Chapter 63: Lurking
After walking twenty kilometers of snow marching, I took a tarpaulin car for nearly seven hours.
In the early morning, I finally arrived at the camp.
Because it was a collective action on the road, the convoy rested at the same time. It was a unified action, including getting off the car and peeing, and there was no personal will at all. If you stopped twice in the middle, you would urinate when you could urinate, and if you didn't urinate, you would urinate. At that time, there was no diapers. Once the car started, you could not urinate even if you wanted to urinate. When the car stopped, everyone panicked and found a place to urinate, but the urethra was cramped all the way, and they couldn't urinate.
People are hungry and farts, and they are more urine when they are cold.
But in this weather of more than minus 20 degrees Celsius, it is particularly easy to urinate. Wang Ke had thought of this for a long time and secretly reminded the other two people in this group that in order to reduce the inconvenience of peeing on the road, it is best not to drink water.
Seeing some soldiers having to take out beer bottles with laundry detergent on the road, standing in a shaking caravan peeing at the mouth of the bottle, I also saw that some people could not pee on their cotton pants. Qin Hu said to Wang Ke secretly, "Brother, where did you learn from if you have you? Go to the battlefield in the future, remember, our buddies are together."
After arriving at the camp, the sixth group was assigned to camp in the kitchen next to the Horse. This low herder's house had no doors and only a military cotton curtain hung there. There was a pot and a stack of firewood, which would become a temporary residence for three people a month.
On the night of arrival, I performed the second training subject: lurking in the snow
When talking about lurking in the snow, we think of the famous Changjin Lake Battle in a foreign country. Our soldiers lurked on the eastern battlefield at more than minus 40 degrees Celsius, and finally all the officers and soldiers were frozen into ice sculpture companies.
When lurking in snow, the first thing is to learn to use terrain and land. Doing concealment well and how to reduce frostbite to lurkers by bad weather is a science.
After the emergency gathering, a teacher came. He introduced the lurking area in detail, the precautions for lurking within three hours, and anti-freeze and cold measures. One of them is that if there is frostbite, he will immediately withdraw from training and thus receive a second yellow card.
There is no sign of marching in the snow. Whether the snow lurks or attacks suddenly, give the trainees a warning first, with the purpose of testing the quality of the trainees and selecting the best ones from them.
Although Wang Ke has experienced the unprecedented cold wave and blizzard in the division farm, there are rooms and stoves there. Now there is no other except dry food and equipment. Although he has experience in field survival training, it was summer at that time, and it was nothing more than rain and insect protection. Finding food is not comparable to now.
What to do? Let’s talk about it when you go to the place.
As December approaches, the vast grassland has become a vast snowfield.
In some of the deepest places, the snow is two feet thick, and the temperature is over minus 20 degrees Celsius.
After arriving at the designated area, the three of them were assigned to a small hill in groups. The terrain was wide, and the cold wind whistled by, and the snow blowing directly into the collar and cuffs. The wind blowing on the face was like a knife cutting, which was a little painful.
"Wang Ke, look, where are we choosing the lurking point?"
Wang Ke stood on the snow hill, and soon the snow blew the footprints under his feet.
"Please choose the lurking location south of the leeward. Use this soil bag to avoid the wind direction angle, so as to reduce frostbite caused by heat loss." Wang Ke thought for a moment and made a decision.
"Okay, then let's find a place to lie down."
"No, no, no, let's make a snow nest for ourselves first, compact the snow below and around us, and accumulate more snow on it, the thicker the better. Don't be too big for the hole, just do it!" As long as you don't violate the principle of lurking, you must be flexible.
The three of them started to dry in the dark. A few meters away from each other, the snow on the top of the hill was quickly filled with the wind.
Apart from the slight bulge, the holes of the three people are almost impossible to see. They can lie or sit inside, resist the wind and keep warm.
"It's so good, like an underground ice and snow palace!" Liu Liyong got in, covered the flashlight with military uniform, and emitted only a very faint light. He looked at him and praised.
"You go into the hole first. I clean the snow in front of the door. Pay attention to the following seven points: put on a leather coat, hold the gun in both hands, and do not let the bolt freeze on the gun; second, use a cotton cap and a cold-proof mask to protect the auricle and nose tip; fingers, toes, and heels are the most likely areas to be frostbite, you can move it every ten minutes; third, do not tie the cold-proof gloves and big-toe shoelaces too tightly, so that the fingers and toes can be contracted and stretched hundreds of times in a row each time; fourth, when exercising, blink hard and drive facial muscles to move; fifth, cooperate with the abdomen to perform a thousand contractions to promote blood circulation through slight movements to reduce frostbite; sixth, if you urinate, dig a hole with a bayonet, aim it when urinating, and urinate directly to the ground; seventh, if you are hungry, you should replenish calories in time, and eat the chocolate in the compressed dry food first. Be careful not to sleep even if you are sleepy, and you cannot sleep!"
Wang Ke quickly summarized what the teacher said and summarized it into seven points, which facilitates memory and execution.
