Calming down, Xia Yuan got up from the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and looked up at the surrounding scenery, the back slope blocked the sun, but it still couldn't stop the heat.

There were sweat stains on the old man's face in front of him, and he wiped the sweat on his face with the back of his hand, and stretched out his hand to shake it in front of Xia Yuan's eyes.

"Dasil, don't look at it, everyone is gone."

Xia Yuan's gaze focused, his brows furrowed, and when he had just browsed the surrounding environment, the system task panel appeared.

The mission world is the Battle of Songhu, and according to the urine nature of the system, there is a high probability that it will persist until the end of the Battle of Songhu.

And the identity arranged by the system is actually a weak strong man.

The group of scrawny, ragged, and dark-skinned people in front of them were strong men caught by Chief A in several villages, and they were squatting on the ground, some of them had dull eyes, they didn't care about what had just happened, and some of them twisted their heads to stare at themselves, and only one pair of eyes were white with dark skin.

The old man in front of him was from the next village, and in the week they had been walking, they were quite acquainted, and the little man next to him, fourteen or fifteen years old, was named Monkey, and his short stature was indeed worthy of this title.

Behind the monkey squatted a slightly well-dressed, with a pair of glasses, the lenses were broken, and the frame of the glasses was also a little curved.

In the bald exemption policy, there are students who can be exempted from military service, but in the village, the landlord bullies don't care about this, and when they receive the money from above, they have to do things for the people above, and they don't care whether you can serve in the military or not, they will be arrested first, and then they will talk about it, and when the people in the receiving unit take the people away, it has nothing to do with them, and it is something that the people of the national army should think about to stay.

Xia Yuan sat on the ground, wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, and his eyes burst out with a terrifying light: "When I get to the place, I will kill them." ”

Old man Wang was taken aback: "Are you okay?" ”

Xia Yuan turned his head, sneered, and touched his head: "Beat me up, woke me up, do I have to thank them." ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Old man Wang felt a little incredible, and he chattered for a long time, saying, "This shows that you should not die if you are stupid." ”

"Then their lives will be over." Xia Yuan didn't intend to let go of these people, these people who received the troops, they didn't know how many lives they had, if they hadn't crossed over, it was estimated that the big one would have been thrown into the wilderness by them at this time.

"Don't do it, they have guns in their hands." Old man Wang was not at ease, he suppressed his voice and looked nervously into the distance.

"I'm not afraid of anything if I have a gun." Xia Yuanman didn't care, "Don't you want to live?" ”

"Yes, but we're all here." Old man Wang said: "When we stick to the barracks, our situation will be fine." ”

"Are you really going to give them your life?" Xia Yuan's heart moved, he didn't want to give his life to the national army, except for a few of the official ranks of the national army, the vast majority of others were greedy for life and afraid of death, it was those soldiers who were really not afraid of death, it was those ordinary soldiers who created the glory of the white army, they used their lives to achieve those people at the official level, and it was not worth it to give them their lives.

However, the task of the system is to participate in the Battle of Songhu, and the Battle of Songhu does not seem to have the shadow of the Eighth Route Army.

"We can't go back now." Old man Wang sat on the ground, a little depressed, his already somewhat old face looked even older, a gust of wind blew the dust over, blinding his eyes, old man Wang rubbed it, and continued: "You still want to go back, when we come out, we have been gone for a week, how to go back, and if we go for another week, when we came, there were more than 100 people, and there are still a few now." ”

Old man Wang sighed: "Big fool, you have a good head, don't think about these problems." I heard the commander of the district say that when we get to the barracks, it is better to take care of our food than to go back and be arrested again, and at that time, it is not certain whether we can still get here. ”

The monkey looked a little silly, and crouched there without speaking. The scholar lowered his head and was even more silent. The expressions of the others were a little numb, and one person was coughing constantly, exuding a breath of death all over his body, and it was estimated that he would not live long.

Xia Yuan didn't say anything more, most of the people who can get here have reached the limit, stick to the barracks, maybe there will be a way to live, but if they really want to run, where can they run, the road back is dozens of kilometers, can they run back Let's not say it first, run back, the chief and security, and the landlord bullies will definitely not let them go.

The peasants living in this era are the most miserable.

Xing, the people are bitter. died, and the people suffered even more.

"Get up, get up, go, go."

After resting for more than ten minutes, the officers and men were almost rested, holding their guns and kicking them with their feet.

The chief officer stared at Xia Yuan, spat out, and looked at Old Man Wang with a scolding: "Isn't this a lively jump?" Give Lao Tzu a little rest, or you will be left in this wilderness to feed the wolf dogs. ”

Although these people have no conscience, they still have some professional ethics, and some people in the receiving units directly killed the strong men in order to be greedy for those few pieces of ocean, and there is no proof of death, and the food and clothing expenses used on the strong men naturally fall into their pockets.

Although these people are evil, they didn't kill them and greedy for those few oceans.

However, the original team of more than 100 people also had dozens of oceans into the pockets of these people, and their waists were bulging, so they didn't have so many ideas about the rest of them.

When the number of people was counted, one of the officers and soldiers with guns walked over and kicked them with their feet: "Hey, get up." ”

The person next to him cautiously stretched out his hand to probe in front of his nose, and withdrew his palm: "Sir, he's dead." ”

"Dead?" The officer and soldier were stunned for a moment, squatted on the ground and probed his nose, muttering: "It's really dead, the sixth child, come and untie him, lose it." ”

The death of someone did not cause too much waves, there were too many people who died along the way, and these people were all crop people, one by one they looked very numb, and even when they untied the rope, they did not move, quietly waiting for these people to collect the dead people.

For them, as long as it's not themselves who die.

Xia Yuan looked at the scene in front of him, and couldn't help but think of my regiment leader, my regiment, like them, these people in front of him are also people who have lost their souls, and the souls lost by these people are different from the souls they have lost.

The strong man continued on his way.

The sun is not hot, Zhuang Ding tied his hands, kept wiping the sweat on his face, and the undulating slopes in the distance became a giant dragon entrenched in the plain, Xia Yuan knew that this was the boundary of Zhumadian.

They were about to rush to the station of the 40th Division of the Yu Army.

After the Battle of Songhu began, all provinces across the country responded positively, and more than 700,000 people rushed to the front line to fight, and when the battle was at its most intense, just past a division, it was gone in less than 10 minutes, not that all of them died, but that the organization was gone, it was scattered, and the dead and ran everywhere.

There were only two divisions in the Yu department, one was the 40th division and the other was the 45th division.

He really became a strong man, and after walking for four whole days, he did not go through the Long March, but after experiencing the 180th Division and Changjin Lake, the road taken by the strong man is comparable to the first two. Their hands were tied, and the people of these receiving units did not give them a bite to eat or drink, and they walked for two days, all of them were in the daytime, their mouths were dry, their lips were dry and cracked, and they passed through some towns, and these people did not treat them as human beings at all, and did not even give them a sip of water to drink.

A person can go seven days without food, but not seven days without water.

Fortunately, there was a light rain that night, which dispersed the heat of the air and made the road a little waterlogged, so they lay on the ground and drank some of the water on the road before they persevered.

The team of more than a dozen people died again, and there were only nine people left, Xia Yuan, Old Man Wang, Monkey, and Scholar were among them, everyone was exhausted, and Xia Yuan also felt that he had more than enough heart and not enough strength, and finally reached the garrison boundary of the 40th Division.

From afar, the barracks were stationed, and the running figures of the soldiers were constantly shaking, giving hope to the living, but almost exhausted.

They were greeted by a platoon commander with a leather whip in his hand, just like the overseers of old.

"Sir, there are a lot of people who died along the way, and that's all there is left." The officer of the receiving unit took a handful of silver dollars from his pocket and stuffed them into the platoon commander's hand.

The platoon commander understood, waved his hand, signaled that their work was completed, everyone tacitly glanced at each other, and those who left left, and those who stayed behind were about to join the 40th Division to deal with the next all-out war of resistance.

It is estimated that none of these people could have imagined that the next battle would be very tragic.

"Come to the barracks, obeying orders is your first lesson! Training is your second lesson! The Japanese will not give you time, you must master the skills to survive on the battlefield in the shortest possible time! ”

The platoon commander of the receiving unit asked Xia Yuan and his party to stand in a row, and then began his performance.

The content of the tirade is nothing more than 'The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband.' ’

It's a pity that the platoon leader didn't have any ink in his stomach, and the words he said were dry and didn't resonate with them, but the last sentence made a group of strong men cheer for a while.

"Take them down to take a shower, have another meal, and start training tomorrow!"

The strong men hadn't eaten for a long time, and for them, this sentence was almost heavenly.

Old man Wang said to Xia Yuan: "Big man, look, I'm right, if we really go back, we may not be able to walk back, but in the barracks, at least we won't starve to death." ”

Old man Wang's name for Xia Yuan has also changed, when he was stupid before, he called him a big fool, or a stupid big man, but now he is called a big man.

Xia Yuan's height is not low, he has to be 1.8 meters, and in the current society, he is a tall person.

Being tall is not necessarily a good thing, the height of the sunset during World War II was generally 1.5 meters, 1.6 meters, and the commander of the 10th Central China Army of the Japanese Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, was only 1.39 meters tall.

is tall, and the sneak attack on the Japanese devil station is too eye-catching.

Xia Yuan stared around, but did not find the figures of the national soldiers who escorted them, and was a little disappointed: "Don't you want to take revenge?" I'm still thinking about getting revenge on him later. ”

The previous idea is to be abandoned, and the Henan army will also go to the Songhu battlefield, just in the 40th Division, and completing the system task has become the only choice at the moment.

"Revenge, you save it, I didn't see that people know our chief, how many people have died along the way, it's not simple for him to kill you."

Old man Wang stared at him, afraid that Xia Yuan would have such thoughts.

"We've come all the way, don't think about it."

The monkey also looked at Xia Yuan with a worried face: "Brother Xia......"

The scholar also looked at him, and the others looked at him similarly.

Xia Yuan rubbed the monkey's head and said to the others: "Okay, okay, I'm playing with you, let's live our barracks life well." ”

"Sir, where are we going?" Old man Wang couldn't help but feel a little worried as he watched the chief in front of him take them out of the camp, surrounded by dense bushes.

"What's the matter, I'm afraid I'll kill you." This commander is not bad, but he is not as unpopular as the platoon commander, and laughed: "There is a river ahead, Nen go to bathe there, we don't even have so much water for you to bathe, and the newcomers go to bathe in that river, and you are the same, we don't do anything special." ”

Seeing that this person was very good, the monkey's careful thinking became active and asked, "Big brother, when will we be able to touch the gun?" ”

The chief smiled and said, "Boy, how old are you, and you still touch the gun, is there a gun high?" Early, when you're almost done, I'll let you touch the gun. ”

Just as they were chatting, the scholar who had been silent for a long time walked up to Xia Yuan's side, and his eyes under the broken lenses shone brightly: "Big, are you literate?" Went to school? ”

Xia Yuan glanced at the scholar.

The scholar is very young, in his early twenties, his skin is a little white, he is white among them, he is very silent on weekdays, he doesn't like to talk, he knows the old man Wang, the monkeys are all from the same village, the people who came out of Xiajia Village are basically almost dead, Xiajia Village is very poor, there is little land, the landlord exploits it badly, many newborn children can't support it, and there are few young people.

For the sake of money, the landlords originally recruited people between 20 and 30 years old, but they forcibly set this age at 15 to 40 years old, and between 50 years old, and most of the strong men captured in Xiajia Village were forty or fifty years old.

They all died halfway through.

Old man Wang's luck was good, when he came out, he hid half a piece of bread in his belt, walked secretly along the way, ate secretly, and dug the roots at night, chewed the roots, sucked the juice in the roots, and came to life all the way.

Xia Yuan nodded.

His sense of scholars is still good, the monkey is a little jumpy, Old Man Wang likes to be close to people, but he is very fine, and when he arrives on the battlefield, he is probably the kind of soldier oil.

Scholars don't talk much, but this kind of person is easily infected, and once the country is in danger, he will be the first to respond.

The mind is simple, full of blood, although not good at words, but there is a fire in the eye.

(End of chapter)