Chapter 31: Speechless
As time passed, the speed of their march in Tangcheng became slower and slower, from 30 kilometers a day to 20 kilometers a day, so that many refugees who dragged their families and walked southwest were able to keep up with their speed. "I know you're a kind-hearted person, but you have to know that ninety percent of the people in our camp are wounded soldiers, so you need to save some medicine." The refugees can keep up with Tangcheng's speed, which means that when they camp every day, there will be many refugees camping next to Tangcheng, and Mu Lianshan will take Lin Ying to work to treat the injuries and illnesses of those refugees.
At first, Tang Cheng didn't care very much, because these people heading southwest were not strictly considered refugees, they carried money and food with them, and they would not disturb their people when they camped at night. But a few days later, Tang Cheng found that the situation was not what he thought, and Mu Lianshan had almost exhausted the medicines he had prepared. Before leaving Liuyang, Tang Cheng promised Huang Chengzhong and Zhao Dacang that he would never let these wounded soldiers who returned to their hometowns die in the middle of the road, and these medicines were all prepared for the wounded soldiers, but now they were used by Mu Lianshan in an inconsequential place.
Regarding Tang Cheng's persuasion, Mu Lianshan didn't even want to raise his eyelids, "Most of your injuries have stabilized, as long as the wounds don't fester, they won't be inflamed." Mu Lianshan's ignorance made Tang Cheng open his mouth for a while and did not slow down, Lin Ying, who was dressed as a small soldier, looked helplessly at his father-in-law, and then at Tang Cheng, whose face was blue, but he didn't dare to speak.
"I'm too lazy to take care of your piece of wood." In the end, Tang Cheng broke the deadlock, threw down a sentence that he thought was fierce, and then walked away. He just left, Lin Ying looked at Tang Cheng's stumbling back with some puzzlement, and then turned his head to look at Mu Lianshan, who was still expressionless. Lin Ying really couldn't understand the relationship between his father-in-law and Tang Cheng, and he was about to quarrel just now, but in a blink of an eye, it was over.
"Don't bother with him, he's a sharp-toothed man, obviously kind-hearted and better than anyone else, but he just came to talk to me." Mu Lianshan reached out and pressed Lin Ying's head, causing the child, who had been staring at Tang Cheng's back, to twist his head towards him. Tang Cheng lowered the speed of his travel, apparently to train Liu Shishi and the others, but Mu Lianshan knew that Tang Cheng was actually doing this for the sake of these refugees who were dragging their families and mouths.
Since ancient times, the people of Guizhou have been fierce and chaotic, and these unarmed refugees are the best targets for the bandits to rob, and Tang Cheng deliberately slowed down to protect these refugees who are moving westward. Tang Cheng had already looked at the map more than once when he was camping at night, and then tried to plan to get through those areas that he felt dangerous at a safe time, Tang Cheng thought that he was doing all these things secretly, but he didn't know that not only Mu Lianshan had already seen the suspicions, but even Hou San and Wu Laosan had already known Tang Cheng's intentions.
Tang Cheng was already able to walk on his own, but he still had to use the dice to make crutches for him, and the walking time was not very long, but this already made Tang Cheng ecstatic, and being able to walk on the ground on his own meant that the injury was healed. "You three get here, today Lao Tzu will personally teach you to disassemble weapons." Tang Cheng, who had a cold reception here in Mu Lianshan and had no place to be angry, happened to see Liu Shishi and the three of them muttering something around the fat man, so he planned to take these three things to clean up.
The 20-kilometer heavy march every day was already difficult for Liu Shishi and the three of them, and the three who rushed back to the camp early just wanted to find Ma Fatzi to get some food to fill their stomachs, but they didn't want to be caught by Tang Cheng. "What is a gun? It is not only a weapon to kill the enemy, it is also the life of a soldier, and a soldier without a weapon can only be a rout or a chaotic soldier. Tang Cheng, who was sitting cross-legged against the rice bag, looked at Liu Shishi and the three of them with a rare stern sΓΉ.
