The officers of the Political Department with a keen sense of smell were indeed not ordinary people, and the whole process took less than three hours from the time Commander-in-Chief Chiang appointed the engineer battalion of the Second Division to the time when the flag was made and delivered to the engineer battalion.

When Yan Erai, deputy chief of staff and political commissar of the Second Division, accompanied the deputy director of the Political Department of the Military Department to the engineer battalion to present the flag, An Yi and his brothers had just finished dividing up thousands of oceans and were discussing the appointment and division of labor and various specific tasks.

Greeting the officers who had sent off the lecturers to leave, An Yi ordered the disbandment, ordered the soldiers to go to bed early, and led the brothers who had all put on new military uniforms and nailed new nameplates to their chests after being promoted to the next level, and returned to the battalion headquarters where the four lanterns were lit to continue the meeting.

The brothers rejoiced around the bright red battle flag in the upper left corner, and few people paid attention to the six words "First Army and Second Division" arranged up and down near the flagpole, and sighed at the three big words "Model Battalion" in the golden yellow of the flag, and said that no one in other friendly forces would dare to be in front of us from now on.

An Yi knocked on the table, asked the warrant officer adjutant Dong Yanzi to put away the battle flag, glanced at the brothers who hurriedly shut up, and discussed a few words with Hu Zi and Yin Jinan, who were sitting on the left and right, Yin Jinan took the document, stood up and read out the latest appointment aloud:

Battalion Headquarters: Lieutenant Colonel An Yi; battalion deputy Major Hu Jialin; Staff Officer and Political Instructor Major Yin Jinan.

Battalion Headquarters Guard Communication Company: Company Commander Hu Jialin (concurrently); Instructor: Yin Jinan (concurrently). Police platoon commander: Warrant Officer Xia Jian; Machine Gun Platoon Commander: Warrant Officer Shi Junren; Warrant Officer Chang Baogen, commander of the artillery platoon. Division Leader: Sergeant Han Fugen; Deputy squad leader: Sergeant Chang Baofang.

Company Commander: Captain Chen Kan; Company Lieutenant: Lieutenant Yang Fei; Instructor: Second Lieutenant Huang Yingwu. Company and Platoon Commander: Warrant Officer Lu Xiong; Second Platoon Commander: Warrant Officer Qu Tongyuan; Third platoon commander: Warrant Officer Wu Liheng; Second Company Commander: Captain Cai Guangqing; Company Lieutenant: Captain Mu Remembering; Instructor: Warrant Officer Qian Bojun. Second Company and Fourth Platoon Commander: Sergeant Zhu Tao; Fifth Platoon Commander: Warrant Officer Li Shunping; Sixth Platoon Leader: Sergeant Zhu Fuguang.

Third Company Commander: Captain Chen Zhibiao; Company Lieutenant: Captain Cheng Guang (transferred from the division headquarters, formerly the deputy battalion commander of the 2nd Division of the Shunxiang Army, who was studying in the Political Department of the Military Department and did not arrive at the post); Instructor: Sergeant Han Yaoxian. Seventh platoon leader: warrant officer of cycads; Eighth Platoon Leader: Sergeant Liao Chengpeng; Sergeant Lu Cambridge, the leader of the ninth platoon.

In principle, the soldiers of each company remained unchanged, and the newly recruited 70 brothers who were skilled in light and heavy machine guns and artillery were admitted to the two machine gun platoons of the Police Communication Company, which was also the commander of the company, and 67 men were added to the third company of the old foundation, and the other companies had to wait for the battalion headquarters to select and replenish the new regiment at the division headquarters tomorrow afternoon.

After Yin Jinan finished speaking, he added coldly: Xia Jian's police platoon is still short of 30 places, and a month later, a competition will be held in the whole battalion, and everyone can participate.

When the brothers heard this, they all came to their senses, and they all knew that those who were selected for the police platoon would not only receive special training from the three officers, but also be promoted to the rank quickly, eat well, and receive an additional allowance equivalent to half of the military salary every month. Even if these are not counted, five hundred oceans is a mouth-watering amount! So they all thought about how to train their team well tomorrow.

