Chapter 8 Chapter VII

After the lights were turned off at night, Shi Jin on the upper bunk heard Xu Sanduo on the lower bunk constantly tossing and turning. Shi Jin probed to look, and ordered: "Go to bed early. Get up at 5:30 tomorrow morning, and Lianli has to do intensive training for the spring exercise." Xu Sanduo stayed on the bed, not turning over, and he took advantage of the moonlight outside the window to stare blankly. With history and present. "I didn't perform well today, did I, monitor?" Xu Sanduo suddenly asked softly. "Don't talk about this now, don't disturb everyone, others have to sleep."

After a while, Xu Sanduo said again: "Squad leader, I miss home, I also miss Class Five, my father, my eldest brother, my second brother, and my old horse." Shi Jin got angry: "Xu Sanduo, I order you to sleep! You want to come here yourself, many people can't come here if they want to, you better think about it when you are tossing around here, are you right to live with those who can't come here if you want to?" people." "Squad leader, I know, this is an opportunity." Xu Sanduo slowly closed his eyes, and after a while, he really fell asleep. However, Shi Jin couldn't fall asleep anyway, and it was his turn to keep flipping on the bed.

In the morning, the sky was dim, and a whistle suddenly blew up. In the darkness, the soldiers jumped to the ground with a plop.When the lights were turned on, the soldiers were already making quilts, and the quilts of more than a dozen people turned into pieces of tofu in an instant, which was really spectacular. In the dim corridor, well-dressed soldiers went out nervously and methodically. Most of the soldiers have already lined up on the playground, counting the number softly and clearly. The soldiers who had paved half the playground had gathered into a few military trucks whose engines had been preheated, dragged up smoke and dust, and drove away.This actually only happened within three or two minutes.Qilian has been practicing mechanized man-vehicle coordination for the past two months, and Xu Sanduo has caught up.

In the crowded truck, the soldiers were silent.The wind was pouring into the speeding carriage, and the soldiers who had just crawled out of the quilt subconsciously huddled together to keep warm. Some people used this precious time to smoke their first cigarette after getting up. Through the gap in the carriage, Xu Sanduo looked at the misty starlight outside. A cigarette was handed over, it was Chengcai, Xu Sanduo smiled affectionately: "You know I don't smoke." "It's impossible for an armored soldier not to smoke." Chengcai came over, "Crowded, I want to wear an extra sweater but I'm afraid it will hinder the charge. Our training is full of smoke and dust, which is called two ounces of soil every day. If we don't eat enough in the morning, we have to make up for it in the afternoon. You If you don’t smoke a cigarette, you’ll see an earthy smell in your lungs. Light it up?”

Xu Sanduo hesitated again and again, but he still didn't want it.Bai Tiejun next to him took the opportunity to grab the cigarette. The car is going to the shooting range.The so-called shooting range is a wide armored vehicle shooting range, with staggered ruts and gray mountains at the end.A row of three infantry chariots was galloping in the open space to warm up, and nearly a foot of floating soil had been crushed on the shooting range, and suddenly the sky was filled with fog. For armored soldiers, this was already considered normal, but Xu Sanduo kept sneezing. Gaocheng took one step at a time, pulled out his feet from the dust, and stood in front of the team.

"Stand at attention and rest! Today's main subject is the coordination of infantry firepower and tank firepower. You have twelve drivers in one vehicle. In my eyes, you are one gun and one cannon. In short, you are one, not twelve. Unit, I hope you can brand the concept of collaboration into your mind..." There was a gust of wind, and after a while I couldn't see my fingers, all the soldiers in the company fell to the ground. In the gray mist, a few figures appeared, the head of the regiment was Wang Qingrui, and they were not much cleaner than the soldiers. Gao Cheng saluted and said loudly: "Report to the leader, the Seventh Steel Company is conducting a coordinated training of man and vehicle, please give instructions!"

Wang Qingrui returned a salute: "Continue training." Gao Cheng then shouted to the troops: "The wind and sand are strong today, which will obviously make our shooting more difficult. But I hope you guys know why we choose such a weather. The visibility on the battlefield is probably much worse than this, and we are the sharp point of the knife again. The reconnaissance company in the army must learn to shoot not only with the naked eye but also with the feeling! That soldier, why are you covering your eyes? I still talk! Do you think I eat less soil than you?" Of course that soldier was Xu Sanduo.He hurriedly opened his gray eyes and squinted hard.

Gao Cheng glared at Xu Sanduo, and continued to give orders: "Disband. Get ammunition in the No. 5 car, and prepare for shooting in a row." After the soldiers dispersed, Gao Cheng turned to Wang Qingrui: "Report to the head of the regiment, after the speech is over, please give instructions to the head of the regiment." The head of the group patted Gao Cheng on the shoulder: "A mouthful of dirt? Do you want to drink my water?" Sure enough, Gao Cheng spat out the dirt in his mouth, and smiled: "The dirt on the ground has been crushed by the car so much that it smells like diesel oil in my mouth."

The leader handed over the tea mug, and Gao Cheng took a sip unceremoniously. "Why do you still drink scented tea? You have to change to green tea. It's not enough to get angry in the car?" Gao Cheng said. "You have to pick and choose everything. I heard that you are not satisfied with the soldiers I recommended?" "You saw it too, he has to cover his eyes when he hits dirt, and he can't pee his pants when he gets a bullet?" The head of the group was delighted: "Your father told me that when you were in kindergarten, you hugged the beautiful female teacher and never let go. He was afraid that you would grow into a big carrot."

Gao Cheng hurriedly looked around to make sure there was no one there, and then he was a little embarrassed: "Why are you talking about that? It's not interesting." The head of the group said earnestly: "What about now? It means that people will change, and there is no limit to this change." An infantry chariot suddenly drove over and stopped in front of Xu Sanduo. Xu Sanduo just stared at the wide vehicle body in a daze.Shi Jin is busy, and the squad leader is the busiest before the training starts. In his busy schedule, he told Xu Sanduo: "Remember 207! This is the chariot of our class."

