Chapter 21: New Year's Military Gathering
During the New Year's holidays, we go to the supervisors to pay homage to the superiors, and we have a deep mass foundation in our country. These commanders of the 500 Army are all native-born Chinese, and of course they are staunch supporters of this traditional custom. As long as you don't fight and get together with Gao Quan during the New Year, the big guys have already developed a habit these years.
Wang Dazhu, Qian Sixi, and Zhang Erxiao, the three main brigade commanders of the 500 Army, have a new look today, each of them is wearing a brand-new military uniform, and the generals on their collars are shining brightly, and they smile when they meet people, and they no longer have their usual majesty and murderous spirit, just like three polite local tyrants and inferior gentlemen.
Liu Qi and Zhao Ziming, these two newly promoted supplementary brigade commanders, it is the time when the spring breeze is proud, and today is a good time for these two new brigade commanders and the main commanders in the army, the leading figures in the county, to meet and make friends, and these two brigade commanders naturally came much earlier than the three veteran brigade commanders. By the time Wang Dazhu and the three of them came, Liu Qi and Zhao Ziming had already been busy in the reception hall of the military department for a long time like their masters.
"Yo, Wang Shizuo, Qian Lvzuo, Zhang Lvzuo, the three chiefs came so early! Welcome, welcome, welcome. Please be seated. As soon as he saw that these three people came together, Liu Qi greeted him with a smile on his face like a flower, not only did he look like a master and give up his seat courteously, but he didn't salute when he met as usual, but arched his hand like ordinary people.
"Liu Luzuo worked hard." Several people knew what kind of virtue Liu Qi was, and after giving up their hands with a smile, they each sat down according to the position of Liu Qi's fingers. Even Zhang Erxiao, who has always liked to pick Liu Qi'er, was the same as Wang Dazhu and the two of them, and sat honestly with two words of greeting.
Following the division and brigade commanders were a large group of regiment commanders. Liu Xing and Wang Jiantang said that these two people walked steadily and sat upright, and at first glance they looked like standard soldiers. As for the other commanders, it was not at all like that. Jin Feilong and Huang Sanpao walked into the living room with their heads shaken their heads and laughed loudly, even if their supervisors and superiors were here, they didn't see these people restrain a little.
There were already quite a few people in the hall. The gentry and county magistrates and town magistrates in Tongbai Mountain were originally greeting each other with the senior commanders of the 500 Army, and they were close to greeting each other. As soon as these regiment leaders came in, the noise in the hall suddenly fell silent, and only Huang Sanpao, Jin Feilong, Chang Zhankui, and Wu Laosan were left, and these four people laughed uncontrollably.
The four of them were talking and talking, and suddenly they realized that something was wrong, and the laughter stopped abruptly. The four pairs of big round eyes looked around, and saw the extremely unkind faces of Qian Sixi and Zhang Erxiao. The four of them smiled, raised their hands and saluted the hall, and then hurriedly found a place to sit down. When these people sat down, the people in the hall seemed to have just gasped for breath, and the noise slowly sounded again.
"The fact that the two brigades can teach such talents is really extraordinary!" A caustic sarcasm reached the ears of Qian Sixi and the others in due time.
The two brigade lords glared angrily in the blink of an eye, except for Liu Qi, who else dared to sarcastically mock these two brigade commanders?
"Brigade Commander Liu, these are all the subordinates of the military seat who personally recruited An, are you doubting the military seat's vision?" Liu Qi is also a brigade commander now, although his military rank has not risen to colonel, but when he was the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, he dared to sarcastically ridicule Zhang Erxiao, not to mention that he is now at the same level as Zhang Erxiao in terms of official position. Brigade Commander Zhang was really angry, so he had to take out the military seat and go back sarcastically.
Liu Qi rolled his eyes, and was just about to fight back, when a few more people came in from outside the hall. A few people turned their heads to see that the person who came in at the head was also a major general officer, but judging by his age, he was much older than the generals present. And after this person came in, his face was full of smiles, whether it was a squire or a government official, this person greeted people affectionately, it turned out to be Zheng Guotai, the major general and deputy division commander of the 500th Division.
The commander of the 500th Division is still Gao Quan, Wang Dazhu has the title of deputy division commander, and the other deputy division commander is Zheng Guotai. This deputy division commander Zheng is now mainly in charge of logistics support and the diplomatic work of the 500 Army, and it can be said that he holds real power, and at the local level, he is the officer who has the most contact with the outside world in the 500 Army. With a star on his collar, Deputy Division Commander Zheng is like a fish in water and invincible. At this point, Zheng Guotai deeply felt that with Gao Quanming, the future is really immeasurable.
After greeting the local acquaintances, Deputy Division Commander Zheng hurried over to greet these generals and leaders of the 500 Army.
"Master Zheng, I've worked hard lately."
Seeing the familiar appearance of Zheng Guotai and the local gentry officials, Wang Dazhu knew that this Deputy Division Commander Zheng was usually attentive, and his words naturally revealed concern and condolences.
If you want to say that the 500 Army specializes in dealing with the local government, there is only one Zheng Guotai, and the main energy of the others is spent on leading troops, even the reconnaissance battalion, they are only scouting and obtaining intelligence. During this period, the 500 Army was able to be smooth in all aspects, and the supply of food and drink was sufficient, all of which were due to Zheng Guotai. In Gao Quan's absence, Wang Dazhu should of course express his condolences on behalf of Gao Quan.
"Thank you Master Wang for your concern, those jobs are supposed to be done by Cathay Pacific, not hard." Of course, Zheng Guotai knew Wang Dazhu's status in the 500 Army, although both of them were deputy division commanders, what he said was respectful.
"Deputy Division Commander Zheng, now that it's the New Year, can you get a few hundred catties of fresh fish for the brothers to taste?"
Everyone turned their heads and saw that it was Jin Feilong who asked this. People are strange, you say you are a thief-born guy, what kind of fresh fish do you have nothing to eat? If you want to eat it, you'll have to eat wild boar or something, right? But they forgot that there is a Nanwan Reservoir near Xinyang, where all kinds of freshwater fish are found. Although Jin Feilong was a bandit in the past, he was often able to eat delicious river fish.
"Okay, wait two days, I'll personally send it to Head Jin."
Just when everyone thought that Zheng Guotai would find a reason to shirk it, they didn't expect people to agree! Hey, it looks like this Deputy Division Commander Zheng really has some ability! You can get fresh fish in the mountains, isn't that a skill?
"Hey, I want it too, I want fresh fish there too!" As soon as he saw that Jin Feilong had found fresh fish, Huang Sanpao next to him immediately asked to eat fish. Chang Zhankui, Wu Laosan and others also came up to join in the fun.
When Zheng Guotai was about to say yes, the crowd suddenly fell silent, and then someone shouted: "Deputy Commander Xie has arrived!" "Everyone was stunned, Deputy Commander Xie? He's here today, too?
Since Xie Zhongming is the deputy commander of the 500 Army, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, such an important holiday, of course he will return to the military headquarters. Speaking of which, the military department should also have a place for him as the deputy commander, and Deputy Commander Xie's office should be located in the military headquarters of the 500th Army. However, now the deputy commander is mainly in charge of the recruitment work, and his place of work is in the various recruitment points of the 500 Army in the Tongbai Mountains, and there is no office for him in the military headquarters.