Chapter 40 contrast

"What is a comrade-in-arms?! ...Everyone on the battlefield, regardless of their own safety, does not hesitate to rush to die for others when others are in danger. This is the real comrade-in-arms! ... Everyone comes here from all over the motherland, and everyone has only one common goal, which is to defend the motherland and be ready to die for the country anytime and anywhere! Die for your comrades-in-arms!

As for here, this training camp is to let everyone know how to survive on the battlefield and let as many brothers as possible come back alive, rather than being carried back as martyrs.

Sergeant Xu Yan on the training ground looked at the soldier with a green face on his side, and his mouth roared loudly. The ferocious wound on his left cheek seemed to remind everyone that this was a veteran for the rest of his life.

And the ten years of military standing on his chest really dare not be despised. This is a veteran in the era of the Guangfu Army, and the several battle medals on his chest make people feel reverence as soon as they see him. A veteran like this, even if a general stands in front of him, he can proudly lift it. At the beginning, reply to a military salute at will.

The army is a special group in which veterans like this will win the respect of everyone. It is also because of the veterans' rich battlefield experience that most of the veterans play a role in the training ground.

"As a new recruit, what I want to tell you is that on the battlefield, in addition to the rifle in your hand, the only thing you can rely on is your comrades-in-arms, the same scattered brothers around you, and you will live and die together. It is this kind of brotherhood that makes you willing to die for your brothers at any time. ......"

All the soldiers are brothers. For veterans, they often emphasize the brotherhood between their comrades-in-arms, because they understand that on the battlefield, no noble words can replace the friendship between brothers. The comrades-in-arms should have been born and die together. "Oh... I really don't know what to say about this. There is for others. It's dead."

A recruit in a khaki training uniform curled his lips and muttered in a low voice.

"New recruits... Li Quan'en - out!"

Xu Yan suddenly shouted in front of him. Li Quanen, who was a little disdainful, was shocked and shivered. He quickly took two big steps forward and turned to Xu Yan.

Xu Yan raised his eyebrows upside down, and his face, which looked ferocious, would become more ferocious. He shouted harshly.

"What did you mutter just now?"

"Sir, sir, I didn't mutter anything."

"Answer loudly, sir! ...No muttered? Then why does your mouth keep moving up and down?

Li Quan'en quickly shouted loudly.

"Yes! Sir, I listened to you so well that I shivered when I was excited!"

"Presumptuous! Do you think I don't have ears? How dare you want to trick me?"

"Bang..."

The next moment, a loud slap sound sounded on the training ground. In this scene, Wang Ze was stunned. On the first day of entering the training camp, he didn't expect to see the officer beating the soldiers. Didn't the officer talk about friendship before? But in other words, he remembered a "tradition" in the army mentioned by his father. Veterans tortured new recruits and were called "classes" in the army. This kind of class was inevitable for the first recruit.

Just as he was surprised, he listened to the officer's sudden shout.

"Everyone has it! Comrades-in-arms, comrades-in-arms, help each other, one person makes a mistake, the whole class share the responsibility, cancel your right to go out on vacation this Sunday! Everyone, run 20 laps around the training ground! ...Prepare...run! ...Quick! Speed up! ...You haven't had enough to eat?! Hurry up! ......"

Under the order of the sergeant, the unlucky people could only carry their rifles and run on the field with their thighs. The people who were gasping under Lie said that they kept speeding up under the sergeant's roar, and Li Quanen was slapped by the officer. Now his heart was full of hair. When he was running, he had seen that most of them were looking at him with vicious eyes.

The Guards have always fought and practiced. Even on the training ground, everyone needs to carry rifles, ammunition, grenades, blankets, backpacks and kettles. In short, everyone's weight will only be heavier than on the battlefield, not lighter than on the battlefield. On the battlefield, soldiers can also reduce their own supplies, but On the training ground, even a bullet can't be missing.

This is a training camp located in northern Jiangsu. At first, it was just a salt field reed land. When the arable land was reclaimed in northern Jiangsu, it was requisitioned by the army. At the beginning, this extremely harsh environment was a natural complex terrain training ground. In the following years, because of the needs of the training troops, here The facilities were improved step by step, and eventually developed into the largest army comprehensive training ground in China.

Over the past ten years, the scale of this training ground has expanded, and the same facilities have become more and more complete. Although it is a comprehensive training ground for the army, it is now jointly used by the army, navy and air force.

