Chapter 61: The Horn of the Infantry

Chapter 61: The Horn of the Infantry

"Under the pine trees in the direction of eight o'clock"

"Six o'clock direction behind the mound"

"One o'clock in the grass"

As I accurately reported the positions of the fighters one after another, the members of the 'shooting' strike team, dressed in thatched camouflage, reluctantly stood up from their hiding places. When the fourth 'shooting' member Al Ziri stood up from the small ditch, the intercom heard the deflated voice of the members of the 'shooting' team:

"Let the battalion commander find out all of them again"

"That's not nonsense, who is our battalion commander?"

"If you want me to say...... What else are we practicing here, where can we meet a Vietnamese sniper and let the battalion commander go up? ”

"Did you talk like that? As soon as you touch a sniper, let the battalion commander get on? ”

……

The warriors stood up from their hiding places as they spoke.

This is the actual combat exercise of the 'shooting' group, and the role I play is the Vietnamese sniper lurking in the shadows, and the task of the soldiers is to use those two tactics of 'luring' the enemy to successfully approach me and "kill" me.

Of course, because we didn't have drill shells, we had to find the exact location of the other party. After all, in a sniper battle, being able to find the opponent's location first seems to be half the battle.

This was the third time the warriors had tried to get close to me, but I had found them one by one. But it's not surprising, who am I? With an SVD sniper rifle in hand, if they had been so easy to get within a 400-meter 'shot' range, would I still be alive?

But just as I was about to get up from the shelter, I suddenly realized that something was wrong, and the discouraged words spoken by the warriors seemed to be excessive. The first two times they were found out by me, although there were a few complaints, those complaints were actually expressing admiration for me in another way. For example: "This can also be found", "Where is the battalion commander hiding?" I can't escape his eyes anywhere......"

And they complain and complain, but they seem to like this kind of "silent" confrontation, as some fighters say, it's like playing a 'maze' when they are young...... But then again, this sniper battle in the jungle is really like playing 'hide', the difference is that 'hide' and hide is a game, while we play life

But this time...... They even said something like "let the battalion commander go up if you encounter a Vietnamese sniper in the future", and the so-called dedication to courtesy is either 'treachery' or theft, so I think there must be fraud in this.

"Battalion commander, come out" Alziri shouted in my direction: "We lost, come out and drink saliva......"

These kids, still play this game with me

I couldn't help but laugh when I heard this, I wasn't sure if they were cheating, but when I heard Alziri shout, I was sure. If you look at the members who came out of the shadows, there are only twelve of them, and one of them has not come out, who is it? I quickly thought of Li Shui'......

So I looked around carefully, but I still didn't get anything, and then I thought that Li Shui' Bo was also holding an SVD sniper rifle in his hand, and he didn't need to get close to me for 400 meters before firing, so I extended the search radius outward. However, as soon as the search radius is extended, the area to be searched is much larger, and the SVD's 'shooting' range is a thousand meters, and it is really not much different from looking for a needle in a haystack to find a person in such a large area in the jungle and there is no direction.

But I soon noticed that the warriors who came out were looking at a tree unconsciously...... So I had an idea and shouted into the walkie-talkie: "At ten o'clock, on the big tree, Li Shui 'wave'"

"Hey, it's a god"

……

The soldiers made an unbelievable sound, and Li Shui'bo, whose whole body was full of branches, reluctantly climbed down from under the tree.

"Who's under the pine tree?" But after a while, we got together and learned from the experience.

"Report to the battalion commander, it's me" A soldier named Lin Qi raised his hand.

Lin Qi is a soldier of the Fourth Company, a native of the Northeast, who is five big and three thick, and speaks with a thick Northeast accent.

"You're moving too much," I said to him, "lean against that tree...... The pine cones on the tree fell down...... I don't think it's hard to find you."

"Report to the battalion commander" Alziri patted Lin Qi's broad shoulder and quipped: "It's not that Lin Qi's movements are too big, but that the tree is too small."

With a coax, the warrior burst out laughing, only Lin Qi scratched his head in embarrassment.

"Who's hiding behind the mound?" I asked again.

"Report to the battalion commander, it's me" The one who raised his hand was Nong Changkai of the Sixth Company, a member of the Zhuang nationality in Guangxi, who was said to have only become a soldier when the troops entered Guangxi. So it was natural to be selected into the 'shooting' group.

"Your ass is too high," I said to the Zhuang boy with a smile, "and I saw two pieces of 'meat' dangling behind the mound...... I'm going to shoot ......."

There was a loud bang, and the warriors all laughed. Only Nong Changkai blushed and didn't speak.

