Seeing that the sergeant major was about to speak, Shen Rusong immediately sat upright with his hands flat on his knees, as did the other cadets. Most of the citizens of the Alliance have been instilled and trained with a strong collective consciousness since they were children. After three years of military school service, they have been trained to be soldiers who obey orders and obey their superiors.
The sergeant major shouted several times, "Everyone, please feel free." The cadets rolled their eyes and relaxed a little, but they still looked tense.
"I said..." The sergeant major casually took out a bench and sat down, half-jokingly: "The military academy is very strict now, and we usually call the commander, right?"
This silly boy blurted out: "Report to the chief! Yes!"
Everyone was stunned for a while, and everyone's expressions became brighter. The sergeant major couldn't help but laugh and said: "Come on, Xu Guofeng is the old man. You can call me 'Sergeant Major' or 'Old Xu'. I will be the same for the next five or six years." Brothers in the same army become familiar with each other, and the sooner they become familiar with the work, the better.”
It happened that evening training was over, and people from other squads came in one after another in the canteen. The cadets simply introduced themselves in front of everyone.
Shen Rusong was assigned to the 1st Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Yanqi Regiment and became the 2nd Squad Leader of the 1st Platoon. Naturally, he paid special attention to the 1st and 3rd Squadron Leaders of his platoon. The 1st squad leader is called Zhao Haiqiang, with dark skin and bright eyes. He is also a cadet student, but he does not come from the First Sergeant Academy of the Engineer Corps where Shen Rusong is located, but from the Second Academy.
The Renaissance Army has one million personnel and has established dozens of military academies to provide the army with talents with different professional needs. From the Tianhai Military University, which trains elite staff officers, to the Tri-Services Academy, which trains junior officers, pilots, and sailors, to the non-commissioned officer academy. There are too many to count.
3. The squad leader is a girl, Xinjie. She doesn't have ear-length hair like other female soldiers, but has the exact same haircut as the male soldiers.
Xin Jie seemed to be aware of Shen Rusong's gaze, and when she glanced at him, her indifference made her breath stagnate. She introduced herself with a simple sentence: "Xin Jie." Without any unnecessary body movements. .
This is a military camp, not a blind date meeting. Shen Rusong will definitely not talk about his hobbies. Although he is not as simple as Xin Jie, the 3rd squad leader, he only talked about his position and the school he graduated from, trying to fool everyone. It's just familiarity. After all, there is no surprise in the same company. He really knows how to get along with Sergeant Major Xu for five or six years.
According to convention, squad leaders should be veterans with service experience. Zhao Haiqiang, who came over and whispered, said that Xinjie was a veteran who had served for one year. She was not a cadet, but a combat soldier.
"Being the squad leader in just one year? It's a little early," Shen Rusong said in surprise. Generally speaking, only soldiers with outstanding performance in their second year of service are eligible to be selected as squad leaders. This does not mean that they cannot be selected in the first year, but without professional training such as non-commissioned officers, it is difficult to lead the soldiers under their command, let alone in combat. Engineers have a large squad of 13 people, which is more difficult to manage than an ordinary infantry team of 9 people.
"She was the only one left in Class 3 during the Fenglin Battle last year," Zhao Haiqiang said in a low voice.
Shen Rusong looked at Xin Jie with a different look. No wonder her eyes were so indifferent. She had been crawling in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood for several months, and her comrades around her were killed one after another.
She was the only one left in the class, how could she not be the monitor?
Shen Rusong was horrified to realize that in the entire 1st company and nine squads, there were only two squad leaders from the previous year! The rest are either new cadets or veterans who were promoted and recognized later!
The entire company is empty!
Shen Rusong was not the only one to figure this out. The cadets had heard about the heavy casualties suffered by the Yanqi Regiment last year. They thought it didn't matter if it didn't happen to them. But now when they got to the army, the scene of the old man dying and the new man taking over was really happening. It's on me. How can I not be silent when I'm new here?
Seeing that the atmosphere was low, Xu Guofeng stood up. The sergeant major's face was as furrowed as the bark of an old pine tree in a forest of frost and snow. He clasped his hands behind his back and looked at these young people with young faces and beards, without even a rank insignia. The descendants of the professor said:
"Lao Xu has been a soldier for fourteen years, and has also led a soldier for fourteen years. If we are talking about seniority, the regiment leader and I are soldiers of the same age. How many times do you think I have seen this scene today?"
"I know what you are all thinking. Isn't it just cowardice to keep your head down and not speak?"
The sergeant major held on to his armed belt, his eyes were majestic, he glanced at the silent crowd, and said slowly: "Coward? To say it sounds good is to be cautious, to call it bad means to be a coward. There is a thin line between being cautious and being cowardly. Afraid? It's okay to be afraid of death. Soldier! Afraid? It’s not a bad thing to be afraid. We all have one head on our shoulders, howling when we see living corpses, and howling when we see night demons eating human flesh. Why aren’t we afraid?”
"If you are afraid, you won't be arrogant, and you won't have a heart as high as the sky and a life as thin as paper. I know that you are all talented people from Longshan. You are high-spirited and want to be promoted. But here, at the Yanqi base, you can't leave. Three hundred kilometers away is the ruins of Fenglin. We will fight this year, next year, and every year until we defeat them! What year will not die? Last year, the regiment lost a quarter of its people. This is called cowardice. ? In the third year after Lao Xu joined the army, one-third of the entire division was emptied in Qianshan! You know about the deformed species war!"
