Chapter Seventy-Three: Humiliation
With a relaxed and happy mood, Mo Cong went to the Left Guard Quartermaster Department to receive the small flag armor, and after changing it, he reported to his newly assigned brigade and squadron.
In the Ninth Brigade of the Leopard Battalion, Tan Xingyu, the new chief flag officer, is giving a lecture to a group of recruits and new officers.
"Dear comrades-in-arms and colleagues, today is my first day of Tan Xingyu's tenure, and it is also the first day we get together. I, Tan Xingyu, am fortunate to be in charge of the Ninth Brigade, and I hope to unite with everyone sincerely and build the Ninth Brigade into an iron-clad team.
Some people may ask, you are a teenager with less experience than me, why should we be our commanders, and what qualifications do you have to lead us to the battlefield?
What I want to answer to you is that I was born into a military family, and my father, grandparents, and great-grandparents were all senior generals of our country. I was born in such a family, since childhood to accept the family influence, inherit the ambition of the ancestors, day after day hard to practice martial arts, full of military books, last year in the giant spirit pass, is the sword Xianbei general Tong Lihai, won countless small soldiers.
When I say this, I don't mean to put on any family qualifications, nor do I talk about personal merits. I just want to tell you that although I, Tan Xingyu, am young, I am extremely familiar with things in the military. Don't dare to say much, it's more than enough to be a general flag.
So, everyone follow me, you can rest assured. I will also regard you as brothers and lead you to make great achievements.
At present, the enemy soldiers are in the territory, and the border is in danger, and it is the time for us good men to show their skills. I know many of you are new recruits who have never been on the battlefield or even seen a dead body. Seeing that I was getting closer and closer to the border, my heart became more and more nervous and scared.
What I want to tell you is that the more this happens, the more you need to train. Sweat more in peacetime, and only in wartime can you shed less blood. From today onwards, I will intersperse some formation and tactical training during the march, so that everyone can familiarize themselves with the password as soon as possible and intersperse it in place.
Dear officers of the middle and small flags, what you need to do is to get acquainted with your subordinates as soon as possible, relieve their nervousness, instill correct battlefield experience, and lead your subordinates to complete every training. ”
He paused, looked around at the crowd, and suddenly said, "I almost forgot something." One of our officers has never been on the battlefield, and he himself has no experience, so how can he teach others? Alas, this is really a problem. ”
All the recruits were stunned for a moment, and they all thought: Why are there any officers who have never been on the battlefield?
When I think of this, I can't help but look at each other.
Tan Xingyu wants this kind of effect. He pretended to think about it for a while, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Mo Cong, the flag officer of the fifth squadron and the tenth squad, come out of the ranks!"
Mo Cong listened to Tan Xingyu talking eloquently below, and was listening with a little admiration, when he suddenly heard his name called, he replied and calmly stepped out of the ranks.
"Mo Xiaoqi, among all the officers, you are the only one who has never been on the battlefield. Usually, if there is something you don't understand, you must ask other officers for advice, don't pretend to understand, you know?" Tan Xingyu said with a straight face.
As soon as he said this, the eyes of more than a thousand people present focused on Mo Cong.
"Oh my God, how can there be such an officer? I haven't been on the battlefield and still come to be an officer, isn't this a child's play with our surname?"
"Yes, it's good that I didn't get under him, otherwise I don't know how I would have died. ”
"He has never been to the battlefield, so why should he be an officer? No, I want to ask the above for an explanation. ”
......
A group of recruits whispered and buzzed.
Mo Cong had never suffered such an embarrassment in public. He looked at the way everyone turned their heads and ears, and looked at Tan Xingyu's smug face, and an inexplicable anger surged in his heart.
This Tan Xingyu, just because he lost to Mo Cong a few days ago, he never forgot to wear Mo Cong's shoes. In the past few days, he has been sneering openly and secretly, and he has to suppress Mo Cong.
Once or twice, Mo Cong endured it. It's just a little hairy child, and Mo Cong doesn't want to be like him. Moreover, listening to the talented inaugural speech just now, Mo Cong was even a little impressed by this Tan Xingyu, and felt that this person was indeed a talent.
It's a pity that it was only a blink of an eye, and this person immediately used his power to embarrass Mo Cong in public, and even deliberately provoked the dissatisfaction of the recruits, trying to force the upper echelons to withdraw the appointment of Mo Cong.
"It's really vicious!" Mo Cong figured out these joints in a flash.
He knew that the more times like these, the more he should remain calm. If you get into trouble with this guy because of a moment of anger, you will not only confront the commander in public, but also be reckless in front of more than a thousand recruits. Such an idiotic thing, Mo Cong would not do it.
But swallowing his anger and eating this dumb loss, that is not Mo Cong's surname.
In the midst of everyone's discussions, only Mo Cong said loudly:
"Thank you, sir, for your teachings. Mo Cong has no illustrious family background, and he has never been on the battlefield, but he can kill the chief so that he abandons the knife and admits defeat, and he finally has a skill. To paraphrase the chief's words, Mo Cong has such a ability, and it is more than enough to be a small flag. Therefore, the recruits of the seventh squad followed Mo Cong, and the commander could rest assured. Mo Cong will also regard them as brothers and lead them to make achievements. ”
His words rang out loud and clear to everyone's ears.
"You... You are talking nonsense, I just accidentally took off the saber for a while, when did I give up the knife and admit defeat?" Tan Xingyu saw that Mo Cong didn't open which pot to mention, and immediately argued with a white face.
When the recruits heard that there was such gossip, they began to buzz again.
Evergrande, the strongest person in the barracks, values strength more than the ethereal so-called experience.
This Tan Xingyu is a military family at the beginning, and he is an enemy general, and he bragged properly. As a result, in the end, the knife technique is not as good as a small flag that has not been on the battlefield.
In everyone's disappointment, the eyes that looked at Tan Xingyu were a little less reverent and a little more disdainful. The background of a military family not only did not add much luster to him, but made everyone think that he relied on his family relationship and secretly worked to become the general banner.
Thus, a brilliant speech turned into a farce in the blink of an eye. Tan Xingyu's hard-earned prestige was shattered and collapsed by Mo Cong's words.
Mo Cong's knife technique, Tan Xingyu had already understood it, but he didn't expect Mo Cong's words to be so sharp. He originally wanted to humiliate Mo Cong in public and give Mo Cong a dismissal, but he didn't expect that it was himself who was humiliated in the end.
Feeling more than a thousand pairs of suspicious and contemptuous eyes, Tan Xingyu's face was red. He stared at Mo Cong viciously. If eyes could kill, Mo Cong would have died a thousand times.
Mo Cong smiled slightly and said, "Bragging, I can't do it! Fight, you can't!"
Tan Xingyu's nose was almost crooked. He is a master carefully cultivated by the old Tan family, but now he is labeled as not good at fighting, this and this...... Tan Xingyu's inner complexity is beyond words, and he really has the urge to pull out a knife and cut this guy.
Mo Cong left this sentence and turned around and returned to the queue, ignoring the arrogant and fragile young master of the Tan family.
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