Chapter 61 The Role of Infantry

Chapter 61 The Role of Infantry

“Under the pine trees at eight o’clock!”

“After the mound at six o’clock!”

"In the grass at one o'clock!"

As I accurately reported the soldiers' positions one after another, the members of the shooting team wearing thatched camouflage stood up helplessly from the hidden place. When the fourth shooting member Alziri stood up from the small ditch, the dismay of the shooting team members came from the intercom:

"Let the battalion commander find everything again!"

"That's not nonsense. Who is our battalion commander?"

"I want me to tell you... what else can we practice here? Wouldn't it be enough to let the battalion commander go to the Vietnamese army sniper?"

"Is there anyone who says that? As soon as you meet a sniper, let the battalion commander come on?"

...

The soldiers stood up from the hidden place as they spoke.

This is a practical exercise of the shooting team. The role I play is the Vietnamese sniper lurking in the dark. The soldiers’ mission is to use the two tactics of luring the enemy to successfully approach me and "kill me".

Of course, because we did not issue exercise bullets, we had to accurately find the opponent's position. After all, in sniper battles, it seems that half of the success to be able to discover the opponent's position first.

This is the third time the soldiers have tried to get close to me, but I still found it one by one. But it is not surprising, who am I? An svd sniper rifle is in hand. If they get close to me within a range of 400 meters so easily, can I still survive until now?

But when I was about to stand up from the hidden place, I suddenly realized something was wrong. The deflated words the soldiers said seemed a bit too much. When I found them in the first two times, although they complained a few times, those complaints were actually expressing their admiration for me with another side. For example, "This can be found!", "Where is the battalion commander hiding? Why can't he escape his eyes anywhere..."

And they complain, but they seem to like this "silent" confrontation. As some warriors said, it's like hide-and-seek playing in a young age... But by the way, sniper battle in the jungle is really like hide-and-seek. The difference is that hide-and-seek playing games, while we play life!

But this time... they even said "If you meet a Vietnamese sniper in the future, let the battalion commander come on." The so-called "no matter whether you are willing to be a traitor or a thief", so I think there must be a fraud in this.

"Battery Commander, come out!" Alziri shouted in my direction: "We lost, come out and drink water..."

These guys are playing this game with me!

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help laughing secretly. It turned out that I wasn't sure if they were cheating. At this time, I heard Al Ziri shouting. Looking at the members who stood out from the hidden place, there were only twelve members, and one of them did not come out. Who was it? I quickly thought of Li Shuibo...

So I looked around again, but I still had no gains. Then I thought that Li Shuibo was holding an SVD sniper rifle, and he didn't have to get close to me to fire, so he extended the search radius outward. But the search radius extends outward, so the area to search is much larger, and the SVD range is one thousand meters, so I have to find a person in such a large range in the jungle and there is no direction, which is not much different from looking for a needle in a haystack.

But I soon discovered that the soldiers who came out were looking at a big tree unconsciously... So I had an idea and shouted to the intercom: "At ten o'clock, on the big tree, Li Shuibo!"

"Hey! It's so amazing!"

...

The soldiers made an incredible sound, and Li Shuibo, who was covered in branches, climbed down from under the tree helplessly.

"Who is under the pine tree?" But after a while we got together to summarize our experience.

"Report to the battalion commander, it's me!" A soldier named Lin Qi raised his hand.

Lin Qi is a soldier from the Fourth Company, a native of Northeast China. He is big and thick and speaks with a strong Northeast accent.

"Your movement is too big!" I said to him: "You lean on the tree... The pine cones on the tree are falling down... I don't think it's hard for you if you don't find it!"

"Report to the battalion commander!" Al Ziri patted Lin Qi's broad shoulder and joked: "It's not that Lin Qi's movements are too big, but that tree is too small!"

With a coaxing sound, the soldier laughed out loud, and only Lin Qi scratched his head awkwardly.

"Who is hiding behind the mound?" I continued.

"Report to the battalion commander, it's me!" The person who raised his hand was Nong Changkai from the Sixth Company, a member of the Guangxi Zhuang people. It is said that he was a soldier who was only a soldier when the troops entered Guangxi. He only touched the gun for less than a few days, so he naturally selected the shooting team.

"Your ass is so high!" I said to the young man with a smile: "I saw two pieces of meat shaking behind the mound... If I shoot it..."

With a coaxing sound, all the soldiers laughed. Only Nong Changkai blushed and didn't say anything.

