Zhou Shanjun's bayonet detachment set off for most of the day, and the first regiment, under the leadership of Deng Dongping, marched along the pre-planned route.

Sun Yumin was worried that Liu Wenzhi and the others would have a problem along the way, and their mood was not high, so they barely said anything, Deng Dongping knew the worry in his heart, so he didn't bother him much.

Not long after the troops entered the Wuning range, Huang Wei suddenly came in a hurry, and he was still anxiously shouting: "Commander......"

"What's wrong?" Deng Dongping greeted him, interrupted him, and glanced at him.

"Regiment commander, there are more than a dozen recruits who have been added to our regiment, what should I do?" Huang Wei also found out that Sun Yumin was not in the state, but he was a deserter, and he didn't know what to do for a while, so he had to turn the target of his inquiry to Deng Dongping.

"How did you run away? When did you run? Deng Dongping felt incredible, this was the first time that his subordinates had such a situation since he followed Sun Yumin.

"I don't know why they ran, but the dozen or so didn't run together, and they didn't run for long, because I had nodded during the break." Huang Wei said with great certainty that from the previous march and rest to the present time, it was only an hour at most, that is, the dozen or so deserters ran away within an hour.

"Did they take the weapons with them?"

Deng Dongping was about to ask Huang Wei for details, but he heard Sun Yumin's sudden voice.

"Yes, Commander, it's all submachine guns, and each one has five magazines." Huang Wei replied.

"Haven't you backbones noticed the slightest sign of it?" Sun Yumin's brows were tightly locked, and he said to Huang Wei: "Now this is an enemy-occupied area, although the devils may not dare to come out to sweep, but if these guys are caught, they will expose all our secrets to the enemy, and maybe they will immediately organize troops to deal with us and ambush us." ”

"I'm going to get them back." Huang Wei blamed himself a little, he said hatefully: "I blame me, I didn't pay attention to these recruits, I originally thought they had been training for several months......"

"It's not all your responsibility, Dongping and I are also at fault." Sun Yumin interrupted him and said: "We ignored that these recruits are all local to Jiangxi, and they shouldn't have the intention of becoming deserters, but they suddenly let them leave their hometown and go to Anhui, and they deserted because they couldn't accept it for a while." Speaking of this, Sun Yumin changed his tone and continued: "The batch of Jiangxi soldiers sent by Li Zhaoying only supplemented your and Tianxi's company, right? Go back and tell them that if you don't want to go to Anhui, you can leave, and you are not considered a deserter. As long as the weapons and equipment are left, each person will be given a piece of ocean. ”

"Commander, I'm afraid this is inappropriate." Deng Dongping stopped him loudly: "Once we talk about the travel expenses, I'm afraid that these two hundred or so Jiangxi recruits will be reluctant to go with the troops, and it will be troublesome." ”

"No, it won't!" Sun Yumin said: "I have confidence in them. ”

He didn't say it, the great man was a family with the children of Hunan and Jiangxi, and not only won the support of the people in Jinggangshan, but also many Jiangxi soldiers shed their blood and contributed to the liberation of New China, which is not something that can be said in a few words. In Sun Yumin's heart, the soldiers of Jiangxi are not inferior to the soldiers of any province, even if they are as strong as the Hunan army and the Gui army, he does not think that they will be any better than the Jiangxi soldiers.

Seeing that Sun Yumin was so determined, Deng Dongping couldn't say anything, so he had to nod his head and accept the order, but he was still not very willing, and asked again: "What about the dozen or so soldiers who have run away?" They can't compare to the gang of perverts under Zhou Shanjun's hands, as long as one of them is arrested and confesses to us, we will fight the battle along the way. ”

"Send someone to chase it, they shouldn't have run far, after all, they have been trained for a few months, and they won't be too stupid, unless they ......" Sun Yumin pondered for a while, in fact, he was also worried that someone would go directly to surrender the devil, once this was the case, it would definitely be an endless battle to greet him and a group, and if he didn't change his route or change the idea of going to Anhui, he and he would definitely not be able to converge with Liu Wenzhi and them.

"Can you catch it?" Deng Dongping asked suspiciously.

