Back on July 15, 1996, all the officers and men of the 5th Tank Battalion set off from the mountains in a military green truck after having breakfast in a hurry, heading to their final destination, Caotang. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After running along the way, I finally came to the grass pond of the shooting range for night shooting. Chen Qiang was busy cooking another meal of Yellow River carp in the cooking class, and after eating and helping to clean up, he left the cooking class and returned to his platoon's military green tent to rest.

Just when he was in a daze, the comrades-in-arms around him heard the assembly whistle, and they all quickly ran out of the tent and went outside to assemble the whole company. Chen Qiang also ran out after him, and after a while, he heard the sound of the number of announcements one after another.

After the whole company was assembled, company commander Si Decheng put forward some regular requirements for the tank runway vacancy training that was about to begin. After his brief speech, the whole company walked to the area where the artillery was ready to shoot at night.

After walking for about twenty minutes, Chen Qiang's company came to the front of a dirt mountain. At this moment, a wide tank runway appeared in front of him, and the ground was devastated by deep track marks.

This couldn't help but remind him of a poem "Northern Expedition" by the great poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty: "The universe is full of sores, when will the sorrow be over?" With a sigh in his heart, he also knew that now was the time not to be distracted.

After a while, the tanks drove head-on, and after making another circle around the small dirt mountain, they turned around. Chen Qiang followed his Huang squad leader and a gunner Xu Hongbing, and quickly came to the tank with the number xx of his car group, and the three of them boarded the car in three steps at the same time and quickly got in.

Because this time it was an empty run, the main thing was to familiarize the first gunner with the location of the tank runway and find a feeling. Chen Qiang stayed inside, but he looked at the shell magazine behind him for a while, presumably it would be loaded with a lot of it this night! I can finally touch the real cannonball with my own hands, and thinking about it makes me more excited!

Since every year the whole regiment comes here for large-scale tank night combat shooting. Therefore, Jiang Bisheng, a veteran driver with five years of military experience, is familiar with the road, where the difference between the sections is relatively large, what areas can conceal the car body, and where to stop shooting, no one knows better than him.

Xu Hongbing looked at the shooting range in front of him, and couldn't help but feel ruthless in his heart. Last year, he only played a "eight out of ten" result here, but what made him angry the most was:

Because the second gunner, a new recruit who was in charge of loading ammunition last year, was extremely nervous, and there was an accident in which the guns and cannons rang out in unison, and those who should have loaded the machine-loaded ammunition were loaded with shells, and those who should have been loaded with shells were loaded with long bullet chains.

This has not been a "joke" in their unit for several years, so his comrades-in-arms in other companies have privately nicknamed him "Earthquake Ring", for which he has not had a lot of conflicts with other comrades-in-arms.

In the end, under Xu Hongbing's strong request, this recruit soldier left the third platoon and came to the other platoons. Xu Hongbing has to wait for the new recruits to be assigned next year, that is, Chen Qiang's batch.

Since Chen Qiang came to their car crew, he has liked this guy more, he is honest, hard-working, and has strong psychological endurance; Do things calmly and love to think, and there is a special ruthlessness in life, which is very temperamental. He is very much looking forward to having Chen Qiang, a good helper, and he can play the record of the army at night.

That is the good result of "ten shots and ten hits", that is the goal he has been pursuing in the army, he dreamed that he could wear a big red flower, in the witness of all his comrades-in-arms, he was personally received by the head of the regiment, and was rewarded and recorded in the record.

Seeing that he was about to be discharged from the army at the end of the year, this was also his last chance in the army, Xu Hongbing clapped his hands fiercely, and he would not give up.

The giant tank rumbled through the nearby tank runway, and there was a burst of dust in all directions, and the tail of the ironclad monster couldn't help but be blown away by the wind.

Since the location of shooting targets in the night battle of Caotang is not fixed every time, it is necessary to change the location frequently. Therefore, except for Chen Qiang, the veterans on the car also cheered up and carefully observed the terrain and landform of the place where the tank passed again, so that they could make the most correct judgment when firing at night.

After the end of the terrain running training, Chen Qiang's car crew all got out of the car and entered the interior of this dirt mountain to rest, it turned out that there was a gate on the south side of this dirt mountain, but there was a very green vegetation outside, and Chen Qiang did not find it for a while. Seeing his curious look, Du Bing took him to visit quietly.

