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Chapter 22: First Acquaintance

The squad leader of Yueyang was discharged from the army, and since then, the reconnaissance squad no longer had the cheerful sound of suona and the passionate sound of Banhu.

The company officially appointed Wang Ke as the reconnaissance squad leader, and Da Guo was transferred to the artillery platoon as the deputy squad leader of the fifth squad. The command platoon was still stationed at the division headquarters farm.

After doing good things, I forgot it in a blink of an eye. In another half a month, the company and farm department that was receiving defense will enter the site. The spring plowing and wheat watering will begin soon, so the command and platoon are ready to move directly to the defense and go to Xishan to participate in the training.

The veterans are familiar with Xishan. Five Eighth Route Army soldiers once fought against the Japanese invaders and finally died heroically in a place called Langya Mountain.

There are mountains and ridges here and the terrain is complex. Some of the deep mountains and old forests are tens of miles away without a house.

Moreover, the famous Qing Xi Tomb is there, and emperors of all sizes slept four or five underground, nine queens, and more than sixty concubines, princesses, princesses, etc.

It is really a romantic thing to be able to go there to carry out scout training, and you can wake up with a smile if you think about it.

I am afraid of the mountains and roads that are far away, and the scenery that takes one step at a time, and the rain that goes one by one, and the wind that goes one by one, and the growth that takes one step at a time.

On this day, the reconnaissance squad leader Wang Ke was organizing the whole class to carry out map board work. What is map board work? This is a training subject in military terrain. It is to spread the map flat and stuck on a two-foot square map board. According to the reported geographical coordinates, quickly use coordinate nails to pin down the map at a fixed point, or in turn, quickly use a transparent ruler board to find its coordinates based on a certain point on the map.

What is the coordinates? It is said that there was a German named Gauss who inherited the research results of his predecessors and drew the world's first real map. He used a British town called Greenwich as the benchmark starting point, crossing the North Pole of the Earth, and cutting it like cutting a watermelon. The east to the east is called the Eastern Hemisphere, the west to the west is called the Western Hemisphere, and the eastern hemisphere near this town is called the Middle East, and the far east is called the Far East. The eastern hemisphere is evenly divided into 180 equal parts. The longitude line passing through the small town of Greenwich is called the Primordial Meridian, which is the zero-star meridian, which is both the division of the eastern and western hemispheres and the starting point of standard time. Later, someone cuts the north and south horizontally to form the south and the south latitude. The point where the longitude line and the latitude line cross horizontally is the coordinates of this place.

Later, with the advancement of science and the emergence of compass, people discovered that the real north of the earth was not the North Pole, but to the country of Canada. Therefore, the real north and the magnetic north appeared. The real military map formed the real horizontal coordinates and vertical coordinates based on the magnetic north, which were represented by the x and y axes respectively.

Being able to quickly find the location and actual position on the map based on the coordinates will become a skill that scouts must master. In the future, when fighting, you only need to report the coordinates and the artillery hidden behind you can install the shooting elements according to the coordinates you reported, and fight cattle across the mountains, and hit each other accurately.

Don't underestimate the coordinates on this picture. You use a sewing needle to stab an eye on the map. This eye is 30 meters away on a map with a scale of 1 to 50,000. If you stick a few needle holes, the shell may be deviated by hundreds of meters, and it will not be able to hit the enemy and easily expose your position.

So there is a saying in the artillery that the first shot hits. You must ensure that the bullets are free to protect yourself.

After watching the movie "Crossing the River Reconnaissance", that is why our scouts have determined the standards for the enemy's artillery positions.

The recruits who were supplemented were already on the road. After rushing to meet, they would probably be able to go directly into the mountain. The recruits who took over the calculator heard that the surname was Song and were personally selected by the platoon leader Hu Zhijun. They have never seen anyone before, but I believe they will definitely not be bad.

Here, I was working on the board, and I saw a woman walking towards me with a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl on a crutch.

"Uncle, uncle!" The girl screamed from a distance.

When Wang Ke saw that it was the girl he had dug out of the ruins of the earthquake.

He quickly stood up, and the woman next to the girl must be her mother.

Seven or eight meters away, the woman threw away her crutches and knelt down with the little girl. Wang Ke and a few comrades ran over quickly and helped her up.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, what are you doing?" Wang Ke still doesn't know the name of this woman and that little girl.

"Benefactor, let's thank you." The woman handed over a basket with more than 20 eggs on the straw in the basket.

Through this contact, Wang Ke learned that her husband's surname was Li, named Li Laifu. The villagers called her "Fusao" and her daughter was Li Xueying. She was thirteen years old this year and was in the sixth grade of elementary school. Both her husband and son died in this earthquake.

Eggs cannot be collected, and feelings can be kept.

"Sister-in-law, has your family been rebuilt? Where do you live now?"

Mrs. Fu's tears flowed down again and she sighed. Her husband passed away and the pillars of the family were gone. When talking about reconstruction, she built a shack in the original site, guarding a few chickens and the pig to see if she could save some money in autumn.

Hearing Fusao's narration, Wang Ke's heart tightened. Although winter had passed, the shack was not a long-term solution after all.

"Sister Fu, I'll go to your village these two days."

With the approval of the platoon leader Hu Zhijun, Wang Ke poured a few kilograms of cooking oil for Mrs. Fu from the small warehouse in the platoon and filled 20 kilograms of rice.

After seeing off Mrs. Fu, Wang Ke was in a state of peace. He didn't know how much it would cost to build a new house. He had a deposit of 70 yuan. Before joining the army, he still had 800 yuan in work-study money, which was far from enough.

