Chapter 12 Growing Vegetables, the First Lesson of the Military Academy

After four or five hours of bumpy driving, the train came to the final station, Ben Thanh. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoBen Thanh is known as the most open city in the north, located between the Black Sea and the North Sea. The Ben Thanh Army Academy is located in the northern part of Ben Thanh in the Yinhai District, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful, just at the waist of the peninsula.

This group of cadet passenger cars traveled west along the asphalt road, through the city to the countryside, and walked for nearly an hour to reach a barracks between the mountains and the sea.

The group got out of the car and found a majestic gate at the end of the street, with several strong gold characters written on the plaque above the door: "Bincheng Army Academy".

Since Instructor Li Lihai graduated from this college, he led this group of students to register at the doorman's office, and then led Dajin into the camp.

The spacious asphalt roadside planted sycamores in the Ben Thanh Army Academy turn yellow in this season, and the mature leaves look beautiful in the golden autumn.

After a few turns along the wide asphalt road, they came to a conjoined building.

Compared with the 448th Regiment, the biggest difference between the barracks of the Bincheng Army Academy is that the barracks inside are all three-story buildings that are connected to each other in an undulating manner, and the antique buildings are all ridged buildings.

And the barracks of the 4th and 4th regiments, each battalion lived in a separate three-story building.

Deputy Instructor Li Lihai proudly introduced to us that this was what the original Japanese people left behind. At that time, it was known as the largest military camp in the East and was known as the "Asian Corridor". Now the school is known as the "West Point of China".

After walking for about ten minutes, they came to a building in the academy. This is a three-story small building with a conjoined structure, and on the door plaque in front of the door on the first floor, the name of "The First Brigade of the Bincheng Army Academy" is written

Deputy Instructor Li Lihai took us to the building and told us that this is the place where your training is held, and that this is the first brigade and one team of the Army Academy. Then he and the cadres of the team took over the shift, and after going through the handover procedures, he disappeared from the sight of the students.

Yang Wenbin guessed that Deputy Instructor Li must have taken this opportunity to meet his old classmates and visit the old leaders.

After completing the registration procedures, Yang Wenbin found the dormitory on the second floor according to the name plate on the report notice, and he was still assigned to the seventh class of the second district team. Since their unit was still relatively close to the Bincheng Army Academy, they arrived relatively early, while the cadets of other units that were relatively far away were coming to report one after another.

After entering his room, Yang Wenbin saw that two or three students were already there, and they were sorting out their luggage and packing up their rooms. Yang Wenbin paused, knocked on the door, and entered the room. Then he said, "I'm here to report, introduce myself, I'm Yang Wenbin from a certain division, hello everyone!" The comrades in the room also introduced themselves, it was the tall man who packed his luggage, named Pan Liquan, from Bincheng Normal University, hehe, he turned out to be an alumnus of Yang Wenbin. The other, called Qian Henglong, is most noticeably characterized by a large chin. Both of them were recruited by the Bincheng garrison troops, so they arrived relatively early. And the trainees of the troops from several provinces that are still far away from Bincheng have not yet come to report.

After packing their bags and putting them away, two or three hours passed. By five o'clock in the afternoon, the personnel of each class had basically finished reporting.

In the evening, the district captain met with everyone, and then talked to the students one by one to understand the situation. Yang Wenbin entered the room only after the four or five students in front of him had finished talking with the district captain. The room was in the hut at the end of the corridor next to the dormitory on the third floor, and there was a dim lamp on the table, which illuminated the whole room yellow. The district captain was a young man of twenty-six or seventeen years old, about 1.7 meters tall, with a dark complexion and a gloomy expression. "Come, sit down!" , the district captain stood up to greet his arrival, "What's your name?" Where is home? What is your major? What university did you graduate from? Do you have any special features? What are your thoughts on coming to the troops? Are there any difficulties that need to be solved? The district captain asked these questions like a barrage. Yang Wenbin carefully answered the questions one by one. He knew that this was an important means for cadres to understand the psychology and thinking of the soldiers---- and to talk heart-to-heart. The district captain listened and recorded carefully in his small notebook.

After introducing his situation, Yang Wenbin exited the room and continued to call the next comrade into the room to talk.

The next morning, according to the habit of the troops, after thinking about the morning drill horn, they began to exercise. Because of the foundation of being a soldier in 448 for nearly a month, these most basic queue actions are not difficult for Yang Wenbin and Li Kun.

Since it was the first day of the training camp, the training content was relatively simple. The content of the morning exercise is that after the teams of each district assembled, they were first brought to the assembly site of the brigade for a unified assembly, and then the brigade attendant gave the order to take the detachment away, ran around the large playground for a whole circle, and then brought it back.

After breakfast, at the beginning of the morning exercise, the district captain announced the results of last night's conversation and appointed a temporary acting squad leader. Li Kun was appointed as the leader of the sixth class. Yang Wenbin's seventh class leader is an alumnus of the same class as him, Pan Liquan, a physical education major at Bincheng Normal University.

