Chapter 227: Meeting
A few days later, we arrived in Beijing without any problems......
It's funny to say, in this era, although I am in Beijing, Yunnan or Guangxi, and Beijing has been back and forth several times, but I have never been to Beijing once.
Perhaps this is the sorrow of our soldiers...... I've been to many places, but it's almost the same as not going, because it doesn't matter where it is...... For us, it's all bases, camps, training, fighting...... Every place is pretty much the same, it's just a different place name.
This time it was the same, only after the train unloaded the equipment, it rushed to the base non-stop. Unlike the previous ones...... Because the base received the news in advance that our synthetic camp was coming back, it prepared a welcome ceremony.
To be honest, I don't really like this kind of welcome ceremony...... It's a gong and a drum, and then there's firecrackers...... I've heard too many of these similar sounds on the battlefield, so when I hear them, I feel annoyed, nervous, and inexplicably uncomfortable. Sometimes I'd rather be quiet, or let us rest for a day before we come back to the welcoming ceremony.
But that didn't stop the fighters from being enthusiastic...... As soon as we stepped out of the armored car, we saw a sea of people around us...... Most of them are soldiers of the 40th Division, and many soldiers in the synthetic battalion are selected from the 40th Division, so they will definitely be greeted by comrades-in-arms, fellow villagers, and the like.
Of course, the staff left in the base of our synthetic battalion are also there, including Zhang Fan...... As soon as she saw me, she shouted excitedly, "Yang Xuefeng", and ran up quickly.
This is Zhang Fan's habit...... Every time I see me, I always love Yang Xuefeng's call, and often the louder the scream, the more excited I am, I seem to be a little used to her after dating her for so long. So as soon as I heard the volume of her voice calling my name, I knew if she was upset or what she was doing.
This time she screamed loudly. But then the pace soon slowed down...... Because she saw Chen Yiyi coming out after me.
"Sister Zhang Fan!" Instead, Chen Yiyi beckoned to Zhang Fan and greeted him.
On the train, I mentioned Zhang Fan's situation to Chen Yiyi...... Since it is inevitable to meet. Naturally, it was good to say it early, so Chen Yiyi was not surprised to see Zhang Fan at all.
Chen ...... Sister Chen! Zhang Fan's expression suddenly became embarrassed: "You...... You're here too! ”
"Hmm!" Chen Yiyi nodded, pulled Chen Qiaoqiao and said, "This is my sister...... I finally brought her back from Vietnam! ”
"Oh! Hello comrades! Zhang Fan shook Chen Qiaoqiao's hand.
"Hello!" Chen Qiaoqiao looked curiously as soon as she got out of the car, and then asked in disbelief: "Sister...... Where do we live? Do you live here? ”
In fact, Chen Qiaoqiao can't be blamed for this...... From Vietnam, from Vietnam, which has fought for decades, and has just come off the battlefield...... I never imagined that I would live in such a place with such a high-rise building...... In fact, there are no high-rise buildings in the base, and the highest one is only four or five floors, but this place can almost be regarded as a paradise for Chen Yiyi or Chen Qiaoqiao.
Zhang Fan couldn't help but smile when he saw this. said: "Sister Chen, Comrade Chen Qiaoqiao...... I'll show you around first! ”
He glanced at me sadly and left with the Chen sisters.
"Yang ......" Just when I was stunned, I don't know when Li Li came to my side, she looked at the backs of Zhang Fan and several women, and said funny: "I went to the battlefield...... Also captured a couple of Vietnamese women and came back? ”
I was speechless for a while, and then I finally realized the deep meaning of that sentence...... The hardest debt in the world is emotional debt!
"Don't worry!" Li Li straightened my collar, deliberately rubbed it on me, and said, "I don't have any opinion on this, but it seems that your little girlfriend has a little opinion......"
As he spoke, he smiled and left with a look of good fun.
So I knew that Weishenme himself would not like this welcome ceremony.
"Battalion Commander Yang!" At this time, a correspondent saluted in front of me and said, "The commander asked you to go!" ”
"Hmm!" I nodded. There was a strange feeling in my heart...... What's so urgent, I've just arrived. And the correspondent looks like he's waiting here in the morning.
Thinking about it, I followed the messenger into the jeep and drove towards the headquarters.
"Coming? Sit! Commander Zhang simply greeted me when he saw me, and then looked at the documents in his hand.
After sitting down, I noticed that Commander Zhang's face was full of fatigue, as if he hadn't slept for a while.
