There was laughter in the conference room of the Hunan Lecture and Martial Arts Hall located on Shangyuan Road in Changsha, and the famous scenic spots such as Yuelu Academy and Orange Island kept popping out of the mouths of the generals, and Hui Dongsheng went on to say that the place where our second division is now stationed will be changed to the Huangpu Military Captain Sha Branch, and soon this will also be our territory.

An Yi, who was fortunate enough to attend the division headquarters meeting for the first time, sat respectfully at the very end, listened to everyone's discussion with a smile, and always smiled politely at several battalion commanders who had joked with him, so that everyone who was extremely unaccustomed to it secretly wondered: Is it that this kid has suffered a lot after being forgotten by the whole senior brother, so he is haunted and unhappy?

"The master has arrived!"

Liu Xiao, who was wearing a straight military uniform, entered the venue with a hundred times more spirit, looked at dozens of subordinate lieutenants standing straight, nodded with satisfaction, and motioned for everyone to sit down and start today's meeting.

Liu Xiao first praised Jiang Dingwen's Fifth Regiment, praising the officers and men of the Fifth Regiment for their strict military discipline and tenacious work style along the way, and for quickly winning this station with convenient transportation and better conditions for the Second Division after entering the Jiangwu Hall.

Next, Liu Xiao praised the Third Company and Company An Yi of the Engineer Battalion, and greatly praised the achievements of the officers and men of the Third Company since they set out on the expedition, believing that they were able to make great contributions to the rapid northward march of the whole army under such difficult conditions, and that they were able to carry a large amount of engineering equipment to rush to catch up with the ranks when they could not take the train, which reflected the demeanor and strong will of the revolutionary army. In conclusion, Liu Xiao emphatically praised the Third Company: After learning that the division headquarters was overcrowded, the Third Company did not hesitate to obey the order to set up a camp in the remote Deltatang Village on the south bank of the Liuyang River, stationed it with peace of mind, and gave up the favorable conditions and convenience to the Sixth Regiment and the First and Second Companies of Engineers transferred from the East School Field. Liu Xiao announced that based on the contribution and good performance of the Third Engineer Company, he would be rewarded with 500 oceans at a time, and the officers and men of the company would be given sufficient supplies, military uniforms and shoes, and priority would be given to receiving ammunition and military salary subsidies for the upcoming expedition.

The colleagues gave An Yi, who was sitting at the end, a warm applause, and An Yi also applauded honestly and gently, completely lacking his usual happy and hearty smile and vitality, which surprised Liu Xiao and Hu Shusen.

Throughout the meeting, An Yi behaved decently, either carefully recording the speeches of the commanders or sitting upright without squinting, more like a soldier than any soldier trained in a military academy.

At the end of the meeting, An Yi stood up with everyone, and immediately packed up his notebook and inserted a pen to leave after receiving the order to disband, but he was called back by Liu Xiao before he reached the door.

Liu Xiao, who was sitting on the main seat, turned to the side, looked at An Yi, who was standing with his chest upright and respectful, with a smile, thinking to himself that this kid had always been well-informed, did he know that the qualification to participate in the military parade on August 14 was replaced by the fourth regiment and felt uncomfortable:

"An Yi, this time, considering that your third company is very tired and needs to rest urgently, the division headquarters did not send your third company to participate in the military parade four days later according to the advice of the military department.

"A military parade? What parade? Division, didn't our army do it long before it set off? An Yi looked at Liu Xiao in surprise.

"You don't know?" Hu Shusen, who was sitting opposite, was also quite surprised.

An Yi shook his head in confusion: "My subordinates really don't know what a military parade is, they have been very busy these days, after the company arrived at the Triangle Pond camp, it immediately set up a barracks in accordance with the requirements of the division headquarters and arranged for duty vigilance, except for the notice received yesterday afternoon to come to the division headquarters for a meeting this morning, I did not receive any other news." ”

Liu Xiao, Hu Shusen, and Xu Tingyao glanced at each other, convinced that An Yi really didn't know about the military parade, and after thinking about it, he felt that An Yi's performance had changed very abnormally, and he didn't know what problems this kid had encountered.

