"Click", "Click"

A series of crisp bursts of fire sounded one after another, waking up the shooting range, which had been silent for twelve months a year, and eight or nine months. This was also the first live-fire target firing organized by the unit since the recruits joined the army.

The gun has been issued to me for more than a week, and every day, in addition to carrying this thing five kilometers in the morning and evening, it is to disassemble the gun and load the gun under the leadership of the recruit squad leader, maintain the gun, or lie on the ground... Although the first-line practice is in the south, the temperature in winter is low enough. These recruits, who had hardly suffered much at home, lay on their stomachs on the cold and wet soil for two hours, repeating simple and boring aiming movements, and suffered no less than running five kilometers with their equipment on their backs.

If it weren't for wartime, whether it was a recruit or a veteran, it was basically not distributed with live ammunition. Even during the exercise, all the ammunition was empty, and if you want to touch the live ammunition, you can only do it when you hit the target. Therefore, target shooting has become a grand event for soldiers.

Today's target shooting is a target shooting organized by the recruit company, and it has nothing to do with veterans. After breakfast, each company lined up and went to the shooting range according to the arrangement of the superiors.

The shooting range and the training ground are not located together and are located in a valley three kilometres outside the training regiment camp area. The training regiment is surrounded by mountains on three sides, but this shooting range is even more closed, with only a gravel road three or four meters wide leading to the outside. For this three-kilometer distance, the recruits usually ran on foot with their equipment. Cheng Zhichao and the others arrived outside the shooting range, and the new soldiers of another company were shooting, and according to the safety regulations, they could only wait outside the shooting range when other units were shooting.

The gunshots continued to ring, and the sound of the August 1st bar, which sounded very deafening in the near distance, reached the ears of Cheng Zhichao and others outside the shooting range, leaving only a slight but crisp "click" sound. During normal training, Guo Peng rarely showed up, but this was the first time that the recruits came into contact with live ammunition, and he, the recruit company commander, was a little too much to say if he hid in the company headquarters again. But people are leaders, so they can't run over with the recruits. So when Cheng Zhichao and the others arrived at the place, they found that the Dalian Governor was already leaning next to a military jeep smoking a cigarette and waiting for them.

As soon as the watchman saw Guo Peng, he immediately shouted a number, commanded Cheng Zhichao and others to finish lining up outside the shooting range, and after reporting the number, he made a report to Guo Peng.

Guo Peng threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, crushed it with his foot a few times, stood in front of the queue with an eighty-one bar, and said loudly with a straight face: "Comrades, today is a special day, I hope you can all remember this day." We are a field army, and if we join the field army, we have to touch the gun. Not only to touch the gun, but also to touch it every day. If you touch the gun, you have to shoot live ammunition. Not only should live ammunition be fired, but also live ammunition should be fired frequently. A soldier who can't touch a gun every day and can't often shoot live ammunition is a soldier who comes for nothing. What is a good soldier and what is a bad soldier? It doesn't matter if you say it yourself. Who has the final say? The guy in your hand has the final say. The commander of the ninth company usually bragged to me, saying how the soldiers of their company were, what is the matter, Lao Tzu is not willing to deal with him, let's see the real chapter on the training ground. Now that the Ninth Company has entered, this shot is what they shot, do you have the confidence to compare the Ninth Company? ”

"I'm X, just shooting a target, and I still need to be encouraged?" Cheng Zhichao shook his head secretly. As soon as this thought arose, he heard Gu Chuancheng, who was standing in front of him, shouting loudly: "Please rest assured, company commander, we will definitely be able to kill these boys of the Ninth Company without any temper." The other recruits hurriedly shouted the same sentence after him.

Guo Peng seemed to want this effect, and nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, Jiulian will go out in a while, let's go in." ”

It may have been a bit louder outside, but it didn't take long for a person to walk out of the exit of the shooting range. When Cheng Zhichao saw that person for the first time, his first reaction was to think of Mo Tiejun.

