After a twenty-kilometer snow march, we sat in a large tarpaulin car for nearly seven hours.
In the early morning, we finally arrived at the camp.
Since it is a collective action on the road, the team rests at the same time. Including getting out of the car to pee, they all acted in a unified manner, without any personal will at all. Stop twice on the way, pee if you can, and hold it in if you don’t. There were no diapers at that time. Once the caravan started, you couldn't pee even if you wanted to. When the car stopped, everyone hurriedly looked for a place to pee, but the urethra was cramped all the way and they wanted to pee but couldn't.
People make a lot of farts when they are hungry, and they urinate a lot in cold weather.
But in this weather of more than 20 degrees below zero, it is especially easy to urinate. Wang Ke had thought of this a long time ago and secretly told the other two people in the group that in order to reduce the inconvenience of peeing on the road, it is best to drink less water or no water at all.
I saw some soldiers who had to take out a beer bottle containing washing powder on the road and pee into the mouth of the bottle while standing on a swaying caravan. I also saw that some people were unable to pee on their cotton pants. Qin Hu secretly said to Wang Ke, "Brother, you have it, where did you learn it from? When you go to the battlefield in the future, remember, we are brothers together."
After arriving at the camp, the sixth group was assigned to camp in the kitchen next to a horse number. This low herdsman's house has no door, only a military cotton curtain hanging there. Inside is a cooking pot and a stack of firewood, which will serve as a temporary home for three people for a month.
On the night of arrival, the second training subject was conducted: lurking in the snow.
Speaking of lurking in the snow, the famous Battle of Changjin Lake in a foreign country comes to mind. Our soldiers lurked for six days and six nights on the eastern battlefield in a temperature of more than 40 degrees below zero. In the end, all the officers and soldiers were frozen into a company of ice sculptures.
To lurk in the snow, you must first learn to use terrain features. How to do a good job of concealment and camouflage, and how to reduce frostbite to lurkers in bad weather is a matter of knowledge.
After an emergency gathering, a teacher came. He introduced in detail the lurking area, precautions for lurking for three hours, and anti-freezing and cold-proofing measures. One of them was to withdraw from training immediately if frostbite occurred and receive a second yellow card.
Whether marching in the snow without warning, lurking in the snow, or suddenly attacking, the trainees should be given a warning first. The purpose is to test the quality of the trainees and select the best ones to stay.
Although Wang Ke has experienced the cold wave and blizzard that have never happened in a century at the division farm, there are rooms and stoves there. Now except for dry food and the equipment on his body, he has nothing else. Although he had experience in field survival training, it was summer at that time and he was just trying to protect himself from rain and insects and find food. There was no comparison with now.
what to do? Let’s talk about it when we get there.
As December approaches, the vast grasslands have turned into vast snowfields.
In some of the deepest places, the snow was two feet thick, and the temperature was more than 20 degrees below zero.
After arriving at the designated area, the three of them were assigned to a small hill as a group. The terrain here is open, the cold wind howls by, and the blown snow pours directly into the collar and cuffs. But the wind blowing on my face felt like a knife cutting me, which hurt a little.
"Wang Ke, look where we choose the lurking point."
Wang Ke stood on the snow hill, and soon the snow blew away the footprints under his feet.
"Choose the lurking location in the south of the leeward direction. Use this earth bag to avoid the angle of the wind direction. This can reduce frostbite caused by heat loss." Wang Ke thought for a while and then made a decision.
"Okay, let's find a place to lie down."
"No, no, no, let's make ourselves a snow nest first, tamp down the snow below and around it, and pile up more snow on top, the thicker the better. Don't make the hole big, let's do it!" As long as it doesn't violate the principle of lurking, What should be flexible should be flexible.
The three of them started working in the dark. The snow on the top of the hill a few meters away was quickly filled up by the wind.
Except for a slight bulge, the three men's holes are almost invisible from the outside. You can lie down or sit inside, which is windproof and warm.
"It's so good, like an underground ice and snow palace!" Liu Liyong got in, covered the flashlight with a military uniform, and only emitted a very weak light. He looked at it and praised.
"You go in first, I will sweep away the snow in front of the door, pay attention to the following seven points: put on a fur coat inside out, hold the gun with both hands, don't let the bolt freeze; secondly, pay attention to protect it with a cotton hat and cold-proof mask Auricles and the tip of the nose; fingers, toes, and heels are the parts most susceptible to frostbite. You can move around every ten minutes; third, don’t tie cold-proof gloves and large-toe shoelaces too tightly, so that your fingers and toes can be Do hundreds of contractions and stretches in a row; fourth, when moving, blink hard to drive the facial muscles to move; fifth, do a thousand contractions of the abdomen to promote blood circulation through tiny movements to reduce frostbite; sixth, if you pee , just use a bayonet to dig a hole, aim it when peeing, and pee directly into the ground; Seventh, if you are hungry, you must replenish calories in time, and eat the chocolate in the compressed dry food first. Be careful not to sleep no matter how sleepy you are, you cannot sleep!"
Wang Ke quickly added his own insights to what the teacher said and condensed it into seven points, which was easier to remember and implement.
