Daming kill

Chapter 228 An Unusual Thing Happened
One late night in mid-June of the 16th year of Chongzhen, the platoon leader Luo Xiaoliu who was stationed in Qizhou City was called up by the small duty soldiers in charge of the night watch in the company, and then got up in a daze to check the sentry post and the sleeping conditions of the soldiers.

There are five platoons in the whole company, and the platoon leaders rotate a company on duty every few days to be responsible for the night investigation and daily task deployment of the whole company. It is an important system for them.

They didn't follow the rule of not running around at night, which is common to other armies at this time, and it seemed that there was no problem.

In front of the brand-new military system and training system, everything about them is more disciplined and more restrained.

Cool and bright summer nights.

But Luo Xiaoliu was not in a good mood, he was very tired.

During the day, the continuous exercise and the unsatisfactory food almost exhausted all his energy.If I move again at night, I am not only tired and uncomfortable, but also a little hungry.

But he didn't have any food on hand, and he had no place to get it.

Since the troops stationed in Qizhou expanded into regiments, and since he was promoted to the rank of platoon leader and transferred into the city from Fuganguan, their food began to decline significantly, and the oil and water became less and less, and it was difficult to eat. You can eat until you are full.

But their training volume has not decreased in the slightest.

This made the recruits, especially those who were transferred from captives, complain endlessly, and it also made many veterans feel a little unbearable physically.

Although Luo Xiaoliu knew that this was an extraordinary moment, and also knew that as a platoon leader, he had to be more aware of the overall situation, but this still couldn't stop him from feeling a little lost and unhappy deep in his heart.

And he was even more upset when he saw the recruits on the sentry post who were cowering and had a lot of problems with passwords.

Swollen corpses floating down from the upper reaches can be seen everywhere in the Yangtze River. It is said that the battle in Daye County is getting more and more serious. No one knows when they will start fighting here, but the combat awareness and training level of the recruits are seriously lagging behind. It is far from the training progress when I was the squad leader.

This made Luo Xiaoliu feel a deep sense of crisis and also a deep sense of frustration.

Luo Xiaoliu couldn't help scolding his mother several times, and the monitors of the original trackers under him even scolded the sky.

But everything is still to no avail.

Listening to the squad leader accompanying the sentry behind him roaring angrily as usual, Luo Xiaoliu shook his head helplessly.

After patiently finishing the bedtime check, Luo Xiaoliu, who was back on the bed due to hunger, did not fall back asleep for a while.

When he was about to count sheep, he suddenly heard some unusual movements outside. It was the sound of someone running, and there was more than one person, and he could even feel the chaos and haste from the sound.

Somewhat stunned, Luo Xiaoliu just sat up suspiciously, but then he heard someone running into his company.

Luo Xiaoliu hurriedly jumped out of bed, instinctively picked up the waist knife beside the bed and rushed out, only to find that the person who ran into the company had precisely broken into the company commander's room, and the small duty officer who was in charge of the night watch at the door of the company The soldier stood there dumbfounded.

Soon, the company commander with half-opened eyes and the battalion's signal soldier came out of it.

Seeing Luo Xiaoliu, the company commander immediately said in a hurry: "Blow the whistle immediately, gather urgently, and the whole battalion will go out for training later."

"Why did you ask us to blow the whistle for the emergency assembly at Camp Lila?" Luo Xiaoliu reacted very quickly.

Since the expansion of the army, several gates outside the city have all been handed over to the newly formed garrison force of the Qizhou government, and all five battalions of their regiment have been stationed in the city.

Now, except that the two battalions on duty at the six city gates stationed their six companies on each gate, the other three battalions were stationed in three places in the city in units of battalions. .

That is to say, their entire battalion is currently stationed in a centralized manner. If they want to pull an emergency assembly in the battalion, they only need to come over and blow the whistle. There is no need to send someone to notify them first.

The company commander didn't seem to have thought of this question, or he hadn't woken up from his sleepy eyes. After being stunned for a while, he also reacted and looked at the battalion communications soldier inexplicably and asked: "It's a bit strange, why?"

It is really easy to cause misunderstandings if you don’t blow a loud bugle horn that can travel far, and it is in the middle of the night, and you are in the city, and you are facing a big enemy. It is generally not used unless it is extremely urgent. Everyone understands this, and It is also the current iron law.

But the communications soldier at the battalion headquarters shrugged his shoulders without comment.

beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep
At this time, the hurried whistle sounded in other companies.

The company commander's face changed drastically, and he shouted eagerly: "Don't worry about it, hurry up and blow the whistle."After speaking, the company commander hurried back to the room to pack his own things.

But Luo Xiaoliu always felt that something was wrong.

Do you want to go out for training after the emergency assembly?What's the situation?
After they expanded their army, they haven't done training, okay?And is it really appropriate to do zipper training now?

The recruits hadn't even been issued ration bags yet!
Luo Xiaoliu had participated in the training, he knew what the training meant by this army, and he knew at least what things were needed.

Soon, Luo Xiaoliu noticed that the battalion headquarters did not come to inspect them after their emergency assembly, but the entire battalion headquarters seemed to be in a panic, which was too abnormal.

And when they really walked out of the city, Luo Xiaoliu's suspicion became even stronger.

The brother troops guarding the city gate, the newly recruited armed forces affiliated to the government, and a large number of young and strong people who took turns to guard the city couldn't help but ask them what they were going to do in the middle of the night.

They wondered very much about the rationale for going out of town at this time.

However, the staff officers of the regiment headquarters and the battalion headquarters who had arrived in advance gave tireless and abnormally loud answers: go out of the city for training.

