As the most important port of Chen Han on the Bay of Bengal, Dingnan has stationed tens of thousands of sailors and troops here. A coastal defense regiment and a garrison brigade, although there are no warships, can also hold Dingnan [Yangon] as solid as a golden stone.

A few soldiers on leave ran out of the barracks, and it was raining lightly, but that didn't stop them from wandering around the city. They quickened their pace and ran on the special concrete road leading to the road in the camp and rushed to the bus stop on the side of the road. Under the canopy of the platform, there were still a few comrades-in-arms who were taking advantage of the rest to go to the city waiting for the public carriage that had not yet arrived.

"Does it rain here in winter? Didn't you say it's the dry season? Ran Tianyuan wiped the rain from his face and said angrily. He had just been transferred to Dingnan for two months and had seen the continuous rains at the end of the rainy season, but as far as he knew, it was already the dry season in Myanmar. But this was the third rain he had encountered in the past ten years, and it was the last time every other day. For a person who was born in Sichuan, grew up in Xiangyang, and served in the Yunnan Border Guards all year round, it would never have been possible to expect such frequent rain in winter. Ran Tianyuan wiped the rain from his face and complained.

"What is this! When the rainy season arrives in March of the following year, you will know what rain is. It was much heavier and denser than two months ago. ”

"Thirty days in a month, twenty-five or six days it rained; It rains twenty-four hours a day, for more than ten hours. ”

"People are going to get moldy. When I didn't see the sun, it was wet and stuffy, and when I got up in the morning, I wiped it with my hands on the head of the bed, and it was all a layer of moisture. That's called talent is an uncomfortable one. The surrounding soldiers also laughed and accosted.

The people in a camp have been photographed more than they don't know. Moreover, this Ran Tianyuan is a third-class sergeant major, and the treatment in the army is equivalent to that of a team officer. There were only two sergeant majors in their battalion.

"In my hometown of Shonan, it has also rained heavily, just like pouring water. But it won't last long, unlike here, where you can spend two hours at once. Amazing. The flag pedestal [the military flag pedestal in the camp] can be hidden. ”

A veteran of Dingnan said that he had been in Dingnan for five years, and he had long been accustomed to such rain. Pulling the shirt and not letting the wet clothes stick to the flesh and keep shaking, it is not to let the wet clothes be blown by the wind and dry quickly, but a subconscious action.

Ran Tianyuan listened absentmindedly to the conversation between the two, turned his head and asked, "What should I do if it rains so heavily?" ”

"The most annoying thing for me is the training during the rainy season. The most difficult thing in this place is the rainy season, but our troops fight in this kind of place, and every rainy season there will not only be training, but also several more times. Every time I practice in the field, I come back covered in mud. After washing the clothes and hanging them up, they won't dry for five or six days......" The veteran looked back with an unbearable face.

Ran Tianyuan's cheeks couldn't help twitching.

Yes, the definition of their force is to fight in the rainforest. If it rains heavily, I'm afraid that the masters above will practice more ruthlessly and more often. Ran Tianyuan will not think about the beautiful thing of stopping training, the worse the weather, the more likely it is to train more frequently.

And as long as the training plan is drawn up from above, the sky is a knife, and the Wehrmacht still has to train when it is time to train.

Ran Tianyuan knows that in the eyes of many military leaders, the harsh climate and environment are the best helpers to exercise the spirit and perseverance of the troops.

Speaking of this topic, the soldiers and brothers present all had bitter faces, and finally comforted each other and said: "Don't worry, the superiors won't really take us to death." Who can stand the rain every day, the troops have really fallen a lot, and it is still troublesome. ”

"During the rainy season, we combine training with indoor training. Relatively speaking, there are more indoor sports, or cultural learning, tactical analysis, step drills, ......, it is not so difficult. ”

Ran Tianyuan smiled.

