Chapter 11: Going to the Warehouse

Chapter 11: Going to the Warehouse

Early on the 16th, all training was cancelled. When the assembly number sounded outside the barracks and the soldiers lined up outside the barracks with the fastest speed as usual, they were told to gather in the square.

The company commander and instructor led the team in front, and more than 100 people in the company walked neatly to the square. The square was full of soldiers wearing green military uniforms and red collars. The lineup was like straight pine trees. Before they could line up, they walked to their own position under the command of the company commander like a stream that merged into the sea. The entire square was filled with the sound of soldiers' neat footsteps and the dust brought by their footsteps.

We also found a position under the leadership of the company commander and stopped. At this time, I couldn't help but admire Captain Li. Although we knew from the practical exercises in the past few days that Captain Li's military quality was not very good (including the twenty or so veterans he arrived. Later, I heard from the people in my hometown that they were all directly pulled up from the production base. They have been clearing land and farming for many years and have little training, and they have relied on being a veteran. This has made them even worse than the new recruits we placed in, but their tone is scary!) But at least Captain Li can still find the position our company should stay in in this vast sea of ​​troops. This is already quite powerful for me, a road blind...

When the soldiers almost found their place, I had time to look around. There was not much difference from the letters in the square last time, that is, there were several times more people. There were a lot of wooden boxes piled around the square, and two rows of soldiers with live ammunition stood majestic beside the wooden boxes.

"Comrades!"

The person who spoke was the commander of our division. I knew from the people in my hometown that the commander was surnamed Chen. It is said that one of the eyes was fake. It seemed that during a battle to resist the U.S. and aid Korea, several puppet troops surrounded him and stabbed one of his eyes. He endured the pain and solved all the puppet troops.

Of course, I can't see clearly whether the eye of Teacher Chen is fake in my position, so I can't confirm this.

Resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea? Isn’t that the battle I just experienced?

I think Commander Chen must have heard of the 538th Regiment and its leader Cui Wei. Sometimes I also have a kind of thing that I want to chat with him, but I may be able to make me more effective in the battlefield! But after thinking about it, I think it's better to forget it. One is that no one will believe what I have experienced unless he is a lunatic. The other is that I am not sure what the crime was borne by me after I intentionally let the puppet army agent Jin Qiulian out of the past... Although it has been ten years since then, it is still an era of "exposing and criticizing" and one is a counter-revolutionary again!

"Comrades!" Commander Chen's firm and powerful voice resounded throughout the square through the loudspeaker. His first words were: "We are going to go to war! Are you ready, comrades?"

"It's ready!" the soldiers replied in unison.

But saying that, I know that a considerable number of people here only took more than ten days or even a few days from throwing away their hoes to picking up guns.

"Very good!" Commander Chen nodded and continued, "We extended a helping hand to Vietnam in the most difficult time, helping them establish a party, giving him guns and food, helping them drive away the French, and helping them to repel the Americans. It can be said that they give whatever they want! But now their wings are hard, and they show off their power in front of us, claiming to be a third military power. They create troubles on the Sino-Vietnam border and eroding our territory and sending armed forces to attack our border defense forces continuously! It is unbearable, just as Commander Xu said, since the disciples have started fighting with the master, don't blame us, the master for revengeing them!"

"Down with Vietnam!"

"Down with the Yue Japanese!"

...

The soldiers shouted over and over again. Not to mention, these neat slogans really make people feel excited. Maybe this is what it is called... the oath-taking meeting! It's really embarrassing. I have fought on the Korean battlefield for more than three years and have never held such an oath-taking meeting!

The oath-taking meeting was going smoothly, and the soldiers seemed to have understood one truth at this time, that is, the fact that the fact of fighting on the battlefield was inevitable. Since this is the case, it would be better to go to the battlefield to fight vigorously. So this whole hour of meeting was spent with the soldiers' slogans "resolutely complete the task!", "Living the trust of the people!", "Punish Vietnamese aid to Cambodia!", and "Down with the little overlord of Vietnam!".

