The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2217 Reinstatement of Company Commander

Another half a month later, hundreds of able-bodied men, escorted by soldiers, finally arrived at a mountainous area. When a sentry asked for a password in the woods and they answered correctly, the soldiers burst into cheers.

By this time, they had already traveled across most of HEN Province and arrived at the Tongbai Mountain area on the border between Henan and Hubei.

The soldiers cheered because they finally returned to their hometown. Of course, it could also be called their old nest.

But in contrast to the soldiers, the hundreds of able-bodied men did not know which group sat down on the ground first, and then the people in that group were dragged and sat down on the ground as well.

The soldiers were all exhausted, and the able-bodied men were naturally even more miserable than the soldiers. They finally arrived here at the cost of leaving more than 20 people behind along the way, and this was after their supplies had improved.

Shang Zhen came up with an idea and snatched five horses from the puppet army. At that time, there were three dead horses and two live horses. But in the end, the two live horses also became dead horses because they were eaten as rations!

As for how Shang Zhen managed to scare the Japanese troops with just his gun, I won’t go into details.

To put it bluntly, it was a combination of marksmanship and calculation. He hid in the distance and left a lookout on the tree behind him, so there was no way for the puppet army to send someone back to report the news!

Captain Liu was familiar with the situation along the way and did not want to make too much enemies with the puppet army, so it was best to just rob horse meat without killing anyone.

The horse meat naturally went into the stomachs of the officers and soldiers, but it also allowed the able-bodied men to eat more porridge, otherwise there would be more people left on the road!

"Why do I feel like my home is getting farther and farther away?" Hu Sheng was already lying on the ground with his eyes closed, letting the sunlight make his eyes red.

"At least I'm still alive." Niu Jingrui added.

At this time, the soldiers shouted: "Stop pretending to be dead, get up, you don't have to sleep on the floor tonight!"

Hu Sheng opened his eyes helplessly, and saw Shang Zhenyi standing next to him with an expressionless face.

"How far are the three northeastern provinces? How long does it take to walk there?" Hu Sheng sat up and asked.

Shang Zhen glanced at him, and after making sure that he was talking to him, he answered irrelevantly: "Who knows, one year, three years, five years, or maybe a lifetime."

"What did you say?" Hu Sheng didn't understand, but Shang Zhen didn't answer.

An hour later, Shang Zhen appeared in front of a group of officers. A round-headed, big-eared officer in his forties was looking him up and down with interest.

Not only that officer was looking at him curiously, but other officers were doing the same.

If it were an ordinary person, he would definitely be scared when encountering so many officers at once. However, Shang Zhen was not like that. Instead, he stood straight with his gun in hand.

The officer opposite was 1.8 meters tall, taller than Shang Zhen, and looked intimidating, but Shang Zhen did not avoid his gaze.

"Interesting." The officer looked at Shang Zhen and smiled.

When the other person smiled like this, Shang Zhen was surprised to find that this guy had a very distinctive smile. He had a round head, big ears and large earlobes, and when he smiled like this, he looked like the Maitreya Buddha in the New Year pictures.

But even though the other person looked kind, Shang Zhen would never be impolite. What's more, this was a military camp. Moreover, Captain Liu said that the brigade commander wanted to see him, which meant that the kind-looking guy in front of him was actually the commander of this independent brigade.

"Is it a veteran?" the officer asked.

"Reporting to the commander, yes!" Shang Zhen answered loudly.

"It's rare for someone so thin to have so much energy, like me." The officer laughed heartily, and before he looked at his subordinates on his left and right, those officers also laughed.

But before the laughter died down, the officer asked Shang Zhen again, "How old is the veteran?"

He asked the question in a low voice, and if Shang Zhen hadn't been listening carefully, he wouldn't have been able to hear it over the laughter.

"Reporting to the commander, I'm a veteran with ten years of experience!" Shang Zhen answered again.

"Ten years?" The officer was surprised and looked at Shang Zhen again before asking, "Is it true or false?"

"Reporting to the commander, we entered the pass on September 18th." Shang Zhen answered again.

"You entered the Pass on September 18th, and you are still alive today." The officer was even more surprised and asked again, "What battles have you fought in?" "Reporting to the commander, our regiment has fought all the way from the Northeast to the Pass. We have been to Xi'an, Tianjin, and Shandong, and we have fought in all of them." Shang Zhen answered briefly.

The officer then looked at Shang Zhen, as if he wanted to see from Shang Zhen's words which could not be simpler what this skinny soldier had experienced.

After watching for a while, the officer suddenly laughed again, "He is a smart guy who can live till now!"

With a "boo", the officers beside him started laughing again.

Come to think of it, if he could have survived in the Northeast Army since the September 18th Incident and fought in many battles, then what else could he have survived except being a shrewd man? Of course, it's not wrong to say that he's a veteran.

"What was your highest position? Don't say you were just a squad leader," the officer asked again.

When he asked this, Shang Zhen couldn't help but glance at Captain Liu who was standing next to the officer, and then he whispered, "Company Commander."

"Fuck! You son of a bitch!" Captain Liu cursed.

"How many people are there in your company? Where are the others?" asked another officer nearby.

"More than a hundred people, except for those who were killed in action or missing." Shang Zhen could only answer like this. Only a fool would say that one of his people joined the Eighth Route Army.

He would not even say that he had been a battalion commander. He estimated that if he dared to say that he had been a battalion commander, Battalion Commander Liu would be angry with him. It would be better for him to keep a low profile when he first arrived in this precious place.

But Shang Zhen would not deliberately lower his position.

Of course, being an official has its advantages.

For Shangzhen, although being an official means being responsible for the people under him and not just getting promoted, getting rich and drawing a salary without doing anything, after all, being an official does give him a certain degree of autonomy.

If a sharpshooter like me were just a soldier, I couldn't just be told by the superiors, "Charge the fuck up," and then I would just charge the fuck up, and then the Japanese would fire a shot at me, and I would be blown to pieces before I even saw the Japanese!

He didn't know why the brigade commander summoned him. Apart from the fact that he was a sharpshooter, he still had a small desire in his heart to become a minor official again.

"I've been a company commander..." The fat brigade commander pondered for a moment, and then subconsciously asked, "What if you were asked to defend the position and the Japanese planes and artillery attacked us? What would you do?"

"It's best to hide first, wait for the Japs to come up and fire a volley at them, and then retreat." Shang Zhen replied.

His brief answer directly earned him several "fuck"s from the officers.

Are there any who fight like this? Of course there are, there are many who fight like this in the National Army, but there are not many who can speak so openly like Shang Zhen!

"I asked you to defend the position, but you tried to play tricks?" Captain Liu said angrily.

"Reporting to the battalion commander, there is no position that must be defended. Many positions have been lost from north to south, but as long as I am alive, I can kill the Japanese. For the past ten years, our company has had ten casualties a year. After ten years, all of them have been killed. But I dare say that we kill more than ten Japanese a year." Shang Zhen replied.

"Is that how you fight?" the fat brigade commander laughed again.

"Fight if you can gain an advantage, don't fight if you can't. Don't do business that will lose you money." Shang Zhen said firmly.

"Hahaha." The fat brigade commander laughed again.

How can I describe his smile? When he smiles, he is full of energy, just like a sledgehammer swinging in a blacksmith shop, with a shocking "bang" "bang" sound.

"Okay, kid, that's interesting.

But it's no use just talking, we have to see the real thing. How about this, haven't we captured hundreds of new recruits? I'll give you a company of new recruits, you train with me first, if you train well, I'll let you be the company commander!" the brigade commander said loudly.