On the training ground next to the military headquarters of the Fifth Army, the dusty and wide training ground was distributed with all kinds of fortifications, barbed wire, trenches, blockade ditches, bunkers, and craters.
Before the second regiment was in place, the baggage soldiers and engineers of the Fifth Army worked together to transform this field that was convenient for tank training, and built a large number of infantry fortifications, making it a training ground where tanks and infantry can be used together.
Tank transporters and trailers drove in the rear, slowly pulling supplies, barrels of fuel, boxes of spare parts and ammunition, piled up behind the training grounds.
On the training ground, twenty-four tanks were parked in the same direction, fourteen gray-black painted T26 tanks and CV35 tanks, with concealed leaves hanging on their bodies, quietly parked, forming an armored column ready to go, behind the tank butt, there were seven or eight German-made sidecar motorcycles, motorcycle search soldiers with goggles sat quietly on the car, and in the direction pointed by the front of the tank, in the intricate positions in the distance, fortresses, fortifications, sandbags and other defensive facilities were faintly arranged.
In the rear of the tank column, there were a series of infantry communication trenches and shelters, and in the communication trenches and shelters, they were covered with heavily armed soldiers, and the soldiers were covered with auxiliary concealment nets woven by branches and leaves on their steel helmets and uniforms, and these soldiers were the officers and soldiers of the Second Regiment of Zhang Wei's Division.
The basic knowledge education jointly organized by the tank regiment and the second supplementary regiment went very smoothly, and it took about two weeks of effort, teaching every day and all day, and finally made the brothers of the second supplementary regiment understand and establish a basic understanding of the tank, and now, the soldiers of the entire regiment have a considerable understanding of the tank, and the functions and firepower of each part of the tank are also basically understood.
The peasants-born soldiers no longer had any fear of the ironclad chariots of the chariot regiment.
After this education, the situation in which the Chinese army was scared away by their own tanks in the Battle of Lanfeng is no longer possible to happen here in the second regiment.
During the education period, not only did the officers and sergeants stationed in the Fifth Army Tank Regiment give speeches as best they could, but the four tanks parked in the Second Supplementary Regiment also had close contact with the officers and men, and the infantry of each company of the Second Supplementary Regiment carried the tanks and sat on the tanks and let the tanks pull them away, and the company platoon commanders and these officers were given the right to enter the tanks and watch the tank crews perform various operations in the turrets.
These four tanks also carried out tank machine gun shooting drills in front of the officers and soldiers, the T26 Soviet-style tank machine gun, and the Italian tank machine gun on the CV35, which knocked out more than 2,000 machine gun shells in the fire display, so that the soldiers fully felt the function and firepower of the tank.
Which army's big men can get this kind of treatment After two weeks, day and night of contact with the tank, the officers and men who have fully understood the tank will usher in the next step of training, that is, the actual exercise, after Zhang Wei's application, the officers and men of the Second Regiment have entered the wide training ground of the Fifth Army Tank Regiment, and are ready to carry out the actual infantry and tan coordination exercise.
If all the more than 70 tanks of the two tank battalions under the tank regiment of the Fifth Army are used for drills, even if the Fifth Army cannot afford to consume them, more than 70 tanks will consume a lot of fuel if they start together for half an hour, and fuel is an important strategic material for military aid, and no one dares to waste it in such a loser style, even in the process of maneuvering, the tank units of the Fifth Army also rely on trains, cars and trailers for transportation.
When it reaches the combat zone, it will rely on its own power to drive and continue to do so for future generations, which not only saves fuel, but also reduces the mechanical wear and tear of the tank.
Therefore, the tank units assigned to supplement the second regiment for actual exercises are not large or small, just two companies of tanks, the scale is moderate, the current tank establishment of the Fifth Army, one company is equipped with 12 tanks, of which five CV35 and seven T26 are mixed, and the 24 tanks parked on the training ground happen to be the tank establishment of two companies, all the equipment of the two tank companies, light and heavy tanks, and the motorized search troops of the company headquarters, all of which are ready to go.
Next to a T26 tank, Zhang Wei and five officers wearing tank hats and wearing a full set of tank soldiers combat uniforms leaned on the skirt of the T26 tank's tracks, several people put the map on the skirt, lowered their heads, surrounded the map, planning the offensive drill, the buzzing sound around the sound was loud, twenty-four tanks have begun to heat up, ready to start at any time, these four officers of the tank unit, one is the second battalion major of the tank regiment who led the cognitive education of the second tank regiment attached to Zhao Li, The other three were the company commanders of the two tank companies participating in the training, and the two tank companies participating in the training happened to be the two tank companies of Zhao Li's second battalion.
After discussing with Zhang Wei, Zhao Li, and other officers, the content of the drill was tentatively set to attack a position defended by the main force of a Japanese brigade with chariots and infantry in coordination.
Sniffing the smell of fuel, Zhang Wei asked.
"Zhao Yingfu, this is the first exercise, you and I still need a lot of cooperation, this drill to attack the enemy's position, I don't know what other ideas Zhao Tuan and a few others have."
"Sir, we don't have any other ideas, to be honest, it is the first time that the infantry and tanks have cooperated, and it is the first time that we, the tank soldiers, have attacked together with the infantry brothers, and we are also crossing the river by feeling the stones, so it is better to follow what we have finalized for the time being, if there is a mistake, it is not too late to improve."
Zhao Li hurriedly replied, his words were quite respectful, and Zhang Wei had been in contact for about two weeks, and there was a lot of communication, two weeks later, Zhao Li did not have the slightest contempt for the lieutenant colonel commander who was younger than himself, not only the combat exploits, but also Zhang Wei's valuable infantry and tan coordination experience, in the exchange, Zhao Li also faintly discovered that Zhang Wei was familiar with the understanding of tanks and the general parameters, and was even more familiar than many officers in the tank regiment Zhang Wei's previous life was not in vain The four tank company commanders and the company also said that they had no objections.
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