Daming kill

Chapter 101
It was already very cold in Xiangyang at the beginning of November in Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. Rich people had already started burning charcoal fires in their rooms to keep warm, and the river water was even colder.

A small river gallops forward quickly through the undulating mountains, until it slows down a little bit in a curved open area, where a relatively open water surface is formed.

Although the water surface is nearly thirty or forty feet wide (about 3.1 meters, one foot for carpenters in the Ming Dynasty is about [-] meters), and the water depth has been reduced to two meters due to the pits at the bottom, but because of the terrain, the surface of the entire river Still has a fast flow rate.

At this time, on this wide river, there was a group of men flopping about in the river, apparently wanting to cross.

Some of them wore thin clothes and pushed and dragged their bags supported by simple small bamboo rafts or sheepskin bags in the water, and some of them just wore slightly more clothes and swam on their own. There were several piles on the banks on both sides. bonfire.

On the bank where the group of men swam to, there was a thick, dripping man standing there looking gloomy at the river, this man was an arrogant and not easy to mess with just from his appearance.

He is Ma Lan, the commander of the reconnaissance company in Li Ping's battalion. At this time, he is organizing armed swimming training.

Finally, the more than 40 strong guys in the water finally landed on the shore, but Ma Lan suddenly pointed to a tall guy and said, "Wang Huqiang, go, swim back, and put out the fire on the other side."

After finishing speaking, Ma Lan turned around and walked to the nearest bonfire without looking back, shouting as he walked, "Everyone, clean up immediately, and start marching training after counting 100, Zhao Dongdong, come and count. "

As soon as his words fell, a young man who was warming up by the fire jumped up, and he answered "yes" loudly, followed by "1, 2, 3, 4..." while shouting and panicking Liao tidied himself up.

The platoon leader named Wang Huqiang was also tall and burly, with a fierce appearance and a sturdy air all over his body, he was even more difficult to provoke than Ma Lan.

At this time, he looked at Ma Lan's back with astonishment and pitifulness, and couldn't help shouting: "Company commander, we have been tossing in the water for several times, we are really bored, let brother rest for a while! "

"Execute the order. You are coming back late and you can't catch up with us, so you can count the stars by yourself in the mountains." Ma Lan turned her head viciously and said to Wang Huqiang.

After finishing speaking, he directly kicked down the bonfire beside him.

Wang Huqiang clicked his mouth dryly, and finally he only uttered the word "yes", and then hurriedly turned around and jumped into the water again.

The other people on the shore had already jumped up, putting on their clothes, putting out the fire, packing their bags, and stuffing jerky into their mouths in a hurry.

"Strict and difficult, start from actual combat. Sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in wartime." These are the two most frequently spoken words of guerrilla Li Ping. Ma Lan takes them seriously, and resolutely implements them in the daily training of the reconnaissance company.

The count of 100 was quickly exhausted, and the soldiers consciously stood in line in embarrassment.

The training during this period has made them understand the serious consequences of not obeying orders and not completing orders on time.No one is stupid, being beaten up by a fat person is a minor thing, being eliminated is the real loss of face.

The current reconnaissance company is definitely the most yearning place for the tough guys in the whole battalion. This is a collective of the strong, and being eliminated will mean that you are too weak.

And it is too easy to eliminate people, that Ma Yan Wang will never be merciful, he has already eliminated seventeen people, and no one knows who will be next.

After quickly reorganizing the team, Zhao Dongdong, one of the two platoon leaders, carefully ran to Ma Lan and asked, "Company commander, where are you going?"

"Here, Hejia Village." Ma Lan pointed on a simple small map.

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Ma Yong has been lying on a large table looking at the map for a long time. He still holds a simple wooden ruler in his hand, and a staff officer next to him is reporting various distance data to him.

This map is drawn on hard paper, and it is not very big, because it is impossible to make too big paper.

If you look closely, you can see that this map is completely different from the maps usually seen in this era.

It adopts the graphic method of going up north and down south, with a scale on the side. On the map, the city has the outline, the villages are divided into sizes, the rivers have the thickness, and the mountains and rivers have the approximate height and direction. There is a row of large characters at the top: Xiangfan Surrounding terrain picture.

Although this map is far from the maps of later generations, and is much simpler and naive, it is already much stronger than most maps of this era.What's more, at this time, quite a few generals of the miscellaneous army have never seen what the map looks like at all. Their grasp of the terrain is all based on verbal reports. It is good to be able to identify large towns.

It's just that most of the map in front of Mayon is still empty, and some of the empty places are drawn more densely, and some are only sparsely marked with a few villages.

Ma Yong used a ruler to draw on the picture for a long time, but finally gave up.

There must be something wrong with the marking of the area in front of him. After several places were marked on the map according to the reported distance, the distance from other surrounding reference objects was completely messed up. It seemed that the measurement was very inaccurate.

He sighed and wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end.

His staff office is too weak now, and he has not selected all staff officers. Most of the staff officers are just squad leaders, because they are really not qualified to be granted warrant officers.

Tomorrow, most of the battalion plans to conduct a longer-distance pulling training, and it is estimated that they will go out for five or six days. He has a headache when he thinks of his weak staff.

He decided to go and watch the training of the troops, so as to make himself feel better.

