The long-awaited June 20 has finally arrived.

On this day, the entire Eighth Company was particularly lively.

Early in the morning, unlike the usual early morning exercises, I didn't run five kilometers today, and I didn't do physical training.

The cooking class specially added vegetables today, which used to be ordinary steamed buns and leek buns with pickled porridge, but today it has been raised to a higher level - sugar steamed buns and meat buns, the porridge has been replaced with soy milk, and even the usual pickles have become fried peppers with pork belly today.

The steamed buns are sweet, the buns are fragrant, and the recruits of the Eighth Company are happier than the festival today, and the atmosphere in the canteen is much more active than usual.

"I heard that someone from the regiment came today to supervise our selection of candidates for the advance squad leader!"

"Yes, the company commander's instructor went to the door early in the morning to wait, and it is estimated that he will arrive soon."

"Scared! Do you want to oversee it!? Afraid of us cheating? ”

"You know a hair! We are stationed alone, and we estimate that there are ...... in the group."

The soldier who spoke looked left and right, and then lowered his voice like a thief.

"I guess I'm afraid that our company commander instructor will let the back door soldiers go, which will affect the image of the regiment, and the training is going to the division headquarters, that's not a joke, I heard that this year's advance squad leader is very demanding, because at the end of the year to meet the headquarters assessment, so sloppy must not be ......"

The training of the advance squad leader is an annual event of the company.

The so-called grand event is not because of how lofty the position of squad leader is.

The squad leader, who is just the head of the army, is the most numerous position.

However, for any ordinary soldier, if he wants to develop in the army, the position of squad leader is a hurdle that cannot be crossed.

The vast majority of squad leaders need to go through the training of the teaching brigade to obtain a graduation certificate, and only with the graduation certificate of the teaching brigade can they obtain the order of the squad leader, and only with the order of the squad leader can they be promoted to military rank and position.

The most important thing is that serving as a squad leader involves two major events - joining the party and taking the military academy examination.

Although it is not mandatory for those who take the military academy examination to undergo training in the teaching brigade, just like Chen Qingming, the company can also be promoted or admitted to the military academy according to the actual situation.

It's just that this situation is really rare, and for many soldiers, not being a squad leader means insulating themselves from the military school.

For a company with more than 90 recruits like the Eighth Company, the quota for joining the party and taking the military academy examination in one year is limited.

In the first year, he went to the brigade to teach, which is not only an acknowledgment of a soldier's military quality, but also a great help to his military future.

Although you can go in the second year, the service period is only three years, and the first year is completely different from the first year.

Xu Xingguo is ready to win.

He knew he couldn't afford to lose.

After leaving the small mountain village in the county seat of his hometown, he secretly swore in his heart that no matter how hard and tired he was in the army, he would definitely get ahead.

After breakfast, everyone gathered and began to organize their weapons and equipment by the basketball court.

Ten calibrated Type 81-1 automatic rifles were placed in the center of the field, along with a variety of infantry light weapons - Type 81 light machine guns, Type 85 sniper rifles, Type 69 40 rocket launchers, and Type 63-1 60mm mortars.

THERE WERE SEVERAL BOXES OF 7.62MM CALIBER RIFLE CARTRIDGES THAT HAD NOT YET BEEN OPENED NEXT TO THEM, AND DEPUTY COMPANY COMMANDER LI DING WAS COUNTING THE AMMUNITION WITH SEVERAL SQUAD LEADERS.

When the cooking class entered, the audience burst into laughter.

This was the first time that the soldiers of the company had seen a fully loaded cooking squad appear in front of everyone.

And today, instead of carrying pots and pans or anything like that, the cooking squad carried an automatic rifle, buckled the Type 56 strap sheet, and carried a grenade, which was neatly inserted with four Type 67 wooden-handled grenades.

"Wow! Shotguns for guns! ”

"Hey! Xu Xingxing, have you ever learned a practice of zooming out and aiming at a target!? ”

"Tong Yibo, don't cover your ears when you shoot this time!"

"Welcome to the grand debut of the comrades of the cooking class today!"

The soldiers in the squad and platoon began to make a noise.

After all, everyone is a recruit company, and they know each other.

What is the training level of the recruits in the cooking class, everyone is blind and eats rice balls - they know it in their hearts!

Xu Xingxing lowered his head, blushed, and the brim of his hat was drawn low.

He was ridiculed because he was one of the worst shooters in the recruit company.

In the first recruit assessment, he set a record of eight companies, with 5 rounds and 0 rings in one practice!

That's right!

It's zero!

Four bullets missed the target and did not know where to go, but one shot hit the target, but unfortunately it hit the blank area in the upper left corner, and it was not even the sixth ring.

At that time, Xu Xingxing was still in the third platoon and seventh squad of recruits in the eighth company, and Wu Han, the third platoon commander at the time, was so angry that he scolded his mother on the spot at the shooting range, and after scolding, he let this guy carry the shooting gun of the whole class back.

When this kind of soldier went down to the company, Wu Hansheng, the commander of the third platoon, hurriedly recommended him to the cooking class like a plague god, and even the merit of Xu Xingxing's family is doing lo-mei snacks business, saying that this comrade is a family of food, and he has been familiar with making dishes since he was a child, and going to the cooking class will definitely be able to raise the food level of the eighth company by a grade.

And Tong Yibo is an even more bizarre existence.

Because of the first live-fire assessment, Tong Yibo was almost picked up from the shooting position by the squad leader and beaten up.

Because when he pulled the trigger, he was actually jumped by the gunfire next to him, and let go of his hands to cover his ears.

The powerful recoil jumped the chamber and four other automatic rifles in the magazine, which could still penetrate 8mm A3 bullets at 400 meters.

Fortunately, each recruit will have a squad leader next to him when he shoots, and he will hold down the chilling gun with a quick eye.

After the live firing ended that day, Tong Yibo crawled back to the row house in a low posture......

In the laughter of the soldiers of the whole company, the soldiers of the cooking squad walked into the assembled queue one by one with their heads bowed like the remnants of a defeated battle.

Chen Qingming suddenly stood up and raised his hands like a conductor: "Brothers in a row!" It's rare for the comrades in our cooking class to be full of people to participate in our assessment today, so let's play a song with them?! ”

"Good!" The soldiers in the platoon shouted excitedly.

"Learn from the best example - ready to sing!"

After the soldiers in the first row finished singing, Chen Qingming shouted the song number: "Cooking class, come one!" ”

A platoon of soldiers shouted, "Here's one!" Cooking class! ”

"12345, we've been waiting so hard!"

"1234567, we're in such a hurry!"

"If you are asked to sing, you will sing, twisting and pinching is not presentable! No—like—like! ”

Wave after wave of roars swept over the heads of every soldier in the cooking squad.

"They bully people!"

Tong Yibo hooked his neck, lowered his head, and reached out to pull the brim of his hat a little lower.

"There are only 8 of us, and there are more than 30 of them!"