1. Out of the Shadows (Part I)

Yang Xing Yinhe and Shi Qingya are now so anxious that their noses are sweating, the two of them are like two ants on a hot pot, they have a headache, Han Tiefang This guy doesn't know what kind of wind to smoke, after returning to the Xuanwu Holy Land, he actually ran to the colonel in front of the headquarters of the legion to sit in front of the army, not only that, but he also got two signs out, lined up left and right, making everyone stupid.

The sign on the left reads: "One of the Deadly Sins: Defeat and disgrace to your brothers." The second major sin: the death of many brothers. The sign on the right reads: "The responsibility is not the crime of others, it is all in the body of Tie Fang, Tie Fang is here to wait for the brothers to rebuke, scolding and not fighting back, and it is difficult to pay for Tie Fang's sin with ten thousand deaths." ”

Everyone didn't expect Han Tiefang to play such a hand, Shi Qingya was anxious beside Han Tiefang: "Husband, what are you doing? This defeat is not your fault alone, all of us are at fault, what are you playing, I know that you are pleading, I don't know that you are buying people's hearts, and you deliberately play this hand to shirk responsibility, you, you ......." ”

Yang Xing Yinhe also said: "Husband, this has a bad impact, you have to take care of your identity, can't you say anything well? However, Han Tiefang closed his eyes and treated the two wives as nothing, he lowered his head and lowered his eyes, without saying a word, just like an old monk who was in a fixed position, completely ignorant of all the interference from the outside world, which made Yang Xing and Shi angry with them.

Zhou Hongyuan and others also came over to persuade him, but Han Tiefang seemed to be deaf and dumb, and he didn't speak or open his eyes. No matter how many people around you are saying. He should not hear at all. He doesn't care about everyone and everything around him, and he doesn't know what he's doing.

If the middle and low-level soldiers of the Xuanwu Legion do not have a little resentment in their hearts, it is a lie, after all, if the exercise is lost, everyone's heart is extremely uncomfortable, and if the war is lost, it is they who do not fight hard. Is it a mistake on the part of the commander? Obviously, this responsibility will be attributed to the commander, especially Han Tiefang, the commander-in-chief. Some people even said: "Han Tiefang himself is incompetent, don't rob this commander-in-chief, now that he is defeated, he has lost all the face of our Xuanwu Legion, and he still has the face to stay in our Xuanwu Legion." "There are more radical words circulating among the fighters.

And what makes people even more resentful is that Han Tiefang let the Great Wall Array explode and let 20 billion soldiers die in battle. On the battlefield, although it is said that everything is done, the price of using 20 billion subordinates as bait is too great. Although this is a drill. The 20 billion fighters just withdrew from the exercise in accordance with the regulations of the exercise, but. No one doubts that if it was really on the battlefield, Han Tiefang would not do it.

Every person in a high position will say that war requires sacrifice, but the victim will be willing? The one who says that he is willing is either brain-dead or 255, anyway, it is the same thing, therefore, if these 20 billion soldiers say that they have no opinion on Han Tiefang, they are deceiving ghosts, and they will never be able to deceive people anyway.

It's just that every soldier in the Xuanwu Legion can be regarded as a soldier knower, if they are released and join the elite troops or regular troops, every senior officer who can at least serve as a colonel or even a general, they all know in their hearts that Han Tiefang has nothing to do by doing this. However, it is another thing to understand and accept, so many people plan to give Han Tiefang a little face. However, Han Tiefang himself sat quietly on the school field to show the public, and even hung up a sign to confess his guilt, what else could they do? Really run to scold Han Tiefang or beat him? This can't be too much.

Because the exercise ended thirty-four years ahead of schedule, there are still forty-four years before the start of the dark battlefield, and there is still plenty of time, forty-four years is enough time for the Xuanwu Legion to reorganize and form a real army, so Li Tiefei and others and the high-ranking officials of the Yanhuang clan are not in a hurry to reorganize the Xuanwu Legion, nor are they in a hurry to convene a plenary meeting of the Xuanwu Legion, on the contrary, they set aside time for the Xuanwu Legion to reflect on itself, at least, to find out the reason for their defeat.

For ordinary middle- and lower-level officers and soldiers, it is not their turn to think about the root cause of defeat for the time being, but for high-level officials like Zhou Hongyuan, they must find out where the problem is. So, for some time to come, they were thinking over and over again, why did they suddenly get reversed? This question is not answered for a day, and they can't sleep well for a day.

Seventeen days later, dozens of soldiers came to Han Tiefang's side, seeing that they all looked not very good, Shi Qingya and Yangxing Yinhe were a little hairy, these guys wouldn't want to beat Han Tiefang.

When they arrived at Han Tiefang's side, the soldiers stood still. After a long time, one of the fighters led by him said: "Han Tiefang, can you open your eyes and stand up, even if I want to fight, I will not fight a person who sits still and will not fight back." Han Tiefang opened his eyes and said, "Brother, let's fight, how can I fight back?"

The leading soldier raised his fist and punched Han Tiefang's chest, the power of this punch was very great, click, Han Tiefang's chest came with the sound of broken ribs, and at the same time, Han Tiefang's mouthful of blood spurted out, and the person was also beaten out of the distance. Han Tiefang not only did not fight back, on the contrary, he even put away all his defensive true elements and received the opponent's punch with his own body.

