Chapter Eighty-Three: Advanced Foot School

Life in the base was boring and boring, and I couldn't help but miss the battlefield a little.

Although what we are doing now is no different from what we do on the battlefield, and we have much more material resources in all aspects than on the battlefield, the feeling is completely different. On the battlefield, we dig tunnels and build trenches, that is for victory and survival, but now we dig tunnels and build trenches in the base, in order not to let our combat ability decline......

Of course, the battlefield is full of crises and thrills all the time, which is also the reason why I can't feel how quickly time flies. Most of the time on the battlefield, after every day, I thought to myself, I lived another day, how lucky I am! But when I was at the base, whenever I saw the sun going down, I couldn't help but sigh: Why did the sun go down!

Maybe it's because of my unwilling to be lonely!

Because no other warrior seems to find this kind of life difficult except me. After all, compared to the battlefield where you can lose your life when you follow, it can be said that it is much better. For the warriors who are accustomed to living a hard life, this base can almost be regarded as a resort for them. This is not? They even talked and laughed all the way to build trenches, and some soldiers even dug twice to take a breath, dig two more times, and look up at the scenery...... They think this is refining their bodies! So much so that the trenches that could have been built on the battlefield in just one or two days have not been built in a week now.

This situation has since been improved by the arrival of reinforcements, and the recruits need to be trained! Of course, this training also includes building trenches and digging tunnels. Moreover, all battalions and companies almost unanimously emphasized to the recruits that the construction of trenches and tunnel fortifications is a very important item on the Korean battlefield, and it is directly related to the question of whether our army can survive under the enemy's powerful artillery fire! So there is no room for sloppiness. Some cadres with good eloquence even moved out of the same way that "only by preserving themselves can we destroy the enemy," and then naturally handed over all the manual work to the recruit comrades, and they sat aside and pointed at them.

Then again, what they said made sense, and the recruits really needed this kind of training, so I had to reluctantly acquiesce to their lazy approach!

This has made it difficult for those new recruits who have just been recruited, all of them are eighteen or nineteen years old, and most of them are from peasant backgrounds. These supplementary soldiers also spent a lot of time dealing with the land with hoes at home, and all of them had the great ambition of going to the battlefield to fight devils with guns, but who would have thought that they would still deal with the land at this time......

However, the soldiers are not so irresponsible to the recruits, after all, they also know that when we go to the battlefield again, those recruits will be our comrades-in-arms who fight side by side, that is, comrades who trust each other in life and death. So after a while, a little time will be found to give them some necessary military training. Walking in a straight step, standing in a military posture, cross-country long-distance running, shooting training, and sometimes telling the story of fighting on the Korean battlefield in front of the recruits......

Personally, I think it's important for veterans to tell stories in front of recruits, because they often contain a lot of lessons for recruits to learn.

The training of recruits, I can only let go of Liu Shunyi. The main reason is that I did not come from a military background and never had formal military training. Of course, if military training in college can also be counted, I have no objection. It's just that I really don't even dare to compliment myself in my military posture, how high my fist should be raised, how far my steps should go, I have forgotten everything, where do I dare to show off in front of the recruits.

"Captain!" On this day, when I was boringly flipping through the selection of revolutionary poems in the tunnel, Li Pinghe walked up to me with a smile on his face and said: "Commander, this time is boring!" ”

"It's a little bit!" Hearing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly: "After fighting for so long, I suddenly stopped at this time, and the bones in my whole body were gone!" ”

"Yes! I'm not much worse either! Li Pinghe said with a smile: "But don't worry, the head of the regiment, you will have a new mission soon!" ”

"New mission?" Hearing this, I couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "What task?" How do you know I'm going to have a new assignment? ”

"Report!" Coincidentally, at this very moment, a radio soldier saluted me and handed me a telegram.

I took a look at it, and saw that it was written uprightly: "Go to Beijing with Li Pinghe, and the affairs of the regiment will be managed by Liu Shunyi for the time being!" ”

I couldn't help but look at Li Pinghe with strange eyes, he seemed to have known about this task for a long time.

"Hmm!" Li Pinghe hesitated and explained: "I just came from the radio station and saw this telegram first!" ”

"Oh!" I nodded, and my mind quickly returned to the telegram.

After reading the telegram again and making sure that I was not mistaken, I couldn't help but put a big question mark in my heart!

Going to Beijing? All Beijing? What are you going to do there?

As a Chinese, I don't think anyone will be unfamiliar with the name Beijing. In fact, in modern times, I have been to Beijing several times for work reasons, and I also got on the train from Beijing to cover news in North Korea. But that's all modern Beijing, and today's Beijing, compared to modern times, is the Beijing of 6o years ago, and I really haven't seen it.

