"Are you scared? Are you running more miles now? When the floods broke out at the beginning of the year, you were not as scared as you are now when running forty kilometers?" Wang Ke held an apple in his hand and deliberately stimulated Gu Maolin.
Gu Maolin rolled his eyes and looked at Wang Ke. Perhaps it was this criticism that was better than praise that stimulated him. He snatched the apple from Wang Ke's hand and took a hard bite.
"Maolin, you have to strive to become the reconnaissance squad, no, become our command platoon, and become the best runner in our company. From now on, you can run twenty kilometers a day, and you can run both on the ground and in the sky."
"Okay, platoon leader, we will run together and get up at 4:30 tomorrow morning."
"Okay, who's afraid of whom?"
"Platoon leader, if you really run away, take me with you." Liang Xiaolong, the sweet potato in front, said.
"In this case, I will participate too." Xiao Gao, the monitor on the phone, continued and turned around to sign up.
"Maolin, the power of example is great! Look, you not only dragged me in, but also successfully dragged two comrades to run with you."
Gu Maolin still rolled his eyes, he didn't believe it at all.
Behind every person who shines, there are years of scars and hardships all over his body.
The next day, when Wang Ke got up on time at 4:20 in the morning, he found Gu Maolin wearing only a pair of military pants and standing in the yard preparing for activities. Next to him stood not only Digua Liang Xiaolong, but also reconnaissance squad leader Song Ruimin. At the entrance of the hospital, there were four soldiers from the telephone squad.
"Are you all going for a long-distance run?" Wang Ke asked.
"Platoon leader, stop mother-in-law and mother-in-law, run away."
"Okay, let's make an agreement. From today on, we must insist on ten kilometers every day." Wang Ke started running, followed by seven soldiers including Gu Maolin, Song Ruimin, and Xiao Gao, the telephone squad leader. Follow the small bridge on the west side of Longquanzhuang and run onto the road. The road was now dark, and the trees on both sides of the road had spread their black wings. But the road is white. In one breath, after running up the road for about four or five kilometers, there is a cliff here.
"Okay, we will turn back here every day from now on." Wang Ke took these seven people and started running back. I ran to the small bridge again in one breath, and it was already dawn.
"Who has a watch?" Wang Ke started walking, and everyone relaxed while walking.
"Platoon leader, don't look at your watch. We should have been running for fifty minutes from departure to now." Song Ruimin said, walking to the front. He patted Gu Maolin on the shoulder and said, "Old Gu, can you hold on?"
"Old Song, I'm not bragging to you. If you can persist, I can persist. If you don't believe me, let's run another lap." Gu Maolin still wanted to finish, shaking his arms hard and kicking his legs a few times.
"Okay, Lao Gu, stay strong. Your fixed point is not up to standard during the day today, and you still have to run ten times to look around!"
When I returned to the room, I saw it was exactly half past five. After running for an hour, according to the speed, I should have completed ten kilometers today. All comrades clean and wash together. And Ma Zhu Zhao Mingming had already gone to the kitchen to help with the cooking.
"Reconnaissance squad leader." Wang Ke shouted in the yard.
"Here we come!" Song Ruimin picked up his shoes and ran out.
"Isn't the landlord, Uncle Geng, back yet?"
"Probably not yet."
"Have you been gone for two days?"
"Yes, Platoon Commander, I might be able to come back today."
"Hurry up and wash up. We'll do the exercises soon. After the exercises, you and I can go to the wireless class and see the old squad leader."
"yes."
Sure enough, after a while, another whistle sounded, one long and two short, in the middle of the village.
"gather."
Zhao Mingming ran in from outside the door.
"Stand at attention, look to the right! Look forward, turn to the right, and run."
Arriving at the gathering place of the command platoon, the other two squads immediately approached. Xue Lin was still on duty in the wireless class instead of the old squad leader Huang Zhonghe. The destination is still the imperial mausoleum.
But this time it seemed different. This "feng shui treasure land" was also targeted by the artillery platoon.
Da Guo, who was already the fourth squad leader of the second platoon, came first with the soldiers of the second artillery platoon, and then Luo Shaohuan, the first squad leader of the first platoon, also came with their platoon. Except for logistics, almost the entire company has gathered here.
"Old Kezi, no wonder your command platoon runs here every day. The waterway here has eighteen bends and ten miles of stone slabs lined up in rows." Da Guo first joked with Wang Ke. He was Wang Ke's same-year soldier when he was at the division farm. Although the fourth class is not the benchmark class, the fourth class he leads is also the best in the whole company.
"Commander platoon commander, you are really good at choosing a place. Today this place belongs to our artillery platoon. You can choose a new place." Luo Shaohuan and Wang Ke stayed longer and their relationship became deeper.
"You two, this can be discussed, but after our command platoon leaves, will you two start a fight?" Wang Ke joked, still being affectionate to the two old comrades as usual.
Now that the three platoons are gathered together, formation training cannot be carried out. They can only disband and rest for a while.
"Reconnaissance squad leader."
"arrive!"
Song Ruimin ran up to Wang Ke, and Wang Ke quietly bit his ear with him. "Let's talk to the wireless class. Starting tomorrow morning, we won't be running during exercises and will instead be hiking."
"Yes!" When Song Ruimin heard this, he knew that the acting platoon leader Wang Ke had a new idea. He leaned forward and asked, "Platoon leader, is the emphasis more on up or down?"
