This is the headquarters of the Fifth Agricultural Division of the Construction Corps. Since last year, new crop seeds and new production methods were distributed, as well as regular expert guidance, the output of various crops of the Fifth Agricultural Division has increased tremendously in just one year. promote. As the largest reclamation corps on the planet, although the Construction Corps does not belong to the regular PLA establishment, it can be regarded as having relatively high combat effectiveness among the reserves.
The PLA's huge change of equipment has little impact on the Fifth Agricultural Division. After all, they are not in active service, and they never get the best equipment. The PLA's own army changes its equipment internally, let alone their reserve forces. . However, the original World War II-era equipment in their hands, such as the semi-automatic Type 56 and Semi-automatic Type 56, has been basically replaced. The Type 56 and Bayi Bar replaced from the PLA have basically become weapons for militia and reserve forces. For these equipment, the members of the Fifth Agricultural Division felt very advanced.
The location of the Fifth Agricultural Division not only has patches of wheat and oat fields, but also some pastures. All this vitality is created on one of the few oases along the river in Xinjiang.
The breeding station on the tour station has been very popular with local herdsmen and farmers recently, because a batch of particularly strong stallions and sheep were sent here not long ago. After rebreeding, the local livestock breeds will be greatly optimized. In particular, there are a few tall horses that look particularly strong and have shiny and thin fur, which the locals like very much.
Li Chen learned some skills from the experts who came from the capital. After the experts left, he became an expert at the breeding station. The young man was from Shaanxi. He was fair and fair and could not tan no matter how much he was exposed to the sun.
It was almost evening, and Li Chen was riding a horse for a walk in the playground. After this group of stallions came to the group station, everyone regarded them as treasures. Several Kazakh uncles all talked about the Pegasus from Turkmen, but Li Chen, who is knowledgeable, knew that the shoulder height of the so-called Pegasus Akhalte Golden Horse was not as high as these horses. This batch of unknown stallions all had the same height at the shoulders. He is over one hundred and sixty centimeters tall, and his physique is much stronger.
Li Chen walked the horse for a while and saw a Uighur girl in a red dress not far away holding a small bag and walking to the grassland with her skirt in hand.
"Brother Li Chen," the girl didn't speak Mandarin very well and had a very obvious Xinjiang accent.
Li Chen smiled and said: "Dilinal."
The pretty and charming Uyghur girl has a pair of curved, cut eyes that are more radiant than the moon, and her exotic and beautiful facial features can make any man's heart flutter. The girl was the daughter of a nearby herdsman. More than a year ago, her ewe had a difficult birth. Li Chen worked as a midwife and saved the ewe and the lamb, which made the girl favor him.
"Brother Li Chen, there are lamb legs and naan here. It's almost night, please eat some."
Li Chen got off his horse and said apologetically: "Dilinaer, we are here to eat in the canteen. We have to eat with everyone. It is against discipline to open a small stove like this."
Dilinal blinked her beautiful big eyes: "Just eat a little and have a taste. I roasted this leg of lamb myself."
Feeling the girl's eagerness, Li Chen couldn't bear to refuse. He cut a piece of fragrant mutton with a knife and put it in his mouth to chew.
"It smells so good. Dilinar's craftsmanship is great. Whoever marries you in the future will be really lucky." Li Chen praised.
The girl¡¯s eyes widened with a smile, ¡°Brother Li Chen, can you marry me?¡±
Li Chen was stunned by the girl¡¯s question. His face turned red and he was speechless with embarrassment. Compared to the Uyghur girl, he, a young man from Shaanxi, was much more conservative. It was difficult to say such words.
Just when he didn't know how to respond, Dilinar suddenly pointed to the sky in the distance and said: "Brother Li Chen, look, what is that?"
Li Chen turned around and looked around. On the originally blue sky with a hint of orange-red that was gradually turning into dusk, a conspicuous fireball rushed straight down from the top of the sky. The direction he looked at was the nearby Lake Aibi.
Dilinal stared with big eyes and said: "So beautiful!"
Li Chen felt a sense of crisis for no reason. He thought it was something like a meteorite. In traditional culture, meteorites falling from the sky are not a good omen. As a young man, he was not superstitious, but the way the huge fireball rushed towards Lake Aibi was really scary.
As they got closer to the ground, Li Chen and Dilinar could see more clearly. There seemed to be a group of small fireballs surrounding the big fireball, making this "meteor fall" look like a meteor shower. It's just that an inexplicable force, or something like a magnetic field, restrains the small fireballs, causing them to tightly surround the big fireball like the soldiers of the guard without scattering.
A huge noise came a moment after the meteorite hit the ground, and Li Chen could feel the impact.It surged from the place where it fell to all directions. This force was so powerful that although it would not shatter a person's internal organs, it still pushed the weak Uighur girl down. Li Chen quickly went up to help Dilinar. Unexpectedly, the girl was not worried about the shock wave of the meteorite. Instead, she boldly leaned into Li Chen's arms and put her arms around the elder brother's waist.
