Public is public, private is private!

Although everyone had arguments on official matters, they were still comrades in the same afflictions in private—this was almost always the case at that time: everyone blew their beards and glared, pointed their noses, and slapped the table in public affairs, but in private, everyone could drink together, talk and laugh together.

Liu Bing specially chose a large piece of horse meat for Zhou Ping, and when he saw that Zhou Ping didn't take the horse meat, he helped him roast the horse meat, and handed it to Zhou Ping after it was cooked. He persuaded: "Lao Zhou, don't think about it, think about it more, if you go down this bite of meat, the comrades can at least walk a few more miles, throw off the enemy for a distance, and even if you are ordered by the enemy, you can kill a few more enemies, you should feel gratified...... Come on, eat!"

Zhou Ping glanced at Liu Bing, sighed faintly, didn't speak, and didn't pick up horse meat.

Zhang Qingshan just came over with Zhou Baoyu and a few soldiers, and happened to hear Liu Bing's words, so he stepped forward and grabbed the horse meat that Liu Bing handed to Zhou Ping, put it in Zhou Ping's hand, and said: "No matter how uncomfortable you are in your heart, you must eat this horse meat, and if you can't eat it, you have to eat it, otherwise, where will you get the strength to wait for the marching army?"

Zhou Ping held the thin wooden stick, and looked at the horse meat on the other side of the wooden stick that was a little bigger than a fist, not knowing what to think.

Zhang Qingshan took advantage of the situation and sat down beside him, and directly put the four pieces of horse meat on the two wooden sticks he was holding on the fire to roast, and the soldiers who came with him also had two wooden sticks in their hands, and each wooden stick had two pieces of horse meat on it.

I didn't hear Zhou Ping's response, and there was no movement of eating horse meat in the corner of his eyes, he turned his head to look over, seeing him like this, he was also not very comfortable with killing horses in his heart, his brows furrowed slightly, and he said to Zhou Ping: "Old Zhou, kill and kill, you still want to eat so much, what's the point......? When we get out of this water meadow, there will be as many horses as there will be in the future. ”

Zhou Ping sighed and said: "Lao Zhang, Lao Liu, you two don't know, this sign of killing horses to satisfy hunger is not good, below, if we haven't gone out, we will habitually kill the second horse and the third horse." But what if the rest of the horses are all killed?"

Zhang Qingshan's brows rose suddenly, and he said to Zhou Ping unhappily: "Old Zhou, I don't want to listen to you when you say this." Let me tell you, even if the sprouts are not good, we have to admit it, otherwise, do you still want to eat human flesh?"

Seeing that Zhou Ping swept his eyes over, opened his mouth, but didn't speak, Zhang Qingshan's tone was also slightly relaxed: "Old Zhou, it's not me talking about you, you are a worrying person, and your vision and personality of only thinking about your own ideas and not starting from the overall situation are really unacceptable." If you sigh like this, how can other comrades eat when they see it? This is not good for morale...... Besides, it is much better to eat horse meat than not to eat it at all, and some are countless times better than not to eat at all. It's not that you don't know, some comrades have long said that after the main force runs out of food, there is really no way to eat everything, even cow belts and cowhide shoes are roasted and eaten, and we still have horse meat to eat, which is much stronger than them...... Don't complain about anything here, eat quickly, or I'll have to have someone carry you when you're going to get tired. Wouldn't you be so hungry that you deliberately didn't eat and tired yourself by carrying you out comfortably?"

Liu Bing snorted and laughed.

Zhou Ping shook his head with a wry smile at Zhang Qingshan, and said, "Your guy's mouth is amazing, okay! ”

After speaking, he took a hard bite of a piece of roasted and slightly mushy horse meat and chewed it fiercely.

Zhang Qingshan felt that he was a little angry, so he smiled and said, "How is it?

Zhou Ping is also an old comrade, and he shook his head and said, "It's a little hard, much harder to chew than pork." ”

"That's natural, horse meat is already much tighter than pork. Why don't you bake it again?"

The atmosphere was much more relaxed all of a sudden.

Immediately, everyone chatted while roasting horse meat.

After the horse meat was roasted, Zhang Qingshan took out a makeshift sewn cloth bag, put three pieces of horse meat into the cloth bag, and handed it to Zhou Baoyu.

Zhou Ping asked curiously: "Lao Zhang, what are you doing here? Do you want to reserve horse meat for yourself so that you can eat it secretly?"

"Fuck off, is Lao Tzu that kind of person?" Zhang Qingshan replied angrily: "Xiang Tao took the comrades of the security squad to guard outside, and then he had to rely on them to reconnoiter and open the way, which is much harder than we are now comfortably roasting the fire and eating horse meat." We should help them cook the horse meat and send it over. ”

Zhou Ping nodded and said solemnly: "You're right, I really shouldn't just think about my own feelings and not think about other comrades, I really shouldn't ...... In this way, I will send the roasted horse meat to me. ”

Zhang Qingshan nodded with a smile and began to eat horse meat.

After eating supper, the troops rested for half an hour, and taking advantage of this time, Zhou Ping took a few soldiers to send horse meat to the comrades of the defense squad.

Zhang Qingshan, Liu Bing and a few other soldiers, smoking cigarettes, roasting fires, baking grass, and discussing.

"Lao Zhang, what's the next step?"

