The north is different from the south, because the weather is dry, as soon as the autumn and winter begins, the northern wildfires can be ignited at any time and at any time.

Our recruit brigade has northern soldiers and southern soldiers, and the northern soldiers are accustomed to this, and those who shout and shout are all southern soldiers, and the most uncomfortable thing in my heart is that I am indignant, why are we recruit brigades who are fighting fires, why is no one coming to the two special forces brigades?

When I got to the foot of the mountain where the fire broke out, I realized that not only the two special forces brigades, but even the female soldiers of the women's district team had come.

In addition to us, the fire brigade, the armed police force, the local police, and even the local garrison of the army, navy and air force rushed to the scene.

In addition to the fire brigade, the soldiers of other units do not have professional fire fighting tools, but later I realized that although the mountains in the north are not high, but they are undulating, once a mountain fire breaks out, in addition to directly extinguishing the mountain fire, digging a protective ditch between the mountains is also one of the effective fire prevention measures, so we bring pickaxes, shovels, and even brooms, in fact, are effective fire fighting tools.

We were placed on a hillside a kilometer away from the most intense fire, and we had to dig a barrier 20 meters wide and as long as possible.

Since there is very little soil on the mountains in the north, most of them are rocks and sand, we can't dig at all, we can only clean the shrubs and artemisia grass, dig the roots of the shrubs and small trees with pickaxes, and shovel shovels to the side, and the broom is very important to clean up the site.

Due to the fierce momentum of the wildfire, except for the fire brigade and the armed police force to extinguish the fire in front, the other troops began to dig a separation zone from a distance of 1,000 meters, which can be said to be a layer of prevention.

If the first barrier is not effective in stopping the fire, everyone will be sent behind the last barrier to create a new one.

We set out from the garrison at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night and fought until ten o'clock the next morning, when the fire was fully controlled, and there was basically no open fire visible, but we could not leave yet, and we had to be on guard on the mountain.

For ten hours, we did not eat or drink, and many of the soldiers had blood blisters on their hands, and it was not until 12 o'clock at noon that a new unit replaced us, and when we returned to the unit, we were still on standby, and after lunch, we hurried to bed, and we were ready to return to the fire at any time.

The vast majority of our soldiers are only children, and they have never suffered this kind of hardship at home, especially the vast majority of them are those who grew up in the city and passed the college entrance examination to pass the college entrance examination.

Older recruits like me, especially veterans and cadets who have passed the examination from the army, are much stronger than them, after all, what we have experienced is more difficult than a fire, and even birth and death, so I think this is just a piece of cake.

In the process of fighting fires, many soldiers of our unit have performed very bravely, and it can be said that they have displayed the heroic spirit of not being afraid of hardship, tiredness, and death; in the past, I heard that it is easy to make meritorious service and receive awards in the army, but we fought hard in the sea of fire for more than 10 hours, and not a single soldier was commended.

The requirements of the army for soldiers are very strict, when we were on duty in the afternoon, we took a rest, and after dinner, we actually studied the rules and regulations as usual.

In the evening, it was the turn of our class to stand at the post in the middle of the night, starting at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, one post for every two people, and each post lasted until 8 o'clock the next morning, and everyone had to continue to participate in training the next day, and there was no compensatory rest.

The homesickness of many recruits brought about by fighting fires was quickly drowned out in boring queue training, and at the same time, we became more and more accustomed to this collective life of the troops, and although we felt strict, we also found a lot of fun in it.

For example, before each meal, all soldiers must practice their military posture on the playground outside the barracks, standing upright in the cold wind or scorching sun for five to ten minutes before they are allowed to enter the canteen.

For this reason, I often take the soldiers of my class to the back mountain to practice military posture in my spare time, hiding from the soldiers of other classes, so every time we eat, we are the first to be allowed to enter the canteen.

And in order to convince them, I also taught them a set of military body boxing, and when they were fine, they were told to squat on the horse and step on the pile, and they all threw themselves to the ground with the five bodies that I admired.

After entering the canteen, you must stand upright between the square tables and benches in a squad unit, and wait until all the fighters have entered and the captain of the duty area has given an order before you can start eating.

No sound is allowed other than eating. If there is an exchange of heads, the captain of the duty area will ask the person concerned to stand on the spot, stand there and wait for all the fighters to finish their meal, and then resume eating.

To this end, a set of sign language was created, which was popular in the class, and although we were surprisingly quiet during meals, we were busy communicating with each other in private.

The southern soldiers in our class are all southern soldiers, and what makes us feel the most distressed is not the strict discipline, and the eating habits of the north have almost become an obstacle that we cannot overcome.

We have eaten rice from the beginning, and the pasta is just used as breakfast, but in the army, we eat steamed buns for three meals a day, and we can't eat cabbage, shredded potatoes, potato chips, and potato wedges every day.

For this reason, we are particularly envious of the veterans of the special forces brigade, their food is very good, four dishes and one soup for breakfast, and you can drink milk in buckets. Lunch and dinner are four meats, two vegetables, six dishes and one soup, and there is a dinner every weekend, and beer and drinks are all you want.

At the beginning, we thought that we were being discriminated against, but Cui Tinghui told us that the food of the recruit company was already hard, and it was the same in any unit, and it would be good once we went down to the old company.

In other words, as soon as we finish the three months of training for recruits, everything will be fine.

And what we envy and yearn for the most is the same training, the training of the special forces brigade can be said to be endless, all kinds of obstacle climbing, field training, as well as indoor or outdoor hand-to-hand combat, equipment training and live ammunition shooting, which makes our hearts itch.

Just one step away, there is not even a wall in between, and our recruits are repeating the three steps of stepping, running and walking every day, which is a kind of torture, but also an encouragement, and even a yearning for us.

After the first month, the whole branch held a parade, the so-called parade, that is, all the soldiers of the brigade, including the women's district team, displayed the three major steps on the branch square, one class and one class on the ground.

The queue of our class is the first in the recruit brigade, but compared with the special forces brigade and the female soldier team, it is obviously not in the same grade, mainly because we do not have a collar badge and cockade, and it is the configuration of the recruits, and the feet are wearing liberation brand rubber shoes, just an armed belt tied around the waist.

They are different, wearing collar badges and caps, fully armed, not to mention white gloves, big leather boots, the submachine pistols they hold in their hands and the magazines they carry on their backs, it can be said that they completely kill us in minutes.

As a result, we were still the first in the recruit brigade in the drill of the entire brigade, but we were ranked behind their special forces brigade and women's district team, and I was very unconvinced.

Because there are many classes and long hours, so there are a few breaks in the middle, and when all the exercises are completed, we are given a period of rest, and it happens that the training chief walked up to me and nodded to me with appreciation: "Yes, young man, your class is in a good state of mind, and if you work hard, you can almost catch up with their special forces brigade." ”

This was completely good-natured, and our captain and district captain standing next to him were already smiling with satisfaction.

I didn't know which nerve was wrong, I thought he was sarcastic about us, people were excited, I felt the blood around my body rushing to the brain, I actually said: "Report chief, this time the venue is not fair, they are fully armed, heroic, if they change into the same military uniform as us, their queue may not be stronger than us!" ”

"Huh?"

The training minister was stunned, but our captain and district captain invariably hummed in unison, staring at me with wide eyes, although he didn't speak, his eyes were undoubtedly reproaching me: People just said that you coughed, and you are still panting?