People are always very adaptable.
The four eastern provinces were lost, and their home and country were ruined, but the living must continue to live. At least Shang Zhen and the others, who had their free time now, were very happy.
The deserters' grievances were exonerated. In Da Lao Hu's company, Da Lao Hu never gave them any work, and even gave them a spare room in a fellow villager's house.
Shang Zhen and the others live opposite Big Old Hu, which is company commander-level treatment.
You know, there are tens of thousands of people on both sides of the enemy and we are now on the Nantianmen front line. How can there be so many residential houses to requisition? The vast majority of people are sleeping under the sky.
Other soldiers could never say anything about the treatment Shang Zhen and his companions received. Mentally, they could only look up to Shang Zhen and others!
Even though Little Dustpan has grown half a head unknowingly in the past two years, even though he is still the shortest, the other soldiers nodded and bowed when they looked at Little Dustpan.
Since this place was already inside the customs and the supply of supplies was not interrupted, Hou Kanshan found cigarettes for Wang Laomao, and the two of them often sat together and "smoked" together.
Chu Tian and Chen Hanwen spent time together every day, and what they said was only half-literary and half-literary, and sometimes they confused others.
Hu Zhuzi and Er Hanzi were the most worry-free. They slept when they were full and ate after they had slept enough. At least for the past two days, they had lived like two simple and happy pigs.
The others didn't go out of the yard, they all had their own things to do. Only Shang Zhen was walking around the house as usual.
In the past few days, they could still hear the faint sound of cannons ahead, but they had become accustomed to it.
Of course they know that many Chinese soldiers like them are being killed or surviving under the indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese aircraft and artillery, but so what, people, just say what you say then!
Little people have little people's happiness, and big people also have big people's troubles.
Brigadier Liu Chengyi was troubled. He was already unhappy when he came back after going to the 17th Army. Then he called his officers together for a meeting.
But when the meeting was held, Liu Chengyi had a cold face and refused to say anything.
Fortunately, the officers under him were all old men brought out by him. Everyone was used to his temper and temperament. While everyone was guessing why the brigade commander was unhappy, they turned their attention to the man named Li Xiang. Staff officer.
Li Xiang is less than thirty years old this year, but he is the one whom Liu Chengyi values the most.
Everyone speculated that as long as the battle was over, regardless of victory or defeat, Li Xiang would be able to firmly assume the position of brigade chief of staff.
"Brigadier, I wonder how the battle is going?" Seeing that the brigade commander was unhappy, Li Xiang asked cautiously.
"His grandma!" Liu Chengyi cursed first.
As soon as Liu Chengyi began to curse, his officers secretly breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the brigade commander spoke, the problem would not be big and he would have something to talk about.
Sure enough, Liu Chengyi then started to talk to himself: "Now the Japanese have occupied the eight buildings and are besieging Highland 421. The three divisions of the 17th Army also suffered heavy losses. The Nantianmen has been lost. It’s a matter of time.”
Having said this, Liu Chengyi touched his pocket and took out a cigarette. Li Xiang, who was standing next to him, hurriedly lit his cigarette with a lighter.
Just after Liu Chengyi exhaled a puff of smoke, Li Xiang asked speculatively:
"The Seventeenth Army is the elite of the Central Army. Don't they have German weapon masters? Can't they even defeat the Japanese army?"
"Alas." Liu Chengyi sighed, "They are elite divisions, but they are still compared with us Chinese, they are just the bigger ones, but compared with the Japanese, they are still inferior!"
Planes, artillery, heavy machine guns, and those Japanese grenade launchers, do you think we have them? The Japanese tanks haven't come out yet! "
What Liu Chengyi lamented is also known to everyone.
These officers under him were all selected by him from the original regiment. They were from Ningyuan City and they were forced to bear the Japanese attack. How could they not know what kind of firepower the Japanese army had?
However, the fact that the Japanese military strength and the Northeast Army are strong is very clear. This should not be the main reason for Liu Chengyi's bad mood!
In this case, if you clearly know that your opponent is strong, what's the use of just being angry? There must be something else going on!
Li Xiang thought about it and asked again: "The Japanese army is not so stubborn for a day or two, and the brigade commander does not need to worry about this matter.
No matter what I say this time, it’s not just our Northeastern Army that is fighting the Japanese on our own, aren’t all the other armies going to fight? The Northeast can always be recovered with the efforts of the whole country. "
"What the hell!" Just after Li wanted to finish these words, Liu Chengyi slapped the table and stood up.
He slapped it so hard that his officers were startled.
"That's why I'm angry. People from the Central Army say that their people are fighting to the death in the front, but they say that our Northeastern Army is enjoying peace and quiet in the back!
His grandma’s fault, how can I enjoy such a happy life? I’m almost out of a group! "
Only then did Liu Chengyi's officers understand why Liu Chengyi was angry.
"You can't say that! What kind of bullshit do they say from the Central Military Army?" Li Xiang answered, "Why do they have to tolerate the Central Military Army?
If our Northeast Army starts fighting with the Japanese from the beginning, which of them will come to help? Aren't you just watching the fun in Guan?
This time they hit Shanhaiguan, the gateway to North China, and they had to come out.
Then don’t we still have volunteers in the Northeast? Do you think they have supported him with a shot or a bullet? "
Li Xiang's words naturally represent Liu Chengyi's thoughts, and also represent the thoughts of these officers.
Why didn't the Northeast Army fight on September 18th? Naturally, these people have discussed the above intention in private.
That was simply because the higher-ups felt that they could not defeat the Japanese army, so they were thinking of enduring and making concessions. When the League of Nations intervened, the Northeastern Army preserved its strength while preventing other domestic factions from taking advantage.
This kind of thing is everyone's own idea, but no one expected that the Japanese actually took it seriously, but they took advantage of it, and they actually defeated the entire four northeastern provinces!
"That's not what they said. Let's just talk about what's in front of us. Our regiment is almost wiped out. Isn't the cavalry brigade also a counterattack for the Japanese army? Isn't that also from our Northeast Army?" At this time, another officer Speak.
"That's it!" One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and then another officer wanted to speak.
"Okay! Just stop saying a few words!" At this moment, Liu Chengyi saw that the crowd below him was so angry that he calmed down.
When he spoke, the officers naturally shut up.
"Everyone is playing for their own purposes, but they are taking advantage of little Japan. People are not unified!" Liu Chengyi sighed, and then he said with a serious look on his face, "I have already expressed my complaints, let's get down to business.
After all, the Northeast was lost to us Northeasterners. We are the hosts, and our wives and children are also in the Northeast. If we don’t do our best ourselves, how can you expect others?
Since people say that we enjoy peace and happiness, we can't do anything about the current situation of our trip, but we still need to do something about the superficial articles. "
Upon hearing what Liu Chengyi said, his officers realized something. It seemed that the brigade commander Liu Chengyi had an idea.
Think about it, the Northeast is the home of the Northeastern people. Although we all have a common name called China, it is always inappropriate for the Northeastern people to ask other provinces to contribute their own efforts instead of working hard.
"Brigadier, what do you mean-" Li Xiang moved closer to Liu Chengyi.
