Chapter 5 Heights Five

Chapter 5 Heights Five

The training is in full swing.

I tried my best to get the soldiers to learn how to survive on the battlefield as soon as possible, and cooperate with each other to attack the enemy's position. Because I know that time is running out. There is only one month left for the war, and one day we may have to go to the front when an order is issued.

In addition to the tactics necessary for the construction of fortifications, the organization of defenses, and the organization of attacks, I also added some subjects that I thought were very necessary.

For example, gestures, the so-called book to use the time to hate less, gestures this thing seems not very important, but when I really want to use it, I realize why I didn't learn it in the first place, and it is not difficult to do this, it seems that all I need is to move the set of gestures of the cold gun unit unchanged and let the soldiers memorize it. In addition, considering the possibility that the troops may participate in night battles, I also prescribed some other communication methods for night marches, such as punching the right shoulder to stop advancing, slapping to indicate continuation, and punching twice to indicate readiness for battle......

There are also observation mines and traps...... Although I have never 'dealt with' the Vietnamese, I have seen many American movies about the Vietnam War in modern times, and there are mines and bamboo sticks everywhere, so it is necessary to be able to carefully observe the mines and traps that may be buried on the road.

If it is to teach them to clear mines, it is really unrealistic. I don't have that much time, and more importantly, I don't either. The demining skills I learned at the advanced foot school were all used to deal with the mines of the fifties, and the mines of today have long been updated and I don't know how many things I don't know.

Then there is camouflage, covering each other's advance in echelons, and coordinating with each other and outflanking each other during the attack. I used these tactics when I was training the Seventh Company, so I can master them now. It's just that what I didn't expect was that when the Seventh Company was trained, they would be completely mastered and could really be used in actual combat in just one month, but these soldiers in front of me have been training for more than half a month, and sometimes they will still be in a hurry and 'messy' to achieve the ideal state.

I'm afraid this is the difference between a veteran and a new recruit

For veterans, the battlefield has long tempered them into a whole, each of them knows that they are just a part of the army, and when they are moving, they are very sure that the soldiers around them will cover, and when they are quiet, they believe that the soldiers next to them will take advantage of the cover to attack. Although there are also more than a hundred people, its attack power is a giant, an invincible giant.

And recruits who have not fought on the battlefield...... However, it is difficult to achieve this tacit cooperation in a short period of time.

What makes me even more angry is that the weapons used by the fighters have always had problems, either the submachine guns are jammed, or the rifles do not sound, and sometimes even two grenades cannot be exploded. At first, I thought that only the weapons in the new barracks would be like this, but after asking the people in my hometown, I learned that the weapons in the army were all similar, and the failure rate was very high. That's because most of these weapons were produced during a decade of turmoil, and the phenomenon of cutting corners is very serious.

So I thought that in the movie "The 'Flower' Wreath Under the Mountain" that I watched in modern times, there was a soldier who played a bazooka, and two shells were stinky bombs, and finally died under the enemy's gun......

"Report Instructor" a fighter stood beside me.

"Hmm, what's the matter?" I asked casually without looking back.

During this period of training the soldiers, I have gradually regained the feeling of being a regimental commander, and the soldiers seem to recognize me as their "boss". Because now they are here to report to me, not to the people back home, no matter what happens, and I have become their real instructor.

The "instructor" The soldier hesitated, but finally mustered up the courage to say: "I want to learn how to shoot with you"

I couldn't help but turn my head, and I was even more surprised when I found out that it was Li Shui' 'Bo' from the same dormitory. He actually took the initiative to talk to me, I'm afraid this is the first time I've come to this world

"Why?" I casually asked, "Isn't the instructor teaching you how to shoot?" He doesn't teach well? ”

"No, it's not that the instructor taught well" Li Shui 'Bo' was articulate, not at all like a taciturn person: "But...... You don't shoot the same gun as the instructor, he shoots at the target, you shoot the person."

"Hmm" I couldn't help but look at him again in surprise when I heard this, this guy is good, he can see the murderous spirit from the action of my gun. What he said is indeed good, there is an essential difference between the marksmanship that kills people on the battlefield and the marksmanship that is practiced by shooting targets.

"What is it...... You want to learn how to kill," I turned my head to the soldiers who were fighting happily again, and continued to chew on the bamboo stalk in my mouth as if I didn't care.

"It's my family" After a long while, Li Shui 'Bo' replied: "The Vietnamese want us to become Vietnamese citizens, but we firmly disagree, my parents were beaten to death, and my sister ...... her."

I couldn't help but stop the movements on my mouth, Li Shui 'Bo' said that it was simple, but I knew that the process was not simple at all. The reason why he said it so simply was because he didn't want to think about the past

After a long time, Li Shui' Bo asked coldly: "I want to kill every Vietnamese who appears in my sight, is this enough?" ”

"Not enough," I replied coldly, then pointed to the soldiers who were practicing marksmanship and said, "Look at them, any one of them is more qualified to practice killing marksmanship than you."

