Zhang Yongtao is an orphan. He doesn't know where he is, he doesn't know who his parents are, and he doesn't even know what his last name is. His "official name", like that of most Baathists, was given organizationally.

Zhang Yongtao can only remember the only thing he can remember now is that when he was not rescued by the organization and was not raised and educated by Teacher Wang, his nickname called "Little Dog". This nickname was casually given to him by the traffickers who abducted him at that time.

He was only six years old when he was rescued from traffickers. Now seventeen years old, he can't remember most of the events when he was rescued.

There was only one fragment that he remembered very clearly, and it is still hard to forget. That is Mr. Wang Shuhui, who was wearing a light gray washed and somewhat whitish uniform, and personally carried him out of a dirt D that could not see a little light. He can still clearly remember the gentle and suppressed smile on Mr. Wang's face at that time.

In 1620, Zhang Yongtao was rescued by Wang Shuhui from the place where human traffickers harbored people, which was a blessing for him. At that time, Wang Shuhui, who had just completed the comprehensive takeover of the entire Zhijiang County, was personally presiding over the strike hard operation against Zhijiang County.

At that time, the crackdown on all kinds of crimes was very severe. Because Wang Shuhui, who presided over this operation, himself was in a certain mood.

You must know that in modern society, although all kinds of scandals and evil deeds are exposed by the mass media very clearly and clearly. However, Wang Shuhui, who is sitting in front of the TV and watching relevant news reports in front of the computer, it is still difficult for him to have a very intuitive understanding of those terrible evils that annihilate human nature.

Modern people may think that there are a lot of evil deeds in modern society. However, modern China is, after all, an industrialized society with a strict social management system and the constraints of laws and rules. From a macro point of view, evil deeds are much less common in modern society than in feudal agrarian societies.

After all, modern China, which has been fully industrialized, has advanced productive forces and huge social wealth, and on this basis, no matter what imperfections there are in the social system of modern China, on the whole, the basic common values that are recognized by the whole society still exist. And the government, which has the advanced productive forces and the enormous wealth of society, will also use these resources to punish and suppress all kinds of evil that may occur.

Modern people are extremely angry when they see a young woman drowning their illegitimate child, and it is unforgivable to criticize such a thing. But the same thing was a very common and completely common thing in a feudal agrarian society.

Because of the backwardness of the level of productive forces, because of the lack of sufficient materials and wealth, and because of the backward social system that matched the productive forces at that time, it was actually difficult for most ordinary Chinese families in the feudal agricultural era to bear the excessive burden of the population. In this case, because there is no effective means of birth control, it becomes inevitable to kill unplanned children to reduce the pressure on the family to survive.

What makes Wang Shuhui very creepy is that when he conducted a social survey of the Ming society at the beginning of his travel, he found that most poor farmer families would drown the newborn babies who could not be raised, and then bury them in the pigsty or thatched pit to make fertilizer.

If it is said that drowning his own children and turning his children into fertilizer has shocked Wang Shuhui greatly, then with a very bland emotion, the indifferent attitude of the people of the Ming Dynasty who are accustomed to doing such things is even more unacceptable to Wang Shuhui.

This is why the Fuxing Party led by Wang Shuhui established the earliest large-scale training school as a medical school, and the earliest educational talents cultivated by Wang Shuhui were infant and toddler education talents.

This is the reason why Wang Shuhui, a time-traveler and a modern, would not have allowed this to happen under the Ba'ath Party, and this is the reason why he forcibly bought out the education and custody rights of all the children of the people under the rule of the Ba'ath Party with extremely tough and harsh methods that the natives of the late Ming Dynasty and time and space could not understand.

Although Wang Shuhui, as an educator in modern society, is not engaged in early childhood education, teachers are like fathers, and educators have to assume some of the responsibilities and obligations of parents, which is deeply engraved in Wang Shuhui's thoughts.

Maybe it's not obvious in modern society because he's dealing with adult college students. Because Wang Shuhui's students in the last years of the Ming Dynasty were all young children, Wang Shuhui's parental mentality of educators was very prominent.

In order to ensure the healthy growth of children and teenagers, Wang Shuhui did not even believe in the upbringing and education of children by the ordinary people under his rule, so how could he allow the existence of human traffickers who specialize in trafficking children for profit under his rule?

Therefore, during the first strike hard campaign of the Baath Party presided over by Wang Shuhui himself, all people and organizations in Zhijiang County that were engaged in or related to the trafficking of children and teenagers were severely cracked down by the Baath Party.

