Standing in the center of the rostrum was the head of the training department of the branch, the captain of two special forces brigades, a recruit brigade, and a district captain of the women's district team, standing on either side of him.

Under the rostrum, the district captains of each district team stood facing the soldiers of their own district team, because there was only one district team for female soldiers, so she was standing on the stage, I didn't pay attention to it at first, but when I saw her face clearly, my heart chuckled, and an indescribable feeling came to my heart.

Because I have seen a photo of Ah Long on his mobile phone, she is Ah Long's girlfriend and my half-sister, Zhang Guoxia, who is four years older than me.

After all the troops were assembled, as they did every time they assembled, they all stood on the playground and practiced their military posture for ten minutes without saying a word. The more than 20 fighters who had fallen behind faced us in two horizontal columns, standing in front of the entire army on the right side, which could be regarded as a punishment.

Several captains and Zhang Guoxia, although they were also expressionless, I could see that our captain's face was pale, after all, in his opinion, we made him lose face.

The captains of the four districts of our recruit company were all bruised, and there were a few who fell behind in each district.

After ten minutes of military posture training, the training minister began to speak, originally we recruits were in a very heavy mood, and we all felt a little embarrassed, but I didn't expect that as soon as he opened his mouth, he still crackled and reprimanded us, saying that we are the group of recruits with the worst combat effectiveness since the establishment of this branch, and among the recruits in the past, only one or two people in a brigade were left behind, but there are more than 20 in our batch.

He spoke on the stage for half an hour, and then asked the major teams to bring the troops back.

The so-called bringing back means that every time the group gathers in the square, each team will bring its fighters to the door of the brigade for comments.

Under normal circumstances, the more than 20 soldiers who fell behind should return to the team quickly, maybe the situation this time was too bad, the training minister was a little angry, and actually told our captain that our team was not allowed to take them back, so that they would still stand in the square.

The training minister finally ordered loudly: "All brigades and female soldiers are brought back!" ”

I didn't know which nerve was wrong, but I suddenly shouted loudly, "Report! ”

Under normal circumstances, only when the district captain speaks to the soldiers of the district team, the soldiers can shout the report, if the cadres of the brigade are training in the whole brigade, the soldiers rarely report what they are asked to say, let alone in the entire branch.

So my report almost blinded all the district captains and captains. The other captains, including Zhang Guoxia, all looked at me with an unexpected gaze, while the eyes of our captain and district captain were completely stunned.

Later, I learned that, apart from me, there had never been a single soldier in the entire branch since its establishment, and he had ever shouted a report to speak in the assembly of the whole branch.

The training minister took one look at me and shouted, "Out of the ranks!" ”

According to the rules of the troops, the squad leaders are the first to stand in the squad, and the back is arranged from tall to short.

After hearing his command, I took a step forward, and then stood upright, waiting for his question, and I could not speak without him asking.

The training minister said: "Introduce yourself. ”

I replied loudly: "Zhang Guodong, the squad leader of the first squad of the first district team of the recruit brigade!" ”

"Do you have anything to say?"

"Yes," I said loudly, keeping my posture upright, "according to the rules and regulations of the troops, no matter what mistakes the soldiers make, the head of the unit cannot physically punish the soldiers. I think that the chief left these more than 20 comrades-in-arms on suspicion of corporal punishment, which is contrary to the rules and regulations of the army! ”

Several other captains, including all the district teams, stared at me with a pair of stunned eyes, probably thinking in their hearts, where did I come from such a dysentery, a rookie egg, who dared to question the cadres in front of the soldiers of the whole branch.

Our captain and district captain calmed down this time, although their faces were still gloomy, but they did not react more strongly.

I don't know what kind of mentality they have, whether it's because things have already gone this far, and it's useless to talk about it, and then go back to me to settle accounts, or if they are holding their breath and feeling that the training minister is too harsh on recruits like me, my question is instead saying what they think.

