Gu Changhui admired the thoughtfulness of the young man in front of him in his heart, and also strengthened his confidence, but he still asked quietly: "Is your idea too idealistic, can these children be selected for such cruel training, can their bodies and minds withstand it?" Besides, have you ever thought about how much pressure our military and government will be under once those countries and politicians in the world with ill intentions know about it? It's possible that your plan will be aborted. ”

Xue Ming smiled faintly, "This is not a problem, the special forces are originally a highly confidential unit, and the information of all personnel must be kept strictly confidential, once the secret is leaked, this force will lose the meaning of surprising victory, as for the early selection, we can claim to be the army's specially recruited literary and artistic soldiers, sports soldiers, and in the initial stage, our cultural knowledge and education will account for a large proportion, and we can completely follow the cultural education model of primary and secondary schools, which is normal in any country, and even more so in our country." At the same time, your question also leads to my next request, that is, we need a place that can accommodate these people to live and study, or not for outsiders to know, completely closed, but not too far from the city, even if our plan is implemented under extreme secrecy conditions, I don't want these children to be out of touch with society, they should be aware of the changes in society at any time, and they can also get in touch with new things outside, only in this way, they can not only be competent for any form of combat mission after they are formed, We can also naturally integrate into society, will not be abandoned by the progress of the times, we want elite soldiers, not war machines, I believe that our team will have a long life in the future. ”

Gu Changhui listened and thought while pacing slowly in the room.

Xue Ming looked at his old chief, watched quietly, and didn't bother him.

The room was quiet, and even Zhang Yi, who was collecting information on the side, could stop what he was doing.

"Xue Ming, your idea is good, and it is quite advanced, before coming here, the head of the headquarters specially told me that we must spare no effort to build a high-tech and modern special forces that can adapt to future wars, and we must implement it as soon as possible, and all departments must fully cooperate. It's just that we have wasted too much time in the chaos of the past 10 years or so, the talent generation has been broken, the equipment is backward, the training is not systematic, and it has taken so many twists and turns and paid so much price to fight a small Vietnam, and I really can't imagine how we will deal with it if there is a bigger war in the future, and this is also the alarm bell that this Sino-Vietnamese war has sounded for us. To this end, the head of the general department specially convened an expert group composed of relevant experts and scholars, held several meetings and discussions, conducted in-depth research and study of the troops, and also conducted many evaluations and revisions of this project. Gu Changhui said and took out a file bag from a safe next to his desk, "Take a good look at it." ”

Xue Ming took it and looked at it quickly, and the more he looked at it, the more he couldn't suppress his excitement.

"The chiefs' arrangements are much more detailed than my plan, it's good, it's really good." Xue Ming was a little incoherent.

"You think we old guys eat for nothing? Since the end of the war, the Central Military Commission has organized many discussions and discovered too many problems, and your report has only strengthened the determination of the Central Military Commission to reform in some respects, but in fact, our intelligence organs have been paying attention to the building of special forces in other countries for some time, and have also put forward proposals for the formation of our own special forces, but it is only because of the war that it has been delayed. Your plan is to recruit some school-age children from the society for intensive training, and there were similar suggestions during the discussion, but there was very little response, a large part of the reason is that the military commanders of each ministry consider themselves, hoping to bring out the first special forces from their own team and take the lead, this mood is understandable, I still have to communicate with the top and fight for it. In this way, let's go in two steps, tomorrow I will go to the Military Commission to discuss the enrollment of students, you and Zhang Yi will stay here, and tomorrow a group of early staff will come to report, Zhang Yi is responsible for arranging it, you start to write a plan, what kind of talents are needed, what equipment, etc., try to be as detailed as possible, do you have anything to add" Gu Changhui finished the arrangement in one breath, and raised his eyes to look at Xue Ming and Zhang Yi.

"I don't have a problem anymore." Zhang Yi looked at Xue Ming.

"There is also a training location, you and the boss to discuss, it is best to decide together." Xue Ming said.

"There should be some eyebrows, I'll make sure tomorrow, it's not too early, let's go, let's eat" Gu Changhui picked up his hat, and the three of them walked out of the office together.

The order was quickly issued, and their plan was finally approved, and it was tentatively decided to recruit 2,500 to 3,000 children born around 1972 in large and medium-sized cities across the country. At the same time, all ministries were strictly ordered to fully cooperate and not to use various excuses to hinder or obstruct the implementation of this plan.

The advantage of the national system is that it can concentrate the strength of the whole country to accomplish one thing.

Within a week's time, a large number of logistical support personnel, including some experts and scholars, arrived at the preparatory office one after another, and some of them rushed directly from their respective units to their temporary assembly place -- a military district guest house of a certain unit of the Southwest Military Region.

And what excites Xue Ming the most is that the training base has been settled, which is a huge civil air defense project that has just been built and has been idle. Speaking of this base, Gu Minghui and Xue Ming were really overjoyed, because its scale and design greatly exceeded their expectations.

