"clear!"
In the cafeteria, more than a hundred people from the recruit company responded in unison.
I understand, but many recruits still don’t know what level three combat readiness means.
Chen Ming swallowed quietly. Although the internal combat readiness level was not as high as that of the entire army.
However, being prepared for war all year round is equivalent to actual combat every day. Every day when you open your eyes, you are fighting, and when you close your eyes, you are preparing for war.
Once an armed conflict occurs, combat units like the artillery brigade will inevitably rush to the battlefield as soon as possible.
After the company commander finished speaking, he followed the cadres and left the canteen one after another to make room. It seemed that they had eaten early.
When Zhao Lifei saw the new recruits standing there in a daze, he urged, "What are you looking at?"
"Hurry up and eat. No matter if the leader comes or not, just be yourselves. You have to eat."
"Besides, the head of the brigade is not as scary as you think. He just conducts normal inspections, basically every year."
"Squad leader, can you tell us the story of the leader?" Chen Ming sat down, filled a bowl of fried rice, and asked with a smile.
If anyone asked this, Zhao Lifei would definitely have a bad temper, but it was different when Chen Ming asked.
Soldiers who perform well will always have more patience.
"There are quite a lot of inquiries." Zhao Lifei smiled and said with a bit of pride: "It's okay to tell you. Our 71st Artillery Brigade not only has the title of the ace among aces."
"In our brigade, we also have a national moral model and a hero in the entire army."
"Who is the squad leader?" Now, not only Chen Ming was curious, but all the recruits in the squad eagerly stretched their heads over and listened with their ears.
"That is of course the current commander of our artillery brigade - Tang Zhen, but you don't have to be nervous. The commander is very strict in his management of officers, and he is very easy-going towards us soldiers. As a soldier, you should behave like a soldier and be more generous. That’s it.”
"Don't be nervous?"
Chen Ming listened quietly, and it could be seen that the squad leader still respected the commander of the artillery brigade.
It is clearly reflected in the words.
But he made a mistake. Even if the recruits were nervous, the root cause would only be the squad leader. What does it have to do with the leader?
"Our brigade commander has a scar here." Zhao Lifei bit the bun and touched the spot on his forehead above his right eye.
"It was February 2001, when the brigade commander was still a company commander. He was returning home from a visit to relatives, and he encountered 76 knife-wielding bandits on the train and robbed him."
"At that time, the brigade commander called on the remaining fifteen soldiers in the car and the policemen in the car to fight to the death. His right calf and head were slashed in many places, and his hands were bitten with large gaps by the gangsters."
"But our leader did not back down at the time. It is said that the fight lasted for more than three hours, subdued all the car bandits, and seized more than 200 knives."
"Afterwards, the leader was injured and was sent to the hospital for treatment for half a month. He didn't even return home. After receiving the order from the army to exercise, he quietly left the hospital and returned to the army."
"About six years passed. It wasn't until the division leader went to inspect the company and discovered the injury on the leader's forehead. After repeated questioning, the troops learned about it."
"That was all in 2009. I was named a national moral model and was promoted on the spot to study at the National Defense University. Now I am the brigade commander of our artillery brigade."
No wonder, Chen Ming sighed with emotion.
No wonder that when such a serious squad leader mentioned the brigade commander, not only did he become a talker, but he also went out of his way to reassure the recruits not to be nervous.
Such a heroic and respectable figure stepped forward when the people needed him. How could any soldier be afraid of such a man?
It's too late to get close.
In the past, I could only see this kind of heroic characters on TV and novels, but I didn’t expect that they would be so close in reality.
........
The breakfast ended in a particularly harmonious atmosphere.
After clearing away the tableware and just leaving the cafeteria, the squad leader's expression returned to his informal and serious expression again.
He led Chen Ming and the others to the dormitory building and waved, "I'll give you twenty minutes. Go back to the dormitory and clean the floor, walls, bedding, and corridors again."
"In twenty minutes, we will gather at the unified training ground."
"Disband."
"Be careful when cleaning. Don't think that you don't understand anything when you first come here. You don't need to know much about cleaning."
"Go ahead."
After Zhao Lifei finished making arrangements, he turned around and left.
As for what they were going for, Chen Ming and the others didn't know, but thinking about it, they should have gone to discuss countermeasures with the company commander and the others.
Even if the brigade chief comes over, these junior officers will be extremely busy.
Chen Ming and the others returned to the dormitory. A group of recruits stared at the ground and then at the whitewashed walls. They all stayed there and didn't know what to do.
"Well, do you need to clean this place? I can't even see where it's dirty."
"Who knows, before I went to school and cleaned the house, I always hid whenever I could. I have no experience in this area."
"The ground needs to be mopped, right? What if the squad leader doesn't follow the routine and suddenly pops out to check? He can do this."
The squad leader was not in the dormitory, and these recruits no longer felt nervous. When they could not agree on the same opinion, they all turned to look at Chen Ming.
Because so far, the monitor has only been kind to him.
Others don't get this treatment.
Noticing that he was in the spotlight, Chen Ming shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile, "Don't look at me. Even if the toilet here is cleaner than my bedroom, you have to clean it even if the monitor asks you to do it."
"At least there should be traces of mopping on the floor and in the corridor outside. We all need to be busy."
"Otherwise, wouldn't it be worse if the squad leader suddenly comes back and sees us all idle?"
"It makes sense." Wang Shuaibing turned around and rushed to the water room to find his beloved mop.
"I think there's nothing wrong with it." Ma Dazhu also grabbed the cleaning cloth on the windowsill.
Chen Ming used to be the dean of students. He often checked the hygiene and knew which areas were easy to be inspected and ignored. He simply ordered: "Old Ma, don't worry about other places for now. Go wipe the frame above the dormitory door."
"The top of the iron cabinet, the side corners, the lower edge of the open window, the four legs of the iron bed, anyway, rub the corners wherever you can't see."
"Old Ma, make the mop dry. Don't make it too wet, otherwise it will be even dirtier later. Old Dong, you can clean the public area with me."
"Whether we are busy or not, let's get moving."
"over."
"Nothing wrong."
Under Chen Ming's arrangement, the recruits' dormitory was very busy.
At this time, the gate of the recruit training camp.
Company commander Guo Yuanzheng was chatting with a group of cadres when the instructor suddenly ran out of the cadres' dormitory.
He greeted with an anxious expression: "Stop chatting and quickly gather all classes to the training ground to practice basic formation."
"A comrade of mine at the brigade headquarters just called and said that the chief has gone out, so prepare quickly."
Guo Yuanzheng became nervous after hearing this. Although the artillery brigade has more than one recruit company, the commander may not necessarily go where to inspect.
But after coming out, their side may be the first stop.
No carelessness is allowed.
They are all new recruits, so they can't make too many arrangements, and they can't do anything even if they have new recruits, so they can only let nature take its course.
"Who is that, Lao Zhao?"
"Hey, here we come."
"Where are you hiding behind? No one has been seen for a long time. Hurry, blow the assembly whistle and gather all the recruits to the training ground."
"Um, check your military appearance and appearance, hurry up."
"yes"
