"Brother Beard, where are we going?" Xie Changyun, who looked hesitant, looked left and right at the people around him, the highway was full of people, and at a rough glance, they were all human heads, but the direction they were traveling was facing west. The march of tens of thousands of people, coupled with the occasional passing of trucks full of supplies, makes the highway even more lively.

"Don't talk, just follow along, talking will make you more tired" The yellow-bearded strong man who was walking beside Xie Changyun smiled, took the backpack on Xie Changyun's back and put it on his shoulder. The new rucksack, made of canvas, was somewhat stiff, containing a day's worth of food and water, as well as a few stones weighing up to 10 kilograms, which the recruiting officers had specifically asked them to put in.

"I look at this direction, it seems to be going to Yunnan, dog's day, walking from Chongqing to Yunnan, these officials can really think of it" A guy with a big snot raised his hand and wanted to wipe his nose with his sleeve, but he was reluctant to wear new clothes on his body for a few days, so he had to rub his snot with his hand, and then vigorously threw out the snot stuck to his fingers.

"Ergouzi, you can't fucking look at it, it's all thrown on Lao Tzu" The man who was thrown a snot by Ergouzi scolded, fortunately, they are all acquaintances, so it's just a matter of scolding. There are many such things in the boundless marching queue on the highway, but fortunately, everyone is the same hard-working person, at most they are just noisy and scolding, but no one is fisting and kicking.

"Speed up, speed up, you must rush to Twelve Mile Store before dark, those who fall behind and those who do not arrive on time will be eliminated" On the jeep patrolling back and forth on the highway stood a guy wearing the uniform of the national army, with the iron horn in his hand kept shouting at the people queuing up on the road.

"Twelve-mile shop?" Ergouzi looked up at the sky, there were almost more than 2 hours before it was dark, and they were about 10 miles away from the twelve-mile store, "Brothers, there are still 10 miles away, everyone should be faster, otherwise they should be driven back to Chongqing like those guys yesterday" Ergouzi's super good memory makes him in a delicate position in this group of people, and the route told by the officer who leads the team when he sets off every morning can be firmly remembered by Ergouzi, he is everyone's living map and mobile road signs.

Ergouzi's words made the pace of their group of people a lot faster, and even the entire queue was a little faster, and the national army officer standing in the jeep nodded slightly, and stopped his gaze on the obscene Ergouzi for a while before signaling the driver to drive away. This is the second batch of recruits recruited by Zhao Zhi, all of them are homeless refugees, their families have been sent to the Kunming base by truck, these guys who have not yet taken off the peasant atmosphere were driven by Yu Dazhi to Kunming on foot, the officer wearing the uniform of the national army is Yu Dazhi, he is the leader of this refugee recruit unit.

After Zhao Zhi, who had stayed in Chongqing for a short time, learned that the first batch of weapons aided by the United States had been airlifted to Kunming, he took a military observation group and his party to Kunming by plane in advance, and the matter of recruiting refugee recruits was left to Yu Dazhi. After inspecting several places where the refugees had hit, Yu Dazhi launched a large-scale recruitment plan three days after Zhao Zhi left Chongqing.

Relying on the abundant food and materials in hand, Yu Dazhi recruited 20,000 recruits in only four days, and after the preliminary screening, Yu Dazhi only left 13,000 of them. The refugees are different from the rout, although the rout soldiers are defeated, but they are all guys who have seen blood and dead people on the battlefield, and their psychological quality is much stronger than the refugees who have just put down their hoes.

However, there are some places where these refugee recruits are not as defeated, they are very tenacious, they can make a roaring campfire out of stones and dead leaves, and a few of the hunters can deduce the approximate time of these animals from their droppings. Yu Dazhi is generally satisfied with this batch of recruits, it is the fourth day since departure, and the 10-kilogram weight-bearing foot training of 120 miles a day has made these guys tired, but Yu Dazhi only eliminated 300 of them according to the regulations, compared to the first batch of recruits who eliminated 200 people per day, these refugees are much better.

"Tell the Twelve Mile Shop and tell them to prepare hot meals and hot water, I think some guys are running out of steam" In Dazhi's entire trekking plan, the only food prepared for these recruits was hard flatbread and drinking water, and the 120-mile journey every day gave them little time to rest. The rucksack, which weighs more than 10 kilograms, is not allowed to be taken off except when they are sleeping, and even when they go to the toilet, they must carry the rucksack on their backs, otherwise they will be immediately eliminated and thrown halfway down.

