Chapter 13 Chapter Twelve

The head of the regiment had already opened the "confidential" file in his hand in the office of the regiment headquarters, and handed the documents inside to the chief of staff.The chief of staff looked at the document titled "The Reorganization of the Seventh Steel Company", and both of them looked extremely heavy. Chief of Staff: "Why them?" Wang Qingrui: "Because they are the best." Chief of Staff: "Must the best be dismantled?" Wang Qingrui: "The best one can't be taken apart." Although the news has not been made public, some personnel adjustments are already underway.The head of the group sighed helplessly, but it seemed that the person who was wronged was not himself but someone else.

For Xu Sanduo, his squad leader was only the first person to leave the Seventh Steel Company. Next, strict screening will begin, and everyone in the Seventh Company will face the survival crisis of this adaptation. A few days later, on the shooting range, the Seventh Company was shooting moving targets. What was different from the past was that this time, several regiment staff officers took notebooks to record behind everyone.Everyone was extraordinarily energetic, and it often happened that several rifles shot at the same time and a moving target was torn apart. The gunshots gradually faded away, only Wu Liuyi and Xu Sanduo were left to shoot, and everyone was watching, because watching the shooting of these two people was simply a kind of enjoyment, as if they had a tacit understanding with the bullets.

Xu Sanduo suddenly missed a shot, followed by another shot.He left Wu Liuyi alone, performing a rifle solo.Xu Sanduo walked among the parked infantry vehicles, and found that Bai Tiejun and the new student soldier Ma Xiaoshuai were talking about something, and asked, "Is this a place for chatting?" Ma Xiaoshuai yelled and ran away quickly, he knew that Xu Sanduo was a person who didn't pay much attention to such details, and Bai Tiejun went too far: "Oh, Xu Bandai, we are so polite here!" Xu Sanduo didn't agree with him, saying: "The acting squad leader is the acting squad leader. What is a squad representative?"

"We watched you grow up, this generation is a special phrase for veterans." "Okay, brother veteran, please speak if you have something to say." "Master Bandai, please come here, I have a top-secret internal reference." "What internal reference?" Bai Tiejun watched the staff officers in the distance exchanging opinions, and said, "Do you know why they follow us every day?" "Evaluate." "Why do you want to evaluate? And dispatched regiment cadres to evaluate?" "When you are a pit master, do you have many opportunities to dream about things?"

Bai Tiejun's pretending to be mysterious has long been his usual expression.He said: "It's an opportunity to look at the essence through the appearance. The essence is that Steel Seventh Company will be adapted soon!" Xu Sanduo said: "I have heard, heard, passed away the rumors." Bai Tiejun looked at him intently and said: "Ban Dai, maybe I should seriously call you the squad leader, because your squad leader is very serious and immediately knows that maintaining the morale of the army is the most important thing. You know this time is true, why don't you shoot the target?" Why did you let Vice Ban Wu?"

Xu Sanduo sighed, he had already struggled to hide this matter. After the assessment was over, the chariot returned, shaking the soldiers in it.Wu Liuyi was arranging the equipment, Xu Sanduo was in a trance, and both of them seemed to ignore each other's existence. Wu Liuyi: "What's going on today? The last few shots were more floating than Xiaobai." Xu Sanduo: "It didn't play well." Bai Tiejun smiled, with a "look" expression. Xu Sanduo: "He is making rapid progress." Wu Liuyi: "Now you speak more and more like a monitor."

Xu Sanduo nodded with certainty: "I am the squad leader." Wu Liuyi: "Today doesn't count, let's go heads-up." Xu Sanduo didn't speak, and the atmosphere in the car became tense. As soon as Wu Liu went back, he went to the Sanlian cafeteria to uncover the pot. What he uncovered was the big iron pot on the stove, and then he asked someone to carry the pot to the door, and said to Xu Sanduo, "This is the most difficult thing to carry among individual soldiers." Run? Why don't you run with your chariot on your back?" A military cap was held in Gan Xiaoning's hand, and he gave an order, and the cap fell to the ground.Xu Sanduo and Wu Liuyi, each with a pot on their backs and two boxes of machine gun bullets in their hands, shot them out.

