Yu Rucheng continued: "Second, regarding the gas masks, it is obvious that we, the team leaders who were supposed to be on standby at Qiwang Tower, are primarily responsible, not you."
"Let me tell you directly, I don't believe in your judgment last night. You asked the military to prepare gas masks. I think that was a joke." Yu Rucheng gritted his teeth and said, "So I deliberately didn't take a gas mask when I went up the mountain. , and didn’t remind my team members, because I simply don’t believe that a mutant can attack others through smelly farts like a real weasel.”
"Even if he can really use his stinky fart to attack people, I don't believe that a fart can cause that much harm to people, so I should be responsible for the soldier who died in our fourth group."
Yue Zuze said: "Team Leader Yu has already said it so straightforwardly. I don't think I need to hide it. Yes, I don't believe that weasel farts. I also thought of poison prevention when I went up the mountain to rescue. Masks, but I’m not ordering people to wear them.”
"Well, I actually believe you, team leader." Bao Tong said cautiously, "But no one had any gas masks at that time, and there weren't enough masks, so I didn't have the nerve to take them."
Li Xiaoguo said sheepishly: "For this reason, I don't have the nerve to take it."
Meng Qingxiao smiled bitterly: "Can you be more reliable?"
Meng Qingxiao still made a profound self-examination, and at the same time carefully analyzed the gains and losses of this battle, and took the drone back to the capital.
Soon, the military headquarters issued an order for the injured to return to the capital for treatment, and the joint team suspended all military operations and stayed on standby.
Three days later, the military headquarters sent an inspection team of up to 30 people under the protection of a company to Long live Mountain to investigate the incident.
The inspection team specially inspected the scene and then interviewed all the soldiers of the joint team. Below we only extract a part of the representative transcripts and publish them.
Inspector: Are you satisfied with the day-to-day performance of your captain?
Soldiers A and C: Satisfied.
Soldiers B and D: Not satisfied.
Inspector: Why?
Soldier A: Although he is very strict, he is a responsible and good commander. He is always at the forefront when there is danger.
Soldier C: He saved my life. He used his back to help me block the enemy. For this, I will be grateful to him forever.
Soldier B: The assignment of tasks is too random. When he issued combat orders, he actually asked all our groups to discuss it among themselves. How could there be such a commander?
Soldier Ding: The captain's choice of team leader is mixed with personal feelings. If I were the leader of the sixth group, there is absolutely no way that so many people in our sixth group would die this time!
Inspector: "What is your evaluation of your captain's military command ability?"
Soldier A: Not bad, I think it’s pretty good. Anyway, if you ask me to command, I can’t be better than him.
Soldier B: Not very good. There is no way to assign tasks to subordinates to discuss on their own.
Soldier C: Perfect! He judged that the weasel would fart just based on the minotaur's innocent words, and asked the military department to prepare gas masks in advance. I believe that no other officer could do this! It's a pity that those team leaders are useless. They don't listen to the team leader, otherwise there wouldn't be so many deaths.
Soldier Ding: I think it's just average. He actually sacrificed the seventeen people behind him in order to save four people. This can be said to be incompetent.
Inspector: Who do you think is most responsible for the mistakes in this military operation?
Soldier A: Let’s take the leaders of each group. After all, the team leader has prepared gas masks in advance, but they refused to take them with them when they went up the mountain, which caused so many casualties.
Soldier B: I think it was the captain. If it weren’t for him, we wouldn’t have had so many deaths.
Soldier C: I think it’s the military department. First of all, the information the military department provided us was inaccurate. Who scouted the Zhou Shang Pavilion and found that there was only one mutant? As a result, we were besieged by so many mutants. Then, did the captain report to you that we need gas masks, and there are 108 of us, but you only gave us 50 masks. Who can use these masks? You think that everyone is a gentleman and will definitely be humble to each other at critical moments. This leads to everyone being unwilling to take the lead. This is the root cause of such huge losses.
Soldier Ding: It must be the captain. He prepared gas masks but didn't remind everyone to wear them. Do you think he neglected his duty? Moreover, in order to save four people, he sacrificed seventeen people at once. Do you think those four people had any personal relationship with him? He is a man who has always been disloyal to the public for his own benefit.
Inspector: Who do you think deserves the most credit for the success of this military operation?
Soldier A: Captain, after all, he commanded the entire battle, he was the one who saved the most people, and he was the one who captured the weasel in the end.
Soldier B: It should be the captain. Although I don’t like some of his actions, he is the commander-in-chief after all, and he still played an important role this time.
Soldier C: Do you even need to ask? It must be the captain. Didn’t you see that when we were ambushed by the weasel at the scene, the captain alone saved more people than all of us combined! He completely ignored his personal safety and allowed the mutants to beat and bite him. He only had us, the besieged soldiers, in his heart. If his contribution was not the greatest, then the rest of us would have no contribution at all.
Soldier Ding: Well, I don’t know. I was trying my best to save people at the time. If I hadn’t reminded Zhao Xu, the team leader, more people in our six groups would have died.
Inspector: If you had to choose a new captain, who do you think is the most suitable?
Soldier A: Meng Qingxiao, no one can command us except him.
Soldier B: Well, it’s hard to say. There are still many capable people. Whether they can convince the public is a big question.
Soldier C: Stop joking, can you find a more suitable candidate besides Captain Meng? As for these people, don’t you know who they are? I'll leave it at that. I only recognize Meng Qingxiao as captain, and it won't work for anyone else.
