"The red glow flies in the western mountains at sunset, and the soldiers return to the camp when they shoot targets" is the song that sounded the most frequently and sang the loudest among the marching troops who went back and forth between the position and the barracks in the shooting range. Perhaps only this song can accurately express the passion and heroism of going to the battlefield, the harvest and self-confidence after returning from training, and the full sense of honor brought by the proud achievements.

The shooting range continues to write brilliant, that is the real brilliance, but also the first glory in my life, the first in the brigade to lay a towing target is our company, there must be meritorious service in the towing target, our troops, soldiers generally give priority to the instrument squad for meritorious service, either the squad leader, or my post, it can be seen how important my post is.

In order to protect my eyesight, I am the only one who does not need to stand guard at night, and of course I can't go to the co-construction unit to be on duty.

In order to reward, and in order to bring the relationship between superiors and subordinates closer, the company prepared a lot of cigarettes, and there was a box for putting tools on our weapons, and the cigarettes were placed in this box, and the box had only one lock, which was regarded as a kind of importance by the company commander and designated for me to keep.

I still remember the scene at the moment when I shot down the towing target, a fighter plane pulled a one-kilometer-long cable behind it, and at the end of the cable was tied a canvas bag three meters long and one meter in diameter, which was the towing target.

The fighters flew in the distance, and as the brigade headquarters discovered the battle order, the soldiers of the command platoon on the positions of each company tried their best to shake the air defense siren in their hands, and the rapid and penetrating "woo" sound resounded throughout the world.

The weapon quickly turned to the direction of the "enemy plane" attack, and the target was found to capture the target and turned into a battle element, all of which was completed by our weapon, because of the magnification, the loud report of "finding the target" was generally issued first by my post.

When the squad leader hears the report, he will immediately raise the red flag in his hand to greet the company commander and repeat it loudly, and since the moment the battle order was issued, the company commander's eyes have never left us, and as soon as he sees the squad leader's report, he immediately reports to the battalion headquarters, and the battalion headquarters reports to the brigade headquarters.

Finding the target is the most basic ability, is a comprehensive reflection of the level of training, is the primary link in the decisive battle, who does not pay attention, which dares to take it lightly, all the battalions and all the company positions are connected, close together, everyone is afraid of slowness, and all this often depends on my position, depends on whether the eyes are sharp, depends on whether the judgment is accurate.

On the distant horizon, the first thing that appears is a black spot, such a black spot carries a lot of uncertainty, it may be a bird, or it may be a dazzle under nervousness, and it is not uncommon for a mistake in judgment to delay a fighter.

The fiery military camp is most fully manifested at this moment, all the passions of everyone are ignited at this moment, no one can be an exception, everyone will be infected, even the driver and other logistics support personnel, also ran into the position, cheering for their comrades, feeling the great honor brought by shooting down the target, as if participating in the battle in person.

The sentence "discovering the target" comes from the judgment of the most ordinary soldier at the bottom, and it can only be believed, out of belief, the sentence "discovering the target" also reassures the entire company.

No one can see the process of shooting down the target more clearly than my position, the recruits are in the first year of actual combat with weapons, few people can get such trust, and they are the first targets to be shot down in the whole brigade, and the scene is as clear as yesterday, it is always so clear.

The judgment was accurate, the black dot gradually brightened, a fighter appeared in the field of vision of the weapon, searched for a towing target along the tail, and then shouted loudly "target capture", and then the squad leader waved the red flag in his hand again and reported loudly, the company commander's passionate voice penetrated the entire company, "a company captures the target", and the brigade headquarters order is issued step by step, "the target can be shot if the target is captured."

The squad leader kept broadcasting the distance measured by my post, and the company commander gave orders one by one, and the whole position could only hear the squad leader's reading and the company commander's password for a while.

Finally reached the shooting distance, and the company commander shouted, "Shoot short, let's go!" The cannon roared, and in the field of vision of the weapon, there was a slight lag, and a beautiful tracer trajectory of the cannonball appeared, intertwining towards the target.

Two rounds per cannon for short point fire, if there is no hit, then the data provided by another observer in the shortest time to make a correction, and then a long point shot, all six rounds of each gun are fired, and if they do not hit, the shooting is over, and there is no chance.

If it is after the observation hand is more correct, the long point shooting falls, it is a shame for the instrument class, and the credit may be inclined to the observer, and because of this, to participate in the live ammunition target shooting again in the second year, I once released a bold statement, unless the first point shot down, I will not ask for this third-class merit, and the result is really as I wish.

