Xu Le didn't expect to be treated with such courtesy, and after being slightly stunned, he saluted the back, sat at the table and picked up the ordinary cup of jasmine tea, and drank a few sips seriously.
Du Shaoqing turned around, waved his hand to let Ximen Jin and the officers of the Seventh Iron Division leave the room, walked to the table, removed the sunglasses with the surname mark, took off the military hat, and then sat down.
The two men sat on opposite sides of the table, watching each other calmly, no electric sparks growing in the meeting of their eyes, no swords and swords whistling in the air, only silence.
Some times I haven't seen it, Xu Le noticed that Du Shaoqing's sideburns were already visible, and the indifferent, proud, and rigorous cheeks like ice sculptures in the past years were also a little tired and haggard.
Several years of battlefield career, especially in the last few months of expeditions to the empire, for the myth of the invincibility of the Iron Seventh Division, for the uninterrupted victory of the federal forces, Division Commander Du Shaoqing has spent a lot of effort, but Xu Le is still a little unable to adapt to the tired and haggard look, which will appear on his face.
Du Shaoqing's eyes drooped slightly, picked up the coffee that had been prepared by the orderly, took a sip gently, and then said very casually: "Slow death." ” Xu Le was silent for a moment, picked up the cup of jasmine tea made by the other party again, took a big sip of it, raised his head, looked into the other party's eyes and said, "No." ” Du Shaoqing put down the coffee cup, did not continue to argue on that issue, and turned to another topic, he looked at Xu Le's clearly scarred face, and said: "Three years ago in the base, we discussed whether the troops needed discipline and tactics or strong individuals.
I said that there is only one god of war in the universe, and you said no, and now it seems that you have proven to some extent that you can do something that ordinary people can't do, but I still reply that way, if you die, what will happen to the troops" Du Shaoqing continued: "You miraculously survived, and you returned with merit, and the entire federation, from the president to the street vendors, everyone will give you some face." ” "But I, Du Shaoqing, have never been a person who will give face to others, and I don't need to give face."
"I understand the importance of military discipline."
He raised his head, looked at Du Shaoqing and said, "But I believe that Magnolia is not a reckless man, and he naturally has his reasons for doing this." ” "There's no reason to explain this."
Du Shaoqing said: "I have paid attention to Magnolia before, and I know that he is a very good, even very rare soldier, but I never thought of transferring him to my army, because I know very well that people like him, like you, and like your team members, are not real soldiers at all." ” "The following offense tore Dongfang's ear, and cut the crispy bone and meat into sixteen pieces, and he cut off his back road with his own hands."
Du Shaoqing stared at Xu Le's eyes, and his voice gradually became indifferent, "You haven't been a first-level military commander, but you should know very well what it means."
If it were my people who did such a thing, I would never intercede for him, I would just shoot him. ” "Again, I'm sure my people would never do something like this for no reason."
Xu Le had no intention of backing down, but stared at his eyes and said word by word: "Master Shaoqing." ” The four words of Master Shaoqing came out of his mouth, and they looked extremely stiff, like cow bones that had been dried for thousands of years, jumping out of the cracks in the dry wasteland piece by piece, although there were only four words, but the two of them knew very well what Xu Le's subtext was, and what he wanted to emphasize.
Gradually dark clouds accumulated between Du Shaoqing's sword-like eyebrows, and he said coldly: "The army, the first thing is discipline.
Federal, first law.
Both, the first evidence, Colonel Xu Le, I respect the ruling of the military court, and will do whatever it takes to maintain the military discipline of the troops. ” "I am absolutely confident that my subordinates will not do what you imagined, if you have evidence, please submit it to the Internal Affairs Department or a military court, if not, please return."
After listening to these neat and extraordinarily tough words, Xu Le frowned, and suddenly said, "Senior Commander Shaoqing, maybe you don't know your subordinates as well as you think. ” Looking at the white hair of the sideburns of this famous federal general, he felt something in his heart, this person worked hard for the Federation, and it could even be said that he was burning his own life, but the pride and conceit in his bones still did not change.
"People are complex."
