Chapter 64: Internal Reorganization Of Steel Seventh Company
The mid-year grand competition is a characteristic of the Chinese Army, and it is also a review of how much harvest each branch of service has achieved after a year of arduous training.
Field armies do not have the border defense tasks of border defense forces, so the mid-year grand competition has almost become the only grand stage.
Every troops wants to showcase the style of their own troops on this grand stage, showcase their own abilities, and make their military careers more wonderful.
All warriors except the backward soldiers want to shine brightly on this grand stage.
T Division belongs to a heavy mechanized infantry division, with very complex branches of service under it, and the professional specialties that each branch of service excels in are all different.
For example, artillery troops excel in ground artillery technology, while the helicopter squadron definitely knows nothing about it; scouts are good at capturing enemies, but tank soldiers definitely cannot.
Each branch of service has different professional specialties, and professional skills cannot be compared together.
Therefore, T Division’s mid-year grand competition does not compare specialties; it is equivalent to a “civilian version,” only comparing the three common subjects: shooting, military gymnastics, and comprehensive.
Do not think that not comparing specialties means it will be very simple; in fact, the difficulty will be greater instead.
Common subjects are the subjects that all troops have to train on, with no help from external equipment and gear, mainly relying on the qualities of the individual soldier’s own body.
Purely comparing the individual soldier’s personal ability also means higher requirements for the warriors’ qualities.
The purer the thing, the harder it is to reach the extreme.
Without fixed training tasks to complete, troops with sufficiently relaxed conditions will even specially select a batch of professional elite soldiers to form a martial arts competition team for off-duty training camp in order to achieve good results in the grand competition.
This situation is very common in the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, and most companies will do this.
After all, garrison capital region troops need to protect the capital and cannot easily leave the garrison area without special circumstances, and even exercises are rarely conducted.
This destines life to be relatively boring and monotonous, with fewer opportunities to obtain honors.
The mid-year grand competition, as the only annual project, and can be said to be the only place to obtain honors, is naturally given extra importance by each company.
Selecting the company’s most excellent top students to form a martial arts special training team is a matter of course.
Steel Seventh Company, because of Gao Cheng, has a relatively strong outward attitude, and the company never lacks elite soldiers; every warrior can hold their own, and their strength is indeed relatively strong.
Plus Gao Cheng himself is quite proud and disdains specially forming a martial arts special training team.
Therefore, in all previous grand competitions, Steel Seventh Company has never formed a martial arts special training team.
It has always been just before the mid-year grand competition that Gao Cheng organizes the entire company for assessment on the grand competition projects, pulls out the first place in each project to form the martial arts competition team, loads them into one vehicle and takes them to the competition field, and that’s it.
The entire process is very simple and straightforward, with no special preparation at all in the early stage.
It is precisely Gao Cheng’s overconfidence that led to the flip in last year’s mid-year grand competition, and ultimately the grand competition laurel was taken by Red Third Company.
Chen Jun has great ambitions for the mid-year grand competition and definitely cannot leave any hidden dangers.
Other companies forming martial arts special training teams can significantly improve competition results, but Seventh Company has absolutely no need to act tough.
Seventh Company is already very strong; forming another martial arts special training team on top of that.
Select specialized talents from each project, form a martial arts special training team for special training, let them continue to delve into the projects they excel in, continue to improve results, and after a few months, the results will definitely go up another level.
As for the company’s own training tasks, there is plenty of time in the second half of the year.
It will not affect the company’s normal training!
In order to persuade Gao Cheng to change his mind and form the first martial arts special training team in Steel Seventh Company, Chen Jun specially spent a few days doing detailed research.
Ultimately, he wrote a complete plan, just waiting for the division headquarters to issue this year’s competition projects, then go find Gao Cheng to convince him to cooperate.
Before waiting for the division headquarters to issue the competition order, everything in Steel Seventh Company began to proceed normally.
Gao Cheng specially called a group of cadres and backbones to the small conference room for a meeting to discuss how to use the newly arrived equipment.
Previously, Steel Seventh Company only had Type 63 armored personnel carriers, with all nine squads equipped with the same vehicles, so the entire company naturally trained the same way.
Whether vehicle-mounted shooting, anti-infrared operations, camouflage reconnaissance, concealed capturing enemies, etc.
The entire company trained uniformly.
But now the equipment has changed, and everything must change.
For a mechanized armored reconnaissance company centered on mechanization, the core equipment is the armored personnel carrier, and most training revolves around the armored vehicle.
Now that Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment has overall re-equipped, Steel Seventh Company has added new infantry fighting vehicles to its single type of armored personnel carrier.
From one type of armored vehicle to two types of armored vehicles.
Infantry fighting vehicles and armored vehicles are different combat vehicles; the firepower is several times stronger than the latter and more capable of medium-range firepower strikes.
To maximize the power of the infantry fighting vehicle, Seventh Company’s combat methods must be greatly changed, and the company’s overall structure also needs adjustment.
Taking the Type 86 infantry fighting vehicle’s personnel configuration, Seventh Company’s current squad configuration needs to be changed.
Steel Seventh Company’s current nine combat squads are still configured for the previous Type 63 armored personnel carrier, with differentiated combat unit compositions for each squad.
Each squad is assigned one armored personnel carrier, configured with one driver, one vehicle-mounted machine gunner, two general machine gunners, one two-person professional team, and the rest with assault rifles.
The two-person professional team is quite special; they use top-tier individual soldier weapons, and there are three types of professional teams.
They are the sniper team equipped with Type 85 sniper rifle, the individual anti-tank team equipped with 40 fire, and the individual anti-aircraft missile team equipped with Vanguard
Because Seventh Company previously used unified combat vehicles and was organized as a conventional reconnaissance troops establishment, the three platoons have the same configuration.
Squads one, four, and seven are sniper teams; squads two, five, and eight are individual anti-tank teams; squads three, six, and nine are individual anti-aircraft missile teams.
This way, each of the three platoons has one, and each platoon’s combat structure is the same.
The advantages and disadvantages are very obvious.
The advantage is that each platoon can do everything; the disadvantage is that each platoon can only do a little bit.
This mode is very traditional; with the development of modern technology, requiring excellence in technology, the troops’ capabilities must also be more refined.
Chen Jun wants to change to a combined arms company, so this “jack-of-all-trades” mode must be disrupted.
Integrate the three anti-air mains into an anti-aircraft platoon; the combat effectiveness they can exert on the battlefield will absolutely far exceed that of the three anti-air teams.
In the original drama’s mountainous terrain live-force exercise.
The Blue Army dispatched a helicopter formation, which skimmed low to avoid radar and surprise attacked the Red Army command post, successfully taking out the Red Army command post.
During this time, Seventh Company stationed on the position discovered the helicopter formation in advance but unfortunately failed to effectively intercept it.
The biggest drawback at the time was that the three platoons were in three different positions, commanded by three platoon leaders, with orders passing through several channels, unable to form rapid and effective integrated strikes.
The helicopters were fast and whooshed by; how could they possibly be intercepted.
If changed to an anti-aircraft platoon…
Three orders become one, three commands become one, efficiency greatly improved, and the probability of intercepting the helicopter formation at least increases by more than nine times.