Then the district captain convened a meeting with the squad leaders and laid out the work content for the morning. After the meeting, the squad leader returned to each class and told everyone to prepare shovels, manuscript heads, bed boards, etc. in the warehouse. Everyone is talking, is this the rhythm of training? The rhythm of construction!

"Di ----" With the sound of a sharp whistle, "assemble", the shout of the squad leader on duty sounded outside. The trainees quickly rushed out of each class with tools and assembled in front of the team department. After the team leader on duty reported to the whole team, the district captain announced the content of the morning's training.

"Comrades, today is the first day of training at the Army Academy, and our morning training is about growing vegetables. Don't you underestimate farming? As you know, the first generation of leaders of our army once said that our army is a combat team, a production team, and a work team. Our troops have inherited the fine tradition of "do it yourself, have enough food and clothing". Cadets who have served as soldiers in grassroots companies know that each company has its own vegetable plot and its own mission goals. It's the same with our cadet corps, each of which has its own vegetable patch. So whose vegetable planting is good, whose vegetable plot has a high standard, and whose vegetable plot has a high yield? Is this a contest or not? We must not be left behind. We must establish a sense of standards, demand ourselves with high standards, and successfully complete the task of growing vegetables.

"Yes! Yes!! Yes, !!", the students replied confidently.

"Okay, let's go!" The district captain gave the order.

Such a team of more than 120 people, armed with shovels, pickaxes, planks and other tools, rushed to the vegetable field. Actually, the food is not far away, just behind the building where we live. It's just that you have to detour four or five hundred meters to get there.

In order to raise everyone's standards, the secretary specially recruited a few cadets from the soldier cadet corps to teach us local college students who had never done this kind of work.

Since the last batch of students graduated in July, the vegetable field was barren for two months, and the weeds in the vegetable field grew wildly, all waist-high.

Yang Wenbin, who came out of the countryside, estimated that this vegetable field could be more than half an acre, and guessed that the main work was to remove weeds, turn over the ground, and sow seeds, and the task of planting vegetables was completed.

With so many people, it is estimated that this little work can be done in an hour.

The instructors of the Soldier Cadet Corps divided the work among everyone.

The first step is weeding, which is to remove the weeds grown in the vegetable field with a shovel and sickle, and then transport them away.

The second step is to plough the floor. It is also very simple, that is, use a shovel to dig up the soil on the ground and turn the hard soil into soft soil suitable for the growth of vegetables.

In Yang Wenbin's view, the third step should be to dig a pit and plant rapeseeds.

However, the demonstration soldier trainees brought a wire sieve that was 1.5 meters long and 1 meter wide. And then I don't know where to bring in a pile of fine sand.

What is this for? The students were puzzled.

At this time, the demonstrator instructed the new students to crush the soil in the vegetable field with a shovel and then sift it up with an iron sieve. After sifting out a pile of fine soil, they instructed the trainees to take out a roll of cotton thread for construction, and then coiled it with fine wire in the vegetable field and drove a wooden stake.

Until this time, Yang Wenbin understood.

Originally, the shapes of the vegetable stalks and vegetable noodles of each pond in the vegetable field were drawn with thin strings, as well as the gutters for watering and draining.

Then, the trainees who came to demonstrate instructed them, the new students, to start repairing with a shovel along the edges and corners of the line. At the same time, the soil in the vegetable field is also smashed with a shovel to make it even.

On this basis, sprinkle a layer of fine soil on the surface of the vegetable stalk and vegetable furrow back that has been repaired and patted with the back of a spade. In this way, the vegetable stalks, which were originally trapezoidal, have an angular shape on the top, while the drainage ditch has become an inverted trapezoidal shape, which is also angular.

The next step is obvious, that is, all the students came forward to help, sprinkled a layer of fine soil and fine sand on the trapezoidal shape of all the vegetable stalks, and then scraped them flat with wooden boards. Everyone is busy with the division of labor, sieving the soil, transporting the soil, spreading the soil, smoothing, the division of labor is clear, although clumsy, but also on the road quickly.

After a busy few hours, the eyes of all local college students and students lit up! What kind of vegetable field is this, isn't this the Great Wall? It's like building the Great Wall. The whole vegetable plot has been built into a number of long "fields" shapes, just like the appearance of the "well fields" of the Zhou Dynasty learned in history class, with vertical and horizontal lines inside. The original chaotic, rugged vegetable patch has become a flat plane above, inclined planes on both sides, and a flat plane underneath, a vertical plane...... What kind of vegetable is this? That's a work of art, making a work of art!

The next step is to grow vegetables in the traditional sense!

The secretary instructed the demonstrators to draw a line in a vegetable furrow against the wall on the left, cut an eye at the same distance, and then sprinkled rapeseed in it, poured water, and gently covered it with a layer of floating soil. Then, the other vegetable beds were divided into various classes, and each class was assigned a vegetable furrow about 10 meters long and 2 meters wide. Inside, everyone planted neat cabbage according to the demonstration. Probably this is the main dish we eat in winter.