The officer looked up at Lin Xiaotang. He took the application form filled out by Lin Xiaotang in surprise and looked at it carefully. His eyes suddenly lit up, "Are you a college student at Nanjing University?"

Lin Xiaotang subconsciously clicked his heels together and replied resoundingly: "Yes!"

The officer stood up and said to Lin Xiaotang with a smile: "You can come directly to sign up. We have as many young students as you want!"

The crowd in the back began to whisper, and the barefooted men wearing bamboo hats pointed, "Look at people who can read only if they are scholars, it's just different!"

Lin Xiaotang followed the officer into the backyard of the recruiting office. It was a small courtyard with red bricks and white walls. The courtyard was filled with benches and several hot water bottles. There were already more than a dozen young people in the courtyard.

Lying on the table and writing something seriously.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, everyone raised their heads and looked, "Lin Xiaotang, Lin Xiaoqi!" Two voices rang at the same time.

Lin Xiaotang turned around and saw two figures rushing over, hugging Lin Xiaotang and shouting and jumping.

Lin Xiaotang took a closer look and was pleasantly surprised. They were his two classmates from Nanjing University, "Big head, little fart!"

The big head's name is Cai Yong. He got this nickname because he has a fat body and a head as big as a bucket. The little fart's big name is Gu Weiguo. He has a very impressive name, but he is the youngest one in the whole grade. He has a bad temper.

So his classmates all called him "Little Fart", and over time, he became known as "Little Fart" for short.

The three people hugged each other, and they were very excited to reunite after the disaster.

The officer came out of the room, smiled and did not speak. He just stood aside. When the three of them gradually calmed down, he handed Lin Xiaotang a few signatures and said, "Here, write down your situation in detail. When you finish, come to

Just give me the door."

Lin Xiaotang smiled sheepishly and quickly took it.

The three people got together and started writing their resumes.

It turned out that Datou and Xiaopi came to Changsha with the teachers and students who were the first to evacuate Nanjing. After staying at Southwest Associated University for a few days, they learned that the school was moving to Kunming. The two had no relatives or friends in Kunming.

, and there was not much money left for travel, so I came up with the idea of ​​joining the army. Today I came to try my luck, but unexpectedly I met Lin Xiaotang.

Lin Xiaotang also told the two of them roughly about his experience, and the three of them couldn't help but feel a little sad. However, when they thought about fighting in the *** from now on, the three young people quickly put their worries aside and regained their spirits.

The three people submitted their resumes and family information to the officer. The officer looked at the dozen or so signatures they had written and couldn't help laughing. He told them to report here at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon and bring their belongings with them.

, if the review goes well, they will move into the military camp tomorrow.

Big Head and Little Fart cheered for joy. According to them, since the school was moved, the two of them had no fixed place to live. Sometimes they could earn a few odd jobs, but they all spent it on entertaining their mouths, usually on the benches of the train station.

In total, I have been living there for a week.

Lin Xiaotang thought for a while, he still had some money left in his hand, and he was going to live in the military camp soon. There was no point in carrying this money with him. Besides, He Chong's place was an officer's dormitory after all, and all the people coming and going were officers from the headquarters.

It's not convenient to get in and out there, so it's better to move out and find a hotel to chat with Datou for just one night.

After making up his mind, Lin Xiaotang took the two of them around the neighborhood, found a cheap hotel, booked a room, and settled the two of them. He planned to go back to the officer's dormitory, tell He Chong goodbye, and get his own back.

of luggage.

But when I returned to the garrison headquarters, I didn't see He Chong. After asking, I found out that the Xuzhou War was over. Although the Itagaki Division was severely damaged, the national army still gave up Xuzhou in the face of the aggressive Japanese offensive. In order to cope with the following, the Wuhan Base Camp

During the war, a military meeting of senior officers was convened. He Chong followed Xue Yue, the newly appointed commander of the Ninth War Zone, to Wuhan to attend the meeting. It was estimated that he would not be able to come back for a week. Before leaving, he asked the orderly to send a message to Lin Xiaotang.

Lin Xiaotang had no choice but to pack his luggage, leave a letter to He Chong explaining his surrender to the army, return the key to the room to the orderly, and then left the garrison headquarters.

Seeing Big Tou and Xiao Xi devouring their food, Lin Xiaotang laughed so hard that he was out of breath, "Brothers, we won't do that. You guys can take your time and eat, I don't have much money!"

Big Tou held a hoof, chewed it until his mouth was full of oil, and answered vaguely: "You know what the heck, the two of us haven't seen meat and fish for more than a month. We have to eat enough this time no matter what. It takes a lot of money."

When I get to the army, I don’t know what the food is like!”

Xiaopi held a chicken drumstick in each hand without raising his head.

Lin Xiaotang lit a cigarette, looked at the lively street scene outside the tavern window, and asked casually, "Do you have any news about Xia Zhiping?"

With a "pop" sound, Big Tou threw the hoof on the plate, grabbed the cigarette in Lin Xiaotang's hand, and took two strong puffs, "Lin Xiaoqi, you haven't given up yet, do you know what I despise you most?

