Chapter 069 Grinding Steel

The nameless valley numbered 1837 in Nanyun used to be used by local villagers to set foot in the valley to collect medicine or hunt, but the tense situation on the border of Annam, especially after the Chinese decided to counterattack Annam, this valley was classified as a military-controlled area.

However, when a small force entered Valley 1837 three days earlier, a guard post was placed at the mouth of the valley, and it was a composite guard of four posts and one machine gun post.

This valley No. 1837 is the training base of the special brigade selected by Yang Xia and others. In the former direction, this small unit is also known as PLA 1837 in the former index.

Although it was only three days for Yang Xia and his entourage to reach Valley 1837, it had been five days since they arrived in southern Xinjiang, but their progress in these five days was very limited. Although there was an approval from the headquarters, their selection of personnel was not smooth, and the troops were unwilling to let Yang Xia take away a person on the grounds that when the battle was about to take place and the drawing of personnel at this time would damage the combat effectiveness of the troops, they would delay it if they could, and if they could mix it up, they would be mixed, in short, they were unwilling to let Yang Xia pull away a person. Some troops were afraid that they would not be able to say anything, so they randomly stuffed two people to come over to support the errand, and also made a special explanation that after the battle was over, the errand would have to go wherever they came.

"Shall we lower the bar?" Yang Liwei ran behind Yang Xia every day, and the captain became a follower, and he was not in a good mood.

"Even if the special forces only recruit five people in the end, I will take these five people to sneak behind enemy lines and lower the standard, if it is not impossible in peacetime, but lowering the standard at this time is equivalent to letting them rush up and be shot." Yang Xia insisted.

Yang Xia's criteria for selecting people, the first is a 20-kilometer rapid march in the wild, and the second is a stunt outside the three conventional combat skills, even if you learn to call a bird, it is a stunt, and the third is a character test.

Yang Xia's selection criteria are not high, at least not harsh, but Yang Xia's selection method is a little unexpected.

But for Yang Xia, it is also bitter and unspeakable. The soldiers in China at this time had a strong political ideology, so strong that the soldiers had almost no other hobbies and other plans, all of which were like being cast out of a mold. You can't say that such a soldier is bad, and he can even be called an elite soldier, but he really can't be called an excellent soldier. Someone said that a soldier who does not want to be a marshal is not a good soldier, and if this standard is used to measure the Chinese soldiers, most of them may not be so good. To be a marshal? Even if you just want to be a platoon leader, people will say that you are ambitious, and you may be hit.

In Yang Xia's opinion, a well-behaved soldier can complete normal tasks, including death-level tasks that resolutely resist the enemy's attack, and can also complete them, Yang Xia has no doubt about this.

However, such a soldier is not suitable to be a special forces soldier, because he is too well-behaved, does not know how to be flexible, and has no spirituality. As a matter of fact, when special forces go deep behind enemy lines, their superiors may not give them a clear task, and they are often placed there as a game of chess or a secret means, and the extent to which special forces can play a role in the end often depends on the decision and temporary play of the special operations soldiers.

On the fifth day of recruitment, it was still a failure, at this time, there were only 11 people in the valley of 1837, including captains and instructors, of course, the soldiers in charge of guarding the mouth of the valley were not counted.

"Team Yang, Deputy Team Zheng, I am ready to change the method, from today onwards, no matter what means you take, you must find enough 120 soldiers, let me give you a hint, you can go to acquaintances, and let them send all the bald, lepers and thorns on the army to our troops."

"Instructor, if it doesn't work, we can really lower the bar." Yang Liwei was quite helpless about Yang Xia's suggestion, which was tantamount to letting a leading cadre at the deputy division level lead a group of problem soldiers.

"Team Yang, you remember, I'm just changing the standard, not lowering it. I think that's the only way we can get the job done. Yang Xia is very confident in her decision.

Yang Xia had been a university teacher for nearly ten years in his previous life, and he had also led two class teachers. In Yang Xia's view, except for a very small number of problematic problems, which are indeed difficult to break through, most of the problematic problems can be broken through and resolved.

"Okay." Yang Liwei had to agree. At this time, Yang Liwei no longer had the ambition of a few days ago, and he even regretted a little that he had agreed to the General Staff Department to serve as the head of this unit, which only had a battalion-level establishment.

In the past two days, after the work was completed, Yang Liwei had to report the progress of the work to the General Staff Department, and at the same time, Yang Liwei also reflected to his superiors some of his views on the work methods of Instructor Yang Xia, but the opinion from the General Staff was to let Yang Liwei see more and think more, talk less and do more, first be more as a waiter, be more a student, and then be a teacher.

Of course, Yang Liwei's reaction was not gossip, and it was also a requirement of discipline. If there is any problem in the work, it is necessary to report to the superior in a timely manner, so that the superior can grasp the dynamics in time.

