In the past year or so, Xu Zhongshu has already had this feeling: it is not easy and even risky to follow Lin Ziran.

It's not easy, that's because Lin Ziran's pace is very fast, it's not easy to catch up with him, once you can't keep up with his pace, then you will be ruthlessly abandoned.

Lin Ziran only became the battalion officer of the Qingshan Town Patrol Battalion in the autumn of the forty-eighth year of Yongchang, and it was only a year and a half ago.

However, in the past year and a half, he has changed from a local battalion officer in a town to the commander of the Sixth Division, one of the five major feudal towns in Luo'an.

The number of troops under his command has changed from hundreds of local militia groups to more than 10,000 troops.

That's a pretty fast pace.

In such a high-speed development process, naturally not everyone can keep up with Lin Ziran's pace of development, the earliest hundreds of people who followed Lin Ziran back then, how many people can still appear in front of Lin Ziran to maintain a high position?

There won't be more than 10 people at full play!

Although most of the rest are still under Lin Ziran's command, they can't keep up with Lin Ziran's pace.

If it's just like this, it can't be said to be difficult or even dangerous, more importantly, Lin Ziran has huge ambitions, he is constantly advancing, and anyone or anything that stands in his way has been ruthlessly crushed by Lin Ziran.

The commander of the previous 8th Infantry Battalion is an example of this.

The Eighth Infantry Battalion was defeated twice without a fight, and the battalion commander who was born in Lin Ziran's own army, because of his poor leadership, was directly ordered by the angry Lin Ziran to be removed from his post and detained, if it weren't for the fact that he had been a personal soldier for many years, and had saved Lin Ziran's life with others many times in his early years, Lin Ziran would have directly ordered him to be executed before the battle.

But even if there are several rescues, the end is estimated to be no better.

Otherwise, it would not have been Zhang Hanqiu's turn to act as the commander of the Eighth Infantry Battalion.

He had no doubt that if the attack of the First Infantry Corps had suffered a crushing defeat this time, his fate would probably not be much better than that of the former commander of the Eighth Infantry Battalion, or even worse.

He hadn't saved Lin Ziran several times!

However, this time you will definitely not fail!

Even if all the soldiers died, he would definitely not order a retreat until Lin Ziran gave the order to let him retreat.

With such a belief, Xu Zhongshu turned over his horse, then pulled out his command knife and pressed down his front finger: "Attack!" ”

After Xu Zhongshu launched the third attack with the First Advance Corps, although the advance speed of the First Advance Corps was a little slow, and there were still several hundred meters away from the front line, the artillery units had already launched intensive artillery bombardment.

Under the cover of intensive artillery fire, the 1st Corps continued to advance.

However, it was still at a distance of about 400 meters, because of the enemy's artillery counterattack, there were sporadic casualties, and some troops were shaken.

At this time, Xu Zhongshu shouted directly: "All departments listen to the order, and those who retreat without authorization will be executed on the spot!" ”

In fact, there is no need for him to say that in the Eighth Infantry Battalion, which was the first to waver, Zhang Hanqiu had already taken dozens of cavalry who had been transferred over directly with his swords, and instantly killed dozens of deserters who turned around and fled!

At present, the soldiers killed and wounded by the enemy's artillery counterattack are actually only about a dozen people in the whole regiment, but the deserters who died under the knife of the overseer team are already more than 50.

Zhang Hanqiu held aloft the bloodstained saber: "Keep moving, those who retreat will be executed on the spot." ”

Although the enemy's artillery counterattack was terrifying, the sabers of the overseer cavalry behind were even more terrifying.

The overseer cavalry used the blood of dozens of people to tell the soft-footed shrimps: it may be scary to rush forward, and you may die, but if you turn around and run away, you will definitely die!

When the fear of the Overseer outweighed the fear of the enemy, many of the soldiers were still shaking their hands and feet, and many of them even peed their pants on the spot, but they still continued to advance under the order.

Because some people were unwilling to advance, they were directly killed by the overseers behind them.

When the Inspector used iron-blooded means to forcibly suppress the wave of escape of the troops, the Eighth Infantry Battalion continued to advance, and when he saw this scene, Xu Zhongshu on the side nodded slightly: "This young man, there is still a way to do things!" ”

A young officer with a sergeant on the side also nodded slightly: "Senior Zhang handled it very properly in such a situation, and now at this unconventional moment, it must be dealt with by ruthless means." ”

"Besides, as long as you take the six towns on the east bank of Lingchang, it will be easy to replenish hundreds or even thousands of people, and these dozens of losses in front of you are nothing!"

Xu Zhongshu turned his head to look at Wei Yidong beside him, and did not speak, but he secretly said in his heart: He is another ruthless young man, and he directly treats soldiers as numbers.

It is estimated that in the hearts of this young man, the number of troops is just a string of numbers, and the war is just a game of victory and defeat!

Why are the people under the command of the elder teacher so extreme, there are many people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, such as Luo Mazi, Wu Guanlin, Ding Quankun, etc.

There are more incompetent people, Zhao Laoqi, the previous commander of the eighth battalion, and so on, there are countless others, in Xu Zhongshu's opinion, among the many middle and senior officers of the Sixth Division, most of them are incompetent, if it weren't for following Lin Ziran early, there would be today!

However, there are also many capable people under Lin Ziran's command, such as Kong Deyi, the commander of the artillery regiment, Xu Jin, the battalion commander of the Second Artillery Battalion, and Shi Jingyuan, the chief of staff of the Second Mixed Regiment.

Well, and yourself!

Finally, there are a lot of ruthless people!

Wu Dajiang, who led the first mixed group in Qingshan Town, don't look at him honestly and harmlessly, but those who know him know that he is also a ruthless man who has killed dozens of deserters with his own hands.

Not to mention the scar, killing people like hemp, whether it is to the enemy or to their own people, they are all the same ruthless, even many of Lin Ziran's old subordinates died directly under this person's knife.

Zhang Hanqiu, who had just taken the position in front of him, was also a ruthless character, and he was not merciful at all when he led the team to kill the deserters under his subordinates just now.

However, in Xu Zhongshu's opinion, the above people are not as ruthless as Wei Yidong in front of them!

Because this man directly treats the soldier as a number.

He had also seen such people in the Guang'an Army before, especially those senior combat staff officers, all of whom did not treat soldiers as human beings, and when formulating battle plans, they directly used the abacus to calculate possible casualties......

During the 48-year Chongguangcheng Campaign, Feng Haozhong's third division had not yet been killed, and they were already planning to prepare new recruits in the rear!

Because when they formulated the defensive battle plan, they were already planning to pay tens of thousands of casualties.

Now this Wei Yidong also has the demeanor of those senior operational staff officers.

This has not yet begun to lead troops, if he really leads troops, it is estimated that the soldiers who will fight under him in the future may not end up very well.

Maybe!

He will be shot by his subordinates in the future!

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