On the first day of recruit training, Mr. Wei stood on the school field with his head held high, feeling proud to be a soldier of Fanjiazhuang.
Standing with him were six other recruits. The recruits had just reported and were still very new to everything in Fanjiazhuang. They all stood upright when they stood in line.
Boss Wei is very glad that he can be selected as a recruit in Fanjiazhuang. Everything here is different from the outside. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a paradise:
As soon as it was reported yesterday, he took a very comfortable hot bath with soap in the bathroom of the barracks. This was the first time for Mr. Wei to take a bath with soap. His body was extremely clean, with no trace of sweat stains.
None of them stayed. Then the squad leader took Mr. Wei to get a complete set of equipment such as a belt, water bottle, leggings, etc. Then a tailor came to buy a large number of clothes for Mr. Wei, saying that he would make a full set of military uniforms for Mr. Wei, including brand new spring clothes.
and summer clothes. Mr. Wei has not made a new set of clothes for the Chinese New Year in these years. Now the tailor made six new sets of clothes for him at once, which made him very happy.
The tailor said that there are still winter clothes in winter.
What pleased Boss Wei the most was the food in Fanjiazhuang. Yesterday, he and six recruits followed the squad leader Lei San into the cafeteria. They really ate three taels of pork belly, vegetables, and rice. Even if it was a New Year at home,
Boss Wei has never had such a good time! As he ate the meat from Fanjiazhuang, Boss Wei became more and more proud and vowed to perform well and become an officer in Fanjiazhuang.
Squad leader Lei San doesn't talk much, but he is a good talker. Boss Wei and squad leader Lei San have inquired. As long as they perform well in training, become a first-class soldier, and perform stably without making mistakes on the battlefield, they can become squad leader in one or two years. Being a squad leader is enough.
I have four taels of silver a month, but these days a roast chicken only costs a little more than one cent. If you become a squad leader, you can eat chicken every day.
However, what Boss Wei is most concerned about is that after becoming an officer, he can become an interviewer for recruiting soldiers. Squad leader Lei San said that the squad leader does not have the power to interview recruits, but if he goes up one level to become a platoon leader, he can interview recruits. Wei
The boss decided to work hard for two or three years to become a platoon leader. At that time, Boss Wei could recruit the young people from the Wei family to Fanjiazhuang, so that they could share the wealth and wealth with him.
Therefore, Boss Wei is determined to perform well on the training ground and strive to become an officer as soon as possible.
But the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
The training intensity of Fanjiazhuang soldiers is very high. Compared with the Ming Dynasty soldiers who only trained once every few days, Fanjiazhuang soldiers trained every day. They practiced formation every day, standing for several hours. They practiced physical fitness every two days, and they practiced pulling.
That's thirty miles. And after the recruits join the army for a month and pass the political examination, they start training every day. In total, they need to train for at least six hours a day, which is very hard. That is to say, the soldiers in Fanjiazhuang are treated so well that they can endure such hard work every day.
train.
Although Boss Wei is considered a smart person in Weijiaweizi, his performance on the training ground in Fanjiazhuang is not good.
Don't say anything else, just turn left and turn right, Boss Wei can never tell the difference between left and right. This thing is simply harder than reading and literacy, and he has no clue at all. After making mistakes several times, Boss Wei can't tell the difference between turning left and right.
I was nervous about giving instructions and made more mistakes. Every time the squad leader yelled to turn left, Boss Wei turned right and faced other comrades in the class who turned left, which was very embarrassing.
Training must be graded, and even small things like turning left or right are the basis for scoring. The soldier with the highest score in each squad is a first-class soldier. After doing it a few more times, a first-class soldier can be promoted to squad leader. But a mistake like Boss Wei's
No matter how wrong a soldier is, he will have nothing to do with being a private, squad leader or anything like that.
This is undoubtedly bad news for Mr. Wei, who wants to be an officer.
What makes Boss Wei even more embarrassed is that since he kept making wrong turns, squad leader Lei San didn't bother to talk to him on weekdays. He didn't know where to find a thick hemp rope. Whenever he made a mistake, Lei San would take it.