I saw that this brother was also nearly 1.9 meters tall, with big shoulders and a round waist, and the camouflage clothes that were slightly fat on others seemed to be one size smaller when worn on him, and the chest muscles held up the clothes high. When I got closer, I saw that this old man looked even more vicious, with round leopard eyes and a beard, which looked like Zhang Fei in the painting. This Zhang Fei shouted loudly as he walked: "Old situation, what kind of reputation are you doing?" We're shooting inside, and you're waiting outside, shouting trumpets, what's the point? "It turned out to be a Northeast accent. ,

Cheng Zhichao sighed "Huh" and thought: "It seems that there are really a lot of Northeast soldiers in our troops, the company commander is a Northeast soldier, and this guy is also from the Northeast." ”

Guo Peng's height was not short, but when compared with him, the gap was revealed, and when the man came closer, Guo Peng had to raise his head when he wanted to talk to him. Tilting his head and talking, it is an unacceptable thing for a company commander, Guo Peng frowned and took two steps back, stood on a dirt bag of more than 20 centimeters, crossed his waist and said unconvinced: "I said Xiaobian, you are shooting targets inside, you are not watching from inside, what are you doing here to me?" ”

As soon as the two of them talked, Cheng Zhichao immediately knew that the person who came was Bian Hongwen, the company commander of the Ninth Company of the recruits, and he couldn't help but praise it secretly in his heart. He had long heard that among the more than a dozen company commanders in the entire training regiment, the most powerful one was the ninth company commander, but he had never had the opportunity to see him. In addition, as soon as this guy appeared on the scene, he forced Guo Peng to stand on the dirt bag to talk to him, and it can be seen that this side company commander is definitely not a thing in the pool.

Bian Hongwen looked at the demeanor of Guo Peng standing on the dirt bag and talking to himself, and couldn't help laughing: "Lao Tzu's soldiers are shooting targets in it and are playing lively, you suddenly came out like this, scared my soldiers to fly several bullets, can I, the company commander, come out and take a look?" ”

Guo Peng also laughed: "Let's shout twice and be scared to fly the target?" This is the recruit trained by your border commander? It's really damn that Lao Tzu laughed off his big teeth. ”

Bian Hongwen was not angry: "Look at your virtue, my soldiers have missed a few bullets, and you can't make any noise?" As for the mouth that cracks like a gourd scoop and can't close? Sue you, not to mention only a few bullets flying at the target, even if we fly half of the target by one person, we are better than your soldiers. ”

"You fart, what's wrong with Lao Tzu's soldiers? Which one isn't alive? Don't think that if you are the commander of a reconnaissance company, the soldiers you train must be stronger than mine, Lao Tzu really doesn't accept this strength. If it weren't for the appendicitis hospitalization of Lao Tzu two days before the selection, do you think you would be able to join the reconnaissance company as a platoon commander? ”

"Don't talk about those who don't need it, when I was selected, Lao Tzu still had an attack of enteritis, and he had diarrhea, didn't he go up the same? Okay is good, no is no good, so many people have been selected to brush down, and you are not the only one, no one laughs at you, are you still finished? ”

"Lao Tzu is just endless, what's the matter?" Guo Peng suddenly became excited, and said loudly: "Sue you, I haven't had a chance to compete with you before, but this time I can be regarded as caught, with today's recruits shooting targets, whether it is a mule or a horse, let's take it out for a walk." ”

"Walk for a walk, I'm still afraid of you?" Bian Hongwen laughed, "If you lose, what should you do?" ”

"Whoever loses drills the crotch, the soldiers of the whole company are lined up, more than a hundred crotch, drill one by one, do you dare?"

Bian Hongwen spat out: "You can figure it out, if you want to drill you, I don't have your Yaxing." ”

"You don't have to drill your crotch." As soon as he saw that the mention of drilling the crotch of his pants was vetoed by the other party, Guo Peng immediately changed it: "Whoever loses, whoever takes out two months' salary, buys wine and meat, beats gongs and drums and sends it to the cooking class of the company that won, it will be regarded as a Spring Festival dish." ”

"Two months' salary?" Bian Hongwen's voice immediately lowered: "Two months' salary is not good, Lao Tzu still has to live, a month is no problem." ”

"Then let's put it this way, whoever loses will take out a month's salary." Guo Peng is not picky, Bian Hongwen proposed that two months' salary is more, and a month's barely raised, and he agreed quite happily. At the end, he pointed to Bian Hongwen's nose and said: "If you lose and don't admit it, Lao Tzu will lead the soldiers of our company to your house every day to eat, and when will you get that month's salary back, and when will you pull it down." ”

"Your uncle, do you eat less than I eat? Counting it, what you eat from my house is even half a year's salary. ”

"That's what you should, you owe Lao Tzu, you know?"

