Back to the Republic of China as a commander

On the stone ladder beside the training field, five or six exhausted students who had just been fucked by the squad leader sat there to rest.

They have just finished weight-bearing physical training, although the spring breeze is blowing at this time, and the cool wind is blowing.But it can't stop their clothes from being soaked in Han water. A military kettle filled with cold boiled water is a good way to quench their thirst.

One of the trainees with a square face and slender eyebrows took a sip of water, glanced at the lively training ground and said, "What do you think of our new brigade commander?"

"What else can you do, brother Delin, be content, eat and drink without paying, and wear a new padded jacket all over your body. Think about the days in the Sixteenth Brigade before, can it be compared with now? This is the training. It’s too crazy, it’s much more than what I used to do in the Army Academy, and I’m exhausted.” A student with an oval face and narrow eyes replied very casually.

Another thin student soldier seemed to disagree with this: "Brother Jiansheng, I don't like to hear what you say. We came out of Guangxi for the revolution, not for food, drink and salary."

The oval-faced student who looked a bit lazy smiled: "According to what you Yu Zuobai means, do you still want to be a beggar? Then go, no one is blocking you. Look at you, the hardships of the past few months seem to be still there. Not enough!"

Seeing that the battle was about to take place, Fang Xuebing, who was called the elder brother of Delin, hurriedly said: "Don't argue, I want to say that's not what I mean. I just want to come out of Guangxi to make a revolution, what are we trying to do?"

The oval-faced student named Jiansheng suddenly showed sharpness and determination in his eyes when he heard this question: "What are you trying to do? Brother Delin, brothers, I, Bai, am a poor man. I just came out to do a career. Don't come to this world for nothing." Let’s go for a while. But after coming out of Guangxi, apart from the current Brigadier Wang, do you think there is another revolutionary army that is interested in doing business?”

The small Yu Zuobai was still a little angry just now, but now he heard this and nodded his head: "Brother Jiansheng, I agree with that. To be honest, the whole of Nanjing is still a bit revolutionary, and the rest of the people They're all making a fuss about wages, so it's business as usual to go out here."

Another stout soldier also shouted: "I, Liao Lei, came out with Captain Zhao, and I have had enough to eat in the Ninth Brigade. It's embarrassing to say that, where did we get this in the Army Primary School before?" sin."

Standing next to the soldier who called himself Liao Lei was a soldier with his arms folded and a handsome face: "Yes, our classmate Liao Lei has really suffered. Now he doesn't recognize anything except food. It's become a mess."

Then Liao Lei glared: "You, Li Pinxian, have the nerve to laugh at me. I didn't see you eating two bites less than that meal. If I'm an idiot, you're an extra-large idiot."

After speaking, the two of them smiled cheerfully again, and it seemed that their personal relationship was very good.

The man called Delin's Big Brother is Li Zongren, and the man called Jiansheng is the famous little Zhuge Bai Chongxi during the Republic of China.

These five people were not familiar with each other at first, but after the No.16 Brigade was transferred to defense, [-] Guangxi students were sold to the Ninth Brigade by the brigade commander Zhao Hengti as if they were baggage.Then there was the second reorganization, and a group of Guangxi students were transferred to the teaching team that was said to be training officers to continue serving as students.It was such a chance that the five of them happened to be assigned to the same class, so they naturally got to know each other.

Li Zongren is older, and he is a bit simple and honest. Because his name is Delin, everyone calls him Brother Delin.And Bai Chongxi is young, but he is very witty, and his words are also very tricky. He can easily make people half dead, but his heart is not bad, and everyone doesn't care about it.

At this moment, Li Zongren felt that he had knocked over the mixed bottle, and he felt all kinds of feelings.Although life is better now than in the past few months, as a person, Li Zongren can hardly get rid of the feeling of being sold out.

Originally in the Sixteenth Brigade, I and the others were already second lieutenants, but suddenly I don't know what agreement Brigadier Zhao reached with the current Brigadier Wang.People like myself became members of the Ninth Brigade, and they were reorganized a second time, and finally dispersed.

You must know that Li Zongren has ambitions, and his motivation for joining the army was very pure. He did a career, not seeking to pluck the wild goose, but to leave a name in history.This can be said to be quite unusual for a child from a commoner family, but such an unusual idea has influenced Li Zongren's life.

The revolutionary enthusiasm when I came out of Guangxi half a year ago has long since been poured down by the cold water of reality.Now facing an unfamiliar team and unfamiliar superiors, such a strong sense of strangeness even gave the 20-year-old Li Zongren the idea of ​​resigning and returning to his hometown in Guangxi.

"You are Li Zongren?" A gentle voice interrupted Li Zongren's meditation.

Before Li Zongren could turn his head, Bai Chongxi, who had been lazily leaning on the buttress of the stone ladder, suddenly jumped up from the stone ladder, and gave a standard military salute to the people behind Li Zongren: "Salute, the No. The detachment student Bai Chongxi reported to Brigadier Wang."