Actually, I still have a good impression of this young man Nong Changkai, and not everyone has the talent for shooting skills. I have seen him shoot. He doesn’t pay as much attention to the sight of the squad and the ruler as ordinary people. What he pays more attention to is a feeling. Sometimes even the ruler is not even adjusted to hit the target. But his shortcomings are that he doesn’t even have the most basic military foundation after joining the army. Just like this time, he actually just lost because he doesn’t crawl forward…

But I believe that as long as I explain this to my hometown, he will help me solve it quickly.

"Where is hidden in the grass?" I asked again.

"I am the battalion commander!" Zhao Chi, a soldier from the fifth company, raised his hand.

"It is very dangerous to hide in the grass!" I said: "One of the time, there is no cover for hiding in the grass, and secondly, the target will be exposed with a slight movement, so it is not suitable for hidden protection. It is only suitable for lurking and killing enemies. Moreover, lurking must have super courage and patience. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" The soldiers nodded and responded.

The soldiers waited for a long time, and saw that I had no words, and asked strangely: "No, Battalion Commander, you said everything we were wrong, why didn't you say about Team Leader Li Shuibo?"

"That's it!" Al Ziri also asked curiously: "I thought it was strange. Team Leader Li hid very well. Even if I walked under the tree, I couldn't see where he was hiding... Battalion Commander, you are so far away, how could you find him?"

Because Li Shuibo was the first to get the SVD sniper rifle and his comprehensive qualities in all aspects were better than other soldiers, he became the leader of the shooting team without any controversy. At this time, he also forgot about me with a puzzled look, and seemed to be unable to understand what was wrong with his disguise.

I grabbed the kettle and Gulugugulu for a while, wiped my mouth and said easily: "There is no problem with Team Leader Li's disguise!"

"Then how did you find Team Leader Li?" Hearing my words, the soldiers became even more curious.

"I didn't find Team Leader Li!" I replied.

"Didn't you find it?" The soldiers looked at you and looked at you, but they were all confused.

"Did you find it?" I replied, "A few of you stared at the tree where Team Leader Li was hiding, and then I casually said to the intercom, but I didn't expect to trick Team Leader Li down!"

"Oh..." After hearing this, the soldiers understood: "Battery Commander, you are cheating..."

"This can't count!"

"Yes! This can't count!"

...

"Why can't you forget it?" I replied without hesitation: "You are allowed to cheat me, so I am not allowed to cheat? Who... Alziri, you are still calling me out, right? When I come out, Li Shuibo will solve me with one shot, right! You are so beautiful that you are cheating with me, you are still far from being apart!"

The soldiers were scolded by me, and they all laughed embarrassedly like children stealing candy being caught by adults.

After enough rest, I got up and shouted: "Continue training and kill the Yue Japanese!"

"Continue to train and kill the Yue Japanese!" The soldiers responded, and climbed up from the ground vigorously and started training again.

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After the day's training, several company commanders divided into groups in the army according to my wishes and summarized their experiences. Because I have been training the shooting team during the day and don't know much about the company's training, I took the time to walk after dinner and went around the company.

"battalion commander!"

"battalion commander!"

...

When the soldiers saw me coming, they all stood up and saluted me. Several soldiers enthusiastically gave me a seat.

After nodding to the people in my hometown, I found a random seat and sat down to signal the soldiers to continue.

"Comrades!" The hometown people have been instructors for several years and have organized such experience summary meetings when they were in the recruits. So naturally they are familiar with it. He stood up and said to the soldiers: "After a day of training and with the help of comrades in the fifth company, we have initially mastered this offensive tactic of mutual cover and forward progress. Comrades can compare our previous offensive tactics, talk about the advantages and disadvantages between the two tactics, or talk about their own training experiences, and if you don't understand anything, you can also propose it and communicate with the soldiers and make progress together. Although the comrades have let go, they can also say if they have any opinions on our leading cadres, and we will definitely improve if they are right!"

For the first time, I found that people from my hometown who have always been tough would also accept advice so widely. But I also know that there are too many clichés in this era. They all sound fair, fair and just on the surface, but if anyone really wants to say something bad about the organization... then you wait, you will suffer behind it.

Of course, I believe that people in my hometown are not like this. He always speaks straightforwardly. If someone strokes his beard, he will not be behind his back and will be unable to get along with him on the spot.

"Let me talk first!" A soldier stood up and said, "After a day of training, I was tired, but I felt that it was worth it. Because compared with today's training, I felt that I would not fight before. I was not afraid of death before, but I didn't know what I was doing on the battlefield. I only knew to follow the troops and follow the people in front of me, and raise my gun to fight when I saw the enemy. The battle was very messy, and it was not organized at all. Even the things that my own people accidentally hurt my own people happen from time to time! Now, when I practice like this, it feels like a sky and an underground!"

