Chapter 18: The Storm Rises
Cheng Lei has been very depressed these days, and he doesn't know how this bad relationship between him and Xi Ling will end, but Xi Ling has been silent since she returned to Yinta City. According to the soldiers who found her and sent her back to the city, she went into the city without saying a word, without even looking at them.
With a flue-cured cigarette in his mouth, his heart fluctuated, and he always felt sorry for Qinglan, and even more sorry for Xiling. After lighting the flue-cured tobacco, the curling smoke cleared Cheng Lei's mind a lot, he slapped the table and stood up, the manly man dared to do it, the big deal was to explain it to Qinglan and marry Xiling!
But this matter depends on Xi Ling's attitude, if she agrees, of course it is good to marry her, if she does not agree, it will be purely Cheng Lei's own affection. Cheng Lei shook his head vigorously, trying to stop thinking about this matter, let's talk about it after both sides calm down!
After Zheng Bin got married, he rested at home for two days, and came to the headquarters early in the morning on the third day. Cheng Lei looked at his beaming appearance, and felt very happy in his heart: "Lao Zheng! Now that you have finally fulfilled your long-standing wish, do you feel very satisfied? ”
Zheng Bin said with a smile: "At the beginning, I felt quite satisfied, but the more I pondered it in the past two days, the more it was not a taste, and I felt empty in my heart, and my previous sense of purpose and mission was suddenly gone, as if the whole person had been hollowed out!" ”
Cheng Lei thumped his chest and said, "You guy is talking nonsense here, you see that you are still pretending to be there with a grin that grinning!" If you feel empty, I'll send someone around to select all ten beautiful women to make a side room for you, how about it? ”
When Zheng Bin heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, no." Don't, don't. I'm just kidding. It's just a joke. Lao Cheng, I see that your face is not very good, what's wrong? ”
Cheng Lei didn't want his and Xiling's affairs to be known by others. Zheng Bin is no exception. So he covered it up: "In the past few days, I haven't slept well for the placement of those captive soldiers, and I have been thinking about how to brainwash them all day long, so that they will be loyal to our Lion King Army and not have a mutiny." ”
Zheng Bin smiled mysteriously at this time: "This matter is your job, this is my business as a political cadre!" Leave this to me quickly, and you just need to work all the establishment and military training! ”
Cheng Lei deliberately pretended to be relaxed: "Okay, then listen to you." However, this matter cannot be sloppy, it is completely related to the psychological mentality of these recruits in the future, even if an unloyal army is strong, we don't need it! ”
After Zheng Bin left. Cheng Lei breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that his heart would be seen by Zheng Bin. The two of them have been together for too long, they know each other too well, and they can see each other's thoughts through their every move. Of course, the things that Cheng Lei explained to Zheng Bin are imminent, and the cultivation of loyalty in the army is very critical and very important, which requires consideration of Zheng Bin's means as a political cadre!
Cheng Lei has almost adjusted his mentality at this time, and now Xi Ling's mood may not be stable, and after a period of emotional stability, Cheng Lei will personally go to Yinta City to talk to Xi Ling about how to solve this matter. If Xiling's request is not too much. Cheng Lei would not hesitate to agree to her.
In just a few days, in order to train the captive soldiers, Li Changcheng sent a team of 50 instructors from various infantry regiments and armored regiments to prepare for a comprehensive physical and military training of the captive soldiers. Zheng Bin's political work also began to be carried out, and he organized many female soldiers to perform for the captive soldiers. And every day he asked Li Changcheng to spare two hours for him to give ideological education classes to the captive soldiers, and he wanted to reform these captive soldiers from the bottom of his heart.
Those female soldiers were all political engineers and literary soldiers, and they were recruited by Zheng Bin from the residential areas of the base in order to add some literary and artistic programs to the vast number of soldiers of the Lion King Army. These female soldiers were also taught various talents by Zheng Bin. For example, the dances and songs were unanimously praised by the soldiers in the previous performances.
After Li Changcheng gathered the instructor training team. He arranged for the deputy commander of the Cheetah Infantry Regiment to take over all the work of the Cheetah Infantry Regiment, and Li Changcheng directly led the instructor team to train the new regiment as the highest commander of the instructors. Originally, Li Changcheng was very reluctant to take over this work. Their captives are certainly much more difficult to train than the refugee soldiers.