After a long day of rope-tying, trap-setting and camping training with officers and soldiers in a company, Ma Yong unconsciously went to the reconnaissance company that he must visit every turn, and it has become a habit for him to visit often.

At this time, all the officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance company were washing the horses in twos and threes.Some people chatted while brushing, some hummed a little tune, and the whole company was filled with a leisurely atmosphere.

Ma Yonggang's face turned gloomy again.

Soon, Ma Yong found Malan lying on a big rock, squinting and basking in the sun. The guy still had a piece of dry grass in his mouth, dangling with one foot dangling on the other bent leg.

Ma Yong was so angry that he kicked up.

It is estimated that the boss is used to it, and Ma Lan didn't take it seriously when someone approached him, and continued to squint his eyes.

Until being kicked violently, Malan on the stone rolled to the side like a conditioned reflex, and while spitting out the withered grass in his mouth, he propped up his body and cursed: "Damn it, I don't want to live anymore..."

When she saw that the person in front of her was Ma Yong, Ma Lan was stunned.

He slowed down his movements, stood up, and muttered helplessly, "Brother, why are you kicking me?"

"Why am I kicking you? That's how you give me face?" Ma Yong almost roared, and then went up and kicked Ma Lan's ass twice.

"What did I do? Brother."

Ma Lan had a look of grievance on his face. He didn't hide, and he didn't dare to hide. He knew that his brother was stressed and had a bad temper during this time.

"Damn, other companies are training in full swing, and look at you, you, a company commander, still have the heart to sleep here.

With so many people in the whole camp, your fucking company can eat meat every meal. Everyone has horses, and even Lao Tzu's staff office only has a few horses for ordering.You don't give me life-threatening training, but you lead me soldiers like this,
You also know that I am your brother.By the way, damn it, how many times have you said, you are not allowed to call me brother in public, you are ashamed, right? "

Ma Yong was obviously a little frustrated.

Ma Yong always felt that if his own brother didn't give him face, how could he order the whole camp, so he usually had extraordinarily high demands on Malan, wishing that he was outstanding in everything, and would scold him if he didn't like anything.

"Chief of Staff, I am not lazy. We have been training in the mountains for the past two days. Didn't we just come back last night? We haven't had a serious rest for a long time. The brothers are exhausted. Don't you all know this? of it?
I was thinking that there will be a lot of training in the camp tomorrow, and our company will be responsible for the sentry mission of the whole camp. Why don't you let the brothers and the horse develop a relationship quickly, so we don't have any troubles.Let's take a rest by the way, no matter how hard we are, we are not made of iron! "

Ma Lan defended unwillingly, but at the same time was full of grievances.

"You're still reasonable! You're still reasonable. You bastard, you work hard, you work hard, no matter how tired you are, what's the use if you don't work. Why don't you catch up on your company's math and As for surveying and mapping, more than half of the distance data provided to Lao Tzu are inaccurate, you still have merit, right?"

It was fine if Ma Lan didn't explain, but Ma Yong became even angrier when he defended.

He immediately remembered the powerlessness he felt when looking at the map just now. Although this was not entirely Malan's fault, he still had to bear a great deal of responsibility.

The reconnaissance company and the staff office are the only units in the entire battalion that have "very high" requirements for mathematics and elementary surveying and mapping. This high level actually means that they must reach the mathematics level of the fourth and fifth grades of primary schools in later generations and have the most basic map recognition and plotting. ability.

Since Li Ping has not yet set up a dedicated surveying and mapping unit, and the reconnaissance company is currently the unit with the strongest scope of activities, the reconnaissance company is not only responsible for reconnaissance of the enemy's situation, they also undertake the task of perfecting the map together with the staff office.

When Ma Yong said this, he really couldn't explain the constipated expression on Malan's face, not to mention his connection, now even he was almost driven mad by mathematics, but he had no place to complain.

As he stayed longer and longer under Li Ping and served as the commander of the reconnaissance company, Ma Lan has become more and more aware of the importance of culture and the importance of mathematics to the army. sex.

Guerrilla Li Ping began to agree more and more with many of his demands, but he also realized his insignificance and ignorance more and more.

Just like this mathematics and simple surveying and mapping are difficult for him, it is too difficult to learn.He used to look down on those weak literati, but now he admires them a lot.

Wang Huqiang, the platoon leader who had just poured a bucket of warm water, looked at Ma Lan, the company commander who had been trained as a grandson by the chief of staff not far away, and carried the water to the side of the platoon leader Zhao Dongdong who was brushing his horse with a confused face.

He poked Zhao Dongdong, who was also peeking curiously, and asked: "You said, the chief of staff is not an unreasonable person. When he saw our company commander, he changed everything. If we didn't know that they are brothers, I would I thought it was an enemy!"

Zhao Dongdong glanced at Wang Huqiang, and said with concern: "Do you know what it means to hate iron but not steel?" After speaking, he directly took a ladle to Wang Huqiang's bucket to scoop up a ladle of warm water.

But Wang Huqiang hadn't reacted yet, and said in a daze, "What does this mean?"

"What do you mean, thank you for the water." Zhao Dongdong said while continuing to scoop up water.

At this moment, Wang Huqiang came to his senses. After saying "Damn you", he hurriedly picked up the water and put it behind him.

(End of this chapter)