The time on the train is not boring, because the whole carriage is full of comrades...... Everyone is usually familiar with each other, so when they get to the car, they talk a lot, some talk about their hometown, talk about their daughter-in-law, and more about war...... Veterans always like to talk to recruits about war, and sometimes they deliberately say that the battlefield is more terrible and terrifying, just to see those recruits are so frightened that they are secretly having fun behind their backs.

Of course, I will not be bored with Zhang Fan by my side, and because this carriage is a stuffy jar carriage, it will be dark as soon as the door is closed, so Zhang Fan is also bold and leans on me from time to time...... If it weren't for the fact that I was my own soldiers, I was worried that it would not affect me...... Otherwise, you will have to take advantage of her.

For Zhang Fan, the most painful thing is to go to the toilet...... There's just a toilet in the carriage, isn't it? There was no distinction between men and women, and there was nothing to hide at the beginning, so Zhang Fan had to hold back until the train stopped at the military station every time before getting off the train to queue up.

Later, he felt Zhang Fan's embarrassment, so he tied a large rain cloth with iron wire in the toilet at the bottom of the carriage and hung it in the corner...... Finally solved a little problem. It's just that Zhang Fan still feels embarrassed, and every time he can't hold it back, he asks me to guard outside, so he dares to use this simple toilet.

A few days later, the troops arrived at Liuzhou, that is, they entered the border of Guangxi...... China has two borders with Vietnam, which means that there are two battlefields, one in the direction of Yunnan and the other in the direction of Guangxi.

This time, we are in Guangxi.

Perhaps because this time we went to the battlefield from the mainland, the speed was much faster than the previous return from Yunnan to Beijing. The road is no longer the kind of stop-and-go "space car". The so-called "space car" is when only other trains are not on the railway. Only give way to the car when there is a gap between several trains.

This arrangement may be reasonable, after all, the military column on the battlefield will be more urgent...... If the military columns in the direction of the battlefield are also "space vehicles," then it will be difficult to guarantee the logistics of the battlefield, and there will be a phenomenon of a shortage of troops. Merely...... This is going to be the hardship of those who are sent back from the battlefield.

Perhaps because of a large station, the train stopped in Liuzhou for several hours...... This is also understandable, Liuzhou City is a transportation hub, where military supplies from all over the country are gathered and then transported to all directions of the front line, so this transportation route is of course busy.

Here we feel the atmosphere of the battlefield.

Almost all of the hundreds of railroad tracks around are docked with military trains. Like us, the first few stuffy tank carriages were troop transporters, followed by cars, tanks, engineering vehicles, radio cars, and artillery...... These columns were full of people, most of them soldiers, and all of them with guns on their backs...... Here, the staff who did not carry guns on their backs became an anomaly.

There are airplanes flying in the sky...... From time to time, old fighter planes skimmed through the air, drawing silver-white tracks in the sky...... I didn't have much research on fighter planes, and I learned from the voices of the staff officers that most of them were J-6s, and there were also a few J-7s. (Note: J-8 was in service in 80 years)

So soon a soldier asked: "Doesn't our country have planes?" Why don't you let them go to war? ”

"That's right! There are planes to bomb the devils fiercely, so let's be easier! ”

……

My staff officers and I tacitly did not speak or answer.

Because we all understand one thing...... At this time, if the tanks have to be repaired while driving, what will happen to the fighters? If the quality of the fighter is not up to par, it is not a joke. If the tank can't be driven, it's a big deal to throw it on the road, and if the fighter can't drive, it's ......

In fact, we were right. There is a reason why there were basically no air forces on both sides in the entire 10-year war between China and Vietnam, and the Vietnamese air force was too weak, and the total number of fighters that could participate in the war was only about 100.

There is a saying that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and although China has had many adverse effects on equipment and training in ten years, the J-6, J-7, J-5, and Qiang-5 add up to nearly 1,000 aircraft...... There are more than 20 fighter aviation regiments and six bomber and attack aircraft regiments that are urgently deployed along the border area alone.

So for Vietnam, the air force not going to war is the most haode option. For China...... Since the army can solve the problem, it is happy not to send the air force, so that the air force can take this time to train properly and update, improve and develop equipment.

At this time, all the soldiers around the station hurriedly rushed in one direction, and they all looked very nervous.