It doesn't matter if it's hard here, he'll stick to it. His family conditions are not good because the 'ingredients' of their family are not good. His uncle Ran Wenyu joined the Qing army in his early years, and he joined the Qing army by pulling the clan team. The Ran family is a member of the White Lotus Sect, and the family has been burning incense for thirty or forty years, and it is very influential in his hometown. As a result, when the Ran family was betting, they pressed to the side of the Manchu Qing. His uncle and father were tempted by the promises of the Manchu Qing Dynasty at the beginning, and took people and horses to the Manchu Qing to sell their lives, but Ran Wenyu died outside.

Ran Tianyuan's father saw that the momentum was not right, so he dragged the family out of Tongjiang in western Sichuan, but his aunt was unwilling to leave and took the child back to her parents' house, while Ran Tianyuan's family ran from Sichuan to Xiangyang. Hit by this, Ran Tianyuan's father no longer has any ambitions, his father stubbornly guards his family's ten acres of land - the official rented land obtained in the way of homeless people, does not go out, does not go out to work, Ran Tianyuan has six brothers and sisters, five have lived, the family has a large population and little income, he is the boss, he has the obligation to stand on the door, and he went to the city to work at the age of thirteen. When he was a child, he could eat a mouthful of meat for several months, worked for six years, and lived a very bitter life until he joined the army.

He is Chinese New Year's Eve and is a third-class sergeant major in the army, which is a heaven and an earth compared to the days before the life of the army, and no matter how hard and tired the army is, he has not complained.

Back then, he was pulling bricks and carrying cement on the construction site, and he couldn't earn the army's high wages all day long, not to mention that the garrison brigade he is now staying in Dingnan, a treasure land of feng shui, is not as good as the previous Yunnan border. He even felt that the food for the Mid-Autumn Festival was richer than the wedding banquet held by his 'hometown', and there was usually fish and meat every day.

Fish, shrimp, crabs, and the people in the cooking class do it in a different way. Compared with the days before he became a soldier, Ran Tianyuan is now living a heavenly life.

So he didn't feel how big his uncle's hatred was, nor did he feel how big the hatred of the Ran family's death.

On the battlefield, each is his master, and it is unlucky to die. In those years of war, there were many people who died on the battlefield in this world. What's more, the death of the Ran family is not disgraceful.

Ran Tianyuan really thinks that the court is very good now.

Just a few days ago, he was promoted to training staff officer in the battalion because of his hard training and excellent skills. Their sergeant major does not have a 'big' future, but Ran Tianyuan's goal is to sit on the fifth sergeant major, he chose the path of a non-commissioned officer for the sake of insurance, instead of being an officer, he has no possibility of becoming a general, then he will sit on the best and highest sergeant major.

Ran Tianyuan is already a third-level sergeant major, and then he is a fourth-class sergeant major, and his status in the army is already comparable to that of a battalion officer. The difference between a sergeant major of the third and fourth class is the difference between a squad officer and a battalion officer, and as long as he takes one step forward, it will be a new beginning in his life.

Ran Tianyuan would not have known what a glorious moment he had in history - the Generalissimo of the White Lotus Sect Army. He's content with his current life.

With Ran Tianyuan's joining the army, the life of the Ran family slowly improved. In the first three years, Ran Tianyuan still sent all his salary and allowances home, and in the fourth year, Ran Tianyuan began to keep some of them, but it was still very little. Because his brother wants to go to school, Father Ran has a lot of opinions about his son's work for the 'enemy', but he has a hundred supports for his son's study. Ran Tianyuan's fourth brother was later admitted to Xiangyang's normal school, while his fifth sister went to a local nursing school, and then found a job in a hospital in Xiangyang's Fucheng.

After Ran Tianyuan's second sister got married and the third child became a security guard in a commercial bank, the pressure on Ran Tianyuan's shoulders, the eldest in the family, suddenly lightened a lot. Then in less than two years, Ran Tianyuan also became a parent.

In the eighteenth year of Chengtian, the industrial zone of Xiangyang Mansion expanded, occupying five acres and six points of land of the Ran family, and the compensation of 4,000 yuan suddenly made the Ran family's pockets bulge, and Ran Tianyuan's economic pressure was gone.

