Who is the Soldier's Assault?

Chapter 24 An Impossible Mission

The next day, the originally clear sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds. The old horse walked towards a simple warehouse. There were tools such as shovels and fire extinguishers hanging on the outer walls of the warehouse.

In addition, there are three fuel pipelines leading underground in the warehouse, with pressure gauges in the middle for monitoring.

It was raining heavily, Li Bing and Xu Sanduo followed the old horse into the house.

Xu Sanduo said suddenly: "Squad leader, I figured it out again."

While looking at the pressure gauge, the old horse asked, "Xu Sanduo, what do you want to understand?"

"I...what I want to say is...it's wrong for those four dogs to sleep in the sun every day."

Li Bing soon heard the sound of the old horse breathing heavily, his face turned red, his veins bulged, and it seemed that he had reached the critical point of explosion.

So Xu Sanduo became more timid and lowered his head: "I'm sorry... monitor, I know I always get things wrong, and I'm stupid, I can only understand a little bit every time."

Seeing Xu Sanduo's appearance, the anger in Lao Ma's heart disappeared instantly, and his face quickly changed into a smiling face: "Xu Sanduo, it's good for you to think seriously, but you think too much."

"Squad leader, I wanted to understand one more thing just now."

The old horse had no choice but to ask frightenedly: "What do you want to understand?"

Xu Sanduo's expression was very serious, and he was so serious that he stuttered every word: "It's wrong for Li Meng and the others to sleep and bask in the sun every day. They should do many, many meaningful things."

Lao Ma did not continue to ask what is meaningful to do, because he already knew Xu Sanduo's life motto - to do meaningful things is to live well, and to live well is to do meaningful things.

After checking the instrument, the old horse said to Xu Sanduo and Li Bing, "Come with me."

The place they went was not far away, just outside the warehouse door.

"Take a good look at this place." Lao Ma drew a circle around the camp, including all the houses that had experienced vicissitudes.

Li Bing and Xu Sanduo just looked at the camp formed between weeds and gravel. This is a piece of land that will always be eroded by time. Strong winds and time will always wear away these houses and the people stationed here.

"Look," the old horse said, pointing at the camp, "is this room very spacious? Let me tell you, there used to be a platoon stationed here at most times, the best platoon of the [-]rd Regiment, and the platoon leader is our regiment now." Captain."

Xu San groaned, he didn't feel much about this kind of thing, because he had never even seen the battalion commander.

Li Bing did know that their regiment leader was called Wang Qingrui.

"He used to be stationed here just like us. At that time, he was a platoon leader. He wanted to do something meaningful—that is, he wanted to build a road."

The old horse stretched out his hand and pointed directly from his feet to the distant post.

The heavy rain was falling, and the ground was full of rainwater, soaking the ground and turning it into muddy water, stepping on it one by one.

"But... in the end, he didn't complete his cultivation. A full platoon, more than 30 people, gave up halfway. Xu Sanduo, the meaning cannot stand the consumption of time. If you say today and tomorrow are meaningful, what about this year and next year? After ten years? Or this The place, or this barren land, can you see the meaning?"

Xu Sanduo grabbed a handful of soil, and the mud and water slipped through his fingers, leaving little pebbles that could not be used for anything.

"Do you understand what I'm talking about? Xu Sanduo." The old horse looked at Xu Sanduo, hoping that he could understand, don't have too much hope for this place, it's not good, and you will be disappointed and painful in the end.

Then he looked at Li Bing again.

Li Bing nodded, indicating that he understood.

However, Xu Sanduo didn't seem to understand, and said firmly: "Squad leader, I think road construction is very meaningful."

The old horse was dumbfounded, and looked at Xu Sanduo closer. He was sure of one thing. Xu Sanduo's thinking was not on the same channel as his, and all his earnest explanations were all in vain. He said angrily: "Xu Sanduo, If you think it is meaningful to build a road, then you can build a road that is one step wide, and when it rains, it is enough that your feet don’t get muddy.”

"That's too narrow." Xu Sanduo glanced at the old horse, "My hometown calls it the Rig Road."

"Then you can build five steps wide, the standard width of a tank body. After all, we are an armored infantry regiment." The old horse laughed at himself.

