Just when the cooperative training of the armed police force was in full swing, the synthetic battalion received a new task.

On this day, I was also at the armed police base to watch Daniel Zhang and other armed police soldiers guide the trained armed police units to carry out hostage rescue training, saying that the progress of the trained armed police units during this period of time did surprise me, and this is only half a month of hard work is like being reborn, and I can't see the kind of brutal work I used to look like before.

However, I think, maybe it is because Company Commander Zhang's training unit is more special, we have an old saying in China called "eat a trench and grow a wisdom", Company Commander Zhang's training unit suffered heavy casualties in actual combat, and this heavy casualty was the last time we carried out the mission with us, and later I heard Company Commander Zhang talk about it and learned that they killed a total of two people, seriously injured three people, and lightly injured seven people.

In other words, they killed and injured more than 10 people without even seeing the shadow of the gangsters, which is a great shame for an armed police force.

Company Commander Zhang often blamed himself beside me: "Alas! If only you had been allowed to join the camp, those soldiers would not have died of injuries! ”

At this time, I always comforted: "I can't blame you for this, your equipment is only on that condition!" ”

Company Commander Zhang shook his head: "It's not a matter of equipment, first of all, I actually knew in my heart that your synthetic battalion was more suitable for that task, but because it was so strong for a while, it was ahead of the curve, which is a typical situation where personal emotional factors affect the command." Secondly, when I came to the synthetic battalion to participate in training, I realized that the casualties could have been completely avoided, such as the use of explosives to blow up doors that we are learning now. And cover each other to search and advance, it is very likely that the mines laid by the gangsters can be detonated when the door is blown up, or the search can also find some clues, instead of swarming into it like we caused so many casualties. ”

Speaking of this, Company Commander Zhang sighed heavily again: "It's all my fault, it's me who hurt those brothers!" ”

I didn't know what to say when I saw Company Commander Zhang like this, because I knew very well that no matter what I said at this time, I couldn't comfort Company Commander Zhang, after all, he was indeed at fault and was indeed responsible for the casualties of the dozen or so soldiers.

Sometimes I wonder if I put myself in his shoes and lead more than a dozen casualties due to my own command mistakes. I'm afraid that I won't forgive myself lightly.

If this is in the field army, that is, in the synthetic battalion, you have to fight against the Yue devils. Then I will consider replacing Company Commander Zhang, because if there is such a psychological burden on the battlefield, it is very likely that there will be a situation of "timidity" in future battles and delay the fighter.

But fortunately, Company Commander Zhang is now not in the field army, but in the armed police force.

As a commander of the Armed Police Force. This psychological pressure is even more needed. Because this psychological pressure will make him more concerned about the lives of his subordinates and the lives of hostages in his future command career.

Just when we were in that wordless embarrassment. Correspondent Xiao Liu relieved me of the siege.

"Battalion commander!" Xiao Liu saluted in front of me and said, "Commander, let me go to the headquarters immediately!" ”

"Oh!" I nodded, and secretly said that this must be the task that Commander Zhang said before.

I guessed correctly, it was indeed for the mission mentioned earlier. But what surprised me a little was that Commander Zhang's expression was a little anxious...... If this battle had been planned in the first place, what was Commander Zhang anxious about?!

"Sit!" Seeing me come in, Commander Zhang motioned for me to sit down on the map without saying a word, pointed to a location and said, "This is our goal, Kulin Mountain." ”

The first thing I saw was the elevation of this mountain, which was 1705.2 meters, and it was another high mountain.

However, this is also normal, as the so-called climbing high and looking far, the artillery equipment in this era is still relatively backward, and the artillery still relies on the mapping of artillery scouts, plus the higher the high ground, the easier it is to reconnoitre, and it is also easier to provide fire cover for other high grounds, so such a high altitude of more than 1,000 meters has always been a battleground for soldiers.

"Originally, we wanted the soldiers to have a good year, so we decided to attack in half a month, that is, in February!" Commander Zhang frowned and said: "But now the situation has changed, our army's troops in the direction of Kulin Mountain in order to prepare for the attack sent several reconnaissance troops to carry out reconnaissance on Kulin Mountain, unexpectedly a reconnaissance unit was besieged by the Vietnamese army, our army sent several troops to rescue one after another, but the encircled troops are more and more, so under the forced situation, the offensive plan originally scheduled for half a month later was launched in advance, that is, this battle has started two days ago, If you count according to the time when the reconnaissance unit was surrounded, it should have started on the third day of the Lunar New Year! ”

When I heard this, it dawned on me, no wonder Commander Zhang looked so anxious, it turned out that the battle plan was disrupted by the Yue devils.

