Unlike the frightened horses, the first reaction of members of the military and medical teams when they encounter artillery fire attacks is to lie down. In this way, at least the splashing shrapnel will cause much less destructive attacks on the body. Several experienced veteran military workers flexibly pulled the reins and gathered the unscathed horses around them, forming a live protective screen.

Because there was no horse, and the military workers leading the horse were scattered and busy avoiding artillery fire, the road was very narrow, and the scattered horses could only run in the upper and lower directions. In the crazy bumps, many of the supplies loaded on the horses were dispersed and dropped on the ground.

Ammunition and food also said that because the packaging wooden boxes were very strong, they just wait for the shelling to pass and then pick them up and put them on. But the boxes containing various medical supplies were not good, and many of the medicines were stored in the form of injections. Although the medicine boxes were filled with straw and cork as buffers, they could not withstand the huge impact of falling from the horse's back more than one meter high. Two boxes of medicine boxes that fell on the ground had broken shells, and the father who was lying on the ground could see the broken glass pieces inside from the cracked hole. A strong smell of potion emanated from the inside.

Those medicines are the lives of soldiers! On the front line, a shot of penicillin or anesthetic can often save a life.

Thinking of this, my father suddenly stood up and ran towards a shocked horse pulling the medicine. Only by stopping these horses can he keep the medicine from being damaged.

At this moment, a quick figure quickly passed by his father and pressed him to the ground. It was the little sanitary, who could see clearly. He flexibly pulled the reins that spread out from the horse and dragged back the Jingma, who was about to run down the mountain. Seeing someone holding him, the Jingma naturally stopped in place obediently and stopped running. At the same time, the little sanitary also pulled the horse to the front of his body to block the shrapnel by like those old military workers, so that it would be much safer.

"Good job!" The father couldn't help but exclaim in his heart. Just as he was about to get up and hold other horses, an accident happened - a shell was unbiased and hit the position of the little health officer and the horse.

The Vietnamese army's artillery was sporadic, but there were always casualties after each shelling, and this time it was the same. After bombarding dozens of shells, the Vietnamese army's artillery stopped. People scattered around the mountain road began to gather horses and count the casualties.

Five horses and four mules were killed, and two other horses fell off the cliff in panic. In terms of supplies, 8 boxes of rifle bullets, 6 boxes of Type 60 mortar shells, and some canned food and compressed dry food. Half of the drugs and surgical instruments were lost. In terms of personnel, except for three people who were seriously injured, everyone else was fine. However, three military workers and two soldiers died on the spot during the shelling, including the young health officer.

Death happens every day on the battlefield. Except for a few people who have been in battle for the first time, the accompanying soldiers and military workers have become accustomed to this tragic scene. According to convention, the bodies of the dead must be carried off the battlefield for burial. Therefore, as the transport team searched everywhere, the broken limbs of the dead comrades were gathered from all directions little by little. If a person dies, at least there must be a whole body, which is the habit of the Chinese. Although this is on the battlefield, it cannot be pulled down, otherwise the dead comrades will leave uneasy.

My father was a military doctor and he had seen a lot of deaths. But I had never seen such bloody scenes as today. The huge sound of shelling had numbed his nerves. He had no ability to think in his mind. He had only one thought - to find the body of the little sanitary officer and find his body that was blown away by the shells.

The place where the little sanitary and military horses were standing first now turned into a huge crater. The high temperature emitted in the instant of the explosion had burned the wet soil on the ground to black. The scattered flesh and flesh scattered around the crater were mixed with the long-dried blood, and it was impossible to tell whether it was human or horse. Only them can prove that two living creatures had existed here.

The medical team and the military workers saw this scene. A living person and a horse were gone. They were bombed by shells. But no matter what, the body of the martyr must be retrieved. However, the result of searching everywhere disappointed people. The power of the shell explosion was too great, so big that it broke the whole person and horse into small pieces that could no longer be spliced, so small that it could not even be found a more complete piece of limb. Only in the end, a military worker found a 30-40 cm square chest residue in a grass more than 20 meters away from the explosion site. This is the largest piece of body fragments that can be found.

The father said that he cried that day, and he had never cried before. Not only him, but many people cried. Many health workers, medical officers, soldiers and military workers in the medical team cried. According to his father, although the scene was bloody at that time, he was not afraid or afraid, but he just wanted to cry. He only felt that an inexplicable sadness filled his body, and it was this sadness that brought his body back to life from the numbness brought by the explosion.