He came up with a hemp rope and whipped himself. Lei San seemed to be angry with him, and he would curse a few times every time he whipped himself.
"Wrong turn again! You killer!"
"You still made the wrong turn! You were the only one who made the wrong turn!"
"I can't teach you how to control me?"
Sometimes Lei San would get angry and kick Boss Wei a few times.
For a month, every time Lei San whipped Boss Wei, the whole class of soldiers laughed. For Boss Wei, who prided himself on being smart and thought he was suitable to be an officer, although Lei San's whipping and kicking were not very painful, they were still painful.
This was a huge humiliation, as if reality was laughing at his dream of being an officer.
If you never learn to distinguish between left and right, let alone an officer, you may not be able to serve as a soldier. Then how can you see the Wei family grow smaller? How can you help them enter Fanjiazhuang?
Boss Wei is very irritable. Every day when he eats and sleeps, he uses his left and right hands separately, chanting to himself: "Left! Right! Left! Right!" He wants to master the tricks of left and right quickly. Probably because he is focusing on distinguishing left and right, Boss Wei mostly
My target shooting performance over the past few months has not been ideal either.
Others can hit the target six times out of ten after practicing for half a month, but Mr. Wei can only hit the target five times out of ten.
Boss Wei became more and more angry. He began to feel that the fault was with monitor Lei San. It was monitor Lei San who beat him with a hemp rope and humiliated him, which made him so nervous every day and unable to do anything well.
After joining the army for a month and a half, Boss Wei still couldn't tell the difference between left and right. And the conflict between him and squad leader Lei San finally broke out.
On this day, Boss Wei took the wrong turn again. Amidst the laughter of the whole class of soldiers, Lei San walked up to Boss Wei again and wanted to beat Boss Wei with a hemp rope.
Mr. Wei was so angry that his face turned red. He rushed up quickly, grabbed the hemp rope from the hands of the squad leader who didn't react, threw the hemp rope to the ground, and shouted loudly: "You are the one who has been using this thing all day long.
Me! I can’t tell the difference between right and left until now!”
Boss Wei's behavior shocked six soldiers in a squad. Disobeying a superior is a violation that requires heavy penalties in Fanjiazhuang's military regulations. If the officer pursues the case, it won't be a matter of being slapped with a hemp rope.
Lei San looked at the hemp rope on the ground, feeling that his dignity as the squad leader had been challenged, and his face gradually turned red.
Boss Wei looked at Lei San's face, became a little scared, and said loudly: "I want to be an officer! You've been going left, right, left, right all day long, and you've knocked me out!"
Lei San looked at Boss Wei and whispered: "Pick it up."
Boss Wei was stunned and said, "What to choose?"
"Pick up the twine!"
Boss Wei looked at Lei San's face, then at the soldiers in his class, and became a little panicked. Disobeying a superior is a serious crime, and being beaten dozens of times is a minor offense. He quickly picked up the hemp rope and stuffed it
In the hands of squad leader Lei San.
Lei San didn't even look at Boss Wei, and said in a low voice: "This is the first time, so I won't report it to the superiors. You go run around the school field by yourself, twenty laps."
Boss Wei knew he was in trouble, lowered his head, and without saying a word, ran out of the queue to the school field, and obediently started running laps. There are three hundred steps in one circle of the school field, and twenty laps is eighteen miles.
Boss Wei was out of breath after running, and finally completed twenty laps including walking and running. He lowered his head and panted for a long time on the side of the school field, and then returned to his class with a pale face.
Boss Wei was a generous man, and the other six soldiers liked him. Seeing Boss Wei in such misery, the other six soldiers were also a little moved. One soldier raised his hand and said loudly: "Report!"
Lei San said: "Say!"
"I suggest that Mr. Wei tie a strip of cloth on his right hand so that he can know which hand is right!"
Lei San thought for a while and said, "Okay, tie me up for a month. If I can't tell the right and left after a month, I'll stop supplying meat and vegetables!"
