There is still half a month left for the New Year, and as a handsome Li Xiao, he naturally can't stay at home all day to hide and relax. As a soldier, of course, you know that the commander must always be in control of his troops. Especially the main force under his command, Li Xiao will go down to inspect it almost every once in a while.

The troops of the 1st Division were withdrawn from Guanzhong as a well-known mobile unit throughout the country. Li Xiao still decided to place his station in the capital. The capital is the heart of the Ming Empire, the capital of the country, and if something goes wrong here, it will be very troublesome.

The troops were stationed along the axis of Tianjin Wei and Jixian, Nie Dahu's main brigade was stationed in Huailai on the edge of the capital, and the second brigade was stationed in Xianghe. Form a horn-like protection of the capital!

The barracks had been built three months earlier, and they were all three-story buildings with one water. There was a large playground in the center of the barracks, and there was an infantry training ground next to the playground. On the outermost part of the playground are poplar trees, which are not tall yet. It is estimated that they will grow taller in a few years, and the soldiers will have a shade to cool off after training.

Ao Canghai was very satisfied with Li Xiao's arrangement, and the capital was the hub of the Daming Northern Train. The transportation is the most convenient in the country, and the material security is also the best in the country. The fact that his first division can be stationed in the capital is that Li Xiao trusts the first division, and second, it also shows the status of the first division in the world.

Li Xiao looked like an old cadre getting out of the army and walked into the soldiers' dormitories.

"The dormitory is not cold!" Li Xiao patted a little soldier on the shoulder affectionately.

The little warrior looked to be no more than twenty years old, and the beard around his mouth was still a layer of fluff. was patted on the shoulder by Li Xiao, and he was so excited that he swayed. The waist was straightened, and he saluted Li Xiaolizheng: "Report to the marshal: There is heating in the barracks, and it is not cold at night." ”

A face was flushed with excitement, and the young eyes were shining. Li Xiao saw himself on this face. Once upon a time, when the big leader came to inspect the troops, he patted himself on the shoulder and asked: How is the food in the troops?

At that time, Li Xiao, like this little soldier, stood up straight: "Report to the chief: The food in the army is very good." ”

In fact, a group of equally young boys, where can they make delicious meals. Throw the potatoes into the laundry tub and rinse them with the faucet, then scrape the skin and cut it. The beans were thrown into the large basin indiscriminately, and two handfuls were grabbed with their paws, even if they were washed.

There was once a guy in charge of the cooking class who mistook laundry detergent for table salt. The dishes I ate that day were all slippery and greasy!

What's more, in the summer, there are still livestock bathing in the steaming pot.

"How's the food for the troops! Can you eat enough? Li Xiao looked at the other warrior.

This guy knew at a glance that he was a veteran, with two red bars hanging from his shoulders. This shows that he has been wounded twice!

He was wounded twice and did not die, nor did he leave the unit. It shows that this guy has a lot of luck and is unwilling to be an official. Normally, those who are wounded once and are able to return to the team are promoted to officers. For the troops, veterans who can return to the team after being injured are the treasures of the troops. When faced with enemies, they will be calmer than ordinary soldiers.

"Report to the handsome, the food is okay. Just don't let you drink! "The veteran soldier Youzi is just different from the little soldier, he stood up to Li Xiao, and the words he said made the officers behind Li Xiao very nervous.

"Huh! You really can't quit drinking. The mobile units of your whole army, the regiments on duty, need to be sent to the railway station within an hour of receiving the order, and then they will be dropped anywhere in the country. You've drunk too much, tell me whether to take you with me or throw you away! ”

"No!" The veteran oil son stood up again.

"But there are exceptions to this matter, our troops will organize a meal during the New Year's holidays, and those who want to have a drink at that time can drink some. There are also holidays, so you can drink some if you are not on duty. You've been injured twice? How did you suffer? ”

"When I hit Jinling, I was hit by a bullet and opened a ditch in my back. Lang Zhong said that it was scary to look at the blood thorns, but it didn't hurt the bones. Lucky for me, two inches lower than the bullet I'd die.

The second time was when Jiangnan put down the landlord rebellion, and was cut off on the arm with a firewood knife. Skin trauma, nothing! The veteran had a silly smile on his face, as if the pain was just a story.

"Why don't you give it a promotion?"

"Dashuai, this ......!" The head of the regiment stood up and wanted to defend himself to Li Xiao.

"Report to the marshal, I don't want to be promoted. According to the rules, after being promoted, they will leave their old unit and go to other units. I can't bear to brothers! The regiment commander hadn't said anything yet, and the veteran soldier rushed to explain.

