Warm sunshine rarely shines through the gray sky in winter, and the misty white mist covering the vast clear blue lake slowly dissipates. The cold northeast wind is mixed with the fresh smell of wild flowers, making people feel relaxed and happy.
Sixteen cars of all kinds, all with blue sky and white sun flags planted on the front bumpers, slowly passed the independent regiment post in the east of the old Nanchang city, and drove into the six-meter-wide mansion amidst the salutes of several fully armed officers and soldiers on duty.
On Qianjie Street, people came to a stop in front of the wide county government office with carved beams and painted buildings.
An Yi, the leader of the independent regiment, Yin Jinan, the instructor, and more than a dozen famous school captains had already put on brand-new military uniforms and newly issued official rank badges. They lined up in a neat formation and raised their hands to salute respectfully, but they were muttering in their hearts: Why?
Instead of entering the military camp in the backyard directly from the newly built camp gate on the east side, we have to mobilize troops and drive into the bustling market in glory and enter through the gate?
More than a hundred officers and soldiers of the Headquarters Guard Group, armed with live ammunition, quickly jumped out of the truck compartment and quickly deployed their defenses. The doors of the cars were opened one after another. Guo Moruo, Deputy Director of the Political Training Department of the Headquarters, Zhang Dingfan, Director of the General Staff Office, Senior Military Advisor Gallen, and Political Advisor
Tie Luoni, Adjutant Chief Zhang Zhizhong, Propaganda Section Chief Zhang Bojun, Director of the Political Department of the First Army He Yushu, First Division Commander Wang Jun, Second Division Commander Liu Zhi, Chief of Staff Xu Tingyao and three generals of the Second, Third, Sixth and Seventh Armies.
More than ten people got off the car one by one, walked to the gate and stopped calmly. They listened to the loud report from An Yi, the leader of the Second Division Independent Regiment. They entered the county government compound one by one while returning the greetings. They walked in twos and threes and looked around comfortably, tasting their heads.
Everyone said that An Yi was able to find a place, instead of suffering in the noisy city, to go alone to this quiet and elegant old county town to enjoy peace and quiet. Hearing this, An Yi wanted to roll his eyes.
General Gallen, who had never met An Yi, seemed to have a good impression of An Yi. He sat in the hall to have a rest and drink tea. After listening to An Yi's brief report, Gallen asked An Yi very kindly through the translator:
"Colonel An Yi, I heard that your model camp has become the export point for various units of the First Army. What do you think about this?"
An Yi answered truthfully: "Reporting to the general, the model battalion has not made much contribution. So far, it has only adjusted four engineering companies within the scope of our Second Division. It has not yet been able to send qualified engineers to other divisions. Currently, our Second Division is directly under the
The engineering battalion has done better. They built the west pontoon bridge in the Battle of Nanchang. They represent the highest level of engineers of our Second Division and are the professional engineering team of our army. Their model battalions are gradually transforming into infantry battalions. They are model
The battalion now only retains one engineer company, and the other two new engineer companies have been assigned to each infantry battalion."
"I understand, you are very honest. Yesterday I heard Commander-in-Chief Chiang saying that your independent regiment is undergoing new training improvements. Can you tell us where the focus of your improvements is?" Gallen is very shrewd and has a unique vision.
An Yi replied: "The focus of the improvement is very simple, which is to strive to ensure that every infantry company has the basic capabilities of a professional engineer company, and at the same time, allow the professional engineer company to greatly improve its comprehensive combat effectiveness, so that when needed, it can be competent for the tasks borne by the infantry company.
Combat missions, it may be difficult to achieve this goal, but we are willing to try."
Gallon looked at An Yi in surprise after hearing what the translator said. After hearing An Yi's words, many generals and commanders around him started talking about it. The content was almost the same: In this case, why do we need to set up professional engineers? Gallon thought for a while, smiled and approved.
He nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
After drinking a cup of welcome tea, everyone walked through the central courtyard to the military camp built on the lake. Xiao was interested in visiting the 500-meter circular track surrounding the school field, visiting each of the unique obstacle facilities one by one, and crossing and passing them.
The difficulty and rationality of the design were discussed in a targeted manner. Although they were surprised, there were also many questions. Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao, who were familiar with the training methods of the Anyi Department, dealt with it and took on the role of commentators quite proudly.
An Yi stayed alone with General Zhang Zhizhong, respectfully answered the teacher's questions, and reported in a low voice his work and future plans.
More than twenty minutes later, the pair of teachers and students, who were chatting intimately in low voices, followed the flow of people and walked to the reviewing stand in the east. The pleased and satisfied General Zhang Zhizhong put his hand on An Yi's shoulder, gently and earnestly encouraging everyone who was looking forward to it.
Afterwards, he calmly walked up to the high platform and sat in the middle of the viewing seats neatly covered with old military blankets.
As soon as the whistle blew, the model battalion led by Yin Jinan ran to the center of the school field in company units. The eighty officers and soldiers of the training team, led by Qu Muchen, ran neatly from west to east and quickly lined up in front of An Yi at the edge of the school field.
