Huo Xiaoshan's journey was very difficult, because Hunan was mountainous and covered with a dense water network, and due to the deliberate "sabotage" of the Chinese military and civilians, most of them trekked in muddy water for a day. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, although everyone was very tired, after Huo Xiaoshan clarified the truth, the people in the direct battalion did not complain.

Because they were tired of trekking in this muddy water, they were doomed to weaken the Japanese army's heavy artillery, trucks, tanks, and baggage transport teams to Changsha to import combat tools.

In particular, with the combat effectiveness of the battalion directly under it, if the Japanese army did not have the advantage of heavy firepower, the battalion directly under it would not have to be afraid of them in positional warfare, not to mention the guerrilla tactics used by the battalion directly under the battalion in any major battle.

The trek was difficult, but fortunately, the Japanese army's combat intentions were obvious, and Huo Xiaoshan and they set off early.

They had already crossed the Laodao River, the closest to Changsha, and after marching for some time, another great river lay in front of them.

This river is the famous Miluo River in the history of the Chinese nation.

When they crossed the Laodao River, because they were close to the Ninth Theater Headquarters, Huo Xiaoshan and the others easily crossed the wooden bridge over the river as the subordinate battalion of the Ninth Theater Headquarters.

At this time, the reputation of their direct battalion had spread, at least in the vicinity of the theater headquarters, and many soldiers stood aside and saluted when the men of the direct battalion crossed the bridge with the pace of the enemy.

The reason why the footsteps must be chaotic when crossing the bridge is not that the military discipline of the directly subordinate battalion is not strict, but that the footsteps cannot be neat when crossing the bridge, so as to prevent the resonance of the bridge caused by the sound of neat footsteps and the accident of bridge collapse.

Therefore, there is such a common sense that the army crosses the bridge, although most of the armies nowadays can't say why.

This time, according to their route, there was no bridge over the river, so naturally they had to pass through the defensive positions set up by the Nationalist Army along the river, but at this time it was the troops of the 70th Army of the Nationalist Army that were building defensive positions on this side of the river.

Zheng Youjian, in the name of the battalion directly under the Ninth Theater, really got a few wooden boats, and he had already discussed with the people of the 70th Army that he would put them back after the battalion crossed the river.

The wooden boat was originally used by the fishermen on the river, but it was requisitioned by the 70th Army, so the boat, whether it was paddled or swayed, were fishermen on both sides of the Miluo River.

Because the boats were relatively small, they needed those boats in two batches to carry the people from the directly subordinate battalion across the river, and Huo Xiaoshan was the latter group of boats.

Zheng Youjian, who was in the same boat with him, saw that the boat left the shore and headed for Jiangbei, so he mysteriously approached Huo Xiaoshan and said, "Huo boy, do you know which unit this Seventy Army is?" ”

Huo Xiaoshan was looking at the river at this time, and when he saw Zheng Youjian talking to him, he turned his head and looked at Zheng Youjian, who was used to having an exaggerated expression, and said, "How do I know." ”

As the War of Resistance swept through most of China, the Chinese army, which was originally scattered, gathered under the banner of anti-Japanese resistance.

"Come on, don't sell it." Shen Chong couldn't see Zheng Youjian's eyes again.

And every time Zheng Youjian made a mysterious appearance, he was most afraid of Shen Chong's glare, so he immediately stopped hehe, and began to get to the point: "You don't know about the Seventy Army, but when it comes to their biggest official, you must know that it is Tang **." ”

"Is it the Tang ** who lost Nanjing?" Shen Chong's eyes suddenly showed contempt.

"Who else but him? When I went to borrow a boat from their command post, an officer asked me what I was borrowing a boat for, and I said that we were going to fight devils on the other side of the river.

The officer seemed to be a chief of staff, and before he could say anything, the chief officer said to lend them money, let's not fight ourselves and don't drag others down to fight devils, so I lent the boat out. Zheng Youjian told him how he borrowed the boat, and dared to feel that he borrowed the boat this time not as a close set, but as soon as the people heard that the direct battalion was going to fight devils, they directly sponsored it.

"The main general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies, and it is the same to be a soldier and fight devils, in fact, for us soldiers, most people are still how to command and lead." Huo Xiaoshan stared at the Miluo River in front of him, which had been surging for thousands of years, and said.