Moreover, their will to fight and their ideological consciousness must be very negative now, Li Changcheng means to wait until Zheng Bin does more political work for the captured soldiers. However, Cheng Lei said that the situation waits for no one, and the new corps will be completely at the disposal of Li Changcheng in the next few months, and Cheng Lei will not ask too much, but in the end, he wants a satisfactory answer.
Cheng Lei's meaning is very clear, this matter must not only be done but also done well, and must be done right now! After Li Changcheng received the order, he sighed and was about to leave, but was stopped by Cheng Lei: "What's the matter, Great Wall, you kid has a complaint in his heart?" Tell me something! ”
Li Changcheng said with some embarrassment: "Captain (they are the veterans of the Lion King Squadron still can't change their mouths, called Captain Cheng Lei), it's not that I don't want to train these captive soldiers." But you see, the training of each regiment is now in full swing, and our Cheetah Infantry Regiment has already left behind a period of training because of going to the battlefield to fight. Now let me train those captives, and the training tasks of the Cheetah Infantry Regiment will fall behind a lot of other regiments......"
Cheng Lei laughed when he heard this: "You kid is asking me for credit, right?" ”
"Don't dare, I don't dare, I mean are you sending someone to train recruits, I'll stay in our regiment honestly and make up for what I left some time ago, right?" When Li Changcheng saw Cheng Lei smiling, he ignited hope.
Cheng Lei's face sank at this time: "You will die of this heart!" You kid knows to play tricks with me all day long, don't worry, the training task of this recruit regiment is yours now, and as long as there are recruits in the base in the future, all the tasks of training them will be yours! Who made you the commander of the boot camp, I can't give up the chances, right? Besides, you keep saying that the training of the cheetah regiment has not kept up, don't you want to think about it. I participated in a medium battle before, which is more solid than a year of training! ”
Li Changcheng's face was originally a little hopeful, and after hearing this, he drooped. Cheng Lei's words do have his truth, although Li Changcheng is awkward, he can only obey orders.
He had just given a military salute and was about to go out. I heard Cheng Lei say behind him: "I entrusted two large commercial houses to import trucks and other parts from the West into two batches, a total of 120 units, and they have been shipped quickly. After the transportation is completed, the transformation will be completed, and the armored regiment will be replenished with fifty units, and the remaining tanks will be disowned by all four infantry regiments. Your cheetah group has five more units than them, which is considered a reward for you, how about it? ”
Li Changcheng's face was overjoyed: "Captain, do I have anything else to say?" Don't worry, I will train this batch of recruits well, and I will die for the sake of the great cause of the base! ”
Cheng Lei deliberately hung his face and said: "Okay, okay." Don't sing high notes to me, I don't know who is still there to die or live! There is another thing, or to reward your achievements, after the training of the recruit regiment is completed, their deputy commander will be that Montali. But the head of the regiment must and can only be our person, this candidate is recommended by you, you go back and think about it, and come and tell me when you have time! ”
After Li Changcheng left, Cheng Lei had infinite longing in his heart, waiting for the training of the new regiment to be completed. The entire Lion King Army has six regimental troops. After their careful training, the six regimental-level troops were already a particularly powerful existence, at least against the iron army of the so-called fighting nation of Balunou.
The regiment called Sabbins, which had been sent by the Baren'o army to follow the Serenf Corps as a support and follow-up force, was now lost in the steppes as well. It may be that they were afraid after getting the defeat of the Serenfu Corps, so they didn't go on a rampage like the previous Serenfu Corps.
But now this Sabess Corps is no longer within Cheng Lei's consideration. If Daheng City hadn't moved now, the Sebins Corps would definitely rush all the way to Daheng City. Then the two sides engaged in an offensive and defensive battle of the city-state, and fought a victory. However, by that time, Daheng City will be very passive. For no one knows whether there will be any troops that Barono will continue to send to support behind the Sabens Corps.
In the current southern battlefield, the Itos army is completely at a disadvantage. Balen'ou's army had already entered a few dozen kilometers inside the border with Itos. However, relying on the time gained by the previous war on the border, Itos built a fortress dozens of kilometers away from the border, a place surrounded by mountains. Named Deadly Fortress.
