Pay attention to conducting more night fighting and close combat. Do it in the pitch-black night, when nothing can be seen.
What is meant by Night Tiger? It means being good at night fighting, good at close combat, training troops to march at night and fight at night.
The fiercer the enemy, the less reason to fear it. Wasn't Chiang Kai-shek fierce in the past? Wasn't the United States fierce? But the tactics for each specific battle are different, and then one must take it seriously. The army needs to learn just two things: one is knowing how to fight, the other is knowing how to move. Knowing how to fight and knowing how to move—every army must learn this. To fight means to take a bite out of the enemy. If you can't eat a big piece, eat a small one. Take one bite, then another.
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Key Points of Conversation While Watching the Grand Military Competition Report Performance by the Beijing and Jinan Military Regions
More bullets can be manufactured. Usually, using more bullets means fewer bullets will be used in wartime, because accuracy improves!
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Can the troops conduct large-scale swimming training? Swimming training can definitely be conducted in the summer. The troops must learn to swim. Relying solely on swimming pools is not enough; they must learn to swim in rivers and seas. One cannot manage without going through great winds and waves.
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While training martial skills, also learn civil skills, and pay attention to studying culture. The soldiers' health must be very good, and their physical strength must be good. The company's personnel strength must be full. If numbers are low, merge them; they must also be full.
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We must think in terms of difficulties. Whatever the problem, as long as we think in terms of difficulties, we need not fear. Therefore, we might as well think of more difficulties and think of them all. At the Seventh Congress in 1945, I listed seventeen difficulties, one of which was "A Thousand Miles of Barren Land," and I still wonder if I spoke enough about them. Don't just look at the good side; use the method of dividing one into two.
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