Soldier B: I think anyone can do this, right? Anyway, if you let me be the captain, I can do a good job without any technical content.
The following is a conversation specific to Meng Qingxiao:
Inspector: "Hello, Captain Meng, you are my idol. It is such an honor to meet you this time."
Meng Qingxiao: "You are too polite."
Inspector: "I am the leader of the inspection team this time. My name is Wu Changjian. We have understood what happened clearly. I can tell you the details first. Although there was a little accident this time, your credit is still It’s the biggest, so you can rest assured, hahahaha.”
Meng Qingxiao knew that the other party was showing kindness to him. Meng Qingxiao actually didn't care in his heart about the so-called reaching out and not hitting the smiling person, but he still expressed his gratitude.
The monitoring team is affiliated with the Supervisory Committee and is responsible for supervising and dealing with non-commissioned officers who violate laws and disciplines. They cannot control ordinary soldiers, but for officials with higher military ranks, they have greater authority. It feels a bit like being a senior official. It is a position in the army that everyone dislikes, but no one dares to offend him.
Wu Changjian smiled and said: "Captain Meng, don't worry, we are just chatting casually this time and we won't take notes."
"Your review, oh, haha, let's call it a work report. I have already read your work report. Can you please talk a little bit more about the situation besides the work report?"
Meng Qingxiao asked doubtfully: "Besides the work report...what aspects are you referring to?"
Wu Changjian said: "For example, do you think your men are qualified soldiers now? Is it appropriate for them to participate in such a cruel war?"
Meng Qingxiao said solemnly: "They were all trained by me personally. What I say below may be a bit of a lie, but I still want to say with great pride that there are no more qualified warriors than them. Their training It is the strictest among all the teams in our strong Han Dynasty, but all of them persisted. In this regard, other teams cannot be compared. As for the second question, war has its own iron laws, and it always It’s full of survival of the fittest, who is suitable and who is not, you will naturally know it when you go to the battlefield, this is the same for everyone.”
Wu Changjian continued to ask: "But they are different from others. They are all the children of high-ranking officials in our country. Their parents have all made significant contributions to our country. Now they have left their children in your hands. If they If something goes wrong, will you feel bad about it?"
Meng Qingxiao smiled: "Haha, this is really an important proposition."
Wu Changjian also smiled: "Don't feel pressured, we really just have a casual chat."
Meng Qingxiao nodded: "Okay, then I will just say it casually. I forgot who said it, and I also forgot whether it was said by one person. He said that each of us is a key to building this country. Screws, the importance of every position is irreplaceable. He also said that there is no distinction between high and low jobs, only the contribution to the society is different."
"Then I would like to ask, are the lives of those ordinary soldiers life? If they died, would we not need to feel sorry because they were just ordinary people? Is it a fine tradition of our country to lead by example?"
Wu Changjian shook his head and said, "Haha, is this such a standard answer?"
Meng Qingxiao: "What answer does Team Leader Wu want?"
Wu Changjian thought for a while and said, "You know that our country is one of the best in the world in terms of military technology alone, right?"
Meng Qingxiao: "Yes, I know."
"But when you come to fight this time, you are still using old weapons from a hundred years ago, and the firepower is seriously insufficient." Wu Changjian said, "I agree with your remarks above, whether it is an ordinary soldier or the son of a commander. Okay, everyone’s life is life, and no one is more valuable than anyone else, but don’t you think the lives of these officers’ sons are too lowly?”
Meng Qingxiao suddenly said: "Oh, that's what you mean." Then he fell into deep thought.
Wu Changjian suddenly changed the subject and asked a seemingly irrelevant question: "I heard that you love classical literature. You must have read all four major classics?"
Meng Qingxiao: "Yes, I have seen it."
Wu Changjian: "Have you also done some research on "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?"
Meng Qingxiao: "It's not bad."
Wu Changjian: "There is a plot in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Liu Qi, the son of Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, asked Zhuge Liang for advice. Zhuge Liang refused to provide help to Liu Qi on the grounds of being estranged. So Liu Qi came up with an idea and tricked Zhuge Liang into the attic. Then he ordered his servants to take the ladder away."
"Brother Meng, I really want to make you a friend. I'm really confused about this question. I can't sleep and eat well if I don't understand it, but no one can answer it. I wonder if you can help me answer it?" Wu Changjian patted himself. The black leather notebook in front of him said, "This notebook, treat it as a ladder taken away by Liu Qi. What you say below will come out of your mouth and into my ears. I promise that no third party will know about it." After he finished speaking, He threw the black leather notebook on the ground.
Meng Qingxiao smiled and said, "Do you think someone wants people from our joint team to die?"
Wu Changjian nodded: "Yes, I feel that way."
Meng Qingxiao said: "You can understand it this way. In fact, this is a game of chess, and everyone under my hand is a chess piece. As for me, I am just the hand that takes the chess pieces off the chessboard. I am not even a chess piece!"
"This is not about dying, this is a test, a test for all of them, and I am the examiner, that's all."
"As for what the test is about, you think about it yourself."
Wu Changjian smiled and said: "Well, I understand. Thank you, Brother Meng, for being honest. This will be of great help to my future work."
Meng Qingxiao's face suddenly sank, and he couldn't help but look at the black leather notebook that Wu Changjian had swept away on the ground.
