Chapter 99

Minister Liu stood among the crowd of farewells, watching Li Wei sing passionate lyrics he had never heard before when he left, which inspired the people in the arsenal to be even more excited. He nodded with appreciation. Li Wei has always been a young man with great potential in his mind, and his mentality is very special at any time.

Li Wei carried his luggage and climbed the mountain road alone, rushing to the recruit company near Wangjiayu. The recruit company was formed by personnel drawn from the 1st Regiment of the Independent Division. The instructors include old Red Army soldiers from the original Red Army 1st Regiment and soldiers from local guerrilla elites. Whether it is regular large-scale combat or guerrilla combat, they have rich experience.

Almost every day, the recruit company has a special table on the glutinous field in the local village. Because of frequent combat mobilizations recently, the demand for combatants has increased greatly. The recruitment mobilization work has been underway. There are not only fellow villagers from the same village, but also brothers, and father-son soldiers in the revolutionary anti-Japanese base areas of the Jin-Cha-Hebei region, and have been doing a good job in the mobilization work, and the masses are very enthusiastic in joining the army.

Li Wei walked to the recruiting personnel and placed them at the Eight Immortals table in the burgundy yard, standing attentively, and a standard military salute.

"Report! Soldier Li Wei, come and report!"

Li Wei handed the report letter of introduction with both hands.

The sound of full of energy suddenly attracted many people's attention. As soon as Li Wei's voice fell, the sound of the sound of the sound of the same energy sounded behind him.

"Report! ~ Soldier Fan Guowen, come and report!"

"Guowen!~What are you?!~~" Li Wei turned his head in surprise, but found that Fan Guowen was standing behind him at some point.

His eyes glanced behind Fan Guowen, but found that Fan Guowen's parents were standing far away on the edge of the glutinous rice field, looking at this place with a look of concern, and there was a cadre standing beside him.

"Hey, hey!~Brother Wei, I said it. Wherever you go, I will definitely follow you!" Fan Guowen was so arrogant that he was just now, and he scratched the back of his head and said with a silly smile.

"You, you should go back to the United States, how could you come here to join the army?~" Li Wei said with a heartache. Why is this dead boy so unintentional? A top student from Harvard University came here to be a new recruit in the Eighth Route Army. Even the US military does not have such a good foundation in talent. It is really a waste.

"It's okay, I spent one night convinced my daddy and mommy, and they finally allowed me to join the army with you." Fan Guowen held a pair of dark circles and slap marks on his cheeks. It seemed that the family had not slept all night and was not very peaceful, and had received a lot of education.

Looking at Fan Guowen's parents not far away, they were also red in their eyes. It seemed that they had made great sacrifices and even prepared for the pain of losing their son. They could not resist Fan Guowen, so they had to let their son stay in this war-torn Chinese land. They also walked through the back door and entrusted their superiors to arrange Fan Guowen and Li Wei together.

Li Wei shook his head, "You! ~ I really don't know the hearts of all parents in the world!" Fan Guowen was already a stubborn donkey who couldn't turn back.

Li Wei pushed Fan Guowen away. He walked to Fan Guowen's parents, and saluted the same military salute, saying, "Please rest assured that as long as I, Li Wei, is still alive, I will definitely keep the national security of Wenwen."

Fan Guowen's mother could no longer help crying, but Fan Guowen's father stepped forward and grabbed Li Wei's hand tightly, and said in an excited voice: "Thank you, I'm sorry, Mr. Li."

Li Wei nodded earnestly. Relatively speaking, the role of a talent like Fan Guowen after the founding of the People's Republic of China is still important. If you can protect one, try to protect one as much as possible.

Li Wei and Fan Guowen signed themselves and their names in front of the soldiers who were already stunned by the faction of the name-recruiting soldiers and received their own military uniforms. Fan Guowen turned around several steps with tears in his eyes and silently bid farewell to his parents. He lined up with the others and headed into the barracks to start their life as a new soldier.

After a simple screening, Li Wei and Fan Guowen were assigned to the first and second platoons of the recruit company respectively. The recruit company has always maintained a company-level system, but the number of people is much higher than that of the regular company, and sometimes even exceeds the standard battalion level. The company platoon leader is all veterans who are experienced and good at leading people, and is also instructors. He has certain cultural qualities and political abilities. He trains a group of recruits to be assigned to various troops, and then inserts new soldiers at the same time. Just like the iron-clad soldiers who are running through the camp.

Because of the limited level range issued by the superior order, not many people knew Li Wei's original identity, and Fan Guowen also seemed very low-key. No one in the recruit company knew where they came from. Under the general style of treating the Communist army, the two of them had no special care. Putting on this military uniform and shaving them into a big bald head would be a complete ordinary recruit.

On the first day of the recruit company, Li Wei and Fan Guowen were called to the school ground by the instructor early in the morning to wait for the leaders of the recruits to speak to each other. The recruits with no military quality were in chaos in the school ground like headless flies, standing in a mess, and even standing in the wrong team. Under the command of the platoon leaders of each company, it took almost half an hour to organize into a queue, but it was still a little crooked. There were still a few poor people behind the team running around looking for their own team.

For these recruits who couldn't even tell the difference between the left and right and the ordinary people from rural mountainous areas, it was indeed quite difficult to stand in a queue with so many people for the first time. Some recruits even looked straight at the leaders on the podium in the team, and their calves were trembling with nervousness.

The leaders of this group of new recruits who joined the army and presided over the speech actually brought a few political commissars of the First and Second Regiments or other regiment levels and above who had free time. Compared with the modern leader Kang Chang's speech, because they were from the same environment, they all knew that the audience below did not have much cultural level. The speeches of these political commissars were not only simple but also realistic, and they were close to life in their words. They even told a few jokes to relax the emotions of the recruits and narrow the distance between the officials and soldiers. In their speeches, they emphasized that everyone should work together to defend their homes, defeat Japanese imperialism, and overthrow the three mountains that oppressed the people, and also emphasized discipline.
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