At 8 a.m. on 21 June, two Citroen sedans and two Ford three-ton trucks drove out of the east gate of Guangzhou City, and soon turned right into the 2.5-kilometer road leading to the north of Lincun. With the joint efforts of thousands of villagers in Lin Village and nearly 200 officers and men of An Yi's Third Company, this section of the original uneven and narrow road was turned into a flat road with a width of five meters and solid drainage ditches on both sides in only seven days.

The spacious space under the two big banyan trees at the entrance of the village was also trimmed and tidy, Liu Xiao and the others in the Citroen car saw the Chevrolet truck parked under the tree from a distance and knew the place, and from a distance of 100 meters, they saw that An Yi led his three companies had already lined up to greet him for a long time.

The four military vehicles that had just been distributed for less than a week stopped one after another, and An Yi led the two deputies to report at a trot: "Report to the division seat and the commanders, the third company has been assembled, please give the commander instructions!" ”

The commanders got out of the car to return the salute, walked to the front of the uneven and nervous team to inspect the circle, and found that many of the soldiers in a group of soldiers had one trouser leg high and one trouser leg bottom, and the military shoes under their feet were also cracked one by one, and the tops of two of the soldiers were too short, and the pants button on the front door of the pants were also dropped, and a large lump of bulging inside was protruding without knowing it. ”

"Report to the division, my subordinates have been derelict in their duties, and they really haven't practiced...... I was so busy that I forgot about it. An Yi replied guiltily.

Liu Xiao and the others looked at each other for a moment, really not knowing whether to laugh or get angry, Hu Shusen asked kindly: "Today we are here to accept, what are you going to show us?" ”

An Yi took out the plan and handed it over with both hands: "This is the plan and arrangement of today's drill of the Third Company, please correct it!" ”

Hu Shusen took the squarely folded plan, glanced at An Yi and slowly opened it, and after a while, he walked quickly to Liu Xiao's side and said in surprise:

"Master, please look, this kid has a lot of tone! The five-kilometer run consisted of two crossings, two pontoon bridges 25 meters long and three meters wide after the logging was completed, followed by the construction of 82 meters of fortifications around the mountain, which took only five hours and put in only 138 men for a standard engineering company...... It's hard to believe that if you only built a pontoon bridge, you might be able to do it reluctantly. ”

Liu Xiao, Xu Tingyao, Jiang Dingwen, Hui Dongsheng and other division commanders came today in order to open their eyes, but they didn't expect to see a group of disheveled soldiers who were not well lined up.

Liu Xiao walked up to An Yi quietly: "An Yi, do you know that there is no joke in the army?" ”

"My subordinates understand it very well! If you and the officers don't believe it, why don't you ...... Why don't we take a gamble? An Yi replied with an expressionless face.

"Oh?"

Liu Xiao looked at An Yi in surprise, thought for a while and asked in a low voice, "What kind of gambling method?" ”

An Yi continued with a cold face: "Just bet 3,000 yuan, if the division seat and the commanders win, the subordinates will immediately give 3,000 cash, and they will also ask for punishment, cancel the position of the acting company commander of their subordinates, and their subordinates are willing to start over from the second class." ”

Everyone was even more surprised when they heard this, seeing An Yi so confident, they were also confused by him for a while, and then looking at Yin Jinan's anxious eyes and beard indifferent attitude behind An Yi, seven or eight chiefs looked at each other, and they didn't know how to deal with it for a while.

Kuang Shimin, the commander of the engineer battalion, anxiously stepped forward and persuaded An Yi not to do this, to admit his mistake and get the forgiveness of the commanders, and to turn around while the matter was not too big. Who knew that An Yi comforted Kuang Shimin with a pleasant face, and finally threw out a sentence intentionally or unintentionally, "I am willing to gamble and lose, I belong to a small acting company commander, where is the psychological burden as heavy as the commanders", this sentence made the sixth regiment commander Hui Dongsheng angry.

Hui Dongsheng stepped forward and glared at An Yi: "An Yi, I accept your bet, but I want to ask you what to bet on?" If you lose, you must be dismissed, but how do you give me the 3,000 capital you lost? ”

An Yi thought for a while and said: "Commander Hui, the division may not want us to gamble, forget it, I will take back what I just said, listen to our Battalion Commander Kuang, I will take back what I just said...... Division, please move the commanders to Zhuxikou, and we will start to report on the drill from there, haha...... Master, please! Ladies and gentlemen, please ......"

