Lu Cao's group was camping, but Shang Zhen and the others were about to set off.
According to the information Lu Cao received from the division headquarters, they were only a few dozen miles away from the Japanese army.
The camping ground of Lu Cao's 691st Regiment is called Meihua Town, which is one of the few large towns with a radius of dozens of miles, with a population of more than 5,000.
What's even better is that around this town, there is a wall more than one foot high. The wall is wide enough to put people on it. This is a natural position.
Reuben ordered the soldiers to build fortifications on the wall to prepare for the Japanese attack.
You must know that this is the Jizhong Plain in Hebei Province.
Since it is a plain, there is no danger to defend, so Plum Blossom Town, which can be used as a position, becomes particularly important.
Seeing that Lu Cao was going to set up his position in Meihua Town, Shang Zhen said to Lu Cao, Commander Lu, you are busy first, while we go to the front to investigate the situation for you.
At that time, Lu Cao laughed and said, you should be more careful when you go out. It would be better if you can delay the Japanese attack time.
Shang Zhen said, don't expect us to serve as a guard post for you!
The reason why Shang Zhen said this certainly makes sense.
Wherever they meet the Japanese and how they attack them, they are all adaptable. If the 691st Regiment treats them as a guard post, it may really delay things.
Yes, Lu Cao replied at that time, we will treat you as foreigners!
Everyone laughed.
At this time, Lu Cao's daughter-in-law Gao Huaide asked curiously, where will you stay at night when you go out at this time?
At this time, the little dustpan said to the side, "A good man makes a bed on the ground and a quilt on the sky. There is no place where he can't sleep. Do you really think we are just here to play?"
Oops, what I said about the little dustpan is so encouraging! Everyone laughed.
And amidst everyone's laughter, Shang Zhen and the others marched towards the north under the afterglow of the setting sun.
Two hours later, when it was completely dark, Shang Zhen and the others appeared in a village with hundreds of households.
This Jizhong Plain is not like the three eastern provinces where you may only encounter a village for dozens of miles. Here, you will encounter a village after walking for several miles.
Shang Zhen and the others asked around all the way, and heard from the common people that they continued to move forward before the Japanese army arrived.
In the current situation, the Japanese army has occupied Peiping and Tianjin. It is only a matter of time before they attack Hebei. When the local people see national troops like Shang Zhen and others coming over and saying they want to fight the Japanese, they are all very excited. It's passion.
So after arriving in this village, a wealthy family invited them to their home.
Shang Zhen fell in love with the compound with walled turrets.
Finally, they moved in, and Shang Zhen took Mr. Wang and others directly to the corner building.
"The rich families here are really different from those in the Northeast!" Ma Tianfang sighed.
"That's right, we Northeasterners all came from Guandong. We are not as rich as here, and the houses are not as solid as here!" Qin Chuan responded.
"Look at the names of our families, Qijiazi, Bajiazi, ha, there are seven or eight families in total, which is considered a village.
If you look at this place, there are over a hundred households in a village. "Old Mao Wang also said.
"Okay, we've been gone all day. You go into the building and rest. Uncle Wang and I will watch outside for a while. You can come and replace us in the middle of the night." Shang Zhen ordered.
So, Qinchuan Ma Tian put it into the turret, and Shang Zhen and Wang Laomao stood outside.
Wang Laomao took out his cigarette out of habit, squatted down with his back to the wall, lit it, and started smoking.
"Uncle Wang, do you think Captain Lu is a Communist?" Shang Zhen asked, looking at the dark dusk.
"How did you see it?" Wang Laomao asked.
“When they rescued Instructor Hao in Xi’an, I wondered where they would hide Instructor Hao and the others.
If they were also members of the Northeastern Army, it would be difficult to hide them tightly. I guess they sent Instructor Hao and the others to the representatives of the Communist Party. "Shang Zhen continued.
"Also, their regiment has good discipline and does not disturb the people." Mr. Wang added.
"Yeah." Shang Zhen responded. It turns out that Mr. Wang also feels the same way.
"What's wrong, you want to join the Communist Party too? Go see that little girl of yours!" asked Mr. Wang.
Shang Zhen and the others no longer knew anything about the Communist Party. The so-called "communist sharing of wives" was a joke. Of course Mr. Wang knew that Leng Xiaozhi had a good impression of Shang Zhen.
"I didn't think about it, they are too poor. What did you think?" Shang Zhen said. He didn't pick up on Leng Xiaozhi at all. If there was something he couldn't explain, it was best to avoid it.
