In front of the North Gate

Chapter 23

After staying in the courtyard for more than ten days, Lou Huaiyu took the initiative to join the drill in the front yard.

Firstly, the noise in the front yard was loud and loud every day, which really had the effect of brainwashing. Those who told Lou Huaiyu to stay in the yard every day had to be influenced.

Secondly, after Shi Jichang left, Lou Huaiyu didn't even have anyone to talk to, and it was really boring.

About a week after Lou Huaiyu moved in, one day Ji Chang had dinner and walked with Lou Huaiyu, telling him that he was going out for a few days to pick up a team outside.

Lou Huaiyu actually didn't understand what the teams were good for, and he didn't have a concept of what it meant to join the two teams, but Shi Jichang seemed very serious, and he didn't have the position to tell the other party not to go.

It's just that when Lou Huaiyu returned to the room that night, he felt very empty and lost sleep.

Because Shi Jichang seems to be the only reason and reliance for his existence in the huge Fan family compound nowadays. Once Shi Jichang is not around and cannot be seen every day, Lou Huaiyu feels as if he has lost all the strength to live, what to do They all became depressed.

The content of the exercise was not as simple as Lou Huaiyu imagined.

There are different training grounds in several courtyards in the front yard, and each training ground has its own different training content.

Lou Huaiyu looked at it curiously and carefully before joining. The largest yard has the most people, and they all do the simplest exercises for exercising their bodies, such as lifting weights to practice strength, running around and so on.

In the second largest yard, there are a few grass targets, but instead of practicing guns directly, they put some darts. I heard from them that this is a practice of aiming, and it can be regarded as a disguised form of marksmanship practice. Bullets are very precious, so they should not be wasted. .

Lou Huaiyu nodded repeatedly and went to the third courtyard.This practice field is more tragic. It looks like two people fighting, and the roar is the loudest. When Lou Huaiyu walked in, he was almost dazzled by the dust raised from the ground. Arriving beside him, he cursed: "You don't have to make such a big effort, do you?"

After complaining, the man rubbed his shoulders and looked up, seeing that it was Lou Huaiyu, he was taken aback for a moment.

Lou Huaiyu hadn't seen Lin Shuyi for a long time since he returned to the Fan family compound. Perhaps it was because besides Shi Jichang, this was already the person he talked to the most. The moment he saw Lin Shuyi, he couldn't help feeling a little surprised. a feeling of.

Lin Shuyi got up quickly, patted the dust off his body, his speech was not as awkward as before, but since he hadn't seen him for more than ten days, it was inevitable that he was a little rusty.

"Why did you come here?" Lin Shuyi asked him.

Lou Huaiyu didn't know how to express it. After organizing his words for a while, he said, "I kind of want to practice with you."

"...It's not a problem to be idle every day." He smiled.

Falling Lin Shuyi is a chubby strong man. After a long time, he came over. He probably didn't know Lou Huaiyu. Hearing this, he immediately received: "That's not true! You must practice!"

As he spoke, he squeezed Lou Huaiyu's arm vigorously, shaking him to the ground, and said: "Look at this thin arm and thin leg, he has no strength at all."

Lin Shuyi's brows were almost wrinkled, and he stretched out his hand to tug him furiously: "Don't move!"

The strong man let go with a look of grievance on his face, glanced at Lou Huaiyu, and said aggrievedly: "Originally... fine..."

Lin Shuyi showed a complex expression that Lou Huaiyu didn't understand, looked at Lou Huaiyu awkwardly, paused for a while, and asked him, "You really want to practice?"

"I want to try it." Lou Huaiyu said.

Lin Shuyi looked at him for a while, and asked, "Then... does Brother Ji Chang know?"

"Ah?" Lou Huaiyu didn't expect Lin Shuyi to ask this question at all. He didn't know what the connection was, but he still answered him, "I don't know, isn't he going to pick up the team?"

