Qingzhou, Yidu, Qiuhe Town,

The young Meng Lin stood in the queue energetically, carrying an almost full-height firebolt, although it was an old item that had been replaced, and it was still the kind of old-fashioned goods with a large flint spring wheel for ignition and primer, rather than a flipping firing pin with a fire cap; But for them, the members of the Young Soldiers, it is an extraordinary meaning and a recognition of qualifications and identity;

After all, this is a real guy who can go into battle to kill the enemy with sub-medicine, and it is also the first batch of standard firearms native to Huaidong; Instead of those with cooked wooden sticks or short knives for self-defense; It also means that they can serve to eat and receive wages like those regular soldiers, and even enjoy limited welfare benefits.

After all, in today's Huaidong, the best and most secure treatment is undoubtedly the army, but if most people want to join the army, they basically have to go from the process of organizing and managing labor battalions - collective farms - patrol teams - garrison regiments / Jiansheng Army to almost complete that circle before they can enter the second-line garrison battalion sequence established by the Qingzhou Garrison Army;

As a result, they have the opportunity to serve on the battlefield and make meritorious contributions, or become the reserve of the three main combat services.

And the young soldiers who began to be cultivated at the beginning are already candidates for the main battle sequence in a sense, but they still have to start from the auxiliary miscellaneous affairs.

Xiang Menglin is now a squad leader in charge of ten people, and the deputy standard-bearer of the squadron to which he belongs, and he also has the qualifications to go to the back house to be on duty and listen to the ya, which is undoubtedly an enviable treatment;

Because, there is a great opportunity to meet the handsome man they revere and longing for, even if it is looked at from a distance, it is enough to make them excited and excited for several days to talk about.

After getting up every morning and going to bed at night, before tidying up housekeeping; 3 meals before eating. They should stand up and recite the instructions and quotations of the great commander in the form of a song or a chorus in turn, and deepen the impression of loyalty, honor, pursuit, and philosophy day after day year in the coming year.

The Young Soldiers, which were originally awarded the flag, have now expanded into three Young Corps, which are divided into several brigades and squadrons and small squadrons.

Compared with the team fire in the regular army, it is also the same system on the uniform-colored shoes and hats, but it is relatively simple and simple, and there are not so many logos of collared flower epaulettes and armbands, and the unified color is based on a lighter plain gray color, and an arc-shaped identity iron plate hanging around the neck; They are also not qualified to wear helmets and armor, but wear uniforms with light leather chest guards and the smallest large-brimmed hats when on duty.

Because the iron card is so easy to signify, they also have a nickname - Iron Throat Soldier or Iron Boy.

Now, Meng Lin also has the task of being on duty and maintaining order in this large venue, and at the same time providing advice and assistance to those who are coming from the boy boy camp......

Because, today is the annual selection day of the boy boy camp, almost all the boys' camps and work-study camps in Sili and eight townships will be led and escorted by local teaching, and gather in groups to Qiuhe Town, near Yidu, to be screened and selected.

According to the distance, the candidate teenagers in Fuzhou came on foot, and the other candidate teenagers from the six prefectures in the heart of the country came by car in sections, and as for the candidate teenagers from the Yanbian prefectures, they even had to come by boat.

Therefore, such a large number of young people gathered in the local area, and the scene suddenly became extremely noisy.

In the new round of selection activities in the boy camp, Chen Ergou, who was looking forward to it with his feet, also looked at the benchmark in the distance with some ups and downs, and the most basic threshold for entering the young soldier team was the barefoot height after taking off his shoes, which must reach the same height as the standard long gun.

Then, there was a series of targeted simple tests and special performances, including the book and words of the warping lifting and shooting test riding equipment, etc., and the specific items were not less than those of adults, but the standards were reduced.

And as long as you can enter the young soldiers, even if it is the most basic order to do miscellaneous work for the main soldiers, it means that you don't have to work hard to take turns between the work and the field, trying your best to collect all kinds of bits and pieces to fill your belly, and you always feel hungry.

