Chapter 186: The Fourth Day
That night, five wild boars died.
The first one killed solemnly was the largest, nearly two hundred catties.
The other heads range from a few dozen catties to a hundred catties.
The trainees of Class 7 and the soldiers of other district teams who came to see the excitement carried the five pigs back to the camp of the brigade headquarters.
I thought that there must be a bonfire party and a wild boar barbecue party tonight, but I didn't expect the captain Wen Zhixing to look around a few wild boars with a smile, and after praising the students of Class 7 for a few words, he waved his hand and said to the deputy captain: "Lao He, let the cooking class put the wild boars away first, and let the car be transported back to the brigade early tomorrow morning to store them, and when the field training is over, I will return to the unit and then distribute it to each squadron." ”
Just this sentence made the solemn wish suddenly come to naught.
That night, he couldn't sleep at all.
Maybe it's because I'm really hungry these days, and I think about those wild boars all the time, and as soon as I close my eyes, I dream that I'm barbecuing, and then I laugh, and when I laugh, I wake up.
The fourth day was completely different from the previous three days.
During the day's trip, no one had to worry about water again.
It's not that there are many water sources on this route, in fact, the road is getting more and more difficult to walk, and it is becoming more and more difficult to find places with water.
However, it was the saddest of the four solemn days.
Dou said that in June and July, the child's face changed when he said it.
The first three days of the battle were scorching and cloudless, but after the heavy rain on the third night, the rain began to rain and did not stop.
When the sun was blazing before, solemn walked on the road every day, thinking that it would be good if it rained.
But on the fourth day, solemnly marching in the pouring rain, he realized that he was actually quite stupid, and the sun seemed to be quite good.
On a jungle march, it's a good idea to have a short rainstorm to cool down and collect some drinking water.
But it rained all day, and that was a fatal thing.
Even the experienced Luo Xiaoming seemed a little nervous this time, many routes up and down the mountain could not be regarded as "roads" at all, the heavy rain made the mountain march full of danger, and in many places everyone linked the backpack belt, first pulled the rope to let one of them go down, and then went down after fixing.
Zhuang Yan has slipped and fallen I don't know how many times, and his body is already full of mud, looking like a mud monkey.
What's worse is that although there is no shortage of water, it can rain for a long time, causing people's body temperature to drop, and they need to eat a lot to maintain their physical strength, so on the fourth day, the compressed biscuits are almost all sold out, and only a few meters remain.
On the way, it is impossible to make a fire to cook and eat, because although it is not impossible to make a fire in the rain, it consumes too much time and delays the journey too long.
The heavy rain had affected the speed of the march, and it was necessary to reach the assembly point before dark, otherwise no one would dare to take such a risk to advance in the dark under the cover of night and heavy rain.
The physical strength had been almost exhausted in the previous few days.
While a 40-kilometre day march may sound like a difficult task for a trained person, it's both mountainous and wild, and a variety of factors tend to greatly affect the progress of the troops.
Including positioning in the rain, it is impossible to see the outlines of the distant mountains at all, including those markers marked on the military map, which are also obscured by the rain, and the difficulty increases exponentially.
Only then did Zhuang Zhuang understand how difficult it was to be a qualified squad leader in the elite army.
However, the luck of Class 7 was not bad, and under the urging of Luo Xiaoming like a sheep, he had already arrived at the camp at six o'clock.
When we arrived at the campsite, the problems arose again.
The first is to make a fire, and the rain is further intensified, resulting in water seeping into all the places where you choose to dig up the smoke stove, and the raindrops are constantly falling, so it is impossible to light the fire at all.
After working for a while, everyone remembered that they needed to cut down some trees and come back to make a simple shed, and dig a stove under the shed to cook, so that at least they could block the rain and light the fire.
There was no meat for dinner.
Last night I hunted wild boars, but the meat was sent back to the brigade, and because of the wild boars, the brigade forbade all soldiers to go out into the jungle last night to set traps to hunt, and even if the traps are placed tonight, I am afraid that the harvest will not be until tomorrow.
It was the hardest night of all.
The only food that Class 7 was able to collect was some wild vegetables such as purslane and houttuynia cordata.
Wash these wild vegetables, put them in a war basin and cook them with rice, put a little salt, and barely have a full dinner.