"Now that I think about it!" Commander Zhang continued: "This should be the more devils realized that our army would make some moves in the direction of Kuolin Mountain, so there was a plan to make our troops throw more and more troops, and finally exposed their strength and could not attack in advance, we are letting the more devils lead the way!" ”

I nodded, this is actually the tactic of "encircling the point and sending reinforcements" of the devils, it is the same old thing, but although this tactic is old, it is tried and tested, because no army will let its troops be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy and not rescued, in that case, the commander will also be scolded to death. So sometimes, even if the commander knew that the Yue devils had intentions, he still had to send troops to the rescue under pressure.

On the other hand, even if the commander resisted the pressure and did not send reinforcements, the result would be a demoralization of the troops, and many soldiers would even desert because of this.

Then I quickly thought: There is nothing strange about this tactic of "encircling the point and sending reinforcements", but if the Yue devils sensed that our army would have some intentions and used this method to force our army to attack in advance...... Then the commander of this more devil is a little terrifying.

"But when the battle began, we realized it wasn't that simple!" Commander Zhang continued: "On the one hand, about one battalion of our army was besieged, which made our army a rat trap; On the other hand, it was occupied by the Vietnamese army after the counterattack in 79, and the Vietnamese army operated here for two years. In the past two years, the Vietnamese army has almost turned this Kuolin Mountain into a castle, they have built criss-crossing fortifications and light and dark pillboxes on the main peak and the eight mountains that are connected, and have planted a large number of mines at the front of the position, and laid down layers of firepower points in favorable positions such as road passes and mountains. A tight defense system with cross-fire on the front and side! ”

"This ......" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this: "This seems to be the tunnel fortification of our volunteers fighting the Yankees!" ”

"So to speak!" Commander Zhang nodded: "Garrisoned on Kuolin Mountain is the 14th Regiment of the 313th Division of the Vietnamese Army, when we resisted US aggression and aided Vietnam, this Vietnamese army was equipped and trained by our army on the Sino-Vietnamese border before returning to Vietnam to participate in the war. At that time, our army taught them the method of resisting the US army, which was very likely to be the tunnel fortifications of the era of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, and in addition, the Kuolin Mountain was full of steep slopes and narrow roads, covered with high grass, and the valleys under the mountain were crisscrossed with thorns, so it was very suitable for using tunnel tactics. ”

"There's one thing I don't understand!" I said, "How did the Yue devils build a large tunnel on Kuolin Mountain?" ”

I have stayed in that place in Yunnan, not only for a long time, but also hiding in the tunnels, so I know very well that the geographical situation in Yunnan is not suitable for building large-scale tunnel fortifications, especially at this time it is the rainy season in Yunnan.

Of course, Commander Zhang knew what I was asking, nodded and replied: "This kind of tunnel fortification of the Yue Devil is actually very simple, in fact, it is to lay a layer of wooden planks on the traffic trench, and then pile up mud and then plant grass. This was intentional from the beginning, and they always started work at night, and then before dawn they carried the new soil away and laid the grass to camouflage. Of course, if you observe these camouflage carefully, you can still detect some clues, after all, the grass you just walked on will be different from the surrounding vegetation, but the border guards thought that this was just an ordinary camouflage made by the Yue devil and didn't care, and after a long time, the grass grew exactly like the surrounding vegetation, and this large tunnel system was completed little by little. ”

Hearing this, I couldn't help but secretly praise in my heart, this is when it comes to hard-working and perseverance, I am afraid that there is still a considerable gap between our army and the devils, such as this detain Lin Mountain, this is to carry forward the spirit of "accumulating steps to reach thousands of miles!" ”。

And they are also very smart, knowing that it is impossible to dig the kind of tunnel fortifications deep into the mountains under the geographical conditions of Yunnan...... Such fortifications will collapse in large areas during the rainy season, so if they do, we really don't need to do it.

However, it would be different if you just dug a traffic bridge and then spread a layer of logs on top of it, and then added a thin layer of soil and vegetation, although this kind of fortification is relatively fragile and cannot be bombarded, but it will not collapse in the rainy season. As long as it is used properly, such as in a dead corner or a ravine that is not easy to be blown up by artillery fire, it can obviously be used as a dark tunnel.

This time we are in trouble, and the reason is obvious: our army is not familiar with the terrain, and most of the Vietnamese troops are hiding in the shadows, and then appear unawares, or even behind our backs......

No wonder our reconnaissance units will be surrounded one by one! (To be continued......)