"Commander platoon commander, I just read it, and it should be correct. In other words, we walked for a long time with our heads down and muttering. We thought we had walked dozens of miles, but in fact we had walked less than ten miles. The terrain here is good. , it’s a good place to train.”
After the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun finished speaking, he pointed to the lush mountains in front of him on the left and said: "The mountain above is probably where your command platoon will focus on training in the future."
"Yes." Wang Ke looked at the mountain, which was covered with dense pitch pine, and then looked back at the surrounding hills. It was impossible for them to see each other.
Now I just don’t know where the place is on the other side of the mountain? If it were a canyon, it would be beautiful. Also, if we set the artillery position here now, turn around and set the imaginary target at Longquanzhuang, it will also be a good area for training.
"Platoon leader, let's take a break and go up to that mountain to have a look. We'll have dinner there." Wang Ke suggested to the old platoon leader Hu Zhi.
"Okay, let's go."
When the distance gets shorter and shorter, the other side is no longer a dream, but an idea within reach.
No matter what, don't stop moving forward.
An hour later, all the soldiers of the command platoon followed the old platoon leaders Hu Zhijun and Wang Ke up the mountain ridge with an altitude of only more than 200 meters. As soon as we went up the mountain, everyone was dumbfounded.
Looking behind the mountain where I just rested, I can't see it at all. Looking forward, I can't see what it looks like at the foot of the mountain. The pitch pine trees all over the mountains and plains completely blocked the view to the front, back and overhead.
This kind of pitch pine is only three or four meters high, but it is not low. Walking among the pitch pine, the whole row feels like walking into a green gauze tent.
After searching for a long time on the mountain ridge, I finally found two slightly larger trees. Wang Ke climbed up. Although he couldn't see the situation in the back mountain, he could see clearly in front of the mountain. Opposite is a rocky mountain with a country road between the two mountains. There is also a river next to the road.
Wang Ke jumped down and found a tree where he could see where he had just rested. It was too difficult. They are only seven or eight hundred meters apart, but they seem to be in two different worlds.
It’s really full of freshness. This is exactly what Wang Ke is looking for. Everything starts from actual combat. In the future, such terrain will be everywhere in southern Xinjiang.
"Command the platoon leader." The old platoon leader Hu Zhijun was shouting.
"Here!" Wang Ke immediately heard the sound and ran over from the bushes, but after running for more than 20 meters, he still couldn't find the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun.
"Here it is!" Hu Zhijun, the old platoon leader, also jumped down from a tree. He held a map in his hand and waved to Wang Ke.
All the soldiers in the command platoon focused on a slightly larger open space. If a command post observation post was set up on this mountain ridge, let alone being able to see each other, it would be difficult to tell whether they could get back after running a few hundred meters away.
"Commander Platoon Commander, look at it. If our positioning is correct, this place is not far from the Eagle's Mouth!"
"Yes, platoon leader." Wang Ke has already discovered this.
"Then we will use this mountain ridge as the first training point. We will not rest after eating dry food. Then we will cross this mountain ridge and try to find two or three more command platoon training points, okay?" Platoon leader Hu Zhijun was very happy. It was not easy to find such a comprehensive training place in the western mountainous area.
"Yes!" Wang Ke replied, while Song Ruimin had already informed everyone to eat dry food.
Sitting on the ground, everyone took out the dry food they had brought with them from their satchels.
The so-called dry food is two pieces of baked dough cake per person. Some chopped green onion and salt were put in the cake, even the vegetables were omitted.
There are also two or three taels of each piece of bread. Wang Ke took out the kettle and ate a piece with water. The other piece was wrapped in newspaper and put in the satchel.
Almost all veterans are like this. For example, if you have this jug of water on you, if you plan to go out for a day, don't worry, there will definitely be a few mouthfuls of water left in the jug when you walk back to your station.
How to drink this? Experienced veterans, every time they are thirsty, they unscrew the kettle lid, open their mouths so that the largest area of the mouth is exposed to water, and swallow, it is a very small sip, or even nothing.
