Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 983

Chapter 983 Excellence is the original sin!

April 15th!

Linfen, the important city in Jin Province!

The temporary residence of China's Second Theater Command.

Luo Wanjian, as a sergeant squad leader belonging to the 210th Brigade of the 68th Division of the 19th Army of the Shanxi-Sui Army, is on duty at the city gate today.

To put it bluntly, during this war, the city gate guard was responsible for checking the carriage of people entering and leaving the city gate and looking for suspicious persons.

The Japanese army is massively increasing its troops to the last big city in Shanxi Province. Spies are flying all over the sky. Linfen, where the Second Theater Command is located, is now under martial law. Two of the four city gates are closed, leaving only one facing Shaanxi. The two city gates of the province are still open for people to enter and exit normally.

Luo Wanjian was not a new recruit. He had been in the army for four or five years and was still just a superior soldier. However, after a battle to defend the original city, three squad leaders and two squad deputies in his original infantry squad died. He had been in the army for four years. Half of the soldiers turned out to be the most senior in the infantry squad. Not only was the firing line promoted to squad leader, but his military rank was also promoted to sergeant.

But at that time, Luo Wanjian was not happy at all. Instead, he was more afraid. There were only four people left in the infantry squad. This squad leader was basically equated with death! At that time, he especially hated the bad name that his father gave him. Judging from the ending, it was like a thousand arrows were fired here and there, and it was completely like a thousand arrows piercing the heart!

The Japanese dropped bombs from the sky and bombarded them with artillery underground, leaving no way for people to survive!

A miracle happened like this. On the second day after being promoted to squad leader, the army began to retreat. Then the original city was lost, northern Shanxi was lost, western Shanxi was lost, and eastern Shanxi and southern Shanxi were almost lost. Everyone They were trapped in this small area of southeast Shanxi and struggled to survive.

Jin Province is about to disappear. The powerful Jinsui Army, which originally had 300,000 troops, has less than 100,000 troops left. But for Luo Wanjian personally, he has been promoted and his life has been saved. . This Army sergeant who was lucky enough to survive basically despaired of the battlefield. His biggest wish at the moment was no longer whether he could hold on to the last piece of territory in his hometown, but when he could continue to retreat to Shaanxi Province. At least there is a natural moat of the Yellow River there.

Perhaps, this is also the truest thought in the hearts of the vast majority of the tens of thousands of Jin-Sui Army who have low morale. They have completely lost confidence in their 'King of Jin Province'.

Therefore, Luo Wanjian is not very concerned about the people rushing in and out of the city gate. If the Japanese spies are coming, let them come! Anyway, Linfen City will be lost sooner or later.

The squad leader was all like this, and the infantry squad soldiers under his command naturally followed suit. They stood lazily at the gate of the city with their guns in hand. It was already three o'clock in the morning, and many of them were still yawning and feeling listless.

Luo Wanjian knew that this was because these guys gambled all night in the barracks yesterday. Anyway, the guy who won the money gave him a piece of silver as a tribute in the morning. As a squad leader, he naturally turned a blind eye. Close one eye.

The people passing by the city gate are naturally accustomed to this phenomenon. They don't care about the mental state of the soldiers guarding the city gate, as long as they don't cause trouble for them. Although the Japanese invaders are pressing heavily on the border dozens of kilometers away, It's worrying, but what can worry do? There is no way to solve the problem, we can only live one day at a time.

This should be the current state of life of the Chinese soldiers and civilians in Linfen City, which is almost numb.

The battlefield was defeated, the city was lost, morale was low, and the people were numb.

At the entrance of the city gate, a big man wearing a long mandarin jacket and a top hat frowned as he watched this scene.

Luo Wanjian, who squinted his eyes as if he was far away from home, saw the big man's frown from the corner of his eye. There was no way around it. This big man dressed as an ordinary businessman was at least 1.8 meters tall, which made it difficult for him as the captain of the city gate watch team not to notice.

However, judging from his life experience, this big man should have nothing to do with the Japanese. Especially when he frowned when he saw the numbness of the military and civilians, Luo Wanjian's man's intuition told him that this was definitely a man with enough power. Chinese people with a sense of justice.

Because, looking at the state of the soldiers under his command, even he himself despised them, let alone others.

But, he is just a small squad leader, what can he change? He was able to win this losing battle by whipping his soldiers who had just laid down their hoes for a few days? Don't be ridiculous, he didn't want to be like his previous squad leaders, who didn't even have a straw mat after his death, so he just dug a shallow hole and buried him.

