It was nine o'clock in the morning on the sixth day after Chen Fei, Wu Liuyi, and Cheng Cai left the Seventh Steel Company.
The chief of staff of the 702nd Regiment and several regimental officers walked into the arched gate of the 7th Steel Company.
Several soldiers moving on the playground were stunned.
At this time, the soldiers of Steel 7th Company basically knew what they were going through. Just like the people being tried, everyone knew that they would not be fine. They just didn’t know what crime they would be sentenced for, so they were always worried.
We have been waiting for the hammer to fall. Now, the people from the regiment have arrived, and the hammer is finally going to fall.
Gan Xiaoning was stunned. The volleyball in his hand fell to the ground and rolled to the feet of the chief of staff.
The chief of staff shook his head, picked up the ball and handed it to Gan Xiaoning.
Gan Xiaoning took it in a daze, and while briefly looking at each other with the chief of staff, a trace of sadness suddenly appeared on his face.
Gao Cheng and Hong Xingguo were waiting at the gate of the company headquarters office building, both of them looking extremely heavy.
Hong Xingguo put on his military hat: "Let's go, what is supposed to come will always come."
Gao Cheng didn't have the courage to speak, so he followed Hong Xingguo and met the people in the group.
After a while, in the conference room.
The chief of staff and several officers looked grave, waiting for the arrival of Gao Cheng and Hong Xingguo.
The cigarette between the chief of staff's fingers has burned out a long section of ash.
Gao Cheng and Hong Xingguo finally came in, dressed in very formal attire and with very solemn expressions.
Gao Cheng stood at attention with a snap: "Captain Gao Cheng of the Seventh Steel Company reports for duty!"
Hong Xingguo also looked serious: "Instructor Hong Xingguo of the Seventh Steel Company is reporting for duty!"
An officer was shaken slightly by their shouts, moved his body, and covered a booklet on the table.
But Gao Cheng's eyes had already glanced over there.
Gao Cheng's words and eyes looked like he was carrying a knife, as if the people in front of him were his mortal enemies.
The chief of staff sighed secretly and said: "There are no instructions. The order has been issued and is on the table. You can see for yourselves."
They didn't have the courage to announce it themselves, so they had no choice but to kick the ball back to the Seventh Steel Company.
Gao Cheng walked straight to the table and opened the thin roster, which read: "702nd Regiment Seventh Armored Reconnaissance Company Establishment Reform Plan: First Phase Personnel Allocation List".
The first name that jumped out was instructor Hong Xingguo, who was renamed instructor of the Ninth Company of Regiment C.
The next one is Bai Tiejun, a veteran of Class 3. His term of service is about to expire and he will be demobilized early.
Gao Cheng flipped through the pages one by one, feeling like his heart was being ripped out bit by bit.
I don’t know when Gao Cheng and Hong Xingguo sent the chief of staff who brought the bad news out of the 7th Steel Company, but they didn’t send him too far and they sent him out of the office building. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to send more, it wasn’t that they were rude, but they were two people.
His feet and hands are soft.
Hong Xingguo stretched out a hand in confusion. Gao Cheng gave him a cigarette knowingly, but when he lit it, he lit it four or five times without lighting it. Hong Xingguo's mouth and hands kept shaking, shaking very much.
sharp.
I don’t know how much time passed before the two of them gave up the idea of smoking. Hong Xingguo crumpled the cigarette in his hand into a ball and threw it into the trash can. However, it was tilted and the cigarette fell to the side of the trash can.
About one meter away, Hong Xingguo had no idea of walking over to pick up the cigarette and throw it into the trash can. This was completely impossible in the past, but at this moment, he did nothing.
Outside, some soldiers who knew nothing or didn't care were still laughing happily.
"There will be a party tomorrow and I will take care of it. Military discipline and people's hearts must be taken into consideration." Hong Xingguo took the initiative and said.
Gao Cheng just hummed.
Hong Xingguo said: "More than 30 people have to leave quietly and cannot be sent off. We can't have the same kind of ceremony as before. If one third of them are sent off at one time, the morale of the army will be disturbed."
Gao Cheng shouted: "Lao Hong!" But as soon as the word "Hong" came out, his voice was choked and he couldn't continue.
Hong Xingguo calmed down instead, even though it was a lie: "I am an instructor, isn't that what instructors do? Don't worry, I have experience in doing this kind of thing!"
Gao Cheng burst into tears: "I can't help you, I always suppress you."
Hong Xingguo said: "I am the instructor, and the instructor assists you in your work. Why are you suppressing me?"
Gao Cheng reflected and said: "I made fouls when playing basketball, I made bad moves when playing chess, and I made eye contact with my opponents when playing cards. They all know that it's fine if they offend the instructor, but trouble will come if they offend the company commander, so they all helped me cause trouble."
Hong Xingguo smiled: "You are the company commander, the number one in the Seventh Steel Company, you can't lose."
Gao Cheng then punched Hong Xingguo hard: "Old Hong, please stop disgusting me."
Hong Xingguo stomped Gao Cheng in return.
Gao Cheng didn't fight back.
This is the first time.
It's also the last one.
Of course, it's also the only time.
As the days passed, the team of Steel Seventh Company was shrinking day by day. First, Chen Fei’s group left with almost ten people, then the second group of more than thirty, then the third group, the fourth group, and finally the group left.
One batch, two batches at most, and there will be no one left in Steel Company 7.
Finally, on this day, the sun was scorching.
The basketball court of Steel No. 7 Company.
The Seventh Company, which had been reduced again and again, still stood in a neat square formation on the playground.
Several vehicles belonging to each regiment and company were parked in the open space of the playground in the distance, and they were here to pick up the troops.
Gao Cheng stood under the basketball hoop and read out the last list in his hand: "Wang Lei, the seventh machine infantry company of the A regiment; Chen Hao, the second infantry company of the C regiment; Peng Xiaodong, the seventh machine infantry company of the B regiment; Liu Jian, C
The fifth tank company; Li Ye, the engineer company of the artillery regiment..."
There was a bag placed at the feet of each soldier. Each soldier whose name was read felt slightly relaxed, and then deeply sad.
Gao Cheng finally closed the roster in his hand. He raised his hand and raised his voice: "I want to say..."
He looked at the strong young soldiers in front of him, from the first line to the last line, and was suddenly speechless.
"Dismissed!" He finally shouted weakly.
The queue dispersed silently.
The company commanders and instructors of each company who had been waiting nearby jumped into the queue and took away their own soldiers.
Those people didn't say anything, they just patted the soldier on the shoulder, and the soldier followed them and walked away.
Gao Cheng looked at the divided army and stood motionless.
The company commander of the 1st Machinery Company and the instructor of the 3rd Red Company couldn't bear to get close to each other. One took out a cigarette, and the other also took out a cigarette. The instructor of the 3rd Red Company was so nervous that when he took out his cigarette, he scattered half a pack of cigarettes.
On the ground.
Gao Chengqiang was smiling. He wanted to make a joke, but the cigarette in his mouth was shaking so much that he couldn't speak. He had to bite the cigarette holder hard to prevent it from falling to the ground.
Gao Cheng finally said viciously: "Be kind to my soldiers, otherwise they will be killed...don't worry...get out! You are a poacher."
The instructor of the third red company and the commander of the first machine company could only smile bitterly. What could they say?
All I could do was pat Gao Cheng on the shoulder with regret and walk away.