Chapter 466: The Most Tragic March
When the fallen soldiers were singing "Send Comrades" on the prairie, Jinsha River, Cao Zhenhan's headquarters, ushered in a helicopter.
When the plane landed, the hatch was quickly opened, and a soldier with gray temples stepped out of the plane.
The vigorous pace, the tiger is vigorous, and the body exudes a coercion that only veterans have, and it is Huang Botao who is not angry but powerful.
Cao Zhenhan, who was waiting at the airport, immediately walked up to Huang Botao, stood upright, and saluted: "Hard work!" ”
Huang Botao said loudly: "What kind of hard work do I have here, it was called hard work back then, let's talk about it while walking." ”
The two exchanged a few words and walked into Cao Zhenhan's tent.
The tent's table was filled with game.
Cao Zhenhan said with a smile: "This is all wild meat on the prairie, and it was beaten down when the wall was clear, but unfortunately, I died in battle and lived up to the chief's expectations." ”
Huang Botao looked at the table full of game, did not move his chopsticks, turned his head to look at Huang Zhenhan, and said calmly: "Before eating, listen to me tell a story about crossing the meadow." ”
Huang Botao nodded.
"Crossing the grassland, 600 miles, climbing the snow-capped mountains for 2,700 miles, just crossing the grassland, the attrition of more than 10,000 people, this is the most tragic march in human military history." Huang Botao said in a deep voice.
Huang Botao's face also became solemn.
He also knows that the history of crossing the grassland is a miracle and a history of disaster.
Under the encirclement and suppression, the troops paid a heavy price in order to jump out of the enemy's encirclement and start a journey of 10,000 miles.
Huang Botao continued: "My grandfather is an older generation, and his old man told me that in autumn, the Fourth Army entered the grassland, and the wide grassland was deserted, not to mention looking for food, and there was not a single family within a radius of dozens of kilometers, and many comrades had nothing to eat and suffered from gastrointestinal problems. ”
"There are three little soldiers who are sick, an old squad leader of the cooking squad stays behind, responsible for taking care of the three little soldiers, along the way, can only dig wild vegetables and eat barley noodles together, in the end, because they take the route of the big army, the wild vegetables are eaten by the big troops in front, and they can't find food, the three little soldiers are losing weight day by day, the old squad leader sees it in his eyes, he is anxious, but there is no way at all."
"One day, the old squad leader went to the river to wash clothes, and happened to see a fish jumping out of the water, the old squad leader was moved, and when he came back, he used a sewing needle to braise it, bent it into a small fish hook, and then went to the river to fish."
"However, there is a shortage of food in the prairie, and there are few fish in the river, the old squad leader can only catch a few small fish at a time, he cooks soup for the three little soldiers to drink, every time the three little soldiers drink soup, the old squad leader smiles every time, saying that he has drunk it, in fact, he didn't drink a sip, because the fish caught are too few, not enough for four people."
"In this way, because the three little soldiers had fish soup to drink, their bodies were getting better day by day, and they were finally able to walk on their own, but the old squad leader fell, and no matter how many little soldiers shouted, they didn't wake up, and they stayed on the prairie forever."
Cao Zhenhan was silent, listening carefully, his eyes were already moist.
Huang Botao continued: "Among the three little warriors, there is my grandfather. ”
"After the liberation, his old family did not have a good dinner." Huang Botao said heavily.
Cao Zhenhan looked at Huang Botao suspiciously, and said, "Why?" ”
Huang Botao said in a deep voice: "At that time, I also asked my grandfather this question, and he said that our life is good now, but we must remember the suffering, our current good life is not easy to come by, and we must be careful." ”
Huang Botao's voice became heavy, and he said seriously: "Remove these, give me 2 loaves of bread and a bottle of water." ”
"Yes!"
Cao Zhenhan stood up suddenly, raised his right hand heavily towards Huang Botao, which is also a kind of inheritance.
When Huang Botao was telling Cao Zhenhan a story, on the other side, Lin Xiao was also telling the story of the journey to Wolf Warrior and others.
At this moment, Leng Feng and the others have already used the dead leaves that they had carried before to make a fire, everyone is gathered together, they have just come out of the quagmire, the heat on their bodies has been absorbed by the quagmire, if they don't heat up as soon as possible and recover their body temperature, they will fall ill by tomorrow.
