Later, before Hong Xin graduated, he responded to the country's call for military conscription and enlisted in the army to guard the border. The strange thing is that the homing pigeon also flew to the second squadron barracks of Hong Xin's company, and cooed at the window of the room where Hong Xin rested.
Hong Xin was surprised when he heard the familiar cry. He looked up and saw the carrier pigeon lying on the window. He high-fived three times in a row, and the carrier pigeon got into the window grille and flew down in front of Hong Xin like a cloud. As soon as Hong Xin stretched out his hand, it rested on his palm and pecked his palm lightly with its sharp beak. It didn't hurt, just a little itchy.
That is actually the homing pigeon getting intimate with its long-lost master. This was discovered by squad leader Hu Xizi, who said, "You are a new recruit who participates in military training every day. How come you still have time to raise pigeons?"
Hong Xin simply held the pigeon in his palm and answered with a smile, "This is a pigeon I trained and raised in my hometown in the mainland. I came here with the army after I joined the army. I don't know how I found it."
Having said this, Hong Xin pointed his finger at Hu Xizi and ordered the pigeon, "Baixue, salute him with your attention." The well-trained pigeon spread its right wing obediently toward Hu Xizi and flapped it three times before restraining himself.
Hong Xin said, Captain Hu, this action is a salute of attention. Hu Xizi clapped his hands and cheered, then stretched out his arms and said, "Can you let the carrier pigeon fly to my place?" Hong Xin said, "That won't work. You are a stranger. This pigeon recognizes strangers, so it will not go." Hu Xizi said, can you give the order and give it a try? See if it comes or not. Hong Xin could only look at the carrier pigeon and give the order, Bai Xue, flew to his arm.
The homing pigeon really took off, but it only circled twice above Hu Xizi's head, but did not land on his arm. Instead, it turned around and flew back to Hong Xin's outstretched arm. Hu Xizi said jokingly, you said it recognizes life, but it really does.
At this time, Hong Xin walked to the window, stretched out his palm to protect the pigeon, and said in his hometown accent, Bai Xue, go back to your hometown! As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Xizi said a standard Mandarin sentence, "Slow down, it might be useful to keep it."
But the homing pigeon had already kicked off its legs and flew out of the window, floating into the sky like a gray cloud. Hong Xin immediately blew a pigeon whistle, and the loud whistle was like an invisible hand, "catching" the gray pigeon flying into the sky. Look, in the blink of an eye, the carrier pigeon landed on the window railing again.
Hong Xin said, "Baixue, don't leave. Our squad leader Hu likes you very much." While talking, the carrier pigeon got into the window again and Hong Xin reached out to catch it. He grabbed its wings and let Hu Xizi stroke it as much as he wanted.
After that, the pigeon became familiar with Hong Xizi. Together with Hong Xin, he often fed it with the corn it loved to peck, and also fed it with raisins from the frontier.
As the saying goes, it takes a thousand days to raise an army, but it takes only a short time to deploy it. Squad leader Hu Xizi treated it as a soldier, and it really played the role of a soldier. One day, a carrier pigeon picked up a bullet from nowhere and placed it in Hong Xin's palm. Hong Xin saw that it did not look like the bullets used by his troops for target practice. This aroused his alarm, so he handed the special type of bullet to Hu Xizi for careful inspection and confirmed that it was a bullet used by a bandit in the grassland. .
Four months ago, a herdsman village was attacked in a sneak attack, and it was this type of bullet that was taken out from the body of the injured herdsman. The bullets were marked in foreign characters, indicating that they were purchased from abroad.
The local police station is teaming up with the border garrison troops to crack down on the vicious bandits, but they have not been able to completely eradicate them. A remnant of bandits still wanders like ghosts on the vast and complex grasslands, posing a threat to the lives and property of herdsmen at any time.
Hu Xizi believed that this bullet with foreign writing was a major military intelligence that could not be ignored, and immediately reported it to the company headquarters. The company commander ordered Hu Xizi to lead a squad of troops to eliminate the remaining bandits as soon as possible. But where are the remaining gangsters? No one knows. Hu Xizi had an idea and called Hong Xin to whisper for a while. Hong Xin nodded repeatedly and immediately explained to the pigeon in the pigeon language that the pigeon is familiar with.