Xu Tingyao lowered his face and asked: "Do you kid think that our whole division has forgotten about your three companies, let you be a cow and a horse for twenty days, and don't ask, come here after five days of rapid trekking, don't sleep for two days, and then be driven to the suburbs to station, so you are still haunted in your heart, thinking that we are unfair to you?" ”

"No, no! Please don't misunderstand Deputy Division Commander Xu, as a soldier, you should take obedience to orders as your duty! On the contrary, they are extremely grateful to the commanders for giving the Third Company this rare opportunity to exercise, and through the five-day march test and the construction of the new camp in these three days, the Third Company, which is composed of most of the recruits, has benefited a lot, and the physical strength and endurance of the officers and men have been greatly improved. It can be said that if it were to do it again, the 3rd Company of Sappers would do better. An Yi replied loudly.

Hu Shusen looked at An Yi in surprise, how could he not be used to An Yi saying such rigorous but impeccable words in a serious manner, Xu Tingyao and Jiang Dingwen and Hui Dongsheng, who had not yet left, looked at An Yi with a standard military posture and solemn demeanor, and suddenly felt strange.

Liu Xiao shook his head and waved his hand, An Yi saluted and turned around on the spot, and calmly left with the standard steps of a soldier.

Hui Dongsheng turned to Liu Xiao and the others, and asked in surprise: "Is it that this kid fell ill with a fever on the day he got off the train, and the high fever has not subsided?" ”

"I also feel that this kid is a little abnormal, and I can see that he really doesn't know about the upcoming military parade of our eight armies in the East Campus Field, and he won't lie about this. But the strange thing is that he has never been seen to bargain for any orders given to him in the past few days, and the number of uniforms issued to them by the Quartermaster Department a few days ago is not enough, and this kid did not stalk and grind as before, but immediately wrote a report of formal regulations and submitted it to their battalion headquarters, and then asked Kuang Shimin to forward it to us in time, or I signed it. This time, he just transferred one of their companies out of here and sent them to the suburbs to be stationed in Triangle Pond, he didn't say a word, he led his troops to leave within half an hour, without a word of complaint, and his subordinates were also found by him to educate them, which is ...... It's changing too fast, isn't it? Hu Shusen smiled bitterly.

Jiang Dingwen touched his chin and smiled slightly: "Speaking of them going out to camp, I remembered something, the battalion commander below me told me that An Yi bought a few good horses during the march, all of them were first-class Northland healthy horses, and they were all hot to look at, and I wanted to watch them that day, by the way!" An Yi also has a pair of the latest Zeiss telescope, which is the kind of new-style telescope he gave to Hu Zongnan before the Eastern Expedition, and Hu Zongnan was snatched by Deputy Commander Wang Bailing, which is very exquisite and convenient. ”

Liu Xiao said solemnly: "Don't come nonsense, many of our brothers above the rank of lieutenant colonel are prepared at their own expense, including carrying guns, and many of them also buy them according to their own preferences, and the new regulations in this regard are still being formulated, but they are allowed before they are officially promulgated." Again, although An Yi does not have such conditions as a lieutenant, but don't forget Mr. Ou Yaoting behind him, maybe his money, binoculars and pistol were all given by Mr. Ou Yaoting, if we forcibly occupy it, it will not only lose the people's hearts and not conform to military regulations, but may also cause a very bad impact, don't forget that before this expedition, Mr. Ou Yaoting gave our army a large number of medicines and medical machinery, I also heard that Mr. Ou has the intention of recruiting An Yi as a fast son-in-law, so let's not embarrass An Yi, What's more, a cadre like An Yi who is both civil and military has always made us look forward to it. ”

Jiang Dingwen shrugged his shoulders a little embarrassedly: "I'm just talking about it, haha...... But how did this kid end up like this? We're not used to it anymore, but it's still cute! ”

Everyone laughed, and left one after another without too much analysis, after all, the big war was imminent, although Commander-in-Chief Jiang was sympathetic to his first army's favorite generals and many protégés, and let the first army serve as a reserve, but the battlefield was changing rapidly, everything was unpredictable, maybe the reserve team would become the main force at any time, so making every effort to prepare for the big war was everyone's top priority.

An Yi walked out of the gate of the division headquarters and joined the waiting beard, and the two rode slowly through the gate of the camp, returning to their station under the envious gaze of the star officer and the sentry.

After passing through the bustling city and seeing the generals of the friendly army riding in a sedan chair with a beautiful decoration and carried by four sturdy soldiers surrounded by many hanging guards, An Yi was full of contempt and couldn't bear it, and beat his horse close to the beard and whispered: "Huzi, I hope that no matter how big an official the three of us brothers are in the future, we will not take the sedan chair, this kind of showing off and enjoying people as cattle and horses is not worth learning." ”

The beard patted the neck of the jujube red horse under his crotch and smiled slightly: "Lao Tzu has never been rare with that thing, he likes to ride horses everywhere, only horses are the most comfortable and have a surname." ”

As they walked, they rode their horses through two small villages and a dirt road lined with reeds, and soon returned to their camp, dismounted and handed the reins to the two brothers who met them, and immediately called a meeting of the squad leaders.

