Chapter 86 Lin Xue
"There are more than 300 types of mines, which can be divided into anti-infantry mines for anti-personnel and anti-tank mines for destroying vehicles according to their purpose. Anti-infantry mines can be divided into three categories: explosion, jumping and debris..."
Sitting on the desk, holding a notebook and a pencil in my hands, watching the instructor in a well-equipped military uniform explaining the types of landmines to us, I couldn't help but feel like I was back in my college years.
No, it doesn't look like college years.
Because in college, we wouldn't line up when we entered the classroom; because in college, there were always a few seats in the classroom; because in college, the textbooks we held in our hands were always from Gu Long and Jin Yong...
I can’t help but recall my happy time in college, my youthful recklessness in college, and my classmates who have not been in contact for a long time... I don’t know how they are doing now, maybe they are all married and have children now!
I was almost unable to stand it! I sat in the chair for more than an hour, and the instructor had not yet wanted to get out of class. My butt began to become restless.
We also need to talk about science in class! From an educational perspective, it is difficult for ordinary people to concentrate for an hour in a row, so the classroom is only 45 minutes, right?
"What's going on!" Perhaps it was because of the temper that I had been the leader for several months, and I had the urge to stand up and curse.
But thinking about myself as an ordinary student now, I looked at the others around me, and they were all remembering something in my laptop seriously, even Li Pinghe was the same. I had to turn my gaze back to the notebook that was as white as a virgin in front of me, and my thoughts flew around...
Last night we moved into the students' dormitory as my uncle wishes.
Before, Li Pinghe told me that the Senior Infantry School is the Yaolan who trains the backbone of the army. Everyone in the Infantry School is the best military quality in the army. Some of them are still difficult to deal with...
I know the meaning of "more difficult" in Li Pinghe's words. No matter what era or place, so many people in a country cannot be equal. Especially during this war, when the people of the whole country launched a vigorous movement to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, the people of this senior high school are particularly "popular".
Isn't it? They were in the training period just when they were in war. When they graduated, the Korean War would be almost over. Then they would be sent to the army to be cadres...
Of course, I don't mean that the students in Bu School are like this. In fact, the students in Bu School I have come into contact with are very tenacious in fighting spirit. Even the guy who slept on my upper bunk hopes that American imperialism can fight two more years of war so that he can also have the opportunity to compete with them.
But in such a "popular" generation, there will inevitably be some people with backgrounds and relationships squeezed in. This group of people are the difficult people Li Pinghe said.
But then again, Li Pinghe and I seem to have a background and relationship. The only difference is that we came in reluctantly.
I am not a recruit, not only a recruit, but also a veteran who has fought several bloody battles on the battlefield, so I did not take the difficult people Li Pinghe said to be. But as soon as I walked into the dormitory, I found that I was wrong. The atmosphere was different from when I was with the soldiers.
The dormitory is at the top of a row of low bungalows, with little space, but there are many soldiers inside. There are six beds on the left and six beds on the right, squeezing a small land of dozens of square meters to leave only a middle aisle. However, towels, basins, toothbrushes, etc. are neatly arranged, and the quilt is also stacked with square tofu blocks, making the entire dormitory look very organized.
I couldn't help but complain in my heart. After fighting on the battlefield for so long, we often sleep and don't take off our shoes! It's common for one or two months to wash our faces. We have developed a habit. Now we need it and that, and we will suffer in the future...
The instructor arranged two beds for us, and then briefly introduced our names to our roommates, and left on his own. Looking at me who was stunned, Li Pinghe touched my shoulder and signaled me to place the basin toothbrush on my hand. I smiled bitterly, and then took the things that were unnecessary to me, and made up my mind to not touch them in the future, so I kept them the same.
"Welcome, comrades!" Soon a few hands reached in front of Li Pinghe and me, and introduced themselves: "I am from Shandong, and my name is Chen Gesheng!"
"My name is Zhang Jianjun, from Hubei!"
...
Li Pinghe and I also shook hands with these enthusiastic soldiers one by one and introduced themselves to each other. But four or five seemed very cold and lying on the bed without moving. Some were cutting apples with daggers, some were lying on the bed to read books, and some were showing off their powers like us, with muscles exposed on the bed doing sit-ups on the bed.
Chen Gesheng from Shandong was straightforward and said, "They are city soldiers and look down on us!"
"Um!" After hearing what Chen Gesheng said, I understood that there are also urban soldiers and rural soldiers in the army.
"I'm talking about comrade!" Chen Gesheng said this, and the soldier who was exercising in bed refused. He stopped and said arrogantly: "What does the city soldiers look down on you? What do we mean by survival of the fittest? Do you know? On the battlefield, we are more powerful than our military qualities, so what can we look down on you?"
"How could they know how to survive the fittest? What are you talking about with them?" The soldier holding the book interrupted, and the city soldiers then burst into laughter.
