I've been a big admirer of the military since I was a child.

Looking forward to the barracks life in my bones!

There were no troop camps nearby, but there were often warships sheltering from the sea outside the village, because of the natural shelter between us and Changbai Island opposite.

Sometimes the warships were so close that the chimneys, cannons, and even the movements of the sailors were clearly visible.

The ship will drop the boat and go to Maozhi Village for replenishment.

Maozhi is a large fishing village, with a relatively concentrated population, a market, and a supply society, like a small market town.

"The Navy is well fed!" Everybody is so legendary.

As a result, the young mind is full of yearning for the ships and sailors in front of them, and always feels that they are out of reach.

The army wearing green uniforms is more visible.

At that time, several times a year, live artillery drills were held on the sea outside the village.

During each live-fire exercise, a large number of officers and soldiers would gather near the village, and military vehicles would come and go on the way to Maozhi Primary School.

The older children will chase after them and climb into the car from behind to take a little ride.

Because the road in Haitang is a soft dirt road, leaving ruts, uneven, driving very slowly, and when you arrive at Maozhi Village, the car will deliberately stop or slow down, and nothing has happened.

Brother Bing who drove the car is very good!

But I don't dare, I think there are dangerous things that can't be done.

When we go to and from school, we like to hang around these soldiers, and the soldiers will joke with us, asking us, "Do you want to be a soldier?" Something like that, it's quite amiable.

Slowly, we all recognized that those who wore four pockets were officials, and only two pockets were soldiers.

Some of them are measuring with instruments, and some are wearing headphones to send reports, which are very curious to us.

Sometimes I don't want to go away when I meet them for dinner.

Seeing that they all had slices of meat in their dishes, I thought to myself:

"It's good to be a soldier, you usually have meat to eat!"

I think that at that time, the countryside would only buy meat during the New Year's holiday.

The cannon is fired when the tide is high, to make sure that there is no one on the sea.

Insert a few bamboos near the sea in advance and tie a few pine branches.

All pedestrians were stopped in safe positions.

The cannon came from a long distance, said to be a mountain cannon.

We listened to the whistling of the cannon overhead, and then we saw a stream of water rise around the "target", followed by a loud bang.

Sometimes artillery is fired at night, and most of the night is filled with the whistling of shells and explosions.

At that time, I was really worried about whether the shells would fall into the village, and I kept listening to the whistling sounds, waiting for the explosion to pass, and I was relieved, and I didn't dare to sleep.

According to the voices, the adults estimated that they would go to the beach after the drill was over. When the tide recedes, go and pull up the unbroken bamboo, the lamp hanging on it is made of a special battery, which can be lit for a long time, which is very rare for the villagers who have not yet turned on the electric light.