march to victory

Public is public, private is private!

Although everyone had arguments on official matters, they were still comrades in distress in private—this was almost always the case at the time: everyone argued on official matters, blowing their beards, staring, pointing their noses, and patting the table, but in private, they could all be together. Drinking, talking and laughing.

Liu Bing specially chose a large piece of horse meat for Zhou Ping. Seeing that Zhou Ping didn't pick up the horse meat, he helped him roast the horse meat and handed it to Zhou Ping after it was cooked. Seeing that Zhou Ping still didn't pick up the meat, he knew that Zhou Ping was sad Can't bear to eat horse meat.Then he persuaded: "Old Zhou, don't be overwhelmed, think about it, if this piece of meat goes down, comrades can at least walk a few more miles, get away from the enemy by a certain distance, and even if you give orders to the enemy, you can kill a few more. An enemy, you should feel relieved... Come, eat!"

Zhou Ping glanced at Liu Bing, sighed faintly, did not speak, and did not pick up the horse meat.

Zhang Qingshan had just arrived with Zhou Baoyu and a few soldiers, and happened to hear Liu Bing's words. He stepped forward and grabbed the horse meat that Liu Bing handed to Zhou Ping, put it in Zhou Ping's hand, and said, "No matter how uncomfortable you feel, , but you have to eat this horse meat, if you can’t eat it, you have to eat it, otherwise, when you march later, where do you get the strength?”

Holding the thin wooden stick, Zhou Ping stared blankly at the horse meat on the other end of the stick, which was a little bigger than a fist, not knowing what to think.

Zhang Qingshan took advantage of the opportunity and sat down beside him, and directly put the four pieces of horse meat on the two sticks he was holding onto the fire to roast. The soldiers who came with him also had two sticks in their hands , two pieces of horse meat on each stick.

He didn't hear Zhou Ping's response, and he didn't eat horse meat from the corner of his eyes. He turned his head and looked at him. Seeing him like this, he was also uncomfortable with killing horses. Now, what’s the point of thinking about it so much? It’s better to eat quickly, so that we can go on our way after eating... When we get out of this water and grassland, we will have as many horses as we want in the future.”

Zhou Ping sighed, and said: "Old Zhang, Lao Liu, you two don't know, the sign of killing horses to satisfy hunger is not good. Next, if we haven't gone out, we will habitually kill the second horse." , the third horse. However, the remaining few horses have been killed, what should I do?"

Zhang Qingshan raised his brows immediately, and said to Zhou Ping in displeasure: "Old Zhou, I don't want to listen to you saying that. What do you mean that the signs are not opening well? Let me tell you, even if the signs are not opening Okay, we have to admit it too, otherwise, do you still want to eat human flesh?"

Seeing Zhou Ping glanced over, opened his mouth, but didn't speak, Zhang Qingshan's tone relaxed a little: "Old Zhou, I'm not talking about you, you are worrying, you only think about your own ideas and don't look at the overall situation. Personality is really bad. You sigh like this, how can other comrades eat it when they see it? This is bad for morale... Besides, it is better to eat horse meat than to have nothing, and some food is better than nothing Eating is infinitely stronger. It’s not like you don’t know. Some comrades have already said that after the main force ran out of food, they really had no choice but to eat everything, even cowhide belts and leather shoes. We still have horse meat. Eat, it’s much better than them...don’t complain here, you’d better eat quickly, otherwise, you’ll be exhausted later, and I’ll have to ask someone to carry you. You wouldn’t call someone The purpose of carrying you out comfortably is to not eat on purpose and make yourself tired from hunger, right?"

Liu Bing laughed out loud.

Zhou Ping shook his head with a wry smile at Zhang Qingshan, and said, "You have a good mouth, all right! I'll eat it."

After finishing speaking, he bit down a piece of roasted horse meat that was slightly mushy, and chewed hard.

Zhang Qingshan felt that he was a little angry, so he said with a smile: "How is it? Is it delicious?"

Zhou Ping was also an old comrade, and he shook his head cooperatively and said, "It's a bit hard, much harder to chew than pork."

"That's natural. Horse meat is much tighter than pork. How about roasting it?"

The atmosphere suddenly became more relaxed.

Immediately, everyone chatted while roasting the horse meat.

After the horse meat was roasted, Zhang Qingshan took out a temporary cloth bag, put three pieces of horse meat into the cloth bag, and handed it to Zhou Baoyu.

Zhou Ping asked curiously: "Old Zhang, what are you doing? Do you want to reserve horse meat for yourself so that you can eat it secretly?"

"Get out! Is this kind of person?" Zhang Qingshan responded angrily: "Xiang Tao and the comrades from the security squad are on guard outside, and we will have to rely on them to investigate and open the way later, which is more comfortable than we are now. It’s much harder to eat horse meat when it’s on fire. We should roast the horse meat for them and send it over.”

Zhou Ping nodded, and said sternly: "You're right, I really shouldn't just think about my own feelings, and not consider other comrades, I really shouldn't... In this way, I will leave the roasted horse meat to me later." Send it over."

Zhang Qingshan nodded with a smile and began to eat the horse meat.

After supper, the troops rested for half an hour. Taking advantage of this time, Zhou Ping took a few soldiers to deliver horse meat to the comrades in the security squad.

