Li Yunlong was assigned to the senior command department of Nanjing Military Academy, and the students in this department are all military division-level cadres. The Advanced Command Department is a crash course. The students are divided into three classes. The military-level cadres are in the first class, and the second and third classes are division-level cadres. The schooling period is two years. On the first day of reporting, Li Yunlong was very angry. The college stipulates that all students are not allowed to wear guns, and the weapons they carry must be handed in. Several military-level cadres who came to report were reluctant to hand in their guns and were arguing with the administrator. Li Yunlong rolled his eyes, took off his brand new Canadian pistol and inserted it into the security guard Xiao Chen's backpack, then picked up Xiao Chen's carbine and shouted loudly: "Get out of the way, get out of the way, I will hand over the gun , I surrender..." Some people burst into laughter.

The administrator took the carbine, stared at Xiao Chen beside him, and said, "Comrade student, I'm afraid this is not your gun, is it? Please hand over your gun." Li Yunlong lied casually without blushing: "I didn't bring Gun, didn’t you come to study? What are you doing with that thing?” The administrator smiled tolerantly. In the past few days, he has seen such thorns a lot. Dean Liu Bocheng had issued a death order earlier, and the students who came to report No matter how high your previous position was, you must act in accordance with the regulations, and whoever makes trouble will be punished, and you will never be polite. The administrator seemed to walk up to Xiao Chen casually, put his hand into his backpack, and pulled out the Canadian pistol. Back to the desk. Li Yunlong became angry with embarrassment: "Why should I hand over my gun? Fuck..." He swallowed the following words before he could curse, because he saw his old chief, the former commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, Liu Bocheng, with his hands behind his back, walking from the side past.

A few days after reporting for duty, Li Yunlong became annoyed. He has never lived this kind of life. Here, no matter whether you were the army commander or division commander, you are all students now. When you see the teacher, you must salute. You are not allowed to bring guards. The guards brought by the students are all included in the academy security company . Every student has to organize the housework like an ordinary soldier, line up for exercises, and take turns serving as the platoon leader on duty.

This kind of day, which year is the first. In the initial stage of the Nanjing Military Academy, most of the instructors were retained by the Kuomintang Army University instructors. These instructors have received professional military theory education and are proficient in ancient and modern Chinese and foreign military history and war examples. This is what the PLA students lack. They have an obvious advantage, that is, rich actual combat experience and undefeated record. In the three years of the Liberation War, except for the Battle of Jinmen, the PLA has not even wiped out even a regiment-level organization. In this huge war, the total number of troops invested by both sides reached tens of millions, and the battle area was so wide that it reached more than 60% of the total land area. It cannot be said that it is not a miracle that such a result can be achieved.

So, which of the students from the four major field armies has no capital to brag about? The contradiction between the instructors who are proficient in military theory but have no victories and the students who do not understand military theory but have impressive records will break out sooner or later. Among the students of the senior command department, there are many old acquaintances of Li Yunlong. Kong Jie, the former head of the New Second Regiment of the 129th Division, had a conflict with Li Yunlong in 1944 because of the recruitment of bandits. This incident did not affect the relationship between the two of them. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Kong Jie led his troops out of the customs and belonged to the Northeast Field Army.

During the three-year liberation war, Kong Jie’s troops participated in all the major battles, went to Jiangnan three times, protected Linjiang four times, fought in Siping, Liaoshen battle, Pingjin battle... from Songhua River to Hainan Island, and became the commander of the army. . Kong Jie was lucky. When the Korean War broke out, Kong Jie’s troops were the first to enter North Korea with the H Corps and participated in four battles. Like Li Yunlong, he was personally named by his teacher Liu Bocheng. . When old acquaintances meet, it is inevitable that you punch me and I scold you. When Kong Jie saw Li Yunlong, he first thought of the time when he went to Maicheng and became Li Yunlong's prisoner. He punched Li Yunlong in the chest, and said angrily, "That time, you dared to hand over Lao Tzu's weapon just because you were on your territory? In fact, if you pull the troops out to practice, who is afraid of anyone? Even if your independent regiment can fight, Lao Tzu’s new second regiment is not good for nothing. Damn, once you have your backing, your gang of bear soldiers will not recognize you. Almost tied me up." Li Yunlong said with a smile: "Just your new second regiment? Tch, I can take care of you with one battalion. At that time, our independent regiment was the only one in Northwest Shanxi. How could there be a new second regiment? What? Besides, what do those bandits have?"

