march to victory

"The three of them are not sick themselves, but they have been hungry for a long time and their bodies are weak. There is no need to waste medicine to treat them. You just need to take care of their bodies. After two or three days, when their stomachs get used to it, they will be fine. .”

"That's good, that's good!"

Zhang Qingshan feels a little better in his heart, which can be regarded as a little relief in the helplessness!

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

At this moment, three box cannon shots were suddenly heard in the distance.

Zhang Qingshan suddenly turned his head and looked over.

It's just that although there is a moon, the visibility may be limited. What Zhang Qingshan sees is only a blue-gray land, and the sky is gray and dark in the farther place.

"Xiang Tao?"

"To!"

Zhang Qingshan yelled, unexpectedly, Xiang Tao was at the edge of a small slope more than 20 meters away.

Soon, Xiang Tao ran to Zhang Qingshan, saluted and asked: "Company commander, you want me to take the security squad to meet him, right?"

"En!" Zhang Qingshan nodded, but his eyes looked at the direction of the gunshots. After hesitating for a while, he said: "Judging from the gunshots, they should be one or two kilometers away from us. No matter what is going on there , we should all be able to rescue in time..." At this point, Zhang Qingshan pondered for a while, stared at Xiang Tao, and said in a deep voice: "It's just that it's night, and the water grass field is full of dangers. When you take comrades from the security team over, Be sure to bring a few more torches, be extremely careful where you step, and always remind comrades to pay attention to the safety of themselves and the comrades around you. If you must walk a certain distance, remind your comrades, at least report the number when you walk a certain distance. ... Forget it, I can't think of anything more for a while, in a word: Be careful, don't rush into things. Do you know?"

"Yes! Please rest assured, company commander, I promise that I will bring all the comrades back safely."

"Well! As long as you have this confidence, go. If there is anything, you can practice with me with two long and one short gunshots."

"Yes! Guaranteed to complete the mission."

Watching Xiang Tao quickly run to the side of the soil slope to assemble the team, watching the soldiers of the security squad light up three torches, and watching the light of the torches gradually fade away... Zhang Qingshan sighed inexplicably, and said: "Do your best! , Listen to the destiny, I hope that the comrades in the security squad will go and come back safely."

Qin Fang nodded and said, "They will definitely come back safely."

Zhang Qingshan glanced at her, nodded with a smile: "Let's go, Xiaofang, take care of those three comrades quickly. I'll help you look after the porridge so that no one will steal it."

"The discipline is there, who dares to steal it?"

This is the truth: Although the main force has run out of food for a long time, the original regulations were strictly enforced by everyone: stealing the food they carried, ranging from criticism and education, to public self-criticism; if they dare to steal food from the collective, In all likelihood, he will be shot... Although the punishment is a bit heavy, it is necessary at this time.It also shows how bad the situation was at the time.

When they came to the only fire, the water in the pot just boiled. One, Zhou Ping and Lao Wang, carefully poured the barley flour into the pot, while the other kept rolling the long spoon in the pot, so that the barley flour could be boiled as soon as possible. cooked.There are also several wounded and sick around the fire, watching the fire while warming up.However, they only occasionally whispered a few words, their voices were kept very low, but they peeked in the direction of the gunshots from time to time. Obviously, they were guessing the situation over there.

What surprised Zhang Qingshan was that Liu Bing and Peng Peng were also warming up here, but both of them lowered their heads and smoked silently.They are so silent, especially for Peng Peng who babbles a few words from time to time. curiosity.

Feeling that someone was trying to squeeze between them, they both frowned, and turned their heads to look at the past at the same time. After seeing that it was Zhang Qingshan, they moved to their respective sides consciously to make room for Zhang Qingshan. place, but remained silent.

"Old Liu, it's rare that you and Lao Peng are still so silent together. What happened?"

After finishing speaking, seeing Liu Bing squinting over, he still bowed his head and smoked without saying a word.Zhang Qingshan turned his head and glanced at Peng Peng on the right, and saw that this guy didn't look at him at all, instead he was frowning and smoking heavily, and he could tell at a glance that he had something on his mind, and it was a big deal, otherwise, With this guy's personality, he would never do this in public.

This aroused Zhang Qingshan's curiosity even more.

It can be seen that these two guys are so ignorant of him, Zhang Qingshan had no choice but to ask others for help.

"Old Zhou, what happened to them?"

Zhou Ping smiled wryly, shook his head, then looked down at the barley powder in the pot, felt that it was almost done, and put away the grain bag.While buttoning the grain bag, he quickly glanced at Zhang Qingshan, then at Liu Bing and Peng Peng, shook his head slightly at Zhang Qingshan, pouted his mouth, and left with the grain bag.

Zhang Qingshan couldn't figure out what Zhou Ping's wink meant, so he had no choice but to ask Old Wang.

"Old Wang, come and tell me, what happened?"

"Heh! Heh! I don't know." Old Wang is also a ghost, and after replying with a smile, he put the lid on the pot, put the long spoon on the lid, and told a cook beside him Soldier Ban ordered to keep an eye on the highland barley powder in the pot and stir it when it came out. He stood up, patted his buttocks, and left.

