Before Huang Zheng and the others led their troops to the front of the granary, they had already seen these crushing crowds and burning torches.

The road ahead was already full of people and obstacles, and it was difficult for the convoy to pass at all, so Huang Zheng squeaked on the brakes and ordered to get out of the car. After the car stopped, the officers and men of the guard company jumped out of the car one by one.

"Quick! Fast! Zhu Fucai commanded the guard company to start moving, and the officers and soldiers wearing steel helmets and holding * lined up and began to run towards the crowd.

The gate of the granary has been surrounded by more than a thousand people. The officers and men of the guard platoon, which had previously served as grain guards, were guarding the gate inside, and the loudspeaker at the door of the granary broadcast an urgent announcement over and over again: "It is a crime to rob the state of military rations, and you are now ordered to disperse your ranks immediately, otherwise you will bear all the consequences!" ……”

The officers and soldiers were like facing a great enemy, and they all held the * in their hands, vigilantly looking at the group of people in front of them, and many of them had their hands on the trigger, and the flames of the conflict were about to break out.

"Commander, are we going to go straight over and break up the team? Only by breaking up the team can we disperse the crowd and we can control the situation. Zhu Fucai, who was heavily armed, ran over and asked.

Huang Zheng took a look, not far away, there was a crowd of people, and the most terrifying thing was that there were still many people rushing to hear the news. If it cannot be stopped at this time, the consequences are really unimaginable.

"Regiment Commander, we can't hesitate any longer, we only have less than one battalion of troops around Muzhen, if there are more victims gathered by then, we can't deal with it." Zhu Fucai was a little anxious.

"How do you disperse so many people?" Huang Zheng frowned.

"The plan that I and several guards have formulated is to fire a warning shot into the air first, and then cooperate with the advice, but if it doesn't work, we can only disperse by force."

Zhu Fucai was a little nervous, and he was obviously a little flustered when he spoke. He really hadn't encountered this situation before, and he really didn't know what to do?

"Dispel by force?" Huang is hesitating, it's not that he doesn't have a decisive determination, but the problem is that these people are ordinary people.

He raised his binoculars and glanced at the crowd as they gathered at the gate of the granary to confront the guards.

They are all carrying dilapidated crockpots and bags in their hands, many of them are dragging their families, some parents are pulling their children, some old people are carrying their children, through the light in front of the granary, Huang Zheng saw these people with vegetables on their faces, and a few children looked hungry.

Huang Ke understands this kind of starvation too well. When he first remembered, he fled to Nanjing to ask for food because of the flood, but fortunately met Huang Ke to save him and his sister, while his mother died of starvation. He remembered that a few days before his mother died, he had not eaten a single bite of food, and he had to go to other people's trash cans to pick up a little leftover food for his brother and sister. What is the big difference between these people today and his time?

The devastation brought by the war to ordinary people was almost catastrophic, many middle-class families were even wiped out overnight, and people who ran away from the war abounded, and filling their stomachs was the only demand of these people.

It's just that Huang Zheng doesn't understand, how can there be so many refugees? Could there be Japanese spies mixed in and deliberately causing trouble?

Just thinking about it, Huang Zheng had already led people to the people's team, and the crowd saw Huang Zheng and their reinforcements arriving, and they all turned around and looked at them in horror.

"Line up!" Zhu Fucai waved his hand, and the officers and soldiers on the periphery began to surround these crowds with powerful steps, and while they lined up, they also took out the rifles and * in their hands, and some of the rifles were also brushed with bright bayonets.

Bang bang bang! Zhu Fucai raised his pistol and fired into the air, standing on a high place and shouting loudly: "It is illegal to storm the national granary without authorization!" Disperse at once, or you will bear the consequences! ”

The crowd was quiet for a moment, they stopped moving, and a few children were still desperately drilling behind their parents next to them, and the timid ones even cried in fright.

The soldiers' emotions were also highly tense, and Huang Zheng saw that many officers and soldiers were still trembling with their hands holding guns.

"Boss! Mister! Give us some food, we really can't help it. At the front of the crowd, an old man in a sixtieth armor walked over tremblingly. He walked up to Zhu Fucai.

At this time, Huang Zheng noticed that the old man was wearing a shabby horse coat and a pair of dirty glasses, which should be a scholar in the former Qing Dynasty.

"Tell the sir." Zhu Fucai led him to Huang Zheng. The old man looked at Huang Zheng, bowed his hand, and then said tremblingly: "Sir, these people today are not mobs, but there is really no way. Give a way out! ”

"Give me a way to live!" There was an inconsistent voice in the crowd.

The grease torches crackled and burned, shining on the faces of the old man and Huang Zheng.