"You recruit them, they will make trouble , this is called dog meat, you can't get on the table, I will clean up these bastards for you first, you should thank me." As the two were talking, another person squeezed over and gave Li Yunlong a hug. He was still cursing in his fists: "Fuck, are you still alive?" Li Yunlong saw that he was Commander Ding Wei from the Four Fields, and he was also an old comrade in the Red Army. Li Yunlong had heard that he was the commander of the column when he fought in Jinzhou. , this man is also a guy who doesn't want to die when he hears the gunshots. He is happy when there is a battle, and thinks about something to happen when there is no battle. He is not afraid of the sky and the earth. If you don't go down, you have to tear off a piece of meat. Once you get angry with the enemy, no one will try to mobilize him, even if it is the order of President Ye Silin, he will never leave unless he takes advantage of it. In the last battle of the Liaoshen Campaign, Ding Wei led a division to bite the Liao Yaoxiang Corps on the Liaoxi Plain. No man's land, smashing the opponent's army to pieces. In the battle sequence of the Northeast Field Army, Ding Wei's troops are known as the trump card of the main force with both offensive and defensive capabilities.

In fact, Ding Wei is not a rough person. He finished junior high school before joining the Red Army. He was considered a big intellectual in the Red Army at that time. According to the usual practice, such people should engage in political work, but Ding Wei just likes it. Fighting wars, from the platoon leader to the army commander, he has never even touched the edge of political work in his life. Decades of gunpowder and war have made him no different from a rough man. Li Yunlong deliberately said: "Old Ding, I heard that you fought well in the Northeast? We have heard about it in Huaye. Good guy, Ding Wei's troops fought desperately. They are well-equipped and have superb tactics. Qingshuping In the battle, the teeth of the Seventh Army of the Guangxi Clique were broken. One division fought against the other army for two days and three nights, and it was a draw. Is it?" Ding Wei was a little proud of being praised by Li Yunlong: "That is It’s true, would the People’s Liberation Army be called the People’s Liberation Army if it didn’t have the Four Fields? Would the People’s Liberation Army still be called the Four Fields without our army? Cowhide isn’t blown, trains aren’t pushed, I’m from the Songhua River…” Li Yunlong did nothing when he led Ding Wei into a trap He interrupted him politely: "Then what are you doing here? You are so capable and you still need to be a student. If you don't work as a vice president, you must at least be a teacher. Why are you like us? "

"Go, go, get out of the way, why do you put your nose on your face? The whole of China was liberated by you, and our three field armies are all fucking eating?" Ding Wei also came when he heard it. Angrily, he said loudly: "The bastard is willing to come. I am a good army commander. If you want me to hand over the command and come to this hellish place to be a student, why am I sick? Why should those defeated generals come?" To be our teacher? If you have the ability to go to the battlefield to compete, I can beat him to an army with one teacher, study, learn a fart." Li Yunlong gloated and persuaded: "The superior asked us to learn the truth of our own superiors, so we can't complain Ah." "Old Li, don't you fucking come here, when will you change your career to become a political commissar..." Because of the thorny heads like Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, and Kong Jie in the senior command department, the classroom is full of thorns. The discussion meeting was very lively. During the military theory class and war history class, these students sat there without saying a word, with their eyes slightly closed, as if they were sitting in meditation, but their minds had already gone somewhere. Li Yunlong said in his heart, learn to fight, it is nothing more than collecting intelligence, observing the terrain, organizing troops, firearms, and arranging reserves before the war. Isn't this what I have been playing for more than 20 years? Still need you to teach? What the fuck Clausewitz? What kind of battle did this old Prussian man fight? One set of nonsense, that is, you memorized his book verbatim, is there any use for it?

Ding Wei also half-closed his eyes and thought, nonsense, what does the Battle of the Marne River in World War I have to do with Lao Tzu? I have never heard of the Battle of the Marne and the Battle of Verdun before, didn't they still defeat the 8 million national army? Also, if you don’t let these teachers talk about this, what else can they talk about? Kong Jie didn't even bother to think about these things in class. His heart flew home early, and he was making out with his wife. Don't look at these few people who are not paying attention to the lectures, when it comes to discussions, they all rush to raise their hands and ask to speak. The content of the speech is often off topic. The topic of this discussion is the Battle of Kursk on the Soviet-German battlefield in World War II. When the number of aircraft and tanks was roughly equal, what tactics did the Soviet and German troops use to achieve a decisive victory? Li Yunlong was the first to win the right to speak. He stood up and said carelessly:

"Teacher, I suggest changing the discussion topic, because this library...what's the library..." Ding Wei and others booed from below: "Come on, come on, find a cool place to stay, even You can’t even be named, and you still speak? It’s obvious to you, you have a head full of sorghum flowers, and you want to pretend to be an intellectual...” “That’s right, this is called Zhu Bajie wearing glasses—pretending to be a college student.” “No, no, this Telling a cyclist to fart—pretending to be a motorcycle.” Li Yunlong didn’t care about the ridicule of Ding Wei and his like, he said frankly: “Comrade teacher, you see that there are some unhealthy tendencies among the students in our class. Swarming to fight satire, well, like a swarm of buzzing flies, I only have two answers to these backward-thinking comrades, first, to resolutely fight against their backward thinking; second, to their sarcasm Irony, it’s just farting. I’m afraid you won’t plant land after listening to Lala? Now I will continue to speak. This Kursk battle, um, it’s written in the textbook. At that time, the German army had 900,000 people, and the Soviet army had 1.33 million people. , the number of technical equipment is also slightly more than that of the German army, and more than 400,000 people are still roughly equal? Everyone knows that on the battlefield, the more wins the less, this is nothing. Under normal circumstances, you use one army to fight one division , Even if you win the battle, there is nothing to brag about, it's obvious, if you can't even win this, then you can go home and coax your children, what's the point of fighting?"

"So, this question is not well formulated and cannot be discussed. I suggest that we discuss the Huaihai Campaign. I wondered. At the beginning of the Huaihai Campaign, our Huaye and Zhongye combined only had 600,000 people, but the Kuomintang army had 800,000. In terms of equipment, it is even more incomparable. There are planes in the sky, tanks and heavy artillery on the ground. In terms of mobility, we rely on two legs, and others rely on car wheels, a serious mechanized corps. Everyone discusses and discusses, why are we confused? How about using 600,000 people to clean up their 800,000 people?" The teacher was speechless for a long time...

The outcome of a war depends not only on the strengths and weaknesses of the military forces of the two sides, but also on many factors such as politics, economy, and diplomacy. For these students who hold the prestige of victory, he cannot explain it in a few words. The students were all excited and booed one after another. Ding Wei said: "Lao Li, let me tell you that it was Chiang Kai-shek who helped you. If he didn't blow up the Huayuankou, the Yellow River would not be diverted, and it would not cause large-scale disasters. Huangbai Taolue Corps and Huangwei Corps were dragged down by the Yellow Flood Zone, and the wheels of the car were stuck in the mud, so it was not as fast as two legs. So, it was Chiang Kai-shek who helped you, we Let’s not discuss this topic anymore, let’s talk about our Four Fields, we have many battles where we win more with less, let me introduce it to you, let’s say our column..." Li Yunlong heard that the topic was changed to the battles of Four Fields When I went up, I became angry: "Go and go. Are you speaking or am I speaking? It's all about you all over the world. You went to the northeast to pick up so many foreign lands, and how much equipment did you receive from the little devils? Is that what you captured in the war? ? You have more than 1 million people, who can’t win? One person can drown a person with a mouthful of saliva. How can you win more with less?”

"Our Huaye equipment is almost inferior, but at least we snatched it from the enemy. You ask around the world, and there is a case where 600,000 yuan eats up 800,000 yuan. Which country owns it?" Li Yunlong's words hurt the public, a student from Siye I don't like to hear it anymore: "Fuck, according to Lao Li, we didn't even order a fight, picked up so much equipment for nothing, and spit down the Northeast by spitting? And spit all the way to Hainan Island Isn’t this looking down on us Siye? It’s tolerable, what’s unbearable, I’ll never end with the fucking old Li.” The students from Siye fired at Li Yunlong in a hurry, full of sarcasm and abuse.

There was chaos in the classroom. "Old Li, you are fucking eating ashes of lamp grass - fart lightly, if I spit to Hainan Island, then you will have to evacuate to Fujian..." "There are three major battles in total. The Four Fields fought two. Without our Four Fields, the liberation of the whole country would have to be postponed for a few years...Grandma, let’s not mention the Liaoshen Campaign, let’s just say that when I left the customs, I only had 100,000 troops, and they fought more than 100 in less than three years. Wan, is that blown out?" "Three visits to the south of the Yangtze River, four guarantees to Linjiang, bloody battles in Siping, the smoke at minus 40 degrees in the sky, the bolts of the guns are frozen, I played it step by step." From Luo Dazheng, the deputy commander of Yiye, also laughed and smoothed things over: "Don't fight, don't fight, let's talk about the defense of Yan'an. Our teaching brigade and the new fourth brigade only have 20,000 people. How many people does Hu Zongnan have? 20 How much, if you want to say that you can win more with less, we have many battles in the first field, the Panlong victory, Qinghuabian..." Chang Baosheng from the second field was not far behind, interjecting: "We in the second field leaped thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains and won the battle. How about it? Don’t just brag about your battle examples. In the War of Liberation, our second field was the first to launch a counterattack. Give him a breakthrough in the middle. Once the middle is broken, the national battlefield will be alive. If you break the point, the whole line will be shaken, and you will all follow suit. ..." The classroom became more and more chaotic. The students first quarreled with each other, each representing their own field army, and then unanimously pointed their finger at the teacher, one by one, you and us. It seems that the teacher is the representative of the Kuomintang military. The logic is ready-made. You are defeated on the battlefield, now, what qualifications do you have to be our teachers? And Li Yunlong, who provoked the incident, was lying on the table snoring like thunder again. That night, Li Yunlong received a notice: "Go to the dean's office immediately, the dean wants to talk to him."

