Chapter 61: Special Operations Brigade Confrontation, Scouts Must Be Deployed First!
Xu Ge's words attracted everyone's attention.
"Is it true? Did you get the cash?" Li Dongshui asked curiously.
The veterans all looked over.
Xu Ge shook his head: "No."
Li Dongshui rolled his eyes. "Tsk! What are you calling me?"
"When we get to the training location, I can ask my dad to send us some cash." Xu Ge said with a smile, "Just tell me how much you want!"
The Class 9 dormitory fell silent in an instant, and everyone stared at Xu Ge in amazement.
"What did you say? What do you mean your dad sent it over?"
Guo Yuanshuai, who was lying in bed, suddenly sat up and realized, "You mean, this year's training will be in your hometown?"
Xu Ge nodded and laughed: "That's right!"
"Are you sure?"
"Sure, my dad just said there are a lot of soldiers at the train station every day, and he even saw people from our Wolf Brigade!"
Xu Ge repeated what his father had said.
Whoosh!
Others gathered around in an instant.
"Where is Xu Ge's hometown?"
"It seems to be the Central Plains."
"Central Plains? Why don't I remember there being one there..."
"Shut up!"
Guo Yuanshuai gave a low shout and everyone immediately fell silent.
"So, this year's training will be at the Queshan Special Training Base!"
Guo Yuanshuai frowned and whispered, then looked at Xu Ge, "From now on, only we know about your hometown in Queshan. Don't tell anyone else!"
"Huh? Why?"
Not only Xu Ge, but no one else knew what the old deputy class leader meant.
Guo Yuanshuai looked at the veterans and said, "None of you have ever been to Queshan, but I have. It is the second largest training base in our country, second only to Zhurihe on the grasslands. Whenever we train there, there will be a confrontation exercise near the end!
Also, Xu Ge just said that his father saw many people from different branches of the military, so it's very likely that this exercise will be a multi-branch joint confrontation!"
"Fuck! Then we have to bring casual clothes with us!" Niu Sanxian said immediately.
The expressions of the other veterans also turned serious.
Kai Youmu asked in confusion, "Deputy Squad Leader, you just said that Queshan is a special forces training base. If it's an exercise, it's between special forces brigades. But are there any rivals for our Wolf Brigade in the country? We don't need to be so cautious, right?"
"Do you know what home-field advantage is?"
Guo Yuanshuai said unhappily, "Yes, if you bring any army from across the country to the northwest, our Wolf Brigade has never lost as the Blue Army, but what about going to Queshan?
The Central Plains Tiger Brigade is stationed over there. That's their territory. They know which trees in the mountains have the most fruit. If they throw you in there, you probably won't be able to find your way out!"
"Tiger Brigade?"
Su Liujun was surprised. "Squad leader, could it be the same unit that nearly captured the brigade commander alive during the Leap Forward exercise more than a decade ago?"
Guo Yuanshuai nodded and said seriously, "That's the one. They're also a well-known special operations brigade in the Central Theater Command. Our brigade hasn't been there in the past ten years. If our opponent is the Tiger Brigade again this time, I'm afraid..."
Xu Ge was a little shocked: "There's such a powerful army in our hometown? Deputy Squad Leader, why don't you let others know where my hometown is?"
"Because walls have ears."
Guo Yuanshuai said seriously, "Your hometown is in Queshan, so you must be familiar with the area. This is our advantage. We can use it to surprise our opponents during exercises. However, if the enemy knows about this and becomes prepared, we won't be able to do anything."
Before Xu Ge could even open his mouth, Li Dongshui asked, "Deputy Squad Leader, it's okay for us to talk here. Could it be that our Wolf Brigade has spies from the enemy? Besides, aren't exercises supposed to be held at the end of the training? It's already several months later..."
"But we have to be on guard from now on!" Guo Yuanshuai said in a deep voice.
What Xu Ge and Li Dongshui couldn't understand was that after Guo Yuanshuai said this, the veterans actually nodded in agreement, not thinking that the deputy squad leader was making a fuss at all.
"Squad Leader? This is too much!" Xu Ge was a little confused. "Isn't it just an exercise? Why is it like a war?"
"Exercises are like fighting! Especially in this day and age, if there's no fighting, where will the soldiers' achievements come from?"
Guo Yuanshuai said seriously, "In a sense, exercises are more important than actual combat, because they are an important basis for testing whether the troops can go to the battlefield and whether they can fight on the battlefield!"
"That's not to the point..."
"No, it's true. It's not an exaggeration at all!"
Li Dongshui was about to say something when Su Liujun spoke up, "You two new recruits have no idea how far the troops participating in the exercise will go to defeat the other side!"