I really want to explain how awkward it is to run like that, with a pot with a diameter of more than one meter on my back, and I can't hold it with my hands. Every step, the edge of the iron pan was heavily polished on the waists of the two of them. Xu Sanduo frowned, Wu Liuyi was like a piece of wood, he was close to masochistic. From the severe pain in his back, Xu Sanduo suddenly understood one thing. In fact, he was not the only one who suffered the most when the squad leader left.Therefore, Wu Liuyi was the one who reached the finish line first. "It doesn't count." Wu Liuyi held on strongly, and rushed over in a stumbling manner.

Xu Sanduo: "Don't torture yourself." Wu Liuyi: "It's not your turn to say that." Xu Sanduo wanted to leave: "I lost." Wu Liuyi: "There is no squad leader who admits defeat in the Seventh Company. Compete and count!" Wu Liuyi and Xu Sanduo were doing push-ups one after another in front of the dormitory again, while a group of soldiers shouted and cheered: "274, 275, 276..." I have never been able to do a good job as the acting monitor, and the third class has never returned to the previous harmony.The company commander said that I was only half a soldier, and after a long time, I felt sorry for the missing half.

Xu Sanduo finally collapsed on the ground first. Wu Liuyi managed to do one more, and finally fell down amidst the soldiers' sighs. The two of them lay down on the bed like this. One was lying on the bed, and the other was lying on the bed. On the playground outside, Gaocheng suddenly assembled a company, and the two people on the bed stared at me and I stared at you, and neither of them could move. "Come into the dormitory in line, the first row to visit." Gao Cheng ordered. The door opened, and a platoon of soldiers came in with strange expressions, silently, like a memorial service.

