In a certain brigade support company, as long as you mention Cai Shaobo, everyone will say: He is the company's most cattle "wind whisper" soldier.
Believe it or not, the training syllabus stipulates that the volunteer translator 100 phrases for 5 minutes is a good full score, and he can translate it accurately and unmistakably in 2 minutes and 35 seconds, 20 seconds faster than the travel record.
Cai Shaobo was a hardcore military fan when he was young, and he was particularly interested in the history of World War II. For a time, reading the legend of the Navajo people of the "Wind Whisperer", he dreamed more than once that he was on the battlefield of Iwo Jima, and his eyes followed the Navajo people in secret language to convey information and intelligence.
"Every time I wake up from my dream, I always feel a kind of passion, longing to one day become a battlefield 'wind whisperer', passing on the invincible code in the smoke of gunfire." Listening to Cai Shaobo's memories so passionately, it is not difficult for us to understand why he resolutely chose to join the army in September 2016, when he was still a sophomore in the department of computer science at Jimei University in Xiamen.
However, during the new training period, Cai Shaobo encountered "roadblocks". Running 3 kilometers alone can also make him feel desperate, "almost a run and a collapse".
This day did not say, Cai Shaobo is again "crane tail". The squad leader was very angry, "You are really lice and not itchy." He retorted: "There are a bunch of mathematicians in the Allied base camp of World War II, do you also expect them to run 3 kilometers a day?" To win the game, you have to work hard. ”
"After a 3-kilometer run, why are you still hooked up with a 'mathematician'?" The squad leader was surprised.
Indeed, without "two brushes", Cai Shaobo would not have said such a thing. In order to dispel the doubts of the squad leader, Cai Shaobo, in front of his comrades-in-arms, carried the pi to 100 decimal places in one breath, and said with a straight face: "Addition and subtraction within 6 digits, prime numbers within 1000, comrades-in-arms can freely ask questions, I guarantee that the answer will be said within 5 seconds." ”
There is no basis for verbal arguments, and whether it is really talented or practical, it must be proved by Cai Shaobo's two hands.
Just when there was an artillery battalion calculator in training, a group of 5-digit "rolling plus rolling and rolling down" was placed in front of him, and the squad leader began to report the question: 71353-47899 + 66828 =? At this time, the calculating soldiers nervously staged calculations on the manuscript paper, and some comrades-in-arms frowned and calculated. Who expected Cai Shaobo to blurt out the answer: 90282.
For a moment, everyone was shocked, and the calculation squad leader half-turned back to God, "Shaobo is the treasure of our company, and the next company has won the calculation soldier!" "The reconnaissance squad leader heard the news and urged him to go to the artillery reconnaissance squad ...
In the face of the praise of the squad leaders, Cai Shaobo calmly handled it, "I came to be a 'wind whisperer'. Everyone thought about it carefully, and it turned out that he wanted to be a signal soldier. But no matter what kind of soldier, it did not prevent everyone from affectionately calling his company "the strongest brain.".
When professionalism becomes a dream and a love to strive for, everything is natural. After getting off the line, Cai Shaobo was assigned to the communication company.
Radio, microphone, satchel, secret language table, since then, Cai Shaobo launched a powerful offensive against the secret language. It is hard to believe that he actually used only 1 day to recite the secret language table backwards.
His comrades-in-arms called him talented. Cai Shaobo disagreed, "Where there is any talent, I am just more diligent than others." He worked overtime to memorize the handling methods of various emergencies, memorizing 9 kinds of radio equipment parameters; in order to troubleshoot, he also listed hundreds of communication systems that often failed, combed them into an organization and memorized them; and a secret language table of more than 1,000 characters was printed in his brain like a soldering iron. People called him a "stand-up translator."
In the second half of 2017, he was still a private soldier, and served as the commander of the communication vehicle in the live-fire exercise organized by his superiors. Adjusting the map of the exercise area, accurately calibrating the icons, from the situation map of his own side to the situation map of the enemy, thousands of icons, Cai Shaobo achieved accurate memory. At the same time, he not only used secret language to communicate with the top and bottom, but also handled emergencies, and the familiar secret numbers were also all in his mind, and the efficiency of the car group was many times higher than before.
Walking off the exercise ground, Cai Shaobo said happily: "I have finally realized the dream of the 'Wind Whisperer'. ”
(Photo: Jiang Pingji)
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■ Cai Shaobo
Although I have not been a soldier for a long time, I have read the feelings of soldiers who go up when they see a task, carry a red flag when they see it, and fight when they see the first. Life is more experienced, in order to grow faster.
