Volume 1: Sudden Battlefield Chapter 38

  "Squad leader!" The scar-faced man looked at me as if I was idle and pointed to one of the young warriors, saying: "Can you take in another person?"

  I know what he means, the few soldiers he brought are those who don't want to fight and need ideological work. The ones assigned to me either don't speak or are "heroic", so they can do more labor and help alleviate the burden on other classes.

  "Just take it then!" I replied in a bad tone.

  One more is no excess, one less is no lack.

  Afraid of death and don't want to fight?

  I don't do ideological work, you have to go up too? I'm still passing by like this?

  "Alright!" Scar said to the little warrior who didn't dare lift his head: "Wang Kechang, from now on you'll follow Second Squad Leader and do a good job!"

  "Yes!" The little warrior responded with a tone of great grievance, then walked up to me with his head hung low and stood there like that...

  I was originally going to ignore him, but he just stood there in front of me for a long time and it felt awkward, so I raised my head: "Why don't you find somewhere to sit... what are you standing there for?"

  "Oh!" Wang Kechang hesitated for a moment before sitting down beside me with a hint of nervousness.

  Look at him so pitiful, so I asked one sentence after another: "Little Wang, right? How old are you?"

  "After passing the new year, just turned eighteen..."

  "Only eighteen years old?" I asked: "You're so afraid of fighting, why did you still come to be a soldier?"

  "This... is what my mother told me to come and be a soldier!"

  What kind of mother is this? I let out a bitter laugh. At a time when others are trying to escape, she's sending her son to the front lines!

  But there are still many such old mothers in this era, with advanced ideas! Just like the old man.

  It wasn't until later that I found out, in fact, I was completely deceived by this little devil's pitiful appearance. This guy had lost both parents at the age of twelve and didn't have a mother to call him to join the army.

  Then there were eleven people in Class 2... I remember a saying called "Yao Yao comes out strange", this number is not an auspicious number.

  "Comrades..." I beckoned to the soldiers under my command, and they quickly gathered around.

  "Monitor! Is there a task?" Shen Guoxin asked somewhat anxiously.

  I was wondering why it wasn't Xu Guochun, who usually talks a lot, this time. Taking a closer look, his face was pale and his eyes were lifeless at the moment. I'm afraid he had just seen an amputated leg in the river and threw up badly earlier.

  "Nothing much to do!" I said with a wry smile: "It's just that yesterday's mushroom soup was too fresh, and today we have new comrades joining our class, don't we? We should at least give them a warm welcome, so let's go cook another pot!"

  The warriors looked at each other and nodded in agreement.

  The task was quickly assigned, with Chen Yiyang and several soldiers in charge of picking mushrooms. Chen Yiyang is familiar with the terrain and can also identify poisonous mushrooms, so it's definitely not wrong to let her lead.

  The other soldiers were responsible for burying the pot, boiling water and preparing bowls and chopsticks. It's not an easy task, you know that in the army, they usually eat compressed biscuits and canned food, so even bowls and chopsticks have to be taken care of by themselves.

  And me? I'm just in charge of eating... Who made me the class leader anyway! From this point, being a class leader isn't so unjust after all.

  But you'd be wrong, I'm not just thinking of myself enjoying it, actually letting them go pick mushrooms has a deeper meaning...

  Isn't it worrying that they are too unfamiliar with each other and can't cooperate? I deliberately separated the old and new soldiers when assigning tasks.

  Other troops solved this problem by letting new and old soldiers introduce themselves... But in my opinion, with more than a dozen names introduced one after another, I don't believe he can remember several of them. Even if he remembers, the name doesn't match the person.

  Actually, there are other ways to solve this problem. Let's go pick some mushrooms and boil some water. Once the pot is opened, it will be done in no time.

  But I noticed one thing, that is, many people want to pick mushrooms, everyone rushes to go...... Why? Not for anything else, but for our class's female soldier Chen Yiyi.

  She is indeed a red in the green forest, our army's female soldiers are originally rare, even if there are any, they are in the second or third line... so looking around at a large group of male soldiers, only Chen Yiy is a girl.

  Isn't there a saying that goes "three years as a soldier, and even a sow can surpass Diao Chan"? And yet Chen Yiyang is not only a standard beauty, but also a hero who performed exceptionally on the battlefield...

  Alas! To be honest, Chen Yiyang is not particularly beautiful compared to my modern girlfriends. But for some reason, I always feel that she has a different flavor from those girlfriends. Specifically what flavor...I also can't quite put it into words.

  There's a saying "Misfortune may be an actual blessing in disguise", this Chen Yiyang, in our class, is perhaps a blessing for us, at least we can get close to the beauty now. Men and women working together don't feel tired, I suddenly understand why my subordinates have become so proactive recently!

  However, good fortune and bad luck are closely linked, having this beauty under me also means more trouble.

  What's this? After Chen Yiyang brought back a bunch of mushrooms with several soldiers, they started to cook them eagerly. At this time, some soldiers couldn't help but gather around and ask questions. The leader was the backbone of the first squad, "Big Blockhead", who was said to have some brute strength and could break an enemy's neck alive on the battlefield.

