Originally, Old Man Wang lost the fight, and the landlord bully also let Old Man Wang exert some residual heat and make some money, so he threw Old Man Wang to Chief A.

It's just that I didn't expect Old Man Wang to survive.

There were nine people in the grass shed, four or five followed Old Man Wang, and Old Man Wang were from Donglingou, and the other few people were from another village, and the nine people were divided into three teams.

Nine people, three forces, somewhat outrageous.

In fact, Xia Yuan did not mix with their thoughts, in front of the battlefield, their little intrigue will be reduced to ashes under the enemy's fire, and only by uniting may they be able to survive.

In a minute, they stood at the door of the straw hut, only to find that there were a large number of recruits like them gathered in the playground, most of them looked malnourished, their faces were sallow, their bodies were as thin as bamboo poles, their skin and flesh were wrapped in bones, and some of their legs were as thick as their arms, and they looked vulnerable.

Their platoon commander was the commander of the third platoon of the Ninth Company, a newly formed company, and a veteran of the company who stayed at their door told a few people that in the last battle, several companies were all wiped out, and there were a few people alive in the Ninth Company, and the commander team of the Ninth Company was formed, and then the conscription began.

When the second platoon commander came with people, the veteran who was chatting with them stepped aside.

Xia Yuan glanced over, and the second platoon commander brought more than twenty crooked recruits like them, wearing crooked military uniforms, with dark skin and rough palms, most of them were strong men pulled from the village to join the team.

The second platoon commander had a gloomy look on his face, so many recruits, it is estimated that he will have to train for a long time.

Luckily, there hasn't been much fighting lately.

The 77 Incident was also from the four eastern provinces, and the Japanese devils have not come over at this time.

"Xu Yu, you are the squad leader of the third class and manage the nine of them."

The second platoon commander's surname is Zhao, Xu Yu told them that the second platoon commander's name is Zhao Shiguo, just call him the second platoon commander, Zhao platoon commander has a sense of vigor and resoluteness when he speaks and does things, and he has survived the battlefield, experienced the cruelty of war, and is somewhat in a hurry, and there is a feeling that there is no one in his eyes.

The second platoon commander disliked this group of recruits, but he had a good feeling for Xia Yuan.

"I hope you can all learn from him in the future!"

After gathering, Platoon Commander Zhao also took the opportunity to name Xia Yuan, "How many people can there be, when I call you this morning, stand up and wait for me, and when you enter the barracks, you have to look like a soldier, you look at his attitude, you look at you again!" ”

Everyone's eyes were immediately attracted by Xia Yuan.

Xia Yuan's height is 1.8 meters, especially conspicuous among a group of farmers captured from the countryside, he is also very upright, with his head held high, his face resolute, like a flag, at a glance, it makes people's eyes shine, even if the second platoon commander does not want to be attracted by him, but the standard military posture, tall man, still attracted his attention.

It makes people feel good.

Everyone also learns from Xia Yuan, but there are always some things that don't look like it.

"Practice hard, if you can practice well, I will let you be the deputy squad leader." The second platoon leader walked to Xia Yuan's side, he was very optimistic about this big man.

He has served as a deputy squad leader, and has been a squad leader, and has taken over many recruits, and the quality of these recruits is simply indescribable, but think about the time when he first joined the national army, like them, even at that time, he was not as tall as the big man in front of him.

Although his face is a little haggard, his spirit is vigorous, and his straight height is not necessarily practical when it comes to the battlefield, after all, he is too tall and his goal is too conspicuous, but with this momentum, it makes people's eyes shine.

There is no way, having experienced so many worlds, joining the ranks of the national army as a strong man is simply a dimensionality reduction blow to these recruits.

For a while, the words of the second platoon commander made many recruits a little sour, and they could become deputy squad leaders as soon as they joined the company, and this kind of treatment was simply too good for them.

Xia Yuan responded calmly: "Yes!" ”

After the second platoon commander left, Xu Yu smiled and said to Xia Yuan: "Yes, we have taken over a lot of recruits, how many can be like you, if they are all like you, who would want to use poison." ”

There are two sides to everything, the ranks of the national army understand everything, there are those who are really willing to serve the motherland, there are those who come to mix money, most of them are some people who have been oppressed and exploited by the landlords and bullies and have no way out, so they came to serve in the army, and there are also strong men who were arrested after the promulgation of the military service law in 36 years.

Those who are disobedient and flee will naturally be poisoned, and if they are caught and not beaten, they will continue to flee.

Last night, several people were caught running away, and when they were running and exercising, they could see a few people hanging from the trees by the roadside with ropes and whips out of blood, not to mention how miserable they looked.

"Good girl, this is too hard."

As soon as the wind blew, the hanging people swayed a few times, and Old Man Wang was terrified.

"Obey orders and keep training as normal, that's what you have to do." Xu Yu looked at the people hanging from the tree: "Disobedient will end up like them." ”

Xia Yuan glanced at it, and then retracted his gaze, these people will definitely not survive, the officers of the national army have never treated these people as people, when they meet a good commander, they may be able to survive, and when they meet a bad commander, these people will be hung for a day, and they will not be given food, and they will get up tomorrow, no matter how injured you are, you have to get up and receive training, and if you can live for a week, they can all be called Xiaoqiang, and the vast majority of people will not last long, and they will be tortured to death.

During this period, the number of non-combat attrition has already exceeded the number of combat attrition.

The bald head once went to inspect the troops, and was shocked by the sick soldiers and the recruits who were tortured, and he ignored other eyes, and carried a cane to hit the squad and platoon commander of the receiving unit, that time, the bald head saved 200 people, but in the whole country, such a situation is too common, and it is not uncommon, and over time, some commanders who were originally friendly to the recruits will find that it is better to teach them a lesson with poison, which will make them more obedient.

By the year 40, this situation will be even worse.

Every once in a while, they would see several such people hanging from a tree, which was used to warn them that these recruits would end up in escape.

There were a lot of recruits on the playground, there must be three or four hundred people, about the strength of a battalion, I don't know what the last battle was, but there were so many attritions.

Early in the morning, it is a five-kilometer run, and then go to eat, everyone drags their tired bodies, and finally comes to the place to eat, the meal is still the same as last night, a large bucket of rice porridge can not see a few grains of rice, a spoonful of stirring down, only to roll up the scattered rice, the lucky person will have some rice grains in the bowl, the unlucky person, a bowl is all rice water.

In the morning, Xia Yuan was praised by the second platoon leader, plus what the second platoon leader said, many people listened, and the people in the cooking class recognized the big one in front of them at a glance, and when the other people's bowls were full of rice water, it was Xia Yuan's turn, and the cooking class brothers who served the rice stirred a few times with a spoon underneath, stirred up the sinking rice, and filled Xia Yuan with a bowl full of real rice porridge.

"Thank you, brother." Xia Yuan glanced at the brother who served the rice, last night was the rice he served to everyone, most of them were served on top, and it would be good to have ten grains of rice in a bowl.

Unexpectedly, the words of the platoon commander this morning would change the attitude of the little brother in front of him towards him.

However, Xia Yuan didn't plan to hide himself, and when he really touched the gun, that was the time for him to show his strength, and it was best to get the attention of the people above.

"The Battle of Songhu ended with the Battle of the Four Elements Warehouse." Xia Yuan thought about it, he definitely couldn't run away directly like General Fei, that would violate the rules of the system, and the final score would not be too high, and there would not even be a reward.

After thinking about it, if he could get a higher official position, he might be able to survive this unprecedented battle, and even lead the last 400 warriors to evacuate.

But there were some difficulties, the defense of the Sixing Warehouse was originally a 'movie' for foreigners, just to get more international support, so when the battle was at its most critical, the bald head ordered them to withdraw.

There is no way, the status of the Japanese army in the international community is not low, they are all fought by force, don't look at the British also have a concession in Shanghai, in the end their concession was broken by the Japanese army, more than 400 warriors in the Sixing warehouse more than 300 people were taken away to become laborers, and very few came back alive.

The situation is similar to that of the 180th Division, he can change the fate of some people, but he can't change the attitude of his superiors, they don't care about the life and death of these people, they care about how much international support they can get, naturally they don't care about the outcome of the 400 warriors, after the end of the Battle of Songhu and Songhu in 1938, they were imprisoned in the prison in the concession for several years.

Later, Xie Jinyuan was assassinated in April 1941, and in December of the same year, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War broke out, and the Japanese army entered the concession, detained all this lone army, and sent them to various places to do hard labor, and the farthest was escorted to New Guinea, and some of the soldiers escaped, and some died of torture......

The Battle of Songhu was an even more tragic battle, with more than 700,000 national troops, more than 300,000 Japanese troops, and far more than 300,000 dead and wounded national soldiers, like a flesh mill.

While thinking about it, Old Man Wang came over, interrupted Xia Yuan's thoughts, and said enviously: "Big, when you become the deputy squad leader, don't forget us, we guys came out of the same place with you." ”

Xia Yuan glanced at Old Man Wang, and said with a smile: "Just because you help me get water to drink, I won't forget you, and everything else is different." We all have to be united, we can't engage in separatism, and when we get to the battlefield, are you still like this? This will only make you die faster, and I want a group of brothers who can hand over their backs to you. ”

"That's it." Old man Wang nodded.

The people from the other village also nodded, feeling that what Xia Yuan said was right and reasonable.

"I won't say anything else, one chopstick is easy to break, and ten chopsticks are in a ball, you all understand this truth." Xia Yuan looked at everyone and said, "Wo Li Dou is not a hero, we have to focus on the Japanese." ”

"Japanese?"

Everyone was a little surprised.

They were in the village, the news was closed, and they had not heard anything about the Japanese.

When the Japanese were three or seven years old, they were still far away from Henan, and their main scope of activity was in the four eastern provinces, and after the Lugou Bridge Incident, they launched a war of aggression against China, attempting to destroy China within three months, and the first thing they launched was the Battle of Songhu, followed by the Battle of Jinling, the Jinling Massacre, and so on.

After the arrogant idea of destroying China in three months was broken, they invaded Jinling and took an extreme measure, that is, they launched a brutal massacre, which they tried to make the Chinese afraid and cowardly, but did not expect that it would backfire, but instead aroused the determination of the whole country to resolutely resist Japan.

If they are inconsistent with the outside world and engage in infighting, China will perish sooner or later.

The few people in this straw hut are the epitome of the whole China. If there is no Xi'an incident, if there is no pity, there is no if, when China is in danger, there is such a group of people who stand up to save China from fire and water, they are the heroes of the nation.

Xia Yuan's gain of power is a good thing, although Old Man Wang and others are envious, but they also admire Xia Yuan a lot, no way, they don't have Xia Yuan's size, let alone Xia Yuan's ideological awareness, and even less Xia Yuan's experience, where can they compare with Xia Yuan, it can be said that in the entire 40th Division, no one can compare with Xia Yuan, even if it is the commander of the 40th Division.

Many of the commanders of the national army are family members, and there are few commanders who rely on real materials and climb up step by step from small soldiers.

"Assemble!"

The morning break was only half an hour, Xu Yu called the people of the third class to gather, and then the platoon commander came over to give a lecture, and then took them to meet the company commander of the ninth company, the company commander of the ninth company was a dark-skinned rough man, one meter in his early sevens, with scars on his face, looking fierce and vicious.

"My name is Du Guanggui, your company commander, from now on, you will be the soldiers of the Ninth Company, train hard, don't think about running away, running, where can you run, can you run out of China? The Japanese devils are coming, they want to destroy China, you run home, are you waiting for them to come to your house and kill your relatives, right? ”

The commander of the Ninth Company is surnamed Du, named Du Guanggui, and his speech is not as dry as the second platoon commander, but it is easy to understand.

However, everyone is still quite unfamiliar with the Japanese devils, they pressed this question, followed Du Guanggui to start training, before training, Du Guanggui brought them guns with a few soldiers. A bunch of old-fashioned Hanyang-made, also known as 'old sleeves'.

When he received the gun, Xia Yuan picked up a Hanyang-made that looked pretty good, pulled the bolt and glanced at it, he couldn't help frowning, and the rifling was smoothed.

Most of these guns were eliminated, and the guns they didn't want were thrown to them, and there was a characteristic that they didn't shoot.

(End of chapter)