The huge training camp is divided into three parts according to the orientation. The north and south sides are for the army's training, and the southeast is the training ground of the marines. As for the west, it is assigned to the air force. The air force has set up a shooting range here. The kind of shooting range can only walk through the queue and shoot down the target with a rifle, but the bombing range of the air force.

If the training ground covering a million mu is full of people, no one has calculated how many people it can accommodate. Anyway, there are many soldiers, and there are many right and wrong. In the first few years, the biggest achievement of this training ground was that it finally picked up a circle of barbed wire and realized the "closed management" of the training ground.

However, in order to prevent the trained soldiers from being bored and running out to make trouble, there are military service clubs, restaurants and teahouses in the training ground for the trainers. Many service departments are located in various camps, like rural fairs. It's just that the things supplied in the service are quantitative. Except for the lack of liquor, soldiers can buy anything they need here. In addition to liquor, ordinary beer and rice wine are also restricted, in order to prevent soldiers from making trouble with the help of alcohol.

So, the most anticipated thing for young people in the training ground is to rest. Rest means that they can ask for leave to relax outside the outside world. All kinds of entertainment venues can be seen everywhere outside the training. Their consumer group naturally aims at the soldiers in the training ground, from the court to the restaurant. In short, they should As long as you have money, you can be very comfortable. Of course, this needs to be a rest, and the officer also needs to issue them a pass to go out. Without a pass, the sentry dares not let anyone out, even an officer can't. If he is caught by the gendarmerie outside, then the fate waiting for him is extremely miserable.

But now, the rest day of this detachment has been cancelled, and tomorrow is the rest they are waiting for, which means that they have to wait for another seven lives. How can this not annoy them?

Finally, after 20 laps, with the officer's disbandment, the seemingly exhausted people surrounded Li Quan'en. Even the recruits were divided into highs and lows, like the officer's assistant Tian Xin, who was the "adminor" of the recruits.

"You son of a son of a son, won't you shut up?"

A slap in the face sounded again on the training ground. Before Li Enquan wanted to resist, he was caught and clasped back.

"Come one by one, give this bastard a long name!"

Then the soldiers slapped one by one. It was almost Wang Ze's turn. He didn't want to draw his comrades-in-arms, so he chose to close his eyes.

"Hey, is this Li Enquan your fellow countryman? It's pitiful."

It's pitiful!

Thinking so, Wang Ze walked aside with a gun on his back. At this time, he did not notice that at the end of the training ground, several old sergeants were looking at him with resentful eyes.

"Is this the dissemit in your team?"

dissent criminals, this is a term "specially set up" in the army for those middle school students who have been thrown into the army, and these veterans who are impressed by the emperor from the bottom of their bones naturally have no good impression on these "dissent offenders". They have been thinking in their hearts that if they are reduced to their own hands, they must teach them a good lesson.

Naturally, such an opportunity cannot be missed. Several people looked at each other and sneered on their faces.

Looking at Wang Ze, who was carrying a gun and preparing to rest in the shade of the tree, Xu Yan shouted.

"New recruits Wang Ze and Xu Fulin come here!"

"Yes! Sir!"

When Xu Fulin and Wang Ze heard the officer call their names, they felt that something was wrong. After agreeing loudly, they ran to the officer. Xu Fulin did not know that he was just a "fish at the gate", and the real protagonist was Wang Ze.

"Repone the rifle!"

"Yes!"

When handing over the rifle to the officer, Wang Zehe found that the officer seemed to be wearing white gloves on his hand. What's going on?

"Wara"

After the bolt was pulled away, Xu Yan first raised the muzzle of the gun and looked at the sun. Then he carefully put his little finger into the magazine and wiped it around. Sure enough, there were some gray marks in addition to the gun oil. In fact, to check whether the gun is clean, you often only need to look at the light. However, in order to find trouble, it is more Don't talk about it.

After checking the weapon, Xu Yan's face suddenly turned cold. He took Xu Fulin's gun and checked it as before. He suddenly raised his hand and "cracked". Before the two came to their senses, two loud slaps hit their faces.

"Your Sir..."

The slap almost pulled out Wang Ze's tears, and the hot pain on his face made him feel ashamed and angry. This... "Do you know why I hit you?"

"Your Sir..."

Don't wait for Wang Ze to refute, it was another slap in the face. This slap only made his eyes buzz with stars, buzzing in his ears.

"Answer the question!"

"..."