Xu Sanduo stared blankly: "This is my chariot?" Shi Jin couldn't help frowning at him, but he was too busy to correct the difference between singular and plural expressions.Xu Sanduo just looked at the car and sighed, and really wanted to reach out and touch it.At this time, Chengcai's voice was heard, and Chengcai proudly asked Xu Sanduo to look at his gun!Dusty, he held a slender sniper rifle.Xu Sanduo was thinking about the past.He was stopped by Wu Liuyi, and then Wu Liuyi took him into the rear hatch of an infantry fighting vehicle. "You are new here, and you will be leniently asked during this time. But you also have to pay attention to your studies. For example, if the car is parked here, you can practice getting on the car. If you don't practice, no one will watch you, but in the end you did it." You are the one behind." Xu Sanduo nodded repeatedly.Wu Liuyi opened the hatch: "Let's practice." After speaking, he stepped aside.But as soon as Xu Sanduo got in the car, he was called down by Wu Liuyi and said, "If you get in the car like this, you'll be the only one in the car, and the whole car is stuck outside. Do you think the battlefield is just as windy as it is today? You can fly like that." It's full of bullets and shrapnel. Come down and watch." Wu Liu curled up into a ball, leaped into the cabin door with a width and height of only 1.2 meters with a whoosh, and closed the door smoothly. All this took only a second. Following Wu Liuyi's example, Xu Sanduo jumped back and forth, and hit his head on the cabin door with a bang. Even though he was wearing a helmet, he still felt a little dizzy.Wu Liuyi became angry when he saw it: "The key to boarding a car is one goal and three attentions. One goal is your seat in the car, and the three attentions are to pay attention to your head, your feet, and close the door How much force does it take to close a steel door weighing tens of kilograms? I have personally seen a soldier with two fingers shut off." Xu Sanduo was a little scared when he heard it, but he still jumped into the car, and then closed the door lightly. Wu Liuyi still said no, he yelled: "Do it again! There are people sleeping in the car, you are afraid of disturbing them, aren't you? This is a war!" The instructor Hong Xingguo ran over at this time and asked Wu Liuyi to send two target soldiers in the class.Wu Liuyi didn't think too much: "Bai Tiejun, it's your turn today." Bai Tiejun was a little unhappy: "Why are you my pit master again? Aren't all recruits here?" Wu Liuyi hesitated: "Xu Sanduo, you go too." Xu Sanduo: "What are you going to do?" "Just follow me." Bai Tiejun complained, "Squad deputy, you know the hardships of the pit master, and you don't send anyone who can chat." Wu Liuyi pretended not to hear.Xu Sanduo obediently followed. Seeing that Xu Sanduo had gone far away, Gan Xiaoning said, "I can't even do such a simple move, and we are in class five." Wu Liu glanced at him, and it was inconvenient for the squad deputy to complain openly like a soldier, so he started shooting preparations. This is a reinforced concrete fortification buried nearly ten meters deep in the ground. Bai Tiejun found a piece of chalk on the ground and scribbled on the wall.A lot of words have been written on the wall, one of which reads: "The unfeeling pit master Bai Tiejun whimpers here".Under Bai Tiejun, I added a few words "again and whirring here", and then added a slash above the words "正" below. "What are we doing here?" Xu Sanduo asked in a daze. Bai Tiejun added a horizontal line under the words "Unfeeling Pit Master", saying: "Be a pit master." "The pit master? What is the heartless pit master?" Xu Sanduo didn't understand. "The pit, this is the target pit. It cannot be called a trench. The trench is for war. This thing is used to hide from your own bullets and cats in it. It can only be called a pit; the pit owner, if you squat in this pit, you are the pit owner. It's unfeeling. You just lost your mind. You squatted in this pit, listening to the single shot, continuous shot, three-shot burst, and rapid shot on the top of your head. You have no choice but to count the gunshots and go up to report the target when you are done, and you have no choice but to lose all hope, which is called heartlessness." Xu Sanduo said, "I still don't understand." "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, you have to understand it. Sit down, Xu Sanduo, today is my pit master, your deputy pit master." "Then I will be the deputy pit master?" Xu Sanduo thought he understood. Bai Tiejun said: "No, no, you will become a regular soon." Bai Tiejun was secretly calculating, "Xu Sanduo, others don't like you, but I like you, because our company is usually the old man who is the boss, you When I come here, I won’t be the old man, and I, the pit master, will be withdrawing soon.” "What's Laomo?" Xu Sanduo didn't understand too much. Bai Tiejun said: "The old man is...hehe! Take your time to realize it." The chariot in the shooting range roared.Squads of infantry behind the car, after a loud command, pressed in like a shuttle of bullets pressed into a magazine.In the blink of an eye, a string of flames burst out from the firing holes of the tank, and the ballistic trajectory connected the tank with their targets.Cheng Cai aligned the scope of a chariot on a target, and amidst the deafening gunshots around him, there was a crisp and sharp sound of a sniper rifle, and the movable target was pierced through. Cheng Cai ejected the bullet with satisfaction.The comrades around gathered in front of the shooting holes that could be tilted around to shoot out the targets that popped up one by one. The