In fact, I still have a 'very' good impression of this young man Nong Changkai, and not everyone has the talent of marksmanship. I've seen him shoot guns, and he doesn't pay as much attention to the front sight and ruler as ordinary people, he pays more attention to a feeling, and sometimes he can hit the target even without adjusting the ruler. But his disadvantage is that he didn't even have the most basic military foundation soon after joining the army, just like this time, he actually just lost and couldn't crawl forward......

However, I believe that as long as I 'hand' over to my hometown, he will help me solve it quickly.

"What about hiding in the grass?" I asked again.

"The battalion commander is me" Zhao Chi, a soldier from the fifth company, raised his hand.

"It's dangerous to hide in the grass," I said, "first, there is no cover in the grass, and secondly, as long as you move slightly, you will 'expose' the target, so it is not suitable for stealth and advance, only suitable for lurking and killing enemies, and you must have super courage and endurance to lurk, understand?" ”

"Understood," the warriors nodded in response.

The soldiers waited for a long time, and when they saw that I had no follow-up, they couldn't help but ask a little strangely: "No, battalion commander, you have said what we are wrong, why didn't you say that Li Shui 'wave' team leader?" ”

"That's right" Al Ziri also asked curiously: "I think it's strange, Team Leader Li is hiding so well that even if I walk under the tree, I can't see where he is hiding...... Battalion commander, how can you find him from such a distance? ”

Because Li Shui 'Bo' was the first to get the SVD sniper rifle, and his overall quality was better than other fighters in all aspects, he became the leader of the 'shooting' strike team without any controversy. He also forgot about me with a puzzled look in his eyes, and he didn't seem to understand what was wrong with his disguise.

I grabbed the kettle and drank it for a while, wiped my mouth and said lightly: "There is nothing wrong with Team Leader Li's disguise."

"Then how did you find out about Team Leader Li?" Hearing this, the warriors were even more curious.

"I didn't find Team Leader Li," I replied.

"Didn't find it?" Warriors, look at me, look at you, all of them are 'touching' their heads.

"You found out, didn't you?" I replied, "Several of you are staring at the tree where Team Leader Li is hiding, and then I casually said into the walkie-talkie, but I didn't expect to really deceive Team Leader Li."

"Oh......" Hearing this, the soldiers understood: "Battalion commander, you are cheating......

"It doesn't count"

"It doesn't count"

……

"Why can't you forget it?" I replied unceremoniously, "If you are allowed to cheat, I will not be allowed to cheat?" Who's that...... Alziri, you're still calling me out, aren't you? As soon as I come out, Li Shui' will solve me with one shot, right, you want to be beautiful, and you are still far from me."

The soldiers were all embarrassed to laugh as if they had been caught by an adult.

After enough rest, I got up and shouted: "Keep training, kill the devils"

"Keep training, kill the devils," the fighters responded, and got up from the ground to start training again.

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※

At the end of the day's training, several company commanders divided into small groups in the unit to sum up their experiences. Because I had been training the 'shooting' group during the day, I didn't know much about the company's training, so I took the time to walk around the company after dinner.

"Battalion Commander"

"Battalion Commander"

……

When the soldiers saw me coming, they all consciously stood up and saluted me, and several soldiers enthusiastically gave me a seat.

After nodding to my hometown, I sat down at random and motioned for the warriors to continue.

He stood up and said to the soldiers: "After a day of training, with the help of the comrades of the Fifth Company, we have initially mastered this offensive tactic of covering each other and 'handing over' forward. Comrades can make a comparison with our previous offensive tactics, talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the two tactics, or talk about their own training experience, and if there is anything they don't understand, they can also put forward the points they don't understand and 'communicate' with the fighters to make progress together. Comrades, even if they are open to speaking, they can also say that they have any opinions on our leading cadres, and we will definitely improve what we say correctly."

For the first time, I found that the people in my hometown, who have always been strong, would also be so widely admonished. It's just that I also know that there are too many clichés like this in this era, and they all sound fair, fair, and just on the surface, but if anyone really wants to say something bad about the organization...... Then you wait, there is something behind you.

Of course, I believe that the people of my hometown are not such people. He has always been straightforward, and if someone touched his beard, he would not come behind his back, and he would not be able to get along with him on the spot.

"I'll say first," one of the fighters said, standing up, "after a day of training, I'm tired, but I think it's worth it." Because compared to today's training, I don't think I knew how to fight before. In the past, I was not afraid of death, but I didn't know what I was doing on the battlefield, I only knew how to run with the troops, rush with the people in front of me, and raise my gun to shoot when I saw the enemy. The battle was very 'chaotic', it was not organized at all, and even the incidents of one's own people accidentally injuring one's own people happened from time to time.

"That's right," another soldier stood up and said: "My biggest experience is that I feel that it was too easy to fight in the past, and I don't need to think about anything, the company commander and platoon commander let us rush wherever we want, and we can fight wherever we want, we just need to follow the company commander and platoon commander with a gun in one 'door'." But now I know that fighting a war is not that simple, we have to cover other people, other people have to cover us, so it's like a war."