"Dead horses should be live horse doctors!" This is no way, Sun Yumin is also very helpless, he continued: "Huang Wei, you take a platoon to find it, Dongping, you organize the troops to rest nearby, put the secret post farther away, and then organize the recruits of the first and second companies, I want to say a few words to them." ”

The first regiment is the main regiment in Sun Yumin's hands, not only is the best among the three regiments in terms of equipment, but the quality of the officers and soldiers is also leading, his order is quickly completed, and the speed of the veterans indirectly affects this batch of Jiangxi recruits, so by the time Sun Yumin came over, nearly two hundred people had been lined up neatly.

Who said the national army wouldn't train recruits? At least these soldiers in front of him made the picky Sun Yumin very satisfied, and his face even showed a smile that had not appeared in the past two days.

"Brothers, my name is Sun Yumin, and I am the commander of this army, including you." The first thing he said when he walked up to the recruits was to introduce himself, followed by something that no one could have imagined: "Everyone listen to my orders and sit." Maybe he felt too serious again, Sun Yumin softened his tone and said: "You have worked the march, sit down, I have a few words to say to you." ”

The commander lectured and asked the soldiers to sit on the ground and listen? This is something that the recruits have never experienced, in the past, even if the commander chattered for an hour or two, they would not be allowed to move, but now the commander has only said the first sentence, and he has allowed himself to sit down, which fully shows that this young commander is very different from those before him.

The recruits did not make a mess because Sun Yumin asked them to sit down, but sat unexpectedly neatly, which further confirmed Sun Yumin's judgment in his heart, Jiangxi soldiers are really good soldiers, and those soldiers who escaped must have had a last resort, and without being fully solved and helped, they took risks and became deserters.

"Brothers, maybe some of you have heard of me, or maybe most of you don't know who I am or what our army is, so I'll introduce it to you now."

Sun Yumin was very satisfied with the state of the recruits, and when he spoke, he was not as angry and arrogant as before.

"The unit we are in now is the Huoshan Independent Detachment of the National Revolutionary Army, which is a brand-new unit that only had a formal establishment two or three months ago. Although we are a new unit, your company commanders, battalion commanders, and regiment commanders, including the squad and platoon commanders around you, are all heroes who have fought on the battlefield and fought with devils for several years. They fought all the way from Shandong to Henan to Anhui, and now stand side by side with you on the land of Jiangxi. ”

Speaking of this, Sun Yumin paused slightly, glanced at the recruits who were sitting upright, and saw that everyone was listening carefully and carefully, the smile on his face was a little more, and then said: "I'm not afraid to let you know that before receiving you, they were more or less telling me, 'Jiangxi soldiers can't do it, we don't want to even give it to other companies', but I reprimanded them fiercely." I told them that Jiangxi has produced heroes and heroes since ancient times, and some of them in Jiangxi are hot-blooded men, you can put 10,000 hearts, and in the future, you will be proud and proud of having a bunch of such good brothers under your command. Speaking of this, Sun Yumin's words changed, and the waiting expression on his face disappeared, and he turned into a sad expression: "However, just now, the commander of a company ran over to report to me, saying that more than a dozen Jiangxi recruits under his command had run away. Did you know? When he said this at the time, the look and expression in his eyes were to say to me, 'I have long said that Jiangxi soldiers are unreliable, how about it?' Believe it now! When I heard his report, I was really angry, angry at you recruits, and I wanted to catch the deserters and punish them immediately. But soon I stopped being angry, but began to blame myself, it is not your fault, why should I punish you! ”

After saying this, the recruits below began to talk to each other.

"The troops are going north to Anhui this time, and you are the local children of Jiangxi, there are relatives who gave birth to you and raised you in this land, people are all emotional, how can you just say go, this is the negligence of our commanders, how can we blame your heads! Even if you want to punish, the punishment will be you, the officers, and it won't be on your heads. ”

Sun Yumin's words caused more discussion, and the voices among the recruits became more and more loud, but he did not stop them, and let them be noisy.

"Now, I've got something for you here." Sun Yumin waved behind him, Zhou Shanjun came over with a cloth bag, put it in front of Sun Yumin, leaned over and untied the mouth of the cloth bag, lifted the cloth bag, and poured out a large pile of silver yuan, at least a few hundred.

