The commanders of the two regiments ran to the front of their ranks with straight faces, shouting "go" at the top of their voices

"Attention of the whole battalion, turn two columns to the left, and go"

"Attention of the 2nd Battalion, turn left"

"All three battalions obey the order and turn left"

One after another, the officers gave orders, and the brethren, heavily armed, guided by fluttering flags, marched in two columns to a battlefield they did not know.

Seeing the orderly opening of the troops, the division commander Peng Shan was very satisfied, and at the same time full of worries, because guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, unlike positional warfare, the officers of the 11th Division had never fought, he didn't know how many people would be left in the 31st Brigade when he came back, and whether they would be surrounded and suppressed by the devil's heavy troops, this is all unknown, the only thing he can expect now is that Ye Peigao can do a good guerrilla battle, and don't act as a stunned youth.

After leaving the barracks, the combat units of the 31st Brigade converged with the logistics troops on the avenue, with a large number of pack horses carrying heavy supply convoys, with the 61st Regiment in front and the 62nd Regiment in the rear, and in the middle were the supply convoys and the troops directly under the brigade headquarters.

This is still the rear, the reconnaissance and path-finding work is contracted by the reconnaissance company of the brigade headquarters, Feng Yi took his company to follow the troops in the brigade mechanically followed the troops in front, the day was just dawn, the weather in early spring was still very cold, in addition to the occasional neighing of the horses, only the whirring of the brothers was left in the dull ranks.

As time passed, the troops heading east from Huizhou soon encountered groups of merchants and people hurrying on the road.

Together with the logistics troops, the 31st Brigade, which had more than five thousand men, lined up in two columns on the avenue and basically occupied the entire avenue.

"Let the convoy stay on the right, and the brethren will take the lead"

The staff officer of the brigade headquarters shouted, because they ran into another convoy in front of them, and seeing that the clothes should be merchants transporting supplies, they saw the army coming, and the merchant's convoy had consciously leaned to the right, waiting for the army to pass.

"The Law of Sighs"

The horses carrying the munitions were neighing, and under the drive of the logistics brothers, the pack horses slowly leaned on the right side, and the neatly stacked wooden boxes on the cart were creaking, because it was leaning against the side of the road, the dirt on the side of the road left deep ruts, and the things on the cart were not very much, but the weight was really heavy.

As for the people passing by, consciously standing by the side of the road, looking at these heavily armed brothers, there is no doubt that this is the posture of going to the front.

"Take it and eat it on the road, and fight the devil well"

An old man led a child with hard-boiled eggs and flatbread in his hands, grabbed one of the brothers in the procession and shoved it into his hand.

"Uncle, our army has dry food, keep it for the child, he is still young."

The brother who was dragged looked at the yellow-faced and thin-skinned child, and couldn't bear to push it away directly, letting the uncle keep it for himself.

The area around Suzhou and Anhui is now the forefront of the anti-Japanese resistance, and under the scourge of devil planes and heavy artillery, they can't even keep the dilapidated house they live in, and the food they carry may be the only food they have.

"My son is also a national army, he died in Shanghai, take it, help my son avenge"

The old man was stubbornly stuffed, his eyes were full of tears, and he would rather suffer a little himself than go to war hungry.

"What's going on" An officer walked over, frowning at the soldiers who had stopped.

"Report to the battalion commander, this uncle wants to give me these things." The soldier's nose was a little sour, and the voice was clearly wrong.

"Hey, then take it, the kindness of the folks, go to the battlefield, and fight the devils well."

The officer couldn't reprimand the soldier at this time, and just wanted the team to continue to drive.

"Battalion commander, but" The brother with a sour nose still didn't want to take away the uncle's last food, and hesitated not to know what to say.

"If you have something to say, let it go." The battalion commander almost beat people up, and roared anxiously.

"Uncle's son, died on the battlefield of Songhu, I"

At this point, the brother's tears finally flowed down.

"I'm sorry, uncle, where are you going to go to the rest of the family?"

The battalion commander squatted down, helped the child next to him, and asked the old man.

"Come on, let's eat when you're hungry"

The battalion commander reached into his pocket, took out a cold multigrain steamed bun, and handed it to the child in front of him.

"Dogs, you can't ask for it, they're going to avenge your father."

The old man looked at the child's outstretched hand and scolded loudly.

"Dogs are not hungry, when I grow up, I will also fight devils; Uncle, what kind of thing is the little devil, why is it so bad?"

The child held back his hunger, and the childish childish voice asked the chief in front of him.

"Little devils are not things, they are people, just like us, yellow-skinned and black-haired, but they are shorter than us; When you grow up, you'll know why they're so bad. ”

The officer lovingly stroked the child's head and stood up.

"I am from Wuhu, I went to Huangshan to join my daughter, my son died, and my home was gone; I just hope that the dog can grow up smoothly; Sir, you can accept it, and it can be regarded as the last time that the old man will contribute to the War of Resistance. ”

The old man sighed, two eggs in one hand and a flatbread in the other.

"Old man, we have military rations, you can keep it, wait until the devil is over, and then go to see you at home when the time comes; Time is running out, we have to catch up with the troops. ”

"Dog, this is what your father left you, but you are not allowed to look at it now, wait until you get home, take it out, and when you grow up, remember to honor your grandfather."

As he spoke, the officer reached into his arms, took out a burlap bag, layered it in layers and couldn't tell what was inside, and then carefully put it in the child's pocket.

"Get your dry food out."

The officer stood up and frowned as the soldier handed over his dry rations.

They didn't have much dry food with them on the road, three multigrain cakes per person, and cold and dry multigrain cakes were not a good thing, but they did fight hunger.

"Old man, there is still a long road ahead, don't be hungry, take it, brothers, military affairs, you can't stay longer; Say goodbye and go"

The officer put six multigrain cakes on the old man's hands, and without waiting for the old man to say anything, he shouted loudly, and then the two of them ran forward quickly, and in just a few moments, the last sixty-two had already walked a few hundred meters away.

"Kill the devil well and come back alive"

The old man looked at the two soldiers running away and shouted loudly.

"Soldiers don't die, they fight to the death"

The officer replied loudly, waving backwards, and quickly approached his group.

"Grandpa, what did Dad leave us?"

The simple-minded child always couldn't resist his curiosity, took out the burlap bag in his pocket and asked his grandfather.

"Don't you know if you look at it?"

The old man looked at the troops who were moving away and replied casually.

"But I promised my uncle to wait until I got to my aunt's house."

In the childish children's voice, the child is suffering from the inner struggle, wanting to see, but he is afraid that he will break his promise.

In fact, lying in the middle of the sackcloth were only two oceans, which were the military pay left by this officer for himself, and he didn't know what the old man's son was called, how could there be his relics.