All the little sanitary workers could find here. Although they were a little less, they were better than nothing. According to the old rules, he received a black body bag. But the bag was so big for him, it looked hollow, and bleeding water was oozing from time to time. The old military worker in the team leader had no choice but to wrap him with a waterproof tart cloth before putting it in, and took him back to the rear with an empty horse behind.

That battle completely destroyed the division where my father was. After the battle, there were only less than 500 people left in the entire division. Except for one deputy division commander and three division commanders, all senior commanders of the division were killed. Because they were Class B combat divisions, the casualties were too great. So when the war ended and the troops retreated to Kunming, the military superiors revoked the division's number.

So, it is definitely a miracle that my father can come back alive. All those who can come back alive are miracles. My mother said that if my father died on the front line that time, I would probably never be like me, Zhao Lun, in this world.

My father told me this past many times. He kept talking about it since I could remember it. There were several times when I was bored and I would turn my head aside and ignore him. At this time, my mother would always come over and grab my ears and beat me up so hard that I cried. At this time, my father would always save me from my mother and said with emotion: In the future, it will depend on their generation. Of course, I would not understand these words when I was young, but after listening too much, I would naturally remember them deeply in my mind. I just didn’t expect that one day in the future, I would become a soldier.

The dinner that day was very late, and my father and I drank a lot of wine. In the end, we were both drunk and drunk. My mother later said: You father and son are really printed in the same mold. Not only do you look like alike, but you are a profession, but you are also drunk.

I stayed at home for two days and had two days off. The little girl didn't stay with me because she had to visit various relatives' homes. Don't say it, the feeling of rest is really good, it's completely different from the usual busyness. I finally realized the feeling of doing nothing and being lazy all day long. I really want to be so lazy forever. But I still have things to do.

Yunnan and Guangxi are two provinces bordering my country and Vietnam, and are important national defense borders. The self-defense counterattack against Vietnam that year was launched from these two provinces. Especially since Yunnan borders many neighboring countries, its geographical location becomes more important.

Yunnan has been a major ethnic minority province in the border since ancient times. The numerous mountains and complex geographical conditions have caused difficulties in transportation and connections between Yunnan and other central provinces. Therefore, in terms of geographical jurisdiction, Kunming belongs to the southwest region and is under the jurisdiction of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. Therefore, Kunming Military Region is also under the Chengdu Military Region.

Although the nominal plan is like this, the combat effectiveness of the Kunming Military Region's garrison is not weak. It is even much stronger than ordinary domestic garrison troops. Since the end of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, major wars on the Sino-Vietnam border have disappeared, but small-scale military conflicts often occur. In response to the nature of the war in this area, Mr. Deng decided to conduct practical training on the army through rotation combat, and achieved good results. During that period, the combat effectiveness and quality of the Chinese army improved rapidly. Although after the diplomatic relations between Vietnam and my country were normalized, the combat nature of the border defense forces had changed from defense to defense. However, many combat experiences and combat methods have been completely preserved from that time and were distributed to various troops as textbooks. These things were exchanged for their lives on the battlefield by countless Chinese soldiers!

The army is a machine to execute the will of the country and a necessary tool for maintaining national politics. When wars occur between countries, the army must engage in desperate battles and fights. Once the two countries reconcile, the army must obey the country and face its former mortal enemy as a friendly army. Vietnam is the best example.

During the Sino-Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of people died on both sides. All foreign trade ports were blocked, and the long border line became a terrifying minefield, and the economic strength of both sides was affected. After the war, the relations between the two countries became normalized and bilateral trade gradually began. For the army fighting to the death at that time, it was a helpless but had to accept reality.

Because the army is a machine that completely obeys the will of the state.

This time when I went home, I was to accompany the little girl to relax. On the other hand, I also had other purposes, which was to change the garrison troops of the Kunming Military Region.

The Thirteenth Army and the Fourteenth Army are two field armies under the Kunming Military Region. Although the name is a group army, the actual organization is still calculated by the army. Each army is under the jurisdiction of three A-type infantry divisions, with about 40,000 combat personnel in the entire army. In addition, four other independent tank regiments and several teaching brigades, if calculated according to the equipment standards of the First Division of the Dragon Ya Division, at least 12,000 mobile armor and 3,000 armed helicopters are required to fully equip the Kunming Military Region.

Of course, this is impossible.

Not to mention the production problems of more than 10,000 mechas, the installation and maintenance equipment they are equipped requires a lot of space. In addition, there are training grounds and preparation grounds and other problems that are confidential. Therefore, before these problems are handled well, equipment must not be issued.

