Huo Xiaoshan decided to lead his troops back south, which was a decision he made after meeting the commander of the Sichuan army.

The army commander was also going to find Huo Xiaoshan to express his gratitude, because Huo Xiaoshan not only saved himself this time, but also because he had saved 300 Sichuan officers and soldiers in Teng County.

He was just about to send Deng Wenxian to find it, but when he saw Huo Xiaoshan taking the initiative to come, he naturally expressed his gratitude, although the soldiers Huo Xiaoshan saved in Teng County were from the Sichuan army, but they were not his subordinates.

It is also interesting to say that when the Japanese fascists did not invade China, their situation in Sichuan was roughly the same as the overall situation in China at that time.

That is, there is no great unification, there are so many faction leaders with military strength to kill each other, but they are rarely killed.

There may even be cases where soldiers on both sides fight during the day, and at night when there is a truce, or when the children of the four miles and eight towns get married, they sit together to drink or play cards.

Therefore, the Sichuan army is only different from the officials, the soldiers are still those soldiers, in the eyes of the officials, as long as they gain power, they will accept it, and in the eyes of the soldiers, which officials fight with are mixed bowls of rice, so there is no blood feud with other soldiers.

And the same is true of China before the Anti-Japanese War, you see the melee between the Beiyang warlords, the Jiang-Gui War, and the Central Plains War, although thousands of soldiers died in the fight, but there were few warlord leaders who were wiped out.

For example, during the Central Plains War, in addition to the Yan Laoxizi in Shanxi, Chairman Jiang and Feng Yuxiang of the Northwest Army, Zhang Shaomarshal of the Northeast Army, and Li Zongren of the Gui Army were all brothers who worshipped the commander.

One side doesn't care what stage it uses, after destroying or disintegrating the forces of that side, the so-called people want to face trees and bark, how can they kill their own brothers?

Chinese society has always been such a humane society, with a common language, a common script, and a common rule of interacting with people, even though there are many differences between all parties, there are four words flowing in the blood: descendants of Yan and Huang.

Therefore, the invasion of foreign enemies has become the best glue internally, you see the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, warlords all over the country did not fight, the Communist Party and the Kuomintang did not fight, and the warlords of central Sichuan did not fight.

Because of this, the military commander expressed Huo Xiaoshan's life-saving grace to himself and the children of Chuanzhong, which was also a normal thing in his opinion.

Huo Xiaoshan's gratitude to the commander-level figures of the army is naturally modest.

You must know that this commander-level general is a figure who will go down in history because of the War of Resistance after a few years, unlike the flat-headed soldier who only got an evaluation that you were one of the glorious 35 million sacrificed soldiers and civilians in the 14-year War of Resistance, just like a grass on the reckless wasteland.

Then, Huo Xiaoshan naturally wanted to ask about the entire battlefield situation, and the commander's answer contributed to Huo Xiaoshan's decision to lead the team back south.

The army commander said that the overall battlefield situation is not good, the Japanese army has already attacked the Miluo River, and now it is about to attack the Laodao River.

So didn't you see that in order to reduce the pressure on the national army at the front, I left only one guard battalion, and the rest were sent out to fight the Japanese army's transport lines?

Huo Xiaoshan asked if he didn't know how General Tiger Boy was deployed, or did he plan to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army in the suburbs of Changsha like in the last battle?

What are you still encircling and annihilating in the suburbs of Changsha, now that the theater headquarters has moved to Xiangtan, he is transferring the 74th Army in northern Jiangxi to Changsha City to plug the holes!

The commander broke a shocking piece of news.

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When Huo Xiaoshan returned to the temporary camp of the directly subordinate battalion with Xiao Shisuo, the soldiers of the directly subordinate battalion were eating dinner, and the dinner was the horse meat that Zheng Youjian pulled back with a carriage.

When they set out, the horse's meat had been boiled for six or seven minutes, and it was enough to eat it after cutting it into small pieces with a knife.

As a result, more than a dozen bonfires were surrounded by soldiers, holding daggers that glittered in the firelight, and eating horse meat became a rare sight.

When the others saw the leader and came back, they hurriedly made room for him, and at this time, the little girl shouted: "Brother Shanzi, you come here to eat." ”

So, Huo Xiaoshan waved to the soldiers who gave him the place, but walked towards the bonfire where the little girl was.