"I owe you uncle." Bian Hongwen's eyes widened, and he took a step forward, and the two company commanders suddenly faced each other nose to nose, less than ten centimeters apart, like two fighting cocks.

The recruits were dumbfounded, and even the few platoon commanders who led the team looked strange, but none of them stood up to persuade them. Cheng Zhichao was secretly worried in his heart, stretched out his hand and stabbed Gu Chuancheng in front of him, and said in a low voice: "Squad leader, the more the company commander and the ninth company commander talk, they won't fight, right?" ”,

"This is someone's housework, you just have to watch it, and don't intervene." Gu Chuancheng didn't reply, and said impatiently.

"Housework?" Cheng Zhichao was puzzled, his face was dazed, he couldn't understand how it could become a family matter when it was obviously between two company commanders? looked at Guo Peng, then at Bian Hongwen, and an evil thought rose irrepressibly from his heart: "The army is full of gentlemen, the company commander has been a soldier for so many years, is it because he hasn't seen his sister-in-law for many years, and what kind of story has he made with this ninth company commander?" ”

I only heard Gu Chuancheng say: "The Ninth Company Commander and our Company Commander are from the same place, and the company commander's sister is the wife of the Ninth Company Commander." Who of us can manage the affairs of this brother-in-law and brother-in-law? ”

"Oh, that's what happened." At the same time, Cheng Zhichao suddenly realized, but he couldn't help but feel panicked about his evil thoughts just now, laughed dryly, and kept silent.

The confrontation between Guo Peng and Bian Hongwen over there has also reached a white hot point, because the distance between the two people is too close, and the time of staring at each other is too long, so that both of them have become cross-eyed, panting non-stop.

After more than ten minutes, the gunfire in the shooting range gradually thinned out, Bian Hongwen sneered, took two steps back, crossed his waist and said, "We have finished shooting, how about it?" Compare and compare? ”

Guo Peng tidied up his clothes, "bang", pulled the bolt, and said triumphantly: "Nonsense, let Lao Tzu not go up to compare, that is decided by the regiment, when will it be your turn to worry about the commander?" Putting the gun on his back, he walked to the front of the team and shouted: "Comrades, the Ninth Company is finished, let's go in and have a look." ”

Turning his head, he said to Bian Hongwen again: "When you leave for a while, you have to stay as a witness, lest you don't admit it when you get it, and Lao Tzu's salary this month is in vain." ”

Bian Hongwen snorted: "Stay, stay, when the reconnaissance company was selected, Lao Tzu was not afraid of you, and now you can still be scared?" I can warn you, if you lose this time and then you pay the bill like you used to do, don't blame me, who is a brother-in-law, for the door of our house will be closed to you forever in the future. ”

Guo Peng pouted: "If I'm afraid of you, Lao Tzu won't have the surname Guo." Isn't it just that I lost a cigarette and didn't give it to you, I've been inking like an old lady for four or five years, and I really wonder how my sister has lived with you for so many years. ”

When the two of them said the latter words, they specially lowered their voices, but Cheng Zhichao, who happened to walk by the two of them, heard it clearly. In an instant, Master Cheng had a new understanding of the two company commanders, and thought: "Listening to the meaning of the words of the ninth company commander, it seems that the two of them have made a bet before, and the company commander has not given a cigarette for four or five years. Gambling depends on character, and people with poor gambling products must not have much character. ”

In a moment of thought, the team had already entered the shooting range, led by the watchman, and set up in front of the target position. As soon as he stood still, a faint smell of gunpowder smoke entered his nostrils, and as soon as he smelled this smell of gunsmoke, Cheng Zhichao's spirit suddenly lifted. I don't know why, he and Zhao Jiyong have been interested in the smell of gunpowder since they were children, just like someone who likes the smell of gasoline. It's just that people like the smell of gasoline, so they can go to the side of the road for a stop, and when a car passes by, they stretch their necks and sniff a few times.