Xu Le looked at Du Shaoqing's eyes and said: "Someone told me that human beings are first-order machines, and more than 40,000 officers and soldiers of the Iron Seventh Division are as efficient and powerful as machines under your training and command, but people are not real machines after all.
A person like the commander of the Eastern Regiment is no longer the little soldier under you back then, he has his own thoughts.
Trusting one's subordinates completely and unconditionally is a virtue, but it is also a risk, and no one knows if someone will take advantage of this trust. ” Du Shaoqing's eyes narrowed, and a cold light shot out sharply, Xu Le's words would be too stupid if he was sowing discord, so he knew that the other party was talking about this issue very seriously, and when the aroma of coffee gradually drifted away, he couldn't help but think of that rainy day in the capital, the subordinate he used to trust the most His eyes naturally drifted out of the room, Du Shaoqing glanced at Ximen Jin's back in the distance, his mood was unusually cold, probably because of this extremely complicated emotion, he was not willing to cast a star on another of his most loyal subordinates.
"Needless to say."
Du Shaoqing waved his hand to stop Xu Le's speech, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly said, "There is something I must tell you." ” "I still don't appreciate your casualness and personal heroism, but I really admire you now."
Xu Le's eyes lowered, staring at the gently rippling jasmine petals in the cup in front of him, and understood what the other party meant.
With Du Shaoqing's surname, it is impossible to discuss with himself for such a long time on the issue of military discipline that is extremely simple in his opinion.
Whether it is this cup of tea made by Du Shaoqing himself, or the word "death delay" that the other party spit out from his lips at the beginning, it is not Du Shaoqing who gives him Xu Le's face, but a federal soldier who shows respect to another federal soldier who is not bad.
Xu Le got up and put on his hat and saluted to say goodbye, and finally said in a deep voice: "At the battle meeting tomorrow morning, I will ask for a retrial of this case. ” Du Shaoqing didn't answer, nor did he get up, he just waved his hand very casually, but when he looked at Xu Le's back as he walked out of the door, a rare touch of complicated and lonely emotion appeared in the eyes of this famous general of the Federation Young Zhuang faction.
Tea and conversation are respectful and thankful between soldiers.
Thank you for risking your life to go to the Empire, kill Caton, avenge the tiger, and avenge her.
Half a kilometer away from the barracks of the New Seventeenth Division, at the corner of the escape door of a quiet metal tunnel, Xu Le squinted his eyes and said in a low voice, "Come out." ” There were no fairies, monsters, or ghosts, or unexpected beauties jumping out of there, running to him, hanging around his neck and giving him a warm hug, only an old butler in a black formal gown silently appeared in his pupils, or more precisely, in the visual areas of his brain.
In the breeze of the base, Xu Le turned around and leaned against the secluded metal plate, closed his eyes, stared at the housekeeper in the dark, and always felt that the wrinkles on this image seemed to be much less than a few years ago, and subconsciously asked a question that was a little inexplicable, but both sides were very clear.
"You're still you" "It's a strange feeling, but I'm still me, besides, it's been a long time, Colonel Xu Le is asking on behalf of another me."
Xu Le sighed, didn't have the energy to discuss the philosophical question of whether consciousness and wisdom could be split, reported the data of the root code of the preface that Gu Xifeng stole from him, and said, "Please help me check whether this military order preface has been manipulated." ” After a short time, the Federal Charter computer replied: "This order has been revised to cover the thirty-four military orders between 9-887 and 9-992 in standard timing. ” Xu Le calculated the time, it was the days before Magnolia was attacked in the southern district of Fagar City, his closed eyes couldn't help but wrinkle tightly, but the hands hanging on his waist gradually relaxed, took out a Sanqi brand cigarette from his pocket, lit one and smoked gently, a smile appeared on his face.
"Help me get the raw data back."
"I can't."
"Why" "Because this is a battlefield real-time command sequence, according to wartime regulations, the relevant data is temporarily stored in the headquarters data box for easy access at any time, and then transmitted back to S1 within the standard time."
"What does this have to do with retrieving data?"
"Before the original data could be transmitted back to S1, it was completely destroyed by the third-level clearance."
