Chapter 15: The Village Fire

The recruits who were guarding outside the door saw Hu Fei and the others coming out, although they knew that they were definitely not as simple as visiting honestly, but they did a good job on the surface. Even if the recruits have doubts in their hearts, who dares to question them?

Blocking Hu Fei did it with courage at that moment, and now he still dares to doubt the character of the chief, and he doesn't want to live anymore? Ulyanov's dead body is still lying on the ground, looking at the posture of the volunteers, they definitely don't care about more people lying underground! Come on, eating people's food is under the control of others, since you will have to eat with the volunteers in the future, then it is better to turn a blind eye and treat it as no such thing!

There are more than a few dozen White Guards in this village, at the door of Kolchak's old house. After Hu Fei eliminated these people and surrendered, the battle here ended, but the battle in the entire village did not end, and the gunfire continued.

After Hu Fei led the soldiers of the Einsatzgruppen and the twenty newly surrendered foreign soldiers out of the general's former residence, he rushed to the next battle site.

With these twenty soldiers in the village as an example, it is probably not difficult to recruit more people, right? Thinking that in the future, there will be a blue-eyed and hook-nosed White Russian team in his army, Hu Fei is so beautiful in his heart, don't mention it!

Suddenly feeling a little bright in front of him, Hu Fei looked up, ah? I saw that the sky above was red, and there was billowing black smoke rushing into the sky, and a burnt smell came to the end of the nose, broken, and on fire! When the two sides were fighting, they caught fire, and there was no need to ask, it must have been set on fire by one of the warring sides!

This village is the home of the villagers, of course people will not burn their homes, so the only people left are these people brought by Hu Fei. It was the Einsatzgruppen who set the fire!

Damn! You said you were here to steal something, who told you to set fire to the house? Hu Fei was furious, and took these people around him straight to the source of the fire!

The fire started from the west end of the village, and no one knew which house started the fire first, as if suddenly more than a dozen houses were burning at the same time. By the time Hu Fei arrived, the fire was so big that it was impossible to control it.

Hu Fei has neither a waterwheel nor any other professional firefighting tools at hand, the only thing he has is people! For the sake of a Russian village, let his soldiers risk their lives to fight fires? This spirit of internationalism is obviously not too possessed by Hu Fei. Go up in flames? Burn it, burn it. The house is gone? If you don't have it, you can re-cover it!

Hu Fei is not interested in fighting fires, but he has no objection to the villagers' self-saving behavior. The homes of the twenty Russian recruits he had just recruited were also in this village, looking at the anxious looks of these green-eyed and hook-nosed guys, Hu Fei simply waved his hand and allowed these recruits to participate in the firefighting!

The recruits cheered, and the hula dispersed, and they went back to their homes to get something to help the villagers put out the fire.

The cold north wind was whining, and the fire was burning more and more vigorously with the help of the wind, and the firefighting work was carried out with great difficulty. Hu Fei took his Einsatzgruppen and rode to the upper wind to watch the excitement. The elderly and children in the village, who did not have the strength to participate in the firefighting, commanded and served as logistics on the periphery. Hu Fei sometimes interjected to give these people a few tips.

The villagers did so and found it useful, and the hostility to these Chinese cavalry did not seem to be so strong.

Hu Fei asked Gou Tianxiao and Ji Jinbiao, they didn't know how the fire was burned, and a few people were sure that they had not given the order to set fire to the house. Forget it, no matter how it burns, let's just wait for the fire to go out and leave!

The fire burned almost half of the village, and the flames were three or four stories high, and the red light could be seen from more than a dozen miles away.

"Whoa—" With a long, mournful howl, a stout gray wolf appeared in the open field. The distant glow of the fire and the smell of smoky barbecue in the air seemed to be spotted by the wolf's keen senses, and the four-legged beast ran to a high post and howled in the direction of the fire.

A wolf howl sounded in the dense forest in the distance, as if in response to the gray wolf. The terrible wolf howls one after another, like a pack of wolves in a concert. Although the wolves are not from the same mountain, they echo each other and compete for songs.

Due to the distance and the loud noise at the scene, the villagers who were busy fighting the fire did not notice the wolf howl. Hu Fei, who was watching the excitement on the periphery, heard this strange and terrifying voice. Is this a wolf howl? Why is it called for such a long time, and the wolf likes to look up to the sky and howl so much?

Hu Fei didn't know much about the living habits of wolves, he just knew that the guy was a beast of prey, he looked like a dog, but he could eat people!

Hu Fei killed the dogs in the village when he attacked the first village, and he also brought the dead dogs back to make dog meat as military food. What impressed Hu Fei the most that time was that the dog meat was so fragrant! Later, when he attacked the village, he beat the dog when he saw it, and when he was killed, he took it back to eat dog meat. Hu Fei is a little better now.

Today, of course, is no exception, dozens of dead dogs on horseback are the raw materials for him to make braised dog meat! There are wolves around here, and since wolves look similar to dogs, they probably taste similar, right? Hu Fei wanted to taste wolf meat a little.

The fire was finally extinguished after raging for two hours. This is also the consequence of the young people in the village who ran away with each other. If this fire had occurred before today, it is estimated that the fire would not have developed so quickly, and the damage caused would not have been so severe.

Looking at a group of old and weak women and children who were celebrating the success of the firefighting, Hu Fei ordered the twenty recruits to quickly say goodbye to their families, and the troops were about to leave! As for the mounts of these twenty people, Hu Fei also helped them find them. In such a large village, it is not too difficult to find twenty horses.

Hu Fei didn't pay for the twenty horses. Send your son to join the army, as a relative in your hometown, you can't prepare some travel expenses, carriage and horse expenses, right? What kind of luggage and transportation are missing? It's just one horse per person, which is perfectly reasonable! Hu Fei told those who raised horses: When these boys become generals in the future, let them bring you more money when they return to their hometowns!

The recruits gathered, and the old and weak women and children of the village came out to see them off. Holding the hands of relatives who are about to go on an expedition, there are endless words of advice.

Several old men walked up to Hu Fei, some holding bottles, some holding a plate of bread, and some holding a small plate of salt.

There is a tradition among Europeans that it is the highest courtesy to give salt, bread, and water, which are the three essential necessities of daily necessities, to the most respectful guests.

No matter how many books Hu Fei reads, he still doesn't have a comprehensive understanding of this kind of etiquette between different countries and different nationalities. Of course, he didn't know that anyone would explain it to him. There are several old men who understand Chinese, and they can explain the ins and outs of this etiquette in a few simple sentences.