Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1279 Military Rank
In the end, Derek could only leave angrily, because he felt that Wang Xuexin was right, the troops belonged to the Eighth Route Army, and what the Eighth Route Army wanted to do was their business, and as a "military adviser", they had no right to interfere.

So even though Derek's lungs were about to explode, he still had no choice but to leave.

Derek reported to his superiors like this: "This is a group of lunatics. They don't understand war at all. In their eyes, fighting is just sending troops up, and the rest is left to God!"

If other people heard this, I’m afraid they would laugh out loud. It is the 82nd Airborne Division, including Derek, who has never experienced war and understands war... The 82nd Airborne Division is adapted from the 82nd Infantry Division , although this infantry division was formed during World War I and participated in two battles.

However, Ying Jiang participated in the war at the end of the war, and the veterans who fought in the war have basically retired. What's more, the infantry combat during the World War I and the paratrooper combat in the World War II are completely different. Few of the 82nd Airborne Division have combat experience, and most of them are recruits who know nothing about it. They have only been trained for 10 months after being called up urgently and have not participated in an actual combat.

On the other hand, in the Eighth Route Army, every one of them grew up in the battlefield, crawled out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood, and just grabbed a guerrilla member who came out with several combat experience.

And these veteran soldiers like Yingjiang actually laughed at the Eighth Route Army for "doing not understand war"?
Eagle Sauce did not make too many comments after receiving Derek's telegram, because they also felt that they could not interfere too much with it.

At this time, the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division is Li Qiwei, who is familiar to Chinese people. At this time, he did not take the Chinese army too seriously, perhaps because at this time he was actively planning the airborne landing on Sicily next month. fight.

After hearing Derek talk about this, he simply replied: "Let them go, the war will give them a slap in the face to wake them up!"

Derek thought the same way, so he made up his mind to train only the Eighth Route Army paratroopers to parachute as Wang Xuexin said.

He said to the instructors he led: "Don't teach anything other than skydiving, let's treat ourselves as skydiving instructors, understand?"

"Yes!"

"no problem!"

"That's what I wanted to do!"

……

The instructors responded sparsely.

In the eyes of Derek and the instructors, the Eighth Route Army is too arrogant.

Although Yingjiang, like the Eighth Route Army, has never fought in airborne combat, at least Yingjiang's airborne troops have formed an army and have formed combat effectiveness, and they still have 10 months of training experience. They are so poor that even transport planes have just been equipped. Think you can surpass the Eagle Sauce Airborne Forces?

They didn't even know that Wang Xuexin's target was not and could not be the Yingjiang airborne troops.

Because Wang Xuexin is very clear about the virtues of Yingjiang soldiers... They are used to enjoying a peaceful and comfortable life, and it is difficult for them to withstand the hardships of the battlefield.

The reason why the parachute operation in Sicily failed completely, although there are problems in the commander's decision-making, is related to the fighting will of the eagle sauce soldiers:

Although the first batch of nearly 2000 members of an airborne regiment were scattered in various places, if they were actively looking for fighters, they would not have played no role.

The extent of the collapse of Yingjiang Dabing is unimaginable to outsiders:
The head of the regiment, Gavin, broke his leg when he was airborne. He limped around looking for the gathered troops, but he only found a dozen or so people after searching all night.

At first, Gavin thought it was because of the strong wind that the troops were scattered too much, but it was not until dawn that this was not the case.

Because he found a group of more than 200 eagle sauce soldiers hiding in the vegetable field and sleeping soundly. Not only did they sleep, but they didn't even set up sentries, so that these soldiers needed Gavin to order them to get up...

Afterwards, Gavin said in an interview: "Our soldiers are very brave. They created miracles. Because they slept on the battlefield without sentries, this courage is unmatched. It is a miracle that they can come back alive. Miracle……"

No sentries, sleep, passive combat.

It is absolutely unacceptable to take out one of these mistakes.

If the Yingjiang paratroopers were the target...it would be too easy. The Eighth Route Army paratroopers only need to learn how to parachute to surpass it.

A few days later, the soldiers of the airborne troops arrived one after another, and Wang Xuexin organized them into the first airborne regiment.

The first thing Wang Xuexin did was to use the military rank system in the airborne regiment.

In fact, the Eighth Route Army also has military ranks.

The military rank system of the Eighth Route Army was put forward and implemented in April 1939. It is basically divided into 4 grades and 6 grades like the stubborn army, that is, general, colonel, lieutenant, warrant officer, soldier, and soldier, and the sixth grade is further divided into 16 grades.

But at this time, the Eighth Route Army paid attention to the equality of officers and soldiers. Although there were military ranks, most of the troops were not evaluated. Only regular and organized troops and commanders or special staff who needed to deal with stubborn troops often had military ranks.

Therefore, some strange things happened in the Eighth Route Army: some commanders were awarded military ranks but they didn't use them because they were not announced, and they didn't even inform themselves because they didn't know.

For example, when a certain commander was promoted to the head of the regiment, he only saw the words "colonel head" in the official document, and only then did he know that he was actually a "colonel"!
Because of this, Wang Xuexin's plan to introduce a military rank system in the airborne troops attracted many objections, including Wang Shuheng, the head of the First Airborne Regiment.

Wang Shuheng used to be a battalion commander of the main division of the Eighth Route Army. The reason why he actively sought to join the airborne troops was simply that he was jealous of the continuous-firing rifle.

This is what Wang Shuheng said to others: "All the burst rifles are equipped with the mechanized troops, and our main force is probably hopeless!"

Others disagreed with this, and they said to Wang Shuheng: "Battle Commander, after the mechanized troops are equipped, why not equip our main force? When will our main force be later than others?"

Wang Shuheng replied: "What do you know? Our main force is good at marching on two legs, and we are most familiar with bolt-action rifles. Now we are equipped with Yingjiang's Springfield rifles. Can we easily replace them with repeating rifles? "

Wang Shuheng has a unique vision.

This is indeed the case in terms of the combat effectiveness of the entire army.

Because the main force already has considerable combat effectiveness with Springfield rifles and can compete with devils, so is it necessary to replace their equipment with unfamiliar repeating rifles to retrain and adapt?
At this time, it should be issued to those troops with relatively backward equipment who have not adapted to bolt-action rifles, right?

Turning them into mechanized troops will obviously improve their combat effectiveness much more than the main force.

Wang Shuheng saw this, and knew that if he continued to stay in the main force, he might never even think about owning a repeating rifle in his life.

So after hearing about the equipment of the airborne force, I resolutely signed up for the airborne force.

(End of this chapter)