Lago
▓ Xu Xiaobing
The summer sea training of the troops was in the Ningde area of Fujian Province. The coast, islands, and waters here are closer to enemy-occupied islands such as Matsu and the Dongyin Islands. Our stationing has received great attention and support from the local military and civilians.
On this day, the Marine Police District released a movie, the new film "Island Female Militia". Because this was a cross-military region and cross-service friendship activity, they were particularly enthusiastic and invited the fraternal units stationed in Shachenggang for training three times. The team also took it very seriously and stopped training that night: to go to the movies.
Three years ago, the veteran writer Li Ruqing of the "front line" went deep into the island to write the novel "Island Female Militia", and the old comrades in the team were familiar with and formed an indissoluble bond with Wang Yuexia, the prototype of the protagonist "Haixia" in the novel, and the whole team has been looking forward to this movie for a long time.
At 18:30, the captain, political commissar, and chief of staff set off with two squadrons, the team headquarters, the logistics team, and the third squadron; five minutes later, the first and second squadrons set off in two ways. The Marine District Auditorium, measured by Staff Officer Qian, takes 9 minutes and 40 seconds to arrive.
At 18:40, the captain led the team to the front of the auditorium, lined up the queue, and notified the troops of arrival. The head of the Marine Police District greeted him, and the captain, the political commissar, left the chief of staff and went in to drink tea and smoke cigarettes.
At 18:57, the troops entered, and there was a round of applause, filling the empty seats.
One minute later, the heads of state of both sides took the stage to deliver speeches. Then the movie begins.
After I arrived at the reconnaissance team, I soon discovered a "strange thing": Whenever I went to my fraternal units to watch movies or participate in activities, they always entered the stadium two or three minutes before the start of the process, and never entered the field five minutes before the start of the process.
The amphibious reconnaissance team is a competitive existence that overwhelms others everywhere. It's just that it's incomprehensible to procrastinate and fatigue on such trivial "trivialities" as watching movies with brother units. I consulted Zhang Shan, the deputy captain of the second squad, who is my fellow countryman and a great figure in the team.
He laughed when he heard this: "It's just dodging songs! Because there is no one in the team who can sing, can sing, and direct singing." The old captain's old face couldn't afford to be embarrassed, so he made this decision. This is called the bow of the boat to come first, the stern to be on the way, and then to come. ”
Lago, which is a fine tradition unique to our army, can best demonstrate the unity and centripetal force of a unit, its high combat effectiveness, and its integration with fraternal units...... It doesn't matter how well you sing, just let go of your voice in a key: roar. Zhang Shan shook his head helplessly, he and I both grew up in the army academy, that is, he grew up watching Lago, but he resolutely did not show his talent in music and art. I am "musically illiterate", and since I was a child, I have always remembered the teachings of my uncles: boys should train their strength well, and if they can win fights, don't engage in those unproductive flowery jobs of singing and dancing, that is what girls do. I thought so!
The reconnaissance team is a strong training unit, and most of the time except for the New Year's Festival is stationed abroad for training, and the coordination and training are mostly coordinated by two or three people, and the largest unit is the cooperation of the squad. How can I have time to practice singing, and when I roar, I am all left throat and broken gongs.
In this regard, we are a bit congenitally deficient: a "small" unit (few soldiers) with a large (high-level) shelf. When they arrived, there were only a few dozen people. Every time I go to each group to watch a movie, it is like being trapped in a vast ocean, and the visitors are always in the most conspicuous position in the middle. After singing two songs: "The reconnaissance team is coming!", and "12345, we have waited so hard!" Each company has more than 150 to 170 people, stop rapping, and the momentum of the song shakes the mountains on the spot.
Let's sing, just after shouting at the top of our voices, the sound of "say fight and fight" fell, and the sound of "sing well" started again, "Okay!" All we thought of in our hearts was: fart! "Sing one more or not!" "Yes!" So first "Return from Target Shooting", and then "Class Feud, Suppressing the Gun Hall" became more and more uneven, until the brother troops were embarrassed to pull it, and then turned to "civil war".
In the early spring of the following year, I took the fourth squad to Nanji Island to conduct "observation from across the sea" training on the enemy-controlled Dongyi Island. The outpost platoon of the 17th company of the regiment was stationed.
Liu Changsheng, the sentry commander (the platoon leader), is a native of Wuhan, a sophomore in high school, a 68-year-old soldier, and a soldier in the same year as the deputy squad leader Zhang Shan. In your free time, ask him for some math problems. He taught people tirelessly, and after three times, I even figured out the "Vedic theorem."
At the end of April, the deputy chief of staff led Staff Officer Qian, myself, and Zhang Shan to the island again to verify the suspicious points in the last observation and the technology of using the high-powered telescope. The sentry commander of the outpost has been replaced, and platoon commander Liu Changren was promoted to deputy instructor two weeks ago and returned to the company headquarters to take up his post. Happy event, hurry up on the phone, congratulate a few words, and make an appointment to have a drink before leaving the island. I spent May Day on the island, watched two movies, participated in a commendation meeting, in the end it was a big army, that lively, that atmosphere - I, poor in words (low culture, shallow learning). Among them, the most prominent singer is the newly promoted deputy instructor Liu of the 17th Company, which made the audience run with their rhythm.
In early July, the troops swam in the Changtan Reservoir west of Huangyan in a joint exercise. A "big ass" pulled Liu Changren. He was transferred to serve as a propaganda officer, at the company level, and did the work of the deputy battalion. What kind of shit luck did this Lao Liu go: he will be promoted to the second level in March, and he may be a deputy camp in the new year.
"I'm going to walk shit luck, I'm stepping on both of you shit. Give each of you a box of Huangyan tangerines as a thank you. Okay, right?" laughed Lao Liu.
At the team meeting, I reported on the harvest of Shangdao, and talked about Liu Changren of the 17th Company: the level of Nalago. Zhang Shan went on to say that Lao Liu was the conductor of the school choir when he was a student, and at the beginning of the movement, he was the slogan of the "Second Division of Steel" to drum up, and he was specialized in playing slogans and songs, and he could also write and draw, play and sing.
After the meeting was dismissed, the political commissar left us behind, and called the old captain, the deputy chief of staff, and Staff Officer Qian, and asked us to repeat Liu Changren. After speaking, let's go to the distance and get rich one by one.
Pinching the top has always been a stunt of the reconnaissance team, and the border regiments and battalions are unable to defend against it. The old captain often said shamelessly: What is lacking, there are tens of thousands of horses on the front line, and I still can't find the talent I want. No, in less than two months, it was dug up.
Lao Liu does have a few brushes.
On August 1st, he took 20 people to participate in the Ningbo, Taiwan, Wen and Zhousheng troops singing competitions and won the first place in the second prize, which became an instant hit.
A song before a routine meal became a teaching song. Every time I sing a sentence, let go of my throat and roar, roar, roar, memorize, dare to roar, roar neatly. Unconsciously, everyone knew more than 20 marches, and 4 singing experts emerged.
From then on, the old captain led the team to enter the stadium half an hour early every time, sat on the leader's seat, and smiled happily at the song: Enjoy!
Xu Xiaobing, born in 1952, is known as Bingga. He went to the countryside to join the team, fought as a soldier, worked as a saltwater duck, worked as a trade union cadre, and graduated from the Chinese Department of Nanjing Normal University. The last public office was magazine editor.