Huang Zheng thought for a while and said: "This old gentleman, these grains are all national military rations, and they are to be transferred to the front line to feed the anti-Japanese soldiers." If you go to rob like this, what will the front-line soldiers eat? ”

The old man sighed and said weakly, "Sir, I'm really hungry and can't help it." The Japanese had requisitioned grain and robbed all of their food and drink. I heard that our team came back, so we just came here. You can do it, okay, send some food, give us a bite to eat, and we'll go. ”

The old man may have been too tired to sigh from time to time when he spoke.

Huang Zheng shook his head and said, "Old man, I am only responsible for taking care of these grains, and I have no power to allocate them!" ”

"Boss, I'm really hungry, if it weren't for ......" A middle-aged man holding a child in the back stepped forward to say a few words, but before he could finish speaking, a person behind him pounced and fell.

Huang Zheng saw that the person had fallen, and hurriedly waved his hand: "Medical soldier, go and see what's going on?" ”

The medic ran over with the medicine box in his hand, and the crowd automatically dispersed in a way. The medical soldier helped the man up, looked at him and said, "Commander, you're hungry." ”

Huang Zheng was surprised when he heard this, and he said, "Quick, get some glucose and send it to him." ”

"Sir, if we adults don't eat, you can be pitiful and save the child...... a ragged woman knelt down in front of Huang Zheng, and as she spoke, the woman pulled a six or seven-year-old girl and a teenage boy next to her to kneel down.

The crowd began to stir, and Huang Zheng hurriedly stepped forward to help.

What did this old mother remind him of? He seemed to see himself back then, when his mother took him and his sister around begging for food.

"Hurry up! Get up! Huang Zheng hurriedly pulled the woman, and when he grabbed the woman's arm, he found that her arm was as thin as a hemp rod.

Huang Zheng took out the chocolate in his pocket, handed it to the two children and said, "You eat this first, stand up first." ”

Huang Zheng peeled off the chocolate for them and handed it to the two children, who swallowed it without even looking at it, and they realized that this black thing was simply a delicacy in the world.

The older boy wanted to give the chocolate to his skinny mother, but his mother insisted on not eating it. Maybe it was because Huang Zheng gave him food, and the crowd began to slowly stir.

Seeing this scene, Huang Zheng could no longer control it.

At this time, Zhu Fu quietly walked to Huang Zheng's side and said, "Commander, what should I do now?" There are more and more people coming. ”

Huang Zheng glanced at Zhu Fucai, thought about it and said, "Let the cooking team come over, prepare more than a dozen cauldrons, and let's boil rice porridge for them on the spot!" ”

"What?" Zhu Fucai didn't seem to believe this, Huang Zheng said this, but it was a private use of national military rations, and if it was serious, he would be sent to a military court to be shot.

He hurriedly pulled Huang Zheng to a place where no one was, and said to him anxiously: "Regiment commander, you have to think twice, we only have the right to protect these military rations and not to use them, if we use them privately, you may be sent to a military court." ”

Zhu Fucai's heart trembled, it wasn't that he didn't pity these people, it was just that he had been trained by the army's ideology for too long, and his mind was already completely obedient to orders.

Huang Zheng turned his head and glared at him: "Are you scared?" If you want to go to the military court, I will go, you can carry it out. ”

As soon as Zhu Fucai heard this, he became angry: "Regiment commander, how many of our airborne brothers are afraid of death?" It's just that soldiers must obey orders, and they can't lose big because of small things. ”

Huang Zheng looked at Zhu Fucai, who was angry, and knew that he was not afraid of anything, he did it because he was too deeply affected by the army's dogma, everything was based on the overall situation, and even his life could be sacrificed.

"Zhu Fucai, don't you say that we are fighting for the people? You are also from the countryside, you know what it is like to not have enough to eat, and I know it. Huang Zheng said lightly.

After hearing this, Zhu Fucai shook the steel helmet on his head and said, "Okay, death is death!" Commander, you hurry back now. I will immediately open a warehouse and distribute grain, and when the time comes, I will say that it was caused by the negligence of my guards, and you don't know about it. ”

As he spoke, Zhu Fucai pushed Huang Zheng into the jeep, and he also shouted to the driver to send the regiment commander back quickly.

Huang Zheng blocked his hand and said, "Zhu Fucai, I understand your kindness." But anyway, I'm going to open a warehouse and release grain today. I am the military commander here, and now I am also the temporary governor here before there is no government agency, and it is my dereliction of duty to let so many people go without food. ”

"You go and let the radio let you know it, let everyone line up, and we will distribute porridge and rice according to the number of cauldrons, and let the brothers put away their guns and maintain order."

Zhu Fucai heard this and said, "Yes!" I will command it to go down. ”

Saying that, Huang Zheng and Zhu Fucai walked forward briskly together.

(Note: He Chunsheng in the above is the previous Wu Chunsheng, and there are many clerical errors!) ）