Vicious crimes such as murder and robbery are nothing more than punishments for "working to death" under heavy physical strength and high-risk labor reforms. But when it comes to traffickers who abduct and sell children, Wang Shuhui takes the form of punishment against class enemies.

At that time, all the traffickers engaged in human trafficking in Zhijiang and all the restaurants and hotels that provided assistance and convenience to these criminals and other related personnel were first put on high hats and paraded through the streets of Zhijiang County, and then they were scolded by everyone in public places, and finally whether they were the main culprits, accomplices, or related personnel who seemed to be somewhat innocent, they were hanged on the gallows by the soldiers of the Renaissance Army after the public trial.

Even the Ba'ath Party's handling of the bodies of these criminals shows a rather violent mood. When the bodies of these people are dried, when will the bodies of these people be burned by a fire.

In contrast to this violent mood, Wang Shuhui showed a sincere warmth for the children who were rescued during this operation. Many of the children who were hidden in harsh conditions by human traffickers were rescued by Wang Shuhui himself. Among them is Zhang Yongtao, who is now 17 years old and has just graduated from the Xishan base for a few years.

The experience of his childhood brought indelible memories to Zhang Yongtao. He turned Wang Shuhui's gratitude for his care and care into a motivation for his own learning and training.

So at the age of thirteen, having completed his education at the level of junior high school, he took the initiative to enter a military school. Zhang Yongtao, who successfully passed the assessment three years later, finally put on the gray military uniform he dreamed of, the same as Mr. Wang Shuhui.

According to the Baath Party's grassroots training system, Zhang Yongtao, who completed the training of grassroots non-commissioned officers in the recruit training base, was assigned to the Ludong Military Region in 1630 and served as a squad leader in a squad under a battalion of the Ludong Military Region.

During the two years he served as a squad leader in the Ludong Military Region, Zhang Yongtao, who performed well, was first promoted to instructor and then to platoon commander.

At the beginning of 1632, as an excellent grassroots commander, Zhang Yongtao's battalion was very fortunate to be transferred to form the First Provisional Army of the Ludong Military Region and participated in the Cangzhou Campaign.

Like all the young people educated in the Xishan base, Zhang Yongtao, who grew up in a Spartan educational environment, has two characteristics: "wood" and "madness".

He is called "wooden" because he is very rigid in dealing with the world. He has a very good grasp of the various rules and disciplines, and sincerely regulates all his actions in accordance with them. To say that he is "crazy" is the kind of character he showed in the training of the army that he did not care about his personal safety at all.

"Wood" is not a big deal yet. In the Baath Party's factory education model, and in the Ba'ath Party's rule-based environment, "wood" is a universal characteristic of the Baath Party. Mechanics and dogmas were everywhere in the Baath Party.

However, "madness" is a unique characteristic that only people who come out of the Xishan base have. The regular talents educated by the Baath Party's factory education system show a kind of characteristics of seeking peace and stability in their work. But the people who came out of the Xishan base, because the environment of the Xishan base is too extreme and monotonous, so their performance in all aspects is very extreme and radical.

For example, the daily training of Zhang Yongtao's platoon should have been presided over by the platoon staff officer. Under normal circumstances, whether it is a grassroots commander who has graduated from a military academy or a platoon commander who has been promoted normally, he will not ask for trouble to interfere in the work of daily training. However, Zhang Yongtao, who has a "crazy" spirit, feels that because of the lack of actual combat, the soldiers he led lack murderous spirit and are not ruthless, and they must strengthen training.

In such cases, he often trained the soldiers in addition to the daily training conducted by the platoon staff officers. It's not 20 kilometers of cross-country training, or team confrontation training. Even in bayonet training, he did not allow the soldiers to add bayonet sheaths to their bayonets, but led everyone to use shiny bayonets for real stabbing training.

Because of this, the platoon led by Zhang Yongtao had three to five times more wounded in daily training than other platoons in his company.

Zhang Yongtao's colleague, platoon staff officer Wang Hongyu, was very dissatisfied with Zhang Yongtao's "madness." He once found Xu Zhongyang, a platoon instructor, and specifically reflected this problem.

Platoon commander Zhang Yongtao was born at the Xishan base, and staff officer Wang Hongyu was a graduate of a military academy; unlike the two of them, platoon commander Xu Zhongyang was a grassroots cadre who had passed the three basic examinations from ordinary soldiers and had risen through the ranks by virtue of his combat exploits.

