Before returning to the Menghu Brigade, Li Zheng had been thinking about what it would be like to return to the special reconnaissance camp.
The old squad leader Hou Jun should be the deputy company commander now, right?
Is Company Commander Ji still in the special reconnaissance camp?
Tong Zhi, the old superior, should also be the company commander, right?
I wonder when I can see the brigade commander when I go back?
What would the brigade commander say to himself?
Li Zheng returned to the Menghu Brigade with his head filled with random thoughts.
First, he went through the formalities at the brigade headquarters, and then the people from the cadre section drove him to the special reconnaissance camp.
Sure enough, it is still a special reconnaissance camp.
Where you come from, where you go back.
Li Zheng is a specially recruited cadre of the Menghu Brigade, so of course he will return here.
"Director Wang, you don't need to take me in, just go in and go through the formalities yourself."
When he arrived at the battalion headquarters, Li Zheng took his luggage and got out of the car. He waved to the brigade officer in the car and said, "I'm familiar with this place."
Officer Wang had already pushed half of the car door open. Seeing what Li Zheng said, he asked, "You really don't want me to send you off?"
He also knew that Li Zheng was a special recruitment cadre who had served in the first company of the special reconnaissance battalion and was a famous sharpshooter in the brigade.
This is his natal home, so of course he is familiar with it.
Li Zheng said: "You can go ahead and do it myself."
When Officer Wang saw this, he didn't say much. He nodded and said, "Well, I'm going back to the brigade headquarters. There have been a lot of people reporting in these days, so I'm really a little busy."
The two of them saluted each other and said goodbye.
Li Zheng stood at the entrance of the camp, looking at the familiar buildings and gates of the camp, and a feeling of excitement arose spontaneously.
Turning around and looking at the training ground, it was time for practice and everyone was on the training ground.
The obstacle course, climbing building, shooting range, and cqb area are full of small black spots from a distance, and the gunfire from the shooting range can be vaguely heard.
As soon as he heard the gunshot, Li Zheng felt a little itchy.
When I was about to graduate, I was busy with papers and exams, so I had fewer opportunities to go to the shooting range to touch guns. Recently, Li Zhengke had a famine, and he almost fell ill.
Nothing has changed, the familiar air, the familiar environment, the familiar...
No.
People are not familiar with it anymore.
At this time, in the duty room on the first floor of the battalion headquarters, through the window, a recruit was looking at him warily.
Li Zheng suddenly came to his senses and realized that he was already an "old comrade".
Li Zheng threw his backpack onto his body and strode into the camp headquarters.
Sure enough, recruit Danzi stopped him at the door.
"Comrade, may I ask what you do?"
"I'm here to report." Li Zheng said, "I'm a new cadre."
Originally, the duty room at the battalion headquarters had two people and two posts. Usually there was an old squad leader or a duty cadre to lead the post, but for some reason I didn't see the duty cadre today, and only a recruit egg was left here.
Recruit Dan had just joined the army not long ago, and it was the first time he had encountered the matter of registering as a graduate. He took the procedures handed over by Li Zheng and looked at them for a long time without making up his mind whether he should be released or not.
"Just take me to the administrator."
Li Zheng now wants to transfer his food relationship first.
Once the procedures are in the hands of the administrator, he will naturally arrange them.
Recruit Danzi said: "The administrator took the cooking team to get food."
The administrator is responsible for the logistics affairs of the camp. The soldiers below jokingly like to call the person with this position the "chief administrator."
In the past, the administrator would take the division chiefs and supervisors of each cooking class to the market to buy vegetables every morning. Later, a special supply station was set up. There was no need to buy vegetables every day, and they could go directly to the supply station to pick up the vegetables.
Li Zheng glanced at the wall clock in the battalion headquarters building. It was now half past nine in the morning, which was indeed the time to pick up the food.
"Otherwise, you can also find the battalion commander. Is the battalion commander here?" Li Zheng asked again.
The new recruit Danzi still shook his head: "The battalion commander is not here either, he is leading the team for training."
"That……"
This time it was Li Zheng's turn to be speechless.
I didn't expect to meet such a new recruit on the first day back to my parents' home. Even the veteran veteran felt a little helpless.
"Where is the deputy battalion commander? Deputy battalion commander Chen Gang, is he here?"
When Li Zheng retired, Chen Gang was the deputy battalion commander.
When recruit Danzi heard what he said, his eyes became more wary.
"There is no deputy battalion commander named Chen Gang here!"
When Li Zheng heard this tone, he felt like he was being treated as a spy.
"Before I left, he was the deputy battalion commander..."
"Have not heard……"
The new recruit Danzi looked at the officer in front of him, who had no stars on his rank and was just a bare-faced officer, and didn't give him any face at all.
"I'm a veteran here... Can you let me in? I'll find a place to sit and wait. The administrator's office is at the end of the corridor on the second floor, right? I'll go there and wait."
Li Zheng couldn't laugh or cry.
Standing in the hall of the battalion headquarters just like this, it seemed a bit funny.
I didn’t expect it, I didn’t expect it...
It has only been more than two years, and no one recognizes me when I return.
"No! You can't go in before confirming your identity. How do I know you're not a spy?!"
"I……"
Li Zheng raised his hand and pointed outside.
He wanted to say that he came here in a jeep from the brigade, and that Officer Wang personally sent him there, and that Officer Wang knew who he was...
But when I look back, I realize that Officer Wang was sent away by me. This guy in front of me really doesn’t recognize him, and he does things according to the rules, that’s right!
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You still can’t find anything wrong with me!
"Okay, okay, I'll find a place to sit by myself. I'll go to the first company. That's alright, right?"
"no!"
The new recruit’s eggs are in high spirits.
"You can't go anywhere until your identity is confirmed! Just wait here for me!"
As the recruit Danzi said this, he reached for the pistol at his waist.
Li Zheng smiled instead of being angry.
Playing with guns?
Playing with a gun in front of yourself?
So he said: "Stop pretending, your bullet is still in the live ammunition magazine and not loaded!"
He knew that the bullets of the sentry pistol on duty at the battalion headquarters were separated from each other, which was different from those in the weapons depot.
The sentry in the weapons depot has real ammunition, and it can be fired as long as the safety is turned on and the bullet is loaded.
This kind of pistol for the battalion duty station is not the same thing...
When the recruit Danzi heard what Li Zheng said, his expression changed. He immediately took two steps back and assumed a fighting posture.
Just when I was at a tense moment and couldn't laugh or cry, I suddenly heard someone shouting from behind.
"Li Zheng?!"
Listening to the familiar voice, Li Zheng knew who it was without looking back.
"Monitor Li?"
He turned around and found Li Qiman behind him.
"You're back!?"
Li Qiman, who was already a second-term sergeant, grabbed Li Zheng's arm and punched Li Zheng's chest hard.
"You're so awesome, you're already an officer!"
After saying that, he pointed to his military rank.
"Look at me, I'm only in the second phase!"
Li Zheng smiled and said: "Work harder and learn from Monitor Hou."
Li Qiman laughed loudly, looked at the recruit Danzi who was still standing aside, and then looked at Li Zheng: "What's wrong?"
Li Zheng smiled bitterly: "I can't find anyone to report. The guard on duty doesn't recognize me and won't let me in."
When Li Qiman heard this, his eyeballs bulged an inch, and he said fiercely to the recruit Danzi: "Scared!? You don't even know him?! Haven't you ever entered the honor room of our camp? He's hanging on his head there.