Indeed, they are armored infantry, but it is a pity that the fifth squadron in the grassland has only soldiers and no armored vehicles.

Xu Sanduo listened carefully: "Squad leader, is this an order?"

The old horse walked into the rain with a wry smile: "If I order you to do something you can't do, well, it's an order."

He plans to go back to the dormitory, and that's it for today.

Xu Sanduo's face couldn't contain the excitement: "Squad leader, this is the first order I received in the fifth class!"

The old horse looked back at the excited expression on Xu Sanduo's face, turned his head and took another two steps, and couldn't help but look back. He suddenly had an illusion: maybe he gave an order wrong, and gave an order that was impossible to complete. task.

Li Bing didn't say anything, he just acted like an empty person the whole time, Xu Sanduo found a meaningful thing to do, what about him, what meaningful thing could he find to do?

……

At night on the prairie, the wind is very strong, and the sound can travel far in the dark.

The three of them staggered back and forth, singing an unknown folk song: "On a high mountain, there is a cow with its sharp horns tilting its head..."

Li Meng, Lao Wei, and Xue Lin came back from the dark grassland talking and laughing happily, and suddenly froze.

There are neat white roads drawn with lime between several houses, which is not a big deal, but as far as the place remains unchanged, this is the beginning of a change.

Several people hesitated and entered the room.

The old horse was sitting alone at the table playing bridge, and the three of them came in.

Old Wei: "Where are Xu Mumu and Li Zhuzi?"

The old horse glanced at them: "Xu Sanduo went to pick up rocks. Li Bing was looking for those steel pipes that were discarded during pipeline repair in the warehouse."

Old Wei asked, "Why did Xu Mumu pick up rocks? Also, what did Li Bing do with those steel pipes?"

Lao Ma is recording everything in the class today in a small notebook, just like writing a diary. While writing, he said: "Xu Sanduo, he wants to build a road. Li Bing said he would use those steel pipes to build a horizontal bar and prepare to practice For pull-ups."

All three were dumbfounded.

Old Wei said: "Squad leader, did I hear correctly, Xu Mumu wants to build a road? What kind of road?"

"A road, from our camp to the sentry post, he thinks it is very meaningful." The old horse scratched his head and became more guilty: "Maybe I said something wrong... It seems that I gave him an order and arranged An impossible task..."

The three veterans finally burst into laughter with half-smiles. Li Meng and Xue Lin even slapped each other three times, and then bumped their buttocks.

The old horse was disturbed by that order. Seeing the appearance of the three veterans, he stared at them fiercely: "What are you doing? They didn't hinder you from playing cards."

Li Meng chuckled: "These two soldiers have stood up for so long, and finally...do as the Romans do!"

……

Li Bing thought about it, but he didn't come across something as meaningful as Xu Sanduo's road construction, so he had to think about training and keep training.

Goose step, five kilometers, disassembly and aiming of firearms, push-ups, sit-ups, military boxing.

Moreover, he knew that his physical strength was his weakness, so he thought of building a horizontal bar by himself to exercise pull-ups.

He and Xu Sanduo started a boring and endless life.

The horizontal bar is not difficult to build. Two thick iron pipes are buried in the ground, four iron wires are pulled and fixed, and a thin steel pipe is welded in the middle. The height is standard height.

Xu Sanduo still searched for stones all over the mountains and fields, and then carried the stones back in a basket.

The road drawn with lime is exactly five meters wide, and the length does not exceed the station, so it can only be said that it has begun to take shape.

On the side of the road are piled stones picked up from various places, which are larger than those commonly seen in the wasteland, and because the place is rich in mineral veins, they have various colors.

On the other side were stones that had already been smashed, smashed into equal sizes and sorted, which was a small miracle considering it was done by one person.

When Lao Wei, Xue Lin, and Li Meng passed by, they all intentionally avoided the road that was just taking shape, and so did Lao Ma.

In the evening, Li Meng stood at the window watching, Xu Sanduo outside was knocking on stones, and Li Bing was doing pull-ups on the horizontal bar.

The twilight outside the window is golden and brilliant, and the people outside are sweating and enjoying a fulfilling and meaningful day.

The people in the room looked at them, fidgeting...

(End of this chapter)