Even the bearded company commander Tian couldn't help laughing. This is all common sense. But the driver class has never been exposed to these. Strictly speaking, they have never even seen a map. How do they know the relationship between n and s?

The cooking squad put in a lot of effort to cook the porridge, but found that except for the command platoon and the company headquarters, which brought their own military teapots, the two artillery platoons and the logistics did not bring anything to eat.

This is not a steamed bun. You can eat it with your hands. You can't eat porridge with your hands, right?

Taking turns, everyone drank two teacups of porridge to make their stomachs full, and the troops returned along the same route.

When we returned to the station, it was almost noon. The cooking team immediately cooked noodles. After eating, the whole company took a rest and went to bed first. Then, after four o'clock in the afternoon, the meal was served. Then, each platoon was used as a unit to summarize experiences and lessons learned.

Each class brought it back, and the reconnaissance team quickly returned to Uncle Geng's house. Everyone didn't even wash it, they took off their clothes and immediately fell asleep.

It was a sound sleep. At four o'clock in the afternoon, no one in the company heard the meal whistle and was still fast asleep, including the company headquarters.

Thanks to Wang Ke's focus on physical training during this period, the command platoon's daily ten-kilometer long run played a big role. But even so, those with poor physical fitness were exhausted.

When Wang Ke followed the reconnaissance team to the kitchen for dinner, it was already past four o'clock. Only Hu Yanlou from the cooking team was left sitting there taking a nap while everyone else went to catch up on their sleep.

Dinner was steamed buns, and the dishes were fried cabbage and pork stewed with radish. Except for Wang Ke and Song Ruimin, everyone else almost ate with their eyes closed. And in the open space in front of the kitchen door, only the reconnaissance squad was eating.

"Hu Yanlou, wake up." Wang Ke pushed Hu Yanlou, who was sleeping against the door.

"Platoon leader, what are you doing? Do you want more soup?" Hu Yanlou rubbed his eyes and stood up in agitation.

"What are you talking about in your sleep? We have finished eating. I am asking the command platoon if they have all finished eating?"

"That's right. I only saw the wireless class and your class. The phone class called back for food, and the other rows haven't come yet." As soon as Hu Yanlou finished speaking, he immediately sat down again leaning against the door frame.

He was too tired, so he had to take a nap first.

It seems that what needs to be supplemented is not only the fixed-point positioning training of the artillery class, but also the cooking class and driver's class, which may have to start with the most basic knowledge of military topography.

Back at the command platoon, Gu Maolin was playing with his pair of not too old Jiefang shoes.

"What's the matter, Maolin?"

"It's a pity to throw away these shoes. They haven't arrived for a month. The uppers are not rotten, but the soles are worn through. I wonder if I can give them a slap?" Wang Ke walked over and took a look. The bottom of the heels of the shoes had been worn through.

The soles of Jiefang shoes should be very strong, but people who have never climbed mountains have no idea that the soles of a new pair of shoes will wear out in at most two months, making it impossible to wear them even if you want to.

"Give it to me, let's exchange a pair." Wang Ke stopped Gu Maolin, who was about to throw away the shoes.

Wang Ke returned to the room and handed his other new pair of shoes to Gu Maolin. This kid had been training and running the most in the mountains recently, so his shoes were wearing out the fastest.

"Platoon leader, what's wrong with this?" Being polite, Gu Maolin still took the shoe. In his words, who said Platoon Leader Wang Ke was polite, he was just doing it to himself.

Wang Ke took the pair of shoes and looked at them again and again. The uppers were all good, but the soles of the two shoes were worn through. He could only ask a sergeant to take them to the market town to find a bicycle tire repairman and try to glue an old section together.

Put the tires on, otherwise it would be a shame to throw them away.

Now that I have given my new shoes to Gu Maolin, the pair on my feet are particularly precious. If they are worn out like Gu Maolin, I won't even be able to go up the mountain.

Wang Ke sat on the kang, thinking about it, and it seemed that he could only buy himself a few pairs of straw sandals.

"Gu Maolin."

"arrive!"

"You take the sweet potato Liang Xiaolong and go to the grassy beach opposite to cut some grass for me."

