Chapter 17: The Wild Wolf Follows
"Woo, the Einsatzgruppen's porridge tastes fragrant! Captain Hu, I found that your guy here is much better than my brigade headquarters, and after drinking this porridge, his mouth will be fragrant." After drinking the porridge, Zheng Yuncheng sat at the dinner table and praised the chef of the Einsatzgruppen with a satisfied expression.
Hu Fei smacked his mouth and smiled, "If the brigade is willing, you can come to the Einsatzgruppen to eat every meal in the future." I asked the cooking class to cook more than one person every time. "There are one or two hundred people in the Einsatzgruppen, what is it to eat a few more people? How much can Zheng Runcheng and his guards eat? They just come to eat every day, and Hu Fei can afford it.
"Come here every day to eat? Hehe, that's not going to work. The Einsatzgruppen was so far away from my brigade headquarters that I had to walk for ten minutes before I went back to eat! No, no, it's okay to come and eat once in a while, but it's not okay to eat every meal. ”
"Smack! Syllable! "As soon as the two of them said this, two gunshots suddenly rang out outside! Hu Fei and Zheng Runcheng stood up at the same time, "What's the matter?" Where to shoot? ”
Walking outside the tent, Hu Fei called Gou Tianxiao to him and ordered him to hurry up to find out the news, to ask where the gun was fired? Why shoot? Zheng Runcheng also sent a guard out to investigate. When Brigade Commander Zheng came, he brought a guard squad, and these guards had a full meal with their brigade seat today.
The people who listened to the intelligence were sent out, and Hu Fei let Zheng Runcheng into the tent again, saying that drinking a cup of tea after eating would help digestion. In fact, they each drank two bowls of porridge, what is good to digest and not to digest?
Hu Fei is deliberately protecting Zheng Runcheng. Shots went off outside, who knows what's going on? Brigade Commander Zheng is here to inspect his own territory, in case something goes wrong, how can he Hu Fei explain to these tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians?
It didn't take long for Gou Tianxiao and Zheng Runcheng to send out to inquire about the situation. Those two gunshots were not misfired, someone had shot! Tonight, two wild wolves suddenly appeared around the troop camp! Taking advantage of the darkness, the two brutes lax their guards attacked several women in the camp, biting several of them and killing a child less than 10 years old.
When the soldiers on patrol found out, they opened fire, and the two wolves were killed, one running away.
This is not the first time that a beast has injured a person since it entered the territory of the Soviet Union. Zheng Runcheng got up and said goodbye to Hu Fei. When this kind of thing happened to the troops, Zheng Runcheng, as the general leader, had to hurry back to deal with the aftermath, including organizing the treatment of the wounded and disposing of the bodies of the dead, and at the same time he had to prevent similar incidents from happening again next time.
Zheng Runcheng went to deal with the aftermath, but the uneasiness in Hu Fei's heart became heavier and heavier. When Hu Fei was in the White Guard village, he heard the wolf howl, could it be the wild wolves that attacked children and bit adults this time?
After Zheng Runcheng, Hu Fei also went to see the few people who were bitten by the wolf, but the injuries were not serious, but they were all frightened at that time. There were three wolves in total, two of which were involved in the attack, and the last one was far away.
Hu Fei was a little puzzled, the wild wolf would also let the wind go? Is this guy's IQ really that high? I don't know why, Hu Fei actually had an expectation for these wild wolves that suddenly appeared. Even he didn't know what he was expecting, did he just want to see what the wolf looked like?
Two more shots rang out in the middle of the night. After dawn, word came that two patrolling Volunteers had been killed by wolves last night! Zheng Runcheng sent his troops to search around the camp for a morning without encountering a single wolf, as if there were no wild wolves in this place at all.
Open up! Although three people died from the wolf's jaws last night, and as many as six were bitten by the wolf, it is a small amount compared to the people who died of hunger and disease along the way.
In order to prevent the corpses of soldiers from becoming rations for beasts, from the beginning of entering the Soviet realm, all the corpses of soldiers and civilians who died for whatever reason were cremated! Because some people had seen wild beasts digging open graves and chewing on the corpses in the middle of the night, when the request for cremation was made, the soldiers and civilians carried it out, even more thoroughly than any other order.
As the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army, Zheng Runcheng was accustomed to seeing dozens or hundreds of corpses cremated every night, and he didn't even blink an eyelid at being bitten to death by a wild wolf, or even eating a few people.
The iron-blooded general who has gone through countless lives and deaths has a very light view of human life, returning to China and resisting Japan is the first important thing in his heart, for these two goals, he is willing to pay any price! Commander-in-Chief Zheng issued an order: Fight when you see a wild wolf, and march if you can't see it, anyway, the return date must not be delayed!
It was because of the search for wolves that Zheng Runcheng planned to extend the march for half an hour every night to make up for it!
The wolf trailing the Volunteers seems to be addicted to tailgating! From this night onwards, every morning there will be news that someone has been attacked by a wild wolf in the middle of the night! Although the number of people killed by wild wolves was far less than the number of people who starved to death, the atmosphere of fear of humans dying at the mouths of wild beasts spread extremely fast!
By the evening of the third day, everyone in the Volunteers knew that wolves were eating people! Every day, the names of those who died in the wolf's mouth were announced, and this fear gradually turned into panic. As a diligent commander, Zheng Runcheng discovered the signs of panic in time.
The vigilant level of the Volunteers' night camps has been raised, with hundreds of heavily armed fighters patrolling each night with guns. The cavalry of the Einsatzgruppen was inevitably incorporated into the patrol. Cavalry, fast, soldiers on horses can also defend against wolves. If it weren't for the small number of the Einsatzgruppen, Zheng Runcheng would have handed over all the night guard tasks of the entire Volunteer Army to Hu Fei.
The Einsatzgruppen participates in patrols at night and marches with large forces during the day. Even if Hu Fei had diverted his troops and divided the soldiers into several groups to take turns patrolling and resting, the cavalry would still have little energy during the daytime the next day.
Not only people, but also war horses. It doesn't have a good night's rest, and during the day, it still doesn't have the strength to run fast. The Einsatzgruppen, including tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians of this volunteer army, are struggling to support themselves.
It was Hu Fei's turn to lead the patrol tonight. Twenty soldiers, plus Hu Fei and Li San, a total of twenty-two people. Twenty-two knights patrolled the perimeter of the barracks on their horses.
"Whew-" There was a long, mournful wolf howl in the distant night sky. I really don't understand, this wolf is fine, what is it called? Hu Fei glanced at the night, and he couldn't see anything in the dark.
"Puff!" The Spotted Horse snorted, his ears wagged, and he was walking and suddenly stood still.
Hu Fei's heart tightened, "Gaba" loaded the bullet first, sat up straight and stared out with wide eyes.