Chapter 1099: Building the Army
Qin Weidong and Xiang Ming were repairing trains in Luanda, while Zhang Hong and Wen Tianyu were training troops in Malange. ?Wen Tianyu has been retired for many years, and Zhang Hong is a monk halfway through. Both of them are thinking about how to build an army system.
"Am I going to be the Minister of Defense now?" Wen Tianyu received an order signed by Xiang Ming, and found that he had become the builder of the armed forces of the Chinese forces in Angola, and his main task was to form a teaching force.
"Set up a shelf division first, and train the officers first." As a support staff, Zhang Hong jokingly said: "You have more veterans here, and the conditions for forming an army are much better than ours. When we formed an army in Cuba, That's called a shabby."
Wen Tianyu had no food or drink in the past, and Wen Tianyu's men only armed a thousand fighters. Now he uses this thousand people to build a division headquarters, three combat regiments, nine battalions, and twenty-seven companies. In addition, there are a series of empty units such as communication battalion, medical battalion, supply battalion, and artillery battalion.
Among the equipment transported by Zhou Qingfeng, the first to be loaded was not weapons and ammunition, but a division-level communication command system. pLa's command system in the 1970s seemed rather crude and crude, but even so, Wen Tianyu still couldn't gather enough people to use it.
"Where can I go for a staff who understands map operations early?" Wen Tianyu only had some simple electronic maps of Angola in his hand. But having a map does not mean it can be used. Many people can get lost with a map. It is impossible to always follow the road when marching in the field. In case of getting lost...
"It's not easy to be an officer." Zhang Hong had received half a year of training and fought in actual combat for half a year, but he dared not say that he was already a qualified officer. "When we fought in North America in the past, we still relied on a large number of experienced Westerners as the backbone. You don't even have a few backbones."
There are many folk survivalists with high combat skills in the United States, and these people can survive the catastrophe relatively easily. For example, the old Harris in the advance team took his children to survive in the last days. Although he bowed to the power when he was struggling, it didn't affect his being an excellent fighter.
Among the Chinese powers in Africa, veterans are an incredible backbone, but many people have never touched a gun after retiring from the army. Faced with this situation, what Wen Tianyu can do is to organize everyone to continue to learn and adapt. Fortunately, those who survived can now suffer, and no one complains.
In the armed forces headquarters built of wood, Wen Tianyu was holding a bowl of instant noodles and eating them with a delicious taste. He even drank all the noodle soup before putting down the bowl and chopsticks. After a full burp, he said beautifully: "Fortunately, we can eat enough now. In the past, we couldn't even eat enough to go to war. It was really hard."
With Zhou Qingfeng's support, the Chinese in Angola first strengthened their combat troops. In the past, there was not enough to eat, and everyone was so skinny that they couldn't even march long distances. At present, the 'Supreme' instant noodles are enough. Although the quality of the noodles is poor, the oil and water are still enough.
Even after several days of full food, Wen Tianyu's face slowly turned red. In the past, his face was sallow and sallow, and his face was gloomy all day long. Now he is in high spirits, at least with a little more strength, he can shout louder.
This kind of change in spirit is reflected in the whole group. People who have enough to eat walk with wind and are full of arrogance. But eating enough can't completely solve the problem. An army can't be formed with a group of strong men.
In the past, Wen Tianyu commanded combat teams with no more than fifty people, and the command and management were relatively simple. This time, he was asked to form a division with at least tens of thousands of people. Not to mention others, he felt that he was not capable enough.
"Stop talking nonsense, let's start by memorizing the regulations." Before Wen Tianyu retired from the army, he was a low-level officer, and being a division commander was too much. I have almost forgotten all the military regulations in the past, and now I have to memorize them all over again!
Not only Wen Tianyu had to memorize, but the training of all the framers started from memorizing the regulations. Only one gun can train at most one soldier. If you want to form a squad, a platoon, a company, and finally a division or even an army, you can't do without systems and regulations.
Buying tens of thousands of guns can form an army? This is the layman's idea.
A good army must not only have good discipline, but also must have good management. Everyone needs to clarify their responsibilities and be loyal to their duties.
With a full stomach, Wen Tianyu organized the people in the division to study, and everyone had a booklet in their pockets. In addition to eating and sleeping, you have to watch this thing when you go to the latrine, and you will be randomly checked at any time.
It is extremely painful to cram duck-like learning. Everyone is memorizing it, and they have to understand it after they have memorized it. Wanting to form an army is really not something that can be done in a year or two.
Compared to Wen Tianyu, who is constantly learning how to command a division, Zhang Hong is glad that he has passed the time of memorizing the regulations. But his troubles were not small at all. The armored commander of the Aurora Legion and several subordinates came to train Wen Tianyu's technical backbone.
The communication battalion needs to be able to play radio, the artillery battalion needs to be able to measure distance, and the medical battalion needs to be able to first aid. Wait, wait, wait... Now, most of the high-tech weapons are paralyzed, and many things can only be done manually, none of which is simple.
Zhang Hong can only pick out a few people with relatively strong learning ability for key training, and then train others after short-term intensive training. Sometimes he even taught ten students in the morning, and these ten students went to teach a hundred apprentices in the afternoon.
Among the group of apprentices, Qin Ming was special. This kid was arranged to learn baggage management, first of all, to equip the various units of the shelf division.
"The division battalion is full of 1,200 people, and currently there are only 80 backbone students. Hey..., whoever of you will sign, each of you will have a Type 54 pistol with magazines, and a Type 56 assault rifle. Four magazines, two hundred spare bullets, and four Type 67 grenades.
Ah... wait, the list says training grenades, but where are the training grenades? "Qin Ming, a fledgling support staff, caused a lot of trouble just after taking office. Many people looked helplessly at the wrong equipment in their hands, and were speechless.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, manpower is tight right now. We really don't have professionals in logistics, and we've tried our best." Qin Ming was sweating profusely, hating his inability to multitask.
It was in such a mess that the Chinese in Angola began to form their own armed forces. None of them know how to form an army, no one knows how to command a battle, no one has experienced large-scale battles, and everything is in the process of groping.
The enemy, however, will not prepare them to attack later. Just when Wen Tianyu and the others were troubled by all kinds of unexpected troubles, a large number of armed forces had quietly approached their base.
Old Josie and Babru were lying in a piece of wild grass, their eyes were like jackals shining green and greedy, they were drooling and looking at the barracks in the distance through the binoculars.
"Finally found the base of these Chinese people."
"They have 100,000 tons of supplies, how exciting this should be!"
"We must rob them, rob them so that we can live!" 8