"Bring a stopwatch and time both up and down."
"yes!"
"One more thing, how do you send letters home?" Wang Ke asked, this Longquan Village is different from Nanshao Village. There is a canteen in Nanshao Village, and you can usually send letters from there every day. There doesn't seem to be even a canteen in Longquan Village, and the entire village adds up to less than a hundred households.
"Leave it to the sergeant. He goes to buy groceries every morning and takes it to the post office in the market town to mail it. It will be sent out very quickly on the same day."
Wang Ke was overjoyed when he heard this. "That's great. After the exercise is over, help me send the two letters away, and ask him to help me buy something back."
"Platoon leader, aren't you tired? Where did you get the money? Just tell me what to buy? I'll pay for it." Song Ruimin remembered that Wang Ke had empty pockets and had no money even if he wanted to buy something.
"Okay, then you make a note first and buy me some No. 7 embroidery needles. One hundred is not too few, two hundred is not too many. Just buy as many as you have! Then buy a pair of small vise pliers, and then Buy some plastic chopsticks or twenty toothbrushes, and finally buy a hundred exercise books for primary school students..."
Before Wang Ke finished speaking, Song Ruimin immediately opened his mouth and interrupted Wang Ke's words. "Platoon leader, don't you feel bad about spending my money? I caught someone helping you advance the money, right?"
"You're really right. I haven't finished yet. Buy another two hundred Zhonghua brand pencils. Note that only HB pencils are available, and bring back ten pencil sharpeners. Now we are lining up, and you are the only one who is the big one. If you don't, you will be slaughtered. who?"
"Okay, platoon leader, I owe you. I'll take care of it when I get back."
"Tell me sergeant, if you can't buy it back today, we will convene your revolutionary committee tomorrow. Don't forget that our old squad leader Huang Zhonghe is still the director of the revolutionary committee."
What the hell is the Revolutionary Committee? At that time, every company had a revolutionary committee. Its full name was the "Revolutionary Soldiers Management Committee", which was a self-managed soldier organization of the company. The members are all warriors and there is a director. Normally, the Revolutionary Committee is not taken seriously in everyone's mind, but when it comes to managing food, it is a serious matter. Weekly recipes must be discussed and approved by the Revolutionary Committee before they can be published.
"yes!"
Afterwards, Song Ruimin did the math and found that none of these things seemed valuable, but they added up to a lot. The allowance for two months is not enough. This new acting platoon leader is ruthless enough.
Back at the reconnaissance squad station, Song Ruimin took the letter Wang Ke gave him and went directly to the sergeant. The sergeant's name is Guo Chuntang, a native of Handcheng, Hebei Province.
"Are you serious about opening a stationery store?"
"Our platoon leader asked me to tell you that if you can't buy it back today, your revolutionary committee will be held tomorrow to make the recipe you make unqualified."
"Okay, don't worry, as long as it's available in the market town, if not, there's nothing we can do."
After dinner, Wang Ke dragged Song Ruimin and telephone monitor Xiao Gao to the wireless class to visit the old monitor Huang Zhonghe.
The fever is gone, but the body is still a little weak.
Wang Ke talked about the physical fitness of the command platoon in front of Song Ruimin and the telephone squad leader Xiao Gao. "Old squad leader, except for the telephone squad, the command platoon used to be all talented soldiers. They can't run or run far. I'm going to work hard in this area. Old squad leader, you still remember the field survival training we had in Tunliu Village. Right? It was that cliff climb."
"Platoon commander, whatever you want to do, I support you."
"Well, I want to start tomorrow to increase physical training for the whole platoon. Get up early at 4:30 and do ten kilometers per person per day. At the same time, we will start from tomorrow's exercise and change it to mountain climbing. We must do it in a shorter time Inside, grab all the stamina of the entire platoon."
"Okay, I have no objection." Huang Zhonghe, the old squad leader, took the lead and raised his hand.
"Our recon team has no objection either."
"We don't have any objections to the phone shift."
"Old squad leader, I'm worried now that the wireless class's physical strength can't keep up." Wang Ke grabbed the hand of old squad leader Huang Zhonghe again. At every critical moment, the role of the old squad leader becomes more important.
"Don't worry, I will join your long-distance running and exercise tomorrow morning."
Wang Ke nodded and left the wireless class. Starting today, the entire platoon will train together. In other words, wherever the telephone class goes, the wireless class will follow.
On the way back to the reconnaissance squad, Wang Ke already had a new comprehensive training method, but this method still needs to be explored for a few more days and needs to be reported to the company before it can be officially promoted.
"Reconnaissance squad leader!"
"arrive!"
"According to the information you have, which other place around here has more complex terrain?"
"Yes, that is to the southwest of Longquanzhuang. It is not far away, only three or four kilometers. It is not only high in altitude, but also has deep forests, dense trees, ravines, and several rivers. People have to turn around when entering, and it is not easy. Expand.”
Wang Ke stopped and looked at Song Ruimin. "Really? You mean there is a virgin forest there?"
"Yeah, there's quite a bit of bush."
"This place is great. Is there a map in the class?"
"some."
"Go back and show me. Our current training location can no longer be in the north of the village."
"Platoon commander, why?"
"What do you think, will there be such terrain in future battlefields? Who is closer to actual combat?"
"Oh, I see!"
