Chapter Twenty-Five: Easy Times
We made all the way here, and for the next few weeks, we stayed here without moving.
Kuixing's damn blizzard stopped, and the snow began to melt.
For the rear, once the snow begins to melt, the rear can immediately start planting fast crops on a large scale, and a large number of grains will be produced, which is also the reason why we desperately want to keep Kuixing, and the northern continent alone can meet the food supply of all human beings.
For us on the front lines, the snowmelt has brought us a nightmare, with potholes and swamps everywhere, and all kinds of Kuixing's characteristic cold-tolerant plants have begun to sprout, and these things will become the best hideout for the Resistance in the future.
During our weeks in the camp, we built this simple camp to a great extent, and now it looks like a small town, and we no longer live in tents, but in prefabricated houses that are quickly erected by sappers, where we can take a bath every day, and even have some recreational facilities.
During this relatively happy time, Shi Archie and I got closer together. We used to be good friends, but now that he's in a room with me, I'm closer to him.
Coming from a middle-class background, Shi Archie is a high-achieving student, but he is very easy to get along with, and he is a joker who can bring joy to everyone at any time.
In fact, Roy's interests are more similar to his, so Roy often comes over, and the three of us get together to play cards.
And Shi Archie is always the one who wins the most, and the sad faces of Roy and I are always secretly photographed by him, and it spreads throughout the team the next day.
Everyone's life in the camp is relatively relaxed, even our captain Feng Qiu, who basically doesn't have any shelves now, and often jokes and jokes with us.
We did some patrol work every day, and in the evening we had a lot of fun, and even drank several times.
Of course, we also have missions when a large number of new supplies arrive every other week or so. We're going to send him to that peninsula position, which is the frontier of humanity.
But even it was quieter, the Rosa only fired a few shells at a fixed time every day, and for those soldiers with devilish endurance, the Rosa missiles were less like raids and more like daily alarm clocks.
We also used to visit the little bunker a lot, and 4 of the 6 people there were still alive. I asked them why the front was so calm.
The soldier, who was sleeping when he first met him, said, "I guess the Rosha are negotiating with us, and they probably can't afford to fight so endlessly." The Rosha people on the other side of the river have not tried to cross the river for a long time. ”
Another soldier next to him said: "Last week the group of madmen on the peninsula even went to take a bath in the river, and I wonder if there was still the smell of the corpses of the Rosha people in the river. ”
There was a relaxed look on each of their faces, which could not help but give us some confidence that the war would end with the peace talks.
Roy said excitedly: "Maybe they are really negotiating, this kind of news always reaches the front line last, it is very likely that the armistice agreement has been signed for several days, and we are still throwing shells at each other." Come to think of it, Isid, maybe we'll be back on Earth next month. ”
But Shi Archie said beside him: "You are all blindly optimistic, the war cannot end like this, the Rosa people are just preparing for the next more fierce attack." ”
He poured cold water on us all. We started walking back, and now in the trenches we can even walk upright and generously.
Shi Archie said: "Don't blame me for ruining your interest, I'm just a little worried for some reason, you know, these days have been so easy, but the good times are never too long." ”
"I think the same way, those veterans are talking about a truce in every word, in fact, they are tired of all this, maybe they will kill themselves or surrender if they continue to fight." I also expressed my opinion.
Shi Archie continued: "Surrender is impossible, these people can't stand to be the captives of the Rosha, even if the Rocha let them live, how can they adapt to the life of the Rocha, and how can they adapt to the Rosha women?" ”
We laughed for a while, and Shi Archie continued: "But I seem to have seen a little wind in the past two days, it seems that anything has broken in the camp, and no one has been called to repair it, which generally means that it has been opened." ”
Roy said on the side: "If it's going to be pulled, I'm going to save half of what I eat every day from today, and I don't want to go hungry on thousands of kilometers anymore." ”
Shi Archie joked to him with a hippie smile: "What are you doing, you can't do it, you will be the first to eat." ”
When we returned to the camp, everything seemed to have changed much, but after Shi Archie's reminder, I gradually noticed some details in the camp, as if many things were no one to take care of, were you ready to give up?
Just as I was thinking this, the order to assemble came down.
Shi Archie said to me triumphantly, "Well, I'm right." We have to go again. ”
Feng Qiu also returned to his captain's state: "Hurry up, hurry up!" You lazy pigs, have you even forgotten the rules during this time? Hurry up and pack up and go to the assembly within ten minutes. ”
Roy complained, "Damn, good times don't last long. ”
The official assembly order is also a reminder that the war is far from over.
The formal assembly also meant inspection, and our combat uniforms were now clean, our helmets were polished, and the laser guns were repeatedly checked, and soon we were neatly lined up in the camp.
Military appearance, housekeeping, and parade, which were troublesome in the days of recruits, are now as natural and simple as eating and drinking.
But in reality, as long as the chief of the inspection is perverted enough, he can always pick a bone out of the egg.
On the front line, the easiest way to be punished is to patrol and stand guard, which is not an easy job, especially when all the comrades are resting, which is a difficult task.
So when we heard the news of the assembly, we wiped everything we could, repeatedly checked for omissions, and even scraped the mud under our boots.
Then we gathered in the small square, where our brigade commander personally inspected us, and the officers of all ranks had fierce expressions on their faces.
The roars and reprimands sounded again, and a few unlucky people with untidy military appearance were punched and kicked by the captain on the spot.
Then the brigade commander gave us a brief briefing and asked us to join up with the rest of the reserve forces of the Gamba River defense line to prepare for the next phase of the mission.