rapid fire of the two truck-mounted machine guns made people breathless. The body of the vehicle trembled suddenly, an armor-piercing projectile fired from the main gun flew out, and a vehicle target exploded with a bang. Bai Tiejun in the target hole sat cross-legged, like an old monk in meditation, listening to the shells flying non-stop. Xu Sanduo seemed a little restless, the sound of guns and gunpowder smoke drifting in from the fortification entrance made his blood boil.He was so excited that he stood up from time to time, but Bai Tiejun called him down again and again.To be a pit master, you have to sit still, because bullets will never have eyes. Under the bombardment of the chariots, those movable targets were completely cleaned up in an instant, leaving only some semi-buried underground bunkers. "Get out of the car and attack! Get out of the car and attack!" A new password came from the car. The hatch of the chariot opened with a sound, and the soldiers smelling of gunpowder were released inside, crawling towards the targets, the camouflaged smoke screen on the chariot was fired, and the flames of the flamethrowers in the smoke screen opened up a bunker, A rocket flew out and opened another bunker. On the mountainside, the Pioneer vehicles crushed all the simple fortifications into flat ground. Suddenly, Xu Sanduo saw Cheng Cai crawling and lurking in front of the fortification from the gap in the fortification. Xu Sanduo was so excited that he shouted "Chengcai". Of course Chengcai in front couldn't hear him, he jumped up and jumped into the ditch, and disappeared again. "Stop shouting, I can't hear you." Bai Tiejun played with the end of the chalk in his hand, "Now do you know what unfeeling is? This is a forgotten corner." Xu Sanduo sat down in a daze, finally realizing it. The two stayed like this until the flags died down and the chariot roared back with the infantry.The unfinished gunpowder smoke is still blowing. Soldiers from the target hole came out, checked the target and reported the score with semaphore, the surroundings were in a mess, and the soldiers waving small flags looked very much like surrendered soldiers who had been beaten to pieces. Someone shouted this way from a distance: "The ones in the target hole, come out to eat!" Xu Sanduo got down from the position in a daze, and walked among the bomb craters and ruts. When cooking, Shi Jin asked: "Xu Sanduo, what experience do you have?" Xu Sanduo said, "I didn't see anything, but I heard it. It's still buzzing in my ears." Shi Jin smiled wryly: "Talk to the instructor tomorrow and let you get in the car to experience it. But you still have to go in the afternoon." Just as he was talking, he suddenly heard Gao Cheng roar loudly: "The wind is blowing! The wind is blowing! Hurry up and hide! Find the car and squat behind! Put the lunch box in your arms!" Xu Sanduo took a look, and sure enough, a gust of wind rolled up the smoke and dust, pressing towards them like a tangible mountain range.Holding the lunch box he had just packed, Xu Sanduo was stunned in the gray mist. Gao Cheng saw it, and hurriedly shouted: "You squat down! Are you heartless? Can you still eat this meal?" After the strong wind passed, Gao Cheng saw that it was Xu Sanduo, and immediately became angry: "Why is it you again?" I looked at Xu Sanduo's lunch box, but didn't bother to reprimand him, just said: "Pull off the top layer, eat it quickly!" Then walked away. Fortunately, Xu Sanduo was able to eat, so he ate the box of khaki-colored rice with big mouthfuls. My first dream of enlisting in the army was given to me by Chengcai. Chariots, gunpowder smoke, artillery, machine guns, sniper rifles, high-power engines, everything that I will never feel when I am with my father.The company commander succinctly called these fighting spirits. He said that I am not so hypocritical to tell you that you get into battle when you wake up. If you like this kind of life, you are fighting spirits.I really want to tell him, I like it, but this kind of life doesn't like me.I have had a dream for a long time, but when it becomes a reality, the first kick kicks you away.I know I'd never dare to tell him, because when he said something like that, his eyes skipped over me like a barrier. In fact, this was just an opening. In the following days, Bai Tiejun left that heartless target pit, and Xu Sanduo became the only pit owner.When he boarded the car, he often blocked a squad of soldiers behind him; when he boarded the car, he often sat in the wrong seat.When it was his turn to shoot inside the car, others always hit the target, but he always hit around the moving target, causing smoke and dust to billow, and Wu Liuyi's face was sullen.Xu Sanduo was still motion sick, so dizzy that he vomited profusely, and the soldiers next to him had to look at him with contempt, and no one expressed sympathy. Gao Cheng has also turned a blind eye. In dealing with Xu Sanduo, the young company commander has found the simplest solution: don't look, or call it indifference.This attitude is contagious. The other soldiers of the Seventh Company also quickly learned the Gaocheng-style gaze. Their subconscious self-esteem has been damaged. The most brave armored reconnaissance company actually has a soldier who suffers from a car sickness. In less than a week, Gang Qi even looked at me as if he was overcoming an obstacle, and it was the kind of obstacle that was not difficult but superfluous. In the obstacle-crossing practice of the Seventh Steel Company, the obstacles were really exaggerated. There were at least four or five vertical obstacles that were one meter higher than that of the neighboring