Chapter 41: The Black Wind Army

It wasn't until it was dark that Wang Baoshan waited for Wang Qiang to be free before finding him, and the two came to the village hall and talked while having dinner.

Just after listening to Wang Qiang's words, Wang Baoshan was also deeply touched, and he didn't feel a taste in his heart, so he said: "Second brother, what you said today made me a little ashamed..."

"Big brother, what are you ashamed of?" Wang Qiang was a little puzzled.

"You think of the poor people all the time, and I think of myself all the time, don't you say you're ashamed?"

"Big brother, it's best if you think so, I was just trying to talk to you, I took someone to the Li family's iron mine that day, and I didn't find the old mine slave who helped us get out of trouble at that time, I suspect that he has died..."

"Alas... We should have gone earlier..."Wang Baoshan listened, and felt sad for a while, without that kind old mine slave, maybe they were still suffering there, or even dead.

"Morning and evening, what's the difference... In fact, I did all this arranged by Mr. Zhao, including what I did when I changed my name and went to the city..."When Wang Qiang said this, he looked at the sky, not knowing what he was thinking.

"By the way, I haven't asked, why do you have to change your name?"

Wang Qiang didn't answer in a hurry, and after drinking a few big bowls of wine, he said with a little drunkenness: "What else can I do for it, the name Sanpi is difficult to get into the hall of elegance, it is not a name at all, Wang Qiang is different, this is what I thought... Big brother, your surname is Wang, I will have your surname, I want to be strong, so I named Wang Qiang... Big brother, don't blame me for drinking too much and talking about alcohol..."

Then, he said: "Big brother, these days, it's really hard!

Wang Baoshan saw him spitting out the truth after drinking, he was depressed, and he wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know what to say for a while.

He was also very surprised, after Sanpizhi changed his name to Wang Qiang, what he did changed greatly, it turned out that everything was arranged by Zhao Qingshan in secret.

But why did Zhao Qingshan do this?

He couldn't figure it out, so he asked, "Second brother, do you know why Mr. Zhao did this?"

"Why did he do this, I don't know, I just know that he told me that he could let me be the master if I wanted, so I agreed?"

"Is it so important to be a human being?"

"Don't you understand? Don't care about those..."Wang Qiang pulled him to drink another bowl.

"Don't I understand?" Wang Baoshan muttered to himself, some understanding, some not understanding.

"What kind of wine are you drinking? It's so fragrant..."Du Xiaosan walked over at this time.

"Big brother, second brother, you don't call me when you drink..."As soon as he sat down, he began to complain.

"Third brother, your second brother has drunk too much, I'll drink with you!" Wang Baoshan poured him a bowl of wine.

"I don't dare to drink with you, I'm poured, you're still like no one, it's not fair..."Du Xiaosan took the wine and took a sip.

"Third brother, don't laugh, I heard you say today that you want to form an army, that's a lot of work, and I won't have time to get together in the future..."

Du Xiaosan heard this, and said with a smile: "Big brother, you just move over, you are too far away, and it will be troublesome to find you..."

Wang Baoshan also smiled and said: "This is easy to say, I think the situation is in crisis now, I don't know what you want to do, can you get through the difficulties by establishing your own military force?"

Du Xiaosan didn't answer him, but asked him: "Big brother, what did you gain from reading that book "The Royal Road?"

"What are the gains, I can't say for a while, I just feel that many things are understood, and it is not as difficult as before..."

When Du Xiaosan heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said, "That's right, it's still good to read more books." Why is my eldest brother so interested in what I said about the founding of the army?"

Wang Baoshan said: "I can't say it, but I feel that what you said is also good, and it may need to be improved in detail." ”

"Big brother, then how do you say it's perfect?" Du Xiaosan listened with an interested look.

"I think it's all people-oriented, after all, it is not easy to manage so many people at once. If you want to work together, everyone must take into account, so that everyone can play to their strengths..."Wang Baoshan said, looking at the night sky involuntarily, with a look of yearning.

Du Xiaosan waited quietly for him to finish, the smile on his face became even bigger, and said: "Big brother, you think very well, I once read a book of "March Minutes" by an unknown general, which also mentions people-oriented, I really can't imagine that you have thought of it, big brother..."

"What is people-oriented?" Wang Qiang, who had just been drunk and was lying on the wine table, asked them in a daze.

"Haha... Second brother, you're drunk..."Du Xiaosan saw Wang Qiang's drunken eyes and laughed.

"Third brother, you're here too! Come and drink..."After speaking, Wang Qiang raised the wine bowl again.

Du Xiaosan had the worst amount of alcohol, so he had no choice but to pick up the wine bowl and drink with them.

In this way, they drank and chatted until the second half of the night, when they were all happy, and the three of them went to sleep.

From the second day, the entire Black Wind Village was in full swing preparing everything for the army. Under Du Xiaosan's arrangement, the women and girls of the village stepped up the sewing of all kinds of military uniforms, and let the fortification battalion rush to produce all kinds of weapons and armor, while Zhao Zitang was responsible for formulating military ranks, military orders, military laws and the distribution of military salaries...... And so on, everything is tense and busy.

