In December 2015, I left the small mountain village where I had grown up and took a train to Xinjiang. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Because my physical fitness has always been bad when I was a child, I decided to go to the army to hone my physique, some people say that I regret being a soldier for two years, and I regret not being a soldier for a lifetime.

In fact, my family did not approve of me becoming a soldier, and my grandfather was a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In my grandfather's memory, being a soldier was really not something that people did, and he escaped death three times. Later, he warned his descendants not to serve as soldiers. I was also the only one of my relatives who went to join the army, because some of my experiences in the army also caused two of my cousins who wanted to be soldiers to give up the idea of becoming a soldier.

I remember when I first arrived in Xinjiang and got off the train, the overwhelming cold seemed to swallow up all the recruits. It snowed heavily that day, and when you got off the train, your shoes felt like they were glued to the ground.

For a person who grew up in the south, he is full of curiosity and yearning for the thousands of miles of ice and snow drifting in the north. We were pulled into the troop by the troop trucks, and everybody had such excitement on their faces. The truck passed through the brightly lit city of Urumqi, and we were crammed into a car with about 30 recruits, and from time to time we lifted the tarp to see the outside world.

Although it was cold outside, we were still curious to look at the city in the snow, and the truck drove for more than an hour. Coming to the army, this is the first time I have entered the army, and I am so curious about all this.

Later, the commander of the recruit battalion divided the recruits into recruit companies, and when the recruits around me were taken away one by one, the four recruits from the same town as me were taken away. And I haven't heard my name yet, and I suddenly feel extremely lonely, and all the friends I have known these days have been taken away.

When everyone was led away from the playground, I was the only recruit left on the playground, and I felt like I was in the wrong place. I've been waiting for a name, waiting for them to call my name, but I still haven't heard, am I superfluous?

"Didn't you pronounce your name that soldier?" The recruit battalion commander called me.

"Report chief, no." I replied loudly.

"What's your name," the battalion commander asked me.

"Report chief, Lu Xiaofeng." I replied loudly.

The battalion commander began to look at the roster in his hand and looked at it for a long time: "Sun Hao" The battalion commander shouted to a recruit camp.

"Here," a lieutenant ran out. "I'll hand over this soldier to your company, ask Liu Zhiyong to take it, give me a long snack, I'm optimistic about this soldier." The recruit battalion commander said to the lieutenant.

Soon the lieutenant came running and brought me to their camp. "Let's all lead our men back to the company." After the recruit battalion commander finished speaking, all the factions began to leave the playground.

I was assigned to the first company of recruits, and we were taken to the conference room by the company commander, where a few non-commissioned officers were waiting for us.

"Liu Zhiyong, this recruit is yours, hurry up and take it back." The company commander said to a second-stage non-commissioned officer who was tall, 172, dark-skinned, and full of murderous eyes.

The other recruit company commanders were divided into classes one by one, and Liu Zhiyong received one after our class. We were taken to the first floor by Liu Zhiyong, and it was written at the door that the recruits were in a row.

"Squad Leader Liu, I heard that the company commander assigned you a special soldier." As soon as we entered the room, a veteran with only two crutches on one epaulette said.

For the first time, I entered a human room with eight beds, divided into bunk and bunk beds. Each bed was neat, a military coat like a tofu block, a green pillow, and a white sheet without wrinkles were spread on the bed. A writing desk is under the window and a wall cabinet is above the door.

"It's him" Liu Zhiyong pointed at me, I looked at this veteran, there were many acne marks on his face, and a few small pimples, he was very strong and not tall, 170 looks, and his eyes were very small.

"Hello squad leader," the recruit who was with me immediately said to the veteran. I also asked the class leader. Later, Liu Zhiyong asked this veteran to take us to the canteen to eat, and we ate noodles, and in the noodles were palm-sized fatty meat, I hated fat the most, and it was so big that I didn't even eat noodles.

We are the first batch of recruits in Chongqing, so we don't have to train these days, and we don't start training until all the recruits arrive.

After eating, we went back to the room to rest, and in the chat, I learned that Liu Zhiyong was the most powerful soldier in this regiment, he had been a soldier for seven years, a 25-year-old native of Henan, and he was the champion of the whole regiment for five years. The acne veteran is called Huang Hai, a 23-year-old native of Xinjiang, who has been in the army for a year, but he is the champion of this year's competition. The recruit who came with me is called Xue Jie, a 20-year-old undergraduate student from our county. I was 17 years old and a sophomore in high school.

About three days later, all the recruits arrived, seven of us, there were only 8 beds in the room, and I was assigned to live with the platoon commander. Our platoon commander was a weak scholar, 168 tall with glasses, white and slightly thin.

Later, there were two Hunan soldiers of the five soldiers, one named General Wang and the other named Qiu Jun. They are all only 10 tall, standard Hunanese. Two from Jiangsu, one is named Li Ping, who is 174 tall and handsome, and his family is rich and kind, and he is also 17 years old. One is named Kuang Hai, 19 years old, 180 years tall, and still very strong, with more than 180 pounds, but he is very kind. Later, another one from Xinjiang came, 168 is very dark and thin, with yellow teeth, and he looks like an old smoker, his name is Zhao Shiming, 19 years old.

The training of the recruit company is really hard, and there are many times when we cry, but we all cry secretly. I'm younger than all of them, but I've always been a good recruit in my class in terms of training.

After two months of training, after dinner, the recruit company commander and platoon commander were actually in our squad room. After the group leader said to start a gang meeting, we took out our own stools and sat neatly.

"Comrades, today our company commander received a task, and now we will ask the company commander to talk about this task." The platoon commander said to us.

"Huang Hai went to close the door, the comrade door is like this, your class is the sharp knife class of our recruit camp, it can be said that we learned in your enlistment materials that you are all the best recruits this year, and your squad leaders are the best soldiers in our regiment, this time we received a task, we consider letting you hone it. In the two-month training performance of your class, you have always been the first in the recruit camp, and it can be said that your quality is stronger than that of veterans who have been training for more than a year. Company commander Sun Hao took a sip of water and continued.

"The mission is like this, five foreign travelers traveled to the Tianshan Mountains and lost contact. We need to come to the rescue, this task is what we have won for you with great difficulty, and I hope you can complete this mission like veterans. Next, your squad leader and we will go to the regiment to study and deploy, and you will prepare yourself. ”