company, while that of the brother company was at a standard height. This was the time when the top soldiers of the Seventh Company showed their talents. Wu Liuyi was showing off with ease, and it seemed that he would reach the finish line far ahead of his colleagues.The way of survival of Gangqilian people is to set an unattainable goal for themselves, and then throw themselves there with a "swish".Those who can throw themselves over are the favorites in the company commander's eyes. Gao Cheng, who was waiting at the finish line, obviously liked this kind of showing off. When Wu Liuyi arrived at his side, he stuffed a cigarette in his mouth proudly and handed Wu Liuyi a cigarette.Wu Liuyi accepted it naturally, and then Gao Cheng lit him up, making a small mistake, the flames spurted from the lighter almost burned Wu Liuyi's eyebrows.Gao Cheng laughed, and with the escape and dodge, Wu Liuyi flew up with one kick, and hit Gao Cheng's buttocks impartially.This has nothing to do with military prestige and military appearance, it just proves a uniqueness of the Seventh Steel Company: Gaocheng likes this. Then Gaocheng stood still and looked at the person on the other side of the obstacle. At this time, he was the company commander with full military appearance.Then he would ask the person on the other side of the obstacle with a bone-chilling coldness—why didn't he come over? Xu Sanduo, he hid in a corner, hoping to be as unnoticed as possible.But Shi Jin kept noticing him and reached out to pat him, so Xu Sanduo mustered up his courage and planned to make a fool of himself again. Shi Jin pointed to some empty obstacles next to him—Shang Na Lian.It was an obstacle shared by the whole regiment, and as far as the regiment's training level was concerned, it was better for the whole regiment to take a walk in the courtyard to relieve boredom.So Xu Sanduo was extremely difficult and trembling to overcome the obstacle that was conquered many years ago. The training intensity of the seventh company is much higher than that of the brother company, so that only a small piece of the whole playground is left.Gao Cheng's voice of lecturing was very prominent: "Today, most people have conquered the obstacles that I thought they could not conquer. Uh-huh, most of them." Most people absolutely cannot include him. "Let me tell you a private word. The second company of pioneers is not worthy of the name. How can it not be the pioneers of the seventh company? It's just bragging to win the fourth company. We can compare who wins more battles with the fourth company; the sixth company with great achievements is shabby. , Dare to be called Da Gonglian after memorizing the second-class collective merit once. Instructor, how many times have we memorized the first-class collective merit for Qilian? Three times!" Hong Xingguo was a little embarrassed, he didn't like bragging so much, even though what Gao Cheng said was all the truth, even though this was Gao Cheng's style, it could also be said to be the style of Gang Qilian. Gao Cheng smiled, making everyone in Quanlian reflect on that astonishing number in silence.This company is his world, so he can often yell his private words to more than a hundred people. When he said such private words, he smiled mysteriously and modestly, making everyone think that the reason why we are not named Chang Sheng, Great merit or something, just to keep the brother company to embarrass themselves. Gao Cheng's lecture continued: "Three first-class collective merit means that more than one-third of the casualties in the three bloody battles means that more than one-third of the enemy has been killed in the three bloody battles, and it means that the enemy has been wiped out more than twice or even twenty times in the three bloody battles. The role of the campaign. The most important thing is that my company has not collapsed until today, and it will continue like this forever, so we are called Steel—Seventh Steel Company.” He smiled mysteriously and modestly again, and scanned the audience again.Judging by the expressions, it is certain that most people in this company have the same pride as him, the same pride as him. This is the Seventh Company of Steel. You can't even breathe smoothly after people. Before people, you can kick the company commander's ass. At the side of the big playground in the center of the regiment, Cheng Cai was rolling the upper and lower eyelids of his left eye vigorously so that Xu Sanduo could blow away the dust that fell from his eyes.Both he and Xu Sanduo were dressed in military uniforms, and both had just returned from the shooting range.Success is like getting out of the ashes, it is inevitable after every tank shooting, Xu Sanduo is very clean, the only advantage of life in the target hole is that there is not so much smoke and dust on the shooting range. Cheng Cai threw him away violently: "It's out! What are you doing so hard? What is the most important thing for a sniper?" Xu Sanduo seemed to know that he had made a mistake again, and stood there sullenly. "You are damaging my eyesight." Chengcai blinked his eyes to let the tears flow from his eyes, then took out a bottle of eye drops and asked Xu Sanduo to help him clean his eyes. Chengcai really paid attention to protecting his own capital: Steel Qilian couldn't rub the sand in his eyes, Xu Sanduo seemed to be the sand in his eyes. Xu Sanduo felt inexplicably frustrated: "If only I were still in Class 3 Lian Wu, Lao Ma and the others at least treat me as their own. Here...they don't treat me as their own." "I don't like to hear you say this kind of thing. You have to strive to be the backbone. If