Xiaohuzi heard Yang Zhen's order, and after glaring at the nonsense soldier, he stepped forward angrily and put Yang Zhen's lunch box on a big stone, and let the surrounding soldiers take turns to visit.

Seeing that Yang Zhen and several people had the same lunch box as himself, there was no canned food, let alone milk powder, and the soldiers around him who were still very much in agreement with that person's opinion just now were silent. The warrior bowed his head red-faced.

Looking at the soldiers who didn't speak, Yang Zhen smiled and said, "I, the political commissar and the chief of staff eat the same food as everyone else, and there is no small stove." However, there are still things about canned food and milk powder that he said, but not a few of us have that mouth. As you can see, our food is no different from everyone. ”

"Because Director Peng was tortured by devils, his stomach was broken, and the sorghum rice was too coarse for him to digest, so we made an exception and let him enjoy the treatment of the wounded and sick and eat some rice. Moreover, after his torture, his body has not recovered, he is very weak, and he needs nourishment. That's why I gave him a little care and made a little special. I didn't make this clear to you in advance, so I ask for your understanding. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen picked up his lunch box and sat on the ground, then said to the soldiers around him: "We have been back here to rest for several days, and we haven't had a good chat with everyone. In this way, taking advantage of today's rare opportunity, the political commissar and I, as well as the chief of staff, are here to talk with you. How about we talk while eating? ”

After that, Yang Zhen turned his head and said to the cooking squad leader: "Hurry up and cook for everyone." After eating, don't leave, just sit down and talk. ”

After listening to Yang Zhen's words, the cooking squad leader hurriedly agreed: "Okay, commander, wait a minute, I'll cook for everyone." ”

Watching the soldiers finish their meals one after another, Yang Zhen motioned for everyone to sit down and said, "There are no commanders, political commissars, chiefs of staff and other leaders here today, everyone is equal." A few of us are everyone's. ”

Yang Zhen wanted to say that he was a brother, but when he looked at the cadres and soldiers sitting in front of him, although his age was not the youngest, he could never be said to be the oldest, and his age could only be regarded as lower than average at most. Among the cadres, he was the youngest, so he quickly changed his words: "They are all brothers who share weal and sorrow." ”

"If you have anything to say today, you can tell us directly, and there is no need to have any taboos. What shortcomings we have, what shortcomings we have in our work, you can also openly put forward. As this comrade said today, food can't meet everyone's training consumption. I don't agree with the way he has to give his opinion, but it's good to say it. ”

Yang Zhen's words fell, the soldiers holding the rice bowl, you look at me, I look at you, but no one speaks. The head of the soldier named by Yang Zhen lowered his head even more.

Seeing the expressions of the soldiers, Yang Zhen smiled knowingly and said, "Since everyone doesn't say it, then I'll name it?" ”

After that, he pointed to the soldier who had just spoken and said, "If I'm not mistaken, you joined the army after we fought a group tribe in the territory of the Five Constants, right?" By the way, your name seems to be called Niu Ermu. Then you should first talk about why you know that you are likely to sacrifice when you join the army to fight devils, but you still want to join our army. ”

After speaking, Yang Zhen was afraid that he would have any psychological burden, so he said as slowly as possible: "Don't worry, say boldly, it's okay." As I said, there are no commanders, political commissars, or chiefs of staff here today, only brothers who are churning in a pot and sleeping in a wooden flute, and marching and fighting. ”

Seeing that the warrior heard his words, his head sank. Yang Zhen smiled and said, "Why don't you speak." Where did you just give me and the commissar the courage to give advice? As I said today, if you have anything to say, just bring it up. If you're done and go back to your company commander and instructor to punish you, you can come directly to me and I'll clean them up. ”

After hearing Yang Zhen's words, the soldier hesitated for a moment, stuffed the lunch box in his hand into the hands of the people around him, stood up and said, "Commander, you are not mistaken, my name is Niu Eryi, and I joined the army in the Fifth Standing Committee. I joined the army to fight devils, not because of anything else, but to avenge myself and my family. ”

