A professor's rebirth: I entered Tsinghua University in 1977.

That night, Liu Hongyi stayed in the internal guesthouse of the Third Labor Reform Farm.

This small internal guesthouse is built to facilitate the families of criminals who come to visit the prison.

The Third Labor Camp was located in a rural area in a county below Jiu'an, about ten miles from the county seat. In later times, when transportation was extremely advanced, a few miles would not have posed any obstacle.

A taxi-hailing app can do it.

But at the moment, it is difficult to overcome.

After all, in that era, public transportation was extremely backward, especially in rainy, snowy and muddy weather. It was quite difficult to wrap yourself up and walk ten miles to the county town to stay.

It's an internal guesthouse, so the conditions are naturally like that.

But it’s not that there isn’t even a decent guest room.

Sometimes, we also need to entertain leaders who come to inspect. Therefore, there are two guest rooms that are "specially" decorated, and the conditions are comparable to the small guesthouse of the county party committee in the county town.

Liu Hongyi enjoyed this treatment.

Commander Yu’s “nephew” is a first-class meritorious person, that is, a “superior leader”.

Director Wang also specifically instructed the staff at the internal guesthouse to send some noodles to Technician Liu that night, with two fried eggs. They were also to send some of the farm's "local specialties," such as sunflower seeds, peanuts, and sweet potatoes, so as not to neglect Technician Liu.

Director Wang did this not entirely out of "social sensibility". He was a soldier and had a very good impression of scientific researchers who helped the troops improve their combat effectiveness.

To put it bluntly, powerful weapons are the lives of our comrades!

When firepower is insufficient, all victories require comrades to pay with more blood and lives.

In response, Liu Hongyi expressed his gratitude and gladly accepted the farm's kindness, but insisted on paying the money and food coupons.

He was now a revolutionary soldier and must always hold himself to the standards of an army cadre. He must not give the local comrades the bad impression that he was greedy for petty gains and seeking special treatment.

Thinking about the fact that I have lived two lives and that I actually joined the army and became an officer, I feel a lot of emotion.

Silent all night.

At noon the next day, a dusty military jeep drove into the labor camp.

Commander Yu came in person.

He only brought a driver, secretary and guards with him, and the trip was very simple.

The farm had already received instructions over the phone and arranged a reception dinner.

After receiving a report from the farm, Yue Huanshan, Secretary of the Jiu'an Prefectural Committee (with a First Secretary), Deputy Director of the Prefectural Committee, and Commander of the Military Sub-district, arrived at the Third Labor Reform Farm an hour early from Jiu'an City. On behalf of the Jiu'an Prefectural Committee and the Military Sub-district, he extended a warm welcome to Commander Dong Hai for his visit to Jiu'an to inspect and guide the work.

As a result, he was criticized by Yu Donghai.

Let them stop engaging in this kind of “formalism” of welcoming and seeing off people in the future.

Fortunately, Yue Huanshan was also a military leader. If it were a local leader, Commander Yu would not be able to criticize him with a stern face.

Commander Yue accepted the criticism humbly and invited the army commander to take his seat with a smile.

The farm's reception meal was not particularly sumptuous, but the ingredients were substantial.

There is plenty of chicken, duck, fish, sheep and pork raised at home.

Liu Hongyi ate a full meal. He was growing and needed a lot of nutrition.

It would be a waste not to eat this food because of your uncle’s help.

After the meal, Commander Yu personally talked to Liu Hongyi, and Yue Huanshan accompanied him.

This is Commander Yu’s social skills.

I criticized him just now, and that was my due. Now I invite him to accompany me to show that I have no personal opinion of him.

"Xiao Liu, tell me, what new weapon are you going to make?"

It can be seen that Commander Yu is quite looking forward to it.

Liu Hongyi reported his idea to Commander Yu.

"Optical sight? Laser rangefinder? Infrared night vision device?"

"Can these things really be made?"

Commander Yu was a little skeptical.

Commander Yu was a humble warrior, a peasant from a humble background. But that didn't mean he was completely ignorant of cutting-edge military technology. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he studied while working, attending three advanced training courses at the military academy. He was no longer the naive man he once was.

"Commander, we must give it a try no matter what!"

Liu Hongyi said very firmly.

"That ungrateful wolf in the south is getting increasingly impatient and showing off their fangs. I think we'll have to teach them a lesson sooner or later. But we must not underestimate them."

Commander Yu looked at Liu Hongyi with great admiration.

This young man is not very old, but his sensitivity is quite remarkable.

The key is that it is so powerful and can develop new weapons.

"Then tell me, why can't we underestimate them?"

Commander Yu clearly intended to test him.

Liu Hongyi said, "Commander, they've been fighting for decades. The most recent war only ended last year. After defeating the Eagle Nation, they're now extremely arrogant..."

Commander Yu snorted and said contemptuously, "It's not like we haven't fought Eagles before!"

Commander Yu also personally participated in the Korean War, where he defeated the Eagle Sauce and made them cry for their parents.

Liu Hongyi said seriously, "Commander, please forgive my rudeness, but how many commanders in your army have actually been on the battlefield?"

Commander Yu couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and his expression became serious.

As of now, the commanders in his army who have directly been on the battlefield are at least regimental-level cadres, and there are only two of them. The others are at the deputy division level or above.

Below the regimental level, almost no one has direct combat experience.

Even those two regimental-level cadres were just teenage recruits on the Korean battlefield, the most ordinary soldiers, without even the experience of commanding a platoon in combat.

"Commander, please forgive me for being blunt. We are stronger than them at the division level and above. However, below the regiment level, their combat experience is far greater than ours."

"If a war really breaks out, although victory will definitely belong to us, it will definitely be a difficult fight."

"We don't have to worry about battles at the division level or above. Our artillery is far superior to theirs. We can kill them with just artillery fire. But battles at the squad level will be very difficult."

"Especially our company and platoon-level firepower, compared to them, there's still a significant gap..."

Commander Yu interrupted him and said, "Once those two howitzers you developed are put into service, there will be no difference. Especially the 35mm automatic howitzer, they don't have it!"

Liu Hongyi nodded and said, "They really don't have that. But if we can equip the 35mm automatic howitzer, 40mm mortar and 82mm rifle with optical sights, laser rangefinders, and infrared night vision devices, it will be even more powerful."

"Especially during offensives and night battles, our advantages will be more obvious if we have these things."

"Especially at night, they can't see us, but we can see them. Wouldn't we defeat them?"

Commander Yu burst into laughter.

"Good boy, you convinced me!"