As soon as I woke up in the morning, I began to train and drill non-stop. Only a maximum of four hours of sleep are allowed a day, and many of the team members are drowsy while eating. With the instructor's uninterrupted orders one after another, everyone's spirit and willpower were at the limit, and even on the verge of collapse.

I only slept for about four hours at night, and when I got up in the morning, I was carrying 20 kilograms and 20,000 meters. After breakfast, it's time for a swimming pool training, four strokes, 5,000 meters. Then, an hour of swimming. The temperature in the water was already minus two or three degrees, and after an hour of swimming, many people acted like robots, and collapsed on the beach.

When Yu Songyuan walked on the beach, he took advantage of the gap between the instructor and the second squad leader Liu Guodong to order, "There is no trick to this kind of training, just four words, 'Grit your teeth and persevere!'" Convey to everyone, don't pursue speed, stick to it, and pass the test! ”

Liu Guodong has been restored to the second squad leader, and he and all the members of the second squad are already convinced by Yu Songyuan. He and Lin Tao quickly conveyed the order to every team member.

Sure enough, as soon as everyone climbed ashore crookedly from the sea, instructor Zhu Jun ordered, "Double logs, two thousand meters." ”

Yu Songyuan quickly ordered Lin Tao and Liu Guodong, "Xiangxia passes, the first person leads the way, and the last person sleeps." ”

Yu Songyuan and Lin Tao walked to the pile of wood, took the lead in carrying a wet log, and set off barefoot and stepping on the snow along the dirt road in the training ground. Lin Tao said in the back, "Boss, I really can't stand it, I want to sleep for a while." On the return trip I was in front and you slept. ”

"You sleep, don't forget that you still have a big log on your shoulder." So, Lin Tao closed his eyes and fell asleep while walking. Yu Songyuan walked in front and pulled him at the same time.

The special trainers all followed their example, and one of them seized the time to take a nap. Zhu Jun walked by the queue and pondered for a while, feeling inexplicable. "Holy shit, a bunch of bear soldiers, can you sleep too?" He wanted to teach a few people a hard lesson, but the stick in his hand was raised, and it can be seen that none of the special training soldiers fell on their shoulders, so they had to put it down.

After lunch, with only a ten-minute rest, we started to cross the obstacle course again. With a tactical background, the machine gun has already sounded, it is live ammunition. Creep through a 1,000-meter barbed wire barrier and jump through a 20-meter fire barrier. After climbing the 100-meter rock wall without insurance belt with a tactical background, Zuihou, it is a small long swim in the seawater.

Liu Tao in the second class was eliminated again, but this kid's kung fu is really good. When climbing the 100-meter rock wall without insurance, he actually stood in the middle of the cliff wall and opened his nap. Zhang Ming saw that he stopped in mid-air, lying on the cliff wall and couldn't get up or down, so he understood what was going on. He ordered the service platoon to open the air cushion below and wait to prevent accidents.

Who knows, this kid slept for a while, shook his head and sobered up, and climbed up quickly and nimbly like a monkey. The officers and men of the service platoon, who had been busy for half a day, were so angry that their faces turned blue. This scene made all the special training soldiers who were about to collapse smile comfortably from the bottom of their hearts.

After dinner, there is a 5,000-meter swim in the swimming pool, and before going to bed, you have to complete the daily necessities with bench pushes.

This "Hell Week" extreme training lasts for eight days. More often than not, they are half-awake and half-asleep every day. Yu Songyuan has the best physical fitness, and he takes the lead in every training, and the special training soldiers follow him. You don't need speed, you just have to stick to it.

Every day, Zeng Yu followed them with a medical ambulance and was distressed. But none of the soldiers were left behind, and they were both distressed and relieved.

This year from the end of November, it began to snow, and every three or five times, it kept falling, and before the Spring Festival, the snow was already deep in people's buttocks. The three-month physical training of the training camp finally ended successfully in the snow. Of the twenty-six "ghost" special training soldiers, Liu Tao was the only one, who was ruthlessly eliminated because he slept in mid-air.

Liu Tao was not convinced, and was kicked down by Zhang Ming, "If you are fighting behind enemy lines, you will kill all your comrades because of your dog's sleep!" "Also, hanging on the cliff wall at a height of 100 meters, I can't control my desire to sleep, this is not a joke. No one dared to send such soldiers to fight behind enemy lines.

A large part of the physical training takes place in the Bohai Bay in winter, which is very different from army training. Underwater physical training, combined with the training of basic combat skills in water, is a special training method invented by Zhang Ming, which kills two birds with one stone and achieves miraculous results.

At the end of the physical training stage, Chief of Staff Zhang Guangjin came to inspect the test. When these 25 special training soldiers swam in the cold winter sea, he was very satisfied. In previous years, by the end of the physical training phase, two-thirds of the trainees would be eliminated, but this year's results are very exciting for everyone.

The soldiers in the old area of northern Jiangsu are really not covered. This was personally selected and specially recruited by him one by one, which won him a lot of glory.

At the dinner in the evening, the chief of staff spoke, you are all soldiers I received, which won glory and added color to the old area of northern Jiangsu, and also made Zhang Guangjin feel very beautiful. I believe that after two years of complete training, you will become well-deserved "ghosts". In order to reward you for your hard work, tonight's entertainment will be played with the movie "Red Sun". At the same time, during the Spring Festival, the brigade will hold a party with the No. 8 Middle School and other units, and all the personnel of the training camp will participate!

After the chief of staff finished speaking, the audience burst into thunderous cheers.

In the evening, everyone gathered in the auditorium to watch movies, but Yu Songyuan hid in the dormitory to read letters, letters from his parents, letters from his eldest brother, letters from Teacher Zhang, letters from Lin Xue, letters from Li Yun, letters from Qin Hong...... A large number of letters, forty or fifty, most of them were transferred from the Longshan Field Station of the Air Force.