I admit that I was very pure and naive at that time. Because I always thought that under this rushing wave, all the soldiers were aroused and couldn't wait to go to the battlefield, but I soon discovered that not everyone was as I thought. Because, not long after, there were several despicable self-harm incidents.

After the conference, the wooden box was opened. As we guessed, it was full of equipment and ammunition. We lined up in companies to collect it. The command from the company commander was: each heavy machine gun was 1,600 rounds, each light machine gun was 1,000 rounds, each submachine gun was 300 rounds, each rifle was 200 rounds, each 40 bazooka was 6 rockets, each 60 rounds of 60 mortars, each infantry squad carried a blasting barrel (3 pieces, each 40 cm), each infantry carried five kilograms of tnt explosives, and four grenades.

According to the regulations, I received two hundred bullets (ten magazines), five kilograms of TNT explosives and 4 grenades. As for other things that should be collected, there is no need to worry about it. Wu Haiguo, the squad leader, will handle everything.

The biggest advantage of Wu Haiguo is that no matter what he does, he will be like what he says, and will always be positive and optimistic. It is not within the scope of his squad leader's responsibilities, but as long as it belongs to his squad leader or even to his company, he will try his best to manage it.

This also saves us the platoon leader a lot of the worry. By the way, I don’t want to be upset by these trivial matters. My head should be used in places that are more worthy of my use. This is like a man who works hard outside, always unwilling to be distracted by tedious housework and distracted.

However, as a platoon leader and actually the company commander of this company, I still care about the firepower of my company. At this time, the firepower was much stronger than when fighting against the US and aiding Korea. The first rifles used were all semi-automatic. Although the range was not as far as Mosinnagan, the focus was on the large capacity and the fast firing speed. In addition, each squad was equipped with two Type 56 submachine guns, a Type 56 light machine gun and a 40 rocket launcher.

In this way, the firepower configuration of a squad is four riflemen, two submachine gunners, two machine gunners and two bazooka shooters. Such firepower is almost unimaginable when resisting the U.S. aggressing the United States and aiding Korea, and even the U.S. military cannot meet such standards!

But I patted the bullet bag full of magazines, but for some reason I lost the fullness of the past. After thinking about it, I think this should be due to two reasons. One is that the rifle in my hand is not as good as the m1c used before. Although the 56 and a half bullets in each magazine have two more rounds than m1, the effective range is only 400 meters, and I can't hit a target of about 700 meters like before with m1c. More importantly, I know very well that during the Korean War, almost every comrade around me was an elite soldier of a hundred battles. As long as there were sufficient ammunition and supplies, I believe we could eat any enemy standing in front of us.

But my current comrades cannot give me such confidence, although their firepower is much stronger than before...

"Platform Commander Cui!" Just as I was getting the equipment and walking towards the military camp, my hometown stopped me, handed me a telescope and said, "Give it!"

"Hey! You kid... it's really good!" I took the telescope and tried it. I, who had long been used to using the telescope, soon knew that it was an eight-fold telescope. This was not something that a platoon leader like me could do on the battlefield.

"Tell me, how did I get it?" Although I asked that, I actually wanted to know what the relationship between people from my hometown is.

Unexpectedly, the population in my hometown was very tight, so I just smiled and said, "You will know in the future!"

Seeing that the people in my hometown didn’t want to say anything, I didn’t force myself, so I just hung the telescope around my neck, patted my hometown’s shoulder and said, “Thank you!”

The answer from my hometown people was a punch, as if telling me that I would be polite, even my brothers couldn't do it! I walked into my own military camp with a smile, and I wanted to make such friends. And it was strange that no matter where I went, I would make a few such friends. In reality, the Korean War was, and now it was the same!

"Bang!"

Before I could sit in bed, a gunshot came from a military camp opposite. If this was nothing on the battlefield, it hadn't started fighting yet...

