Daming kill

Chapter 102 Chapter [-]
Pull training is an effective means to improve the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the troops, and it is also an effective way to test the field survivability and combat readiness of the troops.

Li Ping has long discovered that the ten-day conscription in the mountains when he went all the way south from Zhuxian Town and when he first arrived in Xiangyang was particularly effective in cohesive and tempering the troops.

Basically, along the way, the troops will take shape, and the officers will become weapons.

However, when the valley was attacked, the chaos shown by the troops had something to do with the closed training in place before.The troops mature slowly, and the commanders at all levels have poor ability to control the situation.

Now that the preliminary training is coming to an end, he has no one to disturb him, and he is still stationed in a remote place, so it is natural to organize a large-scale training to take a good look at the troops.More importantly, he had to rehearse and prepare for the big retreat in advance.

For this training, Li Ping plans to march outside for seven days.It is planned to organize troops to cross a number of rivers of different widths, cross mountains and hills, and pass through multiple forest areas to simulate various terrains that may be encountered in future grand marches.

The entire route starts from the mountain villa and walks roughly westward in a relatively flat oval circle, and finally returns to the mountain villa. This design is to ensure that the troops can return to the mountain villa within a day in case of emergency.

Although it was a large-scale training, not all troops participated. There were always people who had to stay to defend the old nest. The second company and the sixth company were selected to stay.

The second company was left because of the organization of bird gun training.Because of the delay in making the self-made blunderbuss, Li Ping realized that the blunderbuss company must be familiar with those government-made blunderbusses of unstable quality.Once there is no fixed place to live in the future, it may be unrealistic to rely entirely on self-made bird guns.

Therefore, although there are still a batch of bird guns in the rewards received from Xiangyang this time, they have not been returned to the furnace, but have been selected for Erlian to familiarize themselves with and practice.

The Sixth Company was left behind because the company commander, Tian Shuisheng, injured his ankle, and Li Ping had long stated that two or more companies must stay at home. So logical.

The combination of such an old company and a new company happened to be the safest.

In the first two days of the training, the troops basically carried out regular marches, so that most of the recruits could get familiar with and adapt to the marching methods of this army. Therefore, the daily journey was not long, leaving sufficient time for camping and adjustment.

Since many officers and soldiers in the army had followed Li Ping's army, and some had participated in it twice or even three times, most of them have now become the backbone, so the march in the first two days was relatively smooth and orderly.

A new system of command communications consisting of bugles, whistles, company flags, and orderlies also worked as expected and proved fully capable.

The only thing that caused Li Ping trouble was a car problem that he didn't expect at all.

In this era, Li Ping's only three marches were marches with few vehicles to follow, and there were few people and supplies, and the supplies that needed to be carried were carried directly by mules and horses, so he had no respect for the army. March builds enough of the concept.

But this training session was different.

In order to simulate future evacuation needs, in addition to the transportation company, many people from the support battalion also participated in this training.

There are more than 70 mule carts, donkey carts, and even horse-drawn carts, which basically gather all the animal power in Li Ping camp, and there are also many rickshaws.All these vehicles are equipped with a large amount of armor, weapons, production tools, tents and a large pile of materials.

Of course, these vehicles are not all in charge of the transport company and the support battalion. Each company is equipped with three light mule carts or donkey carts, which are mainly used to load the soldiers' armor and the company's public supplies.

Because it is impossible to march in armor for a long time, and Li Ping's troops are not equipped with auxiliary soldiers and handymen to carry the armor and sundries of the soldiers.

Since there are basically no serious official roads, and most of the time they pass on narrow and winding wild roads or even newly opened roadless areas, so many vehicles inevitably have a lot of insurmountable problems.

This is completely different from the fact that light infantry walking on foot does not have too many requirements for roads.

A place where people can walk is not necessarily a place where cars can walk.

On the second day of the training, a sudden moderate rain caused most of the vehicles to travel into a disaster, and the performance of the new four-wheeled vehicles that had been given high hopes before the training was even more difficult to describe.

I thought that the new four-wheel vehicles could greatly improve the carrying efficiency, but I didn't expect that most of them were not acclimatized during this march, especially those that were heavier and larger.

These new vehicles were basically tested for short distances on spacious roads at the beginning, and did not undergo long-term complex road conditions tests, thus ignoring the problems of roads and animal power itself.

In this training, mules and donkeys were mainly used to transport animal power. The precious horses were mainly used for riding, and only a very small number of poor horses were used for the comparison of pulling carts.

Since the strength of mules and donkeys is much lower than that of horses, the proportion of heavy vehicles is not high, but even so, the performance of four-wheeled vehicles is still not as good as that of two-wheeled vehicles, or it is not as good as the traditional Chinese single horse (mule) donkey cart.

The soft and difficult to see flat land in southern China and the characteristics of many forests and waters make the passability of four-wheel vehicles much lower than that of more flexible two-wheel vehicles, and the light four-wheel vehicles are no more than two-wheel vehicles in terms of load capacity. How strong the wheeled cart is, the significance of its existence is very debatable.

As for medium-sized or heavy-duty four-wheeled vehicles dragged by naive horses, not to mention, leaving the official road is basically a disaster.Even on the official road, it was full of tears.

Not to mention anything else, even if the rutting problem is specifically considered, the wheelbase of all vehicles is kept as consistent as possible with the wheelbase of traditional Chinese vehicles.However, the ruts left on official roads are often very deep. As a result, medium and heavy-duty four-wheel vehicles sink deeper and harder due to their heavy loads, making it almost impossible to move fast.

