Li Siye raised his hand to stop Tian Zhen's words: "You can't be too powerful, let them know that they are afraid, too much will make people resentful." You two should go down and clean up, and when evening comes, come with me to the city of Swap and have a look." ”

The two of them retreated, turned around and walked out of the duty room, Li Siye suddenly stopped them again: "Remember, all those who contradict or violate military rules should not be punished in private, and should be dealt with publicly in the school field." ”

The two looked at each other and said, "Well, we get it." ”

Li Siye stood at the window and looked out, Tian Zhen and Fuji Mu led the horses under the flagpole, and followed each other to the barracks.

The flagpole on the school field is hung with the flag, the center of the flag is yellow, surrounded by a crimson pendant streamer, the center circle is white, and the huge line of Tang characters is dark and dazzling.

In the distance, rows of adobe houses dyed golden in the scorching sun, with hemp ropes strung in between, and a woman in a short shirt came out of the house carrying a wooden basin and hung her washed clothes on the rope.

Li Siye was very interested in this, as if he had seen a miscellaneous courtyard in the past. This is a military camp and a place for soldiers to live. They are professional soldiers, and they have to live and reproduce, and some people even live like this from father to son, and from son to grandchild.

Work is life, and fighting is a high-risk factor in work. For them, their hastily appointed lieutenants are passers-by, and sometimes they have to understand each other.

……

In the dimly lit adobe house, Cheng Jichang, the brigade commander who had been swept away, sat on two adobes with a gloomy face, and five or six subordinates with good relations gathered around him, either with their heads down and pondering, or looking up at the roof.

The lady squatted beside her, scrubbing her clothes with her hands in the wooden basin, raised her wet wrist to wipe her forehead, and continued to lower her head and rub it.

The door was pushed open, and Xiao Si stood at the door and said, "Sixth Brother Cheng, the marshal said that he had some personal matters, so he won't come to discuss with us." ”

Cheng Jichang snorted and said: "This Yuan Tao is indistinguishable from relatives, and he is stubbornly worried about the contradiction between the sixth regiment and my tenth regiment, everyone is stirring spoons in the same pot, and now they are all the eighth regiment!" Forget it, don't wait for him! ”

"Little four, you come in." Cheng Jichang didn't look down at the lady, but said indifferently: "The men talk for a while, and the women go out!" ”

The lady didn't say a word, bent down and walked out with a heavy wooden basin, Xiao Si wanted to help, but was rejected by the lady alienatedly.

Cheng Jichang hugged his knees, looked around and said to everyone: "This Mu Zili has a good idea, the more this is the case, the more everyone should not be frightened by him." You also know how the imperial court treats us soldiers, although most of the officials in Anxi Mansion are still sympathetic, but if they want to ride on our heads to make a fortune, you also have to see who it is! ”

Xiao Si agreed first: "Say it, sixth brother, what do you say, what do we do." ”

The other people present were silent, and Cheng Jichang said nonchalantly: "Isn't the new brigade commander in office, they are Captain Li's people." Let's not mess around with ourselves, we have to put the contradictions between the sixth regiment and the tenth regiment and the so-called eighth regiment to him on the bright side! Put the matter of Captain Zhenwei Zhao Lushui out, no matter what he does, he will complain about the people of the Sixth Regiment! I want to see how he controls this patchwork Eighth Regiment without me and Yuan Tao. ”

The other three didn't speak, only an old-looking soldier bowed his head and said, "Okay, let's do it." ”

Xiao Si is a person who likes to make trouble, stood up and said loudly and excitedly: "Cheng Lvshuai is not thin on everyone, you and I are all pulled up by him." Today he was thrown off on the spot by the new lieutenant as a rag, if he didn't do something, how could he be able to deal with him? Even if it's not for him, I'm afraid that we will be the result in the future! ”

Cheng Jichang frowned, Xiao Si's speech was quite inflammatory, but the analogy was not used correctly, how could he be compared to a rag.

"That's it, be smart, and act when the opportunity comes."

