It is the month of wax, it is the time of winter, although it is a cold wind, but for farmers it is a rare winter leisure in a year. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info this season, it is the time for the common people to "cat winter", they will change three meals a day to two meals, and use a half-full way to "boil" this winter at home all day, waiting for the arrival of spring.

However, not every local farmer will be like this "cat winter", at least for the people of the Northeast, perhaps when it comes to the "bitter cold", Kannai can not be compared with the Northeast, but in the current Northeast has always had a "winter idle" saying, and even not only "not idle", even more hard than in the past. The reason why it is more hard is not because of farm work, but because of the lack of "service", and the so-called "service" is not just a simple "labor", but a "regimental service" of "combining military and labor", that is, the "ding service" of serving a strong regiment.

In the past, this "winter leisure" was always a time for men to gamble and drink, and it was also a frequent season for fights and other conflicts, but now this "winter leisure" has been completely used by the government.

After the establishment of the Zhuang Ding Regiment, the "winter leisure" naturally became the "winter training period" of the Zhuang Ding Regiment. In the so-called "winter training," military training is only 90 hours in total during the 30 days of winter training, with an average of only three hours a day, while the rest of the more than 150 hours are spent on "volunteer work" -- repairing canals and roads.

For the government, millions of strong men have always been the best free labor. It only needs to provide a few meals, and there is not even a uniform fee - the uniforms of the Zhuangding regiment are the same as the "wooden guns" they bring themselves. The only thing the government needs to provide is food, such as mashed potatoes, which is the lowest cost. And cheap food can be provided in large quantities. As for their barracks, they are not rudimentary - after all, the barracks are usually used as resettlement centers and for military training and other activities for middle school students.

Cheap and plentiful. This is the impression that the Zhuang Ding Regiment has given to the government, and it is even the existence of more than 4 million Zhuang Ding Regiments that enables the Northeast to maintain good social order, and as a supplementary force for public security in the Northeast, it cooperates with the police to carry out tasks such as suppressing bandits, so that the once rampant Hu Bandits disappear into invisibility. On the other hand, the Zhuangding Regiment is also an extremely important part of the armed forces in the Northeast -- the reserve of the Northeast Army. It is precisely because of this that less than 100 hours of military training in the winter training every year will appear extremely serious. To a certain extent, these dozens of hours of training are more of an annual assessment. In the past year, they have been assessed whether they have participated in the training of the Zhuangding Regiment in accordance with the regulations, and the assessment results of a certain district team are also related to the annual evaluation results of the police officers responsible for the management of the "Zhuangding Regiment".

"Kill!"

On the training ground, a strong man wearing steel armor like an ancient samurai is struggling to attack the "enemy" with an assassination wooden spear, with a left stab and a sudden stab. It seems to be so lively, when hundreds of strong men are conducting assassination training in the field. It was crowded with people, and there were bursts of cheers.

This is training, and it is also a competition, the military skills competition between towns and towns, villages and villages, from the day the training began, has been secretly launched, but the real confrontation is with the backbone regiment, the so-called backbone regiment, equivalent to the squad leader in the army, the soldiers in the ordinary regimental army.

According to the provisions of the Military Service Law, the basic regiment is a first-class reserve, the ordinary regiment is a second-class reserve, and those under the age of 18 and over 45 are classified as a third-class reserve. Among the more than 4 million Tuanding in Northeast China, the backbone Tuanding accounts for almost half of them, because the population of Northeast China is mostly composed of new immigrants, and most of the immigrants are middle-aged men. Because of this, only the regimental members who have been commissioned will receive weapons. As for the other key regimental members who were not appointed, they were often only given a military uniform without military rank.

But the competition during the winter training will change everything, and the winner will not only get a new military uniform - a woolen military coat, military uniform and military boots, but also a rifle, which is not an old-fashioned single-shot gun, but a ten-shot Han-style fast gun, for many young people, whether it is a magnificent woolen military uniform or a ten-shot fast gun, it means the envious eyes of others and the admiring eyes of girls, which is why this competition will seem so fierce.