The simple tents made of tarpaulins were no longer enough to hold back the rain, so everyone had to go to the nearby woods to cut down some small trees and tie them into a jungle shelter with backpack straps.
Jungle shelter construction is much more complicated than a simple one-sided slope tent. However, there is an advantage, the shelter is much better than the simple shed with a slope type, and the jungle shelter is generally dozens of centimeters above the ground, and can even be built on a tree.
There is a mantra that says: "First prop up the scaffolding, then cover the roof, make the bed on the fence at the same time, and finally dig out the drainage ditch, remove the weeds and level the ground." ”
The mantra is talking about this kind of jungle shelter.
After an hour of tinkering, solemn felt that he was about to fall apart.
When they went into the jungle shelter to rest, they used the leftover wild vegetables to cook a little hot soup to ward off the cold.
The camouflage uniforms of all the people were hung on the top sticks of the canopy, and the inside of the canopy was all covered with quilts and mosquito nets, which looked much drier than the outside.
Solemn and serious, Xu Xingguo and the three of them sat at the entrance of the canopy, with the rain crackling rain cloth above their heads.
Due to the continuous rain, his body temperature had dropped to a very low level, and he felt that his body was shaking uncontrollably.
"Male-Gobi...... I'm cold......"
He hurriedly took out a training uniform from the Type 91 backpack and put it on his body, wiped the water droplets on his head with a towel, and reached out to touch his forehead.
His biggest concern right now is catching a cold.
Once you catch a cold, even if you can go to the brigade headquarters to find the military doctor Li Shangyue to get medicine, I am afraid that it will be difficult to continue the formation in the future.
It's a shame to drop out of training.
Fortunately, the temperature on the forehead is normal.
Solemnly breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the rice bowl and took a sip of hot soup.
"Comfortable......"
The hot soup slid down the esophagus into the stomach, and the cold body finally had some rare heat.
When I closed my eyes, I solemnly felt that I was the happiest person in the world.
"This damn rain, I don't know when it will stop......"
Xu Xingguo drank the soup and said with emotion: "Lao Yan, Lao Zhuang, what do you think...... Are we the hardest army ever? ”
Zhuang solemnly smiled helplessly and said, "I don't know, anyway, I now understand what the division staff officer who took us to teach the brigade meant." ”
"Which word?" Xu Xingguo asked.
Zhuang Zhuang smiled even more helplessly, and said: "When you get to the teaching brigade, don't treat yourself as a human being, as a dog!" ”
Seriously, he said, "We shouldn't be the hardest." ”
"We don't count yet?" Xu Xingguo said: "I can't think of any more hard work, seven days a week, we train for six days, and I heard that at the end of the month, we will set off again to participate in the unified sea training of the whole division." ”
Said seriously: "Have you heard of the special brigade of the military region?" ”
Xu Xingguo shook his head.
Zheng Zheng's eyes lit up, and he said: "I've heard it, the old fool said that he said that there is a special brigade in the military region, which is very powerful, and occasionally comes to our army to pick people. ”
staring at the rain outside, he seemed to fall into deep thought, and said for a long time: "If they come to pick people, I will definitely run for the election......"
Turning his head and asking solemnly, "Lao Zhuang, will you go?" ”
"Special Forces?" solemnly smiled, "I didn't think that when I came to be a soldier, I was also confused, and I didn't have as lofty ideals as you." ”
said solemnly: "To be a soldier, you must be the best soldier, go to the most powerful army, this is a soldier." ”
Zhuang Zhuang thought for a while and said, "Why don't you just ask your family to help you get the special brigade?" ”
"I don't want to rely on relationships." Said seriously: "It's a shame, if I have the ability, I can go sooner or later, if I don't have the ability, it's not interesting to go there." ”
Solemnity cannot understand serious practices.
Xu Xingguo suddenly said: "Stay up, tomorrow is the last day, after tomorrow, we can be regarded as passing another level." ”
While they were talking, a hurried whistle suddenly sounded over the camp.
Toot Toot Toot –
Several people were stunned.
Solemnly said, "When is it?" Still blowing the assembly whistle? ”
"Something must have happened." Xu Xingguo stood up and jumped out of the canopy, the wet camouflage uniform was put on his body, "Why don't you hurry up and gather?" ”
The solemn heart chuckled, thinking that it was probably nothing good to blow the whole team to gather so late.