"Tsk!" I smiled disdainfully and said, "The survival of the fittest is not counted when talking in school. The real survival of the fittest is true! Who can survive on the battlefield? Those who are eliminated are guns!"
"It's right!"
"That's right! If it's more powerful, let's go to the battlefield!"
Chen Gesheng and the others also followed suit and started to cheer.
"Hey...you boy!" The warrior with muscles rolled up from the bed, as if he was trying to cause trouble for me.
Li Pinghe and I looked at each other and laughed inwardly that these ignorant boys dared to make ground on Tai Sui's head. They were about to teach them a lesson, but the lights were turned off and blew.
The military academy is not as good as other places. You can do some small movements during rest, but you have to sleep as soon as the lights go out, otherwise the instructor will make us unable to eat and walk away. So the city soldiers had to glar at us fiercely and climb back to the bed with dissatisfaction.
I always wake up and fight when I am sleepy on the position. I climbed into bed but couldn't sleep. Moreover, our volunteer army is used to fighting night wars, and the more we are, the more we are, the more we are. This is the time when we are in spirit, and we can't sleep. I think Li Pinghe is the same, because I hear him turning over from time to time in the dark. I wanted to call him up and chat, but there are so many soldiers in the dormitory that they will clamor for them, and maybe they will be called out by the instructor to run away and stand!
When I can't sleep, my head will start to think randomly. When I remembered the arrogant look of the city soldiers just now, I couldn't help but feel strange. From their tone, it seems that they are better than our country soldiers in terms of military quality! I have been fighting on the battlefield for more than a day or two, and I have brought a lot of soldiers. Why have I never known that urban soldiers can fight more than rural soldiers?
Thinking about it, I quickly understood.
Life in this era is difficult, and whether the country soldiers can eat enough is a problem, so they are all malnourished and pale and thin. The volunteer soldiers fighting on the front line are almost the same. Urban soldiers are much better than rural soldiers in this aspect. Not only are they able to keep up with their nutrition, but many of them are also children of cadres. Speaking of which, the children of cadres in this era are different from the modern second generation of officials. Most of the cadres in this era are old Red Army and descendants of the old revolutionary. They have paid great attention to the cultivation of military qualities of their descendants since childhood. Therefore, it is not surprising that the military qualities of urban soldiers will be better than those of rural soldiers.
However, what is compared on the battlefield is not just marksmanship, stabbing skills, defense, various weapons, etc. What is compared on the battlefield is more about enduring hardship, hunger, endurance, psychological endurance, etc. Especially in the Korean battlefield, where the combat environment is very harsh, it is a test of human nature. Compared with the hardships on the Korean battlefield, the Red Army crossed the grassland, climbed snow-capped mountains, and the Long March were not worth mentioning at all.
In daily life, rural soldiers regard hardship as food, and hunger is a common thing. After living like this for a long time, they will naturally have endurance and psychological endurance. Therefore, the country soldiers who can stand up on the battlefield are often the country soldiers.
But all of these are not available to urban soldiers. Although they have excellent military qualities and seem to be stronger than rural soldiers on the surface, they are in the rear and they can't hold on for a few days on the battlefield.
Urban soldiers are like small flowers cultivated in a greenhouse. They look good on the surface but cannot withstand the wind and rain. Country soldiers are just green pine trees that look inconspicuous but can stand the test of the battlefield.
I took out my pocket watch and looked at it. Two hours later, but I still couldn't sleep.
Forget it, just think that this bed is a lurking position! I just think that it is here to practice lurking battles. However, this bed is much more comfortable than in the cold snow, and I don’t know when I fell asleep.
The next morning, I was woken up by Li Pinghe, and hurriedly put on my leggings and ran out the door.
No doubt, I was the last one to run to the queue, and there were problems everywhere in Fengji buckles, military caps, and belts. I was immediately scolded by the instructor: "What's wrong! Did you join the army on the first day or what happened?"
Damn! I was the first day I joined the army? Isn’t the volunteers not gait? It would be great if the volunteers could wear a cotton coat that was not patched or covered with mud and blood on the battlefield, but could they wear it so neatly?
By the way, in order not to make it special, the old man did not tell these teachers about my identity, so these teachers were not polite to me at all. I think if it weren't for them knowing that I was brought by Li Pinghe, it wouldn't have been a scolding.
Then there was five kilometers of off-road... This sounded a bit scary, because I was so tired that I ran a thousand meters in college. Fortunately, my body is really strong now and I am not behind the team at all. However, compared to the sports city soldier last night, it was a little worse. That guy kept running in front of the team, and from time to time he came back and smiled at me...
Fuck! Looking at his arrogant look, Wuming couldn't help but get angry. If you ate fried noodles half hungry and half full on the Korean battlefield for more than a year and squatted in the tunnel for a year, how many steps you can run!
