march to victory

"Baoyu, do you think my injury has healed?"

Zhou Baoyu himself was very clever, plus he was grateful to Zhang Qingshan, so he was not so much a communication soldier in the assault company as Zhang Qingshan's bodyguard.After more than a year, the cooperation between the two is quite tacit. Many times, Zhang Qingshan doesn't need to say anything at all, and Zhou Baoyu can accurately understand the true meaning of it with just a look or a word.Just like now, while Zhang Qingshan gently rubbed the scarred wound on his wound to relieve the itching, he casually asked a question that was equivalent to a small talk.Zhou Baoyu replied without thinking, "It should be almost there. How about I help you walk around and check it out?"

Zhang Qingshan smiled: Sure enough, it was Zhou Baoyu who was clever and cooperated with him tacitly. He knew exactly what he was going to do with a word.

After walking down the ground, let alone, the injury has indeed healed a lot. Although I can't kick my legs too hard, and I can't run, but I don't need crutches or other people to support me, I can walk casually without any problem.

Just as Zhang Qingshan was walking up and down, happy that his injury was gradually recovering, he saw Sun Zhiping and Zhou Ping coming hand in hand.

"Old Zhang, your body is really good. It's really speechless that such a serious injury can heal so quickly."

Of course Zhang Qingshan knew that this was Zhou Ping flattering himself: Although a little flesh was cut off, there was no injury after all. It has been almost ten days, and it is not too unusual to be able to walk a little, even if Zhang Qingshan's body is indeed very good.But he was still very happy in his heart, especially he felt that in such an environment, it was a great joy to be able to use no crutches, and it gave him great confidence to walk out of the grass in victory: if we can't beat, we can still run fast, What's the matter with sticking and crutches?

Face is given by others, but lost by oneself.

"Heh! Heh! Old Sun, don't make fun of me... What's the matter?"

"The weeds and flowers on the camouflage clothes made by some comrades have withered, and the comrades collected a lot just now, but some people are still not familiar with the details of making camouflage clothes. I would like you to teach them again."

Zhang Qingshan nodded, and glanced at Zhou Baoyu beside him with a smile.

If it weren't for Zhou Baoyu's cleverness, no, Zhang Qingshan just took a look at him, and he knew what it meant.

"Captain Sun, I'm also very good at making camouflage suits, can I go and have a look?" After finishing speaking, he added: "If I can't do well, I can invite my elder brother again without delay. "

"That's great."

The two left after talking and laughing, leaving only Zhou Ping and Zhang Qingshan, and Zhang Qingshan immediately understood: Sun Zhiping came here just to accompany him, and it was Zhou Ping who really had something to do.

"Old Zhou, everyone is your own comrade. If you have something to say, just say it straight. If you are polite to me, you will get out of here."

"I'm afraid you're busy." Zhou Ping replied casually with a smile, and took out a pack of cigarettes.After both of them smoked, Zhou Ping whispered: "Old Zhang, I remember you said that if everyone's food is less than 25 catties on average, they must be strictly controlled. Just now when we were making breakfast , I quietly checked and estimated, and now, the amount of food that each person carries is almost the same. Look, will we start to control everyone's rations for the next meal?"

In the current environment where there are no supplies, and there is still such a long way to go, food is naturally the most important thing, more important than weapons and ammunition, and it cannot be overemphasized.These days, everyone has enjoyed a few meals of dry rice without any wild vegetables. Everyone is full of energy. There is still a long way to go. We can’t let everyone eat up all the food now .

"Have you discussed it with Lao Sun?"

"En! After discussing it, he agreed, but he said that you are the captain, and this matter is ultimately up to you to decide. No, I will drag him to discuss with you."

Zhang Qingshan thought for a while, sighed, and said, "It's time to control the food ration... By the way, besides the highland barley powder, how much fried rice and canned food are there?"

The soldiers in the first team of the Long March were all southerners, and they were used to rice, but they were somewhat uncomfortable with barley.

"Comrades are very ideologically aware. They know that although fried rice tastes better than highland barley, they all want to keep the good stuff for last, so they basically haven't touched it. But the canned food, you originally brought eight, in that small valley Fifteen were found from the enemy, adding up to a total of 23, except for those consumed along the way, there are now seventeen left."

"En!" Zhang Qingshan was very satisfied with the result, nodded, and said: "Now, let comrades collect wild vegetables along the way... From the next meal, control everyone's rations, but don't overdo it at the beginning. We have to slowly get used to the wild vegetables..."

"But in this case, the consumption is also very large. In my opinion, it is simply the same as before, adding a small amount of highland barley to most of the wild vegetables."

