Gradually, the parachute descends to the ground, Zhang Chi raises his arms in the usual exercises, holds his forearms tightly in his face, adducts his jaw, and when his feet are in contact with the ground, his knees are slightly flexed and rotated sideways, and his calves, thighs, buttocks, and torso touch the ground in turn and complete a lateral roll......

Of course, this tumbling landing method is not the landing method that we often see on TV and movies.

In fact, China and the Soviet Union did use semi-squat landings, but the United States and the West overwhelmingly used tumbling landings.

It's hard to tell which one is better.

It should be said that there is a semi-squat landing that can enable the paratroopers to put into battle in the shortest possible time, because if the landing is stable, almost one body can pick up the gun to fight, and the rolling type also has to roll several times in the same place, its advantage is that when rolling, the strong body kinetic energy can be absorbed through the movement of various joints of the body, and extend the buffer time and increase the impact area of the body to reduce the damage to the body, the disadvantage is that in an emergency, when you roll a few times, the enemy's bullets and shells may fly in front of you.

At this time, it was American instructors who trained the expeditionary force, so of course, the American landing method was used...... In fact, it should be a British landing, because Zhang Chi knew from Evans that the United States was still using the ridiculous front tumbling landing not so long ago.

The so-called forward tumbling landing is like the movement of Wu Sheng in Peking Opera, which has always been very popular with American paratroopers because it is so "handsome", just like knowing Chinese kung fu...... However, it is difficult to train standardly, and once it is wrong, it is easy to cause injuries to the head, neck or spine, and the injuries to these parts are usually very serious, and the accidents and injuries to the body caused during skydiving are even more than half-squats.

Eventually, in 1943, that is, this year, the United States learned the British method of landing on their side...... Coincidentally, Zhang Chi and others bumped into each other, otherwise they would have to turn their heels like in Peking Opera.

Rollover landing is easy to learn, almost protect your head and then let yourself fall sideways, and the inertia of landing after the fall will naturally make the body roll a few times and then consume the kinetic energy.

Later, Zhang Chi knew that even after the previous rigorous training, more than a dozen fighters were still injured during parachuting, but fortunately, all minor injuries did not affect the subsequent training.

At this time, Zhang Chi understood the meaning of the sentence that paratroopers often said, "Recruits are afraid of leaving the cabin, and veterans are afraid of landing...... The moment the recruit walked to the hatch, it was like Zhang Chi, seeing the void so high under his feet, his heart was empty at the moment, and he began to be excited or excited when he was about to land and couldn't wait, but in fact, the real danger was not out of the cabin, but landing.

That's why Evans has been emphasizing landing maneuvers.

Immediately after landing, Zhang Chi began to gather his troops...... This is a major issue of parachuting, and even the parachutes of the Yankees in this era have a great wind deviation, and although a squad of troops jumps out of the same transport plane, it can land hundreds of meters or even farther away.

At this time, it is necessary to assemble his subordinates in the shortest possible time, and then he can exert his due combat effectiveness.

"They're doing pretty well!" Looking at the Chinese soldiers who had already assembled and found the heavy machine guns to start assembling, Evans said to the instructors beside him: "They are almost ready to go to the battlefield!" ”

"Yes!" Another American instructor smiled wryly: "I don't understand, they have even rarely flown before this, why would they do better than our troops?" ”

"It's not surprising, Tom!" Evans replied, "That's discipline and will, they have the qualities of a soldier, so they learn anything quickly!" ”

Evans's meaning, if explained in Chinese, is "one to one", because the soldiers know what is the most important thing in a war, so they can always grasp the key points and integrate them no matter what subject, and this is what they have paid for with their blood and lives in actual combat.

Of course, paratrooper training is not so simple.

Evans was quick to ramp up their training...... At this time, Zhang Chi certainly wouldn't think that Evans was deliberately embarrassing the new division.

In fact, Brigadier General William's original requirements for the new 1st Division in airborne are not high, as said before, the US military top brass did not even plan to conduct airborne training for the new 1st Division, but Brigadier General William wanted to give the Chinese army a good look and added subjects. Therefore, Brigadier General William felt that as long as the Chinese army could parachute, it could be used as an infantry hanging on a parachute at a critical time.

However, after changing his view of the new 1st Division, coupled with the fact that the 1st Division was very talented in parachuting, he had the intention to train the New 1st Division into a real airborne force.

In fact, Brigadier General William was still a little selfish at this time, that is, he hoped that this Chinese army would go to the battlefield under his command to establish meritorious deeds, and on the other hand, it could also be said to be a reward for Zhang Chi for saving him.

If it were a real airborne force, this training would be a different matter entirely.

As Evans said: "The task to be carried out by the Airborne Forces is to parachute into the enemy's hinterland to fight, and the particularity of this operation determines that you will be surrounded by the enemy before you have even landed!" How to fight and survive surrounded by enemies...... That's what you're training for, and I can tell you that by far the most successful airborne operation has had a casualty rate of more than 70 percent! ”

This number couldn't help but make Zhang Chi stunned, which means that there are seven casualties out of ten people...... With such heavy casualties, a force should have collapsed long ago, especially the US army, which lacked actual combat.

But not all of the U.S. military is like this, such as the 101st Airborne Division, which is known in history.

The new 1st Division soon began to train even more brutally.

In the morning, 5 kilometers of thunder, plus 300 meters of frog jumps, 100 push-ups, 100 weighted squats, horizontal bars 1 to 5 exercises, parallel bars 1 to 5 exercises...... As soon as the excitement came, the instructor would also ask everyone to sprint around the barracks for a few 400-meter sprints. In the evening, there is no less than morning physical training.

In addition to physical training, there is tactical training...... There is a big difference between paratrooper tactics and infantry tactics, the main thing is that the operation of paratroopers is very targeted, it is often not to take a high ground or a city, but important strategic positions such as bridges, enemy artillery positions, roads, etc.

These made the soldiers of the expeditionary force, even veterans, miserable.

(To be continued.) )