"That's right!" Another soldier stood up and said, "My biggest experience is that he felt that fighting in the past was too easy and there was no need to think about anything. The company commander and the platoon leader asked us to rush wherever we asked us to fight, and we would fight wherever we asked us to fight. We just need to follow the company commander with guns and the platoon leader rushed forward. But now I know that fighting is not that simple! We have to cover other people, and others have to cover us, so it's like fighting a war!"

"In the past, we were all together, what's the use of too many people? The people in front blocked the guns of the people behind, and the Yueji Machine Gun swept it like this... The people behind us were knocked down by bullets before they could see the shadow of the enemy! There were even many comrades who were charging, but were not under the guns of the Yueji, but under the bullets of their own comrades behind. There will be no problem now. Once the team disperses, the firepower will not be much weaker than before, but it can greatly reduce casualties..."

"And there is still..." Another soldier stood up and said, "Now this tactic, all kinds of weapons are allocated reasonably in distance, short-range rifles, submachine guns in front, medium-range heavy machine guns in back, and long-range mortars in the end... This combination can fully utilize the firepower of our army's equipment and give the Vietnamese army as much as possible!"

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As the saying goes, three cobblers are worth one Zhuge Liang. The problems that the soldiers think of are really strange, and some people who even promote tactics do not know. I just saw that the Americans and the puppet troops fought like this on the battlefield of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, when I was fighting against United***, I didn’t think much about using them now... Now, after listening to the soldiers say this, I know that there is so much science in this tactic...

The people from my hometown looked at me and were satisfied with this experience summary meeting. The soldiers realized the benefits of this tactic, which at least showed that it was not that the soldiers had fully recognized this tactic. This was undoubtedly the basis for the soldiers to practice this tactic well.

"Comrades!" At this time, the hometown people spoke again, but I didn't expect that this time he pointed the finger at me: "We have been talking for so long and have expressed a lot of good opinions. Now let Captain Cui express his opinions, okay?"

"Okay!" The soldiers applauded.

I smiled bitterly at the people in my hometown, stood up helplessly, and said to the soldiers: "Comrades! You all said it well, and you have a deep understanding of this tactic. But I still want to say one thing that our current war is different from the previous wars, so my tactics must also be changed. The most important thing about this tactic... is actually not what you seem on the surface, but cooperation!"

"Cooperate?" The soldiers sitting beside them couldn't help but whisper.

"Yes! It's cooperation!" I nodded and continued, "The soldiers also saw the cooperation between classes, the cooperation between platoons, and the cooperation between companies... these are important foundations for our successful victory over the enemy. Not only that, but also the cooperation between infantry and artillery!"

"The cooperation between infantry and artillery..."

"That's right!" I continued: "As modern infantry, we must think that there are artillery, tanks, etc. behind us. It is not that we are fighting alone with one army, but that the various army are fighting in concert. Therefore, our infantry has changed from the role of the main offensive force in the past, especially as commanders, we must be clear about this. If you can use guns, use guns first. If you are suitable for tank combat, use tanks. Don't charge rashly, this will greatly reduce casualties!"

"This... isn't this greed for life and fear of death?" Some soldiers asked in a low voice below.

"Of course this is not greed for life and fear of death!" The hometown man replied: "Just like we attack a high ground, if we can solve the battle with a thousand shells, why do we have to sacrifice the lives of a company soldier to rush forward? Is life important or shells important?"

"That's right!" I nodded and said, "If this was the case in the past, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation and the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, our ammunition supply was extremely short of, so we had to use the lives and bravery of the soldiers to fill the shortcomings of ammunition. But now, our logistics supply has a considerable strength, and ammunition can be continuously transported from the country to the border line, so we don't need to exchange our lives for ammunition, but should exchange our ammunition for life! Comrades, are you right?"

The soldiers couldn't help but nodded and exchanged ammunition for their lives. Who wouldn't be happy? So although this concept conflicted with the education they had always received about the "spiritual atomic bomb", they were still willing to accept my view.

"So..." I paused and continued: "Our infantry role on the battlefield should be transformed in the following directions: 1. Scouts; that is, they will discover the enemy's firepower points and important military facilities, and they will report coordinates to facilitate artillery bombing. 2. Communication soldiers; they should report the discovery to their superiors in a timely manner, and they should use communication tools proficiently in order to catch the fighter planes. 3. Commanders; they should be able to command artillery to destroy important enemy facilities and obstacles in front of us. Finally, the infantry is the one, so we must rely on our own courage and the cooperation between the infantry, and work together to eliminate the remaining enemies with the fastest speed! I am finished!"

"Okay!" As soon as I finished speaking, the warm applause of the soldiers quickly rang out.
Chapter completed!