Chapter 138: Teaching experience

Chapter 138: Teaching experience

The next morning, I was woken up by Captain Wu.

Commander Wu called out all the way to Battalion Commander Cui and broke into the tent. When he saw that we were still sleeping soundly in the quilt, he said a little embarrassedly: "Well! I'm still sleeping... Then, I'll come back later!"

I was a little amused. Can you continue to sleep after you woke me up?

I stood up and put on my military uniform, then got out of the tent and shouted to Commander Wu who was about to leave, "Control Wu! Is there anything wrong?"

"Um! It's nothing to do!" Captain Wu smiled embarrassedly, and then said in embarrassment: "It's just... I'm just discussing something with you..."

"Speak if you have anything!" Looking at the hesitant look of Captain Wu, I couldn't help but feel a little funny. He was still a regiment commander, but his attitude towards me, the battalion commander, was a bit as cautious as his subordinates to his superiors.

"Well, then... I'll just say it!" Commander Wu didn't dare to look at me with his eyes, and Dudu murmured: "Captain Cui, you know that many of our troops... are recruits who have just entered, and no one has fought. This time, we just asked our superiors to carry out the mission, in order to give the soldiers an extra chance to train..."

"Captain Wu, just say whatever you have!" I interrupted Captain Wu and said, "We don't need to be polite. We must help you if you can!"

"That's good! That's good!" Commander Wu nodded and said, "That's right. I hope you can stay and guide the soldiers of our regiment and teach them some combat experience..."

I was stunned when I heard this. I really didn't expect that Captain Wu hesitated for so long to make this request.

"I know..." Commander Wu said with apologies when he saw that I didn't answer: "I know that this request is a bit difficult. The soldiers have been born and died on the front line for so long, and finally got off the battlefield alive. Who wouldn't want to return to China or go home to report safety? So Captain Cui...I just asked..."

"No problem!" I responded immediately. Commander Wu's request was actually exactly what I wanted. I was thinking about what excuses to ask Commander Liang to let us stay with them. I didn't expect that now I was just selling my favor...

"Really?" Captain Wu was overjoyed by my answer.

"Yeah!" I nodded, and then said, "But... I have to discuss with the soldiers that this is not the final decision of me alone!"

"I understand, I understand!" Commander Wu kept nodding and said, "Will this be it, Captain Cui, I will go with you to tell the soldiers that it will not be difficult for you to do it!"

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but say that Captain Wu is good at being a human being. I know if there is something wrong, I can't let me be a bad person alone.

After asking the guards to wake up the soldiers and gathered the team, I raised my head at Battalion Commander Wu, and Commander Wu would come up.

This kind of thing should be asked to negotiate with the soldiers. After all, this is not a task we must perform. If I agree without authorization, it will easily cause such resistance to the soldiers, that is, I am using the happiness of the soldiers to make favors for other troops.

"Comrades!" Commander Wu waved his hand at the soldiers and said, "I have a heartless invitation here today. You saw it last night... The soldiers under my command admire you very much! To this day, several comrades have come to me to ask for it. They hope to invite you to stay and teach them more combat experience and skills to kill enemies. Of course... I also know that this will make you very embarrassed. Being with us means that you will have to return to your motherland and return to your hometown a few days later! So... Comrades, don't take this as an order. It is our 608th Regiment's request and invitation to you. If comrades don't agree, I and the soldiers of the 608th Regiment can fully understand it. What do you think, comrades?"

I have to admit that although Commander Wu has no experience in fighting, he is still good at being a good person and speaks well, just like Commander Liang, he has no airs.

Someone seemed to have told me before that if there were any superiors above, the cadres below would be almost the same... I didn't believe it before, but now I feel that it seems to be a bit like this.

The soldiers were so excited that they started talking below. I didn't control their thoughts and decisions, and stood by themselves without saying anything.

Some soldiers turned their eyes to me habitually and shouted: "Battery Commander! What do you think? Let's listen to you..."

"This matter is up to you all!" I replied, "This is not a task assigned by our superiors, nor is it a war. You can stay or not! You can discuss it and give me a result!"

Although I do hope that the soldiers will stay, because only in this way can I save this 608th Regiment that is about to be defeated by the Vietnamese army, I still don’t want to force them to stay at this moment. This will at least relieve some of my guilt towards the soldiers.

What if the soldiers chose to go home? If so, I think I would choose to make excuses to stay. I feel that I owe the soldiers too much, and I have no reason to force them to stay and risk being surrounded by the Vietnamese army...

Seeing that I didn't express my opinion, the soldiers discussed:

"I think it's better to go home first! I can't stay in this ghost place in Vietnam for a day!"

"I'll give us some good food and sleep, so I'd be embarrassed to ask you to do some good?"