The homing pigeon flew into the sky obediently and stayed within Hong Xin's sight. Hong Xin disguised himself as a hunter holding a shotgun and riding a variegated horse, holding down the bridle, and drove slowly in the exact direction of the pigeon's flight.
After walking on the grassland for several hours, I looked up and saw a meadow shrouded in the confused night in the distance. The homing pigeon is hovering over the meadow and no longer flies anywhere else.
Hong Xin jumped off his horse, climbed to a high place, and peered into the depths of the meadow, where there were flickering lights and vague houses. After a while, he heard a woman's scream and a man's hideous laughter again... Hong Xin was nervous for a while, but then tried to calm down. He concluded that a group of remaining gangsters who had escaped from the attack might continue to make trouble in this meadow.
He was about to leave when he heard the low roar of a hunting dog again. He expected that the hunting dog raised by the gangsters had discovered him. He was worried that he would not be able to escape, so he immediately took out a pen and paper, quickly wrote a sentence, folded it into the corner of the paper, and blew a pigeon whistle. , the carrier pigeon flew in front of us. He said, Bai Xue, please hurry up and take this note to our station and give it to Squad Leader Hu.
The carrier pigeon was very obedient and immediately took the note and flew up into the sky through the vast twilight. After a while, he flew to the army camp and spit the note into the hand of Hu Xizi, who was discussing matters in the camp. Hu Xizi opened the note and saw that it was written by Hong Xin - Squad Leader Hu, there is a bandit situation in a meadow to the east about forty kilometers away from our military camp. Please quickly lead troops to encircle and suppress the bandits.
After Hu Xizi reported to the company headquarters, he led a squad of soldiers to mount war horses and set off as a cavalry column. When they rushed to the meadow designated by Hong Xin, suddenly several hunting dogs barked and were about to pounce on the horses and bite them. . Hu Xizi said "Hey" and immediately raised his gun and killed a hunting dog. Then other cavalrymen also took the initiative to fight back. Several more hunting dogs fell down and howled in pain.
At this moment, the gangsters heard the gunfire and were about to flee, but found that their huddled house was surrounded by a majestic cavalry column.
A bearded man held a torch in one hand and a pistol in the other. He raised his neck and shouted, if you stand on the sidelines and shoot at us, then I will kill your people immediately. After he said this, he saw a tied-up man with blood on his face being pushed out of the room by two gangsters.
The man raised his voice and said, "Squad Leader Hu, please leave me alone, hurry up and annihilate this gang of gangsters." They robbed people's property and raped women in the meadow...
As soon as Hu Xizi heard that the speaker was Hong Xin and saw that he was seriously injured, probably bitten by a hunting dog, he immediately negotiated with the bearded bandit leader. You must let him go quickly and raise your hands to surrender before he will be treated leniently.
If you want to let him go, you can all evacuate. Otherwise, I'll shoot him. The bearded man put the pistol against Hong Xin's temple and said in a fierce and non-negotiable tone.
As soon as Hong Xin said "leave me alone", a gangster gagged his mouth with a cloth.
In order to rescue Hong Xin, although Hu Xizi still pointed his pistol at the bearded man, he said in a calm tone, "You first untie our people, and then let him go, and then we will retreat." Unexpectedly, the bearded man sneered and said, is it possible? We won't be fooled. If you let your people go, won't our people just be captured?
Just when Hu Xizi was about to rescue Hong Xindon and felt hopeless, the bearded man said "ouch" and turned his head. It turned out that the homing pigeon suddenly fell from the sky, flapped its wings, and pecked one of the bearded man's eyes with its sharp beak. Fly away.
It's too late, but it's soon. Hu Xizi jumped on his horse, and while the two gangsters were distracted, he pulled Hong Xin over and sat on the horse. He only listened to his order and beat him——
Bang - bang - the two gangsters in front of the house immediately fell down and died from the bullets. Several other bandits ducked under the cover of night to break out, but were chased and annihilated by the cavalry.
