march to victory

"There are too many horse bandits in this area, and I have been robbed four times."

Without waiting for Zhang Qingshan and Sun Zhiping to ask for details, the little devil gave an answer in embarrassment.

Hearing this, Zhang Qingshan and Sun Zhiping looked at each other, both of them could not conceal the deep worry: there are too many horse bandits in this area, so the risk of our exposure is even greater.You must know that the vast majority of horse bandits are hostile to the Red Army. During the ambush at Yanzikou, the horse bandits in this area joined forces with the Kuomintang cavalry regiment to attack the Red Army... To sum it up in one sentence: they must be transferred immediately!

"Old Sun, my legs and feet are inconvenient, so you should run back and inform your comrades to transfer immediately and meet at the foot of the mountain ahead."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Sun Zhiping to nod, he pulled Zhou Baoyu up and walked forward quickly with the other two comrades.But Zhou Baoyu was a little unwilling: "Brother, we left like this, what will happen to Second Brother Dong's body?"

Along the way, don't you see this kind of thing less?I don't know if the living are the greatest at this time?As long as the comrades can be safely taken out of the grassland, let alone this kind of thing, even if it takes my life, it will be worth it.But thinking about it again, Zhou Baoyu is only 15 years old, so young, it's a bit inappropriate for me to say it so bluntly.I had no choice but to give him a blank look, and replied angrily: "This area is very dangerous, we don't have the time or energy to bury him, we must leave immediately."

"But……"

"It's nothing serious. You just need to keep this hatred in your heart. Besides, you should understand what Brother Dong meant before he died. He wanted me to take you out of the grass safely. Everything else is fine." You can put it aside."

Only then did Zhou Baoyu shut up, but he still turned his head three times a step at a time. In the end, Zhang Qingshan couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply stood behind him and kept urging him to hurry up, which made Zhou Baoyu speed up his pace helplessly.

After the two sides met on the other side of the hillside, light rain began to fall from the sky, which made Zhang Qingshan overjoyed, and immediately ordered: The team will not rest, and march forward in the rain, and rest after finding a suitable rest point.

Although everyone is very tired, they are all soldiers, and they can understand Sun Zhiping's explanation.

The crowd quickly advanced for more than ten miles, and saw that the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and they happened to find a small ravine—in fact, it was a little longer and deeper than the small ravine when Zhang Qingshan met Sun Zhiping and the others for the first time.Seeing that everyone was out of breath, Zhang Qingshan took everyone to a small ditch to rest after releasing two groups of sentries in order to maintain his strength so that he could fight at any time.

Fortunately, the goods received along the way were not small, plus the coir raincoats and other things that everyone had brought with them, there were plenty of things to cover the rain. Even Zhou Baoyu, who had just joined, got a large coir raincoat, which surprised him very much. But I'm not familiar with them, so it's not easy to ask others, so I can only come and see Zhang Qingshan.

"Brother, is there any water? I'm a little thirsty."

If you ask others this question, they will probably say that it is raining heavily outside, and you can drink as much as you want.However, Zhang Qingshan was not surprised by this at all: at first, like others, he thought drinking rainwater was fine.But on the one hand, they benefited from the training knowledge of the assault company, and on the other hand, they got special instructions from Xiang Xueqin. They knew that rainwater was not clean, and they would sometimes get sick after drinking it. Therefore, from the beginning of the assault company, everyone only drank boiled water.Up to now, he has also used his status as the captain to order that the comrades of the Long March Team [-] can only drink boiled water.

After Zhang Qingshan handed him his water bottle, he began to check the injury on his left leg.

After about half a minute, he seemed to notice something, looked up, hey!Zhou Baoyu was still pouring water fiercely.

"Baoyu, judging by your posture, how many days have you been without water?"

Zhou Baoyu handed the kettle back, wiped his mouth casually with his sleeve, glanced at Zhang Qingshan, then looked left and right, and whispered: "Brother, I... I'm a little hungry, drink water to satisfy my fullness."

Seeing Zhang Qingshan grinning, he was even more embarrassed, and his voice became smaller: "I know, you must not have much food, I want to add more, and your burden is even heavier, so..."

"Stop! Stop! Who told you that we don't have much food? Let me tell you, we are short of everything now, but we have a lot of food..." At this point, Zhang Qingshan looked around and pointed to the two horses a few meters away. He smiled and said, "Did you see the horse on the left? The big light green canvas bag hanging on it was captured from the enemy. It's waterproof. If you go and look for it, it will definitely surprise you kid."

As soon as the words fell, Zhou Baoyu rushed over like a rocket.

Soon, the kid came back with two cans of beef.Regardless of other people's jokes, he was very loyal, and handed one of them to Zhang Qingshan with a happy face, and then picked up the other and bit the lid of the can with his teeth, causing everyone to burst into laughter.

"What are you laughing at? I'll try its hardness, can't I?" Zhou Baoyu obviously has never seen canned food before, and he also knows that he has made a fool of himself in a moment of impatience, but this guy himself is clever and has a good face, so he became angry from embarrassment Next, I forcefully replied to everyone.Then, regardless of the loud laughter of the crowd, he squatted beside Zhang Qingshan to ask for advice: "Brother, what kind of food is inside this tin box? How do you open it?"

