The War of Resistance

A marching pot was propped up in the open space in front of the Wang Ancestral Hall. The fire had been set up long ago. The white water in the pot was bubbling. Unfortunately, the white water vapor was just water vapor after all. It could only quench thirst but not greed. .

The soldiers were sitting or squatting around the pot, eating dry food and drinking water. Although there were about thirty Shang Zhen and others, there were also about twenty soldiers from the Northwest Army.

Company Commander Zhan sent a platoon to follow Shang Zhen and the others. Except for leaving one squad to look after the ship, the rest also followed. Only the rifles they used could not keep up with the Type 38 rifles used by Shang Zhen and the others. Woolen cloth!

The box cannon they brought over to Shang Zhen and the others was borrowed by Company Commander Zhan and their battalion commander. If Company Commander Zhan and Shang Zhen and the others handed over more weapons to the Japanese army, they would have to share some with the battalion.

The reason why Company Commander Zhan wanted to send people over was naturally because the fight against the Japanese was not just Shang Zhen's business, and he sent people over to help Shang Zhen and them. If they really surrendered more weapons, then Porters also need people.

But now, apart from the difference in accent, it is also impossible to tell which one is from the Northeast Army and which is from the Northwest Army in terms of clothing. They are all wearing common people's clothes.

Those clothes were temporarily obtained by the soldiers on the north bank of the Huaihe River. The landlords had no surplus food, so how many sets of clothes could common people have nowadays? So it was really hard to put together these clothes.

Therefore, the clothes are available in various styles. Although there are two-piece suits that only those with hard work and strength can wear, there are also cotton robes that are worn by businessmen or gentlemen.

What is a cotton robe? Just think about the long down jackets of later generations.

This thing is great for keeping warm, and it can protect the lower part of the knees, but when it comes to marching and fighting, it is inconveniently tight. It is like a long skirt worn by women. If you don’t carry the skirt or put a special skirt strap behind it Flower girl, do you see you stumbling when you run away?

It's also like the TV series "Huo Yuanjia" in later generations. You see, Huo Yuanjia and others had to pin the hem of their robes to the waistband of their trousers before starting the competition.

Because of the inconveniences of marching and fighting, the soldier in the robe directly cut off the hem of the robe with a knife.

The soldiers were so rough, so what good skills could they have, so some of them still had cotton covers exposed underneath?

As a result, even though they arranged the rifles they used neatly, they still looked like bandits coming down the mountain!

Don't just say that people from the Northeast look like bandits, don't people from the Northwest look like bandits?

Where are there no bandits nowadays? It's just that the bandits in the Northeast are called Huzi, the bandits in the Northwest are called Ma bandits or swordsmen, the bandits in Hubei are called Lake bandits, the bandits in Shandong are called thieves, and the bandits in the Southwest are called mountain bandits, that's all.

The soldiers dressed like bandits and talked like bandits. They ate pickles, ate dry food and drank boiled water, but even though they were eating and drinking, their mouths were not blocked.

"You bastard, come down. Come down and I'll cut off your head and fart!" Huzhuzi said vaguely when he saw a little boy's face exposed on a big wall next to him while biting dry food. .

Hu Zhuzi had reason to be angry. It was just because Shang Zhen didn't care about his statement about letting people smoke smoke from their ancestral graves, and he wouldn't let his people actually light fires and cook in other people's ancestral halls.

Moreover, Shang Zhen specifically said, don't be so aggressive with the common people, let's fight our devils. If the common people here are not friendly to us, then at most we won't protect them.

When Shang Zhen had something to say, Hu Zhuzi didn't dare to be aggressive with the people, so Hu Zhuzi could only speak in a low voice and vaguely.

But even so, Shang Zhen still heard him mumbling, and Shang Zhen turned to look at him.

When Hu Zhuzhu saw Shang Zhen looking over, he subconsciously smiled at the child on the high wall because he was afraid of being scolded.

It's just that he didn't smile, but his smile and his big mouth startled the child who was leaning on the high wall to watch what was going on. Then the soldiers heard an "ah" sound, and the child It disappeared on the wall, and there was a "plop" in the wall, and then the cry of a child came.

Why did you disappear? The wall must be as high as two people. No matter how powerful the kid is, he can't climb to the top of the wall by himself. He should be stepping on the top of the wall on a ladder. I guess he was frightened by Hu Zhuzhu's smile and climbed off the ladder. It fell.

