Watching the Japanese puppet army withdraw, Li Mingrui gave a thumbs up and said, "Chief Yang really has you." Although the brothers have suffered some sins these days, it is better than sending them to death. The devils still haven't found out about us, and we're hiding under their noses. ”

After speaking, Li Mingrui stood up and said, "Brothers, let's go out and get something to eat." I didn't eat anything for three days except those few strips of raw chicken, and the brothers were starving. When we can eat something, we should find the main force. ”

Leaning against the stone wall, Yang Zhen, who seemed to be closing his eyes and recuperating, ignored Li Mingrui when he spoke. But when he stood up and was about to walk out with his brothers, Yang Zhen suddenly said, "Stop, no one is allowed to go out." ”

Hearing Yang Zhen's words, the few people who were about to follow Li Mingrui out were stunned. Li Mingrui, who was leading the way in front, couldn't help but look back and said, "Sir Yang, the devils are gone." It's time for the brothers to get some food, too. In the past three days, the brothers have relied on that little water and raw chicken to sustain themselves, and the brothers who don't get anything to eat can't stand it. ”

"The devil's brigade is withdrawn, but they are not exhausted. There should be devils in ambush around here. When we went out, we happened to fall for the devil's trick to lure the snake out of the hole. Brothers, hold on for another day, and we'll talk about it tomorrow. ”

Yang Zhen's words made Li Mingrui stunned for a moment: "Won't it?" Just now you saw with your own eyes that the devils had obviously withdrawn, and there were still people left there? Sir Yang, are you a little nervous? ”

"Chief Yang, even if you are not in a hurry to find the main force, what do you smell in this cave now? In the past few days, everyone has been crowded in this small hole, not to mention, even the urine and urine are in such a palm-sized place, and the smoked people can't stand it. Does this smell still a place for people to stay? ”

"Do you know how many people the devil came this time? How do you know that the devil who withdrew outside is all the troops that the devil has mobilized this time? Do you really think that the devil will die and think that we have left after nothing in the past three days? Don't think of devils as too simple. Since the devil has determined that we are in this vicinity, he will not be lightly dead. ”

"The devil has mobilized so many troops this time, and it is common for them to leave some of them to continue to monitor this area when they leave. I have a gut feeling that the devils must have left some of their forces here, and they are hiding near us. Stick to it for one day, and talk about it tomorrow. After that, Yang Zhen closed his eyes again and stopped talking.

Looking at Yang Zhen, who closed his eyes again and stopped talking, Zhang Ting, who was hungry and weak because of refusing to eat raw meat, said: "Chief Yang, you can't make a decision based on intuition. Your brothers have been living on the meat of these two pheasants for three days, and their bodies are already very weak and in urgent need of supplemental nutrition, and it is already difficult to hold on. ”

"Also, the wounds of the wounded have not been re-cleaned since they were injured. The chief Li also said just now, you smell the smell of this cave, stay here, my brothers are afraid that they will get sick. ”

"The herbs that Brother Liu Sigou picked have been exhausted, and you have to continue to use medicine for your wounds. The most important thing is that there is only half a pot of water left, and if we continue to persevere, we will really starve, thirst, and die of thirst here. ”

"No, I said I can't move now, I just can't move. Since it has been held out for three days, it is not bad for this day. Even if you starve to death and die of thirst, that will be for the future. If you go out now, you will die faster. ”

"Mingrui, no matter what you have done before, but there is one thing I remind you of, you are now a soldier and must obey orders. I've survived the hardest times, but can't I hold on to the last day? ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen sighed and said, "We can't hold on, can the devil hold on?" Don't forget, why are we able to attract so much attention from devils? It's been three days and still haven't gotten the results you want. I think for the devils, the pressure on them from their Kwantung Army command will be even greater. ”

"You are hungry, and I am hungry. You are thirsty, and I am thirsty. You think it smells bad, don't I think so? But our current situation is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. It's hard for us to persevere, and the devils who squeeze up and down can persevere? Do you really think that the devils are really determined to idle a large number of troops here? If you believe me, wait all night, and you'll see tomorrow. ”

After that, Yang Zhen closed his eyes and said nothing. Intuition, yes, intuition. Watching the Japanese puppet army under the mountain withdraw today, Yang Zhen suddenly felt that something was not normal in his heart. Although he didn't know how many troops the devil had dispatched this time, Yang Zhen always felt that the devil's evacuation was a little strange.