, it’s your stubborn temper!”

Little Fart sucked the chicken bones with satisfaction, and said angrily, "You treat her like a treasure, humph, she treats you like a fool!"

Datou continued: "I am a lady from a well-educated family, and I pay attention to being well-matched. Who are you, Lin Xiaoqi, a poor student, and your so-called brother? Shit! If I sell you, you have to count the money for him.

Woolen cloth!"

Seeing Lin Xiaotang's face turn gloomy, he patted his mouth with his big head, "I'm sorry, I have a straight temper. I don't speak well, but you have to listen to me even if it doesn't sound good. The two of us are already very close to each other, and we are very close to each other.

We have already flown together, why are you still thinking about these things? You are not traveling with us at all, so what do you care about their life and death!"

Xiaopi said: "Nanjing fell. The two of them ran away early in the morning. They didn't even give you a warning or say hello. It's a good thing that you crawled out from the pile of dead people and still thought about whether they were okay. One word.

, cheap; two words, it’s really cheap; three words, it’s really cheap; four words, it’s really cheap; five words, it’s really fucking cheap; six words…”.

Big Tou slapped Little Fart on the head, "You stinky mouth, stop saying a few words!"

Lin Xiaotang grabbed the bottle and drank a few sips, "Little Fart is right, I am indeed a bitch!"

The big head looked sideways and said, "If the second senior brother were here, you would definitely listen to her words. If you ask me, she is not better than that Xia Zhiping in any way. Even a fool knows that she is interested in you, but you are so stubborn, I...".

Lin Xiaotang said nothing, staring with red eyes.

In this case, Da Tou and Xiao Pi were embarrassed to say anything. They looked at each other, sighed at the same time, and raised the wine bowl, "Come on, brothers, have fun with you. If you have wine today, you will get drunk today!"

The noisy streets and blurred lights add a touch of sadness to the city.

It had been an hour since the car left Changsha City, and the convoy was driving along the mountain road at the foot of Yuelu Mountain. The ups and downs made everyone dizzy, and the leisurely mood they had just got on the car disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

After traveling for two hours, the convoy stopped on a flat land in an unknown valley. Hundreds of military tents, large and small, had been erected here. The colors of the tents were also various. From a distance, it looked like a grassland.

It is full of mushrooms of different shapes.

The 57th Division has a battalion stationed here. The terrain here is flat and surrounded by high mountains, which can effectively prevent deserters from appearing, so it was chosen as a training base for new recruits.

There were about 500 recruits this time. There were only 18 college students like Lin Xiaotang who signed up to join the army, so they were gathered together to form an intensive class. The 57th Division attached great importance to these student soldiers, and the battalion specially sent three

An experienced grassroots officer will be responsible for the training of the college student class.

Among the three officers was a captain of the National Army, aged 26 or 27, with a surname of Huang, a tall and thin man from Tangshan, Hebei Province, and was nicknamed "Cucumber Squad Leader" by the student soldiers. There were also two lieutenants, older,

As class vice-presidents, one has the surname Wang and the other has the surname Liu.

The three people stood upright in front of the student soldiers, and their every move was very standardized. Lin Xiaotang keenly discovered that these three people were definitely the elite of the 57th Division, and they looked like veterans of many battles.

As soon as they met and after a brief introduction, the three officers made a show of force. The student soldiers waited on the truck for more than two hours. Many of them were still retching after getting off the truck, and the queue was twisted and twisted.

, all sticking out their tongues, hunching over and breathing heavily.

Looking at the worried expressions of the three officers, Lin Xiaotang knew that he was going to be spoiled. Sure enough, Squad Leader Huang's Tangshan accent immediately sounded, "Looking at you, you are in good spirits and you didn't get down at last. So, let's run away first."

Ten miles of ground to relax your muscles and bones!"

As a result, eighteen heroes carried their luggage and started running laps along the newly leveled training ground. However, this large area of ​​​​land was only flattened, and there were many big and small pits.

From time to time, someone tripped and fell, and within less than one lap, the entire team became sparse.

However, it seemed that the instructors' methods were similar. Soon, more than 500 recruits ran onto the field. However, these people who had just put down their hoes to eat food and became soldiers were obviously much stronger than the student soldiers. They were all screaming.

He ran very fast on the field and soon surpassed the student soldiers running at the front.

This kind of training was a piece of cake for the current Lin Xiaotang. After running for two laps, he still felt nothing. Looking back at his teammates, he quietly slowed down and merged into the middle of the student soldiers.

Most of the recruits quickly ran the distance of ten miles. After finishing, the barefoot recruits squatted on the edge of the field with sullen expressions and watched the student soldiers being embarrassed, but they were rushed to the tent by their respective squad leaders with smiles on their faces to prepare for dinner.

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The student soldiers were still struggling desperately on the field, and the line was dragging for a mile. Lin Xiaotang, one in each hand, ran in the middle of the line with his exhausted big head and little butt.
Chapter completed!