Chapter 691: Hunger is everywhere
In the next few days, the officers and men of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment repaired in Puzhou for several days, mainly to reorganize the troops, make personnel arrangements for the detachment, and establish the chief officers and political cadres of each detachment of the detachment.
After the reorganization, the Shanxi guerrilla detachment appointed Wang Haiyang as the detachment leader, the political commissar was He Honglei, an instructor of a certain battalion from the field division, and the deputy detachment commander and chief of staff were the first veterans of the teaching detachment.
Wang Bo, Zhang Tiezhui, Zhao Si, and other senior officers of overseas brigades have become the captains and deputy captains of various brigades, and the political commissars are from field divisions, garrison divisions, and other units, and the chief officers and political cadres of other grass-roots detachments have also been selected.
Taking advantage of the few days of the unit's reorganization, Li Ming, Song Tao, Zhou Billy, and others specially set aside time to organize a meeting of officers and men to exchange and discuss the situation.
The CMC has drawn from all units of the Far East Army this time all senior cadres and noncommissioned officers, and it can be said that they are all elite and strong generals, and they have all participated in many battles, experienced the baptism of war, have excellent military quality, and have rich experience in leading troops.
The Shanxi guerrilla detachment can be regarded as having set up a shelf, and the backbone of each detachment is already in place. After the reorganization was completed, the troops began to distribute materials and equipment, and then, under the leadership of Li Ming, disguised as a caravan and headed north.
At the same time, Zhou Billy led a fleet of ships north along the Yellow River and then into Fenshui to the Jinzhong Basin. The flotilla fleet was loaded with all kinds of materials and equipment needed by the Shanxi guerrilla detachment, and was ready to provide logistical support to the troops at any time.
Dozens of carriages left Puzhou and marched along the official road of Shanxi to the Jinzhong Plain. As soon as the convoy entered the hinterland of Shanxi, it immediately changed its appearance, thousands of miles of red land, and starvation was everywhere. There were hungry homeless people everywhere, and the scene was like the end of the world.
Puzhou has the Far Eastern Central Plains Intelligence Station's homeless collection point, and the homeless people can still be basically resettled, but the homeless people in the hinterland of Shanxi are not cared for at all, and the roadside is full of corpses, like mummies piled up on the roadside.
Every town is surrounded by a large number of homeless people who are already too hungry to walk. Waiting here every day, begging the kind rich people in the town to give porridge once in a while, most of the homeless people here will not survive this winter.
At this time, Jiangnan was still a prosperous scene of drunken fans, and here it was a hell on earth where one person was starving.
Song Tao couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to take out some food to help these displaced people, but as soon as he took out the food, the convoy was surrounded by more displaced people, and they rushed over one by one, until dozens of officers and soldiers from the Far East were killed. Only then did the displaced people disperse, and in the course of the dispute, the officers and soldiers of the Far East were injured by the crazy displaced people.
With this experience, even if Song Tao couldn't bear it anymore, he didn't dare to help them. But he still didn't give up, as long as he saw the displaced people, he shouted at the displaced people: "You go south along the official road, as long as you walk to the bank of the Yellow River, someone will help you......"
But the outcasts remained indifferent, and sat there with their eyes blank. looked at Song Tao sluggishly. Song Tao thought that the displaced people could not understand, so he brought dozens of officers and soldiers from Shanxi to help him persuade those displaced people.
But still no one paid any attention to them. Song Tao was so angry that he rushed over and dragged up a few homeless people, kicked and kicked them to continue walking south, and told them to go to Puzhou along the official road, but no matter how he kicked and scolded, the homeless people were still numb and indifferent.
Qin Ergou next to him grabbed Song Tao and persuaded helplessly: "Chief." It's useless for you to say that, they all fled from the north of Jin, and the governments everywhere let them go south, but no one cares about them all the way to Jinnan. Those who can walk to the company's convergence point in the Yellow River are all young and strong, and they are all old and weak here. How can they still walk?
In the year I fled the famine, Jinnan did not suffer at all, and there were not so many displaced people, but our family still starved to death on the road, and I was the only one left. This year, the whole of Shanxi has been hit by a disaster, there are too many displaced people, and the young and strong are better, these old and weak can only sit here and wait for death. ”
Li Ming walked over, grabbed Song Tao, and said in a deep voice: "You are still finished, return to the team immediately, this is an order." ”
Song Tao broke free of Li Ming violently, and shouted loudly: "Don't pull me, are we just watching them starve to death?" No, put them all into the army, and lead them to rebel and rob the damn ......"
Li Ming let go of Song Tao, and said with a gloomy face: "Song Tao, I repeat, return to the team immediately, this is an order......"
Song Tao turned his head, stared at Li Ming deadly, and shouted loudly: "Why don't you come with me to do this, no one can stop me today, if you don't care, Lao Tzu will lead them to make a revolution......
"Bang".
Li Ming's fierce punch hit Song Tao in the face, knocking him out several meters. Song Tao was a little stunned by Li Ming, but he was also a little sober by this punch.
He sat up slowly, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and then turned his head to stare blankly at the dense crowd of homeless people in the distance. After a long while, he got up from the ground, then walked past Li Ming with a gloomy face, boarded a carriage full of supplies in a few steps, sat on a pile of food bags, and silently took out a cigarette and smoked.
Li Ming shouted at Wang Haiyang: "Keep moving forward......"
With his command, the convoy began to start slowly again, and the homeless people on the side of the road looked at them in awe, staring at the food on the cart with red eyes. If it weren't for the hundreds of fierce Far Eastern troops, they would have pounced on them a long time ago.
After the convoy passed through Linyi, the situation became worse and worse, and the scene along the way was simply miserable. As modern people, Li Ming and Song Tao have never seen such a scene. Back then, on Ocean Island, the hundreds of thousands of Dongjiang Liao people they faced were simply pediatric compared to the displaced people here.
In Linyi alone, there are more than 100,000 displaced people gathered around. If you add up the displaced people from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan, and Shandong provinces in the north of the Ming Dynasty this year, the number cannot be counted at all.
And this is just the beginning, this autumn, the north of the Ming Dynasty will face a larger-scale tide of displaced people, when the Far East in Henan will be crowded by the swarm of northern refugees.
The Far East, which has set up a collection point for displaced people on both sides of the Yellow River, has tried every means to deal with it this year, and has frantically collected displaced people. Not only did they send a large number of men from Liaodong, but they also mobilized almost all the ships to Daming.
Not only Henan, but also the Ministry of Intelligence has also set up many collection points for displaced people in the coastal areas of Hebei, Shandong, and Jiangsu in Daming, and sent a large number of personnel to go deep into the territory of Daming to collect displaced people.
Moreover, the process of collecting the displaced people this year is also simple, and one more can be transported. The company also spent a lot of money and hired a large number of ships to help transport the displaced people to the Far East, and the number of displaced people on each ship was several times overloaded as before.
However, after Li Ming entered Shanxi, he found that the disaster of the great drought in Chongzhen had exceeded everyone's imagination, and the displaced people in the Far East were simply a drop in the bucket. (To be continued......)
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