"Let's talk about it!" Then Commander Zhang handed him a cigarette: "Tell me your opinion of our 38th Army, the advantages and disadvantages, so that we can introspect ourselves!" ”

I know that Commander Zhang is not the kind of person who will beat around the bush or listen to flattery, he really wants to hear the opinions of those of us who are his "enemies" on the exercise ground, in fact, those who can see themselves clearly are often their enemies, so I am no longer polite, nodded and said: "There are many advantages of the 38th Army, such as tenacious will to fight, super strong psychological and physical elements, etc., I won't say much about these, what impresses me deeply is the anti-tank ability, especially the anti-tank missile can hit six shots and six hits, This is amazing! ”

Commander Zhang said with a smile: "Let's work hard according to the subject of the exercise, as for the anti-tank missiles...... Six shots and six hits are also luck, and it should be said that we have done some tricks in this, there are not many fighters who can hit missiles so accurately, we let the two fighters who hit particularly accurately each shoot one more shot, that is, these six missiles are actually four fighters! ”

"Oh!" Hearing this, I couldn't help but sigh, it is really not easy for technical soldiers in this era, and even a unit like the 38th Army can only find four soldiers who can fight accurately.

"Don't talk about the advantages, talk about the disadvantages!" Commander Zhang said.

I didn't think about it, so I replied: "The disadvantage is that the ability to fight at night and the ability to counter the raid are insufficient!" ”

"Hmm!" Commander Zhang couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, if it were someone else, he was afraid that he would say that there was not enough air power, insufficient coordination, and this lack of night combat ability and counter-raid ability was still a new statement.

"This was felt when we saw the reaction of the Red Army when launching a surprise attack on the tank and artillery units of the Red Army!" I said: "The heavy losses of the tank and artillery units can be said to be the turning point of this exercise, and the Red Army, when it is attacked by surprise, always disregards its life to protect equipment or grab equipment...... You must know that our army 59 basically has no night combat ability. In the event of a surprise attack, even grabbing a tank will not do much. The same is also sacrificed along with equipment. Not to mention the cannon, which can be used as cover in hand-to-hand combat! At this time, the Red Army should save itself, and save itself to preserve its equipment to the greatest extent! Otherwise, it's a loss of people and equipment, isn't it? ”

Commander Zhang nodded heavily, and sighed: "This is all the old thinking in the past, the soldiers always hold the idea that people are equipped, so the first thing I think of is always to protect the equipment!" ”

I understand this, in fact, this is a tradition of our army, the reason is that in the past, our army was strictly short of equipment. Over time, a situation has developed in which equipment is even more important than people.

In fact, there is a certain truth in this, for example, if a tank soldier loses a tank, it will hardly be able to play any role on the battlefield, so the army encourages equipment-based, as long as possible, it must protect the equipment and put it into the battlefield to exert combat effectiveness.

But this should obviously not be done when the enemy is raided, especially since the equipment is not yet capable of night combat.

"Then ......" and then Commander Zhang asked: "Battalion Commander Yang thinks what we should do when we are attacked by surprise?" ”

"It's easy!" I replied: "Scatter on the spot and lie still, that is, do not run around, do not grab equipment, and do not shoot indiscriminately, and if you identify an enemy, you will fight an enemy!" ”

"Oh!" Commander Zhang couldn't help but nod when he heard this: "This is like a lurking war on the battlefield in Vietnam!" ”

"Yes!" I said, "At this time, if you run around, it is easy to throw your side into confusion, but if you lie on the ground and do not move, it will be difficult for the enemy to find out." This will discourage the enemy from making rash moves, as they will not be able to determine if there is an opponent in the darkness around them who is lying on their stomach and aiming their guns at them. In this way, they will not dare to shoot indiscriminately and the equipment will be preserved to the maximum extent! ”

"Reasonable!" Commander Zhang replied: "We didn't realize this before, and we have to strengthen training in this area in the future!" ”

I deeply appreciate Commander Zhang's unpretentious attitude, and Commander Zhang not only listened to my own opinions, but also listened to the opinions of the soldiers...... This is a bit like doing a post-war assessment or summarizing experience after a war, but this summing up experience is not like ordinary troops, where one's own people sit down and sum up their own experience, but the "enemy" sums up their own experience.

