Handan. At the station of the 1st Infantry Division, Sergeant Yuan entered the barracks with a donkey cart, and he was responsible for the army's vegetable procurement every day, in fact, there were very few vegetables in winter. The few are very pitiful, and most of them still need to solve it themselves. But meat, eggs, etc. are okay. This is the best guarantee for the army's combat effectiveness.

"Lao Yuan is back?" A sergeant shouted kindly.

"Oh, it's back." Lao Yuan said with a smile. He felt very satisfied now, the barracks was his home, and he had nothing left. I am in my forties this year. It is no longer possible to marry a wife and have children. He was the only one in the village, and the army became his home. Here, looking at those half-sized boys, he felt that it was his son, and he was happy. The army eats well and is also clothed, and sometimes he thinks that it is good to be a veteran for a lifetime.

"Lao Yuan, what are we going to eat today, what are we going to buy?" The recruits affectionately called him Lao Yuan, and in the army they had to salute, and they also called him a commander, even a sergeant. It's a high honor.

Lao Yuan didn't like this, he was a veteran, he treated the recruits very kindly, not like their sergeants. The recruits like him very much, and they all like to affectionately call him Lao Yuan. Because he can really do some of these things.

"There is mutton, eat stewed mutton today." Lao Yuan said with a smile that he knew that these recruits were trained very hard, because veterans often took the situation of the battle, and many recruits had not yet been on the battlefield, which was not a good thing for the Republican Army. But many people want to fight because they are highly motivated to fight. Lao Yuan likes to watch the Republican Army fight, because he believes that places outside the Republican Army are not peaceful, and only places controlled by the Republican Army can be considered peaceful.

"Old Yuan, something happened." Then a sergeant came over and said this.

"What's going on?" Old Yuan asked puzzled. He didn't know what else was going on in the barracks.

"Is there going to be a war? It's a good thing, we old guys can still go to war. Lao Yuan said with a smile.

"No, it's not a war. It seems that our situation is really a little bad, and I heard that it seems that we are going to be reorganized, and the number of people in our division has been reduced to a lot. I heard that there are a lot of people who are going to cut it this time. The sergeant said.

"Your message is accurate, and it is different every time." Lao Yuan said.

"No, this time it will be accurate, it won't be long before the order will be announced. Veterans like you and me still want to be laid off, and after the veterans are discharged, they have to be trained, enter the society, and become a worker or something. The sergeant said worriedly.

"Just talk nonsense." Lao Yuan ignored the other party and said.

"How can I talk nonsense, you can look at the order, it won't take long to come down." The sergeant said. Lao Yuan didn't know what was wrong. Suddenly he felt as if he was about to lose something, but he still shook his head, thinking that such a thing was still unlikely, because the order was given so much for some reason. In such a situation, many of their things are difficult to carry out, so if they want to change such a state, they need to deal with all kinds of things properly, and if they want to complete such things, how to accomplish them? It's just hard to deal with.

Lao Yuan quickly focused on his mutton. But at noon, the order was given. The whole division actually only retained 2,000 people, and then began to be reorganized, and many veterans who were even better than Lao Yuan had to be eliminated. Lao Yuan couldn't figure it out. He really couldn't understand why the Republican Army wanted to be formed into an army, navy, air force, and navy only with marines. In addition, the reorganization of the Second Infantry Division into the National Guard was only a unit with many numbers, officers and a certain number of non-commissioned officers, and most of the soldiers had to be eliminated at once. Lao Yuan couldn't understand such a thing in his heart all of a sudden.

That night, Lao Yuan had insomnia. He really couldn't understand such a reason, why they cut so many troops, why they did this, as a veteran, he couldn't understand, he wanted to ask their commander, why.

Lao Yuan went to his chief the next day. His company commander told him that it was an order from above. Then he went to the battalion commander, and the battalion commander just told him to let him go to the regimental headquarters, and the regimental headquarters would tell him the answer he wanted, but the people at the regimental headquarters were busy reorganizing. Lao Yuan suddenly felt that he had lost his home. For some reason, he felt like he had no home and he wanted an explanation.