Yunnan is mountainous and terrible. Huge mountains are like huge obstacles lying across the southwest corner of the motherland. In the past, many military-industrial enterprises and weapons research institutes in Kunming Military Region were set up in hollowed-out caves. Now, if the motorized armor in this area is kept in two characteristics: standing and secret, I am afraid that this path will still have to be taken.

After contacting the 14th Army Headquarters, three military "cheetah" jeeps soon arrived at the gate of the family area of ​​the Army Hospital where my father belonged. This time I went out as an ordinary person. Although the Ministry of National Defense had informed the Kunming military in a document beforehand, the phone call I made still attracted their high attention. This can be seen from the personnel who have received it.

Facing the major staff liaison officer standing in the living room, I tidied up my military uniform and handed over my identity documents and officer certificate. After inspection, during his salute, I walked out of the house and got into a jeep with a guard.

The 14th Army headquarters was not far from the Army Hospital, and soon the convoy arrived at its destination.

Zhang Wanhua, commander of the Kunming Military Region and commander of the 14th Army, and Fan Youming, political commissar, have been waiting in the military headquarters for a long time. Since receiving the document issued by the Ministry of National Defense, they have sent people to strictly protect my itinerary 24 hours a day, and I have taken the initiative to contact them today. In the minds of Zhang and Fan, the people who are responsible for such important tasks should be extremely excellent, but no matter how they guessed, they never expected that I was so young. This is why they were shocked when they saw me.

There were only four people in the spacious war room. I, Zhang Wanhua, Fan Youming and a division commander carrying the colonel's epaulette.

"Captain Zhang, this is the first batch of dressing plans for your 14th Army. Please check it out." After finishing the necessary politeness, I handed over a sealed document to Zhang and Fan opposite him. After Zhang Wanhua took it, he opened the seal and looked carefully.

"The preparation of this plan must be strictly implemented, and there must be no omissions at all." I raised the tea in front of me and took a sip of it, and said slowly: "The 2,000 mobile armors that you have replaced this time are the latest 'War Dragon II-1 type', and are also the regular models of our army's jungle warfare. According to the dressing standards, we should only give 100 training mechas first. However, considering the regional characteristics and terrain complexity of Yunnan Province, we specially modified the mechas you replaced to make it more suitable for tropical jungle warfare.

2,000 mechas are more and less. If it were a tank, 2,000 units could be equipped with dozens of armored divisions, but such troops would not play any role in future wars. We must start from quality and quantity, so the things issued this time are only enough for you to equip one division. I don’t care which unit to arrange it. I just need to pull out a unit that is completely built according to the equipment concept in the shortest time. This is also the meaning of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense."

"2,000 mechas and 500 helicopters are just equipment for a division? My God, Lao Zhang, we are now giving out great talents! Haha!" Political Commissar Fan Youming looked at the equipment plan in his hand and was so happy that he kept shouting at the commander Zhang Wanhua next to him. Zhang Wanhua had to pull him secretly before he calmed down.

"So, does the Military Commission have instructions on the specific issuance standards for this batch of equipment?" Unlike the political commissar, Zhang Wanhua was obviously a little excited, but he could still control his emotions.

"Haha! There is nothing wrong with the Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense regarding this. However, as the head of the Weapons and Equipment Research Institute responsible for the entire army, I hope to make a request. I wonder if Chief Zhang can agree?" I asked with a smile.

"It's totally OK, please say it." Zhang Wanhua listened to my words with caution.

"I hope this batch of equipment can first equip the 14th Army with the strongest combat effectiveness." I put away my smile and said seriously: "I believe you have read the relevant information about mobile armor. You should have some understanding of its combat capabilities and combat points. This huge human-shaped combat machine has flexibility and battlefield adaptability that traditional tanks and other traditional combat vehicles cannot match. Therefore, it requires extremely high proficiency of operators. Its pilot must involve many aspects such as body, knowledge, reaction ability, and operation of multiple weapons. The simulation training cabin issued to you some time ago was set up for this. I wonder how your training work in this area is doing?"

"You can be completely relieved of this." Fan Youming followed my words and said: "We have selected more than 7,000 outstanding personnel from the entire army as training subjects for simulation training. All of them have passed the Class C mock exam, of which 2014 have passed the Class B exam."

"So what have passed the Class A and Special Assessment?" What I am most concerned about is this issue.

"...There are 6 people who passed the Class A assessment, and there are no people who passed the Special Assessment yet." Fan Youming replied embarrassedly.
Chapter completed!