Chapter 37: Meat Grabbing
A Mauser rifle, two 20-shot barge guns, a leather satchel carried crossbody, a water bottle, lunch boxes and a number of miscellaneous items, these belongings in Tang Cheng add up to about 20 catties, which is not a heavy burden for Liu Goat, who is 1.8 meters tall and weighs about 150 catties. But after being nervous all the time, and after several days of hard fighting, the tired Tang Cheng only had about 40% of his normal physical strength left, and followed everyone out of the city gate in a daze, Tang Cheng felt that the little physical strength he had saved during the meal just now had already been consumed again.
After passing through the city gate, Tang Cheng suddenly felt that someone was walking straight towards him, and subconsciously turned his head to look, and his heart suddenly chuckled. Only then did he suddenly find that he was followed by several heavily armed guys, and when he looked closely, the one in the lead was actually an acquaintance. There were a total of eight soldiers who came over, all wearing German-style steel helmets like Tang Cheng and them, or carrying rifles or submachine guns, if it wasn't for the one who recognized the leader, Tang Cheng would have already pulled out the shell gun.
The guy in the lead was the most burly, as strong as a brown bear that had grown fat before winter came, and the cuffs of his uniform were pulled up high, revealing an arm thicker than Tang Cheng's thighs. This physique is enough to deal with two or three Japanese soldiers at the same time in hand-to-hand combat. The leading man who was recognized by Tang Cheng saw Tang Cheng turn his head to look at him, and he also opened his mouth and smiled at Tang Cheng with a mouth full of big white teeth, which was regarded as a greeting.
"Company Commander Liu, my brother is Guo Tianbao of the reconnaissance company of the 51st Division, and I was ordered to cooperate with you to go out of the city to ambush the Japanese forward scouts." Guo Tianbao walked over to Liu Goat, who was full of surprise in the face of the sun, and secretly gave Liu Goat a look, and then seemed to hold Liu Goat's hand for the first time is a greeting. Receiving Guo Tianbao's call, Liu Goat subconsciously looked at both sides of the city gate, and the soldiers of the teaching team guarding the city gate didn't seem to care much about them, but Liu Goat still saw a trace of change on the faces of those people in the teaching team.
"Ah, it's easy to say." Liu Goat only seemed to say a few words to Guo Tianbao casually, and then moved along the avenue with the people of the second company in the direction of Chunhua Town. After walking a few hundred meters away, Liu Goat slowed down and looked at Guo Tianbao, "Brother, what did you mean just now?" Anyway, we saved you last time, don't push my brother and me into the pit. When Liu Goat pulled Guo Tianbao to ask, Tang Cheng had already received Zhou Fu's hint and changed the rifle to his left hand, and Tang Cheng secretly grabbed the handle of the barge gun with his right hand.
"Company Commander Liu, you say this, brother, I don't like to hear it, Zhilu said that your second company was used as cannon fodder by the people of the teaching team, so aren't we also tied up by his surname Xie and have been staying in the city, just now both sides of the city gate are full of people from the teaching team, if we are familiar with Thailand, I am afraid that the dogs of the teaching team will not let Lao Tzu will be the 51st Division." Guo Tianbao spoke angrily, and from a distance of one meter, Tang Cheng was actually stunned by the shocked eardrums, but the other party's tone and actions did not seem to be malicious, and Tang Cheng finally breathed a sigh of relief.
That night in the Daokou position to rescue Guo Tianbao and them, that was only out of Liu Goat's instructions, if it was changed to now, Liu Goat would never come to the rescue, Liu Goat now only believes in the people of the Second Company and his old boss 88th Division. Without waiting for Liu Goat to answer, Guo Tianbao took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and then grabbed Liu Goat's shoulders and went straight to whisper. Tang Cheng removed his hand from the shell gun, and then gave Zhou Fu a back look, standing on the side of the road drinking water with a kettle, but the afterglow of his eyes kept staring at Guo Tianbao and Liu Goat.
I don't know what Guo Tianbao said to Liu Goat, anyway, after re-entering the road, Tang Cheng always felt that Liu Goat's face was not very good, even worse than when they had just escaped from the position and retreated to the city to rest. "These 51st Divisions want to go back to Chunhua Town to find their troops" Seeing that Liu Goat and Zhou Fu had gotten together again, Tang Cheng walked a few steps quickly, just in time to hear the last sentence in Liu Goat's whispering with Zhou Fu. Guo Tianbao and they want to return to Chunhua Town, doesn't that mean that the task of ambushing the Japanese forward scouts was only completed by the second company alone?
Tang Cheng was shocked but silent, looking at Liu Goat's meaning, he seemed to have reached some kind of agreement with Guo Tianbao, otherwise he would not have acquiesced to Guo Tianbao and the others to follow Erlian together. Tang Cheng was not stupid, but after thinking about it for a while, he thought of the reason why Liu Goat would do this, according to Liu Goat's character, he would never watch the Second Company being worn away by Xie Chengrui little by little, maybe Guo Tianbao's plan inspired him, and Liu Goat also wanted to return to the 88th Division with the Second Company.
Tang Cheng didn't know if Lu Dao was right, but he didn't say anything, but secretly thought of his own countermeasures, if Liu Goat insisted on taking the remaining people of the second company back to the 88th Division, then he would take nine catties to Sichuan. The battle for several days had made Tang Cheng understand the cruelty of war, he didn't want to and couldn't see his familiar faces dying in front of him one by one, and Niu Wazi's face before dying had been deeply imprinted in Tang Cheng's mind.
