Chapter 288: Morale, Frontline, Live Ammunition
After three rounds of "water", five flavors of food, Zhang Wei and the soldiers ate very comfortably, Zhang Wei spoke to the soldiers, to a certain extent, it can be regarded as a mobilization of the whole battalion, so that the newcomers can return to their hearts, and the veterans can rest assured.
The army is going to cook and start the gang is the quantity, Zhang Wei stewed all the canned food, this thing, it is not enough to divide it, and it is redundant to keep it in his hands, the best way to deal with it is to have a pot of stew.
The officers and men of the whole battalion, whether officers or soldiers, ate the same food and drank the same water.
The people in the cooking squad kept adding vegetables and rice to the table, and the steamed rice, rice porridge and meat scraps were enough to send it up, and the soldiers ate and drank what the officers ate and drank, and the officers such as Zhang Wei and Qiu Wei also ate and drank.
When the food was on the head, the platoon commander and the veteran below actually held water to salute Zhang Wei, the wine can be intoxicating, but the water is not drunk.
The kindness of the brothers was difficult to resist, and the person who came up to toast was either the platoon commander or the veteran who fought with Zhang Wei all the way, how could Zhang Wei shirk it.
Picking up the kettle is to drink, Zhang Wei can't just drink with the officers, so he simply takes Qiu Wei and the company commanders to drink with the soldiers like an assembly line, and salutes them one by one.
Qiu Wei, an officer from a military academy, even roared the military song of the army when he ate and drank, and the soldiers couldn't sing it, so they roared along.
The cohesion and morale of the whole battalion have been greatly increased, and collective activities are definitely the best way to boost the morale.
In the evening, the singing, roaring and shouting of the preparatory camp resounded throughout the night......
Zhang Wei temporarily reorganized the whole battalion, and while he was concerned, the Japanese army did not stop his movements, in fact, the First Army gave so many benefits to the assault column, essentially because the Japanese army was about to attack.
After the Japanese army broke through Shangqiu, the whole army invaded southern Henan, attacking all the way, the 14th Division assembled in Kaifeng and Lanfeng, the 16th Division assembled in Qixian, Suixian, and Ningling, and the main force of the 10th Division assembled near Xiayi, Huitingji, and Yongcheng and attacked forward.
The troops of the First Army who went out to reconnoiter had already discovered a small group of Japanese troops, and the Xinyang line was no longer safe.
The First Army and the assault column, as the main force in southern Henan, will sooner or later have to engage fire with the Japanese army, Zhang Wei's preparation battalion, during this time, in addition to the whole training is rest, the First Army transferred the situation of the Japanese front line to Qiu Maniac, Qiu Maniac from time to time conveyed the movements of the Japanese army to Zhang Wei, and there is only one information conveyed in the intelligence, the Japanese army is advancing in the direction of southern Henan!
On the training ground of the "boom" preparation battalion, with a sound of explosion, the stagnant water in the crater was blown into the sky and fell on the soldiers who were conducting offensive and defensive drills.
The 1st and 2nd companies were conducting offensive and defensive drills, and in front of the wide training ground, the soldiers of the two companies were crawling forward and attacking.
In order to increase the authenticity of the exercise, Zhang Wei ignored the shortage of Soviet-style machine gun ammunition, transferred two Soviet-style heavy machine guns to shoot with live ammunition, and transferred some veterans to supervise the training, and kept throwing grenades into the craters filled with sewage, and the heavy machine guns fired at the front of the position, and the machine-gun line of fire was so low that all the charging soldiers were forced to crawl forward, and it was difficult to even make a basic short leap.
The attack path was dotted with craters, which also contained icy sewage, and the crawling soldiers had to climb into the pits to straighten their waists.
The sound of whizzing bullets breaking through the air sounded on the scalp, and the soldiers of the two companies crawled forward in accordance with the combat attack formation, and Zhang Wei, the initiator, held the binoculars and looked at the two companies in the exercise training with satisfaction.
This kind of training, which uses live ammunition to create an atmosphere, is carried out every day, as close as possible to actual combat, and every day soldiers are injured by live ammunition during training and sent to the field hospital of the assault column for treatment.
Fortunately, no one died.
"Quick, quick, quick! Followed. The sergeant with the training shouted.
Several of the newly recruited former routers struggled to crawl forward in the dirt, a method of training that had never been seen in their previous careers, and they still had lingering fears.
"Damn, it's crazy, I hit real bullets every day, it's too many bullets." A soldier scolded.
Behind him are the soldiers who are also newly added to the route.
"Don't complain, this battalion commander is good, and the meat that day was not eaten for nothing, this is really dead!"
"What nonsense are you two talking about, hurry up, do you want to eat guns?"
As soon as the two finished saying two sentences, the squad leader who was crawling in front of them scolded angrily, the platoon composed of the defeated soldiers, the platoon leader, the squad leader and the deputy squad leader are all veterans of the preparation battalion.
"Let's go! Hurry!"
Amid the roar of machine guns and explosions, the figures of the soldiers gradually disappeared into the smoke......
Crazy training, training without money, Zhang Wei, who personally supervised the training, has been further liberalized in training since he received supplies from the First Army, and the bullets are all fired casually except for the most basic combat readiness stock of each soldier.
Not to mention anything else, in the past few days of heavy machine-gun live-fire exercises, the Soviet-style 762 bullets in the battalion have been shot to the bottom, and the consumption of 79-caliber bullets is not large, but very much.
The First Army had a demand for the assault column, and it also counted on the tank warfare artillery of the assault column to exert more strength in combat, and with this, the infantry weapons and ammunition of the assault column were indispensable.
Engaging in this kind of crazy and extremely risky training every day, Zhang Wei is not burning bags, the Japanese army is constantly attacking, and a month is really not a long time for a battalion, especially the preparation battalion has integrated and supplemented more than 140 defeated soldiers, and the training must be kept up with quickly.
It takes more than a week for individual soldiers, field construction, and individual soldier construction, and it takes more than a week for stabbing and basic squad tactical training, leaving really not much time for the whole battalion to integrate training.
The Battle of Lanfeng, strictly speaking, was not over yet, but the offensive and defensive situation of the two sides changed from the attack of the Eastern Henan Corps and the defense of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army, to the retreat of the main force and the simultaneous attack of the Japanese army in several directions.
The whole battle did not end at all, the preparation battalion only retreated to the second-line zone, and did not leave the war zone, and the entire southern and eastern Henan provinces had already become a pot of porridge.
If you want to continue to improve your combat effectiveness, Zhang Wei has to make good use of every minute and every second!
Crazy Qiu talked to himself for a month, and most of the time passed in a blink of an eye.
"Zheng Yiqun, the third consecutive press!"
Zhang Wei saw the first and second companies in front of him crawling and breaking through, and immediately ordered the third company to follow up and put in the whole battalion.
"Up!" Zheng Yiqun rushed forward, three companies and two companies, crawling forward, attacking forward, all the strength of a battalion was put into it, and the machine guns and explosions around it were even worse.
Excluding the cover of the corresponding machine-gun fire, the preparatory battalion all formed out in formation, crawled forward to attack, and bravely advanced in the rain of bullets and gunsmoke.
The tactical level of the soldiers has improved a lot compared with before, and anyone who plays so hard every day will improve.
"Come on, call the heavy machine gun company to transfer another platoon of heavy machine guns!" Zhang Wei put down the binoculars and said to the herald.
The real battlefield environment will only be more tragic than this, and Zhang Wei must continue to increase their weight.