The guard, Xiao Zhang, was very clever and knew that I also wanted to know what was going on, so he jumped out of the car and stopped a few people for questioning without me giving an order......

The reason why I had to stop a few people was because I stopped the first person, and the answer I got was: "I don't know!" ”

The second man said, "When I see them running, I will run with them......

The third said: "I don't know very well, I heard that it is a public trial meeting, and people are going to be shot!" ”

……

All right! Chinese do have a habit of joining in the fun, let alone them, if it weren't for my strict order not to leave the train within ten meters...... The reason for this order is that I have the experience of coming in, and if you go too far, you will leave a few people behind every time the train leaves. If it weren't for this order, they would have run along to see the excitement.

Later, when I inquired again, I learned that it was indeed a unit holding a public trial meeting, and an instructor wanted to escape by stopping time when the train arrived in Liuzhou because he was afraid of going to the front line, and the army sent someone to arrest him......

If ordinary people run away, it won't be so strict, and this hasn't been to the battlefield yet, so let him continue to go to the battlefield with one eye and one eye closed. But it was the instructor who escaped...... This is responsible for the ideological work of the troops, so there is no way, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, we can only implement battlefield discipline...... So a public trial meeting was held on a flat land.

We haven't seen that with our own eyes...... But to be honest, sometimes it's more shocking if you don't see it, because when you see it, you are visualized, and like us...... I just heard a shout from the trumpet, followed by a gunshot...... The soldiers were shocked in unison, and they all cast their eyes in the direction where the gunfire came, and then they used their imagination to imagine the scene.

Taking advantage of this time, the instructor began to conduct an ideological education for the soldiers: "Comrades, it is a glorious thing to sacrifice oneself for the defense of the motherland, and we must not be greedy for life and fear death, and we must not be cowards who despise mankind and betray the party and the country......

The instructor said it very well, but I felt that it would be more effective if he did not speak at this time, as the saying goes, "silence is better than sound at this time", I believe that the sound of the gunshot has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of the soldiers, and constantly echoes in a corner of their hearts...... Because it's my own personal experience.

Once again, the experience caused an inexplicable depression to the soldiers, so much so that few people were in the mood to chat until the train moved and continued south...... Zhang Fan also seemed to be infected by this atmosphere, and for the first time there was some sadness on his face.

But I think it's also partly because she's homesick...... This is a common problem for most girls, and they start to feel homesick soon after leaving home.

In fact, there is only one reason why I don't want to go home...... That is, my home is too far away from here, and I don't even know if I can go back...... Since the hope of going home is so confused, I simply don't think about it.

This oppressive atmosphere did not improve until the train stopped in Nanning. The reason is that a large number of people around poured water, sugarcane, and snacks...... Most of these people are old women.

Later, I learned that many of the laborers of the people's families had gone to the front line...... The support for the front line here does not mean to go to war, the war in this era does not play much role for the people to go directly, they are mainly responsible for logistics, such as transporting ammunition, digging fortifications, evacuating the wounded, and so on. There are many families mobilized as a family, the young and strong to support the front, the old and weak in the rear, to wash bandages, take care of the wounded, and so on......

In this respect, the war has had the greatest impact on people's lives, in fact, in the border areas. At this time, the army really needed the support of the people...... This is also the tradition of our army at this time, to be good at mobilizing the masses and using the liliang of the masses. However, in this way, it will undoubtedly have a great impact on the work and life of the people.

And it's going to go on for another 10 years...... This will undoubtedly place a considerable burden on a region.

The train stopped in Nanning for more than an hour and then continued southward for dozens of kilometers before stopping in front of an unknown military station.

There were several jeeps waiting in the station, and when they saw our train entering the station, they shouted at us: "Are you from the 5th Battalion of the 118th Regiment?" ”

"Yes!" Several people in the military column replied.

"Get out of the car!" A cadre-like soldier shouted at the column: "The ...... of the fifth battalion Get out of the car and unload your gear! ”

This was followed by a whistle of "Di Di Di", and we knew that we had arrived at our destination.

It is much faster to get off the equipment than to load it, because the wires that take a lot of effort to tie up can now be cut with large pliers...... The engineer company had a lot of such things, so it cleaned up the "cumbersomeness" on the equipment and got off the bus in less than half an hour.

Then the whole convoy was led by the first few jeeps in front of it and headed towards the unknown battlefield in the darkness...... (To be continued......)