The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 166 Crazy Training

The day after the inauguration ceremony, the military students of the Second Corps of the [-]th Phase of Huangpu graduated on the spot and began to distribute. Although He Wei was not familiar with these classmates who were in the same period as him but in different corps, they were from the same period after all. classmate.

When these students left school, He Wei would step forward to say goodbye to them every time they drove away. It was a feeling that could not be expressed, and He Wei could only say goodbye and blessings to them. Cheer up these classmates who are rushing to the battlefield, praying that they can defeat the Japanese invaders on the battlefield and triumph as soon as possible. Of course, He Wei knows that this is impossible. Many people will not wait until the day of triumph. They will use their own The blood of the motherland watered the land of the motherland.

I hope the morning sun will always shine on our land, and never forget the blood of the martyrs on the ground.

A few days after the graduation of the [-]nd Corps of the [-]th Phase, Huangpu [-]th Phase students from the Central Military Academy also left the school one after another. The continuous air raids by the Japanese army and the poor public security in the city have seriously affected the daily training and courses of the [-]th Phase students. They will leave Nanjing and move to Wuchang to continue training and learning.

In the huge Central Military Academy, only He Wei's spy camp is left.

After the formation of the special agent battalion, the top priority before He Wei was training. The Central Military Academy was in the city. Although the training venue was large enough, the target was also large. It was a key air raid target for the Japanese army. After He Wei passed by He Wei, he reported to the Military Police Commander The Ministry applied for it and received permission to move the defense. The entire battalion was stationed in the Xiaoling Guard Camp near Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum for training.

Xiaolingwei is located in the east of Xuanwu District, NJ City, at the southern foot of Purple Mountain.The Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum was built in the 14th year of Hongwu. Empress Ma died the following year and was buried here.In the 25th year of Hongwu's reign, the crown prince Zhu Biao was buried in the east of Xiaoling.In the 31st year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang died of illness and was buried in Xiaoling together with Queen Ma. The Xiaoling Underground Palace was officially opened.

In the third year of Yongle, the Xiaoling project was completed.Xiaoling Tomb is large in scale, with a circumference of about 22.5 kilometers, and is surrounded by walls. The current road surrounding the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum was originally the base of the wall.In order to protect the Xiaoling Mausoleum, within one month after Zhu Yuanzhang was buried, Xiaoling Guards and Shrine Supervisors were stationed.

In the Ming Dynasty, Xiaoling Guard has always been an important military garrison. It was originally a military designation set up to guard the mausoleum of Ming Taizu Zhu Hongwu. Later, it gradually changed its place name. In the Qing Dynasty, Xiaoling Guard was also the garrison of the Qing Army's Jiangnan Camp. During the Hongyang Rebellion, Qing general Xiang Rong led his troops to station here, but it was later captured by the Taiping Army.

In the Republic of China, Xiaolingwei also became a battlefield many times. Until [-], the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps stationed in Xiaolingwei. The Xiaolingwei barracks was used as the teaching corps camp, and it was continuously expanded by digging roads and trenches, forming a A huge, approximately square camp was built. To this day, the Xiaolingwei camp is still under construction and expansion.

After the application was approved, He Wei immediately led his troops to move to the Xiaoling Guards. The transfer process was also very smooth. The entire teaching corps is currently fighting the Japanese army on the Songhu front line. There are only a small number of left-behind personnel in the camp, and the vast majority The barracks were all empty, and the delivery and negotiation process was very smooth. After all, he was now very famous, and He Wei would basically give him the green light to do anything. After being assigned to the barracks, He Wei immediately started organizing training.

He Wei's training for the spy camp is roughly divided into three parts. The first part is basic combat training. The so-called basic combat training is to complete the necessary subjects for individual soldiers stipulated in the infantry drill, from basic formation to rifle machine gun shooting. There is nothing to say about the decomposition, maintenance and grenade throwing training. In fact, it is to train soldiers’ basic qualities as a soldier, and to master the maintenance, operation and use of the most basic combat weapons, such as the shooting of rifles and light machine guns, rifles Assassination techniques, etc.

Most of the soldiers in He Wei's secret service camp are veterans. Their basic military qualities are pretty good, and they can also use basic rifles, grenades and other weapons.

It's just that they used to use old Hanyang-made and Chinese-style, Czech-style rifles, but now they use brand-new Czech-made rifles and Belgian light machine guns. The basic operating procedures and usage methods of these firearms are actually the same, and they are easy to use.

The focus of this part of the training is to strengthen the mastery of new equipment such as Czech rifles and Belgian fnd light machine guns, and to continuously improve the quality of using these weapons. To put it bluntly, it is to allow soldiers to continuously improve their shooting accuracy after mastering these weapons, and He Wei The training method is also very rough, that is, feeding them with bullets.

He Wei does not intend to use the [-]mm imported bullets from Europe that he supplies to himself in training. The performance of imported bullets is indeed better than that of domestic bullets. Domestic bullets sometimes jam and eject poorly. situation, and although imported bullets may occasionally have this situation, the probability is much lower than that of domestic bullets.

