With the exercise over, I was finally able to relax and rest for a while.

In addition to training, in the past few months, it has been training, or meetings and exercises, but I have been so tired that I have taken off a layer of skin.

I didn't think about this, originally I thought that those of us who were soldiers would have to live with our heads on the battlefield, and we should be allowed to rest and rest when we returned to the rear, but I didn't expect to be tired like this.

However, this does not seem to be surprising, "sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime", this is only the most word-of-mouth sentence passed on by the soldiers during the hard training in the army, and it is also the sentence that the soldiers think about the most, and it is this sentence that makes the soldiers grit their teeth and drag their tired feet again and again to complete the training tasks of each day.

Now that the exercise is finally over, we can take a break from our busy schedules.

Invite a few cadres in the office, pour a few pots of tea, pile a few plates of dried fruits and divide a few packs of cigarettes in the middle, and talk about the world while listening to the radio.

Is listening to the radio entertainment?

No way,At this time, TV is still a luxury,A color TV costs seven or eight hundred yuan,And the annual income of ordinary people is only more than 100 yuan,Then color TV is naturally sky-high。

At this time, a sweet female voice floated out of the radio: "The Beijing unit and the air force unit of the People's Liberation Army recently held a military exercise under modern conditions in a certain place in North China to report to the party and the people on the achievements of our army in accelerating the modernization and regularization of the revolutionary army building. The exercise was carried out with the encouragement of the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee. Participating in the exercise were heroic units that made outstanding achievements in the Second Domestic Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, as well as artillery, armored troops, and engineering troops, ......"

"Hey!" At this time, the reader shouted, "This is still a secret." I didn't say a single word about the number of the troops! ”

"Isn't that?" Luo Xianwen said with a smile: "If you report the number." That's not enough for the enemy's spies to applaud! ”

"Battalion commander!" Liang Lianbing shouted at me while munching on melon seeds: "Why didn't you mention our synthetic battalion here?" It's all 'Beijing troops' and 'airborne troops'! ”

"Go, go!" I replied angrily: "Do you know if the gun shot the first bird?" If you don't mention our names, you'll have fun! ”

As soon as there was a coax, the surrounding warriors burst into laughter.

"Battalion commander!" After laughing for a while, Zhao Jingping said with a straight face: "Tell the truth." The Red Army also fought well during this exercise, especially after the successful surprise attack of our tank regiments and artillery units of the Red Army! ”

"Yes!" Luo Xianwen replied: "If this is the other troops, its tank regiments and artillery units are attacked by the enemy and suffer heavy losses, this will cause a big blow to morale in any case, if the other troops are only afraid that they will be defeated like a mountain, but the Red Army can still attack us with offense instead of defense......"

"Hey!" Liang Lianbing said with some disdain on the side: "That's because they know that this is a drill, not a real fight." If this is really on the battlefield, they can still have such a table, I Liang even wrote the name of the soldier upside down! ”

There is indeed some truth in what Liang Lianbing said. After all, the pressure on the exercise ground is not as good as that on the battlefield, so there is still a difference here.

But this is only a "certain" reason, because it is the 38th Army, which is the most important task of our army, that is, the defense of Beijing, a unit with a special mission like them...... Although it was an exercise, the psychological pressure was obviously not small, because for them, failure almost meant that they were incapable of defending Beijing.

Therefore, such a statement of the Red Army is rare and valuable, and from this point of view, it can also be seen that the overall psychological quality of the 38th Army is not comparable to other units.

Just as the soldiers were chatting word by word, I saw Commander Xu walking in with an old cadre accompanied by the guards.

We hurriedly stood up and greeted the commander.

"Sit down!" Commander Xu seemed to be in a good mood, raised his head at me and introduced to the old cadres around him: "Lao Zhang (pseudonym), this is Battalion Commander Yang of the Synthetic Battalion!" ”

"Hmm! Battalion Commander Yang! The old cadre came forward and shook my hand. The sharp eyes looked me up and down, nodded and said, "Not bad." Yes, what a hero! ”

"Battalion Commander Yang!" Commander Xu introduced on his behalf: "This is the commander of the 38th Army, that is, the commander-in-chief of the Red Army in this exercise, and he came to meet you, the commander of the synthetic battalion, this time!" ”

"It turned out to be Commander Zhang!" Hearing this, I couldn't help but be in awe of the old army commander in front of me.

As we discussed before, the 38th Army's Su zhì is indeed good, and it can be said that they are already in the process of transforming traditional tactics into modernization, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are both traditional tactics and modern tactics. Just like the hand-to-hand combat they launched after the tank regiments and artillery units were attacked by our troops and suffered heavy losses, that is the traditional fighting tactics of our army.

