Chapter 4 Chapter 04

Perhaps, as Gao Baoxin said, it would be fine if there was no emergency assembly.The original intention was to pull the officers and soldiers of the third company out of the camp, go for a three-kilometer cross-country, or a five-kilometer quick walk, and leave the personnel to check in the whole company.Judging from the time, this automatic has not yet moved out of the camp, so it may be buried somewhere near the main company, or sink in the river by the pigsty.However, who would have known that when the whistle for emergency assembly sounded, the guns fired before the troops could be assembled.

The company commander's whistle is made of copper. Since he became the company commander, he has directed all the activities of the third company.It sounded sharp and piercing.The instructor used it once, the whistle blew and his ears buzzed.The instructor said I couldn't stand it, and the company commander was very happy, saying that I just like to blow this whistle, which is louder than the old bell on the big locust tree in our village.When the old bell rang, the neighbors and the five villages couldn't sleep. At that time, grandma's and the team leader rang the bell for big and small matters.This time the company commander blew his whistle, at 4:40 in the morning, one after another, like an earthquake a few seconds later, the entire building and facilities of the third company trembled from the whistle.The messengers and hygienists of the company's soldiers got up early. When the company commander blew his whistle, he went straight to the platoons and told the platoon leader, "Hurry up!"quick!Level 2 combat readiness, urgent assembly.Level 2 combat readiness, urgent assembly!

At the end of autumn, the weather will be cold, hot and cool, which is a good time for field training of troops, such as division exercises, regiment exercises, and emergency assembly of battalions and companies, which is a common thing in the barracks.Especially on a Saturday.When they heard the company commander's whistle, the soldiers were still in a dream, and as soon as they got out of bed, there was a noise: Who the hell didn't come back last night, let everyone suffer along with it! What level of combat readiness? !Do you bring a kettle? ! Hold!Where's my armor belt? don't make noise!Don't turn on the light!hurry up!

You bear soldier, the enemy who wants to fight has already arrived at your bedside... Chaos is chaos.In the past, the company commander would deduct points with a stopwatch at the door of each row of dormitories.But today he didn't, and he violated the military regulations of not turning on the lights in an emergency assembly. He suddenly came to a row, snapped the light switch, and the dormitory was immediately brightened.The movements and expressions of all the soldiers were right in front of his eyes. He wants to see which soldier has an abnormality in the emergency assembly. Pull the second row of bedroom lights...

Pull three rows of bedroom lights... Pull four rows of bedroom lights... If nothing is found, such as raiding the enemy barracks, the enemy has already withdrawn.The clerk and the instructor stood in front of the two rows of dormitories. It was different to see which soldier came out of the dormitory, but it was the same for which soldier walked out of the dormitory. They carried their backpacks, buttoned them, and put their hats on after they were buttoned. I felt like I was in a daze; said fuck, who carried my satchel wrongly, my satchel is new.The company commander's face was gloomy and dejected.Back at the gate of the company, the instructor asked if there was anything wrong?He said he couldn't see it.Then he stood on the shoe rack by the roadside.The row of cement shoe-drying platforms is for drying shoes, and also for him to stand during an emergency assembly. Every time he stands on that platform, two heads taller than the whole company, his heart is full of satisfaction, as if he is climbing up the stairs. On the parade stand.But when he climbed up today, the comfort was gone. His face was gloomy and gloomy, and it merged with the night without stars and moon. It was hard to see whether the night was reflected on his face, or his face was shining on the night, it was just so dull. Standing, holding the copper whistle in his right hand, he was stiff and dumb, and there was a (口东) (口东) sound in his heart.

The platoon leaders brought the troops before him. The second platoon leader reported to him. A platoon leader reported to him. The third platoon leader reported to him. The fourth platoon leader reported to him. "Where's the cooking class?" the company commander asked. "Not yet." The deputy company commander replied. "Tell them not to bring cooking utensils." The deputy company commander ran to the cooking class.The cooking class was in a row of houses behind the company headquarters. Before turning the corner, the deputy company commander froze for a moment and stood still in a daze.

