In winter, the gray sky is rarely filled with warm sunlight, the misty white mist that shrouds the wide and clear blue lake slowly dissipates, and the cold northeast wind is mixed with the fresh smell of wild flowers, which makes people feel comfortable and relaxed.

Sixteen cars of all kinds without exception planted the blue sky and white flags above the front bumper, slowly passed by the sentry post of the Reading Force Regiment in the east of the old Nanchang City, drove into the more than six-meter-wide Fuqian Street in the salute of several heavily armed officers and soldiers on duty, and came to a stop in front of the wide county yamen with carved beams and paintings.

More than a dozen lieutenants, including An Yi, the head of the Reading Force, and Yin Jinan, the instructor, had already put on brand-new military uniforms, put on the newly issued official rank collar badges, and raised their hands respectfully in a neat formation, but they were muttering in their hearts: Why don't you directly enter the backyard barracks from the newly built camp gate in the east, but drive into the bustling market and enter through the gate in a beautiful manner?

More than 100 officers and men of the General Headquarters Guard Regiment with loaded guns and ammunition quickly jumped out of the truck compartment and quickly set up defenses, and the doors of the cars were opened one after another; Guo Moruo, deputy director of the Political Training Department of the General Headquarters, Zhang Dingfan, chief of the General Staff Office, senior military adviser Gallen, political adviser Tie Luoni, adjutant director Zhang Zhizhong, chief of the propaganda section Zhang Bojun, chief of the Political Department of the First Army, Wang Jun, commander of the First Division, Liu Zhi, commander of the Second Division, Xu Tingyao, chief of staff, and more than 30 people from the generals and colonels of the Second, Third, Sixth, and Seventh Armies got out of the car one by one and walked to the gate and stopped calmly. Listening to the loud report of An Yi, the head of the Reading Force Regiment of the Second Division, he entered the county government compound one by one while returning the salute, walked in pairs of threes, threes, twos, and twos, looked around comfortably, and commented on his head, all saying that An Yi, this kid, would find a place, not crowd into the noisy city to suffer, and run alone to this quiet and elegant old county town to enjoy peace and happiness, and An Yi wanted to roll his eyes when he heard it.

General Gallen, who had never seen An Yi, seemed to have a good impression of An Yi, sitting in the hall resting and drinking tea, and after listening to An Yi's simple report, Gallen asked An Yi very kindly through the translator:

"Colonel An Yi, I heard that your model battalion has become an export place for various units of the First Army, how do you feel about this?"

An Yi replied truthfully: "Report to the general, the model battalion has not made much contribution, so far only four engineer companies have been adjusted within the scope of our second division, and have not yet been able to send qualified engineers to other divisions, at present, the engineer battalion directly under our second division is doing better, the pontoon bridge in the west of the city in the Nanchang campaign was built by them, they represent the highest level of our second division of engineers, and are our army's professional engineer team, and the subordinate model battalion is gradually changing to an infantry battalion, and the model battalion now only retains one engineer company, The other two new engineer companies have been assigned to the infantry battalions. ”

"I see, you're very honest. Yesterday, I heard Commander-in-Chief Chiang say that your reading regiment is undergoing new training improvements, can you tell us what link your improvement focus is? "Gallen is very shrewd and discerning.

An Yi replied: "The focus of the improvement is very simple, that is, to strive to make every infantry company have the basic capabilities of a professional engineer company, and at the same time, to make the professional engineer company greatly improve its comprehensive combat effectiveness, and when necessary, to be able to perform the combat tasks undertaken by the infantry company. ”

After listening to the translator's words, Gallen looked at An Yi in surprise, and many generals and schools around him immediately discussed after listening to An Yi's words, and the content was almost the same: In this case, why do you want to set up professional engineers? Gallen pondered for a moment, smiled approvingly, nodded approvingly, and didn't ask anything more.

After drinking a cup of welcome tea, all of them walked through the middle courtyard to the military camp built by the lake, Xiao visited the 500-meter circular track around the school field with interest, visited an ingenious obstacle facility one by one, and discussed the difficulty of crossing and passing, the reasonable surname of the design, and the surname for the surname.

An Yi accompanied General Zhang Zhizhong alone, respectfully answering the questions raised by the teacher, and reporting his work and future plans in a low voice.

More than 20 minutes later, the pair of teachers and students who had been talking in a low voice followed the crowd to the front of the review stand on the east side, and General Zhang Zhizhong, who was relieved and satisfied, put his hand on An Yi's shoulder, and gently encouraged him to look forward to it.

As soon as the whistle sounded, the model battalion led by Yin Jinan ran to the center of the school field as a company, and the 80 officers and men of the teaching team ran neatly from west to east under the leadership of Qu Muchen, and arrived at An Yi at the edge of the school field and quickly completed the formation. Qu Muchen reported to An Yi in a formal manner, and An Yi, who was responsible for the microphone, turned around and ran to the high platform to stand upright, and repeated it loudly to the bosses on the stage again.