Yang Zhen always felt that the devil would not give up so lightly and appear here with such obvious clues. The Japanese were also famous for their meticulousness and stamina. Compared to endurance, I am afraid that there is no other nation in the world that can compare with the Japanese.

This time, after only three days of sweeping, they were only evacuated, and under the situation that the logistics were worry-free, the troops were absolutely superior, and there were no major incidents, this style did not resemble the style of the Japanese. It's just weird there, and he can't say it for a while.

Looking at Yang Zhen, who closed his eyes and stopped talking, the more than ten brothers who had already stood up and were about to go out hesitated, but they still didn't go out after all, and sat back in their places. As Yang Zhen said, he has survived three days, and it is not bad for this day. Although everyone was already hungry and couldn't stand it, out of trust in Yang Zhen, they all obeyed the order.

When it was close to noon the next day, when Li Mingrui saw from the telescope the Japanese soldiers on the opposite hill and a squadron of Japanese soldiers coming down from the top of the hill where he was, he secretly scolded the little devil for being cunning and couldn't help but sigh at Yang Zhen's sensitive sense of smell.

"Sir Yang, you still have the ability. This little devil really set up an ambush waiting for us to take the bait. If it weren't for you, if we had gone down the mountain, it would have been all over. We're not enough to stuff the devil's teeth. ”

Yang Zhen ignored him, carefully observed the movements under the mountain and the surrounding mountains, and waited until he watched the devils under the mountain walk away, and then said, "Brother Sue can come out now." Also, you take a few people out to get something to eat. Don't shoot and try not to touch outsiders. Whoever appears, you avoid it. ”

"Plus today, the brothers haven't eaten much for four days, except for the first two days when they had some raw meat, and their bodies are extremely weak. No one else has the strength to go out and find something to eat but you. ”

Hearing Yang Zhen's instructions, Li Mingrui put down the telescope in his hand, nodded and said, "If you can't say anything, catching pheasants and hares is my starting ability." When I learned martial arts in the temple with my master, I was disgusting from vegetarian food, and if I wanted to get some meat, I had to go out to get some wild things. ”

Yang Zhen didn't look at him, he just nodded when he heard the words and said, "Do your best." I really didn't get some voles. The most important thing now is to fill the stomachs of the brothers. After eating, don't be in a hurry, let the brothers have a good rest, and wait for the evening before setting off. ”

Although the surrounding mountains are not high, the vegetation is dense and there are few people, so it is really a good place. In addition to providing Yang Zhen and his family with a reliable hiding place in the summer, the mountains and forests in the northeast also provided them with an abundant source of food.

Li Mingrui, who took the order, did not live up to Yang Zhen's high hopes, and only went for half a day to get back a few extremely fat rabbits, and also brought back a few snakes that were not too small and a bunch of mushrooms. It's just a pity that this guy really can't tell the difference between the mushrooms in the Northeast. Only half of the mushrooms he brought back were edible. The rest are poisonous mushrooms.

However, there are better than nothing, these things are plus Yang Zhenqiang has dug up a lot of edible wild vegetables around, and it is finally enough for everyone to eat.

Yang Zhen stopped everyone's hearty meal, and just asked people to boil a few steel helmets full of broth with rabbit meat, snake meat and mushrooms. Yang Zhen knew that if a person who had been hungry for a long time ate too much in one go, not only could not save his life, but would harm others.