Several soldiers, including Zhang Qingshan and Liu Bing, were smoking cigarettes, roasting grass, and discussing.

"Old Zhang, what's the next step?"

Zhang Qingshan put the handful of hot weeds beside the fire, grabbed another handful of weeds, and continued to roast... All the soldiers around the fire were like this.They are all preparing for the firewood for the next meal. This is the experience gained on the Long March.

"It's very simple, just follow the plan we made earlier."

"Then how do we get out if we encounter the enemy?"

"Don't think about this, because we just need to retreat to the depths of the water and grass." Zhang Qingshan said proudly: "I think those reactionaries who are afraid of death would not dare to follow us deep into the water and grass... Those who walk over the water grass have much less fear than when they face the water grass. Just because of this, we have an advantage. If they want to follow in, we can use our experience to have fun with them. Procrastination can drag them to death."

Liu Bing thought for a while, and was about to continue, when he saw Lao Wang walking over with a small pot, followed by three soldiers, each holding a stack of bowls or bowls made of kettles.

"This horse meat is a little hard to eat when roasted. I specially cooked a lot of soup with wild vegetables. Come! Everyone have a bowl of soup to digest and digest."

After drinking the wild vegetable soup, I don't know if it is a psychological factor, but everyone really feels much better.

After that, Liu Bing didn't ask any more questions, and Zhang Qingshan also actively changed the topic. Everyone began to imagine how to make up for the sufferings and hardships they have suffered in the past year after walking out of the water and grassland. .

Half an hour passed in a flash, and everyone who had rested continued to rush on their way at night.

Still the same as before, Xiang Tao led the soldiers of the security squad to scout and open the way three or four miles ahead, and Peng Peng led four strong soldiers to still "take care" of Guan Yumin.However, I don’t know if it’s because of eating horse meat, or because I feel like I’m about to walk out of this damn water and grass field. The morale is extremely high, everyone is smiling, and they walk briskly. If the environment does not allow them to sing loudly, Zhang Qingshan We all want to take the lead in letting everyone express their inner excitement through singing.

"report!"

After walking for two or three hours, a soldier from the security squad ran back to report.

"what's up?"

"Report to the company commander, tell the squad leader to let me come back and report that there is a group of reactionary troops marching with us at the edge of the water and grass field on our left."

Hearing the report, Zhang Qingshan subconsciously raised his head and looked to the left.I couldn't see anything except the darkness, so I couldn't help but ask, "Are you sure it's the enemy?"

Zhang Qingshan and other leaders are not surprised that the enemy is advancing side by side with them: the enemy has already discovered themselves, and after such a long time, not only has the news been passed on, but they must also be ready to fight or pursue.As for cooking on my own side, the light of the fire must have exposed my position. Even if the enemy dare not enter the water and grassland, they can still follow them all the way at the edge... Even if the opponent is a semi-military force like the local security corps Organization, this ability is still there.

But what surprised Zhang Qingshan was: the security squad was only three or four miles away from his side, how could they be able to confirm so quickly that they were the enemy, not one of their own?

"I'm sure, it's definitely the enemy."

Hearing this affirmative tone, Zhang Qingshan became more and more curious, but before he could speak, Liu Bing on the side asked first: "How are you sure?"

The soldier immediately spoke in detail with a mocking tone.

In fact, all of this is caused by one point: the security regiment is the security regiment, and no matter how hard it is, it can't catch up with the regular army, especially its poor organization and discipline.Bullying the common people is a good hand, but when encountering regular troops, it looks very flustered.

A few hours ago, Xiang Tao led the soldier to guard against the enemy. Because of the existence of the fire, he was afraid that the enemy would attack after he figured out the exact position on his side. The guard post was placed very far away. Xiang Tao and the soldier It was only six or seven miles away from the edge of the water grass field, and I could vaguely hear the neighing of horses on the opposite side.It's just that at the time, I thought it was not unusual for the enemy to find my position through the fire, so I didn't report it.

However, after walking for a few hours, Xiang Tao thought of the situation where the enemy was chasing him earlier, so he asked everyone to move on on a whim, and he led the soldier to the edge of the water grass again. As a result, he heard The neighing of the horses made him move forward again. This time, he could vaguely hear someone roaring angrily, and he knew that there were definitely a lot of people.

What's interesting is that in order to find out whether they are his own people, Xiang Tao took the risk to shout to them. In the end, what he got was not bullets, but persuasion to surrender...

After listening to this, Zhang Qingshan thought for a while, and said to the soldier: "You go back and tell Xiang Tao that he is doing very well... The security team continues to investigate and open the way, but they must send a few people to monitor every move of the enemy on the left. .”

After the soldier left, Zhang Qingshan said to Liu Bing: "Old Liu, let's go as planned, what do you think?"

"Well! I agree. However, I think we must pass on orders to everyone. Everyone must hurry on their way without making a sound, and must not expose themselves because of the noise."

"En!" Zhang Qingshan nodded, then turned to Zhou Baoyu and said, "Baoyu, go and pass on the orders that Old Liu just gave one by one."

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The plan is beneficial, but the reality is cruel. The enemy is not a fool, and they have been eyeing it for a long time. How could they watch Zhang Qingshan and others go smoothly according to the plan?

The reason why they haven't done anything yet is because they also have big plans to deal with Zhang Qingshan and his 100+ people...