The same goes for eating dry food. Unless absolutely necessary, you will never eat all the dry food left. Just like today, it was obvious that we could go back for dinner tomorrow night, but veterans such as veteran platoon leader Hu Zhijun, wireless squad leader Huang Zhonghe, Wang Ke, Song Ruimin, and Xue Lin basically all ate one or one and a half yuan, leaving some behind.
After dinner, wireless squad leader Huang Zhonghe gathered the team, and everyone set off along the ridge to the east-north.
When walking among pitch pines, you have to use your hands to push aside the branches from time to time. Soon someone was being slashed on the face or hand. And this ridge seems to be endless, and I don’t know how long I walked, but I finally walked out.
But when Song Ruimin, who was walking at the front, walked out, he immediately shouted: "It's over, it's over, we have to go back."
The team stopped, "What's going on?" asked the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun.
It turns out that the team reached a "T" intersection. The trees here suddenly disappeared. There is a very narrow path to the left, and a very wide fan-shaped slope to the right. The length of this slope that can be seen with the naked eye is four to five hundred meters.
"The team rests where they are, and the reconnaissance squad will determine our position." Wang Ke gave the order. It actually took forty minutes to walk here from where we just ate.
Song Ruimin led the reconnaissance squad and ran up the slope to the right. Within five minutes, he ran back "kick, kick, kick".
"Commander Hu, platoon leader, what do you think we saw?"
"What did you see? You didn't see the imperial mausoleum, did you?" Old platoon leader Hu Zhijun teased him.
"Okay, Counselor Hu, you are really awesome. Not only did we see the imperial mausoleum, but we also saw Longquanzhuang."
"What? We walked for three hours in the morning, and we only walked forty minutes when we came back. What you are sure to see is Longquanzhuang." Wang Ke slapped his butt and stood up immediately.
"Let's go take a look." Old platoon leader Hu Zhijun immediately followed Song Ruimin up the slope with Wang Ke and wireless squad leader Huang Zhonghe.
This slope is made of gravel with some sparse grass growing on it. At first glance, it looks like a football field. If cars can drive up, there will be no problem in parking dozens of cars.
Walking up to the top of the slope, I found a small slope ahead and the road suddenly ended.
"Commander Hu, platoon leader, and wireless squad leader, look, the slope we are standing on now has cliffs on three sides that look like an elephant's leg. We are on the elephant's back now, and looking north, over there is Longquanzhuang." Song Ruimin Introducing.
When several people took a look, Wang Ke immediately understood that the place where he was standing was the mountain on the left side of the mountain pass when he entered the mountain in the morning. Do you still need positioning? Wang Ke immediately took out the drawing board, and here it is. Wang Ke clicked on the map, but looking westward along the map, this ridge leads all the way to the Eagle's Mouth.
Everyone raised their heads, looked back from the slope, and looked at the road they had just come up. The path that turned left now extended downwards from the top of the slope. The terrible thing is that the north side of this road is completely cut like a knife. You can vaguely see that the path ends not far away, and there are some hairy trees and jujube trees on it.
Wherever there is an eagle's beak, it is obviously a knife peak!
"Wireless squad leader, please take care of the team. Let's go up to Yingzui to have a look." The old platoon leader Hu Zhijun said to Huang Zhonghe.
Standing below and looking up, the eagle's beak is full of mystery. Now standing above and looking down, it is a pity not to see the eagle's beak.
"Yes!" Huang Zhonghe, the wireless squad leader, turned and returned to the command platoon.
"Reconnaissance squad leader."
"arrive!"
"You don't want to go either. Wang Ke and I will go there. Later, you can find a few reference points around here. Pour out the coordinates of the eagle's mouth and our standing point." Hu Zhijun, the old platoon leader, also told Song Ruimin. Ordered.
"yes."
"Let's go, command the platoon leader, let's go up to the eagle's mouth and take a look."
