Zhao Dongsheng, the captain of the teaching team, is currently the fastest promoted one in the second battalion, and he was still the deputy head of a shed under Hao Bing, that is, the deputy squad leader, and he was not even an officer. But since Wang Zhenyu took twenty military sticks for him after he broke off in the qin, Zhao Dongsheng became Wang Zhenyu's guard. Later, he rose to prominence, and now he is a major officer, the captain of the teaching team and the captain of the guard team. Wang Zhenyu was different from many officers of the People's Army at the same time, he was very cautious about the promotion of officers, and in view of the small size of the current ranks, he would personally inquire about and rule on the promotion of each officer. In many people's army ranks, there are no rules at all for the appointment of the officer, and it is often the brigade commander who appoints the regiment commander, and he doesn't care about it. Everyone has relatives and friends, nepotism, and the right to appoint officers, so naturally the issue of staffing is not taken into account, and the result is that the phenomenon of overstaffing is very serious. In many local armies, there have been situations in which major generals and lieutenant generals are running all over the place, and many civilian armies have even had more officers than soldiers, more soldiers than guns, and more guns than bullets.

However, in Wang Zhenyu's case, although the Ninth Brigade has appointed more than 100 officers for the purpose of future expansion, the training team has trained nearly 100 reserve officers. But there is only one major general in this, Yang Wangui and Xu Yuanquan are the colonels, there are only three lieutenant colonels, Hao Bing, Song Xianfu, and Wan Yaohuang, and there are only two majors: Ma Xicheng and Zhao Dongsheng. The rest are all junior lieutenants, which is very rare in the entire civilian army system. When the personnel list was reported to the garrison headquarters, the staff officer in charge of receiving the list even asked very suspiciously: "Nothing is missing, right?" ”

Another result of the lack of senior officers is naturally that the capable work more, for example, Zhao Dongsheng, the captain of the teaching team, also served as the captain of the guard team. And for the sake of the future, Zhao Dongsheng's work is still focused on the fifty people of the guard team. Usually when Wang Zhenyu goes out, Zhao Dongsheng still follows left and right in case of accidents.

Therefore, the current training team is mainly responsible for the training of the three detachment leaders, Song Haomin, Tang Hairong, and Zhang Xuguang. These three people are currently captains, but this is not a low-level officer, you must know that there are only less than twenty captains and officers in Wang Zhenyu's Ninth Brigade at present, which is very rare.

Tang Hairong and Zhang Xuguang are also in a special situation, originally according to Wang Zhenyu's order, the two of them should be forming a reconnaissance company and a special agent company directly under the brigade headquarters at this moment. However, firstly, qualified soldiers are scarce, and secondly, qualified officers are even more scarce; Wan Yaohuang, who was in charge of the reorganization of the whole brigade, forcibly postponed the formation of the two companies in line with the principle of preferring shortage to excess. So at the moment, these two can only continue to stay in the teaching team and are depressed. No, now the one who is training his detachment on the playground with his throat is Tang Hairong, the captain of the second detachment.

On weekdays, the small things of the teaching team can be decided by three people together, and there is no urgency for major matters, the guard team and the teaching team play next door, and Zhao Dongsheng can be found at any time, so Zhao Dongsheng rarely appears in the daily training of the teaching team.

But today, the cadets saw their tall and mighty Captain Zhao, and he was standing beside the brigade commander, and the brigade commander was amiably chatting with a few Guangxi cadets.

"I heard from your Song Squad Leader, your performance in training and study is very good, and you have studied for a few years before? Are you used to teaching the team? "Wang Zhenyu is now a major general and brigade commander, and he has been sitting in the upper position for a long time, and he is old-fashioned when he speaks. But when this was asked by Li Zongren, it was very heartwarming. In any era, in any social system, when the subordinates are cared for by the superiors, there is rarely nothing that is not excited. For example, if you are walking on the street and suddenly meet a big leader who can only be seen on TV news broadcasts to stop you, and then ask you very kindly: Fellow, how are you doing, okay?

At this time, even if you are a beggar, you will be extremely excited, and you can't help but answer: thank you to the leader and thank the government, life has been much better recently, and you can ask for half a bowl of rice every day. Then I proudly told the leader that I was happy.

