An Yi returned to the military academy at eleven o'clock in the morning, returned to the barracks after the leave, glanced at the neat housekeeping and nodded with satisfaction. Driven by An Yi's example, the comrades of the engineer brigade have developed a good habit of stressing hygiene and order, and several brothers who have never touched a toothbrush in their lives have gradually changed, and people who have not taken a bath for a few days are not uncommon in other enlisted student companies, but there is not a single one in the 150-strong engineer brigade.

Hearing the footsteps of the brothers, An Yi put down his book and took two steps, Zhang Tianyi, the eldest in the district team, walked in front of An Yi in two steps without putting down the gun on his face, and vigorously stood side by side and ordered loudly: "Stand upright, salute!" ”

"Hello sir!"

More than 70 alumni greeted in unison.

An Yi looked at this and that in surprise, although the students were standing in the aisle crowded and in a formation between the beds, everyone had a solemn expression.

"Hey......

An Yi thought to himself that grandma's Lao Tzu had only left for three days, and you grandsons dared to go up to the beam to uncover the tiles! An Yi quietly took two steps with his hands behind his back, and suddenly turned to everyone and shouted: "Lizheng - take a break, stand up!" Get down on the spot! ”

The brothers were in a state of confusion, and under the conditioned reflex, more than half of the brothers really lay down, and due to the space crowding and colliding with each other, they were in an uproar for a while.

An Yi laughed and returned to his bedside, and before he sat down, he was pressed on the bed by the annoyed Zhang Tianyi and a few brothers who felt deeply deceived and abused. The brothers in the surrounding barracks are very familiar with this noisy way of the second district team, but they still can't hide the envy in their hearts: the boys of the second district team of the engineer brigade have no contradictions and no barriers, everyone helps each other and lives in harmony like brothers, and everything is twisted into a rope.

"I say your ancestors...... Lao Zhang, you want to die, right? Take away your groping hands......" An Yi shouted in pain, and was so exhausted that his face was red, and the brothers dispersed.

Zhang Tianyi sat on An Yi's bed and smiled: "I can't fucking see it, the lump in your kid's crotch is enough, hehe......"

"You're such a pervert......"

An Yi sat up and tidied up his clothes and pants, stroked the pinch and hurt the second child, and glared at Zhang Tianyi in annoyance: "Do you all have this hobby in Changde?" ”

Zhang Tianyi smiled: "It's not true, but when I was a child, in the summer, Lao Tzu liked to take a group of boys to run to the grass by the river to lie on their stomachs, peeking at the white flowers of the girl's aunt when she bathed in the river, hehe!" Don't talk nonsense to me, I've never told anyone about such dirty things, see your kid's mouth is tight, I'll say it today when I'm in a good mood, hey...... Let's have a cigarette. ”

An Yi smiled slightly, took out half a pack of flattened Three Fort cigarettes from his pocket and handed it to him: "Smoking is prohibited indoors, go out to smoke, there are still ten minutes to eat, don't go far." ”

"Don't worry, I'll smoke again after lunch, high-end cigarettes......"

Zhang Tianyi lovingly smoothed the cigarette box and put it in his pocket: "Xiao Yi, don't you think it's strange that the brothers saluted you just now?" Don't ask why? ”

Only then did An Yi remember: "What's the matter? ”

"In the morning field training, the captain announced to the brothers during the break that you have been appointed as the acting district captain of our second district team, and you will set off for Lin Village in the eastern suburbs of Guangzhou at one o'clock in the afternoon to carry out the mission, and your second district team will be in charge of it in the future. The mission was not short, and the Eastern Expeditionary troops led by the principal won a decisive victory, but it would take at least ten days and half a month to return to Guangzhou, and the troops would have to rest and recuperate when they returned, and then they would take over the defense or order us to withdraw from our posts. ”

Zhang Tianyi is older than An Yi, and has been a soldier in the Hunan army for two years, and has a high prestige in the eyes of the brothers, but he admires his mind and ability as a junior very much, especially because he is not highly educated and it is very difficult to study on his own.

An Yi was very surprised: "There has never been a precedent for this!" Lao Zhang, you analyze and analyze for me, what do you think above? ”

Zhang Tianyi's thick eyebrows frowned slightly: "I also talked to Jianguang, Xiaosun and Yaohua about this in the morning, everyone has no clue for a while, I think this is the idea of our captain and team deputy, after Instructor Zhang was transferred, the position of district captain has been vacant, and the deputy of the brigade is concurrently serving, first, there is a shortage of manpower in the Eastern Expedition and the Southern Expedition, and many instructors have been transferred. Therefore, it is difficult to find a suitable candidate for the position of district captain. Again, if my estimate is good, our captain and team deputy are likely to be reluctant to transfer newcomers, we are now a well-known advanced district team in the whole school, if there is a bad talker, it is likely to mess things up and be difficult to work together, so, the team leader and team deputy would rather promote one among our brothers, and you, in addition to being young, definitely have this level, so don't mention who you mention? ”

"Lao Zhang, after hearing what you said, I think it's a pity that you don't enter the political science department!" An Yi looked sorry.

