Chapter 70: Changing of the Guard and Surveillance
"It's time for the changing of the guard. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 With the sound of the hillside below, about a class of people crept up quietly, without causing a single noise.
After choosing his observation position and putting away his rifle and other surveillance equipment, an officer came to the company commander and persuaded him, "Company commander, you should also go down and take a rest, we will keep an eye on it here, and there will be no problems." ”
The company commander shook his head, "No, I'm still holding on, I always feel a little wrong today, you and the third squad hurry up and hand over and enter the monitoring position." These boys are all cold, hurry up and let them rest. ”
"Okay." The officer knew the temper of his company commander, so he no longer persuaded him, and slowly completed the handover procedures with the squad leader of the third squad.
"Company commander, then we'll go down first."
When the fourth squad entered the monitoring position, the corporal tightened the camouflage suit on his body just now, and slowly retreated from the hill with the other soldiers of the third squad, preparing to return to the camp in the leeward position.
When they got down to the hillside, the soldiers on night duty in the camp hurriedly brought hot tea and told everyone to go to the cold first.
Although it is the end of the autumn tiger season, it is still very hot in the plain city, but the mountains are indeed a completely different scene, the night in the deep mountains, lost the warmth of the sun, under the influence of the trade winds, it looks extraordinarily cold.
A cool breeze crept through the neck and into the clothes, as if it were in cold water.
"Come, come, come, old guys, hurry up and take off that camouflage suit and put on a military coat. You're really unlucky, just in time for the time to be on duty before and after the sun goes down.
You must know that this period of time is the time period with the largest temperature difference in the mountains, when it is hot, it can heat people to death, and when it is cold, it can freeze people to death.
It's so hard for you. There is a hot meal in the cooking class, do you want to have some? ”
The chattering corporal hurriedly said, "That's a good feeling, if you have anything to eat, hurry up and give us no one to get a serving." ”
However, while changing his clothes, some veteran Youzi joked a little jokingly, "Chef Hao, don't make a bunch of heated military rations and think it's your cooking." ”
Chef Hao lifted the lid on the top of the concealed marching stove, and filled the lunch box for everyone, "How can it be, now that the fight has not officially started, how can you tell everyone to eat military rations, that thing is too much to digest."
During the day, the guard post in the rear caught dozens of hares with bows and arrows, just in time for everyone to fight for their teeth.
If you are willing to wait a little longer, there are still noodles to eat, but fortunately the enemy is slow, and we have time to cook, and when we leave, we will bring some flour with us, which will come in handy. ”
"Thank you, Chef Hao."
"Chef Hao, you are such a good person."
In the praise of the soldiers, Chef Hao's smiling eyes narrowed.
Corporal Talker picked up a piece of braised rabbit meat with chopsticks and sighed, "The hares are really flooded now, when I was training in China, I could catch rabbits every day, and I could catch so many hares when I got here." I've heard of some cases where a farmer's field has been spoiled by hares. ”
Chef Hao said while ordering noodles, "There is no way, the kingdom is now vast and sparsely populated, and many places have not been developed, plus in the past, when there was war and famine, those larger animals were eaten up by the refugees, and the rabbits had no natural enemies, so it would naturally be overflowing."
However, various measures have been formulated to curb the proliferation of hares, and with the arrival of a large number of immigrants every year, I am afraid that our hares will not be able to eat for a few years. ”
"Yes, Chef Hao is right, as long as the population reaches a certain number, this hare will not be able to make any waves, no matter how powerful it is, it is just a meal on our plate."
When everyone was chatting quietly and talking about the mountains, a recruit provoked the topic of the time he was on duty just now.
"Squad leader, you just said that the matchmaker stepped through the threshold of your family, is it true? Are the soldiers of our kingdom really so popular? When I was in the Ming Kingdom, I was a military household, and as the second eldest in the family, that guy never dared to think that he could marry a daughter-in-law. ”
As soon as they heard this, the recruits around them all pricked up their ears one by one. A recruit said, "Yes, squad leader, the military household of the Ming Kingdom, only the eldest in the family can change relatives with other military households, and the youngest son will be a bachelor for the rest of his life." Our kingdom, can we really marry a daughter-in-law? ”
When the talkative corporal heard that he was actually questioned by the recruits, he immediately said, "Of course it's true." I can't lie to you.
If you don't believe it, you wait, wait until you have completed the initial service period of two years, and you have returned home with family leave, and you will know if it is true or false. ”
A non-commissioned officer next to the chatter corporal put down the hot water in his hand and teased the recruits, "You boys, don't be picky when it's time for family leave." ”
"Huh? I'm a private, can someone really come to the door to propose? ”
"Hey, you kid, you don't know how much you are worth, you are now a first-year soldier, you have just completed three months of recruit training, and you have been awarded the rank of private, so your military salary is two silver dollars per month, which is a full amount of one or two snowflakes of silver.
When you have been a private for a year and have not violated military law, you will be promoted to a private class and receive a monthly salary of 3 yuan.
If you can successfully pass the assessment and become a non-commissioned officer after completing this period of military service, your monthly salary will be directly doubled to 6 yuan.
These are just the most basic monthly salaries, you are now selected into the kingdom field troops, once you go out to perform combat missions, there are various subsidies, large and small, add up, the subsidies you get every month can be almost the same as your monthly salary. ”
The recruit, who was being dragged to settle accounts, said with some surprise, "This, so much? ”
The chatter corporal was surprised: "You kid don't know? ”
With a golden light in his eyes, the recruit said, "The military pay is directly to our bank account, and we have been patronizing the training before, and we are trained like a dead dog every day, and I really don't care about this matter." ”
An old sergeant patted him on the shoulder, "Everyone came here like this, you recruits are in a good time, I think back then, when I followed the king to fight the world, where was there a military salary, and I could eat enough, it was far more than all the soldiers and horses under the command of other generals at that time." ”
"Old squad leader, are you still the old man who followed the king to fight the world? How is that still a non-commissioned officer? ”
"Why else, I really can't read books, I can't recognize words, in our army, if you don't know how to read, you can't be promoted to officer. However," the old sergeant patted his armband and continued, "But, boy, you can see clearly, I am not a non-commissioned officer, this is a platoon-level non-commissioned officer chief, and Lao Tzu enjoys the treatment of a platoon commander." The 15 yuan a month for military salary. ”
The recruit nodded as if he didn't understand, and then said with some doubts, "But, they all call you the old squad leader, don't you enjoy the treatment of a platoon leader?" ”
The chattering corporal grabbed the recruit's shoulder, "You kid, when you trained, let those people who were training be stupid, right?" The old squad leader is just our honorific title for the veteran who brought us before, not that the other party is really a squad leader. Do you understand? ”
"Understood."