Things on the battlefield sometimes don't mean that modern coordinated tactics are necessarily good. Of course, if it is fully equipped, the coordination of all branches of the armed forces will naturally bring into full play the combat effectiveness of the whole army.

But......

On the battlefield, there will always be times when one side is in a weak position, such as losing air supremacy, or the artillery has been hit hard, etc., and it is obviously irrational to hope that all arms of the armed forces will work together. The reason is very simple, some of the troops have been beaten to the point of losing their combat effectiveness, and they will not be able to cooperate.

This is also the principle of shortcomings, in cooperative tactics, each class is like a piece of wood put together into a barrel, if these planks are the same length, then the barrel can hold the most water. As long as any of these planks are cut off and become a particularly short board, then the water that can be filled will be based on this short board.

The same is true of coordinated tactics, which require close coordination among all arms of the armed forces, and as long as one branch of the armed forces is weakened, it will directly affect the combat effectiveness of the whole army.

At this time, on the contrary, the traditional tactics are more useful, and the traditional tactics mentioned here are the infantry-based fighting styles that our army has always used. Therefore, the combination of both can often exert unexpected effects on the battlefield.

"Battalion Commander Yang!" Commander Zhang smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "This time, it's my subordinate who will come to you for a teacher in the future!" ”

Saying that, Commander Zhang and Commander Xu laughed.

"Zhang Jun's words are serious!" I hurriedly replied, "It should be that we should learn from the 38th Army!" ”

"Eh, don't be humble anymore!" Commander Zhang shook his head and said: "In this exercise, although no one wins or loses on the surface, everyone knows it in their hearts...... We're a big one! ”

"Sit down!" Commander Xu greeted everyone: "Comrades are all sitting and talking, we are opponents and enemies on this exercise ground, and we will still be our own brothers after the exercise, don't be polite!" ”

"Coax!" Everyone laughed.

The soldiers sat down in their chairs, Zhao Jingping and the political commissar gave up the two positions around them to Commander Xu and Commander Zhang, and the correspondent immediately stepped forward smartly and poured a cup of tea for each of the two commanders.

"I'm talking about Camp Commander Yang!" Zhang Jun sighed: "At first, I thought that my opponent was Lao Xu, and I wondered when this Lao Xu became so smart, and why did the Airborne Forces become so capable of fighting...... After the exercise, I found out that the airborne troops still have a synthetic battalion in it, and we have lost unjustly, and the synthetic battalion really lives up to its reputation! ”

"I said Lao Zhang!" Commander Xu next to him objected: "You look down on me and the Airborne Forces, right?" ”

"How dare you! Don't you see what we're all beaten up with?! ”

The back-and-forth bickering between Commander Xu and Commander Zhang only made the soldiers laugh secretly, but they didn't expect that this commander, who usually looked very strict, also had such a side.

"Commander Zhang!" I said, "Actually, we can win this exercise, it should be said that our blue army has taken advantage of it!" ”

"Huh! It was our Red Army that took advantage! "Commander Zhang didn't agree with me.

"On the surface, it seems that it is indeed the Red Army that takes advantage!" I said, "You have much more battlefield information than we do, such as the terrain, offensive tactics, and even time can't escape these days." But in fact, it was our Blues who really took advantage, because the Reds thought they had a lot of information and thought that there would be a big chance of winning this battle, but in fact some of the information was outdated. For example, the Red Army knew nothing about the information and tactical changes in the equipment of the Airborne Forces, and thought that the Blue Army was just a light infantry that could parachute as before. This was enough to make the Red Army have the desire to underestimate the enemy, for example, when it was anti-airborne, it did not even send tank units at the beginning......"

Commander Zhang nodded: "We are indeed too light on the enemy, we used to know the airborne troops well, so we were relieved to arrange the anti-airborne plan, no one expected that the airborne troops would have such a big change in a few months, and we were caught off guard." However, this does not mean that the Blues took advantage, but that we made the mistake of being strict! It's our own problem. ”

It should be said that what Commander Zhang said is still reasonable, because underestimating the enemy is a taboo on the battlefield, and it doesn't matter if you lose once at the exercise site, and if it is on the battlefield, you don't know how many lives you will lose because of this.

"If it's based on the strength of both sides!" I couldn't find anything to say for a while, so I had to say in a comforting tone: "It's really impossible to say who will win or lose this battle!" ”

Commander Zhang shook his head with a wry smile, and only said: "There is no if there is no war if, and if you lose, you may not have a chance!" ”

Hearing this, I couldn't help but be in awe of Commander Zhang...... This is a soldier who can face his mistakes and failures, a real soldier! (To be continued......)