Tang Shaohua's shouting and the sound of horses' hooves became clearer and clearer, waking up the people lying on several marching beds next to him.

However, the reaction of several people after waking up was very different, Fedyuninsky turned over and sat up, listened attentively to the movement outside, his face couldn't help showing joy, and said to himself: "The cavalry of the Blue Army is really here." ”

After the commander of the 19th Mechanized Army was awakened, he still lay on the marching bed and did not move, but opened his eyes and listened for a while, muttered a few words, and continued to sleep with his head covered.

Although Vashukin also sat up, he had not yet come to his senses, he sat on the marching bed with his back against the wall, and asked with a blank expression: "What happened?" ”

And Maslov jumped directly out of bed, walked quickly in front of Tang Shaohua, and said with a smile: "Comrade commander, the cavalry of the Blue Army is really here." At this, he turned his head to look at Fedyuninsky next to him, and said happily, "Fortunately, we were prepared, otherwise we would have been taken prisoner as soon as the cavalry of the Blue Army rushed over." ”

At this moment, a dense burst of gunfire rang out outside, the sound of a row of guns; Then the machine guns also roared. Listening to the movement, it was the troops who were on guard outside that opened fire.

Tang Shaohua, who was holding a pistol, finally came back to his senses at this moment, and it turned out that there was a drill going on outside. He smiled and nodded at Maslov, put his phone back in his holster, walked over to the oak table in the middle of the hall, and said to the communications staff officer standing at the table, "Call Lieutenant Colonel Vajim and ask him how the situation is there?" ”

"Yes!" As soon as the staff officer agreed, he was about to get the telephone on the table, but he didn't expect the phone to ring first. The staff officer picked it up and listened to it for a while, then handed over the microphone and said respectfully: "Comrade commander, it's Lieutenant Colonel Wajim calling. ”

Tang Shaohua was put to his ear by the earpiece, and heard Wajim asking nervously: "Comrade commander, there are dense gunshots in the city, is it a sneak attack by the blue army?" ”

"That's right, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel." Tang Shaohua said lightly: "Judging from the current situation, about a thousand cavalry have bypassed your regiment's defensive position and sneaked into the city from other directions. ”

"Do you need reinforcements from my troops?" The Blues infiltrated the city, but the Motorized Infantry Regiment did not find out in advance, which made Wajim very nervous, and he asked cautiously: "I'm afraid that there are too few troops in the city to stop the attack of the Blue Army." ”

"You don't have to worry about that, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel." Tang Shaohua said in a serious tone: "The troops in the city are more than enough to destroy the blue army that comes to sneak attack. It's your responsibility to keep your troops holding the line and not letting the remnants of the Blues break out of your zone. Do you understand? ”

"Understood, Comrade Commander!" Vajim replied loudly.

When Tang Shaohua put down the phone, he saw that in addition to the mechanized army commander, the rest of the senior commanders also came to the table. Vashugin smiled and said to Fedyuninsky: "Comrade General, fortunately, this regiment brought by you undertook the defense of the army headquarters, otherwise we would all have become prisoners of the Blue Army." ”

Maslov added: "It's one thing for the Blues to foul up, but if they capture three commanders and a military commissar of the military district at once, it becomes a big joke and they don't know how to fight the rest of the battle." ”

After a few people talked and laughed for a few words, Fedyuninsky suddenly looked at Tang Shaohua and said: "I think you today are the Rokossovsky I know, unlike yesterday, how awkward you look." ”

When Tang Shaohua heard Fedyuninsky say this, he also realized his changes. Yesterday, when he first became Rokossovsky, he looked at what was happening in front of him from an outsider's point of view, putting himself in the position of a prophet, as if he were directing a very real and very long historical drama, he knew when the Soviet-German war broke out, how it went, and how it ended.

Now, the moment he hears the sound of horses' hooves from far and near in his sleep, Tang Shaohua inherits Rokossovsky's consciousness and perfectly blends it with his own consciousness, so that from the moment he jumps out of bed, he can instinctively give orders like the real Rokossovsky.

But Tang Shaohua just knew these things in his heart, and it was impossible to say them to the people present, otherwise he would definitely be regarded as a madman, and there was even the possibility of being sent to a mental hospital. Trying to squeeze a smile on his face, he said to Fedyuninsky: "Dear Ivan Ivanovich, it may be that I was in a bad mental state yesterday that made you make such a mistake. But now it's okay, I'm back to normal. ”

As he spoke, the gunfire outside became thin. Fedyuninsky called his men and asked about the situation outside. After he put down the phone, he first reported to Vashukin: "Comrade Military Commissar, when the cavalry of the Blue Army approached the headquarters, we had to slow down the assault because of the obstacles set up by our army. You've been a cavalryman before, and you know that a cavalryman who loses his speed can only be a target. After some fighting, most of the cavalry had been wiped out, and less than two hundred cavalry remained, retreating to the west. ”

Hearing what Fedyuninsky said, Maslov hurriedly picked up the phone, dialed the motorized infantry regiment, and said to Vajim in a serious tone: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, the cavalry of the Blue Army has basically been wiped out by us, and the remaining more than 200 cavalry are fleeing to you. I command you to destroy all this cavalry. Do you understand? ”

"Please rest assured, Comrade Chief of Staff." Because he let the Blue Army cavalry sneak into the city, and the guilty Wajim heard that there was an opportunity to atone for his crimes, and immediately replied loudly: "We promise to complete the mission and never let an enemy slip through the net!" ”

"Comrade General, I can hear that the morale of the soldiers of the motorized infantry regiment is very high!" Vashukin, who was standing next to him, heard the conversation between Maslov and Vajim clearly, and said with a smile: "I believe that in the next exercises, they will definitely be able to achieve the final victory with high morale!" ”

Tang Shaohua directly ignored Vashukin's remarks, and instead shifted the topic to a serious problem that we are currently facing: "Comrade Military Commissar, although we have made considerable achievements in this exercise, we have also discovered many problems. ”

Tang Shaohua's words aroused Vashukin's curiosity, and he raised his chin and asked: "Comrade Rokossovsky, what problems have you found, you might as well tell me about it." ”

After getting Rykov's permission, Tang Shaohua said cautiously: "Comrade Military Commissar, you also know that a motorized infantry regiment should actually be a mechanized infantry, and in addition to being equipped with wheeled and tracked combat vehicles, it can also be supported by heavy equipment such as tanks and artillery during combat. Speaking of this, he shrugged his shoulders, "But if you look at our motorized infantry regiment, it is only a pure infantry regiment with mules and horses, not even motorized, and almost all the light and heavy weapons in the regiment are carried by people and horses." And the number of cars is also limited, there is no fuel yet, they are still more than 20 kilometers away from here, because the car ran out of fuel, had to walk here. It doesn't matter if it's an exercise, but if it's a war, then there is a risk that the fighters will be delayed. ”