The newly appointed stationmaster Li Changyi is very enthusiastic and capable...... At first, I thought that he removed the old stationmaster because the new officer took office or was unhappy to see us, so I was a little afraid so I took special care of us, but I soon learned that the new stationmaster was a veteran, and he had participated in the self-defense counterattack against India in 62...... His left leg was injured in that war, so he now walks with a limp.

We still have a lot of admiration for this old hero, so the soldiers are very polite to him, and they all affectionately call him the stationmaster of Laoyi.

The old stationmaster saw it and knew that we were going to the front line to fight the devils...... This is no secret now, the reason is that the old station commander made such a fuss, and everyone, including the new soldiers of the first company, was sure that we were going to the battlefield, so a depressing atmosphere soon enveloped the troops, although they could not be seen or touched, but they were like a thick and dense dark cloud that overwhelmed the soldiers.

In fact, this phenomenon is not only for recruits, but also for a considerable number of veterans.

The recruits have never seen the battlefield, and there is a taste of "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers...... Veterans are well aware of the bloody and brutal battlefields, so sometimes the psychological pressure is greater and heavier than that of recruits. Even I feel a little panicked from time to time.

If you really want to say that there is something more calm, it will belong to Scar and Zhang Fan...... Scar: That's been through this scene so many times that it's numb. Zhang Fan was a little ignorant and thought that "the sky is falling, Yang Xuefeng is supporting him anyway", so he is not afraid of anything......

This atmosphere was still relieved by the stationmaster Lao Yi, who heard that we were going to the front line. I couldn't help but be so excited that some tears welled up in my eyes: "Comrades...... It's really fateful! I am fighting a war of self-defense and counterattack against India. You are fighting a war of self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam......"

"Stationmaster Lao Yi. You've been to war too?!! "The soldiers, especially the new cadets of the first company, quickly surrounded them.

"Isn't that right?" The stationmaster patted his left leg and said, "There is still a piece of shrapnel here that has not been taken out...... I was only a teenager when I went to war, much younger than you are now, and those Indian devils saw us as small and called us child soldiers, and they were all bearded and scumbag, and they had fought in war...... So everyone looks down on us, who knows that those Indian soldiers are all paper tigers, and they are useless...... It didn't take two hits before they all lay down. Many of us haven't had a good time! ”

There was a coax, and the warriors all laughed.

There are several meanings in this laughter: one is that I was infected by the relaxed tone of the stationmaster of Lao Yi, and I felt that there was nothing to be afraid of going to the battlefield to fight. Another...... I think that the old stationmaster could go to the battlefield to fight when he was a teenager, so we are all about twenty now, how can we say that we have lived a few more years, haven't we? The stationmaster is not afraid, so what are we afraid of.

But only if we know that these are actually two thoughts, how can fighting India be the same as the current war...... What kind of country is India and what kind of country is Vietnam?

Although the Indian army said that it had also fought in that year, it even boasted that it had defeated Rommel's army...... This is true, but India was still a British colony, and all the middle and upper echelons of officers in India were British...... This after the independence of India. The British officers in the middle and upper echelons were withdrawn...... All right! The rest of the Indian soldiers were all inexperienced in command, and even sent some high-caste people who had never fought in battle, that is, people who looked down on the lower castes. Of course, this combat power is a chicken feather, but they themselves have no self-knowledge and think that they are the first in Asia!

But...... Of course, I will not say these words to the soldiers, because there is a saying that "despise the enemy strategically, attach importance to the enemy tactically", and now is the time to despise the enemy.

Next, we will load the truck under the personal command of the stationmaster of Lao Yi...... Except for the first six tin tank carriages, the rest of the military trains we were on were flatbed trucks for transporting cars and tanks.

At that moment, I, the battalion commander, was actually set aside...... The stationmaster just put a red armband on his arm, and then blew a whistle for a while, and the cadres of each company and platoon went to him for a meeting.

First of all, we should train the company commanders and platoon commanders, mainly what to pay attention to when loading cars and tanks, in what order to load them, how to fix them after loading, where to go to collect equipment, and so on......

Later, I found out that this is actually very necessary, and this is not a simple car or a tank to drive...... The train runs at high speed on the tracks, and sometimes there are bumps and bumps between the cars entering the station...... This requires that the cars and tanks on the flatbed truck must be fixed......

