Chapter 35: Midnight Threshing Floor
"No, I don't. I climbed up to the courtyard wall and looked out, and I heard the villagers passing by saying about the threshing floor, and then looking in the direction they were going, I guessed that they were probably going to meet at the threshing floor. Hehe, platoon commander, do you suspect that I ran out while I was on duty? So how can it? I'm a veteran of our platoon! Liu Yunhu explained to the platoon commander with a hippie smile.
"It's best not to go out. Go, call all the warriors up at once! I'm going to wake up Director Zheng! Wang Hua put on his shoes and stood up and went to call Zheng Guotai.
Although it was during the Anti-Japanese War, he had always served in the combat army, Zheng Guotai was not the commander of the front-line troops, and his vigilance was far worse than Wang Hua. In addition, he has been too sleepy to work hard in the past few days, and the voices of Wang Hua and Liu Yunhu in the room did not alarm him at all.
Wang Hua screamed softly twice in the past, Zheng Guotai hadn't woken up yet, he reached out and pushed it, but he still didn't wake up. Wang Hua was in a hurry, grabbed his shoulders and pulled Zheng Guotai to sit up, and then pushed back, and the one lay back on the bed with a "bang" like a corpse. Pushing sideways and hard, Director Zheng's whole body moved out more than a foot away, shook on the bed, and almost fell off the bed. With an exclamation and a dead grip on the head of the bed with both hands, Director Zheng finally woke up.
"Ahh Was there an earthquake? After Zheng Guotai woke up, he jumped directly from the bed to the ground in big pants, Wang Hua shook too violently, and Director Zheng thought it was an earthquake.
"There was no earthquake, there was a situation, there was a situation in the village! There is no earthquake, Director Zheng, there is a situation in the village, you get dressed quickly! Wang Hua didn't expect that the power of his shaking was so great that it was misunderstood by Zheng Guotai as an earthquake! Seeing Director Zheng's panicked appearance, Wang Hua hurriedly explained and appeased. People are most likely to be frightened when they first wake up, but don't scare people out of the way.
"Not an earthquake? How do I feel like the world is spinning? Zheng Guotai looked at Wang Hua, and then looked at the furniture in the house, and confirmed that it was not an earthquake, so he sat back on the bed and gasped for breath.
"Director Zheng, don't sit down, there's a situation outside!" Wang Hua reminded Zheng Guotai in a whisper.
"The situation? What's the situation? Zheng Guotai looked at Wang Hua suspiciously, and then looked at the direction of the door, and suddenly he realized where he was now, and instantly became nervous, "Is it a guerrilla or a devil?" "Whether it's the guerrilla headquarters or the devil, it's not good for Zheng Guotai to come from either side, and he can't afford to mess with either side before he returns to Tongbai!
"I don't know," Wang Hua said honestly, he really didn't know. "The people in the village have gone out, I heard that it seems to be gathering near the threshing floor, I don't know why, Zhao Hongyuan's whole family went!"
"What?" Zheng Guotai jumped up suddenly, "Zhao Hongyuan's whole family has gone out?" As he spoke, Zheng Guotai began to put on his clothes and kick his shoes, "Let's go and have a look." Go and call the brothers up, maybe it's the devil!" "When the devil enters the village, he has the habit of driving the people to the threshing floor to give lectures, and Zheng Guotai's first feeling is that the devil is coming!
"I have sent for a call, and the brethren may have already risen. I'll go out first, you hurry up. Wang Hua walked out of the door in a few steps, and the soldiers outside were already gathering.
"Li Yinbao, you take two people to see if Zhao Hongyuan's family is still there."
"Yes!" A soldier agreed, pulling the two men out of the queue and running briskly to the village chief's bedroom. There were only two rooms, not far away, and in less than twenty seconds, three people ran back to report: "Report to the platoon leader, there is no one in the two rooms, Village Chief Zhao's family is out!" ”
"Got it, back to the team!" This is not because Wang Hua does not believe Liu Yunhu, but as a grassroots commander of a unit, many situations must be verified, and he must ensure the absolute accuracy of every piece of information as much as possible, so that he can ensure that there are no mistakes when issuing combat orders.
After the team was neatly arranged, Wang Hua stood in front and examined it from left to right, "Brothers, there was an accident in this village tonight, and all the villagers are now gathered in the threshing floor where we eat during the day for unknown reasons!" In order to prevent the devil from causing trouble, we must be ready for battle! Director Zheng is here, now I invite Director Zheng to give you a lecture! Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Zheng Guotai coming, and Wang Hua immediately gave up the right to speak to Director Zheng Da. He himself ran back to the queue and stood with the fighters.
"Brethren! Just now, Platoon Commander Wang has explained the matter to everyone. I won't say any more. Just one, after arriving at the threshing floor, you are not allowed to shoot casually, even if the devil kills someone, you are not allowed to shoot without receiving an order! The soldiers all stared at Director Zheng with full attention.
"Alright, let's go!" After pondering for a while, there was nothing to say, Zheng Guotai waved his hand and led the team out of this small courtyard to the threshing floor. On the way, he turned around to the copper lock house, and called the ten soldiers who were guarding the ammunition in the courtyard. If you really encounter a devil, it doesn't matter if you want these ammunition or not. The main thing, the first is to save your life, and the second is to kill devils. This is one of the military regulations of the 500 Army, which was formulated by Gao Quan, and both Zheng Guotai and Wang Hua kept it in mind. Compared to these two items, these munitions are obviously not too important.
The old lady and sister of the copper lock family were not at home, and the soldiers guarding the ammunition said that someone came to call the two away in the middle of the night, and the accent of the person who spoke seemed to be the village chief Zhao Hongyuan. At that time, Zhao Hongyuan said that Mr. Wang was here, but he didn't hear anything else.
These words were asked by Zheng Guotai on the road, Wang Hua heard it on the side, and wanted to ask Liu Yunhu, the village chief's family, how they went, but before he could say anything, the threshing floor had already arrived.
Thousands of people in the village surrounded the threshing floor tightly, and there seemed to be someone talking in the middle, and there were too many people around to hear clearly. Although the soldiers of the squad came suddenly, everyone was wearing the clothes of ordinary people, and no one paid attention to them when they stood behind the people in the middle of the night.
"Take the class as a unit, spread out!" A group of more than 30 people lined up to stand here, even if no one pays attention at the moment, it will definitely attract the attention of others after a long time, the best way to ensure their own safety is to integrate into the environment, here is to make themselves as similar as these villagers as much as possible, Wang Hua saw the situation and directly ordered the team to disperse.
Silently, a unit that was still in a neat queue just now instantly became a part of countless villagers, as if dozens of villagers came outside the threshing floor, and the soldiers stood behind the villagers silently.
"Folks, Zhaojiagang's fathers and fellow villagers! All of us are farmers who rely on the sky to eat, farmers who have been digging from the ground for generations, and watching the eyes of God eat mixed rice! The ancient sages divided the people of the world into four categories, Shinong, Industry and Commerce. The peasants were second-class except for the scholars, doctors, and officials. But today's farmers are not even as good as pigs and dogs! ”