Time rewinds to the 29th day of the first lunar month.

In accordance with the reinforcement order, the 3rd Regiment led the five infantry battalions reorganized in Luodu and all the remaining cavalry, artillery, engineer, and baggage troops to march towards Jincheng Walled. However, after the third regiment arrived at Jincheng Walled, the war in northern Sichuan had come to an end.

So, after a few days of repairs, the 3rd Regiment was divided into two operations. The fourth, fourteenth, and fifteenth battalions were on the east road, led by regiment commander Tan Sigui, and advanced to Sanmiaoyi through Sanjiao Town, while the fifth and sixteenth battalions were on the west road, led by deputy regiment commander Gao Qingxi, and advanced in the direction of the fourth regiment at the mouth of the river to carry out slicing clearance.

On the way to the East Route Army, the 4th Battalion of the main force was the vanguard, the 15th Battalion led by the regimental headquarters to be in the center, and the 14th Battalion was the last because it was ordered to assist the Yilong County Brigade in building a fortress in Sanjiao Town, which was delayed for several days.

The 14th Battalion rushed to Sanmiaoyi, and it was already late February. At this time, the main force of the fourth battalion spread out along the first-line post road between Laoguan Town and Yuxi Town. The regimental headquarters led the 15th Battalion and the 4th Battalion to the outskirts of Longshanzhai. The strategy of the regiment headquarters is to use Longshanzhai as a typical example, knock on the mountains and shake the tiger in the Cangbei cottage group, and screen out the people who are not subservient. Then, depending on the situation, decide whether to exterminate or build a fortress.

After the return of Longshanzhai, the response was excellent. Many nearby cottages sent letters to express their surrender. Only the bolt village north of Yunshan not only did not return to obedience, but instead released words, saying that the Bolt Village mountain is high and dangerous, the soldiers are good and the food is sufficient, and the national protection army wants silver, don't think! It happened that the 14th Battalion rushed to Longshan Village, and the regiment commander Tan Sigui asked Wang Wenbiao about the situation of the troops, and Wang Wenbiao said that everything was fine, so Tan Sigui changed the order to the 14th Battalion as the vanguard and attacked the Bolt Village.

"The questions and answers of Head Tan and Wang Wenbiao, the last general is nearby, and I can really listen to every sentence!" Yu Fei patted his chest, indicating that he could be responsible. Zhu Pingjin didn't answer, just nodded and let Yu Fei continue.

However, Wang Wenbiao lied!

The situation of the fourteenth battalion at that time was not only bad, but also bad.

The first is insufficient training, and the second is the fatigue of the troops. There were many recruits in the 14th Battalion, many of whom were leaving home for the first time, and their military training and ideological transformation were not up to standard; Grass-roots officers have just been selected and promoted, and they all seem rusty to lead troops to fight. The troops set out from Luodu Town, marched to Jincheng Walled City, and then rushed to Sanjiao Town for construction, and arrived at Sanmiaoyi Thought it could be repaired for a day, but who knew that it immediately rushed to Longshan Village. The foothold is not stable, and it opens the way as the vanguard of the whole army. Hundreds of miles of mountain roads, the road is narrow and the grass is dense, and it is always disturbed by bandits. After arriving at the Bolt Village, the 14th Battalion was completely exhausted.

"Wang Wenbiao has two horses to ride, so he doesn't bother to care about the life and death of the soldiers!" Yu Fei said indignantly.

"Does the regiment know the real situation?" Zhu Pingjin asked quietly.

"The last general led a company to open the way at that time, I don't know if the regiment knew." Yu Fei shook his head. But he soon added that he had sent escorts to Wang Wenbiao to reduce the speed of the march to prevent the soldiers from becoming tired and exhausted, but Wang Wenbiao rudely scolded the escorts he had sent back.

"Wang Wenbiao is the son of the world, your so-called warlord style!" Yu Fei scolded angrily, "He took the Fourteenth Battalion as his own small territory!" ”

"And then?"

On the evening of 25 February, the 14th Battalion rushed to Wenchang Town, and all the people in the town ran out. Wang Wenbiao was very excited when he saw all this, and he decided to attack the village the next morning. But Yu Fei and almost all the company-level officers were opposed, and Wang Wenbiao also hesitated.

But after nightfall, the 1st Company of the 15th Battalion also rushed to Wenchang Town, and brought news that the regimental commander and the 15th Battalion would arrive at noon tomorrow. So Wang Wenbiao came back to his strength, convened a meeting of the officers in the middle of the night, and ordered him to cook tomorrow and attack at the same time. The 14th Battalion took the lead, and the 15th Battalion broke off in a company.

Only then did the last general see that he was competing with the regiment commander! The last general knows that Wang Wenbiao is the squad leader in Bifengxia, Chen Youfu is also the squad leader, but the head of the Tan regiment is just a team leader......"

