"Battalion commander!" Just when I was sitting at my desk and worrying about the defense line of the Vietnamese army advancing step by step on the map, Zhao Jingping took a telegram and reported to me: "The telegram sent by the division headquarters, the artillery division just transferred by the Vietnamese army has been deployed, and the motorized infantry regiment will rush to the front line within half an hour!" ”

"Hmm!" I nodded, and then ordered, "Forward this news to 142 Heights immediately!" ”

"Yes!" Zhao Jingping responded.

"And!" I then asked: "How many shells have been brought in from the artillery battalion?" ”

"It's less than half a base!"

"How?" I asked: "Isn't there an emphasis on the artillery battalion first?" How come it is that it is less than half a base now! ”

If one cannon is 60 shells per base, it means less than half a base, that is, less than 30 rounds per gun, which is not enough for an artillery battle...... It's hard to believe that this is a transport capacity that is prioritized for the supply of synthetic battalions.

"Battalion commander!" Zhao Jingping replied a little helplessly: "The logistics troops really want to give us priority in the distribution of artillery shells, but it is not easy to do it, because the artillery of our artillery battalion is too scattered, and the artillery position has just been converted, and now few people can find the right position......

"Oh!" When I heard that, I understood.

First of all, since our artillery battalion is used to combat the artillery of the Vietnamese army, this special task requires that the artillery of the artillery battalion must be dispersed...... This is also partly due to the fact that the composite battalion has enough communication equipment and a good enough suzhì to be able to disperse the artillery to various places and fight in a unified manner.

Secondly, I have just given the order for the artillery units to transfer their positions. These positions are also military secrets. As a result, the problem of transporting artillery shells really made the logistics troops unable to do it.

What I don't know is. In fact, at this time, the logistics troops were already in chaos.

This chaos does not mean that the logistics troops are panicking, after all, the logistics units have also been trained and trained in actual combat in peacetime.

The reason for the chaos is entirely due to the emergency mobilization of the troops to the people.

We are now faced with a situation in which we win with shells and lose without shells.

The logistics troops are also well aware of this, so don't look at those of us who are in a hurry on the battlefield, the logistics troops are also in a hurry...... Not to mention the issue of accountability after the war, few soldiers fighting on the front line, even logistics troops, will worry about pursuing responsibility.

The fact is that the fighters of the logistics troops think a little more. That is, their efforts and dedication can be exchanged for the lives of the front-line fighters and even the victory of the entire battle, so they are immediately full of energy.

But there is no motivation, there are only so many cars in the troops, we can't use bamboo baskets to carry bullets and shells to transport them by manpower like the Yue devils, the efficiency of transportation is too low, and it is also far from quenching thirst!

Therefore, there was no way, and in an emergency, the logistics command of our army could only ask for help from the local governments of Honghe Prefecture and Wenshan Prefecture in Yunnan.

The content of the call was simple, it was to transport the shells.

Originally, the logistics commander thought that this car might be difficult to get, after all, this is not a joke, this artillery shell has to be transported to the front line, and at every turn, the artillery interceptor vehicle of the Vietnamese devil will be destroyed and killed.

So they just have the attitude of asking for as much as they can. But I didn't expect that as soon as the local government heard about this situation, it would carry out a national mobilization without saying a word...... On the one hand, radio and telephone orders were used to mobilize organs, institutions, and enterprises to use vehicles that could be used to transport artillery shells. On the one hand, cadres at all levels were all dispatched, looking for vehicles all over the city, streets, and villages. In the end, the road was simply closed, and as long as they could carry shells on the road, they were all stopped and asked to carry shells without exception.

As soon as they heard that they were transporting artillery shells to the troops to support the front line in the war, they all drove to the munitions warehouse without hesitation.

One of the problems with this is that many of these cars are loaded with goods, and some of them are worth a lot of money. For example, there is a car to pull the medicinal material "Sanqi" worth 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, which is undoubtedly a lot of wealth in the era when 10,000 yuan households were still rare animals, but its owner did not unload all the medicinal materials to the ground and drove away.

There are also cigarette transporters, steel bars, and pig transporters...... At this time, the love between the military and the people is reflected, basically no one will ask for anything or talk about compensation, and everyone will unload the goods on the spot and put them into the transportation ranks immediately with the attitude of "time is life".

However, I think this is also partly because the Vietnamese border people also hate the Vietnamese devils, as I said before, the Vietnamese army has been harassing our border constantly, causing the border people to suffer severe losses in their lives and property for a long time. And our People's Liberation Army is fighting devils, so who can we help if we don't help the PLA?!

In this way, the transport capacity has indeed been strengthened, but there are great difficulties in organizing the transport.