you become a backbone, be like me. Then everything will be easy." Chengcai educates Xu Sanduo. "I... How could I be the backbone? I would vomit every time I got in the car, and I vomited all over the car yesterday. I will never be as good as you." Cheng Cai scratched his head, obviously willing to hear this. "Hey, you can't say that, even if you're stupid... You can't let someone call you an idiot, anyone who calls me that will call me back!" Xu Sanduo was almost disheartened: "Then what should I do? I am qualified except for internal affairs, and I can't do anything well." Xu Sanduo's situation was indeed very unsatisfactory, and the comrades in the squad were unwilling to answer him. When he salivated to help everyone sweep the floor and fetch water, what he got in return was harsh words: "The third squad doesn't need soldiers who sweep the floor." When Chengcai was preparing to continue to be Xu Sanduo's life mentor, Gan Xiaoning ran over from a distance and asked Xu Sanduo to go back to the dormitory immediately, and the monitor looked for him. Xu Sanduo didn't say a word, jumped up and ran. Chengcai put his hands in his trouser pockets, jumped twice, and began to move around the playground more easily. Xu Sanduo ran back with the eyedrops he forgot to return, and he stopped—his friend never took his troubles seriously, and now his friend felt the joy of finally getting rid of him. Xu Sanduo looked lonely. In the dormitory, Xu Sanduo's quilt was turned over, Wu Liuyi and Shi Jin were waiting in the room, and Xu Sanduo slipped in.As soon as he entered the door, Wu Liuyi picked up his quilt. "How much water did you sprinkle on the quilt? I said how your housekeeping is smoother than that of a veteran. When I touched your quilt today, it was wet and the back was moldy. Honestly, how much did you sprinkle?" "A cup." He said hesitantly, and pointed to the big tea mug on the cabinet. "Then how do you sleep every night?" Wu Liuyi wanted to slap him hard. "Just... just slept like this." Xu Sanduo seemed to be fine. Shi Jin on the side finally spoke: "Xu Sanduo, I don't ask you to take care of your housework. It's important to be neat and tidy, but is your body important? Are you worthy of this account?" ?” Wu Liuyi also yelled at the side: "You are a soldier of the No. 7 Steel Company! You don't care about anything for an excellent housekeeper. The No. 7 Steel Company needs more than an excellent housekeeper!" After speaking, he turned around and left in anger. Xu Sanduo finally murmured that sentence: "I'm afraid...I'm afraid that I'll drag the class back." Shi Jin felt a little emotional about this, and his eyes could not help but soften: "Let's go, follow me to clean the car." A bucket of water splashed on the car body immediately turned into a muddy soup, dripping down.Xu Sanduo wiped it vigorously.Shi Jin cleaned the car, turned to look for Xu Sanduo: "Use my quilt tonight." Xu Sanduo shook his head. Don't be stubborn with me.I know what you are thinking, but there are many things that cannot be rushed. Xu Sanduo wiped the car vigorously, but said nothing. "Maybe the starting point is a bit low. But today is better than yesterday, which is hopeful." Shi Jin didn't seem to believe what he said, especially when it came to this matter, he seemed a little self-deprecating. Xu Sanduo wiped the car vigorously, and finally said, "I know that the squad leader is the only one who treats me well." Shi Jin could only smile wryly: "Xu Sanduo, don't say such things, you should have a good relationship with everyone in the class." Xu Sanduo's eye circles were a little red: "Qilian can't rub sand in her eyes, I am just a grain of sand in Qilian's eyes." Shi Jin: "Who said this? It's not like what you said, who told you?" Xu Sanduo: "It doesn't matter who said it. Squad leader, you are like my brother. My elder brother talks with me, and my second brother helps me fight. You are like my two brothers together." Shi Jin waved his hand angrily: "I will never fight for you, and I don't want to talk to you when I talk with you! I talk with you because I want you to understand more...Xu Sanduo, have you been How did you live like this? Your eldest brother talks to you, your second brother fights for you, and you don’t solve anything by yourself?" Xu Sanduo cleaned the car mechanically: "I worked very hard." Shi Jin smiled wryly, as if he was talking to himself: "The day after tomorrow, I will be on the training ground, how are you going to go like this?" Xu Sanduo looked at him without thinking, he lost his mind when he was too preoccupied alone. The exercise finally started. The armored troops drove out of the gate of the regiment headquarters and onto the dedicated tank passage beside the road.The convoy passed by in the small town, and the two-story tavern was actually at the same level as the soldiers with live ammunition on the roof. The diners on the second floor of the tavern formed a strong contrast with the steel giant outside. A broken tree on the side of the road was crushed in two like a matchstick, and then a car ran over it.This invisible armored force marched towards the grassland. The grassland was the same as before, except that a simple hut suddenly appeared on the side of the road, and a pile of dried sheep manure was thrown beside the hut, as well as a few goats tied to stakes.The ones sitting inside were the head of the regiment and the chief of staff.A herdsman passed by the side of the road on a motorcycle, thinking it was a new herdsman, stopped the car, opened the door and entered. He was still muttering: "When was it built? Why didn't anyone tell me?" As soon as he finished speaking, two