The method was changed, and it worked. On the same day, not only 120 people were recruited, but the number of people was exceeded, and Yang Xia saw this group of "crooked melons and cracked dates" and a desire/hope sprung up in his heart, not other desires/hopes, but a sculpture desire/hope.

The appearance of the army must be untidy, some of the clothes are old and new, some are clean and some are wrinkled; The queue must be untidy, some tall and some short, some fat and some thin, standing casually; Discipline is certainly non-existent or very poor, some people hold their heads high, some people tilt their heads, some people bow their heads, in short, all kinds of performances.

"Hahaha, hahaha, hahahaha......"

When this group of crooked melons and cracked dates stood at the foot of the dirt steps and looked at Yang Xia on the steps, Yang Xia suddenly laughed, and he couldn't stop laughing, until most of the crooked melons and cracked dates began to look around in panic, and Yang Xia's laughter stopped abruptly.

"Does anyone know why I'm laughing? If anyone knows, I'm willing to answer him a question! Yang Xia suddenly roared loudly.

"Aren't we just not like soldiers?" A small voice, so small that it is barely audible, and it is in the back row.

"Well said, isn't it just that we don't look like soldiers? Excuse me, do you look like a soldier? Do you know what a soldier is? Do you know what I was laughing at because you don't look like a soldier? Yang Xia roared madly.

"Others laugh at me for being crazy, I laugh at others for not being able to see through it! Whether the soldier guessed correctly or not, from now on, I can answer you five questions; In the meantime, take on your five challenges! Yang Xia's words were made with internal qi, and including Yang Liwei, they all felt that those words were exploding in their minds word by word.

Yang Xia's words were like a magical blessing, and as soon as the words landed, someone asked: "Chief, what do the special forces do?" ”

At this time, Yang Xia was wearing a four-pocket costume and looked like the "chief". The special forces clothing applied for by Yang Xia has not been sent out at all, and after Yang Xia drew a picture and put forward specific requirements, the clothing factory is processing it overnight, and it is estimated that he will not be able to wear camouflage clothing until the war.

"Listen, my name is Yang Xia, I am not your chief, but only your instructor, I just said that I accepted your five challenges, just to hit your self-righteous arrogance! However, this is a later story, I will answer first what the special forces do! ”

"What do the special forces do, that's a good question! There are three answers to this question: first, special forces specialize in things that ordinary troops can't do; Second, special forces specialize in special things, while conventional things will be handed over to ordinary troops; Thirdly, what the special forces do, people who are not special forces have no right to know at all! ”

"Instructor, how old are you?" A voice burst on, followed by laughter.

"28 days away, I will be 15 years old." Yang Xia replied honestly.

"Hahaha......" was another round of laughter.

However, Yang Xia didn't laugh, just watched everyone behave with interest as before, until these crooked melons and cracked dates found that something was wrong and automatically stopped laughing.

"Ridiculous? It's ridiculous! It's not me, a 15-year-old instructor, it's a 20-something-old man! Perhaps, you will feel that you have this specialty, you have that specialty, it is very difficult to get up, see your comrades-in-arms dissatisfied, see the squad leader dissatisfied, see the platoon commander dissatisfied, in my opinion, your only ability is just to coax a 15-year-old child! ”

The scene was silent. These soldiers, who are usually mischievous, finally felt that the laughter they had just now was a little "down".

"Do you know why I asked Captain Yang and Deputy Captain Zheng to leave behind the soldiers who were more than 120 people? Because this unit was finally formed, including me, there were only 120 people, and the fate of being brushed off by us was not to return to the original unit, but to be discharged directly! ”

"Ah......" Yang Xia's words are undoubtedly a bombshell. Most of the soldiers in this era are willing to stay in the army, because the army has a good life and can get allowances, and when they return to the locality, if they are in the city, they immediately become unemployed youths. If you're back in the countryside, congratulations, because you're going to be facing days where you don't have enough to eat every day.

"Of course, if you train hard, Captain Yang and they can't make a report and leave you all behind, at least, after this battle, make some merit and then retire from the army, and return to the place, will the future be a little better?"

Yang Xia will not use the empty words "glory", people are alive, they want a future, and after solving the problem of survival, there will be needs such as honor.

"Instructor, just say what you want, we will listen to you!" A soldier's mind finally opened, even though his voice was so sudden.

"Wrong, the instructor didn't have any requirements, what was requested, it was the requirements of the special forces, it was the requirements of Unit 1837 for his soldiers! Next, I would like to invite Captain Yang Liwei, the head of Unit 1837, to give instructions to you......"

A group of crooked melons and cracked dates on the opposite side, with such an effect, Yang Xia is already very satisfied, good steel, you have to grind slowly.