"Oh yes," Lin Shuyi said immediately, not knowing why he was hesitant to speak, "Then you... start with the basic running, etc... okay?"

Lou Huaiyu felt that what Lin Shuyi said made sense, so he went to the largest courtyard to report the next day.

There were many people in the yard, and it was not obvious that there was one more person. Lou Huaiyu ran with the runner for a few days, and after the first few laps, he was exhausted, and he got better later on, but after running for a long time, the wind irritated his throat.

He was a person who relied on his throat for food since he was a child. He suffered from pain for two days. He couldn't bear it, so he followed the example of lifting heavy objects.

It's a pity that after practicing for a day, the lightest one was not lifted.

The elder brother who was lifting heavy objects looked at his body, and said while lifting it, "Don't bother with this effort. If you practice your strength, I guess the battle is over."

He put down his things and pointed to a smaller courtyard: "Why don't you go practice shooting a gun, that requires effort even if you don't have to, it's the best on the battlefield!"

The eldest brother gave a thumbs up.

Lou Huaiyu saw his determined appearance, thought for a while, and felt that it made sense, and went to the shooting range to report the next day.

Different from the previous ones, there was a coach in the shooting range, who looked ruffian and fierce. When he saw Lou Huaiyu, he looked him up and down, and said, "Where is the little lady?"

Lou Huaiyu's clothes have changed, but her hair is still long, and the few girls here who look like Lan'er don't wear feminine clothes, so at first glance, it's really a bit gender-neutral.

He cleared his throat: "I'm here to learn how to shoot a gun."

The instructor paused, looked him up and down again, seemed a little surprised that he was a boy, but didn't say anything, just said: "Guns are not just easy to learn."

There are not many people in the shooting range, probably because real guns cannot be used, and there are many kinds of darts for practicing accuracy.

The instructor followed Lou Huaiyu closely all day like a shopkeeper who came to do business, introduced him to all the darts, and led Lou Huaiyu to try a few.

Lou Huaiyu didn't have the slightest bit of accuracy, aiming at this one can fall on that target.

But the instructor looked fierce, and after getting to know him, he spoke very considerately, and comforted Lou Huaiyu: "It was like this at the beginning, just practice for a few more days."

It's not right to say this, and it's not right to say it.

Lou Huaiyu practiced for a few days, and at least the dart landed on the right target, either on the edge or far from the target.

Lou Huaiyu was a little embarrassed when the instructor laughed beside him several times.

"You are like this," the instructor came over, pinched his arm with one hand, and helped him adjust his posture with the other, "Squint one eye, stare at the bull's-eye, and throw—"

Lou Huaiyu threw it with the strength he gave, and the dart finally landed only a little bit off the bull's eye.

"Wow." Lou Huaiyu couldn't help laughing, and turned around to praise others, "You are amazing."

The instructor cleared his throat: "It's normal, just remember that, just throw it again in that position."

Lou Huaiyu thought about it, and this time he threw it away with confidence—unfortunately, it was still very biased.

Several times in a row, Lou Huaiyu was a little frustrated again.

He was not the kind of person who was particularly persevering and could endure hardships, especially he didn't like to fight and kill so much. After studying for so many days, he didn't make any progress, so he had the idea of ​​retreating.

The instructor probably noticed it too, he looked around, lowered his head suddenly, and whispered in a mysterious tone: "Do you want to try a real gun?"

Lou Huaiyu was startled: "A real gun?"

"No," the instructor took out a gun from his pocket, and whispered, "At our level, we always carry it with us, but the previous shot was too loud."

He pointed to the long protruding end of the gun: "But last time I stole that little Japanese silencer, I'll give you one, it's silent, it's okay."

Lou Huaiyu had never touched a real gun, nor had he heard of a silencer. The instructor put the gun into his hand, and he just had a simple thought that a gun that looked so small was so heavy.

I don't know why there are very few people in the courtyard this day, the instructor looked around, suddenly sent the two away to get the darts, and there was no one else.

