The Spring Festival of the 22nd year of the Republic of China is coming soon.
Perhaps for most of China, this year was no different from any other. The rich continued to indulge in luxury, while the poor continued to freeze to death on the streets. Wealthy men dreamed of marrying new concubines, while poor couples shed silent tears because they had no money for medical treatment.
However, a different situation had emerged in the entire Northeast China. The Japanese army had almost occupied all of the Northeast China. The Jiangqiao Anti-Japanese War failed, and the Harbin Counterattack also failed. In the end, the front line was temporarily stabilized at the Rehe line.
At this time, someone was feeding pigs next to a pig house far north of Suizhou City.
"Lambs, come here!" "Wow", amid the grunts of a group of pigs, a bucket of pig feed was poured directly into the trough, and the pigs then pushed each other to grab the food.
"Toad, don't cry. You'll be angry until the fifteenth day of the eighth month. Pigs will be killed on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. The toad is so angry that he's crying!" Erhanzi, holding an empty bucket in his hand, stood outside the pigpen and looked at the big fat pigs.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Hu Zhuzi, who was standing next to Er Hanzi, said critically, "This year's Mid-Autumn Festival has already passed, and next year's Mid-Autumn Festival hasn't even arrived yet!"
"Everyone says Hu Zhuzi is a tiger, but our Hu Zhuzi is not a tiger!" Qin Chuan, who was also standing next to them, joked.
Qin Chuan's words attracted the support of a large group of people around him, and these people were Shang Zhen and his group - the current pig-raising soldiers!
At this time, except Qian Chuan'er and Qiu Bo who were out, others such as Wang Laomao, Ma Tianfang, Xiao Boji and others were naturally also there.
But while they were looking at these big fat pigs, they were also observing an officer standing outside the pigpen.
That was the logistics officer of the 626th Regiment, the regiment stationed in Suizhong.
Wang Laomao and his companions were observing the logistics officer, while the logistics officer was observing the fat pigs in the pen with a critical eye.
"Are all the pigs in here?" the logistics officer finally asked.
"Reporting to Captain Wang, no! Logistics Officer Wang, there are 21 fat pigs here, including 14 castrated boars and 7 sows, two of which are old sows, which are reserved for giving birth next year!" Someone stepped forward to report, and that person was Qin Chuan.
After hearing Qin Chuan's report, the logistics officer Wang frowned.
Logically speaking, how could a logistics officer be a company commander, but this officer happened to be a captain.
Just because his surname is Wang and his name is Wang Qingfeng, he is the company commander who led his team to escape regardless of the wounded, and Shang Zhen and his group followed them to Suizhou.
"What's your name? Where is Qian Chuanzi?" Wang Qingfeng asked Qin Chuan coldly.
"Report to Wang Lian, no! Officer Wang, Qian Chuaner has entered the county town!" Qin Chuan answered again.
Wang Qingfeng snorted without comment and looked down at the pig again, while Qin Chuan acted like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water and just looked at Wang Qingfeng with his neck stiffened.
"Please repeat what you just said to me." Wang Qingfeng looked at Qin Chuan and asked again.
"Report to Officer Wang, Qian Chuaner has entered the county town!" Qin Chuan repeated again.
"It's not this sentence, it's the previous one, the one about the pig." Wang Qingfeng said again with a frown.
"Reporting to Officer Wang, there are a total of 21 fat pigs here, including 14 castrated boars and 7 sows, including two old sows, which are reserved for giving birth next year--" Qin Chuan naturally continued to report, but his voice became lower and lower as he reported, because at this time he also felt that something was wrong!
"Get out of here and report what's going on?" Wang Qingfeng cursed.
Qin Chuan blushed, and most of the other soldiers around him burst into laughter.
Yeah, what the hell is that in the group report?
Two of the old sows are reserved for giving birth next year. Well, there are 7 sows and 14 boars. Although the number of boars is a bit small, the problem is that if you castrate all 14 princesses, who will the sows find to give birth?!
Wang Qingfeng's face turned pale, and Qin Chuan, who realized that he was wrong, immediately smiled with a red face. They really didn't regard this logistics officer as an officer!
The number of boars and sows combined is correct, but how could Qin Chuan know which one is the boar and which one is the sow? He was just talking nonsense!
At this time, Ma Tianfang, who was watching from the side, muttered in a low voice: "He is obviously a man, why is his name Feng!"
Ma Tianfang's words brought a smile to the face of his companion beside him.
As the saying goes, enemies often meet. This "enemy" does not necessarily have to be a man or a woman, it can also be a man. However, Shang Zhen and his group really became enemies with Wang Qingfeng.
The reason for this situation, of course, was that Wang Qingfeng abandoned the wounded soldiers.
The wounded soldier cursed Wang Qingfeng and then died of vomiting blood.
Although Shang Zhen and his men were indignant, they could not interfere in other people's affairs and had nothing to say. After all, they had to accompany Wang Qingfeng's company to return to the main force. In the end, Shang Zhen and his men followed Wang Qinghua's company to Guanshan Suizhong, the next place in Ningyuan.
Suizhong is not far from Shanhaiguan, where there is a pass of the Great Wall called Jiumenkou Great Wall, which is the only part of the Great Wall built on water.
