It's dusk again, and the cold sun no longer has the heat of summer. Even the sunlight is cold when it shines on people.
The sunlight dragged long shadows out of the forest, and in this light and shadow, Shang Zhen said: "Leave the horses and mules in the woods."
"What are you doing here?" Hu Zhuzhu asked curiously.
"Those people always have to give some compensation. If we didn't fight there, their homes might not be destroyed." Shang Zhen replied.
"Tch, you're so kind-hearted, let's help the common people fight the Japanese, shouldn't they pay a little?" Qin Chuan didn't agree with Shang Zhen's statement.
Now everyone likes Shang Zhen very much, and more or less they agree that Shang Zhen will be their leader.
But this does not mean that everything Shang Zhen said will work.
If a commander of a team wants to convince the crowd, he needs not only his own strength but also his discipline and dignity, and Shang Zhen is undoubtedly lacking in the latter two.
"You're just saying these ridiculous things!" At this time, Old Huo Tou, who was still looking at Kaba, spoke for Shang Zhen, "What do the people want, why don't they just live in peace and quiet? The Japanese are letting Japanese people live in their homes. It was burned, do you think they paid a little for it?"
As soon as Old Huotou spoke, Qin Chuan fell silent.
The reason why Qin Chuan refuted the idea of going into battle was just because he thought it would be great to kill one of the mules and horses for meat.
But no matter what, he couldn't refute what Old Huotou said. If he dared to refute what Old Huotou said, those boys from Qiu Bo would beat him up!
Old Huo Tou is not just an old beard, he is the ancestor of the beard, and he is also the ancestor of these veterans!
Shang Zhen and the others had won a battle, so naturally they had to escape to the mountains and forests.
But they won't be able to escape too far into the mountains and forests.
They were already satisfied with the surprise attack on the Japanese artillery positions. Now they just hoped to meet Liu Chengtuan's men who broke out. For them, it would be the icing on the cake. They would have more to explain when they get to the top.
Because they were not hiding too far, they saw black smoke rising in the direction of the small village. Without asking, they knew that it was the Japanese army who came after hearing the news. After finding the village, they burned it.
They now need to sleep in the mountains and forests at night, and the villagers who were driven out of the village must also need to stay in the mountains and forests at night. This makes Shang Zhen feel happy.
Regarding Shang Zhen's order, only they know what Lao Huo Tou and Wang Lao Mao are thinking, but on the surface they will definitely maintain Shang Zhen's authority.
After that, there was no objection, and everyone was eating and looking at the loot in the forest.
But after all, it had already entered junior high school. After dusk, the sky quickly became dark, the sentries were dispatched, and everyone lay down on the thick dead leaves in the woods.
Although it was already early winter and the temperature was already below freezing, they had now put on cotton military uniforms under the guidance of Commander Liu, so the temperature was still bearable.
Someone yawned in the darkness, it was a string of money.
"Oh, I'm sleepy. My eyelids are clenched. Go to sleep!" Qian Chuan'er sighed.
Among them, the most troublesome thing here is Qian Chuan'er. When the Japanese artillery position was retreating, he actually got a Japanese yellow woolen coat back.
It was different to have an extra layer to keep out the cold. Qian Chuan'er felt the warmth of the woolen coat, and she was naturally happy.
The situation at this time was like a student living in a dormitory. If someone spoke, someone would start a conversation. Qiu Bo then said, "When are you going to sleep? Use a stick to prop up your eyelids when you're sleepy!"
Qiu Bo's words directly caused the soldiers who were closing their eyes to relax and start laughing.
"Who can't be cursed to death?" Qian Chuan'er cursed with a smile, and all the soldiers laughed again.
The reason why everyone laughed was because this time the eyelids were held up with a stick, which all had an allusion.
Before the battle, when they put the dead Japanese commander Cao on the carriage, they could have done it by letting the corpse sit. After all, there was a fool behind him who was supporting him with his shoulders and hands.
But Mr. Wang said that it would not work if he closed his eyes. The Japanese had telescopes, and people would be suspicious if they saw him closing his eyes.
Everyone agreed with the plan that Shang Zhen came up with, in which everyone rode in a carriage and pretended to be Japanese soldiers for a sneak attack.
When that time comes, no one is willing to retreat, so what should we do? How could the Japanese army not see the loopholes? And the answer is that Mr. Wang really used two matchsticks to close the eyelids of the Japanese Army Commander!
They had no intention of directly blending into the Japanese artillery positions. As long as they got within a hundred meters, they could actually open fire.
At such a distance, even if the Japanese army used telescopes, it was impossible to find anything abnormal in the eyes of the dead Cao Chang. How could they see that Cao Chang's eyes had turned into dead fish eyes from a distance of a hundred meters? What about color?
As for when they got close to sixty or seventy meters away from the Japanese army, some Japanese soldiers discovered that the Japanese soldier had one eye open and one closed, which meant that a matchstick supporting his eyelids had fallen off.
As for when Shang Zhen dropped, they didn't know at all, and they didn't find it.
However, a Japanese soldier discovered it, and Chang Cao turned his eyes open and closed, but the Japanese soldier was shot to death by Shang Zhen and the others.
Who would notice such details when the battle is tense? In the long history, such details are not even a speck of dust!
But now Qian Chuan'er accidentally brought up the eyelid fight again, and Qiu Bo slipped in just in time. How could everyone be unhappy?
After laughing for a while, Hu Zhuzhu said again: "It's still cold, how about we sleep next to the horse?"
This sentence caused everyone to laugh again.
It was true that the horse and three mules were still with them, but the problem was that the horses and mules slept standing up.
So horses and mules don't lie down to sleep? That's not to say there aren't any, but at least they haven't seen it.
"Why don't we let the horse and mule lie down? It would be so hot to sleep on the horse's belly!" Hu Zhuzhu said to himself.
"The horses and mules are so bearish, I don't think you can let them lie down." Erhanzi snorted, and then made a sound, but Erhanzi found the money string directly without using it. As Erhanzi spoke, Qian Chuaner gave half of the Japanese soldier's yellow woolen coat to Erhanzi.
"Then let's get a few more people and push the horse over for him!" Hu Zhuzhu just had one-sided thinking, but he also knew that it was impossible for untrained horses and mules to lie down on their own.
After Hu Zhuzhu said this, he really got up, but at this moment Old Huotou said: "Can't you just calm down for a while? How cold is it now? Can't bear the cold? Imagine it. Further north in Jilin and Heilongjiang there are still people fighting with the Japanese, and the weather is so bad in winter, how can people endure it?"
What the old man said is undoubtedly reasonable.
Come to think of it, ice stubble has just formed here, but what about Jilin and Heilongjiang further north? Even if there is no dripping water to turn into ice, it is always more than ten degrees below zero at night. There is no way to feel comfortable during the war. Anti-Japanese volunteers who want to come there should sleep in the mountains and forests.
Even though it is said to be the three northeastern provinces, there are still differences in the degree of coldness depending on the geographical latitude.
Everyone imagines that a person is exposed to temperatures as low as 20 to 30 degrees below zero or even as low as 40 degrees.
How could I sleep on the top of the mountain? I shivered involuntarily.
What is happiness? Contentment is called happiness. How does contentment arise? Contentment comes from comparison.
They imagined the hardships of those soldiers who were fighting the Japanese soldiers like themselves, and suddenly they felt that they were no longer cold, or that even if they felt cold, they did not feel that it was so unbearable.
Hu Zhuzi fell silent, and everyone stopped talking. Soon, snoring could be heard in the forest, and the soldiers who had been fighting for a day finally fell asleep.
