Chapter 104: Tough and Benevolent
"The day of the mouth is just an ordinary day for ordinary people. However, it is an unusual day for the officers and soldiers of the airborne defense brigade who were in the airwalk.
In fact, for the "more than four officers and soldiers who were killed by the airborne thugs, every day after they were admitted to the seal was unusual.
As the first regular army to cross the border and enter India with a down-to-earth footsteps, the officers and soldiers who were airborne the Du Brigade received the treatment they deserved by the ace troops and also had enough pride and proud capital. After experiencing an exciting moment in the early stage, the officers and soldiers who were airborne the old 3rd Brigade never received preferential treatment from the ace troops again.
After gaining a foothold in the suburbs of Xiliguli, before the airborne thugs came back to their senses, the sword army commanded by Ling Yunxiao took the lead and killed Jishengenjie and threw the airborne brigade behind. Because of this, Li Dongshi was scolded by the army commander Major General Shang Xueyun, saying that he had lost the face of the old army. If the "tragedy is over, the airborne trade brigade finally captured the outer defense line of Xiliguli, the vanguard of the Hongjun arrived and snatched the main attack position and annihilated the remaining Indian army in Xiliguli. Although according to the arrangement of the front line command, the occupation of Xiliguli was borne by the airborne trade brigade, and the Hongjun was stationed in the suburbs, each airborne brigade officer and soldier was not feeling good. The officers and soldiers of the entire brigade were not afraid of sacrifice, and finally opened a breakthrough on the Indian defense line, but the concave army made the concave.
Who could think that the army had picked up the cheaper one? This time was no exception. Shang Xueyun scolded Li Dongshi on the phone, saying that the performance of the airborne nephew brigade made the entire army feel ashamed. Maybe Li Dongshi was not lucky, or the resentment of the airborne brigade was too great. Just after he gained a foothold in Xiliguli, the front-line command sent more than 44 officers and soldiers thousands of miles away with a transfer order. Li Dongshi was indeed unlucky. When the airborne brigade arrived at the Bernighal Pass, the army had completed the mobilization task, and more than 0 officers and soldiers became "battlefield migrant workers." Perhaps the airborne brigade set out to return to the battlefield on the Western Front, Shang Xueyun spoke to Li Dongshi and told Li Dongshi bluntly that if the airborne brigade missed the opportunity again and failed to prove the strength of the "First Airborne brigade of the Republic" with actions, Li Dongshi's brigade commander should not be the commander.
Although Shang Xueyun said it very seriously, Li Dongshi had no hope of feeling at all.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to be a brigade commander, but that he doesn’t want to send away more soldiers’ spiritual cabinets with his own hands.
As an airborne thug, Brigadier General Brigade Commander of the Shaoxing Brigade, Li Dongshi sent away too many comrades. He joined the army with him, entered the recruit camp, and reported to the army that one third of the comrades who had lived together for several years fell on the battlefield, one third lived in a disabled military sanatorium, and less than half of the remaining third were still wearing military uniforms. Among the soldiers led by Li Dongshi, more than half had sacrificed their lives for the country, and less than one ten were promoted. They were promoted to non-commissioned officers or officers, and continued to serve in the army.
Others don’t know that Li Dongshi has a “roster” in his hand, which records every kilogram of kilograms of fighting with him, and sent away by him, and knew and did not know the names of the officers and soldiers who died in the battle. It was not until decades later that this “roster” was collected by the Republic Military Museum. Those who suspected Li Dongshi and were biased against Li Dongshi knew that this civilian general of the Republic was a soldier worthy of respect for everyone.
In fact, Li Dongshi never believed that soldiers could make unnecessary sacrifices for the sake of their superiors.
Li Dongshi is not afraid of death. Anyone who knows Li Dongshi knows that this soldier who has participated in the two most tragic battles of the Republic Army in the century from the Ganghe to the Five Olds is by no means a timid coward. If you can get to know Li Dongshi more deeply, you can find that his thoughts are very different from those of the same age. Perhaps this is related to his education. In the era when Li Dongshi joined the army, college students who went to the grassroots troops were simply rare. As an officer who was knowledgeable, educated, and lived in the grassroots troops for several years, Li Dongshi not only knew the ideas of grassroots officers and soldiers, but also knew the grassroots troops.
