Even before the outbreak of all-out nuclear war in 1981, due to the development of the productivity level of the human world, ideological concepts were updated along with it, and the concept of gender equality had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The widespread establishment of industrial automation assembly lines has made people more demanding on knowledge rather than fitness. Auxiliary mechanical equipment such as exoskeletons and combat uniforms have smoothed out the natural physical differences between men and women. Therefore, in the era of sufficient resources before the war, everyone was able to develop freely according to their own wishes, of course, relatively speaking.
Humanity thrives by harnessing energy, but declines due to excessive use of energy. In 1981, the fragile balance between the Alliance, the Empire, and the Confederacy was destroyed by an accidentally fired missile. Countless super-yield thermonuclear weapons flattened the surface of the earth, and the ensuing contaminating dirty bombs turned the city into a ghost. The radiation and nuclear winter killed all humans who had not moved underground, and the survivors were transformed into alien humans and mutant beasts that are unacceptable to today's humans. The army confirmed the existence of extremely powerful dark species, the theory of evolution was completely overturned, and species reproductive isolation was also questioned.
In 2083, scientific and technological development has stagnated for nearly a century, and reconstruction of the earth's surface is still difficult. Insufficient resource acquisition has resulted in the scientific and technological equipment left over from the pre-war period having to be shelved. Correspondingly, even if the military has enough exoskeletons, it does not have enough concentrated energy batteries to supply them.
With less steel and more energy, one can only emphasize will and respect physical fitness first. When the military recruits women to join the army due to a lack of manpower, it will naturally place female soldiers in reasonable positions, such as staff officers, civilians, military doctors, surveyors, mechanics, etc., which are less directly involved in front-line combat.
Bullets don't have eyes. The enemy doesn't care whether he's a man or a woman. The army only needs qualified soldiers. Female soldiers serving in combat units or even elite field armies must be at the same level as their colleagues, or even better!
Women who can carve out a place in an organization dominated by men are especially admirable!
That's why Shen Rusong was curious about this squad leader Chen Xiaoxiang. He was also a newly commissioned non-commissioned officer, serving as squad leader of a sharp knife squad that was half veterans and the rest were combat soldiers. Why didn't he admire him?
There was only an aisle between the two of them, so Shen Rusong turned halfway and extended his palm towards Chen Xiaoxiang.
Chen Xiaoxiang looked at Shen Rusong, shook hands with Shen Rusong, turned around and sat down, with an upright posture and not squinting.
Considering that this class has lost consecutive games in recent competitions, perhaps his reputation has already spread. Shen Rusong thought about it, rubbed his nose and sat down, determined to continue to practice Yang Qi hard, something that had been lost to others.
"Sneeze!" Yang Qi sneezed fiercely at the back of the auditorium, and the recoil was so strong that he almost hit the back of his head against the wall.
"Are you okay, kid?" Liu Zixu, who was sitting next to him, asked in a low voice. The two brothers were at the bottom of the team and were ridiculed by three female soldiers every day. They had the same problem and became good friends.
Yang Qi looked at the direction where the squad leader was sitting with his eyes drooped. He picked his nose and dug out a black booger and flicked it away. He said irritably: "What can happen, it's just that I'm angry!"
"Who doesn't?" Liu Zixu drew a circle out of thin air with his finger and said, "Looking at so many white legs every day, Xu Mei really has long legs and big breasts, I'm so greedy!"
Yang Qi opened his eyes wide and made sure that Xu Shengnan, who was several people away, had not moved. Then he suppressed his voice and said, "Are you crazy? If you chew on the back of your tongue and hear it, a beating will be easy."
Indeed, it is pure nonsense that a group of 17 or 18-year-olds have no idea, but military discipline is ironclad and there is almost no private space in collective life. Whoever dares to cross the threshold or expresses his desire to cross the line is the responsibility of the squad leader. Whipping legs or confinement in a small dark room? Sorry, there is no choice between the two, we have to come together.
Liu Zixu rolled his eyes and said nonchalantly: "What are you afraid of? Isn't it easy to find a good friend in the infrastructure army?"
"Then it will take four years to serve as a soldier. I can't think of demobilizing from the Hammers in less than twenty-five years."
"You#%& are stupid. You run on the dirt road every day and you didn't notice the auxiliary soldiers camp next to the base? What do the auxiliary soldiers do? Who doesn't know?"
"Those are all naturalized people on the surface of the earth. Only by being merciful can we stutter. To put it bluntly, isn't that..."
Liu Zixu gave you a look that you know. However, Yang Qizhen replied blankly: "Ah, isn't it said that the naturalized people are all lost cousins?"
"Have you seen your 'brother' in the dungeon? Have you seen your 'brother' in the regiment?"
Liu Zixu looked up and down at Yang Qi, who looked stunned. I think they all came out of twelve years of compulsory education. You brag about how powerful your family is, but when you get to the surface, you still don't know anything about it, and you are a fool.
"To put it bluntly, naturalized people are not the same people as us!"
"They are just hard laborers!" Liu Zixu emphasized.
Liu Zixu put his hands on his thighs and stared at the white neck of a female soldier diagonally opposite. Since he was sitting in the last row and didn't worry about being discovered, he simply pulled Yang Qi's head and whispered:
"Idiot, let me tell you, why did the sergeant major only talk about infrastructure soldiers and not auxiliary soldiers? Hey, there are tens of thousands of wolves in the base who can't eat meat, but the higher-ups are not afraid of getting sick and turning into dogs."
"Auxiliary soldiers, that's what they do. I heard the one from Class 3... Yes, Luo Tiancheng said that his second cousin was a third-year soldier. He was very happy with the auxiliary soldiers. Just two cans of meat are enough. Turn over A complete set."
