Chapter 16 Xu Ping’s decision

Author: There is a detective

Chapter 16 Xu Ping’s decision

Morning.

The sky was slightly bright, and a quick whistle woke the sleeping soldiers without any hesitation. The soldiers got out of the warm quilt, Lu Nan got dressed with bare feet, and then began to fold the quilt.

When the quilt was folded, Lao Zhao was already standing at the door, and the soldiers filed out of the door and trotted downstairs.

Class 1 was the first class to gather. Lu Nan yawned and reported the count, wiping the excrement from the corners of his eyes. After the count was completed, he followed the team and ran to the garage.

In the crowded carriage, someone took the opportunity to light a cigarette to relieve themselves. Lu Nan sat in a narrow corner, silently smelling second-hand cigarettes.

Dust was everywhere on the shooting range. What was once a beautiful southern forest was suddenly crushed by tanks into a landform similar to the grasslands of the northwest. Looking up at the sky, the stars had not dispersed yet, and the shooting range had become a paradise for the tanks.

Carrying the Type 85 sniper rifle on his back and the Type 95 rifle that had just been replaced this year in his arms, Lu Nan stood in line beside the car in confusion. At this time, Lao Zhao came over, snatched the Type 85 sniper rifle from behind Lu Nan, and lifted it up.

The first step was to give Du Dahong a few kicks.

"I don't need the gun, and I don't need your life either. If you continue like this, I'll report you early and get out of here!"

Du Dahong silently took his Type 85 sniper rifle, and after squad leader Lao Zhao left, he showed an indifferent smile and murmured in a low voice.

"What kind of soldier do you want to be? If I could leave now, I would have left a long time ago. My sister has done everything. When she goes back, she will work in the street office in the city. From now on, she will become a city citizen..."

Lu Nan, who was standing aside, lowered his head and remained silent.

Touching Lu Nan with his arm, Du Dahong said quite proudly: "Even though he is so arrogant now and refuses to accept anyone in the family, in a few months he will go back to his hometown to farm and work, and I will go to the city to work.

So there is no future in being a soldier, you are miserable and you don’t have much money. You should retire as soon as possible and go to work, don’t you think so, Xiao Lu?”

"Working is hard and tiring," Lu Nan replied dully.

"It's okay. You can come to me after you retire from the army in a few years. Then go find my sister. If we go to a big city to do business, we will definitely be better than him."

Lu Nan had no choice but to remain silent.

In a rapidly transforming society, facing the ever-changing social life, after losing the army, everyone is confused and confused to deal with new things in society.

Going south to do business and asking for a job seems to have become the mainstream of the times.

Veterans who are about to retire from the army will also be worried, irritable, and panic about entering society. They will face life with a meager retirement fee, hurriedly joining the trend of working south, or following in the footsteps of their parents and taking root in the countryside.

Lu Nan's arm holding the steel gun trembled, as if everything Du Dahong said was connected in his mind, forming a scene after scene.

It seemed that I was standing in an old and dilapidated bus station, saw the bus heading to my hometown, and got on it. Returning to my hometown, I handed over the subsidy I had saved bit by bit to my parents, and then got on the bus leaving my hometown and joined the train.

The flow of people heading south.

Running around for a temporary residence permit, looking at the high-rise buildings everywhere, living on the assembly line has lost the vitality of the past. I get crops watered by sweat in the soil and sell them cheaply to the scornful and picky traders.

During the holidays, I looked at the mottled paper in my hand, but in the end I still didn’t have the courage to press the numbers.

'drop!'

When the whistle sounded, Lu Nan followed the figure behind him, curled up into a ball, stepped through the one-meter hatch with a whoosh, and closed the door smoothly.

The engine of the tank rang. Looking out from the shooting holes in all directions in the tank, more than a dozen tanks formed a charging formation and launched an attack from the front. Du Dahong's words were still lingering in Lu Nan's mind until the tank's main cannon fired and the impact

He knocked his head against the steel with force.

