Chu Xiong watched Li Yaozu handing out 8,000 silver dollars before leading the second platoon to leave Lijiacun;
There are still a lot of things waiting for him to deal with in Shenxian Ridge, so let's put it aside for a while in Lijiacun.
This time, more than 150 bandits were captured. He needed to shave off some of the bandits and add the others to the Seventh Company after education and transformation.
After returning to Shenxianling, Chu Xiong finally had time to see what good things were in Hu Shuangqiang's treasure house.
Hu Shuangqiang has been a gangster for many years, and his job is to rob passing business travelers and kidnap people for extortion;
There are more than 800 taels of gold and more than 156,000 silver dollars in the treasure house alone. There are also a large number of antiques, calligraphy and paintings that cannot be valued.
The stockpiled grain amounts to more than 100,000 kilograms, enough to feed the current personnel of the Seventh Company for more than a year.
Compared with the income from suppressing bandits, the 5,000 silver dollars obtained from the Li family are not enough. There is still a "money source" for suppressing bandits!
After you have your hands free, let's see if there are any bandits nearby that need to be eliminated. The Eighth Route Army will do their part and do some side work.
There are two urgent things that need to be resolved urgently:
One is the matter of troop adjustment. Chu Xiong decided that the establishment of the Seventh Company would remain unchanged for the time being, and only a 16-man special operations team would be added;
He will temporarily serve as the team leader. He has already thought of a name, so he will call it the Tiger Squad.
The personnel selected people with martial arts foundation and good marksmanship from the entire company. This raid on Goddess Ridge made Chu Xiong realize the importance of forming a professional special forces team. Now that there are few personnel, he can only organize a small team first.
Each of the three platoons takes out a main squad, and forms a garrison company based on the three main squads, with the same level as the main platoon;
The three-by-three system is adopted, with three garrison platoons, each with three squads, and a total of 120 people.
Their task is to guard the old camp at Shenxianling. The company commander is He Zhenhua, the seventh squad leader, and the instructor is Yang Wei.
Yang Wei's future task will be to look after the house, and all the missing soldiers will be supplemented by captured bandits;
Yang Wei also has the task of transforming them, which is his old profession.
Chu Xiong gave him an idea, which was to launch a complaint campaign. This was a big killer!
The adjusted main company has three 80-man infantry platoons, a 24-man reinforced artillery squad (equipped with four 81mm mortars), and a 16-man special operations unit, plus an 8-man company headquarters. The total number of people is 288.
The equipment of the garrison company is mainly national weapons. Each platoon has three Czech light machine guns, and the rest are all rifles.
The second thing is the defense of the old camp. The enemy's attack power is different from that of the Jinsui Army. The existing defense system must be upgraded and three lines of defense must be established based on the dangerous terrain.
The first one is located at Yingzui Cliff, which is where the bandit checkpoint used to be. After that place has been renovated, one man can guard the gate and no one can open it.
The method used by Chuxiong was to dig tunnels, just like the tunnels in Ganling. The entrance of the tunnel was located on the platform of Yingzui Cliff, and shooting holes similar to bunkers were built on the platform with stones.
Several interconnected basements are excavated in the tunnel, and the basements are separated by smoke-proof boards;
Ammunition, food and drinking water are stored inside, and there are two exits leading to the reverse slope of the mountain.
On the mountain, you can replenish personnel and equipment into the tunnel through the exit. Usually, there is only one reinforcement squad and two machine guns in the tunnel, which is the main line of defense.
A tunnel defense line is set up every 200 meters up Yingzui Cliff. There are straight roads connecting the three tunnels to form a defense system.
In addition, a line of defense is also set up on the back cliff. This is mainly to prevent attacks by special forces. They are all cliffs and ordinary troops cannot get up at all.
A platoon has been placed on the back cliff for a long time to guard.
Chu Xiong himself likes to conduct special operations for the Japanese, so he must prevent the Japanese from doing this to him.
