Chapter 9 chapter eight

Zhou Lide left Zhoujiazhai and headed north, he was going to Suiyuan to join Feng Yuxiang's team.As for why he voted for Feng Yuxiang, Zhou Lide didn't know anything else, he only heard that Feng Yuxiang's army commander didn't beat soldiers. After walking on the road for nearly a month, Zhou Lide arrived at Wuyuan in Suiyuan.At that time, Feng Yuxiang had just sworn in Wuyuan and had taken up the post of commander-in-chief of the National Army Coalition Army. He was recruiting a lot of troops and was preparing to go south to participate in the Northern Expedition. Zhou Lide was immediately recruited as soon as he signed up.

Although Zhou Lide is proficient in marksmanship and has organized a team of guards, but those are all wild ways, and he has never experienced formal training at all.He was incorporated into the First Army Recruit Company to participate in training.The training was very strict and hard, but Zhou Lide felt very fresh and excited, and the training was very serious.Zhou Lide is different from other soldiers. Some soldiers are for food and money, but he likes this job as a soldier.In the words of his father Zhou Kewen, he was born for the martial arts examination, but unfortunately the imperial examination was abolished.Because of Zhou Lide's serious training, outstanding performance in the live ammunition shooting, and he could read a few words, he was appointed as the squad leader after the training and was incorporated into the first battalion of the sixth regiment of the second division of the first army.

On the day when the recruit training ended, Commander-in-Chief Feng Yuxiang gave a lecture to the recruits, and Zhou Lide witnessed this legendary general for the first time.Unexpectedly, this man was wearing the same gray cloth military uniform, cloth shoes, and leggings as they did. It was too far from the military uniform, colorful ribbons, and high spur boots he had imagined.Commander-in-Chief Feng is a tall man of about 1.8 meters, and his voice is like a bell. He talked about uniting Russia and the Communist Party, going south and north, overthrowing the Beiyang warlord government, etc. Zhou Lide was ignorant, he didn't quite understand these things matter.But he heard the last sentence of the commander-in-chief clearly. Feng Yuxiang said, since we are revolutionary soldiers, we must have a revolutionary spirit and a revolutionary outlook, so we must get rid of all bad habits and habits. Cigarettes are also not allowed.From today, the entire army will implement smoking cessation.In the future, if anyone smokes, I will tell him to eat his cigarette butts.

This made Zhou Lide difficult.Zhou Lide has no other hobbies, but likes to smoke two cigarettes.These are all problems that I developed when I was with a bunch of wandering buddies when I was studying in the county.At home, his father scolded him a lot, and he made up his mind to quit smoking many times, but in the end he lost to the addiction.Now when it comes to the army, it seems that we have to quit. As the saying goes, military orders are like mountains, and this is a military order issued by the commander-in-chief. One day not long after being incorporated into the regular army, Zhou Lide was sent to the headquarters to stand guard.They are field staff, and their guard positions are some distance away from the gate of the headquarters.Even so, he still saw a scene that made him happy: Commander-in-Chief Feng Yuxiang came out to see off the guests, holding a cigarette in his hand.

This scene convinced Zhou Lide that quitting smoking is a superficial matter, as long as you don't smoke in public, isn't the commander-in-chief still smoking in the house?One day, Zhou Lide became addicted to cigarettes, so he ran to the toilet to smoke secretly. Unfortunately, a person came in at this time. He was Zhou Lide's colleague when he was in the recruit company, and he had an awkward relationship with Zhou Lide.When he saw Zhou Lide hiding here smoking a cigarette, he immediately exposed it and asked Zhou Lide to swallow the cigarette butt. If Zhou Lide had pleaded with him at this time, it might be all right, but Zhou Lide knew that he was taking the opportunity to retaliate, so he refused to let him gain power. He yelled, saying that Zhou Lide was smoking, everyone, look!The two came out of the toilet tugging and tugging, making a fuss.Many onlookers accused Zhou Lide and told him to swallow the cigarette butt immediately.Zhou Lide laughed and said that you are serious, quitting smoking is only allowed to smoke in public, the commander-in-chief also smokes in private.Others scolded him for talking nonsense, Zhou Lide swears and swears, and recounts the scene of that day.

As soon as Zhou Lide finished speaking, he squeezed into the crowd, snatched the cigarette butt from Zhou Lide's hand, stuffed it into his own mouth, and swallowed it with a grunt.This person is Feng Yuxiang.Feng Yuxiang came down to inspect the camp in micro-services, and when he saw a group of people arguing, he came to watch.Feng Yuxiang's leadership is very characteristic. He doesn't want to stay at the headquarters. Whenever he has time, he goes to the soldiers and often goes to the camp with light clothes for inspections.At that time, everyone was attracted by the people inside, and no one found the commander-in-chief.When Feng Yuxiang heard Zhou Lide's description, he immediately realized that he had ignored the seriousness of the ban and should punish himself.

