The evening sun shone obliquely into the woods, and Shang Zhen and the other five people were walking dully in the woods.
In the end, Shang Zhen did not bury his third brother Li Fushun according to his own ideas.
The main reason here is Chen Hanwen's persuasion.
What Chen Hanwen said was, I understand your feelings very well, but have you ever thought that it is unrealistic for you to bury your third brother!
As for why this was unrealistic, Chen Hanwen gave Shang Zhen a detailed analysis.
Now it is their Northeast Army that has been defeated, and it is a great defeat.
You must know that in this battle, Zhang Lianjie's battalion was originally in a guard position, or just there to make up the numbers.
If they were beaten like this, then one can imagine how those main forces were beaten by the Japanese army.
Cleaning up the battlefield after a defeat was the Japanese army's job.
No one knew how the Japanese army would deal with the bodies of the anti-Japanese officers and soldiers who died in battle.
The Japanese army is cleaning up the battlefield. You, Ma Gan, can't go and collect the bodies, right?
This was a big battle, and so many people died. It was dark when the Japanese army finished cleaning up the battlefield. So do you know what the Japanese army did with those bodies?
Besides, you can’t find your brother in the dark, and you don’t have a flashlight. But even if you have a flashlight in the dark, would you dare to use it?
I understand that you want to bury your third brother, but are we only burying your third brother?
Our company commander, our platoon leader, and the superiors of these two brothers (referring to Qian Chuan'er and Erhanzi), those brothers who have died in battle, won't they be buried?
We haven’t eaten yet, how are we going to get through this?
It should be said that Chen Hanwen's explanation was reasonable and he left Shang Zhen speechless.
Finally, Chen Hanwen said that soldiers died on the battlefield, it was fate!
Since we want to fight the Japanese, maybe one day we will die too. Will we still expect others to collect our bodies?
Chen Hanwen was indeed a scholar, and his words were very logical. In the end, Shang Zhen could only silently glance at the direction of the battlefield and walk to the southwest.
Now Shang Zhen and the other five people were not walking fast, naturally because they were hungry.
Hou Kanshan, who was walking in front, glanced at the four people around him and finally stopped. He reached into his pocket, took out a piece of dry food, and then looked at the four people.
Hou Kanshan didn't say anything, but just spread the piece of dry food on the palm of his hand.
His meaning was very clear.
I only have this little bit of dry food, what do you think I should do?
Shang Zhen and the other three were looking at the piece of dry food.
That's a steamed bun.
The steamed buns nowadays are definitely not snow-white. Many of them are ground with the crude method of using a donkey-pulled stone mill, and they will have wheat bran on them.
The steamed bun was covered in dirt after its owner, Hou Kanshan, rolled around in battle.
Even so, this steamed bun still made everyone feel a sour feeling in their stomach.
"Come by yourself, I don't believe we won't find a village!" Qian Chuan'er said this and continued walking forward.
Since Qian Chuan'er said so, Erhanzi, who had always been Qian Chuan'er's follower, swallowed his saliva and followed him.
Erhanzi felt that he was the one who could least bear hunger among the five people, simply because he was the strongest. People with great strength often get hungry faster than those with less strength.
But no matter how hungry he was, he had to stay consistent with Qian Chuan'er.
Of course Shang Zhen was also hungry. He even knew that he was even hungrier than Erhanzi, because he didn't know why he had been a big eater for some time.
But Hou Kanshan won’t eat anything no matter how hungry he is!
Just as Chen Hanwen passed by Hou Kanshan, Hou Kanshan broke the piece of dry food into two halves and handed one half to him.
Hou Kanshan naturally understood that Qin Hui had three other friends.
He now realized that although Qian Chuan'er and Erhanzi did not say much to him, they had fought shoulder to shoulder with Shang Zhen.
The three of them are in the same group, so he must also make friends with someone, otherwise, wouldn't he be too isolated in this temporary small group?
Chen Hanwen looked at Hou Kanshan with gratitude, reached out to take the half steamed bun, and the two of them walked behind while eating.
The sound of two people eating steamed buns was not loud.
As the saying goes, "When others are very hungry, if you eat without snorting, that is also a virtue"!
The five people continued to walk in the woods under the mottled shadows of the trees in the setting sun, but they became even hungrier!
Shang Zhen, Qian Chuan'er and Erhanzi, who had nothing to eat, were of course unhappy, but Hou Kanshan and Chen Hanwen, who each ate half a steamed bun, seemed to have used that half a steamed bun to satisfy their gluttony and were really feeling hungry.
After they walked for nearly half an hour, the road ahead suddenly became clear.
At this moment, Hou Kanshan and Chen Hanwen, who were walking behind, heard Qian Chuaner and Erhanzi in front of them cheering.
"What's wrong?" Chen Hanwen.
"There is a village!" Erhanzi replied.
"Let's go and get something to eat!" Qian Chuan'er said happily.
At this time, Erhanzi asked naively: "Chuan'er, do you have money?"
This question is a bit silly.
Hou, who was walking behind, wanted to laugh just by looking at the mountain.
I'm a soldier. I don't have to pay for eating out in the city, so why should I spend money in the village?
So Hou Kanshan said something, but he never expected that what he said was exactly the same as what Qian Chuan'er said. They both said almost at the same time: "I have a gun!"
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When only the last trace of red remained in the western sky, it was almost dark.
Shang Zhen and the other five, who had already eaten their fill, were lying on the hay outside.
That was the grass they pulled from the haystack of the family they exchanged it for food.
When Shang Zhen heard Hou Kanshan and Qian Chuaner say at the same time, "I have a gun," he thought the two men were going to use guns to steal food.
It's a bit of a stretch to say that soldiers and bandits are one family, but for defeated guerrillas like them, if they really have nothing to eat, Shang Zhen believes that, not to mention others, Hou Kanshan would definitely use a gun to steal food.
However, the food they finally obtained was not robbed with guns, nor was it given to them because the locals in the team said they were an anti-Japanese team. It was obtained by Qian Chuan'er using a captured rifle!
What is the Northeast? The Northeast refers to the area originally known as the Northeast. The people there are known for their toughness. Apparently, the family that exchanged food for them didn't mind having an extra rifle.
Shang Zhen didn't know how much a gun would sell for in Northeast China at the moment, but in his opinion, it wouldn't be too much to exchange a gun for a big fat pig, right?
"Qian Chuanzi, can you tell me why we lost this time?" Hou Kanshan, who thought he was already familiar with Qian Chuaner, said to him.
Not to mention Hou Kanshan, even the survivors Shang Zhen and Chen Hanwen couldn't understand why they were about to win the battle but ended up losing it so miserably.
Hou Kanshan had asked Qian Chuan'er on the way here, but everyone was very hungry and tired at the time, and Qian Chuan'er didn't have the heart to answer his question.
Now that everyone has eaten and drunk their fill, they can naturally talk about serious matters, but Hou Kanshan did not notice that Qian Chuan'er frowned in the dark.
Qian Chuan'er certainly doesn't like Hou Kanshan calling himself "Qian Chuan'er".
A money string of course refers to a string of copper coins.
But the problem is that in Northeast China, money strings do not just refer to strings of copper coins, they also refer to a kind of insect.
That kind of insect is called a centipede.
Centipede is one of the traditional five poisonous animals, the other four being snakes, scorpions, centipedes and spiders.
The centipede is a type of centipede. Because it has many claws on both sides, it looks like a string of copper coins.
However, compared with Shang Zhen, Qian Chuan'er, who was at least a veteran, tolerated Hou Kanshan's rudeness after all. He began to tell the story slowly.