Moreover, seeing that the big man was accompanied by two followers and a big dog, Luo Wanjian could basically tell his net worth. Not to mention rich and powerful, he was middle-class at least, at least not a sergeant squad leader like him. Can be provoked.

Let him dislike it if he dislikes it! Anyway, being disgusted won't cost him a piece of meat. Luo Wanjian quickly glanced elsewhere from the corner of his eyes. As long as he successfully completed the day without any trouble, he and his infantry squad would have one night plus one day. During the rest time, the silver dollar he collected in the morning was enough for him to sleep all night in Xiaofang's small house with red lanterns.

When Luo Wanjian thought of Xiaofang's waist that was not slender but full enough and could twist like crazy, Luo Wanjian felt that that was the greatest pleasure in the world.

However, when Luo Wanjian's peripheral vision glanced towards the city gate, a guy with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks who looked like a tuberculosis man but was wearing a military uniform with a shell gun hanging from his waist appeared in his peripheral vision. Luo Wanjian, the sergeant squad leader, suddenly The ground stirred.

It's not because this guy is the lieutenant of his infantry company, the officer with the largest guard duty at the city gate today, and the boss of his immediate boss, but because something seems to be going wrong.

How could a large city that is the seat of a theater headquarters have only one infantry squad on duty at an important thoroughfare like the city gate that has nearly ten thousand people passing through it every day?

There is a light machine gun on both sides of the entire city gate, and there are also machine gun fortifications above the city gate. In addition to Luo Wanjian's infantry squad standing on both sides of the city gate with live ammunition, there is also a fully armed infantry squad in the fortifications inside and outside the city gate. , there is even an infantry company on standby in the military camp not far from the city gate. No matter how bad a fully armed infantry platoon is, it can still fire a warning shot!

Once there is gunfire, they can all rush to the city gate within 3 minutes, not to mention that there are 68th Division and an infantry division with tens of thousands of people in Linfen City.

Of course, this is nothing. The three lines of defense deployed in the mountains outside Linfen City have a total of 150,000 troops. They are the main force to defend Linfen City.

If you want to cause trouble in Laifen City, even if you are as powerful as the Japanese and don't have an infantry regiment, don't have this dream, otherwise Luo Wanjian and his gang guarding the city gate will not be so lax.

But this lieutenant and company deputy whose surname was Tao Shiren and whose nickname was "Fishing to Death" was a careless master. He took the initiative to apply for the position of Captain of the City Gate Guard Squadron by relying on his sister being the brigade commander's concubine. errand.

This janitor's job may seem ordinary, but only those who are well versed in it know that it is very lucrative. Because it is wartime, many scarce materials are under wartime control and are not allowed to be sold privately, such as cigarettes, salt, sugar, etc. Medicines, etc., are also urgently needed by many people. The price on the underground black market is said to have increased tenfold. If there are huge profits, some people will take risks.

Sign up and bribe the city gate watchman, which has become their standard practice. "You can earn it to death". Didn't you spend that night in a hotel or a brothel these days?

That's it, this guy is not satisfied. From time to time, he will walk around the city gate, not for anything else, just to touch the faces of the older girls and younger wives and take advantage of them, and shake the city for everyone. The majesty of the gate guard squadron leader.

The evil is not great, but it is disgusting. Even the soldiers of the Jinsui Army who were on duty at the city gate and were lazily attending to their errands looked down upon their own leader.

But he was protected by a major general and brigade commander. Not to mention that there was nothing they could do against him. Even the battalion commander and regimental commander above him turned a blind eye.

“Don't cause trouble for me!” Luo Wanjian muttered silently in his heart, while bending down and planning to give this man a military salute.

That guy came here just to enjoy this feeling!

But what you are afraid of will come.

“You, come here!” The man with a sharp face and monkey cheeks looked at the tall man with a frown standing at the entrance of the city gate, and waved with an unhappy look on his face.

Of course Lao Daoshi was unhappy. He had seen many people who looked talented, but he was handsome but dressed in ordinary clothes, but he still expressed his dissatisfaction with people he couldn't mess with. This was a problem.

Of course Lao Deshi knew what kind of guys he was leading, but the number of veterans in the brigade that defended Yuancheng was reduced from 10% to 70%. Then there were successive defeats. This group of soldiers joined the army. However, the recruits who are only two months old are already good at standing at the door with guns in hand. Why, they are still expected to go to the front line!