The observer did not calibrate, and the company commander did not give the order for the long point fire behind, but in the field of vision of the weapon, I could clearly see that one of the second shells shot in the short point hit the cable in front of the target and lost the traction of the target machine.

The passion could not be concealed, but the effort to restrain was shot down by the shells fired by our company, and I judged it very clearly, not forgetting the procedure, and shouting out "target hit" in my mouth, and at the same time the same sound sounded from various positions.

After shouting, we heard the company commander excitedly report to his superiors, and heard the cheers from the position, while we continued to follow the broken target and wait for the order.

Soon the company commander's order to "stop shooting" was issued, and after the squad leader followed and recited, a few of us raised our heads, joined in the cheers, laughed and danced on the weapons, and at this time the artillery position was already boiling, and some soldiers were so excited that they hugged each other, and military hats flew all over the sky.

The company commander asked again about our observations, and after receiving positive answers from us, especially me, he laughed heartily and asked me to take out the key, unlock it, and smoke to celebrate the achievement.

It turned out that my judgment was accurate, the battalion and brigade had observers, confirmed all this, and in a short time, the brigade commander led the team to our company's position, expressed his condolences, and brought a cigarette at the same time, which was already equivalent to recognizing the first shot, and the first hit belonged to our glorious company.

Our company commander is a very good grass-roots military officer, the company under the leadership, unique characteristics, the third set of military boxing, one to four practice single parallel bars physical requirements, military competitions always have a ranking, and won the first hit crown, more highlighting his ability, the second year after the live ammunition target, he was promoted and reused.

The real live-fire shooting time was only a few days, and the first nearly a month was an intense range adaptation training on the one hand, and a more intense assessment competition on the other hand, and the most rankings were achieved in a row.

But I didn't win a single crown, and when I arrived at the shooting range, I still lost to the fourth veteran of the third company, and when I came back the next year, I still didn't play well.

In fact, I found that there are drawbacks in the method adopted by the competition, the operation has systematic error and accidental error, through training, the systematic error can be eliminated, the accidental error can not be completely eliminated, can only be reduced to the greatest extent, the degree of reduction, is the embodiment of the level of operation and skill proficiency.

The assessment method left over from my post, just ignore this point, the systematic error has not been taken seriously, resulting in many soldiers developing a habit of action, the assessment can achieve good results, but in actual combat because of the deviation caused by the system error, in this case, it is rare to be able to do the first point shot, when the luck is good, it is possible to hit after a more correct one.

Later, after graduating from the military academy and serving as a platoon commander, when other units participated in organizing airfield training, they were mentioned and adopted by the chief of staff, but they affected the results of the battalion and were criticized by the battalion commander.

After the first shot down of the towing target, there were many live firings, and another towing target was hit, but this time it hit the model aircraft towing target, and it was not the first point to shoot down, but after correction, some edges were wiped, and after reporting, the traces of the towing target were checked before confirmation.

With the proud record of shooting down one and hitting one, this year's target shooting ended smoothly, and the target shooting required skill and some luck, some companies or touched or rubbed, barely got one, and some shaved their heads, and did not hit a single one.

When I returned to the company, the squad leader was honorably awarded a third-class meritorious service, and while I was actively preparing for the military academy examination, I also held back my strength to strive for the second year of live ammunition target shooting, and I also performed well to fulfill my dream of combat exploits.

With full of pride, before setting off for live ammunition target shooting in the second year, I said that I should not be the first to shoot and not to have third-class merit, which is also a last resort, and there is a deputy squad leader in 93 years in front of me, his position is equally important, otherwise it is not convincing, and it is not my turn to rank seniority.

And I have to do this third-class merit, not only because it belongs to a unique honor, as a testimony of the extraordinary military career, but also because there was a policy at that time that third-class merit winners could add 20 points when they were admitted to the military academy.

The scene still remembers that the first point shot had two loud bangs, and the eight shells were divided into two batches and pounced on the towed target one after another, and of the first four, three bypassed the towing target, and the other entered directly through the opening at the front end, and after hitting the towing target, it exploded inside.

Blowing up the back section, it began to burn from the middle, the wind was strong in the air, and it burned very fast, until the wire rope in front of it burned, and there was not a drop left, and when the order to stop shooting came, there were already cheers on the position.

ushered in the first shot down, but also ushered in the rare aerial flowering in the history of target shooting, and ushered in the glorious red flower and the blazing third-class merit certificate after returning to the company.

