It's a good feeling to be back at base...... This is not just about the improvement of living conditions at the base, but also because of the sense of security that comes back to your own country and your own base!

To put it simply...... It's just that you don't have to worry about danger at all times like when you were in Afghanistan...... This has been the case in previous battles, but the psychological pressure in Afghanistan is particularly high. The reason is that the fighters know it in their hearts...... No one can say for sure what will happen to the war, especially since we are still facing the Soviet army...... Their equipment is always missiles, rocket artillery...... If these things are blown up, they can't even find all the corpses, and sometimes the Soviets will use incendiary bombs, which are lit up and it's pitch black, and it's impossible to tell whether it's an Afghan or a Chinese...... If you're lucky, you can still leave a little unburned thing on your body that can prove your identity, so you can tell the difference.

Other words...... In the war in Afghanistan, we must always be mentally prepared for not being able to "return home", and this is what Chinese care about the most......

Is there such a thing...... For example, we ...... A total of thirty-five warriors were sacrificed, all of which could have found corpses or body parts, and three warriors were stunned and could not find anything...... No one dared to say for sure whether they had sacrificed or what!

Actually, we all know ...... Nine times out of ten, they encountered a situation where the corpse could not be identified, so in the end they could only be regarded as "missing", and they could not even be on the list of martyrs!

Now I have finally returned to China, and I have returned to the peaceful world, not only to the peaceful world but also to the base...... It's the safest place in the world for us, and that's why I used to sleep for dozens of hours when I relaxed!

Of course, there is still the so-called "battlefield syndrome", that is, the kind of discomfort that suddenly returns from the battlefield to the peaceful world...... For example, when you hear the sound of gunfire hitting a target. The nerves will still collapse immediately.

But...... Maybe it's because we've been going back and forth between the battlefield and the base a lot more times, and we're slowly getting used to counting more this time, so this "syndrome" isn't so obvious...... This is actually as it should be, this unit under my command is all veterans, and it can be regarded as a special forces...... Then if there is any "syndrome" at every turn, how can there be a way to adapt to the new battlefield in the shortest possible time!

At this time, I was a little envious of my soldiers...... I can happily go home and go for a walk, while my staff officers and I have to start preparing for the training when the soldiers return...... Cadres, you have to endure hardships in the front and enjoy in the back, you can't go home and don't have a vacation, what can you do!

"Here's what we're going to do next!" In the conference room, I said to the gathered cadres: "Comrades also know...... In the next phases. We should focus on the coordinated training of various arms of the armed forces and air forces, including air-foot coordination, air-tank coordination, air-artillery coordination, and so on......"

As soon as I finished speaking, there was a strong reaction in the conference room......

"Battalion commander!" Zhang Zuoliang asked excitedly: "Does this mean...... Our synthetic battalion will have an air force soon? ”

"It's not nonsense!" I said: "If there is no Air Force...... That's a training fart! ”

There was a loud bang...... The conference room quickly became lively, and in the first ...... It's a pretty impressive thing to have a few tanks in the army, and we're still suffering from Soviet air strikes around Afghanistan, so we know that we'll soon have an air force of our own...... The cadres are as happy as the New Year!

"Battalion commander!" Or Zhao Jingping is calmer. He then asked, "Did the superior say that...... What kind of aircraft is the air power allocated to us and how many sorties are there? ”

"It's not decided yet!" I replied, "Because time is of the essence." Even the superiors did not have a clear plan for this matter...... I want to, though. Our training should be helicopter-based...... Just like the various wars fought by the Soviet army on the battlefield in Afghanistan! ”

"Oh!" As soon as I said this, the cadres understood that this was learning the tactics of the Soviet army...... Then this superior has found the right person, we have personally fought against the Soviet army on the battlefield in Afghanistan, so from the cadres down to every soldier...... It can be said that we have some understanding of the tactics of the Soviet army, so if we look at the whole country, I am afraid that there is no unit that is suitable for us!

"Battalion commander!" At this time, King Chuang raised a question: "You say...... Is it useful for us to learn from this tactic of the Soviet devils? The Soviet devils in Afghanistan have not yet made us miserable...... In addition, our opponents also have surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles, and on the other hand, we do not have the Mi-24 helicopter gunship as strong as the Soviet army......"