"Chief, you are the head of our quartermaster's office, and we are the soldiers." Xiao Shi locked aside and reminded Huo Xiaoshandao.

"No, I'm just a soldier." Huo Xiaoshan said very seriously, and then he didn't wait for others to refute but turned his head and said loudly to everyone on the boat: "Most of you haven't gone to school and studied, but you must know that you eat zongzi on the fifth day of the fifth month of May." ”

"yes." All the soldiers looked at him after hearing Huo Xiaoshan's words.

Zongzi is eaten by both southerners and northerners, but maybe the province that likes to eat meat stuffing likes to eat preserved fruits, and the province that likes to eat jujubes is just that.

"To put it simply, eating zongzi is to commemorate a great poet named Qu Yuan in ancient times, who felt that there was no way to serve the country because of his country, the state of Chu, which had always been weak to the state of Qin, and then jumped off the river under us now.

I hope that the people in our battalion can learn from Qu Yuan, who is powerless, would rather throw himself into the river than surrender, and will not hesitate to fight devils and break his bones, and never learn from the Tang ** who brought disaster to the country and the people! ”

It turned out that Huo Xiaoshan had been looking at Jiang Shui all the time, but he remembered Qu Yuan.

……

The Miluo River has passed, and it is the Hunan land that has been destroyed by the Chinese military and civilians like Zeguo.

In order to delay the Japanese attack, General Tiger Tsai gradually weakened the Japanese army's heavy firepower superiority, and this time the combination of military and civilian forces was very good.

People all over Hunan not only opened the sluice gates to release water, filled the already large rice fields with water, but even turned over the sand and soil on the road, and people could barely walk on it, but let alone get on the truck, even if they got on a donkey cart, they had to be deeply immersed in it.

After some days of arduous marching, the men of the battalion under the direct command walked depressedly but happily to the front of another great river in Hunan -- the Xinqiang River.

This time, the troops defending on this side of the river were the 52nd Army, but the 52nd Army did not need Zheng Youjian to find out the details, because this army was also from the Central Army, and it was from the Huangpu Department of the Central Army.

Their army commander, who graduated from the first phase of Whampoa, has been promoted to commander-in-chief of the group army, and is known as the iron-fisted general.

The General's Iron Fist shows the toughness of his subordinates' combat style, and even the way they speak reflects their own pride.

The officer who received Huo Xiaoshan and Zheng Youjian heard Zheng Youjian say that the 400 or so people in the directly subordinate battalion were going to fight devils on the other side of the Xinqiang River, but he smiled and said: "With our 52nd Army here, which devil do you want to fight?" Besides, the devil is not far from the other side of the river, and the big boats on the river have long been transferred by the army group headquarters, and we only have a small boat. ”

Although Zheng Youjian didn't like the tone of the 52nd Army's speech, he was really in the one acre and three points of land in other people's homes, but he was just saying good things.

But it seems that this defensive position along the river really only has a small boat, and people can't conjure it up for him, and then the officer said that if you want to borrow it, I will lend it to you, and I want to borrow a second boat, and you can cut trees and make wood by yourself.

However, the people in the directly subordinate battalion looked around, except for the mud and the ocean, where were the trees, so everyone looked at Huo Xiaoshan and waited for Huo Xiaoshan to make an idea.

Huo Xiaoshan smiled slightly and said, "Then please lend us that boat." ”

The officer of the 52nd Army glanced at Huo Xiaoshan curiously, and did not object, but pointed his hand into a reed on the shore and ordered the two soldiers: "You follow, no matter where they go, row the boat back to me, maybe we will use it again." ”

The officer was curious when he saw this team of about 400 people, who were also part of the Central Army, go up to the riverside, but he kept watching.

He saw that the battalion commander who had been talking to him with a thin figure opened his mouth to say something, and then he saw that the soldiers had put all the heavier weapons and ammunition they were carrying on the boat.

Then he saw the battalion commander of the major wave his hand, and such a scene appeared in front of his eyes: more than 400 officers and soldiers actually took off their clothes and tied them with the thin quilts they were carrying, and then each of them jumped into the river with the luggage and military uniform on their backs, and their weapons like dumplings on their backs, and swam away in the autumn river to the opposite bank of the armed river!