Border line, Houthi outposts.

It was a lonely border post that drove anyone crazy, and it was in the mountains, but not on the peaks, on a relatively flat land nearly five thousand meters above sea level.

There is no one in a radius of more than 200 kilometers, the outpost is in the east, and the boundary pillar is in the west, and the distance between them is only 500 meters.

There is no spring, no autumn, only summer and winter.

When the snow melts, it enters summer; When the snow falls, it enters winter, and once it falls, it is difficult for material vehicles to enter.

To put it simply, this is a forgotten snowy plateau.

"There is a mountain in front, and there is a mountain in the back, and our place is just caught in the middle." Li, the squad elder who came to pick up Ge Zhen, introduced: "It was originally a military horse farm, and a sentry post was established after it was abandoned. We don't have much to do, just guard the 10-kilometer border. ”

Elder Li, the squad leader of the outpost, is a second-class non-commissioned officer, but he looks like he is already forty years old.

His cheeks were red and purple, and bloodshot could be clearly seen, which had been exposed to ultraviolet rays from the plateau for many years.

And the skin is extremely dry, and the old bark is what the face is.

It was spring, but it was still snowy here, and the squad elder Li of the outpost took a big wolf dog to pick up Ge Zhen in the place where the car really couldn't move forward.

The results of the processing came down, and Ge Zhen did not go to prison, but was thrown into this corner.

"Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! ……”

The two men walked in the direction of the outpost, their feet creaking on knee-deep snow.

"Lao Li, how many people are there at the post?" Ge Zhen asked.

"9 people...... No, plus you're 10. Lao Li rubbed his red and purple cheeks and smiled: "This is the first time that our second platoon is full, and when we get to the outpost, I will ask Lao Tao to give you a whole 84-year-old pork chop, hehe." ”

"Old Tao?"

"I came half a month earlier than you, and I was so happy. You know what? Lao Tao turned out to be the cooking squad leader! Lao Li smiled with joy: "That's delicious, it's all made us fat recently, haha." ”

"Is it called Tao Yonggang?" Ge Zhen asked urgently.

"Yes, it's Tao Yonggang, do you know?" Lao Li looked surprised.

"Of course I know, we are a squadron!" Ge Zhen was ecstatic.

"That relationship is good, that relationship is good!" Lao Li was overjoyed, and he was honest and simple, and he was happy for Ge Zhen.

"Hurry up, go fast." Ge Zhen urged.

"It's not fast, there are still more than 20 kilometers, and if you go too fast, you will lack oxygen. You see Saihu knows how to rush here, you have to be not in a hurry, hehe. Don't worry, I know I'll be there before dark. ”

"Okay!" Ge Zhen smiled: "The dog is called Saihu? ”

"What dog? This is our boss! Lao Li smiled: "It has been serving here longer than any of us, I don't believe you call it." ”

Saihu walked forward slowly, turning his head and glancing at Ge Zhen.

"Saihu!" Ge Zhen shouted.

It's a pity that the dog doesn't even look at him, full of tsundere.

"Boss!" Ge Zhen shouted again.

Hearing the shout, Saihu turned his head slowly: "Wang! ——”

"Hahaha...... The boss is powerful, the boss is bullish! Hahahaha......"

“……”

Divided here, Ge Zhen not only did not lose it, but was very happy, especially after knowing that Tao Yonggang had also arrived here, his heart was even more excited.

He remembered that he hadn't seen Tao Yonggang during the assessment, and he thought he had disappeared, but who knew that he came to the Houthi outpost one step ahead of schedule.

"One summer, the veteran took the recruits up the mountain, and there were snowflakes on the mountain, and the recruits said that they were so cold and breathless that they were a little short of breath...... Veteran, veteran, how can you stay in this barren mountain and snow ridge for so many years......"

Lao Li, who walked in front, sang with that thick voice, although it was a little incomplete in five tones, but it was full of emotion.

"The altitude here is very high, there are no people everywhere, as long as you grit your teeth and persevere, you will get used to it, and as long as you climb to the top of the mountain, you can see far away...... You can see the sun, moon and stars, you can see the north and the south of the Yangtze River, and you can see the relatives in your hometown, they are on the other side of the mountain......"

Listening to Lao Li's song and looking at the snowy plateau that could not be seen at a glance, Ge Zhen's heart suddenly surged with an indescribable agitation.

This is the greatness of the ordinary, undiscovered.

……

At five o'clock in the afternoon, when it was about to get dark, Lao Li took Ge Zhen to the outpost.

It was a large house with a large and spacious yard with a flagpole erected in the middle, and the five-star red flag fluttered in the wind.

"Someone is coming, hurry up and come out to welcome." As soon as he entered the courtyard, Lao Li shouted loudly.

A few soldiers opened the door and walked out, and when they were blown by the cold wind, they immediately shrank their heads.

"Welcome, welcome...... Put out the welcome mat...... Welcome, welcome...... Warm welcome......" The soldiers moved their mouths and grinned.

"Hey, what's going on? Applause, what's the point of just moving your mouth? Lao Li said.

"Oh, Lao Li, it's cold, I can't stretch my hand away." A senior soldier with a plateau red on his face said with a smile: "Welcome, the most important thing is the heart, in our place, all actions are unnecessary, and the mind is eternal." ”

"Hey, you, Ma Weiguo, have just become a veteran?" Lao Li scolded with a smile: "If you can't stretch out your hand, you can make a sound?" ”

"Bang bang ......"

A few soldiers knocked on the door frame with wooden sticks and came out in a sound to welcome.

"Hehe, Ge Zhen, that's it here, there are not so many rules, it's good to get used to it, it's good to get used to it." Lao Li said to Ge Zhen with a smile.

"It's good, I just don't like the rules." Ge Zhen smiled, took out a few boxes of Heilanzhou from his bag, and threw them over: "Brother, follow." ”

Several recruits went crazy with joy and quickly reached out to take their cigarettes.

"Heilanzhou!"

"Yes, yes, I've got you guy!"

"In the future, I will be my own family, and I will be angry if I have something to say."

“……”

Ge Zhen smiled even brighter, he liked the atmosphere here.

"Hey, how many people are there in He Jun?" Lao Li asked.

"Pack up your stuff inside, the agency called when you weren't there, and asked them to take the test."

Hearing this, Lao Li was stunned for a moment, and then closed his mouth with a smile, but Ge Zhen saw a touch of helplessness and bitterness in his eyes.

In the dormitory of the second shift in the first row, the four soldiers had already packed up their things, and after seeing Lao Li coming, they had an embarrassed smile on their faces.

"Squad leader, the detachment notified us to go to the exam, this ......"

"It's a good thing, we're going to have big cadres in the second shift!" Lao Li patted the other party's shoulder and smiled: "Tomorrow I will personally send you to the bus point, and after you go, you will play steadily, but you have to be admitted to the military academy, and give us a good face in the second platoon." ”

"Yes! Hehe......"

The four soldiers who were going to take the military academy didn't pay attention to Ge Zhen, and Ge Zhen didn't bother to take care of them, so he walked directly to the innermost and saw Tao Yonggang who was busy around the stove.

"Squad leader Tao! ——”

Ge Zhen screamed and rushed up to hug Tao Yonggang tightly.

The second squadron is gone, and the people in the second squadron are still there, and it is difficult to express his mood at this time, which is a kind of excitement that seems to be a lifetime away.

……