The generals and colonels of all the armies on the stage looked at the generals of the headquarters sitting in the middle of the viewing seat, the generals of the headquarters were not prepared at all, Guo Moruo discussed for a while, and finally handed over the decision-making power to He Yushu, the head of the Political Department of the First Army, He Yushu has been so busy these days that he doesn't know what to come here to see, and then handed over the decision-making power to the Second Division.

Liu Zhi had no choice but to stand up and walk to the front, lowered his head and discussed with Guo Moruo and Zhang Dingfan, turned around and took three steps forward from the pace of the soldiers, and ordered An Yi loudly: "The drill can start, show the queue first!" ”

"Yes!"

The 10-minute basic formation drill began, and the 80 outstanding soldiers selected from the whole regiment with an average age of only 21 years old naturally did a good job; the young soldiers who were well-informed and had undergone a month of study and training were all full of vigor and vigor, and their movements were uniform, accurate, and rapid, and they were impeccable from beginning to end; the generals and colonels on the stage could not help but applaud and praise loudly, and although the directors of the political departments and chiefs of staff of several friendly troops came with a critical mentality of watching the excitement, they could not admit in their hearts that they had indeed done a good job.

At the end of the training team's exercise, the 550 officers and men of Yin Jinan's model battalion were divided into four squares and marched forward in full gear under the majestic order.

Yin Jinan gave the order to stand upright, turned around and ran to An Yi, saluted and reported a string of reports, An Yi turned around and ran to the front of the high platform after returning the salute, looking up at Liu Zhi, who was standing straight at the front of the high platform, and repeated again.

Liu Zhi nodded slightly, and was about to order the start of the field obstacle course cross-country drill, General Gallen, who was sitting in the middle of the viewing platform, spoke, Liu Zhi hurriedly trotted over and listened, Gallen pointed to the model battalion machine gun company queue on the right side of the school field in front and shouted loudly, all the generals around were surprised and looked over, and saw that the officers and soldiers of the company in front of the right were generally short, and immediately understood Gallen's good intentions, and immediately gave warm applause to this kind of clever idea of randomly selecting the drill company, and then all looked at Liu Zhi happily, I thought that in this way, the excellent companies that you secretly arranged for the drill would be out of play, and the weak ones would come out to practice to see how capable you were.

Liu Zhi saluted Gallen quietly, turned around and walked to the high platform, pointed to the machine gun platoon in front of the right and ordered loudly, An Yi heard that he was in the middle of it, and thought to himself Grandma, you will know later.

An Yi saluted and ran in front of Yin Jinan, and ordered the 110 brothers of the machine gun platoon to appear on the stage for drills, Yin Jinan turned around and gave the order without saying a word, and the brothers of the machine gun platoon immediately followed Yin Jinan majestically and confidently and ran to the starting point at the end of the north side, and in Yin Jinan's whistle, a group of six people set off one after another, and the team easily and quickly passed through one obstacle after another, showing their skilled technical movements and excellent explosive power, no matter what high walls and deep pits, barbed wire single-plank bridges, all of them passed smoothly and slipperily, Seeing the dozens of bosses on the stage, it was hard to believe that the training level of the model camp was so high, and the exclamations and admiration were endless.

Xu Tingyao, who was sitting in the middle of the second row of the viewing seat, was overjoyed, thinking that if you don't pick your grandmother's other companies, why do you pick this machine gun company with an average military age of more than four years to come out for drills? Except for Gu Laoer's guard company, none of the remaining twenty-one companies in the entire regiment has won against this group of old ruffians, and even the teaching company of the drill queue just now is also the defeated general of this group of old ruffians. Okay now, I want to see the jokes of Lao Tzu's troops, right? Laugh as much as you want, why don't you laugh? If the dozens of fierce generals of An Yi's guard company appear, I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep when you go back, haha!

Liu Zhi nodded to An Yi, who was loudly asking for instructions from the high platform, and announced that the drill was over, An Yi saluted and turned around and ran in front of more than 500 brothers, especially praised Lehaha's machine gun company, and then ordered the company commanders to lead the team back to rest.

Liu Zhi returned to the group of generals who were still praising and discussing non-stop, and the expression on his face was very calm, looking humble and serious, as if all this was taken for granted.

The generals and colonels of all armies were envious, and they joked with Liu Zhi one after another, "Brother Jingfu originally hid such an elite army", "It's so good that it is no wonder that it has been upgraded to a reading group".

The excited Gallon and General Guo Moruo stepped off the high platform, and immediately called An Yi to praise him, loudly praising the "model battalion" as a model of military training, and the title of model is well deserved and worth learning. An Yi honestly told several bosses that almost all the four companies of the model battalion were at this level, and there was a certain gap between the other three battalions, but the first battalion led by Lieutenant Colonel Xia Jian had a tendency to catch up, because most of the recruits in the first battalion came from the alpine mountains around Tonggu, and they had been climbing the slopes and going down the river to chop firewood and carry burdens since they were children.

