Ma Liang pointed to the map on the wall and looked at the dozen soldiers in the room: "Have you all learned to read the map?"
A soldier said proudly: "Hey, if you can't even understand the map, how can you still be called the Ninth Company Soldier?"
Another soldier scratched his head in embarrassment: "I'm just not familiar with some of the words... but as long as you name the place, I guarantee that I can point it out on the map!"
"I can draw the picture on your wall in the sand!"
"I can make a sand table..."
Hey, as soon as Ma Liang slammed the table, all the soldiers immediately shut up and said nothing. Look at me, I look at you. Did you say the wrong thing?
Ma Liang was indeed a little surprised: "Okay!"
The Eighth Route Army was poor. Companies in the general army did not even have maps, and there were many company commanders who did not know maps.
If you can read, you can draw simple maps by yourself.
Seeing the strange expressions of the soldiers, Ma Liang finally smiled: "Tell me, how come you can read a map?"
A squad leader quickly replied: "We don't have much to do in the base area. If you think about it, there is a lack of water in the plains, and crops can't be grown in the fields. It's useless to build broken houses. The Japanese will burn them when they come. During the day, we train the formation and throw a Hand grenades, and then playing with tactical coordination, we practiced digging trenches and almost turned over the ground outside the village..."
This guy was very eloquent, but too verbose. Ma Liang had to interrupt him: "Then you start learning to read maps?"
"That's not true. We are not interested in bayonet fighting. The formation training was so-so, and we started to throw grenades for fun. We are poor, and we don't have regular instructors... The dozen or so people under Big Dog Pai Banxian still have some foundation, so directly It became the Xiangmomo in our base area. Under the leadership of the half-immortal squad leader, more than 400 people in the company have almost all learned to read Feng Shui..."
Ma Liang raised his leg and kicked it: "I asked you to read the map, did you tell me to read Feng Shui?"
The soldier dodged and said, "Platoon commander, don't worry. It's not easy to learn to read Feng Shui. You must first learn to read the terrain. The green dragon on the left, the white tiger on the right, the black tiger behind, the red freckles on the front... If anyone dies on the battlefield, he will definitely find someone. Bury in a better place."
Ma Liang said with a black line: "If you say anything again, I will whip you."
The squad leader chuckled: "I mean, platoon leader, if you want to ask why, can you please stop interrupting?"
Ma Liang was stunned for a moment. This guy is a bit oily. Luo Fugui was the one in the queue: "Then continue talking."
The soldier was still going to say something, but Tian Sanqi entered the room from the outside. Looking at the room full of soldiers sitting, he asked Ma Liang: "Is there a meeting?"
Ma Liang kicked away the squad leader next to him. The squad leader quickly stood up and made room for Tian Sanqi: "No, I was asking why they can read a map. You should know that."
Tian Sanqi was stunned for a moment. He originally came to ask Ma Liang to discuss the night march, so he replied casually: "I know about this matter. You guys went to the Anti-Japanese University to study, and the soldiers who stayed behind had nothing to do all day long. By night We went to the east blockade ditch to practice quickly crossing the blockade ditch. We occasionally went to enemy-occupied areas to do some activities, get rid of some traitors and get some supplies. During the day, the soldiers had nothing to do. As time went by, everyone often looked at me and disliked me. I got into fights several times because you were in the way."
The squad leader next to him immediately interjected: "It's all the fault of Tang Dagou's squad. They are also responsible for ruining the atmosphere of the entire Ninth Company. They don't do morning exercises, don't practice stabbing, and don't dig trenches... I've seen them long ago." It’s not pleasing to the eye..."
Ma Liang was a little dumbfounded: "Don't interrupt."
Tian Sanqi glared at the squad leader of Luo Fugui's platoon: "At the beginning, Lao Qin put the fighting soldiers into solitary confinement... Later, he found that confinement alone had no effect and wasted food, so he asked the soldiers to write self-criticisms every day. Literacy was really boring, and the effect was not very good. As the fights continued, more and more soldiers committed crimes. Even my platoon fought them twice.