What's more deadly is that since the steering ruts of four-wheel vehicles are different from those of two-wheel vehicles, it is naturally difficult for four-wheel vehicles to turn on the original ruts of the road.

Then, the severely understrength mules and donkeys made it all very difficult.

After making a lot of efforts, because it was really impossible to keep up with the normal marching team, the few medium and heavy four-wheeled vehicles had to be abandoned, and the light four-wheeled vehicles were barely retained and continued to observe.

The carrying capacity of the army has almost returned to "before liberation".

Don't take anything for granted. Theory and practice are always different and unpredictable.

This also made Li Ping deeply aware of the importance of spacious official roads and waterways to the march of ancient armies, and the merchants and troops of the brigade would not be able to live without them.

For such a situation, Li Ping was more fortunate, he didn't think there was anything wrong.

Whether it's drills or training, it's all about finding problems, so he decided to set up more special situations to fully train the troops and find hidden dangers.

Surprised by enemy cavalry, ambushed, harassed by the enemy, blocked roads, lack of water, fixed-point plugging, reinforcements to the front team, outbreak of epidemic injuries, rapid retreat, rapid march, etc. A lot of courses are designed The more complex and more comprehensive, the purpose is to find more deficiencies that need attention.

As a result, the training time of the plan was greatly increased, and the complexity of the organization and command of the staff office was greatly increased, and the staff office led by Ma Yong was quickly overwhelmed.

Ma Yong's head was already hurting a lot.

Since the start of the training, his entire staff office has been in chaos.

From the selection of the marching route, the exploration of the front road, the control of the marching of the troops, meals, camping, searching for water sources, etc., all these things need to be commanded and deployed by the staff office. Who made the staff office the commander-in-chief and command center!

In the past, Ma Yong didn't seem to be very strenuous and easy when he saw that Li Ping was in charge of these things.

However, now that Li Ping has completely let go and let him take responsibility independently, he feels unprecedented physical and mental exhaustion and high tension.This is far more complicated than imagined. If you don't experience it yourself, you can't even complain about it.

Command and control is definitely not a show of authority, it is a profound knowledge.

But after Li Ping started to increase the number of plays, the workload and challenges increased exponentially. Ma Yong was no longer a headache, and he was completely exhausted.

After all, Ma Yong can only be regarded as just getting started on the road of command, and his weak organization further exacerbated his distress and despair.

My family knows my own affairs, and Ma Yong's command organization is undoubtedly extremely weak at present.

The work attributes of the staff office have extremely high requirements on the staff.

Reading, writing, drawing, memorizing, biography, and calculation are the most basic skills. Command and coordination skills, organization and overall planning skills, judgment and control skills, emergency handling skills, etc. must also be possessed, otherwise they will not be able to do it at all.

However, Li Ping's army has been established for a short period of time, and most decent people are basically company commanders and platoon leaders, and there is no turn for the organization. After all, the grassroots is the core now.

Without the grassroots, no matter how strong the organization is, it is just a decoration.

This is also the main reason why most of Ma Yong's staff officers still hold the rank of squad leader. They are far from capable, so they can only make up their numbers and put on airs.

Such an organization can deal with ordinary trivial matters, but once it encounters a slightly more complicated situation, it will be completely messed up.

Ever since he became the chief of staff, Ma Yong has been in a state of anxiety, because he never thought that there are so many ways in the organization of an army, and there are so many details in the construction of an army.

Whether he was in the bandit army or another army, Ma Yong felt that being an official is a happy life. He only needs to drink and have fun every day, and control several cronies. There is no need for such sophisticated organization and training. .

But the longer he stayed with Li Ping, the more Ma Yong felt the insignificance and ignorance he used to have, the more he felt that his knowledge was poor and powerless.

Of course he now agrees with Li Ping's military strategy very much. This is definitely a brand new world, a world he likes to be in.

But the more you like it, the more fearful you will be, and the more you will worry that you won't be able to do well.

Especially after Li Ping told him to prepare for the big retreat, Ma Yong became more anxious and uneasy.

Ma-young certainly knows what that means.

Their time is running out, and whether they can complete the training of the troops faster and more efficiently is related to their future life and death.

Responsibilities and pressures are like a mountain on Ma Yong's shoulders. He really doesn't want this army to collapse like the ones he was in before, and he doesn't want to change his home again.

Regarding Zuo Liangyu's possible escape and the current situation, Li Ping did not hide the truth from Ma Yong, Duan Qiang and Hu Zhongshan. The three of them should and must know.

This is not just a matter of trust. The three departments must make a lot of targeted preparations, and the chief officer does not know the purpose, so it is impossible to complete and carry out the preparations to the end.

Therefore, for this training, Ma Yong understands the significance of it. He must go all out, not only to carry out what Li Ping arranged, but also to achieve the expected effect.

This is also a test for himself.

He didn't want to lose face, he didn't want others to look down on him, and he didn't want to betray Li Ping's trust.

Of course, Li Ping also obviously noticed the outstanding problems in the staff office, and he certainly knew the crux of the problem.

As a result, Li Ping resolutely sank into the specific affairs of the staff office, and almost became Ma Yong's chief staff officer, teaching every staff officer hand in hand, conducting a lot of on-site teaching.

However, Li Ping did not take over the command of Ma Yong, Ma Yong needs real growth.

Although this made Ma Yong feel even more ashamed and embarrassed, it was also the most effective form of pressure and urging.

(End of this chapter)