After Xue Ming roughly determined the plan that day, Gu Changhui rushed to the headquarters to report the situation the next day, thinking that the proposal to recruit some school-age personnel from the society for long-term closed tameming would be questioned, but after Gu Changhui's statement, it was successfully passed without much hindrance, which also confirmed from the side that Xue Ming's plan coincided with the idea of the headquarters in a certain aspect, and at the same time, the headquarters arranged this arrangement to avoid the conflict of interests of all parties.

Seeing that the most difficult part of his life was passed so smoothly, Gu Changhui was happy and further proposed that he hoped to implement the training base as soon as possible, so that the early staff could enter in advance to make preparations before construction, and when all the participating teams arrived, they could immediately devote themselves to the large-scale renovation and construction of the base.

The head of the headquarters understood their urgency very well, and directly took Gu Changhui to a combat readiness duty data room, and told him in front of a huge military map that had been hung in advance that the training base had been found for them, and the location was in the mountains behind City C in the southwest, very close to the local garrison.

This result really made Gu Changhui overjoyed, the two most urgent problems have been solved this time, and the next is to recruit all kinds of professionals to serve as teaching tasks, compared with the first two, this problem is relatively simple, because the army itself is a huge talent pool.

In the following days, Gu Changhui and Xue Ming were so busy that they were almost uniformed, and they first determined the staffing allocation, and the professional instructors were all drawn from the front-line troops and various military academies, and the special needs were seconded from various professional units in the society.

And the most important thing is how to select materials, for this reason they discussed for two days with some military scientific research personnel and instructors who arrived in advance, and then contacted professionals engaged in this research to discuss and study together, and finally formulated a detailed selection and testing standard, considering that there will be unexpected reasons during the training period, they set the number of recruits at about 3,500 people, according to Xue Ming's words, if one fifth of these 3,500 people can hold on, it will be a terrifying force.

After the number of recruits was decided, they had a heated debate over another issue, and the focus of the debate was whether or not to recruit female special combat soldiers.

Xue Ming insisted on recruiting some female soldiers, and according to his words, among the known special forces, there have been no reports of female special combat members, so we are not lagging behind in our start, and we can still win at critical moments.

His opinion has aroused strong opposition from most of the trainers and field experts of the troops, their reason is that women cannot withstand such high-intensity training, special operations are not suitable for women, physiological factors are on the one hand, and more importantly, special forces often face fewer to many battles and conflicts behind enemy lines, and it is inevitable that there will be casualties, if other team members are injured, it is difficult for female team members to be competent to transfer injured teammates with long-distance weights, and once female team members are captured, they will face unimaginable psychological and physical torture. The consequences are difficult to predict.

Xue Ming insisted that women's ability to withstand pressure is far from being as weak as people think, and in some respects even better than men. When training, we can treat them differently, but they can complete most of the training subjects. Moreover, not every time there is a mission, there must be female soldiers, only when there is a special need will they be sent to play, such as, infiltration, infiltration, assassination, reconnaissance, etc., at this time there is a place for them, because if they are non-combatants, when they are performing this kind of mission, once they encounter danger, it will be difficult to evacuate quickly, at this time it will be a big trouble and drag for the personnel who assist her in evacuation, and they will often lose sight of one or the other, and if it is our female special combat team members infiltrating the enemyThere will be no such problems when there is danger and need to be evacuated, not to mention self-preservation, but also because they have received strict military training, and the chances of survival after successfully getting out are also very high, and if they need to attack specific targets, it is easier for them to break into it in advance, and after the attack begins, it can become an internal fire point to provide fire support to the peripheral attackers.

The controversy lasted for a long time, and some of the people who originally opposed it were persuaded by Xue Ming, and some insisted on their own opinions, insisting that female soldiers should not be recruited. In the end, Gu Changhui decided to recruit a small part first, according to the quota of 5:1, five male players and one female player, it is said that this ratio is not small, but considering that the possible elimination rate of female players will be very high, everyone is in favor of passing, so that the most important enrollment issue is determined.

More and more people came to report, these are some construction and logistics support personnel who entered in advance, and some professional equipment and equipment have also been continuously sent to the logistics department of the garrison in City C, and the local garrison has been complaining that their stations are about to become a receiving compound. After discussing with Xue Minghui, they felt that the arrangements above were basically ready, and the policy support that should be needed had been obtained, and it was no longer meaningful to stay in Beijing now, so they decided to leave immediately and rush to the training base.

On the day they left, a document with the word "Top Secret" that only a few decision-makers and senior military commanders knew, was locked in the safe of the confidential room of the General Staff Headquarters, which had the highest level of secrecy, and on the bag was just a few simple small words "717 Plan."

By this time, it was the end of 1979. A secret plan concerning the future direction of our army's construction has begun.

Many years later, when many people lamented the rapid progress in the modernization of the armed forces and the prestige of Chinese soldiers in the world, people did not know that there was such a group of unsung heroes who sacrificed their youth and even their lives for this purpose.