On December 21, 2011, it was an unforgettable day, early in the morning, at the Sioux City train station, I stepped on the train with hundreds of peers who shared my dreams and hopes like me. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The moment I boarded the train, I suddenly had a feeling of regret, I don't know why, maybe it was because I left this city where I had grown up for 20 years, and I was a little reluctant.

As the roar of the train sounded, my heart also roared, and I set off, full of excitement and apprehension, the concern of my parents, the care of my friends, I don't know what I will look like in two years?

I believe that everyone is the same at this time, nervous, excited, and uneasy, not to mention me who went out alone for the first time since I was a child.

When the train started, everyone was not very familiar with each other, and there was very little talk to each other, but when they arrived at the next station, everyone began to be lively.

I don't know how to play cards, so I have to take a can of beer and talk with other new comrades-in-arms about each other, and the conversation is nothing more than which unit to go to and how old I am this year.

If you meet someone in the same unit, the relationship will naturally go one step further, and after a while, many people in the car will successfully "recognize their relatives", and then they will open the beer again and continue to drink, as if this is the last carnival.

And I listened intently for a long time, but there was no one who went to the 88th Group Army like me, and I looked helplessly at those people in groups of three or five, slowly drank the last sip of beer, and returned to my seat.

On the train, I sat by the window, staring out at the receding trees.

A person next to me seemed to notice me, looked at me and said, "Brother, get to know me"?

I looked at his honest face, and couldn't help but smile, "Hello, my name is Lu Xiao." As he spoke, he stretched out his left hand, and the man hurriedly stretched out his right hand and replied, "My name is Chen Cai, Brother Xiao, which unit are you going to?"

I withdrew my hand, knocked my head absentmindedly and replied, "It seems to be the 88th Army, what about you"?

When Chen Cai heard this, he said happily: "Great, I am also the 88th Army, it seems that we may be together."

I was stunned, and my heart was also a burst of joy, great, finally there was someone who went to a place with me, and I replied excitedly: "I hope so."

"By the way, which unit of the 88th Group Army are you going to?" Chen Cai asked.

I was stunned again: "Which other unit"?

Chen Caiqi said: "Yes, there are many divisions, brigades and regiments under a group army, don't you know"?

At that time, I didn't know anything about the troops, and I never talked to my parents about the troops, and at that time I naively thought that the 88th Group Army should be a unit, but I didn't expect that there were many divisions, brigades, and regiments under it.

I looked at Chen Cai and shook my head like an idiot.

Chen Cai spread his hands helplessly: "Okay, it seems that you don't know, but I don't know which division and brigade I will go to, I only know that it is the 88th Group Army."

I smiled: "It's okay, they're all soldiers anyway, isn't it the same everywhere."

Chen Cai gave me a thumbs up: "Your mentality is really good, but the units are different, and the classes are different.

"Tired people, is it so exaggerated", I said in disbelief.

"Of course, but I'm not afraid, I just want to go to that kind of very workout place, it's better to fly a plane, or a tank if you can't drive a plane, hehe."

"Oh, I thought you wanted to be a special forces," I said jokingly.

"Special forces, I want to too, the problem is that I can't be it", Chen Cai said helplessly.

"What's so sad about it when you can't pull it down," I said.

"Hehe, I'm not sad, by the way, Brother Xiao, do you have a girlfriend?", Chen Cai suddenly asked me inexplicably.

My heart tightened, and after about a while, I said, "Hey, we just broke up a few days ago", and after saying that, I leaned back in my seat, speechless.

Chen Cai seemed to know what I was thinking, and sighed: "Hey, Brother Xiao, don't think nonsense, let's sleep, God knows what it will be like when I get there, I heard that the army is very cruel." After speaking, he lay down on the table and fell asleep.

A few short sentences of dialogue did not stop me from thinking, at that time, I thought a lot, and it was also very miscellaneous, so to speak, my mind was full of chaotic thoughts, gradually, I also felt tired, put aside all my worries, and I immediately fell asleep.

Two days later, the train stopped at a railway station in the southwest region, and the cadres with the train shouted for everyone to get off the train and form a team. Then, a group of soldiers in regular clothes ran over, and one of them led a group of recruits to board the Cummins truck not far away.

With the roar of the engine, the heartbeat of everyone in the car also began to beat with the rhythm of the car bumps, no one knows how their fate will be arranged next, I looked at Chen Cai, who shook his head with the bumps of the vehicle, and sighed softly. Gradually, everyone fell asleep, and there was no more noise on the train.

Suddenly, "boom", several loud noises suddenly exploded in everyone's ears, and with Cummins braking suddenly, everyone was awakened by the violent recoil, and they all looked at each other, not knowing what was happening.

But no one noticed that the corner of the squad leader's mouth curled up in an arc, turned around and jumped out of the car.

"Boom", there were several loud noises, and the whole body of the car was shaken. Someone in the car suddenly shouted: "It's the sound of the tank firing, it's the tank hitting us"!

When I heard this, I couldn't help but gasp, tank? Hit us? Are you kidding.

Suddenly, a horn sounded: "All the people in the car, all get out of the car, evacuate immediately, we are under attack"!

Hearing this, I was shocked at the time, how could this car be attacked by tanks if it was driving well.

Thinking of this, I suddenly only felt a cold sweat flowing from my neck to my back, and hurriedly jumped out of the car with the hustle and bustle of everyone.

"All assembled! Look to the right"! As the squad leader's shout sounded, we stood in line in a panic, but we thought in our hearts, we were all attacked, what kind of team are we doing.

Then, everyone turned right and ran forward, and the ground dozens of meters away from him kept exploding, naively I thought it was a mine, but I later learned that that thing was called an explosion point, and it was not real.

"Da da", a sound like a firework explosion sounded in his ears, and the squad leader shouted: "All personnel lie down!" Creeping forward"!

Hearing the sound, I hurriedly followed everyone to the ground, and crawled forward desperately with my hands and feet, for fear that if I took a step slower, I would be killed by the "bullet" in the back.

As I crawled, I looked back from time to time, and suddenly saw that the squad leader did not lie down, but staggered forward with us, as if the gunshots and explosions around him had nothing to do with him.

I couldn't help but secretly wonder in my heart, isn't this person afraid of death? Or are you scared silly?

Someone in the team shouted to him: "Squad leader, you lie down quickly, it's dangerous."

The man smiled, then his face changed, and he shouted: "Hurry up and climb, don't worry about me, target, two hundred meters ahead"!

I gritted my teeth and sped up my crawl.

At that time, I didn't know what the camp drill was, but later, I learned that this squad leader was sincere in rectifying us, because when I turned back again, I saw that other teams were running forward, and only our team was crawling forward.

It didn't take long for me to be out of breath, and gradually, I saw a large box truck wrapped in green paint in front of me, with a ring of tweeters around the roof, and military songs sounded from the horns, as if to guide us in the direction of our progress.

"All stand up"!

Finally, I stopped, and the short hundreds of meters already made me sweat profusely, and I was thinking that if I climbed any further, I was afraid that I would not be able to keep up.

At this time, the sound of explosions and the singing in the loudspeakers had stopped, in fact, from the time I heard the sound of artillery fire to the time it stopped, but in just over ten minutes, I stood in place, secretly wondering in my heart, why did the "enemy" stop attacking?

Suddenly, the sound of the horn suddenly remembered and startled me.

"Welcome to the armored regiment"!

Without warning, an inexplicable voice came as a man dressed in regular clothes walked slowly towards us.

Later, I learned that at that time, at that moment, I could be said to have started my military career inexplicably.