……

Another deposed brigade marshal Yuan Tao sat in front of an adobe house, with gravel stones on the wooden pier in front of him, and the blade of a horizontal knife in both hands, sharpening the edge of the stone with a click.

Three or four people gathered over, wearing brown clothes and red foreheads, all with small bellies, standing behind him and agitating: "Brigade commander, that Cheng Jichang gathered a few people to have a secret meeting at home, and they were not willing to be taken off the brigade commander, and you also took it off, but you sharpened your knife here with peace of mind." ”

Yuan Tao continued to sharpen his knife for a long time before he said, "What's the use of secret meetings?" The official level crushed people to death, how big a wave did he make for a brigade commander who was taken off? He was caught in pigtails for dereliction of duty, what is there to be unwilling about? ”

A person with a curly beard said: "This Captain Li Siye, I don't think it is easy to match his generation, compared with our Captain Zhao, there is a lot less humanity. With such a person in charge of the Eighth Regiment, can we have a comfortable life? ”

"I think you're just living so comfortably that you've forgotten what you do." Yuan Tao snorted mercilessly.

"What's wrong with us being comfortable? The desperate work of being an official is to climb up, people have hope, and people earn money instead of money. ”

"Can't you? How many brigade leaders, captains, lieutenant generals, and even city envoys and town envoys in the Anxi army were promoted by their desperate combat exploits? ”

The curly beard squatted in front of him, clasped his hands under his armpits and whispered: "If it was before, we still had hope, even if we couldn't be promoted, there would be money and rewards, and there would be scattered official awards." But since we fought against the Turkish three years ago, if you look at the brothers, which one still has a warm heart? ”

"The Protectorate also saw it, gathered together the remnants of our two unfortunate regiments that were scattered, and made an eighth regiment, and threw it into this city to fend for itself. Didn't they just want to use the reputation of the Eighth Regiment and the brotherhood of Zhu Renhui and Zhao Lushui to let him consume this affection to support, and wanted to use the dead horse as a live horse doctor? ”

Yuan Tao was still sharpening his knife, and the blade sped up on the stone back and forth, and even the sound of sharpening became more and more harsh. The beard didn't seem to have the eyesight to see it, and he was still chattering in front of him: "It's okay to be like the Eighth Regiment, Fengsui Fort has been in the fort for more than 20 days, and has piled up nine flying cavalry captains with the lives of more than 200 people, and has received the reward and returned to his hometown to buy property and land in a beautiful manner." ”

The sound of sharpening the knife suddenly stopped, and the blade condensed against the stone and swam in cold light, just like him and his eyes, condescendingly locking his eyebrows and staring at the curly-bearded man.

The bearded man sat down on the ground timidly, speechless from being shocked by the murderous aura that Yuan Lulu showed for a moment.

Yuan Tao raised his knife and touched the edge, and asked in a mocking tone, "Do you only see the flying knight in your eyes?" ”

Beard and the petty officers beside him were speechless and refused to leave.

Yuan Tao put the knife on the ground, supported the handle of the knife with both hands, and put his chin on the back of his hand and said: "Also, the eighth regiment, the sixth regiment and the tenth regiment have all been scrapped, and the waste residue that each regiment and brigade does not want has also been thrown to us, who can ask you to do anything?" Just don't live up to Captain Zhao's kindness, he has done a lot for his dead and living brothers. ”

"That's natural," several people breathed a sigh of relief: "We remember Captain Zhao's kindness, but those people in the Tenth Regiment don't know what to do." ”

"It's just that right now, this Captain Li doesn't know the seriousness, the grievances of his brothers, and the joys and sorrows of our brothers. There are also those two brigade commanders who were casually inserted by him, they can go to other places to be brigade commanders, but they are not qualified to be the brigade leaders of our sixth regiment! ”

Yuan Tao put the knife into the sheath, reached out and put the silk scarf that wiped the knife into his arms, and said with a cold expression: "Wrong!" Now there is no sixth regiment, only the eighth regiment, and nine deaths without regrets. ”