Shang Zhen, wearing ragged clothes, appeared in front of the brigade commander Liu Chengyi just like the soldiers on guard duty.
There were several officers with Liu Chengyi, including Li Xiang, and even Fatty Wang Wang Qingfeng.
The appearance of Shang Zhen naturally became the focus of attention in the room.
This room was only temporarily requisitioned by Liu Chengyi. The final destination of his New Seventh Brigade was Tianjin, and it was only a temporary garrison here after dark.
Even though the house he expropriated was a large household in this town, the windows were also made of window paper. It was dusk again, and the room seemed very dark.
"Report to the brigade commander!" When Shang Zhen put down the bag in his hand, he saluted Liu Chengyi, and then, he had nothing more to say.
Shang Zhen rarely talks to people he doesn't know well, let alone now that he has met the brigade commander.
As the saying goes, if you don't feel embarrassed, others will.
Anyway, he was used to silence, so he and the officers stared at each other for a moment. After all, it was Liu Chengyi who spoke first.
"You're done with the report?" Liu Chengyi's face was still serious and smiling, but he also felt that Shang Zhen was a bit weird now. How to put it, he couldn't explain it at the moment.
"Yes." Shang Zhen answered again and still stood at attention.
"You are the one who said you should take the blame, why are you pretending to be a concubine with me here?" Shang Zhen's performance almost made Liu Chengyi's nose crooked.
Then, Liu Chengyi came over, but like the squad leader on duty, he stretched out his hand and plucked the few wormwood sticks stuck in Shang Zhen's neck and collar.
So the dry and fine pieces on the mugwort, and it was unclear whether they were leaves or seeds, fell into the collar of the back of Shang Zhen's neck.
But this time Shang Zhen didn't dare to say scratching, but he still stood there.
"Come on, come on! Come and take a look!" Liu Chengyi laughed angrily at Shang Zhen, "Where did he get so many broken mugwort stalks, and then he came to me to apologize for it!"
When Liu Chengyi said this, several of his officers laughed, and Wang Qingfeng laughed the loudest and most unrestrainedly.
Wang Qingfeng was naturally happy to see Shang Zhen mocked.
But as soon as Wang Qingfeng laughed a few times, Liu Chengyi looked at him, and his laughter stopped abruptly like a duck that had its neck pinched.
"What the hell!" After Liu Chengyi glared at Wang Qingfeng, he looked at Shang Zhen and smiled. He kicked Shang Zhen on the butt and said, "You said you came here to plead guilty, but you are here to pretend to be boring. If you say something, you will fart!"
And under Liu Chengyi's kick, Liu Chengyi, who had always been quiet and extremely stern in Shang Zhen's mind, became alive in his mind.
They are all from the Northeast. Even the taciturn commander still has the temper of a Northeastern person. This temper is very similar to that of Mr. Wang!
So Shang Zhen spoke: "Report to the brigade commander, those of us have disobeyed military orders. I just want to ask the brigade commander for a favor and see if I can kill them for the sake of their ability to fight Japanese--"
Shang Zhen was about to speak but stopped.
"Let them go? Ha" Liu Chengyi guessed the meaning of Shang Zhen's words.
"No, no, it's a meritorious service, hehe." Shang Zhen smiled sheepishly.
"If you say that, you can think about it, right?" Liu Chengyi turned his eyes to the officers under him, as if asking for their opinions, and he even took a special look at Li Xiang.
The most embarrassing person right now is probably Li Xiang.
It was he who arrested Mr. Wang and others in the name of disobeying military orders.
But after being arrested, he also understood that he was in the wrong for not covering Shang Zhen's retreat!
And the brigade commander Li Chengyi especially likes soldiers who can fight Japanese soldiers. Otherwise, if he behaves like Shang Zhen and others, they will be punished by military law long ago!
So after he escorted Mr. Wang and the others back, he asked Liu Chengyi for instructions on how to deal with them.
As expected, Liu Chengyi asked Old Hu again.
Da Lao Hu didn't mention in front of Li Xiang that they didn't cover Shang Zhen's retreat, but he said that Wang Lao Mao and the others had two brothers killed in the battle while none of us were killed. He was a little excited, so he Impulsive.
So Liu Chengyi said that we should wait until Shang Zhen comes back.
Then the whole brigade retreated, until now Shang Zhen came to plead for mercy.
But even if Big Lao Hu didn't say to his face that they had no cover, Li Xiang now knew that Liu Chengyi must have known that he had made a mistake in commanding the war, otherwise his position as chief of staff would not be credible. It’s over!
So this matter was left hanging like this, which made Li Xiang feel anxious.
But now that Shang Zhen is back, he can't even say anything and can only listen.
"I said that your people have been fighting Japanese devils a lot, so tell me how many Japanese devils you have killed in total?
