As soon as Lu Xing came up, he wanted to shoot Qin Shou and the others, which was beyond everyone's expectations. Even the second battalion commander Chen Ming was shocked.
In the past two days, the new recruits have been subjected to devilish training by the veterans who were temporarily recruited to serve as instructors. If they slack off even a little bit, they will be greeted by fists, kicks and gun butts, making them full of resentment towards the veterans.
And the fight just now was just to vent their grievances about being beaten by the veterans. They didn't really want to kill anyone at all, they just wanted to vent their anger.
But who knew that things were getting serious now. Lu Xing now wanted to shoot Qin Shou and other veterans. The recruits suddenly panicked. This was contrary to their original intention.
If Qin Shou and other veterans were shot because of this incident, they would probably feel guilty for the rest of their lives.
"Chief Lu, can you please not shoot Deputy Battalion Commander Qin and others?"
The new recruit Luo Wencai, who had been scuffled with Qin Shou before, was also flustered at this moment and hurriedly asked for mercy. Although he was unhappy with Qin Shou, it was not to the extent that he would be killed.
Lu Xing had a dark face but was unmoved, and said coldly: "The state has national laws, and the army has military regulations. Since you wear this military uniform, you must abide by the military rules. If you violate the military regulations, how can you not be punished?"
reason!"
"But we are just fighting normally, but this shooting..." Recruit Luo Wencai continued without giving up.
Lu Xing snorted coldly and said: "If I hadn't come, I'm afraid you would have used knives and guns. Doesn't it count as a fight only if you are dead?!"
"No one involved in the fight today can escape. Wait until I shoot them, and then I will come back to deal with you!" Lu Xing's words were sonorous, and there seemed to be no room for turning around.
"What are you doing standing still? Pull them down and shoot them!" Lu Xing turned to the soldiers of the special agent company and shouted.
Qin Shou saw that Lu Xing also wanted to scare the monkeys, so he gave up his struggle.
He said to the hesitant brothers of the special agent company: "Brothers, let's do it. I have followed Chief Yang to fight all the way until now. I have killed eight Japanese instead of ten. I have avenged my brothers who died in the battle a long time ago, but I haven't."
I am unwilling to die on the battlefield, but at the gunpoint of one of my own people."
Qin Shou's body was dirty and covered with mud, and he spit out the mud in his mouth. He looked tragic and heroic in dying generously.
"Camp Commander Lu, I made a mistake today. I admit it. I just beg you to let my brothers go. Everything started with me. Leave them alive and follow you to continue fighting the Japanese." Qin Shou pointed.
The veteran brothers who were being held said:
"Brother Qin, we have all gone through hell and fire. How can we let you suffer for us alone? Let's not make things difficult for Camp Commander Lu. Our brothers want to shoot us together. We also have a companion on the road to hell. If there is an afterlife, we can still
We must continue to kill the Japanese."
The voices of the veterans reached everyone's ears. The eyes of the veterans of the special agent company were moist, and the resentment of the recruits who originally had resentment disappeared.
"Captain Lu, let's go and kill a few more Japs for us."
Qin Shou looked at his brothers who lived and died together, with tears in his eyes. He cupped his hands at Lu Xinggong, turned around and left, not wanting to embarrass anyone.
The veterans of the secret service company looked at Lu Xing and begged for mercy one after another: "Battle Commander Lu, I am thinking of Deputy Battalion Commander Qin and his colleagues, who have no merit but hard work."
Lu Xing stood silently in the face of the pleadings of the veterans of the special agent company. Second Battalion Commander Chen Ming looked at Lu Xing, and his meaning was very clear. It was better to use the donkey under the slope to spare them.
"Pull it down!" Lu Xing seemed determined to kill Qin Shou and the others, unmoved by the plea.
The recruits originally thought that Lu Xing and the others were just showing off, but now they saw Lu Xing's unselfish face and were completely panicked.
"Chief Lu, if you want to shoot me, just shoot me. It's all my fault. I encouraged the brothers to cause trouble. It's none of Deputy Battalion Commander Qin's business. We just want to go to the battlefield to fight..."
Recruit Luo Wencai plopped down on his knees in front of Lu Xing, begging for mercy with snot and tears.
"Get up, get up, don't let me look down on you. If you feel sorry for me, kill a few more Japs for me on the battlefield." Seeing Luo Wencai kneel down, Qin Shou cursed.
