Chapter 460: A Simple Funeral
In the early morning in the rain, the old subordinates of the Funing Army were waiting for the old leaders to review it.
On the surface, the news has not been made public, but the private rumors have been for a long time, and the Funing Army is likely to be put into the battlefield. Some people are eager to try this, while others are secretly worried.
Death is not so uncommon for soldiers, and even the people in this border area have long been accustomed to it.
This time, many people came to the military academy to watch this grand ceremony, many of them were people who were destroyed by horse thieves on the grassland back then, and there were also aborigines of Funing County, surrounded by nearly a few thousand.
After inspecting the circle, Wang Yan walked on the high platform that was built, looked around and said slowly: "Today in Funing County is the model of the entire Great Song Dynasty in the future. The injustice of the world will always exist. In the Golden Triangle at the beginning, countless herdsmen huddled in desolate tents, dying of hunger and thirst, dying of severe cold, dying of disease, dying of wild beasts and poisonous insects, and dying of horse thieves and butchers. ”
"At the time, it was the norm!"
Not to mention the herdsmen from the grassland at that time, even many aborigines in Funing County also felt this way, so they continued to concentrate on listening to the Great Demon King, and the scene was so quiet that there was only a little sound of rain.
Wang Yan continued: "What really gives you a place to live, a home, food, and warmth, and it is the Great Song Dynasty, the order, and the production and labor environment that relies on these to protect you. ”
Therefore, it has become everyone's responsibility to maintain such an environment and interests. The stable environment of Funing County is not a constant layer. Now the Tangut people have entered the Hehuang area to burn, kill and loot, and they are even more frustrated than the original policy of the three mountains and seven villages towards herdsmen. ”
"At the imperial court level, once the Hehuang area is lost and changes hands, it will seriously affect the interests of our Great Song Dynasty, which is actually the interests of Funing County. What is really protecting Funing County is not a certain fierce army, it is never a gorgeous city wall, but the dignity and strength of the country. ”
That is to say, once the majesty of the Great Song Dynasty is lost, once the rogue and evil regime becomes bigger, no one in the entire northwest frontier will be safe. Your homes, your wives and children, your food, your jobs, will not be as secure as they were in the past. So there is not much reason, this is the reason why my Great Song Dynasty still invested in the volunteer army to fight in the Hehuang area when the floods in the south were urgent, the food crisis, and internal and external troubles. This is an existential crisis. ”
"The situation is changeable, and I hope that the Funing army will soon withdraw from Funing County and enter the Hehuang battlefield."
Hearing this, many people looked at each other.
Wang Yan continued: "Don't question, don't worry, do your own thing. It's not that the Funing Army is not protecting you, but that the officers and men of the Volunteer Army are protecting the entire Great Song Dynasty. They will continue to fight on behalf of the interests of the Great Song Dynasty until next year, or even the year after. Many will be killed, wounded, maimed, and separated from wives. But just like the campaign of suppressing bandits in Sanshan and Qizhai that year, the national dynasty will gain dignity in this process, and more people will be liberated, and they will live a life where they are not hungry and cold, and they are not afraid of fear. ”
"Today's Great Song Dynasty is still difficult, but it is by no means the Amon of the past. As long as the Volunteer Army is not defeated in the Hehuang area, then I assert this: the entire Great Song Dynasty is safe, and no one dares to attack the border. Therefore, the volunteers need your support and must win the Battle of Hehuang. ”
The eight battalions of the Funing Army, under the leadership of Ma Jinxi, all stood upright.
Hearing that the Funing Army was going to evacuate, the people who were hanging their hearts fell one after another.
"It's not a pledge today." Wang Yan said: "Due to the flood problem, the Beijing division is now more chaotic, and they can't take care of it. In view of the fact that the name of the Funing Army will soon be eliminated and the name of the Volunteer Army will be changed, as the default commander of the Volunteer Army, I am here in Funing County to hold a funeral for the soldiers of the Volunteer Army who have died. ”
"General Di Qing, Commander of Teng Hongjun, Commander of Jiang Hua, Aji Dutou, Chen Fandutou, Wuxi and Chen Guang ......"
A series of names were read, a total of fifty-eight people, and each time a name was read, Mu Guiying led people to put out the corresponding tablet and cover it with the military flag, and the military horn sounded.
It's a memorial.
