Although "serving in the special operations battalion" has replaced "seeking a stable job" and has become the goal of this group of recruits, the reality is that even if they pass the examination after graduation, they still have to face the extremely high entry threshold and elimination rate of the special operations battalion. Compared with the ordinary troops of the Haihan People's League, the special operations battalion is not qualified to join if it is in good health and has qualified personal combat skills, and it has higher requirements for the individual soldier quality and loyalty of soldiers.

Measured by the operational requirements of the special operations battalion, soldiers who simply obey orders are not qualified soldiers, and officers will have more detailed criteria for selecting recruits, and about more than half of the recruits will be directly eliminated at this stage and assigned to serve in other units of the militia regiment. The lucky ones who enter the special operations battalion will also be eliminated by half in the first half of the year, and the people who can finally stay and serve in this ace unit are only about a quarter of the total number of initial conscriptions.

Therefore, for the recruits who participated in the graduation parade, in addition to excitement, there was also a strong anxiety about whether they would be selected. After the parade, the next step is to announce the list of qualified candidates, which can be regarded as a watershed moment in their lives, and those who stay and those who leave will embark on completely different life trajectories from then on.

"As you know, we will select some of us to serve in our country. Don't think there's any difference between high and low, the people we have selected are just more in line with our standards here, and those who leave will also go to serve in other units for Haihan. Everyone is loyal to the Executive Committee, there is no difference. ”

After a brief explanation, Takahashi Minami took a book from the hand of the entourage next to him, held it high and said, "Now I will start to announce the selection list, and those who are called by name will line up on the right side in turn." ”

"Lu Dahu, Zheng Guibu, Zhang Xi......" Gao Qiaonan began to read out the list, and after the people who were called answered loudly, they went out of the queue and lined up separately according to his previous order.

Compared with his anxious companions, Sun Zhen is more stable. He knows that he has a very high probability of being selected, and he doesn't dare to say that ten out of ten, at least there are ** successes, which are relatively stable.

Sun Zhen's confidence mainly comes from the fact that he once went to the island of Taiwan with the reconnaissance unit during the recruit training. Although the recruits did not ∽dǐng∽diǎn∽小∽ in the process, .◇.o£s_(); There are independent missions to carry out, but Sun Zhen, who stepped on the battlefield for the first time, won the praise of the officers for his calm and steady appearance. There are familiar veterans who once mentioned him in private not without envy, and the big men above are more optimistic about him, although Sun Zhen doesn't know whether the so-called big man refers to the company commander or the officer with a higher position, but he knows that he has a very high possibility of staying.

“...... Sun Zhen!"

After hearing his name, Sun Zhen responded loudly, and then trotted all the way to the queue of selected candidates next to him, and he could even feel the blazing gazes of his companions behind him who were not called by name.

The number of people selected was less than 100, and the list was read out quickly. Those who fail to make the selection will inevitably be disappointed, while the lucky ones will unconsciously raise their chins and be proud of their changing status. After all, they have been instilled countless times in the past three months to be a special operations battalion soldier is a proud thing, even if Takahashi Minami just said that whether he is selected or not is the same as serving Haihan, it can't change the importance of this identity in the minds of the recruits.

The next time the fleet to Sanya departs, the soldiers who failed to make the cut will leave. Although they are eliminated here, if measured by the average standard of the Haihan militia, they are actually qualified soldiers, and they may even be even stronger than the individual soldier ability of the mass-produced soldiers trained at the Sanya Army Base. After all, the training of recruits in Penghu is also based on the requirements of the special operations forces, and the complexity of the training content and the intensity of the training are all higher than those of their colleagues in Sanya, and there will definitely be a slight difference in the effect. After these soldiers arrived in Sanya, they would soon be assigned to various places to start their service.

