The various benefits they received in the military camp increased their sense of belonging and eliminated their resistance to joining a new army.
To carry out a team's brand is to set a goal in front of them, a goal to pursue, and at the same time weaken their potential emotions of arrogance, so that they will willingly obey the instructor's arrangements and learn new skills and tactics with an open mind. .
Moreover, Zhou Wen's training for them was different from that of the recruits of the second squadron. The emphasis was on improving individual soldier skills and instilling new tactical ideas.
Individual soldier quality training is no longer about learning everything from scratch, because these people have already demonstrated their personal strengths and talents during their many years of war. They train according to their own characteristics to maximize their strengths and avoid weaknesses, and integrate individual soldier training into new tactics. After a period of time, 1,500 outstanding officers and soldiers were selected and formally incorporated into the second detachment.
Those who were eliminated would not be kicked out. Zhou Wen was going to convince them to go directly to the base camp in Lishi, Shanxi. These battle-hardened veterans are more than enough to serve as the defense force of the base camp. In this case, even if Zhou Wenming draws all the mercenary groups out to fight in the next year, he will feel more at ease.
In the next few days, Zhou Wen personally led the officers and soldiers of the second detachment to start training. In the first month, physical training was the main part, supplemented by cultural literacy classes, and some tactical action training was done at intervals, because Shanxi's weapons and equipment did not yet exist. Shipped, so firearms and artillery training was not done once.
A week passed in the blink of an eye. That afternoon, the sky was hazy in a small town called Niujie on the outskirts of Nanjing.
The small town occupies a small area. There was a cattle market here many years ago. As the cattle market gradually formed a scale, many other businesses were born, and there were more hotels and restaurants. Finally, it became a large market town.
At the door of a small hotel called Xike Lai, a man in black in his thirties hurriedly walked in the door, came to the door of a guest room and shouted in a low voice: "Second brother, I'm back."
A deep voice came from the door, "Come in."
The man in black pushed open the door and entered. After entering, he picked up a tea bowl on a table and drank several large gulps of cold tea. Then he wiped his mouth with his sleeve and wiped the sweat on his head, and then said: "Second brother, the brothers have been on guard for several days and haven't found anything. I think it's going to rain soon. Should we take the people back first and have a rest?"
"no."
The second brother, a muscular man of about thirty years old, was sitting in front of the bed, playing with the revolver in his hand, and said in a conspiratorial manner: "I got the news at Xiaozhuang Pier a few days ago. I saw that The person who stole the bun shop is the one named Qi. But Chief Song has made a statement. If you want to see someone alive, you want to see the body."
The man in black said angrily: "This guy surnamed Song is not a good guy. With just one word, he made the brothers drop what they were doing and went out to look for him for a whole half a month. Why?"
The second brother chuckled, "Why? Just because he usually turns a blind eye to what we do, and just one word from him can uproot our gangs at the docks in Xiaguan overnight. Just one word from him can make you live, and one word from him can make you die."
The man in black thought for a long time with his mouth open, and then he picked up the big teapot on the table dejectedly, and put a bowl of cold tea in the bowl. He drank it in several sips, as if to wash away the resentment in his heart just now. Drink it in one gulp.
After thinking for a while, he said to the second brother: "Second brother, I think that guy named Qi has died a long time ago. I heard the old man say that no matter how good the water is, it is impossible for him to swim more than a dozen times in the Yangtze River at night." Well, that night we sailed the boat back and forth several times to search for him, how could he still be alive?"
"Lao Liu, please stop complaining. Didn't you say that you will see the corpse when you die? Besides, the size and appearance of the thief mentioned by the bun shop owner at Xiaozhuang Pier are very similar to the one surnamed Qi, and the direction and direction are similar. Judging from the distance, it might be him."
"Distance? Xiaozhuang Pier is more than twenty miles away from Xiaguan. Can he swim that far in one night?"
"It is not impossible to go down the river, and I also suspect that he may have swam farther downstream that night before landing. Now he is probably thinking that the wind is not too strong, and he wants to find a chance to return to the city. .”
"Going back to the city, isn't he wanted? If you go back to the city, aren't you looking for death?"
"Hehe, I'm afraid it's not certain that he's looking for death. I guess he has something to do with Chief Song. Even if he goes back to the city and is arrested, he may not die. If Chief Song is confessed, it's hard to say that he can still be guilty of meritorious service and avoid the death penalty. It is also possible, this is called seeking life from death."
"Second brother, why do you think he has Chief Song? If we catch him..."
"Old Six, let's not get too petty. Not to mention whether we can afford to offend a big shot like Chief Song. I just think this matter won't be a big deal. There's nothing good for us if we know. We'd better hurry up and find the man named Qi. Yes, if you kill him, everyone will be clean."
"Okay then, I'll go out and continue watching the brothers."
After the man in black finished speaking, he turned around and walked out.
The second brother lowered his head and continued to play with the gun in his hand, muttering to himself: "The surname is Qi, I bet you will pass by Niujie, let's see who has a better life."
It turns out that this man named Er Ge is the gangster Lu Er who previously wanted to take Instructor Qi to the Yangtze River and kill him.
Since Instructor Qi jumped into the river and escaped, he and his hundreds of thugs have been searching all the way downstream from the docks in Xiaguan to find him, because his backstage director Song said, "If you are alive, you will see the person, if you die, you will see the corpse." .”
Moreover, this Lu Er is a man with some brains, otherwise he would not have become the gang boss of Xiaguan Wharf in Nanjing City. He was arrested by the gendarmerie led by Song Mingxuan for committing crimes a few years ago, and later became Song Mingxuan's eyes and ears outside. Minions.
Now he already knows that he and Song Mingxuan are actually tied to the same boat. If instructor Qi really escapes, Song Mingxuan will be unlucky and he will definitely die along with him.
If nothing else, it was because he had done a lot of dirty things under Song Mingxuan's instruction in the past few years, and had a lot of lives on his hands. If something happened to Song Mingxuan, he wouldn't be able to escape.
So he had already led his men to search the villages and towns downstream of Xiaguan Wharf. Moreover, his gang members were the coolie leaders in the wharf area, and they specialized in exploiting the boatmen and porters at various wharves to make a living. They had many gang members. , there are many sources of information, so we can judge from some clues that instructor Qi is not only still alive, but also very likely to return to the city and surrender to save his life.