Although there is no salt, the broth looks fishy, but the hungry people don't have too much to provoke. The broth was quickly eaten. And when Yang Zhen boiled the broth, he didn't eat it himself, but fed it to Zhang Ting, who was hungry, not to mention eating, and couldn't stand up.

Looking at this woman who was devouring and almost didn't eat all the Japanese military-style lunch boxes in her hand, Yang Zhen shook his head and said, "You woman, at first glance, is a young lady from a pampered family." What is there not to eat raw meat? As long as you can live, what's the chance to drink Maoru's blood? This is not the right place to take gold, what is the point of being poor? ”

Zhang Ting, who had food in her stomach, heard Yang Zhen's words, and said, "Do you think everyone is like you, no matter what, raw or cooked, you can eat it?" Not to mention the bloody flesh, it is not hygienic. ”

"You haven't really starved yet. When you are really hungry, you will know, and sometimes you can have a little raw meat to eat, which is the greatest blessing. Hygiene and everything must give way to survival when necessary. With life, there is another qiē, and life is gone, what kind of hygiene do you talk about? ”

Regarding Zhang Ting's words, Yang Zhen shook his head and seemed disapproving. This woman has not really understood what an existential crisis is, so she will say this. If she really starved all year round, she wouldn't think so.

In the end, it was a woman, after eating and gaining strength, the first thing Zhang Ting did was something that everyone didn't expect. The first thing the woman did after smelling the strong smell on her body was to run to the upper reaches of the creek, the corner of the mountain where no one could see, and wash herself.

Looking at Zhang Ting's back as she was in a hurry to run away, Yang Zhen smiled wordlessly and had to sentry her personally. Fortunately, I barely added something to my stomach just now, and the brothers who have not fully recovered at the moment do not have the lust to peep.

However, after smelling the same smell on his body, Yang Zhen had to laugh at Zhang Ting's movements. Not to mention that she is a little girl, even a big man like herself can't stand it.

Yang Zhen, who smelled the unbearable smell on his body and was afraid of spreading the disease, had to order everyone to clean up after arranging the vigilance.

After holding on to the small cave for four whole days, even the urine and urine can only be solved in the cave, and in addition to the summer, the taste of these brothers can be imagined. If you don't clean it, you won't be able to stand the smell.

It's just that everyone is wearing this clothes, who doesn't have clean clothes to change. Everyone can only take turns washing and drying clothes. Fortunately, the sun in this mountain was big enough, and with the bonfire lit when I was getting things, it didn't take much time to clean up.

Seeing the brothers jumping into the river to wash themselves, Yang Zhen called Li Mingrui and said, "I will find a few people to break some branches, grass blades and other things in a while, and clean the hole." The location of this cave is very secret, and the location is also very good, so we can use it when necessary in the future to store ammunition and supplies. ”

"Okay, I'll call a few brothers to go up and clean up. It's also easy to get, just rinse it with a steel helmet with water. Our brothers don't pay as much attention to as that girl, most of them are dug out of the soil, and they are no strangers to those things. ”

Yang Zhen nodded, looked at the surrounding environment again, and said, "Move quickly, and bury the things that are swept out." There will be a time when the brothers have finished cleaning, and they will also get it here, and try not to leave a trace. ”

"Urge the brothers to move quickly, this is not a place to stay for long. I just thought about it, don't wait for it to get dark. After the devil pounces in other directions, maybe when will he come back? When you're done there, we'll leave. Tell the brothers that this place is not far from Daqingdingzi Mountain, and you can rest well when you go to the place. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen glanced at Li Mingrui and confessed: "When you march for a while, you bring a person to be a top soldier." Remember to walk on ridges, not ravines. We must not relax just because the devils have withdrawn, and we must be prepared to encounter the enemy at any time. ”