Anyway, eyesight is very important, Li Pinxian and Liao Lei are still busy making fun of each other, Yu Zuobai is still waiting for Li Zongren to speak; The young man whom the eldest brother greeted was none other than his new commander, the commander of the Ninth Brigade, Wang Zhenyu.That's right, although he is also wearing a blue-gray military uniform, isn't that buttoned on the collar badge the gold star collar badge that identifies the major general of the army?

"Oh, you are Bai Chongxi." The person who came was Wang Zhenyu, who had just sent away Mr. Ye Zuwen who had finished dealing with Shanghai affairs today.It's rare to have a free time, so I went to the teaching team to train grass-roots officers for myself.He nodded with a smile, returned the salute to Yu Zuobai, Liao Lei and other students who were rushing to salute him, and motioned them to sit down.

Chapter 053 The Bonus of the Revolution ([-])

The leader of the teaching team, Zhao Dongsheng, is currently the fastest-promoting member of the second battalion. He was still the deputy head of a shed under Hao Bing's hands, that is, the deputy squad leader, not even an officer.But ever since Wang Zhenyu took [-] army sticks for him at the broken mouth of the Qin, Zhao Dongsheng became Wang Zhenyu's bodyguard.Then he rose to prominence and is now a major officer, captain of the teaching team and captain of the guards.Wang Zhenyu is different from many officers of the civilian army at the same time. He is very cautious about the promotion of officers. Given the small size of the current team, he will personally intervene and make decisions on the promotion of each officer.In many civilian army teams, there are no rules at all in the appointment of officers. Often the brigade commander appoints the head of the regiment, and he doesn't care about it later.Everyone has relatives and friends, nepotism, and the right to appoint officers in their hands, so naturally the problem of staffing is not considered, and the phenomenon of overstaffing is very serious.Major generals and lieutenant generals ran all over the ground in many local armies, and many militias even had more officers than soldiers, more soldiers than guns, and more guns than bullets.

But in Wang Zhenyu's case, the huge Ninth Brigade, although needed for future expansion, has appointed over a hundred officers, and nearly a hundred reserve officers trained by the teaching team.But here he is the only major general, Yang Wangui and Xu Yuanquan are the colonels, Hao Bing, Song Xianfu, and Wan Yaohuang are the lieutenant colonels, and Ma Xicheng and Zhao Dongsheng are the majors.The rest are all low-level lieutenants, which is very rare in the entire civilian army system.When the personnel list was reported to the police headquarters, the staff officer in charge of receiving the list even asked very puzzled: "Is there anything missing?"

Another result of the lack of senior officers is that those who are capable work harder. For example, Zhao Dongsheng, the captain of the teaching team, also serves as the captain of the guard team.And for future considerations, Zhao Dongsheng still focused on the fifty guards.Usually when Wang Zhenyu went out, Zhao Dongsheng still followed him to prevent accidents.

So at present, the three sub-team leaders Song Haomin, Tang Hairong, and Zhang Xuguang are mainly responsible for the training of the teaching team.These three people are currently captains, but they are not low-level officers. You must know that there are only less than twenty captain officers in Wang Zhenyu's Ninth Brigade, which is very rare.

Tang Hairong and Zhang Xuguang are also in a special situation. Originally, according to Wang Zhenyu's order, the two should be forming a reconnaissance company and a special agent company directly under the brigade headquarters at this moment.But firstly, qualified soldiers were scarce, and secondly, qualified officers were even scarcer; Wan Yaohuang, who was in charge of the reorganization of the entire brigade, forcibly postponed the formation of the two companies based on the principle of preferring shortages to excesses.So right now these two can only stay in the coaching team and feel depressed.No, right now, the one who is training the students of his own team with his voice on the playground is Tang Hairong, the leader of the second team.

On weekdays, the three people in the teaching team can decide the small things together, and there is no rush for major matters. The guard team and the teaching team fight next door, and Zhao Dongsheng can be found at any time, so Zhao Dongsheng rarely shows up in the daily training of the teaching team.

But today the students all saw their tall and mighty Captain Zhao, who was standing beside the brigade commander, and the brigade commander was amiably chatting with some students from Guangxi.

"I heard from your Captain Song that you performed very well in training and study. You have studied for a few years before? Are you used to teaching the team?" Wang Zhenyu is now a major general and brigade commander, and he has been in the position for a long time. , It seems old-fashioned to speak.But when Li Zongren asked this question, it was very heartwarming.In any era, in any social system, when subordinates are cared for by superiors, it is rare for them not to be excited.For example, if you are walking on the street, you suddenly meet a big leader who is often seen on TV news broadcasts, stops you, and then asks you very kindly: fellow, how are you doing, how are you? ?