A group of bosses sighed again when they heard An Yi's words, and couldn't figure out how a team that had just transformed from the supplementary group could have such a level of ability? I don't know that most of An Yi's reading group are excellent veterans who have experienced the war, and they are all elites who have been picked and selected, and even most of the recruits who only account for a quarter are green forest heroes who have recruited An, and they only need a period of adaptation training, crossing and passing these obstacles is like playing, and when the battle is fatal, that is the real kung fu.

When a group of generals returned to the county government hall, they immediately saw a table full of meals, like all officers and soldiers, three dishes and one soup per table, and never added more, and the generals who were accustomed to eating small stoves were quite appreciative of the amount and quality of the food in An Yi's department, and even Zhang Dingfan, the chief of staff who was as careful as a hair, secretly admired An Yi's arrangement: Do not engage in special officers and soldiers to be unanimous, polite and courteous, not humble or arrogant!

The generals and colonels of the First Army, who were sitting at the same table, were even happier, and everyone was satisfied and proud.

Halfway through the meal, He Yushu, the head of the Political Department, pretended to be displeased and asked in a low voice, "An Yi, I just gave you seven thousand sets of the best new winter clothes, why don't you send them to the brothers?" Don't pay attention to grooming on such an important occasion? ”

An Yi put down the bowl and whispered: "It's sent down to the director, but the brothers are used to being poor, as long as there is an old clothes, no one is willing to wear a new one!" There is no rule in military law that you must wear new clothes, so we can't blame the brothers! You see, all of us who are officials are in a hurry to put on them, lest we leave a bad impression on the bosses, and the result is ...... The subordinates are embarrassed to say it, and it is estimated that many people laugh in their hearts for a few sesame officials of our reading group! ”

Xu Tingyao couldn't help laughing: "Director, don't listen to this kid's nonsense, he is a trick to make the headquarters and other friendly troops think that he is also poor." I guess you didn't pay attention just now, his model battalion only puts out the same weapons and equipment as ordinary friendly troops, although the officers and soldiers are neatly dressed, they are all washed and faded old clothes, and there are no mortars at all, the purpose is to prevent the friendly troops from being red-eyed, I agree with his approach on this point, and I want to go back and tell other regiments, those boys have a new pair of pants and shout all over the world, the friendly forces have long been unbalanced, what do you want to stimulate people to do? In this regard, An Yi is much smarter than his senior brothers! ”

He Yushu sighed and said in a low voice: "I want to emphasize this matter when I go back, and I will never suffer a loss if I am low-key and do things in a low-key manner." On the way here just now, Lao Nie, director of the Political Department of the Sixth Army, who was in the same car, gave me his opinion, saying that our first and second divisions, the main regiment, and the tail of our first and second divisions, the main regiment, and the tail after being stationed in Nanchang, thought that Lao Tzu's merit was the first, and he had just completed the expansion and was not good at training, and he spent all day drinking in and out of the halls and halls, and after a little lieutenant was so drunk, he even kept saying that he was a protégé of Huangpu and the commander-in-chief, and how bad was the influence? The headmaster is hard enough now, why do you want to make trouble for him? This wind can't last! ”

Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao nodded slightly, and Xu Tingyao also sighed: "We also know that there are some problems with several regiments living in the city, and there are cases of drinking and making trouble in each regiment and camp and not returning to the camp at night. Several of their chief officers have very good surnames, not only can they lead troops and fight, but they are also modest and honest with the outside world, they are left and right, and they will never show off everywhere when they get benefits. We usually go to the headquarters for a meeting, and when we chat with our friends and colleagues, we find that only our 'model battalion' can make people look at each other, it seems that if we don't rectify it, we will fight Zhejiang, and if we go down, we will have to fight Zhejiang. ”

An Yi was slightly surprised when he heard this, Xu Tingyao, Gu Zhutong, and Jiang Dingwen have always been recognized as good-tempered commanders by the officers and soldiers, and the three of them are very protective of their subordinates, and they rarely care about the spare time life of their lieutenants, even their subordinates never interfere in gambling and keeping military discipline, as long as you can fight and guard military discipline, they will be happy, at this time Xu Tingyao actually said such harsh words, it can be seen that the senior brothers of each regiment have indeed done too much.

"Xiao Yi, why haven't you seen anyone in your deputies?" Liu Zhi asked in a low voice.

An Yi raised his head and replied in a low voice: "I've all gone out to practice in the field, I can't do it if I don't practice!" The major readjustment has just been completed, and the strength of the various units is balanced, but the tacit understanding between the officers and men is gone, so we have to keep training, and we must form an instinctive tacit understanding in high-intensity training to meet the requirements, otherwise many people will die in the war. ”

Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao glanced at each other, quite touched, He Yushu put down his chopsticks and sighed:

"In contrast, the judgment is high and low! I now know why the principal likes An Yi so much, with such good students and subordinates, who doesn't like it......"

(To be continued)