Under the three large camphor trees in the middle of the camp, a yellow canvas tent that had just been distributed was erected, and under the tent was a long table built by the brothers that was one meter five wide and more than six meters long, and more than a dozen squad leaders sat on both sides of the long table.

An Yi, who was on the main seat, took out a notebook from the leather cross-strap briefcase that had just been distributed, conveyed the spirit of the division meeting seriously and meticulously, and then politely asked for the opinions of Hu Zi and Yin Jinan.

Although Hu Zi and Yin Jinan were very uncomfortable with this formal way of meeting, they still assigned tasks one by one according to An Yi's wishes, and finally looked at An Yi with complicated expressions.

An Yi nodded, recorded the work tasks of each platoon one by one and the time promised to complete the task, and finally proposed to summarize two sentences according to the requirements of quality and quantity, and then announced the meeting, and walked away without waiting for others to leave, starting today's routine inspection.

The brothers sat in place in a daze, watching An Yi, who had his head held high, walking towards the back of the cooking class at a loss, did we do something wrong? After all, which grandson annoyed the company commander like this, and made the company commander so angry with our brothers?

Hu Zi and Yin Jinan smiled bitterly, drove away the uneasy brothers, and sat together in a low voice to discuss the reason for An Yi's change, and see what way to make An Yi say what was on his mind.

Chunsheng of the cooking class smiled when he saw An Yi: "Company commander, what do you want to eat at noon, brothers make it for you, now we don't need to tighten our belly, the people of Changsha are very supportive of our revolutionary army, when they first came, the streets were full of welcoming people, old and young came out, that enthusiasm, I can't say, it's very different from those small places in the south!" No, today the battalion commander sent someone to send two baskets of fine bacon and smoked fish, saying that he is much richer now, and he will send half a pig tomorrow, so that our brothers can make up for their bodies, and when the war is over, they will make meritorious contributions to our engineer battalion, haha! ”

An Yi nodded: "We must keep in mind the people's care for us, and remember the encouragement and spur of the chief." Again, you cooking squads should be strictly economical, and don't make any specialization for us, because the unanimity of officers and men is a good tradition of the three companies, and we must carry it forward, and we must also pay attention to hygiene...... Look at this bowl, it should be washed cleaner, and you need to start with small things to do big things...... Senior Private Zhou Guicai, wash the dishes carefully, don't be sloppy, remember that your work is related to the health of more than 200 comrades in the company. ”

After An Yi finished speaking, he walked out of the room, and saw Lu Xiongle coming up, and said loudly that his brothers caught this big carp of more than four catties, and wanted to give An Yi ** boiled fish fillet, An Yi frowned and asked seriously: "You can't take a stitch and thread from the people, this is the discipline that we have repeatedly emphasized in the past few days, how can you ......"

"Company commander, this is not from the lake in the south, it is a wild fish caught by Peng Lezi from the Liuyang River in the north, no foul." Lu Xiong hurriedly explained.

An Yi said unhappily: "Platoon Commander Lu, please don't call the soldiers by their nicknames in the future, as a platoon commander, you must be strict with yourself and lead by example, I won't punish you this time, but I won't take an example!" ”

Lu Xiong watched An Yi walk into the company tent with his mouth open, and turned to Lao Chang who came to his side in astonishment and asked in a low voice: "Cripple, is the company commander going to rectify the situation?" I'm afraid this platoon commander won't be able to do it for long......"

"Alas! Don't talk about you, just now when I was shaving Xiao San's head, the company commander came over and suddenly praised me, saying, 'Comrade Lao Chang's skills are very good and we must continue to carry them forward', he called Comrade Lao Tzu for the first time! At that time, I was so scared that I almost cut off the ears of the little three, alas...... I don't know what happened in the past few days, which has changed the surname of our company commander, he is scary when he puts on his face, and the brothers are trembling behind their backs, not used to it! ”

Lao Chang bent over and shook his head frequently, just wanted to walk away when he heard the loud noise in the room, turned his head and saw Chunsheng and Guicai standing in the middle of a large pile of bowls, chopsticks and pans that fell to the ground in a panic, Lu Xiong was also startled, and the big carp in his hand fell to the ground and jumped around with a "snap...... The atmosphere in the whole camp was depressing, the people were panicked, and the brothers did not dare to walk loudly, let alone anyone who dared to shout and speak foul language.

