"Baozi, why did you come to serve as a soldier?" Shi Yang was just smoking a cigarette while chatting with Li Bao.
"It's not because my family is poor that I come to the army to make a living," Li Bao took the match from Shi Yang's hand, lit the match and lit the cigarette, took a greedy sip and said to Shi Yang, and then said something I wanted to tell Shi Yang melancholy.
It turns out that there are actually five brothers and sisters in Li Bao's family. Li Bao is the eldest in the family. Together with Li Bao's parents, there are seven or eight people in his family. They only rely on a few acres of land to make a living. They can barely make ends meet, let alone have any surplus, and when Li Bao's younger brothers and sisters are still growing, the food at home is obviously not enough.
A few months ago, it happened that Commander Hu's army was recruiting troops. In order to reduce the burden on his family, Li Bao signed up to be a top soldier in Commander Hu's army. From the time he became a soldier, Li Bao's allowances in the past few months have been The treasure was sent back home intact. In her words, she had food, drink and clothing in the army, so it was useless to keep the money. It was better to send it home to reduce the burden on her family.
"Lian Zuo, why did you join the army?" After telling his story, Li Bao asked Shi Yang.
"It was a coincidence that I saved the current company commander Guo, and then he was fooled into coming here," Shi Yang said while lighting another cigarette. In this moment, Shi Yang and Li Bao both Everyone has three or four cigarette butts at his feet.
"Lianzuo, what did you do before," Li Bao asked next.
"Haha, I want to say that I used to be a bandit leader, would you believe it?" Shi Yang replied with a smile, but Li Bao's answer made Shi Yang stunned: "Xin, I want you to be like this" People who live in the mountains should be the kind of heroes who roam the mountains and forests, rob the rich and give to the poor, just like those heroes in Liangshan,"
"You little devil," Shi Yang stretched out his hand and pushed Li Bao's head.
"Hehe," Li Bao chuckled, then suddenly stretched his neck, looked behind Shi Yang, then stood up and pointed in the direction behind Shi Yang and said to Shi Yang: "Lian seat, look at a group of people coming over there. , but he doesn’t look like a kid, he looks like our brother,”
After hearing Li Bao's words, Shi Yang also turned around and looked in the direction of Li Bao's finger. About two or three miles away, a group of people were rushing towards Shi Yang's side. The number of people was about one. The company looked like it was reorganizing, and the people leading the way were obviously Sun Zhiyu and Hua Zi. It seemed that Captain Hu and his guard company had arrived.
"Baozi, it should be Captain Hu who is here, go and wake up the brothers," Shi Yang said to Li Bao standing aside after taking a look.
"Okay," Li Bao responded, extinguishing the half-smoked cigarette in his hand, then carefully putting it into his pocket, and then followed Shi Yang's instructions to call the resting soldiers.
When Sun Zhiyu led Captain Hu and others to Shi Yang, Shi Yang had already lined up his soldiers with him.
"Reporting to the regiment leader, Captain Shi Shi of the Seventh Company of the Third Battalion, together with all the soldiers of this company, greet the regiment leader..." When Captain Hu was still more than 20 meters away from Shi Yang and others, Shi Yang went up to greet him. He said to Commander Hu hypocritically.
"You brat, don't do this to me. Let the soldiers disperse and rest." Captain Hu did not accept Shi Yang's tactics. When he came to Shi Yang, he pretended to be serious and said to Shi Yang, But even so, he couldn't hide the happiness in his heart.
Indeed, Captain Hu is indeed very happy now. He never thought that Shi Yang would use a company of basically new recruits to eat up a squadron of Japs from the opponent, and also take back the artillery positions of the little Japs, and He was the one who promoted Shi Yang, and this time Shi Yang really gave him too much credit. Not only did Shi Yang achieve such results in this battle, but Shi Yang also told him that the Japs were going to attack his troops secretly. If there was no news about Shi Yang, his troops might still be fighting bloody battles with the Japs, and they would be more likely to be in danger of being breached by the Japs.
"Brothers, since our regimental leaders have spoken, what are you waiting for? Disband and rest," Shi Yang was not polite. After Commander Hu finished speaking, he turned around and shouted to his soldiers.
With Shi Yang's order, the soldiers naturally stopped pretending and cheered, running to the side to rest in groups of twos and threes.
"Shitou, you have done a great job this time. I will ask for credit from the higher ups for you as soon as I get back." After Shi Yang's soldiers were disbanded, Captain Hu stopped pretending and stepped forward to pat Shi Yang. Yang's shoulder said to Shi Yang.
"Members of the group, there's no need to ask for merit. It's better to give me a call and get something more affordable." Shi Yang had no interest in those high-level merit awards or medals, so it would be better to get something affordable.
