A pre-war mobilization meeting is being held in the school auditorium. The young and strong men of the school were all organized into a guard team, which was expanded from the original guard team as a skeleton to three hundred. Most of the people are now sitting here, except for a few who are standing guard on shift.

There was no electricity in the auditorium, and even though all the curtains had been drawn, it still looked a little dim, and the view of the podium from a slightly back position was a little blurry. However, this did not seem to affect the current speaker, Chang Lin, and the atmosphere in the venue was very warm.

Ji Yijun and Ye Zi sat in the front position, and they could clearly see the beads of sweat on the tip of Chang Lin's nose. When he speaks, his body language is rich, sometimes waving his arms vigorously, sometimes leaning his body, and he seems very tense. The scene erupted in bursts of laughter from his movements.

“...... Therefore, you don't have to worry about it. Yesterday I was talking to the old soldier in town, who had fought several times with horse thieves when he was a soldier for the lord.

I asked, have you ever killed a horse thief?

He was a little embarrassed to say that he really didn't.

I said, is it a horse thief with high martial arts?

He said, "What's the matter, it's not as good as my teenage cub."

I asked again, is that a horse thief well equipped?

He said that many horse thieves were poor and had no way to join the gang. Except for the horses given by the leader, all the belongings were a knife and a set of clothes. Knives, it's a war knife on the field, and a kitchen knife on the table. Clothes, it's a battle suit on the field, and it's pajamas when you go to bed.

Then I'm strange, the horse thief is so bad, so why can't you kill the horse thief?

He sighed and said, "I don't have horses, I can't run as fast as them."

When he said this, I was even more surprised, and asked him, "Aren't horse thieves fierce?"

He looked at me with disdain and said, horse thieves are also begging for a living, who will come to really fight hard? If a horse thief wants to be able to fight, what does he do on horseback every day? That horse is used to escape!

That's when I realized that horse thieves were so useless.

The old soldier told me a story that we used to guard a small city, and wherever we stood with open swords, the horse thieves would disappear. Later, the townsfolk said to us, "If you sell us your spear and armor, you can go back wherever you came from." We were all wondering, and asked them if they were going to go up on their own? They said, "What's the point, isn't a soldier to put a scarecrow on the wall, put on armor, and tie a spear?" We have a foggy place, and how can a horse thief see clearly? A scarecrow does the same thing as you, and saves money for food. We discussed it all night and decided to sell it for a good price. But the next day, they didn't want it, and when we went up to the city wall, we saw that the spears of bamboo poles, the shields of pot lids, the armor of mats, and the scarecrows standing guard all filled the city wall......

"Teacher Chang is really interesting. Listening to him tell the story is really exciting, and it is much more interesting than other leaders. Ji Yijun said happily to Ye Zi, he was almost healed, but he still had a band-aid on his face, and he didn't dare to laugh, whenever Chang Lin said something funny, he could only use his hand to break the upturned mouth. Recently, all foreign missions have been withdrawn due to the tense situation. The shop in Floro Town was closed, and he returned to the convoy.

Ye Zi nodded and said, "Everyone thinks that Teacher Chang is very approachable and responsible. I heard that he was in the agricultural group, and he did a lot of things like going to the field and picking up manure. I didn't expect him to give such a powerful speech. ”

"Not really. Principal Guo usually doesn't know what he's busy with, and he rarely shows his face. ”

"Why didn't President Guo come to such an important meeting today?"

"Listening to my dad, it seems that the representative of the town of Floro has come. Some residents want to move in or something. President Guo and some other committee members are in the meeting. Ji Yijun said, "Hey, it's not bad for Teacher Chang to come, at least he tells jokes better than Principal Guo." Guo is too serious. ”

"The townspeople want to move in?" asked, Ye Zi.

"So many horse thieves gathered together to eat and drink. So there are a few small villages around that have suffered, you know?" Ji Yijun said, gesturing his hand to his forehead, "There are only so low walls in Floro Town, and many people don't feel safe. I want to move into the school. ”

Ye Zi pondered for a while and then asked, "Can Principal Guo agree? The school has a lot of secrets." ”

"Who knows, but there are quite a few strong men in town. If you can join our team, you will definitely have no problem improving your combat strength!"

"You only think of strong men, but behind every strong man must be a small family. The logistical pressure on schools will also be much greater, but it is also dangerous to leave them outside. ”

Ji Yijun shrugged, looked like he didn't care about himself, continued to listen to Chang Lin's speech, and smirked.

A little farther away on the side of the podium, Wang Jiyuan and Ji Xun also listened to Chang Lin's talk.

The more Wang Jiyuan listened, his brows furrowed deeper, and when he heard Chang Lin tell a joke about the strength of the horse thief as worthless, he scolded in a low voice: "Nonsense!"