Unlike Zhang Yongtao and Wang Hongyu, who had never participated in actual combat, Xu Zhongyang, who had fought on Jeju Island and southern Liaoning and had been on the battlefield several times, knew that although Zhang Yongtao's approach was extreme, the troops of the Ludong Military Region lacked actual combat because of too many recruits, and there were indeed many inadequacies in his eyes.

Therefore, although Xu Zhongyang did not directly support Zhang Yongtao's "extreme" training of fighters, as the No. 1 leader in the platoon, he still patiently said to Wang Hongyu:

"Platoon Commander Zhang is indeed a bit extreme, and he is also a little suspected of violating the rules in the training of the troops, but when we look at the problem, we must also look at it realistically."

"Excluding Platoon Commander Zhang's suspicion of violating the rules, if Platoon Commander Zhang only conducted this kind of extreme training for the soldiers during the training, but he could not personally participate in it, I can say that he is suspected of mistreating the soldiers and stop him from doing so. But we also saw that in the training, Platoon Commander Zhang was more active than everyone else, and he was more mentally engaged than everyone. The crazy training you told me about lying motionless under the tractor. Platoon Commander Zhang was the first to lie down, and he was lying at the front. Let's talk about stabbing training, among the soldiers in the whole platoon, is he also the most injured on his body? He's the hardest wounded, huh? That's right! ”

Therefore, Platoon Commander Zhang is not just harsh on the soldiers, but strict with everyone. What is the training slogan in our troops? 'Sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in wartime'. Therefore, Platoon Commander Zhang may be a little extreme in terms of methods and methods, but what he does is fundamentally to improve the survival rate of soldiers on the battlefield. Not to mention anything else, in the military region competition, isn't it because our platoon has won the honor of pacesetter for two consecutive years because the training is much stricter than that of other units! ”

"If other people's methods are effective, we must respect them. Other units have come to us to learn from our experience, and the higher authorities have asked the whole army to learn from us. You don't have to think about it anymore and always feel dissatisfied. You see, now, under the leadership of Platoon Commander Zhang, our entire battalion is training using this method. If it weren't for the outstanding results of our training, would a new recruit like ours have a chance to go to war in this campaign? ”

Of course, Wang Hongyu did not think that Zhang Yongtao's method was ineffective, and of course he also recognized that Zhang Yongtai's method was effective. In many cases, one person's opinion of another person is mainly due to attitude.

Wang Hongyu agrees with Zhang Yongtao's ability, but Wang Hongyu does not agree with Zhang Yongtao's attitude. In his opinion, Zhang Yongtao, who has a dead face all day long, and only shows excitement when he participates in the ceremony to face the portrait of teacher Wang Shuhui, gives him the feeling of being superior to others and looking down on others.

Wang Hongyu's negative views on Zhang Yongtao have been accumulating until the official start of the Cangzhou Campaign, and it has only changed in an all-round way. After all, in the army, only real combat exploits can finally convince a person.

In the Battle of Cangzhou, which broke out in early 1632, Zhang Yongtao's platoon carried out an interception mission.

Because of a miscalculation in advance, one of Zhang Yongtao's platoons was facing a Ming army with a total number of more than 1,200 people, which had fallen into a state of hysteria and was eager to flee for its life.

Without the support of artillery units, without carrying machine guns, and with insufficient rocket launchers, Zhang Yongtao led a platoon that had undergone three years of military training but had not participated in any actual combat, and Zhang Yongtao behaved as calm and composed on the battlefield as he did in daily training.

He first commanded the troops to use bazookas to destroy a horse team of thirty or forty enemy troops at a long distance, and then quickly commanded the troops to form a defensive formation, effectively using platoon guns, killing and injuring a large number of enemy infantry who were unconsciously howling and rushing up frantically.

Just when the ammunition of the troops was used up and the entire platoon was crumbling under the desperate charge of the remaining five or six hundred enemy troops, Zhang Yongtao, who always had a wooden face, was the first to break out of the trench and led the whole platoon of soldiers to carry out the purest and bloodiest white-knuckle battle against the enemy.

A platoon of fifty soldiers, under the leadership of Zhang Yongtao, used a pure fighting bayonet fighting method to kill five or six hundred crazy enemy troops.

After the battle, looking at Zhang Yongtao, who had bandaged his wounds casually, and then organized the registration of prisoners of war as if nothing had happened, Wang Hongyu, who had no strength in his body and had received two blows (spear stabbing) on his arm, said to Xu Zhongyang, who was carefully recording the battle process with gauze wrapped around his head:

"Teaching Chief, I'm really serving the platoon commander now. The platoon commander is crazy. He's not just crazy about himself, he's crazy about his enemies too! ”