Zhang Qingshan put the handful of hot weeds in his hand next to the fire, grabbed another handful of weeds, and continued to roast them...... The warriors around the fire were all the same. They are all preparing for the firewood for the next meal, which is the experience gained on the Long March.

"It's simple, just follow the plan we made earlier. ”

"Then how do we get out of the event of an enemy?"

"Don't think about that, because we just have to retreat deeper into the meadows. Zhang Qingshan said arrogantly: "I don't think those reactionaries who are afraid of death dare not follow us deep into the water and grassland...... In any case, we came from the water meadows, and there was much less fear than when they faced the water meadows, and on that basis, we had an advantage. If they want to chase them in, we can rely on our experience to have a good time with them, and drag them to death. ”

Liu Bing thought for a while and was about to continue, but saw Lao Wang coming over with a small pot, followed by three warriors, each holding a stack of bowls or bowls made of kettles.

"This horse meat is a bit hard to eat on the grill, and I deliberately cooked a lot of soup with wild vegetables. Come, everyone drink a bowl of soup and digest it. ”

After drinking the wild vegetable soup, I don't know if it's a psychological factor, but everyone really feels a lot better.

Next, Liu Bing didn't ask any more questions, and Zhang Qingshan also took the initiative to change the topic, and everyone began to fantasize about how to make up for the sins and hardships they have suffered for more than a year after walking out of the water meadow.

Half an hour passed in a flash, and everyone who had finished their rest continued to hurry up at night.

Still the same as before, Xiang Tao led the soldiers of the defense squad to reconnoiter the road three or four miles ahead, and Peng Peng and the four strong soldiers still "took care" of Guan Yumin. However, I don't know if it's because of eating horse meat, or because I feel that I have to get out of this damn water meadow, the morale is extraordinarily high, everyone is smiling, and the pace is brisk, if it weren't for the environment that doesn't allow them to sing loudly, Zhang Qingshan wants to take the lead in letting everyone express their inner excitement by singing.

"Report!"

After walking for two or three hours, a fighter from the guard squad ran back to report.

"What's the matter?"

"Report to the company commander, report to the squad leader that I should come back and report that there is a reactionary force on the edge of the water meadow to our left, marching with us. ”

Hearing the report, Zhang Qingshan subconsciously raised his head and looked to the left. I couldn't see anything but the pitch black, and I couldn't help but ask, "Are you sure it's the enemy?"

Zhang Qingshan and other leaders did not find it strange that the enemy was advancing hand in hand with their side: the enemy had already discovered themselves, and for such a long time, not only had the news been passed on long ago, but they were also definitely ready to meet or pursue. And if you make a fire on your side to cook, the light of the fire must reveal your position, even if the enemy does not dare to enter the water meadow, you can still follow all the way at the edge, you can still do it...... Even if the other party is a semi-military organization such as a local security regiment, this ability is still there.

But what made Zhang Qingshan feel strange was that the defense squad was only three or four miles away from his side, how could they be able to implement the enemy so quickly, not their own people?

"It's certain, it's definitely the enemy. ”

Hearing this affirmative tone, Zhang Qingshan became more and more curious, but before he could speak, Liu Bing on the side preemptively asked, "How are you sure?"

The warrior immediately spoke in detail in a mocking tone.

In fact, all of this is caused by one point: the security regiment is the security regiment, and no matter how it is, it cannot catch up with the regular troops, especially the organization and discipline are poor. Bullying the common people is a good hand, but when you encounter the regular army, it will be very flustered.

A few hours ago, Xiang Tao took this soldier to guard in the direction of facing the enemy, because of the existence of the firelight, afraid that the enemy would figure out the exact location of his side and sneak attack, the guard post was placed very far, Xiang Tao and this soldier were only six or seven miles away from the edge of the water meadow, and vaguely heard the neighing of horses on the opposite side. It's just that at that time, I thought that it was not unusual for the enemy to find his position through the firelight, so I didn't report it.

However, after walking for a few hours, Xiang Tao thought of the situation where the enemy was chasing him before, and it was also a whim, so he asked everyone to move on, and he took the warrior to the edge of the water meadow again, and as a result, he heard the neighing of horses again, and couldn't help but move forward a little, this time, he also vaguely heard someone roaring angrily, and when he heard it, he knew that there were absolutely many people and horses.

Interestingly, in order to find out if they were his own people, Xiang Tao took the risk of shouting to them, but as a result, instead of bullets, he was persuaded to surrender......

After hearing this, Zhang Qingshan thought for a while and said to the soldier: "You go back first and tell Xiang Tao that he is doing a good job...... The guard squad continued to scout the way, but had to send a few men to monitor the enemy's every move on the left. ”

After the soldier left, Zhang Qingshan said to Liu Bing: "Old Liu, let's go as planned, what do you think?"

"Yes, I agree. However, I feel that we must give you another order, and everyone must be able to rush silently, and never expose themselves because of the noise. ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Qingshan nodded, turned back to Zhou Baoyu and said, "Baoyu, you go and pass on Lao Liu's orders just now one by one." ”

......

The plan is favorable, but the reality is cruel, and the enemy is not a fool, they have long been eyeing each other, and they have been preparing for many days, how can they watch Zhang Qingshan and the others go smoothly according to the plan?

The reason why they haven't done it yet is because they also have a big plan to deal with Zhang Qingshan and their more than 100 people......