Lao Qin was furious for a while and asked Director Su for advice when he went to the security team to discuss work. Director Su suggested that we find some difficult goals for us to achieve! Lao Qin asked the soldiers who made mistakes to read the map, memorize the map, and draw the map on the sand. "
The squad leader next to him smiled proudly: "That's right, Lao Qin is so cruel. If anyone fights, he won't be put in solitary confinement. He will let him draw a map on the ground. If he can't draw the map, he won't have dinner. In the end, there are so many people in our area. The houses in my hometown were all burned down by the Japanese. Looking at the familiar place names on the map, I felt familiar after looking at them for a long time, so I learned to read maps whenever I had nothing to do. However, there was only one map in our company, and there were too many people to squeeze in. ..”
At this point, the soldier gave up.
Ma Liang laughed and scolded: "If you don't speak and write, you are really disrespecting your talent."
The squad leader was stunned for a moment: "Platoon leader, how do you know that I am a storyteller? My grandfather was a storyteller and so was my father. When it was passed down to my generation, the little devils came..."
Tian Sanqi shook his head: "Later, the half-immortal thought of a way. Since there was only one map, he drew it himself, and took the soldiers out to see Feng Shui all day long. Later, he increased the map from plane to facade. , just build fake graves in the fields, now, except for Lao Qin, most of us in the Ninth Company can tell fortunes!"
Ma Liang was stunned: "Don't say you also learned it, right?"
Tian Sanqi was noncommittal: "I'm talking about Ma Liang, do you want me to tell you a fortune?"
Is this still the Tian Sanqi who only knows how to fight with bayonets and learn how to use grenades from Li Xiang?
Ma Liang immediately said righteously: "Our Eighth Route Army does not believe in gods, you are ruining the morale of the army!"
Tian Sanqi curled his lips: "Don't go online, tell me, how are we going to leave tonight?"
I plan to take the soldiers who were originally borrowed from the division and take them to separate operations. After all, there are so many of us. If someone who knows how to do things knows whereabouts, it will be difficult to find them if he runs away.
"What do you mean, don't wait until the division makes arrangements?"
"Think about it, now that we have the list of Huidaomen and bandits, we can directly arrange to visit the villages east of the railway line one by one in platoons. How good would it be?"
Tian Sanqi shook his head: "This matter is not as simple as you think. Take the bandits who beat us with horses and sticks. We had the advantage and still managed to escape a few. In addition, Director Zhang died. I have a lot of Big responsibility.”
Ma Liang thought for a while: "That's because your intelligence work is not good enough. You also read the intelligence sent by the division. How careful are you? What kind of help is there? The name, age, where they live, how many people are under their command, We have learned everything clearly, and in terms of intelligence, we still have to learn from the division."
Tian Sanqi hesitated for a moment: "How about you go fight against the Huidaomen, and I go to fight against Wang Taigong's group of bandits in Neihuang County?"
"You have more than a hundred people? Do you dare to attack the bandits' lair of more than 2,000 people?"
"You said it yourself, the company commander is over there. The first and second companies have almost two companies of troops. The bandits recruited by Wang Taigong really have no fighting ability at all. They fight on their own as soon as they start fighting. Can he compare with me?"
"Don't underestimate it. Think about it, why can't we defeat so many people in the division? We are only asking for reinforcements to deal with the Huidaomen armed forces and get rid of those traitors. As for attacking large groups of bandits, we don't have the strength yet." Ma Liang looked at the table. He was hesitating whether to tell Tian Sanqi that the Ninth Company had been promoted to battalion. After thinking about it, he thought it would be better to wait for the appointment by the company commander himself.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
Ma Liang tilted his head: "I think you have a very loud tone, you look a bit like a company commander."
"Hehe, you don't have to tell me, now that you're gone, it's me and Lao Qin and Lao Meng who are holding this Nine Company together."
"show off..."
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