Macho Wars

Rao is the soldiers of the Marine Corps who have trained very well in their physical fitness. Many people have been shaken during the three-hour training at sea.

After opening the hatch, although it can provide cover for the soldiers to a certain extent, it also caused the formation to expand too slowly.

Afterwards, many soldiers who participated in the landing exercise responded to their superiors, saying that they had to jump into the half-meter-deep sea as soon as they got out of the cabin. On his body, he couldn't even stand steady, and he couldn't follow the instructions to quickly unfold the formation.

In addition, after the landing craft washed up on the beach, the retreat speed was very slow, and some of them even ran aground directly on the beach, which would undoubtedly hinder the landing of subsequent troops.

After all, Dragon is not an expert in amphibious warfare. His advantage over the natives in this world is nothing more than a more technologically advanced earth as a reference.

In his memory, the fragments from the classic war movie "Saving Private Ryan" are his deepest impression of the amphibious landing battle, so he subconsciously used this as a reference to design the landing craft.

But the actual application situation is not ideal.

Therefore, based on the problems exposed during the exercise, Dragon proposed an improvement plan to the design bureau, hoping to add a land-based walking mechanism to the landing craft.In this way, after washing the beach, you can go ashore and put down the soldiers while walking.It is best to strengthen the armor protection, add machine guns and small-caliber rapid-fire guns to provide support firepower.

But if it were to be changed in this way, then this landing craft would be directly upgraded to an amphibious infantry fighting vehicle.

According to the model envisioned by Dragon, the Empire’s amphibious combat model should be divided into three steps.

The first step is the navy's shore-to-shore strike, with the battleship formation covering the beachhead defense fortifications.If the Air Force joins in the future, it can also make up a round of tactical bombing.

The second step is for the Marines to take the upgraded amphibious warships (vehicles) into the beach to smooth out the remaining enemy troops, and then quickly move forward to establish a line of defense to prevent the inland enemy from counterattacking.

In the third step, the traditional landing craft can be used to continuously send the follow-up troops and heavy weapons ashore.

The entire combat model is completely based on the premise that the Empire has a superior navy.After all, if you can't even ensure the dominance of the sea, you still have to play amphibious warfare!

In the next few weeks, Dragon took his Marines to the interior for tactical combined training.He clearly told his soldiers to build the Marine Corps into an elite capable of conducting all-regional operations.

The beach is just where they go ashore!

On the other side, the troops that also had the title of "Marine Corps" but received the traditional training model also began a combined tactical exercise in the 20th week.

According to the normal training standards of the Imperial Army in peacetime, recruits generally only receive eighteen weeks of training before they can join active-duty troops as supplementary soldiers.If it is in wartime, the training cycle will be reduced according to the urgency of the frontline war.

The shortest time was only two weeks. Basically, I just taught how to fire a rifle and how to shoot a grenade, and then I sent it to the front as cannon fodder.

Like Dragon, it takes thirty-six weeks for a single recruit training, which has never been done before.

The chief instructor responsible for the training of these recruits is a lieutenant colonel named Dodolo Sami, and the chief officer behind him is Major General Oduin Wakhan, a well-known representative of conservatives in the army faction .

Regardless of this rank, he is a major general, but he can't hold his rank high. He is one of the only two dukes in the colony, and the commander and deputy commander of the military area are all marquis.

Alduin has always opposed Owen and Henry's unreasonable promotion of Dragon, thinking that this is unruly and is not conducive to the stability of the army.

The reason is nothing more than the two recurring points.

One is young and junior. Dragon is only twenty-five years old this year. He has been in the position of colonel after he has been in the army for less than seven years. What makes the old officers who work hard in the army and dedicated to the empire? miss you?

The second is that Dragon's origin is humble. A civilian is still a mixed race. It is easy for the outside world to misunderstand that "Eastern Qin blood is better than Sidney blood" simply because of his outstanding combat achievements.

If he was allowed to decide by Alduin, at least he would have to let Dragon “train” in the position of major battalion commander for a few more years, during which time he carefully observed his loyalty to the empire, and he won’t be promoted until he is thirty-five. late.

So this time the formation of the Marines, Alduin was the first to jump out and sing the opposite.Because according to Owen and Henry's original plan, they were prepared to let Dragon be the deputy brigade commander and take full charge of recruit training.

As a result, he was led by Oduin, united with a group of conservative generals and officers. The deputy brigade commander of Dragoon was gone, and the recruit training program was seriously questioned.

The training of recruits with a cycle of 252 days and an elimination rate of 60% is simply nonsense!Not only is it inefficient, it also wastes a lot of military resources.