The company commander and the instructor blew towards the cooking class like the wind. That's when the gun went off.The sound was muffled, as if the muzzle of the gun was close to the target, and the bullet entered the target as soon as it was fired.However, this sound is more frightening than clear and loud.The company commander Zhao Lin and the instructor Gao Baoxin had both participated in the battle. They knew that something serious was going on when the gun was fired, and they both knew that it was in the cooking squad.The thing is also true.When they ran over, the cooking squad leader and five soldiers of the cooking squad, with steel baskets on their backs and firewood for combat preparation, crowded into the cooking squad warehouse, everyone's face was stunned, and they formed a semi-circle.

The warehouse is a small apartment between the cooking pavilions.Later, the cooking squad leader narrated to the expert group that when the whistle for emergency assembly sounded, he jumped out of bed. He said that he had a bad stomach that night and went to the toilet twice, so he simply went to sleep with his clothes on, saying that he jumped out of bed , turned on the light, and found that Xia Xia was not on the bed.Said that the summer sunset was when he came back from the toilet and got up.Xia Xia went to bed very early that night, before the lights were turned off, he went to bed and covered his head in the quilt.He always covers his head under the quilt when he sleeps, as if he is afraid of seeing people. He has been in the army for ten months and sleeps with his head covered every night.The cooking squad leader said that this Xiaoxia is sincere, introverted, and she likes not to talk, thinking about things alone, unlike other urban soldiers who think that they are urban people, which is great.Moreover, Xiaoxia was admitted to a university, and her score passed the cutoff, but for some reason the school did not admit her.He said that we all respect Xia Sunset. Although he can't hit the target accurately and the queue is not good, we know that as long as he is admitted to the military academy, he will be admitted immediately, so when he thinks about his thoughts, we let him think and never disturb him. .All of our cooking classes have not graduated from junior high school, and all of them are high school students on the file.Me too, after graduating from elementary school, I sent a few catties of red dates to the militia battalion commander's home, and I joined the army and became a high school student.We know summer sunsets are not what we think they are.He fell asleep that night, and then he got up to do something, and when he came back, his face was pale, and I said you were sick?He said he was not sick, just dizzy.I asked the hygienist to ask for two pills, but he said no, just a good night's sleep, so he went to bed again to sleep with his head covered.His bed was empty during the emergency assembly. As soon as I left the house, I saw him sitting alone in the middle of the door, dumbfounded like a chicken with plague.I said summer sunset, urgent assembly, he ignored me, I went to hold his arm, only to realize that his military shirt is very damp, presumably he stayed under the sun for a long time.I said the company commander whistled, didn't you hear?He still ignored me, turned around and went into the house to pack his backpack.He packed his backpack very slowly and loosely, as if he was moving house.Everyone packed their backpacks, and went to the kitchen to take out the war preparation pot, war preparation basket, war preparation bag, hand blower, all miscellaneous things, and when they stood in a line at the door, he walked out of the house and entered the kitchen empty-handed.We all have a division of labor. In addition to backpacks for emergency gathering, we have to carry a lot of pots, pans, ladles and so on.He is a new soldier, weak in body, so he can only carry a bundle of coal firewood on the back of an emergency assembly after division of labor.The firewood is very light, less than 12 catties per bundle, and it is placed in the warehouse. It is usually bundled and not untied, and it is stored there for emergency assembly.We stood in line and waited for him to get the firewood, and asked the deputy squad leader to take out his backpack. As soon as he came out and carried the backpack, we went to the entrance of the company department.Every emergency assembly cooking class is always slower than the shift schedule.We have a lot to bring.When the deputy squad leader went to pick up his backpack, he thought it was loosely tied, so he tightened his backpack on his bed, took out a pair of liberation shoes from under his bed, and stuffed it into his backpack.But before the deputy squad leader took out the backpack, the gun went off.As soon as the gun was fired, we ran to the warehouse, Xia Sunset lay still, the gun was thrown aside.There was still rice flour on the gun, and two grains of rice were caught in the trigger. The gun must have been buried in a rice pool in the warehouse.The rice pool was very large and full of rice, and he was buried very deep. When we dug rice into the war preparation pot, we didn't find the gun.No one would have thought that he would commit suicide if he stole the gun.I don't know where he can't think about it.We all came from the countryside and lived well, but he died from a big city.I don't know where he can't think about it. If he wants to go to college, he can go to college, and if he wants to go to military school, he can go to military school in the second year.Don't go to school, don't care about work, leave the army and go home to have a job, work hard, join the party, and arrange work in the city is also a priority.I don't know where he can't think about it.In the company, he couldn't make it to training, and the company took care of him and put him in the cooking class.He is the youngest, the youngest, and the most educated in the class, and he is not allowed to do dirty or heavy work, but I don't know where he can't think about it.He never said it.We all came from the countryside and lived well, but he committed suicide.

