After a while, the team stopped in a locust forest on the bank of the Shu River.

Zhu Rui walked into the locust forest and stood under a big tree.

His body was straight, and his two thumbs hung from the wide belt around his waist, which looked a little relaxed. His resolute gaze swirled on the face of one comrade, and then suddenly flew to the face of another comrade.

At present, most of the comrades who are not beautiful enough are depressed. They don't say anything, they don't look at their chiefs, they don't exchange glances with each other.

Some of them, with their backs against the trunk of a tree, their guns on their chests, drooping their brains, were so angry that they were panting so loudly that they could tie a screaming donkey, some were so anxious that they grabbed the clothes on their chests with their hands, as if they were suffocating in their hearts, and had to let go of their throats and shout a few times before they were happy, and some of them were flushed and purple, as if they were ready to fight at any moment; Yes, leaning on a tree, holding the ground with one hand, and digging all five fingers into the soil.

There are also two people sitting back to back, and this one here is studying his feet with his head down? The one over there is looking up for the clouds with his eyes; Others, holding a branch in their hands, scribbled on the ground violently. He drew for a while, brushed it off with his foot, and when he was done, he redrew it again, over and over again, without looking up......

Zhu Rui first looked at every comrade around him carefully, and then opened his mouth happily: "Comrades! Who are you angry with? ”

Mr. Liu answered first. He slammed the crumbs in his hand, tightened his face and said, "Who are you angry with?" Be mad at you! ”

Look at the look, listen to the tone, as if he had forgotten who he was talking to now. However, Zhu Rui was not angry because of this. Why? Because the current Mr. Liu, in Zhu Rui's mind, is first a revolutionary soldier, and then his subordinates. Therefore, Zhu Rui just smiled indifferently as he did with other comrades, and asked everyone again: "Are you angry with me?" Why? Zhu Rui said this, obviously asking knowingly.

Maybe because of this, the boss didn't answer.

Later, the brigade commander couldn't hold back his strength, he sat up straight, patted his thigh with his palm, and fired a cannon: "Why?" You're right! Lost the plane! ”

As soon as the cannon sounded, the mouth of a staff officer's allegro opened his mouth: "We don't know what you think as the chief!" What is the purpose of leading us under the nose of the enemy, only to see and not to fight, and then to bring us here? Tell me to say, why don't you take us somewhere to retire! ”

"Really?" Zhu Rui laughed.

"Yes! Why do leaders toss people so much? These days, the enemy's 'sweeping team' has been scurrying around like a herd of mad dogs, grabbing all the way, entering one village and burning another, and blowing everyone's lungs! Don't you know people's feelings? For us, the soldiers, it is worse than a blunt knife to cut meat! How can this be called no opinion? ……”

Zhu Rui listened unhurriedly. At this moment, there are roots in his heart, don't look at the comrades' emotions are so big and there are so many opinions, but as long as the commander gives an order, they will resolutely carry out any arduous task!

The whining was over. Zhu Rui smiled and said, "Heh, you have an opinion about me!" It's easy to do! The road is unknown, everyone is stomping, the reason is uneven, everyone is swinging. If you have an opinion, then mention it! Why is it so atmospheric? You see, if you show people who don't know the situation, you must think that I am suppressing democracy! That's a bit of a wrongdoing! ”

As soon as Zhu Rui said this, most of the people's anger disappeared.

However, there are not many opinions on the elimination of gas. For many years, Zhu Rui has always encouraged people to give him advice, and comrades have always dared to give him advice. Just now, people don't squeak at all, because they are all angry. After Zhu Rui said this, people's anger disappeared, this hammer, that stick, all opinions came up.

As soon as Zhu Rui saw that the people who gave their opinions were coming, he found a place where people were not aware of him, sat down, listened quietly, and pondered. When the gaze of the proposer occasionally shot at him, he smiled slightly and nodded, meaning: Keep talking, keep talking!

Those who put forward opinions, no one pays attention to the way, does not save face, Ding is Ding, Mao is Mao, straight to the point, straight to the point. Although the opinions of the people are different, the meaning is the same, that is, this battle should be fought, retreated, and the fighter plane should be lost......

While people were speaking, Zhu Rui sat quietly on the side, listening quietly without saying a word. It was only when people's speeches were cut off that he took out the tobacco leaves from his mouth, glanced at the venue with a smile, and then interjected a half-sentence, "Why did you break the string?" Continue, continue! ”

Sometimes he would say, "Oh, it's time for you to speak!" ”

Or he would be the general: "You didn't finish talking just now!" And then what? ”

It wasn't until everyone had finished talking that he looked at everyone with a smile on his face and asked, "What's wrong?" Everyone's anger is out? ”

No one squeaked.

