Chapter 177 Base

Chapter 177 Base

The helicopter waddled through the night and finally landed in a forest more than an hour later. I had no sense of direction, I didn't know where I was or where I was at this time, I just looked at the terrain from the air before I got off the plane, and realized that this was a place that was quite similar to Vietnam.

As early as the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our army had always chosen places with similar terrain and climate as training sites before the war. This is certainly justified, as it allows the trained troops to adapt to the battlefield in the shortest possible time when they are engaged in the real battlefield. This time was no exception.

Braving the gusts of wind set off by the helicopter propeller, the soldiers and I followed Liu Shunyi and the guards all the way behind Liu Shunyi and the guards. Perhaps it was a habit brought from the battlefield, and I looked at my surroundings as I walked.

This is a very ordinary village, there are forty or fifty houses, most of the houses are made of bamboo or wooden boards, scattered in a triangular shape of three highlands inside and outside, at first glance it is an ordinary mountain village, a careful analysis but found that they seem to occupy the main points of each highland and the main road of 'crossing'...... It is conceivable that if the enemy attacked the area, these houses would become a point of fire......

It's just that...... I wonder what the firepower of these bamboo or wooden houses can do. If there is really an enemy attacking, then not a few shells will solve the problem? Later I realized that things were not as simple as I thought they would be, because the houses only looked like wooden houses from the outside.

"Commander Liu" Several cadre-looking people hurriedly came out and saluted Liu Shunyi, Liu Shunyi nodded, returned a salute casually, and then took me and the guards into the house.

When I walked into the house, I understood the mystery of this, it turned out that the outside of these houses were made of bamboo and wooden planks, but the inside was made of steel and soul concrete, and the thickness was more than half a meter...... If all the houses in this neighborhood are like this, then aren't these three highlands fortresses made up of so many pillboxes?

Then go inside and take a look, radio, telephone, map, sand table...... It's like an operational headquarters

"Comrades" Liu Shunyi stood still in front of the sand table, beckoned to me and motioned for me to come forward, and then said loudly to the soldiers and cadres in the room: "Let me introduce to you, this is Comrade Cui Wei, the captain of our special reconnaissance brigade, welcome."

The applause soon rang out, and several cadres warmly greeted me and shook hands.

"This is the battalion headquarters of the reconnaissance brigade," Liu Shunyi said to me with some pride: "How is it?" I'll tell you...... For the sake of this special reconnaissance brigade, we have brought all the good things to you, you can't grind foreign work for me, you have to make me look good, get some results, understand? ”

"Yes" I answered, but I was a little unimpressed, what is this called all the good things? It's just some radio stations or something, these things are at best to solve some communication problems on the battlefield, what role can they play in special operations?

Later, I realized that I was wrong, and that what Liu Shunyi provided me with was more than just the radios, telephones, and maps I saw in front of me. In order to allow us to have a clear understanding of the equipment and its "nature" of the Vietnamese army, Liu Shunyi painstakingly collected various types of weapons captured by our army on the battlefield, such as SVD sniper rifles and whispered submachine guns, which are all trivial, and some weapons that I have never even seen, such as anti-tank missiles or something, and even a T62 tank has one, and it can still be driven......

"I'll introduce you" Then Liu Shunyi took me to the cadres, pointed to one of the soldiers with thick muscles and heavy 'flesh' and said: "This is Comrade Li Qiao, the deputy captain of the reconnaissance brigade, don't see him a little stunned, he is an old scout, a scout who has been working for eight years." In this self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, he led his reconnaissance platoon to make several great achievements one after another, and the most beautiful battle was to blow up the 'medicine' depot of the Vietnamese ghost bullets, and then retreated with the whole platoon of soldiers."

"Hello Comrade Cui Wei" Li Qiao stepped up and shook my hand and said: "Commander, that's really a prize, I've heard about your combat deeds, and we're a big step behind you in these things."

"Where, where" I modestly responded, thinking to myself that there was an old scout as a deputy, so that I would be much easier in the future training.

"This is Comrade Ye Jianming, the head of the logistics team" The next one introduced was a cadre who wore glasses like a tent man, Liu Shunyi smiled and said: "If you have any equipment or personnel needs, you can find him, and he will contact us to solve the problem as much as possible...... And these are the operational staff officers......"