You just came back now, pretending to be a beggar. How many Japanese have you killed? "At this time, an officer under Liu Chengyi spoke.
Shang Zhen glanced at the officer, and he really knew him, just because the officer was a regiment leader under Liu Chengyi, and his last name was very rare, Mou (mù).
When Li Le, the guard company commander, was still alive, he would call people "Moo Commander" whenever he saw them, but that was the "moo" of an old cow.
"Reporting to the brigade commander, sirs, there are four of us this time. When we came back, we were next to Hill 421. We killed a total of fourteen Japanese Japs.
At that time, more than twenty people came, and we didn’t even count how many people came back. "Shang Zhen replied quickly.
Um? Shang Zhen's answer made everyone present brighten up!
The Japanese soldiers are difficult to fight. Who in the Northeast Army doesn't know this? But now that Shang Zhen said that the four of them killed fourteen Japanese devils, it was impossible not to arouse their interest.
"You're not lying, are you? What's the evidence? How did you fight?" Sure enough, before anyone else could ask, Liu Chengyi spoke first.
“As evidence, we did capture a dozen grenades belonging to the Japs, but it’s not like we didn’t bring them with us when we came to the brigade commander.
However, I now have this evidence, which also happens to be a trophy, which I can give to the brigade commander to have a taste of. "Shang Zhen reported again.
"What are you throwing away? What are you talking about?" Liu Chengyi's curiosity was aroused by Shang Zhen's story.
It is possible to say that the four of them, Shang Zhen, killed more than a dozen Japanese Japs. Liu Chengyi also felt that Shang Zhen might not be lying, but Shang Zhen said that the spoils of war allowed him to taste something new. How could he not be curious?
At this time, Shang Zhen was already interested when he saw Liu Chengyi, and the success of "rescuing" Mr. Wang and the others increased a bit.
He hurriedly bent down and opened the bag he had carried.
And when he opened the bag, everyone in the room was stunned for a moment, and then Captain Mou pointed at the trophy and shouted: "Is this your trophy?"
What was in that bag was black and shiny, but still oily on top. They were two dog thighs that had been cooked!
"You idiot, do you think we have never eaten dog meat?" Wang Qingfeng also added.
"This is not ordinary dog meat. Have you ever eaten dog meat from a Japanese giant wolfdog?" Shang Zhen asked.
He was respectful to everyone in the room, even Li Xiang and Shang Zhen, but he was really not respectful to Wang Qingfeng.
"You mean, this is a Japanese dog?" Liu Chengyi asked, looking at the legs of the two dogs.
"Yes!" Shang Zhen replied matter-of-factly, "We captured a Japanese big wolf dog, and then we made the big wolf dog bark, and then we chose a terrain to attract the Japanese and lay an ambush.
We had grenades, box cannons, and flower traps, so we killed more than ten Japanese. "
Shang Zhen answered very carefully. He answered so carefully, but he had his own narrow-mindedness. He was really afraid of these brothers in the Northeast Army. The box and firecracker mechanism had done great service in the hands of people like him. Stealing our weapons at every turn.
Hearing what Shang Zhen said, Brigadier Liu Chengyi reached out and touched his chin out of habit. He pondered, if Shang Zhen said this, it would be pretty much the same. At least it would be logically sound and there would be no loopholes.
"Pull him down quickly! You think that big Japanese wolfdog is your own, and you can catch him if you ask!" But at this time, Wang Qingfeng was doubting.
Although Wang Qingfeng and Shang Zhen are not enemies of life and death, they are really at odds with each other. The front tooth he lost has not had time to be fixed!
"Yes, you still have to explain this matter." Liu Chengyi said.
Everyone naturally looked at Shang Zhen, but at this time Shang Zhen fell silent.
"Can't you explain? I can tell at a glance that you are bragging!" Wang Qingfeng said, thinking he had a trick.
"Shut your mouth, why are you so rude to others!" Just as Wang Qingfeng was complacent, his brother-in-law Liu Chengyi scolded him again.
Therefore, Wang Qingfeng could only shut up, and he could only bury his resentment towards Shang Zhen in his heart.
"Actually, alas." Shang Zhen sighed first, and then said, "You also know that after the battle in Highland 421, there were dead people all around. The dead little Japs were naturally taken back by their people, but Our people — ended up attracting some wild dogs.”
When Shang Zhen said this, everyone's expressions changed.
Yes, the people guarding Nantianmen on Highland 421 are all members of the 17th Army, but they are also the Chinese Army!
Could they have imagined what Shang Zhen was going to say?
"It happened that there was a bitch among those wild dogs, and the bitch attracted the Japanese wolfdogs. When they were doing that, we caught them."
Um? At this point, Shang Zhen's words became quieter and quieter, but the eyes of everyone listening became brighter and brighter. After a while, a burst of laughter broke out in the room!