Of course, this is an exaggeration, but this is the normal human reaction when faced with powerful people.

Li Zongren is in this state now, he didn't expect that one of his later Guangxi soldiers could be questioned by the brigade commander in person, and he jumped up very mobilely: "Report to the brigade commander, I have studied in a private school in my hometown for two years, I can read all the words, and I live very well in the teaching team, and the team leader and squad leader are very concerned about us." ”

Wang Zhenyu was supposed to stop by today, but it happened to be the end of the training of the first detachment, and some Guangxi trainees were sitting on the ground and gossiping. Li Zongren and others spoke in dialects, and ordinary officers still couldn't understand them, but Wang Zhenyu, who studied and worked in Guangzhou for six years in later generations, heard them all word for word. At this time, he felt that it was not so simple to convince people's hearts, it was not just a matter of giving some food and drink, and giving some treatment, this Li Zongren in front of him was obviously still an ideal or fantasy.

It is easy to break the mountain, and the thief is rotten in the heart. Wang Zhenyu was suddenly very interested in communicating with these Guangxi students who had just joined the gang and were still suspicious.

"I heard you talk about the future of the revolution just now, I am very interested, I want to hear you talk about it, don't worry, I'm a very ** person, so don't be afraid." Wang Zhenyu is actually as old as Li Zongren, but because of the high-level attribute of the attached position, these students are not standing or sitting next to Wang Zhenyu. Of course, Wang Zhenyu knew what the situation was, he took the lead and sat down, so that the student dared to choose a stone staircase one step lower to sit sideways.

Wang Zhenyu asked Li Zongren, and naturally Li Zongren replied first: "Brigade commander, I am a student soldier, and it is not easy to say that there are many of them, but I always feel that the revolution should not be like this." How did the revolution come and go, and those officials of the Zuihou or Manchu Qing took control of the government? So what are we people fighting for and dying? ”

This is very subtle, Wang Zhenyu nodded, and did not answer, but looked at Bai Chongxi.

Bai Chongxi really hoped that he could make a good impression on the new commander, so he immediately got up and said: "Brigade commander, I thought that this revolution was just a head, and there would definitely be variables in the future, but right now in this Nanjing City, what we see and hear, it shows that we are in difficulty. At this time, the revolution is like sailing against the current, and I analyze that if we do not advance, we will have to retreat. And I'm afraid that the one in Beijing will not really treat us people's soldiers well. ”

There is nothing new in Bai Chongxi's words, most of the high-level leaders of the Nanjing People's Army have this point of view, but as long as you look at Bai Chongxi's current identity, a student soldier who was hungry and cold more than ten days ago can actually think of this, it is not easy. Wang Zhenyu secretly thought: The one in Beijing has no intention of being sincere and kind, and in less than a year, people should sharpen their knives and clean up our chaotic ministers and thieves.

Next, Yu Zuobai, Liao Lei, and Li Pinxian also expressed their opinions, and they generally thought that peace was far away! It seems that the people in the Republic of China period are not stupider than later generations, it is estimated that Sun Yat-sen is not naïve or anything in the textbooks now, but to retreat as advance, knowing that there is no liliang to shake people for the time being, and honestly go to recuperate. Otherwise, a year later, it stands to reason that the Kuomintang, which had already surrendered its military power and was ready to come to power by popular elections, relied on what did it do to launch a massive second revolution and hold out for two months under the attack of the heavy Beiyang army?

Thinking of this, looking at the nervous and expectant eyes of the five young Guangxi students in front of him, Wang Zhenyu, who was also young, said with a smile: "Your views are very reasonable, I agree with them." In this way, Dongsheng, you go and give an order, suspend training, and teach the whole team to gather, I have something to say. ”

There was a sound of footsteps, and the quality of the soldiers of the teaching team was quickly reflected, and everyone completed the assembly as quickly as possible. Most of the people looked at the brigade commander standing in front of them with a fixed training platform in confusion, not knowing what he was going to say. And Li Zongren and the others looked at the brigade commander with some excitement, especially Li Zongren, who felt that he had been puzzled by his question for several months, and he might be able to get an answer from the brigade commander.

