Chapter 345: A show of strength at the beginning?

Chapter 345: A show of strength at the beginning?

As a "super reinforced battalion", the 7th Steel Battalion has more equipment and supplies than two regular battalions.

In order to accommodate all the supplies and personnel, the military train was hundreds of meters long and had more than sixty sections of flatbed, passenger and canned food cars.

Chen Jun remembered several railways from the base train station to Russia.

But after checking the time carefully, I found that most of it was developed after 2000. At this stage, there seem to be only two railways.

They were all built more than a hundred years ago.

As long as the foundation of a railway is well repaired and it is maintained, its lifespan is very long. It is not uncommon for it to run for more than a hundred years.

However, Chen Jun has no memory of how the specific railway line runs.

After all, he has never been to the three northeastern provinces.

Only the invisible and intangible sixth sense was sending a strong message to Chen Jun - that is, this train will be very far away.

In fact, it was indeed very far away, so far that the soldiers of the 7th Steel Battalion almost vomited.

The military train departs from the railway station in Inner Mongolia and first heads west to the Capital Railway Station, where it changes railways to head north to Harbin.

The railway from BJ to Harbin is more than 1300 kilometers long. The soldiers of the th Steel Battalion sat on the hard seats and shook violently for a whole day and night.

We are only halfway to Harbin, and the real tough part is just beginning.

From Harbin to Binzhou Railway, the military train needs to travel nearly a thousand kilometers before reaching the border city of Manzhouli.

This thousand kilometers took nearly a day.

Arriving here means that two-thirds of the journey has been completed. The train needs to pass through the Manzhouli railway port to officially enter Russia. The customs clearance for military trains is much more complicated than that for passenger trains.

Even if it was Russia that took the initiative to invite China, and there was a Chinese delegation at the train station to handle the matter.

It took nearly half a day.

The main reason was that when the train arrived here, it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening, and there was no one to connect and go through the procedures late at night, so we could only wait at the port until the next morning.

Ordinary travelers can go down to find a hotel to rest, or sleep comfortably on a berth.

The soldiers of the 7th Steel Battalion had no choice but to continue to carry forward our army's spirit of hard work and perseverance, and continue to exercise their iron buttocks on the hard seats.

After completing the procedures the next morning, the train passed through the port and headed into Russia.

No one told me where to go.
At least Chen Jun and the soldiers of the 7th Steel Battalion didn't know. Perhaps only the leaders of the Chinese delegation knew. Chen Jun only knew that he had been on the train for more than ten hours.

When they finally received the order from their superiors, each company was preparing to pack up and get off the bus.

The soldiers of the 7th Steel Battalion were so happy that they were able to get off the train when it stopped, step on the ground, stretch their almost stiff bodies, and take a few deep breaths of the cool air that still entered their noses.

The soldiers of the Seventh Steel Battalion had only one feeling -

It feels so good to be alive!
During the bumpy ride on the train, the soldiers of the 7th Steel Battalion were all crammed into a narrow train. The feeling was really more uncomfortable than being in prison.

I felt like I was about to die, and my soul was floating away.

Chen Jun was also filled with emotion. It was the first time in his life that he sat in a hard seat for nearly four days, covering a total distance of more than 3,000 kilometers.

The unfortunate thing is that trains these days run very slowly, especially this military train which has more than sixty carriages and cannot run at all.

The fastest speed did not exceed 80 kilometers, and the average speed was only 60 kilometers.

Even if the train runs without stopping for one second, it will take more than fifty hours to travel more than 3,000 kilometers, which means it will take three full days and two nights.

In addition, although military trains do not need to stop to pick up passengers during the journey, the soldiers need to be supplied with three meals a day.

Military trains have to stop at least three times a day to restock the train with sufficient food, water, etc., and each stop lasts more than fifteen minutes.

An hour or two will be wasted here.

There was another delay of half a day when crossing the port.

Adding up all the time, the 30th Steel Battalion, which set out on the 4th, got off at this unknown train station in Maozi, and the time had come to April 3rd.

After sitting on hard seats for four days and four nights, they finally got off the train. The soldiers of the 7th Steel Battalion thought that they had reached their destination.

Everything was ready when he arrived at the training ground. He set up the tent and the camp bed in the shortest possible time so that he could lie down and have a good sleep.

The Russian officer in charge of the liaison ran over and told Gao Cheng, the highest commander of the 100th Steel Battalion, that they were still kilometers away from the training ground.

