War Military: From 1978

Chapter 78 Zhennanguan Incident!

In Regiment C, only the artillery and subordinate units were stationed together with the regimental headquarters.

The remaining three battalions were stationed near other villages and towns in the surrounding area.

At this moment, Chu An and a group of people followed Liu Xi, who came from the machine gun company of the first battalion, and ran all the way.

Finally, before it got completely dark, they arrived at the first battalion’s base.

However, they were obviously a little late.

One battalion is empty.

There was only one deputy instructor waiting at the camp gate. Seeing Chu An and the others running over, he hurried forward and asked, "Are you soldiers from the Artillery Reconnaissance Squadron?"

"Yes, Chief, I am Chu An, the squad leader of the first squad of the Mountain Eagle Growth Team!"

Chu An and his men stopped, took a deep breath, and saluted him.

"Don't be polite. The main force has left. I was ordered to wait for you here. Now that you are here, let's go after the main force immediately."

After saying that, he turned around.

This made Chu An frown.

What on earth happened?

The entire first battalion set out.

Is it true that a fight has broken out?

With a frown on his face, he turned around and looked at the group of soldiers behind him: "Follow us!"

No matter what happened, now that we have reunited with the cadres of the first battalion, we will definitely know.

After following the cadre for just a moment, Chu An quickened his pace and caught up with the cadre and asked, "Commander, can you tell us what exactly happened?"

"Don't you know yet?"

The officer turned his head in surprise, but then he didn't hesitate and said directly, "The enemy has crossed the border, just over at Zhennan Pass. Our superiors have given us orders to go to the front line immediately and strengthen the front-line defenses."

He didn't say anything more at this point, but Chu An already understood what he meant.

While strengthening our defenses, we must also prepare for war.

If an order is really issued or the conflict escalates, then a fight may really break out.

"Are they crazy? How dare they do that!" Behind him, Wang Xiaohu, who was already running out of breath, clenched his fists.

His cheeks, which still had a bit of childishness, turned red, perhaps because of running or because of his anger.

His voice made the cadre in front turn around, and then he gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, they are a bunch of lunatics. They must have been blinded by the flood of the Eagle Empire before. Now they don't care about stabilizing the people, but only want to stir up trouble. What an ungrateful bunch!"

The Eagle Empire flood he mentioned was an incident during the war between the Vietnamese devils and the Eagle Empire.

When Chu An was in the growth class, he also learned a lot from other veterans.

For example, the Eagle Empire's weather warfare tactic.

I heard from the veterans that the Eagle Empire took advantage of the fact that the Vietnamese devils were located in an area with a rich tropical rainforest climate and seasonal rainstorms every year, and then developed the rain-inducing bomb tactic in a targeted manner.

In fact, the Eagle Empire at that time had very beautiful ideas.

They want to control rainfall to cause large-scale floods and mudslides to severely damage the monkeys.

But they underestimated the consequences of using rain-inducing bombs in such a remote place, and did not consider that once they fired the rain-inducing bombs, they would not be able to control the amount of rainfall at all.

It is said that after the Eagle Empire used rain-inducing bombs, the scale and intensity of seasonal rainstorms in Yue State reached an unprecedented level.

Although this move caused heavy casualties to the State of Yue, agriculture, transportation and infrastructure were almost completely paralyzed.

However, due to the heavy rain, their own bases and facilities were also damaged, and their supply lines were severely disrupted.
This is a true tactic of killing one thousand enemies but injuring five hundred of your own.

But now Chu An doesn’t want to care about the past.

The past is history, and he is only concerned with the present.

It is certain that there will be a war between the ungrateful wolves and us. Chu An is not surprised that they will behave provocatively. He is just shocked that they are so bold at this point in time.

It was only the end of August 1978.

As far as Chu An knows, there are still more than five months before the war begins.

At this point, are they just jumping like this?

"Chief, what is the current situation at Zhennan Pass? Haven't they retreated yet?" Chu An asked the cadre.

"I'm not entirely sure. I only know they drove the refugees to attack Zhennan Pass today, but because we showed restraint, they retreated for the first time. However, they later detained our diplomats.

Finally, not long ago, they made a comeback, and this time they ignored our obstruction and crossed the border directly!"