heavily armed soldiers stood in front of him. "Go!" The soldier ordered softly. The herdsman couldn't help being taken aback, and was about to say something when he suddenly saw a wooden plank lifted up in the middle of the empty house, Wang Qingrui and other regiment officers and several staff officers came out of the hole below, and there was a hole under the wooden plank.Under the cave, there are all the sounds of announcements, human voices, and generators. It is impossible to tell how much space there is below and how many people are hiding. Wang Qingrui said to the herdsman with a smile: "My fellow villager, we will disturb you for a few days, and we will leave when we turn around." The herdsman couldn't figure it out for a moment, turned around and staggered away on his bicycle. The turf he had just driven was lifted up, and the hidden soldiers below watched the smoke and dust go away behind the car. Wang Qingrui smiled triumphantly: "Success! If I can hide the local people, I have a little confidence in this camouflage exercise." The chief of staff warned him next to him: "This is not called concealment, it should be called exposure." Wang Qingrui thought for a while: "That's right, that's right. This is a flaw. It's unreasonable for our private house to pretend that there are no living people outside! Find two soldiers who can speak the local language, and take off the camouflage for me to herd the sheep!" There is a hill on the grass that is integrated with the surrounding environment. If you look closely, there is actually a black muzzle under the grass.This is the tank and personnel bunker of the Seventh Steel Company.Shi Jin brought a few people to do the final reinforcement.Xu Sanduo has always been next to Shi Jin, and Xu Sanduo likes to stay with Shi Jin. But Wu Liuyi didn't like it. Xu Sanduo scolded: "If you really want to show off, don't bother here! It's countdown, do you know?" Xu Sanduo groaned, bowed his head and left.Looking at Xu Sanduo's back, Wu Liuyi felt incomprehensible, and asked Shi Jin, "What's the matter with this kid? I'm posting you now?" Before Shi Jin could answer, Xu Sanduo in front turned around and shouted again: "Squad leader, breakfast is here, let's eat!" Sure enough, it was the instructor Hong Xingguo who came with the kitchen cart for breakfast. Wu Liuyi was almost annoyed: "What is he shouting about? I don't know it's a camouflage exercise!" Shi Jin smiled wryly: "If you are treated as transparent by Quan Lian every day, won't you make some noises to make people notice you? You go and eat first, and I'll cover up the trap of camouflage." Xu Sanduo ran back at this time: "Squad leader, you eat first, and then..." Wu Liuyi finally got tired of hearing it, and stretched out his hand to cover Xu Sanduo's mouth and dragged him to the kitchen cart.He was tired of hearing Xu Sanduo's talk, and he could hear the hatred.Shi Jin wiped off his sweat, and then covered the camouflage net with turf dug elsewhere. Soldiers huddled around the kitchen truck to eat today's breakfast, and the messenger came running with the radio on his back and said a few words to the instructor Hong Xingguo, Hong Xingguo's face changed.Turning around and ordering loudly: "Evacuate immediately. The reconnaissance helicopter came out ahead of time, and it deliberately made a surprise attack." A row of soldiers who were eating on this hill suddenly exploded. Hong Xingguo issued an order in an orderly manner: "Unarmed vehicles leave the exercise area immediately! Especially the cooking vehicle, its heat source is too large." Shi Jin also ran over: "Take away everything you can't finish eating with the car, don't let the imaginary enemy see the trace." The soldiers have always obeyed unconditionally. Without saying a word, they put the half-eaten steamed buns back.Xu Sanduo also smiled triumphantly, and ran away with everyone. The cooking truck drove down the hillside, and the soldiers had dispersed into the semi-underground camouflaged bunkers. The hill immediately looked no different from the surrounding grassland. A reconnaissance helicopter passed by at ultra-low altitude. Its task was to use various electronic and infrared instruments on board to scan and reconnaissance the camouflaged positions with a radius of more than ten kilometers, find targets and directly evaluate the results of this exercise. The two herdsmen dressed as soldiers were smoking cigarettes, pointing and laughing at the sky, and one thick-skinned one simply unbuttoned his pants and urinated on the grass.Helicopters fly unnoticed over the camouflaged location of regimental headquarters. The soldiers of the third squad hibernated in the fortifications and watched the helicopter fly by. Just after he breathed a sigh of relief, the pilot came back reluctantly. After all, the only hill within a few kilometers made people have to pay attention. The helicopter seemed to have discovered something, dropped from 15 meters to 10 meters, then dropped to 5 meters, almost hovering over the head of the third squad, Shi Jin, Xu Sanduo and a few soldiers were in a well-disguised fortification, gritting their teeth with.Xu Sanduo was a little flustered for a while, but Shi Jin who was on the side stared at him firmly, and he told him not to move around. The moment the helicopter's wheels were about to touch the ground, it finally lifted its nose up and flew over the hill without hesitation to the front.Shi Jin finally opened his eyes. He conveyed in a low voice: "Don't move until you blow the whistle, maybe this kid can kill the carbine." There was no carbine, but an off-road vehicle suddenly stopped beside them with a roar. Company