"Yes! But what are you mowing that grass for, platoon leader, to feed the animals? The animals won't even eat it." Gu Maolin muttered in a low voice.

"Don't talk nonsense, just cut the longer and older grass. I want to come back and make straw sandals."

"Straw sandals? You need to do this. Do you know how to do this, platoon leader? You have to teach us. Let's go, let's go, and we'll be back before dark." Gu Maolin pulled two recruits and brought sickles, poles and backpacks.

The rope set off.

As I write this, the author bets that among the 10,000 people in cities and rural areas, it would be difficult to find even one person who knows how to make straw sandals.

During the war years, the Red Army relied on straw sandals to walk the 25,000-mile Long March, climbing snow-capped mountains, crossing grasslands, and sweeping thousands of troops like a rolling hurricane.

Anyway, don’t overwhelm yourself with many arts, just let the reconnaissance squad, no, let the entire command platoon follow suit.

Wang Ke is not idle at home either. Last time he tore the gaiters for Quanlian, there was still a little scrap of fabric left, and now he is using it. Straw shoe tendons are needed, and if there is no scrap, he has to use straw to make little fingers.

Use thick straw ropes as shoestrings.

Next, Wang Ke looked around for tools for weaving straw sandals. He found a large bench and nailed five nails on one end according to the width of the feet.

Then, use your hands to twist the scraps of fabric into cloth ropes to use as shoe tendons.

I heard that the platoon leader wanted to make straw sandals. Except for the three soldiers who were going to mow the grass, Huang Zhonghe, the wireless squad leader, took Xue Lin, and Xiao Gao, the telephone squad leader, ran over. Everyone crowded in the yard to see how Wang Ke knitted?

The lights in the courtyard were not on either. Xiao Gao, the telephone monitor, simply pulled the lights in the main room into the courtyard. Everyone was no longer tired now and crowded around Wang Ke chattering.

The command platoon and the artillery platoon are different. They all run in the mountains. Now the shoe problem is bothering everyone. Not only Gu Maolin of the reconnaissance squad, but also the telephone squad now only has one pair of shoes left. Without shoes, training cannot be carried out. Market

I can't buy it online. If straw sandals can solve the problem, that would be great.

Wang Ke first used iron wire to make a smaller version of a three-tooth straw rake, tied a belt around his waist, and tied the five tendons to the five nails of the big bench.

Everything is ready now, all we need is the east wind.

Gu Maolin and the others picked up a whole load of thatch and came back. The weeds on the grassy beach were too lush, and they were all tough, slightly yellow grass.

Don’t say anything, just rub the straw rope like me. As soon as Wang Ke demonstrated, everyone started to use their hands. But to say that the best rub was the old squad leader Huang Zhonghe.

I saw his hands flying around, picking up a few straws from time to time and inserting them into his palms. Pushing and retracting, the straw rope, which was only as thick as his little finger, was twisted into pieces. He kept rubbing it continuously. This straw rope was very long.

It will soon be two meters long.

"Okay, old squad leader, give me this straw rope first." Wang Ke took the straw rope from the old squad leader Huang Zhonghe, tied a knot, and began to prepare straw sandals.

Everyone concentrated their energy and looked at platoon leader Wang Ke.

Wang Ke was not in a hurry. He sat on the big bench and tied the other ends of the five tendons tied to the iron nails to his belt. The two-foot-long tendons formed an inverted triangle.

Wang Ke picked up the straw rope and began to jump on the tendon rope, weaving up and down, from left to right, then right to left. Every time he knitted a row, he used the three-tooth straw rake to hold it firmly forward and backward.

In the meantime, two stumbling blocks were left on each side of the tendons on the left and right sides, and finally the soles were braided. Wang Ke began to close the knot. He untied the five tendons tied to the belt and nails, and braided them on the front and back.

An inch and a half high braid was started to be divided and tied to both sides. The extra ropes now became the uppers of the shoes. They were put on the feet and tied to the left and right, and it was completed.

The first time he played, he couldn't tell the difference between his left and right feet. Then, Wang Ke began to consciously separate his left and right feet. Soon, a pair of straw sandals came out. Gu Maolin was the first to take off his Jiefang shoes to experience the taste of these straw sandals.