This time there was not even a train to take, let alone a comfortable bus. As a fully mechanized combined battalion, we could only rely on ourselves to get there "mechanically".

"Fuck! These bastards are playing tricks on me!"

The heads of the delegation had sleeper cars, and Gao Cheng and the soldiers below were the same. They all came here on hard seats, and now their buttocks are numb from sitting there.

Hearing that the armored vehicle would have to drive more than a hundred kilometers, Gao Cheng became so angry that his face turned blue and he almost flew into a rage.

If he hadn't had to pay attention to his image when going abroad, Gao Cheng's hot temper and personality would have meant that the Russian officer who came to deliver the message would have been scolded.

But now they are on someone else's territory, and the hand representing him cannot speak out.

Whatever they say, that's all we have to do.

"When the drill starts, I'll beat you up, you bastards."

Gao Cheng finally chose to swallow his anger, and went down to make arrangements while muttering and cursing, so that the entire battalion could enter a mobile state in the shortest time possible.

Then we followed the guide car sent by the Russian army and drove south out of the train station.

The road just out of the train station is pretty good, even if you go through the side door that is specially opened on the side, it is a specially leveled hardened dirt road.

The mechanized vehicles of the 7th Steel Battalion were driving on it, and the body of the vehicle was relatively stable, and the soldiers sitting inside were fine.

But after driving for half an hour, the environment deteriorated at a very fast rate. Mountains began to appear and the road became bumpy.

This time we entered mountainous terrain.

The Russian military's infrastructure is far worse than China's. Even the terrain in the mountainous areas is worse, and the road conditions can only be described as horrible.

Even if the convoy reduced its speed to 25 kilometers, the vehicles still drove like rocking cars.

There are a lot of ups and downs and lefts and rights.

This caused the soldiers sitting in the car to feel like they were not walking on land, but sitting on a boat, constantly rising and falling with the waves.

Even the soldiers of the 7th Steel Battalion were well-trained and carefully selected top soldiers from each company.

After sitting on a hard seat train for four days and four nights, my butt was numb and I was in a very bad mental state, but I still couldn't stand this wave of torture.

Everyone was shaken so hard that their heads turned and their stomachs churned.

The soldiers who had completely stopped suffering from motion sickness suddenly started to suffer from it again, and those who were in worse condition were even about to vomit.

The most typical example was Xu Sanduo. The feeling that he had not felt for several years came back to him.

If he had not become an officer now and was arranged by Chen Jun to be the squad leader of the special operations platoon, he must set a good example in front of the soldiers of the special operations platoon.

Xu Sanduo will definitely not be able to hold back and vomit!

The special operations platoon is a rare all-officer platoon. Everyone in it now has a rank of lieutenant or above, and no one has a lower rank than Xu Sanduo.

If Xu Sanduo couldn't help vomiting, he would have no chance of continuing to be the squad leader.

Chengcai and Wu Liuyi were both arranged by Chen Jun to be squad leaders of the special operations platoon, which not only provided them with training but also laid the foundation for their qualifications.

On the contrary, Battelle, who performed slightly worse, has now become the platoon leader of the third platoon of the seventh company.

The reason why Bater was promoted quickly is that he is not a special forces soldier and is not in the special operations platoon, so the competitive pressure is much smaller.

To know.

The special operations platoon is now organized into a platoon, and there are a lot of captains competing for the squad leader position.

Very rolled.

If Xu Sanduo had not followed Chen Jun, he would have had a lot of first, second, and third class individual and collective merits. If he wanted to become a squad leader, he would have to ask Chen Jun for help.

Xu Sanduo has become much smarter now. He is much smarter than before and is no longer as dull as before.

He knew that if he wanted to do something more meaningful, he would have to work harder. Being a squad leader, platoon leader, or company commander was more meaningful than being a soldier.

So after becoming an officer, Xu Sanduo worked harder than when he was a soldier.

Xu Sanduo, Chengcai and others were trying hard to endure it, and the other hundreds of soldiers in the 7th Steel Battalion were also enduring it, not wanting to lose face for the Chinese people in front of the foreign troops.

With this firm and tenacious will, the convoy shook on the mountain road for a full three hours.

We finally arrived at our destination when it was getting dark in the afternoon.

A training ground covering a huge area!
Although the leader Maozi still did not introduce where the 7th Steel Battalion was taking.

However, Chen Jun, who was fluent in Russian, still found a lot of information by reading the Russian signs everywhere in the training ground and figured out his current location.

