Why does Wang Ke dare to accept the challenge?
Because he originally wanted to use this most precious time to solve the entire food problem in one package, but the challenge topic of Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran coincided with his own ideas.
This is what he kept reminding the soldiers to complete the mission quickly and to do something important on the way.
Another reason why Wang Ke dared to accept the challenge was that even if the mission was not completed satisfactorily, the food they hid on the branches of the woods would be enough to prevent the entire army from being annihilated.
After removing all the equipment, the thirteen people set up the guns. After the equipment was neatly placed, only the camouflage uniforms they were wearing were left, and even the helmets were buckled.
"Assemble!" Wang Ke shouted, raising his left fist, and wireless squad leader Huang Zhonghe stood in the first place.
"Stand at attention, look to the right...look forward, turn to the right, run!" A series of crisp and loud commands.
Thirteen warriors formed a snake shape and ran quickly towards the river beach.
Half an hour later, everyone ran to the campsite.
"Reconnaissance squad leader, what should we do next? Please assign tasks."
"Okay, comrades, our task now is very difficult. We must get there before dawn. There are still more than two hours of the most precious time left. Wireless monitor!"
"Here!" Huang Zhonghe, the wireless squad leader, responded loudly and took a step forward to stand up.
"Now you lead three comrades to fetch the willow basket and plaque we made yesterday, and lay a blocking net on the river below, facing downstream and backing upstream."
"Yes!" The wireless squad leader made a move, and the three soldiers of the wireless squad stepped out.
"Luo Shaohuan!"
"arrive!"
"Pick three comrades to catch the two roe deer and try to catch them alive. Use the rope on the cliff. You can set the trap."
"Yes!" After Luo Shaohuan finished speaking, he pointed quickly to the queue, "You, you, you!" Three people from Niu Suozhu stood up, and the four of them immediately ran away quietly.
In fact, no one knows that Niu Suozhu's belt is a special "belt", which is an ancestral nine-section whip. It is a belt in peacetime and a weapon in wartime. It was used that time to sweep away the two wolves.
"Other comrades, with Song Ruimin in charge, will all go catch bullfrogs. In an hour, you can pick some asparagus and reed roots."
"Yes!" Song Ruimin and his party immediately plunged into the reeds.
Wang Ke turned around and walked towards Huang Zhonghe, the wireless squad leader.
During the day, a small dam had been built with stones, so after getting the rectangular plaque, I quickly faced downstream, rested my head on the upstream side, and slept diagonally on the water. And there is a layer of reed mats woven during the day on top.
The water flow was very fast, and as soon as the paving was done, a small fish more than an arm long jumped up. Then, one after another, the fish jumped upward. Fish take advantage of the darkness and swim against the current. They are also competing for time and want to enter this inlet. I saw the silver-white fish body jumping and shining in the moonlight.
"Quickly, take off two pairs of pants and tie up the trouser legs." Huang Zhonghe, the wireless monitor, was overjoyed. Before anyone else could do anything, he ran to the shore to take off his trousers. All four soldiers took off their trousers, tied their trouser legs into a knot, and then stood on both sides of the upstream and plaque respectively.
More and more fish jumped onto the plaque. The four of them were picking cotton, holding their trousers with one hand and picking up small fish and stuffing them into their trouser legs with the other. Soon, all four people's trouser legs were filled, and finally Wang Ke also took off his pants. When the five pairs of pants could no longer fit, the little fish did not slow down in its jumping speed. Instead, it rushed to the plaque. I didn't expect that there were so many fish in this river.
"Take off your underpants." Huang Zhonghe, the wireless squad leader, gave the order again.
Wearing only a pair of underpants, standing in the cold river, he couldn't feel the coldness on his body at all.
Wang Ke is also helping. He dragged some straw mats over and placed them on the beach far away from the river. He poured out all the fish in the five pairs of pants and freed up the fish bags. Good guy, he weighed a hundred pounds when he fell on the reed mat. If I had known this, I wouldn't have had to catch bullfrogs or roe deer.
I can’t remember how many times I went back and forth. Anyway, the reed mats on the shore couldn’t fit in. It was already dark and bright.
"Call it off!" Wang Ke shouted.
As soon as the four people landed on the shore, their teeth were chattering due to the cold. They quickly put on their wet pants and ran back and forth on the river beach for several times. Wait until you calm down. Several people were surprised to see the fish spread out on the reed mat. It weighs six to seven hundred kilograms.
"Quickly, go and inform Song Ruimin that they are back. There is no need to dig up the asparagus and asparagus roots."
Soon, Song Ruimin and four others came back covered in mud. The results were quite good. I caught a pair of pants full of bullfrogs, weighing fifty or sixty pounds.
"Squad leader, this may not be enough to eat. How about we take the ones off the trees and join in?" Song Ruimin said as he walked. Soon we arrived at the river beach.
In the dawn light, the sharp-eyed Hu Yanlou shouted: "Ah, squad leader, where did you catch so many fish? Ah, we are rich!" Four people shouted and gathered around.
Wang Ke tensed up his face and ignored them, "Hurry up and take off your pants, pretending to be a fish!"
"There are so many, I can't even fit them in!" Hu Xinrui said happily.
At this time, Huang Zhonghe, the wireless squad leader, came over and asked: "Yes, there are too many and I can't fit them. What should I do?"
