Abbey Lakeside, Bole City.

This is the station of the Fifth Agricultural Division of the Construction Corps, and since last year, new crop seeds and new production methods were distributed, as well as regular expert guidance, the output of various crops of the Fifth Agricultural Division has been greatly improved in just one year. As the largest reclamation corps on the planet, although the construction corps does not belong to the regular PLA establishment, it can be regarded as a relatively high combat effectiveness in the reserve.

The PLA's super large refitting has little impact on the 5th Agricultural Division, after all, they are not on active duty, and they have never taken the best equipment, and the PLA has relied on robbery for its own army rearmament, not to mention their reserve forces. On the contrary, the original equipment of the World War II period in their hands, the semi-automatic five or six and a half and the like, have basically been replaced, and the five or six and eighty-one bars replaced from the PLA have basically become the weapons of the militia and reserve forces. For these equipment, the members of the Fifth Agricultural Division felt very tall.

The garrison of the Fifth Agricultural Division not only had patches of wheat and oats, but also some pastures. On the few riverside oases in Xinjiang, all this vitality has been created.

The breeding station at the regimental station has recently become very popular with local herders and farmers, as a number of particularly robust stallions and sheep have been brought here recently, and after rebreeding, the breed of local livestock will be greatly improved. In particular, there are a few tall horses that look particularly strong and have shiny and thin fur, which are very popular with the locals.

Li Chen learned some skills from the experts from Beijing, and after the experts left, he became an expert in the breeding station, the young man was from Shaanxi, he was white and clean, and he couldn't tan no matter how he tanned.

It was almost evening, Li Chen rode a horse under his crotch to walk in the playground, and after this batch of stallions came to the regimental station, everyone was a baby. Several Kazakh uncles said that the Pegasus came from Turkmenistan, but the knowledgeable Li Chen Zhilu said that the shoulder height of the so-called Pegasus Akhal-Teke horse is not as high as these horses, and this batch of unknown stallions are all more than 160 centimeters tall at the shoulder, and their physique is much thicker.

Li Chen walked the horse for a while, and saw a Uyghur girl in a red dress not far away holding a small dustpan and carrying her skirt to the grassland.

"Brother Li Chen," the girl's Mandarin is not very good, and she has an obvious Xinjiang accent.

Li Chen smiled and said, "Di Linar." ”

The delicate and lovely Uyghur girl has a pair of curved eyes that are more brilliant than the moon, and her exotic beautiful facial features make any man feel excited. The girl is the daughter of a nearby herdsman's family, more than a year ago, her ewe had a difficult birth, it was Li Chen who was a midwife, saved the ewe and lamb, and made the girl have a favor for him.

"Brother Li Chen, there are lamb shanks and naan here, it's almost evening, you can eat some."

Li Chen turned over from his horse and said apologetically: "Di Liner, we are eating in the cafeteria, we want to eat with everyone, it is a violation of discipline to open a small stove like this." ”

Di Linar blinked her big beautiful eyes: "You just eat a little, taste the taste, this leg of lamb is roasted by myself." ”

Feeling the girl's eagerness, Li Chen couldn't bear to refuse, cut a piece of fragrant mutton with a knife, put it in his mouth and chewed.

"It's so fragrant, Di Linal's craftsmanship is awesome, whoever marries you in the future is really a great blessing." Li Chen praised.

The girl's eyes crooked with a smile, "Then Brother Li Chen, will you marry me?" ”

Li Chen was stunned by the girl's question, his face was flushed, and he was embarrassed and speechless, compared to the Uyghur girl, he was a young man from Shaanxi who was much more conservative, and it was difficult to say such words.

Just when he didn't know how to respond, suddenly Di Linar pointed to the sky in the distance and said, "Brother Li Chen, look, what is that?" ”

Li Chen turned to look, and on the orange-red skyline, which was originally blue and a little twilight, a conspicuous fireball rushed straight down from the sky dome, looking in the direction of Abbey Lake near here.

Dilinar stared at her big eyes and said, "It's so beautiful! ”

Li Chen felt a sense of crisis for no reason, he thought it was a meteorite or something, in traditional culture, a meteorite falling from the sky is not an auspicious omen. He was not superstitious as a young man, but the sight of the huge fireball rushing towards Lake Abbey was terrifying.

As they got closer and closer to the ground, Li Chen and Di Linar could see more clearly, and there seemed to be a group of small fireballs wrapped around this big fireball, making this "meteorite fall" look like a meteor shower. It's just an inexplicable force, or something like a magnetic field, that restrains the small fireballs, so that they are like soldiers of the Guard, and they do not scatter in all directions.

A huge sound came a moment after the meteorite fell to the ground, and Li Chen could feel a shockwave surging from the place where it fell to all directions, this force was so powerful that although it did not shatter people's internal organs, it also pushed the weak Uyghur girl down. Li Chen hurriedly went up to support Di Linal, who knew that the girl was not worried about the shock wave of the meteorite, but boldly leaned on Li Chen's arms, and put her hands around the waist of the big brother.

