After all the team members had eaten, Aunt Li and Mrs. Wu took back the few remaining meals, bowls, chopsticks and other items.
Wu Lei's family is currently living in Li Si's home temporarily. After all, Zhang Rui's house really has no suitable room for people to live in. His family's rented land in Shi'er Village has been refunded, and Zhang Rui has paid back all the rent he owes.
When it comes to two families living together, the happiest thing is the children of both families. The four children can happily play and play together.
There was not much food left, which made the villagers who were already watching very greedy, but they were too embarrassed to come back to ask for food. Zhang Rui could only pretend not to see it, not because there wasn't much food, but because he had no obligation to treat them to dinner all the time, which would easily make them lazy and naughty.
Zhang Rui asked Li Si and Wu Lei to fetch the many weapons at home, while Li Niushi was sent to the town to buy some summer-relieving medicinal materials.
When the team members had just finished eating and were not ready for training, Zhang Rui found Chen Deyun, Chen Decai and two mountain men in the team, Hong Hu and Cheng Long. Let them go to Chiemuling in the distance to keep sentry, and if they see bandits coming, they will come back and notify them immediately.
Chemuling is surrounded by high mountains. The only way to reach Datong Village from Zhilian Mountain is to go around its mountain passage. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to pass through it. People standing on Chemuling Mountain can see the pedestrians on the detour three miles away. It is really the best spot to watch.
Chen Deyun and the other four took the self-defense daggers and bows and arrows given by Zhang Rui and set off to Chemuling. The remaining team members were gathered by Zhang Rui before they understood the departure of Chen Deyun and others. Let’s start with the second thing, talk about military discipline. Of course, Zhang Rui would not explicitly say it was military discipline, but only the discipline that the bandit suppression team must abide by.
What kind of military discipline is used? Zhang Rui thought about it for a long time, but he didn't have that level of compilation himself. He was afraid that they would not be able to remember it because it was based on too many references from the Qing army. I had to learn from the Red Army's Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention and make some changes.
In the words, the revolutionary army was changed to the bandit suppression team, the masses were changed to common people, and the people were changed to villagers. The defense of the motherland was changed to the defense of the village, and the captive soldiers in item 8 were once again explained to refer to bandits who admitted their mistakes and surrendered before the war began. Bandits who committed many evil acts were to be eliminated.
The reason why Zhang Rui still remembers these three major disciplines and eight points of attention is thanks to the fact that when he was in elementary school to junior high school, the school radio kept playing these military songs over and over again. Graduation is really hard not to remember.
Because the atmosphere was pleasant, and the bandit suppression team members were also very active in asking questions that they did not understand, Zhang Rui answered and answered every question one by one. When he explained that one should not take advantage of the common people, the surrounding villagers cheered and admired.
In order to make the team members more impressed, Zhang Rui asked the team members to line up and asked them to sing sentence by sentence. This is a big deal. You must know that there were no entertainment programs in the Qing Dynasty. At most, the villagers can only watch puppet shows during temple fairs. Want to listen to singing? It is possible to be reincarnated as a rich son in the next life.
Listening to Zhang Rui asking the bandit suppression team members to sing this catchy song word by word, the villagers who were originally not interested in watching came over to watch.
An hour passed like this, and the time was approaching noon. There are more and more villagers watching. Many villagers from neighboring villages want to come to Datong Village to have a look after finishing their farm work in the morning. Maybe they can have lunch with Sixth Brother. The villagers with various ideas slowly gathered in the open space where Brother Six was training the bandit suppression team.
The crowd at this time was so large that it surrounded the empty training ground in circles. Some villagers who were not tall enough even climbed onto the branches to take a look.
Seeing more and more people gathering, it was noon again, and the weather was so hot that it made my mouth dry. Some villagers in Datong Village actually set up a porridge stall. You can drink thick rice soup with rice grains for only two cents, and a bowl of dry "shuang rice porridge" costs five cents.
Of course, if you can endure hunger, you can also ask for a bowl of water from Li Si. This is free of charge. Zhang Rui saw so many people and asked Li Si and Wu Lei to boil water. Although only two meals were eaten in the Qing Dynasty, the morning meal and the night meal, lunch was not popular. But there were still some villagers who had never eaten the morning meal and couldn't bear the hunger and bought porridge to drink. They felt distressed for the few pennies they had to pay.
Zhang Rui saw that the bandit suppression team members had almost memorized these three disciplines and eight points of attention, so he asked them to sing in teams one by one. Every time when other teams sang, the members of other teams couldn't help but hum along, but they immediately stopped under Zhang Rui's eyes. Because Zhang Rui once asked for disciplinary issues, he was not allowed to speak during the formation unless asked by the captain.
The team members are not allowed to hum, but the villagers watching will ignore your rules. It's rare for them to hear such a melodic and "beautiful" song. If they don't learn it, they'll be in trouble. Therefore, when each team sings, the surrounding villagers will sing along. When the final chorus comes, it is even more spectacular than ever.
When Zhang Rui just announced that all the team members should go to the shade of the tree to drink water and rest! Chen Decai came over to Zhang Rui with a nervous look on his face.
"Brother Six, the bandits are really here. When I came back, they were passing by Chemuling. If they don't rest, they will probably be here in half an hour at most. Brother Six, please prepare."
It seems that those who are supposed to come will always come, so Zhang Rui pretended to be calm and asked: "I know, do you know how many of them are coming?"
Chen Decai shook his head and said, "I was in a hurry at that time, so I didn't count carefully. I only saw a large group of bandits. My brother and the others asked me to come back first to report the news."
"A big group." After listening to Chen Decai's words, Zhang Rui murmured naturally to himself, then asked the people who had rested for fifteen minutes to line up again, and said to everyone in the team:
"Brothers, just now brothers Chen Deyun and Chen Decai, together with Cheng Long, Hong Hu and others, discovered in Chemuling that a group of bandits are coming towards us. Please tell us what to do!
As soon as they heard Zhang Rui's words, some timid villagers began to leave and rush home.
"Brother Six, there is nothing to say. Since we are called the Bandit Suppression Team, are we still afraid of them being bandits?"
Li Mutou from Lijia Village in the team said loudly. Everyone in Lijia Village followed suit. Someone started, and others continued.
"Yes, Sixth Brother, take us over there and fight them. If you die, you will be defeated. If you kill a bandit, you will make money..."
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"Very good. I'm very grateful to all of you here. However, at present, we are not true soldiers of the bandit suppression team. We have the right to be afraid. I now allow those who are afraid to leave. Is anyone willing to leave?"
Zhang Rui looked at his teammates gratefully, but decided to let them make their own choice.
I saw a few commotions among the bandit suppression team, but no one left. Most of them are young men aged between sixteen and twenty. It is really shameful for them to leave without even seeing the faces of the bandits. How can you still live in this area after doing such a shameless thing?
Zhang Rui saw that no one came out, and said fiercely like a threat again: "Everyone, please think about it. If you don't leave now, if you retreat and run away after the fight, don't blame me for ruthlessly killing people."
"Brother Six, don't say anything. I don't know what other people think. I just want to kill bandits with Brother Six. If I go home like this, where can I put my face? I might as well die." "The speaker was Liu Shitou from Liuheng Village.
"Yes, I am just like Brother Shitou..."
The people in Liusheng Village immediately followed suit, bringing many people along with them.