"Why?" Li Shui looked at me in shock, and soon turned into anger, and his eyes were like two swords shooting at me.

"Because you're 'blinded' by hatred and can't see the real enemy" I turned my head and replied: "If you're a sniper......"

Speaking of this, I couldn't help but hesitate, because at this time, there were still no real snipers in the squadron, but Vietnam did, Li Shui 'Bo' was a Vietnamese overseas Chinese, and he knew what I was talking about.

So I continued: "For example, if you want to kill every Vietnamese in your sight, including insignificant creeps and civilians, that means that you will soon be exposed, and your career as a killer will be over. It's easy to kill a few creeps, and you don't need to practice marksmanship at all. Do you understand? ”

Li Shui 'Bo' looked at me stunned, and after a long while, he nodded and said, "I understand"

I smiled and said, "I'll give you a word, to learn to kill guns, not only with your eyes, with your hands, but more importantly ......"

I pointed to my head and said, "I want to be able to use my head."

Li Shui 'Bo' thought about it, and seemed to be a little 'confused', but he still 'straightened' up and responded: "Yes"

Looking at Li Shui's back, I couldn't help but nod secretly. In fact, I have been observing him these days, he is the one who has practiced the most hard marksmanship in the recruit company, and when everyone else is resting, he is still practicing the 'shooting' posture with a rifle, and sometimes he has a stone tied to the barrel of the gun.

His hands are very steady, his psychological quality is also good, no matter what others say and persuade, he just ignores it coldly, these are the conditions for becoming a sniper. But, as I said earlier, if his heart is filled with hatred, there is a good chance that it will affect his judgment at a critical moment

"Instructor Cui" When I was thinking about whether to develop Li Shui' into my assistant, my hometown people strode up to my side and said, "My bullets are almost finished, do you think it's time to go back to the barracks?" ”

Look, now that the instructor has come to ask me what to do, I couldn't help but nod, looked at the sky that was about to darken, and replied, "Go back and come back in the evening......

"What? Coming in the evening? The hometown people couldn't help but be stunned.

"yes," I replied lightly, "It should be raining at night, so how can I easily let go of such a great opportunity"

A trace of helplessness flashed on the faces of the hometown people, and then he grabbed the sentry on his neck and blew: "Assemble and go down the mountain to the barracks"

"Oh" The soldiers cheered, and they couldn't wait to pack up their equipment and line up and walk down the mountain. It is very ironic that before coming to Huangzhushan, the military camp was hell for them, and they wanted to run outside to have a look. But now, the barracks are a paradise for them

The four-kilometer road was not long, and the soldiers went back to the barracks as if they were going home, so it didn't take long to run to the 'gate' of the barracks.

"Stand up, start and go......" The hometown people stopped the soldiers who were running happily, and then shouted a sentence that almost made me faint: "Sunset, the red glow is flying, prepare...... Sing"

"The sunset is red and the sun is flying, the soldiers shoot the target and return the camp, and return the camp to the ......" The soldiers walked into the barracks with guns on their shoulders and singing military songs while stepping on the right steps. Not to mention, it was sunset at this time, and the soldiers were also returning from training, which was exactly the lyrics of this song and was sung by hundreds of soldiers, and there was really an indescribable steel 'sex' and pride. At first, I was too old and earthy to sing this song, but as soon as I heard them sing the beginning, I thought it was good, and I couldn't help but sing along.

When I was wondering why the people of my hometown suddenly became nervous and asked the soldiers to sing, I saw the other soldiers in the barracks who were looking at us with envy one by one, and I quickly understood his intentions.

At the beginning, the instructors and recruits in the recruit camp were on the same status as us, but now that we have returned from training in Huangzhu Mountain, we are all rookies

This is our confidence and our pride.

"Be louder" During the break in the singing, I yelled at the soldiers, and the singing immediately took to a new level.

When it's time for us to show off, when it's time for us to be proud, we should show off our pride. Because this is the first reward for so many days of hard training. This reward is to be able to hold your head high in front of other recruits......

I'm sure it's a good feeling for the fighters

Sure enough, when they returned to the dormitory after the disbandment, the soldiers did not "look ugly" as before, but shouted excitedly: "Hey, do you see the eyes of other companies looking at us?" That eyeball is about to fall out."

"Isn't that right?" Shun Zile put the rifle on the gun rack and exclaimed, "How do I feel like I have won a battle, and I am raising my eyebrows."

"You don't know" Alziri spread out the marching quilt on the 'bed', turned around and said: "Just now I had a fellow countryman who secretly stuck to me beside me, saying that he wanted me to go through the back 'door' to join our company."

With a coax, the soldiers all laughed, and this was the first time they felt the respect of others in the barracks.

