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I don’t know if Lu Cheng’s comfort worked, or if Shi Jin just let it go and stopped worrying about this issue.

Of course, Shi Jin would still go over to check on Xu Sanduo from time to time.

The dormitory buildings of the Steel 7th Company and the Red 3rd Company were separated by a square, making it very convenient to travel between the two sides. Xu Sanduo often came here to visit Chengcai or Shi Jin, and occasionally came to Lu Cheng to ask one or two questions that sounded a little stupid.

But Lu Cheng did not despise him. He always patiently answered Xu Sanduo's questions in the simplest language.

The training of the 7th Steel Company was indeed tiring and hard, but it was also full of joy.

Company commander Gao Cheng has never been a very serious person and he likes to mingle with his soldiers.

For example, when doing the 500-meter obstacle race, Gao Cheng would personally use a stopwatch to time the race. After Wu Liuyi finished running, he would jump directly to the company commander, put his arm around the company commander's shoulders, take a cigarette out of the company commander's pocket, smoke one, and then put it back.

Captain Gao would not get angry, at most he would kick Wu Liuyi in the ass. But Wu Liuyi would always dodge flexibly and run to the side to light the fire.

In addition to training, Captain Gao would stand in front of the entire platoon of soldiers and proudly tell everyone about the glorious history of the 7th Steel Company.

"…What about long-term victory and great merit? Those are reserved for other companies. Our 7th Steel Company has never been interested in these titles. For example, the so-called "Great Merit Company" won a collective second-class merit once, and they boasted about it like that? Shi Jin, tell us, how many times has our 7th Steel Company won a collective first-class merit?"

"Report to the company commander, three times."

"Did you hear that? Three times. This means that in those three battles, more than one-third of our troops were killed, and we killed twice or even 1 times as many enemies. This means that there were three times when our company played the most critical role in the battles...

The most important thing is that, until today, our company has not fallen, and will continue to do so. We will not abandon or give up, so we are called the Seventh Steel Company! "

"Seventh Steel Company!"

Gao Cheng was indeed very good at boosting morale, and whenever he stood in front to give a speech, he could always mobilize the emotions of all the officers and soldiers with laughter, anger and scolding, and make everyone's blood boil with his passionate slogans.

"Also, I have one more announcement to make. We will be conducting a full-division exercise soon. Please pay attention during your training recently."

"Yes!"

Every November, the entire army will conduct a live-fire exercise.

Before the full-army exercise, the entire T Division would always conduct an internal exercise in advance to find out the training situation of the entire division and to better prepare for the full-army exercise.

It can also be said that this division-wide exercise is a mock exam before the final exam.

Before the exercise, the entire 702nd Regiment began to prepare in advance, and each of the 16 companies was assigned different tasks.

The mission of the 7th Steel Company was to arrive at the designated location in advance, lie in ambush, avoid enemy detection, and launch a counterattack at the critical moment.

If it is just infantry, it is relatively easy to hide. Armored reconnaissance troops also need to be accompanied by armored vehicles, and if they want to hide together, they need to be fully prepared.

The exercise was coming soon, and the 7th Steel Company, in accordance with the instructions of their superiors, arrived at the designated location in advance. They chose a place near the bushes, dug a slope, hid the armored vehicles inside, covered them with protective nets, picked some wild grass and branches from the bushes nearby, and made the camouflage as exactly the same as the surrounding environment as possible.

When it comes to camouflage, veterans naturally have more experience.

Lu Cheng and several new recruits did not join in, but stood not far away, studying quietly.

Shi Jin was busy explaining the essentials of camouflage to everyone: "Don't think that camouflage seems simple, there is actually a lot of knowledge involved. Just like digging weeds, you can't just dig hard in one place, so as not to leave traces of human intervention. And for those branches, try to pick some that are close to the roots..."

Everyone listened carefully and took notes.

In the original drama, everyone managed to disguise themselves with great difficulty and hid in time, but because Xu Sanduo had two hot eggs that he had just taken out of a thermos in his arms, his position was exposed, causing the 7th Steel Company to withdraw early before the exercise even began.

Although they were just two hot eggs, the temperature inside them was very high as they had just been taken out of the thermos bucket. It was clearly visible on the helicopter's thermal imager and was discovered directly from a distance.

