The next day I found out that Chen Yiyi was not the only new recruit joining our class.
No... In the early morning, before I woke up, a few young men stood upright in front of me and shouted: "Report!"
The air was dull and mixed with a strange smell. I opened my eyes and looked at the three soldiers in front of me in confusion, and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Come... report!" One of the tall men explained excitedly: "Report to the squad leader, my name is Shen Guoxin. We are all new here, and the platoon leader asked us to join the second squad!"
I sat up straight and looked at Scar, who was more than ten meters away. Scar was busy assigning new recruits, and he just nodded at me, so I knew this was true.
"Report to the squad leader!" Another little man said: "My name is Xu Guochun. From now on, we will be members of the second class when we are born, and we will be the ghosts of the second class when we die..."
"Stop, stop, stop..." I interrupted them, stood up impatiently, patted my butt, looked at them and asked, "Have you ever been a soldier?"
"Yes!" several recruits replied in unison.
"Ever?" I have some doubts about this answer, because I know very well that if you have been a soldier and fought in a war, you can't be so excited on the battlefield. This is almost the behavior of a new recruit...
"Squad leader, we really were soldiers!" Seeing that I didn't believe it, Shen Guoxin said aggrievedly: "We are still in the same army, we have been veterans for a year..."
Seeing that what he said didn't sound like lies, I became even more confused, because I found that some of them even held their guns in a wrong posture...
Speaking of which, you can basically tell those who often use guns and those who don’t, just by looking at them. It’s like a smoker’s natural posture when holding a cigarette, and his smoking movements are also integrated, while a person who has just learned to smoke has a very natural posture and movements. It's almost the same, but it always feels a little different.
And the soldiers in front of me were holding their guns like high school students secretly learning to smoke.
"Squad leader!" Seeing that I was still satisfied, Xu Guochun explained: "If you don't believe it...if you don't believe it, you can ask our company commander. Our company commander is also here, and he has been assigned to the seventh company to be the platoon leader!"
When I heard this, my heart sank even more... The company commander was assigned to the 7th company as the platoon leader? What is going on?
"Report to the squad leader!" At this time, a muscular recruit stood up and said: "Although we have been soldiers for a year, we spend most of our time engaged in urban construction and production. We rarely touch a gun a few times, so the squad leader will Let’s watch it as new recruits!”
Oh, I understand now. I remember the old man once told me this. This era is a period of mass production. Most of the soldiers work in the fields longer than they train, and the number of times they hold a hoe is That’s more than holding a gun. When it’s time to catch up with the military competition, it’s enough to select a company with good quality and train it for a few months...
In other words, even those who have never been on the battlefield or fought in a war, it is not wrong to call them new recruits... Sometimes it is more difficult to recruit veterans? Because they have no skills, but they still have a temper because they are veterans.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart. I didn't expect that this matter would happen to me.
"What's your name?" I asked the sturdy soldier casually. He seemed to be the only one who could see what I was thinking just now, and he seemed to be a very attentive person.
"Report to the squad leader! My name is Li Zuolong!" The reply was sonorous and forceful, neither humble nor overbearing.
I have to admit that this is my first time as a monitor, so I don’t know what to do, what to teach, or what to say to them as a monitor.
After thinking about it, he nodded to them and said, "You guys go down first! If you don't understand anything... learn from other comrades!"
"Yes!" Several soldiers stood up to me, saluted with a standard military salute and left.
"What? Not satisfied?" I don't know when Scar came to me and handed me a cigarette.
I shook my head and said nothing. What can I say about satisfaction or dissatisfaction on this battlefield? If I really want to say dissatisfaction...can this annoying jungle satisfy you? Can the enemy satisfy you? The murderous intent everywhere can satisfy you.
satisfy?
Scar lit a cigarette for me, blew out a puff of smoke and said: "After several battles, our troops have been severely reduced. In order to restore our unit's combat effectiveness as soon as possible, our superiors gave us two days to rest and replenished some veterans.
…”
All I can think of is helplessness, veteran? Restore combat effectiveness?
Why do I think that the addition of these veterans will lower the combat effectiveness of our army? Facts have proved that my worries are justified. They will cause us more trouble on the battlefield...
"Okay!" After smoking a cigarette, Scar threw away the butt of the cigarette and said: "Look at it, weren't you also a recruit a few days ago? Go and do some ideological work for them, so that they can adapt as soon as possible!"
I couldn't help but be startled when I heard this... Damn it, when did I already consider myself a veteran, and it was natural that I regarded myself as the kind of veteran who could fight. You know... I came to this era and left.
We have been on this battlefield for only a few days!
