In the evening, Zhao Hu was dragged to the most luxurious restaurant in the county to drink. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Here, Zhao Hu got to know all the chief officers of the wing team department, but what made Zhao Hu feel strange was that few of these chief officers were not fat-headed brains, especially the wing captain and the wing logistics chief, who were more like nouveau riche businessmen than soldiers.

And to Zhao Hu's surprise, the five captains all attended the welcome party, could it be that the brigade headquarters was stationed in the county seat?

Not long after the welcome meeting began, Zhao Hu found that several chief officials began to inquire about their own situation, and Zhao Hu of course answered truthfully.

After getting the truth, the enthusiasm of the chief officials dropped significantly, and after a while, these chief officials threw Zhao Hu aside and drank by themselves, and after a while, they dispersed and moved their positions to the Qinglou next to them.

Of course, there is no share of Zhao Hu as the protagonist.

Early the next morning, a squad leader with the order of the logistics commander of the wing appeared in front of Zhao Hu, threw Zhao Hu several carriages full of supplies and a few horses, and ordered Zhao Hu to set off immediately to the brigade station, and then turned around and left without even giving an answer.

Zhao Hu, who knew that he was unfamiliar with his life, looked for a while before finding his top boss - the fifth captain of the Qinglou who stayed overnight.

"What? Didn't you have an order to escort the supplies back to the station? Why haven't you set off yet? The fifth captain, who was disheveled, sleepy-eyed, and drunk, looked unhappy.

When Zhao Hu asked him to send guards to accompany him, he was interrupted by the captain's rough wave: "Tell you this rookie!" Under the wise leadership of our Wing Commander, the security of the entire Sishi County is very good! Absolutely, well, it's definitely that night is not closed, the road is not forgotten, the wind is calm, and there is no danger, so there is no need to send guards to protect it! Our guard department has worked hard enough, and we still want them to eat and sleep in the open air, and we have to talk about our conscience?

"Besides, don't you have five guards? There are enough people, so you should hit the road as soon as possible. But you have to remember that if there is anything wrong on the road, as long as something happens, the captain of this brigade will find you trouble, and then don't blame me for not showing mercy and dealing with you by military law! Okay, let's go, Captain Ben still needs to rest. ”

I didn't know what to scold while muttering, so I slammed the door shut.

Zhao Hu, who felt that those guys were too realistic, had no choice but to order five subordinates to string the carriage and horses and let him drive them himself.

There is no way to do this, my five subordinates can't ride a horse at all, let alone drive a carriage.

However, when I went out of the city gate, I still got the specific direction of Kulong Town from the mouth of the guards.

The convoy had not gone far west after leaving the county seat, the road had completely disappeared, and the surrounding area was the same wilderness, and it could only move in a general direction.

Zhao Hu's five subordinates, Dio had long dragged Sun Jie and Zhou Wen to count the supplies in the car, while the two brothers Locke and Luo Fei were bored and napping in the car.

When night fell and he was resting, Dio reported to Zhao Hu: "Changgong, our shipment has 100 catties and 50 bags of grain. ”

Zhao Hu immediately asked in shock: "Fifty bags?" Such a small amount of food is not enough for a brigade to eat for three days! How is it so little? ”

Dio smiled and said, "These fifty bags are fine grain, which should be specially supplied to officers, and don't you know, sir?" Most of the food for the garrison was procured locally. ”

Zhao Hu shook his head and said: "This great northwest is not suitable for grain production, I'm afraid I can't buy much grain." ”

Zhou Wen said with a smile: "Sir, there should be no problem with this, if there is a problem, the troops scattered below would have been in an uproar, and the empire would have been in an uproar, after all, the imperial army has never been short of food." ”

After Zhao Hu heard this, he put his heart down for a while, nodded, and then motioned for Dio to continue reporting.

"A hundred sets of military uniforms and military boots, but now there are five sets less." Speaking of this, Dio was embarrassed to touch the military uniform on his body, and when they found that there was a military uniform in the goods, they automatically changed into it: "Twenty sabers, ten bows, twenty bowstrings, one thousand arrows, ten saddles, twenty pairs of horseshoe and horse chewing iron, two sets of civil engineering tools, and finally 8,000 gold coins, 5,000 silver coins, and 30,000 copper coins." ”

"That's the monthly salary of the Fifth Brigade? Why so many? Zhao Hu asked strangely.

Dio said uncertainly: "The extra is probably the team's funds...... It is impossible, because according to the practice of the empire, the maximum amount of funds for a brigade is about a thousand gold coins a month. And the average monthly salary of a brigade is about three dry two hundred and fifty gold coins, and now it is more than twice as much, it can't be that last month's salary was not paid, right? ”

He was immediately taken aback by the inference.