After the Republic of China, more and more people who fled the war gathered here, making the original post station of Twelve Mile Dian a small town. Guarding this refugee recruit unit is a reinforced regiment of the national army, they are not only responsible for sheltering the refugees who have fallen behind, but also responsible for following Yu Dazhi's orders to fight the front station for these recruits, after drinking a full bowl of vegetable soup, Yu Dazhi's spirit is better, and whoever is in the jeep all day long can't stand it like this, not to mention Yu Dazhi, who is the most moving. "Go and summon those officers of the national army to come over for a meeting, we will discuss the following itinerary" Yu Dazhi spread out the map on the table, calculating the time and distance to Kunming. The reinforced regiment of the national army had 2,000 people, and there were more than 100 officers including the company platoon commander, and everyone sat in a circle around Yu Dazhi's bonfire.

"Starting tomorrow, I want you to coordinate 30 recruits for every 5 soldiers to form a combat squad to march, we are still 200 kilometers away from Kunming, and we will no longer set up supply points and camps for the last 200 kilometers. Each of you can only get 2 days of food supplies, I don't care if you eat wild vegetables or tree bark, you must promise to bring these recruits to Kunming, my people will always watch you" Yu Dazhi said everything he had to say, and went to sleep with a blanket on his own, leaving the officers of the national army sitting by the fire with wide eyes and not knowing what to do.

Yu Dazhi's arrangement is actually right, from Twelve Mile Dian to Kunming are all mountainous areas, there are many birds, animals and wild vegetables, as long as these guys are willing to work hard to find food, they will not starve to death before they go to Kunming. In Zhao Zhi's mercenary training syllabus, wilderness survival training takes up a lot of space, and those elite scouts under Yu Dazhi can live in the mountains for a long time with just a bayonet, Yu Dazhi doesn't believe that these guys with guns and weapons can't survive even four days.

The next morning, the marching rules that had been told to the recruits in the previous days had been revised, and there were no more camps on the way to Kunming that could provide food and supplies, and the national troops who were responsible for protecting them were scattered into the recruits, and they had to teach everyone simple firearms knowledge on the march. Each person received a small packet of salt, a bayonet, a box of fire, a pot of water, four adults' fist-sized steamed buns, and a rucksack with 10 kilograms of stones.

"Make no mistake, these 12 road stores are still more than 200 miles away from Kunming, and this little thing can't even last for two days, isn't this going to starve us to death in the middle of the road?" The Chinese can't change the problem of gossiping behind people's backs, and after learning that the military intends to cut their material supplies, the recruits talked privately in twos and threes, and even shouted directly at Yu Dazhi and them, and those elites of the national army also looked at Yu Dazhi and the mercenaries with fire in their eyes, and they had the intention of wanting to add fuel to the fire.

"This is the case in our Thunder Village, Thunder doesn't raise idlers, those who want to enter Thunder quickly get their things and set off, and those who want to quit now take off your clothes and put down the things we distribute, and you can leave" Seeing that the recruits were still a little skeptical, Yu Dazhi, who was standing on the jeep, smiled, "Don't worry, we Thunder don't like to find someone to settle accounts after the autumn, as long as you leave what belongs to Thunder, you can leave at any time." But this is your last chance, as long as you choose to continue to Kunming, unless our training camp instructor eliminates you, you are not allowed to leave the Thunder."

After listening to Yu Dazhi's words, the recruits talked a lot, and those who insisted on leaving, and those who were panicked and didn't have an accurate idea, in the final analysis, it was the food that Yu Dazhi mastered that played a role. If it weren't for Yu Dazhi to recruit them into Thunder, these people would probably still be living in Chongqing without a meal, most of the refugees were unable to resist the temptation of food after all, and finally chose to stay and continue to Kunming, and the people who insisted on leaving only accounted for a very small part, a total of only more than 300 people.

Yu Dazhi's heart that has been carrying it finally fell to the ground, and the reaction of the recruits was also beyond his expectations, but it also reminded him that the recruits who were born refugees are easy to manage, but they are too lacking in ideas, they always like to follow the crowd, once such a guy encounters an unfavorable situation after going to the battlefield, maybe there will be a rout immediately, and if the situation is serious, it may be a rout of the army as a whole.