"Haha, you are such a naughty guy, then you should tell me what benefits you want," after hearing what Shi Yang said, Captain Hu smiled and asked Shi Yang.
"Actually, I don't have too high requirements. I just want to keep some of the things I seized. After all, these are all the brothers who risked their lives to get them back. You, Tuan, are too embarrassed to just take the things away. And this Do you think you can leave me one or two of the seventy-five mountain cannons?" Shi Yang said unceremoniously.
"Hey, you're a big talker," Captain Hu pretended to be surprised when he heard Shi Yang's request. Then he put on a formal expression and said, "I can leave some other equipment for you. But don’t think about these 75 mountain cannons. I’m going to use them to form an artillery company, and it’s useless to give you these things, because I’m going to drop you into my guard company.”
"What, that's not possible, we won't even go there," before Shi Yang could say anything, Hua Zi became anxious at the side. He couldn't bear to be separated from Shi Yang.
"Hua Zi, is this how I befriend you, young or old? Is there any place for you to talk here? Quickly apologize to the group," Shi Yang yelled at Hua Zi, and then said to him with a smile on his face. Captain Hu said: "Master, Hua Zi is not sensible. Don't be as knowledgeable as him. I will educate him well after I go back." However, Hua Zi apologized to Captain Hu with a look of grievance. , then turned around and went to where the soldiers of his company were resting to get angry.
"But regimental commander, you have also seen that these soldiers under me can't bear to leave me. I won't go to your guard company, and I don't think your guard company is any better than my seventh company." Go," although Shi Yang scolded Hua Zi just now, he was actually praising Hua Zi in his heart. What Hua Zi said was so good, timely and in line with Shi Yang's wishes. Shi Yang was not interested. Go to Commander Hu's security company.
"What did you say?" After hearing Shi Yang's words, Captain Hu had not yet spoken. The current guard company commander Ma Xingtao quit his job and glared at Shi Yang with a pair of big eyes. However, Shi Yang didn't even look at him. He glanced at it.
"Shitou, I don't want to hear what you are saying. My guard company is full of elites in our regiment. I know that most of your seventh company are new recruits who have just joined the army. The two There is no comparison at all, how can you say that my security company is not as good as your seventh company," Captain Hu also said to Shi Yang with some dissatisfaction.
"Haha, regimental leader, don't be angry first. If you say that, I would like to tell you what it would be like if your guard company were replaced by our seventh company today," Shi Yang said. He said to Commander Hu with no humility.
After listening to Shi Yang's words, Captain Hu's face suddenly looked a little ugly. Although his guard company's combat effectiveness was one of the best in the entire regiment, if it was true as Shi Yang said, today the guard company would be placed under the seventh company led by Shi Yang. In terms of position, it really can't match the record of Shi Yang and others.
"Hmph, if you put our company in your position, we may not do worse than you. Don't proudly show off your achievements even if you have a few achievements. This will do you no good..." But the guard company commander Ma Xingtao still Unwilling to admit defeat, he said coldly from the side.
"Haha, Captain Ma is teaching me a lesson, but since this is the case, why not give me three months, Captain Ma, how about we compete in a competition after three months," Shi Yang turned to the guard company commander Ma Xingtao and said.
"Okay, what a comparison," Ma Xingtao said with an indifferent expression.
"Tuanzuo, you also know that the soldiers under my command are all new recruits who have just joined the army. Compared with the elite soldiers under Captain Ma, they are naturally inferior. However, our Seventh Company cannot just admit defeat. Please give me some help. I have three months. During these three months, no matter what I do, I don’t need to report to you. I wonder if the regiment can give me this right." Shi Yang did not answer the words of the guard company commander Ma Xingtao, but turned back. Said to Commander Hu.
"After hearing what you said, I became interested. Okay, so what if I give you three months, but Shitou, what if you lose then?" Captain Hu said in one breath. He agreed to Shi Yang's request, but also posed a problem for Shi Yang.
"Tuanzuo, if I lose, I will apologize to Captain Ma and the soldiers of the guard company in front of all the soldiers in the regiment, and I will deal with them as I please. But Tuanzu, if we win What should we do if it goes wrong?" Shi Yang was not troubled by Captain Hu, and after answering Captain Hu's questions, he also posed a difficult problem to Captain Hu.
"If you win, you can make whatever conditions you want. As long as they are not too excessive and do not violate the discipline of the army, I will agree to it." Commander Hu failed to stump Shi Yang, so naturally he would not be stumped by Shi Yang. , after Shi Yang asked, he replied decisively.
"Okay, what I want is this from you, the leader. My requirements are not high. If we win, please leave one of these seventy-five mountain cannons for us, and give me some knowledgeable operators. Just the artillery." Shi Yang was still thinking about the Qiwu mountain artillery.