The certificate of merit was awarded to me by the instructor at the military conference, and the moment I raised my hand to salute and received the military merit medal, it was recorded by a platoon commander with a camera and hung on the company's honor roll.

The shooting range also has life, the same unforgettable, located on the seaside, a row of trees in the distance is neatly arranged, I don't know what age it was planted, like a team of guards, isolating the invasion of the waves, but also blocking the footsteps of the sea breeze, and I can't see the two ends in the distance.

The positions of the troops were planted with patches of cotton, perhaps the local people saw that the land was idle and occupied privately, and the cotton fields were marked by cement pillars left by the troops, and a sharp corner appeared shallowly, and the positions of each company, opened according to the mark, parallel to a row of trees in the distance, were also difficult to see.

A wide road, connecting the camp and the position, smooth and solid, obviously the needs of the troops and specially built, the ditch on both sides of the road grows clumps of thatch, lack of care, the ditch water is not smooth, the water is deep, there is a long year of silted garbage impregnated, the water quality has turned black, exudes some pungent smell.

The shooting range is very large, and the highway divides it into two parts, east and west, and there is a unit stationed all year round, which undertakes the task of guarding and also undertakes the task of training model aircraft, so as to provide support for live ammunition target shooting.

Our entire brigade is concentrated in the western part of the country, where the barracks are connected to each other, compact and orderly, and there is no particularly crowded situation, and the various military units and fellow villagers who are far away from each other are close at hand, and after a month, the feelings are even deeper.

What I feel the most is that it is not very convenient to use water, whether it is domestic water or drinking water, it is seawater filtration.

A huge bathhouse, dozens of faucets spray, but there are too many people, the bath is very crowded, the filtered sea water is still rich in salt, no matter how you wash, there is always a viscous feeling on the body, and the drinking water after boiling also has the unique salty taste of sea water.

In such an environment, there are no fish, only a kind of crayfish that is not afraid of pollution grows in it, and the number is extremely large, and there are often veterans who come to fish in their spare time. The fishing method is simple, a rope is tied to a piece of meat, and once the crayfish is found, the two pairs of giant claws at the head position will be clamped tightly, and it will not let go when it is lifted.

At the same time, I met the airborne troops who also shot targets here, lived in the eastern barracks, and came to only two new barracks, which were also troops, but I saw in them a real style of being able to endure hardships and fight.

The two troops, each independent, had no filtration equipment in the barracks on the east side, and in the ditches on both sides of the road, it was common for them to take off their steel helmets and scoop water, put them in rice racks and cook them on the fire, and they caught lobsters, as well as frogs and snakes, and simply cleaned them with the sewage in the ditches, and used them as a meal to satisfy their hunger.

The army has a screening team, and it organizes the screening of movies from time to time at night, just like when I saw open-air movies when I was a child.

After the airborne troops arrived at the shooting range, when the movie was shown, they would also organize to come and watch it, and at this time, the song before the movie became a morale contest between two different units, and often their shouts were more unison, and the sound was louder, and one brigade could not pull their two battalions.

When the target is shot, it is the golden autumn festival, in the cotton fields on both sides of the highway, full of yellow sun flowers, or grow into pieces, or sporadically embellished, swaying in the wind to reflect the autumn sun, I can't help but remember a poem of the great man, "Life is easy to get old, the years are chongyang, and now it is chongyang, the battlefield yellow flowers are extraordinarily fragrant, the annual autumn wind is strong, not like spring, better than spring, and the frost of the river and the sky." ”

The brigade headquarters has opened a radio station, and each company will organize literary and artistic backbones to write correspondence reports, select a few of them that are well written, and broadcast them every day at lunchtime.

When the whole brigade is stationed in a barracks, it is only when we see that the real barracks are hot, and we can compare everything with everything, the internal affairs environment, the style and discipline, the target shooting results, and the correspondence reports, and the number of times it has been adopted can add a lot of honor.

During this period, he realized his lack of writing ability, and wrote a few articles under the mobilization of the company, but never appeared on the radio. This adds a sense of urgency to himself, and the level of education that is well written must not be bad, and the pressure to participate in the competition for admission to the military academy has increased sharply.

Perhaps only the words of great men can fully express the mood of young life on the battlefield, lament the passage of time, lament that it is not easy to forge ahead, the autumn breeze is bleak and biased against the spring scene, the difficulties and ups and downs contain hope, the ambition to serve the country is insufficient, the world is fledgling, a poem is so accurate to express, and the interpretation is so complete.