Sitting next to this bonfire were Shen Chong, Xiao Shi, Han Zi, Zheng Youjian, Li Xiangbai, Shi Biao, Dung Ball, Xiao Bing Gazi, Xiao Meizi, Liu Yu, and the two soldiers who learned to receive and send telegrams, but they also gathered the leaders of the directly subordinate battalion.

I don't know where they got a one-foot-square plank, but it was full of horse meat that had been cut into small pieces.

"Is the meat cooked?" Huo Xiaoshan asked with a smile, and also took out a dagger from his trouser leg and tied a piece of meat on the wooden board and sent it to his mouth, he was also hungry.

"It's cooked, it's just that there are too many bullets in it." Shen Chong was chewing horse meat in his mouth and said.

Huo Xiaoshan then thought that the horse meat was used by Zheng Youjian as a meat shield, and it must have been a bullet from the Japanese army.

The horse's leg is very thick and the meat is naturally thick, if it is replaced with a smaller pork leg and mutton leg to ensure that the bullets of the Japanese army's 38 guns will penetrate, then the person behind the meat shield will be in danger.

Sure enough, the little soldier opened his mouth and said, "Boss, do you guess how many bullets were dug out of the leg of the horse I cut?" ”

Huo Xiaoshan smiled, this is indispensable without guessing.

"Seventeen!" Xiao Bing Gazi said exaggeratedly and loudly, "But it's okay, it's easy to cut meat, there is always a place where the meat breaks." ”

"You're seventeen, and we've dug up twenty-one of the legs here, and look, this one is still embedded in the bones." Niu Rugao, who was sitting on the fire next to them, heard it and said loudly, and at the same time raised a piece of horse bone that he was gnawing on.

Everyone was attracted by their conversation, so they naturally looked at the horse bone in Niu Rugao, and sure enough, under the bright bonfire, they saw that the horse bone had the tail of a bullet the size of a peanut embedded in it.

"Return your kid's hard teeth, be careful to bite the bullet and burst your teeth!" There were fighters joking in the distance.

So, everyone laughed, and the originally silent eating scene became lively, and the venue was filled with the "hum" of soldiers talking and joking.

"The fat man is doing well today, eat more, in addition, the little girl and Liu Yu are also doing well, I can't say that it's none of your business to fight, but you must pay attention to safety in the future!" Huo Xiaoshan said after eating two pieces of horse meat and feeling that there was a bottom in his stomach.

Zheng Youjian's performance today is indeed brave, and when he buried the horse, Huo Xiaoshan just didn't want him to be so energetic again, but what should be praised must be praised.

However, after Zheng Youjian and the others were trapped in the meat shield, they took advantage of the arrival of the Sichuan Army and the firepower to drive another carriage over, thus giving the nine people one more transit station to retreat to the woods.

The little girl and Liu Yu nodded hurriedly, it was the first time that they were praised by Huo Xiaoshan in front of so many people, and they felt that their faces were a little feverish, but fortunately, the bonfire was in full swing, and the red of the bonfire covered the blush on their faces.

The little girl nodded and said that she would pay attention in the future, and then naturally glanced at Shen Chong again, but she saw that Shen Chong was looking at herself eagerly, and the heat in her eyes was a little thicker than this bonfire, and for a while, the little heart of the little girl was really about to melt.

are all around the bonfire, and others are not blind, so they naturally saw the "Mai Mai" affection of Shen Chong and the little sister, Zheng Youjian just wanted to make fun of the two people, but Huo Xiaoshan suddenly asked Zheng Youjian: "Fatty, did those pots for eating take them?" ”

Since it was the Sichuan army that was in distress this time, of course, it can also be said that it could be said that it was a high-ranking officer of the national army, so the whole battalion walked in a hurry, and even the marching pot for cooking horse meat did not have time to collect.

"Oh, I've already sent someone to fetch it." Zheng Youjian replied, he regretted that he didn't tease Shen Chong and the little girl, in his opinion, Huo Xiaoshan was talking at this time just to seal his mouth that was about to slap Shen Chong.

But it turned out that Zheng Youjian's idea was a bit taken for granted, because Huo Xiaoshan continued: "Tomorrow we will return to Changsha in the south!" ”