This fixation is also a science: first the car is arranged at a certain interval, and then the front and rear wheels are tightened with triangular wood...... When it was done, use two claw nails to nail the triangle wood firmly to the flatbed. When nailing the triangle wood, it is necessary to ensure that there is no gap, because the mass of the car is large, and as soon as there is a gap, it is likely that the car will fly out because of the forward and backward movement of the train.

Then use No. 8 wire to tie the front and rear bumpers of the car to the iron hooks on both sides of the flat car, and after several times of light tiding, you also need to use a wooden stick in the middle of the wire to insert a wooden stick in the middle of the two sets of iron wires and wrap it in one direction, until the iron wire collapses tightly and ties the car tightly.

Although this is not very difficult, the so-called dragon gives birth to nine sons, each of which is different...... If there are more people in our troops, the quality of these aspects will be good and bad.

This is not to say that my soldiers are stupid, but everyone is good at different things, just like some people in school are biased towards this subject and some people are biased towards that subject, some people are not born with a hobby in this area or like to be sloppy, or it can also be said that because they want to go to the battlefield, they don't have the heart to do this, so they just tie a nail and nail it casually.

But fortunately, the stationmaster is very patient, after we finished loading, he personally led the station staff to check one carriage after another, and saw that some unqualified ones were reinforced with the staff...... After passing the inspection, the camouflage net was approved.

The conscientious and responsible spirit of the stationmaster also made our military column all the way to the front line without any problems...... From this point of view, I think I have done a good thing to remove the old stationmaster.

In this way, until two o'clock in the morning, everything was finally prepared, and I reported the situation to the headquarters again, and after getting permission, I informed the stationmaster that he could leave at any time.

The emergency whistle soon sounded, and groups of three or five soldiers on the platform crowded onto the train, and the stationmaster waved the red flag on the platform, and the rhythm of the steam sound from the locomotive also accelerated, and then slowly moved like a steel dragon that had just woken up.

"Comrades! zaijian！ The stationmaster shouted at us: "I, Lao Yi, am here waiting for you to come back!" ”

“zaijian！”

“zaijian！”

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The soldiers also took off their hats and stretched out the door to wave at the venerable stationmaster...... He said that sentence, I don't know how many fighters secretly wiped their tears when they were in the carriage...... I really don't know if I'll be able to come back here again.

The train went forward for a while, and the correspondent Xiao Liu turned on the radio when he was bored and wanted to hear the news from the front line...... At this time, the news was still relatively closed, and our sources were either given by our superiors or heard from the programs on the radio...... As for the newspaper, when we saw the news, it was basically a few days ago and it had been processed.

At this time, Xiao Liu listened to the "Voice of America...... Before the counterattack against Vietnam, this program was still an "enemy station" that was not allowed to be listened to, but now it has been openly listened to in the troops, and the news of the Voice of America is fast and accurate...... It's kind of funny to say, we fought our own battles...... The news had to be heard from the radio set up by the Yankees.

At this moment, we suddenly heard a broadcast: "The fighting on the border between these two former friends of China and Vietnam is still going on, and when the news is broadcast, about a regiment of soldiers with cars, tanks, and artillery is boarding a train in Beijing, and is about to rush to the Sino-Vietnamese border to participate in the war......

The fighters were stupid as soon as they heard this broadcast...... Isn't that what we're talking about?

"Battalion commander!" Xiao Liu couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "Are there any spies in our army?" ”

"Yes, battalion commander......" Zhao Jingping also said strangely: "It was only a few hours for us to set off from the base to get here, including loading, and we were secretly advancing in the night...... This Yankee knows it? ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" I replied, "What a spy!" ”

"Then this is ......"

"The Yankees have a thing called a spy satellite!" I said, "Even in heaven, you can see what we're doing at any time!" ”

"Hey, this thing? Space...... Spy satellites? ”

"Battalion commander!" King Chuang asked, "Then why don't we see anything in the sky?" If you want to see it, shoot it down with a cannon! ”

"That's it!" Xiao Liu also said matter-of-factly: "This has leaked our information, knock it down!" ”

I couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "That thing is very high, but we can't see it, and it cannonballs can't hit it!" ”

Now the fighters are out of line, and some people are still not convinced...... One after another asked: "Since we can't see it, then why can the Yankees see us?" ”

All right...... I don't know how to explain it, and the more you explain it, the more problems it will be.

From this point of view, our army is still a long, long way from modernization! (To be continued......)