After Wang Ke finished explaining, he watched the two people enter the cave, and then lay down at the entrance of the cave and said: "Each of us will be on duty for half an hour. When on duty, we will focus on observing the enemy situation in front, and at the same time listen to the movements around us. Turn on the intercom and call every ten minutes. Blow the sound, twice every half hour, and everyone must interact. In addition, I will seal your door from the outside, leaving only an observation hole."
Qin Hu and Liu Liyong got into the hole. Wang Ke quickly used the corner of his fur coat to gently drag the ground to cover the footprints. He believed that everything here would be hidden in ten minutes.
He finally retreated into the cave and sealed the entrance with two prepared snow bricks, leaving an observation opening two fingers wide.
Listening to the cold wind whistling outside, looking at the falling snowflakes outside. It is very comfortable to lie half in this snow cave.
Wang Ke put down his cotton hat and cold mask, and dug a small hole underneath with his military dagger.
When lurking during the day, the lurking personnel must have a wide viewing angle. Hiding in the snow for a long time requires not only the fighting will of the officers and soldiers, but also well-prepared and practical cold protection measures.
As for how many people will be eliminated tomorrow after completing the latent mission tonight, it all depends on everyone's luck.
Today these holes are beautifully done and can be named Cold-proof Cave No. 1, Cold-proof Cave No. 2, and Cold-proof Cave No. 3.
All counterattacks and attacks come with preparation.
And all success is the result of hard work. Nothing that really makes you grow will be too comfortable, and nothing that really makes you comfortable will make you grow.
Deputy Commander Tan was willing to let Tan Hu train in the ice and snow, and he had no reason not to be a good soldier.
On the way forward, not falling is not considered glorious, but being able to stand up and keep moving forward after every fall is the glory of a warrior. Persevere to complete the transformation, pay more and be less obsessed.
While staring at Xueye in front of me, I was thinking about these things in the snow cave. Ten minutes passed quickly, and the temperature in the cave should have quickly risen to around zero degrees. Wang Ke took out the walkie-talkie and blew it gently, and soon he heard two responses. Wang Ke followed the seven-point lurking measures he had mentioned before and began to carry out minor activities in the cave.
Not long after all this was done, another ten minutes came...More than two hours passed quickly.
Now that Qin Hu was on duty, Wang Ke peed into the hole under his body, dug out a piece of snow from the side, and blocked it. Then I ate another compressed biscuit with chocolate inside. Suddenly he heard three short beeps from the walkie-talkie. According to the agreement, this was a warning signal.
He immediately approached the observation hole with vigilance, and saw two figures coming in front of him. Enemy situation!
The two figures came over, turned on the flashlight, and said to the snowy field: "Where is this group? Was it blown away by the wind?"
It was the teacher's voice, and he came personally to conduct a latent inspection.
While he was hesitating, two white figures suddenly jumped out from beside the teacher, throwing them to the ground and throwing the flashlight far away.
"Don't move!" Two military daggers were pressed tightly against the necks of the two instructors. Qin Hu and Liu Liyong suppressed the two of them. Wang Ke rushed out and said to the two teachers: "Report to the teacher, Wang Ke, leader of the sixth team, reported that we are carrying out a latent mission and you are now captured by us. .”
The two teachers lying on the ground said to Qin Hu: "Let us go quickly, let me see where you are hiding?"
The two teachers got up and walked to the hole where the three of them had just been hiding. They observed carefully under the light of the flashlight. The snow cave to protect against the cold has been half washed away. But the other half was enough to shock the two teachers.
"This is probably the group that did the best in our latent training tonight."
"Wang Ke." A teacher shouted:
"Here!" Wang Ke put his big-toe shoes on his feet.
"Tell me why you built the hole in the leeward and not over there."
"Teacher, we built this kind of cold-proof cave mainly to reduce the cold wind and cool down. At the same time, it is convenient for observation and monitoring."
The two teachers nodded with satisfaction, "Cold-proof cave!" The teacher who spoke before departure muttered silently, and suddenly he said: "Take off your gloves and let us have a look."
"Yes!" The three people stood in a line, stretched out their hands, and let the teacher touch them one by one. They were all hot. How could such hands and feet get frostbite?
"Who came up with the idea of digging a winter cave."
"It was decided after discussion between the three of us." Wang Ke rushed to answer.
"Very good. Apart from the holes, what other measures do you have to protect yourself from the cold?"
"Tell the teacher, we have a total of seven measures to prevent the cold." So Qin Hu loudly repeated the seven measures summarized by Wang Ke, including taking turns to observe for ten minutes and half an hour, as well as holding weapons and exploring holes under the body to urinate. Supplementing calories is Wang Ke’s innovation.
"Very good, the cold-proof cave and these seven measures must be written into our lurking textbook immediately. Now we can gather for our next project. In addition, all the groups will come here first to visit the sixth group's cold-proof cave. .”
After a while, through the guidance of the intercom and the teacher's flashlight, various hidden groups came one after another. We have seen, from the expressions of most of the groups, that there are not a few people who have received yellow cards in this latent subject, and some have already withdrawn from the subject training.
As for the group that arrived, everyone was covered in snowflakes and not much clean. In particular, Wang Ke and his group were the only ones wearing fur coats inside out. Looking from a distance, their bodies blended into the snowy fields.
"Everyone will visit the cold-proof cave of the sixth group first. There are still more than two hours before dawn. We will start the third training subject immediately. If some comrades still receive yellow cards this time, they will completely lose their qualifications for winter training."
