This is not the first time that Wu Tianming has crossed the border into the hinterland of Vietnam, since arriving at the border as the vanguard of the assault division, Wu Tianming and his reconnaissance company have received orders from their superiors to enter the hinterland of Vietnam to conduct reconnaissance, Wu Tianming knows that this is only a prelude before the war.

But even the overture is an indispensable part of the whole movement, and it is also the most important part, as the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible, how many firing points there are on the opposite side, what is the configuration of the firing points, what are the garrison forces, whether the road forward is smooth, whether the interspersed route is feasible, and so on, all need to be reconnoitred and confirmed in advance.

If it is in the 21 st century in the future, satellites in space, high-altitude reconnaissance planes, low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles, and synthetic aperture radar on the ground will be comprehensively used to scan the number of enemies and what the roads are, everything will be clear, but at the end of the 70s, our army did not have such high-tech reconnaissance means at all, so it could only use the most primitive manpower reconnaissance to complete pre-war preparations.

Because of this, Wu Tianming knew how huge the responsibilities and tasks he undertook, because every reconnaissance result would be sent to the superior leader for reference, and even some reconnaissance results would affect the chief's thinking and determine the direction of the battle, so every time Wu Tianming went out to reconnoitre, he would conscientiously complete the tasks assigned to him by his superiors, and would never dare to be sloppy.

After receiving the mission, Wu Tien Minh selected five soldiers from the company and formed a small detachment with himself to cross the border line and enter Vietnam in the dark night.

Although he had carried out many outbound reconnaissance missions, Wu Tianming did not dare to be careless, after all, they were going deep behind enemy lines and could discover the enemy's situation at any time; not only that, because this kind of reconnaissance is not unique to our army, the Vietnamese army also often sends small detachments to infiltrate the front line of our army to conduct reconnaissance, and it is very likely that the small detachments of both sides will have encounters in the depths of the dense forest.

When Wu Tianming led the team over two mountains and came to the bottom of a valley, Wu Tianming signaled to stop, and then several people dispersed, raising their guns to guard, and Wu Tianming looked at the dark jungle with sharp eyes, and then turned around and whispered to a childish little soldier beside him:

"Xiaotani, bring the raincoat!"

This little soldier named Gu Zelin, who was called Xiao Gu by Wu Tianming, just turned 19 years old this year, is a recruit who just enlisted in the army three months ago, because of his outstanding performance and excellent results, he was assigned to Wu Tianming's reconnaissance company, this is also his first time out of the country to reconnoitre, hearing Wu Tianming's call, Gu Zelin quickly approached Wu Tianming, took out a raincoat from his backpack, and then covered him and Wu Tianming with a raincoat very skillfully.

Wu Tianming took out a map from his body, then turned on the flashlight he carried with him, looked at it by the faint light of the flashlight, and drew it along the map with his fingers, but he didn't mark it with anything, but frowned and memorized the route carefully in his mind.

At this moment, Wu Tianming heard a crisp sound of "pop", and couldn't help but hurriedly raise his head, and saw Gu Zelin holding a raincoat in his left hand, and tearing off a finger-thick leech on his neck with his right hand, seeing Wu Tianming looking at him, Gu Zelin smiled embarrassedly:

"Company commander, leech, it's the fourth today!"

The subtropical jungle is humid and rainy, there are surprisingly many mosquitoes, snakes and ants, and every time you carry out a reconnaissance mission, you will encounter a lot of leeches like this, Wu Tianming has long been surprised, but he frowned and signaled Gu Zelin not to speak, Gu Zelin nodded knowingly, so Wu Tianming lowered his head again and looked at the watch on his wrist by the faint light.

The pointer pointed to 5 o'clock in the morning, almost six hours after they left the border, and it seemed that there was still a long way to go, so Wu Tianming turned off the flashlight, got out of the raincoat, and ordered at the team:

"I'll be on guard, and the others will be in place for two hours!"

As soon as Wu Tianming's words fell, the soldiers who were raising their guns on alert gradually moved closer together, some leaned on each other, some sat on the ground with guns, and after a while, several soldiers fell asleep, obviously tired, Wu Tianming looked at these sleeping soldiers, with a little relieved smile on his face, but just when he was about to take the gun and get up on guard, Gu Zelin's childish smiling face suddenly appeared in front of his eyes:

"Xiaogu, why don't you go to rest, you have to hurry later, go and rest!"

"Company commander, I'm not tired!" Although Gu Zelin's voice was very low, he still had a bright smile on his face, and Wu Tianming couldn't help but smile when he saw this:

"Okay, then follow me on guard!"

"Hmm!" Gu Zelin agreed, then reached out and pulled up Wu Tianming, who was sitting on the ground, and then the two of them held guns around several comrades-in-arms to guard!

"Company commander, this gun is really good!" Gu Zelin, who was on guard with Wu Tianming, patted the Type 78 assault rifle in his hand and said to Wu Tianming with a smile.

Vigilance is originally a tense and boring errand, and talking to two people like this is also a good way to relieve pressure, and because of this, Wu Tianming responded with a smile:

"What's going on?"

