore, it is impossible for the training bullet with reduced charge to penetrate the protective clothing on the soldier's body.
"It's okay, they're well protected. Moreover, the bullets used in the exercise are specially made, and even if they hit the body, they will not kill anyone. ”
As usual, Zhang Sixing did not speak, but Han Sen was doing his duties as an adjutant on the side, and he was tirelessly popularizing science for Commander Jiang.
Under the shocked gaze of Commander Chiang, red smoke suddenly appeared from the helmets of some soldiers, and then they bent down and ran out of the battlefield under the judgment of the referee.
Needless to say, it was a sign that he had been shot and was judged incapacitated.
As more and more attacking troops entered the battlefield, the fighting between the two sides became more intense. From time to time, in the trenches on the mountain, blue smoke rose from the heads of Japanese soldiers and they were sent out of the field.
It was only then that Commander Chiang believed Hansen's words, and at the same time felt that the soldiers who came down from the exercise ground in this way would not be considered recruits in the real battlefield in the future.
When the attacking infantry approached the hill, Tetsujiro Yamaoka, dressed in Japanese uniforms, rushed out with Cao Zijin and Guan Shijie's men. They held bayonets and closed the safety of their rifles before stabbing like real Japanese soldiers.
"This ...... Is this really a Japanese soldier? ”
The person who can become the commander of the garrison is certainly not an uninformed person. As soon as he saw the soldiers who pounced down from the mountain, Commander Chiang couldn't help but cry out,
"Of course they were real Japanese soldiers, but only partially. Those were all captured by us on the Songhu battlefield and the Jinling battlefield. They are now the Blue Army of our paratrooper school, specially assisting us in the exercise. ”
Originally, he had heard that there were Japanese in the paratrooper school, and Commander Chiang also guessed that they might be Japanese prisoners. After all, as a state of etiquette, the Chinese army has never been in the habit of mistreating prisoners. Moreover, on the frontal battlefield, only a few prisoners have been captured so far.
But here, there are almost 3,000 soldiers wearing Japanese military uniforms on the mountain bag. If you think about it, there must have been a few hundred Japanese soldiers. This could not help but make Commander Chiang's heart swell with admiration, being able to capture hundreds of Japanese soldiers and still be able to subjugate them to his own use, that is not something ordinary people can do.
As the offensive and defensive fronts collided together, the immediate difference in the stabbing was hugely different.
According to Commander Chiang's understanding of the Guo army, their training was extremely inadequate, and in addition to the standing troops, the troops were full of a large number of recruits, not to mention the skills of fighting, and they had hardly even practiced shooting.
But looking at the stabbing skills displayed by both sides on the exercise ground, Commander Jiang felt that he was really eye-opening.
The bayonet formations of the two sides came together, and Commander Chiang was not worried about this matter. He could see clearly that both the defending "Japanese army" and the attacking "fruit army" had a scabbard on their bayonets.
But what he didn't expect was that when the soldiers of the two sides came into contact with each other, bursts of red and blue smoke immediately came out. The soldiers didn't look like they were doing a drill, they really seemed to be working hard.
Although he knew that neither side would really hurt the other, the seriousness of the exercise was really not comparable to that of the Guo army. In the exercises of the Fruit Army, more attention is paid to the queue or the competition of individual military technologies.
For the exercise in front of him that was so close to actual combat, Commander Chiang did not say that he had never seen it, and he had never heard of it.
Looking at the doubts in his eyes, Hansen shrugged,
"The Germans don't do that either, and you are to blame for it. I sent a few carts of meat to the paratrooper school, but it was not enough for everyone to share. Hence this exercise. Those who win eat meat, and those who lose can only drink soup. ”
Hearing the rules of the paratrooper school, Commander Jiang shook his head,
"Okay, if that's the case, if I want to watch the drill in the future, I'll pull a few carts of big meat over."
Hansen immediately laughed at him for thinking too simply,
"Commander Jiang, I'm not joking with you, what I said is true. Our paratrooper school is short of food, so having meat to eat is similar to celebrating the holidays. However, this situation will not exist for long, and when our agricultural production is harvested, there will be no shortage of food at that time. ”
The so-called standing high and seeing far away, on the 500-meter air defense generator, Commander Jiang really saw a lot of the production sites that Hansen said.
For example, there are farms full of chickens and ducks, pastures with black and white cows, and water-saving agriculture using sacks for planting. Xia realized that looking at all this, a question suddenly surged in Commander Jiang's heart:
The Chamber of Commerce is so desperate to control the food of the paratrooper school, if they can produce enough food, then what can they do to restrain them?