Chapter 368: Graduation Exercise

PS: The plot is going to speed up.

Zhang Wei gained a lot from the banquets and banquets at the division headquarters, not only got acquainted with many officers, but also took the opportunity of exchanging with regimental-level officers to absorb a lot of higher-level command experience.

Their combat and command experience was also very useful to Zhang Wei.

After the banquet, Zhang Wei stepped up the training of military cadets, and the urging orders in the division were not given in vain, and with the possible transfer of defense and personnel changes, the demand for grassroots officers would become greater and greater.

Not to mention anything else, among the four infantry regiments of the New 22nd Division, nearly two-thirds of the platoon commanders have not yet arrived.

The teaching brigade must speed up, and the top is in a hurry to ask for someone!

After returning to the teaching brigade, Zhang Wei ordered to speed up the progress and shorten the time, and Zhang Wei and Qiu Wei worked overtime to teach, and finally completed the teaching of these two courses in less than two weeks.

Anyway, it is also a make-up teaching, compressing a certain amount of teaching time, and it is also within the scope of acceptance.

After the cadets have completed these two subjects, theoretically the "make-up" study of the teaching brigade is over, and in the next finishing work, Zhang Wei plans to conduct a graduation exercise before they leave, which can be regarded as the final test of their study during this period of time, and also the final actual combat strengthening training of the cadets.

The exercise was scheduled for the day before the cadets left the barracks, and the exercise venue did not choose the training ground of the teaching brigade, but pulled the entire student company into the field, and the exercise was set up as a field attack, and the whole student company was organized into a combat unit.

The imaginary enemy is played by the second squadron of Mu Chao's teaching brigade, and the student company is commanded by the current company commander He Jinhai, and the two sides are going to start a field encounter in the field.

In the exercise, He Jinhai's student company strengthened the covering firepower, attacked with heavy weapons, and Mu Chao's second squadron defended, and determined which side won according to the final offensive and defensive results.

The student company will attack and teach the people of the brigade to defend, Zhang Wei of course knows that the chances of the student company are not very good, and it can even be said to be very small, after all, there are many veterans with rich combat experience in Mu Chao's second brigade, and the squad and platoon leaders are all experienced in actual combat and have rich command experience.

Although the cadets of the student company have been trained by the teaching brigade for more than two months, they have greatly improved their tactical command and individual combat qualities, but they are still a little tender compared with the veterans of the teaching brigade.

However, the squad and platoon leaders at all levels of the student company are also veterans of the engineer platoon of the teaching brigade, and all the students participate in the battle as basic combat soldiers.

With rich experience in combatants, it has a positive effect on their command quality.

Zhang Wei led all the officers and men of the teaching brigade out of the camp to watch the battle, and served as the final judge of the exercise results with other squadron leaders, Zhang Wei served as the chief magistrate, and Qiu Wei and Zheng Yiqun served as deputy referees.

All rifles and light machine guns are equipped with empty cartridges and wooden arrow bullets, and the light machine guns are equipped with wooden arrow launchers, and these training bullets are allocated by the division headquarters of the new 22 nd Division, and as long as they are not fired at an ultra-close range, they will not cause harm after hitting the human body.

The warheads of all wooden arrows were painted with powder paint, and the basis for determining the dead in the exercise was whether they had the color of the wooden arrows and paints on their bodies, and each rifleman and light machine gunner was issued with training ammunition at half of the normal base, with wooden arrow rounds for light machine guns and empty cartridges for rifles.

Since it was an attack, with Zhang Wei's usual approach, it was definitely to create a battlefield atmosphere and teach other officers and men of the brigade.

Grenades and yellow explosives were planted near the defensive positions of the Mu Chao squadron, which were used to create a hypothetical shelling effect, and a large number of them were planted in pursuit of this "effect".

Anyway, it was the last days of the cadets teaching the brigade, and Zhang Wei brought out a large number of training ammunition and equipment allocated by the division headquarters, such as smoke bombs, sandbags, and tools for workmanship.

The defending Mu Chao No. 2 Squadron relied on the hillock as the main position and built a complete company-level defensive position. The student company commanded by He Jinhai will launch an attack on the position of Mu Chao's squadron under the cover of artillery fire and machine guns, and if you want to attack, you must have more firepower.

Of course, the fire was also empty-packed, and Zhang Wei did not dare to let the heavy machine gun fire live ammunition in this kind of field attack exercise.

Zhang Wei and other officers and men of the teaching brigade were fighting outside the two kilometers, and two kilometers away, the attacking and defending sides had already set up positions and were ready to fight a big battle.

Mu Chao's second squadron had already entered the preset position, which was built on the basis of a hill, had a certain height, and had an advantage in the terrain.

The student company also made preparations for the attack in the command and control of He Jinhai, dug up the starting position, and between the starting position of the student company and Mu Chao's preset position, dozens of explosives and grenades were buried in advance to simulate the landing point of the artillery shells, and the detonation was carried out by He Jinhai's student company, and the squad and platoon commander and company commander He Jinhai of the student company were all taught by the engineer platoon of the brigade, and it was not a problem to operate the detonation device.