"Are you so arrogant?" "Fuck, kill these ungrateful wolves!"

The group of people following behind him were now like a powder keg, and the cadre's words were the fuse.

Chu An didn't say anything, he just frowned even deeper.

Has this ever happened before?
he does not know!

But Chu An was thinking, if this kind of thing didn’t happen in the previous life, but happened now, would it really lead to an early war?

But after just a moment, Chu An stopped thinking about it.

No matter what, even if a fight really happens now, he is not afraid.

Things are different now. After nearly half a year of military training, Chu An is no longer the Amon of the past.

It is no exaggeration to say that even in hand-to-hand combat, Chu An is confident that he can kill an entire squad of Vietnamese devils by himself.

What is he afraid of in this situation?
Following this cadre, everyone stopped talking to conserve their energy.

I ran all the way from where there was still some light until I ran out of batteries in one flashlight.

Finally, Chu An and others caught up with the main force.

Or it cannot be said that they caught up, but rather that the large army stopped and stationed here.

"Are you Comrade Chu An?"

At the temporary camp of the first battalion, Chu An and others finally breathed a sigh of relief. The cadre who had led everyone here before came over with a cadre who looked to be around forty years old.

"Yes! Chief!"

Chu An saluted again.

"I'm the commander of the first battalion!" The officer introduced himself, then glanced at the group of people behind Chu An who were clearly exhausted. "Comrade Chu An, I'm sorry, but I may not have time for you to rest!"

"It's okay, we are not afraid of being tired!" Chu An also looked back. Although he also saw the fatigue of others, he responded without any hesitation.

"Well, you are worthy of being the elite in the commander's mouth!" A battalion commander praised. Then, he invited Chu An to follow him into a tent and began to assign tasks to Chu An.

"According to the order from our superiors, our battalion must stop here, but just in case..."

Inside the tent, the battalion commander spread out a map on the table.

At present, a red line has already been drawn on this map.

The battalion commander looked up at Chu An and said, "According to the order from our superiors, your artillery reconnaissance squad must immediately follow this line to scout the high ground opposite and determine the coordinates.

But you need to pay attention, there are people on these high grounds!"

He pointed to the spot circled in red.

After Chu An looked at it for two seconds, he spoke again: "And there may be some in other highlands, but we haven't found them yet, so you must be discreet in your actions and not be discovered by them!"

Chu An was listening to his words, but at the same time he was also looking at the map carefully.

This map was not the 1:50,000 scale that they used during training, but a 1:100,000 scale. Although it also had grid coordinates, Chu An couldn't help but frown when he looked at the lower right side of the map.

Because the annotation in the lower right corner of the map is
This map was compiled in 1937 based on the 1954:1964 map published in 1964, and was revised based on exchange rate data in and published in !
The old map is from more than ten years ago, and the key point is that it was compiled using old maps from more than forty years ago.

Chu An just felt his scalp tingling!
More than forty years!
In that war-torn area, God knows how much the topography of that area has changed!

Look at the national border marked above, and then look at the red line drawn on the inside of the national border.

In the end, Chu An frowned and asked.

"Captain, is this the only map you have?"

After saying that, Chu An hurriedly added: "This map is too old, look here!" Chu An pointed to the note in the lower right corner and showed him: "It says here that it was compiled based on an old map from 1937. I doubt the usability of this map now!"

"No!" The battalion commander said helplessly, "This map was urgently sent to us by the regiment headquarters!"

After that, he said again: "Comrade Chuan, don't worry, I'm just asking you to scout. Anyway, you just need to follow the line and scout and mark the coordinates of any high ground you see along the way.

If there are any errors in the diagram, you can find a way to correct them yourself, or just mark them up!"

"Okay!" Chu An was a little helpless, but it seemed that he had no choice now.

Looking at the battalion commander in front of him, Chu An asked his last question: "Battalion commander, can you confirm whether there are any Vietnamese devils coming along this line now?"

Regarding Chu An's question, the battalion commander was very sure: "No, after we arrived, we immediately contacted the border residents to go and check it out!"

After a pause, the battalion commander spoke again: "Also, we have people hiding along this line. I'll tell you the command now, and then you'll be ready to go!"

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)