Even if you are a beggar at this time, you will be extremely excited and answer involuntarily: Thank you to the leaders and the government. Life is much better recently, and I can ask for half a bowl of rice every day.Then I told the leader proudly that I am very happy.

Of course, this is a bit exaggerated, but this is the normal human reaction when facing a powerful person.

Li Zongren is in this state now. He didn't expect that he, a later Guangxi soldier, would be questioned by the brigade commander himself, so he jumped up very flexibly: "Report to the brigade commander. I have studied in a private school in my hometown for two years, and I can read all the characters. Life in the teaching team is also very good, the sub-team leader and monitor are very concerned about us.”

Wang Zhenyu was supposed to drop by today to have a look, but it just so happened that the training of the first unit was over, and some Guangxi students were sitting on the ground chatting.Li Zongren and others spoke a dialect, which ordinary military officers could not understand, but Wang Zhenyu, who was later studied and worked in Guangzhou for six years, heard everything verbatim.Only at this time did he feel that conquering people's hearts is not so simple, it is not enough to give him some food and drink, but some treatment. The Li Zongren in front of him is obviously still a person with ideals or fantasies.

A thief in the mountain is easy, but a thief in the heart is dead.Wang Zhenyu was suddenly very interested in communicating with these Guangxi students who had just joined the group and still had doubts.

"Just now I heard you talk about the future of the revolution. I'm very interested. I want to hear from you. It's okay. I'm very independent, so don't be afraid." Wang Zhenyu is actually as old as Li Zongren, but because The high-level attribute of position was added, so that these students could not stand or sit beside Wang Zhenyu.Of course Wang Zhenyu knew what was going on, he took the lead and sat down, and Xue Bing dared to sit sideways on the lower stone ladder.

Wang Zhenyu asked Li Zongren, and Li Zongren answered first: "Brigade Commander, I am a student soldier. It is not easy to say that there are too many, but I always feel that revolution should not be like this. No matter how many revolutions, in the end it was those of the Manchus." Officials control the government? Then what are we people fighting for?"

This is very reserved, Wang Zhenyu nodded, and did not answer, but looked at Bai Chongxi.

Bai Chongxi really hoped that he could make a good impression on the new chief, so he immediately got up and said, "Brigade Commander, I think this revolution is just a beginning, and there will definitely be changes in the future, but right now we are in the city of Nanjing. What we have seen and what we have heard all show that we have encountered difficulties. At this time, the revolution is like sailing against the current, and I analyze that if we do not advance, we will only retreat. And I am afraid that the people in Beijing will not treat us militiamen sincerely.”

There is nothing new in Bai Chongxi's words. Most of the high-level officials in the Nanjing People's Army share this view, but as long as you look at Bai Chongxi's current status, it is amazing that a student soldier who was starving and cold more than ten days ago could think of this. It's not easy.Wang Zhenyu thought to himself: The man in Beijing didn't intend to treat him sincerely. Within a year, he should sharpen his knives and deal with the pigs and sheep, and punish us rebellious officials and thieves.

Next, Yu Zuobai, Liao Lei, and Li Pinxian also expressed their views. They generally think that peace is far away!It seems that people in the period of the Republic of China were no more stupid than later generations. It is estimated that Sun Yat-sen and the others are not naive as mentioned in the textbooks, but they are advancing in retreat, knowing that they have no power to shake others for the time being, and go to recuperate honestly.Otherwise, a year later, the Kuomintang, which is supposed to have handed over its military power and is ready to be elected by the people, launched a massive second revolution and persisted for two months under the attack of heavy Beiyang troops?

Thinking of this, looking at the nervous and expectant eyes of the five young Guangxi students in front of him, Wang Zhenyu, who was also young, smiled and said: "Your views are very reasonable, and I agree with them. In this way, Dongsheng, go down An order to suspend training and teach the team to assemble, I have something to say."

There was a sound of footsteps, and the quality of the teaching team was quickly reflected, and everyone assembled as quickly as possible.Most of the people looked at the brigade commander standing on the fixed training platform in front of them very puzzled, not knowing what he was going to say.Li Zongren and others looked at the brigade commander with some excitement, especially Li Zongren. He felt that he had been confused for several months, and he might be able to get an answer from the brigade commander.

"Scholars, everyone must be very strange, why should I summon everyone?"

Wang Zhenyu pondered for a while before starting his speech: "Just now, a soldier told me that he was very confused. Why did we launch this revolution, but the result was that the bureaucrats from the former dynasty in Beijing seized the central power? We soldiers Wouldn’t it be in vain to shed blood, sweat, and endure hardships? Now I’m going to answer this question, brothers, our revolution this time is very incomplete, and it’s quite incomplete. As the student soldier suspected just now, our revolution The fruit is indeed picked by others."