"To what extent?" Xu Ge and Li Dongshui asked immediately.
Su Liujun: "Three years ago in Zhurihe, a reconnaissance squad leader of the Blue Army came to our camp six months in advance to herd sheep. Every day he led a flock of sheep around the surrounding mountains and slept in the sheepfold at night.
This guy has been herding sheep for six months, his whole body reeks of sheep shit, his hair is almost infested with worms, and yet he managed to find the location of one of our artillery battalions!"
Xu Ge and Li Dongshui: "Holy crap!!!"
Half a year passed earlier, and I had to sleep in the sheep pen for half a year?
This is truly a magical operation!
"I'm telling you two, when two special operations brigades clash, the first ones to be dispatched will definitely be the scouts! From the moment you step foot into Queshan, reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance by both sides will begin. Any stranger around you could be a scout for the other side!"
Guo Yuanshuai lit a cigarette, as if reminiscing about the past.
"That year in Queshan, as soon as our Sixth Company arrived, we were sent straight out on a reconnaissance mission. During the entire training period, I never returned to the barracks tent. I spent every day hanging out with the villagers' homes just to scout out the Tiger Brigade's personnel deployment. I almost became their son-in-law!"
Everyone gathered around him and said, "Deputy, tell me more about your fellow villager's daughter!"
"What are you talking about? She likes noodles and I like rice. It's inappropriate!"
Guo Yuanshuai waved his hand, "Go, go, go, hurry up and wash up and go to bed early, you have to get up early tomorrow!"
Everyone dispersed and looked at Xu Ge: "Dad Xu, the cash flow of this training depends on you!"
Xu Ge had a look on his face that said, "I'll ask my dad to take a day off tomorrow to go to the bank to withdraw cash. The kids can rest assured!"
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The next morning at six o'clock, the wake-up whistle blew.
Everyone immediately got up, washed, packed their backpacks and packed their bags.
Dinner started at 6:20, and at 7 o'clock, everyone was on board the bus and the convoy drove straight to the national highway.
At the beginning, on the cement road inside the regiment’s base, the scale of hundreds of troop carriers was already very large, but after they got on the national highway and merged with the convoys of other units, they instantly turned into a long dragon winding for several kilometers!
Local police cars were weaving back and forth to direct traffic, blasting sirens to slow down any private cars on the road that were about to overtake.
Xu Ge even heard a traffic policeman yelling in a thick Naan dialect: "Hey! Don't overtake the people in front. If you do, I will catch you back!"
Before everyone boarded the bus, Battalion Commander Zhang Hua emphasized again that since the Spring Festival travel rush had not yet ended, they must be courteous when meeting ordinary people during the journey.
However, the mobilization of the Wolf Brigade had been prepared several months in advance, and the Night City Railway Station had opened a green channel in advance. Everyone got on the train smoothly, except for being a little uncomfortable with people around them taking pictures of their faces with their mobile phones.
This journey was very familiar to Xu Ge, after all, it was a return trip along the same route.
"Let me tell you, it takes about a day and a night to get from Yecheng to Zhangye, and then change trains in Zhangye to go directly to Queshan."
After getting on the bus, everyone in the Sixth Company was assigned to one carriage. Xu Ge found a seat by the window and sat down, smiling at Kai Youmu.
"Hahaha, we met at this location!"
Li Dongshui struggled to stuff his backpack onto the shelf, plopped down across from Xu Ge, and complained, "This train clearly has both soft and hard sleeper seats, so why are we assigned hard seats?"
"Soft sleepers are sold to passengers, and we only have a handful of hard sleepers. How can we possibly have enough?" Su Liujun shook his head. "Only the deputy classmate in our class has a hard sleeper."
Niu Sanxian and Wang Lin were putting several backpacks in a row in the aisle.
"What are you doing?" Xu Ge asked curiously.
"Make the bed. You're not going to sleep on a chair tonight, are you?" Niu Sanxian said and then lay down on the backpack carelessly.
"No, you're blocking the aisle. What if others need to go to the bathroom?"
"This is your first time participating in the training, and you're not used to it yet. You'll understand by the evening."
It wasn't until noon that Xu Ge knew what Niu Sanxian meant.
I saw that the entire aisle was filled with veterans lying there, snoring one after another.
Some people who wanted to go to the toilet climbed over the backs of the chairs on both sides, while others simply took off their shoes and stepped over these people.
The veterans lying on the ground protected their lower bodies with their hands, or moved sideways to make room.
Everyone, you don’t mind me blocking the way, and I don’t blame you for peeing too much. There was not a single complaint throughout the whole process, and it was extremely harmonious.
