For a long time, Hou Jiangtao's training has not been able to keep up, and in the army, where he relies on 'strength' to judge his status many times, it is conceivable that his status is only known to him, and only he has suffered how many ridicule, contempt, and disgust words and eyes he has suffered from others, and only Niu Zhiyuan has always helped him as much as he can, never laughing at and disliking him.

And he Hou Jiangtao also has his own advantages and strengths, he even opened his first shop with his New Year's money at the age of sixteen, and he is doing very well. Therefore, he has his own pride, but here his advantages seem to have no room to play, but he does everything behind others, and this situation once hit him very hard, making him even feel crazy.

A few days ago, he was arrested after running away with a hot brain, although the regiment did not say how to punish him, but he knew that there would be a record of this matter in the file, which was a shame for his life, and he had suffered countless strange eyes these days, coupled with the isolation of some recruits in the class for him intentionally or unintentionally, it was a very painful thing for him with strong self-esteem, but fortunately, Niu Zhiyuan treated him as always.

Now that he has the opportunity to help Niu Zhiyuan, and is so trusted by Niu Zhiyuan, this feeling is like Hou Jiangtao's dry spiritual world being nourished by the elixir and jade liquid, which helped him open the door to return to normalcy and self-confidence.

In the morning, Hou Jiangtao showed an extraordinary level in the 'double buckle' poker competition, and with the average level of Niu Zhiyuan, he crushed the other four groups, including the squad leader and Zhao Shiguang's group, and became the first place in the third class.

The exclamation, praise, and envy of the eyes and words of his comrades-in-arms in the same class, as well as Niu Zhiyuan's happy smile, made Hou Jiangtao feel extremely happy, and the shadow that had been pressed on his heart since he escaped and was captured also dissipated a lot unconsciously.

"Yes, this morning, in the 'double buckle' competition in the class, Hou Jiangtao and Niu Zhiyuan won, and praised the two, especially Hou Jiangtao's outstanding performance and special praise. But the two of you must guard against arrogance and rashness, in the afternoon you represent our class to participate in the volleyball 'double buckle' competition, I hope you can win again and give our third class to win honor. In addition, Niu Zhiyuan's 'double buckle' level is not good, after eating at noon, Hou Jiangtao used the lunch break to teach Niu Zhiyuan a surprise lesson to improve his 'double buckle' level. Before lunch, Huang Jianjun gave a brief commentary on the morning poker competition and put forward requirements for Niu Zhiyuan and Hou Jiangtao.

Niu Zhiyuan obviously felt that Huang Jianjun's words attached too much importance to the 'double buckle' poker tournament, after all, this is the army, and this aspect will never be the focus. Obviously, the reason why this is the case is to take this opportunity to restore Hou Jiangtao's normal psychological state and reintegrate into the normal class atmosphere.

"Rest assured, squad leader, we will definitely strive for the first place and win honor for our class." Niu Zhiyuan said loudly according to Huang Jianjun's meaning, and turned his head to Hou Jiangtao and said, "Yes! Chubby. ”

Hou Jiangtao said a little unnaturally: "Yes, squad leader, we will win honor for the class." ”

Huang Jianjun showed a comfortable smile on his face and said, "Very good, prepare it and start eating." ”

……

……

Niu Zhiyuan's learning ability is strong, 'double buckle' and there is no much esoteric technical content, at noon Hou Jiangtao's "combat training" is still very effective, in the afternoon, the whole platoon fights against each class, Niu Zhiyuan and Hou Jiangtao's combination won again, and when the roll call was taken in the evening, he was praised by the platoon commander Wang Yang and squad leader Huang Jianjun, affected by Niu Zhiyuan's excited emotions, Hou Jiangtao also showed a long-lost smile.

The next morning, the whole company fought against each platoon, Hou Jiangtao and Niu Zhiyuan won again, and before the noon dinner and singing, the instructor praised Hou Jiangtao and Niu Zhiyuan in front of the whole company.

In the afternoon, the instructor specially approved the two people to study the 'double buckle tactics', I have to say that Hou Jiangtao is indeed very proficient in the 'double buckle', with his teaching, coupled with the experience of the 'actual combat' in the past two days, Niu Zhiyuan's 'double buckle' level has improved by leaps and bounds. On the third day, the three companies of the recruit camp fought a decisive battle of 'double buckles', and Niu Zhiyuan and Hou Jiangtao, who were nicknamed the 'bull monkey' combination by their comrades-in-arms, maintained the victory to the end and won the championship of the 'double buckle' competition in the recruit camp.

On the afternoon of the last day of New Year's Day, the camp instructor took advantage of the education time to award prizes to the winners of the cultural and sports competitions in the past few days, Niu Zhiyuan accidentally broke his foot at noon, Hou Jiangtao came to the stage to accept the award on behalf of the two, and in full view, Hou Jiangtao and several other project winners ran on the stage, and some nervously saluted Liu Kuan, the camp instructor who presented him with the award, and the latter handed Hou Jiangtao a two water cups engraved with the words "Cup of the Brave" and the icon representing the soul of the A regiment, and said: "Hou Jiangtao, Good job, I hope you have always been good so that you can always be proud. ”

"Thank you, instructor, I'll do a good job." Hou Jiangtao took the water cup, and his mood was a little agitated.

Facing the instructor's encouraging eyes, Hou Jiangtao and the others turned back and saluted the recruits and cadres of the whole battalion below, and there was warm applause below. Although the 'double buckle' has nothing to do with training and cannot be compared with the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the troops, this incident made Hou Jiangtao experience the sense of collective honor for the first time in his heart, and he also deeply felt the beauty of fighting for the first place.

At this moment, Hou Jiangtao faintly felt as if he had undergone some kind of transformation.

……

……

After New Year's Day, the boot camp returned to normal training again, and the intensity and intensity of training were increased again. However, compared with the first stage, the recruits' adaptability has improved a lot, and they still complain about tiredness, but it is not as common as in the early stage.

The biggest change is Hou Jiangtao, although the physical fitness is still lagging behind, but the training attitude has been completely reversed, under the careful teaching of squad leader Huang Jianjun, Niu Zhiyuan's help, the progress is obvious.

In the early stage, the recruits completed the training of queues, tactics, "three defenses" (anti-nuclear, anti-chemical, anti-biological and chemical weapons), battlefield self-rescue and mutual rescue, etc., and according to the training plan, the next step is to start shooting with small arms and grenades. Bullet throwing training.

The recruits had been waiting for a long time for small arms shooting training, but when they crawled on the icy ground with a Type 95 automatic rifle and aimed for a day, the anticipation and novelty immediately vanished.

For infantry, long-distance running and shooting are the two most important subjects, while aiming at targets and platoon are the two most boring training contents that can best exercise and test soldiers' will and self-control.