Meng Yan's Transformation

Wang Baogui, together with the production team leader, the militia company commander and hunters from several nearby natural villages, conducted a survey of the areas where wolves often appeared. They found that a large number of wolves had gone far away, and the ones that came out to hurt people were a few wolves that had strayed away.

Wang Baogui led several experienced hunters to wait for a few days and killed three white-eyed wolves.

From then on, the children no longer heard the howling of wolves on their way to school...

Zhan Ziyou sent a letter saying that he had discussed it with Guihua and agreed that Zhan Zian could return to Liaoning to attend high school.

Not long after, Yunqing packed Zhan Zi'an's luggage and asked Uncle Li, who was visiting his relatives in the county town, to take Zhan Zi'an to the county railway station. There, he happened to meet up with a fellow villager, An Fuhai, who was also returning to Liaoning Province, and they returned to Liaoning together.

I heard that An Fuhai and An Zhirui were from the same family, and I knew that An Zhirui had been staying at Zhan Yu's house for many days, causing a lot of trouble to Zhan Yu's family and every household in the village, so I expressed my gratitude and apology. That's why I agreed to take Zhan Zi'an back to Liaoning.

Zhan Zifeng also sent a letter from the army, reporting his safety and introducing life in the army.

Zhan Zifeng joined the artillery, on the Sino-Soviet border in Heilongjiang.

Shortly after joining the army and before the training was over, the troops started to build artillery fortifications. The frozen soil in the icy and snowy Northeast is black soil that is harder than stone. Many soldiers, including Zhan Zifeng, have frostbite on their hands and feet... When soldiers are on guard, they have to rub their ears and noses from time to time, otherwise if they are not careful, their noses may turn white and may be frozen off!

Sino-Soviet relations are very delicate, so the border artillery began intensive training, ready to guard every inch of the motherland's territory from being violated!

Many of the instructors in the army are combat heroes in the Zhenbao Island self-defense counterattack. They have practical combat experience and rich military combat knowledge.

Because Zhan Zifeng trained hard and learned professional knowledge well, he soon became the squad leader, or gunner!

The live-fire shooting of the artillery is not a one-person job, but a tacit cooperation of all professionals in the team. To master a hit, it requires extraordinary tacit cooperation among the squad leader, the aimer, the direction operator, the height operator and the loader. Zhan Zifeng didn't know how many times his fellow soldiers had conducted coordinated training. The high-intensity and repeated training was for the purpose of practicing excellent speed and accuracy. The artillery interprets "a slight difference leads to a thousand miles of error" vividly. In live-fire shooting, as long as the aimer has a micro-millimeter error, the shell will be hundreds of meters away from the target. This will be a fatal mistake on the battlefield. When the aimer has perfectly completed the first step, the loader will start to load the shell accurately. Loading becomes even more crucial. Not only must the shell be loaded into the chamber, but the minimum sight distance must also be accurately calculated so that the shell can fly over obstacles smoothly after being fired. When snipers shoot, they pay attention to killing the enemy with one shot. Artillery pays more attention to "one shot destroys everything".

In order to successfully complete the live-fire shooting mission, Zhan Zifeng had to "carefully plan" the air temperature, powder temperature, charge, etc. He and his comrades revised the already formulated plan over and over again, repeatedly deduced the live-fire process, and trained himself and his comrades to form "muscle memory". (Muscle memory is the process of forming a conditioned reflex by repeating an action, and accurately performing a certain action without thinking.)

When preparing to fire, the entire team squeezed into the small gun carriage, everyone looked very nervous, and couldn't hide their excitement. The whole class was waiting for the commander's order. When they heard: Ready... Fire! The aimer decisively pressed the firing button. A few seconds after the shell was fired, everything returned to silence, leaving only the sound of the shell breaking through the wind...

When the cannon roared, the murderous aura broke through the sky, and accompanied by the "roar" of the cannon, the cannon operated by Zhan Zifeng destroyed the target with powerful firepower. "First hit" is the "honor" of every artilleryman in Zhan Zifeng's artillery group, and even more so the "honor" of the artillery commander. At the moment of "first hit", all officers and soldiers were overjoyed and the happiness after the successful shooting was beyond words!

Zhan Zifeng seemed to see that in the future, the artillery he operated would become the core force of battlefield firepower strikes in the battlefield to defend the motherland, and provide powerful firepower support for the troops' combat operations. He felt proud from the bottom of his heart. No matter how hard and tiring it was, all the efforts would be worth it!

Zhan Zifeng saved the lives of his comrades many times while on night duty in the army. He was awarded the third-class merit. The army specially approved and allowed his family members to visit him.

Zhan Zifeng wrote a letter to tell Zhan Yu the good news...