Li Chen immediately had a headache, although Di Linar was very cute and beautiful, she was only fourteen years old, and in terms of the youth of this era, even if she had the tendency to control Loli, she would never show it.

Just as Li Chen wanted to persuade the girl to let go, the loudspeaker of the breeding station sounded: "Hey, hey, pay attention, pay attention, all comrades immediately gather on the playground, prepare to distribute weapons, and pack up." The regimental station entered combat readiness, and once repeated, the regimental station entered combat readiness. This is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill! ”

The Uyghur girl still didn't understand the meaning of this passage with a Shandong accent, but Li Chen's face changed drastically.

"Into combat readiness? Is it related to the meteorite fall just now? Li Chen was suspicious in his heart, but he couldn't take care of Di Linar anymore.

"Dilinar, go home quickly, find your father and mother, close the door, don't open it to anyone you don't know!"

Di Linar saw Li Chen's nervousness, and asked with some concern: "Brother Li Chen, is something bad going on?" ”

Li Chen shook his head: "I don't know, in short, we have to gather, Di Linar, be careful!" ”

"Brother Li Chen, you have to be careful." Di Linar watched Li Chen ride the horse of the divine steed and went in the direction of the breeding station playground. She looked down at the leg of mutton and naan in her hand, and secretly wondered if she could bring it to Li Chen to eat at night.

The entire Fifth Agricultural Division was assembled, and even some of the family members of the Fifth Agricultural Division came over. Li Chen saw the regiment commander, who usually didn't show up much, and stood there and lectured everyone with a serious face: "Comrades, we have just received an order from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Military Committee, and we will enter the meteorite fall area in a while, collect all relevant fragments, and protect the scene. I repeated, after entering the work area, everyone cheered me up, not to let go of any possible threat, not to let go of any fragments! ”

The soldiers below all had all kinds of questions, such as why it would be dangerous to enter the meteorite fall area, or whether the meteorite was so precious that everyone must collect it and not let go of it.

Li Chen stood below, and he also felt suspicious, but no one dared to ask his own question directly. Everything is prioritized by orders, and if you don't explain from above, you can't ask from below.

The head of the regiment seemed to feel unsafe, and then added: "No matter what you see, you are not allowed to talk about it, you are not allowed to spread it, those are all meteorites, whether you hear it or not, it is all meteorites!" ”

"I heard you!" Everyone replied loudly.

However, Li Chen knew in his heart that the more he emphasized that those were meteorites, the less likely they were to be meteorites. No one is stupid, everyone has already guessed that this mission is unusual, but the construction corps is also soldiers, and the soldiers of the reserve must also carry steel guns to the battlefield when they are needed. The Corps is a special organization that combines military, economic, and social aspects, and needs to be taken into account in both production and training. Li Chen: They also conduct regular military training, especially in the past year, and their training is not limited to walking in queues or training physical fitness. There has also been an increase in the study and practice of regular target shooting and the organization of military theory, and some people are even complacent and want to test the results of what they have learned.

When a bayone bar was assigned to Li Chen, this young soldier who had a very good target shooting performance still had a much faster heartbeat. The atmosphere brought to them by real combat missions and ordinary missions was definitely different, like a black cloud overwhelming the city, and the whole air was filled with a solemn smell.

A base number of ammunition was distributed to their bodies, and everyone didn't have to worry about dinner today, so they got on the newly allocated truck at the regimental station, and on land everyone ate military rations.

And the people who were far away in a hidden building in Jingshi were also very nervous, because no one knew what would happen next.

"At 5,000 meters in the air, there was another large-scale disintegration, and part of the debris should have fallen into the territory of the Soviet Union, and most of it fell in the desert on the northern shore of Lake Abbey."

Qi Yiming frowned, turned around and asked Liao Huairen: "What did the people of the Xinjiang Military Region do here?" The 8th Division, which was the closest to it, had not yet delivered heavy weapons and was still assembling them. The Fourth and Sixth Divisions in southern Xinjiang have not yet reached Bole or Tacheng, and they are still on the periphery. So what we are at the forefront of the whole line is actually the Fifth Agricultural Division of the Reserve? Did they think about it, whether it was a real alien invasion or the Soviets crossing the border to rob it, what would happen to the inhabitants there? Will the construction corps there be able to handle it? ”

Liao Huairen had a headache and said: "I didn't expect that they waited until the last moment to order the action, and the information was insufficient before, so they were all cautious." ”

"Then at least evacuate Bole first! Knowing that the road would be smashed there, he didn't even say hello in advance, what are you afraid of? Or are you just going to be passive? When this is over, someone has to be held accountable! ”

Liao Huairen listened to the undoubted taste in Qi Yiming's words, and felt that the authoritative temperament in him was getting stronger and stronger, and it was no longer the same as the gentle young man he knew at the beginning who always seemed harmless to humans and animals.