under fire

Chapter 402 Forage
Thirty miles north of Hua County, outside the city of Jun County.

The village is shrouded in hazy moonlight.

Silent night.

The cavalry major lay in the broken courtyard, half-closed his eyes and looked at the deep sky, feeling inexplicably sorrowful in his heart.

As the military department abolished the cavalry department last year and established the armored department, the cavalry has gradually declined.

The cavalry became a search wing and was ordered to transform into a mechanized armored force. In Meixian, a squadron was lost, and promotion was basically hopeless. News came from the base camp that the cavalry would be merged into other divisions.

With the occasional neighing of war horses, there is no living commoner in the village except the imperial elite.

His mood slowly calmed down.

With the continuous expansion of the occupied area, there is a serious shortage of troops, and they can only occupy the towns, while the rebellious guerrillas hide in the countryside and move around like mice.

In order to ensure the safety of the railway line, the headquarters formulated a new operational plan, the cage policy has achieved initial results, and the fish have been hooked.

As long as the Eight Routes in the plain are completely wiped out, the entire Jizhong Plain will no longer have an established resistance force.

For this reason, he has stayed in this village for three days, and there are three other cavalry teams as silent as him in other directions!

He didn't even send out cavalry scouts to search, and kept completely silent. It was impossible for Tubalu to know the current position of the cavalry.

The movement of the Eight Roads has been under control, maybe tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest, everything will be settled.

At that time, after successfully clearing the occupied area, we will attack the struggling national army in the south with all our strength. In addition to the infiltration negotiations in the early stage of the special high class, it is only a matter of time before they are recruited.

It's just that this plan is too large and complicated.

After dawn, they launched an attack to the south with lightning speed. Two hours later, the cavalry attacking from all sides would become a nightmare for Tuba Road who dared to attack Qixian County.



The big dog yawned, pushed the door open and entered Lao Zhou's room: "Why are you still awake?"

"It's so late, what's the matter?" Old Zhou Zhou looked tired in front of the electric light.

"What the hell is the military police calling just now, asking us to prepare fodder, bean cakes, and corn! We will deliver them outside the west city gate tomorrow morning."

"What do you mean?" Lao Zhou yawned.

"Think about it, aren't these things all for feeding animals? I think they should be for war horses!"

"War horse? How can there be a war horse?" Old Zhou Zhou looked surprised.

"Of course not in the city. Most likely there are cavalry passing through Hua County to come to our place for supplies."

"Uh, then go prepare? By the way, how much do they need to prepare?"

"Three thousand catties of hay, one thousand catties of corn, one thousand catties of bean cakes and water."

"So many? How many cavalry are there?" Old Zhou was wary.

"Hey, they told us to prepare, so let's prepare? What a beautiful idea." Tian Sanqi's voice came from outside the house.

"Then what should we do?" Lao Zhou looked up at the door.

"I went to the warehouse to see, and I was still wondering why there is so much grass in the city. Since we are doing this, we have to add some food to them." Tian Sanqi picked up the water glass from the table and took a sip.

"Did you say where the cavalry came from?" Old Zhou asked Tang Dagou.

"No, just let it be sent to the riverside of Ximen Palace."

"Go to the next door and wake up the girl, let's have a meeting."

After three o'clock in the morning, the door of the traditional Chinese medicine shop in the city was shot bang bang: "Hurry up and open the door, the Imperial Association Army wants to buy medicine."

After a while, the door opened.

"Croton? There are some in the shop!" The palm refused and answered cautiously.

The person who bought the medicine looked anxious: "How much? I want them all!"

The shopkeeper's tone suddenly became calm, and he looked at a man in black outside the door, behind him stood several Imperial Association soldiers with guns on their backs: "If you don't pay less than a catty, you won't owe any money on credit!"

Lao Zhou's heart sank to the bottom: The devil wants so much food and grass, how can one catty be enough?
A thin line appeared on the skyline far to the north, and the cavalry appeared, carrying strands of dust that dispersed in the morning light.

More than a dozen war horses were rushing directly to the West Gate Dashi Bridge, which was a river away, and more than a dozen security forces were directing the militiamen to move food and grass out of the city.

The cavalry sergeant who arrived first dismounted from the saddle and handed over the reins to the cavalry behind.