Unexpectedly, it would be Xia Luo who stole the gun, and Xia Luo would commit suicide.No one knew why he committed suicide. At the age of seventeen, he had no worries and was in the cleanest period of his life, but he was the one who committed suicide.At that time, the company commander first rushed into the warehouse of the cooking squad, pushed aside the soldiers of the cooking squad, and said: "What happened?!" The soldier in the cooking squad said: "Xia sunset shot himself!" Come in with the instructor. "What happened?!" "Xia Sunset shot himself!"

The deputy company commander ran in. "What's the matter?" "Xia Sunset shot himself!" More than a hundred people from Sanlian gathered around, and they all asked what happened, and they all replied that Xia Luo shot himself.Sanlian has not yet woken up from the shock of suicide, and has not yet connected suicide with life.For example, if an earthquake strikes suddenly and the floor hits the head, it is not yet understood that it is an earthquake.Inside and outside the cooking class, there was a commotion, people outside crowded in to see what happened, and those who saw what happened crowded outside to explain what happened.The company commander is at the head of the summer sunset.Xia Li collapsed beside Michi, with his head north and feet south, lying straight on his body, his face turned to one side.The bullet entered through the front chest, passed through the back chest, and hit the rear window frame of the warehouse.A hole was drilled in the red-painted window frame, and there was a faint smell of wood and blood mixed together.The lights in the warehouse were extremely bright, and the company commander's face was pale and dead, just like Xia Luo's, as if it wasn't Xia Luo that died, but company commander Zhao Lin.But before the instructor entered the warehouse, he said a word first.

"Hurry up and take it to the battalion health center!" These words woke up the company commander and brought him back into the situation of the Southern Front War more than ten years ago.He bent down and carried Xia Luo on his shoulders as skillfully as if he was carrying a wounded man from the battlefield.Blood trickled from his neck to the back of his spine.The back of his spine felt as cold as ice.In a row of houses in front of the camp headquarters of the Health Station, it is less than 200 meters away from the Sanlian cooking team.The 200-meter company commander ran fast, and all the people in the third company followed closely.The sound of footsteps was loud and chaotic, and there were soldiers from one company to another in clothes standing at the door of the dormitory to watch. It was the dark hour before dawn, when everything was wrapped in the darkness of night.When the company commander carried Xia Luo back to the clinic, the military doctor had already been awakened first.He put Xia Luo on the military doctor's bed.The military doctor said this is my bed, don't let the blood flow to the bed.There are ambulance beds there.He carried Xia Luo to the ambulance bed in the bathroom. The military doctor began to give Xia Luo a simple bandage. The company commander let out a long breath behind the military doctor, only to realize that his whole body was soaked in sweat, and the copper whistle was still held in his right hand.He raised his hand and glanced at the whistle, the wind channel of the copper whistle was smeared to death by Xia Li's blood, he dropped the copper whistle like a habit of saliva, and wiped the blood on the whistle on his body like wiping his saliva, Putting his head on the military doctor's shoulder and looking at the summer sunset, he asked the military doctor very carefully: "Is there help?" The military doctor was a soldier five years earlier than the company commander, and was a deputy battalion major. "Hurry up and call the regiment health team!" The company commander hurriedly came out holding the whistle.