Chapter 5 Recruits

"Wenha! (Ask)" A Sichuan accent in the moonlight interrupted the torture of my comrades-in-arms: "Comrade, may I ask which is the 353rd Company of the 3rd Battalion and 2nd Company?" ”

There was silence outside the cave for a while, and the old squad leader nodded and said, "This is it, who are you looking for?" ”

"This is it!" The Sichuan-accented person didn't answer, and shouted in the other direction: "Hey, it's here, it's here......"

I saw a hula, and under the moonlight, more than 100 people surrounded him, and the first one saluted the old squad leader and shouted: "Report to the company commander, we are new recruits who have come to report, a total of 100 people, no more and no less!" ”

"Recruits?" Zhao Yongxin looked at them, sat on the stone like a wilted cabbage, took off his hat and touched his head.

"I'm not your company commander." The old squad leader raised his head into the bomb shelter: "Your company commander is staying inside!" ”

I got up and walked to the entrance of the cave, and then I understood why these comrades outside the cave were behaving so abnormally. I saw that in the night, a group of seventeen or eighteen-year-old children with beards that had not yet grown stiff stood outside the cave, all with a sense of excitement on their faces, and at a glance they knew that they were naïve and romantic, and they thought of this battlefield to make meritorious contributions and then return to their hometowns to glorify their ancestors, and some of them used the guns in their hands to joke with the people around them......

"Report to the company commander." One of the leaders, who looked a little more serious, stood up to me and shouted, "We are new recruits who have come to report, a total of 100 people......"

"Have you ever shot a gun?" Before he could finish shouting, I asked.

"Nope." He froze for a moment, then shook his head hesitantly.

"Have you ever thrown a grenade?" I then asked.

"Nope." His round eyes blinked a few times, and he lowered his head to meet my eyes.

"Then, let's walk by!" I'm almost on the verge of collapse.

"Also...... No. He shook his head anyway.

My heart hit rock bottom and I almost fainted. I never thought that the recruits who were given priority to our company by their superiors were really "new" and ...... so "new" that they had not even enlightened the most basic military training!

"And what did you do in the first place?" I asked weakly.

"I'm a carpenter!"

"I'm a farmer!"

"I'm still studying!"

……

"Enough!" Suddenly, out of nowhere, I shouted at them, "You all stay here, and don't leave a single step." I'm looking for the head of the regiment to ......"

The last sentence was said to his comrades-in-arms, and after speaking, he trotted all the way to the regiment headquarters, completely ignoring the comrades-in-arms behind him and shouting: "Company commander, you are still in confinement!" ”

"Stop!" Unexpectedly, he made a trip to bite the gold halfway, and he was blocked by Xu Feng in front of him.

"Company Commander Cui! Aren't you still in confinement? Xu Feng said stiffly: "If I'm not mistaken, the time hasn't come yet." ”

"Camp Commander Xu!" I didn't listen to what Xu Feng was saying at all, so I pointed at the recruits angrily and said, "Battalion Commander Xu, take a look, take a look...... This is the recruit who has been replenished by our company from above, who has never shot a gun or thrown a bullet, who has not even walked the right step, and who has come up after changing his clothes, such a soldier can also go to the battlefield? What else should we be as company commanders? A company commander who went up with a group of babies to die? I don't deserve it yet! ”

"Stand upright!" Xu Feng gritted his teeth with a blue face and said, "Cui Wei, what are you doing as a revolutionary soldier?" Is the company commander you want to be, and if you don't want to be, you can't be? No organizational discipline at all! How else to lead troops to war? As a company commander, you must set an example for the soldiers, look at you like this! If you don't obey the arrangement of your superiors, how can you make your soldiers obey your arrangement in the future? ”

"You!" After a pause, Xu Feng ordered the old squad leader standing behind me: "Get off his gun!" ”

"This ...... The battalion commander ...... "The old squad leader couldn't help but hesitate.

"Execute the order!"

"Yes!" The old squad leader reluctantly ran to my side, put down the sniper rifle on my body, and did not forget to whisper in my ear as he left: "Don't worry, company commander, I'll keep it first." ”

"You!" Xu Feng ordered the old squad leader again: "Take care of him, just stand here and don't move, don't eat, and pull me in the pants if there is, let him reflect and reflect!" Let those recruits also see what the consequences of disobeying orders and disobeying the arrangements of their superiors are! ”

"Yes!" The old squad leader stepped forward, and sure enough, he stood beside me and watched me.

Looking at Xu Feng who was leaving, I felt the bitterness in my heart, I had never lost face like this, and it was in front of more than 100 recruits. Why did Xu Feng turn his face and not recognize people? As soon as I became the leader, this speech was different, and it also put me to death, and it was freezing so cold that I was standing like this outside, which was going to kill people......

I couldn't help but glance in the direction of the bomb shelter, I couldn't get out of it just now, but now I couldn't go in while standing outside, is there such a whole person? Whoever I recruited provoked me!

The first ten minutes were fine, and I didn't feel much discomfort except for the indignation in my heart. After a little longer, I only felt that my hands and feet were cold, but I didn't dare to stomp my feet and rub my hands like the old squad leader next to me, so I could only stand like that.

Suddenly I felt that there was something more on my shoulder, it turned out that Jin Qiulian took a sheet to cover me, I couldn't help but feel hot in my heart, I couldn't help but be grateful and ashamed, I couldn't tell what it was.

"Don't!" The old squad leader hurriedly stopped: "This is going to be seen by the battalion commander, and I don't know how to punish the company commander!" Take it and take it away......"

"How long will you have to stand?" Jin Qiulian said pitifully: "Just standing still like this, your hands and feet will freeze in two or three hours, and you won't let people live?" ”

"That'...... So how do I know? "The old squad leader was a little embarrassed.

"Leave it alone." I gritted my teeth and said, "Let's all go back to the cave." ”

"I'll go to the battalion commander!" Jin Qiulian threw the sheet to the ground and ran away, but was soon stopped by everyone.

"I'm talking about Comrade Kim." Zhao Yongxin persuaded: "You are a member of the People's Army, and you don't know the discipline of our troops, so don't make trouble for the company commander, right?" ”

"That's it!" The old squad leader also nodded and said: "The discipline of our army is iron, you go and shout a few more times, you have to accompany it, maybe the company commander will stand until dawn!" ”

As soon as the old squad leader said this, Jin Qiulian was silent, including the more than 100 recruits behind me, who were originally giggling and laughing, were also silent at this time, and they all looked and listened to them with big eyes.

Ha...... Now I finally understood, it turned out to be killing chickens to show monkeys! Use me as a living textbook to educate those recruits!