As a result, Hu Zhuzhu was in trouble again.

Shang Zhen belongs to the Northeast Army, which is an old-style army. In other words, it is actually a warlord army.

Shang Zhen had the consciousness that he wanted to defend his country and the people as a soldier, but after all, he was not a member of the people's army with political ideas.

He only has a simple consciousness and feels that when he wears a military uniform, he is a soldier. If he doesn't wear a military uniform, he is just an ordinary citizen. He thinks that it is wrong to bully the common people when he is a soldier, and it is even more wrong to treat others. Not to mention the kind of army that does everything and has bad military discipline.

Because he became the chief officer of their team, he did not engage in food, drink, prostitution, gambling or smoking. The people under him listened to his words but did not rebel.

Shang Zhen glared at Hu Zhuzi, and heard the child on the other side of the wall still crying, and then there were adults talking again.

Shang Zhen and the others couldn't understand what they were saying. It was probably like what Northeastern adults said when training their children: "You prodigal child, are you the ones outside who should look up to you?"

"I don't know if the child was broken or not." Shang Zhen said.

When Shang Zhen said this, the soldiers all looked at him. Finally, Qiu Bo stood up and ran to that house, knocking twice on the door of that house.

But before he knocked on the door, there were children crying and adults scolding him. After he knocked on the door, the courtyard became quiet.

Qiu Bo waited for a while and saw that no one came to open the door. He could only say loudly: "Fellow, I'm sorry for scaring your child. Didn't the child break?"

But after Qiu Bo finished shouting, there was still silence inside, as if the noise in the yard just now was an illusion caused by Shang Zhen and the others.

Qiu Bo had no choice but to look back at Shang Zhen.

Shang Zhen also had a headache. The people here made it clear that they didn't want to talk to them, and he had no choice.

Shang Zhen could only let Qiu Bo come back. He lowered his head and thought for a moment before ordering: "After eating, be more careful. The people here don't want to see us so much. Isn't there a traitor in this village?"

Hearing what Shang Zhen said, the soldiers were shocked.

Yes, the people in this village should be able to tell that they are the Chinese army no matter what. In other words, they are our own team. Why are we so unkind to our own people?

It is undoubtedly reasonable for Shang Zhen to suspect that there are traitors in the village. The common people are afraid of the traitors and do not dare to entertain them. This is logically reasonable.

Under Shang Zhen's arrangement, the soldiers became cautious. Not only did they increase the number of sentries around the village, they also placed people outside several wealthy families in the village.

According to Shang Zhen's understanding, the richer the family, the greater the possibility of being a traitor, while the poor have less of a problem.

The reason is that the rich people have a lot of money. When the Japanese invaders come, the rich people are likely to become traitors in order to protect their property, while the poor people will have no scruples if they are too poor.

It can't be said that Shang Zhen's understanding is wrong. Of course, there may be other reasons why the people in the village don't want to see them, but the people's houses are closed and their doors are closed. Who can they ask if they want to ask?

Shang Zhen didn't know that the situation they were encountering now was a flaw of the old-style army.

They only rely on their simple feelings to love their country and protect the people. After all, they lack consciousness in their actions. If they knew how to go deep into the masses and mobilize them, they would not be called an old-style army.

Seeing that the situation was unclear, Shang Zhen was unwilling to act rashly, so he finally took Shi Xiaowan to the southeast because he wanted to visit the town called Liu Ji.

The reason why he wanted to bring Shi Xiaowan with him was because Shi Xiaowan was originally a young man and he wore a disguise to better disguise himself.

It was around four o'clock in the afternoon that Shang Zhen and Shi Xiaowan rushed back to Dawang Village.

At this time, Qin Chuan, who was guarding the southeast of the village, ran out and reported to him: "Finally someone in the village came out to talk to us."

"Oh? Are there really traitors in this village?" Shang Zhen asked.

"No, there are no traitors. People in this village said that the army stationed in their village was causing trouble to them. They thought we were the same as that army and were not willing to talk to us." Qin Chuan replied.

"Then why is it coming out again now?" Shang Zhen asked puzzledly.

"The old man said that he thought our group was good and stronger than the previous army. We stayed outside the ancestral hall and neither entered the ancestral hall nor harmed the people." Qin Chuan replied.