Seeing that these soldiers really made a move, the two women were naturally anxious, but they couldn't stop it, they all understood that Han Tiefang was asking for forgiveness from the soldiers of the Xuanwu Legion, and once they stopped it, the nature of it would all change, so they could only watch Han Tiefang being beaten.

"Han Tiefang, you may not know me, I am Gao Yingqi, the commander-in-chief of the No. 5 main base that day, in the past seventeen days, I have discussed with a group of brothers, we can't all come to beat you, so I will be the representative, and I will beat you to get angry. Gao Yingqi said with a murderous face, his tone was hard and tense, he really wanted to kill someone.

Han Tiefang really didn't know Gao Yingqi, there were too many people in the Xuanwu Legion, and no matter how great Han Tiefang's ability was, it was impossible for him to know all the middle-level officers (a base commander like Gao Yingqi could only be regarded as a middle-level officer). He glanced at Gao Yingqi and said, "Let's fight." Brothers. Hard, I can afford it. ”

Another punch, this time, Han Tiefang spurted out three mouthfuls of blood in a row, at least five ribs were broken, and the person was also beaten out of the ground. Han Tiefang still didn't stand up, crawled back to the place with his hands, he looked at Gao Yingqi with calm eyes and said, "Is there only so much resentment and hatred among the brothers?"

Gao Yingqi punched the third punch. Hit Han Tiefang's lower abdomen hard, and hit Han Tiefang's body lying on the ground tiredly, vomiting blood in his mouth, this punch was heavier, without using the True Yuan to protect his body, such a punch was enough to seriously injure Han Tiefang.

"That's enough, Gao Yingqi, my husband is at fault, but you can't go too far. "Yang Xing Yinhe can't stand it. It hurts. "Yinhe, this is what I owe to my brothers. Don't be angry, in life, you have to pay off your debts, if the brothers can dissipate their anger after beating me, I still earn it. Although Han Tiefang understood that his wife had good intentions, he couldn't help but stop it.

Gao Yingqi made a fourth punch, but stopped when the punch hit Han Tie's door. Han Tiefang asked: "Why don't you take it down?" "Han Tiefang, our commander-in-chief, do you think you will be able to atone for your sins by doing this? Do you think that by doing this, the hearts of our brothers will be better? Why don't you understand? Are all the brothers of our Xuanwu Legion so ignorant and unreasonable?"

Han Tiefang was stunned for a while before he said, "Brother Gao, you ......?" "Commander-in-chief, in all fairness, do you think you have made any big mistakes in the course of this exercise? Although it is said that the victor is not to blame, the defeated should not be unreasonably blamed, if we can't even distinguish right from wrong, then is there still a need for us people to survive?"

Han Tiefang was silent, he was embarrassed to say that he hadn't made any big mistakes, but silence was tantamount to admitting. "Let's tell you the truth again, you used the method of self-explosion and killed all of our 20 billion brothers (quit the exercise), but you dragged the more than 37 billion troops of the confrontation force and 28 battle cities on the road together, this deal is worth it, are you wrong?" Han Tiefang still didn't speak, and he naturally didn't think he was wrong.

Gao Yingqi paused and said: "As a member of the group who died in the self-explosion, isn't my heart uncomfortable? Uncomfortable, I was killed by my own commander and treated as an outcast, the one who said that he was not uncomfortable was the one who had no heart and lungs, and the one who said that he was not angry was an idiot, of course I was not an idiot." No matter how uncomfortable it is, no matter how angry it is, we are soldiers, we are soldiers, and when soldiers go to the battlefield, there is only one goal: to win. For the sake of victory, anything can be paid, no matter what the cost. Men are born to protect their family and country, they die on the battlefield, and the horse leather shroud, no matter how they die, dying on the battlefield is the greatest glory of a soldier, and it is the glory of a soldier to be able to exchange his own death for victory. We all understand this, we all understand. Therefore, it is one thing not to accept emotionally, but it is not always clear that whether it is wrong is wrong, right is right, and this point cannot be ambiguous. ”

Han Tiefang was silent for a while and said, "Brother, thank you." "I beat you just now, not because you killed our brothers, not because you were defeated, but because you sat here and felt sorry for yourself, and didn't want to cheer up. No matter how fierce the battle on the exercise ground is, it is only a drill, for our Xuanwu Legion, the real war has not yet begun, and now, there is still time, what we need is not a commander-in-chief who only knows how to sit here and admit his mistakes and confess his guilt, but a commander-in-chief who is cheered up and motivated, and who can lead us to victory and kill the enemy until the enemy's corpses are all over the ground, the blood is flowing like rivers, and the armor is incomplete. Commander-in-chief, on behalf of our 100 billion brothers of the Xuanwu Legion, I beg you, cheer up, use your wisdom and strength to lead us to victory. ”

The two girls listened, their eyes teary, and they finally understood Gao Yingqi's hard work. Han Tiefang's spirit lifted a little, and he said in a deep voice: "If I really become the commander-in-chief of this war, I promise to do my best and use all my ability to win the victory, even if I fight for my life." ”

Gao Yingqi and dozens of soldiers gave a military salute together, and then, turned around and left, what they wanted to say had been said, their meaning had been expressed very clearly, and the rest did not need to talk nonsense, the hearts of the brothers, the wishes of the brothers, I believe that Han Tiefang can understand and understand. (To be continued......)