"Old Zhou, don't just stare at your stall, you have to look at the current environment." Zhang Qingshan said with a smile to Zhou Ping: "I reckon, I am afraid that you will encounter many horse bandits on the next road. You have to be prepared for long-distance transfers, which require a lot of energy. If you can’t keep up with the food, there will be big problems. Therefore, I suggest taking it slowly and reducing the combination of wild vegetables and barley little by little. Proportion."

Zhou Ping frowned slightly and nodded.

"Also, now only Lao Tian and the soldier whose left arm was injured by a bullet are left in the team. You give them some extra food for each meal..." After pondering for a while, he said: "Give them half a can for each meal, It’s about feeding them nutrition.”

"Old Zhang, your bones are not in good shape. Let me see this. One canned food for each meal, and the three of you will supplement your nutrition together."

"I don't care, I can go now, so I don't need to supplement nutrition..." He said, and walked out directly: "That's it, I'm going to see how the comrades are making up."

Zhou Ping knew that Zhang Qingshan was in such a hurry to leave because he didn't want to be special, and he didn't want to have an argument on this topic.Looking at Zhang Qingshan's back, he nodded slightly, admiring Zhang Qingshan's ideological awareness, but only a little, because this kind of ideological awareness is very common.

With the experience of weaving camouflage clothes last time, everyone was much faster this time. After only about an hour, everyone gathered again and set off.

In everyone's opinion, the enemy cavalry battalion they encountered earlier has been thrown away, so even though they know that they are marching on the territory of many horse bandits, their mentality is also relaxed a lot-everyone is a soldier, and the main opponent is only It may be the army, but everyone looks down on the horse bandits from the bottom of their hearts.Therefore, everyone still connected Lao Tian's stretcher to the horses and dragged it.

Going this way, a deep scratch was naturally left on the ground.

But Zhang Qingshan and the others have never dealt with horse bandits, so they don't understand that such obvious scratches in the eyes of horse bandits not only mean that their deeds are exposed, but also express that they are pulling good things: The horse bandits didn't think they were pulling the wounded, they just thought that if it wasn't weapons and ammunition, it must be food.Of course, in the eyes of the horse bandits, they didn't even say hello, so blatantly dragging good things past their noses, this is too disrespectful, and they deserve it if they are robbed, who let Zhang Qingshan and the others "" Don't know the rules."

So, the horse bandits set their eyes on Zhang Qingshan and the others, and chased them down along the scratches.In this way, it is impossible for both sides to forget about the conflict.Fortunately, this area belongs to a group of horse bandits with 60 to 60 people. Other horse bandits dare not cross the border if they are not good. The land is so big, and this place is in a remote area. The cattle and sheep of the herdsmen who came here occasionally robbed the smugglers who passed by here, basically they had nothing else to rob. Therefore, a gang of horse bandits with five or sixty members could already be regarded as a large group within a few hundred miles. If there is a big power, no matter how much it is, it will not be able to support it.

Zhang Qingshan and the others had neither a map nor a guide. They focused their energy on the front along the way, and they didn't even realize that they were being targeted by the local horse bandits, let alone know that the horse bandits who approached quietly, The location for the robbery has been selected.

Not to mention encountering enemies along the way, they didn't even see a single person, and they came to a river in a very safe and smooth way-they thought it was their own luck, but they didn't know that this "luck" was the one behind their buttocks. The result of the horse bandits protecting them all the way—the "fat sheep" in the eyes of this group of horse bandits, how could they allow other horse bandits to take a share of the pie.

At dusk, the Long March team came to a river.

The bandits called this river the Gravel River, which has the characteristics of a small river in the plain: the river is wide, the banks are narrow, and the river is shallow.The width of the river is about ten meters, the width of the river bank is only about two meters, and the deepest part of the river is no more than the calf.

After walking for so many days, the first time they came across the river, everyone was so happy that they rushed to the river to wash their faces. Soon, some comrades were not satisfied with washing their faces and began to water each other. Gradually, some comrades I was too excited and didn't think much about it. While undressing, I called my friends to go to the river to take a bath.

Fortunately, Zhang Qingshan was very experienced. He was standing in the river with his trousers rolled up and washing his face with a face towel. When he saw everyone's actions, he was shocked and quickly stopped everyone's reckless behavior.

"What are you undressing for?"

"Captain, we want to take a shower."

"No, you must not take a bath here."

Upon hearing this, the comrades quit and shouted one after another.

"Why? Isn't it just a bath!"

"Yeah, if you don't even have to take a bath, it's too much of a concern, right?"

From these words, we can hear how dissatisfied everyone is, but because of military discipline, they dare not openly resist.So much so that even Sun Zhiping came over and persuaded in a low voice: "Old Zhang, comrades haven't bathed for more than ten days, and your bodies are stinking. It's hard to touch the river today, so let everyone take a good bath. "

Faced with Sun Zhiping's tactful protest and request, Zhang Qingshan shook his head without thinking...