The salaries of the imperial army are paid on time without delay, as long as those troops who are besieged in the battle and cannot be transported with supplies, there will be a delay in the payment of salaries, that is, the troops that are located in remote areas and are only replenished once every six months, there will be no such thing, and this kind of troops will transport the materials for half a year at one time.

The Fifth Brigade's transportation route is a two-day journey at most, and such a thing is not allowed at all, which shows that some people above have temporarily diverted these salaries for other purposes, and these turnover matters have been seen by the person in charge of the accounts. Your own chief won't be implicated, right?

Dio said his worries, and Zhou Wen preemptively said: "Uncle Diou, you think too much, our chief is a new person who has just reported to the station, even if there is anything, it can't be relied on by the chief." ”

Zhao Hu didn't say anything, just frowned and pondered.

It seems that the lower echelons of the Imperial Army are not as they appear to be, look at the delayed salaries now, look at the officers who look like merchants, the lower ranks of the Imperial Army have become corrupt.

I wonder if this phenomenon is more or less in the Imperial Army? If it's a minority, it's nothing, if it's mostly like that......

At dawn the next day, it was opened, and in the evening, Zhao Hu and his party saw a vague black shadow in the wilderness plain in the distance, and several cavalry-looking people had already rushed towards their side, and it seemed that they should have arrived.

However, Zhao Hu had doubts.

On the road for two consecutive days, on this wilderness with a vast view, I have never met a herdsman, even if the land is sparsely populated, it will not be like this, right? The most outrageous thing is that I haven't even seen an animal, giving people a feeling of dead silence, if I haven't finally seen people now, I'm afraid I'll think I've entered a dead place.

"Who?" Five archers surrounded Zhao Hu and the others, although they saw Zhao Hu's rank, but because of the existence of the five people who had no military rank but were wearing military uniforms, Dio asked vigilantly.

"I'm the new logistics chief of the 5th Brigade, and this is proof of my identity." Zhao Hu handed over the certificate of military status and the certificate of reopening of the staff officer of the major's wing.

When the five archers heard Zhao Hu's military position, their expressions were obviously moved, but they still cautiously let only one person come to receive the documents, and the other four still drew their bows and guarded.

After the first-class soldier archer who received the certificate looked at the certificate, he glanced at Zhao Hu suspiciously, then returned to his teammates and handed the certificate to the archer with the rank of corporal: "Boss, that military certificate does have the seal of the wing, but how is this military certificate a little different from ours?" ”

The corporal archer looked at the document and showed a smile on his face: "This is issued by the Imperial Capital Military Department, and the workmanship is relatively fine." As he spoke, he put away his bow and turned over and dismounted, standing up and saluting: "The first captain of the first squadron and the first squad of the first squadron, Corporal Kailar, say hello to the long palace!" The four subordinates beside him also hurriedly saluted.

After some politeness, Zhao Hu continued to move forward under the escort of this team. In this short distance, Zhao Hu heard the words that made him stupid.

The first-class soldier who received the certificate looked at the carriage with excitement on his face, and after a while he asked Dio, "Uncle, these are the supplies of our brigade, right?" Seeing Dio nodding, he asked again, "How much salary did you bring?" We haven't paid for two months. ”

Dio, who was originally smiling and nodding, was immediately dumbfounded when he heard this.

My guess turned out to be true! There was such an incredible thing as unpaid in the Imperial Army.

The other first-class soldier looked at the rank of Zhao Hu's arm a little strangely, and then muttered: "Finally, an officer came, I hope I don't leave again without staying for two days, otherwise the entire brigade will not be stationed with officers all year round, and it will not be a matter of all." ”

Zhao Hu, who had sensitive ears, couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this.

He knew that only officers and above could be called officers, so he couldn't help but ask, "What did you say?" Is I the only officer in the entire brigade? What about the squadron leaders? ”

Khalal wanted to stop this subordinate, but the private pouted first and said, "Squadron leader? They had already followed the captain back to the county seat. ”

"Kylar, what's going on?" Zhao Hu asked.

Kailar said bitterly: "Now only the grass-roots structure of the squad still exists in the entire brigade, and the formation of the squadron and brigade has long existed in name only, and all officers above the rank of lieutenant stay in the county seat. ”

"Desertion? How so? This is the border! Zhao Hu said in shock.

Kailar sighed: "This is the border, but unfortunately the people above think that this place is safe and sound, and they ignore that the place where we are stationed now is close to the Feimu Banner Alliance, and the border between the two countries is very blurred. ”

"Kind of like a war?" Zhao Hu asked solemnly.

As soon as he heard this, Zhao Hu's five subordinates, except for the two brothers Luo and Luo Fei, the other three all changed their faces.