"Not bad, not bad, so comfortable."

"Okay, don't be so pretty. Gu Maolin, take it off, and we'll grab a pair of straw ropes and try to get a pair for everyone in the platoon."

Next, there was no class meeting. Five or six people followed the old class leader Huang Zhonghe to rub the straw rope, and Wang Ke was responsible for making straw sandals. More than 20 pairs of straw sandals were finished in this way.

"Have you learned it?" Wang Ke asked.

"I've learned it, platoon leader, I only learned how to twist the straw rope." Xiao Gao, the telephone squad leader, said with a smile. He had already chosen six pairs of big-footed ones, which were the "trophies" of their telephone squad.

"Let me try." Huang Zhonghe, the wireless squad leader, sat on the long bench. He imitated Wang Ke's example, and under Wang Ke's guidance, he also made a pair of straw sandals.

"Platoon leader, this is not difficult, but it is very practical." Huang Zhonghe, the wireless squad leader, was very happy holding the straw sandals he had made.

"Okay, you three squad leaders, don't move for now. I have to pick out a pair for each of the old platoon leader and three company cadres, and for the rest, a pair for each person in the platoon." Wang Ke said and started to pick.

After picking four pairs, Wang Ke discovered on the phone that squad leader Xiao Gao had run away without knowing when he was holding six pairs of straw sandals. "Okay, old squad leader, please tell everyone that we usually wear straw sandals and save Jiefang shoes for training on the mountain.

"

"Yes!" Huang Zhonghe answered, picked up six pairs of shoes and left.

Look, there are twelve pairs of straw sandals on the ground.

"Reconnaissance squad leader, you send these four pairs to the company headquarters for the old platoon leader and company leader. Take an extra pair for the health worker Lao Yu. The rest have a pair for each person. Leave two pairs for me."

"Yes." Song Ruimin held five pairs of straw sandals and turned around and walked out of the courtyard.

Wang Ke thought, if it weren't for showing off, tomorrow morning, nearly twenty people in the command platoon would all wear straw sandals to eat and study. This is the second sight in the company after the command platoon wearing leggings.

In peaceful times, this is unique.

Wang Ke carried the big bench back to the room, packed up two pairs of straw sandals and the tools, and the two recruits started cleaning.

"Gu Maolin, I'll give you another pair of straw sandals."

"Oh, thank you, platoon leader, you still feel sorry for me." Gu Maolin took a look and happily hid a pair of straw shoes in the shell box. While he was loading the shoes, he heard a running sound from the door of the small courtyard.

Song Ruimin ran back with a package in his arms. Before he entered the small courtyard door, he shouted: "Platoon leader, you are rich."

"How did I get rich?" Upon hearing this, Wang Ke immediately put down what he was holding and walked out of the room.

"I don't know which comrade from the division sent it to you. The sergeant went to pick up the letter today and helped you get it back."

"Are you sure it's from the division headquarters?"

"Well, the address above is the division headquarters."

"Bring it to me quickly." Wang Ke thought about it. It was sent by no one except Wu Xiangyu from the division headquarters. He had just written a letter to her, so it was unlikely that it would be so soon.

According to past logic, even if the distance is two hundred kilometers, the round trip to the post office will take about ten days. We have just arrived at Longquanzhuang, how could it be her?

After receiving the package, Wang Ke squeezed it with his hands. It looked like they were shoes, and there was more than one pair. There should be several pairs. He hurriedly found scissors, opened the package, and when he opened it, he saw that there were really three pairs of Jiefang shoes in total.

Wang Ke went through shoe holes one by one and finally touched a piece of paper. When he opened it, he saw that it was Wu Xiangyu's dragon and phoenix dancing characters.

"I guess you've arrived at Longquanzhuang, right? I bought another pair of the two pairs given out this year and sent them all to you. Save your clothes and tell me if you don't have enough."

There was no title or signature.

Wang Ke remembered that when he left Nanshao Village, he wrote a letter to her, talking about his return to the team and about going to Longquan Village in Xishan. He did not expect Wu Xiangyu to be so interested.

Okay, you're welcome then, just take the order.
Chapter completed!