"It's much stronger than the Type 56 I used when I was in the recruit company, the recoil is not great, but the strength is very strong, it's really a good guy!" Gu Zelin still had a bright smile, but then his face became serious: "Oh, by the way, company commander, I heard the veteran say that this Type 78 was developed by you?"

"Don't listen to their nonsense, I didn't develop this gun, at most I participated in it!"

"Who developed that?" Gu Zelin was like a curious baby, chasing this question and couldn't stop.

Wu Tianming didn't want to say it, but looking at Gu Zelin's childish and truth-seeking face, Lu Jiadong's frowning and thinking suddenly flashed in his mind, and he couldn't help but evoke all kinds of thoughts during his time in Wanshan Factory, so he blurted out:

"Lu Jiadong!"

"Lu Jiadong?" Hearing this unfamiliar name, Gu Zelin's face couldn't help but flash a trace of doubt: "He is also a soldier, right?"

"How do you ask that?"

After listening to Wu Tianming's question, Gu Zelin patted the 78 style in his hand: "If you haven't been a soldier, how can you design the 78 style so close to the habits of soldiers!"

"He hasn't been a soldier!" As soon as Gu Zelin's voice fell, Wu Tianming responded with a smile, Gu Zelin was a little surprised when he heard this answer, Wu Tianming looked at Gu Zelin who was surprised, smiled and continued:

"Not only did he not serve as a soldier, but he was about the same age as you, as if you were only a year younger than him!"

"How is it possible" As soon as Gu Zelin's words came out, there was a sparse sound in the dense forest not far away, Wu Tianming hurriedly signaled Gu Zelin to silence, and then the two of them lay down, raised the firearm in their hands, and stared closely at the direction of the sound, only to hear the voice getting closer and closer.

Wu Tianming was okay, the bright smile on Gu Zelin's face next to him had long disappeared without a trace, replaced by a nervous look, and his cheeks were also covered with beads of sweat, unconsciously, Gu Zelin's hand had opened the safety of the firearm, and at this moment, with a rustling friction sound, a fat bamboo rat came out of the grass.

Gu Zelin didn't see that it was a bamboo rat clearly, he only saw a black shadow, and he couldn't help but pull the trigger in a nervous way, Wu Tianming, who was next to him, wanted to stop it, but he was too late, so he just listened

"Puff~~" There was a slight muffled sound, and the round little bamboo rat fell to the ground in response, and Wu Tianming, who was next to him, snatched Gu Zelin's gun:

"Look clearly, it's a bamboo rat!" Saying that, Wu Tianming couldn't help but exhale happily: "Fortunately, the gun is equipped with a silencer in advance, otherwise this gunshot will cause trouble to attract the enemy!"

At this time, Gu Zelin also knew that it was a false alarm, and couldn't help wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, Wu Tianming couldn't help but soften when he saw this, although Gu Zelin performed well on the training ground, but after all, he was just a recruit who had been in the army for less than three months.

It is inevitable that there will be tension when he first enters the battlefield, not to mention Gu Zelin, even Wu Tianming himself was also so nervous when he was on a cross-border mission for the first time.

Thinking of this, Wu Tianming had already reached the reproach in his mouth, and swallowed it hard, but handed the gun to Gu Zelin, then stretched out his hand, pulled him up from the ground, and then looked at the dead bamboo rat, and said with emotion:

"It's still Xiao Lu who has foresight and developed this gun silencer, otherwise, we will all leak it now!"

"Little Lu?" Gu Zelin's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard this title: "Could it be that this muffler was also developed by that Lu Jiadong?"

"Not to mention this gun silencer!" Wu Tianming said and pointed to the Type 78 assault rifle in Gu Zelin's hand: "The guide rail on the gun, the tactical flashlight, the scope you removed and put in the backpack, and the grenade launcher under the gun were all developed by him, and these are all collectively called firearm accessories by him!"

"It's all developed by Lu Jiadong?" Gu Zelin looked at Wu Tianming incredulously, but Wu Tianming did not answer, but nodded affirmatively.

"He's amazing!" Gu Zelin patted the Type 78 assault rifle in his hand again, as if he had seen Lu Jiadong, and praised with a smile on his face.

"Alright, stop shooting guns, will your gun be used with a grenade launcher?"

After listening to Wu Tianming's words, Gu Zelin hurriedly put the gun in place and replied with a smile: "Don't worry, company commander, I have already learned it! This thing is farther than a grenade, and I have already figured it out!"

"Well, that's good!" Wu Tianming nodded: "The military workers in our rear have made so many good things, but they can't be wasted in our hands, if we don't play out with spirit, we will be blind with such good weapons and equipment, not to mention that we are still scouts, we are the outpost of the whole army, and we can't let the guys in our hands become scrap metal!"

"Company commander, don't worry, the guy in our hands will definitely let the Vietnamese monkeys come and go, and if they can't eat, they have to go around!"

"Hmm!" Wu Tianming nodded with a smile, looked at his watch in the dim moonlight, and then said to Gu Zelin: "It's almost time, tell everyone to get up!"

"Yes!" Gu Zelin stood upright, and then ran towards the place where his comrades were resting, and at this time, the sky was already white, and Wu Tianming said

"Let's go!" The team soon disappeared into the dense forests of northern Vietnam