Chapter 922 Parting Ways
There are many mounds in the fields outside the village. They are the graves of company commander Hao Xiazi and other fallen soldiers.
Nearly a hundred soldiers stood silently in front of the tomb, which was also dark, and no one said a word.
Hao Xiazi, the company commander who was shouting loudly and sometimes even being a bit aggressive, was buried like this. God knows what the soldiers standing in front of his grave were thinking.
Maybe the recruits are thinking, oh, if he dies, if he dies, we won’t be forced to the front with guns and used as cannon fodder.
Of course the veterans would not think so. The veterans had been following Blind Man Hao for several years. During this process, Blind Man Hao had scolded and beaten them, but he had also eaten meat and drank wine with them. All the differences between men All the love and hate disappeared with the death of Blind Hao.
"Let's go!" Suddenly a veteran said loudly, and then his voice became deeper, "Why the hell do I think if I keep looking at it, I will lie down inside."
The veteran's words gave other veterans a chill in their hearts, so they no longer cared about the various benefits that Blind Man Hao had brought to them during his lifetime, and walked towards the distance as if they were avoiding the god of plague.
"I say Northeastern guy, you might as well become our company commander." Ma Erpao whispered to Shang Zhen while walking on the muddy road.
"I think it will work." Before Shang Zhen could reply, Lu Yifei also agreed.
Shang Zhen, who had picked up another Type 38 rifle, was walking and looking at the surrounding terrain, but there was no echo.
"I said, Lao Lu, you guys also want to express your opinion, do you think Northeastern guys are okay?" Seeing Shang Zhen remain silent, Ma Erpao asked the other veterans next to him.
Birds of a feather flock together.
As a veteran, Ma Second Artillery and Lu Yifei naturally had veterans who had good relations with them. The two of them were willing to join Shang Zhen, so those veterans also came over, while veterans like Ma Chuncai walked away from a distance. Well, maybe they disdain to associate with an outsider like Shang Zhen.
"You can let him try it in front of you." The soldier known as Lao Lu was only seven or eight steps away from Shang Zhen. Naturally, Shang Zhen heard what he said clearly.
But Shang Zhen still didn't say anything. At this time, another veteran next to him said: "The company commander has good feathers. When I saw the company commander lying there, I felt that the one lying inside seemed to be me."
To say that this veteran really doesn't know how to nag, he made the veterans feel depressed again with just one sentence.
But then Shang Zhen said: "That's right, it's better to be a company commander.
Our Captain Hao was so lucky that he even found a place to sleep when he died. I have seen brothers who were killed in battle being thrown into the sea without being buried.
Some of my brothers who were killed in battle are now unrecognizable to me even if I see them again. There must be only skeletons left. "
Shang Zhen's words made the veterans fall silent again. The team was very long and walked on the muddy dirt road, so there was a sound of huffing and puffing on the road.
"You Northeast guy, it seems like you have so many qualifications. Do you think those brothers of yours didn't have foreign wars or civil wars? How old were you then?" After a while, a veteran belittled Shang Zhen.
"You idiot, I fought with the Japanese in September 18th. How many wars have we fought with the Japanese? How many wars has your Forty Army fought?" Shang Zhen scolded with a smile.
Everyone is a veteran. No matter which army they belong to, once there is no hostility, they all talk like brothers, and they have even become brothers.
Hearing what Shang Zhen said, the veterans were about to retort that he was pretending to be old, but the team in front had stopped.
"Um, um, there's a fork in the road ahead of the instructor. Where should we go?" A recruit ran back to find Shang Zhen.
He didn't know what Shang Zhen's name was. Since Shang Zhen had taught them something, he took it upon himself to call him an instructor.
Shang Zhen looked at the recruit and frowned, then he could only walk forward quickly.
To get out of the village that was just left behind, you have to go around a large, gentle mound. Now that you have bypassed that mound, it becomes a matter of which way to go. Shang Zhen We also know that the village in the back and the two villages in the front are arranged in a "pin" shape.
And when Shang Zhen reached the front of the team, he walked around to the end of the low mound. Sure enough, there was a "Y"-shaped intersection in front of him, and all the people in front were already crowded together and choking. .
One group was the veterans of Ma Chuncai, with more than twenty people together, while the other group was a mixture of veterans and new recruits.
Apparently, the two groups disagreed on which way to go.
As soon as he saw the emotional intelligence in front of him, he nodded.