"Grass, that's not it." Yang Qi said hesitantly. To be honest, he was from Longshan City, a serious Longshan person. He had never heard of the existence of auxiliary soldiers before he entered the service. He didn't know until he arrived at the base. Oh, there are also thousands of third-class people living outside the base wall. .
On the surface, if the first-class people in the combat troops have additional allowances and benefits, then the infrastructure soldiers are second-class people who cannot work hard enough to go to the battlefield, and the auxiliary soldiers are third-class people. They are the ones who bury nuclear waste. .
"That's why you're called a fool!" Liu Zixu hated the irony.
"The auxiliary soldiers are the settlement left after the bandit army was wiped out. They are a group of people who eat everything in and out. Don't you even want to fire a gun until you see it? You don't think that camp is some kind of termite nest, do you?"
"I really thought it was a termite nest..." Yang Qi gritted his teeth.
"Then you really are two hundred and five." Liu Zixu scolded.
These two guys were muttering, which made Xie Guorong, another volunteer in the same class, puzzled: "Hey, you two are having trouble, keep your voice down!"
"I know, I know." Liu Zixu responded perfunctorily, then punched Yang Qi lightly on the knee, and said: "We will go out for training in two days. These two days must be a regular break, let the barbecue be ventilated, and the night market is also open. …”
"How about you come with me to the auxiliary camp to vent your anger?"
"Ah, this." Yang Qi's eyes fluttered. At the end of the meeting, everyone stood up and faced the squad leader who came over. Looking at Squad Leader Shen's poker face, he immediately thought that he was coming to beat him. Fortunately, Shen Rusong was not a firecracker. He would beat him up in front of everyone, but of course he would say hello and go out.
"It's not good," Yang Qi muttered. People filed out, looking at the female soldiers whose camouflage green military uniforms couldn't hide their beauty, and their words were a little astringent.
"What are you afraid of? Did you see that the squad leader mentioned that you are not allowed to touch the auxiliary soldiers? He is still a man. Maybe we will meet him at the auxiliary soldiers in two days."
"Grass..."
"Are you going then?"
"I have to think about it."
Liu Zixu cursed "trash" and squeezed in behind Xu Shengnan and left the auditorium.
…
Liu Zixu had a good idea. It was almost the end of the month. After a month of continuous high-intensity training, even the donkeys in the production team had to take off their blindfolds and let them out for some fresh air. This was especially true for people. Besides, even if a person can withstand it, the horse that has been running for five consecutive days should be taken back and fed with concentrated feed.
So two days before departure, the camp finally opened its door and allowed the recruits to move freely around the base at night.
Shen Rusong did everything he could, which made everyone in the class cheer. The male soldiers wetted their index fingers with saliva, put some hair oil on them and combed their hair. In the past month, their hair had grown a little longer, but they all looked energetic.
And the three female soldiers? We discussed whether we should comb our short hair to the ears, or follow the popular style and half-cover our ears. The male soldiers were not willing to be burdened by wearing high-waisted boots anymore, and they all felt comfortable wearing leather shoes. The female soldiers all had a pair of high heels and short boots, so when they left the barracks, they all rolled up their trouser legs intentionally or unintentionally, changed from their usual behavior of staying away from strangers, and ran towards the night market in a playful pursuit.
Shen Rusong didn't go with him. He usually didn't like to join the crowds in his free time. He would rather find a quiet place by himself, such as playing the harmonica by the river, reading a book, reading a collection of poems, etc.
Especially when several female soldiers invited him to have a bottle of beer in public, the impact of agreeing was not good. So Shen Rusong had to refuse with a straight face, and when everyone left, he wrote out today's diary and played a tune out of tune, and then he remembered that his gloves were left in the saddle bag.
Each battalion has its own stables and corresponding maintenance facilities. It is necessary to plan the space of the underground city carefully, but the surface of the ground is naturally a vast world with a lot of potential. There are many enclosures on the side walls of the base. On average, a battalion can easily reach tens of thousands of square meters.
The husbandry of military horses is the top priority of the renaissance army today. There are several military horse companies in the 74th Division of the Infrastructure Corps, which are responsible for taking care of the more than 5,000 horses in the base.
There is a big difference between the current military horses and the pre-war horses. Through mixing and selective breeding with the current surface radiation mutated horses, today's military horses are generally stronger than the pre-war horses in terms of physique. A heavy-duty military draft horse, the Scotchhorse, which is stronger than the Shire horse, a well-known heavy draft horse before the war. The curved-horned horse has a shoulder height of over 190 centimeters, a wide neck and long chest, and weighs more than 1 ton as an adult, and can easily pull 5-ton weights. The horseshoes are wider to adapt to the muddy surface. Nuclear war has shattered the surface terrain, reducing the passability of mobile vehicles.
Curved-horned draft horses in different regions of the Alliance will have their body hair grow in accordance with the local climate. In the hot mountainous provinces, the body hair and tail of the curved-horned horse will almost fade away. As for the Northeast where Shen Rusong is located, there is no area with four seasons, only cold season and warm season, so the curved-horned horses will grow very lush hair.
The alliance's powerful genetic technology has bred more types of benthorn horses. The ferocious horned horse will retain its horns. As a war horse, the mutant beast's strong irritating smell and pheromone infection are ineffective against the horned horse. It is fearless! A curved-horned war horse can fight on par with a giant wolf of the same build, and it can trample a group of helmeted rats under its iron hooves. The docile scuba horse can be used as a passenger horse and agricultural horse.
The only pity is that the life span of the scimitar horses is far less than that of pre-war horses. They become adults at the age of one and lose their labor at the age of six. The horse meat is too dry, so it has to be ground up as feed and fed to the next batch of scimitar horses. horse.