Cheng Weiguo and Zhao Dongjin handed over the two of them to Lao Jiang for training, but it did not mean that the two of them were treated the same as the soldiers of the guard company. Lao Jiang just taught them to disassemble and load guns, or practice aiming and bomb throwing, and the training content of the recruit company is basically the same, but the time is longer, the most painful and perverted time of training, in order to exercise wrist strength and stability, four or five bricks were hung under the body of their guns, and a grain of rice was placed on the front sight, and it was two hours in one fell swoop, as long as the rice grain fell from the front sight, it would suffer from skin and flesh.

But even if it is such training, Lao Jiang has never made even one or two live ammunition for them to fire, Cheng Zhichao and Zhao Jiyong have been training for so many years since they were young, and the number of times they really fired live ammunition is only once, that is still on a Sunday when they were more than ten years old, the old men were in a good mood, and took the two of them to the shooting range to experience one, and only three bullets per person. At that time, both of them were still young, and they couldn't even hold their guns safely, and three bullets were fired, and they didn't even touch the target. ,

It was from that time that Cheng Zhichao and Zhao Jiyong became obsessed with the smell of gunsmoke emanating from the chamber of the gun. It's just that since that time, the old man has never had a good face for these two boys, and occasionally he is in a good mood, and giving two smiling faces is enough to flatter these two poor princes, but he doesn't dare to hope to go to the shooting range again. And the guns that Lao Jiang borrowed from the guard company for their training were all polished, greeted, meticulously maintained, and could not smell the slightest smell of gunsmoke.

Now that he is a soldier, he has finally returned to the shooting range, and he can be open to guns and smell smoke, how can Cheng Zhichao not be excited? found Zhao Jiyong in the crowd, this kid was also intoxicated, his nose couldn't stop twitching, and he couldn't wait to suck all the smell of gunpowder into his stomach.

To put it bluntly, the whole shooting range is just to level out this closed small valley, draw a ruler, and set the target position. Since this valley is surrounded by mountains and there are no residents nearby, it is really a treasure of feng shui. It was a multi-purpose shooting range, with a target and gun position for live firing on one side and several fence-like things built out of concrete on the other. There are also several concrete partitions in the wall, and from a distance, the thickness of the wall and the partition is about half a meter, and the wall is not high, just up to a person's chest. Further on, there is a red earth, dotted with small pits on the ground, unlike other places that are lush even in winter, and this red earth is devoid of grass.

The recruits had never been to the range, and they knew only that they were standing in front of the firing position, but few knew what the concrete walls were for. After arriving at the place, the squad leaders followed the watchman to the gunsmith to get ammunition, and a group of recruits were left to look at the walls curiously.

In the entire recruit company, Xu Dashan and Cheng Zhichao have the best relationship, what questions do they have in their hearts, and they also like to find this prince who has lived in the army compound since he was a child, knows the life of the army very well, but has no shelf, and now he sees a new thing that he has never seen before, and the squad leader is not around, so he is a little bolder, and he carefully rubs next to Cheng Zhichao: "Chao'er, what are those concrete walls for?" This is just a shooting range, so do you need to build a few machine gun fortifications to defend it? ”

Of course, Cheng Zhichao knew what this thing was for, and when he heard that he used this wall as a machine gun fortification, he couldn't help but be angry and funny: "It's useless here?" What do you do when repairing machine gun fortifications? You'll know what you're doing in two days. ”

"I'm going to know now, you know, tell me."

Cheng Zhichao smiled slightly: "This thing is a protective wall for training to throw grenades, and when we train grenades in two days, we will train here." After the grenade is thrown, the person squats down, and the wall blocks the person, and the grenade cannot be exploded. ”

"So what's the partition for? Didn't they come one by one, but several people threw them together? ”。