The news from the front seemed to be blocked, the general headquarters in Nanjing did not have any war situation to release, there was no radio, and An Yi, who had lost contact with the front line, was panicked and worried, although he spent two consecutive days in the Xiaguan barracks, but he did not participate in the training and command of the recruits, and the only order issued by him, the colonel commander, every day, was to let the officers and soldiers run ten laps around the field before the end of the afternoon training.

On the first night of entering the tutor and starting to work, the brothers and sisters received the wind for An Yi in the famous Banya Restaurant in Xiaguan, the cups and lamps were staggered during the banquet, and the atmosphere was warm, more than 20 brothers and sisters recalled the good years when they were in the Whampoa Military Academy, and after drinking too much, they loudly questioned the bullshit policy of Ning Han today, Zheng Jiemin and Fang Tian and others even asked which day the same room had a fight and how the brothers dealt with the frustration words, but no one could give an answer, almost half of the brothers drank unconscious that night, All of them were carried back by their own adjutants and guards, and for this reason, all the regimental and battalion company commanders were called by Zhang Zhizhong to reprimand them the next morning.

An Yi is very special, he is the only regimental officer who does not have to live in the barracks, I don't know if the mentor Zhang Zhi understands in the center that this beloved disciple will soon return to the front line, or takes special care of him, Zhang Zhizhong specially allows An Yi to live in his own home outside the camp, but requires An Yi not to be absent from training and meetings.

An Yi has a home, and the next day he moved into No. 33 Houzai Lane with the 36th Guards, and Chen Yu, the deputy captain who speaks good official and has business talents, began to get busy, he wants to survey the entire courtyard with the architect introduced by Gong Qian to prepare for expansion, and the backyard will be demolished according to An Yi's intention to tear down the bungalow and build a 30-meter-long two-storey western-style building for the guards to live in, and the two small houses on the west side of the front yard and the 40-meter-long courtyard wall will also be demolished, and three two-storey small western-style buildings will also be built. In particular, the architectural style on the street side is very exquisite, which is enough for Chen Yu to be busy for half a year.

Everyone lives in the main building, including the family of Uncle Zhao, the servant of the former Zhong family, who was warmly retained by An Yi, Uncle Zhao has just turned forty, his ancestral home is Hexian County, Anhui, and his hard-working and kind wife Aunt Zhao is in her early thirties, Aunt Zhao is six months pregnant at this time, and she has a big belly that is inconvenient for traveling far, and two sons who are nine to eleven years old. The Zhong family and his wife are quite good to the Lao Zhao family, but the Lao Zhao family has only been in the Zhong family for a year and a half, and the salary savings obtained are not enough to return to their hometown to live and work in peace and contentment.

According to the food standard in the army, An Yi handed over the monthly food expenses to Uncle Zhao to take charge of the expenses according to the head of the army, and also counted Lao Zhao's two sons into the guards together, telling Uncle Zhao and his wife that he would continue to bear the children's tuition and miscellaneous expenses, and Uncle Zhao was responsible for all the usual expenses and transactions, and only needed to sort out the accounts once a month.

On the evening of the third day, An Yi completed his work as usual, entered the division office as usual to say goodbye to his mentor Zhang Zhizhong, and prepared to return to Gong Qian's house to have a good meal. He happily stood up and walked to An Yi's side.

Cai Zhongwat gave An Yi a punch and asked loudly: "You guy has been a tutor for three days, and it is generally reported that you have not personally been in charge of a single training, and you let more than 800 recruits run laps every day, and you are not allowed to send guns." It's not okay for revolutionary soldiers to work without contribution, I heard that the officers and soldiers have a lot of opinions about you, a bullish boy! ”

"The eldest brother misunderstood, is the younger brother a person who can't work? Moreover, the current replenishment regiment is not more than 800 people, but more than 1,800 people, and in the afternoon it has just been replenished with 1,000 recruits. An Yi replied with a smile.

Zhang Zhizhong shook his head: "This kid's heart has not been put to the tutor, and it must have all stayed in his reader." ”

"Report to the division, this is not true, the division requires his subordinates to train the soldiers in strict accordance with the training methods of my reading master, and the subordinates do exactly this, and there is no slackness." An Yi explained seriously.

"Oh?" Chen Cheng asked with interest, "Xiao Yi, are you training recruits like this in the Reading Division?" ”

An Yi replied truthfully: "Yes!" It's just that it's much stronger than the current one, and after only three days of running, this group of bastards will be miserable, it's really not like it, if it's my troops, all the company commanders have thought about it behind closed doors to me!

In the Reading Division, the officers and men of the recruit company began the first 10 days of training from getting up and gathering, and every day they ran five kilometers in a cross-country run that could not be beaten, and when they came back, they started an hour's political class with breakfast, and then they trained in a queue for two hours, and after lunch, they usually marched five kilometers on foot in full gear, went to the field for shooting and aiming training, and had classes in the evening, and everyone had to express their feelings, and once every three days they had night training, which was usually a training that combined with various tactical actions on forced march at night.

