Starting from the deputy company commander of the Soldier Assault Team

The military is relatively pure, but if you give a helping hand to someone you admire and want to keep them in the military, it's not considered forming cliques or nepotism; it's a very normal behavior.

As our ancestors said, when recommending someone for a position, one should not avoid relatives.

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Soon the car arrived at the regimental headquarters. After dropping off Shi Jin, Zhang Anbang hurried to the regimental office.

"Report."

"Come in."

As the office door opened, an officer carrying a 13-cent coin strode in and crisply saluted.

"Reporting to the regimental commander, Zhang Anbang, deputy company commander of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion, has come to report to you and request your instructions."

Even before the person entered, Wang Qingrui knew who it was just by their voice.

As soon as the door opened, Wang Qingrui greeted the visitor with a smile. After listening to the report, he said, "Anbang, what's the matter?"

"Reporting to the Regiment Commander, I am here to report to you that Shi Jin, an instructor from the Regiment's Training Team, was temporarily transferred to our company as an instructor for 60 days due to the previous training of our company's backbone personnel and the training of deputy squad leaders.

During his secondment, Comrade Shi Jin, combining the professional teaching methods of the training team, completed the tactical training of eight key personnel in my company, as well as the training of five prospective deputy squad leaders.

He also mentored a private who broke the division's record for abdominal bar wrapping, and helped my company refine the practical training guidelines for key personnel and deputy squad leaders.

It improved the training efficiency of the company's key personnel, whose performance was unanimously recognized by all officers and soldiers in the company, and it also fully met the training requirements of our Steel Seventh Company.

The temporary assignment has been successfully completed, and I am returning Comrade Shi Jin to the regimental training team in accordance with procedures. I am writing to formally report this to you.

After finishing his report, Zhang Anbang immediately added, "That concludes the entire report. Please provide your instructions, Commander!"

Wang Qingrui was very pleased. He knew Shi Jin had always been quite good, and in just two months, he had completely brought out the somewhat dull private he had his eye on.

He certainly knew that there was help from many other people in the Seventh Steel Company, such as An Bang in front of him and the squad leader and deputy squad leader of Xu Sanduo's squad, but it was Shi Jin who actually implemented this fact.

Thus, most of the credit goes to Shi Jin.

"Not bad, not bad at all. Come, sit down." Wang Qingrui waved his hand. If other cadres came to report, he usually paid more attention to the etiquette between superiors and subordinates.

However, when Gao Cheng and Zhang Anbang came over, Wang Qingrui was quite casual except when they were reporting on their work, which was very serious and formal.

It can't be said that it was only Gao Cheng and Zhang Anbang; he treated all the elite soldiers he favored like a kind elder.

As a combat-ready regimental commander with more than two thousand men under his command, he had seen too many standardized rules and regulations, or rather, this was his daily routine for more than twenty years.

Now that he's approaching fifty, he's actually happier when those promising, confident soldiers who have honed their skills and real abilities are more relaxed around him.

A military unit has its own temperament and character, which are related to its military commander. If the commander has a strong character, the unit will be strong and fierce.

Zhang Anbang walked over with a grin, picked up a cigarette from the table, lit one for Wang Qingrui, lit one for himself, and then casually put the cigarette into his right pocket.

"Hehe, Uncle Wang, how about it? Our old squad leader from the Steel Seventh Company didn't disappoint you, did he?"

Wang Qingrui puffed on his cigarette. "Nonsense. If he wasn't capable, would he have stayed in the Steel Seventh Company for so long? Would I have agreed to transfer him to the training corps?"

"Hehe," Zhang Anbang chuckled. Of course he knew, but he was just deliberately trying to make Shi Jin's presence known in front of the regimental commander.

"Anbang, they're holding a mountain exercise in a few days. What do you think?"

Faced with Wang Qingrui's question, Zhang Anbang really wanted to say, "I'll just sit and watch, walk and watch, participate and watch," but he knew that if he said that, he would definitely be scolded.

Moreover, Wang Qingrui's question was also somewhat of a test for him.

Zhang Anbang adjusted his posture, straightened up a bit, and started speaking without even thinking. After all, these were things that the three leaders of their company had discussed back in the Steel Seventh Company, and he had his own thoughts on them.

"Uncle Wang, we are an armored force. The purpose of having us conduct mountain exercises is very simple: to break through the traditional inertia of armored forces in plains warfare."

The identification and resolution of the shortcomings in mobility, tactics, and coordination of armored equipment in complex mountainous terrain is something that has been gradually changing for some time.

Wang Qingrui smiled and nodded, leaning back in his chair to find a more comfortable position, and gestured for Zhang Anbang to continue.

Zhang Anbang was a man of substance, his thoughts flowing like a never-ending river.

"From the early days of the People's Republic of China until 1960, the armored heavy forces we formed relied on captured Japanese and American tanks and imported Soviet tanks, and only trained on plains."

Between the 1960s and 1980s, we equipped ourselves with the domestically developed Type 59 main battle tank and began training that gradually expanded from plains to hilly terrain.

