Thinking about it later, Wang Xuexin also felt that soldiers like Mao Duzi might be naturally suitable for mountain troops... He was born as an Orion and hunted with his father in the mountains since he was a child.
Hunters in this era were not simple at all. They didn't just go up the mountain with some dry food that day and return in the evening. Such hunters often could only hunt some small animals nearby.
An outstanding hunter goes deep into the jungle with a few days of dry food, and sleeps in the forest to track the feces, footprints, and even smells of valuable targets, find their lair, and set up an ambush, and then have a "big harvest."
So looking at maps to find points, identifying directions, surviving in the wild, etc. are all a piece of cake for them.
Therefore, Wang Xuexin was still a little strange. He asked Mao Duzi: "In what aspect are you lagging behind? Isn't it embarrassing to win the third prize?"
Mao Duzi blushed instantly and replied awkwardly: "Batalion Commander, this...it's not our fault, I just know less words than others, and I am number one in everything else!"
"Who won the championship?" Wang Xuexin was a little curious.
Mao Duzi searched among the crowd and called out to a soldier with a scar at the corner of his eye: "Old Seven..."
The soldier known as Lao Qi hurriedly ran up to Wang Xuexin and saluted: "Report to the battalion commander, Lao Qi reports!"
"Your name is Lao Qi?" Wang Xuexin felt a little unbelievable.
"Battal Commander!" Lao Qi explained with a smile: "My surname is Rao. I am the seventh in the family, so I named me Rao Qi. My comrades all call me Lao Qi!"
Wang Xuexin said "Oh". What Lao Qi mentioned just now was indeed the "Rao Qi" report, and he was used to hearing it sound "old".
But "Lao Qi" is more smooth.
"I heard that you won the championship in the competition?" Wang Xuexin asked.
"Batalion Commander!" Lao Qi answered modestly and appropriately: "I served as the captain of the guerrillas behind enemy lines for three years, and then was promoted to the captain of the armed workers' team behind enemy lines. The items in the competition were all those I often did, so I took advantage and won some.
It’s not forceful!”
Wang Xuexin nodded. It is indeed very dangerous to organize guerrillas behind enemy lines. Most of the time they hide in the mountains. They have no food or only go down to contact the liaison officer when they receive a mission. They usually do this often by looking at pictures to find places or ambushing them.
Things like sneak attacks.
If you are not smart enough and have some skills, you may not be alive now, let alone become the captain.
"Very good!" Wang Xuexin said, "Then from now on, Lao Qi will be the company commander and Mao Duzi will be the deputy company commander! But it's just a temporary decision. If you don't do well, you can go back to the original unit. Do you understand?"
"Yes!" Lao Qi and Mao Duzi answered in unison.
However, Mao Duzi hesitated for a moment and asked more: "Battalion Commander, if I go back to the original army...then we will still be our fifth company?"
Wang Xuexin glared at Mao Duzi fiercely and replied: "Then don't stay there for five days. Stay where you can to cool off!"
At this point, Mao Duzi was dumbfounded.
This can't be done. If you can't stay in the fifth company, don't you have to go back to the guard company? That would be so embarrassing!
At the same time, Mao Duzi secretly regretted it. If he had known better, he should not have said so much!
What are you asking?
Wouldn't it be better to return to the original army and then go back to being a correspondent?
Then Wang Xuexin gathered the team and said a few words: "Comrades, you are all soldiers selected from various units, but maybe you don't know what you are going to do when you are gathered here. Because of confidentiality, you don't need to
You know what you want to do. But I can tell you responsibly that your future training and battles will be very difficult and even dangerous. It’s not too late to quit now. Is anyone quitting?"
As soon as the words fell, the soldiers responded in unison: "No!"
This can be said to be expected.
When it comes to enduring hardships, no army can compare to the Eighth Route Army, especially since they are the elites selected from among the Eighth Route Army.
So what Wang Xuexin said just now was to prepare them mentally.
Then on the first day, these team members realized what hardship is...
Wang Xuexin took them to the back mountain two miles away, then raised his head toward a deserted forest and said, "This is your camp!"
Lao Qi was confused when he heard this: "Batalion Commander, but...there is nothing..."
"I know!" Wang Xuexin interrupted Lao Qi: "If we have everything, why do we still need you?"
Mao Duzi interjected: "Batalion Commander, there must be someone who stutters. We came out with nothing!"
"Find a way by yourself!" Wang Xuexin said as he took out a steamed bun from his backpack and started chewing it with the boiling water in the water shell.
The taste of steamed buns is really not good, dry, astringent, hard, almost like unfermented steamed buns.
But it's still better than being hungry with nothing to eat.
So Lao Qi and Mao Duzi understood that this was the first level, survival in the wild.
And this is just the beginning. Wang Xuexin believes that a qualified mountain force can at least survive for a week without food and maintain combat effectiveness.
Therefore, now is the time for them to learn to "rest on the mountain and eat the mountain".
Some of them will, some of them won't.
There are also people whose opinions and experiences are inconsistent.
Only in this extreme environment can they learn this knowledge quickly.
But this seems to be difficult for them.
Mao Duzi divided the team members into four parts and deployed them in four directions.
This is smart because it avoids the problem of repeatedly searching for food: the same area has been searched by one team of people, and may be searched by another team of people, and then another team... This is a waste of time and useless effort.
Now, Cat Calf divides it into four parts and searches for food in four different directions, maximizing the food that can be found for the entire team.
Then Lao Qi further subdivided each group, with ten people in each group moving in different directions, and ensuring that one person in each group could identify wild vegetables and fruits, and one had the ability to hunt.
This surprised Wang Xuexin.
But when I think about it, it feels normal... The Eighth Route Army often hunts and digs wild vegetables when they are hungry, and there are quite a few who know how to survive in the wild.
On the contrary, Wang Xuexin seems to have never been hungry when he came to this world.
Wang Xuexin thought about it and felt that it was not because the Eighth Route Army was not short of food, but because he had made many military exploits. The cooking team always set up small stoves for himself, secretly and overtly. Today he would stuff a steamed bun with a few corn tortillas and tomorrow... Wang Xuexin saw this.
It seemed like an ordinary thing, but I don't know how many soldiers envied it.
Just when Wang Xuexin was thinking wildly, Mao Duzi came back carrying a few mountain rats as thick as fists on a branch. He shouted excitedly: "Batalion Commander, we found a mountain rat nest. We are in for a treat tonight!"
Wang Xuexin was a little helpless. This subject seemed to be difficult for them.