An Yi returned to the military academy at 11 o'clock in the morning. After canceling his leave, he returned to the barracks. He took a look at the tidy housekeeping and nodded with satisfaction. Driven by An Yi's example, his colleagues in the engineering brigade have developed good hygiene and orderliness.
Several brothers who had never touched a toothbrush in their lives gradually changed their habits. People who did not take a shower for several days were common in other enlisted companies, but there was no such thing in the 150-person engineer brigade.
Hearing the footsteps of the brothers, An Yi put down his book and took two steps to greet him. Zhang Tianyi, the oldest member of the district team, ignored the sweat on his face and without putting down the gun on his body, he walked up to An Yi in two steps, stood with his legs together and shouted loudly.
Give the order: "Stand at attention and salute!"
"Hello, sir!"
More than seventy fellow students greeted him in unison.
An Yi looked at this and that in surprise. Although the schoolmates stood crowded in the aisle and between the beds in no formation, everyone had a solemn expression.
"hey-hey……"
An Yi thought that grandma's father had only been away for three days, but you grandsons dared to go up and uncover the roof! An Yi calmly walked two steps with his hands behind his back, then suddenly turned to everyone and shouted an order: "Stand at attention - just a moment
Take a breath and stand at attention! Lie down where you are!"
There was a moment of confusion among the brothers, and as a result of conditioned reflex, more than half of the brothers actually lay down. Due to the tight space, they collided with each other, and for a while they were in a state of chaos.
An Yi laughed loudly and returned to his bed. Before he could sit down, he was pinned down on the bed by the angry Zhang Tianyi and several brothers who felt that they had been deceived. The whole barracks laughed and cursed, causing the first district team to panic.
The brothers and the brothers in the gunnery barracks in front looked over one after another. The brothers in the surrounding barracks were very familiar with the noisy way of the Second District Team, but they still couldn't hide their envy: there was no conflict or estrangement between these boys in the Second District Team of the Engineer Brigade.
Everyone helps each other and gets along well with each other like brothers, and they work as a team in everything.
"Lao Zhang, do you want to die? Take your hands off me..." An Yi shouted in pain. He was exhausted and face red from being abused. Only then did the brothers lose their temper and disperse.
Zhang Tianyi sat down on An Yi's bed and chuckled: "You damn thing, you can't tell. That lump in your crotch is quite heavy, hehe..."
"You are so perverted..."
An Yi sat up, straightened his clothes and stroked his sore penis, and glared at Zhang Tianyi angrily: "Do all of you Changde people have this hobby?"
Zhang Tianyi chuckled: "That's not true, but when I was a kid in the summer, I liked to lead a group of boys to lie down in the grass by the river and peek at the white bodies of the girls and aunts when they were taking a bath in the river. Hehe! You!
Don't tell me nonsense. I've never told anyone about such dirty things. Seeing how tight your mouth is, I'm in a good mood today so I told you. Hey... let's have a cigarette."
An Yi smiled slightly, took out half a pack of squashed Sanbaotai cigarettes from his pocket and handed it to him: "Smoking is prohibited indoors. Go out and smoke. Dinner will be served in ten minutes, so don't go too far."
"Don't worry, I'll smoke again after lunch, high-end cigarettes..."
Zhang Tianyi carefully smoothed the cigarette case and put it in his pocket: "Xiaoyi, don't you think it's strange that the brothers saluted you just now? You don't want to ask why?"
Only then did An Yi remember: "What's going on?"
"In the morning field training, the team leader announced to the brothers during the break that you have been appointed as the acting captain of our second district team. You will set off to Lincun, the eastern suburb of Guangzhou at one o'clock in the afternoon to perform tasks. From now on, you will be in charge of our second district team.
This mission was not short. The Eastern Expeditionary Force led by the principal achieved a decisive victory, but it would take at least ten days and a half to return to Guangzhou. The troops had to rest and recuperate before taking over the defense or ordering us to withdraw from our posts.
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Zhang Tianyi was older than An Yi and had served as a soldier in the Hunan Army for two years. He had high prestige in the eyes of his brothers, but he admired his junior's mind and ability very much, especially since he was not well educated and struggled to educate himself.
It has always been An Yi who has been tutoring her attentively, and the relationship between the two has deepened as they have been together for a long time.
An Yi was very surprised: "There has never been any precedent for this! Lao Zhang, please analyze it for me. What do you think above?"
Zhang Tianyi frowned slightly: "I also talked about this matter with Jianguang, Xiaosun and Yaohua this morning. We all had no idea for a while. I think this was the idea of our team captain and team deputy. After Instructor Zhang was transferred, the district captain
The position has always been vacant, and is filled by the deputy of the brigade. First of all, there is a shortage of manpower in the Eastern and Southern Expeditions, and many instructors have been transferred. Now the commanders of the infantry and cavalry companies are basically held by the first and second-term seniors.
The engineering department was only opened in this period. There are few professional instructors and not many people who understand the profession, so it is difficult to find a suitable candidate for the position of district captain. Furthermore, if my estimate is good, our captain and team deputy will probably not want to
Bring in new people. We are now a well-known advanced district team in the whole school. If someone is hard to talk to, it will probably mess up things and make it difficult to work with them. Therefore, the team captain and team deputy would rather promote one among our brothers. What about you?
, apart from being young, he definitely has this level, so if I don’t mention him, who would you mention?”
"Old Zhang, after hearing what you said, I think it's a pity that you don't enter the political science department!" An Yi looked regretful.
Lao Zhang punched An Yi: "I know you kid has thought of this a long time ago, probably more than I thought. In fact, brothers all obey you. You respect everyone and seek everyone's opinions on everything. I have been asking everyone for their opinions."