Qu Muchen reported to An Yi formally and formally. An Yi, who was responsible for the important role of the mouthpiece, turned around and ran to the high platform to stand at attention and repeated it loudly to the bosses on the stage.
All the military generals on the stage looked at the headquarters generals sitting in the middle of the viewing gallery. The headquarters generals were not prepared at all. Guo Moruo discussed among themselves for a while, and finally handed over the decision-making power to He Yushu, the director of the Political Department of the First Army.
I was so busy that I didn't even know what to see here, so I handed over the decision-making power to the Second Division.
Liu Zhi had no choice but to stand up and walk to the front, lowered his head, discussed with Guo Moruo and Zhang Dingfan, turned around, took three steps forward as a soldier, and loudly ordered to An Yi: "The drill can begin, first show the formation drill!"
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The ten-minute basic formation drill began like this. The eighty outstanding soldiers selected from the entire regiment, with an average age of only twenty-one, naturally did a good job. They were all well-educated young soldiers who had undergone a month of study and training.
He was full of vigor and energy, his movements were neat and precise, and his movements were smooth and impeccable from beginning to end. The generals and colonels on the stage couldn't help but applaud and praise loudly. Although the political department directors and chiefs of staff of several friendly forces were picky about watching the fun.
The mentality came, but I couldn't admit in my heart that I did a good job.
After the training team's drill ended, Yin Jinan's 550 officers and soldiers of the model camp were divided into four squares and marched forward in full force under the solemn order.
Yin Jinan gave the order to stand at attention, turned around and ran to An Yi, saluted and chirped a report. After An Yi returned the salute, he turned around and ran to the high platform. He looked up at Liu Zhi, who was standing upright at the front of the platform, and repeated the chirping again.
Liu Zhi nodded slightly and was about to give the order to start the obstacle course cross-country drill. General Gallen, who was sitting in the middle of the viewing platform, spoke. Liu Zhi quickly ran over and listened. Gallen pointed at the model battalion machine gun company on the right side of the school field in front and shouted loudly.
All the generals looked over in surprise and saw clearly that the officers and soldiers of the company in front on the right were generally short in stature. They immediately understood Gallon's good intentions and immediately gave warm applause to this clever idea of randomly selecting a training company, and then they all were happy.
He looked at Liu Zhi with a haha, thinking that now the excellent company that you secretly arranged for training will be gone, and those who only pick out the weak will come out to practice to see how capable you are.
Liu Zhi calmly saluted Galen, turned around, walked to the high platform, pointed at the machine gun platoon on the right front, and shouted an order. An Yi was right in his heart when he heard this, thinking that you will know about grandma later.
An Yi saluted and ran to Yin Jinan and ordered the one hundred and ten brothers in the machine gun platoon to come on stage for the drill. Yin Jinan turned around and gave the order without saying a word. The brothers in the machine gun platoon immediately followed Yin Jinan and ran to the north end with high spirits.
From the starting point, Yin Jinan's whistle sounded, and groups of six people set off one after another. The teams passed each obstacle easily and quickly, showing off their skilled technical movements and excellent explosive power, no matter what high walls or deep pits you have.
The barbed wire single-plank bridge passed smoothly and smoothly. Dozens of bosses on the stage were dumbfounded. It was hard to believe that the training level in the model camp was so high. There were endless exclamations and admirations.
Xu Tingyao, who was sitting in the middle of the second row of the viewing gallery, was filled with joy. She thought to herself that if you didn’t pick your grandma’s other companies, why would you choose this machine gun company with an average military age of more than four years for the purpose of practicing? In addition to Gu Laoer’s guard company,
None of the remaining 21 companies in the entire regiment has defeated these old ruffians. Even the teaching company that was in the drill team just now was defeated by these old ruffians. Now, you want to see the jokes of my army, right?
You can laugh as much as you want, why don't you laugh? If those dozens of tough guys from An Yi's security company appear, I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep when you go back, haha!
Liu Zhi nodded to An Yi, who was asking for instructions loudly from the high platform, and announced that the drill was over. An Yi saluted and turned around and ran to the front of more than 500 brothers. He especially praised Lehaha's machine gun company, and then ordered the company commanders of each company to lead
The team goes back to rest.
Liu Zhi returned to a group of generals who were still praising and discussing, with a very calm look on his face, humble and serious, as if everything was natural.
The generals and generals in the military were filled with envy and joked with Liu Zhi, "Brother Jing Fu actually hid such an elite soldier" and "It's so amazing that it's no wonder it was upgraded to an independent regiment."
Excited, Gallen and General Guo Moruo walked down the platform and immediately called An Yi to praise them loudly. They loudly praised the "Model Camp" as a model of military training, and the model title was well deserved and worthy of learning. An Yi told them honestly.
A boss said that the four companies of the model battalion are almost all at this level. There is a certain gap between the other three battalions, but the first battalion led by Lieutenant Colonel Xia Jian has a tendency to catch up, because most of the recruits in the first battalion are from
In the alpine mountainous area around Tonggu, I have been climbing barefoot down the river to cut firewood and carry burdens since I was a child. At present, I am just not as proficient in standard movements and technical know-how.