At this point, An Yi's engineer battalion has been upgraded again, more rigorously organized, and the division of labor is clearer. As the combat companies of the whole battalion, the police communication company and the first company will undertake the tasks of combat, security, investigation, vigilance, and emergency handling of the whole battalion. The 2nd and 3rd Companies are engineering companies in the actual sense of the word, and will undertake various construction tasks assigned by the superiors, the construction of camps, and various infrastructure construction tasks to support the people stationed there. Due to the increase in the number of disabled veterans, the number of staff members in the battalion headquarters was expanded to 16, and three of the quotas were increased by reducing the ration of orderlies for the three commanders of the battalion headquarters.

As a result of this readjustment and change, the brothers were promoted to one to two levels, and veterans with outstanding performance, such as Qian Bojun, Han Yaoxian, and Liao Chengpeng, entered the ranks of company and platoon officers, and a large number of veterans who were brave and diligent in combat were promoted to sergeants and served as squad leaders, and the officers and men of the whole battalion took on a new look and their morale rose by a large margin.

An Yi and the three of them treated their brothers with deep affection, and they were rewarded fairly and justly for meritorious service, and even the dead and wounded brothers were fully cared for, and they were compensated one by one, and those with families tried every means to send fifty oceans to settle in, and the lonely brothers without families were recorded by Yin Jinan in the military history of the department, and solemnly told all the brothers: In the future, all the brothers who died will be erected and engraved, so that future generations will remember them forever.

This series of actions made all the officers and soldiers grateful to Dade, and they all swore to follow, especially after the Luogang disaster and the fierce battle of Tingsi Bridge, the officers and soldiers of the whole battalion and their commanders underwent a radical change, the brothers carried more than three times the monthly salary in their arms, looking at the raised rank on their chests, the fear of death gradually faded, and the pursuit of military merit and rewards swelled rapidly.

At midnight, An Yi and Yin Jinan routinely inspected the barracks and sentry posts of each company, chatted with the two brothers standing guard at the gate of the camp and just wanted to go back to rest, they heard the sound of footsteps on the road outside, shouting and beating the sky, the conscientious sentry picked up the flower machine gun and loaded it and rushed to the side of the road, An Yi and Yin Jinan also hurriedly followed out to inspect, only to see two disheveled soldiers desperately fleeing, and a group of men and women civilians holding hoes and wooden sticks dozens of meters behind chased after them.

The two soldiers who had escaped almost out of strength saw their own people, and hurriedly ran to shout for help, An Yi ordered the sentry to watch these two guys, strode up to meet more than a dozen people, raised his hands to signal everyone to stop, and saw that almost all of the young men and women who rushed to stop a few meters in front of him were young men and women, and hurriedly asked:

"Brothers and sisters, what mistake did these two soldiers make to make you chase so closely?"

A middle-aged man in the crowd panted and asked, "Sir, are you still a revolutionary army?" Is it right for your soldiers to run away without paying for the sale after they finish their deals? ”

A group of people echoed and cursed, and the cursing Hubei dialect was loud and fast, how ugly it was to hear.

An Yi shook his head painfully, still asking kindly: "Please don't be angry, speak slowly, no matter whether it's right or wrong, you have to let me understand, right?" Now, may any of you tell me what these two soldiers have done with you? How much do you owe you that you won't pay back? ”

The person on the other side saw that An Yi was good at talking, and his anger disappeared a lot, and a fat woman of about thirty steps stepped forward, pointed to the two deserters behind An Yi and said angrily:

"These two people who killed a thousand knives ate and drank in the old lady's Chunfeng Building, and pretended to be rich, and called four sisters to go to the room to accompany them to drink and run errands, and played happily for more than four hours, but they ran over the wall while people were not paying attention, and the old lady was blind! We chased from the north of the town to the south of the city and then to the west of the city, bypassing the railway and chasing for three or four miles before we got here, and we were so angry with my mother! I can't wait to chop off the lifeblood of two rotten things with one knife and feed them to the dogs! ”

An Yi was startled, and pointed to the fat woman's waist in disbelief: "Eldest sister, what you said doesn't seem right?" Although I haven't been to the north of the town you mentioned, every village and every road within a hundred miles of Xianning City is marked on my map, and it takes at least six miles from the north of the town to the south of the city, and then at least three miles from the south of the city to the west of the city. ”

"Isn't it? At least fourteen or fifteen miles of road, five or six groups of us chased each other separately and intercepted everywhere, more than 100 people chased here, and there were only a dozen people left to run, if it weren't for our eldest sister who expected that these two stabbed people might run south, and took a few of our sisters to the front intersection in advance in a foreign car to block it, where could we still see the shadows of these two beasts? ”

A well-proportioned woman beside the fat woman glared angrily after speaking.