"My family originally had more than 10 acres of cooked land in Wuchang, and I was carrying work for the landlord's family on weekdays. You can still eat meat during the New Year, and you can eat white noodle dumplings in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve. ”

"But the year before last, the little devil carried out what kind of merger and merger, and forced our house that had just been built to marry my brother's daughter-in-law, and drove everyone in the family into some group tribe. But I don't even give a house anywhere. My eldest brother approached them for a theory, and was arrested by them in the name of an anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese element, and now I don't know whether he is alive or dead. ”

"In the tenth winter, there is no house, and the whole family can only build a shack with wind on all sides. But in this winter when the jaw is frozen, how can a shack live for people? Within a few days of being forcibly driven to the group tribe, my six-year-old sister was even cold and hungry, and died within a few days. ”

"Last winter, when my father went out to collect firewood, because he came back late, the police guarding him did not let him in, saying that he was not allowed to enter after the hour. I couldn't go home, so in order to keep warm, my father could only find a place outside to start a fire. But the Japanese deputy sheriff insisted that my father started the fire to report to the Anti-Japanese Federation, and my father was stripped naked and hung on the gate to freeze to death in the weather of the third and ninth days. ”

"After my father died, my mother was already weak, and even the sick people didn't survive the New Year, and they didn't have it anymore. Originally, a harmonious and beautiful home was broken up alive by the devil. ”

"Except for the eldest brother whose life and death are unknown, there is only one person left in the family. I joined the army just to fight devils and avenge my father and mother, as well as my hard-working sister. Thinking of the suffering of his family, Niu Eryan's eyes were red.

Yang Zhen patted him on the shoulder, comforted him, raised his head and said to the rest of the soldiers: "Niu Erqi said very well, today everyone poured out the bitter water in their hearts, don't have any taboos, everyone's life experience is similar." ”

After listening to Niu Ermu's words, he joined the army with Niu Ermu, and most of the soldiers with similar experience had the same red eyes. A soldier also stood up and said, "Commander, political commissar, my experience is similar to that of Eryi. ”

"My family was not only driven into the group tribe, but the original land was also bought by the little devils at a low price. This land is the lifeblood of the villagers, where are they willing to sell? If you don't sell it, they will say that you are an anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese element, and you will not see anyone alive or dead when you are arrested. But if we sell it, we will be sent to the north to open up the wasteland, except for doing hard labor for the little devils who have occupied my family's land. The north side is all raw land, and the grain produced is not enough to eat even the chaff except for the load. ”

"My father and mother didn't survive that winter, and when they died, they didn't even drink a mouthful of sorghum rice soup. My three elder brothers had no choice but to give away the youngest two younger brothers and sisters and go to the coal kiln in Heligang by themselves. I thought that even if I died, I would die in my hometown, so I went back here to carry life for the little devil. But it's not people who are soldiers, it's even more hateful for the common people. ”

"Give them work, either beat or scold, and don't give them enough food. If you resist a little, you will be said to have destroyed the harmony between Japan and Manchuria, and you will be sent to the gendarmerie or the police station in a bundle. None of the people who were sent there made it back alive, and I once saw with my own eyes one who was sent to the gendarmerie and was thrown into a wolf-dog pen and fed alive to the wolf-dogs. ”

Niu Eryi's words with this person fell, and the other soldiers who were silent just now also talked about the persecution of their own families.

Listening to the soldiers tell what happened to their families, Yang Zhen couldn't stop nodding while listening. When everyone's words fell, Yang Zhen spoke: "Everyone has been persecuted by little devils, and almost everyone in the family has died at the hands of little devils. Everyone joined the army for revenge. But have you ever thought about it, are we just avenging our families by beating little devils? ”

Yang Zhen's words fell, and the soldiers who were still gossiping just now stopped talking and looked at Yang Zhen quietly.