"Sir Lu, please, let our squad leader go."
"It's all our fault, please forgive them."
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Recruit Luo Wencai took the lead, and the more than two thousand recruits who had just participated in the fight fell to their knees one after another, regardless of the wet mud on the ground.
The veterans were originally angry at the new recruits because Qin Shou and the others were shot, but now they were shocked to see them kneeling down to beg for mercy, and all their anger disappeared.
"Captain Lu, please be more generous and spare Deputy Battalion Commander Qin and the others." The veterans also spoke one after another.
Just when Lu Xing was hesitating, the second battalion commander Chen Ming also stood up in time: "Lao Lu, brothers Nianzai Qin and the others are also first offenders. Let's spare them this time and keep them useful on the battlefield to fight the Japanese."
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Seeing the battalion commander Chen Ming come out to intercede, Lu Xing's expression remained unchanged, as if he was determined.
Whether they are veterans or new recruits, they feel very uneasy at this moment. What's more, they feel self-blame and guilt, and they deeply regret the fight.
After being silent for a long time, Lu Xing raised his head, looked at the dejected brothers, and said to Qin Shou and others with hatred for iron, "Since it is your first offense, and there are many brothers interceding for you, I will bypass you this time."
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After hearing Lu Xing's words, the brothers all breathed a sigh of relief.
However, Lu Xing changed the subject: "But you have violated military law. You can avoid the death penalty, but you cannot escape the punishment of living. The leader of the fight has thirty military sticks each, and the rest have ten military sticks each! If there is a next time, I will never do it again.
Show mercy!”
"Battle Commander Chen, you are here to supervise the punishment." After Lu Xing finished speaking, he walked away with a dark face and a puff of sleeves.
Yang Ling was not in the regiment, so he specifically appointed Lu Xing as the temporary person in charge. Seeing Lu Xing borrowing the donkey to reveal the matter, the second battalion commander Chen Ming was also heartbroken.
Now Yang Ling went to the brigade headquarters. Seeing Lu Xing's murderous look just now, he was really worried that he would shoot Qin Shou and other veterans. Fortunately, Lu Xing was very measured.
After Lu Xing's tossing, the recruits and veterans, who had just been glaring at each other unconvincedly, were still resentful at this moment, fearing that Lu Xing had changed his attention.
"Take off your clothes and come up here to lead the military stick!" Lu Xing left, and Chen Ming put on a black face and ordered coldly.
Seeing that Qin Shou and the others had escaped death and now had nothing to fear from being beaten with military sticks, the veterans took off their dirty military uniforms one after another, and Chi Jing lined up to accept punishment.
The veterans are all veterans who have survived hundreds of battles, and those who can be promoted to grassroots officers are the best among the veterans. Their thin bodies are like withered vines, full of scars left by bullet holes and bayonets, and they are hideous and hideous.
terror.
The new recruits were originally full of resentment towards these veterans, mistakenly believing that they were greedy for life and afraid of death and did not dare to go to the front line, so they relied on training to bully them.
And now seeing the old and new scars all over the bodies of the veterans, they all lowered their heads in guilt. They regretted their unscrupulous words and should not have insulted and beaten the veterans.
"Brother, hold it back!" The brother who enforced military law was a brother from the special agent company. He looked at the veterans lying on the bench and reminded them loudly.
The veterans gritted their teeth and replied: "Come on, I'm not afraid of death. How can I be afraid of military sticks?"
The brothers of the special agent company had already received instructions from Chen Ming, so they naturally started with a measured attack. After all, if they were really beaten to the point of breaking their muscles and bones, it would affect their combat effectiveness.
However, despite this, when the military stick was hit, it was still so painful that many veterans bared their teeth and some couldn't help but scream.
In the open space in front of the village, new recruits and veterans took turns to receive military sticks. When they saw the new recruits howling and screaming after being beaten, the lying veterans laughed at them: "It's so shameless, we don't even sneer at all."
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"Pah!" When the army's stick went down, the veteran who was talking couldn't help but screamed, causing the recruits next to him to laugh too: "You don't know either."
Both the new recruits and veterans received the military stick together. Although they were still harsh on words, the estrangement in their hearts had long since disappeared. Because receiving the military stick together and ridiculing each other made them closer to each other.