After listening to Yang Zhen's instructions, Li Mingrui nodded and said, "Don't worry, Chief Yang, I will definitely be more careful." But what about your injuries? Do you want to make you a stretcher and let the brothers take turns carrying you? And that Zhang Ting, are you really going to take it? Our team is full of gentlemen, is it inconvenient for you to bring such a woman? ”

Regarding Li Mingrui's concern for his injury, Yang Zhen waved his hand and said, "What to lift, I don't have seventy or eighty people." However, a penetrating injury does not affect walking. The brothers are now in poor health, and the mountain march is hard enough. How can I walk with such a big living person as me? ”

"As for that Zhang Ting, I don't know what to do with it now. She and Lao Peng are both anti-union people, so there shouldn't be any big problems. There is also a shortage of doctors in our ranks, and she is studying medicine. Let's take it with you first. ”

After that, Yang Zhen took out the map, handed it to Li Mingrui along with the telescope, and said, "Be careful, you must pay attention to safety." We don't have the capital to fight the devil now. ”

Li Mingrui took the binoculars, but shook his head at the map and said with some embarrassment: "Sir Yang, you should keep the map, I don't understand this thing." Not to mention that the side marks on the map are all Japanese characters. ”

"You don't know the map? You've been a guard by Lao Guo's side for so long, and you don't even know the map, what are you kidding me? You don't know the map, how can you lead troops to war in the future? If you don't know how to use it, just learn it from me. ”

Previously, this guy said that he didn't know the map, and Yang Zhen thought he was helping him find an excuse to deal with Zhang Ting. There came to the thought, he really didn't know the map yet.

"Sir Yang, when I was rescued from prison by Chief Guo, I didn't think about being an officer. To be honest, I don't have a good impression of the Sichuan army, and my parents were killed by shells in the Battle of Erliu. I became a soldier purely to repay Chief Guo for saving his life. I didn't think about anything else. I didn't even think about working for those warlords. ”

"Chief Guo also mentioned several times that let me learn something, it is not a long-term solution to follow him, after all, I still have to be from a certain background, but I refused. Those warlords were extorting and extorting, focusing only on their own army expansion, fighting civil wars, and fighting for territory. The life and death of the people are nothing in their eyes, so I will not give them my life. ”

Speaking of this, Li Mingrui smiled bitterly again: "Besides, I am neither from Brother Pao, nor from the Sichuan Military Academy, nor from the line of the chief, let alone a person who has eaten foreign ink like Chief Guo." In the eyes of some people, he is just a thief, and he is already excluded in the army. Besides, Chief Guo is just a staff officer without power, and I don't want him to make things too difficult. ”

Regarding Li Mingrui's words, Yang Zhen shook his head and said: "The previous civil war was a civil war, and now the whole nation is defending the land and resisting the war. I don't care why you joined the military, but you're a soldier now. ”

"As an officer, recognizing maps is the most basic skill. If you don't know the map, how will you lead your troops to fight against foreign enemies in the future? You don't want to be a big soldier all the time. Now that we are hanging behind enemy lines, we need not only materials and equipment, but also officers with excellent command ability. ”

"You can't learn from a map, but the key is to have a clear understanding of yourself. Are you born with a gun, and you can shoot so accurately? Aren't they all learned later? Knowing a map is no more difficult than learning to shoot. After joining up with the main force, you go to Lao Guo yourself and ask him to teach you how to read a map. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen changed his expression to an extremely strict expression and said, "Don't let me down, I have great expectations for you." And for you, I will have a burden to hand over to you in the future. Didn't you say you wanted to learn those things from me? Well, knowing the map is the first step. I'll teach you when you've learned how to read pictures. ”

After listening to Yang Zhen's words, looking at Yang Zhen's expression, Li Mingrui, who knew that what he said was not a lie, hesitated slightly, and finally nodded and said, "Okay, Chief Yang, I will listen to you." After joining up with the main force, I went to Chief Guo to learn how to understand the map. ”