Although Shang Zhen and his men were extremely angry about Wang Qingfeng's actions, they could only hold it in. Just when they thought that they, the guerrillas, would never have anything to do with Wang Qingfeng again, trouble arose.
I don't know who reported the incident of Wang Qingfeng abandoning the wounded soldiers and not caring about the last wounded soldier who vomited blood and died, which directly aroused the anger of the soldiers.
But it just so happened that the commander of the 626th Regiment of the Northeast Army stationed in Suizhong was Wang Qingfeng's brother-in-law.
I don’t know how many things in this world are ruined because of the relationship between brother-in-law and brother-in-law.
When Wang Qingfeng's brother-in-law saw that his brother-in-law had aroused the anger among the people, in order to show that he was fair and selfless, he stopped Wang Qingfeng from serving in the combat unit and sent him to the regiment to take charge of logistics.
How would Shang Zhen and the others know who reported Wang Qingfeng's little trouble to the higher-ups? It definitely wasn't them!
It’s just that Shang Zhen and the others have a clear conscience about this matter, but Wang Qingfeng doesn’t think so.
Generally speaking, if stragglers and defeated soldiers like Shang Zhen can find their original units, they will be reintegrated into the organization.
But if they cannot be found, they will be incorporated into the local troops on the spot.
Shang Zhen and his companions wanted to leave but failed, and were directly kept in Suizhou by the regiment commander, Wang Qingfeng's brother-in-law.
They were not assigned any tasks, nor were they put into the lower battalions or companies. Instead, they were sent to a pigsty to raise pigs!
Wang Laomao and the others were naturally dissatisfied with the behavior of Wang Qingfeng's brother-in-law, the head of the group, but Shang Zhen was very happy and agreed to stay.
Shang Zhen said, just raise pigs, people here provide us with food and water, we don’t have any combat missions yet.
Shang Zhen also said that since people are allowed to raise pigs, we can secretly raise a few more pigs ourselves, for example, we can kill them and eat the meat during the Chinese New Year.
The reason why Shang Zhen said this was because he suddenly realized that he had a rare opportunity to strengthen his training, so why didn't he stay?
Wang Laomao and the others thought that what Shang Zhen said made sense. Even if they didn't stay here, they would have to fight no matter which army they joined.
Shang Zhen and his team arrived in Suizhong at the end of the previous year, and they stayed in that pig house this year, raising pigs for the 626th Regiment!
While they were raising pigs, Wang Qingfeng, who was in charge of logistics, would naturally come to inspect from time to time.
They disliked each other at first sight, so naturally they were not very harmonious.
"There are more than ten of you, and each of you can't even feed two pigs? Is this how you eat your military pay?" At this time, Wang Qingfeng looked at the pigs in the pigsty and started to find fault again.
"Reporting to the boss, this is what my aunt said!" Qin Chuan calmly answered when he heard Wang Qingfeng started to find fault again.
As soon as Wang Qingfeng came, Qian Chuan'er was responsible for receiving her every time, simply because Qian Chuan'er was eloquent and his style of dealing with Wang Qingfeng was always soft but sharp.
But this morning, Qian Chuan'er and Qiu Bo went to Suizhou County, so the job fell on Qin Chuan's head.
Logically speaking, this should have been Shang Zhen's job, but Shang Zhen was doing intensive training every day, so he had no time to take care of Wang Qingfeng.
As for asking Wang Laomao to put on a smile for Wang Qingfeng, that's simply a joke!
"It's not that we don't work, it's just that it's hard to find pig food. You said that the pigs can only be fed with some amaranth, ash grass seeds and the like. If the pigs eat too much ash grass, they will have diarrhea.
But this kind of pig grass is really hard to find. As you can see, there are ordinary people everywhere around here. We even had a quarrel with the old women in the nearby village over the pig feed!
Those old ladies also said, why are you soldiers preparing pig food? Logistics Officer Wang, what can we say?
Our leader is a man who cares about the people. If we fight with the people for stealing pig food, wouldn’t that damage the leader’s reputation?
Alas, it’s hard for us as Queen’s logistics officers!” Qin Chuan began to complain.
Wang Qingfeng snorted. He knew he couldn't get anything out of the question, so he looked around. Then he saw a path on the snow leading to the woods in the distance.
"Where are your people going in the middle of winter?" Wang Qingfeng asked coldly.
"Our men go to that woods every day to practice bayonet fighting, shooting, and aiming." Qin Chuan replied calmly, and then he shouted again, "Scholar! What did you say the other day?"
The scholar was of course referring to Chen Hanwen. When Chen Hanwen saw Qin Chuan calling him, he did not step out of the group and directly replied, "I dare not forget my country even though I am in a low position!"
"You dare not forget your country even though you are in a low position? Humph." Wang Qingfeng knew that he had no way to deal with these old soldiers, so he ignored Qian Chuan'er and walked forward along that road with his orderly.
He simply didn't believe that Shang Zhen and his gang only raised 21 pigs in a year! Could it be that these guys were doing something else in those woods, like raising a few more pigs there?
Seeing that Wang Qingfeng and his orderly turned around, the people behind them exchanged glances, and Qin Chuan, Erhanzi, Xiao Boji and others followed.
I'll update two chapters today, and five chapters tomorrow. Although two chapters is a bit short, one chapter has over 3,100 words. Don't accuse me of padding the word count, haha.