"In the past, we all got together, what's the use of having more people? The person in front blocked the muzzle of the person behind, and the more devil machine gun swept like this...... The people behind us were knocked down by bullets before they could see the shadow of the enemy, and even when many comrades were charging, they did not fall under the guns of the Yue devils, but under the bullets of their own comrades in the back. Now there will be no such problem, once the team is dispersed, the firepower will not be much weaker than before, but it can reduce the casualties to a great extent......"

"There are still ......," another soldier said, standing up and saying, "Now this tactic has a reasonable distribution of various weapons from near and far, with short-range rifles and submachine guns in the front, medium-range heavy machine guns in the back, and long-range mortars in the last...... Such a combination can give full play to the firepower of our army's equipment and deal the Vietnamese army as much as possible."

……

As the saying goes, three stinkers are worth one Zhuge Liang, and the questions that the soldiers think of are really strange, and some of them don't even know that I, the person who promotes tactics, don't know. I just saw the Yankees and the puppet army fighting like this on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, when I was fighting against the United Nations Army, and now I don't think much about using it...... Now listening to the warriors say this, I realize that there is so much science in this tactic......

The people from my hometown looked at me and expressed their satisfaction with this experience-summing meeting. The fighters recognized the benefits of this tactic, or at least it showed that it was not that the fighters had fully embraced this tactic. This is undoubtedly the basis for the fighters to practice this tactic well.

"Comrades" at this time, the hometown people spoke again, but I didn't expect that this time he pointed the finger at me: "We have been talking for so long, and we have also expressed a lot of good opinions, so let Camp Commander Cui express his opinions now, okay?"

The "good" fighters applauded.

I smiled bitterly at the people in my hometown, stood up helplessly, and said to the soldiers: "Comrades, you have spoken very well, and your understanding of this tactic is also very deep. But I still have to say that our current war is different from the previous war, so my tactics will also change. The most important ...... of this tactic Actually, it's not what it seems, but it's - cooperate"

"Cooperation?" The warriors sitting next to him couldn't help but whisper.

"Yes is cooperation," I nodded and continued: "The soldiers also saw it during training, the cooperation between squads, between platoons, and between companies...... These are important foundations for our successful victory over the enemy. And even more than that, there is the coordination of infantry and artillery"

"Coordination of infantry and artillery......"

"That's right," I continued, "as a modern infantryman, you have to think that there are artillery and tanks behind us, and so on, and that we are not fighting alone with one branch, but all of us fighting together. Therefore, our infantry has changed from the main offensive force in the past, and in particular, as commanders, we must be soberly aware of this. If you can use artillery, you should first use artillery, and in areas suitable for tank combat, you should use tanks, and do not rush forward, so that casualties will be greatly reduced"

"This ...... Isn't this greed for life and fear of death? Some of the warriors whispered below.

"Of course, this is not greed for life and fear of death," the native replied: "Just like if we attack a high ground, if we can solve the battle with a thousand shells, then why should we rush forward at the cost of the life of a company of soldiers?" Is it human life or shells that matter? ”

"That's right," I nodded and said, "If this was in the past, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, our ammunition and medicine supplies were extremely short, so we had to use the lives and bravery of our soldiers to fill the shortage of ammunition and medicine." But now, our logistical supply has considerable strength, and the ammunition 'medicine' can be continuously transported out of the border line from the country, so we do not need to exchange our lives for ammunition 'medicine', but should exchange ammunition for life Comrades, are you right? ”

The soldiers couldn't help but nod their heads, and who would be unhappy to exchange their lives for their own lives, so although this concept conflicts with the education they have always received such as the "spirit" atomic bomb, they are still willing to accept my view.

......After a pause, I continued: "The color of our infantry on the battlefield should be changed in the following directions: 1. Scouts, that is, they will discover the enemy's firing points and important military installations, and will report the coordinates to facilitate the bombardment of artillery. 2. Signal Corps; It is necessary to report to the higher authorities in a timely manner the situation that is discovered, and to be proficient in the use of communication tools, so that the fighters can be seized. Three: Commander; We must be able to direct the artillery to open fire, destroy the enemy's important facilities and obstacles in front of us. Finally, there is the infantry, so we have to rely on our own courage and cooperation with the infantry to form a force and destroy the remaining remnants of the enemy as quickly as possible, and I am done."

"Okay" As soon as my words fell, the warm applause of the fighters soon rang out.

In fact, the idea of being a soldier is very simple, that is, to be able to complete the task with the least casualties. If they can not be sacrificed, who wants to be martyrs, and what I give them is exactly what they think in their hearts and what they want, so it is strange that they do not support it