The family situation is very good, the relatives are in good health, and Lin Xue is also in good condition, his nose suddenly felt sour.

Teacher Zhang was transferred to the Education Bureau, Li Yun was admitted to Nankai University, and Qin Hong went to study in country M. Zhuang Ba and Teacher Zhang both said in their letters that they had made a fortune in the fish pond and sold it for nearly 3,000 yuan, and with Lin Xue, the four families were divided. Lin Xue also talked about it in the letter, saying that she didn't want it, and they were all angry, so they had to accept it.

Lin Xue also said that now she has to go to see her mother-in-law every week, and she has a good relationship with her sister-in-law Yu Ya, Chen Jing, and Yu Xiaohui, and she is so happy. Lin Xue also told him that Yu Yueyue, Wang Feng, Professor, Teacher Chen, and Aunt Xiao missed him very much, and asked him to write a letter to them separately.

Yu Songyuan blamed himself for a while, and every time he asked his parents to say hello in the letter, he didn't write letters one by one, which really shouldn't be. Pick up the letters of the three sworn friends, except for the report, the rest are some, so they are thrown aside. Picking up a pen and paper, he began to write replies one by one, when the chief of staff came to him.

The chief of staff didn't see Yu Songyuan in the auditorium, so he found the dormitory. Yu Songyuan immediately stood up and said, "Hello Chief of Staff! ”

Seeing that Yu Songyuan was spreading a letter on the bed and was writing a letter, the chief of staff said, "You are short of time, I will finish a few sentences, and you will continue to write a letter, especially don't forget to write a letter to Uncle Ma." In addition, I will say hello to your father, mother, uncle and aunt. ”

Seeing Yu Songyuan sitting down, he said again: "For the Spring Festival party, we invited Uncle Ma's family. You have been locked up for training, and many people will take advantage of the rare vacation time to go to the city to wander around, I hope you must attend the party, at least dinner, and the task is to accompany Uncle Ma's family. The party is yours, but it's just a show. ”

Yu Songyuan said, "Please rest assured, Chief of Staff, I will definitely participate in the whole process." ”

The chief of staff added: "Now that the state is concentrating its efforts on economic development, the chairman of the Central Military Commission has demanded that 'the army should be patient,' military spending is tight, and some units in the south have begun to engage in production and operation. Our troops have heavy training and combat tasks, and the families of martyrs and disabled 'sharp knives' need to be taken care of, and funds are even tighter, and money is needed everywhere, so the brigade also wants to do a little. ”

"We have two squadrons of fishing boats, and we have the conditions to engage in production and operation than any other unit, so how can we be short of money?"

"If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, it's far from enough. I am opening a fruit wine processing factory with Uncle Ma in Jihua, which is jointly invested by our troops and the station, and Uncle Ma is out of Jishu and manages, cultivates the brand, makes it bigger, and shares the revenue proportionally. During the party, you represent me to communicate this intention with Uncle Ma first. The matter is to be kept secret. ”

Yu Songyuan said, "Okay, I promise to complete the task." ”

"In addition, I promised you to recommend you to take the military school entrance exam next year, what do you personally think?"

"Chief of Staff, in fact, at present, my army probably does not have a school that can allow me to learn everything taught in this training camp. I've been practicing martial arts since I was a child, and I know how difficult it is to come here and stay here. I want to be a 'ghost' and let me finish training here." I believe that I will be the most trustworthy steel knife of the 'Ghost'! Yu Songyuan said sincerely.

The chief of staff calmly said, "You are right in this way, but there are still limitations. The situation facing China's sovereignty and security is becoming more and more severe, and in order to cope with the challenges, starting from the early 80s, the three major fleets of our navy have separately set about forming marine brigades. Each marine brigade has 3 marine battalions, 1 tank battalion, 1 artillery battalion, 1 amphibious combat vehicle battalion, and 1 communications battalion. ”

"Each marine battalion has three marine companies, one anti-aircraft missile company, and one mortar company. The brigade headquarters is directly under the jurisdiction of the diving company, the anti-chemical warfare company, the engineer company, the automobile company, the health company, the guard company, the teaching team, the amphibious reconnaissance unit, the helicopter detachment, and other company-level units, and the total strength of each marine brigade is more than 5,000 people. ”

"These three land combat forces will be an important assault on China's efforts to safeguard maritime sovereignty and respond to maritime challenges. The 'ghost' functions that you currently recognize can be almost all undertaken by our Marine Corps. What the 'Ghost' needs to undertake is a special combat mission when it is impossible to use the army on a large scale. Sometimes, even long periods of solitary combat. Many of our team members, in various capacities, are fighting silently and alone to safeguard the interests of the country in all corners of Shijie. ”

"Your unique personal qualities and meticulous thinking skills are very suitable for becoming such a lonely 'ghost', and I hope to make you such a sharp knife. And to become such a 'ghost' requires more and more systematic expertise. Therefore, every year, we send a number of 'ghosts' to study in a number of well-known institutions of higher learning in the military in China. For you, it's also a task, do you understand? ”

When the special training soldiers were struggling with the time of physical training, in fact, time passed quickly. As soon as the physical training ended, the Spring Festival of 1981 came.

In accordance with the requirements of the brigade, all participants in the training camp participated in the Spring Festival party. When the 25 special training soldiers entered the Binhai Mountain unit station, the camp was already dressed in festive costumes. There were colorful balloons floating in the sky, and a big red banner was hung on the top of the camp gate, which read, "Congratulations to the people of the coastal area on a happy Spring Festival, congratulations to the military and the local people for their deep love for fish and water!" ”

The camp is full of lights, colorful flags fluttering, and a festive scene.