"I've seen all the battles in the Yunnan direction, and you're fighting well!" As he spoke, Commander Zhang handed me a cigarette: "So...... It is necessary for all our units to form sniper companies and special agent companies to use sniper warfare to deal with the sniper warfare of the Vietnamese army and special warfare to deal with the special warfare of the Vietnamese army. The synthetic battalion can be said to provide a training standard for the entire army...... If this continues, it will only be a matter of time before the southern front stabilizes! ”
"Commander, is there a situation on the northern front?" I asked.
In fact, it is not difficult to guess that the war on the southern front is just like what Commander Zhang said, and it is only a matter of time before it is stable...... You must know that there are many Chinese mouths, and there are many armies...... The advantage of this is that you don't have to worry about not having enough good snipers or special forces...... The population base is large, and an army of several millions, even if it is a soldier selected from a hundred miles or even a thousand miles, is enough to form these troops.
Since there will be no problems on the southern front...... The only thing that can make Commander Zhang so annoyed is the northern front.
"Hmm!" Commander Zhang nodded, proving my conjecture correct: "The progress of the Soviet army in Afghanistan is much smoother and faster than we thought...... In just a few weeks, they had captured the main cities and communications of Afghanistan, and they had encountered little organized resistance in Afghanistan...... This was a big surprise to us! So it seems...... The situation in Afghanistan is not optimistic! ”
That's all it is...... Listening to Commander Zhang's words, I breathed a sigh of relief...... Looking at Commander Zhang's face just now, I thought that the Soviet Union had made some big move, but I didn't expect that it was just to occupy major cities and transportation in Afghanistan.
Thinking about it, Commander Zhang's worries are also reasonable...... If the Soviets are going well in Afghanistan, then they will be free to point the finger at us, so of course we hope that Afghanistan will resist as hard as possible, and who would have thought that the Afghan government forces would be so unfazed...... Almost without resistance, the Soviet troops were let in.
However, in fact, this cannot be said that the Afghan government army did not fight, but it should not know how to fight...... The Afghan army is full of Soviet military advisers, and even the new prime minister is a puppet of the Soviet Union...... How can this make the government army fight! On the one hand, fighting the Soviet army is indeed hitting a stone with an egg, and on the other hand, the army is to obey orders as its duty...... As a result, the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan was basically the time of the march of the Soviet army.
"Commander!" "I don't think the situation on the northern front is as pessimistic as it seems...... As you said, the Soviet Union has been operating hard in Afghanistan for decades, and there is infiltration and control in Afghanistan's military, political and even civilian populations, plus the Soviet army is advanced and unprepared, so of course it will have a great advantage in the early stage......"
"I know that, too!" Commander Zhang nodded and said: "It is easy to occupy a country, which is often as long as the fists are strong enough and the army is strong enough, but it is difficult to rule and manage...... People everywhere will rise up one after another to resist the invasion of foreign countries, not to mention that Afghanistan is still a country with strong tribal divisions, and the resistance to the Soviet invasion will certainly not be weak. But...... Last week, the Soviet Union conducted a military exercise in Mongolia, and it was clearly aimed at us! ”
"Hmm!" As soon as I heard this, I couldn't help frowning...... Could it be that the current situation is not the same as history?
But after thinking about it, I felt that it was wrong......
First of all, this exercise is a drill, but it does not mean that it is actually fighting.
Secondly...... The Soviet government also did not expect that in the future Afghanistan would turn into a quagmire...... In fact, when they started the war, they did not think that Afghanistan was not a small country, and that its weapons and equipment were still so weak, and that most of the military and political circles were still controlled by them.
It is precisely because of this that the Soviet Union dared to provoke China and at the same time invade Afghanistan on a large scale.
But there is such a thing as war...... Wars between countries, in particular, must be treated with great caution.
Of course, the Soviet government was like this, so they did not dare to think too much about the war before invading Afghanistan, and they were prepared for the worst.
But...... Now such a dozen is in fact overwhelming, in fact, it is effortless...... So the hanging heart of the Soviet Union was put down, and its self-confidence began to swell, so I wondered if I could free up my hands to make a move against China......
"Although there are also many comrades who believe that the USSR will not invade our country in such a situation!" Commander Zhang said: "But there is such a thing as war that cannot be said for sure...... For example, before the Soviet Union launched the war in Afghanistan, no one expected that the Soviet Union would use such drastic measures! So we have to prepare for the worst, otherwise we will be caught off guard when the war really comes! ”
"Hmm!" I nodded, although I knew that the war that Commander Zhang was worried about would not happen, but I understood that what Commander Zhang said made sense.
"You go back and rest first!" Commander Zhang said: "Then make some preparations, and come with me to an important meeting tomorrow!" ”
"Yes!" I answered.
Important meeting? And just tomorrow? …… Commander Zhang is in such a hurry to call me back, can't it be just to let me catch up with this meeting! (To be continued......)