In the evening, there was an ideological and political class, taught by a middle-aged teacher. He talked about what kind of spirit we should have when fighting, or slogans and theories. And he always mentioned "Marxism"
Philosophy tells us..." This sentence hung on our lips, causing the soldiers below to snicker from time to time, while the instructors were somewhat inexplicable and didn't know what we were laughing at.
At this time, Marx always glared at the soldiers who laughed, and sometimes even he couldn't help laughing.
Of course I'm not interested in the content of this lesson. Usually at this time, I would always write notes or something with Zhang Fan sitting next to me... I can't help it. The school simply doesn't give us any time alone at this time.
Time, training and class during the day, and classes at night. After class, you only have half an hour of free time and then you have to turn off the lights and go to bed, so the time for romance with Zhang Fan is only at this time.
And in order to set an example for all the soldiers in the company, I could only pretend to take notes...
I remember the first time I passed a note to Zhang Fan, it was like this. I was really bored listening to the politics class that day, so I drew a pig's head on the paper. After thinking about it, I wrote a line below: "Follow this."
Your drawing looks very similar, right?" Then he pushed me over.
Zhang Fan took it and took a look, burst out laughing, which only made people around her look sideways. Even the teacher looked at her inexplicably, but I pretended that it didn't matter to me and was only angry.
Zhang Fan stepped on me hard under the table.
After a while, when the class resumed again, Zhang Fan handed me the note again. There was an extra line on it: "So you like pigs... Bless you!"
Okay! It seems that Zhang Fan still has a sense of humor. I thought people in this era were all serious!
As a result, this note started to circulate frequently. The politics class in the evening became a time for Zhang Fan and I to talk to each other.
But tonight I didn't have that thought. The teacher was giving lectures above, and I was flipping through the book below... This book is the "Fundamentals of Individual Soldier Tactics" that was just distributed today.
It should be said... there is still a lot of useful content in this book. After all, it is the accumulation of combat experience of our ancestors. For example, it summarizes the movement skills, leaping methods, methods of using concealment, and even the methods of jumping into trenches of different heights.
More details... From this, I thought of the various actions of the Vietnamese army on the battlefield, which were exactly the same as those described in this book.
It is obvious that the individual tactics of the Vietnamese army are based on the tactics of our army... It is no wonder. You must know that when the United States and Vietnam fight, the Vietnamese army will undoubtedly favor China rather than the Soviet Union in terms of tactics.
The reasons are very simple. First, China is close to Vietnam, which makes it convenient for a large number of commanders to enter China for training. Second, many Vietnamese can communicate in Chinese to facilitate communication. Third, China defeated the US military just over 20 years ago, and also did the same.
Vietnam is also completely inferior in equipment, so it has a lot of actual combat experience.
What about the Soviet Union? Not to mention its geographical distance and language inconvenience, it can be said that the Soviet Union has never directly fought with the US military, and its equipment is more advanced than Vietnam. Vietnam cannot learn from it if it wants to.
So it is no exaggeration to say that Vietnam is our apprentice. It is just that Vietnam learned our tactics and applied them on the actual battlefield... and eliminated some outdated or backward tactical ideas on the battlefield.
Then I added some tactical ideas based on my own combat experience, and thus we have the quality of the current Vietnamese army.
This process is actually very natural. If an army wants to survive on the battlefield or reduce casualties, it must continue to learn and progress in the battle, and only in this way can it make progress on the battlefield. This process... is actually
Get rid of the dross and get the essence.
On the contrary... our Chinese army has not changed its tactics because there has been no war for decades or the scale of the war is too small. Even because of the ten years of turmoil, such backward tactics have not been implemented on the soldiers, so there has been
There is such a big gap in quality between Chinese and Vietnamese soldiers.
I threw the book on the table and sighed unconsciously.
At this time, Zhang Fan handed me a piece of paper with a lot of words written on it: "Why don't you talk at night?", "Reading so seriously", "Hey... Yang Xuefeng! I hate you..."
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Okay! Only then did I realize that I really ignored Zhang Fan tonight, but this sail is also strange... If you want to talk to me, just hand over the note!
Looking at my confused expression, Zhang Fan pouted and quickly wrote on the paper: "I see you are reading so seriously, I don't want to interrupt you! Have you finished reading it?"
"Oh!" Seeing this, I suddenly realized that Zhang Fan is like this. No matter how anxious he is, he will always think of others first.
