The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2258 No Food

At dusk, Shang Zhen and his company appeared in a village.

The village is not small, and of course there are villagers, but when the villagers saw the arrival of the foreign troops, they all closed their doors.

At the beginning, there were still the sounds of chickens crowing and ducks quacking in the village, but after a short while, and I don’t know what happened to the villagers, the crowing of chickens and ducks disappeared!

All of a sudden, the huge village became strangely quiet.

"Damn it! They didn't even welcome the general!" Ma Changgui was unhappy.

But he was the only one who spoke, and no one responded to him. Instead, everyone looked at Shang Zhen.

"Let us borrow this family's pot and we'll pay for it," Shang Zhen pointed to a family.

When Shang Zhen said this, no one else said anything, but Ma Changgui was surprised.

One of the surprises was that the two thatched houses of the family Shang Zhen pointed out were not small, but they were dilapidated and the courtyard wall was about to collapse. It was obvious that they were not a wealthy family.

The second surprise is that the independent brigade did not beat anyone or conscript men when they arrived in the village, but when did they pay them?

However, Ma Changgui's expression was seen by Old Du, who poked him. Ma Changgui remembered what Old Du had told him before, so he stopped talking.

On the way here, Ma Changgui told him that this Captain Shang is different from other officers of our independent brigade. Now you can't stick to the old ways of the independent brigade. You have to talk less.

"Let me tell you, no one is allowed to enter the homes of ordinary people. You can use the people's firewood when you go to sleep, but you have to return it to whoever you bring it to tomorrow morning!" Shang Zhen looked at the soldiers and gave the order again.

"Yes!" The soldiers of the recruit company responded in unison.

"We came to this village to use it to light a fire and cook. No one slept yesterday, so we must make up for the sleep we had.

We shouldn't have been in the village, but no one could tell whether the Japanese were following us.

They wouldn't be able to figure out what was going on if we started a fire in the village." Shang Zhen explained to the soldiers again.

At this point, the soldiers no longer had any questions and all followed Shang Zhen's orders.

All of Shang Zhen and his companions, including Ma Changgui, had not slept or eaten for a whole day and night. Smoke soon rose from the house, and the food they used was the only two bags of grain they brought back from the mountain!

With Shang Zhen's order, the soldiers naturally did not disturb the civilians, but all sat in front of the house and waited quietly. However, one squad of soldiers lay down and fell asleep directly. That was because Qian Feng had arranged for them to be on guard at night.

In this way, the story of the owner of the house, a woman in her forties, to Shang Zhen reached everyone's eardrums.

"I have nothing to eat either. The old man and his two sons were captured by your national army last year."

"There is no food in our village. You can rob it. No, you can't get anything even if you ask for it. Only a few families have chickens and ducks."

"I haven't heard of any Kuomintang troops nearby. They said they are in the south."

The woman talked in a rambling manner and seemed a little neurotic, which was somewhat different from a normal person.

But it's normal to think about it. Her husband and son are both gone, and she is left alone to guard this dilapidated home. That must be a huge mental blow. It's good enough that she didn't go crazy!

"Is there no one in charge of your village?" Shang Zhen interrupted the woman's rambling.

"No, he was arrested along with all the other men when they were conscripting them two years ago. I don't know which officer he offended, but he was arrested along with all the other men," the woman replied.

Shang Zhen frowned, he didn't know what to say.

Which national army did this? They captured all the able-bodied men, but they also captured the village manager! "Husheng, bring a few people to find a few men, old men are fine, I have something to ask, speak to them in a friendly manner." Shang Zhen issued a new order.

When the men in the village were "invited" by Hu Sheng and his men, they were all trembling with fear. There was even a man who looked to be in his thirties who was limping when he came over.

For this reason, Ma Changgui secretly asked Xu Defeng, "If I go up and kick him now, he will definitely jump with both legs growing on one side."

What he meant was simply that the man was pretending to be lame.

Xu Defeng's answer was, "Yes, you broke his good leg!"

Xu Defeng's answer made the soldiers next to him laugh. They didn't expect that Xu Defeng, a man with glasses, could speak so interestingly.

The soldiers in the recruit company were all very simple. They were originally farmers who were conscripted into the army. Therefore, they had never seen veterans like Ma Changgui and Xu Defu. They didn't know that veterans like Ma and Xu might not be good at fighting, but they were definitely good at verbal battles!

The soldiers have been fighting and marching for the past two days and are very tired. It is rare for them to be happy for a while.

But when Shang Zhen spoke to them again after they finished eating, they could no longer laugh, because Shang Zhen said, "Eat your fill. We can't go south anymore. We have to go back."

Shang Zhen naturally saw the soldiers' doubts, so he explained before they asked, "I have also asked the local people. There is not much food around here. It may not be possible to buy it, and it is even worse to rob it. My soldiers are not allowed to harm the local people.

The food I ate was either bought from the common people or stolen from the Japanese and the traitors.

There are more than a hundred people here. We can't rely on these two bags of food. Oh, no, there are only one and a half bags left.

We can't expect this bag and a half of food to last until we get more food from the common people, so we have to go back and find a chance to snatch it from the Japanese!

Okay, it’s time to sleep after having a full meal. God will not let the blind Qiaoer starve to death. Besides, we are not blind, and we still have so many guns now! "

Shang Zhen's words undoubtedly caused fluctuations in the soldiers' hearts, but so what? It did not delay the soldiers' eating or sleeping, because of course they were too hungry and too sleepy.

"Company commander, where are you going?" Old Du asked when Shang Zhen, who had just finished his meal, stood up unsteadily.

"I'll go to the front of the village. I don't feel safe with only the sentries." Shang Zhen replied.

Shang Zhen was indeed worried. Who knew if the Japanese devils would follow them? Although he had ordered the sentries to work in two shifts, he could not guarantee that the sentries would not doze off or even fall asleep.

"Company commander, let me bring you some firewood." Old Du got up.

Shang Zhen remained noncommittal. Apart from fighting, this was probably the only privilege he had as a company commander.

After greeting the sentry, he asked Old Du to put the firewood he was holding into the bushes outside the village. Then he lay down and let Old Du go back by himself.

Shang Zhen looked to the north and saw that there was nothing unusual, so he lay down and fell asleep.

But in the middle of the night, Shang Zhen suddenly woke up, and the moment he woke up, he had already fired his box gun.

The sixteenth moon was shining brightly overhead. Shang Zhen looked around and saw that it was still a moonlit night, but no one was active.

Did I overreact? Shang Zhen was a little confused. Whether it was intuition or vigilance, who could be sure of such things?

But at this moment, Shang Zhen heard faint dog barking sounds coming from the north.

Dogs barking? Shang Zhen became alert as he had never seen any dogs on the way here with his troops.