Ming Dahu was also recruited, but he was not separated from his father, because he was young and strong, he was assigned to the administrative district where the construction schedule was being rushed.

He and Huang Dehu, who played together in the same village, were both in charge of the construction of the dormitory building at the military academy, and every day they carried buckets of cement to the roof of the building with a flat pole under the big sun, and when they could rest when the whistle was blown, everyone sat on the training ground that had just been completed by the military academy to take a breath. Born as a bandit, the laborer who had no burden at home even took out a cigarette and smoked two puffs, and then quickly snuffed it out, and the others didn't give it no matter how much they asked, so they could only envy, envy and hate.

The opening of the military academy is imminent, but a group of senior officers who are about to be promoted have already formed advanced classes to study here in advance. Among them is Tao Zhiyue, the lieutenant colonel of the first battalion of the first regiment, who is only twenty years old, but he has participated in all the battles of the Tiger Brigade, including the famous battle of the night attack on Yudaimen (most of those who participated in this battle later became braggart masters), and the recent battle of Hongjiang. In terms of qualifications, Tao Zhiyue is older than Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, who have recently risen to power, and these two only joined the gang during the Nanjing period. Moreover, Tao Zhiyue has always been appreciated by Wang Zhenyu, and now the ants in the barracks know that this will be the rising star of the army, and this senior class will naturally not lack him.

At the end of the day's boring classes, Tao Zhiyue sat on the edge of the playground, ready to meditate on his future. He is different from Zhao Dongsheng, he is not a foolish and loyal person, so he naturally has to think about it when he encounters something. As a result, the train of thought was interrupted by those migrant workers who were noisy because of the smoke, and they despised it a little in their hearts, and then threw two packs of Hardmen over.

The migrant workers were overjoyed when they saw it, and they unpacked and divided their cigarettes, lit them in their mouths, and then choked on them.

Ming Dahu didn't go to grab the cigarette because he was shocked. He knows the cigarette thing, and a pack is almost half a month's salary. But just now, this official in a blue-gray military uniform casually lost a month's salary, how can you not shock him?

Summoning up his courage, Ming Dahu trotted and ran in front of Tao Zhiyue. After maneuvering nervously, he almost couldn't even stand on his feet, but he still saluted an extremely non-standard military salute with his left hand and shouted: "Hello sir." ”

Tao Zhiyue watched this young man who was only seventeen or eighteen years old saluting him, and he thought of how he was studying at the beginning of the military academy, and suddenly had a good impression, he nodded: "Young man, the hand is reversed." Hehe, what are you looking for me? ”

Ming Dahu hesitated for a while and said: "My family is poor, and there are many younger brothers and sisters, so I and I can't support them at all." Sir, you are literate and more knowledgeable than me, so I want to ask sir, how can I make money? ”

Tao Zhiyue was stunned for a moment, then laughed again, patted Ming Dahu's immature shoulder and said, "You only have three yuan a month, such a good man weishenme is not going to be a soldier, but to be a laborer here?" Do you know how much you can take as a soldier? ”

Ming Dahu shook his head, and Tao Zhiyue said with a smile: "The six-month recruit period is eight yuan a month, and there is also a settling-in allowance of twenty yuan, and there will be fifteen yuan when you get out of the army, and it will be paid in full, and it will never be in arrears." The most important thing is that if you kid has the ability, you can also take the military school like me and wear it in a tiger skin. ”

After instructing this poor boy, Tao Zhiyue seemed to have figured it out and figured it out, and left in a very happy mood, leaving Ming Dahu standing alone in the same place, killing the words he had just heard from the chief.

The day after returning home and seeing this scene, Ming Dahu asked Huang Dehu to slip away with him and went to the dock to sign up for the army.

The officer in charge of conscription was familiar with the way, and instead of stupidly throwing a form to Ming Dahu, he first asked: "Can you write?" ”

Ming Dahu didn't speak, just Mu Mu shook his head, there were too many unknown things for him outside Shijie, and many of them made him feel scared, so he could only deal with it in silence.

Conscripted officers seem to be surprised, and I don't know how many such conscripts will come across in a day. He simply wrote down his name, place of origin, and family situation, and then asked another officer to lead Ming Dahu to the physical examination.

Ming Dahu was ordered to strip naked, and the military doctor gave him a comprehensive examination in the same way as the cattle market picked animals, including looking at his teeth and little brother.

Everything is normal, the body is very strong, but in this regard, the soldiers in Xiangxi are very satisfying, the people here are generally brave and fierce and the body is very explosive, climbing ability, as well as endurance, weight-bearing, civil engineering ability is the most haode. It can be said that except for being shorter, it is in line with the standards of the New Army in all aspects, that is, in line with the standards of the Germans.

Ming Dahu received twenty yuan, and then a local staff member went home with him to meet his family.

When Ming Jincai heard that his son had actually gone to join the army, he was shocked, and hurriedly took a leave from the steward, and left the work at hand and went home early. When he entered the door, he scolded his son for ignorance: "Good iron doesn't hit nails, you don't know if a good man is not a soldier, you little brute is going to be angry with me, I'll beat you to death, bastard." ”

Ming Dahu didn't say anything, just threw twenty oceans on the table, and Ming Jincai didn't say anything. The local government staff also seemed to be well-informed and knew that there was nothing wrong with it, but just reminded them to go to the dock tomorrow to meet outside, and left.