Hu Zi and Yin Jinan saw that the brothers were becoming more and more silent day by day, and their emotions were getting lower and lower, and they were anxious and determined to have a good talk with An Yi at the same time, otherwise the brothers would not be able to live like people and ghosts.

An Yi returned to his tent and took out the notebook, pulled out the pen that Gong Qian gave him, sighed softly, and was just about to unscrew the cap of the pen, when Dong Yanzi came over timidly:

"Big brother, this is my review summary of the past few days, you can check it for me."

"Comrade Guan Shan, you are the secretary of the company headquarters, and you should know how to address the officers and soldiers in the company on such occasions, please call me company commander or commander in the future." An Yi said without raising his head.

Dong Yanzi's mouth pursed, tears poured out, she couldn't stand An Yi's regularity anymore, and cried and wailed: "Big brother, you can scold me and beat me if I do anything wrong, you can tell me directly, don't treat me like this...... In my heart, you are my own brother...... Big brother, if you don't lose your anger, I'll kneel down...... I won't be able to get up if you don't get angry, wow......"

An Yi gritted his teeth fiercely, his face was reddened more than Guan Gong, he suddenly stood up and punched the table, smashing the thick table into a hole:

"I his ancestors...... I've had enough! Why change myself? Why would I do something I don't like to do? Do you think it's okay for Lao Tzu to pretend to be a grandson every day? Lao Tzu is gone...... Yes...... Crackling—"

An Yi punched and kicked over, knocked over the table and stool, tore the mosquito net, rushed to the frightened Dong Yanzi who forgot to cry, and helped him up:

"Dong Yanzi, Lao Tzu is not a sanctimonious grandson, listen, from today onwards, don't fucking see Lao Tzu walking on tiptoe like a mouse seeing a cat, Lao Tzu's brothers have to take dignified steps! Also, read a good book to Lao Tzu, and if you take Nanjing, you will give Lao Tzu the entrance examination to the military academy, Lao Tzu doesn't want to see his brothers looked down upon! ”

An Yi let go of the frightened Dong Yanzi, and when he saw the brothers outside the tent watching from a distance in horror, he rushed out of the tent in a fit of rage and shouted at the brothers:

"Look at it...... Lu Xiong, your grandson still doesn't pick up the fish for Lao Tzu to wash up? And you, Chunsheng, what's the point of breaking a few broken bowls? Tell Lao Tzu that if you can't eat boiled fish within half an hour, Lao Tzu will kick your grandson into the river...... And you hangers, look at Lao Tzu's liveliness, right? Count three and don't give Lao Tzu to disappear...... 1.2...... This reaction speed is okay, hahahaha...... This is what people have said, but it can suffocate Lao Tzu...... Dong Yanzi, make a cup of tea for the eldest brother, the eldest brother will guide you to learn English today, and you will have to take the English test when you enter Huangpu in the future, who came up with the idea, I said that his ancestors ......"

"Whoa! Big brother, I'll come! I like you like this, big brother......"

Dong Yanzi didn't wipe away her tears, quickly picked up the table, chair and bench, and rushed to the room to bring boiling water.

Under the big tent, Hu Zi and Yin Jinan, who were still worried about how to understand why An Yi had changed, looked at the brothers who had scattered all over the camp, and knew that their good brothers had finally come back alive.

In less than a few minutes, the entire camp was filled with long-lost laughter again, all kinds of sa koji sounded one after another, and the bearded man who was in a good mood and Yin Jinan walked to An Yi's side and looked at him happily.

An Yi took out his bag of "Hademen", handed the two of them cigarettes, and shook his head painfully: "Lao Tzu finally understands, in the future, I have to see people talk about people, and I can't force myself to myself, I have to do it according to the rules of officialdom in the officialdom, and I have to do it according to the temper of the brothers in Lao Tzu's camp, haha!" Lao Tzu now has an understanding of the thick black studies and officialdom that Lao Tao said...... Don't fucking look at me like that, come, let's go in and have a good discussion, and see how we can get a few light and heavy machine guns from the Quartermaster Department's grandsons, and soon the fight will start, and we will suffer from lack of firepower! Wu Liheng's grandson will come back in a few days, that guy is a capable man with machine guns, give him a machine gun squad leader to do it, and let him help us bring out a group of elite soldiers who can make machine guns......"

Hu Zi and Yin Jinan looked at each other and laughed, walked into the tent with An Yi, and the three heads quickly started a conspiracy together.

(To be continued)