Shen Rusong looked solemn, it was considered a somewhat peaceful period now, but ten years ago, in 2072, it was the climax of the Abnormal Species War. The Renaissance Army launched an all-out attack on the ruins of major cities and fought desperately against millions of bloodthirsty deformed species. Each division had 10,000 people and was thrown into street fighting. Within a month, only 3,000 people were left. In the northeastern region of the alliance, there were 89 cities with a population of more than 100,000 before the war. In 2071, the Renaissance Army only recaptured 32 of them. By early 2074, only two giant cities, Fenglin and Huining, were left. The ruins of the city were not liberated because they contained the last of the dark species. In these four years, more than 10,000 soldiers of the Renaissance Army shed blood in their homeland, more than 100,000?
That's a generation!
Shen Rusong clenched his fists. His father died in 2074. How many children in the neighborhood lost their fathers and mothers when they were young!
Even if we fight with our lives, one generation or two, we have to take back the land of our ancestors! Because this is the sacred territory passed down from generation to generation!
"Afraid! Just be afraid! Just be afraid of your compatriots who sacrificed their lives. Your parents will scold you underground for not living up to expectations. Just be afraid of being ashamed of your military uniform! Just be afraid of being sorry for the country that has supported you for so many years!"
"There's no war without sacrifice! There's no reconstruction without bloodshed! If you're afraid of death, change your military uniform and become an infrastructure soldier! You definitely don't have to go to the front line to throw rocks every day!"
The people who had just relaxed a little were sitting upright again. They had heard such instructions since they participated in military training when they were children, but this time was different from the past. It was the first day after joining the company and joining the army. The old sergeant major appeared and gave his words. , how can they compare to the empty words of the instructors in the past?
"Keep fighting! Rejuvenate the motherland!" I don't know who took the lead in shouting. In an instant, everyone shouted together.
The sergeant major glanced at everyone one by one. The newly added platoon leader, squad leader, technical sergeant, etc. totaled more than 20 people. The good-natured look that the sergeant major had at the beginning completely disappeared, and he looked down sharply.
The military camp is not interested in preaching or nonsense, but only in action. Seeing that the heat was coming, the sergeant major stopped giving more lectures and turned to talk about the specific situation of the regiment's headquarters.
The main force of the Yanqi Regiment is combat engineers, who specialize in close-range street fighting. The two combat engineer companies of the 1st Battalion were almost completely wiped out in the street fighting in the ruins of Fenglin. The 3rd Infantry Company and the cavalry platoon directly under the battalion also suffered heavy losses. Only a small number of mecha infantry and artillery that were not on the front line remained intact.
Now many squads in the 1st Battalion only have a few veterans to support themselves, and even the entire platoon has been rebuilt. It is not at all like the situation last year where there were more veterans and fewer recruits, and the situation was full of combat effectiveness. The new officers, new non-commissioned officers, and new soldiers who are being recruited now all take time to get familiar with the equipment, familiar with the environment, and perform training. Restoring combat effectiveness is the primary issue!
The sergeant major walked around the field and said: "Let me tell you frankly, more than half of you are not qualified to come in directly and become squad leaders. In previous years, veterans were given priority for promotion. This year's situation is particularly severe. Who knows when summer comes, we will still launch an attack on Fenglin. .So don’t think you can get away with it! Once you lead soldiers, you have eleven people under you, and you have girls, you feel like your tail can reach the sky! I just talked about what I said today, and didn’t do a good job. Don’t blame me in front of the new recruits. I’ll kick your butts in front of you! Lao Xu doesn’t care about male or female, he only cares about performance! He only cares about results!”
Indeed, there is no distinction between men and women in the army, especially in order to ensure the supply of troops and the establishment of personnel. Non-line troops are all mixed with men and women. There are both male and female soldiers in a squad, but the army has no gender! Only soldiers!
"In the past six months, your biggest task is to train! Train yourself! Train new recruits! Train! Run in! Train!"
The sergeant major walked back to the front of the crowd and shouted: "Do you understand?"
"I understand!"
Having said that, the atmosphere became more relaxed as the sergeant major's expression changed. The sergeant major glanced at the door and saw a group of female soldiers striding past in a line of three. He folded his arms and said: "Finally, don't be too verbose, Lao Xu is giving you a warning! Remember that we are a combat force, and we are strictly prohibited from entering the infrastructure camp without permission!"
"You are not allowed to secretly seek out female military personnel for sex! No matter if you are discovered by the military police or reported and verified! You will be severely punished! If you are unclear, just memorize some military regulations!"
Hearing this, everyone turned their eyes and noses, and a smell that could only be understood but could not be expressed filled the air, and they boldly started winking.
"Old Xu's ugly words come first! I don't care whoever is looking for a base to build troops. Whoever is caught by the military police will not ask to come to me and the company commander when the time comes! It is your own business to be embarrassed!"
Everyone burst out laughing.
One of the thickest people stood up and asked, "Sergeant major, you didn't tell me what to do if we find the auxiliary soldiers!"
The sergeant major glanced at this thing that was not afraid of death, walked over to this fool, laughed dryly, and immediately kicked him down.
"Do it like this!"
Everyone laughed so much that they wanted to lift the roof of the dining hall.