"Kill ......"

With a deep shout, Li Yunjie only felt that the head of the gun was slammed, but it was only an instant, he knew that he had won, and he didn't even need to look at it, he knew that the power of his stab was enough to make the other party fall.

Sure enough, when the head of the gun stabbed the opponent's chest, Liu San, who came out of Wang Jiatun, fell down violently.

Win!

"After Lintun Li Yunjie won, he scored 35 points......"

After many years of practice, the military competition in the northeast has already become extremely standardized, and the corresponding rules have been formulated with reference to the sports competition, and even in addition to the internal competition during the winter training period, there is also a high-standard military competition at the level of the three provinces in the summer -- the sports competition in the three eastern provinces, but before participating in the military competition in the northeast, it is still necessary to go through the selection of competitions at the city and provincial levels.

The militarization of sports competitions and the militarization of physical education are the characteristics of the three eastern provinces, and they are also based on military needs -- the northeast needs to arm itself as much as possible to prepare for future wars, and this is part of the entire system of preparing for war.

"Yun Jie, it's good, if you win one more game, our village's face will be earned!"

When the comrades-in-arms in the same village cheered to welcome Li Yunjie's victorious return, his young face had a somewhat shy smile, and he looked extremely young when he took off his shield, in fact, he had just turned 18 years old, and he had not yet reached the age of conscription when he was conscripted last year. For him, it was not his concern to be able to bring light to the village, and what he was looking forward to was not even rifles and uniforms as prizes, but letters of recommendation from the camp district.

With that letter, it was time for the summer draft. As long as there are no infectious diseases. He would then go straight to the boot barracks. Thus becoming a soldier.

For Li Yunjie, being a soldier has been his wish for many years, and the reason why he has this wish is very simple, it is entirely because the squad leader who sold jujube cakes with his father that day, that day the squad leader stopped others from eating and gave him a dollar, and it was from that day on. In his heart, there is no one who is taller than the image of a soldier. The natural soldier has become his ideal. Becoming an adult has always been a dream of him to become a soldier.

"Hey, you kid, that shot just now was really accurate!"

As Li Yunjie's squad leader, Sun Liliang's face was full of smug smiles.

"This time you can give me a face, who doesn't say that I bring a good soldier......"

"What earns face and doesn't earn face, it's just ......"

Before Li Yunjie finished speaking, a whistle suddenly sounded over there. It is the whistle of the collection. The ongoing game was immediately interrupted.

What's going on?

Although he was puzzled, Li Yunjie hurriedly carried the wooden gun. The people who did not disarm themselves wore protective clothing and gathered in formation with their comrades in the village.

In the next half hour, Li Yunjie was surprised to find a problem -- all the squad leaders and captains were called out of the ranks individually, and after the squad leaders came out of the ranks, the deputy captains and deputy squad leaders naturally took over the command of the squad team, and what was even more surprising was that when the squad leaders assembled, they were ordered to hand over their weapons to the deputy. And this also means that they will move the "command" downward, and the "deputy post" who has pulled the weapon will take the main post.

What's going on?

In the face of this sudden order, everyone felt a little surprised, but they had long been accustomed to obedience, and they were accustomed to obeying military orders.

For ordinary strong men, they didn't know what was going on, and for those squad leaders who were still ordinary people for a moment, it was only a moment of effort, and they accepted the call-up. Received a call up from the army.

"Squad leader, what's wrong? Is this going home? ”

More than an hour later, watching the squad leader packing his luggage, Li Yunjie and the others all looked at him in surprise.

"Go home!"

When mentioning going home, Sun Liliang's face looked a little uncertain, although he had never been a soldier, but this sudden call-up made his heart swell with unease, although there will be a "mobilization exercise" every year, but last year, he was mobilized once, and this year he was mobilized again, and this is something that has never happened in the past.

