That evening, after we returned to the battalion after training, Regiment Commander Zhang summoned the cadres of each battalion to the regiment headquarters for a meeting. Although the superiors have not yet made a clear announcement, the soldiers know what this is for.

It was reasonable for the higher authorities to keep the time of the war secret, and our army had a feeling when we fought Dong Deng that it seemed that the Vietnamese army knew our march route...... Of course, part of the reason for this is that the Vietnamese army is familiar with our army's tactics of outflanking, but if they can know it in such detail, there must be Vietnamese spies lurking inside our army.

It is said that these Vietnamese people look almost exactly like us, especially the people living in the Sino-Vietnamese border, and sometimes they can't even tell whether they are Vietnamese or Chinese. In addition, the personnel organization of our army is very 'chaotic' and 'chaotic', and it basically belongs to the kind of state of replenishing troops while fighting a war. The registration of soldiers only needs to be registered with the instructor of the company, and there have even been cases where some supplementary soldiers have died before they can register with the instructor, and as a result, we have not even had time to know the name of the hero.

This is related to the period when our army resisted US aggression and aided Vietnam, when China and Vietnam were comrades and brothers, and in order to better 'communicate' and study with China, many people in Vietnam learned Chinese, and even many people studied in China's military academies. Now it seems that as long as they are transformed, they can become "supplementary soldiers" of our army and join our army.

Therefore, there is no doubt that there are many Vietnamese agents in our army, which is why Regiment Commander Zhang has been strictly guarding his tone during this time. It's just that...... Now that even ordinary soldiers know that they are going to do it soon, will those Vietnamese agents still not be able to guess it?

With this question, I walked towards the regiment headquarters with the deputy battalion commander and instructors.

The deputy battalion commander is the Zhou Changxiang who made me rise and fall, since he became the deputy battalion commander, although he faintly understood that there were no soldiers under him, but it seemed that the title of deputy battalion commander was quite complacent. For example, now, it seems that being qualified to attend a regimental meeting has already satisfied him.

The instructor's name is Peng Xuehai, and he is from Shanxi. Although he was in charge of the ideological and political work of the soldiers in the battalion, what surprised me a little was that he was not talkative, and at the same time, he was not as immobile as the instructors and instructors I had seen. This is not? I didn't say a word to him in the days I had been the battalion commander. But then again, I rarely go back to the camp headquarters these days, and I am out training with the soldiers all day long, and I rarely meet him a few times when I go out early and return late.

But fortunately, there are two deputy battalion commanders and instructors, so I don't need to worry about any documents and reports from the battalion headquarters. The so-called new officer took office with three fires, and Zhou Changxiang was full of enthusiasm after becoming the deputy battalion commander. And he seems to get along well with the instructors. On the way to the regiment headquarters, I heard them discussing behind me what documents, what reports, and what style of work in the battalion, and I only heard that my mind was full of mush......

This war is a war! Why do you still have so many famous halls? Politics is such a thing, let's let some politicians play in their own post-'flower' garden!

When we walked into the regiment headquarters, there were already many people gathered inside, and they were all the main cadres of the regiment and the battalion. Because he had only been the battalion commander for a few days, this was the first time he had gathered together for a meeting, so he was very unfamiliar with the cadres of other battalions. But it seems that everyone else is no stranger to me, and they all cast indescribable glances at me!

Envy? Eat one's heart out? Admiration?

Maybe it's some! Just imagine how many years it took for them to become the battalion commanders, and they don't know how much effort and effort they have taken to get to today's "achievement." But I was a recruit more than a month ago, and I was only a platoon commander before I went to the battlefield, but after only a few days of hard work, I was ......like taking a helicopter, and I was promoted to the battalion commander by a few levels! And it seems to have been appreciated by the commander (I later learned that the reason why they thought I was appreciated by the commander was solely because I was drunk that day and broke my head!). I went to see the commander and came back drunk...... Isn't that appreciated or what? ）

Therefore, the cadres all looked at me, the new battalion commander, differently, but they were jealous and appreciative. Of course, they won't show it in front of me. Just kidding, the red man in front of the military commander, that dares to offend!