The treatment of officers and soldiers in the army and their experiences on the battlefield. As the lowest-level soldiers, in the eyes of many officers of the same age as Li Dongshi, soldiers can be sacrificed and should be sacrificed. Li Dongshi never saw this because he had been a soldier and knew that the soldiers were willing to suffer. If an officer did not take the interests of soldiers seriously, why should soldiers fight for the officers? Only officers who cherish soldiers are excellent officers. The best way to cherish soldiers is to point the spearhead at their superiors, complain to their superiors when they have difficulties, and not to vent their skulls, nor to stand on the soldiers' bones and wear generals.
No matter what, none of the officers and soldiers who arrived in the airborne brigade disrespect and love Li Dongshi.
In Li Dongshi's opinion, the airborne thugs and trade travel have been doing very well for many days.
In the battle to attack Siliguri, only a few soldiers were injured and no one was killed. After entering Siliguri, the locals did not use practical actions to fight the occupying army as they imagined. At most, they just closed the door and blocked the occupying army outside the thin door panel. When they arrived at Berniehal, the battle was over. Although the physical work made more than 44 officers and soldiers complain, it was much better than working hard on the battlefield.
After returning to the western battlefield, Li Dongshi's heart became poisonous.
After a few days, Li Dongshi had been trying to get information related to the campaign. Because two comrades were acting as staff officers at the front line command center, Li Dongshi could bypass the brigade headquarters and obtain exact information from the front line command center. Although according to the confidentiality system of the Republic's army, Li Dongshi could not obtain a combat plan in advance, through the words of the two comrades, the commander-in-chief of Xundao Huangdao changed the combat mission of the airborne thugs and brigades several times.
Based on intuition, Li Dongshi knew that the good days of airborne the old 3rd Brigade were over.
The general offensive of the battle will begin. As the number one airborne brigade of the Republic, the airborne thugs. The trade brigade is the ace among the aces. The commander-in-chief of the front line has no reason to let many soldiers armed to the teeth. The soldiers who endured humiliation and suffered heavy burdens for a few days watched the fun. Li Dongshi even believed that the airborne Shao brigade was not in a hurry before, but the intentional arrangement of the commander-in-chief of the front line was to inspire the sense of honor of the officers and soldiers of the airborne brigade and let this combat unit with glorious traditions burst out with all combat potential on the battlefield.
What kind of battle does an airborne thug require? Another brigade has fully developed its combat potential?
Li Dongshi will not forget the Nonghei blocking battle, nor will he forget the Five Elders blocking battle.
Only a battle like the Five Elders’ Blocking Battle requires the airborne thugs and the trade and tourism industry to use their strength.
It can be said that this is the result that Li Dongshi is most reluctant to see, and it is also the result that he is unable to resist.
Military orders are like mountains, and as soldiers, they must obey orders unconditionally.
The thugs day and night, as the combat states were drawn to various combat troops, Li Dongshi's nightmare became a reality.
The airborne thug is responsible for attacking Lanqi, and must airborne the outer periphery of the Indian defensive positions.
Where is Ranchi?
Before entering the seal, Li Dongshishi had never heard of this place.
Now the airborne thugs, no one of the officers and soldiers of the Shao Brigade knew about this Indian city located on the Jordanagpur Plateau, because Ranchi was the headquarters of the Indian Army Eastern Army Group and the assembly site in the eastern assembly of Indian war mobilization. It is also the second most defensive strength in the eastern region of India to the military fortress with Kolkata and Batra.
Airborne thugs: The Shao Brigade not only has to face at least two main divisions of the Indian army, but also has to face fierce anti-aircraft artillery fire.
Li Dongshi did not complain, nor did he complain to his subordinates.
After asking the brigade staff to issue combat orders to the combat battalions according to the combat tasks, Li Dongshi called all the officers of major or above in the brigade to the brigade headquarters and held a pre-war meeting.
To be precise, it was pre-war mobilization.
Li Dongshifei didn't need too much lips and tongue. After learning that he would attack Lanqi, and that he would attack Lanqi alone, all the officers became excited.
