After planting in autumn, winter comes quickly.
All farm personnel at the division headquarters will be evacuated before the heavy snowfall. In view of the performance of the artillery company, the farm director specifically suggested to the division logistics department to arrange for the artillery company command platoon to stay at the farm because there is a soldier named Wang Ke inside, which is very reassuring.
The tasks of the left-behind personnel are not only to guard the farm's houses, agricultural machinery, and fertilizers, but also to inspect nearly 10,000 acres of fertile land.
On the day the troops left, Wang Ke felt particularly uncomfortable, feeling like a child leaving his parents. Company Commander Bearded Tian and Instructor Ding specially came to the command platoon to hold a meeting with all comrades and explained the precautions for staying behind. After leaving enough food and coal, the troops loaded up and left.
Because the large army was together, even the electricity was cut off. Without electricity, there was no way to pump the water from the well. We had to go to the small river one kilometer away from the field to fetch water for food.
That night, platoon leader Hu Zhijun summoned the entire platoon for another meeting under the lantern. Mainly arranging sentry positions and patrolling routes.
The huge 10,000-acre farm, with more than 20 people left in the command platoon, immediately seemed extremely quiet.
The so-called sentry is a mobile sentry that patrols around the field at night. Generally speaking, there are really not many people who dare to wander around the field in the middle of the night.
In principle, two people work in one shift. After standing there for a few days, everyone agreed to change it to one person in one shift, so that we can get enough rest. This farm is so big that anyone who comes in the middle of the night without taking the car will not be able to transport anything even if it is stolen.
Wang Ke counted. It took exactly 40 minutes to walk around the various warehouses and tillage stations on the farm, starting from when he went out on guard duty with a stick, and he needed to walk 3,983 steps.
The farm is several kilometers away from the nearest village. There is no direct road, and there is a river in the middle. It takes more than an hour to walk with many twists and turns. The nearest village is the village where Wang Ke went to buy eggs last time.
Because it was too quiet, one week after the large unit set off, squad leader Yueyang asked for leave from the platoon leader Hu Zhijun and took his squad's artillery team leader Da Guo back to the regiment headquarters. What does a gun-to-scope operator do? This instrument distributed to the reconnaissance squad is actually a telescope. The two lenses are like a pair of rabbit ears. Together with the tripod, it weighs dozens of kilograms. Therefore, the gun-to-scope operator is They are all big guys and can run on their backs.
The regiment headquarters is more than 100 kilometers away from the division headquarters farm, and the round trip takes two days. We also need to go out to the county town to purchase vegetables and non-staple food, so we did it together. After Hu Zhijun's platoon leader approved the leave, the reconnaissance squad's sentry duty that night immediately changed from six to four people. The original two-hour sentry shift now needed to be changed to a three-hour one.
Wang Ke said: "It doesn't matter, don't we just stand for a few more hours?" As a result, he went on guard at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. He never called out to other comrades, because the comrade behind him was still feeling a little unwell, and he planned to stand there until dawn.
Now in this field, Wang Ke can walk around in a circle accurately even with his eyes closed. When he reached step 1350, he came to the field health center. Now that the door has been sealed, the director and the three female soldiers have returned to the division hospital.
Before leaving, Wang Ke made a special trip to say goodbye to the old director, and of course to say hello to Wu Xiangyu.
Wu Xiangyu's eyes were a little red, and he secretly made a writing motion with his hand. That said, remember to write a letter.
Wang Ke said in his heart, I won’t write a letter. If the main force left, the postman would not even bother to come to the division headquarters farm. Just write it, they only send it once a month anyway.
The old director specially left Wang Ke some commonly used medicine to treat stomachache, cold and fever, and also left a thermometer for the command platoon, which was a rarity at the time. Wu Xiangyu used the excuse that he had too much luggage to carry, so he entrusted Wang Ke to keep some of his daily necessities on his behalf. Among them were a flashlight, a large teapot, an enamel basin, a kettle, and a mattress. You know what that means, because the division hospital has not arranged who will come to the farm clinic next year, but one thing is for sure, the three of them will definitely not come.
The other two female soldiers in the medical clinic covered their mouths and were secretly enjoying themselves. Wang Ke pretended to be stupid. Anyway, he wanted what he was given. The friendship between comrades was pure and flawless. These things are likely to come in handy at a critical moment.
Wang Ke deliberately stood quietly at the door of the field health center for five or six minutes. A scene appeared in front of his eyes. Wu Xiangyu was lying on a table writing something. Wang Ke smiled, she must be writing a letter to me. Just write it, I won’t receive it anyway if you send it. He has a special fondness for Wu Xiangyu, not only because she once wrapped him in a coat, hugged him in the coat, and pressed her face against him when he fell asleep with a high fever, but because at the critical moment, he stood up She was the only girl in the team that gave her a blood transfusion.
"Dr. Xiao Yu, can you hear me calling you silently in my heart?" This kind of friendship has actually slowly penetrated into the hearts of the two of them a long time ago, with a hint of love. But the troops have strict discipline, and everyone understands that there is a red line between male and female comrades, which is an insurmountable barrier.
However, if one day we all retire from the army, or one of us retires. Then, all these rules and regulations will disappear.
Continuing to move forward, winter in Baiyangdian is still relatively cold. In the wilderness, there is no shelter, and the wind blows like a whistle. Wang Ke wrapped the coat around him again and again, then simply took off the belt around his waist and tied it to the coat outside.