With the old battalion, the seventh company will have roots in the future. After the troops are trained, he can lead the main company to find trouble with the Japanese.
The army suddenly gained more than 100 fresh blood, and training became a top priority;
The method is to use the old to introduce the new. The tactical patterns are all ready-made, so you can just practice them.
The training time is about one month, especially to strengthen physical training, sports warfare and guerrilla warfare. The basic is to be able to run!
The troops had to run three times from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain every day, one in the morning, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. They also had to dig tunnels collectively at night.
In order to increase the physical strength of the soldiers, Chuxiong sent people to buy meat from nearby villages to ensure that the troops could eat a meal of meat every week. Of course, it was just meat-flavored, about one or two per person.
There are 30 rounds of training ammunition per person. Many people object to this and think it is too much of a waste of bullets;
Only Chu Xiong insisted that if there were no bullets, he could find a way to do it, but the training bullets must be guaranteed. The more you train in peacetime, the less blood will be shed in war!
The training of the troops is the responsibility of the platoon leader and squad leader, and Chu Xiong specializes in training the Tiger Special Forces.
These 16 team members will become the seed troops of the future special operations team. Everyone is a future special operations commander, so they all must be literate!
In addition to completing training tasks, each team member also has to learn 20 words every day.
The training subjects and methods were adopted from later generations and simplified to make them more suitable for the needs of special operations in this era.
In a sense, special operations are an upgraded version of guerrilla warfare. It is difficult to establish a simplified version of special forces, but it is actually very easy to say that it is easy. Awareness is the first priority!
Chu Xiong’s biggest advantage is that he has a special operations consciousness that is nearly a hundred years ahead of this era. It is a summary of actual combat and experience in various countries. The knowledge he has mastered is a system, including:
Special operations thinking, weapons and equipment configuration, troop training, application of various combat methods, etc.
He plans to use a month to complete the initial training, and the rest is left to actual combat!
There is not much time for long-term training like later generations, so we can only train a simplified version of the special operations team first, and then continuously improve it in actual combat.
What he lacks most now is special operations weapons. It is difficult to replenish submachine gun bullets. Live ammunition should be used as little as possible in shooting training.
Each person can only be assigned one magazine of training ammunition, and the others can only be replaced with Type 38 rifles and box guns.
Shooting is similar in a sense.
At 4 o'clock in the morning, a whistle blew, and the Tigers special team began a day of training:
First, the 16 team members each carried a weight of 20 kilograms for a ten-kilometer mountain cross-country training.
Then there are the "Five 100s", 100 squats and stand-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 standard push-ups, 100 burpees, and 100 rock-lifting (that is, moving a 20-kilogram stone up to a height of 1 meter)
The training in the morning was about logging. Three people worked as a team to cut down a tree as thick as a bowl from the foot of the mountain, and then the three people worked together to carry it to the mountain for the construction of tunnel fortifications;
Building tunnels requires a large number of tree stumps for support, which is exactly what they need.
Shooting training is conducted in the afternoon, mainly focusing on target training. Live ammunition training can only be carried out in stages, and bullets cannot be consumed;
Take him to the jungle at night for disguise and lurking training...
Training subjects also include prisoner capture, swimming (can only be practiced in mountain ponds), fighting, rock climbing (unarmed and rope), setting booby traps, blasting, wild survival, special operations gestures and language, team cooperation, etc.
It boils down to two major parts, physical fitness and skills, and each subject is interspersed.
Although people in this era may be physically poorer, their willpower is much stronger than that of later generations.
For nutritional supplements, we hunt together in the mountains and forests before the end of training every night;
The daily supply of meat is supplemented by hunting, which is also a kind of training. The beasts within a dozen kilometers of Shennu Ridge are really suffering.
Due to the regular supply of meat, the common night blindness among soldiers in this era was greatly alleviated, and the excess meat was sponsored to the main company.
With the improvement of hunting level, one team member actually hunted a male wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms alone with a short knife!
