March has gradually entered the spring, the temperature rises, the ice and snow melt, but in the Northeast, March is still as cold as ice, walking outside must also wear thick cotton jackets and cotton pants, but this winter is the most comfortable winter for the people in the Northeast, although the weather is very cold, the food is far from supporting them to eat every meal, but now, they feel a strong sense of happiness.

The buzzing of fighter planes can be heard in the air every day, but they are not afraid, because it is their own fighter plane, which is here to protect them, so when the people on the ground see the fighter plane flying quickly, they also learn from those who are soldiers to salute in the air.

Respect is mutual, this point is once again reflected in the Chinese people, in the past, if the people were not fine, they rarely entered the city, but now it is different, the same county, there are still well-equipped soldiers guarded, into the city still to search the body to ask, but now everyone has a smug smile on their faces, even if they are searched, they are also very happy to cooperate.

It's better to have your body searched than to be searched by devils, now as long as it's not contraband, such as drugs or arms control knives and other items, people don't care about you at all, as long as there is no contraband, the county town can go in and out at will, which is like before, after being searched, you have to say good things, good cigarettes are waiting, the devils are unhappy and hurry up to pay tribute, now you just hand them a cigarette they have to smile and refuse, they don't dare to take anything from the hands of the people, sometimes forced to accept the people's things, The soldiers would also pay, or secretly stuff money on the people.

Because there are two gendarmes staring at those soldiers in the back, who dares to secretly take bribes, without saying a word, directly take the iron handcuffs and take them away, once a soldier because of the high method of hiding, the gendarmes did not see him give money and directly accepted a box of cigarettes from the people, as a result, the people just walked with the front foot, and the two gendarmes handcuffed the soldier with the back foot, and the soldier shouted loudly to the people, saying that he stuffed two cents in his pocket, and the people took out the money in surprise on the spot, Finally two gendarmes warned the soldier before they stopped.

The iron-like discipline of the 99th Army is not only strictly observed in the army, but even the people know that this army is different from the previous Chinese armies, they never take anything from the people, even if you personally send it to them.

Zhang Dagou said that he had nothing to do today, and planned to go into the city to find some odd jobs to do, some time ago there were wars everywhere, and the frightened Zhang Dagou could only stay at home and did not dare to go, and then the gunfire gradually stopped, but for the sake of safety, he still did not dare to venture out, so he could only wait for a period of time to come out, yesterday a guy in the village who entered the city said that the Ninety-ninth Army had regained Ningcheng, and now there are no devils there, and the usual two devils and bullies who do a lot of evil have long been cleaned up by the Ninety-ninth Army, So today, Zhang Dagou got up early in the morning, took a nest head from home and went out directly.

Zhang Dagou has five brothers in the family, and three younger sisters, as the eldest Zhang Dagou is twenty-six years old this year, the second brother is twenty-four, the eldest sister is twenty-two, the third brother is eighteen, the fourth brother is fifteen, the second sister is eleven, the fifth brother is eight years old, and the younger sister is just three years old. The burden of the family is getting heavier and heavier, and there is a rule in the family, no one below the boss wants to get married if he doesn't get married, but the conditions of the Zhang family are not enough to marry a daughter-in-law for the boss even if he squeezes out all his belongings, so the eldest sister, who is twenty-two, still can't find a mother-in-law.

How difficult it is for a family of ten to survive in this war-torn era, perhaps only if you have personally experienced it will know this kind of hardship, although the boss Zhang Gouzi is only twenty-six years old, but let an uninformed person see, at first glance, this guy is definitely thirty years old, and his appearance has entered the ranks of middle-aged people early after years of hard work.

But there is no way, the family can't read a single word, and there is no money, so now the family's wish is to save money quickly, and then first do Zhang Gouzi's marriage, and after the second brother gets married, the eldest sister has been married, and the following will be much better, because the bride price money for the eldest sister's marriage can be used to let the third brother get married, and when the time comes, a few married people are saving money to let the fourth brother get married.

But the sky is not as good as people want, the war makes it impossible for them to continue to work and earn money, now as long as they can have food and clothing, it is good, and Zhang Gouzi has long since dispelled the idea of getting married, and when he has saved up almost all of his money, he will give the money to his parents to his second brother for a wedding, as for his future, Zhang Gouzi has already thought about it, either run away from home or die.

A soldier walked to Zhang Gouzi, searched his body and found nothing except half of the nest, looking at Zhang Dagou's thin body, and the half-eaten nest head, the soldier was stunned, and immediately took out a compressed biscuit from his body, broke off half of it and handed it to Zhang Dagou. Compressed biscuits are only available in recent times, and I don't know where Su Dao got them, although the taste is not very good, but for the soldiers on duty outside, this is undoubtedly the best food to satisfy hunger, so the soldiers on duty will bring a pack of compressed biscuits every day.

"I can't help it, I can't help it, I'm not hungry, it's more difficult for you to be a soldier and stand guard, so you should keep it and eat." Zhang Dagou was flattered and pushed back the half of the compressed biscuit in the soldier's hand, although he didn't know what it was, it looked like it was also dry, but the thing that the military master handed over, he subconsciously pushed it back.