A group of bosses sighed again after hearing An Yi's words. They couldn't understand how a team that had just transformed from a supplementary group could have such a level of ability? They didn't know that most of An Yi's independent groups had experienced war.
The outstanding veterans in the army are all elites who have been selected and selected. Even the recruits, which only account for a quarter, are mostly green forest heroes who have been recruited. They only need a period of adaptive training to overcome and pass these obstacles.
It's like playing, but when it comes to fighting, it's real skill.
A group of generals returned to the lobby of the county government office and immediately saw tables of generous portions of food. Like all officers and soldiers, each table had three dishes and one soup without adding any extra. The generals who were used to eating small stoves were not satisfied with the portion and size of An Yi's food.
The quality is quite appreciated. Even Zhang Dingfan, the attentive Chief of Staff, also secretly praised An Yi's arrangement: no special uniformity between officers and soldiers, politeness, propriety, neither humbleness nor arrogance!
The generals and generals of the First Army sitting at the same table were even more happy, and everyone was extremely satisfied and proud.
Halfway through the meal, He Yushu, the head of the political department, pretended to be displeased and asked in a low voice: "An Yi, I just gave you 7,000 sets of the best new winter clothes. Why don't you give them to your brothers? You don't pay attention to your appearance on such an important occasion?"
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An Yi put down the bowl and complained in a low voice: "I paid it to the director, but the brothers are used to being poor. As long as there are old clothes, no one is willing to wear new ones! There is no requirement in military law that you must wear new clothes, so
There is nothing we can do to blame our brothers! You see, we officials all put on our uniforms for fear of leaving a bad impression on the bosses. As a result... the subordinates were too embarrassed to say it.
Few people are laughing in their hearts at the few sesame officials and sluts in our independent group!"
Xu Tingyao couldn't help but laugh: "Director, don't listen to this kid's nonsense. He is trying to deceive the headquarters and other friendly forces into thinking that he is also poor. I guess you didn't notice just now. His model camp only displayed the same figures as ordinary friendly forces.
The same weapons and equipment. Although the officers and soldiers were neatly dressed, they were all washed out and faded old clothes. There were no mortars at all. The purpose was to prevent the friendly forces from becoming jealous. On this point, I agreed with his approach and would not go back.
I have to tell the other regiments that those guys are clamoring all over the world just because they have a new pair of pants. The friendly armies have long been unbalanced. Why are they trying to provoke them? An Yi is much smarter than his senior brothers in this regard!"
He Yushu sighed and said in a low voice: "I want to emphasize this when I go back. You will never suffer if you keep a low profile. On the way here just now, Lao Nie, the director of the Political Department of the Sixth Army who was in the same car, gave me some advice and said that we
The 1st and 2nd Divisions, the main force regiment, had their tails turned after they were stationed in Nanchang. They thought that I was the first to do the most good work. They didn’t train their troops well just after the expansion. They spent all day in and out of the halls and pavilions to spend the day. Even after a little drunken lieutenant, he still
Keep saying that you are a disciple of so-and-so from Huangpu, the Commander-in-Chief, what a bad influence it has? The principal is having a hard time now, why do you want to cause more trouble for him? This trend cannot last forever!"
Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao nodded slightly, and Xu Tingyao also sighed: "We also know that several regiments under our command have had some problems living in the city. There have been incidents of drinking and causing trouble in each regiment camp and not returning to camp at night. Only An Yi's
They still maintain the excellent customs brought from Huangpu, and they are praised by the people wherever they go. Several of their chief officers have good personalities. They are not only able to lead troops and fight, but they are also humble and down-to-earth in dealing with the outside world, and they are able to play both sides.
I will never show off my benefits everywhere. My little life of more than 3,000 people has been truly nourishing, and I have never had any disputes. We usually go to the headquarters for meetings and chat with colleagues from allied armies. We found that only our 'model camp' can make people happy.
People are looking at each other, and it seems that if we don’t straighten things out, we will have to attack Zhejiang. If this continues, will we be able to attack the colorful world like Hangzhou and Shanghai?”
An Yi was slightly surprised when he heard this. Xu Tingyao, Gu Zhutong, and Jiang Dingwen have always been recognized by the officers and soldiers as good-tempered officers. The three of them love their subordinates and protect their weaknesses, and rarely care about the spare time life of their captains.
They never interfered with their subordinates' gambling and prostitution. As long as you could fight and maintain military discipline, they were happy. Xu Tingyao actually said such harsh words at this time, which shows that the senior brothers in each regiment have indeed gone too far.
"Xiao Yi, why haven't your deputies seen anyone?" Liu Zhi asked in a low voice.
An Yi raised his head and replied in a low voice: "We have gone out to practice in the field. It is impossible not to practice! We have just completed a major adjustment. The strength of each unit has been balanced, but the tacit understanding between the officers and soldiers has disappeared, so we have to practice continuously, at high intensity.
Only by forming an instinctive tacit understanding during training can we meet the requirements, otherwise many people will die in a war."
Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao looked at each other with many emotions. He Yushu put down his chopsticks and let out a long sigh:
"In contrast, the judgment is clear! Now I know why the principal likes An Yi so much. With such a good student and subordinate, who wouldn't like it..."