After thinking about it, Li Yunlong felt that something was wrong. This must not be a good thing. The former head of the 129th division would not have invited him, an old subordinate, to dinner to reminisce about the past. I can't believe he has this face. Even though he was not afraid of anything, when he heard that Liu Bocheng wanted to find him, he felt guilty. Not to mention that Liu Bocheng was his teacher, but when he first joined the Red Army as a soldier carrying old sleeves, Liu Bocheng was already the well-known chief of staff of the Red Army. Li Yunlong stood anxiously in front of the dean's office and shouted: "Report."

"Come in." A cold reply came from inside. Liu Bocheng was sitting behind a huge mahogany writing desk, facing the door. The writing desk was full of documents and books, which looked messy. He was concentrating on cleaning his glasses with a flannel cloth. Li Yunlong stood at attention and saluted, and said softly, "Master, hello!" Liu Bocheng didn't say anything, didn't look up, and continued to wipe his glasses as if he didn't see Li Yunlong. Li Yunlong was neither sitting nor standing, he could only stand there straight. After a full five minutes like this, Liu Bocheng finished wiping his glasses and put them on again, and started pacing back and forth in the office with his hands behind his back. Li Yunlong had the courage to ask: "Teacher, what do you need from me?" The dean said calmly: "Li Yunlong, have we not seen each other for more than ten years? You have been here for a few months, and I have too many things to do. I haven't talked to you, how are you?"

"Is there any problem that I need to solve?" Li Yunlong breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that nothing happened. The dean was in a good mood. He pulled a chair and sat down, and said carelessly: "Teacher, you understand me. I have a weak cultural foundation. I am a vulgar person. I can only lead soldiers to fight. Now if I have to study here, it is better to kill me. You should let me go back to the army to lead the troops. In the future, if we fight Taiwan, our army will be the first echelon. If you can’t beat me, you will cut off my head..." The dean gave him a half-smile and said: "Li Yunlong, you are too modest , I admit that you fought the battle really well. Since you fought so well, being a student seems to have wronged you a bit. This." The principal pointed to a document on the desk.

Li Yunlong saw that it was a letter of appointment: "Comrade Li Yunlong is appointed as a teacher of Nanjing Military Academy. Dean: Liu Bocheng." Li Yunlong was a little dumbfounded. He felt that his forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and his whole body was itchy. He struggled to utter a few words: "Teacher, are you... making fun of me? How can I be a teacher at all..." The dean said: "I believe in you, I can be a good one, you go back and sort it out. Let’s move out of the student dormitory, I’ll give you a wave from the barracks department, I’ll give you a teacher’s dormitory, do it well.” Li Yunlong hesitated to leave, he knew what he was capable of, he could make trouble in class, he really taught the class Not to mention that he doesn't have that ability, even Ding Wei and Kong Jie can't deal with those thorns. He can think of how Ding Wei and the others will make trouble with him knowing that he is a teacher. He said: "Teacher, please forgive me, I can't do this, let me go back to the army."