Therefore, He Wei made a policy of importing bullets for combat and domestic bullets for training. There are a lot of domestic bullets in stock allocated to He Wei, and there is a Jinling Arsenal in Nanjing that produces bullets anytime and anywhere, so He Wei doesn't have to worry at all. The problem of insufficient training ammunition.

He has always believed that training is more important than combat. He would rather use more ammunition during training than to let his soldiers die on the battlefield because of insufficient combat quality.

As for the rifle assassination technique, He Wei focused on training an improved version of the American assassination technique based on the existing assassination technique of the national army.

This part of the training requires all battalion officers and soldiers to participate, including non-combat infantry units such as artillery companies, communication platoons and baggage platoons. He Wei requires that everyone in his unit, whether they are infantry units or not, must master weapons. Using and assassinating these basic skills allows soldiers in non-infantry units to also have the ability to defend themselves, and once the battle situation changes, these soldiers in non-infantry units can also pick up rifles and machine guns and join the front-line battle.

The second part is the squad and platoon combat coach. The squad and platoon combat coach conducts offensive and defensive tactics training exercises at the squad level and platoon level in accordance with the infantry drills revised and compiled by He Wei. The focus of this part of the training is on the most basic unit of the infantry squad - the Wu training.

He Wei divided each squad into several corps, with the corps as the smallest basic combat unit. Compared with the first part, this part of the training was more difficult, because the combat quality of the newly recruited supplementary soldiers was not bad. However, their tactical literacy is relatively poor, and they used to use old-style drills for training. He Wei has communicated with these soldiers and has seen the tactical training drills they use, which are the drills of the 17th year of the Republic of China.

This drill is actually a translated version of the Japanese Taisho era infantry drill. The infantry tactics in this drill still remain at the skirmish line tactics used during World War I, that is, with companies and platoons as the basic combat units, with multi-level Fighting in dense skirmish lines is a very backward tactic.

He Wei now wants to completely change it into a tactic with infantry squads and corps as the minimum basic combat unit. Fortunately, the veterans of the Sixth Company were instilled in this concept by He Wei when they were in Xinkou, and they used it in actual combat. Application, and most of the squad leaders in the battalion and the corps commanders of each squad are veterans of the former Sixth Company. With these old brothers with rich combat experience as the backbone, He Wei believes that the newly added soldiers should be able to adapt quickly. Brand new tactics.

Of course, this part of the training is only practiced by the infantry company. The artillery company, communication platoon and baggage platoon do not need to train infantry tactics, but carry out professional technical training. The artillery company trains various operations of 81mm mortars and 47mm flat-fire cannons. Standards and shooting tactics, the communications platoon needs to be trained on the operating procedures of wired and wireless communications, and the baggage platoon needs to be trained in accordance with the baggage drill code.The third part of the training is collaborative training. At this stage, each infantry company has completed the training of basic company and platoon combat instructors, and non-infantry units have also completed their own technical training. Then the next step is collaboration between various units. Training, such as the coordination between infantry and artillery, the coordination between infantry and signal corps, and even the coordination between different infantry companies and signal corps and artillery.

What runs through all parts of the training is daily unbreakable physical fitness and obstacle course training. The physical training is a three-kilometer armed run. The infantry must be in combat attire, wearing tactical vests, filling water bottles with water, bullet bags full of bullets, and carrying their respective The requirements for weapons running, artillery, communications troops and baggage troops are slightly lower. Just wear a tactical vest and run with bare hands.

Obstacle training, also known as the five hundred obstacle course, has the same dress requirements as the three-kilometer armed run, but instead requires individual soldiers to pass through a 500-meter-long obstacle course, which contains uneven bars, climbing poles, board walls, high diving platforms, and jumping trenches. , single-plank bridges and low trip wires, etc., are designed to train soldiers' ability to pass through complex terrain.

Regarding the combat effectiveness of the spy battalion, He Wei's positioning is that when fighting Japanese squadrons and below units, they must have the ability to completely annihilate the opponent. When fighting Japanese brigade-level units, they must be able to severely damage the enemy. When encountering Japanese infantry, For units at the level of a brigade or above, they must be able to withstand the Japanese attack and escape unscathed.

He Wei believes that through these three parts of training, it is not difficult to achieve this goal. In terms of firepower alone, He Wei's special agent battalion far exceeds the Japanese infantry brigade.

The Japanese infantry brigade generally consists of three infantry squadrons, a heavy machine gun squadron and an infantry artillery squad. The main equipment of the infantry squadron is rifles, light machine guns and grenade launchers. The equipment of the infantry company of the secret service battalion is rifles, submachine guns and light machine guns. , general-purpose machine gun, in terms of rifle machine gun firepower, the special agent battalion completely crushed the Japanese infantry squadron, while the Japanese army's melee submachine gun firepower was blank. The infantry company of the special agent battalion was equipped with a large number of fancy machine guns, which could defeat the Japanese infantry squadron. It also has an absolute advantage.

