When the two returned to the inn, they happened to meet the only guy in the inn, so Li Ming asked the guy.

The guy sighed, shook his head and said: "This year's drought, a large area of farmland has not been harvested, there is still a little green seedlings in the field, the common people were hoping to use these green seedlings to survive the summer, but they encountered a locust plague that has not been encountered in a century, locusts cover the sky and the sun, there is not a single straw left, and the only green seedlings have been eaten by locusts."

The government only symbolically gave some relief food, but the nearby villages were full of disaster victims, and that relief food was gone in a few days. The rich families in the county colluded with the grain store owners to raise the price of grain more expensive than gold, and the poor could not afford it, and the wealthier families also went bankrupt in order to buy grain. Eight out of ten villages in the countryside were empty, those who could move came out to flee the famine, and those who could not starve to death in the villages.

In the first few months of the famine, a large number of hungry people poured into the city, and these hungry people were so hungry that they could kill several people for a bite to eat. Later, the wealthy families in the county paid to hire a lot of nursing homes in various parts of Shanxi, and also organized a group in the county, killed many rioters, and drove them out of Jiexiu County. ”

The guy's eyes turned red as he spoke, maybe something similar was going on in his house.

Zhang Yufei asked suspiciously: "No, I see that the shops on the main street are open, and the business of several restaurants is not bad." ”

The guy smiled sadly and said, "There are many rich people in Jiexiu County, and their lives are not only not affected by the famine, but are even more extravagant. In the spring of this year, the bark and grass roots were eaten, and the hungry people began to eat the corpses of the dead and displaced people on the side of the road, and later some families even ate each other's children in exchange with other families. It was supposed to be in time for such a disaster year. Restaurants should be difficult to maintain, but the restaurants opened by the big families on the main street took the opportunity to introduce some dishes made of human flesh, collectively referred to as new dishes. The big families in the county love to eat these new dishes.

Some people sell their children or family members to restaurants, and they will starve to death anyway, so it is better to sell them to the whole family for some food. These people who are sold to restaurants are "vegetable people". They were slaughtered like cattle, and they were made into vegetables. There is a dish called "braised jade shoots", which is made with women's small feet, because the wrapped small feet are pointed, and the shape resembles bamboo shoots, so it is called jade shoots. There is also a dish called "stewed milk trotters", which is stewed with the hands and feet of children under the age of ...... year.

When he said this, he couldn't say any more. Suddenly he crouched down and began to cry. The cry was terrible mixed with despair, heart-rending cry. made Li Ming and Zhang Yufei feel cold in their hearts, and their backs were in a cold sweat.

Li Ming walked over, patted the guy on the shoulder, and then walked into the small courtyard of the inn with a solemn face. Zhang Yufei stood there stupidly for a long time, and finally turned around and entered the inn.

When he entered the inn, he sat on the bunk of the guest room with a dull gaze, and a group of special combat soldiers next to him felt strange, so they all came over and asked Zhang Yufei what happened.

Zhang Yufei took a deep breath. I repeated what the guy said with a group of people. He spoke slowly. But the voice was so low that it seemed to have a tyrannical aura, and it was ready to burst at any moment.

After listening to Zhang Yufei's words, everyone's faces were not very good, and their hearts were like turning over the river and the sea. Even though everyone knew in their hearts that during the great drought in Chongzhen, tragic things were happening all the time, but they listened to Zhang Yufei's words. I still can't calm down.

At this time, Li Ming had a gloomy face and led several staff officers into the guest room, Zhang Yufei suddenly raised his head and said, "Commander, before tonight's operation." Did we serve those restaurants first, there may still be living "vegetable people" there. We can't just watch them being slaughtered alive like animals and made into new dishes. ”

Li Ming shook his head and said, "We have a mission now, and we can't startle the snake before we act tonight." Zhang Yufei wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it, just sat there with his head down and silent.

Li Ming glanced at the special combat team members in the room and said solemnly: "The Luliang base area is about to start collecting the displaced people, so our task this time is very critical, the more food we collect, the more displaced people we can rescue." When tonight's mission is over, I will personally take you to the restaurants, and now everyone try to have a good rest, and no one is allowed to leave the inn until the operation begins. ”

After he finished speaking, he turned around and left the inn, and a group of special combat team members were not in any mood, and they all lay on the bunks and fell asleep with their heads covered. Only Zhang Yufei was still sitting there, looking at the other side with blank eyes.

In a large mountain area south of Jiexiu, a large detachment of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment has been lurking here for two days. Captain Wang Bo was anxiously waiting next to the radio. The political commissar of the brigade next to him thought for a moment and asked, "Lao Wang, should we send someone to Jiexiu City once, and it is said that the commander should also contact us." ”

Wang Bo shook his head and said, "Wait a minute, the commander should have an arrangement, let's wait for the order!" ”

Suddenly, the communicator next to him suddenly shouted: "Captain, the commander has given the order......"

Wang Bo walked over in a few steps, snatched the telegram from the correspondent's hand, and quickly looked at it. After reading the telegram, Wang Bo excitedly shouted to several squadron leaders next to him: "I just received an order from the commander to launch an attack at four o'clock tomorrow morning." You go back immediately and arrange for the soldiers to rest, this is the first battle of our brigade, and no one can make a mistake for me. Everyone should be in good spirits, enter the attack position at 3 a.m. tomorrow, and launch the attack on time. ”

After receiving Wang Bo's order, the entire brigade suddenly became nervous and busy. After the squadron leaders of each squadron led their troops to get ready, they went to bed in advance to recharge their energy and prepare for tomorrow's attack.

The first brigade of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment is equipped with a total of six squadrons, including four spear squadrons, two musket squadrons, one sword and shield squadron, and one artillery squadron equipped with five tiger squat guns. In addition, in order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the brigade, a reinforced company of the overseas brigade was also attached, equipped with a water-cooled heavy machine gun and a 60-mm mortar, as well as an engineer squad responsible for battlefield blasting.

Each brigade and other main forces in this operation, each brigade was also equipped with two militia brigades, equipped with cold weapons such as spears and swords and shields. They also went through more than a month of training, mainly assisting the main force to carry supplies. (To be continued......)

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