"Fellow soldiers, everyone must be very strange, I want to gather everyone?"

Wang Zhenyu began to speak after a little contemplation: "Just now, a student soldier told me that he was very confused, weishenme We launched this revolution, but it turned out that the bureaucrats of the previous dynasty in Beijing seized the central power? It is not in vain that we, the soldiers, shed blood and sweat, and endured hardships and suffering. Now I have to answer this question, brothers, our revolution is very incomplete, and it is quite incomplete. Just as the student soldier just suspected, the fruits of our revolution have indeed been plucked by others. ”

There was an uproar among the students below, but the rigorous training they received in the teaching team this week made them immediately quiet. Each of them stared at the brigade commander with wide eyes, obviously eager to know what the brigade commander would say next.

Wang Zhenyu was very satisfied with this, and he continued: "As a soldier, we will not discuss the rights and wrongs of this matter today, but I ask you to think about a question, weishenme The fruits of our revolution will be plucked away, weishenme In the past few months, hundreds of thousands of people's troops in Nanjing have been hungry and cold, including the 48 Guangxi students standing here today, who were also without food and salary more than ten days ago. Weishenme will be like this? Is it because you are not religious enough for the revolution? No, you are the most loyal revolutionaries, you have walked thousands of miles from Guangxi with your feet, wearing straw sandals, and who else dares to say that they are more loyal to the revolution than you? It was because of you, loyal revolutionary soldiers, that the emperor of the Manchu Tartars had to abdicate. But our revolution did not win, and in Beijing, in this decadent and degenerate city, the magnates colluded with Shili in all respects and betrayed the interests of the motherland to foreigners. With these, they still have a strong army in their hands. And in our own revolutionary ranks, there were those who, after the abdication of the Tartar Emperor, felt that the revolution had been victorious, and that it was time to pursue personal glory and wealth, they wavered, they betrayed the revolution, they oppressed our Mr. Sun, Chief Huang, and forced them to hand over the fruits of victory to those in power in Beijing. And they themselves can use the prestige and seniority they have gained in the revolution to collude with the shameless bureaucrats in Beijing, become upstarts, and continue to drink blood on the spinal cord of our motherland. ”

The trainees were different from ordinary soldiers, and these truths were clear to them as soon as they were explained, and now each of their faces was filled with all kinds of complicated expressions: frustration, anger, uneasiness, etc., and Li Zongren's hands were even clenched tightly.

"Are you afraid? Are you angry? I can tell you that anyone can be afraid, but you must not. Anyone can be angry, but you, absolutely not. Because in your hands is the spear of the revolution; On your shoulders is the future of an entire nation. Be brave, be calm. I can tell you responsibly that the road of revolution has never been smooth sailing, and the cause of revolution has never been accomplished overnight. The revolution has always been full of twists and turns, and no one will take the initiative to give up the interests in his hands without draining the blood of sin and fearing the greedy. Therefore, this revolution is only the beginning, not the end. Anyone who thinks that the world is too peaceful, we can put swords and guns into storage, and the idea of putting Nanshan in the horse is extremely ridiculous and dangerous. In the future, the Republic of China will fall into all kinds of chaos because of this incomplete revolution in front of us, and all kinds of clowns, obscene politicians, and shameless warlords will appear on this stage. And to get them out of here, it is necessary to rely on a truly revolutionary army. And you have only one purpose for training hard here, that is, to form a truly revolutionary army, to use the guns in your hands to push this revolution to the victory of Zuihou, and to use the guns in your hands to return the peace in the world and the prosperity of the nation. Everyone here should remember that our revolution is not over, but has just begun, please believe me, follow me, fight for the Republic of China, long live the Republic of China! Long live the Tiger Brigade! Wang Zhenyu's sentence was shouted hoarsely.

After listening to this, the cadets were suddenly full of a sense of mission of the times, after all, they were young, and they were immediately enthusiastically boiled by Wang Zhenyu's instigation, and the shouts of "Long live the Republic of China, long live the Tiger Brigade" shook the world.

In a small two-story western-style building not far away, Tian Yingzhao, who was smoking a big cigarette, was awakened by this shout: "This Wenzheng, you know that the toss will not stop for a day." ”