"Here are some oceans, if any of you want to leave, just unload your weapons and equipment and put them in front of me, and you can take one ocean and go home." Sun Yumin pointed to the money and said: "I should have prepared more money for everyone, but the army didn't have much money, so I could only take it out, which can be regarded as a piece of my heart." ”

The recruits at the bottom, you look at me, I look at you, but no one moves, no one takes the money. Although this does not mean that these recruits are willing to follow them to Anhui, it at least shows that they are not afraid of death or greedy for money.

"You don't have to worry at all, you can leave generously after taking the money, and my grandson will definitely not shoot in the back or settle accounts after the autumn." When Sun Yumin said this, he smiled a little again, and he said: "I know that the purpose of your joining the army is to protect your family and defend the country. It is your original intention not to let devils do evil in our country, and not to let devils insult and bully our families. Now we are going to Anhui, it can be regarded as a departure from home, this time we may never come back, never see my family again, I will have ideas if I am replaced, so you don't guess my intentions, it's very simple, if you don't want to go with the troops, hand over your weapons, just take the money and stay, I dare to guarantee that no one will say that you are deserters, because this is my order, not that you fled by yourself. ”

The reason why Sun Yumin is so benevolent is actually the experience realized by living at the foot of Dabie Mountain and poplar shop in the corner, in the past, he would stimulate the soldiers to be enthusiastic, and would make the soldiers sacrifice themselves on the battlefield and forget to die, but now he will not, because only now he understands that the soldiers are also people, and there is a family standing behind them, maybe in the consciousness of others, these soldiers are just humble ordinary people, but in the minds of their families, they are the sky and the earth, and they are the pillars of this family. Now he could imagine that when a soldier fell, so did the little family behind him. He used to always say that he would live well with his soldiers, but when didn't he bring them to the Shura field, although he had done his best to compensate these families, but compared to the damage caused to these families, what was this meager compensation? When he was in Yangshupu, Sun Yumin sometimes thought that during the first battle of Lanfeng, Sun Tongxuan and Shang Zhen led their troops to abandon the battle and leave, which may not be the right thing, at least they saved the lives of many soldiers, who would be stupid enough to be like himself, lose all their old capital, and let the families of more than 10,000 soldiers suffer heavy losses, and they have not made compensation so far.

Sun Yumin's idea is actually unwanted, but at this moment, he is no longer the stunned young man who is struggling to defend Shanghai, bloody Nanjing and fighting Lanfeng, although he is thinking about the soldiers, but he has forgotten his original intention, forgetting the truth of "no country where to come home".

"Commander, we won't leave, even if we don't have to bear the notoriety of deserters, we won't leave." One of the soldiers sitting in the front row suddenly stood up and said loudly: "Brothers, do you say it is not. ”

"Yes!" Although the answers of the recruits are uneven, the big guys can see that most of the Jiangxi recruits will not choose to take this piece of the ocean.

"Commander, Xizi doesn't want to be a deserter, and Daquan is also the same." A soldier sitting in the middle also stood up boldly and said.

"Oh! Tell me, if they don't want to, why are they leaving? Sun Yumin did not say the word deserter, instead of a walking word, but it was this "go", so that the Jiangxi recruits sitting on the ground felt very comfortable, this is an attitude, is the attitude of the highest commander of this army, it can also be said to be the attitude of this army, they have not been discriminated against, nor have they been treated differently, in this period, it is not easy to do this. When Sun Yumin heard the soldier's words, he immediately understood that this soldier was closely related to the soldiers who escaped, and he didn't know why this soldier didn't run away with Xizi and Daquan in his mouth, and he didn't hold him accountable for why he didn't report it earlier, but asked with a smile.

"There is also a blind old lady in Xizi's house, and if he leaves, there will be no one to take care of him." The soldier obviously felt Sun Yumin's good intentions, and he replied: "Daquan's daughter-in-law has just given birth to a child, and although there are parents in the family, if he leaves, the family will definitely not survive." There are other people who have left, and they will not choose to flee if there is no compelling reason. ”

As soon as the soldier's words came out, the originally noisy scene suddenly quieted down, Sun Yumin's heart was hot, countless guilt surged up from the bottom of his heart, the tip of his nose began to sour, he twisted his head to the side, originally he didn't want the soldiers to see his moist eyes, but he saw Deng Dongping slap himself twice guiltily.