The opponent is the one who knows his strengths and weaknesses best, so this method is worth learning from me, and I think this is one of the reasons why the 38th Army has been able to maintain amazing combat effectiveness without fighting for decades.

We talked about it very late this night, not only about the 38th Army, but also about the Airborne Forces and even our synthetic battalion, and even engaged in a war game when we talked about the rise.

As soldiers, especially those of us who were soldiers during the war years, what we chat, discuss, and are passionate about in peacetime is inevitably related to the battlefield. The reason is simple, it is related to our lives, to the survival of our troops, and although we are in the rear now, we may be on the battlefield tomorrow.

In the end, when it was almost dawn, everyone dispersed, and Commander Zhang said with great interest that he would come to us tomorrow to continue chatting.

But the next day, Commander Zhang failed to come as promised...... This is actually not surprising at all, as a military commander has a lot of military affairs waiting for him to deal with, it is good to have one night to talk.

Later, I learned that this night's time was actually Commander Zhang's resting time, but Commander Zhang hurried back to the headquarters of the Blue Army to command before he could sleep for two hours.

Our next tasks are twofold:

The first is to help the people restore the transportation, fields, etc. that were destroyed during the exercise.

This point is very easy to understand, our troops are the people's soldiers, and they have always paid attention to the relationship between the military and the people, and this time we have carried out such a large exercise, which can be said to be a radius of several hundred miles, and it is also a gun and artillery, and it is inevitable that the highway will be blown up to a mess, and we can't just walk away, so the road builders and the fields are very busy.

At this time, the sappers are the most popular and majestic, what kind of infantry, tank soldiers, etc., although the equipment in our hands is all murderous things. But the only thing that does the work is a sapper shovel. At this time, you can only dig around a pile of shovels and shovels like primitive people. It takes hundreds of people to be busy for half a day to build a section of the road.

And what about the sappers? The bulldozer drove up and "boomed" with a sound of two and a half times, and I don't know if the sappers deliberately showed off in front of us or what, they had nothing to do after finishing the road and helped the people build a canal by the way, only to see that we soldiers who were working hard with sapper shovels gritted their teeth with hatred.

Later, I learned that our exercise caused quite a stir among the local people.

Because of the secrecy of the exercise, there was not much news about it before the exercise, but a large number of public security officers were dispatched to draw a cordon and arrange for the people to withdraw.

Then a large number of troops arrived...... Then the people naturally thought: This is going to war!

For a while, there were rumors and various theories, such as that we were going to fight with the Soviet Union, and how many people would die in this war. There is also the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons, and so on.

Then there was chaos among the people, some of them were very exaggerated and grabbed shopping goods to prepare for disaster, some fled the "war zone" with their families, and some even dug tunnels to escape.

Of course, this is all about a peaceful world, and although we are in it, we are basically isolated from them, so we didn't know until after the exercise that we saw people moving back with large bags and small bags.

In this day and age, there is not enough information to circulate, and it is normal for all kinds of rumors to appear, and as a soldier, I can understand the panic of the common people about the war...... We are afraid of the soldiers going to war, let alone the people.

So I thought that our second task was to form a phalanx and kick the right step in order to stabilize the hearts of the people.

This is a big headache for our synthesis camp.

Our synthetic battalion is the kind of war that will fight. But the kind of kicking that is not energetic...... Just kidding, we came down from the sea of corpses and blood on the battlefield. Even if the soldiers are asked to conduct exercises, they will feel bored, not to mention that they still kick the right steps on the playground over and over again.

But that's what the order from above says, and there is no reason whatsoever, it must be kicked right.

