Take Arada back to the past

Chapter 684: Someone else gave him credit again
In the outpost, Yang Xiaole looked at the people in front of him.

So they arranged it there: "Starting today, we have to arrange shifts. Before, we had to run, and it took a lot of time to patrol back and forth. In summer, it took more than three hours, and in winter, if there was snow, it would take more than four hours.

Now with horses, we can go much faster. We also have to patrol at night, and with the people on duty, it will be very hard for everyone.

But the training cannot stop during this period, and the training intensity must be increased. Every October there is a big competition for the Corps, this time, you must bring me a place. "

"Ah? How can we do this? We need to maintain our strength! What if something unexpected happens?"

Zhang Xuesong objected from the side.

Yang Xiaole smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will train you in moderation and will not exceed your physical abilities. You will know when the time comes."

We are all brothers in the same class, so I have to guide them no matter what.

Except for Zhang Xuesong who has a backer, if the others have some merits, they will have an easier time when they pass away in the future.

It will also be of great help to their future career change.

After hearing this, everyone looked at each other and agreed.

After all, here as long as it does not violate the principles, the squad leader has the final say.

Seeing this, Yang Xiaole said, “According to the previous schedule, there are two daytime patrols and two night patrols every week. I have arranged a shift for you.

Zhang Xuesong, you and Zhao Gang went to the patrol area.

For the first patrol, the two of you will each lead one person on patrol, and from now on the four of you will be responsible for the daytime patrols this week.

Zhang Xuesong, you take care of Zhao Aijun, Zhao Gang, you take care of Zhang Guoqing.

Except for you four, the others, Xu Jinbu and Li Jianguo, Liu Bing and Pan Hao, you are on night patrol.

You rotate positions once a week.

At other times, the sentry box is on duty every two hours, and everyone takes turns. If it is the night patrol, you don’t have to participate.”

Everyone nodded and agreed when they heard this.

This was also the arrangement for the previous patrol.

"Okay, this is our first day here. They have already patrolled today, so we don't need to join them. Zhao Gang, you are the deputy squad leader, so you will be the first to stand guard today. Zhang Xuesong will be the second..."

Arrange the order in which other people stand guard.

Finally, he said, "Okay, there's still a lot of time before dinner, but you have to prepare it. Each person will take turns to be responsible for cooking and eating. No one is allowed to say it's not tasty. Okay, Xu Jinbu will cook on the first day, and the others can go train. That's all for now, dismissed."

As he spoke, Zhao Gang got dressed, put on his mask, carried his gun and went to stand guard at a nearby sentry box.

Xu Jinbu looked at everyone blankly: "But... I can't cook!"

Yang Xiaole glanced at him and said, "How can you not know how to cook? We will eat whatever you cook. Go ahead. There is food in the cellar next door. Each person has a limited amount of food. If you finish today, you will have less for the next meal. There is a scale in the cellar. You can weigh it yourself."

"what?"

Xu Jinbu had a sad face.

But I still agreed to it, as it was something I had to go through.

Yang Xiaole thought about it and reminded: "The potatoes need to be cooked thoroughly, so put a little less salt at the beginning. If there is less, you can add more, but if there is more, you can't reduce it."

Don't expect this kind of stew to be very delicious.

As long as you don't add too much salt and cook the potatoes well, there won't be any problem.

Seeing this, Xu Jinbu agreed.

When cooking for the first time, there will definitely be various problems, such as water.

But there is snow here, and there is a river not far away. If that doesn't work, we can also chisel ice to get water.

This is the only way, after all, there is no well here.

Yang Xiaole led his men out, looked at Zhang Xuesong, and said, "You lead them in training, I'll go take a look around!"

"it is good!"

Zhang Xuesong agreed.

Seeing this, Yang Xiaole walked towards the nearby area on the snow.

Seeing that there was no one around, he entered the space, took a quick look around, and finally came back.

He raised his foot and walked towards a trap in the distance.

It is about three hundred meters away from the camp.

There is also a forest here.

There was a big pit with a lot of snow in it. It was obviously a trap set by the people who were here before.

He went back and ignored Zhang Xuesong and his group who were training. He took the tools here and left.

After coming back, he took a shovel and cleaned the big hole.

The pit was quite deep, about two meters deep. Even a big fat pig would not be able to get out if it fell in.

The current frozen soil, but this is not a problem for him.