"Cui Wei!" A loud shout woke me up from my memories. The teacher asked me seriously: "Cui Wei, why is there nothing on your laptop?"
"Report to the teacher!" I stood up and looked at a big landmine on the blackboard. I thought the teacher was explaining the structure of the landmine. Then I looked at my blank notebook and stood up and replied: "Report to the teacher, the landmine is buried in the soil, so I can't see it!"
With a coaxing sound, the whole class laughed out loud, even Li Pinghe was no exception. Although the teacher was still serious, I knew from his trembling lips that he was also enduring it.
As a result, I was conceivable. That day, I was punished to stand outside for seven hours, and I didn’t even eat lunch until I got the order to disband at dinner.
That cowardly! His hands and feet are stiff.
What’s even more annoying is that Li Pinghe held me and laughed: “I said Captain Cui, can’t you be more serious? This is a military academy. It’s still a landmine buried in the soil…”
"What's wrong with the military academy?" I replied angrily: "My personality is like this. Can the military academy change people's personality?"
"If you don't change, you will suffer from your suffering in the future!" Li Pinghe may still be thinking about my answer in the morning, so don't laugh until he keeps laughing.
"I, I'll go find the old man!" I shook Li Pinghe's hand, holding me, and walked towards the old soldier's residence. While walking, I said dissatisfied: "I am also a regiment commander, and my subordinates still have a lot of people in charge. Why bother to be a soldier here and be angry with a coward."
"Captain, Captain..." I walked in front, and Li Pinghe rushed all the way behind.
But I ignored him at all, thinking that I was just learning to clear mines? There is also a mine-removal king in my group! I went back to find Wang Xianru to teach me, so there was no need to take notes and stand in line.
After a while, I arrived at the old soldier's residence. The two sentry guarding at the door recognized me and saluted me without stopping me. I ran to the door and reached out to take a photo...
"Here..."
Unexpectedly, there was a pleasant female voice coming from the door. Then the wooden door opened with a creaking sound, and a heroic female soldier stood in front of me. She was neither tall nor short, wearing a set of grass-colored military cultivation, a brown belt tied around her slender waist, and a round military cap without ridges on her head. The red five-pointed star shone in the middle, and her short black hair tied into two small braids under the military cap. Her big black eyes were looking at me in confusion at this time.
"Comrade, who are you looking for?" She looked at me up and down, then turned her eyes to the guards by the door, as if wondering why the guards would let an ordinary student like me disturb the old soldier.
"I'll look for..." I was stunned at this time. I didn't know what the old soldier was named.
"Snow Sister!" At this time, Li Pinghe, who was behind, followed and couldn't help but shouted excitedly: "When did you come back? Why don't you tell me!"
"Brother Ping! Why are you here? I just came back!" The female soldier shouted excitedly when she saw Li Pinghe: "You, haven't you returned to the army? Why are you back... still wearing the students' clothes?"
When she smiled, she was like a blooming flower, her voice was as crisp and pleasant as a silver bell.
"Look at me!" Li Pinghe smiled and said, "I forgot that you didn't know I was at home!"
"Oh! This is the Captain Cui who I mentioned to you!" After reacting, Li Pinghe immediately introduced to me: "This is my uncle's daughter, Lin Xue, she is from the same class as us! She has been out for missions these days, so she didn't talk to you!"
"You, you are Captain Cui..." Lin Xue stared at me incredibly with her big eyes: "I thought, I thought..."
"You thought I was a bad old man, right?" I couldn't help but joke: "If we meet again in 20 or 30 years, you'll guess it right!"
With a coaxing sound, Li Pinghe and Lin Xue couldn't help laughing, and even the guard next to him showed a smile on his face.
"Xue'er, is your father here?" After a while of laughter, Li Pinghe asked carefully.
"Yes! But I'm sleeping!" Lin Xue replied: "I'm back and want to see him, but Xiao Chen said that he had just fallen asleep. It is said that he didn't sleep well last night. Are you having trouble asking him for it?"
Li Pinghe didn't answer and turned his eyes directly to me.
"Well, it's okay!" I couldn't help but blushed and said, "I also want to come and see him. Since he has fallen asleep, I'll come back another day!"
Just kidding, in front of women, especially in front of such a beautiful woman, he said that he could not stand the life of a military academy, so he couldn't stand the face of a man, right?
"Well, it's okay!" Li Pinghe nodded with satisfaction and explained to Lin Xue, who was full of confusion: "That's right. Because of the needs of the battlefield, my uncle asked me and Captain Cui to stay in the military academy to learn to demine mines, so we became students again! And I also specially arranged to be in the same class as you!"
"Then we are not classmates anymore!" Lin Xue couldn't help but screamed excitedly, and there were two blushings on her fair face.
Chapter completed!