Picking up a handful of corn, pinching the bean cakes, he patted Tang Dagou on the shoulder with a whip in satisfaction: "Your work, you've worked hard!"

The knuckles of the big dog on the opposite side turned white, staring hard at the sergeant's neck, and answered with difficulty: "It's not hard at all."

Seeing that the Chinese people in front were nervous, the sergeant laughed loudly, and ordered his subordinates to take some corn cakes and put them into bags.

Then he chatted with the Devil Gendarmerie with a jabbering smile.

After a while, the cavalry got on their horses and ran away.

"Hey, can you do this?" On the tower, Lao Zhou asked the girl who was watching the bustle outside the city with a telescope.

"How do I know if it will work? Even if those herbs are not poisonous, if they are all mixed into the grass, if they don't eat those horses to death, they will always cause some problems." The girl put down the binoculars and smiled triumphantly.

Lao Zhou was speechless. With his hands in his pockets, he was pinching a few sticks of ginseng picked up from the traditional Chinese medicine mixed with grass.

These herbs are mostly bellflower, licorice, Sanqi, except for the two catties of croton, can it damage the stomach of a horse?
How can it be?

Jiulian is really all prodigal sons
The traditional Chinese medicines in the two pharmacies in the city were swept away by the security forces. I don't know how much they are worth. The 300 yuan military ticket is [-] yuan, and I can buy those two shabby shops.

The shopkeeper recalled what happened last night, his face was full of worry, he didn't know what the security forces were doing with so many medicines, a team of people poured all the medicines from the cabinet in the house and took them away.

The two shopkeepers coincidentally drove the donkey cart out of the city at dawn.

Can a shop with myrrh still be called a drug shop?
Since the security forces didn't owe the money this time and gave the money on the spot, of course they had to find a way to borrow some money from their counterparts in neighboring counties.

The major of the cavalry had a gloomy face. The troops set off early in the morning and advanced thirty miles after an hour. The vanguard had already arrived at the supply point.

Before dawn, I received a message from the radio station of the division headquarters. Last night, Qi County was attacked by the Eighth Route Army again. Moreover, the Eighth Route Army also dispatched infantry artillery to attack the county town at night. The city gates in four directions were blasted to pieces. .

Eight roads in the city ran for dozens of
Looking at the forage corn bean cakes prepared by the river, the major became much happier, and subconsciously raised his binoculars to observe the Huaxian city tower.

The scenery in the camera shakes for a while, and it seems that there is a soldier holding a telescope at a crenel. The key point is that there is a blurry thing on the top of the soldier's head. When I look carefully, I can't see it.

Could it be that I slept too late yesterday and had hallucinations?

There are two rivers in the west of Hua County, one is the Wei River and the other is the Dagong River. In the slightly undulating yellow terrain between the two rivers, the horse team stopped in an orderly manner in the dusty open space.

There are still forty miles away from the goal, and a supply must be made, mainly water and fodder.

With an order, Huang Yaya dismounted a large group of cavalry to rest, wipe sweat and replenish water for the horses, and some horses seized the time to chew some forage.

Shao Zuo jumped off his horse, greeted the military police who had been waiting earlier, and asked about the situation in the city. The Imperial Association Army had set off yesterday.

Nodding satisfied.

The assistant next to him pulled out a marching blanket and was laying a map on it.

Major and several captains and lieutenants around him formed a circle, looked at the map and studied it.

After a while, Major asked the radio operator who ran over, "Any updates?"

"Already contacted, all the ministries will be in place in an hour. At the current speed, our department will arrive at the designated position in an hour. The attacking troops responsible for outflanking all arrived at the designated position last night!"

"Is the attack time determined?"

"Not yet. According to previous experience, the various ministries should arrive at the scene and launch an attack in about an hour!"

Shao Zuo was silent for a while, silently counting the time in his heart. After arriving at the position, he had to coordinate the formation of the Imperial Association Army, and together with other attacking troops, surrounded the eight roads attacking Qi County.

"Notify all ministries, set off in 10 minutes, and be sure to arrive at the designated location in the eastern part of Qixian County in one hour!"

Immediately there was a roar of birdsong at the scene, and the busy devil got on his horse and arranged his equipment.

The devils in charge of logistics pressed bundles of fodder to the sides of the pack horses and tied them tightly.

The cavalry lined up skillfully and moved slowly.

(End of this chapter)