When it was time for dinner, the conductor did not enter the carriage. He took out boxes of food one by one at the connection point, and the soldiers passed them to the back one by one.
After the train passed the Tianshan Mountains and night fell, the soldiers in the entire carriage completely relaxed.
There were people lying on the luggage racks, in the aisles, on the backs of chairs, on the tables, under the tables, and even on the sinks at the connection between the carriages.
Xu Ge's sense of smell was already very sensitive, but for a moment he was unable to fall asleep because of the foot odor, sweat odor and other unknown odors.
Li Dongshui had fallen asleep in the seat opposite, with his legs resting on Xu Ge's thighs.
Xu Ge now regretted sitting in the window seat, as it was very inconvenient to get in and out.
"Gobao? Gobao?"
Suddenly, a familiar voice came from the connection between the carriages.
Xu Ge looked up and found Guo Yuanshuai waving at him. He immediately pushed Li Dongshui's legs down and stood up.
Li Dongshui rubbed his eyes and woke up, saying drowsily, "What are you doing?"
"The deputy squad leader lets us go!"
"oh!"
The two men used tactical moves to climb over the backs of rows of chairs nimbly and skillfully.
Guo Yuanshuai was smoking a cigarette between the legs of the seventh squad leader on the ground. He looked at Xu Ge and asked, "I noticed you weren't asleep."
Xu Ge said truthfully: "Deputy, I can't sleep yet. Let's talk about it when I'm too sleepy."
"I'm in the lower bunk of bed 19. You two can take a nap on my bed." Guo Yuanshuai pointed to the hard sleeper compartment behind him.
Xu Ge shook his head: "Deputy, your waist is injured, you can sleep alone, the two of us are in good health and can handle it!"
"Stop talking nonsense and go!"
Guo Yuanshuai said unhappily, "I've been lying down all day, so I just wanted to get out and move around. I'll come and wake you up when I'm tired."
"Oh, okay, thank you, class vice-chairman!"
Xu Ge and Li Dongshui walked to the back and soon found compartment No. 19. Sure enough, the lower bunk was empty.
Xu Ge didn’t recognize the people sleeping on the other five beds. They were probably patients from other companies.
"How are we going to sleep in this bed?" Li Dongshui asked.
Xu Ge lay down directly, leaning to one side: "You sleep outside, with your butt facing me!"
"Why should you sleep inside? Let's switch!" Li Dongshui was unhappy.
Xu Ge was too lazy to pay attention to him. He closed his eyes and prepared to go to sleep. He was indeed very sleepy.
At this moment, because he was close to the partition of the carriage, Xu Ge heard a whisper from the other side, which sounded familiar.
"Did you hear that? You sleep outside and I sleep inside!" Li Dongshui raised his voice when Xu Ge ignored him.
Xu Ge was getting impatient: "Are you looking for trouble? It's good enough to have a place to sleep, but you're still picky..."
"Oh, it really is you two!"
A head popped in from the doorway. It was Zhang Qian, the female squad leader who had accompanied me to Shiquan River the last time. "Why does your voice sound familiar?"
Seeing that it was an acquaintance, Xu Ge also felt strange: "Squad Leader Zhang Qian, why are you on this train too?"
"Why can't I be here? Am I not a member of the Wolf Brigade?"
Zhang Qian asked with a grin, "Without our communications company, you'll just end up being blinded and fed to mosquitoes!"
"That's not what I meant. Didn't your logistics people fly there with the brigade headquarters?" Xu Ge explained.
"The plane is full."
Zhang Qian glanced at the two of them, then smiled and said to Li Dongshui, "Xiao Shuishui, don't you have a place to sleep? I have an empty bed over there. Do you want to come over?"
Li Dongshui's eyes lit up: "Is this true?"
"Of course it's true. Do you want to sleep or not? If not, I'll give it to someone else." Zhang Qian said, "I made an exception and let you come because we're friends."
"Make an exception?" Li Dongshui was a little confused.
Xu Ge had already heard what was happening in the next berth compartment, but he didn't point it out. He urged, "Squad Leader Zhang Qian is so kind. Go quickly!"
"oh!"
Li Dongshui followed Zhang Qian to the next door.
The next moment, the screams of the female soldiers were heard.
"Hey, why is there a male soldier here?"
"Ouch, where are my pants!"
"He's still a new recruit. Wow, his face is so fair!"
The teasing sounds from the other side gave Xu Ge next door a chill. Why did it feel like a spider hole?
The next second, a figure fled back in a panic. Without complaining about the location, he lay down outside next to Xu Ge, shivering.
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