Like the previous mobilization work before every battle, Li Dongshi did not convey any bad information to his subordinates that could affect morale. He just repeatedly emphasized that all participating troops must complete pre-war preparations according to orders to ensure that every soldier can participate in the battle in the best condition.
Morale is the soul of battle, and even more so for airborne soldiers.
It has to be said that the airborne thugs and traders have once again entered the same mistakes in history.
Although the appearance of the airborne troops has undergone great changes with the support of various advanced technologies, especially the type of airborne tank, which has given the airborne troops an armored force that is no less than that of the ground troops, gained strong tactical assault capabilities, and had tactical offensive strength. However, the combat operations of the airborne troops are still limited by combat missions. Before there is no alternative combat force, as long as you encounter a task of attacking strategic targets behind enemy lines that are far away from the front line, the front-line commander first thinks of airborne troops, and will definitely choose airborne tactics rather than aircraft subsidence tactics. In other words, as long as you need it, the airborne troops must still airborne behind enemy lines, seize the enemy's defensive positions, annihilate nearby enemies, and then wait for support troops under the siege of more enemies.
The airborne thug Shao Lu received such a task.
Li Dongshi did not feel imbalanced. After all, the airborne prison brigade is the most powerful of the only three remaining airborne brigades in the Republic Army. Besides, the airborne brigade also received airborne combat missions, and the difficulty was no less than that of the airborne defense brigade. Even the airborne Peng Brigade, which acts as a battle reserve, is likely to fight in airborne mode, and has to be broken into pieces to fill in the airborne thugs. The combat mission of the strong brigade is comparable to that of the other two airborne brigades.
The problem is here.
Even if the most optimistic estimate is that the airborne thug, the Shao brigade, can easily complete the task, the front-line commander will not let the most powerful airborne brigade perform the simplest tasks. In other words, Li Dongshi must consider the reserve team gathering in Ranchi, and what he needs to face in the end may be the Indian army that is coming like a tide.
The difficulty of dealing with tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of Indian troops is imagined.
Before the end of the pre-war mobilization, Li Dongshi issued the simplest order in the most direct way: carry as much ammunition as possible.
It has to be admitted that Li Dongshi is similar to Ling Yunbei in some aspects.
Since the total amount of supplies that can be carried is limited, you should bring more ammunition instead of more food. If a person does not eat, he will not starve to death for half a month and have no ammunition. He will be eliminated by the enemy in half an hour. More importantly, the airborne thugs, Shao's brigade, can only turn into defense after occupying the Indian army's positions. Since he wants to occupy the Indian army's positions, he will naturally be able to obtain food from the Indian army. Unless the Indian army has the foresight and poison all the military rations, Li Dongshi does not need to worry about the belly of the officers and soldiers.
Of course, Li Dongshi did not forget another very important thing.
After letting the officers return to their respective troops, Li Dongshi found the logistics battalion commander and asked the logistics troops to go to the nearby friendly forces and base command center to find as many military doctors as possible, and bring as much first aid supplies. In Li Dongshi's words, as long as the aircraft is two and can fly, the cabin must be filled with medicine.
Ranchi is not Siliguri, and the casualties in the battle will not be as low as possible.
It seemed that he was still not very relieved, and Li Dongshi personally went to the base command center and asked a group of experienced military doctors to be drawn from the battlefield hospital. He then found the Air Force coordinator responsible for air transport of materials, and asked the thugs who transported medical supplies to concave them in order to send more medical supplies to the front line.
Although both of Li Dongshi's requests were met, what he did not expect was that among the military doctors sent from the battlefield hospital, there was actually a woman named Ming.
Is war a stage for women?
Even if Li Dongshi is not a chauvinist, in his opinion, war is the stage for men and there is no place for women to settle down. Even if the proportion of women in the Republican army has exceeded that of the thugs, most women are in second-line positions. Women are absolutely not seen in front-line combat troops, especially in "high death rate" combat troops like airborne troops.
For this matter, Li Dongshi had a big fight with the base commander.