Ran Tianyuan, who had some extra money in his pocket, also began to go around the city where he was stationed when he was on vacation, no matter how much things were sold, he at least had this leisurely mood. At that time, he couldn't breathe under the pressure of life. I don't want to spend every penny, and I soak in the barracks during the holidays, and I don't take a step out of the gate.

In the twenty-second year of Chengtian, Ran Tianyuan was promoted from a second-class sergeant major to a third-class sergeant major, and the activity funds in his pocket were more abundant.

A soldier like him who joined the Wehrmacht in the post-war era who did not join the Wehrmacht during the war did not catch up with the fact that he was paid a field instead of a soldier, and his overall income was much worse than that of the soldiers of that year. Therefore, for a period of time, Chen Han's enthusiasm for joining the army greatly declined, and many veterans chose to retire one after another, that is, because the benefits of 'replacing salary with fields' were gone.

It's just that more than 20 years have passed, and everything from the conscription of the Wehrmacht to the retirement of soldiers, from the scouts, the reserve to the active duty officers and soldiers, has been strictly regulated and has a strict system. Officers and soldiers of the later era, such as Ran Tianyuan, did not think of substituting fields for salaries at all.

Although Chen Ming's ultimate expectation is a dedicated army, the Chen Han National Defense Force is far from meeting the standard.

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The combat alert of the Dingnan garrison was also quietly lifted as the situation in India returned to peace.

At the beginning of the war between the British and the Kingdom of Mysore, although Chen Han withdrew 'all' people from the Kingdom of Mysore, the Dingnan garrison was actually always in a state of combat readiness. Although no one knows about outsiders, as long as an order is given, the garrison brigade here can be pulled into the battlefield at any time.

Chen Ming allowed the British to defeat the Kingdom of Mysore, and even seek great benefits from the Kingdom of Mysore, but he would never allow the Anglo-Indian colonial army to completely destroy the Kingdom of Mysore. Tiepu's existence also has great 'historical significance'. This was the first point of the Dingnan garrison.

However, the war between the British and the Kingdom of Mysore eventually subsided, but the Marathas replaced the British and became the target of the Dingnan garrison. At that time, the atmosphere between the Marathas and the Gurkha kingdom was very tense, and in the face of the southward movement of the Gurkha kingdom, the Marathas showed great vigilance. The whole breath is like a crater with hot steam, which can erupt at any moment.

That is, there is now complete 'peace' in India. Both the British and the Marathas have withdrawn their minions, the Gurkhas are quietly digesting their gains, and the Dingnan garrison has quietly returned to a state of 'peace'.

Many soldiers would choose to go out of the camp during the rest of the team, and the atmosphere in the troops was tense for so long, and finally relaxed, so it was natural to take a good breath and relax. However, Ran Tianyuan, who had just been transferred to Dingnan for two months, felt that Dingnan was rather strange, and his reason for coming out to hang around was completely different from that of other officers and soldiers at the bus station.

Through the rain curtain, a group of officers and soldiers talked about the climate and customs of Dingnan, and their feelings for each other were strengthened in this chat. Influenced by them, five or six immigrants waiting for the train on the platform also joined in, and they discussed enthusiastically, and their words were full of longing for the future of Dingnan.

Dingnan is full of rivers in this place, the Dulong River [Irrawaddy River] is naturally the main body, but many rivers and streams in the estuary area also cross vertically and horizontally, the water flow is abundant, the land is flat and fertile, and it is a natural granary.

As he spoke, a red and copper-colored carriage with yellow and white stripes came from the rain, slowly leaned onto the platform, and opened the front and rear doors.

"Get on the bus, get on the bus, get on the bus and buy a ticket!" A middle-aged indigenous woman sitting by the front door poked her head out, glanced at the platform, and shouted her usual tune in a very smooth voice.

Although he is an indigenous, the Nanjing accent is no longer strange. It is not only the city of Dingnan that has changed Myanmar, but also the indigenous people of Myanmar.