The only shortcoming is that the Japanese infantry squadron is equipped with [-]mm grenade launchers, while the infantry company of the secret service battalion does not have the corresponding firepower. It is not that He Wei does not want to equip it, nor is it that there are no grenades for the secret service battalion to equip. China has already copied a large number of such things as the canister. In the arms warehouse in Nanjing, there are a large number of imitation Japanese Taisho [-]-year [-]mm grenade canisters produced by the Dagu Arsenal, but He Wei did not equip the spy battalion with them.

Because in He Wei's view, the grenade is really not a good weapon. It is actually something similar to a light mortar. It has sufficient power and range, but it does not have a complete dedicated sight and shooting support equipment. The shooter's aim depends entirely on experience and feeling. To train a qualified grenade shooter requires a lot of time and ammunition. He Wei does not have this time now. Therefore, He Wei does not equip his troops with grenades. cylinder.

In fact, in his mind, the most suitable infantry company-level direct-fire blasting firepower is a [-]-mm-caliber mortar. The mortar is equipped with a gun mount and a special sight, which is much easier to use than a grenade.

The most classic French Brande [-]mm mortar has been around for two years. This classic [-]mm mortar was later imitated and improved by the Americans and became the M[-] [-]mm mortar, while China The original prototype of the Type [-] [-]mm mortar was also the French-made Brand [-]mm mortar. It has to be said that the French are really good at mortars.

Because of the lessons learned from the Soloton machine gun, He Wei also specifically communicated with the military police and the ammunition depot where he had received the equipment before, asking them if they had the French-made Brand [-]mm mortar. Unfortunately, the answers he received were all Negative, which means that this type of mortar has not yet entered China at this time, and He Wei had to give up the idea of ​​equipping the secret service battalion with [-]mm mortars.

Moreover, He Wei's positioning of his special agent battalion is focused on rapid combat. After all, his troops are limited in number and cannot fight to the death in positional battles. From this perspective, the lack of direct blasting firepower at the infantry company level is understandable. .

Battalion-level artillery firepower, the secret service battalion also completely crushed the Japanese infantry brigade. One Japanese brigade only had two Type 81 47mm infantry cannons, but the artillery company of the secret service battalion was equipped with four French-made Browns. German [-]mm mortars and two [-]mm flat-fire cannons. The two broken [-] infantry cannons of the Japanese infantry brigade are not even worth a hair. It is the Japanese infantry regiment that strengthened the regiment cannon into the infantry brigade. There is not enough to see in front of the camp!

Annihilate the squadron, severely damage the brigade, and withstand the alliance. As long as the training is carried out according to his own regulations and successfully completed, He Wei is fully confident that he can achieve this goal.

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In the Xiaolingwei camp, there was loud gunfire. On the shooting range of the camp, the rifle machine guns of three infantry companies roared together, spitting out a torrent of firepower. Czech-made rifles, Belgian Fnd light machine guns and Sulotong general-purpose machine guns fired dense ballistics. Intertwined together, they formed a terrifying fire net. He Wei had completely instilled his training philosophy of not caring about ammunition into his subordinates. In this case, He Wei's subordinates were not polite and had to burn through the entire box every day. A whole box of ammunition is made with great effort. It doesn’t matter if the inventory is at the bottom. If you are short of bullets, just contact the Military Police Headquarters and ask for a note to go to the Jinling Arsenal!

"Playing well and making progress."

He Wei sat on his Mercedes-Benz off-road vehicle and raised his binoculars to look at the targets being knocked down one after another. In order to facilitate observation of ballistic trajectories and judge the shooter's shooting effect, the secret service battalion used a large number of tracer bullets during live-fire shooting training. The shooting range of the teaching corps is very advanced. It not only has fixed targets at various distances, but also electronically controlled moving targets. The moving targets are now used. According to the ballistics and target hits that He Wei saw, he It can be seen that the shooting level of the soldiers has indeed improved rapidly. Sure enough, excellent shooters are fed by bullets.

Ding ding - Suddenly, a phone rang from the back seat of He Wei's car. He Wei immediately picked up the transmitter and answered the call. When he heard the phone ringing, He Wei couldn't help but think of Sun Xisheng, the platoon leader of the communications platoon. Although Sun Xisheng He studied infantry at the Central Military Academy, but compared to infantry, Sun Xisheng preferred to study communication technology. When he was studying at the military academy, Sun Xisheng taught himself communications drills and took the initiative to study the principles of various wired and wireless communications. After graduating from the military academy, he was recruited He was sent to the Army Signal Corps School to learn signal corps techniques for several months.

In order to train the officers and soldiers in his platoon on the ability to set up a wired communication network, the communications platoon leader set up a bunch of telephones on the training ground, and also put the telephones on He Wei's off-road vehicle. The telephone lines alone were several hundred meters long. According to what Sun Xisheng told He Wei, he believed that communication on the battlefield was more important than anything else, even more important than various supporting firepower.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

Sun Xisheng's urgent voice came from the phone.

"Battal Commander, the military police are here, saying that there is an enemy attack in the Lingyuan New Village area, and they can't handle it."

(End of this chapter)