"This is canned beef."

"Beef?" Zhou Baoyu's eyes widened when he heard this, and his Adam's apple visibly moved up and down, almost drooling: "Brother, help me open it quickly. My last meal was two days ago , I ate boiled wild vegetables..."

Knowing that his nagging meant to urge him to act quickly, Zhang Qingshan didn't mind. He borrowed a bayonet from the soldier next to him, pierced through the lid of the can with one knife, and opened it as soon as he turned it along the edge—in line with the fact that there is more food, no The principle of far away discarding, everyone has eaten a few good meals these days.The reason why Zhang Qingshan has such proficient knife skills in opening cans is because everyone has never seen canned beef. Seeing that it was brought by Zhang Qingshan, he was asked to open the cans every time. After a few days, he had this kind of knife. Proficiency in opening the law.

Zhou Baoyu quickly took the can, impatiently grasped it with his hands, grabbed a piece of beef and put it in his mouth, chewing, he actually closed his eyes, looking happy to enjoy the food.

The first piece was swallowed after chewing only two or three times, the second piece was chewed four or five times, and the third piece was chewed for more than ten seconds. However, when he was about to reach out to grab the fourth piece, he suddenly stopped. down.After thinking for a while, he put the ring finger and thumb of his right hand grasping the beef into his mouth and sucked it, put down the can, turned around and ran towards the horse.

After looking in the big canvas pocket, he ran back in a hurry.

"Brother, do you have any small pockets for things?"

Seeing Zhang Qingshan shaking his head, Zhou Baoyu looked around in disappointment.On the side, Lao Tian, ​​who was lying on a stretcher (supported by four big rocks under the stretcher to prevent running water from eroding the thin quilt on the stretcher), asked with a smile, "Little guy, what do you want a small bag for?"

Probably seeing that Lao Tian was old and a wounded man, Zhou Baoyu gave him face and replied directly: "I found some highland barley in my elder brother's grain bag. I was afraid that the rain would wet the grain in my pocket when I ate it. Running back and forth, so I want to find a small pocket to eat here."

"There are still several cans of beef, are you afraid that you won't have a bite to eat? Well, I am the master, you just came, take care of you, you will eat all the cans of beef that you opened, and it will be treated as a welcome for you .”

"That can't be done." Zhou Baoyu rebuffed straight away: "We have a lot of food now, but there is still a long way to go, and there is no place to supply, so we can eat less. We can't eat more, and we can't just eat beef. It must be eaten with a lot of wild vegetables, so that we can persist until we walk out of the grass... that is, it is raining now, otherwise, I will go out to dig wild vegetables to cook and eat. How can I eat fried rice? food."

Otherwise, justice is at ease!Zhou Baoyu's words immediately won everyone's praise: everyone knows this truth, but the problem is that Zhou Baoyu understands this truth at such a young age, and voluntarily abides by it, which is very rare.What's more, his self-control is so good that he was starving to death, but when he suddenly saw meat, he could not only restrain himself in time, but also thought of eating it with wild vegetables.This, I'm afraid many adults can't do it.

But in Zhang Qingshan's ears, this is the child of the poor who has long been in charge of the family.Of course, from a political and ideological point of view, this is called high ideological awareness.

"Who told you this?"

"When we held the mobilization meeting before the Long March, I always remembered what my elder brother said."

Lao Tian clapped his hands, gave Zhou Baoyu a thumbs up, and said to everyone: "It seems that our revolutionary cause has successors."

Everyone nodded, but Zhou Baoyu quit. He glared at the other party, straightened his neck and shouted in disbelief, "What is successor? Comrade, although I am younger than you, I am just like you. The revolution beat the reactionaries, and they went on the Long March together...however, they should be regarded as the same generation.”

"Get! Got! Got! Even if you have a good mouth, I'm afraid of you, okay?" Pointing to a few steel helmets around him with a smile, he said: "The marching pot has long been lost, and I didn't pick up a good one along the way. Everyone If you use this as a pot, you will feel a little wronged, so take one for food."

"Thank you!"

Seeing Zhou Baoyu grab a helmet and run out, everyone smiled.

Soon, Zhou Baoyu put half of his helmet on and ran back, squatting next to Zhang Qingshan, put the helmet between his legs, grabbed the beef cattle in the can with his left hand, and grabbed a handful of fried rice with his right hand, and he ate with happiness.But his eyes were fixed on Zhang Qingshan.

"Brother, don't move. When I'm full, I'll boil water to wipe your wound."

"kindness!"

What Zhou Baoyu said was straightforward, and Zhang Qingshan was not polite at all, because in their minds, they not only regarded each other as comrades-in-arms, but also regarded each other as brothers. If they were polite, they would be alienated.

After Zhou Baoyu finished his meal, he saw that it was still raining outside and couldn't boil water for living. Zhang Qingshan didn't bother to take care of the wound, so he pulled Zhou Baoyu and asked him how he got here.

Everyone thought that their experience along the way was thrilling enough, but in the end, Zhou Baoyu's experience along the way was thrilling and full of twists and turns. Zhou Baoyu just pretended to be dead twice.It made everyone feel as if they were listening to a book, and they were very surprised...