It turns out that this place is called Tsugol Training Ground, which belongs to the Trans-Baikal Territory of Russia.

The total area is 768 square kilometers.

Compared with the newly built Zhurihe base in China, the total area is not much smaller.

After entering the training ground, Chen Jun and the soldiers discovered one thing, that is, the training ground was connected to the outside by a railway.

Obviously, we could just drive the train here and find a place to stay after getting off the train.

However, the Russian army forced the 7th Steel Battalion to get off the train early, knowing full well that the 7th Steel Battalion had been on the train for several days and nights, and the entire battalion traveled more than 100 kilometers of bumpy mountain roads with great effort.

This was obviously intentional!
Gao Cheng was so angry that he flew into a rage on the spot and wanted to appeal to the leaders of the delegation, asking them to take the 7th Steel Battalion to the Russian army to demand justice.

However, the delegation was picked up by Russian military vehicles as soon as they got off the train.

At this moment, they are probably sitting together with the senior Russian military leaders, eating a carefully prepared dinner. Even if you want to find them, you won’t be able to find them in a short time.

"Lao Gao, this is obviously intentional. Maybe they want to intimidate us, or maybe they want to test us to see how capable our Chinese army is. Whatever the reason, this feud has been established."

Chen Jun shared Gao Cheng's hatred for the enemy, but then he changed his tone and comforted him, "The best way to deal with people like this is to use your most powerful fist to hit them hard in the face, so that they know what real strength is."

Gao Cheng felt that what Chen Jun said made sense. It was pointless to cause trouble on someone else's territory. It would only make him look petty. After all, the other party didn't do it openly.

Furthermore.

The Chinese military does not understand the Russian military, and the Russian military is also unfamiliar with the Chinese military.

In order to understand the strength of the Chinese army, arranging a 100-kilometer march in harsh conditions is indeed an excellent way to measure its strength.

Various information displayed by the Russian army during its march through the 7th Steel Battalion.

This includes the perseverance of Chinese soldiers when tired, their ability to march and fight in harsh environments, the failure rate of combat vehicles in harsh environments, and so on.

Put this information together completely.

Even if we cannot fully understand the Chinese military, at least we can have a basic understanding of it.

but.

Understanding is understanding.

This feeling of being tricked for no reason not only made Gao Cheng and Chen Jun feel uncomfortable, but also the soldiers of the 7th Steel Battalion were angry.

The already strong hostility towards the Russian army was added fuel to the fire and became even more intense.

Everyone wants to beat up the Russian army.

The Russian officers who responded to the call did not know that their clever little tricks had not only been seen through by the Chinese army, but had also aroused public indignation.

The 7th Steel Battalion was brought to the designated camping area, told where to get water, and then left after completing the relevant coordination matters.

About an hour passed.

The camps of the various companies of the Seventh Steel Battalion have been almost completed, all kinds of tents have been erected, and the security work has basically been arranged.

The Russian army's logistics support troops finally arrived and connected with the cooking platoon of the support company of the 7th Steel Battalion.

I thought that since it was the first day at the Russian military training ground, the Russian army, as the host, would prepare a good meal so that the Chinese troops could have a comfortable meal.

The food that was served was crap.

It turned out to be Russia's biggest specialty, black bread, served with a pickle and a small piece of pickled meat per person, plus a small bag of coffee powder.

The Russian army must have enjoyed eating these things, after all, they are their most common food.

However, Chinese people are not very fond of these Russian specialties, and some of them even cannot get used to eating pickles and pickled meats.

If the soldiers of the 7th Steel Battalion ate this kind of Russian specialty food every day, they would definitely not be able to get enough.

The combat effectiveness will inevitably decline!
Fortunately, Chen Jun had enough foresight to prepare enough supplies of food in the country in advance. He asked the kitchen staff to put the pickled cucumbers and pickled meat into the pot, and add the dried vegetables he brought with him, and stir-fry them into two dishes.

Scrambled eggs with pickles, fried cabbage with pickled meat.

Simply add some side dishes, and Russian specialty food will instantly become Chinese food. Treat black bread as steamed buns, and it will immediately taste delicious.

The food was perfectly prepared by the kitchen staff, and after eating and drinking enough, we could finally rest.

But only the warriors can rest.

Gao Cheng, the commander of the 7th Steel Battalion, received a notice from the delegation leader asking him to take his deputy commander, Chen Jun, to attend the exercise meeting of the Russian military directorate tonight. (End of this chapter)