After thinking for a long time, Zhang Tianhai decided to wait until he arrived in Tongling County to consider this issue.
His body was already extremely tired, and he had many things to worry about, so Zhang Tianhai fell into a deep sleep not long after.
The sky is getting brighter and brighter. Except for the soldiers on duty, almost all the officers and soldiers are taking the time to sleep, and their sleep is not ordinary.
The shifts on duty are also very simple. You change one shift every hour, and that's it. It is necessary to ensure the overall combat effectiveness of the troops.
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Around noon, Zhang Tianhai ordered someone to blow the charge horn, telling everyone to get up and hurry up.
If they can't get to Tongling or Fanchang before the sun goes down, then their group of people will be doomed to starve. Soldiers without food cannot fight.
"Hurry up, hurry up, we are about to leave!" As a loyal follower of Captain Zhang, Liu Houming took on the role of the first executor of the task as soon as Zhang Tianhai gave the order.
"Get up, don't mention it, Adjutant Liu..." The soldier from the secret service company, who had just been kicked on the butt and woke up, rubbed his eyes and got up to gather.
"Quick, quick, quick!!" Liu Houming continued to shout at the top of his lungs.
Soon, the exhausted team gathered again, and then took the guns and ammunition and headed towards Tongling and Fanchang again.
Because it was the winter sun, the weather was not hot at this time, and the wind was even a bit biting, as if the murdered souls were crying out in pain.
More than 400 people from the first regiment and the first battalion lined up in two long queues, and the marching speed was not too slow.
Finally, after four hours of running, they finally arrived at Fanchang County, but what they never expected was that the city was already an empty city.
As the raging war in Nanjing raged, the Japanese army pressed forward step by step, and the national army's defense lines fell step by step. Faced with the horror of war and death, the people of Fanchang County chose to flee their homeland where they had lived for a long time. .
Walking to this desolate empty city, Zhang Tianhai's expression was full of melancholy: in addition to being powerless against the country's poverty, there was also the fact that he and the officers and soldiers of the Pre-First Battalion might not have supplies today.
What does it mean to have money but no place to spend it? This is where you have money but no place to spend it.
"Brothers, stay here for two hours and then continue to Tongling!" Zhang Tianhai ordered loudly, but it was difficult to conceal the tiredness in his tone.
"Yes, Commander!" the surrounding soldiers responded. They were so hungry that they could hardly stand it anymore.
"Captain, this can't go on like this! If this goes on, sooner or later something will happen to the army. We have to find a way to get some food." Zhou Fangjie walked to Zhang Tianhai's side and said.
"Fang Jie, I know what you mean. I've considered this problem a long time ago, but I can't help it. It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. I really can't think of a way to find food." Zhang Tianhai smiled bitterly. said.
"We can pool all the money from all the brothers in the battalion, and then find some people to purchase food. As long as we can have food, that's enough. We don't need too much else. Maybe this is enough, right?" Zhou Fangjie frowned. He suggested with a frown.
Zhang Tianhai thought for a while and said: "This is a good idea, but if a situation arises, we must not send troops to grab food."
"Okay, Commander, let this order be carried out by a humble official!" Zhou Fangjie said with a military salute.
Zhang Tianhai patted Zhou Fangjie on the shoulder and said: "Brother Fangjie, you don't have to be polite. You are older than me, and you are one grade above me in Huangpu Military Academy. You are my senior. We don't need to be superior in private. Come on, we are brothers who have gone through life and death together. That would be too much. Just call me Yulin in private."
"Okay, Captain Yulin." Zhou Fangjie said with a smile.
"Thank you for your hard work, senior!" Zhang Tianhai replied with a military salute.
The Huangpu Clan has always paid attention to seniority. Just like when Yu Chengwan later served as the commander of the 57th Division in the 74th Army, deputy commander Li Tianxia and others also called him senior in private.
Having fought together to this point, money is no longer so important, so almost all the officers and soldiers took out the remaining money they had.
To put it all together, it was probably more than five hundred yuan. If this amount were replaced in normal times, it would definitely be a big sum.
More than five hundred yuan may not seem like much, but don't forget that in this day and age, you can still find one in restaurants.
Of course, that was just in normal times. Now is a war period, which brings not only artillery fire and death, but also skyrocketing prices and possible famine.
"Team leader, all the brothers' money is here. How about I lead several classes of brothers to search along here? See if there are any ordinary people, and then buy some food from them." Liu Houming took it. Holding the heavy bag of money, he asked.
Zhang Tianhai thought for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Let brothers rest for a while! Later we will go directly along the official road to Tongling, and along the way we will see if there are still people living there, and then we will purchase from them food."
"Yes, group seat." Liu Houming responded helplessly.
After finishing speaking, Zhang Tianhai also sat down and began to rest.
Two hours later, Zhang Tianhai took the hundreds of hungry people from the first battalion and set foot on the road to Tongling again.
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"Third brother, are you hungry?" A thin soldier in the first battalion asked an old soldier next to him.
The veteran looked to be thirty-three or four years old. He should have been in his prime. He had been a soldier for so many years and had neither merit nor hard work.
Veterans in the war era are not comparable to veterans in the peace era of the 21st century. Their combat experience is so rich that it is no exaggeration to say that they lick blood from the edge of their swords.
"Yu Yang, just wait and see. The captain and the others will find a way. Isn't it just to purchase food that they have taken away all our money? We don't need to worry about these things yet. We can just be hungry for a while longer. Already." The veteran said calmly.
"What if you can't buy food even if you have money?" Xiao Bing Yu Yang asked.
"It's impossible. If we have money and guns, we can't not buy food. If we can't buy it, we'll buy it by force." A trace of anger flashed across the face of the veteran. From being a soldier of the Beiyang Army to the National Government Army, he had become so For many years as a soldier, he had never experienced a situation where he couldn't buy food even though he had a gun in his hand.
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