After breakfast, Wang Ke followed the reconnaissance team to the back mountain.
After walking less than two miles, Song Ruimin took a map in his hand and climbed up the mountain along a rain-cracked ditch.
As we said before, Yucrack ditch is a name in military topography. It is actually a special valley, a ditch washed out by floods. This is particularly common in western mountainous areas and the Loess Plateau.
Today's reconnaissance class is different from the past. In addition to carrying a water bottle, everyone also carries a map board. But Niu Suozhu and Digua Liang Xiaolong still carried a steering wheel each, and Gu Maolin carried an extra two-meter pole than usual.
The reconnaissance squad was followed by the phone squad. Starting from the squad leader Xiao Gao, everyone carried a phone cord on their shoulders. The two soldiers also carried a grass-green telephone on their backs.
Wang Ke followed last. What was different from the past was that in addition to a kettle and a drawing board, he also had a pair of binoculars.
Climbing to the top of the mountain, Wang Ke found that this was really a good place for training.
Looking around the back mountain, you can see the unmistakable Bald Mountain. They are not too high, the altitude is basically about 100 meters. Hundreds of hills, big and small, can be seen at a glance. They all look exactly the same. Not only are they about the same height, short, fat, and thin, but they stretch up and down like a "mountain and sea."
When I picked up the map and looked at it again, it was even more difficult to distinguish. The directions and sizes of the high lines were almost the same. One round, like hundreds of eggs placed on that map. Wang Ke knew that a good show was coming. The training here was fixed and the people had to be trained to perfection.
First determine the coordinates of the standing point under your feet.
After Wang Ke and Song Ruimin finished explaining, he handed his drawing board to the telephone monitor Xiao Gao. He and Sweet Potato Liang Xiaolong shared the same drawing board.
"Platoon leader, does our telephone squad still use training maps to locate specific locations?" Xiao Gao, the telephone squad leader, asked.
"Haven't you learned it?" Wang Ke was a little surprised.
"We have learned it, but we have never used it. Besides, our telephone class is all following the command post. We just lay out telephone lines, so there is no need for this."
"Just because you haven't used it before, doesn't mean you won't use it on the battlefield. From today on, in addition to the reconnaissance class, your telephone class and wireless class must learn to work on the drawing board. Everyone in the command platoon must be familiar with military topography. If the reconnaissance class on the battlefield If you are sacrificed or your phone shift is dispersed, why don’t you complete the mission?”
These words completely blocked Xiao Gao's mouth. Helplessly, the whole class gathered around the drawing board and began to look for a standing point under their feet and pinned it with thumbtacks.
The fastest was still Song Ruimin, followed by Niu Suozhu.
"It's been completed. Hand over the drawing board and put it here. Write the coordinates of the standing point under our feet in the upper right corner of the map." Wang Ke said this. Niu Suozhu, who had already planned to take a rest, was worried and immediately added I took the drawing board back, looked at the village again, looked at the tripod in the distance, and started to visually measure the distance again. I carefully distinguished the features on the contour lines on the map, and compared them with the top of the mountain I was standing on.
We have said before that the thumbtacks used by the scouts are different from the thumbtacks sold on the street. They are all made by themselves. They cut the plastic toothbrush into one or two centimeter sections, then heat the sewing needle red and insert it upside down into the plastic. Recruits We also call it pin.
Pins are very important for the scout team, so everyone needs to prepare at least ten.
It has been almost half a year since Wang Ke left the class, and the pins he uses now are all made by Song Ruimin himself. It took nearly ten minutes to determine the coordinates of the station, and finally it was completed. The last one was Telephone Class, and the second last one was naturally Gu Maolin.
"Okay, now everyone reports the coordinates of their standing point."
This time, a problem arises. In the reconnaissance squad, only Song Ruimin and Wang Ke were the closest, but the vertical and horizontal coordinates were each more than thirty meters apart.