"How did the attack fail?" Zhu Pingjin gently interrupted Yu Fei's complaints.

"It didn't go well when the attack started! Five people drank dirty water and had diarrhea, three people stepped on a trap, and four people injured their feet by a trap! As for bamboo sticks and wooden tips, they are all over the mountain, and they don't dare to walk around at all. The enemy is clearly prepared! The last general suggested stopping the attack and reconnoitring first, but ......"

Looking at Yu Fei's painful expression because of anger, the tragic war scenes of the past resurfaced in Zhu Pingjian's mind. The big man by the Yahe River was staring at him and spitting blood!

"The last general is still the pioneer in a row...... Along the north mountain beam, it was easy to climb halfway up the mountain, and the fork in the road divided to the left and right. The Malay newspaper said that there was a large field on the right. Wang Wenbiao was happy, he said that if there is a field, there will be a village, and if there is a village, there will be people, and the general will immediately turn to the right. The last general said that we have a total of five companies and 1,000 people, and it is not clear how many enemies there are in the cottage, so we cannot divide our troops rashly, and we should attack the main village directly. Wang Wenbiao scolded me, saying that I don't understand your so-called two-faced tactics. At the end of the fight, Wang Wenbiao pulled out the knife. These are all things that everyone has seen with their own eyes, and they can all testify to the general! ”

"General Yu, please continue." Zhu Pingjin was noncommittal.

"The last general rushed to the right flank in a row, but who knew that there was no village in the field, not even a single figure! Rushing to the end, a steep stone slope several feet high stood in front of him, and there were villagers laughing and scolding on the steep slope. The last general later learned that this field is not connected with Shanhou Quanjia Village, there is a height difference of several zhang, and the middle is full of boulder cliffs, and there is no way to go! When villagers go out of the village to cultivate the fields, they can only climb up to the main village and then go around from the main village......

There is no road ahead, the left is the mountain, the right is the cliff, the advance and retreat are lost, this is the place of death!

The last general knew that something was wrong at the moment, and shouted to retreat, but it was too late. There was a loud roar on the ridge, and the three companies were first ambushed by hundreds of firearms, and then they were condescendingly charged by the superior forces of the enemy, and they crossed at that time. Wang Wenbiao's horse was hit by a hammer and crushed him under the horse, and he was captured on the spot......"

"General Yu just needs to talk about what you have seen with your own eyes." Zhu Pingjin waved his hand, "I haven't seen it with my own eyes, you don't have to say it." ”

The last general heard the sound of the gun and immediately led the team back, and the result was ...... It turns out that this field is a fucking death trap! The main village on the top of the mountain is overwhelmed with stones, all of which are bigger than fists! The brothers scurried around in the fields and dodged the stones, and a dozen people were killed and wounded......"

As he spoke, Yu Fei, a sturdy man, began to cover his face and sob.

The bandits rushed to the front, and the last general led the brothers to rush back to Beishanliang, and before they reached the fork in the road, they collided head-on with the main force of the victorious bandits. There were only one hundred and fifty-six in a company, and at least one thousand and a half ...... the enemy

In the end, there were only eight people left under the general, and they all jumped off the cliff......

Shizi, such a blood feud cannot be avenged! ”

"Wang Wenbiao surrendered to the enemy after being captured, how did you know about it?"

Three days later, Commander Tan personally led the troops to attack again, and the last general asked the 14th battalion to be the vanguard again. The last general saw with his own eyes that Wang Wenbiao was alive and well, and he also commanded a team of bandits to shout at us......"

Zhu Pingjin knew that the second attack personally commanded by Tan Sigui had failed again. The reason was that several pine cannons were ambushed in the woods and weeds, and the fire guns left by the rout in the first attack were also fully used by the enemy.

Tan Sigui saw that the situation was not good, and immediately retreated to Wenchang Town to set up defenses. The two attacks failed, with more than 500 casualties and more than 10 captured. The 1st Company of the 14th Battalion suffered the greatest losses, almost completely annihilated. After that, the third regiment had lost its offensive ability and had to build a fortification around Wenchang Town.

The enemy of Bolt Village did not take advantage of the victory to pursue and attacked Wenchang Town head-on, but slipped down the mountain out of nowhere and kept harassing the grain and water routes of the 3rd Regiment.

The 3rd Regiment starved and waited for reinforcements until the 5th and 4th Battalions arrived. However, even in such an unfavorable situation, the 3rd Regiment did not forget military discipline and basically did not commit any crimes in the autumn.

……

On the morning of March 6, Zhu Pingjin summoned the last soldier and iced his face with the cool river water. He had a brief breakfast and reconvened the ministers.

The situation is very clear, soon after Wang Wenbiao took office in Hongya, he began to corrupt and degenerate.

