After entering this team, Long Wenzhang realized that this team was different. First, they were energetic. Although they were retreating, everyone was in high spirits. They didn't even need the officer to encourage them.
The weapons were of excellent quality. There were many machine guns and submachine guns. Every squad had a light machine gun and two submachine guns. Although the others were equipped with rifles, all the soldiers above the first class had pistols, the small pistols that only the high-ranking officers of the civilian party had.
There were also a lot of artillery, mostly mortars. According to them, they couldn't bring along howitzers. There were also a lot of rocket launchers. Each company had a firepower platoon and 12 rocket launchers.
The food was very good. There were canned meat, canned fruit, cold steamed buns or rice balls, and hot water for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. There were too many people, and cooking was too time-consuming. They could only drink some hot water. However, the soldiers seemed to have had enough of such food. They all despised it and wanted to return to Chan Da to eat pork stewed vermicelli.
They treated the wounded even better. Almost every wounded person was well taken care of. Some of the wounded who were wrapped in gauze were also carried on stretchers. They were the only ones who had hot food to eat. The wounded could not withstand cold food.
He treated the refugees well too. Every day, he would give them a can of meat and three rice balls. He had only seen an army robbing refugees, but he had never seen an army giving them things.
All of this made Long Wenzhang very curious about this team. He already knew that this team was made up of defeated soldiers. It had only been four months, and the current situation was beyond his imagination.
When he came back after asking, he found that more than half of the 200 people he had brought with him had run away. All of them had gone to the 3rd Regiment to mingle with them, especially the martial artist who was very important to him. When he heard that they would send the ashes of the dead soldiers home, he immediately defected. What he wanted most was to send his brother's ashes back to Sichuan.
There was also Artillery Klauber, who immediately ran over when he saw that the other party had so many cannons, wanting to get some cannons to fight.
"Son of a b * tch, this bunch of b * stards really forsaken justice for the sake of profit. They betrayed me, Long Wenzhang, just like that. I will make them regret it sooner or later.”The angry Long Wenzhang was just short of shouting out the phrase," 30 years to the east, 30 years to the west."
However, as soon as he finished speaking, a few more soldiers came to tell him that they were leaving. Their soldiers only needed to fight the Japanese. They did not lack supplies, weapons, and treatment. However, he could fight the Japanese here, but he did not have anything. It was too bitter. He did not eat or drink, not even a gun.
This time, Long Wenzhang wilted. He indeed had nothing here, only his brain and courage. However, the other party did not lack them either. He really could not compare to anything.
Compared to Long Wenzhang's distressed face, Zhou Heng was overjoyed. The jinx was a pure child from Sichuan. He was from the same hometown as him and had superb martial arts skills. Where else could he find such a guard? It was just that he had always carried his brother's ashes with him, which was a little creepy.
Klauber might be fair and chubby, but he was a top student who studied in the Third Reich. He was very proficient in mechanical cannons. Zhou Heng told him that he had an American 105, 155mm howitzer. He was so anxious that he wanted to fly back to Chanda right now.
And they were not the only talents. Zhou Heng also found a few military academy graduates among the soldiers of the retreating expedition army. He examined their military accomplishments one by one and found that they were all very good. No wonder they could enter the expedition army. They were elites. It was just that these elites had lost their spirit, and they needed to regain their spirit.
He was going to establish a staff officer system for these people. In the future, the army would grow larger and larger. Without enough staff officers, many things would be impossible to complete. One of the most important factors for the German army to be powerful was their strong staff officer system.
However, his happiness did not last long before chaos broke out in the team. It turned out that an elderly person from a refugee family had died. The hospital was originally prepared to bury the bodies of the expeditionary soldiers in the next place, but the woman refused and said that she wanted to prepare a three-inch-thick coffin to be buried on the spot.
Naturally, the people in the hospital would not agree. So, the woman stood by the roadside with her child and her father-in-law's body. She said the same thing to the refugees and soldiers passing by," Gentleman, who can help me bury my father-in-law?"”
As a result, there were many onlookers on the roadside, which slowed down the progress of the team. Zhou Heng soon received the news that he had guessed the identity of this woman and brought the guards to check it out.
As expected, when they reached the hill, they saw a woman with long curly hair wearing a light blue shirt and black pants standing there with her child. She kept muttering," Passerby gentleman, who can help me bury my father-in-law?"”
This woman was very interesting. Her clothes showed that she was capable and experienced. There was a heroic spirit between her brows. She didn't look simple. However, she had suffered too much of a blow at this time and seemed a little sluggish.
Many people stopped to watch the show. Zhou Heng's expression changed as he walked over." What's there to see? Hurry up and leave. Don't you know that the Japanese are right behind us? Do you want to die?"”
When the refugees saw the black-faced Zhou Heng, they did not dare to watch the show. They quickly followed the group and set off.
After the onlookers left, Zhou Heng turned to the woman who kept repeating the same sentence and said," The soldiers who died were collected and buried. Why did your father-in-law want to be buried in a three-inch-thick coffin? Is he more important than those dead soldiers?”
However, the woman didn't answer him. Instead, she said," My family was all killed by the Japanese's bombs. My father-in-law's family was the same. The only thing he thought about before he died was his coffin that was burned by fire. I just wanted to fulfill his last wish.”
She avoided Zhou Heng's sharp question and highlighted her miserable state. She wanted the coffin for her father-in-law's last wish. Her words were so flawless that Zhou Heng could not say anything about her special request. After all, this was her own matter and she had no intention of dragging down the team.
Zhou Heng choked. He didn't know how to respond. He regretted not bringing Meng Fan with him. He definitely knew how to retort.
"Then don't say anything else, lest you affect the team's progress. A coffin is impossible. I'll get some wooden planks to nail a coffin for you and bury it with the soldiers, in case you can't find his body even if you want to find it in the future.”Zhou Heng could only say.
"Plop!" Unexpectedly, he knelt down and even pulled the child beside him to kowtow three times respectfully to Zhou Heng." Thank you, benefactor! Thank you, benefactor!”
This made Zhou Heng a little embarrassed. He took the guards to the logistics department and quickly got back four wooden planks. He had exchanged them from the system. They were oak planks used to build ships. In Europe and America, they were called oak trees and were very good wood.
Obviously, the woman also recognized this kind of board. She was very satisfied when she touched the board. Zhou Heng asked the guards to fix the board and put the woman's father-in-law's body inside.
The simple coffin was dragged by a cart and buried in the collective burial ground of the soldiers. The matter was considered completed. There was no funeral or burning of paper.
"Plop! The woman knelt down again and said to Zhou Heng,"I, Shangguan Jieci, have no way to repay your kindness, only…"”
"Don't, I just helped you a little. Don't say anything about meeting each other with your own body. We're at war now. You're asking me to break the rules. Go back to the team first and take good care of the child.”Zhou Heng said with cold sweat on his forehead.
This woman was a powerful character. He had to be careful and not provoke her casually.
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