Next is Niu Suozhu and the two recruits. The horizontal coordinates are almost the same, both are tens of meters up and down, but the vertical coordinates are still a hundred meters apart.
The most weird ones are Gu Maolin and Telephone Class. Both the vertical and horizontal coordinates differ from Wang Ke by more than one centimeter.
One centimeter on the picture is 500 meters in reality. Wang Ke was so angry that he wanted to curse. Today's training started poorly. Who has participated in surveying and mapping of ten thousand acres of fields and water conservancy? Are all majors returned?
"Niu Suozhu, Liang Xiaolong."
"arrive."
"Invert the coordinates of the standing point."
"yes."
Niu Lock Column quickly opened the tripod of the steering wheel and propped up the steering wheel under his feet. And Sweet Potato Liang Xiaolong looked around and immediately ran down the ridge. A soldier in the telephone squad took a look, picked up a telephone and a string on his back, and ran over after Liang Xiaolong.
It was easy to go up the mountain but difficult to go down. Liang Xiaolong was seen jumping sideways and quickly jumped up to the opposite leg of the mountain.
But the veteran in the telephone shift went down the mountain to pull the string and fell several times. The measured azimuth angle was quickly transmitted over the phone. Song Ruimin took up the arithmetic pad and quickly pulled out the coordinates of the standing point.
Wang Ke picked up the coordinates that Song Ruimin found. Although there were errors, they were relatively the most reliable.
It's okay if Wang Ke doesn't compare. When he compares, his anger suddenly rises. "Gu Maolin, telephone monitor."
Several people who were already anxious stood up at once.
"arrive."
"arrive."
Both of them were less confident in their answers.
"Looking at your coordinates, you all went to grandma's house by mistake. Gu Maolin, I think you can go to the cooking class to cook. If you change Hu Yanlou back, you will be better than you! Are you still embarrassed to stay in the reconnaissance class? According to Your position, are we still behind the landlord's house now? And the telephone squad leader, five or six of you discussed it for a long time, and just decided on it? If this was a war, wouldn't you have gone to the enemy's artillery position? ?”
Xiao Gao, the telephone monitor, muttered, "We haven't learned it either."
"You have the nerve to say that? And who of you just followed Liang Xiaolong to stand upside down to get the coordinates? Look at the bear-like way you ran down the mountain. As we have said before, the running method of 'eight steps up the mountain and sideways acceleration down the mountain'. Have you all forgotten? Wrestling is all in vain, no one cares about you!"
Wang Ke got angry because his nose was not his nose and his face was not his face. This was his first day as an acting platoon leader, and he was trained so hard that no one in the telephone class dared to say a word.
"Platoon leader, am I okay?" Niu Suozhu couldn't bear to see the embarrassment of Gu Maolin and all the soldiers in the telephone squad, so he immediately came to the rescue.
"What's yours? It's 70 to 80 meters wrong, and you still call it 'okay'? The standard is too low. Song Ruimin, I want you to carry forward the spirit of the Perak Surveying and Mapping Team. No one's fixed point positioning can exceed 20 meters. We There is only one standard, pass and fail, and if it exceeds 0.1 meter, it means failure.”
Song Ruimin and Gu Maolin both stuck out their tongues.
"Platoon leader, there is something wrong with the pins made by Song Ruimin. They are just like an awl and are too thick. If a pinhole is inserted, there will be an error of forty or fifty meters. Also, the ruler issued by the superior is not standard. The meter scale The spacing between rulers is not accurate, and it is wrong by one meter. If you look at a 1:50,000 map and measure one thousand meters, the abscissa is at least two hundred meters off."
When Niu Suozhu complained, Gu Maolin and others immediately said: "That's right, that's right."
Others don't understand, but Wang Ke understands. He nodded and said: "Well, this is a problem. If you want to do good work, you must first sharpen your tools. I will solve this problem."
After finishing speaking, Wang Ke turned around and said to Song Ruimin: "Reconnaissance squad leader, please tell everyone about your experience first. They all use the same meter ruler and chart pin. Why is your accuracy so different from theirs?" How much?"