At this moment, Zhang Qingshan's heart was on fire: You usually ask me for cigarettes, but you are very affectionate, let alone the company commander, you almost treat me as an ancestor.It's all over now, something I don't know is, I'm asking you guys, are you so ruthless?

The anger in my heart returned to the anger, and Zhang Qingshan, who was already in some cities, couldn't do things right away, but he was unhappy after all, so he could only joke: "Old Liu, it's hard to say, both of you have been touched by wild ghosts. Will there be such a big change?"

"You've just been touched by a ghost."

After Liu Bing scolded Zhang Qingshan angrily, he lowered his head and smoked again.

Look at Liu Bing again, he still has that look of no strangers.

Now, their indifferent attitude finally angered Zhang Qingshan.

"Are you two still fucking thinking that I am your company commander?" Zhang Qingshan stood up abruptly, slapped his thigh, pointed at this, then pointed at that, and said in a deep voice: "If you really want to treat me as your comrade, Speak up if you have something to say, otherwise, don't pretend to be a softie who can't beat a fart in front of me. Tell me! What happened?"

Liu Bing and Peng Peng didn't expect Zhang Qingshan to get angry suddenly, and looked up at Zhang Qingshan a little uncomfortable for a moment, then looked at each other, and frowned at the same time.

But just when the two were about to say something, they heard the direction of the gunshots just now, and suddenly remembered "Bang! Bang! Bang!" Three gunshots were fired.However, the other party might be afraid that Zhang Qingshan and the others could not hear the sound of the box cannon before, so this time it was the sound of a rifle.Moreover, it is still the gunshot contact method temporarily stipulated by the Red Second Front Army: one long and two short!

The other party actually sent two contact signals with gunshots in such a short period of time, which showed that the other party was very anxious. In other words, something bad must have happened to the other party, otherwise, it would definitely not be the case.

Almost everyone immediately looked in the direction of the gunshots, and Zhang Qingshan and the others were no exception.

However, because Liu Bing and Peng Peng had something on their minds, they didn't care much.And Zhang Qingshan took advantage of the opportunity to look at the small torch light in the security squad, and felt that no matter what he did now, he couldn't help, so it was more important to find out what happened to these two guys around him, so, He just took one more look than the two around him.

Seeing that there is no way to find out, Zhang Qingshan had no choice but to find another way.

He took out a cigarette case from his pocket, deliberately dragged out a cigarette, and deliberately lit the cigarette on the cigarette case—to put it in normal times, let alone Zhang Qingshan take out a cigarette and quickly light it up. When the box is put away, even if he makes a move to take out the cigarettes, the two people around him will stare closely at the first time, so as to determine which pocket Zhang Qingshan put the cigarettes in. Wait a minute, when he can't be deceived, It's easy to grab a cigarette.

But now Zhang Qingshan was a little depressed, because he slowly put the cigarette case back into his pocket, picked up a firewood to light the cigarette, and deliberately exposed his right pocket. As a result, Liu Bing just glanced at it. Zhang Qingshan, and Peng Peng even worse, didn't even take a look at them.

This actually made Zhang Qingshan feel like a cat's paw, and was even more anxious to know what happened?However, there is one thing that Zhang Qingshan is more and more sure of: a major event has definitely happened, and it can only be more attractive than smoke, which will make these two smokers give up smoking and focus on that major event.

"I said, everyone is comrades and comrades-in-arms after all. If there is something wrong, can you keep it from me?"

Liu Bing probably felt that although these two incidents were private affairs between himself and Peng Peng, Zhang Qingshan asked repeatedly, and it would be a bit unkind for him not to mention it, and I'm sorry for the title 'comrade comrade'.

After he glanced at Peng Peng, he moved closer to Zhang Qingshan and whispered the reason in his ear.

Just now, Liu Bing and Peng Peng went to visit the three soldiers who fainted from starvation. Coincidentally, they were familiar with two of them.After the two of them woke up, the four of them naturally wanted to have an intimate conversation. As they talked, they naturally asked about the situation of their troops. As a result, something happened that made them both sad.

The reason why Liu Bing was sad was that something unexpected happened to his company due to various reasons.As far as that comrade knew, apart from the platoon led by Liu Bing, the other two platoons, including those who were left behind, died of injuries, and those who left quietly, etc., at least 15 people were buried here.Coupled with the loss in the Yanzikou blocking battle, their continuous staff reduction reached almost one-third.

As the company commander of the company, he has always been proud and arrogant. It is strange that Liu Bing is in a good mood when he suddenly learns of such a situation.

"Will it be a rumor... are you sure?"

"That comrade is the communications soldier of our battalion. I have spoken to him several times before."

Zhang Qingshan sighed in his heart, not only sad for Liu Bing, but also worried about the current situation of the main force, and even more worried about the current situation of the assault company?You know, the assault company was also one of the main companies in the Yanzikou ambush back then... I just hope they are lucky!

"Ah~!" Zhang Qingshan looked up at the starry sky full of stars, sighed for a long time, patted Liu Bing on the shoulder, and comforted him: "Old Liu, now, we can do nothing about this matter, we can only... ...Huh~! That's not right!"