The next day, he asked the platoon leader for leave and wanted to go to Dawangzhuang, so he decided to go to the village chief.

When he saw the village chief, he sighed when talking about Fusao Fu. Li Laifu was a young surname in Dawangzhuang. Fusao married here from Henan Province. The village was relatively poor. Laifu's funeral was still the village who came to help with the food. Now he wanted to rebuild his home, and the village could not afford more money to support her.

"Village Chief, how much does it cost to rebuild this courtyard?"

"At the current price, it will cost at least three thousand yuan."

Wang Ke was stunned. His entire money was only 870 yuan, which was still three-quarters away. When he returned to the company, he was depressed. He lay in bed at night and couldn't fall asleep for a long time. He got up, lighted the lantern, and took out his pen and started writing letters. Who should I borrow it from? I found my mother.

He wrote a letter to his mother, wanting to borrow 1,000 yuan. Wang Ke knew that the family was not rich, and if he could give out 1,000 yuan, it would be the greatest energy.

Who else should I look for? I look for Wu Xiangyu. Her family is rich. I remember she once told herself that her parents were the boss of a large state-owned enterprise. She also borrowed 1,000 yuan. After opening the letter paper, I suddenly remembered that she had not read the reply she had recently given herself. Yes, let's take a look at what she wrote first?

Wang Ke went into the house and took out a letter from the grenade box. The handwriting was written by Long Feifeng. Wang Ke and Wu Xiangyu only wrote one letter, which was sent by the sanitary Yu Deben. However, Wu Xiangyu sent him more than thirty letters. Wang Ke had not read a single letter in full.

He found the latest letter and tore it apart, and as always she wrote three pieces of paper.

Full of care and admiration, he especially praised him for his second-class merit again, saying that he was the hero in her mind and the role model of the youth of the era. In the middle, he introduced her job transfer, but in the end he was still the same old longing, friendship, etc.

Wang Ke picked up the pen and told her about the experience of the great Wang Zhuang Fusao, and his plans and dialogues with the village chief. He tactfully proposed to borrow a thousand yuan from her to help Fusao. At the end of the letter, Wang Ke suddenly wanted to do a prank. He wrote to Wu Xiangyu: "A riddle: The sky is full of everything and everything is back, and a animal is beaten!"

After writing this letter, Wang Ke forgot.

He went to Dawangzhuang again, threw 870 yuan to the village chief, and told the village chief that he would raise 3,000 yuan, hoping that the village would come forward to help Fusao and his wife rebuild their homes. He also agreed to come back from the mountain training and come back to see.

The day before Lin Congshi's farm went to the mountains, Wang Ke received a reply from Wu Xiangyu. Because he was involved in borrowing money, he quickly opened the letter. There was no word in it. There was only two words about Long Feifengwu. The first is: You are a puppy! The second is: Baifu Yingxiang Yu makes a cup.

Especially this half of the poem seems to be a response to his last letter and half of the poem. Wang Ke smiled. He did not delve into the meaning of this half of the poem. He is only concerned about money now.

The half line he gave to Wu Xiangyu was taken from a poem by Ma Huaisu, a great writer of the Tang Dynasty who was a Dantu in Runzhou, his hometown. The beginning two lines: The sun is full of thousands of doors, and the sky is full of things. The answer to the poem is the word "dog".

Wu Xiangyu replied to him half of the following two sentences: Three Yangs are in the victory of the gold, and hundreds of blessings are welcome to the auspicious jade.

It was originally a prank, but it made the combined half-verse poem confusing.

Wang Ke was confused and didn't know what it meant. It was not until he entered the mountain to train for a long time before he accidentally learned about it. Finally, he realized that it was related to the names of the two of them, and it was full of ambiguity and flirting.

From the farm to Xishan, you can see a rumble of tanks on one side of the road, and the raised loess fog can fly several feet high. The chokes in the lane on this side quickly put down the shed cloth behind the car and covered their mouths and noses with towels.

The command platoon was divided into two groups into the mountains. A week ago, the telephone and wireless squads had already met with the company under the leadership of platoon leader Hu Zhijun and entered the training site. Because of the handover of the farm, the reconnaissance squad was late for a week.

The car has been driving for four or five hours on the bumpy township highway.

The driver is still Tan Xiaoqing. Wang Ke, who was carrying the car, asked him why he took this road and didn’t know whether he would choose a good road to take?

Tan Xiaoqing said: "Lao Wang, I am walking the nearest road, so we can arrive at 8 o'clock at the latest. If we walk on the main road, I am afraid that you will still camp on the road at night. There are many wolves in the mountains, so why don't you be afraid?"

Tan Xiaoqing himself is a veteran, five years earlier than Wang Ke. Since the last earthquake, he has changed his words to call Wang Ke "Lao Wang". This is a respectful title, a kind of thanks from the bottom of his heart.

"Then are there no wolf in this shortwalk?"

"Because you often run tanks, wolves usually don't dare to come. They crossed the mountain ahead and there was no tank road. It's hard to say whether there are wolves. However, at that time, we will reach the destination with another 50 kilometers."

As he said that, the car started to board the winding mountain road, and the air suddenly improved. The sunset was swirling in the mountains, and the pine trees and scattered all over the mountains were lush.

"After passing the mountain pass in front, there is more than 20 kilometers a slope." Tan Xiaoqing said as soon as he finished speaking, less than twenty meters away from the top of the mountain, he saw a stream of white smoke rising from the front of the car, and then the car stopped with a "squeak".

"What's wrong?"
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