The fortress was built on a hillside that was very dangerous and easy to defend, as the enemy had no chance to enter the territory of Itos from anywhere else. Itos threw all his forces into this fortress, and they said that if Barono's army wanted to pass through this fortress, they would have to throw down the corpses of hundreds of thousands of troops!
The Balen'o army is now also having a headache with the Deadly Fortress, because they don't have a place to put their mouths in their mouths even if they want to. And now they only have more than 20,000 people left, and they can't afford to fight this battle at all. Therefore, the commander of the Balen'ou army sent a letter to the country asking for help, and the Baron'ou domestic government organized a meeting of personnel overnight, after which it was decided to recruit another 80,000 troops from the country and send them to the front line in the southern battlefield immediately.
The Balen'ou General Army also issued an order to the commander of the southern battlefield that this battle must only be won and not defeated, and this deadly fortress must be taken. As long as the deadly fortress can be defeated, the country will continue to send additional troops to the southern battlefield until Itos is completely defeated. At that time, Balono will unite the entire Burning Sun Federation and the Itos Kingdom to establish a vast empire, and even the old empires in the West will be afraid of Baron'ou.
A few decades ago, the six most powerful state organizations of the old Western empires formed the World Federation to manage the entire Eastern and Western world order. Now all the countries of the East and the West have joined the World Federation, and Balen'o is one of them. But with the exception of the six old empires with governing powers, other countries have no say in the World Federation.
If Balono were able to unify the Confederacy of the Sun and the Kingdom of Itos, there would be one more country in which the World Federation would have the right to govern. By that time, Balono would have become a new empire, and no one would be able to stop its growth!
However, now Baron's plan is only half completed, although the Sun City of the Scorching Sun Federation has been destroyed, but another Scorching East Federation has come out to block their progress in Silverstone City, becoming the core of the Eastern Battlefield. The deadly fortress on the side of the Itos country blocked the road to the Itos country again, and although there were 80,000 new troops, the road ahead was still bumpy.
The hawks in Valen'ou have a strong sense of crisis, and the conservatives in the country are already ready to move again, and they will certainly use the current situation to make a big fuss to win the hearts and minds of the majority of civilians and politicians. If the hawks are ousted from politics by the conservatives at this time, not only the doom of the hawks in the country, but also the senior officers of the young Zhuang faction in the army who have been colluding with the hawks.
After discussions between the hawks and the young Zhuang faction of the army, they decided to take the risk and have the young Zhuang officers send assassins to assassinate one of the most respected officials among the conservatives. The fact that the official was shot to death in full view of everyone immediately caused an uproar in the country, and civilians spontaneously marched in the streets to demand a thorough investigation of the killers and justice. And the dark tide in the government is finally on the table, and conservative officials are unanimously demanding that the hawks and military juniors give them an account.
The top officials of the hawks were forced to make a decision under strong pressure to thoroughly investigate the assassination and send all the murderers and masterminds behind the scenes to the execution ground! As a result, a wave of thorough investigation of the murderers was set off in the country, and the security agencies of the entire Balun Europe sent a total of more than 50,000 policemen, including some high-ranking assembled police, to search for suspects.
After a week of thorough investigation, the killer was apprehended in a carriage fleeing to the Scorching Sun Federation. After a harsh interrogation, the killer was dying, and it was a mid-level conservative official who confessed to instructing him to do it. By the time the special police squad found the mid-level conservative official, he had hanged himself in his home and left a suicide note saying he had bought the murder for personal vendetta rather than political struggle.
The conservative bigwigs were bought and killed by the middle-level officials of the conservative faction, and now they are all dead without proof, and everyone's mouths have been shut. The conservatives can only break their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs, and who can not see that this is a hawk's plan, sending the dead people planted in the conservatives as scapegoats, so that even if they are suspicious, there is no way.
After Cheng Lei listened to Zheng Bin talk to him about these things in Balunou, he felt that those who were engaged in politics were indeed old foxes. Compared with the politicians of these big countries, the politicians of small city-states like Silver Tower City are just children, and they are not even children. (To be continued.) )