The soldiers in the dormitory rushed out and I followed them with doubts. As soon as I walked out of the barracks, I heard a few screams from the opposite side. A soldier with blood everywhere on his calves asked several soldiers to lift them out with all their hands.

"What's going on?" someone asked in a low voice

"I don't know! Maybe the gun went off..."

But it didn't look like a gun fire, because I noticed that the injury was on the neck of his legs. To hit this place, I had to point my calf sideways at the muzzle...

So I quickly realized that shouting slogans is still a distance from actual actions. However, I did not point out this matter. First, because I could not imagine how much fear it would be for a soldier to harm himself. More importantly, I don’t want the soldiers to find that there is such a "retreat"!

Not long after, a correspondent soon reported to me that it was the company commander who called the platoon leader to have a meeting. In fact, at this time, I knew exactly what the purpose of the meeting was.

As expected, as I, a native of my hometown, Yang Songjian and the other three arrived at the company commander and instructor's office, Commander Li pointed at us and said in a low voice: "Look at your soldiers, pay special attention to those who are timid. You can collect their bullets first if necessary!"

"Yes!" The three of us responded, but in fact everyone knew in their hearts that if the soldiers were willing to harm themselves, it would be useless even if we were following behind our butts. He could use a bayonet when he took the bullets, and he could use a stone when he took the bayonet, and even if he kept the stone... He just swung his legs and kicked it on the bed...

Later I heard that there had been several such incidents in other troops, and even after the battle started, the soldiers were all expelled from the army and sent back to their hometown. However, what makes me feel a little proud is that the soldiers I brought have never had such soldiers from beginning to end.

Then the poet, as the instructor, emphasized a few more words to ask us to do the ideological work of the soldiers, and signaled that we could go back.

At this time, I couldn't help but wonder and stood up and asked: "Company Commander! Instructor! Don't you need to assign combat missions? Our offensive route, what are the targets of the offensive? What are the situations of the friendly and neighboring troops? What are the situations of the enemy? What are the situations of the enemy along the way..."

I can understand that my hometown people and Yang Songjian are not in a hurry. After all, they didn’t know that the battle would start at 6:30 tomorrow morning, but I… I thought that the battle would start tomorrow morning, but I still don’t know how to fight this battle, and I don’t even know where to fight.

Commander Li glared at me and replied, "You talk too much! Our regiment is responsible for interspersed tasks. Then you can just follow the large army. Why do you ask so much?"

I couldn't help but feel dark, and I cursed in my heart: This is how you fight in this empty gang? Isn't this taking more than 100 people in our entire company to touch the elephant with their glasses?

I only realized afterwards that I was actually wrongly betraying Company Commander Li at this time. Because not only Company Commander Li didn’t know the situation, but even our entire attacking troops didn’t know the situation. The entire army was in a state of reconnaissance and attacking.

When I walked out of the company headquarters, I pulled the people from my hometown and asked directly: "Is there any way to get me a map!"

"No problem!" The hometown nodded and left without saying a word.

By the evening, he had really got it, but his expression when he handed me the map was a bit strange. He looked at it in advance and no one was paying attention to it. Then he secretly stuffed the map into my pocket. Before leaving, he explained: "Hide it and see it!"

When I opened the map, I suddenly realized that I had drawn three lines with pencils on this map. It should be the direction of the attack of our three regiments. All the way was from Miqi to cross the mountainous area to the Tanlong. All the way was from Friendship Pass to cross the Sankong Bridge and Banna to attack Tan. The last way was marked as our regiment, starting from Nonghuai, crossing Babian Mountain to the 339 Highland behind the enemy...

Taking such a big bend? Looking at the route on this map, I couldn't help but feel a headache.

Of course I know what tactics this is. This is because it has been used countless times during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. However, on the battlefield of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, we interspersed with the joint *** troops in the mountains, which were not familiar with the terrain and were not conducive to the marching of mechanized troops. Now, we use this tactic to the Vietnamese army, which is familiar with terrain and is also good at jungle combat.
Chapter completed!