When Alexey Speransky and Leonid arrived in the town, just like Li Xiao, the first impression was quite bad. Everywhere around the town, twos and threes of 748s could be seen wandering aimlessly like wandering ghosts.
Regiment soldiers. Without exception, these people were in ragged clothes, unkempt, and had no energy, and their eyes were so cloudy that they looked like zombies.
Leonid asked Alexei: "Are they from the 748th regiment?"
"probably?"
Alexei is not sure. Although he works in the military police force, the last time he came to the 748th Regiment to clean up the mess was a few years ago. At that time, although the regiment had already gained a reputation, it did not seem to be so bad. At least the soldiers did not look like beggars.
Leonid was shocked and said: "Why do you look like this?"
"Maybe you drank too much?"
Alcoholism is definitely a common phenomenon among the Russian army. For most of the "gray animals" who were born as serfs and were forced to join the army, alcohol is the only healing product that can make them feel better in the army. And I really feel sorry for not taking two sips in the cold winter.
They can't stand the biting cold. After all, their winter clothes are the cheapest black-hearted rags. The empire doesn't have that much money to spend on cannon fodder that can be consumed indefinitely, and the gentlemen also need to make extra money, right?
Therefore, although the higher-ups have issued strict orders to ban alcohol, it is of no use. The gray animals will try their best to get drunk. After spending their meager military pay, they will go out to steal. They will exchange everything they have on hand for money to drink.
, if bayonets and rifles were not managed quite strictly, it is very likely that Russia's arsenal would be empty in winter.
As for the virtuous nature of drunkards who have had too much to drink, it goes without saying. Even the most prominent aristocrat from St. Petersburg is no different from the meanest slut after drinking a few kilograms of yellow cat urine.
So when you see a group of smoky, inhumane guys in military uniforms, you should immediately suspect whether they are drunk. This is very important, because only God knows what drunkards can do.
In the past few years, Alexey has dealt with more than a dozen cases of drunken soldiers killing superiors and killing nobles. These pitiful and hateful guys always vent their resentment on nobles when they are drunk, and now he
and Leonid obviously belong to the latter.
Alexey warned in a low voice: "Attention, my friend, be more careful and leave immediately if something goes wrong! Don't get involved with these scum!"
Leonid was shocked. He looked at Alexei in disbelief, who looked serious as if he was facing an enemy, and then looked at the so-called scum around him who looked at them curiously. He asked: "Why? In broad daylight,
Do they still dare to mutiny?"
"They don't dare to mutiny!" Alexey snorted coldly, "but their minds are already occupied by alcohol, and they don't mind killing themselves just to have a few sips!"
Leonid still didn't believe it: "How is it possible? It's too shocking. Is this a rumor? My friend."
Alexey smiled bitterly and said: "I have seen the cases I handled with my own eyes, and you say it is true or false!"
Leonid was shocked again. The soldiers he had seen before were all elites of the empire. They were all heroic and high-spirited. He thought that all or at least most of the soldiers of the empire were like this. But today his world view
has been updated.
He couldn't help but feel a little worried: "Are there many guys like this?"
Alexey replied: "How many? Probably except for the troops with the title of Guards, the rest are almost the same. You know, they are all serfs, illiterate and can't tell the difference between left and right. They can't leave when they see vodka."
Moving Road...Of course this is the worst part...My friend, we have to leave quickly. These bastards must be drunk. Let's leave quickly before they have any bad ideas. First, go to the military police company in the town.
, my friend Major Vasily Matveyevich Muravyov should be safer!"
Leonid really never thought that one day he would stand in his own country and face his own soldiers and run away. This should not happen at all. It is so shameful!
"Both the commander and deputy commander of the 748th Regiment should be sent to a military court, no! Sent directly to the gallows, which is appalling and unheard of. If everything here is spread, we will become the laughing stock of the entire Europe!"
After coming out of the gendarmerie company, Leonid, who was back on the road under the escort of four fully armed gendarmerie, immediately broke out. The upright Major Vasily Matveyevich Muravyov told them:
The 748th Regiment is a piece of stinking shit, a concentration camp for all Russia's scum and garbage. Dealing with these bastards' endless troubles every day has exhausted him both physically and mentally. If possible, he wants to shoot everyone in the 748th Regiment one by one - including all
's officer.
"Those bastards don't care at all, they just let it go!"
This was the major's accusation, and this made Leonid furious. If Alexey, who knew the inside story, hadn't stopped him, Leonid would have taken up his sword and gun and immediately bled the officers of the 748th Regiment one by one.
"Why did you stop me? Aren't you angry?" Leonid asked angrily.
Alexey smiled bitterly and replied in a lowered voice: "My friend, you are too straightforward. The affairs of the 748th Regiment are very complicated and are not entirely an officer's problem. Even if they do have problems, it won't matter if you kill them all."
Use, this won’t solve the problem!”
Leonid asked: "Then what do you think we can do to solve the problem?!"
Alexei vomited in his heart: [Perhaps the problem can be solved by changing the tsar.] But he couldn't say that, he could only change this dangerous topic: "My friend, we are not here to solve 748
It’s about the regiment’s problems. We are here to observe the Grand Duke. After all, he is the officer of the 748th regiment and the person involved, but we are not! We can’t take the spotlight and do extraneous things!”
Leonid didn't like this answer, not only because he felt that Alexei was avoiding the problem, but also because he didn't think highly of Li Xiao at all, thinking that someone had neither the ability nor the courage to solve the trouble of the 748th Regiment.
He even wanted to take matters into his own hands and deal with this shameful group in the military.
"The Grand Duke is said to have held a company meeting today." Alexei also knew Leonid's temper, but he didn't want his good friend to fall into the 748th Regiment's mess. "I'm very curious about what the Grand Duke is planning to do to his soldiers.
What are you talking about? I’m more curious whether he will be brought down by those scum!”
Could it be what Alexey said? In fact, Alexei is not the only one who has no confidence in someone. Boris and Vishnyak also don’t think highly of someone. They think:
"There is absolutely no need to hold this meeting! You are asking for trouble! You are asking for trouble! Those guys are more rubbish than you think, and they are more difficult to deal with! Under the current circumstances, meeting is a bad decision!"