Gao Cheng said: "Form in file, turn to the right, stand at attention, and take a break. Now look at it, it's these two who ran five kilometers with overload this afternoon, and the two of them did more than two hundred One push-up, now it's over, and I'm lying down. Don't be shy, you two, lift up your clothes." The two reluctantly pulled up their clothes, and bandages were all over the two frayed backs. "What do you guys think?" But Wu Liuyi still hummed and said: "When you get up, you will be a good man again." Gao Cheng was angry: "You can do a review when you can get up. Bai Tiejun, you are in the same class and an accomplice. Can you make a statement?" Bai Tiejun just said a sentence of Ban Dai, but there was no more words after that. "Speak!" Gao Cheng ordered. "The spirit of daring to practice, daring to compete and daring to fight like the squad leader and the squad deputy is worth learning!" Bai Tiejun replied loudly. Gao Cheng snorted: "Study, right? Okay, you learn now, 200 push-ups." Bai Tiejun panicked immediately, and said, "Report to the company commander, I'm not a top player, I'll kill fifty of them." "a hundred!" Bai Tiejun did push-ups on the ground without saying a word. Gao Cheng turned around and looked at Gan Xiaoning: "What about your attitude?" Gan Xiaoning scratched his head: "I can make one hundred, let me make one hundred and fifty." "Two hundred!" Gan Xiaoning didn't say anything, and started doing it while lying beside Bai Tiejun. Hong Xingguo was a little worried, and quietly reminded Gao Cheng. Gao Cheng looked into the instructor's eyes and said word by word: "If you don't stop this unhealthy trend, I'm afraid they will die." Today, Xu Sanduo was like a goat whose crotch had been split, staggering across the playground with his waist supported. The young faces of the soldiers flashed in front of his eyes. Xu Sanduo's 21-year-old eyes had already brought a little desolation. Chengcai stood in front of him.He found that Chengcai's eyes were more lonely than himself. Chengcai: "May I treat you to dinner?" Xu Sanduo: "I'm going to the cafeteria." Chengcai: "Come with me. I haven't had dinner with my friends for a long time." The restaurant in the military area is said to be for eating, but in fact it is for drinking.Chengcai, who was already shaking, brought four bottles of beer in one breath.Xu Sanduo stopped him: "Chengcai, none of us can drink." Chengcai said: "Is there anyone in the world who can drink? No, there are only people who can carry it. All soldiers are those who can carry it." "Is Sanlian unhappy?" Xu Sanduo asked with concern. Chengcai seems to be crying and laughing: "Sanlian? Sanlian? I really want to go back to Gang Qilian." Xu Sanduo looked at him suspiciously, and suddenly discovered something that should have been discovered long ago. The military rank of Chengcai was different from his: "Are you a non-commissioned officer? You are already a non-commissioned officer! Haha, I hope you are happy!" "Happy? Am I happy?" Xu Sanduo still had smile lines on his face, but he was happy, not teasing: "Look, you are ahead of me in everything. You have to celebrate. I drink? I don't drink. Let me salute you, Soldiers salute the sergeant!" He really saluted Chengcai. Chengcai: "Xu Sanduo, even you made fun of me?" Xu Sanduo still smiled happily: "Teasing? No." Chengcai: "I'm still laughing, I'm still laughing. Well, Xu Sanduo, I'm laughing, I know the class I'm going to, and I just smirk at myself, do you know which class I'm going to?" "Which class?" "Where you came from." "Where did I come from?" "Where do you come from, don't you know?" "Going down to Banyan Tree Township? Impossible, we don't have any troops there." Chengcai was angry: "You are from the fifth class, do you know? In the desert, by the oil pipe, uncle doesn't hurt, grandma doesn't love..." "Red three consecutive five classes?" Xu Sanduo suddenly smiled, smiling happily. Chengcai was angry again: "Look! You laugh and you laugh!" "I think it's a coincidence..." He thought for a while, "I miss them." Chengcai said: "It's a coincidence for you, but for me it is a sanatorium for backward soldiers and the grave of all squad leaders!" Xu Sanduo thought for a while and said, "Class Five is not what you think." There was sadness in Chengcai's words: "It's such a big circle, a dream that I can't wake up from. Qilian's people have offended all of them, and Sanlian has no friends..." Xu Sanduo recalled: "Class Five is really good. Old Wei, Xue Lin, and Li Meng are all good people." Cheng Cai said with a sullen face: "I also said that Li Meng is this Li Meng. The good squad leader quit and has to go to the regiment headquarters to be a civil servant! I just go to fill his vacancy!" The news that Li Meng went to the regiment headquarters was a surprise to Xu Sanduo. "I heard that Director Zhang, who manages the Tuanbao, appreciates him very much, saying that his articles are well written, and the magazine has published..." "Li Meng's novel has been written?" It was another surprise for Xu Sanduo. Chengcai became more and more gloomy: "Can he pack a cigarette case a mile away? I can. Can he lie in a stinking