You learn. You are easy-going, open-minded and willing to help others. You have never looked down on any of your brothers. Even the solitary Jin Hongmo from Seoul, North Korea, has changed his bad temper and become gregarious. So if you don’t promote you, who will you promote? As soon as the news was announced in the morning, the brothers were very happy.
I am happy enough to see your importance in the hearts of the brothers."
An Yi sighed: "Stop putting powder on my face. In fact, I can't do many things well. When I knew I was assigned to the engineering department, I almost turned around and went back. If it weren't for the enlightenment of the big brothers in the first period, I
I really couldn’t turn around. Later, as time went by, I gradually fell in love with engineering and fell in love with the brothers. Now we are like a family. I feel satisfied and at ease. If it weren’t for the brothers working together, I would be safe.
Yi is nothing? And you, Lao Zhang, are you worse than me except for your bad temper? My brothers and I all regard you as a big brother, so you have to be more tolerant of anything in the future. To put it bluntly, we
If the second district team didn’t have you and me, wouldn’t it be living a mediocre life?”
Zhang Tianyi was moved in his heart: "Xiao Yi, don't say anything to outsiders. If you have anything to do in the future, just say it. Big brother will not say anything and will definitely help. We have to put training first, internal affairs first, and study first until graduation.
The things that started but ended were not our brothers' fault."
"I thought of one."
An Yi nodded and asked Zhang Tianyi to take off his equipment. He walked to the wooden frame by the wall, picked up his rice bowl and walked out of the barracks. Seven or eight brothers immediately gathered around to make fun of him.
At 2:20 in the afternoon, the steamer "Nanyang" of the Military Academy slowly docked at the Zhuxi Fish Pier to the west of Lincun. Zhu Mianfang, Lieutenant Colonel Chief Instructor of the Military Academy Training Department, Yu Chaqi, Lieutenant Colonel Topography Instructor, Huang Zhen, Major Tactics Instructor, and the Engineer Brigade Team
Deputy Liu Sitong stood at the bow of the ship, and several officers pointed to the coastal terrain and taught An Yi their experience in camp selection and warning post layout.
The steamer docked, and under the leadership of Zhang Tianyi, more than 70 brothers from the Second District Team, armed with live ammunition, carried military pots and rice grains ashore, and then lined up in order to wait for instructions. The officers took An Yi to the northern high ground to observe the terrain and listen to the instructions.
Yi's plan.
After listening to An Yi's choice of station location, determination of sentry positions, and prediction of patrol routes, the officers were very surprised. They did not expect An Yi to have such solid basic knowledge. The officers were deeply pleased and pointed out several minor flaws in them to improve.
, immediately agreed to An Yi's garrison plan.
Several officers finished their lectures in turn and jumped on the waiting steamer to return to the military school dock. They would lead another company of enlisted students to another garrison point.
An Yi stood in front of the team, looking at the seventy-four brothers with excited faces, and felt his heart beating violently. It was the first time he became a commander, the first time he led so many people, which made An Yi uneasy and quite uncomfortable.
In order to be excited, he raised his head and loudly announced the purpose and nature of the mission and reiterated military discipline. Then An Yi announced that Zhang Tianyi would serve as the deputy captain of the mission, and ordered Zhang Tianyi to divide the team into three groups and explain the tasks of each group.
The team leader led the headquarters to start the inspection. After getting familiar with the terrain and keeping in mind his positions and responsibilities, An Yi took four brothers and walked into Lincun to the east through the wooden bridge over the Zhuxi River.
Lincun is an ancient village in the eastern suburbs of Guangzhou. The village is located on the edge of the main channel of the Pearl River. To the west is the strategic strategic point Ershatou, and is far away from Haixinsha, a small island in the river. The Lin family ancestral hall in the village has a long history and is large in scale.
It is well-known throughout Guangzhou. This village has the surname Lin as its main surname, with the surnames Chen and Liang mixed in. It has been managed in a clan style for hundreds of years. The villagers unite and help each other and the folk customs are strong. Due to the chaos of the political situation and the changes of warlords all year round,
Lin Village has always been at the edge of the jurisdiction of various governments. The governments of each period have been unable to do anything to Lin Village, which has a large number of people and is united as one. Except for the two tax collectors who come to the village every month to collect taxes as usual, they have not been able to go to the three villages.
With more than a thousand officials stationed in Lincun, even the farmers' association cannot exist. Because of this, the school headquarters weighed several times before handing over the important task of monitoring the Pearl River waterway and guarding the southern coast of the city leading to Guangzhou to someone who is very familiar with Guangzhou.
An Yi will take charge.
It is said that many officials at that time were worried about An Yi's young age, but Vice Principal Li Jishen strongly agreed to hand over the task to the second district team for very good reasons:
First, the engineering brigade is the advanced brigade among the fourth batch of enlisted students, and the second district team is the advanced among the advanced; second, in the monthly assessment, the second district team ranks among the best in all aspects of military quality, and it is a united force
A collective with certain combat effectiveness; thirdly, acting district captain An Yi was engaged in business in Guangzhou City before entering the school. He is very familiar with Guangzhou and its surrounding areas, has certain social experience, has experienced the test of war, has a very stable psychological quality, and
Being able to communicate with people proficiently in Cantonese, Mandarin and dialects from various southwest regions is currently the best candidate.
After listening to Li Jishen's words, the officials all agreed. In fact, Li Jishen knew very well that this was a big challenge. The tough folk customs of Lin Village and the villagers' defensive mentality of refusing to accept people thousands of miles away were very troublesome, which was very troublesome for An.
Perseverance will be a great test.
Li Jishen really wanted to pass this mission to see what merits An Yi had in leading troops and whether he was worthy of his expectations.