Zhou Wen did not say anything but nodded to a few people. During training, instructor Miaohua has the final say, and Zhou Wen will not overstep his authority.
"You guys rest for a quarter of an hour, and then go to the shooting range for live-fire training. Fire 20 rounds each for the pistol and rifle, and then go back to rest. Wan Xiaoshui is in charge of supervision."
"yes!"
Zhou Wen saw excitement on the faces of Situ Hai and the others. It seems that during the boring and arduous training of these recruits every day, live-fire target shooting has become the only subject that can lighten their mood.
Watching a few people lined up and walking away, Zhou Wen said: "Both Xiao Shui and Dayou should be promoted to second lieutenants. In terms of merit, they have already had enough." Zhou Wen saw that Xiao Shui and Huang Dayou had joined the army for almost half a year, but they were still looking like new recruits. There are no uniforms or military rank insignia. Thinking that they are about to officially join the first team, it is time to formally award military ranks.
In the First Division of the Mercenary Regiment, except for Zuo Mingqing and the others, seven of them are still second lieutenants, and the lowest rank among the others is also a lieutenant.
Miaohua nodded and said: "I agree, these two guys are both good prospects. I am afraid that they and Ming Qing's seven brothers will be the best in the future mercenary group. Ming Qing and the other seven should also consider it. I suggest Ming Qing and Mingyuan should be promoted to captains, and the other five should be promoted to lieutenants. Ming Qing and Mingyuan are not only the strongest in personal abilities, but they also have the potential to be officers."
During the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, although Zuo Mingqing made mistakes and was punished before, he later learned his shame and became brave. He led Lei Dahai and others to do their duty during the training of volunteer army recruits. Later, during the battle when the Japanese army intended to sneak attack Lengkou from an unknown trail The command was determined and the Japanese army's attempt was shattered. In the later battles, he performed even better, killing at least 20 Japanese troops. Even his team leader Li Hu was impressed.
Zhou Mingyuan, on the other hand, embodies the composure and calmness that an officer should have. While escorting the seriously injured Gao Xiaoshan back to the rear, he collided head-on with a Japanese squad. When the friendly forces were careless and were preempted by the Japanese army, Zhou Mingyuan used the cover of darkness to lead his team members to detour from the side and annihilated a Japanese squad in one fell swoop. Not only did he rescue the friendly forces, but he also saved all the wounded.
You know, these two people have been in the army for less than a year, and they have already shown the qualities of an excellent commander, and they will be the seeds of proper officers in the future.
Zhou Wen naturally wouldn't object, and he also knew another layer of Miaohua's unexplainable meaning.
Among the current group leaders of the mercenary group, Li Hu and Ergazi are both pretty good, and their tactical understanding of special operations has already begun. Li Hu has a steady personality, while Er Gazi has a flexible mind. Both of them are competent leaders and have their own styles, winning Zhou Wen's trust.
But Niu Bao and Sun Dazhu were almost in trouble.
Niu Bao has a dull personality and seems a bit dull. Although his individual qualities are not bad, he lacks some vitality and leadership as a team leader. In the past two years of fighting, the performance of Niu Bao's spear group was not as good as the other two groups. And although Zhou Wen and Gao Xiaoshan didn't say it, they didn't trust Niu Bao to take charge of it alone, and often brought Niu Bao's group with them.
Sun Dazhu, on the other hand, is too reckless, he just ignores things when he gets angry, and he is not calm enough.
The others are the machine gun group and the artillery group.
The current leader of the machine gun team is Liu Hei. As Uncle Ma's protégé, Liu Hei's machine gun shooting level is already eight points as good as Uncle Ma's. Before Lu Dayou joined the team, he was already the number one shooter in the machine gun team. However, since the machine gun team has few opportunities to fight alone, Liu Hei's command ability has not yet been demonstrated.
The artillery team's many great achievements are different. As a mercenary group's artillery god, regardless of his command ability, his presence on the battlefield will make the brothers feel at ease. And Zhou Wen has regarded him as the strategic firepower output unit of the first team.
Zhou Wen had already told Miaohua and Gao Xiaoshan that he planned to no longer divide the troops into groups according to their specialties. Instead, he would divide the squad into several tactical squads. Each squad would have assaulters, machine gunners, snipers and gunners. .
A small team can form a relatively three-dimensional tactical combination that takes into account long-range precision shooting, heavy fire strikes and intensive fire strikes. It can form a capable combined combat unit of various arms to adapt to more complex combat environments and combat tasks.
In this case, the overall quality requirements for the team leader will be higher.
Zhou Wen plans to divide all the members of the first team into five tactical teams. Li Hu and Ergazi are definitely candidates for team captains, but the other team leaders are less interesting. Therefore, Zuo Mingqing and Zhou Mingyuan are the candidates for the reserve captain, and Zhou Wen plans to focus on training them. There is only one captain spot, and you can only choose one from Liu Hei and Niu Bao.
Zhou Wen planned to arrange the composition of a team as follows: two to three assaulters, three to four precision shooters, a machine gunner, a mortar operator, and a free man and rescue worker.
With the current personnel configuration of the machine gun team and artillery team, each team can be guaranteed to have one person. The rescue personnel are five Wudang disciples except Zuo Mingqing and Zhou Mingyuan, which is exactly one person per team.
The ten people Zhou Wen, Miaohua, Gao Xiaoshan, Zhao Xiaojin, Zhang Xiaoping, Xu Dacheng, Ti Jing, Tieniu, Xiao Shui, and Huang Dayou form the strongest tactical team and serve as the strategic team of the mercenary group.
Think about it, how powerful can a team that has assembled almost the strongest members of a mercenary group be?
This strongest team includes the four Qi Jin realm masters of the mercenary group, the best sniper, the most powerful assaulter, the strongest machine gunner, the most accurate gunner, and two Hercules anti-tank gunners.
It can be said that as long as they are not trapped by enemy forces, this strongest team can destroy almost all targets within 1 kilometer. Even if you have too many people, it’s useless.
Some people here may be wondering. A mortarman has to carry both artillery and shells. Isn't it difficult for a mule to pull it? If you have one gunner per team, a 60-kilogram 81mm mortar and a 2.7-kilogram artillery shell, even if they are divided among everyone to carry, won't it affect the speed and mobility of combat?
Let me say here that the reason why Zhou Wen has not changed the organization of the first team is because of the obstacles caused by the weight of the mortar.
However, this issue will change next year.
Because just in 1935, France, which currently leads the world's most advanced mortar technology, launched a mortar that was famous in World War II as a supporting firepower to accompany the infantry operations of the squad and platoon level units.
The full name of this mortar is the Brandt Mle 1935 60 mm mortar.