"Where did the permission come from?"
"S1 Charter Bureau remote operation."
Xu Le opened his eyes suddenly, and immediately thought of the information he sent back before going to the Empire, the reason why the Imperial Seed that destroyed the Ancient Bell was able to escape the purge of the Charter Bureau must also be related to the Charter Bureau.
He squinted his eyes, took a deep puff on his cigarette, and asked in a low voice: "Before I came back, I asked you to help calculate the matter, how is the calculation, and what is the final result of the case investigated by the federal government a year ago?"
"Based on the intelligence and related information you have obtained from the Empire, it is estimated that this person has no access to the confidential route data related to the Ancient Bell, and this person has no access to the missing regional data of the Charter Network."
"The result of the case a year ago was: Assistant Director Cui Judong was examined and acquitted.
Jiao Shouheng, deputy director of the Office of the Ministry of National Defense, committed suicide. ” Xu Le took off his cigarette, licked his somewhat bitter lips, squinted at the foreign land outside the base, and looked at the dark clouds there, and his mood became heavy.
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"Boss, how are you talking?"
Xiong Linquan, Da Vinci and other team members came over and asked with anxious expressions.
Xu Le came to his senses, snuffed out his cigarette butt, and said, "Du Shaoqing didn't agree to release him." ” "Then what should I do" Everyone was extremely disappointed, Xiong Linquan said in a depressed mood: "Boss, do you want to go and see Lao Bai" "No, I'll see him as a flower after Lao Bai comes out."
Xu Le thought of the revised military order and spat out, "I don't need him anymore Du Shaoqing nodded." ” Countless dark clouds were floating in the sky, obscuring the clear sunlight and casting chilling shadows.
Xu Le's heart also has countless dark clouds, Secretary Jiao's death, the results of the review of Cui Judong, the powerful soldier who assassinated the little watermelon back then, the undercurrent in the army mentioned by the tiger in the Xilin restaurant, countless scattered details cannot be strung together, but they gradually condense, pointing to a chilling guess result.
If the attack on the Gu Zhong is really a conspiracy of some big people in the Federation, how did they do it The death of Secretary Jiao seems to have completely cut off this line, and where to find out where to find out the attack on Magnolia and his party, if it is another move by the radicals of the army, why did they do this, just to cut off the influence they left behind, and whether Du Shaoqing was involved in it, whether the lady in the back mountain was involved, and how many people in the political axe were involved in this ugly thing In the face of this rain cloud, which I don't know how many layers, how thick, and how dark it is, the federal central computer is not omnipotent, and the old thing can rely on a huge database to comb through it, accurately retrieve information, and accurately locate a certain year, month, and day, who has met and spoken to whom in a certain place, but based on the citizens' regulations, which are strictly protected by Charter I, there is no way to restore a lot of information other than electronic data.
Society is an incomparably complex system, a person has to meet countless people every day, a note, a whispered word, or even a look at the time of encounter, can construct an infinite possible conspiracy, and this simplest way of communication, but also the most difficult way to monitor the central computer.
As Feng Yu once said: the simplest is often the most powerful, the lock is like this, the machine is like this, and the person is like this.
Let the old thing continue to look for clues in the huge database, and Xu Le must turn his attention back to the base, because the impromptu conversation before this morning's military meeting will soon decide the life and death of Magnolia.
According to his rank, there was certainly no place for him in the classified conference room of the Offensive X3 military plan, but he could sit in on it.
The coffee cups in the headquarters were basically all broken a few days ago, so today there were teacups on the table, looking at the steaming white mist in front of him, Xu Le squinted his eyes thoughtfully, but the afterglow gently fell on the figure of Du Shaoqing in front of him.
If he still had respect for Du Shaoqing as a real soldier in the past, then at this moment, these respects have long been covered by those dark clouds, not completely disappeared, but become extremely vague.
Xu Le slowly stood up under the gaze of the generals, and said calmly to a little weird: "I'm in a bad mood today, so I'll try to speak as fast as possible." ” "I am unacceptable and strongly puzzled by the fact that my subordinate, Captain Magnolia, was sentenced to death by a military judge on charges of assaulting his commander."
