"Chief of Staff, the brothers are so tired, they didn't rest for a moment after arriving in Hunyuan, they rushed back directly, and they haven't eaten for most of the day, they are hungry, they must stop to rest and eat something, otherwise someone will definitely be left hungry." The regiment commander caught up with the chief of staff and reminded with a worried face.

The chief of staff took a look at the surrounding terrain and replied: "Tell the brothers that you can rest after three kilometers of further walking." ”

"If memory serves, we've hidden a lot of food there, and if we find it, we'll have something to eat."

"And there is a village there, if you really can't find food, you can go into the village to collect food, so that every brother can have a hot meal."

For those who are hungry, the temptation of a hot meal outweighs everything.

When many soldiers heard that there was a hot meal in front of them, their eyes began to glow on the spot, and the pace under their feet also unconsciously quickened a lot......

However, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

As soon as the chief of staff arrived at the destination, the regiment commander, who arrived one step earlier, came over: "Chief of staff, all the food we hid is gone, and there is not a single one left." ”

"Go to the village and look for food!" The chief of staff also began to get anxious, and his face became more and more heavy.

The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first.

It's at least thirty kilometers away from where it stores its own grain.

The troops have run out of food, the soldiers are hungry, and if they do not have food to replenish their strength, even if they give the order to rush over, their brothers will run on the march, and they will fall behind, and in the end there will be little left.

The regiment commander also realized the seriousness of the matter and hurriedly replied: "I'll send someone over now!" ”

A company of soldiers rushed into the village with guns in hand, like a pack of hungry wolves with red eyes, going from house to house in search of food.

Ten minutes passed, and no soldiers came out of the village with food.

Twenty minutes had passed, and no one had left the village.

The head of the regiment stood at the entrance of the village and looked at it, but no one came out.

Not only that, when the troops first entered the village, it was very lively inside, and the sound of soldiers' scolding, orders, and the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets and smashing things kept coming out, and they could be heard clearly from afar.

Now there was no sound in the village, and it was as if the more than 100 soldiers who had entered the village had suddenly disappeared.

The regiment commander was frightened by this change and did not dare to send troops into the village again, for fear that they would disappear inexplicably like the company that had just entered the village.

Quickly found the chief of staff and reported: "Sir, the village next to us is too weird. ”

"An infantry company went in, not only did it not bring out the food, but it also disappeared, and not even a single person who reported the news came out."

"It can't be!" The chief of staff's first reaction was disbelief.

The same goes for the regimental commander.

If he hadn't seen an infantry company enter the village with his own eyes, and then there was no news, he wouldn't have believed that such a strange thing would happen to him.

The report continued: "This is all true, there are still troops guarding the entrance of the village, and they all saw a company enter the village, and then there was no news, and there was no movement in the village. ”

"In order to prevent further accidents, I didn't dare to continue to send troops into the village, what to do next, please ask the chief of staff to get an idea."

The chief of staff was also frightened by this strange thing, and hurriedly ordered: "Take me to see ...... immediately"

When I arrived at the entrance of the village, the village was still the same as before, quiet, and there was no movement at all.

After confirming that there was indeed an infantry company that entered the village and no one came out, and that no shots were fired in the village, the shock in the chief of staff's heart was indescribable.

He stared at the village for a long time before making a decision: "We must find a way to find out how the infantry company that entered the village disappeared." ”

"The village is not big, pass on my order: immediately transfer an infantry battalion over, and the troops will enter the village separately in platoons to search, I don't believe that the soldiers of a company can really disappear out of thin air, and they will see people in life and corpses in death!"

More than ten minutes later, news came out of the village one after another.

"Report to the Chief of Staff, Tuanza, we have found nothing in the village!"

"Chief of Staff, Tuanzao, there is no one in the village, and the food has been taken away by the people!"

"Sir, we found traces of the second company entering the village to search for food in the village, but we did not find any officers and soldiers of the second company, nor did we find any traces of firefighting......"

A series of evidence is showing the chief of staff the fact that the second company, which had just entered the village, really disappeared out of thin air.

The chief of staff was frightened and did not dare to stay here any longer, so he immediately ordered: "The troops will withdraw from the village immediately, and the whole army will continue to advance and leave here, I don't want us to lose another infantry company here."

The regiment commander reminded: "But the brothers are too hungry to walk." ”

"Killing mules and horses to satisfy hunger, as long as you keep the troops and stabilize the morale of the army, there is hope for doing anything else."

"The troops continued to advance for five kilometers and then stopped to kill mules and horses to satisfy their hunger."

"And from now on, no one can enter the villages we pass through without my orders."

"I have a feeling that a company that disappeared just now must have fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, but I can't think of how the Eighth Route Army didn't let go of a shot to take them."

"But they can eat one of our companies in one village, or they can repeat the same trick in other villages and eat more of our troops."

When the grain transport troops were preparing to transport the second batch of grain to Hunyuan City by killing horses to satisfy their hunger, the division commander stationed in Hunyuan City was holding a military meeting.

Although every officer in the conference room had a full meal and was no longer as hungry as yesterday, everyone's morale did not improve in any way, but was lower than before.

The division commander was anxious in his eyes, and then he hurriedly called this military meeting, intending to start with the senior officers, first raise their morale, and bring about the whole army to restore their fighting spirit.

"Tell me, what are we going to do next?" The division commander broke the silence in the conference room and was the first to speak.

The deputy division commander said: "Division, the food in our hands is too small, and we will eat three or four thousand catties of food at a meal, and that little food is only enough for us to maintain until the chief of staff sends the next batch of food." ”

"If there is any military action in the middle, the amount of food for the brothers will definitely increase, and this little food is not enough for us to survive until the chief of staff comes over."

Several regimental battalion commanders showed expressions of approval and kept nodding their heads.

This result was not what the division commander wanted, and he was very dissatisfied and scolded: "Could it be that we are just sitting here and doing nothing?" ”

"And I'll tell you the truth, this trick of sitting on the mountain and eating empty won't work."

"Before the meeting, I calculated that the chief of staff brought a regiment and more than 200 mules and horses to send us more than 20,000 catties of grain, not to mention the loss of nearly 100,000 catties of grain on the way, and the loss of almost all mules and horses, and the wounding of nearly 500 soldiers."

"I'm sure that even if the second batch of food sent by the chief of staff arrives on time, the total amount will be less than the first delivery, and there will not be enough food for us to hold out until the third batch of food is sent by the chief of staff."

"This is a question that everyone has to think about."

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