Silence, with anger in silence, but no matter how impulsive Wang Ze is, he knows that he can only bow his head at this time. Even if there are thousands of grievances, he has to wait until he finishes fighting before reporting to the officer that the army is not allowed to beat people.

"The gun is unclean!"

With a sneer, Xu Yan's eyes became cold.

"Oh, I see, let's go back! I will investigate this matter!"

When listening to the new recruits' report, Yuan Shiqin didn't even raise his head and trained sergeants to fight new recruits. It's such a normal thing! Not to mention beating new recruits, even veterans will be beaten. It is a tradition of the Guards, and in Yuan Shiqin's opinion, this can even be said to be a fine tradition.

Even when he was in the military academy, his ass was stabbed by a bayonet because of the horse's steps. The old students bullied the freshmen and the veterans bullied the recruits. What's the big deal?

As for the veteran's slap in the face of the new recruits, in addition to the effect of making them remember their surnames, the most important thing is that the slap can make the soldier bow down and obey the officer. In the midst of terror, the soldier will become obedient, let him turn right and turn right, turn left and turn left, and he will obey the officer at any time. Therefore, the officers have always tacit about beating soldiers. Even if the soldiers were beaten half to death, these officers would turn a blind eye.

For officers, what they are most worried about is that the soldiers do not obey orders. Slap is a means to make the soldiers absolutely blindly obey without any resistance to the officer. As for the punished sergeant, sergeant and veteran, they were just pawns in the hands of the officer. In the past, when he first came to the army, he didn't like it and tried to change some, but later he deeply realized the benefits.

If he is in the grass-roots army, he may have a good talk to the soldier and comfort him, but in the training camp, this kind of thing is really too common, especially this "dissent" like Wang Ze. In itself, they came to the army to give them a "long surname", and the army will tell them. What is obedience!

"S sir,"

The officer's indifference only made Wang Ze angry.

"If the officer can't handle it properly, I will bring a lawsuit to the military court!"

Perhaps he was afraid that the officer didn't understand what he meant, and Wang Ze, whose face was swollen, continued to say.

"Prosecute everyone, including the officer!"

"Oh..."

At this time, Yuan Shiqin raised his head and looked at the new recruit with a swollen face. He raised the corners of his lips slightly, showing a sarcastic smile, and then he leaned against the back of the chair.

"Airline, it's time for war!"

While reminding him, Yuan Shiqin said earnestly.

"The service period will not be a year and a half, nor a two years. It is very likely that it will be four or five years. It is not possible to retire until the end of the war. In the army, both officers and soldiers treat each other as brothers. Sincere unity and never betrayal are our foundation. If someone tries to break If the sincere unity in the bad army tries to betray his brother, then he will be the enemy of the whole army! When you make any decision, you must think it over, understand?

There is no tough obstruction, no verbal stimulation, only sincere persuasion. As an officer, Yuan Shiqin knows that if he files a lawsuit in a military court, he will definitely win the lawsuit, but what is the cost? Perhaps the sergeant may be forced to retire at most, or just a few dozen days of confinement, but if he offends the whole army, no matter what army he goes to, he will become the enemy of that team. The officers will not pay attention to him, and the sergeants and veterans will do everything they can to torture him. For anyone. Not to mention a few years, even for a few days, I'm afraid it's difficult to survive.

"S sir,..."

Although he still wanted to argue, Wang Ze understood the meaning of the officer's warning from the officer's words. This warning is to remind him that if he chooses to solve the problem through the so-called military court, then his behavior will undoubtedly betray the whole army. He betrayed the army and betrayed himself because of "tradition". My own "brother".

For the "traitor", they will never let go easily. No matter where he goes in the army in the future, he will be hostile to others. At that time, the "course" will come to him day and night, and even the officers will acquiesce in all this, because he betrayed the army. In their opinion, the veteran's fight against new recruits. But it's just an internal family event between brothers. What's wrong with being a brother?

"Okay, go back. I will treat everything today as non-existent. Remember, in the army, you are just a soldier, and obedience is your duty! Do you understand?"

Is this the army?

After leaving the officer's office, Wang Ze thought so in his heart. At this time, the experience of his youth came to his mind. At that time, he did not even know that his father was a soldier. In fact, his father went out to work, not to be a soldier, but later he became a soldier by chance.

Later, after the restoration of Anhui, he quickly transferred to the public national primary school. In that national primary school, he wore his first black uniform and sat in the classroom. The first children's song he learned in class was:

"With my eldest brother side by side, I go to school today. Thanks to the soldiers, thank the soldiers, they fight for the country, fight for the country.