Li Xiao knew this rule, and this was to prevent officers from forming their own forces in the army. Every officer who is promoted must immediately bring his own unit to a new company. It is true that there are veterans, because they are reluctant to give up the opportunity to be promoted to officers because they are reluctant to do so.

"Affectionate!" Li Xiao patted the veteran's shoulder again.

For some people, affection is more important than the status of an officer. They were reluctant to leave their company, and they were reluctant to leave their brothers who were born and died. But how long can this reluctance last. The iron battalion is a flowing soldier, and five years of service for ordinary soldiers is the limit. When the time comes, you have to go back to your hometown.

Non-commissioned officers can serve a little longer, but most of them are between eight and ten years. Of course, after such a soldier retires, the imperial court will give a large sum of money, which is called a preferential pension.

The dormitory was indeed very warm, and the quilt was folded into tofu blocks. Li Xiao touched the quilt and mattress, and the cotton was very thick. On the outside of the quilt is placed armed straps, and when the quilt is lifted, there are neatly folded wide and narrow backpack straps.

The first division is the main division, and everyone is issued with a backpack. But the habit of large backpacks is still retained. The three horizontal and two vertical playing styles have evolved into many kinds, and the most classic is a dragon. However, that kind of play is easy for recruits to play very loose, and they will be scattered after running for a while.

The soldiers wore olive green uniforms, and the difference between officers and soldiers was that the officers had four pockets, while the fighters had only two.

After the Chinese New Year, the military ranks were fully implemented. Each warrior had a new collar flower on his collar, a rank on his shoulder, and a cockade on his hat.

On the cockade is a five-pointed star, and the word eighty-one is engraved in the middle. Ao Canghai asked eight times, what does Bayi mean. Li Xiao always smiled mysteriously, but he didn't tell him. These days, Li Xiao has heard many versions of the origin of the military emblem.

Some versions are very exciting, and when Junzi tells Li Xiao, Li Xiao's jaw will fall. Sure enough, the imagination of the vast number of officers and soldiers and the masses who eat melons is boundless. The story is so reasonable and wonderful that even the Internet of later generations would not dare to write like this.

So much so that Sun Chengzong asked once later, and Li Xiao smiled mysteriously without too much explanation. As a result, the legend became more and more magical.

Surrounded by a group of large and small officers, Li Xiao was surrounded in the middle like the stars holding the moon. When standing at the door of the company and waving goodbye to the soldiers, there will be junior officers who raise their hands and shout: Long live the commander!

Then all the soldiers raised their hands and shouted: Long live the commander!

Li Xiaowan smiled, some scenes are so similar. It's like not being able to tell the difference between the past and the present!

The images in the memory are constantly overlapping with reality, and people will have serious delusions. It's a kind of confusion in time and space, and maybe the time-traveler will understand it later.

The canteen of the regiment headquarters prepared food, but Li Xiao did not eat it. An ordinary company was specially found, and when Li Xiao walked in, the soldiers were eating. Seeing Li Xiao come in, he said: Stand up!

All the fighters stood up, and the sound of tables and chairs rubbing against the ground was very harsh.

"Sit!" Li Xiao stopped the company commander who was brewing a good posture and ran over to report.

"I'm here to eat, give me a bowl of rice and eat it with you." Li Xiao pressed the company commander's shoulder, and then sat down next to the company commander.

The company commander's face had turned the color of pig liver, and he didn't sit or sit when he looked at his regiment commander.

"Sit!" Li Xiao pulled the company commander to sit down and pointed to the regiment commanders and battalion commanders: "You all find a place to eat." ”

So a group of battalion commanders joined the fighters one after another.

But these little soldiers need to prepare dishes and chopsticks for these officials, and they only dare to pull rice, and they dare not stretch their chopsticks against the dishes.

This is also something that can't be helped, the huge gap in identity is definitely not something that can be smoothed out by being approachable on the surface. In fact, many times, the army is deliberately distancing officers from soldiers.

The army is a place of great hierarchy, and superior officers must maintain a sense of majesty and mystery.

Li Xiao believes that when he didn't come in. The cafeteria must have been filled with the sound of swallowing food and smacking, but now, all the young men have become everyone's girlfriends. The rice was chewed with his mouth closed, trying to keep the two lips close together without making a sound.

Li Xiao knew that this was a kind of torture for them, and now everyone was uneasy, hoping that this torture would pass as soon as possible. As long as Li Xiao walked out of the cafeteria, everyone here would breathe a sigh of relief.

