Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 337 Excellent Night Vision Driver

Because if you can't see infrared light, it means you can't spot a person in complete darkness.

Of course, there are few times when it's completely dark. To be honest, Wang Gensheng even considered recruiting these few with good night vision into the Marine Corps for training.

It's worth noting that their night vision capabilities are no less than those of Wang Gensheng's Marine Corps!
Back then, physical fitness was the priority in assessments, and night vision was not a major concern. As long as you weren't night-blind, you passed. So, the night vision of Marines was generally in the range of 50 to 100, and there were none with more than 200.

However, training truck drivers is still the most important thing at present, since the most crucial aspect of warfare is the transportation of logistical supplies, and everything else is secondary.

After the selection process was completed, on the first day, I explained the basic principles and logic of starting and shifting gears on a truck to these soldiers.

For example, how much speedometer reading on a truck indicates when to shift into second gear and third gear, and how to use the clutch halfway when starting.

That's right, cars at this time already had tachometers and speedometers. For cars, especially manual transmission cars, tachometers and speedometers are extremely important.

For example, in a typical five-speed manual car, you have to drive at speeds of over 10 kilometers per hour to shift into second gear, and over 20 kilometers per hour to shift into third gear. If you shift into the wrong gear, the engine may stall.

After teaching these new drivers the basics of driving, we took them out on the road for practical training that same evening.

Of course, although these novice drivers could all drive the car, for safety reasons, it was decided to give them a ride first. That is, the Marines would drive the car, and the two novice drivers would be in the passenger seat.

Along the way, the two novice drivers took turns driving, while the Marines acted as instructors, ensuring safety and preventing the vehicle from going off the road.

Although some vehicles still crashed into the cliffs on the road, the speed was only about 20 kilometers per hour, so the damage was not serious, and the bumpers were only slightly deformed.

The reason this happened was because the novice driver forgot to step on the brake, so the Marines, acting as instructors, had to steer the car towards the mountainside to reduce the speed.

By the time the trucks reached the western route, these novice drivers, who had driven over 200 kilometers overnight, were already able to park and turn steadily.

Furthermore, Li Xiu discovered that after replacing the drivers with soldiers who had exceptional night vision, the driving speed actually increased.

Wang Gensheng naturally had a deep understanding of this. Although his own night vision was not particularly outstanding, his mental perception could detect objects more than 700 meters away.

So even at night, let alone speeds of 20 or 30 kilometers per hour, if there were no snow on the road, even 100 kilometers per hour would be no problem.

Li Xiu was the same way; driving was no different from driving during the day. Therefore, novice drivers who could see 200 meters at night could confidently increase their speed to 40 or 50 kilometers per hour without any problem.

Even if there is an unexpected situation ahead, because the night vision range is 200 meters, they have enough time to make a judgment on whether to turn or brake, and they are not worried about not having enough time to react due to insufficient visibility.

On the second night, after these novice drivers had become more skilled, they began to boldly increase their speed from the original twenty-odd kilometers per hour to more than forty kilometers per hour.

The benefit of doing this is that what used to be a 200-plus-kilometer journey that would have taken more than ten hours can now be completed in just five hours, bringing you back to Xingnan Port.

In this way, a round trip can be completed in one night.

This would effectively double the transportation capacity.

Of course, these soldiers with good night vision can increase transport capacity as drivers, but they are also excellent soldiers, since most of the reinforcements' attacks are at night, and good night vision greatly improves shooting accuracy. However, compared to combat, transportation is still more important. Unfortunately, there are only about two thousand trucks available, and even including the Sukuri trucks that were just sent as aid, as well as trucks captured during the war of liberation, the total number will not exceed ten thousand.

Therefore, the number of soldiers with excellent night vision capabilities required would naturally be reduced.

Moreover, once these two thousand or so truck drivers with excellent night vision skills are trained, it will be sufficient for the transportation capacity on the front lines.

The next day, after returning home, Wang Gensheng put the remaining thousand trucks, which had not been used due to a lack of drivers, into service.

On the third day, just as it was getting dark, two thousand trucks loaded with supplies set off from Xingnan Port.

This transport involves 20,000 tons of supplies. With the increased speed of the vehicles, they can return that same night. Therefore, the remaining 80,000 tons of supplies can be transported in just four days.

Considering that 20,000 tons of supplies still need to be reserved for the Ninth Army Corps, the remaining supplies can be transported in just three days.

But what if Wang Gensheng didn't select and train soldiers with excellent night vision skills to be drivers, but instead continued to use Marines as drivers?

So you can imagine that it would take two nights to transport 10,000 tons of supplies, and the remaining 80,000 tons would take 16 days to transport.

After Wang Gensheng settled the matter with the transport team drivers, he began to study how to play a greater role in the third campaign.

During the second battle, Wang Gensheng failed to intercept the US Marine Corps 1 Lion, which escaped.

However, this also allowed the US military to seize all the supplies in Xingnan Port, giving them no chance to destroy them.

With so many supplies, the third campaign naturally became much more confident.

Although there are no movies about the Third Battle, it was still quite successful. More importantly, Wang Gensheng was curious when he watched the movie about the Battle of Chosin Reservoir before his time travel.

So after reviewing all the materials on the Second Battle, I also looked at the materials on some of the later major battles, such as the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Battles, as well as the Battle of Shangganling and the Battle of Jincheng.

Although I forgot about it after watching it, as Wang Gensheng's physical fitness and mental strength improved...

Wang Gensheng was actually able to recall those battle documents he had casually glanced at but had previously forgotten.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng was not completely unaware of the upcoming third battle; he was very clear about the troop deployments of both sides, especially the deployments of the US forces.

This was naturally extremely advantageous for Wang Gensheng, since it was essentially a battle where only the opponent's cards were revealed.

Of course, more importantly, this third battle was the best opportunity, because after this battle, the newly appointed US Army commander, Li Qiwei, realized the key weakness of the reinforcements in the Chaozhou army, which was a light infantry force.

This led to the development of magnetic warfare tactics in subsequent battles to counter the reinforcements.

(End of this chapter)