"If you want me to say, it's all thanks to the instructor," Wu Haiguo habitually 'sexual' raised his tooth cup and took a sip of water, and said: "I really didn't see it before, Comrade Cui's military quality is so good, I think everyone should learn from Comrade Cui, work hard to practice the ability to kill the enemy, and always be ready to shed blood and sacrifice for the motherland......"

As soon as Wu Haiguo sang this high-pitched song, everyone stopped talking, but just looked at me with a smile. I was also a little helpless, yelling at them all day for most of the month, shooting and scolding, although I made them convince them to obey my orders, but the distance between them seemed to be widened.

So I wondered why I didn't feel this way on the Korean battlefield before. After thinking about it, I quickly realized that when I was fighting in Korea, it was a relationship established on the battlefield, and the soldiers either you saved me or I saved you, and that relationship was so iron that brothers could not do without. But now, these soldiers next to me seem to be in an awkward relationship that they don't know whether to treat me as a superior or as a comrade-in-arms.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile and said, "When I go back to the dormitory, I am Cui Wei, and the instructor can't live in your place, so I'm sorry here."

"What do you say" Yang Songjian generously shook my shoulder and said: "How can there be any offense, if you want me to say that I have to practice like this, I can only win the battle when I practice on the battlefield, brother, I support you."

"I also looked at my fellow villagers with their eyes, and no matter how hard and tired I was, I confessed it."

"And me"

……

The fighters expressed their support for me. I think a lot of the reason for this is the credit of singing that song just now, so I can't help but feel a little 'excited' to the people of my hometown.

At one o'clock in the middle of the night, I opened my eyes and sat up from the 'bed', looked at the soldiers who were sleeping soundly, and felt a little unbearable in my heart. Their understanding of me made me a little confused. But I knew I had to persevere, because I knew very well that if I couldn't bear them now, it was likely to cause them casualties on the battlefield, which would be tantamount to harming them.

This is like parents doting on their children, there is no parent who does not love their children, but if they do not devote themselves to education, it will often have a very bad impact on their children

I sneaked out of the dormitory in my military uniform. It was raining lightly outside, and it was dark. The hometown was waiting for me in the square, and I walked up to him and saluted respectfully.

At all times, you must respect your superiors, not to mention that your hometown is still a respectable superior.

The hometown returned the salute and said, "Huangzhushan is ready to start"

"Hmm" I nodded, turned around and blew my whistle, shouting, "Second company assembled"

A few minutes later, the soldiers stood in front of me in a row, no complaints, fast speed, and very well equipped, I nodded with satisfaction, and shouted to them: "Take the dry 'waves' and play 'medicine', and target the No. 5 high ground of Huangzhushan."

"Yes," the soldiers answered, took their bullets in turn, and ran in two lines towards the outside of the barracks.

The liberation shoes stepped on the stagnant water on the ground, making an unusual "swish" sound, as if adding a bit of prestige to the soldiers, provoking the recruits in the other barracks to keep shining flashlights in our direction. The soldiers didn't pay much attention to it, and still took a step forward on their own.

Huangzhushan No. 5 Plateau is the last highland that has not been trampled by the footsteps of the soldiers, and I deliberately kept it because I wanted to play a little role tonight.

The warriors climbed the familiar path in the direction of Heights Five, practice makes perfect, and they were much faster than before, even if it was now night when visibility was poor.

Suddenly one of the fighters exclaimed: "There are mines, I stepped on them"

"There are also bamboo sticks"

"Instructor, how can there be mines here"

……

The fighters quickly became a 'mess', and some even shouted at me with a crying voice: "Instructor, instructor, are these mines real or fake?" Didn't you cloth it? Why don't you tell us beforehand? ”

"Will the enemy tell you where there are mines?" I replied in a loud voice.

......At this time, there was a sudden sound of machine guns on the No. 5 high ground, and rows of bullets hit the yellow bamboo above our heads.

"It's a live bomb, it's a real fight," I don't know who exclaimed.

Hearing this voice, how could the soldiers who had been training for so long not know that this was a live ammunition, and they couldn't help but scream in fright. Someone even shouted hysterically at me in the rear: "Cui Wei, you are too much, what if it is so dark and hits someone?" ”

"Instructor, stop the machine guns"

……

There were even people who shouted: "I don't have a good soldier, I want to go home"

That's right, all of this was indeed laid out by me, the mines are drill mines, and the bamboo sticks are all flat-headed. The machine gun was real, but the machine gunner had already found a spot before dark and completed the test shot, and the bullets fired from his position were either in the dirt in front of us or four or five meters above our heads, and if the soldiers were not frightened enough to climb onto the bamboo, there would be no danger at all.

The darkness, the roar of mines, bamboo sticks, machine guns, and rows of bullets like a wind sweeping leaves...... That's what I wanted