"Platoon leader, shall I go with you?" Gu Maolin, who had been silent for the whole time, stood up. He was holding a benchmark in his hand and was about to put it down.
"Okay, we have to pack lightly. But you have to bring this pole with you." Wang Ke said and began to unpack what he was carrying.
Wang Ke has experience. The wind on the top of the mountain is so strong that if it weren't for the armed belt around his waist, his shirt would be blown up like a balloon.
The three people were freed from the drawing board, water bottle, satchel, command bag, and gun. In the end, except for a benchmark and a telescope carried by Wang Ke, nothing else was left.
The three of them, with Wang Ke in front and Gu Maolin behind with the pole, came to the "T" intersection and turned to the left to the road leading to Eagle Mouth.
This road is seventeen or eight meters wide. All the way down, before walking two hundred steps, the road shrinks to about seven or eight meters, and the height drops by nearly thirty meters.
Seven or eight meters wide is quite a wide distance, but when the wind blows, people feel like they are about to be blown up.
The old platoon leader Hu Zhijun stopped because no matter whether he went left or right, there were cliffs. At a height of 100 meters, this little bit of width is undoubtedly a sharp knife edge.
After walking a few dozen meters, the road was completely cut off. Although "Daofeng" became wider again, its height dropped by more than ten meters again. It was full of sharp stones and thorns, not to mention people, just sheep. It’s also difficult to get up.
"Command the platoon commander, let's go back? I'm a little afraid of heights."
"Platoon leader, you rest here while Gu Maolin and I take a look." Wang Ke asked the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun for instructions.
"Okay, please pay attention to your safety." After saying this, the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun sat down.
Wang Ke took off his telescope and handed it to the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun. Then he huddled with Gu Maolin, bent down to lower his center of gravity as much as possible, and carefully continued to walk forward.
The road became narrower and narrower, until it was only three or four meters wide. Less than twenty meters below, one can clearly see an arched stone that is as big as a table tennis table and looks like a peaked cap. The brim of the hat is very flat, and the outside of the brim is covered with grass.
"Platoon leader, eagle mouth". Gu Maolin, who was walking in front, called out. Wang Ke followed the direction of his finger and looked forward. He looked down from a high position, really like an eagle's beak. It turns out that the eagle's beak is not looking up from below, but looking down from above.
At this moment, a ray of light flashed below, and there was a bright gem-like thing, which was illuminated by the sun above the head and reflected a ray of light.
"Maolin, do you see anything under and around the stone slab?"
"No, the platoon leader may be a little far away."
"Then let's go there. Hey, why don't you leave?"
"Platoon leader, we can't leave." Gu Maolin simply squatted down, fearing that he would be blown away by the wind.
"What's wrong?" Wang Ke looked forward and saw that the narrowest point in front of Gu Maolin was less than two meters, and there was a break three to four centimeters wide and fifty or sixty centimeters deep.
Even the bravest person would not be able to jump over. If it falls, it will be shattered to pieces.
Wang Ke observed it and said, "Maolin, come here and give me the benchmark."
Wang Ke took the pole and split it in two. There was a stone crevice on the opposite side. Wang Ke inserted the two pole poles into the crack. The stone crevice on this side supported the two pole poles. Wang Ke walked over first. The opposite side is very wide, and there is obviously more grass.
When Gu Maolin saw it, he immediately moved his buttocks, went down to the fracture, and walked over holding the benchmark.
"Hey, platoon leader, there is infinite scenery on the dangerous peak." This eagle's mouth is smoother than the way we came just now, and it is half the size of a badminton court. There were soft, downy nameless grass growing on it, and a few small trees.
Gu Maolin quickly picked up the benchmark and set it up in the center of the eagle's mouth for his comrades in the reconnaissance squad at the "T" intersection to measure and map.
Wang Ke walked to the flat stone with the peaked cap and sat on it. Suddenly he felt a strange atmosphere surrounding him.