Wearing a steel helmet, although it didn't hurt much, Lu Nan still sat in the corner in a daze.

The heavy machine gun started firing fiercely, the main gun fired again, and the car body violently shook.

In the dim carriage, Xu Ping saw that something was not right about Lu Nan and shook him gently. Lu Nan recovered, nodded, and continued to listen to the roar of this steel giant.

A few minutes later, the targets on the shooting range were almost beaten, and Lao Zhao issued a new command.

"Get out of the car and prepare to charge! Prepare to charge!"

Lu Nan sat by the door, unscrewed the door and huddled out, pulled up the gun bolt and shot at the fixed humanoid target in front. The tip of his nose smelled the smell of gunpowder and dust accompanying the smell of diesel, and he formed a formation with his comrades behind him and slowly moved towards

Advance forward.

The smoke launcher on the tank was fired, and the thick white smoke covered the soldiers' advancement. As the last fortification was blown up by the howitzer, the commanders and soldiers gave the order, and Lu Nan rushed up the hills ahead with a roar.

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During afternoon training.

Squad leader Lao Zhao suggested that Lu Nan be a sniper gunner, holding a Type 85 sniper rifle. In the afternoon training session, Lu Nan managed to score a dismal thirty-two rings with five bullets at a distance of 400 meters.

This made other people in the company laugh at him, thinking that this private was not as good as the rumors, and his shooting skills were simply in the second quadrant of ghosts.

When Lao Zhao saw it, his face was livid, and he refuted those who laughed at Lu Nan one by one, saying that Lu Nan had a cold and fever today, that's why he was beaten like this. Platoon leader Duan Shanyue silently accepted this excuse. After all, he had witnessed Lu Nan's shooting skills.

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Then when he was serving as a driver, he drove the chariot and separated from the formation, which Duan Shanyue couldn't tolerate. The company commander angrily scolded the platoon leader, and Duan Shanyue yelled at Lao Zhao and told him to get out early.

Lao Zhao issued a hush order and took the responsibility for the training errors alone. Lu Nan lowered his head, held the rifle in his arms and leaned against the tank.

After training, return to the station.

Xu Ping quietly pulled Lu Nan's sleeve, led him to the toilet corridor, and took out half a pack of Zhonghua from his pocket. Lu Nan wanted a cigarette with trembling hands, and Xu Ping lit it and handed it to him.

"I got this from Deputy Lian. He couldn't bear to smoke it himself."

Lu Nan took a deep breath and exhaled the smoke: "I'm sorry, I...cough cough cough today!"

After stubbing out Lu Nan's cigarette butt, Xu Ping threw it into the poop: "If you don't know how to smoke, don't smoke. Why can't you?"

"sorry."

"No need to say sorry, today I am criticizing you on behalf of the class. What happened to you today, Xiao Lu, this is not your past style."

Lu Nan whispered: "I don't know either, I'll correct it."

"Did you compete with Yehuhu's recruits and have problems in your heart after losing?"

Xu Ping continued: "I heard someone say that you lost to him in the recruit assessment before, and you lost to him again this time. It's normal to be upset because of your bad mood. No one will scold you, and Lao Zhao didn't say that either.

What are you not doing?"

"It's my own fault, I will adjust it." Lu Nan readily used the competition with Xiaozhuang as a shield.

"It's best if you can adjust yourself. Anyway, don't put too much pressure on yourself. No one will blame you if you lose in that competition, you know?"

"yes."

Xu Ping pushed Lu Nan out of the toilet and stood with him in the corridor to blow the air.

Suddenly, Lu Nan said: "The platoon leader told me something before. You will all leave in the second half of the year?"

"Oh?"

Xu Ping smiled disdainfully and said: "So it's because of this. I have figured it out. I will not leave the army. I will study in a military school and then return to our company. I hope you will still be my soldier."

Army building requires more people. Instead of retiring and leaving, it is better to do meaningful things. Don't be influenced by Du Dahong, he is negative, you have to learn from the positive, learn from Squad Leader Zhao."
Chapter completed!