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Chapter 179
Li Chong finally understood, and with a wry smile in his heart, he finally understood why the local government always associated "soldiers" and "bandits".

The words of the three company commanders under this hand have a bandit spirit inside and out.

After some conversation, Li Chong fully understood what the three company commanders were trying to express.

To put it simply, the current behavior of sending a squad from each company into the mountains to dig wild vegetables is a bit out of character.The act of digging vegetables into the mountains not only took up the life-saving rations of the poor in the mountain villages, many poor farmers had to go to the mountains to beg for food when they ran out of food at home, and now an integrated camp with nearly [-] people is stationed here, no matter how big the mountain is, it can be hollowed out. This is undoubtedly robbing the poor for food rations.

To put it more complicatedly, the fact that the current battalion has done nothing wrong with the local gentry Qiu is also not in line with the style. In the oily fish and meat village where the rich gentry are obviously rich, although they have hidden food, they can always wring out water when pressed. here.

Li Chong asked with a frown, "Go straight to collect food, why don't these gentry cooperate?"

He was not overwhelmed by the orthodox education he received in the military academy. He hadn't come into contact with these unspoken rules before, so he didn't know. Now that he understood, he didn't reject them with righteous words.Just kidding, Li Chong was also called "Brother Li" in the alleys when he was in Hong Kong.

Furthermore, after hearing what the three of them said, Li Chong felt that his order to go into the mountains to dig wild vegetables was simply robbing the poor for food!
The reputation of the Sichuan army in the local area is not very good, so even though I wanted the soldiers to eat three meals at the beginning, I didn't want to force the soldiers to share in the local area. I just didn't want the soldiers I led to be called "soldiers and bandits", but I didn't expect this decision On the contrary, it violates the living rules of the poor.

Now that I think about it, it's no wonder that those old farmers who gave Dayang looked a little reluctant. It turned out that my decision was out of good intentions but I did something bad.

Li Chong sighed in his heart, leading an army is not just as simple as commanding and fighting. The military academy taught how to lead troops to fight, but now he has to learn how to lead troops from these veteran company commanders!

Including some potential rules that Li Chong didn't understand at all before.

According to what the three company commanders said, it would be better to go into the mountains to dig wild vegetables and forcefully collect food from the gentry.Even the well-paid central army will be stuck in the marching place. Otherwise, if you only rely on the money and food provided by the United Front Work Department, and then layer upon layer of exploitation, then what kind of soldiers are there to support?

Li Chong understands these words, and even thinks what they say is quite reasonable. These people have their heads on their belts. Maybe one day they will go to the battlefield to fight the little Japanese, and they will die. They will use their lives to fight the little Japanese So what, so what if you eat and get some while you are alive?
You must know that fighting Japan is an unshirkable responsibility in the bones of every Chinese. If they do not fight, the country will perish. According to this theory, everyone should unconditionally resist Japan.But the national army has the saying of paying salaries, and paying salaries means that the national government takes money to "reward" the soldiers for fighting the Japanese, so the rich local gentry should also pay to support the fighting against the Japanese.

But having said that, it seems that the national army of the National War of Resistance did not fail to reach out to the local area.The central army has a lot of face, so others take the initiative to deliver it to the door, while the local army has no such big sign, so they can only take the initiative to reach out.

Speaking of this, I have to admire the Red Party, together with the flames of the War of Resistance, they have enough food and clothing by themselves, and only beat devils and traitors.

Thinking of this, Li Chongwu realized that it's okay to eat and get cards, it depends on how "famous your teacher is".

Regarding Li Chong's question, the three company commanders saw that the battalion commander did not object, and felt that there was something wrong, so they said quickly:

"Not cooperating? To deal with these bumpkins, we just need to put pressure on them. The squires in the surrounding villages are too ignorant. When the army passes by, it is reasonable for the squires to come to express their anti-Japanese intentions."

After speaking, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. The new battalion commander is not so bookish, so it will be easy to handle.At first, the three of them thought that the new battalion commander graduated from the Central Military Academy, so he must be superior and not understand the hardships of the people, but now it's better, there is no such worry.

"Old Tang, Lao Jian, and Lao Xiao, the three of you are the company commanders of the national army, so you have to follow the rules." Li Chong felt that it doesn't matter if the local gentry are required to eat and drink cards, as it is to support the anti-Japanese war, but there must be principles .

"It's natural. We have three nos. First, we don't ask about the food collection of the family without a pillar. Second, we don't ask about the food collection of the old and the young. The third is not about the leaky house."

Li Chongyi nodded when he heard this, "No matter what others do, I will draw a red line and never reach out to poor people like tenant farmers. Whoever stretches out their hands, I will chop off their paws!"

"Understood!" The three of them raised their chests. As long as there is no shortage of food, what should they do with the extra food collected from the gentry besides making up for the soldiers?
At the moment, the few people understood it without saying anything, it must have been dragged to the rice store to buy it for money.The battalion commander took the bulk of the money from the sale, and even the shifts were divided layer by layer, so that sending letters back could improve the lives of family members.

The same is true for the poor guns that have been eliminated.

Going up to the whole division and down to the whole battalion, most of them are soldiers from Sichuan. It is the rear area, not the occupied area. If you have money, you can send it back. The tone of the three company commanders who came to visit Li Chong also had this consideration in mind.

If you risk your life, you have to get some living allowances for your family.

Just when Li Chong was getting familiar with the unspoken rules one by one, leading a battalion proficiently, getting used to the feeling of issuing orders one by one every day, and the whole battalion began to operate around his own orders, an unexpected incident caused a sensation all over the country. Li Chong in Chenjiahe below the ravine knew about it.

The core veteran of the Kuomintang, the vice-chairman Wang Zhaoming, whose status is second only to the chairman, "suspected" defected to Hanoi!
The impact of this incident was extremely bad, and the core leaders of the central government were "suspected" of betraying the nation.

At the beginning, the chairman kept a low profile, and personally called the reporter of Ta Kung Pao not to scold too much in the newspaper, and ordered the Central News Agency to refute the rumor as soon as the news came out, saying that Wang Zhaoming went to Hanoi to discuss matters related to the war of resistance.

There were various theories for a while, but as an elite unit in the army, the word "suspected" was already well-known and removed from top to bottom.

The incident was circulated among the cadres, and the rank-and-file soldiers were not informed.

Li Chong didn't know how to explain it to the soldiers. Sitting in front of the table, Li Chong wrote down this message in his diary. It was really desolate. The frontline officers and soldiers fought bloody battles, but the high-ranking elders were the first to be shaken.

"Battalion Commander, why are you still up?" Han Dajun, the security squad leader on duty tonight, asked Li Chong as he walked out of the house late at night.

"It's all right, it's just that I can't sleep suddenly." Li Chong walked into the courtyard, where the moonlight was shining brightly, and the mountains in the distance were deep and deep, dormant like a giant beast.

(End of this chapter)