Chapter 15 My Brother
Anyongduo looked at Luo Zhixue in front of him, thinking about the scene where Luo Zhixue chatted with him not long ago.
He originally thought that Luo Zhixue would ask some difficult questions at that time, but he never expected that Luo Zhixue really just came to him to chat with him and asked some very common and even non-nutritious questions.
Ask him where his hometown is, how many people there are in his family, how many years he has been in the military, and whether he misses his family...
These are all such nonsense questions.
You might as well ask him how many people he has killed!
But these are the questions Luo Zhixue asked, not only to him, but also to others.
Thinking back to the fact that Luo Zhixue was inexplicably silent before asking the question, leaving them standing for a long time, An Yongduo felt that this Mr. Luo was either being mysterious or having a brain problem...
But the facts tell An Yongduo that there cannot be anything wrong with Luo Zhixue's brain.
If there was something wrong with Luo Zhixue's brain, Sun Chengli would not have made him a military advisor.
Therefore, he must be making a fool of himself!
This reassures Ernst & Young a lot.
Why does he still feel relieved that Luo Zhixue is being mysterious?
Because this sounds consistent with the image of Mr. Luo as a scholar and a military advisor.
As a strategist, don't you have to say some things that others can't understand and do some things that others can't understand? Letting them stand around for a long time and dragging them one by one to make daily routines is very consistent with the image of a strategist.
At least, that's what Anyondo's imagined military advisor should be like.
If Luo Zhixue starts to treat them as brothers, even smiles playfully, and speaks in a crude way, then An Yongduo will doubt whether this person is a idiot.
Fortunately, the Mr. Luo in front of me looks pretty awesome.
Of course, An Yongduo later would not know that Luo Zhixue was not doing this for fun, it was purely to select people who met his conditions in the shortest possible time.
What conditions?
Brave? Fierce in combat? No, these are not the conditions Luo Zhixue values.
Loyal? This piece of shit won't be able to apply for a job in a short period of time. Who knows if they are loyal or not? Besides, they have abandoned Fei Bingcai and Scar. It's nonsense to say how loyal they are.
So what kind of person should Luo Zhixue find in a short period of time?
Luo Zhixue has set a standard for himself: honesty.
Don't worry too much about combat abilities such as bravery. These people are all from the frontier cavalry. These people are not that bad, and the good ones are not that good.
There is no way to apply for loyalty and the like.
Therefore, Luo Zhixue can only choose an honest person.
He wants to be obedient, an honest person who will do whatever he says.
It doesn't matter whether you are honest in your heart or pretending to be honest, as long as you follow Luo Zhixue's orders honestly.
Finding four obedient people is Luo Zhixue's most important, most urgent, and most likely solution at the moment.
Therefore, he made everyone stand for a long time seemingly for no reason. During this process, anyone who showed an impatient expression was kicked out by him, let alone anyone who directly muttered.
In the subsequent chat, on the one hand, it was a simple matter of understanding the other person's background, and on the other hand, it was also a simple matter of judging the other person's character.
During this process, whenever he answered with ease and spoke very fluently, he kicked him out.
Likewise, those who were unwilling to answer or hesitant were kicked out by him.
What he wants is not smart people, nor people with worries, he just wants honest people who will tell you whatever you ask.
After screening through these two methods, only An Yongduo and four others were left.
In this way, there is nothing to choose from, not even any other tests, just these four people.
He didn't expect any of these four people to be sincerely loyal to him. That was unreliable, and he never thought of treating these four people as his current confidants and future team members. That would be an even stupider idea.
What he wants is only people who can obey and do things at this stage.
Preliminarily, these four people seem to meet this condition.
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Early the next morning, everyone in this small valley began to pack their bags and prepare to continue their journey.
After telling Ma Dapao to pack everyone's belongings, and telling Zhao Hongshu to take care of Lin Yu'er, Luo Zhixue took An Yongduo and Ding Chuwu and started walking through the valley.
His daily work as a military advisor is not to follow Sun Lili and make up and down strategies from time to time. In fact, his more important job is to manage the camp's supplies.
After counting yesterday, there were a total of sixty-eight people in their team. Except for the little girl Lin Yu'er and the young scholar Luo Zhixue, the rest, regardless of whether they were officers or soldiers, were all young and strong cavalry. Even Sun Chengli
No exception.
In addition to people, there are more than a hundred mules and horses in their team.
In addition to a horse for riding, there are also many mules and horses used to carry baggage and weapons.
So despite their small number of people, the team is actually quite big.
So many people, mules and horses need to be arranged reasonably, at least to separate the front, rear, left and right sides of the march. Otherwise, a large group of people, mules and horses are crowded together on those mountain roads, and how can they still move.
If the team is in chaos, it will easily happen that the generals can't find the soldiers, and the soldiers can't find the generals. If something unexpected happens, it will be the end.
In addition, he had to arrange people to perform sentinel missions according to Sun Chengli's instructions.