In that case, Lao Deshi, who was promoted from a squad leader to a lieutenant by two ranks, was the first to turn around and run away.

But these cowards are his, and looking down on them means looking down on him, especially if he is looked down upon by an ordinary guy. The most unpleasant thing is that this ordinary guy has a good life, and is as skinny as a monkey compared to his 1.65-inch stature. His face is much stronger.

To put it bluntly, in the face of mediocre people, excellence itself is the original sin.

“Sir, what should I do?” Peng Chong, the commander of the guard company following Tang Dao, looked tense and asked in a low voice.

Tang Dao's visit to Fen this time, of course, will not come quietly. It has been reported through the 22nd Army Headquarters and the Second Theater Command, so Tang Dao will personally report to the theater commander about the Shanxi and Eastern War. as an excuse.

Although the Battle of Licheng and the Battle of Xiangtangpu were both led by the 921st Division, the 80th Group Army is currently under the jurisdiction of the Second War Zone. Winning the battle will also give the general commander face. Although Tang Dao is only He is an army colonel, and he is a subordinate of the Sichuan Army Group. He is still far away from a general of the level of a theater commander, but the Si Xing Regiment is well-known, and it is obvious that he came with the intention of currying favor with the commander. With the Shanxi old man's So smart, how can you not think of it?

Within two days, the theater headquarters responded and agreed. Tang Dao is now considered an important general, and he also has the task of purchasing supplies and exchanging money. Naturally, he will not just run to Linfen with two or three soldiers like before, but Tang Dao doesn't want to make too much fanfare and let him go. The Japanese spies in the city knew about it, so they left all the accompanying troops in a small town ten miles away. He only took Xia Dayu and Peng Chong with him and a hammer. He also took his military uniforms and some identification documents with him, planning to After entering the city and finding a place to stay, go to the theater headquarters, and then agree on a time to visit that person's house.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I walked to the city gate, I just frowned at the lax mental outlook of the city gate guard, and something went wrong. The wretched-looking army lieutenant looked like he was looking for trouble.

“Just wait and see what happens!” Tang Dao Paipai couldn't help but want to reach out and touch Xia Dayu's shoulder at his waist, but his expression remained unchanged. "I'm just a clown, why are you nervous?"

"Just you guys! Come here quickly!" Lao Deshi put his hands behind his back and shouted coldly.

The crowd around them quickly dispersed to the side, leaving Tang Dao, three people and one dog at the city gate.

Tang Dao took the lead, followed closely by Peng Chong and Xia Dayu. Hammer was still curious about the group of people around him who were looking at him with pity.

Hammer is now a real military dog.

Its life is not to bask in the sun. During the whole regiment's military training, it also ran on the obstacle course with more than 20 kilograms of rocks on its back. When it went to the battlefield, it would also put a Tang knife around its neck. Teacher Xiao He was specially asked to customize a collar with strong steel spikes for it, and a vest with thin steel plates on its chest and abdomen. It is an absolute warrior.

As long as it senses murderous intent, it will immediately issue a low whine warning. Once Tang Dao issues a combat command, it will immediately enter combat status.

Of course, it is obviously not the battlefield it is familiar with yet.

There was no murderous intent, but there was a look in his eyes that made Hammer feel strange.

It has become accustomed to being in the company of those powerful humans, and it doesn't understand why the weak humans around it look at it with such pity.

In the world of hammers, including the group of humans with weapons that can kill dogs, if a war breaks out, it can kill at least several of them.

Rabbits can also show mercy to wolves, which is difficult to understand given Hammer's current IQ.

"What are you doing here?" Lao Deshi raised his head and looked at Tang Dao, whose head was half as big as his own, and asked with a cold face.

“Boss, do some small business!” Tang Dao lowered his head and answered sincerely.

"You're doing business, and you still have the time to bring a dog? It's definitely not a serious business." Lao Deshi looked at the hammer that was shaking his head and following him, snorted coldly, and gave Tang Dao a thumbs up.

Hammer: Why am I not serious?

"Open the suitcase and let me take a look?" Lao Deshi ordered coldly.

The people on the side lowered their heads and sighed. This young man, who seemed to have a good family background, was going to be unlucky.

It's been a month since 'Fishing to Death' came to this city gate. Who doesn't know that he has evil intentions? People with no background fell into his hands, and at least half of his belongings were lost. He wanted to file a lawsuit, but the brigade commander My brother-in-law is the highest defense officer in Dongcheng. A sensible person who thinks he is unlucky can still keep himself safe, but an ignorant person is put into a sack in the middle of the night, beaten half to death, and thrown out of the city. In this era of war and chaos, not to mention a broken leg, how many people are dead? Personally, I don't think anyone has the heart to care about it.

