In fact, even if a 16-year-old boy is wearing a military uniform, he is just a teenager before he has truly undergone complete training to become a qualified soldier.

It's not embarrassing to cry.

But something went wrong when I cried.

The recruits in the same trench immediately had a chain reaction.

Homesickness can be contagious.

Zhuangyan seemed to be in a daze of seeing the warm and smiling faces of his family, and the New Year’s meals on the table. The familiar smell of hometown floated in memories, penetrated into his nostrils, and penetrated into his bone marrow...

At this time, Zhuang Yan recalled the past and realized that Zhuang Zhenguo was actually not bad to him.

In the New Year’s meals, delicious chicken legs will always be left to yourself.

After coming to the army, there will be no chicken legs left specifically for myself to enjoy.

It’s good to be at home for a thousand days, but it’s hard to go out for half a step.

Zhuang Yan was thinking, maybe this old saying means this.

As I thought about it, I felt uncomfortable again in a blink of an eye. My nose became sore, my chest felt like something was stuffed, blocking my trachea, and the corners of my eyes were itchy and hot.

The oldest recruits in this trench are no more than 20 years old.

Zuo Xiaoheng's sob sound began to spread in the humid air like a flu virus.

Soon, waves of depressing sobs came one after another.

Finally, Yin Xiancong couldn't help but growl: "Crying! It's all the people who are carrying the handles, and they are not afraid of being laughed at! Now it's an air defense exercise, everyone must be silent, otherwise they will be discovered by the battalion commander and everyone will be criticized! Remember, you are soldiers, and soldiers don't believe in tears!"

All the sobs suddenly disappeared without a trace in an instant, just like Zuo Xiaoheng suddenly cried, without warning or trace.

The air defense exercise is very dull.

Everyone was on standby in their hidden position until the alarm was lifted. Zhuang Yan later heard that this drill was not groundless or effective, but a tradition of the army.

On holidays, take the troops out and deploy them in a planned area to hide. The advantage is that in the event of a war, the barracks will be the primary target of bombing, so that they can at least preserve combat effectiveness.

The 1st Division is an elite army on the front line, so naturally it must be cautious and will automatically increase its combat readiness level during holidays.

Veterans have long been accustomed to it, but new recruits like Zhuang Yan feel it is a torment.

"Old Guo..."

Zhuangyan took out the cigarette box, took out a cigarette, and hit Guo Xiangyang next to him with his arm.

"Give me one?"

"No." Guo Xiangyang raised his head and looked up.

He wanted to see the sky, but in fact he couldn't see anything, only messy leaves and weeds.

Zhuangyan bit the cigarette and laughed in a low voice: "Do you miss your partner? That daughter of the village party secretary?"

He said, while carefully stretching his head to explore the distance of the trench.

I didn't see Yin Xiancong's shadow.

Before, from Zuo Xiaoheng crying to Yin Xiancong's appearance, he solemnly calculated that the squad leader was not near him.

All my own recruits are all recruits.

He took out the lighter from his pocket with confidence, clicked and lit it.

"Hey, Lao Guo, tell me, are you thinking about a partner?"

Smoking a cigarette, my solemn mood improved slightly.

He felt that he should ask someone to chat at this time, at least he wouldn't miss homesickly.

People sit in the dark, it's the first day of the Lunar New Year, and they are cold and wet. Thinking about the good things at home, I am afraid I can't help but cry.

Guo Xiangyang said in a panic: "Soul, shhhh-"

He signaled Zhuangyan not to say anything.

"The squad leader said it, don't speak out..."

"Squad Leader?" Zhuang Yan couldn't help laughing.

He originally wanted to tell Guo Xiangyang that the squad leader was not nearby, so he would be happy.

But before he could speak, the grass above his head was suddenly pushed away.

"who!?"

Zhuangyan was still biting cigarettes in her mouth, and the man was startled and jumped up from the bottom of the ditch.