Looking at the expressions of the soldiers around him, Yang Zhen said sternly: "Everyone think about it, all of you have been persecuted by devils, and many of you have even lost their families. There is nothing wrong with you joining the army for revenge. But the power of one of us is limited, even if you can kill a devil, but can you kill all the devils in the northeast? No. ”

"We only have one heart, twisted into a rope, and completely drive the devil out of China, in order to avenge our families, so that our children and grandchildren will never repeat our mistakes again, and will not experience the pain we have experienced."

"The little devils kill people and set fires, rob and rob openly, and do all kinds of evil. What they are doing in the Northeast is just one of the crimes they have committed in China. Do you know that when the little devils invaded Guannei, after occupying Nanjing, they killed 300,000 of our flesh and blood compatriots. Almost no one was spared from the captured brothers of the Nationalist army, ordinary citizens of Nanjing, and even refugees who had been exiled into Nanjing. There are countless of our sisters who have been raped and then killed by devils. ”

"We also want to live a peaceful life and enjoy the comfortable life of our wife, children, and hot kang. But he won't let the little devil. He not only wants our food, but also the precious resources left to us by our ancestors, and also treats us Chinese as pigs and dogs to be slaughtered for a lifetime. ”

"You can say that what happened in Nanjing is too far away from you and has nothing to do with you. Even many of you don't even know that Nanjing is there. But do you know that Nanjing is now the capital of the Republic of China, and it is a place where many foreign envoys gathered. It is a bigger city than Harbin and Shenyang. ”

"Little devils dare to kill people and set fires in such a place that attracts the attention of the whole world, and in this so-called Manchukuo, where they have strict control, wouldn't it be a piece of cake and even more taboo to kill us, the Chinese who are just slaves in their eyes?"

"Everyone knows that the Northeast, oh, is now Manchuria used to have a lot of beards, and many of us have also been infested with beards. What do you do when you're confronted with beard infestation? Will you resist or will you let others slaughter you? ”

"Presumably many of our fighters here have had a similar experience, when facing beards, the more honest you are, the more you don't resist, and the more arrogant those beards are, the more they treat you as a soft persimmon. First they took your food, but you didn't speak. You have ruined your wives and daughters, but you still don't speak. But the next step is for them to put their knives on your necks. ”

"These little devils are more hateful than those beards these days. Using a beard as a metaphor for them, they even ruined their beards a little. At the very least, the beard still talks about some rules and knows not to bully the common people. Some beards also pay attention to killing the rich and helping the poor. But the little devil doesn't have so many rules. ”

"They can drive you into the group tribe today and rob your land, tomorrow they can take your wives and daughters, and the day after tomorrow they can directly kill people and set fires. For little devils, as long as they are Chinese, they don't need a reason to kill. Even if you want to be obedient, they won't give you this opportunity. ”

"Many people think that the little devil is strong, and in order to survive, they bow their heads in front of the little devil and let them be slaughtered. But did the little devil give us a chance to live? No. The reason is simple, only by killing us will they be more convenient to plunder our property. ”

"We protect our homeland, for the sake of our children and grandchildren not to follow the same path as us, what do we do? Only pick up a gun and go to fight. At best, it is for the country and the nation, and at the worst, it is for ourselves to live, for our families to live, and for our children and grandchildren not to be bullied. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen took a sip of soup and moistened his throat before saying: "When you are a soldier and fight devils, you have to face sacrifice all the time, I think everyone understands this truth." But I will say that sacrifice is inevitable. But why can't we think of ways to reduce our sacrifices, survive, and kill more devils? ”

"You may think that the training is very hard, and our conditions are very difficult, as everyone said, the food is not even comparable to the work for the landlord. But do you know that these trainings we have set are for everyone to survive on the battlefield. ”

"You can only protect yourself if you train well. And protect yourself well, so that you can kill more devils. Otherwise, when a war starts, everyone rushes up in a swarm, and if they die, they will die, and if they don't die, they will be picked. But have you ever thought about it, it's a pleasure to do this. But you have all died, who will protect your brothers and sisters, who will protect your fathers and mothers, who will protect your wives and children? Only by sweating more in peacetime can there be less bloodshed in wartime. ”

