Entering July, just in time for the slack season, although the mountains are not too hot, but the sun is very poisonous, you can peel off the skin after a day outside, the villagers are hiding at home at this time, either playing cards, or watching TV. From time to time, there was a "rumbling" cannon sound on the mountain, which shook the earth and trembled, it was not the villagers who were blowing up stones, but the troops were firing live ammunition, the artillery positions of those howitzers were dozens of kilometers away from the mountain, and the shells were fired at a saddle-shaped gap in the middle of the mountain from several villages, and the deafening sound of artillery came from time to time, and the whole mountain was under martial law by the soldiers, and there were sentinels holding small red flags guarding the intersections of the mountains.

The small artillery unit was not idle, and there was a special shooting range for small artillery live firing on the mountain, where live firing was also going on vigorously.

Li Xiwa, the leader of the first squad of the Second Artillery Company of the 3235th Regiment, was squatting on the side of an 82 recoilless gun, he carefully set up the shooting Zhu Yuan, and skillfully turned the high and low machine and the direction machine with both hands, and the "ten" in the scope slowly moved to the center of a tank target in front, he adjusted his breathing slightly, and gently pulled the firing machine with his fingers, only to hear a muffled sound of "bang", and a ball of flame erupted from the tail of the gun, which was four or five meters long. Li Xiwa stood up proudly, and he shouted at Xiao Guangdong, who was standing on the side and watching: "One gunner, ready to shoot." ”

Xiao Guangdong slowly stood up, scratched the back of his head unnaturally with one hand and said, "Squad leader, I have a cold today, and now I am a little dizzy." "Just now, when he saw the squad leader firing the gun, a fire erupted from behind him, scorching the grass behind him, and he was a little scared.

"You're not dizzy. But cowardice, look at your virtue, Sun Jiashu, Shang. Li Xiwa glanced at Xiao Guangdong contemptuously and said.

"Yes", Sun Jiashu came out of the queue, he ran to the artillery and squatted down, the veteran Yang Huan had already gently filled a nearly one-meter-long cannonball wrapped in a medicine bag into the barrel, and then carefully closed the bolt.

"Sun Jiashu, you have to fight hard, this shell is worth more than 1,000 yuan, which is equivalent to a year's hard-earned money of the people, you can't waste the hard-earned money of the people." Li Xiwa reminded Sun Jiashu.

Sun Jiashu nodded, his hands trembled and twisted the high and low level and direction machine, the target was locked in the scope, he held his breath, but his heart beat "dong dong", as if he wanted to break free from his chest and jump out, after all, it was the first time to shoot a * gun, not only Xiao Guangdong was timid, but even Sun Jiashu's heart was a little timid, the cannon just now was like a thunderstorm, and the tail of the cannon spewed out a few meters of flames, will it burn people?

Sun Jiashu twisted his face to the back when he fired, Li Xiwa was about to step forward to stop it, only to hear a "boom" cannon sounded, Sun Jiashu just opened his eyes, the gunpowder smoke after the explosion rushed to his face, he immediately instinctively closed his eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, he rubbed his eyes and forcibly opened his eyes, only to see Li Xiwa pointing at him and laughing back and forth. Sun Jiashu is like a coal digger who has just gone up the mine, his face is black, and his eyes and teeth are whiter.

Sun Jiashu didn't understand what the squad leader was laughing at, so he asked vigorously, "Squad leader, did I hit?" What are you laughing at? ”

"I'm smiling and shooting * guns with faces facing back, but if you're lucky, you kid is lucky to hit the target, but you won't be allowed to shoot * guns face back in the future." Li Xiwa tried to keep her face serious, but she couldn't hold back a laugh.

Sun Jiashu only saw Li Xiwa's mouth open and closed, but he couldn't hear what was said, so he asked, "Squad leader, what are you talking about?" How could I not hear it? ”

Li Xiwa smiled and said: "Oh, I forgot to remind you to wear earplugs, just if you can't hear, this is called temporary loss of hearing, let's go to the side and rest first, it will be fine after a while, Xiao Guangdong, it's your turn." ”

It doesn't look like it's going to work, Xiao Guangdong came to the artillery and squatted down, he is no longer afraid now, Sun Jiashu has made a demonstration just now, and he is also the first time to shoot * artillery, isn't it nothing? He carefully set up to shoot Zhu Yuan, skillfully twisted the high and low machine and the direction machine with both hands, after aiming at the target, he turned his head to look at a few comrades in the class, only to see Sun Jiashu was stretching his thumb towards him, Xiao Guangdong smiled knowingly, and aimed at the target again, he held his breath, his fingers were lightly forced, only to hear the sound of "boom", beautiful, the center of the target in front of him was suddenly lifted a big hole.