If it were on a real battlefield, Xu Sanduo might have killed all the soldiers in the company.

Of course, there was no Xu Sanduo and no hot eggs this time. The camouflage and concealment of the 7th Steel Company were quite good. They successfully avoided the high-altitude reconnaissance of the helicopter and continued to lurk in place, waiting for orders from their superiors.

After the helicopter flew away, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and started talking in low voices.

"This helicopter came at an unfortunate time. The kitchen team's dining truck just arrived and we haven't even had a bite of food yet."

"What's the point of saying this? At least we all got to eat a few bites, but the squad leader and the deputy squad leader didn't eat a single bite."

"Alright, alright, just bear with it for now."

At this moment, someone's stomach growled. Everyone looked at each other, and finally looked at squad leader Shi Jin.

Shi Jin grinned and said a few words of comfort: "It's okay, just bear with it. When the exercise is over, we'll go back and have a good meal."

Lu Cheng reached into his pocket, took out a few pieces of chocolate from the storage space, and handed them to the squad leader: "Fill your stomach first."

"Old Lu, when did you hide the chocolate? Can you give me a piece?"

"Are you still hungry? Just now I saw you finish a big bun in three bites and eat an egg."

"That's no use."

Shi Jin interrupted a few people and said, "Alright, alright, come on, everyone has a share."

"Squad leader, deputy squad leader, you guys should eat first."

“Yes, we are not hungry.”

In the end, the monitor and the deputy monitor each ate two pieces of chocolate, and the rest were shared by everyone.

The reason why comradeship is so unforgettable is because of these experiences of sharing weal and woe, the experience of a group of people sharing a steamed bun and drinking a bottle of water.

As night fell, the kitchen team's truck arrived at the ambush site on time, bringing everyone hot buns, boiled eggs, etc.

Everyone quickly filled their stomachs, and the kitchen staff quickly took all the supplies and moved.

The next morning, the soldiers of the 7th Steel Company received an order from their superiors to move to a certain high ground, and an exercise began...

In this exercise, Lu Cheng served as a vehicle-mounted machine gunner, operating the heavy machine gun on the roof and enjoying a metal storm.

Now, among the various training subjects of the 7th Steel Company, the only thing Lu Cheng has not yet fully mastered is the driving and command of an infantry fighting vehicle.

Except for drivers who have received professional training and instruction, ordinary soldiers are absolutely not allowed to enter the cab of an armored vehicle.

On the battlefield, once an armored vehicle driver has a problem, if there are no other professionally trained drivers on the vehicle, the other soldiers on the vehicle will have to abandon the vehicle and become infantry.

This is mainly because the armored vehicle driver has a narrow field of vision. Even if a driver who has not received professional training can drive the armored vehicle, he may hurt his own people before hitting the opponent.

The coordinated combat between humans and infantry fighting vehicles is definitely more than just following behind the vehicle.

In this exercise, because the soldiers of the entire third squad made great progress and cooperated with each other more tacitly, the entire third squad performed very well and achieved excellent results in the battle.

In this kind of group combat, the smallest unit is the squad or platoon. The most important thing for an individual is to cooperate with the entire squad to complete the combat mission, rather than to show personal heroism.

But Shi Jin did demonstrate good command ability and was worthy of being an experienced armored squad leader.

For this, the third squad of the first platoon received commendations from their superiors, and the regiment commander Wang Qingrui also gave special praise to Shi Jin.

After the exercise, Lu Cheng devoted himself to more arduous training, and often asked Wu Liuyi and Shi Jin to train together on rapid shooting in various environments and individual combat capabilities.

Soon, a full-army exercise will be launched, and the legendary Old A will act as the Blue Army to teach the 702nd Regiment a painful lesson.

Although Lu Cheng knew all this, he didn't think about changing anything.

The wars of the future will be information-based wars, involving coordinated operations by multiple arms, and an art of warfare that requires perfect coordination between the navy, army, and air force.

Although the current 702nd Regiment is also equipped with some informationized equipment, its overall combat thinking still remains in the mechanized era.

This great military transformation is the general trend and the need of the times.

Although the 7th Steel Company is strong, it also needs to break tradition and regroup in order to bring out new vitality...