"The three of you, Stones and Glasses have already been on the battlefield, Xiaobao has also seen guns and dead people when he is young, and you have also persevered in these days of training. But that's not enough, just because you know how to shoot a gun, you can't be considered a warrior, you also have to be familiar with your weapon, you have to know it, and make it your partner and brother. On the battlefield, except for Brother Paoze beside you, you can only trust the weapon in your hand, and with it, your chances of survival will be greater. β
This was the first time that Tang Cheng had spoken to Liu Shishi and the three of them with such a stern expression, not only did Liu Shishi and the three of them consciously sit up straight, but even the fat man who was watching the excitement on the side also straightened his face and listened carefully. "There may be a lot of unexpected situations on the battlefield, maybe you will be knocked over by the wave of enemy artillery fire, and the weapons in your hands will be lost. But when you come to your senses and find that the enemy has already rushed up, what will you do at this time? You don't have to think about it at all, just two words, desperately. β
Tang Cheng said that he stopped talking slightly, looked at Liu Shishi and their different expressions carefully, and then said with a smile, "Maybe you are thinking that you should not run for your life at this time?" Then I want to say that you are wrong, in fact, the most dead on the battlefield are deserters. Whenever the Japanese charged and found the defenders in disarray, their primary target was not those who held their positions, but those who turned and fled. Shooting at a holding position can only lead to a confrontation, and shooting those who have broken will cause an even greater rout of the entire line, so that they can completely occupy the position. β
Tang Cheng had already spoken very carefully, and Zhang Xiaobao, who was still young, couldn't understand the meaning of Tang Cheng's words, but Liu Shishi and Tan Fei could understand it, and if you think about it carefully, it is indeed such a truth. Since the Japanese army and the national army have been fighting, there have been few times when the strength of the national army is equal, and the reason why the Japanese army can always use inferior forces to break the positions and defense lines of the national army is because there are too many defeated troops on the side of the national army. Once it is found that the war is unfavorable, there will be a large number of routs on the positions or defense lines of the national army, and it is these routs that disrupt the defense line of the national army and give the Japanese army an opportunity.
"No one is not afraid of death, and I am also afraid of dying on the battlefield, but people will die when they fight, and there will always be people who die on the battlefield." Unconsciously, Tang Cheng began to gather around him, including the wounded soldiers of the Dian army, as well as those civilians who followed them all the way. And Tang Cheng didn't realize that he had digressed, he was originally going to teach Liu Shishi to familiarize them with firearms, but now he was talking about a different topic.
"If you think about it carefully, the artillery fire on the battlefield is flying all over the sky, no matter how fast you run, can you still pass the bullets and shells? But the enemy has already been killed in front of him, what to do, the only way to do it is to fight hard. There are not a few Japanese soldiers killed along the way to the south, and if we calculate carefully, each of us has a few Japanese soldiers' lives in our hands. What does this mean, the Japanese soldiers are not invincible, and they are not terrible, as long as you can be ruthless and give up your life, maybe the Japanese soldiers will be afraid that you will want his life at that time. β
Tang Cheng's last sentence caused a burst of laughter, especially Liu Shishi's laughter, if you want to say how many Japanese soldiers have been killed on the way south, he is the one who knows best. Tang Cheng, who was immersed in this topic and couldn't stop, was startled by the laughter around him, and looked left and right, not knowing when a lot of people had gathered around him. He had grown so big, and he had never spoken at length in front of so many people, and the people gathered around him made Tang Cheng very embarrassed.
Tang Cheng was always embarrassed to be stared at by so many people, so he immediately changed the topic and began to teach Liu Shishi and the three of them to disassemble the guns, and the shell guns, rifles, and light machine guns were all used to demonstrate to the three of them. "Don't underestimate these Japanese weapons, it's not that their weapons are better than our national army, as the old saying goes, a good confidant knows that the enemy wins a hundred battles, and it is not harmful for you to be familiar with the weapons of the Japanese army, at least we have not used other people's weapons on the way south."
Seeing that Tang Cheng began to really teach Liu Shishi to disassemble their weapons, the fat man who was standing on the side immediately began to drive those civilians away, it was okay for civilians to come over and have a good time, but now these are obviously not fun to make up. Tang Cheng took Li Shi and the three of them to fiddle with those weapons quietly, but the civilians who dispersed and left were still secretly talking about Tang Cheng who had just spoken, plus Ma Fatzi was also a man who couldn't hide his words, and only had a cigarette, these civilians knew that Tang Cheng was not very old, but he was an officer of the national army who had experienced a hundred battles.
"Fatty, what are these people smoking, why don't I look at us with the wrong eyes." Hou San and the dice, who had gone out to investigate, returned on time at dinner time, and as soon as they entered the camp, they noticed a different atmosphere from the past, especially the eyes of the civilians outside the camp when they looked at themselves. When the confused dice tied the horse, he whispered to the fat man and asked, who knows it's okay not to ask, the dice asked, the fat man laughed first, and then slowly said the reason.
"Do you know it, our chief is here to ask the three of them to fiddle with those weapons, who knows that he is off topic when he talks about it, and he talks about a lot of things about the war on the battlefield. It wasn't a big deal, but the civilians came over and listened, and that's what they are now. I guess our chief is farting in front of them right now, and these people will say that the fart is fragrant. Ma Fatzi looked at Tang Cheng in the distance with envy, why didn't he find out that his own head official still had such a ability.
"There's also this kind of thing, or let's find a chance to talk about it tomorrow and see if they can treat us like our company commander." Dice is a person who likes to join in the fun, and when he hears such a fun thing, he plans to mix it in.
"It's just you, I think you'd better rest, you just killed a few devil soldiers, and you can compare with our chief." The fat man was very disgusted and stuffed a bowl of broth to the dice, and then turned around and left with disdain, and the angry dice jumped to his feet, shouting that he had also killed a lot of devil soldiers.