"The troops turned around, the rear team became the front team, and we took the mountain road to Hunyuan County!" The chief of staff could think of no other way but to compromise.

The result was exactly the same as his judgment at the beginning.

The mountain road is full of traps, all kinds of which make it difficult for everyone to guard against them.

The rugged mountain roads also greatly limited the formation of troops.

In the past, the army marched on the official road, because the road was very wide, in order to protect the remaining mules and horses, everyone could march in three columns and march in rows.

Mules and horses in the middle, soldiers on both sides.

Now it can't be done, the team can only march in a column, and the mules and horses loaded with food are completely exposed to the guns of the Eighth Route Army.

"Horn ...... Bang bang ......"

From the moment I entered the forest, the familiar gunshots of the 38 covers were uninterrupted, and each shot meant that a mule and horse were killed, and they were carried down on the side of the road along with the food on their backs!

The chief of staff saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart, but there was no solution, so he could only keep urging his subordinates to speed up and get out of this mountain road as soon as possible!

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the team finally returned to the official road, and there were only three kilometers left from Hunyuan City.

Raising the binoculars, the chief of staff could already faintly see the gate tower of Hunyuan City.

But he was not happy at all.

Although the team around him did not become shorter, and the time was longer than the soldiers, there were nearly 500 more stretchers in the team.

After subtracting the soldiers carrying stretchers, there were less than 600 people left in the entire team still carrying food.

The mule and horse team was even more miserable, more than 200 mules and horses were divided into troops, and now there are less than 20 left to be killed.

The rest of the food of the entire team was all added up, and there were less than 23,000 catties left.

I brought 2,000 people, and there were more than 3,000 people in Hunyuan City, adding up to 5,000 people, and I had to eat 5,000 catties of grain in one meal.

Even if they returned after delivering the food, and no longer stayed in the city, 23,000 catties of food would only be enough for them to eat for four days.

It takes three days to send food back and forth to Hunyuan City by himself, and minus the time needed for the troops to rest in the middle, which is equivalent to the little grain sent to Hunyuan City today is just enough for the division commander to last until the next batch of grain.

If the division commander had any military march during this process, the soldiers would have eaten too much at each meal, and this little food would not last enough for the next supply to be delivered.

Therefore, the remaining food of the team will definitely not satisfy the division commander, and he will not be considered to have completed the task.

I don't know how to give an explanation to the division commander if I want to break my head for a while.

In Hunyuan City, the division commander was also hungry.

He wanted food too much, and in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he directly led the troops two kilometers out of the city to meet the chief of staff.

Soon they met, but the division commander did not see the imaginary seventy or eighty thousand catties of grain.

The field of vision was full of stretchers carrying wounded soldiers, and it took a long time to react.

The chief of staff was like a child who had done something wrong, standing in front of the division commander with his head bowed, not saying a word, angry and aggrieved.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on? What about the food you have brought? Why is this all there is left? The division commander first broke the silence, forcibly suppressed the anger that was surging out of his heart, and stared at the chief of staff to question.

When the troops were divided, the troops brought a full 120,000 catties of grain, but now there are more than 20,000 catties left, more than 200 mules and horses are almost completely lost, and there are nearly 500 more wounded soldiers in the ranks.

As the supreme commander of the grain delivery team, the chief of staff has an unshirkable responsibility.

In the face of the teacher's questioning, his head was lower than just now, and it took a long time to answer.

"The division seat is angry, and the humble position has not completed the task, which has disappointed you!"

"The Eighth Route Army was too cunning, not only laying a lot of traps on the road, but also arranging sharpshooters to shoot our mules and horses all the way."

"By the way, they also set up minefields on the road, and they told us that they were arranged by little devils, forcing us to abandon the road and take the mountain road, slowing down our march."

Speaking of which, the chief of staff was also outraged.

In order to send the grain to Hunyuan County as soon as possible, he was led by the nose by the Eighth Route Army all the way, and he couldn't fight back and scolded back, which was really too aggrieved.

Now that I have the opportunity to vent to the teacher, I can't wait to tell all the grievances in my heart.

After it was over, he continued to fight with unwillingness.

"Master, please give me another chance."

"I'll hand over the rest of the food in the team to you now, and the wounded will also be handed over to you to take to Hunyuan City to rest, and I will take the remaining more than 1,500 soldiers back to transport the second grain immediately."

"No dry food?" The division commander asked rhetorically!

More than 20,000 catties of grain are far from meeting his own requirements, and if he asks the chief of staff to take some more, the remaining grain will not be enough to sustain himself until the next batch of grain, so the division commander does not want to distribute some more grain that is already insufficient.

"Don't bring it!" The chief of staff shook his head and replied.

"I hid all the food that the troops gave up along the way, and there must have been some that was not found by the Eighth Route Army."

"As long as there is a percentage of food left, we will be able to feed ourselves and join the troops who remain on the road safely."

There is too little food, and the more troops left in Hunyuan City, the shorter the time everyone can last.

The division commander did not want the chief of staff to lead the troops into the city and consume the already small amount of food.

Now that the chief of staff proposed on the spot not to enter the city, but to go back directly to transport the second batch of grain, of course the division commander will not refuse!

Half an hour after the handover, the chief of staff began to return with more than a thousand troops.

However, he far underestimated the Eighth Route Army's familiarity with his base areas and underestimated the Eighth Route Army's monitoring of himself.

After walking less than five kilometers back, the regiment commander came over with a solemn face.

"Chief of Staff, something happened."

"All the food we hid on the side of the road is gone, and the mules and horses that were killed are also lost, it must be that we have just left on the front foot, and the Eighth Route Army has found the grain on the back foot and transported it away."

"Keep looking!" Led by the nose of the garrison regiment all the way, the chief of staff seemed to be on the bar with the Eighth Route Army, and shouted with anger.

"We hid nearly 100,000 catties of grain on the road, and nearly 200 mules and horses were killed, and I don't believe that the Eighth Route Army can find them all."

"Keep looking, tell the brothers, we will stop to eat when we find food, and then hurry when we are full of food and drink."

"If you can't find food, everyone will go hungry."

The troops continued their way back and soon entered the dangerous mountain road.

The traps laid by the guerrillas on the road did not lose their effect because they did not carry food, and continued to inflict wounded on them.

Finally got out of the woods, and there were more than 100 more lightly wounded in the team.

As for the food that the troops hid on the side of the road, not a single one was found.

The chief of staff clearly saw that the morale of the troops was declining little by little, and the physical strength of the soldiers was constantly being depleted, and then slowly becoming restless.

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