To tell the truth, I am very willing to carry out the order of leaving the affairs of the regiment to Liu Shunyi, and I don't want to stay in the base all day and do nothing to be a nominal regiment commander, which will make me feel like a person who eats idle food.

So when the order went down, I couldn't wait to take the guards, Li Pinghe, and a few radio soldiers, and they took two jeeps and rushed to Beijing.

"Report to the Captain! Head...... We've arrived in Beijing, where are we going? "The driver's voice pulled me out of my sleep.

I sighed, rubbed my sleepy eyes and looked out the window. Through the dusty glass windows and the hazy night under the moonlight, the antique courtyard houses appeared in front of me. There are no pedestrians on the street, and occasionally you will see two big red lanterns hanging in front of the doors of some large households, and the dancing red light makes the stone lions in front of the door come to life, and also illuminates the red slogans on the walls.

I took out my pocket watch and saw that it was only eleven o'clock at this time, if it was in modern Beijing, I am afraid that it is the time when the city nightlife begins to be brightly lit! I can't imagine that just 60 years later, the whole world will have such a drastic change.

"Captain! Where do you go now? Seeing that I didn't answer, the driver asked again.

Oh, yes! Where to go? I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this, my superiors just asked me to rush to Beijing, but they didn't tell me where my destination was! I don't know where to go now.

"Stop!" After thinking about it, I ordered: "Use the radio to contact the division headquarters, inform us of our location, and ask for instructions!" ”

"Yes!" The driver answered, and as soon as he stepped on the brakes, the jeep stopped with a "squeak".

"Hmm! What's wrong? At this time, Li Pinghe, who was also asleep, also woke up, poked his head out of his coat and asked, "Where is this?" Why park? ”

"It's time for Beijing!" I replied, "I was about to ask my boss for the next step!" ”

"Hmm! It's been ......" Li Pinghe couldn't help scratching his head, and said embarrassedly: "I don't need to contact my superiors, I know where to go?" ”

Ignoring my surprised gaze, he handed the driver a map, pointed to a location on the map and said, "Xiao Li, drive here!" ”

"Yes!" Xiao Li answered, immediately turned the front of the car, and drove the car in the other direction.

"What?" Hearing this, I couldn't help but look at Li Pinghe in a daze.

"Commander, what are you looking at me for?" Li Pinghe looked at me with a smile, still pretending to be confused with me.

"Done, you!" It took me a long time to react, and said to Li Pinghe with a wry smile: "I said political commissar, it turns out that you understand it in your heart!" Are you trafficking in human beings or what? Are you going to sell us? ”

"What are you talking about!" Li Pinghe couldn't help but smile and said, "Commander, if I want to sell people, can I sell you evil stars?" Even if I am willing to sell, who would dare to buy this! It's a long life, isn't it? ”

There was a coax, and this only made the soldiers in the car laugh.

"Be lenient in your confession!" After laughing for a while, I asked, a little unconvinced, "Where are we going?" ”

"Didn't you say you'd visit my uncle when you had time?" Li Pinghe said with a smile: "This time you don't need to be free to go again, we'll be there soon!" ”

"Your uncle?"

"yes!" Li Pinghe nodded, and said endlessly: "Vice Principal of the First Senior Infantry School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, he wants to see you!" ”

"What? Advanced step school? Vice-principal? "When I heard this, my head buzzed and I was confused.

When I received this task, I thought a lot, and I also thought that I came here to meet an important person, after all, this is all right! But I really didn't expect to come to this mysterious senior step school to meet the vice principal.

Maybe it's because I'm not from a military background, so I don't know much about this advanced foot school. The first time I heard this name, I watched a documentary about Zhang Taofang, the sniper king of the Korean War, and knew that he had studied in a high-level infantry school.

Originally, I thought that this advanced infantry school was only established by our army after the founding of the People's Republic of China, but later I found out that the establishment of this advanced infantry school could be traced back to the era of the New Fourth Army, and it also has a history of several decades. However, when it was first established, it did not have a fixed school building because of the difficult conditions, and it was a mobile school that trained officers for various units.

I think many people will understand that it is a military school. Because for a long time our army only had infantry, it was named "Advanced Infantry School".

Over the past several decades, the Senior Infantry School has grown up with the revolutionary soldiers in the flames of war, and has trained and sent countless officers and cadres to our army's troops, which can be said to have made very outstanding contributions to China's revolutionary cause. This makes the senior infantry school have considerable influence in the military circles of our army.

There is no doubt about this, and some people will think that this is just a military school, and how much influence it can have. Chiang Kai-shek also thought the same way when he was the principal of the Huangpu Military Academy. But when he reluctantly took office, it turned out that this was a great opportunity. As long as he pays attention to cultivating his cronies in the military academy, and then after these cadets take up their posts as officers in various units, his power will expand by geometric proportions!

Now, what I want to meet is the vice-president of the military academy of our army......

