Struggle in Russia

Chapter 59: Wintry



St. Petersburg's winter is mostly night, and the sunshine for a few hours a day makes people feel like the sky just dawns and then the sun sets. This makes Li Xiao a little unaccustomed, and the water drips into ice, even if he wears a cotton bun, he doesn't feel warm.

骁 Li Xiao at this time understood the ambitions of Peter the Great and Yekaterinburg and understood why they wanted to fight to the south. They were too unsuitable for human development.

Of course, in the Russian winter against humanity, it is only the poor ghosts who need to worry about sunlight and heating. Rich nobles have long been hardworking serfs cutting wood for coal mining, and the hot fireplace will not go out all winter. If you have more money or you have the right, you can go to the warm Black Sea coast or go abroad, go to France and Spain to sunbathe.

For example, Nicholas I would take his family to visit Prussia in the winter (Nicholas I was the son-in-law of King Frederick William III of Prussia), and would wait until the worst winter had passed seven or eighty-eight. Return to St. Petersburg.

However, Li Xiao has not enjoyed this treatment, Nicholas I will not let this obscure nephew upset his family visit. In previous years, in the season of dripping water and ice, Li Xiao would be ordered to stay and go to the center of the lawn of the Summer Palace to guard the snow lotus of the Emperor Ekaterina.

Jain is the favorite story of Nicholas I. It is said that the emperor did not understand why a soldier had been guarding Snowdrops in the Summer Palace. After extensive verification, it was found that when a certain winter emperor Yekaterina walked in the Summer Palace, he saw this snowdrop spit in heavy snow. Bud, then ordered to take care of this flower.

Then, according to the order of the emperor, this snow lotus has been guarded by soldiers. During the flood in St. Petersburg, even if the flood came, but the guards did not receive an evacuation order, they still faithfully performed their mission until they were drowned.

故事 This story is true or false. Li Xiao doesn't know, but he can be sure that most of Catherine the Great is true. As for the silly soldier who was drowned by the flood, it was definitely made up by Nicholas I's dog legs. That guy likes this kind of trick most, he wants everyone to obey him unconditionally.

骁 Li Xiao also knows what it is like to drink the northwest wind on the lawn of the Summer Palace in the cold weather. His uncle simply wanted to freeze him, making his granddaughter a part of the allusion. Maybe he replaced the soldiers who were loyal to their duties and drowned in the flood, and became a loyal grandfather loyal to Nicholas I who performed the mission unfortunately and died in the snow.

Li Xiao is very fortunate to get rid of the Pleobransky Guards, otherwise when the snowstorm falls, he will certainly be frozen on the lawn of the Summer Palace instead of sitting in front of the fire cocoa.

"What's the condition of the soldier? No one frostbite?" He asked.

幸 "Fortunately, we built a new barracks in time and harvested enough wood. Although the winter clothes are still not satisfactory, the boys have good cold resistance, and it will not be a problem to spend this winter!"

Boris rubbed his hands. He had just returned from inspecting the camp, his face was so red that he drank two vodkas.

He asked casually, "How is the cram school planning?"

骁 Li Xiao sighed holding the cup of hot cocoa: "It's more trouble than I expected."

Boris pouted and said, "I told you long ago that this is not what we should do. Here is that the army is not a primary school. Literacy should be left to teachers and churches. This is their job! And I don't I think those mud-legs have the talent to read and write, and they honestly learn to execute orders! "

骁 Li Xiao raised his head and glared at the big man and refuted: "It's not enough, soldiers without culture have no soul. I want elites instead of cannon fodder! So I'm done with this tuition class!"

Boris shrugged, and this issue was debated after Li Xiao raised the cram school. Vishniak also supported his view, but could not convince Li Xiao at all, this man was stubborn.

"Tutorial, what is that?"

The followers squeaked, and two tall, handsome figures broke into the company, headed by Deputy Head Leonid, followed by Vishniak with a constipated expression on his face.

骁 Li Xiao and Boris were taken aback, and stood up to salute. It's not how much they respect Leonid, in fact the relationship between the two is not very good. After all, the stuff of the Knights of St. Andrew is still there, and Leonid has a distinctive crown princely label, and everyone is not the same.

However, after all, Leonid was the deputy head and chief. Even if Li Xiao and Boris no longer felt him, the etiquette on the scene was necessary, otherwise the desperate gendarmerie Colonel Adlerberg would teach them immediately. How to be human.

"Deputy Head!"

Leonid responded with a glance, saying, "Sit down! You did a good job, you prepared firewood for heating, built a windproof and frost-resistant barracks, and the soldiers' winter clothing and bedding were also sufficient. Unlike The other company, it started to be anxious when it snowed, and froze several lads, and frostbite was countless ... Damn it! "

Leonid was really angry. Before the heavy snowfall, he repeatedly emphasized the importance of heating work to the battalions, but most of the officers regarded it as the wind at the ears ~ www.readwn.com ~ When the snow fell and the soldiers fell into a hurry To find firewood to build a house.

Hey meow, don't these fools know that Russian winter can't do engineering at all. The land is frozen and the iron cannot be moved. How can I build a house?

I only have the second battalion. It is not bad. The commander Vishniak did not let him down. He started to build a house before it snowed. Although it was not completely completed, he could live in a crowd. The second company even prepared for the winter one month in advance. When the other companies were frozen into ice sculptures and could only hold the group for heating, the company even had the energy to conduct winter training.

I really want to throw things around, and people are more popular than death!

Of course, Leonid was not just angry, he also blamed himself. He is still not well-suited to grassroots work, and underestimates the inertia and slackness of these **** officers below. If he didn't just issue a reminder notice, but urged him one by one, I'm afraid he wouldn't freeze to death like he does now!

Leonid hated useless casualties and felt that every life was precious, and now he was no better than those abominable murderers, which made him feel uncomfortable that he was always an elite.

Leonid knew that he must accelerate the pace of adaptation, and he must be more careful and cautious in the future, and this tragedy must not be repeated. And he is also a person who thinks of going to do it. Since he lacks experience, he asks those with experience!

Who in the regiment really cares about the soldiers? Who is more experienced?

I am undoubtedly Li Xiao's group. So Leonid came to learn from it, but only when he came to the door did he hear Li Xiao's complaint, and immediately he began to think about the concept of cultural tuition classes.

He asked straightforwardly, "What is this tuition class? What's the use?"


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