Soon, Li Hong and Chen Lin walked out of the alley together, they turned two narrow alleys, and then walked along Beimen Street.

The city wall defense structure of Zhuang County, the whole is a big "square", this city was built in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, there are towering city towers and enemy towers in the east and west north and south gates, and the four city walls are almost more than two zhang high.

The two of them walked on Beimen Street, and after ten minutes, they rushed to the vicinity of the city tower at the North Gate.

The surrounding streets were full of soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Central Army, and the soldiers were leaning in twos and threes outside the eaves of each house to take refuge and chat.

The soldiers were hunched with their hands in their sleeves, their weapons clenched, some with their heads bowed and munching on the hard food in their hands.

These soldiers marched for five or six hours and arrived in Zhuang County without stopping, and at this time they were tired, hungry, and quite tired, and did not have time to drink a mouthful of hot vegetable soup.

The cooking classes put down their stoves, lit a fire in the corner, and busied themselves preparing dinner.

Chen Lin walked up to a group of soldiers who were lighting a fire to keep warm, and had a brief conversation with one of the soldiers, who nodded and immediately ran to inform Hu Wenchang.

Li Hong glanced at the tired soldiers around him and walked to the cooking class.

"Hello sir." A cooking squad leader saluted Li Hong.

"Brothers of your 2nd battalion, what do you eat at night?"

Li Hong asked the other party casually, took the big spoon in the hand of a cooking squad soldier, lifted the lid of the pot and stirred the food in the pot with the big spoon a few times.

Vegetable soup and gruel were boiling in a large iron pot, with a few vegetable leaves floating, and only a small amount of rice grains under the soup.

After walking around, the food situation of each cooking class of the 2nd Battalion of the 321st Regiment was similar, and the clear soup and little water were all some hungry things with no nutrition.

After a few minutes, Hu Wenchang strode towards Li Hong with several military commanders.

"Hello Sir Li!"

Li Hong raised his hand and gave a military salute to several officers, frowned and said: "Battalion Commander Hu, the food in your battalion is a little worse, look at the clear soup and lack of water, where do the soldiers have the strength to fight, isn't the food standard of your regiment very good before?" ”

Hu Wenchang sighed lightly and said helplessly: "Chief Li, this common people are not having a good time, and our days as soldiers are naturally not easy. ”

In the first battle of Xikou Village, Ma Yuanzheng, the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 321st Regiment, was wounded, and now the 2nd Battalion is replaced by Hu Wenchang.

Li Hong very much agrees with Hu Wenchang's practice of taking care of the wounded, leaving nutritious food for the wounded, as is the tradition of some excellent regular troops.

"Battalion Commander Hu, fighting a war is fighting logistics, and if the logistics is enriched, the combat effectiveness will be strong." Li Hong patted Hu Wenchang on the shoulder and said slowly: "In this way, you send a squad to the east gate to find my chief of staff, and you ask him to allocate 20 boxes of canned meat, 10 bags of flour, weapons and ammunition for you?" ”

"Chief Xie Li, our battalion has enough weapons and ammunition, and each company and platoon still has some surplus." Hu Wenchang thanked Li Hong and continued: "Chief Li, I will write down the food and materials allocated to us one by one, and our regiment will definitely return them after the battle!" ”

Li Hong knocked on Hu Wenchang's steel helmet and smiled disapprelicly: "You guy is really a straight man, we are all devil-fighting troops, what are yours and ours, besides, Lao Tzu is friends with your regiment commander, Ma Yong asked you to come up for reinforcements, and I can't treat his subordinates badly." ”

"Sir Li, since you are friends with our group, then I'm welcome, hehehe."

Hu Wenchang laughed a few times, and instead sent a squad of soldiers to the security regiment to get food.

After solving the food problem of the 2nd Battalion of the 321st Regiment, Li Hong asked Hu Wenchang: "Battalion Commander Hu, how many people did you bring up this time?" ”

"Our battalion is fully staffed, with 4 infantry companies, 1 artillery company, and 737 people in the battalion. Commander Li, our regiment commander said that everything in our battalion is at your disposal, and you can leave any tasks to us! ”

"Good!" Li Hong nodded and said solemnly: "Battalion Commander Hu, I will hand over all the defense guards at the north gate to your battalion, quickly establish a good communication, and I will give you any orders directly, okay, I have to go back to the regiment headquarters." ”

"Yes, Chief Li, when the brothers are full, I will immediately let them set up firepower fortifications on the city tower and the enemy tower."

After Li Hong finished explaining, he turned around and returned to the east gate.

After walking for a while, he found that Chen Lin had been following him.

"Why are you still following me?"

"Brother-in-law, I forgot to tell you, I'm now a member of your security group, of course I have to follow you."

Li Hong looked at Chen Lin strangely: "What do you mean by this?" ”

Chen Lin took out an appointment document from his bag and handed it to Li Hong.

After reading the documents, Li Hong learned that Chen Lin, a kid, was transferred from the 2nd Division to their security regiment as a trainee platoon leader.

"It's good to have a father who is a general, you can go wherever you want to go?" Li Hong degraded him a few words, and solemnly reminded: "Chen Lin, I can tell you, you have to settle down when you come to the security group, otherwise, my brothers will not be used to you." ”

In fact, Li Hong was quite suspicious of Chen Lin in his heart, what kind of son Chen Tingxiao was, how many fathers were willing to transfer their sons to the front line to fight desperately?

"Yes, Danza." Chen Lin saluted respectfully and solemnly, and then he was close to Li Hong: "Brother-in-law, what position are you going to arrange for me?" I want to lead the troops to fight, you give me a company to bring with me? ”

Chen Lin's background, Li Hong knows a little bit, this kid has gone to a military school, his brain is flexible enough, and he is not afraid to fight, but he is too young and vigorous, lacks combat experience, and lacks calmness.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Hong decided to treat this kid first.

"Chen Lin!"

"Here!"

Li Hong issued an appointment with a straight face: "Chen Lin, the leader of the cooking squad of the regiment headquarters is injured, you wait for the cooking squad to report and take over the work, and with a pillar like you going to the cooking class, you will definitely be able to do a good job in the cooking class." ”

"What? Cooking class leader? Chen Lin's face turned into a ball, and he pleaded bitterly: "Brother-in-law, I don't want to be the pillar of the cooking class, you treat me as a straw bag, and you can just stuff me into which combat class to be a big soldier?" ”

"Since your kid is a straw bag, then Lao Tzu can't let you go to the combat class to cause trouble, you just stay in the cooking class honestly, this is an order!" Li Hong ordered him solemnly, without the slightest room for negotiation.

"Okay, brother-in-law, the cooking class is the cooking class, that's better than raising pigs." Chen Lin drooped his aggrieved head, and then went to the cooking class to take up the role of the pillar of the cooking class.