Commander Gao Cheng's voice swept over their heads: "Squad 3, come out! What else are you hiding? Let someone find out!" The few people in the fortification were stunned, and they rushed out from under Gao Cheng's feet, so frightened that Gao Cheng couldn't help but take a step back.But he was still angry: "I have been busy for a whole week, why did you have someone copy it out in a few minutes?" "Copied it out? No!" Shi Jin argued vigorously. "Do you think people will come down to arrest you? He directly marked the suspicious points on the electronic map, and the headquarters saw the real-time transmission, and the latitude and longitude were all correct. That's our business!" But Wu Liuyi has always been confident: "Isn't it just a coincidence?" Gao Cheng said: "What a coincidence? The headquarters said on the phone that there is an obvious heat source on the infrared imaging! How do you do your anti-infrared work? Do you know what thermal radiation is? Is there a young man who still has a pot What about hot water? You know how to maintain it?” "Squad 3 isn't such a fool. Could it be that the division's infrared imaging system has been upgraded again?" Wu Liuyi asked angrily. No change!Gao Cheng also didn't understand the reason, he looked at the soldiers around him, a little frustrated: "Everyone sit down." The third class already had a look of humiliation, only Xu Sanduo, but he seemed not to be surprised, he quietly approached Shi Jin and said: "Squad leader didn't eat just now, I just took two eggs on the kitchen cart and it was hot, eat it while it's hot Bar." Xu Sanduo quietly handed it over to Shi Jin.Shi Jin reached out to pick it up, the egg was really hot. Shi Jin stood up suddenly, and the whole class was startled by him. Shi Jin stood at attention to Gao Cheng, with an expression of anger and frustration on his face. The anger was towards Xu Sanduo who was hiding behind him, and the frustration was towards himself. "Report to the company commander, the heat source has been found." Then he took out the two eggs Xu Sanduo gave him from his bosom and said, "I didn't eat in the morning, so I took two eggs with me. I will write an inspection when I return to the camp." Gao Cheng took the egg and stared at Shi Jin fiercely. "Do you think I'm a fool?" Gao Cheng roared, "You have been a soldier for five years, and you will soon be unable to walk if you don't take the right step. You didn't even dare to drink hot water for the infrared protection work last time! Yes, if you really think your squad leader treats you well, don't rely on him to get in the way, who did it?" Wu Liu glanced at Shi Jin, and stepped forward: "Report to the company commander, it's... me." "Fuck! Okay, okay, I think you have a strong sense of cooperation, and I don't want to pursue it any longer. You should check it with the whole class." After Gao Cheng yelled and planned to get in the car, Xu Sanduo stopped him and said, "Company commander, the egg you Don't take it away, I brought it to our monitor, he hasn't had breakfast yet." Gao Cheng watched him for a long time, and finally realized that this man was not confessing his mistakes, but was thinking about his squad leader's breakfast.He rushed in front of Xu Sanduo and said, "I didn't eat breakfast either. If we can keep people from finding out, I won't eat tomorrow's meal, or the day after tomorrow's meal, and I won't eat for three days!" Xu Sanduo didn't seem to understand, he said, "Why don't you eat one and leave one for the monitor?" "The homework of the whole company for three weeks has been wasted. I can't eat it. What do you think?" Gao Cheng's eyes were burning. Xu Sanduo didn't care, he said: "That's what you have to eat, that's not good, that's what you have to eat..." Gao Cheng couldn't hold back his anger suddenly, he shouted violently: "Drag it out and kill it!" Of course, this was just an angry remark, but everyone was petrified.Gao Cheng was also taken aback, he suddenly slapped the egg on Xu Sanduo's hand, then turned around and left.Everyone saw that his body was trembling slightly with anger.Xu Sanduo turned around holding the egg, and was stunned - even he could feel the strong hostility from the whole class. That's the end of the exercise. The infantry fighting vehicle roared in front of my eyes, the rear hatch was opened, and the soldiers got on the vehicle.The soldiers on several cars were chatting and laughing easily, but the third shift in front of the 701 car was not in the mood, and got into the car as soon as possible in silence. When he was about to go back to the camp, Chengcai quietly found the third class, and asked Gan Xiaoning, "I heard that your class was found out?" Gan Xiaoning didn't answer, but just stared at him angrily. Chengcai had no choice but to change the subject and asked, "Where's Xu Sanduo?" "The company commander killed him!" Gan Xiaoning said and got into the car. Cheng Cai was taken aback for a moment, but he laughed immediately. He looked into the cabin and saw that the whole car was full of bitter and hateful eyes. Cheng Cai knew that something had really happened, so he hurried away. The empty seat in the 701 car belongs to Xu Sanduo, the disaster star.He is now squatting on the ground next to the car, grabbing the grass roots, ashamed, frustrated, and slightly annoyed, which stems from grievances, he really just wants Shi Jin to eat. The infantry chariot moved and passed by Xu Sanduo, the rear hatch had not been closed since just now, Shi Jin poked his head in, and ordered sullenly and somewhat pitifully, "Get in the car." Xu Sanduo hurriedly got into the car without paying attention to his head, absent-minded, and