At least I heard that there was enough wheat rice and mixed bread for people to eat.

In addition to the morning and afternoon drills, you can also use the evening time to read and write, which is undoubtedly a better future and choice.

It's just that he has a lot of competitors.

Over the years, as the teenagers in the boy boy camp have grown up, at least more than 3,000 people have begun to enter the ranks of those who can serve in the medical examination that cannot be reached; Among them, there are many people who are tall and strong because of their innate foundation, and they can eat and exercise, and although they are very able to endure hardships, he is really thin and inconspicuous.

In addition, the number is more of the new generation of teenagers from local work-study camps.

Of course, in addition to the enviable army, there are other options and places to go.

For example, there are many departments and institutions under Huaidongzhi, and there are also corresponding personnel needs, only the requirements and thresholds for sound and coarse writing; As long as you have worked as a handyman apprentice or apprentice for a few years in the past, you can get a stable job or a corresponding livelihood.

This is also a good way out and choice for some young people who are not very physical and can be easily eliminated.

Of course, among them, there are naturally some more secretive departments, such as the little-known Commander-in-Chief and Ma Commandery, the Marquis of Yu in the army, and the Supervisory Board of the Observer Envoy. It is just from these young people with simple roots and clean minds that some good seedlings are selected as the foundation for future development.

However, this comes with luck and personal performance. Therefore, there are often some teenagers who perform exceptionally on the list, but in the end they do not appear in the sequence of service, and passively use limited priority to pick them away from the corresponding department.

However, Chen Ergou naturally doesn't have the ability to think of this, what he cares about is whether he can be qualified to be selected, and in the future, he will inherit the mantle of the cheap daddy with the background of the old army.

Because this old man who adopted his brother and sister happens to be surnamed Chen, and his full name is Chen Longxiang; Therefore, he has changed his name to Chen Fusheng, and his sister Er Ya has also been able to change her name to Chen Jianjia.

Since then, every month I can always get canned meat, dried fruits, and other rare things that are only distributed in the army, and they are double portions that both brothers and sisters have; Therefore, although there is an opportunity to settle for the next best, Chen Ergou secretly swore in his heart that he would never let his family down......

Huainan Road, the scorching sun, is just the scene of thousands of miles of red land.

In the fields that had been gnawed bare, there were almost nothing left of the vast earthy yellow that had been cracked by the sun, and the people who slowly wriggled on the ground like a torrent of filth.

Although, unabashedly, they were dizzy or dying from the scorching heat, and they did not even have the strength to speak or moan; In the silent procession, people fell to the ground, leaving behind a clump of corpses piled up by vultures; But the procession, which was moving slowly and heavily, showed no signs of stopping.

And a faint glimmer of water in the distance became their last hope and goal. Because, that means food and water, and a chance to live.

Speaking of all this, the local people in Huainan can be said to be full of sadness and blood and tears; After years of continuous war, he survived the war, but he suffered a major flood that was rare in decades.

These people who have left their homes have only been relieved last year; Grandpa begged grandma to borrow seeds and farm tools, and with the help of the local garrison's livestock and horses, he was ready to plow well in the new year.

But it backfired, and a locust plague broke out, which devoured almost all the seedlings and trees on the ground. Then, there was a series of droughts, and even the potatoes and multigrain seeds that had been replanted could not survive.

This was the result of the war a few years ago, and the flooding of the previous year completely destroyed the last remaining water conservancy facilities in the area. As a result, they no longer have the means or possibility to save themselves.

Even the local garrisons who organized and sheltered them and enclosed the land for reclamation were really completely unimaginable; Therefore, the only advice they could give and the way out was to follow the main road north, directly to a few crossings on the Huai River.

Perhaps, there are still people there who are willing to accept them.

ps: I came back late from going to other places to sweep the graves, and that's all for the time being