Liu Shunyi introduced me one after another, but I was still as usual, I quickly 'messed' when there were many people, and I only remembered a big sigh after a long time.

When Liu Shunyi introduced the last cadre with a pen pinned to his pocket, I couldn't help but be stunned, because I heard Liu Shunyi call him Political Commissar Yang.

"Hello Comrade Cui Wei," Political Commissar Yang shook my hand solemnly and said: "I have been sent by my superiors to be directly responsible for the training of the special reconnaissance brigade, and I hope that in our future work and battles, we will be able to cooperate sincerely, try our best to train a unit with excellent military quality and a firm political stand, and use our achievements to report to our superiors and to the party Central Committee."

Listening to Political Commissar Yang's words, I couldn't help but feel a little big, and at the same time I faintly felt that something was wrong.

What is a political commissar? The political commissar is the party representative, and our army has always been the party's leading gun, and it is obvious that this Yang political commissar is the party, and I am the gun. To put it simply, there is still someone above me as the leader of the reconnaissance team, and it is not up to me to decide how to train or how to train, and I may even be a person to be trained......

Sure enough, then I heard Political Commissar Yang say: "Considering that you have just returned from the battlefield, many comrades are still wounded. I've looked into it, and it's not serious, but it may affect training. In addition, the soldiers we selected from various units are still on the way, so we tentatively set a three-day vacation and start training on time in three days, I wonder if Captain Cui has any opinions? ”

"No opinion" I replied, and at the same time I smiled bitterly in my heart, just now I was worried about whether I can be qualified to train special forces, but I didn't expect that I didn't need to think about these at all.

In fact, I should have thought a long time ago that my superiors would never let a battalion commander who can only lead troops to fight on the battlefield be responsible for training special forces that are related to the future and destiny of the country, although I have led my soldiers to win many battles on the battlefield.

Returning to their barracks with a hint of unhappiness, the soldiers were still excitedly 'mingling' about the new environment, and as soon as they saw me returning, they hula and asked:

"Battalion commander, how long are we going to train?"

"Yes, what can I do to go back and fight devils?"

"You say...... What are we going to train for the rest of the week?"

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"What's the noise?" I replied angrily, "You're in a hurry to train, aren't you?" How many laps around the village? ”

As soon as I said this, the soldiers were all silent, and the village was one or two kilometers after a circle, and more than five kilometers in a few circles, although the soldiers could do it, but no one wanted to suffer this crime at this time.

After the fighters had quieted down, I continued: "The order has come down, rest for three days." Familiarize yourself with the environment and recuperate, and then start training after three days."

"Good" the warriors all cheered.

Although it was a rest, they were not allowed to move freely at night, so the soldiers had to stay in the house to rest.

However, although we were held in the house, we didn't feel much uncomfortable, but it should be said that it was a kind of enjoyment. Because the environment here is much stronger than the anti-artillery 'hole' on the battlefield, there is no sound of gunfire and no need to worry about being attacked by the Vietnamese army, there are fewer mosquitoes and insects, and there are dry and fluffy quilts...... It's heaven for us.

So the soldiers chatted diligently with cigarettes in their mouths, and then they fell asleep one by one, and it didn't take long for the barracks to sound one after another snoring, but only I lay on the 'bed' with my eyes wide open and couldn't sleep.

Who is Commissar Yang? Did he ever fight? As a battalion commander, I know very well - the cadres of our troops above the battalion level basically stay in the command headquarters and command, so even if he has fought, he has never been on the battlefield in person

The period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea? Judging by Commissar Yang's age, he didn't look like a person who had participated in that war, he should have been a child at that time

Let someone who has never fought to train those of us who have come back from the battlefield? Let a man on paper point fingers at us who are rolling out of the hail of bullets? And also to train out special forces? I can't even think about the rest of this

No matter how much he has, these are not things I can decide, now I can only take one step at a time, no matter what, we are also in the rear now, and it is better to toss him than on the battlefield in Vietnam.

Thinking of this, I turned to the side, pulled the quilt and fell asleep......

No one like us knows what will happen in the next moment, and now it is rare to have a few days of vacation, and when we have a blessing, we must seize the opportunity to rest, otherwise we will be too sorry for ourselves in this life