bumped his head on the eaves of the door again, everyone acted as if he hadn't noticed. Xu Sanduo wanted to sit down, but Bai Tiejun and another soldier squeezed to the side at the same time, and the vacant space was immediately enough for two people to sit down.It's spacious, but it's not comfortable. Anyone who is hidden like the plague will not be comfortable.Xu Sanduo avoids his eyes, and everyone avoids him, the only one facing him is Wu Liuyi's fire-breathing eyes. The end of the exercise was just the time to relax. Many soldiers on the vehicles opened the hatches and leaned most of their bodies outside the cabins to blow the air. Some vehicles heard the sound of singing. The hatch of car No. 701 was closed tightly, and there was no human sound except the sound of the engine. A field oil pump truck was parked next to the oil pipeline to deliver fuel to the chariot. Lao Ma and Li Meng looked around like bumpkins in military uniforms and asked, "Is it from the Seventh Company?" They all shook their heads. "Do you know Xu Sanduo? The one who appeared in the group newspaper?" The answer is still unknown.In the end, Old Wei simply shouted loudly: "Who is from Qilian?!" Chengcai's car happened to be parked not far away, and the soldiers on the car immediately responded, "We belong to the Seventh Steel Company!" Hearing this, the old horses hurried over happily. "Do you know Xu Sanduo?" Xue Lin asked, "That Xu Sanduo who just went to your company!" Upon hearing Xu Sanduo's name, the soldier smiled strangely. He turned to look at Cheng Cai and said, "Cheng Cai, isn't Xu Sanduo your fellow villager?" Chengcai obviously doesn't want to make trouble: "It's okay." 老马顿时高兴起来，缠住成才不断地问：“许三多来了吗？他在哪辆车上？” 成才看了看身后的701号车，车如个缩了头的铁乌龟样毫无生气，车长的脸灰青，头蔫耷着。 “你找他有什么事？”成才决定不去惹那辆车。 老马说：“我们是一个班的，我是他班长，不，我是说，我是他原来的班长……” 701一车人都铁青着脸，从许三多这面的射击孔，可以看见和听到外边那几个人的谈话。五班的那四个人仍在那个需要费劲仰着头的位置说话。 看他们挺热情的样子，成才犹豫了：“他……留守，他没有来。” 老魏说：“我就说嘛，他刚来，这演习没准不带他，早听我的，去团里一趟好了。”老马却说：“这孩子有出息，我寻思他能进步挺快。大哥，你给我带个信好吗？”薛林说：“什么哥不哥的，他比你还小！” 老马说：“我都要走的人了，你们还跟我戗！兄弟，你给我带个信，我这就要退伍了，这一走，这辈子许就见不着了……” 成才的心有点软了：“你到底要说什么？” “你让他得空回来看看，唉，战斗部队，也不能有空……”老马犹豫了。 薛林说：“没空也得有空！你告他要走的是谁！不是烂人李梦！不是鸟人薛林！是老马！大好人老马！”他几乎是愤怒，那种愤怒绝大部分源于分离在即，倒并非因为七连的兵对他们不大客气。“要走的是老马！他不能回来也得去送送！哪天走直接上红三连问指导员！” 成才的车，慢慢地往前开去了。 “你告诉他，千万得告诉他！最后瞧一眼！也许就是瞧这辈子最后一眼！”老马一边追着成才的车，一边喊道。 那几个孬兵终于被淹没在腾空而起的烟尘中。许三多早已经抱着头蜷成了一团，他抬头时已经泪眼婆娑。一车兵仍是那个样子，谁也不看谁。只有史今一直贴在射击孔里看那几个已经被灰尘淹没的身影，贴得那么近，让人觉得他简直可以从那个枪眼大的孔里探头出去。 然后他看看许三多，叹一口气，那口气的长度绝对长过叹气专家老马，长得让人觉着诧异。许三多有一种误会，他以为这口气是为他而发的，于是他被车从眼眶里摇晃出第一滴泪水，然后拄着枪不知羞耻地哭泣。 一车兵都绷紧了一言不发，他们的脸上写得明明白白——这里不同情这样的眼泪。 钢七连讨厌弱者！ The yard was silent. As soon as the garage door was closed, this season's training was temporarily over. 伍六一打回宿舍之后，神色就一直不对，时不时地看着墙上那面“先进班集体”小旗发愣。他忽然听到有人进来，回头一看，是七班的成才，以为是找许三多的，开口就说：“许三多不在！” 成才却说：“我不找许三多。我们班长让我来的。” “干什么？”伍六一看到成才的眼睛一进就盯住了墙上的那面小旗。He knows.他说，“他火上梁似的干什么？待会儿我送过去！” 成才压着高兴说：“我们班长说，还是悄没声拿走就算了。” “你这叫悄没声吗？……用得上悄没声吗？这玩意本来就是轮流挂的。” 成才摘了旗，看看伍六一，伍六一白了他一眼。成才有点尴尬了，只好掏出烟来递给伍六一。 伍六一没理这茬：“他没告你说吗？这旗不能单手拿，它大小是个荣誉。” Chengcai didn't dare to provoke him anymore, so he left with a smile.伍六一在后边自己嘀咕着：“见这小子就有气，他心里幸灾乐祸着呢。” 被拿走的那旗，在三班实在是挂得太久了一些了，连墙上都有清晰的印痕。 “你们这帮懒家伙，还有军人的样子吗？把墙皮擦一擦，看着像什么样子！”伍六一朝着班里的战士们发着疯。 高城和指导员是全连唯一有权利住单间的人，十几平方米的一间房，因为连带家具都只放了简单的几件制式，反而显得空空荡荡。高城和史今如拔军姿，两个人私下时还站得如许挺拔，只能说一种自我惩罚。高城冷冷地看着，他也并不打算叫史今放松一点。 “我不会坚持要他走，他还是钢七连的人，但是炊事班……或者生产基地，基地一直要人，我说七连没人，但是……有时也该应付一下……”就这份吞吞吐吐来说，高城简直已经觉得自己有些委屈了。 史今：“不行。连长。” 高城他又要暴跳起来：“谁去都可以！他去就不行？” 史今：“谁去都可以。他去，尤其这个时候去，我们就是彻底否定他作为战斗人员的价值。” 高城在屋里足转了一圈，转回来时已经有些狐疑，史今是不是看到了什么他没看到的东西：“哈！战斗人员！他有你说的那个价值吗？我看兵的眼神不如你。说真的，他有你说的那个价值吗？” 高城的这份好奇实在比他的愤怒更让史今为难。 史今：“我……暂时还没有看出来。” “我靠！”如此有失身份地大喊一句后，他高城的恼怒也超过了临界点，“我已经让步了！我容许他在七连待着！只要他的成绩不记入本连——尤其是你们班的作训成绩！我不想被这么一个……这么一个心理上的侏儒废掉我最好的班长！” 史今吞吐到了结巴的程度，因为他维护的那个人实在没给他任何希望：“我……我想我们都是心理上的侏儒……我是说，曾经是。所以、所以应该给他个机会，让他能……至少能……长高一点。” 高城已经冷静下来，更确切地说，冷淡下来，没人愿意总重复一个话题：“你还要维护他吗？” 史今：“连长，就像您维护我们一样啊。” 高城不为所动，他对许三多实在已经深恶痛绝。 高城：“你坚持？” “我……”史今长嘘了口气才把后两字说完，“坚持。” 高城：“那你走吧。” 史今犹豫了一下，规范地敬了一个礼后打算出去。高城不再看他，只是在史今将出门时嘘了口气：“以后我不会再跟你私下谈这件事情了。” 史今轻轻带上了门，看着营房外的空地发呆，在他的印象中，他的连长对他从来没有这样冷淡过。 成才在七班宿舍将那面先进红旗挂在墙上，刚看了看，发现许三多贴了墙根从外边过道经过。成才叫住了他。成才走出去，在他身边并没停顿，径直越过，那架势就像对墙上懒得掸去的灰尘。 “你跟我来。”成才的声音很冷淡。许三多跟在他后边，只有三尺远，但像在两个世界。The two no longer have the original intimacy.越好的部队里后进越没有容身之地，于是许三多对成才也只敢老实地跟在后边。 两人走到操场上，成才坐下拿出支烟点上，很有派地看看许三多，点点头。他像个领导，至少是带“长”的什么，尽管成才只在新兵连做过副班长。许三多于是坐下。 成才盯着许三多的眼睛：“我这两天一直在想你怎么办，我想出来了。” 许三多于是眼里放光，看着他，那几近感激，原来有人为他在想。 “你走。”成才很武断地说道。 许三多的脸色迅速黯淡下来：“我去哪？” “你已经把印象搞成了这样了，那就很难再拧过来了。你在红三连不是干得挺像样吗？那块地盘是你的，你跟红三连领导说，你想回红三连，七连这边肯定放。听我的错不了，我是为你考虑的。” “可我，我不想去。” 成才觉得奇怪了：“这是你想去不想去的问题吗？许三多，人这辈子能干什么不能干什么，是不能勉强的，这叫定数。” “你这是迷信。”许三多说，“我爸说的。” “我当然知道这是什么！我是为你想的，你以为你在钢七连还能有什么出息吗？我也替钢七连说一句，你就根本不该在这个连队，连里天天在说的荣誉感你知道是什么吧？你能为它做什么吗？你……” 他恼火回头瞧一眼，其实不瞧也知道许三多在干什么，许三多在抹眼泪。 成才压了压自己的声音：“行了，这里烦这个。我也烦这个。” 冰寒彻骨，寒得许三多不再抹泪，只好任由眼泪往下淌，他现在甚至没有擦掉眼泪的权利。 “别流了。还流？你靠这个在七连混吗？……你知道什么叫荣誉吗？什么叫钢七连？叫什么不好干吗叫钢？……你浑身上下哪根毛当得起这个字？说这话是为你好，这哪是你来的地方？……哭什么？我真不想跟你说什么了……我跟你说，你现在就去找红三连的人说……你还哭？我不想跟你说了，跟你是老乡有什么好的？全连都笑话我！——我走了！”连那种居高临下的耐性也失去了，成才扔了烟头走开了。 许三多看着地上那个烟头发呆，远处的兵在打篮球，欢声喧哗，他很孤独。 许三多捡起烟头放进垃圾箱里。 许三多想想，觉得成才说得也对，于是红三连的指导员何红涛在前边走，许三多就在后边跟着，他不知道如何开口。 何红涛的心情很愉快，愉快到根本没有觉察后边的那位。许三多咽着唾沫，瞪着眼看着那个后脑勺，下着决心。转个弯何红涛倒不见了，许三多看着空空的路发呆。何红涛从他身后的小卖部里出来，手里拿着个奶瓶子。 何红涛看到许三多一愣，忙说：“可巧了，我正要去找你呢。我跟你说件大喜事啊，我他妈有儿子啦！不……”何红涛忽然发现自己说错了，忙改口说，“我要跟你说的不是这事，我是跟你说，你那老班长老马，就要走了，后天下午的火车，跟我说了好几次了，临走前得看见你，你得去送送人家。” 可许三多想对何红涛说自己的心事，连连说了几个我，就是怎么也说不出来。 “怕请不下来假是吧？知道你们七连忙，请不下假我去帮你请。” Xu Sanduo still belongs to me, so I can't say anything. 何红涛：“我一直纳闷你干吗要去七连，现在我觉得你是挑对了。许三多，你是个会想事的人，当兵是得去七连这样的地方啊。你看你现在，结实啦我该说坚实啦，硝烟熏出来的坚实。你们连是耗弹大户嘛。什么事？” 许三多：“没……事。” 何红涛自顾自地说着完全不顾及许三多的表情：“这话你可能不爱听吧，你刚来时那眼神吧，空空洞洞的，现在就有东西啦，在想事。有心事吧？是好事，你自个担当事了嘛。担当啥事？说我听听，不定还能帮你担当点。” 许三多：“我……没……指导员再见。”然后愣头青一般掉个方向就走了。 何红涛愣在那，过了会儿总算想起句话茬：“那你到底去不去送你班长哪？许三多，年年兵来兵往，人能惦记住人不容易！” 许三多茫然而愣冲冲地走，他在逃避。