After this time, there was a sense of despair in Zhuang Zheng's heart.

The training of the recruit company is still progressing in a step-by-step manner.

At the end of the year, the General Headquarters will send an assessment team to the G Military Region to select among the two pre-selected units and finally determine who will be promoted to the rapid reaction division.

Upgrading the fast response division is not only a tilt in equipment and military funds, but also an honor.

The 1st division from top to bottom, from division commander to platoon commander, held his breath in his heart to prove himself in front of his superiors.

The solemn man who was going to mess around found that he had completely hit the muzzle of the gun this time.

The Third Battalion is no exception.

As the Spring Festival approached, Teng Wenji, commander of the third battalion, announced that he would hold a military confrontation competition with platoons as a unit on the 28th of the year to see which platoon's recruits were the most energetic.

Since it was the first month of the new barracks, there was no training such as live ammunition shooting for the time being, and the professional training was at most the most basic gun inspection and lying position loading and returning bullets, so the assessment content only covered five items - emergency assembly, push-ups, equipment gymnastics one and two exercises, bomb throwing and five-kilometer cross-country.

As a reward, the platoon that won the first place in the overall score of the competition can take a day off and be organized by the platoon commander to go to a nearby town for a free day.

A day of free activity is a great reward for the recruits who spend their days during the recruit training camp.

After Teng Wenji announced his decision, the air in the camp suddenly became tense.

Before the assessment of the recruits in the lower company, this will be a thorough assessment, whether it is a mule or a horse, and it will be able to show its original form immediately when it is pulled out on that day.

For Solemnity, the news was like a bolt from the blue.

This means that life will be more and more difficult......

As the day of the assessment approached, the sky was still bright every morning, and the recruits had already gotten up, wearing the wet and smelly winter training uniforms, carrying green backpacks and running for their lives in the thick white fog of the southern morning.

Platoon Commander Dai Dehan would personally go down to supervise the formation every day, never leaving his soldiers every day, and accompany them to run every five-kilometer cross-country.

Unlike Niu Dali, Dedham tends to run silently, but once he reaches the finish line, he gathers all the recruits and yells at them, "How many times have I said that!" Don't want you to have good personal grades! What I want is to have excellent results in the whole platoon, and to remember to me that you are brothers who rely on each other, that you are a collective, and that you are a fist that is clenched together! The last three places were out of the queue just now! Now you have three minutes to rest and do it again in three minutes! ”

……

At three o'clock in the morning on the playground, the third emergency assembly training.

The time was not up to the mark, and the last recruit to run out of the room took three minutes and ten seconds.

So, the whole platoon was punished for doing 100 push-ups with a backpack on his back......

Standing in front of the recruits who had already run five laps of the big playground, Yin Xiancong, the fourth squad leader, asked loudly: "Do you feel that our squad leader is fixing you?" ”

In the team, solemnly panted, he had no strength to answer, and no one around him dared to answer.

After taking two steps back and forth, Yin Xiancong raised the stopwatch in his hand, looked at the sweaty recruits and said, "There is a saying in the place: time is life!" This is especially true of the troops, time is life, it is a fighter, and it is the overall situation! A soldier can affect a squad and a platoon, a platoon can affect a company battalion, a battalion can affect a regiment or division, and a division can affect a battle situation! ”

The ranks were silent, sweat sliding silently down each recruit's face, dripping into the dirt beneath their feet.

……

In the space of thirty-one days, he sent five letters to his family.

But every letter was gone like a bird that flew out and got lost, and the mud cow went into the sea without a reply.

When the fifth letter was sent a week later, solemn suddenly and completely understood that his father Zhuang Zhenguo was afraid that he would write a letter to his mother asking for help, and he had taken a foolproof precaution.

For a veteran soldier who has participated in the counterattack war, playing psychology and tactics is really a bit of an axe.

His idea of mixing troops has been completely shattered.

Relying on the mountains and mountains, relying on everyone to run.

In these years, my own son is unreliable.

It's more practical to rely on yourself.

Lying in bed late every night, solemnly touching his elbows and swollen heels, he asked himself again and again, is it worth it to work so hard?

A few classmates who are good with him go to college, do business, even if they are unlucky, they will also engage in a secondary school for a few years, as long as they graduate, they can be related to the enviable state-owned enterprises.

The solemn mood was unprecedentedly low.

Every day at dusk, solemnly watched the other recruits passing by in the queue, and saw himself in them - the training uniform stained with yellow dust, oozing sweat mixed with yellow mud, dyed an originally green winter training uniform like a camouflage uniform; There was a circle of white salt on the brim of the training hat, which was dried sweat.

The same thin face was full of exhaustion, and the panic peculiar to the recruits flickered in their eyes. No one knows if there will be an emergency assembly in the next minute, whether it will be a five-kilometer armed cross-country, or how many push-ups will be done with equipment on their backs.

The thought that had once flashed solemnly in his mind was now flooded again.

Escape!

Since he doesn't even care about his biological father, what else can he do?

He began to think about whether he wanted to be a deserter.

Although most of the money has been kept by the squad leader, when he came to the train solemnly, his mother quietly stuffed a thousand yuan.

The thousand yuan was hidden in the pocket of the winter training uniform, and Yin Xiancong did not search him at all.

Civilian clothes have been placed in a small private room, but because this camp is a temporary training barracks, the barracks facilities are simple, and there is no special luggage storage room, which is commonly known as the small private room of the army.

Therefore, when this group of recruits arrived, the battalion did not strictly check their personal belongings, and those personal luggage bags were simply placed in a compartment in front of the large row of landlords, and there was not even a door lock.

The convenience caused by this omission once stimulated the desire to become a deserter.

Countless times, he mentally calculated how to escape from the troops, and even began to pay attention to the changing of the guard at the duty post in the camp.

He even figured out a route to escape.

During the five-kilometer cross-country run, they passed through some surrounding residential areas, and solemnly noticed that there were minibuses passing on an asphalt road about 500 meters east of the new barracks.

And he also noticed that the minibus here has been operating for a long time, and when he took a shower, he saw a minibus running on the road with a XX town-XX town route sign.

The time and place are favorable, as if everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.