Of course, if the purpose of their enlistment in the army was to give their families the opportunity to obtain naturalization, then this wish could have been fulfilled immediately. According to the provisions of the Haihan Military Service Law, after a recruit completes the camp training, his family will automatically get the opportunity to apply for naturalization, and there is no need to wait for a long inspection period, and if his family is a new immigrant, he can choose whether to follow him to the service area to settle down.

However, this treatment is nothing for Sun Zhen, he escaped from his hometown alone, and came to Penghu without his family. But on the other hand, there is no drag on him personally.

Immediately after the list was announced, the eliminated soldiers were taken out of the playground. They will be given two days off to rest and pack their bags. The only thing that is regrettable is that most of them, their families have already left Penghu and been resettled elsewhere, and there is no way to take advantage of this time to discuss with them about their future whereabouts.

Takahashi Minami asked the rest of the people to reassemble and continued to speak to them: "The fact that you can stay here does not mean how powerful you are, but that you are just slightly better than the people who left here just now! If you want to measure it by the real standards of the special operations battalion, your current strength can only be regarded as passing! Don't think that you can relax if you can serve in the special operations battalion, I tell you that this is just the beginning!" The training you will receive in the future will be harder and more tiring than that of the new barracks, and the enemy you will face in the future will also be the most difficult bones to gnaw!

"Don't be afraid!" Sun Zhen roared hoarsely. However, his roar has been drowned out in the chorus of everyone, and those who can stay here are basically strong-willed people, and they have received some information about the daily life of the special operations camp from the instructors in the previous recruit training, and they have long been mentally prepared for this. Now that Takahashi Minami asked in public, it was naturally a good opportunity to show his loyalty, lest he answer slower than others and speak in a quieter voice than others.

Takahashi Minami was also quite satisfied with this reaction, and said, "Very good, since all the brothers have such determination, then from now on, I will demand you from the standard of a special combat camp rather than a cadet." Now give you an hour to rest and recuperate, and then gather here to collect your personal belongings and weapons. After lunch, continue training!

Everyone agreed in unison, and after Takahashi Minami turned around and left, there was a big discussion. They weren't excited by the one-hour break, but by the other thing Takahashi said - to collect personal belongings and weapons.

Although they have undergone a three-month recruit training, none of the personal items and equipment they have been issued during this period are of the type or model currently installed in the special operations battalion. For example, there is no sign of the unit number and rank on the military uniform, and the shoes are equipped instead of the leather shoes that are standard in the special operations battalion, and the weapons initially used arquebuses as training equipment, and only changed to front-loading flintlock pistols in the last month, and they are the models that have been phased out by the Haihan militia itself, and there is a big difference in structure from the breech-loading flintlock pistols currently equipped by the special operations battalions. In normal times, the recruits watch the training of the veterans during their breaks, and the most envious thing is the equipment.

For these recruits, the change of clothes is undoubtedly a symbol of the last step in their official entry into the special operations battalion. After completing this step, it can be said that there is no external difference between them and the veterans.

An hour later, the quartermaster arrived on the playground with several flatbed carts. The excited recruits didn't need to be greeted, and immediately lined up according to their original formation. This is one of the rules they learned during recruit training, where there are more than three people in line.

According to the list, the quartermaster corresponds to the identity badges on the recruits, approves their identities one by one, hands in the rifles they are currently using, and then distributes their personal belongings one by one. The soldiers who received the things happily signed the register or stamped their handprints, and then rushed back to the dormitory with a bunch of things to change clothes.

As the ace unit in the army, the personal equipment of the special operations battalion can be called "luxury" in the entire militia system, two sets of standard military uniforms, two sets of underwear, a rattan helmet with an inner lining, leather training shoes, cotton socks, leather armed belts, leggings, iron lunch boxes, cowhide water bags, and personal first aid kits...... And so on and so on and so forth. It is worth mentioning that these personal items all bear the number of the special operations battalion, and the military uniforms also carry special special operations battalion armbands, which are highly recognizable. This is also Qian Tiandun's intention, he would rather spend a few more dollars in this regard, but also remind the soldiers of their sense of identity all the time.