"That's it! You're not going to fight! When we came back, everyone saw that the engineers followed behind and exploded bridges and roads. The Japanese invaders couldn't get up for less than ten days and half a month..."

"That's right! It's just a few days later, let alone the other person is a division's unit!"

"It's good! We can also brag in front of those recruits!"

"Yes! Let's also let's get addicted to training recruits! There will be no such good opportunity next time!"

...

To my surprise, the discussion among the soldiers soon became one-sided, and most of the soldiers were willing to stay, and the few soldiers who wanted to go home early were moved by the soldiers' words and expressed their willingness to stay.

"That's great, great!" The soldiers' decision made Captain Wu so happy that he could not stop. He shook the man's hand for a while, and kept saying words of thanks in his mouth.

"Yoho..." At this time, Commander Liang came up. He asked me in disbelief: "Is it really that Wu Song and that guy have moved you?"

I nodded with a wry smile. At this time, I was a little reluctant to let the soldiers stay, because I knew that after staying, I would never be like what they said - it would take at least ten days and half a month for the Japanese to catch up.

"Welcome!" Commander Liang held my hand and said, "Oh! I really didn't expect you to stay. This is really a great news for our army! Commander Wu has come to talk to me several times for this matter, and it has been arguing that I can't rest all night. In the end, he was so pestered that he could not have enough to tell him - if you can move Captain Cui, I'll be fine! I didn't expect that this guy is really shameless, and even more unexpected is that you are willing to stay..."

"Teacher Liang is so serious!" I said: "We are all brothers standing on the same front, so it is appropriate to communicate and help each other!"

"Okay!" Commander Liang patted my shoulder and said, "Our family doesn't speak two people. What's next... you can train whatever you want, just treat it as your own soldiers! We support it with all our strength!"

"Yes!" I stood up to Commander Liang, but still maintained the discipline on the battlefield and did not salute him. I was very clear that as long as we were still in Vietnam, danger would always be with us, especially in this army that was about to be defeated by the Vietnamese army.

How should I train and impart experience? After disbanding the troops, I couldn't help but fall into deep thoughts. I used to think about whether to go or stay, but I didn't think about what to do if I stayed. Now it really makes me embarrassed.

It is not the first time I have taken the troops to teach experience like now. I had this experience during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, but there was no danger in Shangganling when I was teaching experience, so I could move slowly and step by step.

However, now, I know that this unit will be attacked and surrounded by the Vietnamese army in the near future, so any training and teaching experience are fake. If I haven't trained for a few days, what else can I teach?

After thinking for a long time, I didn’t have a suitable plan, so I had to convene three company commanders and Commander Wu to discuss.

"Or..." Li Zhifu rushed to say: "We call the soldiers to hold a meeting and let the soldiers go to the podium to introduce their combat experience one by one..."

"You're going to be the first!" His suggestion quickly attracted the laughter and scolding of Xu Yongjian, a native of his hometown: "This is all on the battlefield, bringing all the soldiers together. You want the soldiers to be bombed!"

"What else can we do?" Li Zhifu couldn't help but scream: "Can we still pull out the soldiers to practice or practice in actual combat? That would still be the same as the Japanese shells..."

After hearing what Li Zhifu said, the soldiers were speechless, and no one could do anything about it.

"Hi! I said comrades!" Commander Wu smiled relaxedly and said, "In fact, it's not necessary to think so complicatedly. I also know that in just a few days, my army cannot become elite soldiers of a hundred battles. I hope the soldiers can be dispersed into the army and tell my soldiers about your experiences on the battlefield, and for example... what should you pay attention to and how to fight under what circumstances will be..."

"Distributed into the troops?" I was stunned when I heard this. I soon thought that if I did this, I could always grasp the first situation of each unit and even intervene in the decisions of grassroots commanders through our soldiers. In other words, I could use this method to indirectly control and command this unit.

And these are necessary conditions for me to be able to keep abreast of all the troops in a critical moment and implement the orders to the entire troops.

Thinking of this, I nodded and agreed: "This method is good! Distribute the troops of the Second Battalion to the 608th Regiment to guide and impart experience. For example... the three company commanders were assigned to the battalion commanders of the three battalions as staff, followed by the platoon leader and squad leader. In this way, we will assign cadres to the platoon leader level... Ordinary soldiers are also assigned to the corresponding troops to communicate with the soldiers of the 608th Regiment, so that every unit has someone to be responsible and no warrior is left behind!"

"good!"

"agree!"

...

So the plan was quickly decided. The task the soldiers had to complete was actually very simple. They did not need to participate in substantive battles, even if this kind of battle was just to cover the retreat of other troops. In their words, it was nothing more than to go to the 608th Regiment to brag, to shout out the new recruits, or to be admired by the new recruits...

But only I know that their mission will never be that simple.