Back then, the division headquarters reclaimed nearly 10,000 acres of fertile farmland near Baiyangdian. I don't know how many difficulties it overcame. The first one must have been this winter! There is only a dirt road to the outside of the division farm. No one will come to this road until next spring.
It got colder and colder as he walked, Wang Ke raised his head and looked up at the stars. The stars in the sky were probably hiding from the cold these days, so few could be seen. From the biting cold wind, Wang Ke had a feeling that the sky was about to change, and it might snow soon.
He thought of the dry well. He would go to the dry well tomorrow no matter what, and bring a few bundles of straw to cover the well mouth to keep it warm. Because during the day, he went to fetch water from a small river near the field. The seven-eight-meter-wide river was completely frozen. The key was that the ice was too thick. He used a pickaxe to dig out a small hole nearly 20 centimeters thick after digging for a long time.
As for the land, there will also be tens of centimeters of frozen soil. The two toads don't know if they can survive such a cold winter this year, because the weather forecast says there will be a cold wave that has never happened in a century, and there may even be a blizzard. Judging from their age, they must have lived for at least seven or eight years, otherwise they would not have grown so big and their flesh would not have turned black! (Note: It was last heard that these two toads died at the hands of people involved in spring plowing. It is said that when the skin was peeled and stewed in soup, the meat was black and the soup was extremely bitter. Wang Ke can't help but feel uncomfortable thinking about it to this day)
After walking around in a circle, Wang Ke came to the command platoon's dormitory. The command platoon has been moved from the tillage station to the field headquarters.
Wang Ke walked into the room. His comrades were all sleeping in the inner room, and the outer room was equipped with a kang stove and a hot water tank. Wang Ke stepped forward and stoked the stove, added a little coal, and poured the boiled water in the water pot into the thermos. The only thermos in the row was left to him by Wu Xiangyu, and he is using it now.
When his body warmed up a little, he opened the door and went for a second turn. Tonight, he would need to turn around five times in total before it was almost time for dawn.
The farm is lonely, and standing guard at this time is even more lonely.
"Good post, good post, twelve to two." This is a jingle circulated in the army. The most fearful thing about standing guard is between 12 and 2 o'clock in the middle of the night. People and horses are exhausted, and mistakes often occur at this point.
But Wang Ke is not afraid, he is a calculating soldier.
What do the calculation soldiers of the command platoon reconnaissance squad do? It is to deduce the distance between the three points through the angle between the gun sight hand and the steering wheel hand and the target point, and then calculate the accurate coordinates of the target based on the known coordinates to determine the accurate area covered by our artillery fire.
Therefore, the key to whether the artillery fire is accurate is whether the calculation is accurate. All shooting elements are loaded, commands are given, and errors are corrected, all first go out from the calculation soldiers. He is the soul of the artillery company, isn't it true!
The fists never leave the hands, the tunes never leave the mouth, and the reaction and calculation ability of calculating soldiers all depend on daily hard practice. You can recite calculation formulas while standing guard or walking. Of course, Wang Ke sometimes holds the stick and dances like a tiger in the rice field, practicing some stick skills learned in the past, or infantry assassination techniques.
Some people may ask why you don’t have a gun while standing guard? Standing guard on a farm in this wilderness, what kind of gun do you need? But why a stick? You have to ask platoon leader Hu Zhijun about this. Because the farm is so remote, wild dogs often appear one after another in the middle of the night looking for food. It’s hard not to have a guy on hand!
Wang Ke thought, in the past, soldiers were called "fire sticks" in their hands, didn't they refer to us?
In this second lap, Wang Ke walked slowly. He wanted to sum up his ability to perceive the past and the future, and think about the black pill spit out from the toad's mouth. He believed that it was more than just The role of bone-retaining and life-sustaining.
He was not willing to take the seven "fire-burning pills" anymore. He gave the old Chinese medicine doctor the remaining seven pills and gave him a name. And the black pill that he had swallowed was named "Xuanyin Pill".
When he was in school, he read a book called "The Book of Changes", which said: From the Liangyi, the Four Symbols to the Bagua, all levels of matter have the binding force of yin and yang. This is why Tai Chi gives birth to Bagua, and Bagua returns to Tai Chi. The entire universe is such a material, life-oriented, yin-yang, dialectical Tai Chi Bagua diagram.
From the Book of Changes, it can be seen that the interaction of yin and yang produces all things, and different paths lead to good results.
The top and bottom are Shaoyang, the right and left are Shaoyin. After comparison and reflection, the two are surprisingly consistent and even completely consistent. Only the yin and yang and the transformation of mass and energy can bring about unexpected phenomena.
As for myself, will this collision of fire and ice, the intersection of heat and cold, give me special powers? This is not superstition. Many natural laws are still being discovered today.
Hegel once said that existence is reasonable. Before we reveal its laws, let’s call this phenomenon latent science or quasi-science, right?
The history of human civilization is only five thousand years old. But look at Go, Mahjong, and the Book of Changes. Which one is not full of mysteries, full of ever-changing, and full of incredible and unsummable routines? Therefore, some people say that these things are impossible. It was invented by us humans, is it alien Luo?
joke! This is a mystery in nature that will take us hundreds or thousands of years, and may never be solved.