Whether in books or newspapers, the image of soldiers has always been tall. It is the soldiers who have restored the nation. When this nation is about to fall into extinction, he followed His Majesty the emperor to save the country, and the school's false words are selected in the memorable days: the restoration memorial, your majesty's birthday, army construction. Military Day and Navy Army Day. The meaning of all these festivals has been compiled in the song and in the speech. While cultivating people's loyalty to the royal family, a concept is also instilled in his mind that soldiers are great and the army is desirable. But at this time, when he is in the army, he doubts his past knowledge for the first time. .

Suddenly, a shout interrupted Wang Ze's thoughts. He looked in the direction of the voice, but only saw a soldier with glasses standing in the middle of several sergeants, and his face was still red and swollen with a slap in the face.

It's him!

Wang Ze knew him, Li Yu, a normal student of the provincial higher normal school. Like him, he was forced to serve because he participated in the burning of political axes. He stood in the middle of the sergeants. At this time, a sergeant with him shouted first.

"Tick off your glasses!"

He quickly took off his glasses, and his face was full of fear.

"Stand firmly!"

As soon as Li Yu stood firm, the sergeant waved his fist up, and his iron fist flew away, making him scream, and his whole body fell directly on the training ground. Do you remember how to walk in the right way?

"Yes! Sir!"

"Go and see!"

Li Yu, who was blue and swollen, hurriedly walked forward. This time, his positive step was very standard. Obviously, he was beaten because he did not meet the standard.

"Remember, you have to go like this, do you understand?"

"Yes! Sir!"

"Walk for half an hour and then rest!"

"Yes, sir!"

Li Yu said that Li Yu, who was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, did not dare to walk slack off at all, while Wang Ze, who was watching this scene in the distance, was blocked with a fire in his heart. He looked at Li Yu, who was stepping there, with a slightly fat body. It seemed a little ridiculous to walk straight, but at this time, he couldn't laugh at all.

He understood that perhaps what Li Yu was about to suffer was what he was about to suffer. At this time, a voice sounded in his ear. Looking back, it was Wei Ancheng. He and he were alumni of the Imperial University, but he studied literature.

"We attended the farewell ceremony of the new recruits, and our family was happy. We were dressed in red, as well as the officials and members of the parliament at that time. One person joined the army, and the whole family was honored. That's right. Nine years ago, military families were exempted from agricultural tax and land tax..."

Like Wang Ze, he also had a "five-finger mountain" on his face, but his face was more swollen. Obviously, his sergeant had trained him to practice "iron sand palm". At this time, he stood beside Wang Ze and sighed.

"But we arrived at the new barracks, and when we started our first training, all the bragging and encouragement dissipated. What we have to face is a group of sergeants who may be the most fierce in the world. To the people handed over to them, we can't help but slap and kick them when they come up, in order to make people bow down to them, in order to let you obey and not think about obedience.

He turned his head and looked at Wang Ze, and his swollen face squeezed out a wry smile.

"Now I finally understand why the guards are invincible, not because he is an honored group, not because they help each other, but because anyone comes here, first of all, punches and kicks to smash everything, making him numb and blind, and then on the battlefield, they There will be no doubt that the officer's order will be 100% executed, even if the order is to let them die! They will also implement it!"

Wei Ancheng said there. When he was talking, the swollen face seemed to squeeze out a trace of smile. The smile seemed to be ridiculed, but it was so ugly.

"From here, from morning to evening, I will be beaten by sergeants every day. If the gathering is slow, the movement is too slow! Want to fight! If you want to defend, you are arrogant! Want to fight! Even if you look at the sergeant, your eyes are wrong! If I still want to fight, I really want to be a deserter, but..."

In the end, he didn't go on. Everyone knows what it means to desert, which means that his family and even the whole clan have been humiliated by his actions. In the past ten years, what has been the most successful in this country? I'm afraid that the tax exemption of military families in the countryside has established an unprecedented military honor. Soldiers, especially those who have been awarded honors, are the capital of every village and family to show off. If he becomes a deserter, he, his father, grandfather and brother will not be buried in the ancestral grave because of his actions.

"Now, I really want to go to the battlefield!"

While speaking, Wei Ancheng's eyes showed a desire, a desire for war or a desire for death?

Wang Ze has no answer, but he has the same desire in his heart.

"Maybe you can change a lot of things on the battlefield!"

(to be continued)