ditch all day waiting for a target? I'll wait. Did he use rat meat as a holiday dish? I eat it." .he……" Cheng Cai looked at Xu Sanduo's wry smile and was suddenly depressed.He said: "I've been thinking for the past few days, if only I were as down-to-earth as you, I'm still in the seventh company, thinking about nothing but my sniper rifle... Sanduo, thinking about those every day is really tiring .” Xu Sanduo's heart suddenly tightened, and he stared blankly at Chengcai. If he is still in Qilian, the adaptation is a knife hanging over his head.These days, everyone in the company is waiting for the knife to fall. When Xu Sanduo came out of the editorial office of the group newspaper, he was even more depressed. Old Wei had also retired, and Li Meng was still pursuing his literary dream, but it was only pinned on that secretary Zhang, and there were more philistines.Class Three and Five is no longer the Class Three and Five that Xu Sanduo cared about. In the twilight, the chief of staff and several regiment officers were walking towards the Seventh Company, and the active soldiers on the playground were all stunned, because judging from their expressions and formations, what came was a matter that the Seventh Company soldiers had been choking in their throats. . Gan Xiaoning was in a daze, the volleyball in his hand fell to the ground and rolled to the feet of the chief of staff.The chief of staff shook his head, picked up the ball and handed it to Gan Xiaoning.Gan Xiaoning took it in a daze, and when he briefly looked at the chief of staff, a trace of sadness suddenly appeared on his face. Gao Cheng and Hong Xingguo watched from the window of the company headquarters, their faces were generally heavy. Hong Xingguo turned around and put on his military cap: "Let's go, what should come will always come." Gao Cheng didn't have the courage to speak, so he followed Hong Xingguo out. In the conference room, the chief of staff and several military officers were sitting or standing in a huge conference room with heavy faces, waiting for the arrival of Gao Cheng and Hong Xingguo.A cigarette between the chief of staff's fingers had burned a long piece of ash. Gao Cheng and Hong Xingguo finally came in, wearing very formal attire with solemn expressions. Gao Cheng: "Steel Seventh Company Commander Gao Cheng reports for duty!" Hong Xingguo: "Hong Xingguo, the instructor of the Seventh Steel Company, reports for duty!" An officer was slightly shaken by their yelling, and moved his body to block a booklet on the table.But Gao Cheng's eyes had already swept over there. Gao Cheng's speech and eyes seemed to be carrying a knife, the chief of staff sighed secretly, and said: "There is no instruction, the order has already been issued, and it is on the table." Gao Cheng walked straight to the table, and opened the thin book, which read: "The Reform Plan of the Seventh Armored Reconnaissance Company of the 353rd Regiment: The First Personnel Allocation List". The first name that caught the eye was the instructor Hong Xingguo, who was changed to the instructor of the Ninth Company of the C Regiment. The next one is Bai Tiejun, a veteran of the third class. His service period is about to expire and he will be demobilized ahead of schedule. Gao Cheng flipped through the pages one by one, feeling his heart cooling down little by little. With the breeze blowing, the two ostentatious company flags of the Seventh Steel Company seemed a little weak. Gao Cheng and Hong Xingguo watched the chief of staff who brought the bad news leave. Hong Xingguo stretched out a hand in a daze. Gao Cheng knowingly gave him a cigarette, but when he lit it, he hit it four or five times without lighting it On the ground, Hong Xingguo's mouth and hands were shaking all the time, very violently. The two trembling officers finally gave up, and Hong Xingguo crumpled the cigarettes in his hands. There were bursts of laughter from the soldiers moving outside, which seemed very far away. "There will be a party tomorrow, and I will take care of it. Military discipline and people's hearts must be taken care of." Hong Xingguo said.Gao Cheng just hummed.Hong Xingguo said: "More than 30 people have to leave quietly, they can't be sent away. We can't do the same ceremony as before. Sending away one third at a time will definitely mess up the morale of the army." Gao Cheng couldn't help but yelled "Old Hong!" Hong Xingguo said: "I am an instructor, isn't that what instructors do?" Gao Cheng said: "I'm sorry for you, I always oppress you." Hong Xingguo said: "I am an instructor, and the instructor is to assist you in your work. Why do you suppress me?" Gao Cheng said: "I made fouls when I played basketball, I made bad moves when I played chess, and I made eye contact with my opponent when I played cards. They all knew that it would be fine if they offended the instructor, but they would cause trouble if they offended the company commander. They all helped me make trouble." Hong Xingguo said: "You are the company commander, the number one of the Seventh Steel Company, you can't lose." Gao Cheng punched Hong Xingguo hard: "Don't disgust me." A few soldiers