The group of people with their own thoughts walked towards the position of the engineer school guarded by Xie Chengrui led by the second battalion, which was the only way to Chunhua Town, no matter whether Guo Tianbao really wanted to take his people back to Chunhua Town, he must first walk around Xie Chengrui's position. I smelled the smell of food coming from the battlefield, and the people of Erlian, who had only eaten half a pancake and drank a spoonful of mixed vegetable soup in the city, couldn't help but swallow their saliva vigorously.
"Let's go, fuck it." Without waiting for Liu Goat to speak, Zhou Fu first went to the lunch box on his waist and walked towards the steaming cauldron on the battlefield. The people of the second company saw that Liu Goat's face didn't seem to have any objection, so they followed Zhou Fu and ran towards the cauldron, only Tang Cheng and Jiujin remained in place and did not move. Tang Cheng wanted to see if Liu Goat would tell him what he and Zhou Fu had discussed in a whisper, while Jiujin was waiting for Tang Cheng to come over.
"You don't fucking go with me to eat his mother's food, you always watch me do something, and there is nothing on Lao Tzu's face that can fill his stomach, but there are two tubes of snot, do you eat?" Seeing that Tang Cheng was stupidly standing in place with nine catties and didn't move, Liu Goat laughed angrily, laughing at Tang Cheng as a thin-skinned person, but those who starved to death these years are thin-skinned guys, like Zhou Fu, who can't starve to death wherever he goes.
"****, if you don't cook for Lao Tzu and Lao Tzu today, Lao Tzu will lift all your pots, and none of us on dog days will want to eat Ansheng rice." Tang Cheng led the nine catties and swayed over as soon as he heard Zhou Fu's scolding sound in the crowd, listening to Zhou Fu's angry meaning, it should be that the people of the teaching team did not let the people of the second company eat, but Zhou Fu was anxious and scolded.
Guo Tianbao and his gang all carried pancakes, and after they left the city, they had already divided half of them to the second company, and they could also get two palm-sized pieces for everyone. Tang Cheng Zhilu said that Zhou Fu took the lead to teach the position of the Second Regiment to eat big households, obviously venting the dissatisfaction of the Second Company with Xie Chengrui, and the quarrel with him was just Zhou Fu's excuse to play. Jiujin didn't care, relying on his strength to squeeze a way out of the crowd, and by the way, Tang Cheng also got into the crowd, and the two quickly got to the side of the cauldron that was surrounded by water.
Seeing clearly what was boiling in the cauldron, Tang Cheng's mouth was immediately filled with saliva as if reflexively, and his throat and eyes were as uncomfortable as if a small hand was scratching uncontrollably. The steaming cauldrons were filled with pieces of meat that were churning with boiling water, and judging by the color of those cigarette box-sized pieces of meat, it was obvious that they were almost ready. "Nine pounds, grab the spoon." Seeing the pieces of meat boiling in the cauldron, Tang Cheng couldn't help it anymore, he couldn't remember when he ate meat last time, so Tang Cheng made a bold move, he carried two lunch boxes by himself, and asked Jiujin to grab the spoon and start scooping up the meat.
Jiujin is a stupid and bold, with Tang Cheng's words, no matter how big and seventy twenty-one he reached out and grabbed a big horse spoon, without waiting for the other party to react, Jiujin used a big horse spoon to take out a spoonful of meat from the big pot and put it into the lunch box in Tang Cheng's hand. "One more scoop." Regardless of the heat of the soup reduced to his hands, Tang Cheng put the other lunch box that was still empty to the side of the cauldron, and Jiujin repeated the action just now, and the two lunch boxes were finally filled with pieces of meat that I didn't know if they were cooked or not.
Seeing that Tang Cheng had already begun to grab meat here, Zhou Fu, who was still scolding himself, was not ambiguous, and threw the lunch box in his hand to Tang Cheng, Zhou Fu stretched out his hand to stop the fire head soldier of the teaching team who was going to stop Jiujin from continuing to fish for meat, but his mouth was still shouting, "Why are the people of your teaching team so shallow, aren't they just drinking a broth here with you, you look at you one by one as if you are going to eat us, if you don't have to play with the little devil for a while, Lao Tzu is not willing to eat your meal." ”
Jiujin saw that the people of the teaching team were stopped by Zhou Fu and others, so they grabbed the pieces of meat from the big country one by one, and Tang Cheng stuffed the hot pieces of meat into his mouth, and picked up the lunch box that Zhou Fu threw to pick up the pieces of meat that Jiujin fished out of the cauldron. The two cooperated very tacitly, and they cleaned up the meat pieces in the first cauldron in just a few minutes, if it weren't for Liu Goat's timely words to stop it, the big horse spoon in Jiujin's hand would have been aimed at the second cauldron.
"Okay, it's almost enough, that is, Commander Xie doesn't care about you starving ghosts reincarnated, if you change the commander, I'm afraid you will be locked up a long time ago." Zhou Fu, who was still chattering to himself, was stopped by Liu Goat, and Tang Cheng, whose mouth was full of gravy, noticed that there was an officer with an impatient face standing next to Liu Goat, and saw that Liu Goat was a little dog-legged to accompany the officer with a smile, Tang Cheng's heart chuckled, could it be that person was Xie Chengrui who was scolded all the way by Liu Goat.