Section 56

The slowly continuous national army ranks came out of the night, and one after another vigorous figures passed in front of the positions in a row, and quickly killed the north bank through the bridge deck. After half an hour of shelling, the positions hastily established by the Japanese on the north bank suffered a devastating blow, and the losses in the past few days also made the Japanese lose their usual fierce counterattacks.

When the Japanese defense line was broken and a team of soldiers entered the north bank, a platoon also received an order to retreat, which was the last bit of men and horses of the third company of the first battalion, and when the stone body was seriously injured and there were only a dozen or so people left in a company, Zheng Pusheng, as the old commander of the third company, did not want these brothers to go to the front again, so after a brief conversation with the stone, he immediately issued an order for the third company to withdraw to the battalion headquarters to rest.

Lying on a simple stretcher, listening to the excited conversation of the people around him, Shi closed his eyes tightly, did not say a word, and the whole person was extremely abnormal without the slightest emotion, the words of Camp Commander Zheng before made him suffer a great blow, and in a short time, it was really difficult to come back to his senses.

"Uncle Meng, does the little devil on the other side still have a chance to escape? We've been standing here for so long, why don't we have a share in this most painful battle? Xiao Shandong followed closely beside the stretcher of the stone, but from time to time he looked back at the distance, on the battlefield of Xiaoliu River, the scattered flying lines of fire were like fireworks and firecrackers, exuding charming brilliance.

Lao Meng put the long cigarette stick in his mouth, took a heavy breath, and then spit out a long puff of smoke, and then said: "We have been standing on the south bank of the Xiaoliu River for so long, and all the feats we should have made have been established, even if we participate in tonight's battle again, it will only be in vain." ”

Xiao Shandong suddenly shouted: "How can this be regarded as a waste of effort? Uncle Meng, this is fighting devils! Kill one more devil, and then you can drive the devil out of our country a little earlier. ”

Lao Meng smoked his cigarette stick and shook his head, and at the same time reached out and touched Xiao Shandong's head, his expression was full of love, but his mouth was silent, like that, he knew at a glance that he had a lot of things he didn't want to say.

Chen Daaxe, who was a few steps away from them, had a thick gauze tied to his arm at this time, obviously suffering a lot of injuries, but his mouth said briskly: "Little bean sprouts, when will you grow up now?" Why are you so naïve? I wonder how a little doll like you, who doesn't have any hair, can survive in a bloody battle! ”

Facing Chen Daaxe, who always likes to quarrel with him, Xiao Shandong replied without showing weakness: "I'm lucky, besides, I'm so cute, the little devil can't bear to do it when he sees it!" ”

"Uh" Chen Daaxe was a little speechless when he heard him say this, and everyone on the side chuckled.

Xiao Shandong saw that Chen Daaxe was silent, and immediately showed a smug expression, and pestered Lao Meng and said: "Uncle Meng, what I said earlier is wrong, let's kill a few more little devils, isn't it closer to victory?" ”

Lao Meng looked at the stone, the young platoon commander let the stretcher rise and fall at the moment, closed his eyes tightly and said nothing, he suddenly sighed and said: "You are still too young, you don't understand the sinister in this world, as the saying goes, people are not right, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed, this sentence is to explain the nature of human beings very clearly." ”

Li Wenguang, who was at the top of the team, suddenly shouted: "Uncle, if you have anything to say, just say it, we don't understand it." ”

Liu Wenfeng in front of him suddenly frowned and reprimanded: "If you don't understand, learn more, listen more, watch more, talk less, don't talk about your ignorance all day long, you still have to learn a lot of things." ”

At this time, Lao Meng sighed and said: "Speaking of which, what is still said in this is the word 'interests'!" ”

Hearing the word benefit in vain, the stones on the stretcher also opened their eyes, Battalion Commander Zheng had told him a lot before, and it also made him understand the darkness in the army, this battle was not what he imagined at all, thinking that as long as he obeyed the orders of the commander, he could defeat the little devil with concerted efforts, and the life-and-death struggle of the front-line soldiers was just a means for those commanders to compete for their merits, and the life and death of these people did not matter at all in the eyes of the commanders. understood the so-called Anti-Japanese War to save the country, which was such a situation, Shi was also dead-hearted, and he saw everything, even in the face of the imminent annihilation of the Japanese army on the north bank of the Xiaoliu River, there was no emotional fluctuation.