Everyone was stunned, Zhou Lide was so frightened that his legs went limp, and he knelt on the ground with a plop.Feng Yuxiang helped him up and said, "It's not your fault. If you want to blame it, it's my old Feng who didn't lead by example."He immediately ordered the orderly to take out all the cigarettes in his house and burn them in public, and then announced that I would never smoke even if I entertained guests.In order to ensure the effect, I transferred this brother to my pistol camp to follow me and supervise me to quit smoking! Zhou Lide didn't think that things would turn out like this, instead of losing his life, he became the commander-in-chief's valet.He immediately tapped his feet and performed a standard military salute.

In the days that followed, Zhou Lide was very proud.With a cannon on his waist, white gloves in his hands, and a tall horse, he followed the commander-in-chief wherever he went, and enjoyed it when others saluted the commander-in-chief.This kind of life is of course very comfortable, no need to go out to exercise, no need to work, and not to be scolded by the chief. Compared with the life of soldiers in the previous period, it is like going to heaven.But after a long time, Zhou Lide felt a little monotonous and boring, which was too different from his imagined military career.Although Zhou Lide didn't study hard, that refers to official books, he has read wild books and idle books, and he is familiar with "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Wagang Village" and so on.Although he couldn't understand the frontier poems, his father often told him about the heroes there, happy grievances, iron horses, golden swords, and decisive killing. These made Zhou Lide's blood boil since he was a child, and he had long fantasized that he would become An iron-blooded hero galloping all-powerful on the battlefield.Although he has now joined the army and has the opportunity to realize his ideals, he has been sent to the guard battalion of the highest officer.Everyone knows that it is impossible for the supreme officer to go to the front line and go deep into the fire line, so he will never think of firing a single shot on the battlefield in his life, what kind of soldier is this!

Fast forward to November, and the military situation suddenly became tense.At the request of Xi'an garrison generals Li Huchen and Yang Hucheng, the National Army decided to send troops south to lift the siege of Xi'an by Liu Zhenhua, the Beiyang warlord.One day after the military meeting, Feng Yuxiang wanted to go to the camp for inspection, and took Zhou Lide with him. On the way, Feng Yuxiang suddenly asked Zhou Lide if he was from Shaanxi. I heard about it.Feng Yuxiang said that now the city is running out of ammunition and food, and tens of thousands of people are starving to death. Do you know this situation?He said he didn't know.Feng Yuxiang said that these people are all from your township party, do you want to call them back?Zhou Lide replied loudly: Yes!Feng Yuxiang said, I think you are a young man with ambition, good marksmanship, and literate. It would be a waste of talent to be in front of me. Do you want to go to the company and make contributions to the front line?Just as Zhou Lide was about to open his mouth, Feng Yuxiang said, don't rush to answer, go back and think about it.He went on to say, if you stay by my side, you will be a battalion commander in the end, because you have no chance to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds.Go to the front line, as long as you don't get killed, you may become a division commander, and that's how I did it.Of course, you'll be safe in Pistol Battalion, as long as I, Old Feng, don't die, you won't suffer.You can choose the two paths yourself, I will not force you.

Waking up the next day, Zhou Lide packed his bedroll and carried it on his back. He came to the headquarters energetically, saluted Feng Yuxiang with a snap, and said loudly, "Report to the commander-in-chief, the sixth division of the second division of the first army." Zhou Lide, the squad leader of the second squad of the third company and the fifth platoon of the first battalion of the regiment, bids farewell to you!Feng Yuxiang snapped back a military salute and said, Wrong, you are now the platoon leader of the third company and fifth platoon of the first battalion of the sixth regiment of the second division of the first army!