"You are all raised by your father and mother with a handful of and urine. It's not easy for my father and mother to feed us so much, how much worry we have to worry about, and how tired we are. Neither those of us who are commanders, nor those of you yourself, are qualified to die unnecessarily. ”

"Yes, there must be sacrifices in battle, this is inevitable. But I still say the same thing, I can order you to die, but I am not qualified to order you to die for nothing. I'm committing a crime to send you to battle before you're trained. ”

"Today's incident is that we, the commanders, have neglected to give too much consideration to the hostile threat to us, and have overestimated the difficulties we may encounter in the future, and have neglected everyone's needs."

"In the current difficult situation, it is normal to be more difficult. Although the supplies that are in reserve for the most dangerous situations cannot be moved, we should always find ways to improve everyone's food and add some nutrition to everyone. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen turned his head to the cooking squad leader and said, "Don't we still have soybeans?" Can you think of a way to make some tofu for everyone? Also, you can't hunt with a gun these days, but you can find some hunter-born warriors to get some traps, and go to some roe deer, pheasants, rabbits, etc. Hunting is not just a way to use guns. ”

"Even if it's not a small amount, it's good to get some broth for everyone. The living can't let the urine suffocate to death, think more about the way, the current difficulties can still be overcome. This mountain is a huge treasure house, we can't keep the treasure mountain hungry, right? ”

After explaining the cooking squad leader, Yang Zhen turned his head to Niu Erqi and said, "However, comrade, you have a sentence that is not right. A few of us don't participate in training or repair, but we don't rest when you're busy. ”

"We have to draw up a battle plan, we have to be prepared for emergencies at all times, we have to think about you improving your training, and more importantly, we have to think about what we should do in the future. At night, when you all sleep, we have to check the sentry, we have to check the shop, and we have to study what we may encounter in the future. A few of us slept much later than you, and a lot of the time, we didn't sleep all night. I don't think it's okay if we don't take part in the work? That's the only privilege we have. ”

After Yang Zhen said these words, almost all the soldiers remembered that the wooden flute where Yang Zhen and several people lived often turned on the lights night and night until dawn, and then thought about the food they had just seen in the lunch boxes of several chiefs with the same food as themselves, and they all lowered their heads a little ashamedly. One of the company commanders even glared at Niu Erqi and said, "Look at the bird opinion you raised." ”

And that Niu Erqi knelt in front of Yang Zhen all of a sudden, and said silently: "Commander, I was wrong. I shouldn't have talked nonsense, and I shouldn't have wronged you, the political commissar, and the chief of staff, you should punish me. ”

Looking at Niu Ermu kneeling in front of him, Yang Zhen hurriedly pulled him up and said, "What are you doing here?" As a warrior, you have to learn to be strong and not shed tears at every turn. Besides, there is nothing wrong with your opinion, and it is my negligence in this matter, and I can't blame you. ”

After picking up Niu Erqi, Yang Zhen was about to continue to say something, when Li Mingrui suddenly came over to interrupt his conversation and said to Yang Zhen: "Commander, Huang Dali, who went out to reconnoitre, is back and is waiting for you and the chief of staff at the headquarters." ”

Hearing that Huang Dali, who had been out for reconnaissance for several days, had returned, Yang Zhen stopped talking with the soldiers, and after greeting Guo Bingxun, he stood up and said to Li Yanping and Peng Dingjie beside him: "Political commissar, you continue to talk to the soldiers first, Huang Dali is back, I'll go back." The fighters had to write down what they thought and built. Later, let's look into it. ”

After Li Yanping nodded, Yang Zhen said to the cadres and soldiers sitting in front of him: "I still have some things to deal with with the chief of staff, if you have any ideas, you can continue to talk to the political commissar and Director Peng." Please rest assured, we will definitely study your ideas. ”

After that, Yang Zhen pulled Guo Bingxun and hurriedly left the conversation scene and rushed to the wooden flute at the headquarters. I can't even take care of a lunch that I only ate a few bites.