At this time, Lin Xiao, who was among the people fighting, said in a deep voice: "Under the command of the superiors, he arrived at the Ruoergai grassland and picked up the wounded soldiers who should be by the Requ River, and when he was about to reach his destination, he looked over with a telescope, and more than 700 people were waiting there back to back, motionless, and when he crossed the river with his troops to see, he found that they were all sacrificed. ”
"More than 700 people starved to death, the guns and bullets were well preserved, and not far from them was the village, these people looked at the village, everyone starved to death, and they didn't go to the village to grab a single piece of food."
"The chief is an old man with tears in his eyes, and said to the onlookers, my soldiers, because they don't want to rob you of a single piece of food, they starved to death, and they didn't step further into the village."
"The villagers came to see that the soldiers who starved to death, the youngest was in their teens at most, and the oldest was in their twenties, and this was when they were in their prime, and the villagers' hearts trembled, and they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to those starving soldiers, they were indeed afraid that they were robbers, because they all had guns in their hands, and they were afraid that they would come and grab food and kill people."
"However, the villagers are wrong, these more than 700 young soldiers would rather starve to death than step closer to the village, in fact, if the more than 700 soldiers are willing, they can completely wash the entire village in blood."
"Later, everywhere they passed, they left countless stories, they did not disturb the people, they would rather starve to death than fight the autumn wind, Lao Chiang's remarks about the Red Army being robbers, did not attack."
"Four attentions, eight disciplines, all the way to the end, and later, after the villagers knew their stories, the places they passed, the local people of all ethnic groups, carrying grain, etc., supported a total of at least 3 million catties of grain, more than 10,000 head of livestock, support."
"It's really hard to imagine that in the society at that time, many ordinary people couldn't eat enough themselves, and there was often a famine, and the common people would rather starve themselves than contribute food to our troops."
"This is the people's cattle consumption revolution!"
Leng Feng and the others listened to the tears streaming down their eyes.
Shao Bing took a deep breath and choked up: "Those young people back then had such a high sense of party spirit and perseverance, we are not as good as them. ”
Yu Fei said in a deep voice: "On the way through the journey, there are indeed a lot of moving stories that can be sung and cried, and the hardships they have experienced are ten times more difficult than ours, a hundred times, and the setbacks we are suffering now are nothing compared to them." ”
Leng Feng wiped his tears and said: "Captain, how do I feel that you understand everything, it is all nine years of compulsory education, how do I feel that there is a difference of hundreds of millions of light years from you." ”
Banzhuan said with a serious face: "Of course the captain is smarter than you, you still want to compare with the captain, you are about the same as Shi Sanba." ”
"Haven't you been beaten by me in a long time?" Shi Sanba glared at the bricks, gritted his teeth, and said.
Everyone laughed.
Now, because everyone listened to Lin Xiao's story, everyone carefully took out the food on their bodies and bit it in small bites, for fear of dropping a little, and did not dare to waste the slightest.
After everyone had eaten their fill, they made the fire layer of isolation and began to sleep.
At five o'clock the next morning, Lin Xiao asked everyone to get up on time.
After a night's rest, and heating in time, the cold air on the body was forced out, and everyone's complexion was good.
Lin Xiao glanced at everyone and said solemnly: "The commander of the Blue Army will come today, he will make us surrender, what are you going to do?" ”
The crowd shouted: "Don't abandon, don't abandon, don't give up, I'd rather die in battle than surrender!" ”
On the other side, Fan Tianlei was the first to wake up.
"Assemble!"
Fan Tianlei shouted.
Fan Tianlei shouted a few times, and the wolf tooth and the others woke up, and then, with a sore back, they stood up slowly.
"Report, I have a fever." A wolf-toothed veteran shouted weakly, his face extremely ugly.
"Report, I have a fever too."
……
Fan Tianlei looked at all the sick wolf tooth people and froze.
They are veterans, and they are not as well prepared as Lin Xiao and others, after catching a cold in the quagmire, they failed to recover their body temperature in time, and they were hungry for two days and two nights, and they still had diarrhea, can they not have a high fever.
Fan Tianlei took a deep breath, his face became solemn, stared at the old wolf tooth and everyone, and said in a deep voice: "Do you want to give up?" ”