Feng Yuxiang sent Zhou Lide out of the gate of the headquarters, and when they parted, he said with a smile, thank you, Shaanxi lenovo, for making me quit smoking.Suddenly Zhou Lide's eyes became moist, he held back his tears and gave a standard military salute to the commander in chief. Zhou Lide's First Army marched to the outside of Xi'an as the vanguard for ten days. Their task was to open a gap in the south gate to provide a general attack channel for the follow-up troops. Liu Zhenhua's Zhensong Army has been besieging Xi'an since March.The soldiers and civilians in the city of Xi'an were united and united against the enemy. With an army of less than 20,000 people, they resisted the crazy attack of a 100,000 army and tried to keep the ancient city intact.Liu Zhenhua became furious and ordered a complete blockade of Xi'an. Not an inch of cloth or a grain of rice was allowed to enter, and the soldiers and civilians defending the city would starve to death.They built dense fortifications around the city wall, and bunkers and secret passages are dotted all over. The battle was extremely fierce.It took the First Army five full days to advance from Nanshao Gate to South Gate, and lost 3,000 men in a distance of more than three miles.There is a blockhouse at the south gate, built on the north bank of the towering moat, all made of bluestone slabs from Zhongnan Mountain.There are scruples about bombarding with cannons. The bunker is not far from the city wall. I am afraid that the city wall will be damaged. It is not to protect the ancient buildings, but to let the Zhensong army take the opportunity to get in. Isn’t this helping the enemy to attack the city?The small steel cannon doesn't work at all, and the shells can only rub a few white spots, which can be regarded as tickling.The blasters were dispatched several times, but they all died in vain, because the river bank was open and exposed to the firepower of the bunkers. Even if someone got close by chance, there was a moat several feet wide in the middle, and the explosives could not be thrown through. The troops were blocked here, and the attackers fell down like cut wheat, the blood almost covered their ankles, and there was still no way to get past this level.When it was dark, Sun Liangcheng, the commander-in-chief of the National Allied Forces Aid Shaanxi Army, came to the front to supervise the battle. Although this man was not as big as Feng Yuxiang, and his rank was not as high as Feng Yuxiang, he was much more tempered than Feng Yuxiang.He walked into the headquarters of the Sixth Regiment, which was in charge of the main offensive task. The head of the regiment saw his angry look, and quickly brought him a chair and asked him to sit down. He kicked the chair over and cursed, "Give me all the shit Standing, you can't beat the south gate tonight, even if you kneel and beg for mercy, I will shoot you one by one, and tell you to lie down and eat dog shit! The head of the regiment immediately called a meeting of officers above the platoon leader to discuss countermeasures.Everyone is frowning.Due to the serious reduction in personnel, Zhou Lide's company has been transferred up as a reserve team. He didn't know the battle situation. After listening to the introduction of the regiment leader, he boldly made a suggestion: the engineering battalion would dig trenches overnight, and dig to the south bank of the moat river in the dark. , and then he led a few people to lurk there, waiting for an opportunity to kill the machine gunner in the bunker.The head of the group felt that this plan was very feasible, but it was too risky.The key to success was the ability of the shooter to accurately hit the holes of the bunkers in the dark. The head of the regiment lifted the kerosene lamp on the table and put it in the wall hole at the end of the room. Since the regiment headquarters occupied the main hall of a temple, the space was relatively open, and the distance from the table to the wall hole was at least fifteen meters. Then he Pulling out his pistol and handing it to Zhou Lide, Zhou Lide flicked the gun, and the room immediately plunged into darkness.The orderly quickly polished the match, and found that the kerosene lamp was intact, but the flame of Dou Da was extinguished. Everyone exclaimed at the same time.The head of the regiment immediately ordered: engineer battalion commander, start work immediately. The distance from the front line to the moat was not too far, and the trenches were dug in the middle of the night.Zhou Lide told the head of the regiment that half an hour after we entered, you would shoot a feint attack here to attract them to shoot, and then repeat every half hour until the firepower of the bunker completely went silent. Zhou Lide took four brothers and lurked to the south bank of the moat river, which was seventy or eighty meters away from the bunker. He said to the four men, you just need to fill your rifles with ammunition and hand them to me in turn. my business.Zhou Lide and the others' guns were made in Hanyang, and they could only be fired single-shot. They used to be machine guns, but they were too bulky for Zhou Lide to use. Half an hour later, gunshots rang out from behind Zhou Lide, and the bunker facing him spit out flames, exposing three shooting holes. Zhou Lide quickly got up and fired three shots, and the muzzles of the three guns immediately went silent.He got down on the ground and hid. After a while, the bullet hole came alive again. Zhou Lide concocted it according to the law, and the other party turned off the fire again.For one night like this, Zhou Lide shuttled back and forth in the fan-shaped trench, pointing to where to strike, and finally fought until there was no more gunshots in the bunker. Zhou Lide thought he had killed all the defenders inside, but he didn't. The next morning, the troops charged and captured the strong fortress.The strange thing is that there are still five machine gunners inside. When I asked them why they didn't shoot, they said, who would dare to, as long as you touch the machine gun, you will be killed immediately. Touching the handle of the gun is touching the nose of Lord Hades! Sun Liangcheng had been supervising the battle at the regiment headquarters that night.As soon as the battle was over, he immediately called for Zhou Lide, saying that such good marksmanship would be a waste of talent in the company, so he was transferred to my pistol battalion. In this way, Zhou Lide became the officer's bodyguard again.Although he was promoted to a higher rank and became a company commander, he was not happy in his heart.Zhou Lide felt that this might be fate, he was serving others in this life.He had to admit it.