Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 574 How People Become Fools Part [-]
Due to the importance of transporting materials, there are police guards along the road from Harbin to the east, and the train travels slowly at a speed of less than [-] kilometers per hour.

Not to mention that the train was attacked, even if it was derailed, it might cause the carriage to overturn and cause the shell to explode. Even slight bending of the gun barrel due to turbulence is not allowed.

Qian Xiaobao and Second Lieutenant Xiaosong were sitting in the same carriage. It was already very cold in November, but for safety, Qian Xiaobao ordered all the carriages not to use heating stoves, so it is cold and gloomy in the carriages now.

Originally, it was possible to heat the other compartments except the one for transporting shells, but Qian Xiaobao ordered all the compartments not to be heated by stoves in order to show that everyone shared weal and woe.

The train went east from Harbin Railway Station via Chenggaozi'acheng. At the beginning, Second Lieutenant Komatsu didn't think much of it, but felt that staying in the dark compartment was boring.

But slowly he felt shivering from the cold.He couldn't sit still any longer, stood up and stamped his feet back and forth in the carriage.

Qian Xiaobao did not sit but lay on the shock-absorbing layer of the huge gun barrel. The shock-absorbing layer was composed of three layers of military quilts on top of a thick layer of straw.

Qian Xiaobao even took off his military cotton shoes, and covered his body with the military overcoat as a quilt so comfortably that he almost fell asleep.

Second Lieutenant Xiaosong didn't want to lie down like Qian Xiaobao. Since he was a child, he was taught to maintain a dignified appearance when walking, sitting and lying down.But like Qian Xiaobao, it seems to be an uneducated and inferior person's behavior.

Second Lieutenant Komatsu heard about Qian Xiaobao's heroic deeds from Director Yanagida Yuansan, and then inquired about Qian Xiaobao from other people in the Kwantung Army Intelligence Department, and finally confirmed that what Director Liutian said was true.

In the eyes of Second Lieutenant Komatsu, Qian Xiaobao is like the dissolute Seven Samurai.In Japan, the seven samurai are heroes, but in the eyes of Lieutenant Komatsu, who are famous in their ancestors, only Oda Nobunaga is a real hero.And Qian Xiaobao was at best a low-level warrior who worked for his master.

It took five hours for the train to arrive at Maoershan Railway Station, and it was already dark.By the time the train was adding water and coal, all the people got off the train and had dinner at Maoershan Railway Station.

Qian Xiaobao asked the station master while eating: "Are there still anti-bandit activities in this area?"

He was here when the Russian, the station master in his early fifties, was in charge of the China Eastern Railway, and he was very familiar with the Maoershan area.

"In the past, there were often anti-bandit activities here, but the crusade team combed their hair like a wooden comb for several years, and there has been no anti-bandits in the past two years." The station master replied.

"Boil hot water, bring all the basins from the train station, we need to soak our feet!" Qian Xiaobao said.

It is November now, and the train station has to burn fires for heating, so hot water is readily available.I don't know whether the people on the train station did it intentionally or not, but the hot water that was served was scalding with white steam.

"The most important thing for soldiers is your feet! Isn't it very cold on the train walking this way? Everyone take off their shoes immediately and soak their feet in the basin!" Qian Xiaobao ordered.

As far as the Japanese soldiers are concerned, they can't hesitate even if they are asked to go to Long live to charge now, let alone just let them put their feet in the hot water basin.

Everyone except Second Lieutenant Komatsu gritted their teeth and put their feet into the basin. Their feet were scalded and painful, but no one dared to make a sound.

Second Lieutenant Xiaosong put his feet on the edge of the basin and was still hesitating, Qian Xiaobao walked over without hesitation, grabbed his legs and pressed his feet into the hot water basin.

Second Lieutenant Komatsu yelled out and shut his mouth quickly, his face was already red.So many soldiers did not call.But he, the officer, couldn't help but screamed. This is a very shameful thing.

Second Lieutenant Komatsu first felt pain in his feet as if being pricked by needles, then his head started to sweat, and then his whole body was sweating. It turned out that his feet that were frozen like ice lumps had been melted by hot water. The blood vessels on the insteps of both feet were thick and protruding like earthworms.

Qian Xiaobao asked the station master while taking off his shoes and socks slowly, "How long will it take from here to Weihe?"

Listening to Qian Xiaobao's Northeast accent, the webmaster sighed in his heart: How can this little devil speak the same Northeast dialect as the Northeast people?

"It will take at least five hours to get to Weihe at your current speed," the station master replied.

All the soldiers felt burning pain in their feet when they boarded the train again, but the cold was gone.

Second Lieutenant Komatsu returned to the carriage and could no longer pace back and forth. He could only sit down on the military quilt.

Sitting beside him, Qian Xiaobao said: "When I was a diplomatic courier, it was the time when the Germans came to Moscow. I saw soldiers from the big northern countries stuffing newspapers into their boots at the railway station. The logistical support of the big northern countries was also insufficient. , but they dealt with the cold better than the Germans. That's why they beat the Germans in Moscow."

"I heard about you being a diplomatic messenger, and I heard that you performed well at that time." Second Lieutenant Komatsu said.

"I eat two potatoes sticky with salt every day, but I cut down seven big trees in the Japanese embassy to warm the people in the embassy, ​​and caught hundreds of sparrows to improve the food for the people in the embassy. As a A soldier, especially an officer, is not just as simple as commanding a battle, you must try your best not to make them feel cold, and you must try your best to let them eat, otherwise you will have to cut seppuku." Qian Xiaobao said.

Second Lieutenant Komatsu nodded thoughtfully.

He felt that Liu Tian Yuansan was right to ask him to learn more from Qian Xiaobao.

The train finally arrived at Weihe in the middle of the night.

A locomotive spewing white gas is parked in front of Weihe Railway Station, and it is about to cross Zhangguangcai Ridge to the east. A locomotive is specially transferred from the Yabuli locomotive depot, and the two locomotives are hung together to pull the fully loaded train. Zhang Guangcai Daling.

Qian Xiaobao pushed open the big iron door of the stuffy tank car and was the first to jump off the train and walked towards dozens of policemen in black police uniforms surrounding the locomotive.

Among the dozens of policemen, the leader was a second-class policeman. He opened his eyes wide and looked at Qian Xiaobao who was walking towards him.

The lights in front of the train station shone on Qian Xiaobao's face, and he finally recognized Qian Xiaobao!
"Brother, it's you!" the policeman shouted loudly.

"Uncle Fan, why is it you?" Qian Xiaobao said in surprise.

"Why are you still called uncle! I'm your elder brother!" Fan Wengui said pretending to be angry.

People like Fan Wengui first look at people's clothes, whether they have money, whether they are officials, and then judge whether this person is worth dating.

He immediately found Qian Xiaobao's second lieutenant's epaulets.

"Brother, you have been promoted again!" Fan Wengui said with emotion.

"This is the encouragement given to me by the Kwantung Army's Intelligence Minister, so that I will redouble my allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor in the future!" Facing the southeast direction, Qian Xiaobao said sonorously.

Because the voice was too loud, the two crows on the tree in front of the train station jumped into the air and screamed in the sky.

(End of this chapter)