A prostitute in the county has been raised by Wang Wenbiao for a long time. The military salary was not enough, so he squandered it, and began to embezzle. First the embezzlement of the battalion's public funds, and then the soldiers' salaries. Yu Fei and several officers once looked for him for this, but they were suppressed by the name of his son's own soldiers. The soldiers dared not speak out, and military training and ideological work came to a complete standstill.

After being transferred to the commander of the 14th Battalion, Wang Wenbiao handed over all the small and small affairs in the battalion to Yin Fei, and became the boss of the warped feet.

In the attack on Bolt Village on 26 February, Wang Wenbiao hastily launched an attack without organizing reconnaissance, ascertaining the enemy's situation, unifying his thinking, and making a thorough plan. Turning an organized retreat into an unorganized rout. For this reason, Wang Wenbiao not only buried himself, but also lost the retreat of the 1st Company of the 14th Battalion, putting the 1st Company in a desperate situation.

Why would a rotten person like Wang Wenbiao be selected as the commander of the first battalion, is it because he is the grass mark of the East Gate, and the roots are red and seedlings? Is it because he has a high diploma that he will come to trouble?

Why did not anyone dare to report or correct this mistake from top to bottom for a whole year?

Why did Wang Wenbiao, a prince and a soldier, be forced into a turtle with a shrunken head in places like Fei, so that it caused the tragedy of the fiasco of the whole battalion?

Why? Do you want to blame the "system" that has no blame? And what is this "system"?

Zhu Pingjian's stern gaze swept over the faces of the ministers and generals in front of him one by one:

Shu Guoping and Sun Hong are the former directors of the army, and they are not properly selected;

The chief and deputy commanders of the third regiment and the commanders of the battalions did not report what they knew;

Cheng Xiangfeng, as the secretary, has the right to recommend personnel inspection of senior cadres, and it is difficult to escape dereliction of duty and negligence.

The most responsible self. It is precisely because they are satisfied that they have sold their favors, and the grass labels are loyal, so they neglect to monitor and control them.

The cleanest are the two generals of the official army: Gan Liangchen and Jia Denglian. Gan Liangchen, a former general and veteran of northern Sichuan, was specially invited by Zhu Pingjin this time to join the army as a senior with the help of his rich battlefield experience.

Zhu Pingjin glanced around and suddenly understood the crux of the problem.

The core of the so-called system problem is privilege, which is the omnipresent privilege, and the privilege on which all unspoken rules depend!

Zhu Pingjin should establish his own privileges and rely on them to consolidate his position, establish authority, unite people's hearts, and achieve hegemony. Zhu Pingjin has privileges, so he can never prevent the people around him from using his privileges to "act as a blessing". Just as Cao Sanbao said in a secret report a few days ago: A little eunuch who poured the toilet in the prince's mansion openly interfered in the division of the people's inheritance. The sentence "The little one is a slave of Shufu" actually frightened Shen Yunzuo in Huayang Zhengtang!

Thinking of this, Zhu Pingjin's face became more and more gloomy. One of his hands was clutched on the cushion on the stake, as if to tear it apart.

The privileges and hierarchies that come with the world, as well as their many derivatives, have been twisted into a dead knot. I can't untie it myself, and I can't touch it! Once this kind of dead knot is entangled in the army, then he and his wife will be kidnapped by them and will slide all the way to the abyss from which they will never recover!

However, Zhu Pingjin's face quickly softened. Today's urgent task is not some institutional privilege, not some army rectification, but the ominous hill outside the house!

"Traitors, there are many people in ancient and modern times! is not bad for Wang Wenbiao! ”

Zhu Pingjin tried his best to relax his face and soften his tone.

"Wang Sizhong, who was originally a eunuch by the side of this prince, was the same rebellion. The root of this is his personal desire for profit!

The waves wash the sand, and the rest is gold!

However, the pro-soldier family is like the arrogance and arrogance of the five generations of the army, and the blessing and misfortune are not a long-term strategy!

Ladies and gentlemen, I will not talk about this for today's deliberations.

Today's theme is only one: how to lay down the bolt mountain in front of me and avenge my loyal and brave soldiers! ”

Shizi gave the example of Wang Sizhong, which is to clearly forgive everyone. Everyone wiped the sweat from their foreheads and began to speak. Jia Denglian, who had no burden in his heart, was more active, and he shouted loudly: Attack Bolt Mountain, Jia Tuan is willing to be the vanguard!

With the approval of the prince, Jia Denglian sat down happily. It's just that his heart is not as elated as his face. Although he didn't know how the five generations of the government army were arrogant and domineering, he keenly found that the prince was very unhappy with the generals who were privately supporting their families.

"I have to find an opportunity to give my family, preferably to the guard regiment. After all these years, my brothers have followed me for so many years, and they have a good home! Jaden associated.