It was the middle of the night, and the sweat was soaked in sweat as soon as the heat had passed, but now the cool breeze blew, and everyone probably felt cold, but I felt that after I had finished speaking, the air in the whole square froze.

The training chief's face also turned ugly, and he asked me, "Do you know what corporal punishment is?" I just let them continue to practice military posture here, let them remember their first emergency assembly, it is simply a shame for their military career! Look at the female soldiers of our two women's district teams, all of them are fully armed, and the weight is greater than yours, and one of them is left behind? ”

I think the training minister is a bit of a strong argument, for whatever reason, he is physically punishing the fighters, but he has changed his concept, and even compared the male and female teams to us, as if I was complaining to him about the twenty-odd fighters.

However, after half a month of training, I know very well that in the army, the communication between subordinates and superiors is reaction and obedience, unlike ordinary people who can exchange opinions in ordinary times, let alone bargaining between business partners.

If he answers me positively, and there is a good reason to prove that he is not physically punishing soldiers, I will forget it, thinking that he is secretly changing concepts, I am a little unconvinced You said: "Report chief, there are two mistakes in what you just said, one is that all the soldiers in the Sorting House are soldiers of the Republic, and there is no distinction between men and women. The second is that we are only new recruits, and we don't even have a collar badge and cockade, how can we compare with their veterans? By the time we have completed our recruit company training and sworn in to the flag to become soldiers of the republic, I believe we have done better than anyone else! ”

If I had changed my words, whether I was right or wrong, I am afraid that the hundreds of people behind me would have been boiling, but when I finished speaking, the whole square was still silent, and I could even hear the nervous breathing of my comrades behind me.

However, I immediately realized that the first part of what I had just said was quite sonorous and powerful, and the latter sentence seemed a bit exaggerated, which meant that as long as we completed the training of the recruit company, we would be even better than their special forces brigade, and we would have offended them all.

Let's not talk about whether what I said is reasonable or not, just with my guts, I suddenly confused the training minister's question, and in the face of all my captains and captains, they all looked at me dumbfounded, as if they didn't come back to their senses all of a sudden.

This is Zhang Guoxia suddenly shouted at me: "Stinky problem, what do you want to do?" Still not on the list with me? ”

She shouted at this voice, not to mention the other people present, even I was blinded.

Because she is the district captain of the women's district team, she can't control my head, and she hasn't even spoken to my district captain and captain, so why is she giving orders to me? The only explanation was that she knew who I was, and if it wasn't our father who called her, it must have been Aaron who had greeted her.

I don't know what the reaction of the comrades-in-arms behind me was, but in the face of the other captains and district captains who were standing with me, I was stunned almost at the same time, but they were all real soldiers, and they didn't look left and right in front of the queue, even if they didn't move their heads, I could feel the corner of their eyes, all glancing at Zhang Guoxia.

What made me even more embarrassed was that I was ordered by the training minister, and he didn't let me go back to the ranks, and I didn't know if I could get in, so I looked up at him, but he didn't react.

I could have stood still and completely ignored Zhang Guoxia's order, but thinking about her special relationship with me, I still held my breath and replied loudly: "Yes!" ”

After that, I turned around and returned to the queue.

Since the training minister had already given the order to bring it back, Zhang Guoxia immediately shouted to the women's district team: "It's all there, stand upright, look to the right - Qi, go forward - look!" Turn right, run – go! ”

After she took the women's district team away, the two teams of the special forces were also brought back one after another, and then I saw the training minister muttering to our captain, and finally our captain ordered the captains of each district to bring them back, and the more than 20 comrades-in-arms, at the signal of the captain, quietly returned to the team and returned to the brigade with us.

Cui Tinghui is the tallest in our class, we usually call him Cui Da, he has always stood behind me, and he has been in this school for a year, and then he was admitted to this school, so he knows the army better than us.

After he quietly entered the ranks, he whispered behind me: "Squad leader, are you crazy?" ”