"Platoon leader, please don't say that. I was also fooled this time. Maybe I will be 70 to 80 meters behind next time!"
Wang Ke nodded. Through the actual training of the Perak surveying and mapping team, everyone has no problem with measuring technology, visual distance, and traveling according to the azimuth angle. The biggest problem now is the drawing board work.
Tools, tools are the biggest problem!
Wang Ke turned around and said to Xiao Gao, the monitor on the phone: "Monitor on the phone, let's temporarily change the training this morning. Your focus is still on running some training. If you see the tree at 1,500 meters, the whole class will work together. Today Just run ten times back and forth in the morning, go ahead!”
When all the soldiers in the telephone squad heard this, they thought, "Hey, ten round trips are nearly 30 kilometers, and there are also uphills and downhills."
"Yes!" Xiao Gao, the telephone monitor, still puffed up his chest. Don't get into trouble again at this time.
"Wait a minute, call monitor, take these six apples and maintain your strength." Song Ruimin signaled to Gu Maolin and quickly poured out six apples from the benchmark bag.
Wang Ke then noticed that when Gu Maolin came in the morning, he carried the two-meter benchmark on his shoulders. It turned out that the benchmark bag was filled with apples.
"Where do apples come from?" Wang Ke asked.
"You brought him back, platoon leader!" Sweet Potato Liang Xiaolong said.
Wang Ke thought about it and realized that it was really Uncle Geng from Tunliu Village who brought it back in a snakeskin bag. Is it any wonder that he had never seen this snakeskin bag since he took the bus in the county town? It turns out that the reconnaissance squad was ambushed.
"Okay, reconnaissance squad leader, don't be idle in the morning. Practice this positioning and fixing technique. There are five targets in a group, and they will be verified after they are set. Whoever has an error of more than fifty meters will be responsible for running sideways to verify. You guys You need to train more, run five sets in the morning and then rest.”
Wang Ke was super fierce in training. Song Ruimin said loudly without saying a word: "Yes!"
In the blink of an eye, he took the whole class to the side for training.
Wang Ke thought for a while, and now he must do two things immediately. One is to go to Jinmen City to buy plexiglass or celluloid boards to engrave rulers on, and the other is to buy some embroidery needles.
Wang Ke thought about it and wrote two letters to Professor Ye Rongguang from Jinmen City at noon, asking for his help. As for the task of buying embroidery needles, I had to ask Wu Xiangyu to help. I happened to ask about the last donkey blood test.
This morning's training really exhausted the telephone class and reconnaissance class.
Three comrades in the telephone class had blisters on their feet, and in the reconnaissance class, Gu Maolin ran the most. Because his fixed-point positioning error is always the largest. At the end of the race, I couldn’t even stand the Niu Suo Zhu.
He ran to Wang Ke and begged for mercy, "Platoon leader, you are so noble and ask me to run a few times for Gu Maolin. Three feet of ice does not last in a day, and we can't eat a fat man in one bite!"
"Come on, Niu Suozhu, if you feel sorry for Gu Maolin, you should teach him one-on-one, step by step." Wang Ke looked at Gu Maolin. The back of this boy's military uniform was completely soaked, and the buttocks and thighs of his military trousers were also soaked. Wet.
"Gu Maolin, can you persist?" Wang Ke asked loudly and deliberately.
Gu Maolin didn't answer, turned around and rushed out again.
The morning's training ended quickly. Gu Maolin ignored anyone now and stopped getting excited. Throughout the morning, his positioning scores were the worst and he was always last in the class.
On the way back to the station, Wang Ke handed over his apple.
Gu Maolin, who was unarmed, just turned his head and looked at it, but did not pick it up. He was extremely overdrawn. The board, benchmark, and water bottle he had on him were all snatched away by two recruits. Now he just wants to find a place to lie down, even if it's a pigsty!