Of course, it is undeniable that this period of time is very bitter, and there are a lot of attrition, but each squad has more than four experienced non-commissioned officers to follow the guidance, although it is a bit of a taste of catching ducks on the shelves, but the soldiers have made rapid progress, and the training volume is slowly reduced after ten days, and the amount of training begins to increase again after three days of adjustment, and the endurance training is accompanied by daily live ammunition shooting, fortification digging, running and seizing advantageous terrain training.

According to our statistics and experience, after a month of intensive training, the recruits can be pulled into the battlefield, but this is a last resort under the busy situation of the front line, and it cannot be compared with the training of recruits in the rear. ”

"Where did you get so many experienced non-commissioned officers?" Chen Cheng asked curiously.

"The members of the teaching brigade and the teaching brigade of the reading division are all selected from each company and platoon, and they receive personal training from the instructors of the division headquarters and the outstanding commanders at and above the regimental and battalion level, and usually after three months of training, these outstanding non-commissioned officers can become qualified squad and platoon leaders, and they do not need to worry about the regimental and battalion commanders at all, and they only need to check the training results once a week, and the political and ideological work of instructors at all levels follows the whole process.

The subordinate teaching brigade is definitely an elite attacking force, they have to rush ahead when the war is urgent, and they are generally well protected, and talents are rare! In addition, outstanding company and platoon commanders must attend officer training classes presided over by me to conduct more in-depth study of military theories and special topics, and other such as artillery instructors, engineer instructors, raid instructors, demolition instructors, and shooting instructors will also participate in the teaching, so as to facilitate the enhancement of the ability and knowledge of the company and platoon commanders in all aspects.

The subordinates can proudly say that it is this set of training and education methods of the reading force division that makes the reading force master have a combat effectiveness that surpasses that of friendly troops, and is determined and tenacious, especially for the transformation of prisoners with actual combat experience, which plays an immediate role. An Yi replied proudly, without concealing it and telling it out.

Chen Cheng and the three looked at each other, and Zhang Zhizhong asked unhappily: "Since you have such a good training method, why do you keep hiding it?" ”

An Yi explained aggrievedly with a bitter face: "Teacher, this set of training methods began to summarize from the end of the Fengxin War, in order to verify its scientific surname, feasible surname, our officers at all levels of the Reading Division have never stopped, Yin Jinan and Hu Jialin and others have gone deep into the company to record data almost every day, and they are afraid that they will be too hasty to cause omissions and mistakes, and they have been constantly revising and improving and repeatedly confirming for several months, and finally the preliminary sorting was completed at the end of the Battle of Yangzhou. Then the reading division fought hard in the Wuhe area for seven days, although he won the battle, but he also lost nearly one-third of the battle, and hurriedly rested and replenished before he could catch his breath, and the students came to you because of their words, and the students were restless for the war in Si County on the front line in the past two days, where do you remember what training methods?

Don't underestimate the small Si County, this county is located in the north-south transportation hub, the city wall is strong and towering, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if the enemy army is to increase the number of troops to defend it is very easy, you just want to besiege the city and send reinforcements are helpless, unless there are more than four divisions of troops can be calmly taken, the students have not been able to think of a good offensive strategy before leaving Wuhe, I am really worried that the brothers of the reading division will start a siege war, then it will suffer! ”

Zhang Zhizhong took a deep breath slowly, and whispered to An Yi about the battle situation: "I just received the news that the Reading Force Division failed to defeat Si County, and nearly half of the battle was damaged and fled. ”

"What?"

An Yi shuddered, closed his eyes in pain and moaned in a low voice, and his handsome face instantly turned pale and distorted, showing how painful he was in his heart.

Cai Zhonghu stepped forward and patted An Yi's shoulder gently: "Don't be like this, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, don't be too sad about it." ”

An Yi opened his eyes and took a half step forward: "Teacher, please tell me, who commanded it?" ”

Zhang Zhizhong sighed: "I heard that it is Major General Liu Shoujiang, the acting division commander. ”

"Lao Tzu has long said that the little white face surnamed Liu is a mediocre person who talks on paper, and you still scold me for talking nonsense, do you believe it this time? I can't get used to that kind of ......"

Cai Zhongwat yelled in annoyance, and Chen Cheng hurriedly stabbed him to prevent him from scratching again.

An Yi bit his lip and lowered his head in silence, Zhang Zhizhong exchanged glances with Chen Cheng, stepped forward to pat his beloved apprentice's shoulder and whispered to him to go back to rest, Chen Cheng, Cai Zhongwat and Zhang Zhizhong nodded goodbye, pulled An Yi out of the door and stuffed him into the back seat of the car, and instructed the driver to drive the car to the old hotel in the Confucius Temple, and went up to the private room on the second floor.