To be honest, Shang Zhen is not a person who is addicted to official positions. If he wanted to be an official in the 337th Brigade, he would have become one early. If he could not become a senior official, he could always become a battalion commander.
This time, he just really didn't want these new recruits and veterans to be confused and beaten by the Japanese army because they were unorganized.
"Man from the Northeast, tell me, which way should we take?" At this time, a veteran who was on the opposite side of Ma Chuncai asked directly.
"Fuck, he's the oldest one. It's not his turn to talk no matter how we go." Ma Chuncai curled his lips when he saw Shang Zhen coming over.
Shang Zhen pretended not to hear what Ma Chuncai said but continued to look at the terrain ahead.
After a while, he said in front of everyone: "I didn't want to order anyone, I chose this path." After that, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the path on the left.
As soon as Shang Zhen said these words, everyone present started to buzz.
It's now around eight o'clock in the morning, and although the sky is still overcast, it's not raining.
After yesterday's rain, the dirt road has been soaked by the rain. It looks smooth, but when people step on it, it becomes muddy. There are nearly a hundred people in the entire team. When the people in front step on it, the entire road becomes muddy. It becomes increasingly difficult for those behind.
It is not surprising that this situation occurs. How many serious policies are there in China nowadays? , this is just an ordinary country road.
But the road Shang Zhen pointed to was even worse than the other road. It was obviously a small road, with a puddle in the middle, and a paddy field in the middle of the two roads, with rice stubble still on it. .
As the two roads bifurcated, they turned into undulating hills in the distance, and Shang Zhen also knew that after passing those hills, he could see the two villages in front.
"Idiot, if you can't take the Yangguan Avenue, you have to take the narrow path to wade in the water." Ma Chuncai cursed in a low voice, and then he shouted loudly, "Brothers, is there anyone who is willing to follow me on the good road? Come on, don’t act like a heartless person!”
In fact, whether Ma Chuncai said "idiot" or "heartless", everyone around him heard it. It was just that Shang Zhen, the person involved, didn't hear it, so others naturally didn't say anything.
If we want to say that Zheng'er Ba Jing and Shang Zhen are in the same group, they are Li Qingfeng, Da Laobeng and Wang Xiaodan.
Needless to say, Wang Xiaotian is timid.
Big old fool, an honest man, a very honest young monk. You let him go into battle to kill the enemy, but you let him fight? Haha, I guess he has never had a fight in his life!
As for Qingfeng Li, Shang Zhen doesn't even care about the shortcomings and advantages of that monkey, so naturally he won't stand out.
Ma Chuncai and his group of veterans walked towards the wide road, including, of course, Cai Chengwan and Cai Hu.
But the remaining soldiers were naturally the majority. The remaining people looked at Ma Chuncai and the others, who were walking backwards and still waving to them, and at Shang Zhen, who had turned into an honest and humble look, and they hesitated for a moment.
However, Shang Zhen still ignored Ma Chuncai's group. Finally he smiled and said: "I'm still going this way. If anyone wants to follow me, then follow me."
After saying that, he ignored the people who stayed there and walked towards the path with puddles.
This is a multiple choice question.
The main road is not easy to walk on, although it is muddy and you may fall down, but it is better than walking on the small road through the water!
After a while, several more veterans chased Ma Chuncai and the others.
"Ma Second Artillery, Lu Yifei, no one is trying to persuade you, you can make up your own mind!" A veteran shouted back. Although they said that Ma Second Artillery and Lu Yifei should make the decision themselves, there is no doubt that they still want Ma Second Artillery to decide for themselves. Veterans like Pao and Lu Yifei followed.
"You guys are on your way, I'm not going to follow Ma Fool, and I'm still helping people pay after being sold!" Ma Erpao replied.
This is really the same thing. Everyone has their own opinions.
When Ma Erpao shouted, some of the veterans who followed Ma Chuncai and the others hesitated, and then one of them actually turned around and walked back. That must have been tempted by Ma Erpao. As the saying goes, don't be afraid of opponents who are like gods. For teammates who are like pigs, it doesn't matter who they are with in this life.
"Everyone who has to leave is gone, let's go, let's go too." Lu Yifei waved his hand, and his group of twenty or thirty veterans went after Shang Zhen.
It wasn't just these twenty or thirty veterans who followed Shang Zhen and the others. There were more than fifty new recruits, but they all followed Shang Zhen away with a roar!
The human heart is a scale, and this statement is true!