"We are all sharpshooters, every bullet kills an enemy!"

"We are all flying troops, even if the mountains and rivers are high and deep!"

……

The young soldiers sang cheerful songs, and one by one they seemed to be in high spirits.

And their commander was very nervous, because these young soldiers were different from ordinary people, and each of them was the heart and soul of Commander-in-Chief Xu Shiyang.

Intermediate cadet soldiers.

A group of young people between the ages of 15 and 18 are the most energetic, confident and unafraid of the sky.

Most of them have just completed their primary military academy education, and after entering the intermediate military academy, they directly enjoy the treatment of sergeants, and after graduation, they will enter the army as junior officers, and they can also choose to continue their studies in senior military schools.

And there is no doubt about the loyalty—at least half of the cadets are orphans, and they enter the military academy free of tuition, thus ending the wandering life, and the daily food and lodging and other expenses are borne by Schönbrunn Palace's internal government.

Therefore, if according to the old system, they can actually be regarded as the "sons of the family" of the Xu family, in fact, it is true, among these children who survived under the protection of the Xu family and can still have unlimited futures, half of them are named Xu Enyi, Xu Shenger, or Xu Yangsan and the like, because they didn't remember their previous names when they arrived in Qi, so they had to follow the surname Xu.

These half-grown children who changed their surnames to Xu like to call Xu Shiyang "little father" and Wenyue "little mother", which is enough to show the status of the couple in the minds of military cadets.

Xu Shiyang naturally will not be stingy with these loyal futures, and among the main generals of the current Qi army, there are many people with similar backgrounds, such as Li Jinghuai, Feng Sanhu and other "child team" soldiers who attacked Tartar at night with Xu Shiyang.

Xu Shiyang often used them as examples to inspire the student soldiers to be angry and strong.

In order to prove this, Xu Shiyang's biological children are also studying in military schools, although because of their age, they are all junior military cadets.

However, Xu Shiyang's oldest children: Xu Daihuan, the eldest son of the eldest son, Xu Daixuan, the second son of the second son, and Xu Daixi, the eldest son of the third son, and even the eldest daughter of the fourth eldest son Xu Daixi, who is a girl, are boarding in the military academy.

The purpose is to set an example for other children: the children of the commander-in-chief and Wang Shizi are all boarding military schools, which shows how much the Qi royal family attaches importance to military schools.

Of course, Xu Shizhen knew that his third brother had an implicit purpose in doing this, that is, to form customization, and try to avoid his descendants from being raised in the hands of women in the deep palace, and losing the masculinity of a man.

But in this way, from the traditional point of view, many people think that this is Xu Shiyang, the future emperor, to create opportunities for the future crown prince and the heirs who may inherit the unification, so that they can build their own team .......

This is scary, usually in the military academy is fine, Xu Shiyang has always emphasized the teaching authority of instructors and school leaders (Xu Shiyang himself is also the chief of education of the military academy), but now this kind of intermediate military academy cadets in the name of actual combat practice assessment, the officers and non-commissioned officers in charge of the command will inevitably feel too Alexander.

Even the real Xu family like Xu Shizhen is like this.

Today, Xu Shizhen has already had a three-year official service period, and later went to the military academy to complete the short-term training course for officers and the education course of the Army University.

Now he is a third-year student at the Army University with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and he has been specially transferred to command this special combat group, which consists of 20 senior students of the Army University serving as officers, 80 field army sergeant majors serving as non-commissioned officers, and 400 middle-level military cadets serving as soldiers.

Xu Shizhen didn't quite understand why his third brother liked these half-grown children so much, why he had to form a separate battle group and send them to the front line to fight.

At that time, Xu Shiyang's statement was: apply what you have learned, the knowledge you learn in school only stays on paper, and only when you really taste the smoke of the battlefield and the taste of bloodshed can knowledge become a thing.

Moreover, Xu Shiyang thought that it was very rare for the Shihou Army to be such an easy target to subdue, and if the student soldiers did not take this opportunity to exercise well, it would not be easy to find such a suitable opponent in the future.

Besides, Xu Shiyang didn't want them to suffer any losses, so he sent officers and non-commissioned officers with rich combat experience from military academies and field armies to lead them.

In addition, the battle group composed of cadets was the only formed unit in the Qi army that was fully equipped with fire cap firing pistols at this time - Xu Shiyang's own guards had not yet changed their outfits.

The song they sang was still wafting, and the song they sang was called "March of the Soldiers", which was actually one of Xu Shiyang's countless acts of plagiarism: "March of the Grenadiers" with lyrics from an adapted version of the song of the guerrillas.

This song is a march used by the Qi army when they are lined up to be shot, and almost every army soldier can sing it, but there are really not many teams like young soldiers who sing it during training, marching, and camping.

Xu Shizhen's deputy, Ding Jie, who was born in Xu Shiyang's earliest child pro-soldier team, asked helplessly: "Why do these children like singing so much?" ”

"Because their 'little dad' encourages them to face life with a smile." Xu Shizhen smiled: "Believe it or not, these children really dare to attack the artillery position in line while singing." ”

"Believe, what is there not to believe? I came from a similar background to them, and I know their personalities very well. Ding Jie said: "However, if we really let them line up to attack the artillery position, we can take off our military uniforms and get out of the house after the war." ”

"Alas......"

The two sighed together, in fact, not to mention letting the student soldiers line up to be shot, even if they were a little careless, let the loss of these four hundred student soldiers be a little bigger - for example, one percent of the casualties, forty people, Xu Shiyang would definitely let the two of them walk around without eating.

"Commander, really, since you feel so sorry for these student soldiers, why do you want them to form a team alone?" Ding Jie complained: "Isn't it good to be scattered among the troops? That way, there will not be too many losses at once, and the cadet soldiers will be able to feel the battlefield. ”

"Presumably to test the new weapon at the same time." Xu Shizhen replied: "Although the cadet soldiers have not experienced actual combat, they have a high level of knowledge and average quality, so it is easier for them to find and solve problems when they test the firing gun. ”

Next year, the Qi army will begin a round of large-scale reforms, which is news that everyone knows, and now all units have to conduct as many tests as possible, so it is not particularly difficult to understand that the student soldiers will be formed alone.

Although the commanders on the field still complain.