  It seems that he is here for the mushroom soup now, but people with discerning eyes can see clearly that this is actually for Chen Yiy.

  It was originally my turn to save the beauty, but I felt that I could let it go for a while.

  How could I let such a good opportunity slip away and allow these dozen or so warriors under me to unite against a common enemy?

  So he pretended not to notice and continued wiping his gun... "Hey, it's a big nine! Still with a muzzle..."

  "What are you doing? That's my cigarette!"

  The one who was bullied is Shen... what's his name? It seems to be called Shen Guoxin. The Da Zhongjiu at that time was a great cigarette, and the soldiers said it was 60 cents without a filter tip and 1.2 yuan with a filter tip.

  One block two! Is one block two good tobacco?

  But I also know that the money at that time is incomparable to our modern money, ten dollars at that time could buy a chicken and a bottle of white wine, which would allow you to have a good meal.

  "Give me back my cigarette!"

  Shen Guoxin glared at Da Koutou with discontent.

  This cigarette was probably bought by his family before he went to the battlefield, and more importantly... the cigarette was snatched away like this, where can I put my face?!

  "Hey!" The big guy showed no intention of returning it, and instead casually handed out cigarettes to the two people beside him: "What's wrong? I'll tell you, when I was fighting against the Vietcong on the battlefield, you didn't even know where you were! If you want to survive on the battlefield, learn from us more often. Consider this cigarette as tuition!"

  This was clearly said for Shen Guoxin to hear, but I knew it was meant for Chen Yiyang to hear. Showing off in front of a woman, how cliché. Yet, it seems to still be trendy in this era.

  If it were in our modern times, just throw 100,000 yuan and say: "Be my girlfriend!" And that's it.

  Sorry about that, I was a bit distracted.

  Just as Ci Dao and Du Shu Ren were about to step forward and speak, a person suddenly appeared out of nowhere, none other than the taciturn Li Zuo Long.

  "Give him back his cigarette!" Li Zhaolong squeezed out a few words from between his teeth.

  "Hey, another hero has arrived!" The big guy took a look and saw that it was another stranger, and he was even shorter than himself. So he didn't take him seriously at all, and just kicked him...

  To everyone's surprise, Li Zhaolong grabbed and dragged him, and the big guy fell to the ground.

  The big guy didn't believe it, got up and swung his fists, but Li Zhaolong suddenly pulled out a stance, followed by a flurry of punches and kicks, his movements fast and ruthless, the big guy was like an oversized sandbag with no room to counterattack...

  When the two men parted again, the big man's face was already bruised and swollen.

  "Return the cigarette and apologize, and I'll let you off!" Li Zhaodong's words were straightforward.

  "Ptui!" The big fellow spat out a mouthful of blood and water, pointing fiercely at Li Zhaolong: "You little brat, don't be so smug, go find the company commander to settle this!"

  He finished speaking and turned around to leave.

  Li Zhaolong was stunned. To know that the big guy snatching cigarettes is not right, but fighting and injuring comrades like this is even more a violation of discipline...

  Then all the soldiers cast their eyes on me.

  "What's up?" I grabbed the gun and patted my butt as I stood up, saying "It hurts so fast, can't you count on me to wipe your butt?"

  Without waiting for their response, I walked up to Li Zhaolong and asked: "You have two sons, which one is the scholar?"

  "I... " Li Zuolong lowered his head and said with some difficulty: "I entered the Shaolin Temple at the age of ten, but I'm still a layman!"

  As for why he's still single, he didn't say and I didn't ask.

  It was later learned that it was because of a killing taboo, and the one who was killed was a bandit who had an ulterior motive towards the eldest daughter. The move was too heavy-handed and resulted in loss of life.

  "What's going on?" Just then Lian Chang followed the old soldier over, and with him came Battalion Commander Wang Shu-ren.

  "Who hit someone? If you have the guts and strength, go to the battlefield to fight against the devils, not against your own people..."

  "I'm talking about Second Squad Leader!" First Squad Leader had been looking at me with disapproval from the start, and now he was taking advantage of the situation: "Your soldier beat up my soldier to this extent, you can't talk your way out of this one!"

  "Ha! I replied with a smile: "The big guy bullied the new recruit, but ended up getting taught a lesson by the new recruit... We old soldiers... can't hold our heads up high!"

  What I just said sounds simple, but it's actually not that simple, because by saying this, I'm still somehow helping the big fool and standing on the same line as him!

  So everyone understood, and Lao Zhang took a closer look at the big guy with a bruised nose and face, only saying two words: "Idiot!"

  After Shen Guoxin and his group of people left, he suddenly slapped his forehead: "Ah, I forgot to bring back that pack of cigarettes!"

  "Here it is!" Wang Kechang pulled out a pack of Dahongpao from his pocket with a sleight of hand and handed it over.

  Shen Guoxin took a look and found it was exactly the package that had been stolen from him, not even missing the few roots that had been taken out and divided.

  "What... how did you do this?"

  Everyone wanted to know the answer, but Wang Kechang just smiled complacently and refused to respond.

  It was later discovered that this guy was actually a thief and had been in juvenile detention for over a year before joining the army... he was a juvenile delinquent.

  It seems that the new recruits assigned to our squad are really extraordinary!