An Yi turned his head in surprise, looked at the two soldiers squatting under the sentry's gun, thought about it and turned to the crowd, and called the fat woman:

"I'm sorry for you, eldest sister, I'm sorry for so many brothers and sisters, it's really hard for you to chase so far away! That's it, eldest sister, tell me, how much money should these two soldiers give you? Brother, I still have a few dollars left on me, so I'll pay them back...... How? Don't want to? Since I don't care about that, you can go up and beat them up, but brother, I kindly remind you, don't be disabled, otherwise the crime of beating revolutionary soldiers will not be comfortable, and if you don't get it, you will have to eat guns and raid your house! If you don't understand the hatred, just escort these two people to the headquarters of the revolutionary army in the east of the city and ask the generals there for an explanation, haha! I'm sorry, it's late at night, brother, I fought all night last night, and today I'm tired for another day, so I have to sleep, haha......"

After An Yi finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the camp gate, and Yin Jinan and the two sentries also retreated with a secret smile.

The two soldiers were frightened when they saw this, and they thought that they would really be beaten and then sent to the headquarters, with the strict military law of the revolutionary army, it is strange that those fierce and vicious gendarmes do not live to cut themselves, these dozen roads are not counted in vain, I am afraid that this life will come to an end! So he even rolled and climbed to catch up with An Yi, and begged the chief to save his life, even if he was a cow or a horse in this life, he would admit it.

A group of chasing people hurriedly surrounded the two unlucky guys, although they were furious, they didn't dare to fight, lest An Yi send troops to arrest him as soon as he made a move, and when he was caught, he didn't know how much money he would have to spend to redeem it.

The shrewd fat woman's brain spun quickly, and she hurriedly caught up with An Yi, leaned towards An Yi tiredly, and shouted:

"Sir, slow down, I'll listen to you, spare these two wild seeds, just like the chief just said, just get some capital back...... The chief is young, so handsome and majestic, he must be from a big family, compared to our sisters, it's not easy! They are all from poor families, tired and tired of working hard to do a small business to support their families, if they give a little capital to meet a better year, we are powerless women, where are we willing to chase more than ten miles for the two oceans? ”

An Yi was horrified in his heart, thinking that for the sake of the two oceans, more than 100 people who opened the kiln were willing to take hoes and sticks to surround them everywhere, and chased them out for more than ten miles to get here.

But thinking about it, An Yi still pretended to be reluctant, put his hand into his pocket, and took out two oceans for a long time: "Since this is the case, I will listen to the eldest sister, thank you for the generosity and mercy of the eldest sister!" It's late at night, brothers and sisters, let's go back, the moon is not full tonight, and it's not easy to walk such a long way, don't worry, I will teach these two bastards a good lesson. ”

The fat woman took the two oceans, smiled gratefully at An Yi and turned to leave, and when she walked past the two soldiers, she shamelessly "puffed", scolded and said How can such a good chief pay for them with such scratching goods?

A group of people with hoes and sticks saw that the fat woman got the money, and they all scolded and followed, and after taking a few steps, the Peugeot woman said excitedly to the fat woman:

If I had changed the handsome commander just now, I would have been willing to wait even if I didn't have a penny.

The fat woman slapped her, and said angrily: Don't be your dream of red mansions, if the handsome chief is willing, I would rather pay for him.

The conversation between the two women could be heard clearly in a radius of fifty meters in the quiet night, causing the people on the side to laugh in unison.

An Yi listened to it clearly but helplessly, glanced at the two trembling soldiers, turned to the sentry and ordered angrily:

"No matter which part it is, it's not easy to talk if it falls into the hands of Lao Tzu, not to mention that it costs Lao Tzu two oceans, escort it back, and Lao Tzu will ascend to the court overnight!"

"Wow!"

(To be continued)