walked in with the ball, and Hong Xingguo stomped Gao Cheng.He turned his head and smiled kindly at the soldier. Gao Cheng turned around to look at Lian Qi, his back seemed mature and dignified. Soldiers from the Seventh Company's cooking squad took a lot of fish, meat, vegetables, eggs and fruits from the cart.The steward commanded without saying a word.The soldiers passing by were very envious, and they all said that the Seventh Company is really good, and the food is also the best in the whole regiment. At this time, the chief secretary had no intention of bragging about it for a long time, he just waved his hand and told them to get out!Then he walked into the cafeteria with two bunches of bananas.A few soldiers were decorating the venue for the party in the cafeteria.The chief secretary became angry when he saw it: "A dead person? It's not a funeral parlor! Turn on the tape recorder!" Then the tape recorder on the side rang. The banner on the venue read: "Farewell to comrades in arms, miss comrades in arms and bless comrades in arms". It's time for dinner, and the troops training on the playground have already headed to the cafeteria under the pretense of eating. The two lined up, and Bai Tiejun walked towards the cafeteria with Xu Sanduo chattering. A company of people sat quietly in the cafeteria, only the few soldiers who had just entered were sobbing softly. As soon as Bai Tiejun entered, Hong Xingguo and Gao Cheng stood up for him, followed by a burst of warm applause, which was a signal, and the applause of the whole company suddenly became lively. Amid the applause, Bai Tiejun finally saw the words on the banner clearly.However, he is like an illiterate, as if he doesn't know a word.Slowly, the applause fell. "Just... so fast?" Bai Tiejun put on his uniform and smiled vigorously, but suddenly squatted down. Everyone seems to be watching him.Suddenly, Bai Tiejun grinned and wept unscrupulously. Drunk and divorced, Qilian's farewell party finally developed into a random hug regardless of rank or shift.A soldier jumped on the table with a microphone, howling I will miss you!I promise I will miss you all!Before he finished shouting, people lifted him down. Among the embracing crowd, crying, laughing, and cursing became chaotic, some said: "You don't want to pay back the one hundred yuan!" Pipeline fees!” Some said, “We’re reconciled, and I’m the one who made all the mistakes!” The other replied, “If you don’t write to me, I’ll curse you for eight lifetimes!” Hong Xingguo was hugged by many people, Gaocheng Jiwei was still there, and he stood aside with his hands spread, looking very embarrassed. Bai Tiejun appeared behind him, "Company Commander!" Bai Tiejun called affectionately. As soon as Gao Cheng turned around, he opened his arms towards him, but instead of hugging him, Bai Tiejun gave him the most dignified military salute in his three-year military career with a slap.Then, hug someone else.Gao Cheng watched Bai Tiejun hugging others in disappointment, but fortunately his ass was finally kicked in a proper way.That can only be Hong Xingguo.Hong Xingguo opened his arms: "Lao Qi, do you really have to pretend?" Before Hong Xingguo could finish speaking, Gao Cheng had already thrown himself into his embrace. Xu Sanduo and Wu Liuyi sat together, because they were arranged in shifts, the couple had to sit together.Xu Sanduo looked in front of him quietly, from his expression, it could be seen that he took everyone into his heart.Wu Liuyi stuffed bananas into his mouth one by one like stuffing ducks. The way he ate without discerning taste was filled with anger. In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, Bai Tiejun got up quietly. He quietly took out the packed backpack from under the bed, and went out quietly.Everyone in the room seemed to be asleep.When he reached the door, Bai Tiejun solemnly took another look at the dormitory where he had lived for three years. He suddenly found that the whole class was staring at him intently. Bai Tiejun waved to them silently and went out. The soldiers who were about to leave in each squad waited in the corridors in front of the dormitories until Hong Xingguo and Gao Cheng came out of the instructor's dormitory lightly. They glanced at them and walked outside quietly. The soldiers of the Seventh Company already had a tacit understanding and followed behind one by one. When Hong Xingguo passed by the company's flag, he turned his backpack over to Gao Cheng and saluted the flag with preciousness. Afterwards, all the people stopped under the company flag, and then saluted one by one. All this is silent. A car was parked in an open space not far away. Hong Xingguo and his soldiers climbed into the back of the car silently, and the car drove away slowly. Everything is very routine, different from any previous departure, this time it seems routine - because this trip is too much. Gao Cheng stood with his head bowed, while the others, including Hong Xingguo, did not look back until they left. Gao Cheng stood alone. The people in the room were lying on the bed and staring at each other. You looked at me, I looked at him, and he looked at you. There