Chapter 19: Classic Scene Reenacted
Each new recruit camp’s allocated new recruits were all separately arranged in different iron can carriages.
In the division headquarters’ notification sent to the regiment headquarters, there was clear information about the carriage numbers where the new recruits assigned to each regiment were located, so everyone just needed to pick up recruits by number.
So despite the many troop reception teams at the station, the order was still maintained very well.
Lined up neatly from left to right, each team was about 15 meters apart from each other, not too much or too little, exactly the distance of one carriage.
As the personnel carrier train continued to decelerate and slowly entered the train station platform, everyone could finally see the full picture.
This train was obviously a clear “mixed load of people and goods,” and very long, with more than twenty carriages, taking a long time to enter the station.
The front small half of the train consisted of iron can carriages, with carriage doors all locked from the outside, so the inside situation couldn’t be seen.
The back dozen or so carriages were flatbed cars, each carrying two Type 89 armored personnel carriers, all appearing brand new from the outside.
This train only had flatbed cars and iron can carriages, with no conventional passenger carriages for sending people.
All the people were stuffed in the iron can carriages!
The very front first iron plate wasn’t locked from the outside, and after the train stopped steadily, the carriage door was pulled open, with lieutenant-grade officers and non-commissioned officers coming out.
“It seems all the division’s troop reception cadres and backbones were arranged in the first iron plate.”
Chen Jun followed Gao Cheng in the second-to-last iron plate, over a hundred meters away from the first carriage, but relying on his super high eyesight of 4, he still spotted some details he had no chance to see in his previous life.
The troop reception cadres and backbones who came down first all headed purposefully straight to their respective new recruits’ carriages.
The frontmost iron can carriage was opened first, and after being stuffy in the can for half a day, wearing frog skin, with frog hats, chests tied with big red new recruit badges, they surged out in a rush.
All with a pair of curious eyes wide open, clustering at the carriage door to peer outside.
From this group of new recruits’ eager desire to see the new world, with strong exploration in their eyes, it was clear why the rear iron can carriages all had to be locked from the outside.
Curiosity killed the cat.
If new recruits were given the chance to open the door, there would definitely be curious new recruits opening the door midway, resulting in accidentally falling off the train and making big news.
So the dumbest method was the most effective here.
The new recruits from the front carriages got off first, were formed up on the platform, then led by new recruit company cadres, shouting slogans as they went outside the station to board vehicles to the new recruit camp.
Hearing the loud platoon front guide slogans of “one two, one two three four” coming from the surroundings.
Gao Cheng, who had been looking forward to it for a long time, felt unbearably itchy inside, eager to see his own new recruits and check if there were any heart-moving good seedlings inside.
When Shi Jin and He Hongtao came over together, Gao Cheng hurriedly urged: “Old He, you’ve finally come, Third Squad Leader, quick quick quick, open the cabinet door fast.”
“Got it, Company Commander.”
Shi Jin hadn’t seen the company commander for over a month, but executing orders was still as swift and decisive as ever.
“Squeak squeak squeak…”
With the harsh squeaking friction sound, the iron plate cabinet door was slowly pulled open.
The scene from the front carriages replayed again.
A large pile of frog skin new recruits with red flowers, shoulders carrying quilts tied with backpack straps, hands holding camouflage travel bags, gathered curiously and blankly at the door.
Cheng Cai and Xu Sanduo, squeezed at the very front of the car door, were spotted by Chen Jun at a glance.
In his previous life in another universe, Chen Jun had lived with them for ten years or so, and even fought shoulder-to-shoulder with them multiple times abroad.
With such profound memories as paving the way, it was hard not to recognize Cheng Cai and Xu Sanduo.
Of course.
Xu Sanduo and Cheng Cai in this universe were still fresh newbies just out of their hometowns, with absolutely no impression of Chen Jun.
The two, on their first train ride in life, had squeezed past all the new recruits to the front just to see what the new world looked like.
The result of looking out from the car edge was eyes full of yellow sand-covered earthy yellow, even the train station ground covered in a layer of loess and fine sand.
Far worse than the beautiful mountains and clear waters of their Henan hometowns, Cheng Cai felt a bit disappointed inside.
Fortunately, the platform was full of tanks and armored vehicles everywhere, dozens of tons of big things rumbling, giving Cheng Cai, seeing a tank for the first time, an enormous visual impact.
He immensely envied the warriors driving the tanks, fantasizing how great it would be if he could drive one.
Perhaps it was a case of what the heart desires comes true.
Just as Cheng Cai thought this in his mind, a Type 62 light tank with its cannon barrel raised actually drove along the platform right over.
This caused Gao Cheng, who originally wanted to come over and say a few words before organizing the new recruits to get off, to be blocked and could only wait for it to pass first.
“Is the classic scene about to replay?”
Chen Jun had no intention of changing Xu Sanduo; this life he planned to play an army strategy game, not a first-person development game.
His goal was to change and preserve the Steel Seventh Company, this major matter, with no mind to bother with such trivial things.
Watching the excitement or eating melon on the way was fine.
Therefore.
Without any accident.
The tank driver who was to be transported to the rear flatbed car section, who could have walked behind the platform, playfully drove the tank close to the platform just to tease the new recruits.
So when the tank was about to pass the car door, he deliberately moved the tank cannon barrel to the left.
Then the over ten centimeters thick cannon barrel passed by just less than twenty centimeters from the car door, creating an extremely uncomfortable threat.
Driven by the body’s self-protection instinct, the new recruits squeezed at the door all made avoidance reactions.
Some new recruits frowned and leaned back to increase distance from the cannon barrel. Some chose to bend their knees and shrink their heads to duck under the cannon barrel.
Only Xu Sanduo’s instinctive protection action was very unique.
Perhaps beaten too much by his father at home, forming a habitual plea for mercy, he actually chose to close his eyes and raise both hands to push away the cannon barrel.
The cannon barrel was a bit far, and Xu Sanduo who failed to reach it turned into raising both hands, eyes closed, face full of fear.
As a soldier, what does raising hands mean?
Anyone gets it!
Gao Cheng, who valued honor the most, cared most about company honor, and hated men’s cowardice and fear of death the most, saw Xu Sanduo scared into surrender by a single cannon barrel.
The good mood originally brought by Chen Jun instantly vanished in this moment.
Only anger burning from annoyance remained.
He couldn’t tolerate even a second, striding toward Xu Sanduo while pointing at him and shouting: “That soldier, that soldier, put your hands down, what are you doing?”
What followed was the delightful scene, Xu Sanduo being called down by Gao Cheng and given a good scolding.
Even the tank soldier who played the prank couldn’t escape, cursing loudly at the departing tank from behind, just short of rushing over to climb on the tank and fight.