Lao Zhang gave An Yi a punch: "I know that you kid has thought of this a long time ago, and it is estimated that there are more than I thought." In fact, the brothers are obedient to you, you respect everyone and ask for everyone's opinion on everything, and I have been learning from you. You are easy-going, open-minded and helpful, you have never looked down on any brother, even the surname is withdrawn from Seoul, North Korea, Kim Hongmo has changed his stinky temper and gregariousness, so who will you promote? As soon as the news was announced in the morning, the brethren were happy enough to see the weight you had in the hearts of the brethren. ”

An Yi sighed: "Don't put powder on Lao Tzu's face anymore, in fact, I can't do well in many places, I almost turned around and went back when I knew that I was assigned to engineering, if it weren't for the enlightenment of the big brothers in the first phase, I really couldn't fucking turn around, and then as time went on, I gradually fell in love with engineering, like the brothers, and now everyone is like a family, I am satisfied and steadfast, if I don't have the brothers working together, I'm An Yi a fart?" And you, Lao Zhang, apart from being a little grumpy, where is it worse than me? My brothers and I treat you as a big brother, so you have to take care of everything in the future, to put it mildly, if we don't know the height of the sky, if our second district team doesn't have you and me, wouldn't it be a mediocre life? ”

Zhang Tianyi was moved in his heart: "Xiao Yi, don't say anything outside, if you have something to say in the future, the eldest brother has nothing to say, he will definitely help, we have to keep this training first, internal affairs first, and study first until graduation, and the anticlimactic thing is not done by our brothers." ”

"I thought of a piece."

An Yi nodded and asked Zhang Tianyi to unload the equipment, walked to the wooden frame by the wall, picked up the rice bowl and walked out of the barracks, and seven or eight brothers immediately surrounded him to make jokes.

At 2:20 p.m., the military academy's "Nanyang" steamboat slowly approached the Zhuxi Fish Wharf west of Lin Village, and Zhu Mianfang, chief instructor of the military academy's training department, Yu Cheng, lieutenant colonel's topographical instructor, Huang Zhen, a major tactical instructor, and Liu Sitong, deputy of the engineer brigade, stood at the bow of the ship.

When the steamboat docked, more than 70 brothers from the Second District Brigade, under the leadership of Zhang Tianyi, carried the military pots and rice grain ashore, and then lined up in a neat line to wait for instructions. The commanders took An Yi to the northern high ground to observe the terrain and listen to An Yi's plans.

After listening to An Yi's choice of stationing location, the determination of the post and the prediction of the patrol route, the commanders were very surprised, everyone did not expect An Yi to have such a solid basic knowledge. The commanders were deeply pleased, pointed out a few small flaws and improved them, and immediately agreed to An Yi's garrison plan.

After the officers took turns to speak, they jumped on the waiting steamboat and returned to the military academy dock, where they would lead another company of enlisted students to another station.

An Yi stood at the front of the team, looking at the seventy-four brothers with excited faces, feeling that his heart was beating violently, the first time he became a commander, the first time he led so many people, which made An Yi uneasy and quite excited. He raised his head and loudly announced the purpose of the mission, his surname, and reaffirmed military discipline. Next, An Yi announced that Zhang Tianyi would serve as the deputy captain of the mission, and ordered Zhang Tianyi to divide the team into three groups and explain the tasks of each group.

Lincun is an ancient village and town in the eastern suburbs of Guangzhou, the village is located on the edge of the main channel of the Pearl River, west is the strategic point of Chong Ershatou, and the small island of Haixinsha in the river is far away. The ancestral hall of the Lin family in the village has a long history and a grand scale, and it is famous in the whole Guangzhou, this village and town has the surname Lin as the big surname, the surname Chen and the surname Liang are mixed in, it has been a clan management for a hundred years, the villagers are united and help each other, and the people are strong, due to the chaos of the political situation and the change of warlords all the year round, Lin Village has always been free from the jurisdiction of the political axe of each period, and the political axe has no way to unite the people in Lin Village, except for two tax officials who enter the village every month to collect taxes according to the routine, they have not been able to send officials to the forest village of more than 3,000 people, Even peasant associations could not exist. It is precisely because of this that the school headquarters has weighed it several times and handed over the important task of monitoring the waterways of the Pearl River and guarding the southern coast of the city to Guangzhou, and An Yi, who is very familiar with Guangzhou, to take charge.

It is said that many officials at that time were not at ease with An Yi's young age, but Vice Principal Li Jishen strongly agreed that the task should be handed over to the Second District Team, for good reasons:

First, the engineer brigade is the advanced brigade among the enlisted students in the fourth phase, and the second district team is the advanced among the advanced; In the monthly assessment, the military quality of the second and second district teams is among the best in all aspects, and it is a united and upward collective with a certain combat effectiveness; Third, An Yi, the acting captain of the district, was engaged in business in Guangzhou City before entering the school, is very familiar with Guangzhou and its surrounding areas, has certain social experience, and has experienced the test of war, has a very stable psychological quality, and can skillfully communicate with people in Cantonese, Mandarin and local dialects in the southwest, and is the best candidate at present.

After listening to Li Jishen's words, the officials all agreed, in fact, Li Jishen knew very well in his heart that this was a big challenge, and the fierce folk customs of Lin Village and the villagers' defensive psychology of refusing to be thousands of miles away were very headaches, which would be a huge test for An Yi.

Li Jishen really wanted to pass this mission to see what An Yi had in leading troops and whether it was worth his expectations.