Conscription Order!

In January 1901, hundreds of thousands of conscription orders were not even sent through the normal mail channels, but directly to the battalions, and the order was very simple, to carry out a comprehensive mobilization of the first-echelon reserves, because during the winter training period, the battalions and districts did not even need to issue a single conscription order, and the battalion districts that received the fate of the headquarters immediately mobilized the reserves in their own camps, and according to the original plan, they were directly organized into battalions and regiments, and then they were sent to the regimental districts according to the orders, and then directly supplemented into the 52 B-class mixed brigades.

At the same time that the first echelon of reserve soldiers began to be mobilized, the 52 B-level mixed brigades distributed in the three eastern provinces were also very busy, and to a certain extent, the B-class brigade was just a "shelf", a "skeleton" with 100 percent complete personnel but only 15 percent.

According to the mobilization sequence, the B brigade needs to complete the mobilization within 72 hours of receiving the mobilization order, while for the conscripts, they have 48 hours to report, while for the officers and men of the B brigade, they only have 24 hours from the moment they receive the order, they have only 24 hours to arrive at the conscription area and wait in the regimental area to receive the conscripts.

Because of this, when the mobilization order was issued, the entire northeast instantly became lively, and the officers and sergeants of the battalions and regiments rode horses and cars to the regimental districts.

"Mobilization for 72 hours ......"

Riding on a horse, Shao Renjie, who was facing the wind and snow, muttered silently in his heart.

"One-month remedial training ......"

At this time, he was thinking about the normal mobilization time of the B-class brigade, 33 days, and after 33 days, the 52 B-class mixed brigades would complete the mobilization and enter the combat sequence, and perhaps for the battalion commanders, the current mobilization was more of a "preventive exercise" -- 25 percent of the troops would be mobilized once a year, and the habit of many years made them hardly notice the difference between this year's mobilization and the mobilization of the past.

However, as far as Shao Renjie, commander of the 73rd Mixed Brigade, was concerned, at the meeting that had just ended, the commander had told them bluntly that this mobilization was a full mobilization, so that everyone could prepare for war and be ready for war, not just to mobilize people as in previous years' "exercises," but to completely distribute all materials such as military uniforms and weapons, and at the same time to conduct a month's supplementary training so that the soldiers could enter the combat state.

"Brigadier Commander, it seems that this time it will be to put pressure on diplomacy?"

Although Zhao Kewu, who was riding on a horse, could not see the brigade commander's face, he could feel that from the end of the meeting, the brigade commander's expression was solemn, and when they came, they rode on the horse all the way, and now, from leaving Binjiang to now, they have not said a word.

At this time, in the face of such an order, everyone feels a little heavy, especially as soldiers, they can't help but consider various possibilities, including the war against Russia.

"Applying pressure?"

Shao Renjie was stunned for a moment, and then thought of the negotiations with Russia, but it was just a business negotiation, and it was necessary to mobilize four or five hundred thousand troops to exert pressure?

"Probably not, I heard that in addition to us, the standing brigade has also been replenished with one and a half regiments, and half of the regiment will be transferred, saying that it is going to form a third echelon, which is clearly the rhythm of a big fight, otherwise, why mobilize so many troops!"

Although a lot of information is strictly confidential, the news will always be "leaked", just like Shao Renjie, as a brigade commander, he can get some strictly confidential information through some channels. And everyone told him that this time was not just a simple "mobilization exercise", and he also felt that this was also not a "drill", and that in the past, mobilization exercises did not require all personnel to distribute weapons, but this exercise required all personnel to distribute weapons and open the weapons warehouse, and this is not a sign of a big fight?

"Big fight......

The brigade commander's words made Zhao Kewu, the brigade chief of staff, stunned at first, and then said eagerly.

"Brigade commander, will it be ready to enter the customs! I'm now clamoring for the Yellow Soul Association to enter the customs, and if we do, then we really have something to do! ......" (To be continued.) )