So we had to practice over and over again, and walk over and over again...... At first, I thought it was a show of military prestige for the local people. Recently, our army has been improving the people's confidence in the army, and it started from the battle of Faka Mountain, so it should also mean this to kick the right step in front of the people now!

Later, the more I kicked, the more I felt that it was wrong, this kick didn't need to kick for so many days, and it only took one or two days to put the military in front of the people, right?

Then looking at the neat square position and the way he held the gun, he suddenly felt a thrill...... Isn't this the phalanx you see on TV parades? If you try to recall the historical knowledge in your mind, it seems that there was a military parade in 81, that is, the first military parade after the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam.

Mother, I didn't expect it to be now, and I didn't expect this military parade to be immediately after the big exercise.

I guessed correctly, the order for the big parade was quickly conveyed by the superiors, which made the soldiers excited for a while.

Just like Luo Xianwen said, this war has been fought for so long, and he can finally live to wait for this moment. This also made the fighters kick more and more vigorously, and even made the instructors, instructors, and others very nervous, and carried out all kinds of ideological education and key training for those fighters who were not in place.

This can't help but make me cry and laugh a little: it's just that the posture is not in place, and there is nothing wrong with the ideology, how can this be carried out ideological education?! So with this curiosity, I went out of my way to listen to how the instructor did this ideological education.

Here's what the instructor said: "I said that you, comrade, do you know that the military posture and the positive steps represent the image and spiritual outlook of our army, and that we are going to enter the parade ground to be inspected by the chief and the people of the whole country. Can you afford it?! ”

Then there was a lot of "bar, la, la", which was sonorous and powerful, and the soldiers who were trained were ashamed of themselves, and finally wrote a letter of guarantee and made up their minds to practice this positive step well, so when others were sleeping, they were still walking on the playground over and over again, and when they heard the sound of the password, they formed a conditioned reflex and immediately made corresponding actions.

It is said that such an incident happened in a dormitory: a platoon commander shouted a few passwords in the middle of the night, but the soldiers in the dormitory turned over and got out of bed to line up before they opened their eyes, and they were stunned for a long time and did not hear the next password, although they suspected that the platoon commander was talking in a dream, but they still did not dare to move, until the next day when the platoon commander woke up, he was surprised to find that his soldiers had been standing outside all night and he did not know what was happening.

This kind of training may seem like nothing, but in fact it is very hard, and as far as those of us who have fought are concerned, the arduous process is no less than that of lurking on the battlefield, except that there is danger to our lives and there is strong psychological pressure.

Physically, we need to practice Jingqi vision, we have to practice our eyes for a few minutes without blinking, and we have to practice not moving at all to see who stands for a long time, often motionless for more than an hour. The longest thing we stood in the synthetic battalion was Scar, and it was two and a half hours at a time, but in the end, our legs were numb and we couldn't bend up, and we were supported by two people, one on the left and one on the right, to leave the training ground.

In this regard, I, the battalion commander, am much inferior, and many times I am even a little confused...... Anyway, this is not a war, it doesn't matter if you stand less or crooked! It's just that when I saw that all the soldiers under my command were so serious, and I, the battalion commander who was supposed to be their role model, was confused, I was afraid that it would not be justified, so I cheered up and practiced with them.

But don't say it, it's actually not right if it's useless, because I soon realized that this is actually a kind of training for perseverance, just like our sniper company training lurking motionless lying on our stomach, and it can even be said that this is more monotonous when walking forward and standing in a military posture, when we are lurking, the body does not move but the head can find something to do, such as calculating the distance, noting the terrain, calculating the direction of the wind, etc., but when standing in the military posture, there is nothing to do, even the brain does not dare to distract, can only follow the password like a machine qì person.

In the end, we came to Zhangjiakou Yulin Airport according to the order, which is an airfield for air force units, of course, at this time all kinds of fighters have flown to other airports or parked in the aircraft fort, replaced by neat formations of troops waiting for review. (To be continued......)