Zhu Rui took a puff of cigarette and said in a summary tone: "Today we are holding a 'gas meeting', an informal 'gas meeting'. This 'gas session' went very well. So it's good, mainly because the comrades are able to criticize their leaders harshly. As a leader, I am not afraid of no one respecting, but I am afraid that no one will criticize him. Therefore, today's comrades criticized me, and no matter whether they were all right or not, I was happy from the bottom of my heart! ”

He breathed a sigh of relief, changed his tone, and said, "Speaking of today's retreat, the comrades are also doing very well. The good thing is that you were able to carry out the commander's orders without thinking about it. There is a saying: 'As long as the oars are together, you are not afraid of the waves.' I am also happy because we, the comrades, have the courage to criticize the leaders according to our own understanding, and we are also able to obey the orders of the commanders. ”

Zhu Rui said here and stretched out two fingers: "With these two, we will definitely be able to win the battle!" ”

He finished this sentence word by word, and went to roll his cigarette again. Obviously, Zhu Rui deliberately gave people a period of time to think. At this time, some people were thinking about something with big eyes, some were whispering to each other, and some asked Zhu Rui a question: "Chief, why did you retreat at that time?" ”

Zhu Rui lit a cigarette, took a puff, and said to himself: "Today's ambush battle in the midst of being 'swept up', so I suddenly decided to retreat immediately, thinking at the time: we can no longer fall for the enemy's conspiracy!" Is this a good idea? Now it seems that the retreat was the right one! ”

That's right? On what basis is it right? People are bewildered.

Zhu Rui looked at the looks of his comrades, and did not follow the psychology of the listeners, but said from another angle: "As for you, if you want to fight, of course you are right; It is also right to want to avenge Comrade Li Zhuru, secretary general of the Provincial War Trade Union, Li Yu, political commissar of the Shandong Military Region, and other comrades. ”

"Then why don't you let us fight?" A comrade said.

"Soldiers, you should always maintain such an emotion - the mood of wanting to fight. But don't forget, we're being 'swept away' by the enemy! If you are anti-'sweeping', you have to hide in a favorable location and then fight ......"

Zhu Rui was talking, and suddenly stopped talking. Then, pointing to the northwest along a gap in the locust tree, he said, "Comrades! You see—"

A pair of eyes followed the direction of Zhu Rui's finger.

I saw that in the place where they had just laid an ambush, there were many small black dots around them. The black dots seemed to move.

Someone said, "Huh! What is that? ”

Someone said, "It's a dog—the enemy!" ”

Others said, "Can't you see? No, the encirclement is up! ”

After people scratched a little bit and looked closely, they all saw it clearly -- that big devil and puppet army, like a coiled poisonous snake, had pulled up a big encirclement, and was converging and closing from all directions to the place where the Shandong Military Region had just laid an ambush.

In the eyes of the comrades, the encirclement is getting smaller and smaller.

After a while, the enemy began to throw grenades into the ravine. Thick clouds of black smoke rose into the sky, and explosions were heard. Liu Haitao looked at it for a while, and said angrily: "The devil is really tricky." Looks like he's already decided we're going to set up an ambush there! ”

Cannon Brigade Commander: "He set up a long snake formation, killing two birds with one stone - one is to deceive us and tell us not to withdraw; The second is to let us fight with the puppet army first, and the devil will reap the profits-"

A staff officer said: "When they stopped at Jiaolong, they deliberately left us time to set up an ambush!" ……”

Cannon Brigade Commander: "Secretary Zhu, tell me how you discovered the enemy's conspiracy?" ”

Everyone shouted: "Yes." Tell me about it! ”

"What am I talking about? Didn't you all talk about what I thought about at the time? "I just have this opinion—the enemy is indeed a stupid man who lifts a stone on his own feet." ”

"Not really! Haha......" everyone laughed.

"However, our battle plan cannot be based on the fact that the enemy is stupid. That is to say, when we determine whether to fight a battle or not, and when we determine how to fight, we must see the enemy as a fox in tiger clothing, which is both intimidating and cunning; Our Shandong Military Region did not follow Lao Luo's advice and did not move in the coastal area, and suffered a big loss. We don't need to suffer the same loss again, like that, we would be too stupid! ”