Ming Jincai didn't say a word to his son all night, and he smoked dry cigarettes outside the shed alone, while wiping his tears, he told his son in Gantang words to pay attention to trivial things such as adding clothes when it was cold. The younger siblings didn't know that the Weishenme Ming Huang clan was going to hug the big brother and cry, and they all looked at their big brother with bright eyes. Many years later, the famous filmmaker Ming Dajiang recalled: "Brother Lobby's motive for joining the army at that time was very simple, that is, to let the whole family be able to eat enough, and he did this at that time. ”

Early the next morning, at the Yuanjiang wharf, the 30-ton passenger ship was already waiting, and the officers in charge of the colonel used sticks to whip them indiscriminately, so that these recruits barely stood in a queue, and then began to roll call.

"Huang Dehu, Ming Dajiang ......"

More than 40 recruits got on the boat, and the recruits along the Hongjiang River and Qiancheng along the way will also get on the boat one after another. According to the principle of mixed formation, the soldiers recruited this week will be given priority to be replenished to the Jingzhou Feishan Recruit Base, that is, the 803 base......

According to the latest orders of the General Staff and Operations Department:

Feishan Recruit Base (Address: Jingzhou Yangjia Regiment) Code 803 Soldier Source: Huitong, Jingzhou, Channel, Suining Four Places.

The base covers an area of 60 acres (40,000 square meters 200x200), including dormitories (four floors, 15x60, 900 square meters, construction area of 3,400 square meters, each floor has 28 suites (27 6x4, 1 6X6 for the instructor's room), with toilets and bathrooms, a total of 108 recruit rooms (6 rooms) and 4 instructor rooms (4 rooms)) eight buildings, which can accommodate 5,184 recruits. Teaching Building 2 (3 floors, 30x60, 1800 square meters, construction area of 5400 square meters, 18 large classrooms (15x20, can accommodate 120 students), 18 small classrooms (12x15, can accommodate 60 students), 6 teaching and research rooms (12X8), one toilet (12x4) on each floor, of which the third floor is a women's bathroom. In addition, an administrative building and an exhibition room (three floors, as large as a teaching building), an arsenal (the firepower of a standard reinforced regiment plus 40 mountain guns, 80 mortars, 3,000 square meters), plus more than 2,000 square meters of green area.

The training arms include infantry (4,000), engineer (622), artillery (400), and health (162 female soldiers), and the recruit base is a brigade-level unit, and the commander of Unit 803 is the commander of the base, and the deputy brigade commander level, chief of staff, and regimental level are all subordinate to the staff office. The director of the base teaching, at the regimental level, is subordinate to the combat department. Director of Logistics of the base, at the rank of deputy regiment, subordinate to the Armaments Department.

The basic unit of the recruit unit is the squad, with 24 recruits in each squad, and a squad leader (an outstanding squad leader who has served as a squad leader in the field army for three years and has not been promoted and is unwilling to transfer to a local unit) is appointed.

There is no platoon in the class, and the district team is directly set up, and the district captain is the captain and company commander, and there are five squads. The district team has a brigade, the captain is a battalion level, and he usually serves as an instructor in the teaching office, and there are seven district teams under it. The brigade consists of the 802nd Infantry Regiment, which has four brigades and one regiment directly under the teaching district team (the soldiers of the teaching district team are selected from the outstanding recruits and are eligible to participate in the military academy examination, and those who are not admitted are also given priority to be added to the field troops). The head of the regiment is concurrently the director of the teaching office of the base, and the officers of the regiment headquarters are composed of instructors of cultural courses (equipped with 36 cultural instructors, responsible for four courses: national language, history, geography, and ideology and morality. The Flying Mountain Brigade consists of an 803 Infantry Regiment, an 803 Engineer Battalion, an 803 Light Artillery Battalion, and a field health team for district teams.

The 803 base did not rely on the canal, but was built on the Yangjiatuan, which was less than 6 miles away from the canal, and this place was flanked by mountains, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Due to the slow construction of the 802 base, some soldiers from Qianyang Prefecture were also sent here.

Due to the original batch of prisoners of war, the construction progress of the 803 base is also faster than that of the 801 Phoenix base and the 802 Luyang base, and it has been completed on the whole. What is lacking are things such as books, desks, and beds are all equipped with the cooperation of the Jingzhou County Government.

As soon as Ming Dahu and Huang Dehu and others got off the boat, they were ordered to take off their clothes in public, and then bathe and disinfect their bodies. When Ming Dahu saw that the clothes that his mother had only mended for him once when she set off in the morning were actually thrown into the fire by the officer in charge of the reception, he suddenly went berserk, pounced on the officer fiercely, and then directly knocked the officer away with his body. The base guard in charge of the guard seemed to be prepared, and immediately four or five people came out of the ranks, and beat Ming Dahu and Huang Dehu, who rushed out to help, to the ground, their foreheads were broken, and the blood was not stopping.

Seeing the two people who almost fainted, the other more than 200 recruits from various counties suddenly stopped, looking at those fierce soldiers with sticks, they all chose to obediently change into newly issued military uniforms.

Song Haomin, who had just taken office as the commander of the 803 base, was in the teahouse not far from the dock at the moment, drinking tea while checking the situation of the recruits, and the scene that happened just now was naturally taken into his eyes, he pursed his lips, and instructed the adjutant next to him: "These two are good seedlings, tell the following, treat them well, confine them for three days, and then send them to scout training......