A story about battlefield intuition
Many people may feel a little mysterious about the things that involve battlefield intuition in the article, but the author has a true story to tell you here.
I have a distant uncle-in-law, who used to be a veteran gunner who had been to the Korean battlefield for more than five years.
When I participated in military training in high school in the nineties, the instructor was a soldier from the field artillery regiment, and the instructor told us how to observe and calculate the curve parameters of the field artillery through the palm of his arm.
After military training, I once met my uncle-in-law and chatted together, talking about this kind of thing, the old man said to me in a loud voice: "It's all nonsense, when the two sides are bombarding each other, how can there be any time to calculate?" When the Yankees bombarded the artillery, they had at most two or three minutes to fire the artillery, and after the cannon was fired, they had to run quickly, otherwise they would be blown up piece by piece. With that calculated time, one more shell would be real. ”
I was young and vigorous at that time, and I felt that my uncle's set was all outdated things, so I naturally didn't believe it: "The shell curves of wild mountain artillery, howitzer, cannon and so on are all different, who are you going to shoot when you send a cannon?" ”
The uncle-in-law said with a disdainful face: "Calculate that little thing is all a child's thing, and it is all in my heart, who will compare and calculate on the battlefield?" Aren't you afraid that the shell skin will shave off your arms? When you see how the enemy's shells are flying, you can directly guess where the opponent is, and if the enemy's shells don't land, the shells on your side will be shot......"
I remember that I paid attention to one word at that time - "guess", my uncle-in-law did not have a high level of culture, and he could not explain this word clearly, so I changed the word "Meng" to deal with me, and of course the conversation was over.
Now that I think about it, it should be a kind of calculation technique that is integrated into the bones, and of course there must be something idealistic, that is, battlefield intuition.
There is also the psychological state of snipers who snipe at long-distance targets on the battlefield, which is not entirely based on high-powered sights and eye observation, veterans will say that aiming with their hearts is actually a kind of battlefield intuition.
Similarly on a baseball field, the bat-wielding batsman knows whether he or she will hit a good ball the moment he swings the bat.