Li Chen immediately had a headache. Although Dilinal was very cute and beautiful, she was only fourteen years old. For young people of this era, even if she had a tendency to be a lolicon, she would never show it.
Just when Li Chen wanted to persuade the girl to let go, the big loudspeaker at the breeding station rang loudly: "Hey, hey, pay attention, pay attention, all comrades, gather on the playground immediately to prepare to distribute weapons and pack your bags. . The regiment is in combat readiness, repeat, the regiment is in combat readiness, this is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill!¡±
The Uighur girl still didn¡¯t understand the meaning of this sentence with a Shandong accent, but Li Chen¡¯s expression changed drastically.
"Enter combat readiness? Is it related to the meteorite falling just now?" Li Chen was shocked and confused, but he could no longer care about Dilinar.
"Dilinal, go home quickly, find your father and mother, close the door, and don't open it to anyone you don't know!"
Dilinar saw Li Chen's nervousness and asked with some concern: "Brother Li Chen, did something bad happen?"
Li Chen shook his head: "I don't know. Anyway, we are about to gather. Dilinar, be careful!"
"Brother Li Chen, you have to be careful too." Dilinar watched as Li Chen mounted the splendid horse and headed towards the playground of the breeding station. She lowered her head and looked at the lamb legs and naan in her hands, wondering if she could bring them to Li Chen for dinner at night.
The entire Fifth Agricultural Division gathered together, and even some of the families of the Fifth Agricultural Division came over. Li Chen met the regiment leader who rarely showed up. He stood there and lectured everyone with a serious face: "Comrades, we have just received an order from the Central Military Commission. We will enter the meteorite soon." Collect all relevant debris in the fall area and protect the scene. I repeat that after entering the operation area, everyone must cheer up and do not let go of any possible threats or any debris!¡±
The soldiers below all have various questions, such as why it is dangerous to enter the meteorite fall area, or whether the meteorites are so precious that everyone must collect them and not let them go.
Li Chen stood below, feeling full of doubts, but no one dared to ask his questions directly. Everything is given priority by order. If the above does not explain it, the following cannot ask.
The leader seemed to feel that it was not safe, and then added: "No matter what you saw, you are not allowed to discuss it, and you are not allowed to spread it. Those are all meteorites. Whether you heard it or not, they are all meteorites!"
"I heard it!" everyone replied loudly.
But Li Chen knew in his heart that the more he emphasized that those things were meteorites, the less likely they were to be meteorites. No one is a fool, and everyone has already guessed that this mission is unusual, but the Construction Corps is also a soldier, and the reserve soldiers must also carry steel guns and go to the battlefield when they are needed. The Construction Corps is a special organization that combines military, economic, and social aspects. Production and military training need to be taken into consideration. Li Chen and the others also conduct military training regularly. Especially in the past year, their training is not limited to queue walking or physical training. Regular target shooting and organized military theoretical study and practice have also increased, and some people are even complacent and want to test the results of what they have learned.
When a Bayi stick was assigned to Li Chen, the young soldier's heartbeat accelerated a lot. The atmosphere brought to them by real combat missions and ordinary missions is definitely different. It is like black clouds over the city, making people breathless, and there is a solemn smell in the whole air.
With a basic amount of ammunition allocated to them, everyone didn¡¯t care about dinner today. They got on the newly-issued truck from the regiment station and ate military rations on land.
And a group of people in a hidden building in the capital were also extremely nervous, because no one knew what would happen next.
"At an altitude of 5,000 meters, another large-scale disintegration occurred. Some of the fragments should have fallen into the Soviet Union, and most of them fell into the desert on the north shore of Lake Aibi."
Qi Yiming frowned and turned around to ask Liao Huairen: "What did the people in the Xinjiang Military Region do? The nearest Eighth Division has not yet completed the delivery of heavy weapons and is still gathering. The Fourth Division in southern Xinjiang The 6th Division and the 6th Division have not yet reached Bole or Tacheng, but they are still on the periphery. So our entire front line is actually the reserve 5th Agricultural Division? Have they ever thought that whether it is a real alien invasion? Or were the Soviets crossing the border and robbing them?What about the residents there? Can the construction corps there handle it? "
Liao Huairen said with a headache: "I didn't expect that they waited until the last moment to order the attack. There was insufficient information before, so they were cautious."
"Then at least evacuate the Bole area first! You know it will hit there, but you don't even say hello in advance. What are you afraid of? Or are you just planning to be passive and negligent? When this matter is over, someone must Take responsibility for this!¡±
Listening to the undoubted flavor in Qi Yiming's words, Liao Huairen felt that his authoritative temperament was getting stronger and stronger. He was no longer the same as the gentle, harmless young man he met at the beginning.