So soon someone smiled and gave me a seat, and a fair-skinned and sven-looking cadre stepped forward to shake hands with me and said, "You are Comrade Cui Wei, the commander of the second battalion!" I am Wang Zhengang, the commander of the first battalion, and I am really terrible! Became a battalion commander so quickly! Come on...... Sit here! ”

"Where, where! Thank you, thank you......" I was busy coping, and I suddenly realized that I had unconsciously become someone else's stammer!

"Come, I'll introduce you!" After I sat down, Wang Zhengang pointed to a silent old cadre in a few positions and said, "He is He Liqiang, the commander of the third battalion......

I smiled and nodded at him, but he just squinted slightly, snorted softly and ignored me. 'Make' me a little embarrassed.

"Don't mind, the third battalion commander is such a person!" The commander of the first battalion lowered his voice and said: "He can't get along with anyone, even the regiment commander is ......."

"Comrades!" At this time, Political Commissar Huang saw that everyone was almost all together and began to speak: "Now that the meeting begins, first of all, I would like to introduce to you the new commander of our second battalion - Comrade Cui Wei!" ”

I stood up and saluted both sides, and there was a round of applause all around.

"Comrade Cui Wei is the youngest battalion commander of our regiment!" After the applause subsided, he continued: "But let's not look at his youth, this battle is not tender at all. It has only been a few days since he went abroad to fight, and he has made meritorious contributions in the attack on the 386 Heights, the 339 Heights, Tanmou, Dongxi, and even the Guitun Fort, so the organization has considered making an exception to promote Comrade Cui Wei to the commander of the second battalion, hoping that all battalions can work together with him to kill the enemy! ”

"Good!" There was applause again at the regiment headquarters, and all the soldiers turned their eyes to me, even He Liqiang, the commander of the third battalion who was not very careful, looked at me a few more times.

"With time running out, we're down to business!" Then Political Commissar Huang said: "In the past few days, our dragnet clearance operation has achieved great results, basically eliminating the Vietnamese troops lurking in villages, highlands and forests, and annihilating a total of 578 Vietnamese agents, while our army has only suffered 74 casualties. The superiors had a positive attitude towards the victory of our operation, and praised us for not only striking at the arrogance of the Vietnamese agents, but also ensuring the logistics of our army and laying the foundation for our army to create greater results! ”

The "uproar ......" was another round of applause.

This seems to be the characteristic of our country's meetings, and every meeting, no matter what it says, will have these situations.

"But ......" then Political Commissar Huang changed his words and said seriously: "The superiors believe that although we have won a series of victories, we have not been convinced by the Vietnamese army. They are still clamoring for all the soldiers to drive us out, and even say that they can launch a counteroffensive in a few days...... Therefore, the superiors decided to intensify the blow to the Vietnamese army and teach them a hard lesson! ”

"That's right! Until you convince them! ”

"That's just right, don't blame us for being ruthless!"

……

Listening to Political Commissar Huang's words, the cadres also expressed their approval.

"Here's the thing!" Political Commissar Huang did a good job of ideological work, and Regiment Commander Zhang walked up, he pointed to the map on the wall with his command 'stick' and said: "The main target of our army is Lang Son City of the Vietnamese Army, and considering that our 213th Division already has rich experience in fighting the enemy, this time it is still the main task of frontal attack. The 212th and 211th Divisions outflanked our left and right flanks respectively on the left and right flanks of our army......"

It's a two-sided tactic again, there is nothing wrong with this tactic itself, *** has used this tactic to win many battles before, and even our army often used this tactic when resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, but the problem is ...... The Vietnamese army has long been familiar with this tactic of ours.