He quietly took out an iron awl, broke up the frozen soil, cleaned it up a little, sprinkled some well water and corn kernels in it, and then left again.

Coming back again, seeing Zhang Xuesong and his team training, I naturally joined them.

……

"Beep, beep! Time to eat!"

Everyone was training when they heard Xu Jinbu whistling and shouting.

Now at the border, we naturally cannot blow the horn casually, so as not to cause misunderstanding.

"coming!"

Yang Xiaole looked at the time and found that it was a little earlier.

He took everyone back to the cellar.

"What are you doing?"

Yang Xiaole looked at the pot and asked curiously.

He took a spoon and stirred it: "Is this noodles or lumps, or what?"

Zhao Gang had already returned from his shift and teased, "Big Head, is this edible?"

Xu Jinbu smiled awkwardly: "Well... I was going to make noodles, but they got mushy when I put them in the pot. Do you want to eat them? They are delicious."

Upon hearing this, Yang Xiaole took the spoon and scooped a spoonful of food and put it into his mouth.

He smiled and said, "It's OK, at least it's still okay to eat."

Apart from the deformed noodles, there are also cabbage, potatoes, oil and salt, which are not excessive and the taste is okay.

Xu Jinbu chuckled and said, "Captain, you said it yourself. If we put too little salt, we can add more. But if we put too much salt, it won't work."

Yang Xiaole put down the soup spoon and said with a smile: "It's OK, as long as it's edible. I was afraid that you would set this thatched house on fire."

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and went to eat with their lunch boxes.

In the army, it is impossible to eat delicious meals except for the small kitchen.

Just think of it as eating noodle soup at home.

We just had a quick lunch.

When the time comes for the rotation position, someone will naturally take over, and the day will pass slowly.

In the middle of the night, when everyone was sleeping, Yang Xiaole got up quietly, put on his clothes, and closed the door silently.

He came to the sentry tower and saluted: "Li Jianguo, go to sleep!"

Li Jianguo saluted: "Yes!"

At this time, Li Jianguo's eyebrows and nose were covered with frost, but he was still in good condition.

The change of post was completed according to the change of post procedure.

Yang Xiaole looked at him and smiled, "There is hot water on the table. I just poured it. It's not so hot now. Drink some hot water before going to bed!"

The company has well water for drinking and eating, but Li Jianguo does not have many opportunities to drink water while on guard duty.

The water in the military canteen had also gone cold.

"Okay! I'll be leaving first then."

Li Jianguo agreed and left the post.

Yang Xiaole stood there, carrying a gun. Sensing that Li Jianguo had drunk some water and gone to sleep, he disappeared on the spot.

The river is more than ten kilometers upstream and downstream, so you must be careful.

According to previous patrols, there must be oversights. But even if patrols are conducted every day, there are still loopholes. There is nothing we can do about it. We can't always send soldiers to watch over the entire line.

The border line is more than 20,000 kilometers long, and there must be hundreds of thousands of people in one squad for every kilometer.

He checked upstream and downstream, and even took a walk to the opposite side before coming back.

I checked the traps on the back hill, but my luck wasn't very good!

After thinking about it, he threw a big fat wild boar in and left.

As for whether he would freeze to death, he didn't care.

……

The next morning, everyone got up on time.

And resumed the old life.

After washing up, Yang Xiaole said to Zhao Gang: "Go to the hill in the northwest. I have dug a trap. Go there every morning to see if there is anything there."

Zhao Gang smiled when he heard this: "Squad leader, you dug a trap!"

"Well, it should be a trap dug by the border guards before. I cleaned it out yesterday and went to take a look. If there is nothing, forget it."

"Okay! It's not far anyway."

After saying that, he headed towards the mountains alone.

After a while, he came back excitedly.

"Come on, come on! There's a big fat pig in the trap, quick! I can't lift it by myself."

Everyone who was training was surprised when they heard this and looked at Yang Xiaole.

Yang Xiaole pretended to be surprised: "Is this true? Let's go and take a look!"

Everyone heard this and walked over with a smile.

When we arrived at the place, we saw a big fat pig weighing about 300 pounds lying there stiffly.

"Wow! It's so big!"

Zhang Xuesong was surprised!

Yang Xiaole kicked the other person and said with a smile: "Why are you still standing there? Bring the things out!"

Zhang Xuesong chuckled when he heard that, and also kicked Xu Jinbu: "Why are you still standing there? Bring the things out!"

This caused everyone to laugh.