But as long as Li Xiao is gone and has eaten with Dashuai, they can talk for a lifetime. Many years later, when I drank with my juniors, and when I saw my juniors toasting with wine glasses, I would brag: When the old man and the handsome man ate together, the scene was really ......!

There are not many dishes, only four.

According to the rules of the army, in the morning it was six plates of small pickles. The staple food is steamed rice porridge!

At noon, this meal is rice, and there must be two meat dishes among the four dishes, and the remaining two are vegetarian dishes. Dinner, like breakfast, is almost every day for 365 days, except for the New Year and the party.

This arrangement was made to take care of the fighters from different places, and the fighters from Shandong and Hebei liked to eat pasta. The soldiers of Liaodong liked rice, Shandong and Hebei produced wheat, and Liaodong produced more rice.

Seeing Li Xiao coming, the cooking class hurriedly added a spoonful of vegetables.

The cooking squad leader was terrified in the face of Li Xiaocheng, and Li Xiao had no choice but to praise his good skills.

This bastard copied it, and it was obviously no different from pig food, but it was praised by the handsome, and the value immediately skyrocketed.

Li Xiao doesn't speak, and neither do others. The meal was eaten quietly, and the inside of the cafeteria was like a ghost.

After eating the lunch [August 1st Chinese Net] dinner, Li Xiao learned the same as the soldiers. Walk to the faucet and wash the rice bowl and chopsticks yourself. Then he handed the rice bowl to the cooking squad leader and walked out of the cafeteria with his hands behind his back.

Those regiment commanders and battalion commanders, whether they finished eating or not, wiped their mouths and hurried to their bodies.

As soon as he walked out of the cafeteria, a person suddenly appeared in the dormitory of the cooking class. walked in front of Li Xiao, knelt down and kowtowed without saying a word.

The straight guns were all drawn, and Li Xiao stopped quickly so that he didn't catch fire. This bastard has picked up a life!

"Who are you?" Li Xiao saw that this guy was wearing a shabby military uniform, and thought that there was an unjust case in his army. Unexpectedly, such a thing happened to his subordinates, which made Li Xiao very annoyed.

"Boy Cheng Tiezhu, I have grievances to report to the marshal." The guy on his knees stopped kowtowing and knelt straight on the ground.

At this time, those regiment commanders and battalion commanders rushed over, and when they saw Cheng Tiezhu kneeling on the ground, their faces turned white!

"Handsome ......!" The regimental leader's voice trembled a little.

"Shut up! Let him say. Li Xiao's face sank, and the head of the regiment was so frightened that he didn't dare to squeak immediately.

Li Xiao roared, and the brigade commander stood honestly, not to mention the regiment commander.

"Tell me if you have anything wronged, I can still be the master." Li Xiao looked at Cheng Tiezhu, who was kneeling on the ground, and said.

"Handsome! The villain is no longer a person in the army, and today it is the brothers who send a message to have the opportunity to meet the marshal. The villain is wronged! Wronged! ”

Li Xiao is a little confused, he is not a person on the team, so what the hell is it that is wronged?

"If there is anything wronged, just say it!" Li Xiao glanced at the regiment commander behind him.

"The villain is wronged!" Cheng Tiezhu knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"You mean!" Li Xiao was a little anxious.

"The villain is wronged!" Cheng Tiezhu knelt on the ground or kowtowed.

When a little person saw a big man like Li Xiao, because he was too excited, Cheng Tiezhu couldn't even say a complete sentence now.

"Handsome ......!" The head of the regiment hesitated, but still opened his mouth to speak.

"Uh-huh......!" Li Xiao looked back at the regiment leader.

"Cheng Tiezhu's subordinates know about it, and it's good for his subordinates to report it to you. He's ......! The head of the regiment glanced at Cheng Tiezhu helplessly, and Cheng Tiezhu was already excited to smoke at this time.

"Alright! You say! Li Xiao was also helpless, so he could only let the head of the regiment do it for him.

"Cheng Tiezhu is our veteran three years ago, all the procedures are normal, and his demobilization money has not been deducted from the team. The problem lies in the locality, according to him, the job assigned to him was robbed by the son of the local school principal.

We also posted to ask about the local area. But there's no local explanation, you know. Our troops are not allowed to participate in local affairs, so this matter can only be delayed. This Cheng Tiezhu also relied on the army and did not leave, thinking that he was a veteran, and it was not easy for us to drive him. It's been more than two years now, and there is still no reply from the local authorities. ”