Yes, based on the per capita calculation of the whole company, each person can eat three kilograms a day, which is less than three hundred kilograms. At least half of the fresh fish remains.
"Old squad leader, didn't we build three or four shacks? We spread the reed mats on the river beach. We took half of the fish to dry, leaving one person to watch, and we took the rest away."
"Okay." So the nine people started working together and quickly laid out a large area on the river beach. Wireless squad leader Huang Zhonghe was arranging people. Luo Shaohuan and others came back, and he shouted from a distance: "Squad leader, we are back too."
Looking at the four of them, two of them were carrying roe deer, and they were all alive.
Wang Ke stretched out his thumb towards the four people. Then he said: "Let's do this, leave one roe deer and two people. Watch the fire, dry the fish, and raise the roe deer. The others will bring their things and we will go."
Half an hour later, when deputy company commander Lu Zeran, correspondent Xiao Hou, and health worker Yu Deben were anxious, a group of people walked out of the depths of the forest. The leader was Wang Ke, the reconnaissance squad leader, and the one at the end of the line. It was Huang Zhonghe, the wireless squad leader. Nine of them were wearing underpants and carrying bulging camouflage pants on their shoulders. Two people were carrying a roe deer behind.
"What are you pretending to be?" Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran asked.
"Including the deputy company commander, there are a total of eight small fishes, one bullfrog, and a live roe deer. We have completed the challenge task. Please reward and give instructions." Wang Ke, who smelled fishy, said naughtily to the deputy company commander. Lu Zeran smiled.
Needless to say, there is nothing to say about this challenge mission. The reconnaissance class and the wireless class successfully completed the challenge.
At this time, none of the other platoons in the company had returned.
"Come, reconnaissance squad leader, wireless squad leader, and all of you, sit here with me. Tell me about your training route and process of marching according to the azimuth this time, and let me listen." Deputy Company Commander Lu Ze Ran smiles.
Everyone was chatting away, and it could be seen that everyone was in high spirits and not tired at all. A soldier ran to his equipment, took out three roasted bullfrogs from his satchel, and proudly handed them to deputy company commander Lu Zeran. "Come on, deputy company commander, all three of you in the company should try it. We caught it ourselves and roasted it. There is salt on it."
"Where do you have the fire and where do you get the salt?" At this time, deputy company commander Lu Zeran was biting the bullfrog and eating deliciously.
"Fire is a secret. Salt, I can tell you, is extracted from our urine."
"How is it extracted from urine? Ah! Bah, bah, bah, bah! Bah!" Deputy company commander Lu Zeran reacted immediately. No wonder there is a special smell in the bullfrog aroma.
Everyone laughed so hard that they were out of breath, causing a swarm of birds to fly out of the woods.
But only the two squad leaders said nothing. This is what they should do, and there is nothing to show off.
Deputy company commander Lu Zeran was very trustworthy. He rewarded two boxes of military biscuits to the command platoon reconnaissance squad and wireless squad. Health worker Yu Deben ran back to the liberation truck and retrieved a few sacks. Everyone put the fish and bullfrogs in them, leaving the spores behind. The soldiers of the two squads put on their clothes, carried their equipment and guns, and lined up back to their campsite.
When leaving, Wang Ke discussed with Huang Zhonghe, the wireless squad leader, to keep all the food in everyone's bags while leaving Luo Shaohuan waiting for the phone squad to return. I hope Xiao Gao will take their entire class, follow Luo Shaohuan, and join the reconnaissance class and wireless class. The command platoon cannot leave a single brother behind.
If deputy company commander Lu Zeran is interesting enough, the small fish, bullfrog and roe deer brought back from today's challenge by the reconnaissance squad and wireless squad will be enough to feed two artillery platoons for several days. Except for two boxes of compressed biscuits, reconnaissance squad leader Wang Ke and wireless squad leader Huang Zhonghe did not make any requests to deputy company commander Lu Zeran.
Including changing a little salt, including changing a box of matches, because they don't need them anymore. Those bullfrog guts and the blood of the roe deer basically solved the salt problem. What's more, Wang Ke has a backup plan. The salt he needs no longer needs to be extracted from urine.
Go back quickly, wash your body and clothes, tidy up the camping shack in the wild, and let everyone have a good sleep. Keep your spirits up, seize the time, and prepare for the next step of training in new subjects.
After the reconnaissance squad and wireless squad left, deputy company commander Lu Zeran was filled with emotion. If the soldiers of the artillery company were like Wang Ke, their combat effectiveness would be overwhelming. He saw through all the pits and traps he set during the azimuth march training course. Only these two classes completed the course training more than 9 hours ahead of schedule throughout the year. At the same time, they also completed the challenge project like this. outstanding. You must know that they are using their bare hands and don't even have helmets. However, the results were shocking. The small fish are fresh, the bullfrogs are alive, and the roe deer are alive. How do they do it?
Looking at the morale of the soldiers in these two squads, they are all very excited. I can't see the fatigue and hunger. Everyone still had food left in their satchels. Never mind that the salt sprinkled on top of the roasted bullfrog was extracted from urine? But this kind of wisdom is combat effectiveness, which is the fundamental purpose of our field survival training. After this field survival training is over, the company must sum up Wang Ke's experience.