"That company!?"

Two camouflage hats were exposed outside the grass that were pushed apart, and then, Zhuangyan saw the epaulette on the other party's shoulders.

It’s two bars and one star, and one parallel bar is practiced!

As big as the battalion commander Teng Wenji!

The two officers suddenly almost scared Zhuang Yan.

He quickly threw away the cigarette in his hand, stood at attention, and shouted: "Ship 4, 2nd row, 8th Company!"

One of the officers asked: "What's the name?"

"solemn!"

The two officers didn't say much, their heads shrank and they disappeared.

The trenches were suddenly in chaos.

Everyone was talking about it, guessing the identity of the person who came just now.

Yin Xiancong had already arrived at Zhuang Yan's side, grabbed him and knocked him to the wall in anger: "Zhuang Yan! What did you do!"

After sniffing, he suddenly said, "You are smoking!"

Zhuang Yan was speechless, and it was impossible to make a quibble. She was caught and showed up, so she could only shut up and not speak.

Before Yin Xiancong could get angry, the gathering whistle sounded outside.

Yin Xiancong pushed Zhuang Yan hard and said angrily: "I'll deal with you later!"

Zhuang Yan's face turned pale because of fright.

He knew that he had really gotten into trouble this time.

Holding the seriousness who passed by him, solemnly asked, "Seriously, who are those people..."

He said seriously: "It looks like that, he is a person from the regiment. I have never seen him in our camp. I guess he is a staff officer or something."

"Are you a big official?" asked solemnly nervously.

He scratched his head seriously and said, "Absolutely, they are all majors."

"It's over..."

Zhuang Yan started to wail in his heart.

The whole battalion returned to the waiting point to gather. Battalion Commander Teng Wenji's face had already turned darker than Bao Zheng. After everyone got together, he raised his finger and pointed to the team of the Eighth Company.

"That soldier named Zhuangyan, who is from the second platoon and fourth squad of the Eighth Company, leave the line!"

Zhuang Yan ran out of the line in a sweat and stood in front of everyone.

"Turn back!"

Teng Wenji's face was blue and black.

"Let everyone see who made the entire air defense drill assessment of our entire battalion fail today! Take a good look!"

Zhuang Yan couldn't help but lower his head and didn't dare to look in the direction of his eighth company.

"Raise your head!" Teng Wenji shouted: "You dare to smoke during the air defense concealment. If you have the courage to even raise your head to see people!"

Teng Wenji's words stimulated Zhuangyan.

He gritted his teeth and really raised his head.

Opposite is a camp with more than 400 pairs of eyes.

New recruits, veterans, and company commanders and platoon leaders...

Zhuangyan felt that his skin was as if he was being pressed into a basin of boiling water, which was so hot that it was uncomfortable.

"I recognize you!" said Teng Wenji.

Zhuangyan had been to the camp before.

The battalion commander said this with a basis, and he has indeed seen this kid.

"You Binhai City is really talented!" Teng Wenji snorted coldly, "We are only two of you fellow villagers here. One of you is a deserter and the other is smoking in the air defense drill in the entire battalion! Do you know what the meaning of the air defense drill is? If you smoke, the enemy will discover you! Our entire battalion is completely destroyed because of your cigarette!"

The more he spoke, he became more and more angry. He stepped forward and took out the pack of cigarettes and lighters from his solemn pocket.

"The smoke is not bad!"

After Teng Wenji finished speaking, he raised his hand and threw it into the valley.

"Don't you like smoking? It seems that cigarettes are more important than your life. Today you go to the valley and pick them up and go back! Yin Xiancong, supervise me well. After picking them up, let him run back with his own equipment!"

Zhuangyan secretly glanced at the valley with his light, and the drop was two or three hundred meters.

It is no less difficult to find a pack of cigarettes and a lighter in a shrub valley than to find a needle in a haystack.
Chapter completed!