The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2219: Competition Mechanism Caused by Internal Sluggishness

There is a poem that says, "The wind suddenly rises, rippling a pool of spring water." Later, it was changed to "The wind suddenly rises, stirring a pool of spring water."

What does Shang Zhen's military training mean? It can be called "Shang Zhen's military training stirs up a stagnant pool of water."

What kind of combat unit is an independent brigade? The main force is fighting in the front, and they are just following behind. It is not their turn to clean up the battlefield!

Imagine that after a war between China and Japan, they started to clean up the battlefield. They just put all the spoils into their own pockets. Who could bear that? How could they accept that hundreds of thousands of people died in the front and they took all the benefits?

If they have to have a combat mission, their entire brigade will be cannon fodder!

But why haven't they become cannon fodder yet? It's because the theater commander-in-chief feels that they are not even qualified to be cannon fodder. He is afraid that they will surrender directly to the Japanese devils, which will be a blow to morale.

Their brigade is cannon fodder and of course they have the awareness of being cannon fodder. Usually they just play rotten and give up everything. It's good that you look down on us. You look down on us, haha, we even hope that you look down on us.

So, what is their current combat mission in the periphery like? It is like a smelly and hard stone from a toilet placed in an unimportant position by the war zone.

It definitely has no major use. As for its minor use, if the Japanese devils really come around this position and think the stinky stones are in the way, they will always need to bend down and move them away.

Yes, that's what this independent brigade is for.

Since they are such a team and have such a purpose, the whole atmosphere of their brigade is quite different from that of other teams!

Now back to the topic, when Shang Zhen started training the new recruits, the other officers and soldiers were just watching the fun, especially Shang Zhen's unique way of training and punishing the recruits. He himself, who was already as thin as a thorn, took the lead in the training, and whoever lost would be stripped of his pants and beaten with a stick.

This is something new that has never happened since the establishment of the independent brigade. The officers and soldiers were very happy to see it in the first few days, but now it has been a month, and seeing Shang Zhen and others still practicing like this every day, they began to worry after the novelty wore off.

No one says so, but this entire independent brigade is a kind of "bad culture" or "cannon fodder culture."

What does it mean? Starting from the fat brigade commander, if there has to be a somewhat dangerous mission, what kind of team will he send? Of course, the most cowardly and least able team.

What are you going to do? To be cannon fodder!

You see, in order to complete the task assigned by the theater command, he sent out the weakest combat units. If they were killed, they would be killed in action, and they would sacrifice their lives for their country.

If some of them run back, we will re-form the team and send out the worst one next time!

Therefore, the combat concept of this independent brigade is not to complete the above tasks, but to continuously arrange the most incompetent and useless soldiers to the front as cannon fodder, just like the tail discarded by the gecko.

Wait until the next combat mission, then pick out the most useless part and throw it out as the tail!

The more capable soldiers are, the more likely they are to be kept by the fat brigade commander's side. The scientific name is "preserving the elite", but in fact, the fat brigade commander keeps them around to save his own life.

Now if Shang Zhen was training his soldiers like this just for a day or two to show off to the brigade commander it would be fine, but it has been more than a month now, and although these strong men including Shang Zhen have not become strong, their physical fitness is after all different from the beginning.

Shang Zhen is now a little stronger than before. Some people are counting them. Now in one day, Shang Zhen can lead that group of new recruits to do 200 push-ups!

As for the horse stance, everyone can do it for half an hour.

If they continue to train like this, sooner or later they will become the elite of their brigade!

Their fat brigade commander would certainly be happy to see the emergence of a new "elite" force!

The more elite soldiers there are, the more people there are to protect his fat life. Why would he be unhappy?

But for other officers and soldiers, this is not acceptable. To use a term from later generations, there is also a competition mechanism within their brigade.

What kind of competition mechanism? The newly promoted elites are all protecting the brigade commander, so the original elites are no longer elites. If they are no longer elites, they may be the ones to be cannon fodder! The current elites, who are used to being comfortable, have predicted the possible dangers they may face, so how can they not complain to each other?

At this time, in a barracks of Shang Zhen's recruit company, hundreds of recruits were crowded together.

The room was not small, but they lived in a civilian house. Which civilian house could accommodate more than a hundred people at once? But Shang Zhen didn't want people outside to hear him, so he asked the soldiers to stand together, and Shang Zhen himself stood on the table.

"Husheng, guard the door. If anyone comes over, let us know in advance." Shang Zhen said loudly.

Hu Sheng, who was standing outside the door, responded "yes" and did not forget to close the door.

The soldiers huddled together, knowing that the company commander Shang Zhen had something to say, otherwise he would not have been so careful.

"Now that the door is closed, let's talk among our own people. There are some things I cannot say outside." This was Shang Zhen's opening remarks as he stood condescendingly on the table. The soldiers all became solemn.

"At the beginning, Captain Liu said that you were brought here to do some work. Do you think you are going to do some work?

I know you want to go home, but do you think you can go back even if I let you go now?" Shang Zhen's eyes began to scan the faces of the soldiers.

No soldier said a word, and there was disappointment on their faces.

It's already now, some soldiers have been issued guns, which means they have been allowed to serve in the army, there's no point in them returning home!

"If you can't go home, just admit that reality is not bad!

Now from your perspective, how can you survive? If you dare to run, you must be caught. If you are caught, you will die, and it will be a miserable death!

Doesn't that mean they can just shoot you and be done with it? Bullets are so precious, would they waste a bullet now that they have caught the person? Impossible.

If you are stabbed directly by a bayonet, that would be considered a lucky escape. But the old soldier has a hundred ways to make your life worse than death. It can be as miserable as it can be!

This is like beating with a stick. If you really beat your buttocks until the skin is torn, it's okay. But if you beat it silently, you will definitely die, and that kind of punishment is not something that ordinary people can endure!" Shang Zhen said with some earnestness.

The soldiers continued to listen, and some of the timid soldiers turned pale.

They have been in the military camp for about a month, and of course they have heard about the various tortures in the camp, so they dare not run away!

“Since you don’t dare to run and still want to survive, you have to train yourself to death.

They say we train to death, but we won't train ourselves to death. But if we really fight, we will definitely die if we don't have real skills." Shang Zhen continued, but then lowered his voice and said, "You have all seen what our brigade is like. The more incompetent you are, the more unlucky you will be.

A blacksmith must be strong himself. In order to survive, don't be afraid of hardship. In this way, no matter we are facing the Japanese devils or competing with other companies, we will fight when we should and escape when we should.

This is called - how should I put it, we cannot change the overall situation, but at least we can control our own destiny to the greatest extent. "

Shang Zhen's gaze swept across the soldiers' faces again, and he saw recognition in their eyes.

So he suddenly raised his voice and asked, "Don't be so careless, did you hear what I said?"

"I heard it clearly!" Inspired by Shang Zhen's suddenly raised voice, the soldiers straightened their chests and answered in unison.

The room was too small, and when there were more than a hundred people in the room, the sudden shout made everyone's ears buzz!

"You've heard it, right?" Shang Zhen was not moved by the shouting, and said loudly, "From now on, practice until you die. As long as you don't die, practice for me!"

"Yes!" The soldiers' shouts once again shook the house as if a grenade had exploded, and it seemed as if the beams were "buzzing"!