He Laoliu didn't figure out what this "production and construction corps" was until he boarded the boat in Guangzhou.

Originally, he just wanted to go to Nanyang to eat, but after a few days of inquiring in Guangzhou, he heard that Nanyang was going to recruit people to join such a thing, so He Lao Liu enlisted.

As a result, as soon as he said that he had been a soldier in the Shenji Battalion and had shot shotguns, he was appointed, and the young man in front of him was asked a lot of questions. Therefore, He Lao Liu was still a little puzzled, doubting whether he was really hired, so he took the examiner's hand and asked him once, which made people a little impatient before giving up.

In this way, He Lao Liu was sent to the big steamer.

On the boat, He Lao Liu felt that something was wrong: there was a unified order on the ship, get up on time and go to bed on time every day, even eat together, learn to sing before eating, even learn to sing before eating, even if you learn to sing, you have to be divided into several groups and other groups to fight and sing, and you can't eat if the voice is not loud enough.

Whoever disobeys these rules will be punished, kneeling on the deck and basking in the sun.

On the sixth day of going to sea, a boy finally couldn't stand it anymore and bumped into an official in sand-colored clothes, and was hung on a rack at the stern of the boat and whipped with a big whip.

Only then did He Lao Liu understand that this was not an immigration ship at all, and he was not going to be a farmer and a worker to eat, and he was going to fight. At that time, he regretted it, it is better to die than to live, no matter how hard life is, there is no need to worry about life, but fighting will kill people.

When He Lao Liu was a soldier, he did it in the Northeast and Yingzhou, how many brothers spilled their blood on the black land, but in the end, when He Lao Liu left the army, except for a cold sharp corner and corner chapter, there was nothing left, and there were only two big silver oceans in his pocket, and when he returned home, he found that his wife ran away with someone.

Since then, He Lao Liu has vowed never to be a soldier again.

Unexpectedly, I got on the warship again in a daze.

So in the days that followed, He Lao Liu looked at the ocean and sighed all day long, and sat on the edge of the boat to watch the sea whenever he was free. Fortunately, the quartermaster of this unit is more generous, and the cigarette tube is enough, and He Laoliu smoked hard.

A few days later, the ship arrived at the place, and He Lao Liu was dumbfounded.

Doesn't it mean that Nanyang is now more prosperous than Guangzhou, and isn't it that there are chimneys everywhere and rice fields and orchards? But this is a desolation, the port town is a little bit the size of a fingernail, He Laoliu can directly see the edge of the town when he climbs the mast, what is this called prosperity?

He Lao Liu followed the brigade off the boat with a stomach full of complaints, and then followed the brigade into the house that looked like a barracks. He Lao Liu thought to himself that he would probably have to spend the rest of his life in this house with a smooth skin.

When eating, the dishes on the table He Lao Liu have never seen one, listening to the officer's statement, this is the authentic foreign food of this place, what is it called Turkish cuisine, and the officer also asked everyone to get used to this kind of dish, because they will have to eat these in the future.

He Laoliu frowned and looked at those mush, thinking that this can also be considered a dish? He picked up the "steamed bun", stuck it, and licked it to his mouth.

It seems to taste pretty good.

So He Lao Liu didn't pay attention to it anymore, and gobbled it up directly.

In this way, He Lao Liu lived on the seashore for a week, and the troops started again, this time they got on motorboats in batches and drove inland along a wide river.

It is said that this river is called "Little Yellow River", but He Laoliu didn't see where the water of this river was after looking at it for a long time.

The banks of the Yellow River remain desolate, but from time to time you can see the fields being cultivated, and the villages inhabited by the cultivators appear to have been quite militarized, surrounded by high walls of watchtowers, heavy machine guns and small-caliber guns.

He Lao Liu also saw that there were people in the village square doing stabbing training, and it was obvious that the land was not peaceful.

This is a bit far from He Laoliu's impression of Nanyang.

Most of He Laoliu's impression of Nanyang came from rumors, and in his mind, Nanyang should be a prosperous and prosperous place, not such a desolate place where he must be armed to protect himself at any time.

After thinking for a long time, He Lao Liu finally ran to ask the platoon commander where he was thrown in.

As a result, the platoon commander told him that this place was called the Middle East, and it was the land that Lord Lin, the big treasurer of Vale, had just taken from the foreigners.

He Lao Liu still didn't believe it.

"Our Ming Dynasty has been fighting with foreigners for so many years, and it is already very reluctant not to be torn apart, and now we have grabbed the territory from the foreigners?" He asked the platoon commander this, and because he was relatively loud, the comrades who were idle around him were attracted to him.

The platoon commander looked proud, as if it was not Lord Lin, the big treasurer who was far away in the sky, who took this territory, but him who was standing here.

"You don't know this, our big shopkeeper and the second shopkeeper are all gods, the big shopkeeper is running around in Europa, and now he has pinched Germany in his hands, and the second shopkeeper took the money given by the big shopkeeper and went to Australia and laid a piece of the sky. And this Middle East is the third territory they have laid! ”

He Laoliu looked like he was shocked, he was illiterate, he couldn't read the small NERV leaflets that students usually distributed, and he didn't dare to read them to others, for fear of being arrested by the revolutionary party; When the students gave speeches, he would stand and listen for a while and then run, fearing that when the police came to arrest the students, he would also be arrested as a supporter of the revolutionary party.

Therefore, his understanding of this Nanyang and the family background of this flower and leaf flag is all pieced together, and this will be the first time to hear the great achievements of the "Lin brothers".

