The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2230 A Meal of White Rice

It was a chaotic victory, but it was still a victory. After ambushing the two Japanese vehicles, Shang Zhen led his troops to retreat, taking with them the food, guns and ammunition they had seized, prisoners, four wounded soldiers on their side, and five soldiers who had died in their company.

Since they had won the battle, it would be unreasonable not to bury their own dead soldiers. However, Shang Zhen needed to evacuate quickly to prevent retaliation from the Japanese army who would arrive after hearing the news, so he had no choice but to take the dead soldiers with him.

But how to take them? Both Japanese vehicles had been damaged by the bombing, and even if they were not damaged, Shang Zhen would not be able to drive away.

The reason was that there was only one road that could be driven by cars, and he didn't want to drive into the Japanese army.

So how do you take the dead soldiers away? The answer is to use a makeshift stretcher.

Shang Zhen once again set an example for the soldiers. He and Hu Sheng carried the soldier who looked the ugliest when dying.

One of the soldier's eyes was pierced by a bullet and turned into a bloody hole, but the other eye was still open, which made some soldiers tremble with fear.

When the battlefield disappeared from their sight, Shang Zhen ordered the digging of a pit to bury the body. He also erected a wooden board in front of the grave and carved the name on it with a bayonet.

"There are always casualties in war. Even though they died in battle, we must remember their names!

When you go home, tell their families about their deeds and write them into the family tree!

We need to let their descendants know that someone in their family sacrificed their lives fighting the Japanese invaders, and that this is the glory of their entire family."

This is what Shang Zhen said to all the soldiers in front of the new grave. Then Shang Zhen waved his hand and led the soldiers on their way home.

However, it was already around three o'clock in the afternoon when they ambushed the two Japanese vehicles, and it was already four o'clock when they withdrew.

So how long could they walk in the mountains? At dusk, Shang Zhen ordered them to stop advancing and let the kitchen team start cooking.

"Cook more so that everyone can have enough to eat. When we go back, it won't be our turn to eat these foods." Shang Zhen said to the kitchen staff.

But Shang Zhen couldn't sit still afterwards, as he had to teach the soldiers how to use fire in the wild.

Dig a big hole in the ground and put a camp pot in it. The cook has to fill the pit with firewood to make a fire. Dig a few small trenches on the edge of the pit and cover the big hole and the small trenches with tree branches and leaves.

In this case, if a fire is lit below, the smoke will be blocked by the branches and leaves of the trees above and can only go out along the ditch on the surface.

Since the ditch was also covered with branches and leaves, the smoke moved outward and dissipated upward.

Hence, there is absolutely no column of smoke rising to the blue sky. From a closer look, the smoke dissipates in the long ditch like fog.

But once it rose higher, it was completely dissipated into the air by the wind, and it was no longer possible to tell from a distance that there was a fire here to cook.

This process is naturally a bit cumbersome, but who dares not listen to Shang Zhen?

There were soldiers who murmured during the process, not understanding what Shang Zhen was doing. Zhou Quan next to him said, "You don't even understand this, learn it well!" Although he didn't understand it either.

The soldiers who were scolded never thought that although soldiers like Zhou Quan were veterans, apart from knowing how to shoot a gun, they were actually only half-baked in many other things, so the scolding was somewhat unfair.

But no matter what, when the aroma of rice wafted from their campsite, everyone suddenly felt that it was all worth it!

What they eat is the rations provided by the Japanese army. How could it be possible that what the Japanese army eats is the same as what the national army eats?

What they seized this time was authentic rice and flour!

White flour needs to be leavened, or fermented. Nowadays, there is no yeast powder, so we have to use "dead dough" to ferment naturally before using it as a starter, which takes several days.

It is impossible to make pancakes when eating from a big pot, so stewing rice becomes the only choice.

Let alone the soldiers in the recruit company, even Shang Zhen can eat rice a few times a year. Some soldiers even said frankly that they have never eaten rice since they grew up!

Somehow, Shang Zhen suddenly thought of Wang Laomao’s famous saying, “Drink with big gulps and eat meat with big mouthfuls!”

When talking about the country of dreams, there is a saying that goes "potatoes + beef = communist society". Why is that? Because when this saying was said, Chinese society was still poor, and poverty limited people's imagination. Being able to eat potatoes and beef stew for every meal was the highest ideal of people at that time.

But nowadays, in poor China, how many people dream of living the life of "drinking and eating meat with big mouthfuls" as described by Wang Laomao!

And the same is true now that we can eat white rice!

"Everyone follow me and work hard. We fought for this rice and flour with our lives. If you don't follow me, can you survive? Can you eat white rice today?" Shang Zhen said loudly to the soldiers at the right time.

He was really too lazy to explain to these soldiers the principles of resisting Japan and saving the nation. If he had to lead them all the time, he should take it slow, Shang Zhen thought.

Sure enough, Shang Zhen's words caused the soldiers to cheer, and Shang Zhen was so scared that he quickly raised his hand to signal for silence.

After the meal was ready, everyone naturally devoured it voraciously, and in addition to the various strange and bizarre things they had used before, this time the diners had more than thirty Japanese army helmets!

The battle was over, and these more than 30 helmets became the pride of the soldiers.

Everyone was very full and many of them burped because Shang Zhen asked the kitchen staff to prepare enough food.

He had no intention of going back and letting the soldiers continue to eat rice and flour.

The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it.

If he leads his troops back and doesn't "spit out" the rice and flour, the entire brigade will probably eat them alive!

After dinner, there was still a glimmer of light in the sky and earth. Shang Zhen called the soldiers together for a meeting again and asked each of them to talk about his performance in battle. Shang Zhen then decided who would serve as squad leader or platoon leader based on their performance.

Shang Zhen was so worried that by the time he finished all these things, it was pitch dark in the world.

The next day, when the sky was just getting light, Shang Zhen led his troops on the return journey.

Shang Zhen didn’t know how many meals a day the high-ranking officials of the National Government ate, but the soldiers and civilians below all ate two meals.

You cannot cook at this time because there will be fire. It would be much safer to use a picnic stove in the mountains during the day.

The dew in the mountains was still so heavy that when the sky was bright, everyone was soaked from the knees down. Just when some people began to miss the white rice they had last night and asked when the meal would be ready, Shang Zhen, who was walking in the team, suddenly shouted, "Hide quickly, you guys in the grass nest on the left!"

As soon as they heard Shang Zhen's tone, they knew something was wrong, so they all ran into the bushes.

To be honest, this process was fast but also hectic.

You have to know that they carry all the spoils with them. Which of the rice, flour, guns, ammunition and grenade launchers can they throw?

But when they all lay in the grass and looked out, they saw nothing.

But Shang Zhen did not relax his vigilance. On the contrary, he loaded a rifle, put it on his shoulder and aimed at a forest in the distance.

Everyone stared with eyes wide open, but what else could they see except the lush greenery?

"Boss, why don't I see anything happening?" Zhou Quan couldn't help but ask Shang Zhen.

Shang Zhen maintained his shooting posture and ignored Zhou Quan.

But after a while, Qian Feng noticed that Shang Zhen's gun muzzle was moving slowly and was moving towards the edge of the woods.

"Don't say anything!" Qian Feng said.

After a while, when they looked towards the edge of the woods again, the trees there had become sparse, and they saw several Japanese cavalrymen riding their horses forward in the gaps between the trees.

"It's amazing!" Zhou Quan couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice, and he expressed the thoughts of everyone.