Therefore, at the strong request of Alduin, the 12,000 recruits recruited by the Marine Corps were directly asked to leave half of them, and he made the training outline and arranged the instructors for training.

It only takes 20 weeks and a 5% elimination rate to train a new army that is elite enough. The same number of troops can fight against each other. The combat power will not be worse than that trained by Dragon, and it can even be crushed overall. .

So by the twentieth week, the six thousand people on Alduin's side had completed all training.Then other troops drew a group of backbone officers, and finally formed a total of nine infantry battalions.This is already equivalent to the size of most divisions.

Seeing these recruits who have fulfilled their psychological expectations, Alduin couldn't help feeling a little proud.

The old man has been in the army for thirty-seven years. When he first brought soldiers to the battlefield, the yellow-mouthed boy Dragon was not even a liquid. What compared to him?

On the day of the confrontation exercise, nine of his own battalions fought four of Dragoon’s battalions. The population gap of the entire five battalions was there. Who told me how to lose?

of course!Alduin did not completely give up investigating the "enemy" out of caution. He asked his subordinates to inquire about the training situation and progress of Dragon through various channels, and secretly recruited some recruits who were eliminated by Dragon.

Alduin will decide the outcome with an absolute crush in the confrontation exercise four months later.It can be regarded as a lesson for Dragon, teaching him how to respect his predecessors.

Chapter 247

At this time, Dragun did not, like Major General Oduin, had already begun to prepare for the confrontation exercise in a few months.He is taking his soldiers to climb the highest peak of the colony-the White Goddess Mountain.

This high mountain with an altitude of more than 5,000 meters has a semi-arc shape. The whole body is like an inverted porcelain bowl. The slope is relatively gentle on all sides, suitable for climbing, and there is snow that does not melt all year round.

Dragun pulled the troops here to find a place to simulate the frigid zone for training, and the thin air in high-altitude areas helps soldiers improve their cardiopulmonary function and strengthen their physical fitness.

It’s a pity that there is almost no vegetation above the snow line of the White Goddess Mountain. If you can find some edelweiss, you can pick some of them and then make them into decorations and wear them. This may become a tradition in the future recruit training of the Marine Corps. .

But it doesn’t matter if there are no flowers. Dragoon has commissioned a batch of commemorative medals specially ordered by the military department in advance. The coin-sized medals are decorated with a snowflake pattern, which will be awarded to all soldiers participating in the training after the troop descends. , Will be awarded by him himself.

Such a special sense of honor, for those young recruits who still have a lofty pursuit of the future, is a privilege that will make them proud, and this is what Dragon hopes to give them.

The most attractive thing about recruits is that they still have dreams, while veterans are generally more realistic. They prefer money to medals and so-called honors.

However, driven by Dragon, many veterans seemed to have been infected, renewed their passion and gave them the motivation to move forward.

In this way, the four battalions of the Marine Corps traveled to many places in the colony like a touring tour, and successively carried out targeted training in many areas.

In this process, the recruits gradually began to understand Dragon, from hating him at first, to recognizing him, and finally respecting him.

They earnestly saluted Dragon, and sincerely called him the sir.

For more than 30 weeks of training, Dragon was with them throughout the whole process, eating, living and training.The results of all training subjects are among the best, and from time to time they can win several pacesetters.

And the most commendable thing is that he treats all the officers and soldiers in the training equally, although the requirements are always strict, but he never puts on the air in front of his subordinates, and acts like a noble master.

His only privilege in the boot camp was probably that his family would come to visit from time to time.

Thirty-six weeks seemed to pass by in a flash, and eight months passed quickly, and it was time for the confrontation exercise.

Owen and Henry had a big opinion of Alduin because the conservatives added chaos to themselves, so in order to teach this old boy, they were going to invite the Governor to observe the exercise at that time, and then secretly arranged a little for Dragon. "Advantage".

Because the location of the confrontation exercise was chosen near Suger Town in District 9.This is the place where Dragun was stationed when he first came to the colony. The nearby military map was actually surveyed and revised by his team. Naturally, he is more familiar with the terrain of this generation than Alduin.

In addition, the director department of the exercise also set the script as an encounter, regardless of offense and defense, and fighting sports is Dragon's strength!

As long as Dragon can "beat the strong with the weak" and press Alduin to the ground, the conservatives who are beaten in the face must be honest for a while.

On the last day of the 36th week, Dragon officially announced to all officers and soldiers that they had completed all the training subjects of the Marine Corps.From this moment on, they are no longer training soldiers, but formal Marines.

It is a pity that the commemorative medals originally intended to be awarded to them are temporarily unable to be awarded to them due to some high-level reasons, and they have to wait until after the confrontation exercise.