The so-called roundabout outflanking should be to launch a surprise attack, encirclement, and threaten the enemy's supply lines without his knowledge, so that it will have the desired effect! Now that the enemy already knows that we are going to use this tactic, we still use it the same way, so what does that do?

But in retrospect, I didn't stand up and refute it. Because I know that it is useless to refute, and the current tone of Head Zhang is not discussing with us, but assigning tasks! And I also know that this is the battle plan of the whole army, and it is impossible to completely 'mess up' because of the opposition of a battalion commander!

How did this Liu Shunyi do it! Thinking of this, I couldn't help frowning, wasn't he still a deputy commander during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea? I've been fighting under me for a few years! How can you still make this mistake now!

Later, I learned that in fact, he couldn't help himself, this battle was a joint battle of more than 20 armies, and there were many things that he could not say as a commander!

"Our division's mission ......" After thinking about it, Regiment Commander Zhang pointed to the map and continued: "The strength of our division is mainly deployed in the section from the 303 Heights to the Barrow area, and the main force is divided into three routes to attack along both sides of the Tonglang Highway and the north bank of the Qiqiao River in the direction of Langshan. From left to right, the 637th, 638th and 639th regiments...... The offensive line of our regiment is to carry out a surprise attack on Ku Ma Mountain along that direction, attack the 417 Heights with a part of the force, first annihilate the enemy at the Ku Ma Mountains and the 417 Heights, and then advance along the Dong Deng to Lang Son Road, make a surprise attack to Lang Son City, and annihilate the Vietnamese army in the Lang Son City area! ”

It was a small point and two sides, and looking at the marching route drawn by Regiment Commander Zhang on the map, I quickly understood. In the big aspect, it is a roundabout outflanking at the division level, in the small aspect, it is a roundabout outflanking at the regimental level, and then in the smaller aspect...... Maybe the battalion level is also ......

"Comrades!" After assigning the task, Political Commissar Hoang continued: "Our task this time is quite arduous, and the Vietnamese army has strengthened the fortifications after such a day of preparation. According to our reconnaissance, the Vietnamese army has already had a thorough operational plan and firepower allocation, and the Vietnamese army has also cooperated with the local militia to closely integrate the strong combat strength of the combat units with the advantages of the local militia in being familiar with the terrain and features, and has organized and conducted many exercises. At the same time, they also stockpiled sufficient weapons and equipment and ammunition and ammunition to prevent our troops from defending Lang Son in the northwest area of Kuma Mountain, and waited for an opportunity to counterattack and force us to retreat. Therefore, this battle is the key to our army's attack on Lang Son City, and at the same time, it is also the key to our army's strategic goal of punishing the Vietnamese army. ”

"Yes!" The fighters replied in a loud voice.

"I must mention that one thing for you is ......" Political Commissar Huang continued: "This time the Vietnamese army has made full preparations, they have laid a large number of mines along the river and along the road to slow down the advance of our army, and the Vietnamese army has also gained experience this time, many mines are laid in the dead corners of our army's artillery, so comrades must do a good job of demining when advancing!" In addition......"

Speaking of this, Political Commissar Huang and Head Zhang glanced at each other, and both of them had some hesitation on their faces.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but be shocked in my heart, I am afraid that it will not be a good thing to make Commander Zhang and Political Commissar Huang 'want' to speak and stop. I think it's a bad trick that the more devils will use.

Sure enough, after a long while, Political Commissar Huang said: "According to reliable information from our army, it is very likely that the Vietnamese army will use poison gas in order to resist the attack of our army!" ”

"Coax!" With a bang, Political Commissar Huang's short sentence immediately set off a lot of 'waves' and 'waves' in the regiment headquarters.

With poison gas! What age is it now, and what conventions and humanitarianism have been coming out for many years, hasn't it? Poison gas is forbidden even on the battlefield, isn't it? Is this more devil still in use?