After Wang Ke finished explaining, he watched the two of them enter the hole, and then lay at the entrance of the hole and said, "Each of us is on duty for half an hour. When we are on duty, we focus on observing the enemy situation in front, and at the same time, we pay attention to the movements around us. Turn on the intercom, blow the sound every ten minutes, and blow twice every half an hour. Everyone must have interaction. In addition, I seal your door from outside, leaving only one observation hole."
Qin Hu and Liu Liyong got into the hole, and Wang Ke quickly used the corner of his fur coat to gently drag the ground to cover his footprints. He believed that in ten minutes, everything here would be hidden.
He finally retreated back into the hole and sealed the hole with two pre-prepared snow bricks, leaving a two-finger-wide observation port.
Listening to the cold wind whistling outside, looking at the snowflakes floating outside, half lying in this snow cave, it was very comfortable.
Wang Ke put down his cotton cap and cold mask, and first dug a small hole with his military dagger below.
When lurking during the day, the lurking personnel should have a large observation perspective. Lurking in the snow for a long time is not only dependent on the fighting will of the officers and soldiers, but also have thorough preparation and practical cold prevention measures.
As for how many people will be eliminated tomorrow after completing the lurking mission tonight, it depends on everyone's luck.
Today, these holes are beautifully made. You can name them as Cold Cave No. 1, Cold Cave No. 2, and Cold Cave No. 3.
All counterattacks and attacks are prepared.
All success is the foreshadowing of hard work. Things that really make you grow will not be too comfortable, and things that really make you feel comfortable will not make you grow.
Deputy Commander Qin was willing to let Qin Hu come to the snow and experience it, and he had no reason not to be a good soldier.
On the way forward, not falling is not glorious, and being able to stand up and continue moving forward after each fall is the glory of a warrior. Persist in completing the transformation, make more efforts and less obsession.
While staring at Xue Ye in front of him, he thought about these things in the snow cave. Soon ten minutes passed, and the temperature in the cave should have risen quickly to around zero degrees. Wang Ke took out the intercom and blew it gently. Soon he heard two responses. Wang Ke began to carry out subtle activities in the cave according to the seven-point lurking measures he mentioned earlier.
Not long after I finished all this, ten minutes came...it was soon over two hours.
It's Qin Hu on duty now. Wang Ke urinated into the hole under him, picked out a piece of snow from the side, blocking it. Then he ate a piece of compressed biscuits and chocolate inside. Suddenly he heard the intercom's short sound three times. According to the previous agreement, this was a warning signal.
He immediately came to the observation hole vigilantly, and he saw two figures coming in front of him. The enemy situation!
The two figures came over, fired on the flashlight, and said to the snow field: "Where has this group been gone? Was it blown away by the wind?"
It was the teacher's voice, and he came to conduct the lurking inspection in person.
While hesitating, two white figures suddenly jumped out from the teacher's side, knocking them to the ground, and throwing them away from each other.
"Don't move!" Two military daggers pressed against the necks of the two teachers. Qin Hu and Liu Liyong pressed the two of them tightly. Wang Ke rushed out and said to the two teachers: "Report to the teacher, Wang Ke, the leader of the sixth group, reported that we are carrying out a lurking mission, and you are now captured by us."
The two teachers lying underground said to Qin Hu: "Let us go quickly and let me see where you are hiding?"
The two teachers got up, walked to the hole where the three of them had just been hiding, and observed carefully under the light of the flashlight. Half of the cold-proof snow cave had been washed away. But the other half was enough to shock the two teachers.
"This is probably the best set we did tonight's lurking training subjects."
"Wang Ke." A teacher shouted:
"Come!" Wang Ke's big-headed shoes were all together.
"Tell me, why do you build the hole in the leeward, not over there."
"Report to the teacher, we built this kind of cold-proof hole mainly to reduce the cold wind and cool down, and to facilitate observation and monitoring here."
The two teachers nodded with satisfaction, "Cold hole!" The teacher who spoke before departure muttered silently, and suddenly he said, "Take off your gloves and let's see."
"Yes!" The three of them stood in a row, stretched out their hands, and asked the instructor to touch them one by one, all of which were hot. How could such hands and feet be frostbite?
"Who thought of the idea of digging a cold hole?"
"It was decided after the three of us discussed it." Wang Ke rushed to answer.
"Very good. What other measures do you have to prevent colds besides the hole?"
"Report to the teacher, we have a total of seven measures to prevent cold. So Qin Hu loudly recounted the seven measures summarized by Wang Ke, including ten minutes and half an hour of observation, as well as holding weapons and urinating under his body to urinate in a cave, and replenishing calories in time are all Wang Ke's innovations.
"Very good. The cold hole and these seven measures should be written into our lurking textbooks immediately. You can gather and carry out our next project. In addition, all the groups will come here first and visit the cold hole of the sixth group."
After a while, through the guidance of the intercom and the instructor's flashlight, various lurking groups came one after another. It has been seen that judging from the expressions of most groups, there are many who received yellow cards in this lurking subject, and some have withdrawn from subject training.
The group that came was covered with snowflakes and was not much clean. Especially those who were wearing leather coats, only Wang Ke and his team were in the group. From a distance, they were integrated with the snow field.
Chapter completed!