"As for Comrade Yang Xuefeng's performance on the battlefield in Afghanistan and the experience gained...... Commander Huang said into the microphone: "We have distributed it to you in the form of a text, and we will not say more here because time is precious, if there are any details or questions...... Comrades can communicate with Comrade Yang Xuefeng alone after the meeting......"

At this time, a cadre interjected: "I'm afraid that Comrade Yang Xuefeng can't be busy!" ”

With a "coax", the cadres in the venue laughed heartily......

Later, I found out that it was really the kind of situation that this cadre said...... As soon as this formal meeting was over, there was a large group of leaders around me asking questions of this and that, and the questions were all sorts of strange questions...... Even if I fought on the Afghan side for a year, I couldn't answer.

After a pause, Commander Huang continued: "The purpose of this meeting...... I think the comrades also guessed it, just for the exercises in a few months...... The significance of this exercise is very important...... It's a question of whether or not we fight a war......"

I couldn't agree more...... You must know that the Soviet Union in this era used spy satellites, that is...... Every move of our exercise was under the surveillance of Soviet spy satellites, so if the Soviets found out that our million-strong army was not enough, then they might really make up their minds to invade!

"So......" Commander Huang said sternly and firmly, "this exercise can only succeed and not fail, and we have no way out...... Because the real war is very likely to happen tomorrow, every cadre and every soldier must ask ourselves...... If there is war tomorrow, what should we do today? That's the mindset with which we held this exercise...... It can even be said that this is not a drill. It's a war. In this war...... Every cadre and every soldier is a candidate. There are four examiners: imaginary enemies, republics, peoples, and history!

We must not allow the imaginary enemy to take advantage of the opportunity, the Republic and the people to be disappointed, and we must not allow the history of China's suffering under imperialist aggression to repeat itself! Do the comrades have confidence?! ”

"Yes!"

……

The neat and powerful answers in the conference room gave me the illusion...... This is not in a conference room, but on a point field...... The general is marching for the soldiers who are about to go on the march!

Then the meeting quickly got to the point...... As I guessed before, most of the discussion this time was not about strategy, but about the types of military that would participate in the exercise and which troops should be sent......

There is no doubt that the armed forces and the air force are participating in the exercise...... The reason why the navy was excluded was because our navy was too weak at this time, and it is said that when our navy was first established...... If the commander of the navy wants to go to an island to see the terrain, he has to rent a fishing boat. After that, we purchased some backward destroyers, frigates, and the like from the Soviet Union, and it was not until 71 that we were able to develop our own missile destroyers, and in 78, that is, three years ago according to the current time...... Only then did it begin to enter modernization!

Such a navy that is just beginning to grow...... It was clearly impossible to compete with the Soviet Navy, which had several aircraft carriers, and on the other hand...... The Soviet Union's operational thinking was also to use the army and air forces to move straight down from north to south......

This combat plan is very correct, because China's terrain is a plain from north to south, which is very suitable for the large-scale deployment of armored forces, and at the same time, most of China's railway lines run north-south...... As the Soviets fight south, they can repair the occupied railway lines to supply them!

Historical Chinese ...... Several times the country was destroyed because the enemy's iron cavalry fought from north to south, such as the Mongols destroying the Song Dynasty and the Qing soldiers destroying the Ming Dynasty...... During World War II, Japan originally imitated this style of play, but Chiang Kai-shek attracted troops to Shanghai to start the Battle of Songhu...... As a result, the direction of Japan's attack was unwittingly changed to move from east to west. As a result, along the way there was a water network that was difficult for armored troops to walk and difficult for troops to attack......

With these experiences...... Of course, the Soviet devils will not make this mistake again, so we have to guard against it...... That is, the Soviet devils divided China in half with the onslaught of planes, tanks, artillery, etc. from north to south!

For this reason...... Naturally, the focus of our defense is on the army and air force.

Discussion of these issues...... Naturally, I couldn't interject. The reason is that although I can fight, so many battles have been fought...... I have some understanding of strategy and tactics, but I don't know much about my country's million-strong army.

How can there be a way to understand, what I hear is the piles of numbers, numbers one by one...... If this is an expert who hears the name of a certain unit, the first thing that comes to mind is what tough and vicious battles this unit has fought, what kind of history it has, and where its current military strength is located...... I don't know anything about it, so I'm just watching the excitement from the periphery.

Watching the leaders in the venue fighting for red faces, this one said that I should be on my troops, and the other said that your troops were not as good as mine......

I have to admit it...... I didn't expect that, and it made me feel a little bored in the venue!

"Comrades!" At this time, a young cadre stood up and said, "Are we ...... Thinking about defense again? ”

"How?" Commander Huang asked the cadre suspiciously.

"I mean......" the young cadre replied, standing up, "just like we discussed in the last meeting...... The current situation in our country is different from that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China...... Breaking into the country by the enemy will deal a certain blow to the industrial and political affairs of our army in any case, if we can keep the enemy out of the country......"

I couldn't help frowning when I heard this...... Keeping the enemy out of the country?

"Staff Officer Cao!" Commander Zhang asked the young cadre, "Do you think this is possible?" Keeping the enemy out of the country? ”

"Of course......," replied Staff Officer Cao, "It is very difficult to completely keep the enemy out of the country, but if we use a range of tens of kilometers of the border as a strategic depth for defense, it is not completely impossible...... Just like Comrade Yang Xuefeng defeated the Soviet devils in the south on the battlefield in Afghanistan, they used weak troops and weak equipment...... But it can annihilate and capture the Soviet army with superior forces and superior equipment...... So I don't think we should be presumptuous, maybe the Soviet devils are not as strong as we think! ”

I understood when I heard that...... My victory on the battlefield in Afghanistan made some cadres in China have a heart of contempt for the Soviet army! (To be continued......)