The military's weather department has issued a weather forecast for the next seven days to all units of the army, especially all units north of the Yangtze River, actively coping with the most severe snowfall and cooling weather this year.

The weather monitoring station deployed in the Atai Mountains sent the latest weather forecast to the director's office, which immediately informed the participating troops of the situation.

In the next seven days, the Altai region will usher in the first high-intensity snowfall and cooling since the beginning of winter.

The director counted the time, and the drill could end exactly the day before the heavy snowfall arrived, if the weather forecast was accurate enough. After studying and obtaining the approval of the higher-level leading organ, the director decided that the exercise would be held normally.

Fighting in the cold zone has always been a key training content for the troops in the northern region, and beating the troops in extremely cold weather has become more and more frequent over the years. The army has already quietly begun to change from territorial defense to active defense in all aspects.

On 15 January, the director's department issued an order to the participating troops to march to the exercise area.

The 701st Regiment was divided into four echelons and marched to the established assembly area at 8 a.m. on January 15. For a while, at eight o'clock before dawn, the residents of Anzhen were woken up by the sound of rumbling engines. A large number of military vehicles kept coming out of the regimental headquarters barracks, all wearing heavy snow camouflage nets, speeding on the hard-bottomed highways, rushing to the assembly area.

Gao Lijuan and Chen Shufen stood at the gate of the courtyard, watching the convoy drive from the small playground to the gate of the camp in turn, and it only took a short time for most of the personnel and equipment of the 701 regiment headquarters to leave the camp.

The unspeakable loss in the hearts of these two female comrades, missing the last and perhaps most deserving exercise in their military careers may become a lifelong regret. All the personnel of the women's platoon set off with the team with communication equipment, and the two of them were the only ones left behind except for a sick female officer.

According to the plan of the exercise, the time for the exercise to start is 20 January, which happens to be the day of the Great Cold in the 12 Qi Festival.

The preparation time left for the participating troops was five days and four nights, and the 12th Brigade thought very highly of itself that it would spend three of those three days on the maneuvering exercises, but Li Mu would not underestimate the enemy. Moreover, the area of the exercise is completely unprepared, and according to the normal defense plan of the border guards, fortifications are mandatory.

Therefore, after the 701st Regiment arrived at the established area, the first thing to do was to build fortifications according to the deployment, so that there were conditions for defensive operations.

The 701st Regiment has three infantry battalions and an artillery company under its jurisdiction, plus a number of directly subordinate detachments, and is a motorized infantry unit with no outstanding establishment, and it is not even comparable to the motorized infantry unit in the mobile combat unit.

They did not have tanks, let alone infantry combat vehicles, and relied on Dongfeng military trucks equipped with a large number of troops to maneuver, and relied on two legs when fighting. From this, it can be imagined why Li Mu directly opened his mouth to Chen Tao to borrow the Falcon high motor vehicle of the military region.

Although the Falcon Vehicles do not have any armor protection, they are very maneuverable assault vehicles that are very adaptable to the local terrain. With the addition of a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun and a 7.62 mm light machine gun, the Falcon High Mobility Vehicle can carry up to five infantrymen, and if necessary, a recoilless gun can be fully mounted on the vehicle.

The warehouses of the 701st Regiment have a large number of mothballed recoilless guns and these old antiques.

At this time, the southern foot of the Atai Mountains, the north shore of Snow Lake, at the foot of the mountain. The Banla Mountains blocked the cold winds blowing from Siberia, a relatively flat meadow where the fast commandos had been camping for three days. Armed Falcon tall vehicles draped in heavy camouflage nets were parked in the woods on one side, as quiet as a grinning dog ready to pounce on its target.

On the small heights on the south side of the camp, observation posts were deployed.

A Falcon assault vehicle was speeding along the lake's edge of the rolling hills from the south shore to this side, gasping for breath and climbing up to the camp, and a captain jumped out of the car, and he said to the other two soldiers in the car, "Take a good rest and check the condition of the car." ”

The two soldiers slammed the throttle and drove the Falcon into the woods, and immediately a few soldiers came out of nowhere, came up to help them unload their equipment, and started to repair the Falcon Assault Truck, which had traveled an unknown distance.

When Liu Xiaoguang climbed up to the observation post, he saw Shi Lei using an artillery mirror to observe the battlefield, to be precise, the exercise area on the south bank that would soon become a battlefield.

Old antique things, that's all there is to the 701 regiment. However, Shi Lei still believes that this kind of old antique can play an important role.

"Stone Team. Liu Xiaoguang took a breath and found a stone to sit down.

Shi Lei left the observation position, and came to Liu Xiaoguang with his waist and sat down. Camouflage nets are attached to the observation posts, blending in with the green foothills. Looking up further, the place above the mountainside is the snow line of the Atai Mountains, and above the snow line, there is a vast white patch, which is clearly distinguished from the green at the foot of the mountain.

took out a cigarette and handed it to Liu Xiaoguang, Shi Lei lit it for him, and asked, "Hard work." Tell us about the situation. ”

The commander of the fast commando team is Shi Lei, and Liu Xiaoguang of the reconnaissance unit was named by Li Mu to be Shi Lei's deputy. Liu Xiaoguang was the only officer with a reconnaissance background in the regimental headquarters. After knowing some of Shi Lei's situation, Liu Xiaoguang put his position correctly - in terms of experience in performing such tasks, if Shi Lei was at the level of a professor, then he might be a freshman who entered the school.

About 10 hours ago, Shi Lei sent Liu Xiaoguang with a car and two soldiers to infiltrate the exercise area to conduct reconnaissance, mainly to reconnoiter the roads in the exercise area. The 12 Brigade is a mechanized unit, they are inseparable from the road, and as long as there is action, they will definitely leave the trace.

That's right, the troops participating in the exercise have tacitly entered a state of strict secrecy, that is to say, the two sides participating in the exercise have finally begun to infiltrate each other before the official start of the battle.

These movements were not allowed, but there was not a single exercise that did not occur.

"The regiment commander guessed correctly, the dogs of the 12th Brigade are not so honest, their advance team has entered the exercise area, I found some traces, at least the strength of a company, it should be a fierce car with a high number of vehicles, I am very familiar with the tire tracks of that kind of car. Liu Xiaoguang said in a deep voice.

Shi Lei asked, "Have you been exposed?"

Liu Xiaoguang spat out a puff of cigarette and shook his head, "No." ”

As he spoke, he took out a map and marked the location on it, "The intersection of Highway 7 and Highway 5, the 1975 Heights, I lurked here for more than an hour, watching them pass the intersection and go northeast before I retreated. ”

Shi Lei stared at the map and thought, "Northeast...... A company that uses a warrior as a combat vehicle...... Do you think it could be the troops of the Tiger's Den Battalion?"

Liu Xiaoguang recalled carefully, and said uncertainly, "It should be, I can't be sure." It stands to reason that if the 12th Brigade wants to send an advance reconnaissance unit, the Tiger's Den Battalion must be the most suitable, and they are the reconnaissance battalion. ”

Shaking his head, Shi Lei said, "Not necessarily. You see, if it's a unit of the Tiger's Den Battalion, I'm afraid it's hard for you to find traces easily. However, according to the information we have, there are various possibilities. That doesn't work, we have to get accurate information. Before the start of the battle, all the pre-war reconnaissance missions of our regiment were on us. ”

"Ambiguous information, the regimental commander will be very dissatisfied. Shi Lei looked at Liu Xiaoguang and said.

Liu Xiaoguang found Shi Lei's smile, and suddenly thought of something, "Scratch your tongue?"

"This time, I'm going in person. ”

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