Wang Baoshan was not idle, he went to the room to help Zhang Luo buy some vegetables, fruits, wine, meat... Wait, when the army is established, it needs to be celebrated by all, there are many people, how to do it if you don't prepare in advance.

After Zhao Qingshan's calculation, the day of the establishment of the army was set in the day a month later. It happened to be the beginning of winter, and according to him, there was heavy snow that day, which happened to be an auspicious omen for the year of Ruixue Zhaofeng.

In the blink of an eye, and on the day of the beginning of winter, as Zhao Qingshan expected, the sky was full of snow, and the sky was white and boundless, and snowflakes were flying.

In front of the Heifengzhuang Juyi Hall, on the martial arts arena for about half a mile, hundreds of soldiers wearing black armor and black military uniforms stood neatly. Each of them had black iron knives on their waists and three-foot steel spears, and they all stood majestically and vigorously like wooden stakes, letting the wind and snow blow on their faces, and they didn't care.

A bleak invisible fighting spirit loomed in their figures, making this cold and snowy day a little more chilly.

These soldiers stood in the entire martial arts arena in the entire Jorixu square circle, lined up in a phalanx, and waited for the battle. A large area of black pressing, on the white flocculent snow, is like being covered with a huge black carpet, which is eye-catching.

Directly in front of the phalanx, there was also a row of sergeants, who were selected from among the leaders of the battalions, a total of ten men. In terms of military rank, they are all centurions in the Black Wind Army, and they are in charge of the hundred soldiers under them, of course, there are not enough people now, so they can only vacate soldiers for the time being, and then fill the vacant positions later.

Although no battalion is full, the military rank system still has to be strictly formulated.

What is surprising is that Wang Baoshan is also among the ten centurions, and he has the least number of people, only thirty-six soldiers. I don't know what Wang Baoshan and his two sworn brothers talked about that night, which made him change his mind and join the army.

After the ten centurions, there are two thousand-commanders, served by the swordsman Tai Sui Li Jin and the heroine Qiao Lanyi, with the rank of left and right generals, in charge of their ten centurions.

Du Xiaosan, on the other hand, served as the quartermaster of the Black Wind Army, and continued to be responsible for the fortification battalions, the salaries, weapons and equipment of the military barracks...... and so on, all of which are controlled and distributed by him in response to military needs.

Zhao Qingshan also served as the military advisor of the Black Wind Army, and Zhao Zitang was also changed to the shogunate of the Black Wind Army, which was responsible for the analysis and formulation of military strategy, and all matters of the size of military aircraft in the army were arranged and controlled by Zhao Qingshan.

And Wang Qiang is the president of the Black Wind Army, leading dozens of Chinese troops, responsible for the military discipline, military orders, and laws of the entire Black Wind Army, controlling the whole army, managing the dispatch between the various armies, and the promotion of all soldiers.

To put it bluntly, in the entire Black Wind Army, Wang Qiang has the highest military rank.

At this time, Wang Qiang, Zhao Qingshan, Du Xiaosan... and others, looking at the sergeants in the audience, read out the list of sergeants of each battalion in a matter-of-fact manner, and read through the military orders and discipline on the spot, and also divided the location of each military camp.

After all the arrangements were stopped, Wang Qiang ordered someone to move out a large flag and hang it on a flagpole dozens of feet high in front of the Juyi Hall.

I saw that big flag, white characters on a black background, depicting two vigorous big characters "black wind".

In the wind and snow, the black wind banner is waving in the wind, flying and making snow, majestic. The sky was full of snow, and the color changed, and the gray was bleak.

"Sacrificial flag..."

With Wang Qiang's shout, the whole army knelt down on one knee and bowed three times to the banner of the black wind.

After the ceremony, everyone stood up and waited for the Great Commander Wang to speak.

Wang Qiang looked at all the sergeants who were still in some climate, and said: "From now on, my Black Wind Army will definitely do the right thing for the sky, save the people from the dire situation, and relieve the suffering of the people, I, Wang Qiang, thank you for your great help..."

The soldiers in the audience knelt down on one knee again and shouted in unison: "We should remember the words of the commander and defend the military training to the death..."

Thinking that everyone is in the sea of suffering, the hard-working people who have grown up struggling have long had the incomparable expectation of getting out of the sea of suffering, and at this time led by Wang Qiang, one by one, the sound is like a bell, wave after wave.

The soldiers shouted over and over again, shouting steaming hot and emotional. It seems that he wants to use this cry to shatter the suffering and coldness of heaven and earth, so as to restore warmth and beauty to the world.

After the flag sacrifice was completed, the soldiers of each battalion returned to their respective barracks and waited for the order to practice.

The remaining centurions and generals followed Wang Qiang into the original Juyi Hall, which is now changed to the Chinese Army Hall. Because Wang Baoshan became a centurion, he also had to participate in this kind of military talks. After all, on the first day of the founding of the army, the military affairs meeting held could not be without him.

This seemingly uneventful day, but for many years to come, it has been talked about by people of later generations. It is said that later in the era of peace, people also set up a festival for this purpose, called Army Day, which is said to commemorate the great cause of the founding of the Black Wind Army on this day.