But the quarrel cannot solve the problem, because the male military doctors in the field hospital were sent to other troops. Just half an hour before Li Dongshi came to the door, the "special forces" sent by the old brigade "catched" many old male military doctors from the field hospital.
In the words of the base commander, if you want to blame Li Dongshi, you can only blame him for being late.
There was no way, Li Dongshi immediately asked for a "return."
Now, the two female military doctors who called Zhang Chunyan and Nie Ronghua no longer had sex. Although Li Dongshi proposed that this time they were performing airborne missions rather than aircraft landing missions, the two had no experience in serving in the airborne troops, and they would not be able to parachute and could not take them to the front line, the two female soldiers not only said that Li Dongshi discriminated against women and violated the combat rules of the Republic Army, but they were also members of the parachute club before joining the army, had parachute jumping experience, and were able to fight with the airborne troops.
Li Dongshi didn't know which combat code he violated, because he couldn't remember such combat code.
The key problem is that Li Dongshi doesn't want to take his women to the battlefield.
It’s not that he looks down on women, nor that he doubts the qualifications of the skydiving club members, but that women’s activities on the battlefield will definitely affect the morale of officers and soldiers. It’s not that they distract officers and soldiers. Because as long as they are men, they have self-display instincts and desires in front of women, but that when women suffer casualties, it is very likely that male soldiers will lose control. According to a Western military psychologist, when there is casualties between the same-sex comrades, there is no gender gap, so soldiers will not be greatly affected. However, when comrades in the opposite sex, especially female comrades in the opposite sex, the gender gap, especially men born with the instinct to protect women, will cause male soldiers to do behaviors beyond common sense and rationality, resulting in unpredictable consequences, and in most cases, the army will pay a higher price for casualties.
This kind of thing has happened before.
During the Peninsula War, the General Staff Special Forces Department believed that the rescue of female transport aircraft pilots who fell behind enemy lines of No. Ming's special forces were killed in battle and were disabled. At least Nuo's special forces and Ming's disabled special forces were because they took wrong actions in irrational circumstances.
Even if the special forces are like this, what would the airborne troops of several levels be like?
Li Dongshi didn't dare to think about it, and he was unwilling to let his subordinates lose their lives because of a mistake because of the female military doctor Ming.
The key problem is that soldiers are not goods, they cannot retreat just by wanting to.
Because the pre-war preparation time left for the airborne brigade was only a few kilograms of hours, and there were still many things that were not handled, so after tangling with the two "smoke heroes" for more than a few minutes, Li Dongshi had to "spend the weapons and surrender". After agreeing to take them to the battlefield, Li Dongshi made three decisions with the two "Mulans", that is, under any circumstances, the two must stay in the battlefield hospital in the rear and unconditionally obey the orders of the brigade guards.
After reaching the "gentleman agreement", Li Dongshi brought two female military doctors back to the brigade headquarters.
In the next few hours, Li Dongshi followed traditional customs and went to various combat troops stationed in the same airport. Because the brigade guard company was helping the logistics battalion to sort out combat supplies, and the brigade staff were arranging and deploying combat tasks, Li Dongshi had to bring two female military doctors by his side to prevent them from running around and causing trouble.
Li Dongshi did not realize that he had caused trouble when he did this.
Influenced by the opposite sex, the officers and soldiers of various combat troops stood up and straightened their chests when the brigade commander came to inspect. Fortunately, they did not take off their tops and showed off their well-proportioned and strong pectoralis major muscles.
By the time the troops lined up next to the runway and were waiting to board the plane to set off, news of two new female military doctors had spread.
Other combat troops deployed at nearby airports also heard the news. Several battalion commanders who had no girlfriend even called the brigade headquarters and complained to Li Dongshi, saying that they had a serious lack of experienced military doctors and hoped that the brigade commander would be able to give up their hands and not destroy their lifelong happiness.
Although Li Dongshi has a fiancée, he did not give his subordinates much chance to mess with him.
The troops went to the front line to fight, not to have a full physical examination.
When the troops set off, Li Dongshi arranged Zhang Chunyan and Nie Ronghua on the transport plane of the brigade headquarters, and asked two of their most trusted guards to accompany them to parachute.
Chapter completed!