"What? Are you feeling guilty?" Lao Deshi obviously enjoyed the silence of the whole place. He patted the shell gun box on his waist and protested.

His eyes glanced at Luo Wanjian, signaling him to bring his soldiers, put on the gun, pull the bolt, etc., to help him boost his momentum.

This is an old routine. In the past, Luo Wanjian, the sergeant and squad leader, would have been more cooperative, and would have basically distributed a few silver dollars to the brothers so that they could drink.

But this time, looking at the young man's upright back, and thinking about the tough face he saw before, the Army sergeant felt a sense of fear for some reason.

By some strange coincidence, the army sergeant waved his hand behind his back slightly, signaling to the soldiers behind him not to act rashly.

Luo Wanjian is a veteran himself, and he usually takes good care of the soldiers in his squad. He turns a blind eye even to things that violate military discipline, such as gambling and drinking. The soldiers in his squad are quite convinced by him and see him quietly giving orders. , just do what he wants.

As for "fishing to death", if he didn't have a sister who was a brigade commander, who would pay attention to him!

This is probably the most correct thing Luo Wanjian has done since he grew up.

Seeing that the soldiers in front of the city gate didn't do what he wanted, "Fishing to Death" felt a surge of anger, but before he could get angry, his eyes suddenly straightened.

Peng Chong, the guard company commander, would have listened to a lieutenant. In his suitcase was a gift from the commander of the Tang Dynasty to the theater commander. How could he show it to others like this?

But Tang Dao smiled faintly and motioned for him to open it for the master to take a look at.

　　The half-opened suitcase was brought to Lao Deshi by Peng Chong. Inside there were ten golden yellow croakers.

The big yellow croaker is not the small yellow croaker. One is ten taels, ten is one hundred taels. If it is exchanged for the ocean, it will be nearly 20,000 taels.

Let alone a small person like "fishing to death", even his "brother-in-law" who is a brigade commander probably doesn't have many opportunities to walk around with 20,000 oceans in cash! The one who catches the eyeballs until death is not straight is a ghost.

After staring at the suitcase for a long time, he swallowed and tried to look away after "fishing it to death". His eyes flickered and he gritted his teeth and looked at the big backpack Xia Dayu was carrying behind him, "Take that too." Open it and let me take a look."

“Boss, I can't show you that.” Tang Dao shook his head. "To put it bluntly, your level is not high enough!"

"Bold, I am the captain of the city gate guard squadron. I am responsible for guarding the safety of the city gate. Even if the commander of the theater passes by me, he has to show his ID. Who are you to dare to say that I am not high enough?" Lao De Shi was a little excited by what Tang Dao said, and he suddenly became angry. He stretched out his hand and pulled out the shell gun from the gun case and pointed it at Tang Dao.

“I've decided to do it today, do you believe it or not?”

Seeing that this man actually drew his gun and pointed it at Tang Dao, Hammer, who was harmless to humans and animals and looked like a country dog, suddenly became unhappy. He turned his lips, revealing a mouth full of white teeth. As long as Tang Dao gave a command, he would bite. Bite that guy's wrist off.

The atmosphere at the city gate suddenly became quiet and almost solidified.

Luo Wanjian was also a little at a loss. He probably didn't expect that young man to be so tyrannical, and even said loudly that he was not of a high level.

The squadron leader has drawn out his gun. Should his subordinate go up or not? The Army sergeant's head was buzzing.

Then, he seemed to see the young man turning back and smiling at him, and then said lightly: "Since your child is so curious, let your child take a look. I hope you won't regret it."

The Army Sergeant was not relieved by this. On the contrary, his hair stood on end. He noticed the young man's wording. It was no longer a boss, but "your son", which was the name used by the superiors in the north to the inferiors.

PS: Chapter 980 was deleted by a river crab. I haven't found the reason yet. I will make changes in the past two days and then ask the editor to unblock it.

By the way, I'm going to ask for leave tomorrow. I will organize online exams for students tomorrow, and Fengyue will also have to grade and revise papers. It is estimated that I will need a full day of work. After tomorrow, Fengyue will have a vacation. With enough time to code, I will basically not have to do anything. I will ask for leave again, even if it is New Year's Eve or the first day of the Lunar New Year, I will make sure to update.

(End of this chapter)

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