was a dead silence. Xu Sanduo was lying on the upper bunk, and from his position he could see Gao Cheng standing on the open space, alone, alone, standing in the corner where Xu Sanduo missed Shi Jin back then—the corner where the trash can was placed. Thirty-six walked that day.He stood where I stood until dawn, even in the same posture.I kept looking at him, and then I saw... myself standing there, forced to grow in frustration, angry, frustrated, even a little bit hateful. Ma Xiaoshuai's voice buzzed from the lower bunk, with a crying sound: "Squad leader, do we have to lie down like this all the time? Can't we send it?" Xu Sanduo: "I can't send it, it's a death order." Ma Xiaoshuai: "How long will you lie down?" Xu Sanduo: "Lie down until we stand up, others will not feel that we are one-third less. Lie down until then." The first raindrops floated on the window glass, Xu Sanduo looked at Gao Cheng and was still standing outside the window. Gao Cheng came in with the Reveille, and his steps seemed heavy in the empty corridor, one wet footprint after another, angry and helpless. Quiet, Qilian has never been so quiet when the wake-up call is sounded. Gao Cheng was surprisingly angry: "Are you deaf? Get up!" Although one-third was lost, the sound of two-thirds jumping to the ground was like an earthquake. They have been waiting a long time. The rain was pattering and the raincoat was shining brightly. Gao Cheng and his troops, who were shortened a lot, stood on the rainy ground.The military boots trampled on the rain, and the rain splashed wet mist in the rain, and the firearms and equipment shone in the rain.No one issued a password, and the Seventh Company completed the team change in the silence and the roar of boots. Gao Cheng watched silently. The first impression of Qilian was not that it was one-third less, but doubled.Gao Cheng, who shared food and sleep with the company every day, also felt a kind of coercion.The queue fell silent, only the soft sound of rain. "All of you..." Dozens of pairs of eyes looked at him, and even the eyes seemed to be frozen, only the rain moved.This made Gao Cheng almost speechless, "I am very worthy of Qilian's ancestors...Lao Hong, tell me..." He subconsciously turned half a body, and then remembered that the person had already left.This made Gao Cheng dumb for a few more seconds. dumbfounded.After the silence came the explosion. "Target range! Full speed! Impact!" Steel Seventh Company blasted out, forming a seemingly disorderly but murderous charging formation. Gao Chengchong waved the automatic rifle that he was not supposed to be holding on the side of the team and shouted: "Kill——" The soldiers were stunned for a moment, such a password is not just used to shout casually, especially in the regiment compound.Wu Liuyi then shouted: "Kill!" Where there is the first person, there is the second, the third until the thirteenth shouted together, and the ones who echoed down were a platoon, half a company, the whole company, and the seventh company, which was rushing at full speed, shouted that word Deshanhu and tsunamis one after another, with all the suppressed anger—the anger born of the fate of Quanlian.Xu Sanduo ran on the other side of the line. He was the only one in the company who didn't shout, but he didn't take a step. In the regiment compound, Wang Qingrui and the chief of staff watched the team overflowing the playground against the rain. Naturally, it was the most eye-catching team among all the morning training teams. The chief of staff frowned: "What is the seventh company commander doing? Are you going to revolt?" Wang Qingrui: "He's boosting morale." The chief of staff watched those angry and depressed soldiers rush past him, so uninhibited and full of strength, the raindrops bouncing off them even made his face hurt. An old soldier who has been in the army for decades is gradually infected and intimidated by a group of young men. The last member of the Seventh Steel Company had also disappeared under the rain, but the remaining momentum still made all the queues on the playground dumbfounded. Chief of Staff: "Maybe this company really shouldn't be moved." Wang Qingrui: "Did you see a company?" The chief of staff looked at him. Wang Qingrui: "I saw the hail of bullets, the bullets just fired...they have enough seeds to find the answers they want." In the Sanlian Dormitory, Xu Sanduo and Chengcai were sitting face to face, just sitting, Chengcai was going to Class 5 in the desert tomorrow, was sitting like this to bid farewell to Chengcai?Or is it to relieve Xu Sanduo's sadness?Maybe the purpose is not important, the silence was broken by Gan Xiaoning: "Squad leader, the company commander is going to the regiment headquarters to fight!" Sure enough, the soldiers of the No. 7 Steel Company put on their armed belts one by one, rolled up their sleeves, and even carried out the two company flags.Seeing Xu Sanduo running over, Gao Cheng handed over the banner without saying a word: "Xu Sanduo, you carry this bloody pioneer! Wu Liuyi, you carry the armored tiger!" This small group of soldiers walked towards the regiment headquarters through the rain.