Struggle in Russia

Town of Sertorov.

When Alexei Speransky and Leonid arrived in the town, just like Li Xiao, they had a bad first impression. You can see 748 wandering around the town in twos and threes aimlessly like ghosts. regiment soldiers. Without exception, these people are ragged, disheveled, and lifeless, and their eyes are so cloudy, like walking dead.

Leonid asked Alexei: "Are they from the 748th regiment?"

"probably?"

Alexey was not too sure. Although he worked in the Gendarmerie, the last time he came to the 748th Regiment to clean up the mess was a few years ago. Although the regiment was well-known at that time, it didn't seem to be so bad. At least the soldiers were not like beggars.

Leonid said in astonishment, "Why do you look like this?"

"Maybe I've had too much to drink?"

Alcoholism is definitely a common phenomenon in the Russian army. For most of the "grey animals" who were born as serfs and were forced to join the army, alcohol is the only thing that can make them feel better in the army. And in the cold winter, if you don’t drink a couple of sips, you really can’t stand the biting cold. After all, their winter clothes are the cheapest black-hearted rags. The empire doesn’t have so much money to spend on cannon fodder that can be consumed indefinitely, and the gentlemen also need extra money. Is not it.

Therefore, even though the higher-ups have issued repeated orders to strictly prohibit alcohol, it is of no use. The gray cattle will try their best to get alcohol and drink. After the meager military salary is spent, they will go to steal chickens and dogs. They will exchange everything they have for money to drink , if the management of bayonets and rifles is not quite strict, otherwise it is very likely that Russia's arsenal will be empty in winter.

As for what kind of bird virtue is a drunkard who has drunk too much, of course there is no need to say too much. Even the most prominent aristocrat from St. Petersburg is no different from the most humble bastard after drinking a few catties of yellow soup and cat urine.

So when you see a group of guys in military uniforms who are smoky and inhuman, the first thing you have to do is to wonder if they have drunk too much. That's important because God only knows what a drunk can do.

In the past few years, Alexei has dealt with more than a dozen cases of drunk soldiers killing superiors and killing nobles. When these poor and hateful guys get drunk, they always vent their grievances on the heads of the nobles, and now he and Leonid obviously belong to the latter.

Alexey warned in a low voice: "Attention, my friend, be more careful, and leave immediately if something goes wrong! Don't get entangled with these scum!"

Leonid was shocked. He looked in disbelief at Alexei, who had a serious face as if he was facing an enemy, and then looked around at the so-called dregs who were curiously looking at them. Asked: "Why? In broad daylight, do they still dare to mutiny?"

"They don't dare to mutiny!" Alexei snorted coldly, "But their brains are already occupied by alcohol, and they don't mind murdering for money just to have a few sips!"

Leonid still didn't believe it: "How is it possible? It's too appalling. It's a rumor, right? My friend."

Alexei smiled wryly, "I saw the case I handled with my own eyes, so what do you say is true?"

Leonid was shocked again. The soldiers he had seen before were all the elite of the empire, all of them were heroic and high-spirited. He thought that all or at least most of the soldiers of the empire were like this, but today his worldview was updated.

Unavoidably, he was a little worried: "Are there many such guys?"

Alexei replied: "Are there many? Except for the troops with the title of guards, the rest are pretty much the same. You know, they are all serfs, and they can't tell the left and the right without literacy. They can't leave when they see vodka." The track... Of course this is the worst part... My friend, we have to go, these bastards must be drunk, let's go before they have a bad idea, go to the military police company in town , my friend Major Vasily Matveyevich Muraviev should be safer there!"

Leonid really didn't think of it,

One day I stood on my own land and faced my own soldiers and ran away. This shouldn't have happened at all, it's too shameful!

"The head and deputy head of the 748 regiment should be sent to a court-martial, no! They should be sent directly to the gallows, which is appalling and unheard of. If everything here gets out, we will become the laughing stock of the whole of Europe!"

After coming out of the gendarmerie company, Leonid, who was back on the road under the escort of four heavily armed gendarmerie, exploded immediately. The upright Major Vasily Matveyevich Muraviev told them: The 748th Regiment was a pile of stinky shit, a concentration camp for the scum and rubbish of all Russia, and dealing with these bastards' endless troubles every day had exhausted him physically and mentally. If he could, he wanted to shoot everyone in the 748th regiment one by one-including all the officers.

"Those bastards don't care about anything at all, they just let it go!"

This was the major's accusation, and this made Leonid furious. If Alexey, who knew the inside story, hadn't stopped him, Leonid would have taken a knife and gun and immediately bled the officers of the 748 regiment one by one.

"Why are you stopping me, aren't you angry?" Leonid asked indignantly.

Alexei smiled bitterly, and replied in a low voice: "My friend, you are too straightforward. The matter of the 748 regiment is very complicated, and it is not entirely the problem of the officers. Use, this won't solve the problem!"

Leonid asked: "Then tell me, how can we solve the problem?!"

Alexei vomited in his heart: 【Perhaps we have to change the tsar to solve the problem. 】But he can’t say no, he can only divert this dangerous topic: “My friend, we are not here to solve the problem of the 748 regiment. We are here to observe the Grand Duke, after all he is the 748 The officers of the regiment are the parties involved, but we are not! We can't presumptuously do things outside the topic!"

Leonid didn't like this answer, not only because he felt that Alexei was avoiding the problem, but also because he didn't like Li Xiao at all, thinking that someone had neither the ability nor the courage to solve the trouble of the 748 regiment. He even wanted to solve this disgraceful group in the army by himself.

"The Grand Duke is said to be holding a company meeting today." Alexei also knew Leonid's temper, but he didn't want his good friend to fall into the muddy pit of the 748 regiment. "I'm curious that the Grand Duke is planning to treat his soldiers. What to say. I wonder if he will be blocked by those scumbags!"

Could it be what Alexei said? In fact, Alexei is not the only one who has no confidence in someone. Boris and Vishniak are also not optimistic about someone. They think:

"There is absolutely no need to hold this meeting! You are asking for trouble! You are asking for trouble! Those guys are more rubbish than you imagined, and they are even more difficult to deal with! Under the current circumstances, holding a meeting is a bad decision!"