Although they had completely thrown off the pursuit of the officers and soldiers yesterday and fled into the mountains together, this place is not a virgin forest after all. In fact, there are still many villages in the mountains.
Since they can come to a place like this, officers and soldiers can naturally come too.
Therefore, we must be careful and arrange more sentinels.
At the same time, the team has not yet set off, so Luo Zhixue has to consider where to camp tonight and how to arrange the itinerary before arriving at the scheduled camping place.
These messy things all require Luo Zhixue's participation, even if some of them do not require him to make decisions, but are made by Sun Chengli himself, but before Sun Chengli makes a decision, Luo Zhixue is also needed.
Provide relevant information.
For example, in the afternoon, Sun Chengcheng said: It's almost time to set up camp. Is there a suitable place nearby?
Luo Zhixue can't just know everything.
Therefore, Luo Zhixue, who became a military advisor, also became very busy. Early in the morning, he coordinated with the pro-army forces. The three armies on the left, center and right arranged their marching formations, dividing them into the front team, the middle army, and the rear team, and then divided some people to disperse to both sides.
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After finally settling the matter of the marching troops, he went to see Sun Chengcheng again.
Sun Chengcheng was also wearing a tight-fitting short robe at this time. The soldiers around him had already tied up the horses and seemed to be ready to set off.
Before and after walking up, Luo Zhixue immediately bowed slightly and said: "Meet the general!"
Sun Chengli laughed when he saw Luo Zhixue and made a big move: "Brother Luo is here, look at you and salute, we are all brothers, why are you so polite!"
Luo Zhixue straightened up and looked at Sun Chengli opposite him, and found that Sun Chengli was even more difficult to look at at this time.
Sun Chengcheng's nickname was originally Sun Mazi. He had pockmarks on his face due to smallpox. He usually looked fine, but he couldn't smile. This smile caused the muscles in his face to move and squeeze out the pockmarks on his face.
more closely.
Fortunately, at this time, no one cared about the pockmark on his face. Even Luo Zhixue only had such a thought in his mind after seeing it, but it did not make Luo Zhixue pay more attention to Sun Chengcheng.
The Sun Chengcheng in front of him was the leader of this bandit army, and he emerged victorious from the competition with Fei Bingcai and Scar.
Although Luo Zhixue contributed to this process, it was actually Sun Lili who persuaded Lin Dongsheng, Wang Dazhuang, and Xu He on his own, and then laid the foundation for seizing the throne.
After Luo Zhixue put away this thought in his heart, there was no smile on his face. Instead, he pretended to be serious and said: "As the saying goes, there is an order of superiority and inferiority, and order of seniority and youth. In public, Zhixue is a subordinate of the general. In private,
How can you be rude if you aspire to learn and respect the general as a benefactor!"
Sun Chengli was stunned for a moment while listening, while Wang Xiazi, the personal sentry beside Sun Chengli, even murmured in his heart: Damn, the military advisor is indeed a scholar, he always talks in the same way!
Sun Chengli had nothing to say to Luo Zhixue, and said he was wrong?
It's definitely not possible. Luo Zhixue emphasizes the order of respect and inferiority, but who is the respecter here? Naturally, it is his grandson Cheng Li.
Therefore, it is beneficial for Sun Cheng to emphasize the difference between superiority and inferiority.
After all, he can't always smile with a group of subordinates. Brothers come and go every day. Li Tonglin was not like this in the past. Although Li Tonglin talked about brothers every day, most of the time it was his subordinates who
I dare not take a breath in front of me...
Li Tonglin can call his subordinates brothers, which is to show his approachability and closeness to his subordinates.
But if other people foolishly say the same thing to Li Tonglin, "Brother Li," it can only mean that they are brainless.
Sun Chengli also hopes to become someone like Li Tonglin!
So he did not refute Luo Zhixue, but laughed and said: "Brothers are so polite, and you don't mind being tired. Come on, I'm just coming to you to discuss how to go today. I'm not sure whether to pay attention or not."
Keep going south."
Sun Lili changed the topic directly, and Luo Zhixue also said casually: "The general knows everything well. How do you know that your subordinates also come to the general to discuss today's march?"
Sun Chengli said: "Haha, it seems that we two brothers have thought of getting together. Come on, let's talk about whether you have any good ideas."
Luo Zhixue took out his hand-drawn map and said: "I can't talk about good ideas, but I also have some simple opinions."
After Sun Chengli and Luo Zhixue discussed the march route, Wang Xiazi, a soldier who was originally following Sun Chengli, was also very bored. He stayed behind and listened to the two men in front discussing military affairs, but the more he listened, the more strange he felt.
It was not military affairs. He was not interested in the military affairs discussed by the two of them. What he was interested in was the names of these two people.
When Sun Chengcheng spoke, he frequently used words of address such as "Brother Luo", "Brother", "Brother".
Luo Zhixue, on the other hand, would always use "general", "subordinates", "students", etc. when he spoke, but occasionally when he talked about excitement, he would say the words "big brother", "grandson" without hesitation.
elder brother'.
Chapter completed!