The group of people went down into the cave and carried the wild boar.

Carrying the frozen wild boar towards the camp.

"Squad leader, this wild boar is so big, what should we do? Should we send it to the company?"

After returning to the camp, Zhao Gang asked Yang Xiaole.

This is not an ordinary thing, it weighs several hundred kilograms!
Seeing this, Yang Xiaole smiled and said, "We are now on border patrol, and we can deal with what we have hunted on our own. But you are right, we will eat this pork first, and save half for the people who come to deliver supplies, and bring it back to them."

The army is not like the outside world where you can embezzle food.

Not here.

But you can eat it yourself.

Zhao Gang chuckled, and then began to arrange people to clean up the pig.

But the problem is how to clean it up, it's all frozen solid.

But Yang Xiaole naturally wouldn't worry about this problem.

With meat as food, training becomes more exciting.

In the evening, everyone ate pig's head stewed with cabbage, and their mouths were full of oil.

……

After a few days, everyone gradually adapted to the life here, although there were few people and it was a bit boring.

Yang Xiaole could get some poker or something to help him pass the time, but that wasn't suitable here.

Fortunately, although the Russian bear created a tense atmosphere during this period, nothing major happened.

The transport team brought back half of the wild boar while delivering the grass.

But these days, without wild boars, there are some small animals for people to eat every day.

The food arrived, and Yang Xiaole's training intensity became heavier day by day. Fortunately, there was well water as a relief, otherwise these people might really not be able to bear it.

……

That morning, Yang Xiaole was training with his team there when he saw Zhang Guoqing running back at full speed.

Seeing this situation, everyone hurriedly stopped training.

Today is the time for patrol. Two people went out, but only one came back, which means something is wrong.

"Emergency gathering!"

Yang Xiaole shouted loudly and everyone gathered quickly.

Zhang Guoqing arrived at the place and quickly dismounted.

Then he quickly said, "Squad leader, there is smoke from cooking on Island No. 2 downstream. The deputy squad leader asked me to inform you."

Yang Xiaole frowned.

This is an old trick used by the Russian bear, but they don’t dare to really fight.

Because last year, two surgical bombs were tested here, which calmed down the Russian bear, which was originally ready to make a move.

Of course, there is also Da Piaoliang who helps.

Therefore, this kind of troublemaking happens frequently on Jiangxin Island.

Yang Xiaole thought for a moment and said, "Xu Jinbu, you stay here. Liu Bing is on guard. There must be someone here. Once you see the signal flare, go and notify the company immediately. If Zhang Xuesong and the others come back, let them go as well."

Flare guns are not to be fired randomly.

Seeing this, Xu Jinbu agreed seriously.

"it is good!"

Seeing this, Yang Xiaole said to the others, "Everyone else, pack your equipment and set off."

Following his words, everyone hurriedly began to check their equipment and went to the stable to pull the horses out.

A group of people followed Zhang Guoqing to the place where the incident happened.

The place is not very far, but the road is not easy to walk on snowy days.

More than twenty minutes later, everyone arrived at the scene of the incident.

I went around a place that was out of sight on the opposite side and came near a horse.

He dismounted the horse, tied it up, bent down and walked forward, heading towards the mound by the river.

At this time, Zhao Gang was lying on the mound. When he saw something behind him, he turned his head to look.

"what's the situation?"

Yang Xiaole was lying on the snow with the company's binoculars in hand, looking towards the island in the middle of the river opposite, while asking questions to Zhao Gang next to him.

Zhao Gang hurriedly said, "When we were patrolling here, we saw smoke coming from cooking fires. We didn't dare to act rashly because we thought there shouldn't be many people there."

Hearing this, Yang Xiaole looked at the people in front of him.

Zhang Xuesong took someone to patrol upstream. There were two people at the sentry post, and there were a total of seven people here.

After looking at the situation on the island, he said, "I will go up first, you guys stay here and watch. You must not fire the first shot until the other side opens fire."

When these people come to the island, what they have to do is drive them away.

The other party did the same thing.

The other party will not use a gun unless it is absolutely necessary.

Zhao Gang frowned when he saw this: "No, you are too few, what if there are too many people on the other side?"

"It's okay! If I go alone, they won't fire their guns. If there are too many people, it may go off accidentally. Just follow orders."

It would be safer for him to go alone.

If more people were to go over and start fighting, it would be hard to say who would get hurt.

Just in time, someone gave him credit again.

(End of this chapter)