Chapter 5 Barracks Life

With the sound of the loud bugle, Seryozha opened his tired eyes, another whole day of rigorous training was waiting for him. Seryozha used his willpower to force himself out of the comfortable bed, and his sore muscles made it difficult for him to get dressed.

It has been more than a month since I came to Afghanistan without knowing it. I had a fight with veterans on the first night when I came to the barracks. Seryozha and the others are very prestigious among the recruits. He was made the leader of this group of recruits, but since Sergey and the others came out of the confinement room that day, they have never caused any trouble.

The first month's training was mainly about learning about queues and regulations. For Seryozha, who had served as a soldier in his previous life, these were all pediatrics. During this period, the Moscow Olympics was held, and everyone would watch the broadcast of the Olympics when they were not training. Seryozha used the Olympics to set up a peripheral gambling game, not because Seryozha and the others had no money. Although Seryozha and the others did not bring much money with them when they left Gorky City, because this was a military camp, there were limited places where money could be used, so they didn't spend much. The main reason is that when Seryozha and the others were in Gorky, they were used to smoking and drinking every day, but cigarettes and vodka in the army were supplied on a per-person basis, just a little a month, so Seryozha made his idea come true. On the gamble. However, with the end of the Olympic Games, Xie Liaosha's gambling game gradually disbanded, and Xie Liaosha and the others made a small profit. In fact, this is just for fun, to find some fun for the monotonous life in the military camp.

With the end of the first month of training, Sergey thought that the future training would be easier and easier like in China, but the subsequent training was quite different from what Sergey thought. The next training was actually high-intensity strength training and endurance training, which was simply too unexpected. Every day from waking up is a 5-kilometer armed cross-country. After breakfast, there is strength training, including sit-ups holding logs, cross-country carrying ammunition boxes, lifting tires, and towing trucks. In the afternoon, it is fighting training and shooting training. In the evening, it is parachute and rope drop learning. Seryozha felt that this was training in the direction of special forces.

However, as Seryozha learned more about the 103rd Airborne Division of his unit, he gradually understood that although this unit is an airborne division in name, it is actually a special forces unit. In the political incident that occurred in Czechoslovakia in 1968, which was called the Prague Spring by Western countries, it was the 103rd Airborne Division that carried out the armed intervention mission. At that time, several commandos from the 103rd Airborne Division took a civil airliner and landed at Prague Airport under the guise of a malfunction. Dozens of commandos from the 103rd Airborne Division rushed out of the cabin and quickly occupied the airport. A few minutes later, the 103rd Airborne Division stationed in Vitebsk, Belarus took 30 An-12 transport planes, and under the cover of fighter jets and bombers, they were airlifted to Prague at intervals of one per minute. An hour later, under the leadership of the Soviet embassy, ​​the 103rd Airborne Division quickly occupied Prague. Within five hours after the 103rd Airborne Division took control of Prague, the Soviet Red Army had occupied the entire territory of Czechoslovakia, and hundreds of thousands of Czech troops surrendered. Before the NATO countries that claimed to fully support Czechoslovakia had time to react, the war was over. It can be said that the reason why this war was won so beautifully is entirely due to the 103rd Airborne Division.

With the passage of time, the intensity of the training is still increasing day by day. After the daily training, Seryosha no longer has the energy to think about his escape plan, because he will fall asleep as soon as his head touches the pillow, and when he wakes up It is already morning.

Although the 103rd Airborne Division is a first-class unit, most of the people who come here to serve as soldiers are young people who can't get along in the country. No one wants to come to Afghanistan except people who really like fighting. Young people in China will not come here as long as they can be admitted to university or can be exempted from military service by relying on connections.

Would rather self-mutilate than to avoid military service. So here, the chief is the sky, and beatings, scolding and insulting soldiers happen from time to time. Who told you that you have no background. I don't know if it was because I left a deep impression on the battalion commander when I first arrived, or for some other reason, but no one deliberately made things difficult for Xie Liaosha and the others. The veterans who had clashed with them that night did not come to cause trouble again, in short, everything seemed to have never happened.

Just when Seryozha gradually got used to the life here and gradually forgot that this place was a battlefield, something happened that made him know this place again. It was a scorching afternoon, and it happened to be the turn of Seryozha and Yuri to be on duty in front of the camp. In such hot weather, we were fully armed to be on duty at the gate, and we had to wear thick bulletproof vests and steel helmets. , It is simply life is worse than death. Seryozha's clothes were once completely drenched with sweat, but the deadly sun dried them again, and Seryozha gave off an unpleasant smell that could kill a camel.

Just when Seryozha and the others were already so hot that they could not survive, a figure slowly appeared at the end of the heat-rolling road in the distance. There seemed to be some problems with his legs, and he was walking with a limp. Seryozha and the others immediately noticed this. Seryozha didn't take it seriously at first, but the guy got closer and closer, and Seryozha gradually realized that something was wrong. He picked up the binoculars and observed this guy carefully. It was okay if he didn't look at it, but he was shocked when he saw it. The guy was wearing a Red Army uniform and was covered in blood. He was covering his abdomen with one hand, and blood flowed from his fingers leaked out.

Seryozha was a little uncertain, and shouted to the fellow: "Stop, don't come any closer, who are you?"

The guy on the opposite side shouted with all his strength: "Comrade." Then maybe it was too painful, so he didn't speak anymore, just pointed to his hand covering his abdomen, and then slowly wiped the blood-covered hand The completely red hand slowly moved away.

Seryozha watched him cautiously through the binoculars. He saw the guy's abdomen. There was a big hole in it, and the intestines leaked out. If he hadn't covered it with his hands, the intestines would have gone out. It's still flowing out. Seryozha did not dare to delay, and immediately reported the situation here, and soon a medical ambulance drove out of it. The guy seemed to have run out of strength and stopped a hundred meters outside the camp. The medical ambulance stopped beside him, and the medical soldiers inside quickly ran out to rescue him. Just when Seryozha thought he was going to be rescued, there was a bang, and Seryozha and the others were knocked down by the shock wave of the explosion. on the ground. Blood and minced meat were blown everywhere, and Seryozha felt as if it was raining red, everything was so illusory.

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After the investigation, the guy who was killed was an aviation mechanic, and his whereabouts were unknown when he performed the mission again. The bomb that exploded was placed in his abdominal cavity. This damn war.