Ji Xun said softly: "Team Leader Chang is also boosting morale, you have also seen that the fear of war in the team has risen a little recently. Chairman Mao has said that we must strategically despise the enemy. ”

"He was obviously tactically contemptuous. Wang Jiyuan glanced at the smiling people in the audience, "Don't look at these guys who are in a relaxed mood now, when the time comes, a few people will die, and they will collapse faster." ”

"After all, our main strength is still students, and we can't be too nervous. These days, I'm running into several guys every day who come to me and ask me for help in trying to get out of the defenses. Others have also come to me again and again to ask me if I will win and if I will lose a lot. It's just my stinky boy who wants to try every day, hoping to have a big fight with horse thieves. ”

Wang Jiyuan said: "It is human nature to be afraid of death, and the army is not a group of people who are not afraid of death, but a group of people who know what they want to do." Our army is all about training soft eggs into qualified warriors. Even if they are not qualified now, they should be demanded by the demands of the warriors, and not by coaxing children. ”

Ji Xun sighed and said, "Actually, it would be nice if the committee could pass a resolution to recruit young people in Floro Village. These local farmers are simple, robust, and a good source of soldiers. ”

"They are not necessarily better than the students. It is difficult for these illiterate villagers to distinguish between left and right. To train them well, it takes more time. It's even harder to get them to work on the same team as ours. Wang Jiyuan said, "Have you heard about the destruction of a large piece of wheat field by the agricultural group? Isn't it that the old local farmers found out that our fertilizer was good, and thought that the more the better, they talked to themselves and watered several times the amount, and finally burned all the wheat seedlings at the roots?" ”

"Then you don't support recruiting them?"

"No, I do. Wang Jiyuan glanced at Ji Xun meaningfully, "If it is inevitable that people will die, it is always good to die less of our students." ”

There was warm applause from the audience, Chang Lin wiped his forehead with a handkerchief, walked off the stage, came to Wang Jiyuan and said: "Team Leader Wang, Deputy Team Leader Ji, the students' response is still good, I hope it will help improve everyone's morale." ”

Wang Jiyuan curled the corners of his mouth and didn't speak. Ji Xun found that he was about to get cold, and hurriedly said: "Team Leader Chang has worked hard. It's not easy for students lately, so they need to work hard. ”

Chang Lin said with a smile, "While everyone's mood is high, Team Leader Wang will also say a few words to the students." ”

Wang Jiyuan nodded when he heard this, and walked to the stage. He is tall, his steps are flamboyant, and he has a fierce spirit between his gestures, which is in obvious contrast with Chang Lin, who had a round head and a round head and a harmonious spirit. The students in the audience naturally quieted down when they saw Wang Jiyuan walking to the stage.

He looked around at the people in the audience, his expression was serious and compassionate, and then he said, "I have bad news here. In just two days, five surrounding villages and towns were attacked by horse thieves. Nearly half of two villages were burned to the ground, two villages were completely slaughtered, and one was also very badly damaged. It is said that several hundred people died and several times more were injured. In the past, the scattered horse thieves only robbed caravans, but when they gathered together, numbering thousands, they became a chaotic army, and everyone must be mentally prepared. ”

The atmosphere outside the arena became more and more solemn, although this was just a number in Wang Jiyuan's mouth, but they were so close to the place where such a tragedy occurred, everyone realized the seriousness of the matter.

"Maybe the numbers aren't intuitive enough, after all, they're locals who don't have much contact with us. Then I can now disclose another issue that I have been investigating before, Zhang Hong of the Foreign Affairs Group and Hong Lifeng of the Military Group have been missing for nearly two weeks. We can now draw a preliminary judgment that they were captured by horse thieves, and their lives and deaths are now unknown, but they are more than lucky. ”

With a "boom", the people in the audience were like a frying pan, knowing that Zhang Hong and Hong Lifeng were missing, but the guards were less involved in the investigation and search, and it was the first time that others heard that two people around them might have died in the hands of horse thieves.

Wang Jiyuan waited for the atmosphere below to ferment, until the venue turned into a noisy vegetable market, and he emphasized in a higher voice: "So, I just want to make one fact clear today, that is, the horse thieves are very vicious, and what they do is something you can't imagine in your previous life. What they could do to the villagers and our missing people before will do to you tomorrow. Don't leave anything to chance. ”

"Team Leader Wang, are you telling us that what Teacher Chang said earlier, those horse thieves are all fake?" someone asked below.

Wang Jiyuan paused slightly, and the whole venue seemed to hold his breath. He glanced at Chang Lin, who looked as usual and smiled at him.

"No!" he said loudly, "what Mr. Chang said proves a problem, that is, only by fighting bravely and becoming a real soldier can the horse thieves retreat and protect our homeland." I hope you keep this in mind in your training and battles in the future. Right here, right among us, someone may fall at any moment, but if it is to fight for a living space for yourself and everyone, this danger is worth taking and has to be taken. ”

Just as Wang Jiyuan finished saying this, suddenly a person dressed as a guard rushed in from outside the door and shouted loudly: "Report to Team Leader Wang! The reconnaissance team in the northeast direction has discovered the scout team of horse thieves, and Principal Guo ordered that all the defense team members immediately enter the highest alert, and Team Leader Wang will report back to the committee!"