It turned out that this was the warehouse room of the shooting range in the regiment, and the veteran who was responsible for guarding the shooting range for many years also lived here, and he was Wu Tianqiang, a volunteer soldier of the repair company.

In the past 20 years, he has been conscientious, sticking to this place through ups and downs, ensuring various training for the troops, and selflessly dedicating his youth.

From a handsome young man to a steady middle-aged man, I heard Du Bing say that it seems that this old Wu is also going to change jobs, his family is from Henan, he is an only son at home, and his wife has given birth to two healthy children for him, as well as two elderly people, this is really in response to the sentence "there is the old, the lower is the young"!

His woman has been strongly urging Wu Tianqiang to change jobs for so many years, after all, the economic conditions of his family are still relatively difficult, and without him as the main force of the family, everything is done by his family. Even if Lao Tzu and the child are sick, he doesn't have time to go home to take care of them, let alone others.

So he has always had a deep sense of guilt for his relatives at home. But out of enthusiasm for the troops, Wu Tianqiang has always stubbornly adhered to the obsession in his heart, that is, his infinite loyalty to the motherland.

For this reason, he has not quarreled with his family, and some people in the village who do not understand him also say that he is a fool to be a soldier, guarding a few mountains all year round, and he is not a cadre in the army, what kind of rush is there in this way?

After listening to Du Bing's introduction, it was hard for him to imagine how a veteran could continue to work in such difficult and harsh conditions, and live like an idler and a wild crane isolated from the world.

Chen Qiang looked up and down, left and right, the internal structure of this earth mountain, it is a bit like a cave, but it is not exactly the same, the most important thing is that the top of this cave is very high, about five or six meters high!

It is not as small as the cave, and there are some bulges of rocks faintly visible at the top of this cave.

Chen Qiang estimated that the building was pulled out little by little from the center of this dirt mountain, so the shape was a little irregular, the rooms in it were big and small, and the light was not very good, and finally there was a smell that he couldn't describe.

Then, Du Bing said that every month, the regiment would use a car to send him all kinds of daily necessities and various materials for maintaining the shooting range. But because the life is relatively hard, no one has been willing to come here to work, which directly caused Wu Tianqiang to stay in the end.

After Chen Qiang heard this, he couldn't help but feel a burst of emotion in his heart. Du Bing saw his constantly changing excited face, and he knew what he was thinking, and knew that he was upset for the veteran who stayed at the shooting range. This kid is really a man of temperament, how did he know how difficult it is to be a soldier?

For the continuous improvement of the combat effectiveness of the troops, how many people who are soldiers are silently and selflessly dedicated, why not himself, since he got married for a month two years, he has not seen his own woman for almost two years! Thinking of this, Du Bing couldn't help but sigh deeply.

In the end, Chen Qiang saw in a room that there were some huge models made of white gauze, and he estimated that such a large area should be used for gunfire! There are also some small target positions of various shapes and types of human shapes, and it seems that these are the ones that can be used for parallel shooting.

Du Bing pointed to the target positions all over the ground and told Chen Qiang that Wu Tianqiang had done it himself, in order to save training funds for the troops. Listening to the instructor's words, Chen Qiang's heart couldn't help but be filled with deep respect for this veteran!

After looking at the room in this Tushan, Chen Qiang and the instructor came to the big aisle inside the Tushan, waiting for the arrival of the other crew members of the company after training.

At this time, the veteran Wu Tianqiang came back, and after Si Decheng saw him, he shook hands with him warmly, and then took out two packs of cigarettes from his body, and rushed to give them to him.

Lao Wu was embarrassed to accept it, he poured some boiled water for the soldiers, and used a few old military water cups to fill it, Du Bing hurriedly stepped forward and thanked him very politely, because the domestic water here was picked up by Lao Wu himself from outside.

During this period, in order to ensure the normal training of the troops, he worked hard day and night, and in these mountains, according to the different requirements of the troops' training, a large number of target positions were placed on different routes, on various hills, streams, intersections, and other places.

For so many years, everyone who knows him knows that this old Wu has not said a word of complaint, it's not that he doesn't want to say it, but he knows that someone must do this work, if he only cares about his own small family, and forgets the big family of the motherland, then he is sorry for the green military uniform he is wearing.

Chen Qiang looked at him silently, and it was difficult to say what emotion was in his heart for a while, whether it was sympathy, respect, or ......

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