Snapped! The dean slammed his palm on the table, causing Li Yunlong to jump up from his chair and stand at attention again. Liu Bocheng roared furiously: "Well, Li Yunlong, you are quite courageous. You made trouble in class, contradicted the teacher, and gathered the crowd to make a fuss. You are amazing. Do you still look like a military officer? Stand up for me..." Li Yunlong stood upright Straight, not daring to say a word. The dean reprimanded angrily: "You are not an army commander, but a student. As a student, you must respect the teacher. No matter what the teacher has done before, but now he is wearing the uniform of the People's Liberation Army. It is your superior. Your comrades, you have to respect them. Hmph! Is it great after just a few victories? No one will look down on you? God is the boss, and you are the second? No one can control you, right? Tell you , as far as the culture in your stomach is concerned, you are far behind, aren’t you unconvinced? Well, I’ll ask you to be a teacher. I, the dean, and all the teachers and students will sit down and be your students tomorrow. Why? Like?" Li Yunlong said in a low voice: "Mr. Teacher, I have made mistakes not once or twice, and I have changed them every time? Don't make a fool of me." "Then tell me, do you want to be a student or a student?" Teacher? You choose one." He hurriedly replied: "Of course it is a student, of course it is a student..." The dean said: "Well, go back and write a review for me. You fooled me with half a sheet of paper, and tomorrow you will apologize to the teacher in front of all the students, and you must be sincere, do you hear me?" "Yes."

"Speak up." "Listen-see-la!" Li Yunlong roared. Li Yunlong returned to the dormitory disheartened. Ding Wei and the others already knew that he had been disciplined, so they gloated and asked knowingly, "Lao Li, did the old chief invite you to dinner to catch up on the old days?"

"You guys from the 129th Division have come out on top this time. How come the old chief has to take care of you? Unlike us, no one cares about you." Li Yunlong was in a bad mood: "Stay alone, I am considering becoming a teacher I'm going to be a teacher, so I have to clean up you guys." Ding Weile couldn't help but said: "Oh, I really didn't see it, you want to be a teacher too? If you want to be a teacher, I will It’s time to become the dean. Lao Li, don’t be embarrassed, isn’t it just to write a self-criticism? Write it well, understand it deeply, and pretend to be sad when reading the self-criticism. It’s best to squeeze out two tears. My comrades and I will Forgive you, everyone will inevitably make mistakes, and you will be a good comrade if you correct it..." As he was speaking, someone shouted outside the window: "Ding Wei, go to the dean's office immediately, the dean will talk to you." This time it was Li Yunlong's turn to gloat : "Go? Why are you stunned? Although you are not a member of our 129th Division, the dean likes you, and maybe he will invite you to dinner."

Lao Li:

Hello! Let me tell you the good news, our son was born, he weighs seven catties and is very healthy. I named him Li Jian casually. I hope he will grow up healthy forever. I didn’t discuss this with you. Please forgive me. I think a person’s name is just a symbol. Use your brain. I have hired a nanny for my child, and I have made arrangements for my life, please don't worry about it. I have been notified to study in a military foreign language college in Henan. The schooling period is three years. I remember I told you before that when the whole country is liberated, I still have to go to university. It’s always good to learn more knowledge. When I went to middle school, my school was a missionary school, and English was a must. This is my first foreign language. I am learning Russian now. In addition, I have also taken a course of French. Because I have a foreign language foundation, I will not study too hard. Let me tell you another piece of good news, Zhao Gang was transferred to work in Beijing a few days ago as a political commissar of a certain department of the General Staff. Yesterday I received a letter from Feng Nan, she told me that she and Zhao Gang got married in Beijing last month. I was so happy and silently blessed them. In their letter, the couple asked me to tell you that we are very grateful to us for creating the opportunity for them to get to know each other, and they feel very happy with each other. Feng Nan told me that when she saw Zhao Gang for the first time, she was struck by lightning because she felt that she had known Zhao Gang in her previous life.

Zhao Gang also told her that he felt the same way, look, how romantic it is, this is true fate. Are you doing well in your studies? How's your body? Please take care of yourself. Although I don't know your performance in the academy, but based on your personality, I can guess that there is a very restless element in your character, you don't want to be restrained, and you like to go your own way. Once your behavior is restricted, You have to find ways to make troubles. This is your weakness, but also your strengths. After all, a person should maintain the independence of his own thoughts, which is not a bad thing. The key is that you have to study hard. Since you are a professional soldier, you have to be an excellent soldier, and an excellent soldier must keep learning. With the development of the times, the wars you participated in in the past have become history, and you have to deal with modernization. A war requires modern knowledge and ways of thinking. Recently, I read some information. In the ongoing war in North Korea, our equipment and tactics are very primitive, and we underestimate the combat effectiveness and combat methods of the US military. The heroism and flesh and blood of the soldiers compete with a modern army, and you will inevitably pay heavy casualties and a price. This is very distressing. As a general who commands tens of thousands of troops, you have a great responsibility Is it okay ? Not only you, but I also want to study military knowledge well, which is why I choose to study at the Military Foreign Language Institute. As a soldier and his wife, I should also understand the military, so that we can have common topics. There is not much time, I will write next time, please take care of yourself.

Wife: Tian Yu