In the end, Wang Yan said: "These 58 soldiers died in the battle of Dumen Mountain, winning the first battle for the Volunteer Army, and also making contributions to the temporary stability of the Hehuang area. Some of them died on the battlefield and their bodies could not be brought back. Some died of serious injuries on the road and could not return to their hometowns. General Di Qing fought for the Barisan Nasional dozens of times in his life, was wounded in the Battle of Dumen Mountain, and died of illness in a foreign country after causing old injuries, and his body could not be returned for the time being. ”
"Teng Hongjun is the most unlucky, no one knows him, no one knows his name. He was the first to die in the Battle of Dumen Mountain, and half of his brain was cut off. He also has a wife at home and has three children, the eldest is six years old, and the youngest can't walk. ”
"The general will inevitably die before the battle, I don't care if anyone can remember these people and things, I am a real person, I take the opportunity of the funeral I make a promise to all the volunteers, I will definitely pay for them, let their children go to school, and let their children enter state-owned enterprises as workers."
At this point, applause was thunderous. The Great Demon King may be hateful in some places, but on the whole, everyone believes that he will generally do it when he says it.
According to the situation of the Great Song Dynasty in the past, the families of these soldiers would be in a state of collapse, or even fend for themselves, and there were many widows who went to the skin and meat business to support their sons. But the current policy is very remarkable, and there can be real pensions and respect, and even the opportunity to send children to the hot state-owned enterprises.
Some of the mothers-in-law think it's really powerful.
So when the big demon king said that the soldiers in Funing were not enough and needed to expand the two battalions immediately, some of them were very excited and volunteered to join, and some of them were the mother-in-law who took the initiative to push the man up and ask to sign up.
Khan, messed up. There were also some family conflicts, some guys with surprised bones quarreled with their mother-in-law, pointed to their wife's nose and said, "You don't want to fool Lao Tzu into going to the battlefield to die, so as to cheapen you and the bunnies." ”
Of course, there are such jokes, but they are generally positive, because Da Yan followed and said, "Even if the dead soldiers are glorious, you should remember their names." But I still advise you not to die, it's best to come back alive, and don't let your wife and children take advantage of you to receive a pension. ”
The scene suddenly laughed "hehe".
"Obeying commands, exercising strict self-discipline, and maintaining fighting spirit can greatly avoid casualties, and this is the secret of war." Wang Yan said again.
All the active troops of the Funing Army stood upright, and many other big-headed people rushed over to start signing up.
There are too many people to receive at all.
In view of the new policy, if those herdsmen who do not have a hukou join the active volunteer corps, they can immediately obtain a hukou and become Han nationality and become the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and the family members who already have jobs will be immediately turned into regulars, and at least one son of school-age who is not employed will be selected to enter a technical school, and after passing the qualification, he can enter a state-owned enterprise.
Based on these preferential policies, many herders from the Golden Triangle region at that time also enthusiastically signed up.
Lu Huiqing, who was accompanying him, couldn't help but feel a lot of pressure, so that once the Great Demon King recruited too many former herdsmen into the volunteer army, it would mean that the resettlement resources of the local government of Funing County would have to be greatly invested.
Theoretically, Lu Huiqing can certainly resist this policy. Because this is civil administration, not military politics. But now the atmosphere has been activated, and the Great Demon King did not communicate earlier, so it is inconvenient to talk in person, otherwise this will not only affect the morale of the army, but also reduce the credibility of the county government.
Lu Huiqing leaned in and whispered: "Little Wang Xianggong, I'm afraid you have gone too far." ”
Wang Yan said in a low voice: "Don't talk about calves, I know you are under pressure." But the military spirit of the volunteers cannot be shaken, and it is the will of the Great Song Dynasty to support the volunteers to win the Battle of Hehuang, you must cooperate with my military strategy, and if you can't do it, you are incompetent. ”
Lu Huiqing said in a low voice: "Students don't want to shirk the pressure of government affairs. But at the beginning, among those herdsmen, the proportion of party members was relatively large, and the proportion of Han people was small, so it may not be appropriate to recruit party members into the volunteer army? ”
Wang Yan shook his head slightly and said: "It's not a big problem, there will indeed be a little difference in life and thinking, but they are a group of people who have been forgotten on the border, Hu and Han have been mixed for many years, and basically there is no national attribute, the truth of the universe, the strong will be the weak, and after this war, they will be Han people." And I also took into account that they have their advantages in terms of horse herding characteristics, technology, etc., which is also what the volunteers need more at the moment. ”
Since she said that, Lu Huiqing didn't say much and nodded. Overall, since he is the commander of the Great Demon King, he is the one who can control these things the most......