Liu Xiao laughed, several colleagues also laughed, Liu Xiao laughed and asked loudly: "An Yi, don't use these carving insect skills to fool us, if you are really confident in yourself, then just like Commander Hui just said, take out your bet and take a look, but let me remind you first, if you lose the bet, it is not as simple as dismissal, you will lose the qualification to continue to stay in the first army, understand?" ”

An Yi replied loudly: "Obey!" Please wait for the teacher, my subordinates don't have so much money, but there is a big brother who is rich, he is Lin Xudong, the head of the Lin Village League, standing at the sentry post at the entrance of the village in front, I went to ask him to borrow some money. ”

Without waiting for Liu Xiao to express his position, An Yi trotted in front of Lin Xudong for a while, whispered a few words and carried a heavy big coarse cloth bag from the ground, came to the front of the chiefs and opened it quickly, and the white ocean immediately appeared in front of everyone: "Chiefs, this is the gambling book of your subordinates, please check it." The eldest brother of his subordinates was very righteous, and he said that if the commanders were interested, he also wanted to bet 3,000 oceans on his subordinates to win, for fear that everyone would not believe that he had asked someone to go back and move the money. If the commanders are unwilling to gamble, their subordinates will refuse him later, and it is estimated that he does not want to see his subordinates too faceless, and endure the pain to strengthen his subordinates. ”

All the commanders are all vigorous soldiers, as a dignified regular army general, can a small militia leader laugh at the rain of bullets and bullets? So knowing that the cunning An Yi's beautiful words were full of needles, they still nodded heavily to each other, and they all said that they would take out their private money and gamble 6,000 together, but they wanted to see how An Yi ended.

An Yi, who had decided the gamble, changed his seriousness to a hippie smile, picked up a beautiful silver silk leather whip and walked to his subordinates, howling like a wolf:

"Stand upright! You grandsons have listened to Lao Tzu well, you all saw it just now, it's all an ocean of white flowers! Let's not talk about this money for the time being, you dogs all know Lao Tzu's personality, as long as you have money, you will definitely have a share! Today, Lao Tzu asked you to look at the money, for the sake of Lao Tzu's face, you must give me the strength to breastfeed, give the third company long face, give Lao Tzu a face, and give you grandsons their own face! Now tell me, do you dare to gamble with Lao Tzu? ”

"Dare—"

The deafening cry startled thousands of timid villagers.

"Good! is worthy of being Lao Tzu's brother, with this sentence, Lao Tzu's death is worth it! Regardless of victory or defeat, let's have a good drink tonight and get drunk! Let's go—"

An Yi and two assistants ran to the single-plank bridge with more than 100 brothers with confidence.

Xu Tingyao looked at Hu Shusen, and then at Liu Xiao: "Damn, is this An Yi really taught by our Huangpu?" It's a complete anomaly! ”

Hui Dongsheng laughed: "I like this kid's surname, it's really fucking ruthless and yin, didn't you see those soldiers who didn't button their pants just now?" A few words to An Yi's kid were inciting, and his face was red and his neck was thick, and Lao Tzu was suddenly worried about losing to An Yi's kid, haha! ”

Liu Xiao shook his head helplessly: "I also estimated that this kid was deceived, and now I suddenly remembered that he mentioned in detail the flying, logging, fortification survey and construction, merit-based combination, reasonable division of labor to promote strengths and avoid weaknesses, etc., and also mentioned the new term modular rapid combination, but never mentioned to us how to erect the construction procedures of the pontoon bridge, I estimate that if we lose today, it is likely to lose on these two pontoon bridges." ”

Hu Shusen said in surprise: "If this is the case, I suspect that he has set this trap a long time ago, and we will get in today!" ”

Liu Xiao nodded: "It's very likely...... Let's go, no matter what, the bet is all betting, let's go and see how they do it, let the combat staff officers strictly supervise according to our inspection standards and time calculations, I want to see how famous this An Yi can be, if he really wins, I will lose happily! ”