On the position of the student company, there was also a heavy machine gun platoon of Li Shaoyan's heavy fire squadron, with three heavy machine guns to simulate machine gun cover fire.

He Jinhai observed the opposite position and directly ordered the detonation to the sergeant beside him.

"Detonate!" The sergeant pulled down the lever of the detonation box, and a violent explosion was sent between the positions of the two sides, each of which was a combination of yellow explosives and grenades.

Dozens of explosive points exploded one after another, the smoke from the explosion dispersed, and from a distance, the entire battlefield was filled with wind and sand, and more than a dozen boxes of explosives and dozens of grenades flew into the sky.

This is artillery cover for a simulated attack.

"Charge!" He Jinhai began to organize an attack, and a loud charge was heard from the direction of the student company, followed by loud shouts of killing and the sound of heavy machine gun fire, and the student company launched an attack. In Zhang Wei's telescope, all three platoons of the student company rushed out of the position and attacked in an inverted triangle formation, with the two platoons in front of them attacking the main line and one platoon as a reserve, and the cadets rushed to the position of the second squadron with shouts of killing.

When rushing to a distance of about 100 meters, the second squadron in the position opened fire.

The rifles in the exercise were equipped with empty cartridges, and the light machine guns were equipped with wooden arrows, but in fact only the wooden arrows fired by the light machine guns could hit people, and the cadets who rushed in front felt a backward thrust after being hit by the wooden arrows.

Immediately afterwards, the paint on the wooden arrow bullets appeared on the uniforms, and according to the rules of the exercise, it was judged that they were killed, and the cadets who were hit lay helplessly on the ground and began to play the role of dead bodies.

The light machine gun fire of the second squadron was accurate and fierce, and a string of bullets knocked down the cadets, Mu Chao's position was already condescending, and he divided the most important light machine gun fire into several points, constituting a complete firing boundary and cross fire, which could be taken care of in every direction.

For a time, the cadets could not break through from the front at all, and the two sides fell into a battle to the death. From a distance, Zhang Wei and the others saw that the student company had stopped a hundred meters in front of the position of the second squadron.

"They're outflanked!" Qiu Wei shouted, Zhang Wei looked over, the reaction speed of the student company was unexpectedly fast, the prepared platoon bypassed the main attack platoon from the left flank, outflanked and detoured to the right flank of Mu Chao's position, and the cadets of a platoon got on the bayonet and launched a charge.

Zhang Wei nodded, his reaction speed was very fast, and he dared to implement the outflanking tactics, it seems that the cadets have made some progress. On the positions of the defenders, Mu Chao also observed all this.

"Squadron leader, those student babies are coming up from our right, what should I do?" The platoon commander beside Mu Chao asked.

Mu Chao didn't answer immediately, but kept staring at the cadets who came around from the right, the cadets who couldn't even run in formation two months ago, now they can launch an outflanking attack with a good battle formation, Mu Chao felt both interesting and a little satisfied, after all, the improvement of these cadets also has a credit to Mu Chao.

"Don't panic, don't move the light machine guns in each group, continue to press the frontal fire, and the rest of the riflemen will gather together, and when they come, bring them in, concentrate on solving them, and then use the light machine guns to blockade them when they get closer!" Mu Chao ordered.

The 2nd Squadron quickly made adjustments, and many riflemen were deployed to the right flank defensive position.

The gunfire on the positions was constant, and most of them were gunfire from frontal positions and mutual fire.

On the right flank of the position, a platoon, more than 30 cadets rushed with bayonets, looking like newborn calves who were not afraid of tigers.

"Kill!" They rushed closer and closer, as if they were about to enter the position, and they were only twenty meters away from the trenches of the second squadron.

"Hit!" Suddenly, a violent bolt broke out on the target position of the cadets, and rows of rifles fired a row of guns, and the rifles used empty cartridges, which could not cause damage and traces to the cadets, but if they were to be replaced by actual combat, these cadets who rushed in would have to fall by at least a third.

"Give Lao Tzu a counter-charge!" Mu Chao ordered with a wicked smile, and the officers and men of the second squadron, who had fired two rounds of guns, suddenly pulled out their bayonets, jumped out of the trench, and took advantage of the terrain to launch a counter-charge against the outflanked cadets from two directions, and the light machine guns on the main position used side and oblique fire to withstand the main force of the student company trying to reinforce the roundabout troops.

A platoon of cadets who originally planned to outflank them was now surrounded by the second squadron of the counter-charge, and the strength of an entire platoon was lost.

The student company in front of the main position could not be reinforced, and the attack could not be attacked, and in the shouting of killing, the main force of the student company in front of the position desperately launched the final charge, drowning in the crossfire and counter-assault of Mu Chao's second squadron......

Zhang Wei, Qiu Wei, and Zheng Yiqun put down the telescope one after another.

The results of the exercise are self-evident, but they also expected them.