"Yes!" I wrote on the paper: "Except for those slogans."
Zhang Fan looked at me in disbelief and wrote: "That is a one-year study course, and you finished it in one hour?"
"Huh?" I couldn't help but be stunned, and after thinking about it, I wrote: "Tactics need to be practiced, and the knowledge on paper is actually not much! What's more, we have fought in the war and have summarized some experience on the battlefield, so
It looks so fast!”
"Yeah!" Zhang Fan thought about it, so he wasn't surprised at all.
Later I learned that this speed was extremely fast compared to other fighters. One reason was that many fighters had difficulty in reading, and the other was because they had not gone through systematic study in junior high school, high school, or college. This logic
Naturally, the thinking ability, analytical ability and imagination ability are somewhat inferior, so many people just can't understand this literal thing. They have to practice it on a real venue and demonstrate it several times before they understand what's going on.
This also makes Zhang Fan feel more and more that I am a little different from people of this era... Of course, this is another story for another day.
"It seems that my dad still underestimates you!" Zhang Fan wrote this sentence.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
At this time, Zhang Fan couldn't help but be stunned, as if he realized that he had made a mistake, he shook his head and pretended to listen to the lecture... So I stopped asking any more questions.
The next day we entered individual soldier tactics training under the leadership of instructor Zhang.
The first thing to practice is exercise... I mean, the instructor in this picture is really talented. When he was demonstrating to us, he was straight forward for a while, crawling for a while, bending forward for a while, and suddenly jumped into the trench, and then quickly jumped forward dozens of times.
step……
The soldiers looked confused, but I understood it because of the theoretical knowledge from last night. Instructor Zhang made various corresponding actions according to different terrains. For example, the position where he moved straight forward was the enemy's firepower.
The blind spot is used for bending forward, where the cover is slightly lower than the human body, and the leaping forward is used for quickly passing through open areas under enemy fire.
Well... although we have all been in battles, we basically rely on intuitive judgment on the battlefield. For example, the enemy's bullets will be able to hit this place, so we have to move forward in a low profile or pass quickly, but
Never before has it been studied systematically as a subject as it is now.
"Have you seen everything clearly?" Instructor Zhang asked loudly after coming back.
"You see clearly!" the soldiers replied with half-understanding.
"Someone come up and do what I just did!"
More than a dozen soldiers immediately took a step forward. Seeing this, I could only give out a bitter smile... Among us, perhaps only Dao Scar and Liang Lianbing could carry out these tactical moves. However, in order to cooperate with Instructor Zhang, they
Instead of being the first to take the lead, these soldiers thought it was very simple because they didn't know the heights of the world.
What makes me feel lucky...the dozen soldiers are all new recruits who have just joined the second company, which shows that the veterans at least understand something.
So those dozen soldiers quickly went up, but within two seconds a lot of problems occurred: some got up too early, some moved too slowly, which only made me frown... At this time
I can't even imagine how we survived on the battlefield.
After thinking about it, I think it might be because the few big battles we fought were all defensive and rarely offensive, and even if we did attack, it was an unexpected surprise attack, just like the battle to capture the canyon at the pass.
"Do you know what questions you have?" Instructor Zhang asked when the dozen soldiers came back.
A dozen soldiers touched their heads and shook their heads. Some even thought they had done a good job and were complacent.
"If it were on the battlefield, you would all have died!"
Instructor Zhang's words immediately aroused a burst of laughter from the soldiers.
So the tactical training quickly started under the guidance of instructor Zhang. This training was not just about some movements, but also what kind of places are suitable for cover, what kind of movements to use to cover, and when being targeted by the enemy.
How to change positions, what is the correct reaction when exposed, etc.
Of course, these tactics are not omnipotent. Some people can even fight well even if they have not learned these tactics. For example, the volunteer soldiers back then... many of them learned while fighting on the battlefield, but this
The process comes at the cost of blood or even life. And not everyone has such good psychological quality or luck to learn these skills before sacrifice.
And these tactical actions... are actually repeated over and over again in daily training until a conditioned reflex is formed. This will enable the soldiers to step on the real battlefield one day in the future, even under enemy fire.
Instead of being scared into a daze or making the wrong reaction, he will make the correct action in the shortest possible time based on what he has learned and practiced.
As the saying goes, "Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in war"... It was only then that I really understood the meaning behind this sentence. (To be continued...)