The instructor held Lou Huaiyu's hand straight, and said to Lou Huaiyu: "Keep this posture, the same as before, aim, pull the trigger, and it's over. You aim...you aim at the innermost part."

The instructor pointed to the target on the far side: "It's okay to miss the target, it won't hit anyone."

When Lou Huaiyu touched the gun for the first time, he stopped thinking a bit and let out a dumbfounded sound.

The gun was really heavy. He only held it for a while, but he felt that his arm was so sore that he couldn't lift it. So although he was very scared, he pressed the trigger before even the instructor could react.

Lou Huaiyu didn't expect that when he fired the gun, he would also receive a force as if he was being pushed hard, pushing him back violently.

What's more, the silencer didn't work at all. When the shot was fired, Lou Huaiyu fell to the ground, and physiological tinnitus quickly appeared in his ears.

"It's okay!" The instructor hesitated for a moment, and hurriedly squatted down to help him, "Why are you in such a hurry, I haven't finished talking to you, I..."

Lou Huaiyu couldn't hear him anymore, and was pulled up by him in a daze, only to feel that the place where his arm rubbed before seemed to be rubbed again, and it hurt a little.

Lou Huaiyu lowered his head to look, and sure enough, he saw almost the same forearm again, a not deep but large piece of skin rubbed off by the ground, and a long strip of traces oozing sporadic drops of blood.

The instructor also frowned tightly, and didn't pick up the gun, but also came over to help him check the wound.

Before he put his hand down, Lou Huaiyu suddenly felt that someone was running to this side. When he raised his head, before he could see clearly, he was grabbed and fell to the side.

"What's wrong?" Shi Jichang grabbed his hand and looked, his voice made Lou Huaiyu startled.

"What's the matter with you?" Shi Jichang said fiercely.

Lou Huaiyu felt that he had done something wrong, and he was already panicked, so he couldn't help shaking, his shoulders shrank back, and he didn't speak.

Shi Jichang's anger disappeared in half immediately.

He looked helplessly at the wound on Lou Huaiyu's arm, remembering that he had suffered such a similar wound for himself, and the remaining half of his anger disappeared.

"It's okay." Lou Huaiyu shrank back.

Being grabbed by Shi Jichang: "Don't move."

Shi Jichang dragged him to look at the instructor who had already picked up the gun and said, "It's okay for him to be ignorant, Lao Hu has been with us for several months, don't you understand?"

Shi Jichang's tone was terribly fierce, and Lou Huaiyu spent a few days alone with the instructor, and it was the first time he knew that the instructor was called Lao Hu.

Lao Hu was also doing it for his own good. After thinking about it, he felt a little sorry. He gently tugged Shi Jichang, wanting to defend Lao Hu a few words.

But before he could speak, he was interrupted by a new face.

The new face is wearing...aqua blue clothes, which are obviously different from ordinary clothes, with a matching hat, and tight cloth strips tied around the waist and recommended.Lou Huaiyu had seen Japanese soldiers before, and although the person who came here had a different color from the Japanese soldiers, he could tell they were soldiers' clothes.

"What's the matter?" said the new face.

Shi Jichang dismissed Lou Huaiyu lightly: "It's nothing, I got angry."

Lou Huaiyu couldn't help but looked him up and down.

"That's it," the new face turned around and smiled, without asking any further questions, he introduced himself, "Hello, my name is Liang Sibo, the captain of the second detachment of the New Army's Beishang Third Company."

As he spoke, he stood up straight, straightened his palms upright, and placed them a little below the top of his head.

Lou Huaiyu didn't know the meaning of this action, but felt that this scene seemed to need to be respected for a moment, so his back couldn't help but straighten.

After Liang Sibo finished speaking, he put his hands down, smiled again, looked Lou Huaiyu up and down, and said something that Lou Huaiyu didn't expect.

"Are you the Lou Huaiyu that Shi Jichang said?"