An officer told him that he could go to Lijiazhuang and ask the commander, because many people were worried that such a reorganization would make them useless. They don't know what their future holds. After all, a lot of people are going home, and they don't know why.

In the past, there would be many, many people, but this time the reorganization, why let many people go home, they don't understand, they just can't understand some such things, some people are willing to go home, but some people have seen the type as their own home, they don't want their home to be gone. This is the feeling of a veteran.

In such a situation, Lao Yuan could only run from Handan to Lijiazhuang, and he hoped to find his chief to explain such a situation.

But soon he found some such places, not only that, but there are many veterans like him who have the same idea as him, they come from various units, the first infantry division, the second infantry division, the third infantry division, the fourth infantry division, the front-line combat units do not, they will be directly reorganized, but these people are very nervous, they don't want their old troops, leave their homes, they already have feelings, if they leave there, what else can they do? Nothing can be done.

Inside the War Department.

"Let those people in, pour them some water, add some honey to them." Shang Wu said.

"There could be a lot of people." Jia Xu said on the side. The staff officers were also worried. They fear disadvantage to their superiors.

"I think that in this reorganization, the road we have taken may be a little bigger, and many people can't understand such a truth, why do we have to lay down our arms and be ordinary people, they regard the army as a home, and for home, we also have to build our own country." Shang Wu said.

"In this way, I personally told them that if we don't make sense of them, we can't do the reorganization." Shang Wu said this, and when they heard such words, they could only do this.

"Sir, all right." The staff officer then arranged, and they entered the courtyard of the war department. It's no different from an ordinary farm yard, many people can't sit down, they can only stand, they are nervous, excited, and at the same time restless.

Lao Yuan drank honey water, but he was very anxious in his heart, he was very worried, worried that his situation was in the most unfavorable situation, he didn't want such a thing to happen, and what kind of situation would it cause if he didn't like such a situation.

"I know what you're here for. In this reorganization, many people want to leave the army, and everyone is reluctant. Is that right? Shang Wu said.

"Yes, sir, the army is our home, let's be veterans. Leaving our own home, this, we are reluctant, really reluctant. "A lot of veterans are excited, and they are so excited that they don't even know what to say. Because they don't want to leave here, it's true.

"I can understand this, but we should pay attention to some things like this, what we do it for." Shang Wu said.

"In the past, we had to fight, and everyone's homes were destroyed. Families are ruined. Yes, not even a single person from the village came out, and they were killed and starved to death. There are more people who are sick and die than there are people who are alive, and where was our home at that time? Shang Wu said silently, the veterans quieted down, yes, at that time, they wanted a home very much, and their home was gone.

"Our home was ruined like that. I've seen so much along the way. Human life is cheaper than the life of pigs and dogs. The army of the imperial court killed very ruthlessly, what I know is that Huangfu Song, an old guy, killed many people and captured thousands, tens of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers, all of whom had to be killed. And the Yellow Turban Army is a village, and the killing of a village, I think it is very distressing, our home is gone. But this country is still there, and I wonder why. Shang Wu said this, and many veterans had to think of the past scenes.

"We can't figure it out, we can't understand such a thing, we protect ourselves, we have our own home, this home, is a republic. It's our own home now, and you regard the army as your own home, and I'm very grateful to you, but what are we fighting out for, to live well. Shang Wu stood up and said.

"A lot of people are ruined when they get home. The order of this society has just stabilized, but we can't continue to do it forever, we gave up our homes for everyone, but we can't let veterans like you stay forever. You want to start a family, you want to start a business, you have paid too much for this everyone, too many things, everyone, you can't treat a small family like yours badly, you should have one, your own real home, because only in this way, can you live like a person. Shang Wu said.

The veterans understood.