Sun Zhen waited in line for more than half an hour before it was finally his turn. Every time the veteran in charge of registration read out something, the veteran in charge of distributing it next to him took it out and put it on the table in front of Sun Zhen, repeating the name of the item in his mouth. Sun Zhen couldn't wait for all the things to come out, so he reached out and stroked the collar badge on the military uniform.

After receiving his personal belongings, Sun Chen handed over the rifle he had used for three months to the veteran who had recovered the gun, and the other party would check whether the gun number on the gun was the same as that of the gun holder according to the previous registration form, and then collect the rifle for the training of the next batch of recruits until the end of its service life.

"Soldier Sun Zhen, this is your weapon, please check the gun number, and then sign here, if you can't sign, you can press your fingerprint. The veteran placed a gun wrapped in oiled paper on the table, then pushed the registration form in front of him as well, and pointed to the vacated place for signatures.

Although he knew that this iron guy was very strong, Sun Zhen still carefully peeled off the oil paper wrapped around the gun, lest he move too much and hurt the rifle. He knew that the number of the Haihan rifle was engraved on the left side of the gun body, and when he got it in his hand, he immediately looked through it, and sure enough, he saw a row of symbols like earthworms rolling sand. Although he knew a few big characters and received intermittent literacy training during the three-month recruit training period, he still couldn't understand the twists and turns of the words and symbols used by Haihan in the numbers, so he could only try to check whether the shape was consistent, and only after making sure that it was correct, he wrote his name crookedly on the registration form.

Sun Zhen is not an expert in weapons, and he has only been exposed to Haihan's two old rifles in recruit training before, and according to his intuitive feeling, the rifle in his hand is slightly shorter than the model used before, but perhaps because the caliber of the barrel is larger, the difference in weight is not obvious. Of course, he also noticed that the structure of this gun seemed to be completely different from the previous rifle, and there was a certain moving bracket between the end of the barrel and the barrel, which looked very unclear but aware.

The canvas strap used on the body of the gun is the same as the previous model, with one end attached to the butt and the other end to the lower edge of the middle of the barrel. The butt is made of birch, which is finely compact, polished and varnished. Sun Zhen touched it with his fingers, and he couldn't feel the half-diǎn burr.

Because the scale of the special operations battalion is relatively limited, and there is no export model of this rifle, its output is not large, and the cost is higher than that of the ordinary model equipped by the militia group, and the cost of one is about equivalent to three to four months' military salary for a recruit like Sun Zhen, which can be regarded as a valuable individual weapon. If this weapon were to be sold publicly in the future, it would probably cost three to five times the cost, much more expensive than the Type 28 breech flintlock pistol that is now sold to Haihan's allies. Of course, as long as Haihan is willing to sell this relatively more advanced weapon, most of the financiers are willing to spend money to buy it. After all, the partners who carry out military cooperation with Haihan are often rich and not very sensitive to price, and they are more concerned about whether they have to buy it than whether it is expensive or not.

"Don't touch it, let's take it back and touch it slowly!

When Sun was really basking in the joy of getting a new weapon, the veteran who was in charge of registering for the issuance of weapons coldly pulled him back from his contemplation. In addition to the rifle, there was a set of gadgets for cleaning the chamber, a one-foot-two-inch military dagger that doubled as a bayonet, and a small whetstone. These items are packed in a smart leather package that can be attached to the leather belt you received earlier for easy carrying.

As for the ammunition used in the rifle, you will not receive it here. In order to prevent accidents, soldiers are only allowed to receive calculated rations of ammunition during live-fire training or combat missions.

"Dude, can you hurry up diǎn!" The people in line behind him couldn't wait to start urging Sun Zhen, just like he had urged the people in front of him before. After all, it's really uncomfortable to watch others play with new weapons.