Chapter I: Disaster Relief
The river is wide, and the earthy yellow turbidity current rolls away in the southeast direction with mud, sand, branches, and all kinds of debris. There used to be endless fertile land, this was once the rich Central Plains, and it was once the place where the Chinese ancestors lived, but now this land has been given a chilling new name - the Yellow Flood Area.
Hu Fei led his troops on the march along this newly emerged river, and at the same time as the team was a strange team with no end in sight.
The people in this team wore all kinds of costumes, some pushed flatbed carts and wheelbarrows, some held chickens and led sheep, and some carried burdens, with children sitting on one end of the burden and half a pocket of food at the other, and some helping the old and the young to travel collectively with the whole family. This is a team of refugees.
The diversion of the Yellow River has flooded their homes and the land on which they depend. People who have no hope of making a living have no choice but to leave the place where their ancestors have lived for generations, leave the hometown where they grew up, and help the old and the young to escape the famine.
These days, Hu Fei has met too many fleeing teams. He was sympathetic to the plight of the refugees at the beginning, but now he is gradually becoming more and more strange.
Since the Yellow River burst, the devil has suffered in the face of the irascible and impermanent Yellow River. In today's yellow flood area, it is rare to see the shadow of the Japanese army.
The devil is not stupid, except for the refugees in the Yellow Plain, there is a swamp and a new Yellow River that will be diverted again at any time. There is no money, food, wealth and wealth here that they need, and there are no elite troops of the national army, and the devils are not disaster relief teams, of course they have to go.
Hu Fei's troops are not an ambulance team for disaster relief, and in the absence of devils, Hu Fei is also looking for a way out of the Yellow Flood Area.
"Help! Save people! In a series of anxious calls, several refugees in shabby clothes ran along the river. The men were running and shouting and pointing into the river.
When Hu Fei heard the sound and looked into the river, he saw a black spot floating and sinking in the yellow water, looking like a person who had fallen into the water. Hu Fei sighed helplessly, in the past few days, his troops have rescued people who have fallen into the water no less than twenty times. If this continues, the independent cavalry brigade will stop fighting devils, and simply change to a professional salvage team.
Leaving is a matter for the future, and he still has to rescue those who should be rescued now. Seeing the people in disaster and not saving them is not the work of a soldier! Save! Hu Fei gave an order, and more than a dozen strong young men immediately stood out from the team and began to undress. These are the best people in the cavalry brigade.
People who have already had more than 20 successful rescue experiences are naturally familiar with these things. The ambulances here with good water skills are undressing and preparing, and there are already people over there who have prepared liferopes and tied them one by one to the waists of these warriors who are about to enter the water. No matter how good the water is, we must do a good job of prevention in the Yellow River. If you can't save people and put yourself in it, it will be more than worth the loss.
"Poof! Poof! In the midst of a series of splashes, the ambulance crew has jumped into the yellow rapids. The speed of the people who were washed down by the water was too fast, and it was impossible for these ambulance crews to walk slowly into the water anymore!
The boys were really good at the water, dividing the water, paddling, and paddling quickly towards the center of the river like a few swimming fish. Soon, the man who fell into the water was stopped. The fighters on the shore struggled to pull the rope, and after half an hour, the rescuers and the man who had fallen into the water were finally pulled ashore.
After emergency rescue, the person who fell into the water finally came to his senses after vomiting a large amount of yellow water. Seeing this, the family members who ran over climbed to the ground and kowtowed to Hu Fei. Hu Fei naturally helped people up first, and then comforted them gently. This family left with great gratitude, and Hu Fei got back on the horse with a sense of relief.
After walking for a while, I found a few people lying on the side of the road, and then I saw that there were hundreds of others sitting. When I inquired, it turned out that these were all victims of food shortages. Those who lie on the ground are starving, and those who sit are not starving to death but are too hungry to walk.
These are poor people, who can barely take care of food and clothing when they were in their hometown, and they don't have so much rich food to bring when they flee, so they starve halfway through the road.
The troops were stationed on the spot, set up pots and fires to boil rice porridge, and provided relief to the victims! Even if the troops will run out of food tomorrow, Hu Fei can't watch the victims starve to death in front of his eyes and be indifferent!
The troops boiled porridge, and the surrounding victims immediately began to gather quickly. People who got the news rushed to this side, for fear that they would not be able to grab a free bowl of porridge.
Hu Fei saw that there were too many people, so many people came around, even if he boiled all the rice in the army, it would be enough to drink! Send people to screen, and only those who are really hungry will be given a bowl of rice porridge, and those who are not hungry will not be distributed! Anyone who finds that he has money and food but still comes to ask for this bowl of life-saving porridge will have his property confiscated!
Hu Fei This is the army, where do those unarmed victims dare to resist? The crowd that was still a swarm just now immediately stood there silently and waited for screening.
Gou Tianxiao took his scouts over to investigate, drove out a lot, and arrested several more, and the number of hungry people was greatly reduced. But even so, the few pots of porridge he boiled were not enough for every hungry person to drink, and each person could only drink half a bowl of porridge. And this is already the limit of what Hu Fei can do.
After distributing the disaster relief porridge, Hu Fei was not happy at all when he saw the people who were still sitting on the side of the road and couldn't move the place with hunger just now, but Hu Fei was not happy at all. How many of the millions of victims can he remedy? At present, leaving the yellow flood area has become the first major thing on the imminent.
Where to leave the Yellow Flood Area? Where is not the Yellow Flood?
One way is to go west, following the footsteps of the 27th Army to Luoyang. The terrain to the west is high, and no matter how the Yellow River is diverted, it will eventually flow into the sea, and Luoyang is obviously safe. The other way is to the south! Although the Yellow River after the diversion is also all the way to the south, but when it reaches Xinyang, it is Jigong Mountain and Dabie Mountain, and the Yellow River that has been diverted cannot flow up the mountain no matter how capricious it is, right?
Although Gui Yongqing's 27th Army was a descendant of the Central Army, their appearance in the Battle of Lanfeng made Hu Fei completely lose confidence. This is not an anti-Japanese steel army at all, and following them may be able to get promoted and make a fortune, but what Hu Fei wants is to go to the battlefield to kill devils!
Since this road doesn't work, all that's left is to go south to Dabie Mountain to join in! According to Yuan Fang, Jin Feilong, the big boss of Feiyunling, is a good man, and there are countless copycat heroes gathered on Dabie Mountain!
Hu Fei has always had a cordial feeling for the bandits, and from the bottom of his heart, he is willing to deal with the king of the mountain. Some of these people have blood and passion, and it is easy to take them out to fight against Japan, and Hu Fei can use them. Yes, go to Dabie Mountain!