Zang Hao stood in front of the guardrail and looked at the old house below with envy looking at the brothers fighting, waved at him and shouted: "Old house, go back, don't send it, go back and live a good life." I miss my buddy, remember to write a letter to my buddy, you know the address, just write our troop number. At such a distance, how could the old house hear it, he waved at everyone with tears in his eyes.

This farewell, I may never see you again for the rest of my life, goodbye, my brothers.

Standing next to the old house was the pregnant Italian wife, who snuggled up to the old house and said, "Fang, do you really want to go with them?" Lao Fang waved his hand vigorously to Zang Hao, and then said to his wife with tears in his eyes: "They are my brothers, but I still have four brothers buried here, and someone must go to their graves every year to burn some paper." He is talking about the four comrades-in-arms who died in Italy, the machine gunner Lao Huang, the money-greedy ghost Lao Shu, the big-eyed Li Ercang, and the recruit bomber He Shouxin, and the bodies of these four people are buried in Italy. Zang Hao personally took the graves dug for them by his brothers in his class, and buried them in the cemetery of the Chinese soldiers who died in the war, waiting for someone to commemorate them later.

Zang Hao saw that the recruits Wang Fugui and Chen Zheng were a little shy and cramped to the side, so he smiled and said, "What, I'm not used to being so crazy, right?" These people are like psychopaths. ”

Wang Fugui had already come out of the shadow of the sacrifice of his comrade-in-arms and fellow countryman He Shouxin, and said with a smile: "Squad leader, will we still fight after we return to China?" ”

Zang Hao took a puff of cigarette and said, "Who knows, but I guess there will probably be a war." As for who to fight, I don't know, maybe it's Little Japan, maybe it's the Beiyang Army, maybe it's the Russians. ”

"Will you go to war with Little Japan?" Chen Zheng immediately asked with a glare.

Zang Hao took a puff of his cigarette and asked, "What?" Have a grudge against Little Japan? ”

"Yes." Chen Zheng gritted his teeth and said.

Zang Hao looked at him carefully, observed Wang Fugui, and said with a smile: "You are different from Wang Fugui." ”

"How?"

"You've killed people." Zang Hao's eyes shone brightly.

Chen Zheng smiled and said, "Can't you be a soldier if you have killed someone?" ”

Zang Hao said: "When you return to China, you'd better explain your past." Otherwise there is trouble. ”

"Thank you, squad leader." Chen Zhengdao.

Zang Hao patted him on the shoulder and said, "Boy, I'm optimistic about you, if you're okay." In the future, this squad leader will definitely be yours. ”

Chen Zheng immediately said: "The squad leader praised it. ”

Zang Hao smiled slightly and looked at him with some meaning.

The steamer's whistle sounded, and a loud "whine" sound startled everyone. The soldiers ran to the side of the deck and shouted goodbye to the unknown and the unknown to say goodbye friends, goodbye to Europe, goodbye to Italy.

The returning ships departed from Venice, and a few days later the fleet arrived again in Alexandria, British Egypt, but in the middle of the last clash between Chinese and British soldiers, the fleet was replenished and resupplied through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea, and then again in French Djibouti. The Governor of Djibouti allowed the Chinese soldiers to disembark and rest, but only 2,000 places were allowed, and they were not allowed to disembark with weapons.

The last time Zang Hao took their hammer squad off the boat and caused a bar brawl between Chinese and British soldiers, the memory is still fresh, and this time the military officer said that he would not allow Zang Hao and their squad to leave. The number of places they photographed was given to the second or third class, and in order to show fairness, the platoon leader Han Xu said that the two squad leaders would draw lots. The second squad leader Xu Laofu and the third squad leader Huang Fang spat and rolled up their sleeves, and they didn't understand and thought that these two people were fighting, but they were trying to cheer them up.

Zang Hao and the others watched sourly from the side. Sneered.

Diao Delong said: "What does it mean to go out in Africa, there are no women on the street." "Djibouti is an Islamic country, and there are very few women on the streets, and it is rare for Diao Delong to inquire so clearly.

Zang Hao squeezed his eyebrows and said, "No woman? Isn't there a man? People can do anything when they are in a hurry. ”

Diao Delong said: "Yes, these two classes are in a hurry, they must be hungry." ”

Long Ergou was surprised: "Lao Diao." You can even say the idiom of hunger and food, and your knowledge has increased a lot. ”

"Look, then." Diao Delong said proudly, "Our class is the Iron Hammer class, and the first one in the whole division to obtain this title must not make progress, and we must not lose the glory of our class." ”

Zang Hao stretched out his thumb and said: "Okay, yes, Lao Diao, and this consciousness, it is worthy of our iron hammer class, and you deserve to be the deputy squad leader." "The original deputy squad leader Lao Huang has been vacant since the sacrifice, and Zang Hao is likely to be promoted to be the platoon leader when he returns to China, so Zang Hao chose two people to be the deputy squad leader, namely Diao Delong and Xiao Fuquan as alternates, and later thought that Diao Delong was suitable, so he temporarily served as the deputy squad leader.