This reason is very far-fetched.

Then, they actually came to the river, and were ordered to board the ships that were approaching in confusion.

These ships should also have received sudden orders.

At this time, more people began to realize that something was wrong.

What are you doing on a boat?
Could it be that he wanted to go to the vicinity of Fuchi to train, but there was no bandit army there, and it was much safer than the outskirts of Qizhou.

But if they left Qizhou, wouldn't Qizhou's defense force be severely weakened.Most of them are recruits, but no matter how new they are, they are better than those newly recruited by the government with no training at all!

The confusion made it inevitable that there will be a lot of buzzing discussions and small confusions in the troops who have only trained for more than a month and have not organized any training at all.

It was also at this time that Luo Xiaoliu knew that the other battalion they left the city with was actually the first battalion.That was the core of the regiment's combat effectiveness, and it was also the only battalion in which the proportion of veterans exceeded that of recruits, and even accounted for the majority.

Unlike their other four battalions, the deputy squad leader (not included) is all recruits.

Moreover, the recruits of the first battalion were also strictly selected, none of them were reluctant, and none of them were made up.

The first battalion was quiet and orderly, fully demonstrating the maturity in training and organization, but it was also more strange and abnormal.

The two battalions, which accounted for less than half of the regiment's strength, with a total of about 1000 troops went out of the city for training late at night, including a battalion that was not needed and should not be organized for training at present. Luo Xiaoliu understood that things were not easy.

He realized that they couldn't possibly be organizing a training session.

When boarding the boat, Luo Xiaoliu's company commander did not take the same boat with them, but was called to a meeting on the boat where their team leader, Chief of Staff Han Jiu, was. This further confirmed Luo Xiaoliu's conjecture.

Sure enough, their main purpose of taking the boat was to cross the river, and the company commander who had crossed the river and returned to the company was also full of dignity.Especially the company commander refused to talk about the content of the meeting at this time, but just urged everyone to follow the company in front.

When it was bright for a long time that day, the long, tired, hungry and stupefied team finally stopped at an intersection near a large pond and crowded with donkey carts and mule carts.

This should be a supply point for them.

A large row of pots that were obviously erected temporarily was boiling a lot of boiling water, a long line of buckets with their lids opened seemed to be full of fried noodles, and there were also a pile of gourds for piling up water and long dry food bags for individual soldiers. , and pairs of cloth shoes...

There are cloth shoes?
All the officers and soldiers who saw the cloth shoes were stunned.

Even the most obtuse person understands that things are not normal.

And then, they noticed that on the side of the road not far from them, another friendly army of about one battalion was sitting quietly on the side of the road and watching them.

When the mechanical workers lined up to receive the dry food bags for individual soldiers and filled them with fried noodles in the wooden barrel, they filled up the two gourds they had on their bodies and the new ones they had received, and filled them with the boiled and still warm cold gourds beside the cauldron. Luo Xiaoliu's heart became even heavier after boiling water, and then receiving a pair of cloth shoes, two hard-boiled eggs, two salted duck eggs, a small bag of jerky, and a first-aid kit with a triangular scarf.

Unlike most of the recruits who started to be happy, Luo Xiaoliu has already realized what such a rare luxury means.

There is no free lunch in the world, and there is no need to prepare so many things for them in a training session.Especially as a platoon leader, he hasn't eaten eggs for a long time, and he has never received jerky.

A dry food bag filled with fried noodles can guarantee a soldier to eat for seven days. Distributing two water hyacinths is a typical long-distance marching requirement, and cold boiled water can minimize the troop’s diarrhea. As for food that can provide more energy Clothes, cloth shoes, and triangular towel first aid kits are the needs of combat.

Looking at the friendly army sitting there in the distance, who was obviously still childish, it seemed that they were ready to figure out what they were going to do.

But Luo Xiaoliu couldn't figure out why they needed to go to a long-distance march to fight?Shouldn't their main task now be defense!
Moreover, their army, which is mainly recruits and whose training is far from complete, seems not suitable for performing long-distance combat missions at all.

Also, what about Qizhou?
Luo Xiaoliu felt that the company commander should say something.

When everyone in the whole company finished receiving their food and sat down with a heavy long dry food bag on their backs, swallowing a mouthful of fried noodles and water, the company commander finally stood in front of everyone.

In the impassioned words of the company commander, the officers and soldiers of the whole company finally solved their confusion.

They actually came to Xingguo Prefecture to participate in the suppression of the rebellion.

Ke and Chen, the largest and bravest native officials in Xingguo Prefecture, brought their villagers to surrender to the bandits. Juren Xi Dingxuan, who was helping the people in Xingguo Prefecture, was captured by them and sacrificed to the bandits.

Since the control areas of the two rebel native officials happened to be located in the rear of Daye County, Daye County was in danger!Xingguo Prefecture is in danger!Fuchi is in danger!
The rebellion must be suppressed immediately and with urgency, otherwise the situation will get out of hand.

The mobilization of troops from Qizhou, including the first battalion of a regiment's combat core, was to deal with this serious and urgent incident, and strict secrecy was implemented to prevent panic.

Since the two battalions of the Third Regiment stationed in Fuchi were sent to Yangxin County in Xingguo Prefecture to strengthen their defense yesterday, and the other battalion was strengthened to the Second Regiment of Daye County before, the counter-insurgency The main force of the infantry will be borne by one of their regiments.

At the same time, the third regiment will also strengthen one of the last two battalions to them, that is, the unit that watched them eat by the road not far ahead.

The officers and soldiers who were eating had already stopped and looked at the company commander in astonishment, and soon became commotion, and the other companies were similar.

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(End of this chapter)