It should be said that what King Chuang said is still very insightful...... The main reason is that helicopters are high-tech things. And our country because of the relationship of ten years...... Little progress has been made in this regard, and the Z-5 helicopters, developed in the fifties, are now used in large quantities in the army......

After the Z-5, the R&D projects of the Z-6 and Z-7 were carried out successively...... However, only fifteen Z-6 aircraft were produced, and they were not put into mass production for performance reasons, and the Z-7 was discontinued after only two were produced...... At this time, our country is almost a blank in terms of helicopters!

On the other hand...... The enemy we are facing now is the Soviet Union and Soviet-backed Vietnam...... We are not at all surprised if their infantry has a couple of second-generation MANPADS in their hands...... When we were in Afghanistan, we knew that the Soviets had a large number of anti-aircraft missiles in their hands. Its performance may not be much worse than the Yankee's "Stinger"!

If so...... Does it still make sense for us to do this kind of training? Helicopter performance can't keep up...... To go up with a battalion of infantry will undoubtedly become a living coffin, and to go up is to become a target for enemy anti-aircraft missiles!

"That's not what we need to think about!" I said, "That's all I can say...... Our training, most likely, is a simulation of the Soviet army, so our enemy ...... Not the Soviets and not the Vietnamese, but our own army, understand? ”

"Oh!" Hearing this, the staff officers suddenly realized, and then you look at me, and I see that you have no voice.

"Any questions?" Seeing this, I couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

"Battalion commander!" King Chuang replied with some reluctance: "This training ...... We are training more in peacetime and bleeding less in wartime, you say...... Now let's train to simulate the Soviets to conduct exercises...... On the one hand, there is no bloodshed, and on the other hand, it is still your own people...... We've become Soviet devils, this ...... Are we guilty of practicing this? ”

I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this...... What King Chuang said seems to be true, but why didn't I feel this way before?

After thinking about it, I quickly understood...... This may have something to do with the fact that I am a modern person, and no matter how much I get along with the soldiers, there is still a generation gap with them ideologically...... I'm more of a big and strategic one, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that...... It can give all units of our army a great understanding of the tactics and combat effectiveness of the Soviet army, and know how the Soviet army fights...... That is, to improve the combat effectiveness of our army and the adaptability of the battlefield, and at the same time to understand the gap between the Soviet army and our army in terms of equipment and quality...... The commander also knew that he should make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and at some point he should not go head-to-head with the Soviet army!

But the soldiers, including these literate and highly educated staff officers under me, did not think the same...... The first thing they think of is to be an enemy and be boring and humiliating...... Perhaps this is the concept of people in this era!

"Eh, comrades!" Then the instructor said, "It's not right for you to think like that...... What is the purpose of the exercise? In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of our army...... And there will be a blue army and a red army in every exercise, if everyone only wants to be a red army, not a blue army...... So how is this exercise still going on? ”

"Instructor!" Tank staff officer Ding Chengdong interjected: "If you let us be the Blues...... We're also willing, isn't it just a drill, isn't it just to beat us as enemies? Let's just go up to practice with the Red Army, and we will lose face for a few days...... But this ...... We have to practice every day as devils, I'm afraid that we don't practice like ...... After a few months of hard training, he went back to the training ground to let the Red Army fight...... Isn't that a nest? ”

"That's it...... Let us be devils and behave like one! ”

……

When I heard this, the instructor and I couldn't help but laugh a little...... But I quickly realized the importance of this question......

"Instructor, I don't think this is going to work!" I say.

"Battalion commander......" The instructor said angrily: "You have seen the same thing as them, so you don't care about this...... Do what you have to do, in terms of ideological work...... Leave it to me! ”

"That's not what I meant!" I said, "Have you ever thought about it...... If the cadres would have such thoughts after knowing this, what would the soldiers do when they heard about it? ”

"So what else?" The instructor replied nonchalantly, "Same idea...... This is the time for us to do ideological work, otherwise what would we need to do as instructors and instructors? ”

I shook my head and said, "Even if you do a good job of ideological work and get through every fighter, but ...... Can you guarantee that the fighters will be fully motivated? ”

As soon as I said that, the instructor was stunned...... This is also true, the ideological work is done, it does not mean that they can accept it...... Or it is possible to accept it on the surface, but in the heart it is not to take the training seriously...... You must know that all the soldiers of the synthetic battalion have come down from the battlefield, and they are not afraid of death...... Will you still be afraid of drills? (To be continued......)