The students below were in an uproar, but the rigorous training they received in the teaching team this week made them quiet immediately.Everyone stared at the brigade commander with wide eyes, obviously hoping to know what the brigade commander would say next.

Wang Zhenyu was very satisfied with this, and he continued: "As a soldier, we will not discuss the right and wrong of this matter today, but I ask everyone to think about a question, why were the fruits of our revolution taken away by others? For months, the hundreds of thousands of civilian troops in Nanjing suffered from hunger and cold, including the 48 Guangxi students standing here today, who had no food or pay more than ten days ago. Why is this happening? You are not enough for the revolution Are you devout? No, you are the most loyal revolutionaries. You have walked thousands of miles from Guangxi with your feet and straw sandals. Does anyone dare to say that they are more loyal to the revolution than you? It is because of your loyalty The soldiers of the revolution, the emperor of the Manchu Tartars had to abdicate. But our revolution has not won. In Beijing, in this decadent and corrupt city, the powerful and powerful have colluded with all kinds of forces and betrayed the interests of the motherland to foreigners. Relying on these, they still hold a strong army. In our own revolutionary ranks, some people felt that the revolution had won after the Tartar Emperor abdicated, and it was time to pursue personal glory and wealth. They wavered and betrayed The revolution, they oppressed our Mr. Sun and Chief Huang, and forced them to hand over the fruits of victory to those in power in Beijing. And they themselves can use the prestige and qualifications gained in the revolution to collude with those shameless bureaucrats in Beijing Together, become upstarts, attached to the spinal cord of our motherland and continue to drink blood."

The apprentice soldiers are different from ordinary soldiers. These principles are clear to them. Now each of them has various complex expressions on their faces: frustration, anger, anxiety, etc. Li Zongren's hands even Clenched tightly into a ball.

"Are you afraid? Are you angry? I can tell you that anyone can be afraid, but you absolutely cannot. Anyone can be angry, but you absolutely cannot. Because what you hold in your hands is the gun of revolution; On your shoulders is the future of the entire nation. You must be brave and you must be calm. I can tell you responsibly that the road to revolution has never been smooth sailing, and the cause of revolution has never been achieved overnight. Revolution has always been Repeated twists and turns, do not shed the blood of evil, do not let the greedy fear, no one will voluntarily give up their own interests. Therefore, this revolution is only the beginning, not the end. Anyone who thinks that the world is peaceful, We can put swords and guns in the warehouse. The idea of ​​Ma Fang Nanshan is extremely ridiculous and dangerous. The future Republic of China will fall into all kinds of chaos because of the incomplete revolution in front of us. All kinds of clowns, dirty politicians, and shameless warlords will be here They appear on the stage. To let them go, you must rely on the real revolutionary army. And you have only one purpose of training hard here, which is to form a real revolutionary army, and use the guns in your hands to push the revolution to the next level. The final victory, use the guns in your hands to return the peace of the world and the prosperity of the nation. Everyone here, please remember that our revolution is not over, but just beginning. Please believe me and follow I, fight for the Republic of China, long live the Republic of China! Long live the Tiger Brigade!" Wang Zhenyu roared out the last sentence at the top of his voice.

After listening to the soldiers, they were suddenly filled with the sense of mission of the times. After all, they were young, and their blood boiled immediately after being so incited by Wang Zhenyu. The shouts of "Long live the Republic of China, long live the Tiger Brigade" shook the world.

In a small two-story western-style building not far away, Tian Yingzhao, who was smoking a big cigarette, was awakened by the shout: "This Wenzheng, he knows how to mess around, and he doesn't stop for a day."

Chapter 054 The Bonus of the Revolution ([-])

Li Zongren was fooled by Wang Zhenyu's speech, and felt that all the pent-up things in his heart had been untied. Yes, the revolution is just the beginning, and everything is still repeated. We must use the revolutionary gun to push the revolution to the final victory.If you don't leave, you will start the revolution in the Tiger Brigade. (Revolution shouts: Daddy Flax)

Wang Zhenyu was very satisfied with the effect of the speech. At least the morale and spirit revealed by the students afterward were completely different. Spirit is not something that can be obtained by paying a few more salaries.

Then Wang Zhenyu visited three infantry battalions. Now each battalion is making various preparations for upgrading to regiment.Everywhere Wang Zhenyu went, he would look at their preliminary preparation plans. As expected of being instructed by Wan Yaohuang one by one, the plans of each battalion were quite comprehensive, especially after the participation of the people from the Military Supply Department.Seeing that this modern army already has the concept of synchronous coordination of various units, Wang Zhenyu is naturally very satisfied.

After walking for a day, Wang Zhenyu, who was a little tired, returned to the brigade headquarters. At this time, it was already dark, so he hurriedly picked up two bites of food, soaked his feet, and fell asleep with his head covered without taking a bath.

As a result, not long after falling asleep, a gunshot was heard.