The young man who usually sleeps on He Lao Liu's upper bunk poked He Lao Liu's waist: "Why don't you know this?" Lord Lin, the treasurer of the National People's Congress, also married four Yanmars. ”

"What four, I heard that it is forty, as soon as he goes out, the Yanmar all over the street will kiss him." Another rookie said, "Damn, I want to marry a Yanmar too, so I'm here." Hey, platoon leader, how many Yanmars did the big shopkeeper marry? ”

"He's married four foreigners," the platoon leader exclaimed, "Oh," and thirty-six oceans waited for him. ”

"Why?" Li Goudan asked, "Lord Shenji's beauty is overwhelming, mortals can't compare, why do you want other Yanmar?" ”

"Don't you understand this?" The platoon commander said proudly, "When Lord Shenji does that, it's easy to hurt people, and ordinary people can't stand it every day." So it can only be done once a month, and it is only four days for four people to take a turn, and the rest of the time can only let the ocean go immediately. ”

I don't know what Lin Youde's expression will be when he hears these words, he probably will never think about what his private life has been rumored to be like to these simple, lovely and very vulgar people.

The platoon commander licked his lips after speaking, probably thinking that he hadn't said enough, so he continued: "You guys, work hard here, although there is no guarantee that you will marry a Yanma, but do you see these empty fields by the river?" Although it is not as good as our black soil, you can still grow things by looking at the color, and after working in the team for three years, you can get a large piece of land, which is probably as big as from here to there. ”

All the soldiers craned their necks to look in the direction of the platoon leader's finger, and someone exclaimed in a low voice: "I'll go." ”

The platoon commander continued: "This land is yours, you can buy and sell it freely, and you don't have to pay rent, and then all the brothers will be landlords." ”

"Is this true?" He Lao Liu is the oldest among the recruits, and he has been traveling south and north for so many years, it is not a simple matter for him to believe.

The platoon commander nodded.

"When my brother and I were soldiers, the second shopkeeper said that you were going to leave after two years of carrying the gun, so I would give you a piece of land in Nanyang, and you would plant whatever you liked. My brother came to Nanyang earlier than me, a few months ago he was old enough, and now he is farming in Nanyang, and the boss has a garden, and the things he grows are not only enough for himself to eat, but also for sale, saying that he can earn tens of thousands of paper marks a year. ”

This paper mark is a paper ticket commonly used in Nanyang, which is more than the top of the silver ocean.

He Laoliu stretched out his tongue and licked his lips.

He felt that the platoon commander's words were credible, not only because of his experience over the years, but also because the paper marks he carried in his pocket also greatly enhanced the credibility of the platoon commander's words.

He Lao Liu felt that the fatigue and frustration accumulated over the past few days had disappeared all at once, but then a wave of sadness occupied his heart.

"Hey," He Lao Liu shook his head, "Thinking about it this way, my brothers who died in the Northeast are really wronged, and the people of Yingzhou have been fighting for so long, and the Northeast is still lost, so they are left with a suit of clothes and returned to their hometown, and they can't even find the corpses, and the pensions are swallowed by the officers and masters." ”

The platoon commander looked at He Laoliu and seemed to want to comfort him, but he didn't say anything for a long time, so he had to reach out and pat He Laoliu on the shoulder.

At this moment, the motorboat's cannon suddenly opened fire.

Everyone jumped, and then the crowd on the kid's deck standing on the mast of the motorboat shouted, "There is a fight on the shore!" Look! ”

A crowd of people flocked to the side of the ship.

He Lao Liu saw a group of horse riders in strange clothes running on the shore, and several carriages overturned behind the horse riders.

The machine guns on the motorboat clattered incessantly, but few of the riders were shot, and they were gradually moving away from the riverbank.

At this time, the cannon of the motorboat that followed behind also sounded, and several clouds of smoke rose in the formation of the horsemen, and seven or eight horses were knocked down, but the rest of the men continued to move away from the river bank through the smoke cloud.

At this moment, there was a buzzing roar in the sky, and He Lao Liu had heard this sound on the battlefield, which was made by something called an airplane. As soon as he looked up, he saw eight planes painted with yellow noses flying overhead.

The platoon commander shouted cheers at the passing planes.

He Lao Liu, like everyone else, patronized to watch the planes, only to see those planes sweeping across the ground and rushing towards the horsemen, and several fire dragons erupted from under the wings, which blew up many horsemen on their backs at that time.

By the time the planes had passed by, the formation of the horsemen had been completely disorganized, and they were running in all directions like headless flies, and the planes that had come back in a circle had also broken into pieces and machine-gunned at them.

Soon, the horseman and the plane faded out of He Laoliu's sight.

At this time, the senior officer with the boat appeared: "We are going to send a team of people ashore to see if there are any survivors, Platoon Commander Zhao, you can pick people." ”

"Yes!" The platoon commander immediately stood up and saluted.

He Lao Liu was picked up without any suspense, and when he got off the boat and waded ashore, He Lao Liu asked the platoon commander: "Why do you want to cheer for those planes, platoon commander?" ”

"Because that's our winning formula. These people, called Arabs, are our enemies, and our cavalry cannot beat their cavalry, and when you meet them in the field, you can only hope that the planes will arrive before you are killed. ”

He Laoliu nodded, and asked again: "Platoon commander, how many people died in this Middle East?" ”

"There are a lot of dead and wounded, but the Arabs are dead, we have good weapons."

He Lao Liu looked down at the gun in his hand.

"Good weapons......" he muttered under his breath.

He couldn't remember how many years he hadn't seen the Chinese have better weapons than outsiders.