The "war" in Kowloon is still going on in an orderly manner, and the two sides have formed a tacit understanding in the "fighting" for several days. Every morning, the British always used the sound of artillery as a wake-up call, and used a loud "boom" to remind the Liberation Army that it was time to get up. The British had "attacked" no less than 50 times in the past few days, and before each attack, the Royal Navy's "Sturdy" would be shelled as a cover for naval guns, solid shells, grape shells, shrapnel shells, and shells dragging black smoke whizzing along the beach and the hillside behind the beach, leaving only a small smoking black crater.

The position of the Liberation Army was at the top of the hillside, and when the British shelled it, only one observation post was left in the forward position to watch the free fireworks. In front of the position were two rows of snake-bellied barbed wire, which had been damaged in several places by shells, but the British infantry had never reached this position in the past few days, so no one had to repair it. The shelling usually lasted twenty minutes, after which the British infantry began to land on the beach in small boats, and the Liberation Army troops who were resting on the anti-slope also returned to their positions, waiting for the British to come and die.

There was a position on the hillside almost a kilometer away from the beach, which the British naval guns could barely reach, but it was basically impossible for the British infantry to cover this distance. When they first set foot on the beach, there will be a few shells flying in the air on time, and every time a few unlucky people will have half of their heads cut off by shrapnel, or cut off a hand, or a leg, and watch their comrades cry out of their wounds, nothing can be more demoralizing than this. When they pass through the death zone caused by the shells and advance to a distance of three hundred yards from the Chinese positions, the Chinese bullets will sweep over like raindrops. At this time, the British could only choose to retreat, and the Liberation Army did not pursue, and each time the British calmly fled.

Such a "game" came several times on the first day, and after a dozen dead and wounded, the British stopped playing. In the following days, the shelling of the "Strong" continued, but the "event" of the beach-grabbing landing was not held. The British did not come, and the survivors were happy, leaving only a few observation posts in the forward positions, and the rest of the people took turns to rest, as well as training recruited recruits.

This batch of recruited recruits were all natives of Kowloon, among which Anchang besieged the Luo family the most, and in the final analysis, the reason for the conflict between the Liberation Army and the British was also because of the Luo family. Now the Luo family is tied up with the Liberation Army, and if the Liberation Army is defeated by the British, they don't know what kind of retaliation they will suffer. The Luo family also had the idea of smearing oil on the soles of their feet, but their ancestral property, ancestral tombs, relatives and friends are all here, and there are nearly a thousand people up and down the whole clan, not just if they want to go, leaving here, what do so many people live on? So under Ma Angelica's "coercion and temptation", and considering the actual situation, the Luo family had no choice but to follow the Liberation Army to the dark. As soon as Ma Angelica put forward the request for conscription, the Luo family immediately accepted it, and contributed fifty strong men at one time. Several neighboring villages surrounded by role models (persecution?) Entice? In response to the call of the Guangfu Army to recruit soldiers, each village "consciously" recruited more than a dozen strong men, and in a few days, the Guangfu Army had 133 more recruits.

Luo Jiaying is the leader of the third generation of the Luo family, enlightened at the age of six, won the show at the age of fourteen, and practiced martial arts since childhood, studied under the master of Cai Li Buddha Chen Xiang, according to the standards of this time, it can be regarded as both civil and military, and the four towns are called "Luo family Qiliner". Originally, he proposed to join the army, but the parents of the Luo family did not agree, but the Luo family finally produced such a good seedling, and they were counting on him to glorify his ancestors in the future! How could he be allowed to be a soldier. However, the young man has his own ideas, and he talks eloquently in the face of opposition from his parents. "In today's world, the country is ruined, the people's livelihood is withered, there are long hairs in the chaos, and there are foreign invaders outside, how similar it is to the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty. In some troubled times, if a man doesn't fight to defend Sangzi, isn't he reading the books of sages in vain? Moreover, the Guangfu Army was strong in force and defeated the Yangyi again and again, and the officials and troops of the imperial court were even more difficult opponents. I don't dare to say it in other places, this Xinan County will no longer be surnamed Aixin Jueluo, and it is only a matter of time before the Guangfu Army opens a government and builds a government here. If our Luo family wants to surrender to the ground, we can only cling to the big tree of the Liberation Army. What's more, the new dynasty was founded, the military merits were the heaviest, and today the recovery is only hundreds, and when he is over a thousand and thousands a day, how can we, the people who first advocate the dragon, be mixed with an official and a half-position, and it is not impossible to be crowned a marquis and worship the prime minister in the future! ”

The bold words convinced most of the people, but it was still the elders of a few clans who raised concerns. "There are no eyes on the battlefield, it is difficult to guarantee that the children of my Luo family will not be injured!"