On the one hand, this is due to the uncertainty of our army's artillery positions, and the location of these artillery positions is still secret, and the marks and road signs made on the road are also coded, which ordinary people cannot understand.

ON THE OTHER HAND, BECAUSE ARTILLERY HAS DIFFERENT CALIBERS, THE SHELLS NEEDED ALSO HAVE DIFFERENT MODELS, SUCH AS HOWITZERS AND 122MM AND 152MM, AND THE PEOPLE HAVE NO THOUGHTS ABOUT THESE AT ALL.

So the wrong shells and the wrong way are endless.

In this regard, even the logistics troops have no way.

The reason is that these people and the vehicles used for transportation are all spontaneous, and they don't know when a vehicle will suddenly transport a truckload full of rocket artillery shells to the howitzer position, so they can't organize it even if they want to.

But fortunately, the people are not stupid, and after one or two mistakes, it is impossible to make a third mistake. There are even some people who, after suffering the loss of transporting the wrong shells once, spontaneously took on the task of organizing, that is, guiding the way for their descendants, so this kind of transportation gradually got on the right track.

What moved us soldiers even more was ...... Originally, the logistics units simply asked these civilian vehicles to deliver the shells to a assembly point behind the second line, and then the logistics units transferred them to the various artillery positions.

There are two reasons for this:

One is to avoid the problem of mistransporting the shells, which are carefully sorted at the assembly point before being transported to the front line.

Second, it can reduce the danger to the people...... You must know that this is a cannonball to the front line, and no one knows when the shells of the Yue devils will come.

However, after learning of these reasons, the people unanimously believed that this would reduce the efficiency of transportation on a large distance...... The shells had to be unloaded at the assembly point, and then loaded onto military vehicles, and I don't know how much time would be wasted when this loading and unloading, it was completely a matter of taking off my pants and farting.

Therefore, the people did not listen to the command of the logistics troops at all, and drove away with artillery shells, and it was precisely because of this that there would be the next chaotic scene.

But it was in this situation that a miracle occurred.

Although the whole scene was a mess, there was no traffic jam for more than 5 minutes and no car accidents.

What's more, no matter how many times the drivers have traveled back and forth, how long they have been on the front line, no one has ever eaten a bite of military rations, and only a very small number of vehicles have added a little military gasoline when they suddenly find that there is not enough gasoline to turn back. In the absence of any military personnel and very few military personnel leading the team, not a single round of artillery shells was missing.

When I heard this, I didn't even know if it was because of luck or what.

But I think that it is not "luck" that so many vehicles can carry so many shells, and it takes up to twelve hours until late at night to do this.

If there is a way to explain it, I think it is the result of a high degree of consciousness on the part of the whole people.

Of course, I didn't know about these situations at this time, and all I was thinking about was that the Vietnamese artillery had come up, and we hadn't replenished enough shells...... How is this battle going to be fought?!

After thinking about it, I called Huang Jianfu.

"Fifth Company Commander!" I said: "It is very likely that the Vietnamese devils will use the artillery and the newly raised motorized regiment on the 142nd height, don't fight hard with the devils, understand?" ”

"Understood!" Huang Jianfu replied without thinking about it: "Please rest assured, battalion commander, I will not embarrass the synthetic battalion!" ”

A standard Chinese military-style answer, so I can't tell whether Huang Jianfu really understands or fakes.

I wanted to explain something more, but after thinking about it, I finally hung up the phone with a few words of encouragement.

After all, I am good at commanding infantry, and I don't know a lot about tank tactics...... Although I also learned a little about the need for multi-arm cooperative operations of the composite battalion, I did not conduct more in-depth research because there were few opportunities to use tanks along the Sino-Vietnamese border.

Therefore, at this time, I can be said to be a layman, the layman commands Huang Jianfu, an insider, so the best choice is to let him play according to his own thoughts and ideas, otherwise it may be bad.

Facts have also proved me right, Huang Jianfu after hearing that a batch of armored vehicles and T72s were transferred by the Yue devils, he formulated a detailed plan for this situation.

Later, when asked why Huang Jianfu could still deal with it so calmly when there was such a big difference in the strength of the enemy and us, Huang Jianfu replied like this: "In that battle in 79, our tank battalion suffered heavy casualties under the enemy's sneak attack, and even I, a tank soldier who had just joined the tank unit, became the commander of the tank battalion. At that time, I thought it was the more devils who won the martial arts, and played yin with us. However, after studying in the synthetic battalion for so long, I understood that war is like this, and the reason why we suffered such heavy casualties in the first place cannot be blamed on the enemy, but only on ourselves, and we ourselves are not good at learning.

Now we are no longer the tank crews of 79! ”

When I heard Huang Jianfu say these words, I suddenly realized...... The guy who cried in front of me at every turn didn't know when he grew up. (To be continued......)