He walked back to the soldiers glumly, wanting to say something but not knowing what to say, but the new recruits came to show their courtesy first.
"Squad leader!" Xu Guochun knew at first glance that he was a slippery person. He came up to him knowingly, handed him a cigarette and said: "Squad leader, don't worry... Although we have never held guns or fought, each of us has
They are not cowards and will not hold back our comrades!"
"Yes! Squad leader!" Shen Guoxin also walked up and waved his fist and said: "We have already discussed it. This time we come here to bring glory to the motherland and strive to go home as a hero and glorify our ancestors!"
"Hero?" I shook my head and smiled bitterly. The soldiers who fought with me also smiled bitterly. No one who had ever fought wanted to be a hero.
However, Li Zuolong squatted there silently without saying a word, and only glanced at the sniper rifle on my back from time to time.
At this time, I couldn't help but look at Li Zuolong differently. As the saying goes, dogs that bark don't bite. Although this saying doesn't sound good, it is quite applicable on the battlefield.
Isn’t that right? People who talk about being heroes and not cowards don’t understand. People who go to the battlefield don’t have time to think so much. They only think about one thing, and that is to save their lives!
On the contrary, the silent one seemed to be aware of some danger...
I don't have the heart to care about them, and in fact I don't know how to do ideological work for them... I didn't learn the high-profile things of this era from the old man.
I casually nodded. Originally, there were twelve people in my class. Five of them were killed in several battles, leaving seven. Now, there are four people in total, including Chen Yiyi, so my class plus me is just right.
I made up ten.
Looking at other units, the number of replacement personnel is mainly based on the proportion of attrition. Although the replacement soldiers are not many, but when the entire company is scanned... there are many more new faces in an instant.
If it were in other places, having many new faces might not be a big deal. But on this battlefield, having so many new faces would be frightening!
First of all, this shock comes from knowing the huge number of comrades who have sacrificed their lives. They are supplementing our troops, right? That means...we have sacrificed as many strange faces as there are, and they seem to be
To replace those fallen comrades.
More importantly...the ones who are most uncomfortable with this change are those of us on the original team. On the battlefield, what we need to see most are familiar faces, and what we worry about most is that these familiar faces will leave in a hurry.
.Whether it is the comrades around us or the leader of the unit, whenever we hear that anyone has encountered an unexpected incident, our hearts will immediately tremble.
For us soldiers, it always feels a bit awkward to see these new faces suddenly and not be able to call them by their names for a while. In front of them, am I the new guy or they are the new guy?
I still can't figure it out. On the battlefield, if you want to order someone and you see a new face but can't name him, you will always pause for a few seconds, and maybe just these few seconds will bring fatal consequences to the troops.
disaster……
This feeling is a bit indescribable, it's like our original team has become one with me, just like I can use my arms and feet freely, but this new soldier seems to have installed a very powerful weapon on me.
Unaccustomed prosthetic limbs.
No matter what! I found a rock to sit down and clean my gun by myself. Anyway, I am not the only one who is replenishing soldiers. If others can accept it, I can do it as well.
The first thing I need to remember is their names, that Li Zuolong, Shen Guoxin, Xu Guo...
"Um...what's your name?"
"Report to the monitor!" Xu Guochun jumped up from the ground like a spring and responded: "Xu Guochun!"
"Oh!" I casually threw the kettle at his feet: "Go get me a kettle of water!"
"Yes!" Xu Guochun happily carried the kettle and left, as if he felt that being named by me meant he was different.
But what he doesn’t know is that I called him by name precisely because I didn’t remember his name clearly...
"Squad leader, squad leader..." Within a few minutes, Xu Guochun ran back with a pale face and lost his mind. He gasped and shouted: "Squad leader, it's not good! There is a situation..."
"What's going on?" Seeing other soldiers picking up their guns, I quickly stopped them.
"Then...that water..." Xu Guochun said breathlessly: "There is a broken leg in the water..."
"Hey..." The soldiers booed. Only the recruits turned pale as they listened.
By the way, the superiors seemed to know that the new recruits were coming, so they made some preparations last night. They carried away or buried the wounded and corpses in time. However, it was inevitable that a few fingers or limbs would be lost. I didn't expect this to be the case.
Small parts scare them.
At this time, I saw Scar pulling a few soldiers in front of me, pointing at me and saying: "Look, this is the second squad leader. He was a soldier who had never fought in a battle a few days ago. Now he has made great achievements.
My subordinates will save the lives of dozens of Japanese! I will be the squad leader in a few days..."
Damn it! I couldn't help but curse in my heart: Why do these words sound so familiar to me? Isn't that what Scar said to me the day I first joined the army?