Luo Jiaying said proudly: "If you don't earn it with a knife and a gun, will glory and wealth fall from the sky?" So no one from the Luo family objected, and Luo Jiaying and the remaining forty-nine Luo family children became glorious soldiers of the Liberation Army.

At this time, Luo Jiaying was standing in the queue and listening to the officer's lecture with the recruits. Now the "Luo family Qiliner" can no longer see the traces of the Qing Dynasty people, the hair has been shaved, because he has been exercising since he was a child, and has been well nourished, his height is 1.7 meters, standing in the queue with an average height of 1.6 meters, a little stand out from the crowd, a 87-style camouflage training uniform sets off a tiger and tiger anger of people who practice martial arts.

Although they had only been in the army for a week, the recruits had their eyes blown away because they were exposed to so many new things. First of all, there are all kinds of personal items, one person has three sets of camouflage training uniforms, two sets of Type 87 army summer uniforms, two pairs of liberation shoes, two sets of undershirts and shorts; In addition, there are belts, trouser belts, military satchels, water bottles, blankets, backpacks, steel helmets, sapper shovels, towels, toothbrushes, enamel cups, plastic basins, and a lot of other things. The soldiers from decent families were better, and the poor people, who wore only tattered clothes and did not even have a pair of straw sandals, were so excited that they burst into tears when they received the new clothes and shoes.

The camp for the new boots was chosen at Stonecutters Island. Stonecutters Island is one of the islands in Victoria Harbour, located in the west of the Kowloon Peninsula, and the topography originally resembled an overturned ship, so it was called "Stonecutters Island". The British thought that Stonecutters Island was like a whetstone, so the island was called "stonecutters island" in English. At this time, Stonecutters Island was still a barren beach, and the first task of the recruits was to build their own barracks. After a week of construction, the camp built on the site of the Stonecutters Island Naval Base finally began to take shape, with barracks for 1,000 people, as well as supporting kitchens, toilets, and shower rooms. Domestic water is pumped from groundwater, and electricity for lighting can only be provided by a wind turbine. The camp was surrounded by an earthen embankment as a barrier, and a ring of barbed wire and guard towers were guarded.

Today, more than 700 recruits were sent to the base, and together with the original more than 100 recruits from this place, the first infantry battalion of the army was formed. Zhang Pan, the commander of the first battalion of the new officer, immediately began to organize the mixed formation of troops, and originally he wanted to let the veterans who had been training for a week serve as the commander and squad leader, but he was stopped by Ma Angelica, who sent the recruits. "If the squad leader and the squad leader are all natives of Kowloon, soldiers from other places are not allowed to complain about our regional discrimination? In the future, there must not be a 'Kowloon Gang' in the army, isn't this the bane of mountaineering? After listening to Ma Angelica's words, Camp Commander Zhang broke out in a cold sweat. He didn't understand these twists and turns, and for the first time doubted whether he was suitable to be an official.

More than 130 recruits recruited in Kowloon were scattered and incorporated into the troops, especially the children of the Luo family, Ma Angelica divided them even more apart, basically a platoon had a maximum of three or four, his idea was that after the training of recruits, the two infantry battalions would be mixed again, and to break the geographical restrictions, a platoon could not appear more than three of the same clan.

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A few days later in the morning.

?“ Toot-toot-toot-toot-" The long wake-up call sounded in the camp, and most of the recruits lying on the beds woke up. Ren Xianqi had already opened his eyes when he heard the first syllable, but he still lay on the bed for ten seconds. Although he endured hardships and often practiced his muscles and bones, compared to the exercise he received in the past two days, those can only be regarded as children's plays. After another ten seconds - he had been silently counting in his heart, he sat up and patted the brother who was sleeping on the side, "Big Tooth, get up quickly!" "The wake-up call is at 05:55 every day, and the assembly call is at 06:00, which means they only have 4 minutes to go.

screamed twice, Ren Xianqi saw that there was no response, so he pinched the inside of Big Tooth's arm and twisted it hard, and then heard a high-pitched tenor scream. "Dysentery, why are you pinching me again?" Big Fang, who was woken up from a sweet dream, rubbed his sleepy eyes and complained.

"If you don't get up again, I won't care about you. I'm just pinching you right now, and if you're late for a while, it's not that simple! Ren Xianqi got dressed as he spoke, and then pulled the big tooth that had just put the clothes on his head and ran towards the playground. The place where the recruits lived was very simple, a row of forty people crammed into a large thatched hut, only a roof, ventilated on all sides, stuffy and hot, and mosquito bites, which made Ren Xianqi and Big Tooth suffer a lot. When I arrived at the playground, most of the recruits from the third company of the new barracks had arrived, and Luo Jiaying, who had always been regarded as a pacesetter by his superiors, stood there straight, and several of his uncles and brothers were also lined up next to him, although the military posture was not as standard as his, but it was much stronger than others. The recruits of the third company hurriedly searched for their places in the queue, and Ren Xianqi and Huang Qiusheng also hurriedly joined the ranks.

Ren Xianqi and Huang Qiusheng are two "northerners", in their early twenties. In fact, the two were refugees who fled from Yangzhou, but the Cantonese called all Chinese outside Guangdong Province Beiyan. After the Taiping army occupied Yangzhou, they couldn't stand the hard life of the Taiping army, and when they heard about the prosperity of Guangzhou, they came here to beg for a living. Although Zhejiang is also very prosperous, who knows how long hair will call in the sky, it is better to stay away.

After a few years in Guangzhou, he could only do some stealing and touching dogs, although he could not make a fortune, but he also had no worries about food and clothing, who knew that the city of Guangzhou was occupied by the British and French forces. In order to clean up the city, the coalition committee drove them out of the city again. In the past few months, they have been wandering around Dongguan, Xin'an, and Xiangshan, living a hungry and full life. When the Guangfu Army occupied Xin'an County, they happened to be in the city, and they did not dare to go out to do activities when they saw the chaos of the soldiers, so they had to hide in the dilapidated temple where they usually lived. When they saw that the kidnappers were targeted, they didn't even dare to do the business of stealing chickens and dogs, but it was not a way to sit and eat empty. The deeds of the Liberation Army defeating the British made the two both awe and awe, and then the Liberation Army began to recruit troops, and the two thought that it was not a way to keep mixing like this, so they also signed up for the army. The head of the army who signed up asked for the names of the two people, which stumped the two of them. The two orphans only know that one of them is surnamed Ren and the other is surnamed Huang, but they don't have a big name, and they usually have a flower name, and the surname Ren has leprosy on his head, so they all call him Ren's leprosy; The surname Huang has two small teeth, so everyone calls him Huang Daya. The officer in charge of registration thought that the name was not up to standard, so he made his own proposal and named the innovation, Ren Lezi became Ren Xianqi, and Huang Daya became Huang Qiusheng.

At 06:00, the assembly number sounded on time, and the recruits who were still dragging behind rushed to the playground, lined up in front of their respective platoon commanders, and then formed tofu blocks according to the company. Then, the platoon leaders will lead the run along the "Circle Road" on Stonecutters Island. Since the day the recruits entered the camp, Zhang Pan, as a "veteran", volunteered to be a training instructor, and now he runs at the front of the team, shouting in his mouth: "One, one, one, two, one......." After a few days of supplemental nutrition, this group of recruits is no longer as skinny and low in energy as when they first arrived. When running, the pace is steady, full of energy, and the slogan is sonorous and powerful.

It took half an hour to run five laps around the island. At 06:30, the team was taken back to the barracks and lined up again in the playground. After a burst of commands, "Stand upright, take a break, and look to the right," Zhang Pan, the supreme commander of the barracks and the chief instructor of the First Infantry Battalion of the recruits, stood at the front of the queue. "Comrades, tell me."

"Smack-" is so big that it can be regarded as a neat upright. It took the instructors a week, countless spits, and even belts to achieve such an effect, and these former farmers, fishermen, homeless people, and urban idlers finally had a little military appearance. "Please take a break!" Zhang Pan nodded with satisfaction, "Comrades, after these few days of training, everyone has not only strengthened their physique, but also honed their will, and also learned a soldier's sense of mission and honor...... The head of the management committee was very pleased when he learned about it, which showed that everyone had given full play to the tradition and spirit of our army of 'not fearing death and not fearing hardship' during this week's training. Among them, the fifth squad of the second platoon of the third company needs to be particularly praised, and they all performed well in all training assessments yesterday...... "Hearing the praise of the chief, the soldiers of the fifth squad, especially Luo Jiaying, have high chests. Listening to Zhang Pan continue, "I hope everyone can learn from them and strive to achieve the same excellent results." I'm done talking, disband! ”