"Commissar!" Thinking of this, I couldn't help but say to Li Pinghe with some blame: "Why have you never told me about it, your uncle is the vice principal of the advanced step school!" ”

"What do you think when I tell me?" Li Pinghe didn't answer and asked: "What you thought of first should be that I, the political commissar of the regiment, must have relied on my uncle's relationship to sit down!" Even if you don't think so, other leading cadres will think so, and even if the leading cadres don't think so, the fighters will think so! ”

"Hmm! That's just as well! I couldn't help but nod.

The so-called human words are terrible, and this era is different from our modern times. If there is such a relationship in modern times, then I wish everyone in the world knew about it. But in this era, after having this level of relationship, sometimes it will attract gossip and attacks because of the problem of avoidance, and there are even many people who have the ability and achievements themselves, but because of related reasons, in order to show fairness, they deliberately do not praise and do not promote.

So it's really as Li Pinghe said, it's better not to say it!

"Captain Cui, in fact, my uncle has been paying attention to you for a long time!" After a pause, Li Pinghe continued: "Remember when I interrogated you? You were a battalion commander then......"

"How can you not remember!" I smiled bitterly: "At that time, you were so stunned that you treated me as a spy, and almost shot me!" ”

"Huh...... I'm sorry for you! Li Pinghe smiled and said: "At that time, I also did my duty, and you do have a lot of doubts......

"Gotta ......" I stopped with a smile: "Commissar, don't say it, you can go on!" I'm a spy again! ”

There was a coax, and everyone in the car laughed.

"Fortunately, the boss stood up to clarify for you that time!" After laughing for a while, Li Pinghe said with some joy: "Otherwise, you really can't wash it by jumping into the Yellow River, and I will regret it for the rest of my life!" ”

"You don't come to this set!" I responded with a look of disdain, "If you really shoot me!" Then who else will rehabilitate me? Then you will be thinking for the rest of your life, this is a puppet army agent, I killed it right! I have made another contribution to the revolutionary cause! ”

"you!" Li Ping angrily punched me. The soldiers laughed again, and the atmosphere inside the car suddenly became relaxed and lively.

I suddenly had a strange feeling in my heart, and I felt that I was much closer to Li Pinghe. After thinking about it carefully, I realized that in fact, I have always been suspicious of Li Pinghe who had tried me in the first place. Even after fighting with him for so long, even if I don't want to admit it, I have always had this matter in my heart.

It wasn't until Li Pinghe mentioned it again just now, and then between a burst of laughter and scolding, that the little resentment in my heart completely came to naught.

It seems that there are some things that really have to be said and said before they can be solved and completely let go.

"To be honest......" laughed for a while, Li Pinghe patted me on the shoulder and continued: "After the boss took you away that time, I was still a little unconvinced, and I wanted to grab a little bit of your pigtails." So after some research, I learned more about your experience in the army. As a result, the more I investigated, the more frightened I became, and in the end, even I didn't believe that a soldier like you, who had brought so much damage to the United Nations forces on the battlefield, could be a spy! ”

"That's it!" The driver Xiao Li couldn't help but quip: "If Captain Cui is also a spy like this, then I am also willing to be a spy!" ”

There was another burst of laughter from inside the jeep.

"Later, I told my uncle about it, and he became interested in you!" Li Pinghe handed me a cigarette, lit each other, took a puff of cigarette and continued: "Especially the anti-slope tunnel fortification you proposed, my uncle thinks that your suggestion is precisely the most practical tactic for our volunteers when they need it most. Uncle also said that if the war situation is allowed to unfold like this, our army may also sum up such a tactic in actual combat, because our army has tenacious vitality and learning ability, and learning while fighting is also a characteristic of our army's operations. But this requires a process, it takes a long time, and in this process, during this time, the price of obtaining this tactic is the lives of thousands of volunteer soldiers! So, in other words, this tactic you proposed, Commander Cui, I don't know how many comrades have been saved! ”

Listening to Li Pinghe's words, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and I couldn't help but secretly say in my heart, Li Pinghe's uncle was able to analyze this matter so thoroughly and understand, and he really deserved to be the vice principal of the senior step school......

"So ......" Then Li Pinghe looked at me a little embarrassed and said: "I will become the political commissar of the 538th Regiment so coincidentally, in fact, it is not a coincidence, but an arrangement by my uncle." Uncle wants me to observe you on the battlefield and report back to him about you. Uncle has wanted to see you for a long time, but Commander Cui is a busy man and has always been entangled in important military affairs, and his uncle is worried that it will affect the battle situation, so he has to give up. Now that I finally have this opportunity, my uncle can't help it anymore! ”

Depend on! Hearing this, I couldn't help but curse secretly, it turns out that for so long, there is a "level spy" hidden by my side, but I don't know! ”