The atmosphere in the conference room was stiff, and everyone, including Commander Yi, didn't expect Xu Le to be so tough as soon as he opened his mouth "What I don't understand is why Captain Magnolia only tore one of the regiment's ears when my squad was put into a dangerous situation by a regiment of the Iron Seventh Division with shameless and insidious means, and my comrades died tragically."
There was a lot of uproar.
Xu Le stared at Du Shaoqing's side face in front of him and said, "If it were me, I would never tear his ear, but would kill him directly." ” "Colonel Xu Le, I hope you would better present relevant evidence."
Du Shaoqing didn't look back, his fingers gently rubbed the edge of his sunglasses, and said lightly.
This military general didn't threaten anything, but the generals in the conference room heard his anger from this sentence, if Xu Le was just venting his anger because of the Magnolia matter, the Iron Seventh Division would definitely not give up.
Xu Le took out a chip and handed it to the staff officer beside him, looked at Du Shaoqing and said: "Division Commander Du, I remember that in the 5460 Glacier military operation, Commander Dongfang Yu was punished by military law for deliberately delaying the rescue of a certain unit of the Special First Army, such a person with a criminal record is really worthy of your trust."
Without waiting for anyone to speak, Xu Le stared at Du Shaoqing and continued: "In less than two years, he became the regiment commander again, doesn't this violate the military appointment regulations, you keep saying that the most important military discipline regulations, then I don't understand, when will your Du Shaoqing's words replace military law?"
Du Shaoqing's sword eyebrows were slightly raised, his eyes were as cold as ice, he slowly turned his head, and stared at Xu Le's face without saying a word, just like looking at a guy looking for death.
Under these eyes, Xu Le didn't feel anything like a stone, squinted his eyes and said, "If you want evidence, I'll give you evidence." ” "What is this" Commander Yi Changtian frowned, looked at the scrolling list on the light curtain, and asked: "It looks like an order list, but what does the annotation next to it mean?"
"This is the underlying data."
The staff officer next to him suppressed the shock in his heart and explained to the generals in the conference room: "Next to it is the data analysis results of the federal central computer, and it is believed that this sequence has been artificially altered, and the original data has been modified and destroyed. ” "This is the sequence of defense deployment instructions of the 1st Regiment of the Iron Seventh Division during that time, and I can't completely fix it, but according to the remaining information, I can already see a lot of problems."
Xu Le looked at Du Shaoqing and said in a cold voice: "I have no way to tell if Dongfang Yu has drunk too much menstruation and his brain has become extremely stupid, or whether he is bold enough to dare to frame friendly troops, but because of these unreasonable orders, the remnants of the empire team slipped in from the defense area of your regiment, and my people died so much."
At this moment, Du Shaoqing's expression was still indifferent and calm, but the corners of his eyes twitched slightly.
Liu Sifu, deputy commander of the Iron Seventh Division, stood up, frowned and said, "Is this record real?"
"This is for the highest authority of the Charter Bureau, you Seventh Master want to suspect the real surname" Xu Le said in a deep voice: "I don't care what you explain, you first explain to me why this preface was erased from the original record" Liu Sifu's brows furrowed extremely tightly, and he replied slowly: "Since the last conflict with the Charter Bureau on Planet 5460, everyone has guessed that you have a close relationship with the high-level members of the Charter Bureau, who knows if you erased the original record, and then" Xu Le's pupils shrank sharply, he didn't expect the other party to be so shameless, and scolded loudly: "The master was fighting with the imperial people for life and death at that time, change your mother's face."
Liu Sifu's scolded body stiffened, and when he was about to fight back, a violent shout with endless anger sounded in the conference room.
"Enough" Du Shaoqing slammed the teacup in his hand on the table, the porcelain pieces splashed, and the right hand that was bleeding behind him trembled angrily.
His body tensed and slowly stood up, and his voice seemed to be soaked for countless years by the glacier of 5460 and the blood flowing from the remains of those warriors, and cold overflowed from his lips.
"Bring me Dongfang Jade."
To be continued: