Adjutant Sun and the chief of staff left first, and the two of them still had the task of recruiting soldiers, but fortunately, Xia Yuan's company gave them a certain task index, which made the task on the two of them a lot easier.

The next step is to recruit only one or two companies of troops.

Xia Yuan still has a lot of weapons and equipment to sort out, and they can't follow Adjutant Sun and the chief of staff to act together, and secondly, the number of weapons and equipment is relatively large, and they also need to sell the excess weapons and equipment, exchange them for silver dollars, buy some medicines, food, and so on.

"It's going to be your own money to fight the war."

Xia Yuan said with emotion.

"Company commander, people are here to fight the rich man." Xiaoliu said jokingly.

"Fart, when you see the rich man, they still have to serve tea and water."

Zheng Da scolded and scolded.

Before Dayong joined the national army, his fate was similar to Xia Yuan's, and he came over with Zhuangding, but fortunately, he was favored by the platoon commander Zhao Shiguo, and he didn't suffer much with Zhao Shiguo escorting him along the way.

He has seen the picture of those who served as soldiers serving tea and drinking water to the landlord Lao Cai, who is the emperor of the countryside and covers the sky with one hand, and many of the landlords and old wealth between villages are linked to each other, just like a big net.

Many local military officers did not dare to provoke these landlords, and even some of them were bought by the landlords' old money.

In the locality, it is very common for the officer to bring tea and water to the landlord Lao Cai.

Xiaoliu said that he would fight the rich man, and he didn't believe that these soldiers would fight the rich man. It's almost the same as serving tea and delivering water.

"What's the noise, hurry up and pack up your gear." The veteran shouted in the distance.

"Here we are." Zheng Dayong likes veterans very much, it seems that the veteran is very similar to Lao Zhao, not only the personality is similar, but even the veteran's surname is Zhao, and the age of the two is also very similar, when they are in their thirties and forties, they are exposed to the wind and sun, and they are weathered, but they look like a forty or fifty-year-old person.

After the two got acquainted, Zheng Dayong would call the veteran if he had nothing to do, and sat there chatting together.

The veterans have more combat experience than Zhao Shiguo, after all, Zhao Shiguo is a local warlord, although there are a lot of battles, but they are all small-scale battles, and the veterans belong to the central army, and the battles they participate in are all tough battles.

For example, don't panic in the face of the Japanese devil's plane, and climb the opposite reverse slope of the plane, so that the Japanese devil's machine gun will not be easy to strafe.

For example, in the face of the heavy artillery of the Japanese devils, lie on the ground, do not touch the chest to the ground, the heavy artillery of the Japanese devils can make the ground tremble continuously, lying on the ground, may shatter the internal organs of the body.

Another example is that when shooting, you have to aim a little ahead, and when the bullet flies over, there is time, and the person will run forward, and the muzzle of the gun will be aimed a little in front of you, so that it will be easier to hit.

The veteran taught Zheng Dayong a lot of things, during the battle in Luodian, Zheng Dayong was the fastest in the company, and one of the Type 92 heavy machine guns in the company was handed over to Zheng Dayong for use.

"Company commander, these cannons, there are no shells." Lao Qi ran over and held a mortar of a little Japanese devil.

This thing was captured by them on the Japanese devil's position, but the shells were not captured, the shells of the grenadiers, and the mortars obviously did not work.

It's also a burden to carry, at first they wanted to sell this thing, but everyone thought that if the mortar shells of the Japanese devils were captured on the battlefield, then they could use this thing to blow up the machine gun fire points of the little Japanese devils, and even bomb the tanks.

This mortar of the Japanese devil remained.

"Stay, there's only one anyway, and it's also about it." Xia Yuan waved his hand, "Speed up your pace, don't ink." ”

"Company commander, company commander, someone is looking for you outside."

The communication soldier in the company is a second stunned man, this kid is clever and fast, when he used to follow Company Commander Xu, he was considered half a communication soldier, since the evening of the sixth day, after Xia Yuan killed Qiu Zhengfu, the second stunned man followed Xia Yuan with all his heart.

"Who, come to me at this time." Xia Yuan was fiddling with bullets and grenades, and the bullets and grenades in the company were given priority to him.

After these few nights of fighting, everyone felt Xia Yuan's combat strength, when talking to Adjutant Sun, the company commander still had something to hide, his marksmanship was unpredictable, his bomb throwing ability was more accurate than mortars, his eyes could see very clearly in the night, and he could always find the little Japanese devils hiding in the dark.

It is precisely because their company commander's combat effectiveness is too strong that these weapons and equipment are placed on them, and it is better to put them on Brother Yuan, and they can play a huge role in placing them on Brother Yuan.

"Company commander, he said that his name is Old Man Wang, and you designated him to go in." The second stunned man ran over again.

Old man Wang!

Xia Yuan stopped what he was doing and said, "Let them in." ”

"Hey!"

After the second stunned man ran away, Xia Yuan pressed the three bullets in his hand in the bullet clip, patted the mud on his hand, turned his head to stare at the gate, and saw the second stunned man walking in with two ragged people who looked like beggars.

Seeing Xia Yuan, the slightly older beggar stepped forward quickly: "Big man, you're not dead yet, I thought you were dead." ”

"Old man Wang, I haven't seen you for so long, come up and curse me to death." Xia Yuan looked the old man Wang and the monkey up and down, the monkey was no longer active, he was holding the ground with a stick, and he was limping when he walked: "What's the matter with you two, why are you doing this." ”

"Ugh." Old man Wang sat on the ground, "Is there a cigarette, come and get one." ”

He looked Xia Yuan up and down, looked at the camp again, and said, "You are powerful now, and you have become a company commander." ”

His tone was sour, and he said in his heart, this used to be a big man's brain was not good, but after that, I don't know what shit luck I had, not only did he fight well, but he also became a famous celebrity, a big hero, when they first started to listen to the people next to them, they were still a little incredible, and chased the soldier and asked him several times, asking if he was called Xia Yuan.

The soldier was so impatient that he almost raised his fist and punched them.

The two of them believed that the sharpshooter and hero that everyone boasted about was the big fool who came out of the same village with them in the first place.

The two of them inquired all the way, came to this camp, didn't ask or didn't care, when asked, the monkey and he were startled, this stupid big man who used to come out of the village together, not only became a marksman, a big hero, but also became a company commander.

Obediently, company commander, that's an officer, in charge of more than 100 people, it's amazing.

Both of their eyes lit up, thinking that they would follow Xia Yuan and think that they would be fellow villagers, at least they could be a platoon commander.

Xia Yuan threw a cigarette to the two of them, watched the two of them hurry, and asked, "Tell me what happened during this time, why didn't you run away at the beginning, why did you run back again." ”

"Fire." Old man Wang stared blankly.

Xia Yuan threw a bag of matches to him, and the old man Wang wiped a match unhurriedly, smacked the butt of the cigarette with a big mouth, took a beautiful puff after lighting it, looked relaxed, and said with a mouthful of big yellow teeth: "This is a long story." ”

After the old man Wang and the monkey and a few other people in the third class ran away in the village, they parted ways, and the guys in the willow forest only wanted to go home, but the old man Wang was shrewd, he knew that after going back, it would not be long before he would definitely be caught and brought to the battlefield again.

He didn't know where he got the news, but he heard that there was a place in Jiading where he could exchange guns for money, so he went over, and they changed into the clothes of the villagers, entered the city, and sold the guns.

But accidentally someone found out, knowing that they were deserters, and arrested the two of them, the old man Wang could, and ran away secretly, and the monkey also ran, and was caught back, breaking a leg, and at night, it was raining heavily, and the old man Wang ran back and took the monkey out secretly.

After the two of them went out, they used mud to touch their faces and bodies, and their clothes were torn.

The two of them didn't dare to make a noise, and they didn't dare to run, and the battle was fierce at that time, and the soldiers ran to the front line in waves, and the routs withdrew in groups.

When there were many routs, some of them wanted to leave the city, and they heard that the official did not let the soldiers run out, and if they went out, they would be shot, and then there were indeed gunshots from outside the city, and they were shot as deserters.

The old man Wang and the monkey didn't dare to run anymore, they got dirty on their bodies, and begged in the city all day long, at this time there were fewer residents in Jiading, many of them fled, they begged and had no place to beg to steal, and if they were lucky, they could steal some leftovers, and if they were unlucky, they were hungry for several days.

During this time, the news of the retreat of the national army also spread to the city, saying that the battle was defeated in front, the Japanese devils were going to fight, the city was panicked, and there was no peace all day long, the two of them had been trying to get out of the city and escape, and then they unexpectedly saw a few officials chatting, and also mentioned Xia Yuan's name, the monkey's ears were pointed, and he heard it at once, and pulled the old man Wang to eavesdrop.

Fang had just heard this shocking news, and after many inquiries, they could basically confirm the authenticity of this matter.

"You are powerful now, you have become a company commander, but you have to help us both, if it wasn't for me, you might have been killed by the leader."

"Big man, you forgot, we came out of the village together."

After chatting, the two played the emotional card again, hoping that Xia Yuan could help them.

Xia Yuan thought about it and said, "It's not impossible to help you, we are all fellow countrymen, and we should help you." ”

"Hey, that's great, big man, just our friendship, no matter how you say it, you have to give me a platoon commander." Old man Wang laughed with a dead face.

"Don't say platoon commander, even the deputy company commander can do it."

Hearing Xia Yuan say this, Old Man Wang's eyes lit up, and his mouth almost smiled crookedly, "Okay, okay, deputy company commander, let's not say anything else, if you become a deputy company commander, then you must do a good job in the team." ”

"Don't worry, I haven't finished my words yet, you also know the situation on the front line, in the past two days, the planes taken by the Japanese devils have flown over, bombing Jiading, and the Japanese devils have called, and just in the past few days, the adjutant of the commander of the 51st Division has just come over."

"And then."

Old man Wang looked at it with a blank eye.

"Then, look at what we're doing." Xia Yuan pointed to the group who were packing up their things.

"What else can you do, retreat, the Japanese devils are coming, let's not retreat quickly." Old man Wang had a clear expression and said: "Big, don't say anything else, just the things we have learned in Jiading in the past few days, it is more than you think, how to go back in this way, I have figured it out." ”

Old man Wang swallowed his saliva and continued: "You give it to our deputy company commander, and we are not ambiguous, and we promise to take you out safely." ”

"Old man Wang, I didn't misunderstand you before."

"Where, where."

"But we're not retreating, we're attacking."

"That's easy to say. What, offense? Wait, you're packing up like this, you're not retreating. Old man Wang was choked, almost choked by his own saliva, and his eyes widened.

"I didn't say retreat, the adjutant of the commander of the 51st Division came to let us go to the front line, it just so happened that you came over, I don't feel at ease to let someone else be the company commander, you come to be the company commander, I will give you a position, you just take them to guard."

Xia Yuan had a harmless smile on his face.

"The Japanese devils are coming, you don't want to run away, why are you going to go over, if you want me to say, just run, there is a battle at any time, there is only one life." Old man Wang said earnestly: "Big, you listen to my advice, you don't see how many defeated soldiers in that county, there must be more than 1,000 people, they all lost the battle on the front line and retreated, if you don't run away now, you will go to the front line to die, how many people have died." ”

He said: "Listen to the old man's advice, I am familiar with this road, you follow me, let's go to Yudi, find a village at random, rob the landlord, divide the grain, divide the ocean, and then recruit troops and horses, the world is so big, where can you not be at ease, why do you say you are going to get involved in this, the front line sent you more than 100 people, used to be cannon fodder." ”

Xia Yuan narrowed his eyes, raised his head and said, "Second stunned, ask someone to tie up the two of them for me." ”

Old man Wang's hand shook, and the cigarette butts that had not yet finished falling to the ground, and then he was dragged up from the ground, and a thick rope was tied to him.

"Big man, what are you doing with your mother, don't forget, I asked the leader of the soldiers to ask for a sip of water to drink, and you went over."

Old man Wang immediately panicked.

Xia Yuan stood up and said with a smile: "You are now the deputy company commander of the new company, whether you can go to the front line or not, I can't help you, let's go, follow us." ”

"Don't don't, let us down, can't I go if I don't go? Big, hey, I'm a mother, big man, we're fellow countrymen, do you treat fellow countrymen like this? ”

Seeing this, Old Man Wang suddenly felt bad and immediately struggled.

The monkey also shouted: "Big one, big one, I was wrong, it was all said by Old Man Wang himself, I didn't say it." ”

"Less barren." Xia Yuan laughed, "This new company, that's where you can come and leave if you want." ”

(End of chapter)