However, this seems to be normal, people will do anything if they are 'forced' urgently, not to mention that we are now facing a country that is 'forced' urgent! Isn't the devil poisoning drinking water along the way? In a country at war, who will preach to you?

"So......" Political Commissar Huang took out a gas mask from the 'drawer' and said, "After the meeting is dismissed, we will go to the armory as a company unit to get the gas mask, and teach the soldiers to use it overnight!" Whenever there is a suspicious situation on the battlefield, immediately put on a gas mask, understand? ”

"Understood!"

"Understood!"

……

This time, the cadres' answers were not so uniform, and when they heard that the Vietnamese army might use poison gas, everyone seemed to be at a loss. It's not something we can control.

After a lot of heart, he returned to the station, and the soldiers surrounded him and asked, "Battalion commander, are you going to fight again?" ”

"Where are you hitting this time?"

"When is it going to hit?"

……

"Why do you ask so much?" I turned my face 'pale' and said angrily: "Give me all back, I'll know when the time comes, right?" ”

"Yes!" When the soldiers saw that I was not joking, they did not dare to say anything more, and returned to their places one after another.

Maybe because he felt this tense atmosphere, he didn't even sing the two girls Liu Yun and Yichen tonight. I searched through the crowd for a long time to find the two of them. Liu Yun was sitting there nervously at this moment, looking east and west, his face was a little pale, and he hurriedly lowered his head when he met my gaze. Irchen is better, and now he is 'fiddling' with the rifle in his hand, and he is quite proficient in that action!

I wanted to go up and 'hand' them a few words, but after thinking about it, I decided to forget it. The superiors have 'handed over' that they can't say anything about the battle tomorrow morning, even if the soldiers can guess it...... So at least the Vietnamese agents don't know the time of our attack!

The soldiers were still quiet for the time being, and when the gas masks came down, the soldiers couldn't hold back any longer, and they were all talking about it, and everyone had doubts and fears on their faces!

"Battalion commander!" The people from my hometown walked up to me with gas masks and asked bluntly: "Is the Yue devil planning to engage in 'yin'?" ”

I wanted to deny it or not speak, the regiment commander and the political commissar meant that they were worried about causing panic in the troops, so for the time being, they only said just in case, but I couldn't do this to my comrades, and after hesitating, I nodded slightly.

"it!" The hometown scolded fiercely and sat next to me. He also seemed to know my difficulties, so he didn't spread the news.

It is said that the battalion commander, a cadre who says that it is not big or small, is really not easy to be, and when it comes to such a thing, there are orders from above, and subordinates from below, and many times it is not pleasing at both ends!

"Company Commander Chen!" I patted my hometown on the shoulder, raised my head to Liu Yun and Yichen, the two 'female' soldiers, and said, "Those two 'female' soldiers will be 'handed over' to you, don't let them get too close to the battle line!" ”

The hometown people nodded when they were late: "Don't worry!" If I'm there, they're there! ”

The reason why I 'handed over' the two 'female' soldiers to my hometown was because the Fifth Company was the strongest unit under my command, and it was necessary to charge into battle on the battlefield, and the 'female' soldiers would be sacrificed quickly if they put this company aside. And I can't rest assured that Silian, then there are only hometown people. I think he'll understand that, too.

No one slept well this night, although the soldiers could be said to have been fighting all this time, but after a relatively low-intensity clean-up operation, they were about to enter a more 'fierce' war, and the soldiers would inevitably feel a little nervous. But no matter what, for those of us who are soldiers, the battle always has to be fought, even if we know that we may never come back! This is not only a helplessness, but also a mission, a soldier's mission!

In the sky, the moon slowly hid into the dark clouds, and the sky became darker and darker, and after a while, it began to rain lightly. This seems to tell us that it is close to the rainy season in Vietnam. It seems to tell us that tomorrow will be an unusual day.

I looked at the soldiers who returned to the air-raid 'shelter' to rest one by one, and I thought to myself, I don't know how many people will stand in front of me after tomorrow!