Xu Lao glanced at him with contempt, and said to Han Xu, the platoon commander who was writing a note on the side: "What's the matter, I'm not honest, I won't let your class get off the boat all the way." Platoon commander, you look at their jealousy that they can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour, and they blow their beards and stare at them. Besides, Tibetan mastiff, look at your image again, you haven't shaved for a few days? How many days? Won't you embarrass the *** of us when you go out? ”

Huang Fang said: "Yes, we don't dare to be ashamed, we can't learn from them, look at other people's embarrassment, just throw an Italian uncle." Actually, Tibetan mastiff, the two of us are here to help you, in case you say that you get off the boat, get an African indigenous black girl, and stay in some savage tribe to be an uncle. Others in your class are easy to say, I'm afraid of you, it's hard for you to make mistakes. ”

"Fuck your uncle, you are the savage uncle." Zang Hao scolded.

Everyone laughed, Han Xu wrote a note for the two of them to look at, crumpled it into a ball, put it in his hand and shook it, and said, "Okay, don't make trouble, let's draw lots." Also, that Zang Hao, get out of the way, don't look at other people's eyes, okay? Zang Hao said sourly that what is interesting is Da Lao Hei standing aside, Xu Laofu and Huang Fang drew lots, and finally Huang Fang won the lot, he said proudly: "No way, God will help us, what, the first squad leader, the second squad leader, I took the third class out, see if there is anything good, good girl, come back and let the brothers of our class tell you about it." ”

"Get out of the calf!" Zang Hao scolded in an unhappy mood, Xu Laofu raised his middle finger at him, and Huang Fang was triumphant and took his ten brothers off the boat. Huang Fang's third class suffered the smallest losses, only one died in battle, and a recruit from a Chinese worker was added, but this person is not very bold and likes to take advantage of small advantages, and everyone doesn't like it very much.

Huang Fang's Ban 11 got off the boat and wandered around the streets, bought some local specialties, and saw that the locals were selling Arabic scimitars and thought it was good, so they wanted to buy them. However, because of the language barrier, there was a misunderstanding between the two sides, and the Djibouti locals are in a hurry, and when they are enthusiastic, they are as enthusiastic as fire, and when they quarrel, they go up and fight. Because of the misunderstanding, the more Huang Fang and the others explained, the more they didn't understand, and as a result, the two sides really fought. The Chinese recruits were frightened, and they didn't dare to stretch out their hands when they stood aside and watched their comrades and people fight. Ten of them from the Huang side, hundreds of people from the local area, naturally they couldn't beat them, but the Huang Fang knew how to fight as a team, and they didn't suffer a loss when they fought with the local people, and they knocked down more than 20 people, and in the end they were beaten up by others.

At this time, the French police in Djibouti belatedly dispersed the people who were making trouble and fighting, and several people on the Huang side protected the important parts without serious injuries, most of them were hard injuries or fractures, but the whole class except for the Chinese recruits all had blue noses and swollen faces.

After the French police sent them back, Huo Bin, the commander of the 35th regiment, was furious, and his boss, brigade commander Wu Jiangcheng, also heard the news of the brawl and asked Huo Bin to report the incident to him immediately.

The recruit was the only one who was not injured, as he quickly changed into the clothes of the locals and escaped, but returned to the army and was ostracized. He was very dissatisfied, and complained to other Chinese workers, Chen Zheng said: "We are comrades-in-arms, we are brothers, how can you run at this time?" If you ran away at this time and didn't help your comrades, will you dare to be with you in the future? You're still complaining, and I want to beat you up when I hear it. ”

A day later, the fleet departed, and less than an hour after the fleet had left the port of Djibouti, the commander's palace ordered the matter to be dealt with strictly, and the soldiers who abandoned their comrades must be severely punished. The whole army was informed at sea, and immediately arrested, and the result of the disposition was later announced: the recruit was executed on charges of abandoning his comrades, failing to provide assistance, and creating discord in the army. A jury of twenty-one temporary soldiers, composed of veterans of each battalion, voted on whether to impose the death penalty and ultimately voted thirteen in favor and eight against, and passed the decision to sentence the recruit to death.

In the presence of all the soldiers, the recruit was shot on deck and buried at sea.

The execution of a recruit who abandoned his comrades shocked all the recruits so much that they didn't even know that the army still had this rule, and even if there was, who would follow it. But he didn't want this army to comply, and he abandoned his comrades and said that he would kill them, and he was so strict that he conscientiously abided by the military rules. Then the troublesome squad leader Huang Fang was removed, because of the poor leadership of the troops, the deputy squad leader Chu Hui served as the squad leader, Huang Fang was transferred to the first squad as the deputy squad leader after the dismissal, the first squad leader Zang Hao officially served as the first platoon leader, and the former deputy squad leader Diao Delong served as the squad leader.

However, the yellow side did not complain, he was also responsible for this matter, and the contradiction caused by it was that they still had a little Italian lira in their hands, and when they bought it, the locals only needed francs, and the two parties quarreled over the exchange rate, which was actually nothing, but they didn't expect it to end up in a brawl.

This incident gave a great deterrent to the two recruits in the first class, Chen Zheng and Wang Fugui, especially Wang Fugui, who was timid, and he didn't expect to be shot if he didn't fight in the army, and he was even more at a loss. However, Huang Fang later found Chen Zheng and said, "I heard that you know Xiao Li who was shot? Why is he so timid, how many times have I told him, he still doesn't dare to do anything with anyone. Alas, blame me too. ”rs