Furthermore, a dedicated armored forces training ground was built in the hilly areas of Shandong and Henan provinces, and the first set of armored forces maneuver tactics manuals for hilly terrain were compiled.

The core training focuses on formation adjustments, infantry-tank coordination, and fire support in hilly terrain. However, the training is relatively easy, targeting only gentle hills and not involving complex hilly terrain with high altitudes or many bends.

However, this has also led to a pattern of operations primarily based on plains and supplemented by hills, with the operational role beginning to shift from pure defense to full-domain mobility.

From 1990 to the millennium, our armored forces' training system matured, and the plains became merely a training ground for the basic skills of armored soldiers.

In terms of hills, we have long since expanded from the early low and gentle hills to medium and high hills with a slope of 25 to 30 degrees.

The training included continuous curves and narrow passages, and later upgraded to hilly ambushes, flanking maneuvers, and rapid construction of fire positions, among other comprehensive tactics.

After establishing plains as the foundation and hills as the norm, our troops began training in more complex terrains such as mountains, waterways, and rice paddies.

Plains coordination is the foundation, hilly coordination is routine, and mountain coordination is the toughest battle. In the south, armored forces have made mountain, water-networked rice paddy terrain training a mandatory subject.

A document was recently issued requiring full combat readiness, with no regional differences, and mountainous terrain combined with waterways becoming a regular training subject for the entire army's armored forces, to be integrated into major annual exercises.

Last year we got new equipment, this time we'll see how good we really are.

"Hmm, that's quite insightful! You haven't been with the troops for very long, but you seem to know every detail of our armored forces inside and out, and you've even grasped the essentials. Is there anything else you'd like to say?"

Wang Qingrui became happier and happier as he listened. This nephew of his was really good. How could Deputy Platoon Leader Zhang be so good at having children? Thinking about his own two children, one insisted on opening a mobile phone shop, and the other went into the decoration business.

He went to great lengths to get his two sons into the army, but after three years they quit and went home to do their own thing. He was furious, but his wife supported his two sons.

He had to give up his idea of ​​having his two sons join the army and follow in his footsteps. As for his daughter, he was reluctant to let her go and always let her make her own decisions. Unexpectedly, his daughter ended up working for the military and became a doctor at a military hospital.

"Uncle Wang, this is just basic skill. If I can't answer it, you'll kick me, right?" Zhang Anbang wasn't going to fall for it. If he got cocky, he would definitely be brought down immediately, and might even get a scolding.

"Uncle Wang, as for other things, there must be many objectives for this mountain exercise. Personally, I think the main tactical objective is to overcome the limitations imposed by mountainous terrain on the mobility of armored equipment."

Tactically, it tests the combined mountain warfare capabilities of armored troops, infantry, engineers, and artillery.

In addition, our regiment just changed its equipment last year, and it has been tested in plains, medium and high hills. Now it is time to test the reliability and support capabilities of our new armored equipment in mountainous environments.

For us commanders, it also means shifting our operational thinking from large-scale assaults on plains to dispersed assaults in mountainous terrain.

Other aspects include the adaptability of the Hammer Chain Armored Corps to mountainous battlefield environments, and finally, in terms of combat readiness and deterrence, it is adapted to the actual national defense needs of my country's mountainous terrain.

Uncle Wang, that's all I can think of.

After Zhang Anbang finished speaking, he picked up the water on the table and started drinking, showing no respect for his superiors or outsiders.

Wang Qingrui grinned, clearly satisfied. "You've covered everything quite thoroughly, exceeding my expectations! Do you have any other thoughts about this exercise?"

"Uncle Wang, I think with our 702's reputation, this exercise is definitely not going to be easy. It won't be as simple as other units. Our terrain is probably either very steep or mountainous.

"What? Are you scared? Our 702 team specializes in tackling the toughest challenges, when have we ever backed down?" Wang Qingrui knew that Zhang Anbang was definitely not afraid, but he had always been very good at using reverse psychology.

Zhang Anbang could tell that this was a provocation; he could imagine that if Gao Cheng were here, he would jump up and down and shout.

However, he didn't fall for Lao Wang's plan. "Uncle Wang, I reckon that our Steel Seventh Company, as the spearhead company, will face some unusual terrain. Could I request some rocket launchers, mortars, or something?"

Wang Qingrui glared at Zhang Anbang, annoyed. This kid was more slippery than Gao Cheng and wouldn't fall for his tricks. "What do you need these for? This is the work of the fire support and artillery company."

"Uncle Wang, I have a phobia of insufficient firepower. If we really encounter terrain with slopes that our armored vehicles can't climb, I need something to suppress them."

As for the items, I don't need too many. Give us some 40-liter, 80-liter, and 120-liter ones, and also 60-liter and 82-liter ones.

"If it works out, Uncle Wang, could you also get me some Type 87 35mm automatic grenade launchers and Type 97 93mm man-portable thermobaric rocket launchers? Okay, that'll do."

Zhang Anbang felt that his requirements were not high at all.