"I don't want to join either. One of them is like you said. They are too poor. How can the poor swiss fight the Japanese with nothing? Also, their discipline is too strict. I am born with a beard. I can't eat meat for a few days. There’s no taste in my mouth!” Mr. Wang said with a smile.
Shang Zhen also laughed silently.
Yes, these people are already used to being free, and their brigade commander Liu Chengyi doesn't care much about them, but didn't they sneak out again?
"Is it easy to smoke?" Shang Zhen asked Mr. Wang again.
"It's not like you've never smoked before." Mr. Wang replied.
Shang Zhen had indeed smoked, but he only tasted it and couldn't stand the spicy feeling entering his lungs.
He was smoking because the smell of corpses on the battlefield was too great.
"Sigh, I don't know what the fight will be like this time." Shang Zhen sighed, "I'll probably beat him to pieces again until corpses litter the field. Thinking about the stench makes my head grow bigger."
"Ha." Mr. Wang laughed, "Actually, it's not that big of a deal. Maybe you'll do something like that by then. I'll have to smoke to suppress your smell!"
"You said you are older, how can you make a difference? I won't chat with you anymore!" Shang Zhen said angrily.
Mr. Wang heyed and stopped talking.
After that, the two people stopped talking and remained silent in the night. They had a premonition that they would definitely run into the Japanese army tomorrow.
Since arriving in Xi'an, they have not fought for almost two years. Who knows what is waiting for them this time?
At this time, just outside the house where most of them were sleeping, Qian Chuan'er, Chen Hanwen, and Chu Tian were also talking.
"What do I mean by saying that you have a shaved head and a hot head? People don't pay attention to you." Qian Chuan'er said in a low voice. But he was also talking about Leng Xiaozhi.
"If your parents order a matchmaker, how can you say it doesn't count if it doesn't count?" Chu Tian said disapprovingly.
"Pull it down quickly!" Qian Chuan'er said disapprovingly.
"Why did you pull him down?" Chu Tian was very stubborn.
"Now that they have all gone to the Communist Party of Northern Shaanxi, they will never meet again in this life. What's the use of worrying about them?" Qian Chuan'er continued to enlighten.
"Tell you, can you understand? Do you know what a peacock flies to the southeast? You just know that Meng Jiangnu cried at the Great Wall!" Chu Tian didn't want to continue the conversation, so he used an allusion to "smash" Qian Chuan'er.
"Why are you throwing a peacock to fly southeast? I really only know Meng Jiangnu crying about the Great Wall." Qian Chuan'er turned to ask Chen Hanwen.
"It's better to have a man and a woman. If the woman dies, the man will die too.
When both of them died, they turned into peacocks and flew southeast together. " Chen Hanwen explained.
"What a joke. That sucks!" Qian Chuan'er said with a smile, and then asked, "That's not what parents ordered a matchmaker to say. Let me ask you, when did you two get engaged?"
"Marriage is between fingertips." Chu Tian replied.
"I'm just saying you guys with ink in your belly are pretentious and hypocritical!" Qian Chuan'er sneered.
"Why are we so pretentious and hypocritical?" When Qian Chuan'er said this, Chen Hanwen was not happy either. He also thought that he had some ink in his stomach.
"Let me ask you, if your little cold kid is born lame, blind, or has some other problem, would you still want someone else? Just say that you fall in love with them, and your parents' orders are just an excuse." Qian Chuan Er said dissatisfied.
"I can't tell you Qiu Ba. As long as she's beautiful now, what do you care about? Go back to the house and sleep!" Chu Tian stood up and walked into the house.
"Same for you, do you care about this?" Seeing Chu Tian enter the room, Chen Hanwen said Qian Chuan'er.
"What do you know? Can't you see that Leng Xiaozhi likes our company commander?" Qian Chuan'er responded.
And he sighed in his heart. This time, the task that Mr. Wang taught him was not completed.
Li Yajuan likes Shang Zhen, Qian Chuaner "cuts off Hu" under Wang Laomao's instruction, and he and Li Yajuan get close.
Chu Tian also said that she was Leng Xiaozhi's fiancée, but Mr. Wang instructed Qian Chuan'er to persuade Chu Tian to leave.
This was Qian Chuan'er's second attempt, but Chu Tian was sure of Leng Xiaozhi.
How can this be done? Qian Chuan ignored Chen Hanwen and continued to think about it. This Chu Tian was looking for Leng Xiaozhi. If that didn't work, what if he had a chance to get Chu Tian a bitch to cause trouble for him? In this case, he has no face to pursue Leng Xiaozhi, so he should quit, right?