But that was all for the future. At least such a crisis has not happened yet, and no one knows it. So the soldiers quickly dispersed to various troops and chatted with the soldiers of the 608th Regiment, talking and laughing. Al Ziri, a bragging guy, even showed off his combat experience while holding the SVD sniper rifle in his hand, and introduced his combat experience to the soldiers around him in an extremely exaggerated manner. From time to time, he also welcomed the applause and cheers of the soldiers...

On the other hand, Li Shuibo can be said to be the best sniper among the shooting team members, and he also performed well in several battles in succession, but because he didn't like to talk, there was no one around him.

What kind of world is it? Seeing this, I couldn't help but sigh: It seems that reality is that a person must not only have real skills, but also have the ability to speak with wise meaning.

"Captain Cui!" While I was sitting on a big rock and wiping a gun while I was bored, I didn't expect Commander Wu to come up again.

"Oh... what kind of gun is this?" Because we had always wrapped the rifle with rags before, Commander Wu did not discover this sniper rifle with a scope until now.

This kind of gun is certainly not new to the soldiers who have fought on the Vietnam front line, but it is enough to be amazed to Captain Wu and others.

Isn't this? Captain Wu's eyes were so straight that he almost reached out to touch it twice.

"This is called a sniper rifle!" I threw the gun to Captain Wu and said, "What is the model... SVD, it was stolen from the Vietnamese devils!"

Captain Wu couldn't let go of it and grabbed the gun and played with it in his hand. He exclaimed in his mouth: "Good guy! There is also a telescope on it, and you can see clearly from afar... The range is far away!"

"Dagain...one thousand meters!" I replied intentionally or unintentionally.

"What? One thousand meters?" This scared Captain Wu. He held the svd in disguise and said to me: "You mean... this thing can really hit a goal of one thousand meters?"

I took out a pack of Dazhongjiu from my pocket, tore it apart, popped it out with my finger and held it in my mouth...

In this era, Dazhongjiu is already considered a good cigarette. If it weren't for the soldiers of the 608th Regiment to express their gratitude to us, we wouldn't have been able to smoke it! Later I found out that this thing is Sanmao61 pack... Sanmao66! My God, Sanmao6 can actually buy a pack of cigarettes, and it's a good cigarette!

I took out a match and lit the cigarette. After spitting out a sip of smoke, I slowly said: "I haven't tried it for a thousand meters, but I have tried it for eight hundred meters and knocked down a machine gunner of the Yue Japanese..."

"Eight hundred meters!" Commander Wu couldn't help but gasp, grabbed the sniper rifle in his hand and aimed again.

Looking at the appearance of Commander Wu, I couldn't help but feel a little funny. Not to mention using SVD to hit targets 800 meters away, even in the past, I had an M1 rifle that hit targets more than 700 meters. However, Commander Wu's surprise was justified. The farthest range and accuracy of our army's weapons are 56 and a half more than 400 meters, which is less than half of others. So how could he not be surprised when he heard the length of 800 meters?

"Captain Cui!" After a while, Commander Wu asked with some concern: "You said this gun was taken from the Yue Japanese devils? Then don't Yue Japanese devils have many such guns?"

"Yeah!" I nodded: "So we don't dare to smoke at night on the front line, right?"

I held the cigarette with two fingers and raised it at Captain Wu, and continued, "Jiu Jian, as long as you see this little bit of fire on the cigarette butt, it will be enough to kill the target. They are all veterans who have beaten the French Americans, and they are not vegetarians!"

Commander Wu shook his head with a wry smile, and returned the sniper rifle to my hand and said, "It seems that I will add one more order soon. All soldiers are not allowed to smoke or light open fire at night!"

"Um!" I looked at Captain Wu unexpectedly, but I didn't expect to teach him another experience just now. So I joked: "It's not free for me to teach experience, I'll have another pack of cigarettes..."

Captain Wu was stunned and then looked at me and smiled.

"By the way!" After a while of laughter, Captain Wu stood up and said, "I came to find you with a serious matter. I almost forgot about it after you disturbed me!"

"What's the matter?" I continued to wipe the rifle in my hand with a cigarette in my mouth.

"Teacher Liang said!" Commander Wu was as relaxed as if he was talking about a trivial matter: "He said... Since the squad leader of your second battalion is assigned to us platoon commander, the platoon commander is assigned to us company commander, and the company commander is assigned to us battalion commander... Then you battalion commander, you must give me the regiment commander, that is fair!"

"What?" Hearing this, I almost choked by the cigarette on my mouth.

Actually, I don’t have this idea. In fact, I really want it, because only by entering the high-level command of the 608th Regiment can we understand the latest news and then have a way to interfere with their decisions. But after all, I am from other troops, and we are just passing on experience. If we want to enter the high-level command of the 608th Regiment, there are confidential issues, so we didn’t dare to have such an idea before. Unexpectedly, Commander Wu raised it with me.
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