Cai Zhongwat saw that An Yi had calmed down, with a smile on his face, he ordered the three wine girls to sit down and pour wine, An Yi didn't care, nodded slightly to the girl in a white silk satin cheongsam next to him, stood up with the wine and respectfully toasted the two instructors, Chen Cheng and Cai Zhongwat also stood up, the three cups touched lightly, everyone drank it all, and the three girls quickly continued to drink and listened to the conversation of the three men with a smile.

After three rounds of drinking, the atmosphere was a lot more relaxed, Chen Cheng and An Yi had fought side by side as early as the Tanglan Campaign, and they had always admired the student he had not taught, but Chen Cheng's 21st Division and Reading Division were on different sides and belonged to different war zones, so they couldn't get along well.

In the middle of this month, Chen Cheng, who was deeply valued by Commander-in-Chief Jiang, was transferred to the commander of the Nanjing garrison, knowing that An Yi had returned to Nanjing several times because he was too busy with affairs to meet, but this time he finally met but met An Yi was demoted and demoted, and his heart was not a taste, based on the sympathy for An Yi in his heart, and the relationship between the righteous brother Cai Zhongwat and An Yi, coupled with Chen Cheng's good impression of An Yi and his admiration for An Yi's ability, he naturally regarded An Yi as his friend, so the three of them talked very speculatively, drank very happily, and each other's feelings were invisibly closer with the recognition in their hearts.

An Yi has never drunk as unguarded as today, big and small cups do not refuse, the three bartenders were very surprised when they learned that An Yi was the hero of the Northern Expedition who was well-known throughout the country, and they liked it very much when they saw An Yi's handsome appearance and gentle manners, and they also liked it very much, and under the encouragement of Cai Zhonghu, they persuaded An Yi to drink, and he drank until An Yi was drunk and confused.

An Yi's mind is not on wine, he likes to talk about combat with Chen Cheng the most, he is bold and delicate, and proud and humble, which makes Chen Cheng very comfortable and more appreciative.

Although Cai Zhongwat is a drunkard man, he expressed his opinions from time to time in the discussion between An Yi and Chen Cheng, which also benefited An Yi and Chen Cheng a lot, especially Cai Zhonghu's new understanding of infantry and artillery coordination is very unique, and the grateful An Yi even saluted Cai Zhongwat three times and shouted "taught".

When the wine reached eighty percent Chen Cheng shouted to stop, Cai Zhongwat didn't mean to stop at all, knowing that An Yi's booze was to eliminate the pain and boredom in his heart, Cai Zhongwat still raised his glass and toasted An Yi three more glasses.

When he drank the third cup, Cai Zhonghu's foul mouth mentioned the fiasco of the reading teacher again, and persuaded An Yi not to think too much, it is estimated that he will be reinstated in a few days, otherwise a banner that has been erected high and vigorously preached will fall like this, whose face will be good-looking?

An Yi laughed and said well, staggered and stood up, raised a glass and drank it all, and looked at the exquisite palace lamp above his head in a daze for a long time, Chen Cheng and Cai Zhongwat saw An Yi's body swaying and hurriedly stood up to help, but saw that An Yi's tears had already rolled down, his pale lips trembled frequently, and he sighed slowly:

"I miss my brothers! With such a fiasco, how many brothers should have died in Sixian County, Lao Tzu is sorry for the brothers......"

An Yi closed his eyes and fell backwards after shouting, Chen Cheng hurriedly hugged him, but because of his short stature, he was also carried by An Yi's heavy body to hit the wall behind him, Cai Zhonghu, who had been stunned for a long time, hurriedly stepped forward to help, and called a few words without hearing An Yi's answer, knowing that An Yi was drunk.

The two raised their hands and feet to put An Yi on the sofa next to him to sleep, and the three girls all gathered around with concern, and the girl in white who was waiting for An Yi quickly squatted down, tore off the white handkerchief pinned to his chest, and gently wiped An Yi's sweaty face, and couldn't help but reveal rare sadness and admiration.

Chen Cheng straightened his waist and sighed: "The principal will come back at noon tomorrow, I must advise the principal for Xiao Yi's affairs, don't listen to the nonsense of those scholars, it is our soldiers who are selling their lives, not those rice buckets who only fight for power and profit." ”

"I'll go too!"

Cai Zhongwat sat on the chair, picked up Chen Cheng's glass of wine and drained it, suddenly fell down with a crooked body, lay on the ground and moved twice, and then snored.

Chen Cheng knew that Cai Zhongwat was also drunk, so he ordered a girl to go downstairs and call everyone's adjutant and guards, looking at Cai Zhongwat on the ground and An Yi on the sofa and sighing......

(To be continued)