However, when the word benefit came out of Lao Meng's mouth, he still felt surprised, and immediately instinctively asked, "Uncle, can you tell me in detail?" ”

Lao Meng glanced at the stone, and suddenly said strangely: "The battalion commander should have told you." ”

The stone was startled, and looked at Lao Meng in amazement, the face full of wrinkles, but there were no emotional fluctuations, but it was this calmness that made the stone have an unfathomable feeling, it turned out that Lao Meng knew everything, and what he said at this time should not be said casually, but deliberately said to him?

"Interests, speaking of which are the benefits we usually talk about, of course, we are not qualified to talk about benefits, in a word, the chiefs, we have to go up the sword mountain, and we have to jump into the sea of fire, otherwise we will disobey the order and be shot! But the people above are different, everything they do and say is related to their vital interests! Lao Meng talked eloquently on the way.

Shi frowned and listened, feeling that there were many things in what Lao Meng said that he had not heard, and he couldn't help but feel the spirit and energy, so he asked: "Uncle, I have always been unable to figure it out, what else do they want when they are as big as the regiment commander and brigade commander?" What interests are there for them to fight for? ”

When the pillar heard the stone's words, he immediately felt a little sad, this is their platoon commander, this is the person who took them from birth to death, even the most basic person in this kind of army who doesn't understand the truth, this is a person who really has no selfishness, everything is just to fight the war and save the country and kill devils.

"Old man Meng, let's talk to the stone, otherwise when we suffer a loss, those of us who really want to fight devils may not even have the opportunity to go to the battlefield." The pillar said in a deep voice.

Lao Meng nodded, and everyone on the side also fell silent, they also knew what the squad leader was going to say, and it was also an opportunity for them to learn. Looking at the sky, the dark clouds covered the starry sky and the moon, heavy, making people feel a sense of depression, and on the battlefield in the distance, as they got farther and farther away, the gunfire became weaker and weaker, and there was no one else on the dirt road except them, everything seemed so quiet.

"Why do people who are soldiers want to be officers? One is for power, and the other is for money! With the right, that is, the door to the high place is opened, there is a basis for promotion, for example, after our first battalion commander is loyal to the country, why is our company commander Zheng on top, instead of selecting a staff officer from the brigade headquarters? That's the benefit of power. ”

Hearing this, the stone suddenly asked helplessly: "Uncle, I didn't understand." ”

Lao Meng nodded when he listened, and explained patiently: "Those staff officers seem to have a very high status on the surface, but they are not like our company commander Zheng has the power to lead troops to fight, without this power, there is no chance to show his skills, the company commander took us to fight a few tough battles, and did not suffer in the bloody battle with the devil, and also entered Luodian, that is, he showed his level in front of the commanders, so it was easy to be promoted." The company commander is like this, and those regiment commanders and brigade commanders are the same, but for them, if they want to be promoted, if they want to obtain greater rights, they need more combat merits, of course, just having combat merits is not enough, because at the upper level, their competition is very fierce, and if they want to be promoted, they must not only have their own combat merits, but also their combat merits to surpass others, or, they have their own combat merits, but others have no combat merits! ”

Shi listened with a big head, just frowning and thinking about it, what the old man said was very right, but he always felt that there were still key things that had not been said, with power, what could he do? If you say that in order to survive on the battlefield, but when you reach the level of battalion commander and regiment commander, you rarely go to the battlefield, and you won't be so fiercely competitive?

Xiao Shandong on the side broke the calm at this time, and asked puzzledly: "Uncle Meng, what is the use of this official being big?" ”

Lao Meng touched his head and said: "This is the money I am going to talk about next, as the old saying goes, get rich when you are promoted, get rich when you are promoted, you can only get rich if you are promoted." ”

Li Wenguang, who was at the back of the team, asked: "The official is big, and the salary is too much?" ”

"Money?" Lao Meng shook his head with a smile and said, "What can you do with money?" At a certain level, as long as you open your mouth, it's money. ”

Seeing that everyone was a little puzzled, Lao Meng smiled and said, "Let's talk about a simple thing, why do the chiefs like to suppress bandits?" ”

Li Wenguang said: "Suppressing bandits has military exploits!" ”

"This is only one aspect, after the bandits, the looted property can go into their pockets, and the filial piety of large families is indispensable, otherwise it will be convicted of treason by bandits! Another example is that let's fight the war now, the commanders can requisition villages and towns at any time, and they can occupy these places under the pretext of martial law, and then the money in it will naturally be theirs, as for the resale of ordnance, resale of grain, and occupation of deficits, and false reporting of the number of people, it is already considered a small amount of money, compared with the previous one, it is really not worth mentioning. ”

Listening to Lao Meng's words, Shi knew how simple his mind was, but he didn't expect that just a money word would have so many Tao in it. And this is only what Lao Meng can learn at this level, what more do you not know?