"Take it, it's issued by the army, and you don't need money, this half of it can cover half a meal, besides, I don't have anything to eat, I can go to the two of them to ask for it." The soldier smiled, pointed to the two gendarmes behind him, and said.

"Huh?" Zhang Dagou was a little stunned for a while, although he hadn't been to the city recently, but the guy in the village told him that there were two soldiers with armbands on their shoulders behind the soldiers guarding the city gate, which were specially designed to clean up those who were soldiers, if there were soldiers bullying you, you would go directly to them, and I would definitely satisfy you. What is the rationale for this? He still dares to snatch food from the chief's mouth?

"Fellow, since he gave it to you, you can take it, don't worry, you won't let him go hungry." The two gendarmes behind him also seemed to notice the conversation and shouted directly at each other from a distance.

Hearing the shouts of the gendarmerie, Zhang Dagou took the half of the compressed biscuit with great doubts, and deducted some minced pieces from the side and put it in his mouth to taste it, it seemed to be a little salty, and it could be eaten dry. Zhang Dagou secretly muttered in his heart, but it was this half of the dry biscuit, Zhang Dagou was reluctant to eat it, it tasted much better than the nest head, Zhang Dagou carefully put the compressed biscuits into his pocket, and decided to let his parents and younger siblings taste it after returning home in the evening.

The soldier didn't say anything when he saw this, what Zhang Dagou wanted to do was his business, and he couldn't control it, he just saw that Zhang Dagou was penniless and only had half a nest head in his pocket, so he relented for a while and gave him half a biscuit.

However, just before Zhang Dagou had time to leave, a team of neatly dressed soldiers suddenly ran out of the city gate, the number of soldiers was not much, about 20 people, the neat pace was sonorous and powerful, which made people sound suddenly shocked, and even faintly had a feeling of fanaticism, and then looked at the steel guns in the hands of the soldiers, so that every hot-blooded man present had an indescribable feeling in their hearts, which could not be described at all.

"Master Jun, what are they doing here?" Zhang Dagou took a deep breath and asked boldly, this time he was out of the way, who dared to ask like this before? When people are in a good mood, they will directly give you a mouthful, and if they are in a bad mood, they will directly beat you all over the ground to find your teeth.

"Oh, what about conscription, this time our Sixth Theater has recovered the entire Rehe and part of Jinzhou Province, and the central government will not send troops, there is only one army of troops, and an army in such a large place cannot hold it at all, so the Sixth Theater decided to levy some local garrison troops to be responsible for defending the city, and the main force of the 99th Army will continue to fight against the devils." The soldier deliberately glanced at the notice that had just been posted on the city wall and said.

"Oh? Master Jun, are there any restrictions on this? Do you have money to be a soldier? Hearing the soldier say this, Zhang Dagou's eyes suddenly lit up, if he was a soldier, if he had money to be a soldier, wouldn't he be able to become a soldier? Don't talk about eating, in a year or two, this military salary will be enough for the second brother to get married.

"There are relatively few restrictions or anything, men under the age of 30 who are in good health, the family is not an only child, of course there is a military salary to be a soldier, our recruits of the 99th Army have a military salary of 30 yuan per month, but this time it is a local army, I don't know how much the military salary is, some time ago our army recruited a batch of soldiers in Jinxi, so it is unlikely that the army will be expanded in a short period of time." The soldier thought for a moment and replied.

Listening to the soldier's explanation, Zhang Dagou strengthened his belief in being a soldier, all of them belong to the jurisdiction of the Sixth War Zone, the 99th Army is a regular army, and the military salary is naturally higher. Five or six yuan a month, saving a year is fifty or sixty, which is almost enough to marry a daughter-in-law for the second brother.

Zhang Dagou ran directly to sign up with great interest, and he didn't bother to go into the city to find odd jobs. And if there is an acquaintance, it is estimated that he should be shocked, the soldier who spoke to Zhang Dagou just now is not the commander of the Sixth Theater Su Dao, as for why he didn't tell Zhang Gouzi about the treatment of the local garrison, he was afraid of causing too much trouble, he didn't want to tell strangers how good his treatment was, he hoped that the soldiers would go to their relatives and friends to promote the Ninety-ninth Army, so that it would get twice the result with half the effort, and Su Dao could achieve his goal faster.

As for the welfare of the local garrison troops, the salary of the recruits is twenty yuan per month, and the rest of the dead and disabled are the same as those of the Ninety-ninth Army, others regard these local garrison troops as a miscellaneous army, but Su Dao does not think so, the reason why he does not directly pay thirty yuan is because Su Dao wants them to exercise for a period of time first, and then increase it to thirty yuan after a few months or half a year.

This time the private visit of Weifu was a success, although Su Dao saw some bad things, but more still saw hope, and his original army expansion plan also rose again, now the soldiers in the city are busy to death, every day non-stop patrol and stand guard, he doesn't want this kind of thing to happen, and one million troops under his command is Su Dao's bottom line, even if the number of conscripts in this round cannot reach one million, within half a year at the latest, Su Dao must ensure that there are at least one million troops. (To be continued.) )