Rise From Eight Hundred

However, no matter how Tang Dao complained in his heart, he had to eat the potato feast.

Didn't you see the three lieutenant generals of the army eat half a potato in one bite?

This is because they are used to eating potatoes! Tang Dao picked up a potato chip fried with horse oil and put it in his mouth, his eyes were more solemn.

The taste of the potato chips was of course very ordinary. The skills of the lieutenant general of the army who rarely cooks are secondary. Salty taste comes first. If a dish is not even salty, how can it taste good?

This shows that the military supplies have been scarce to a shocking extent.

But this is indeed beyond Tang Dao's expectations. He remembered that when he evacuated from Songjiang, because of the raging war, the people along the way had to flee with their families, and it was difficult for the army to collect food locally, so many methods were used to take away the food stored in the original Songjiang City.

Songjiang City was originally rich, with a lot of rice, flour and salt stored. The whole army of more than 20,000 people carried ammunition and food. It has only been more than ten days, how come the supplies are so scarce?

"Sir, this..." Tang Dao thought again and again, and finally couldn't help it, stopped the chopsticks in his hand and asked.

The three army lieutenant generals who were originally eating potatoes happily all smiled bitterly.

"You kid, this is a celebration banquet for you, what's wrong, do you still dislike these potatoes! The whole army has eaten for several days. In this era, it's good to have something to eat." The bearded uncle was the first to glare at Tang Dao, the guest, and expressed his dissatisfaction with stopping his chopsticks.

However, what Tang Dao saw in the eyes of this "iron fool" lieutenant general was clearly not anger, but apology, a strong apology.

Because, it was not only an apology to Tang Dao and Tan Tai Mingyue, the two young people who were considered guests.

That was, to the entire Songjiang army.

"Ah!" Lieutenant General Wu also put down his chopsticks, looked at the Tang sword with a puzzled look, and sighed.

"Forget it, I won't hide it from you. The military supplies are indeed insufficient. The number of refugees encountered on the road is beyond our imagination! Even if we want to ignore it because of the urgency of military affairs, they are Chinese people after all!"

"I am in charge of logistics distribution, Commander Wu, let me tell you!" Lieutenant General Guo also had a bitter face and said, "However, reporter Tan Tai, you can't write these in your battlefield diary. It's not because of any military secrets, but the suffering of my people caused by the war is really unbearable to watch!"

"Before the Battle of Songhu, there were millions of refugees who migrated to Shanghai from Jiangsu and Zhejiang and from the north after the Battle of Pingjin. Some of them poured into the concessions before the war, but more of them had to choose to leave. The Japanese military aircraft bombed the two most important railway stations in Shanghai. The refugees could only rely on their feet to migrate south, but how fast could they walk without clothes and food? There are only two ways to go south, one from Kunshan to Jinling, and the other is naturally from here." Lieutenant General Guo's eyes were shining when he said this.

"When our army arrived here, there were still tens of thousands of people with old and young people in Jiashan County, all of whom had run out of money and food. When our army arrived, countless people just looked at us like that, and they didn't even have the strength to beg. The weak old, weak women and children were even more dying.

Tang Dao, do you know that when a woman who was only about 20 years old could not produce milk to feed her three-month-old child because she had not eaten for a long time, she was forced to kneel on the road like that, and anyone who could give her a bite of food could take her away. How did I feel at that time, as a general in the army who was said to be able to command tens of thousands of troops and a father with several children?

You are not a general, and you are not a father, you may not understand. But my heart really hurt at that moment, it hurt so much. If it weren't for this war initiated by the Japanese In the war, she should have been in a small courtyard filled with shade. On sunny days, she would play with her children under the shade, waiting for her husband to return from working outside, and then wipe the dust off her husband's shoulders and the sweat off his forehead and face. The family of three was happy!

But all this was gone! The child in her arms had no strength to cry. She was so hungry that her face was pale and thin. I didn't know where her husband had gone. I didn't even dare to ask if her husband was a soldier. Whether he was in the north or in the southeast battlefield, if he knew that his wife and children could not survive while the army was marching, what kind of mood would he be in! "

This may be a rare emotional moment for Lieutenant General Guo, who has always been calm and profound. He was choked up when he talked about this.

Although Tan Tai Mingyue was as heroic as a man, she was actually an extremely emotional person. Otherwise, there would not be such touching words in her pen. Hearing this, she naturally burst into tears.

Her country, her people, no, their country, their people, why are they so miserable!

War is for men.

But, women and children have never been allowed to leave.

The country and the family have always been one and closely related!

Lieutenant Generals Wu and Gu also had gloomy eyes, even gloomier than when they heard that the Japanese army was coming. When the Japanese army attacked, they could still pick up their guns and fight to the death, but it was just a death, but facing such a suffering people, what could these generals do?

"Hey! Brother Guo has a compassionate heart and took out nearly 150,000 kilograms of rice and flour military supplies to solve the crisis of refugees stranded in Jiashan, but the whole army fell into such a food shortage. It's also my fault that the 128th Division dragged everyone down!" Uncle Hu couldn't help but speak at this moment.

It turned out that 150,000 kilograms of rice and noodles were given to nearly 30,000 refugees. An average of five kilograms per person at least allowed these refugees to continue walking for another three hundred kilometers mixed with wild vegetables. When they arrived in the big cities behind, they could still get some relief and not starve to death. On the way, Lieutenant General Guo, who had carefully calculated, still left enough food for Songjiang's 20,000 troops for half a month.

However, he did not expect that there was an infantry division waiting for him.

The 128th Division of the Hunan Army has not received supplies from the theater headquarters for almost a month. These days, they are frugal and rely on the potatoes prepared when setting off from Jinling.

If you want the horse to run away, you can prevent the horse from eating grass. Suddenly, there are more mouths for Xiao Shiwan to eat. After these two changes, the Songjiang army's originally abundant supplies will dare to give him food like before. The whole army either bakes pancakes or makes dried meat, and also mixes it with horse meat soup?

As soon as they entered the defense line, the entire army began to enter a conservation mode. Refined foods such as white flour and rice would only be provided to the officers and soldiers entering the front-line trenches. The rest of the army, including headquarters at all levels and the frontline high command, would only provide basic survival supplies. Needed potatoes.

If this were not the case, I am afraid that this person would not have anything to eat before the battle was over. Thirty thousand troops can die on the battlefield, but they cannot starve to death in the trenches.

"Brother Gu, our three armies are fighting against Japan side by side as one, so why are you talking about being a drag? Also, Brother Guo, it was not your idea to show military posture for the refugees to evacuate south, so don't feel guilty anymore. What's wrong with the potatoes? They're very hungry. Just two of them can eat a bowl of rice. I feel quite comfortable eating them." Lieutenant General Wu glanced at his two guilty colleagues and said disapprovingly. He looked at the Tang Dao and tapped the table with his chopsticks:

"You kid, don't blame me for being stingy. You're the only one who made the first contribution and helped us grow our faces. Otherwise, there would still be these plates of potatoes for you to eat. It would be nice to give you one more potato. That's it. For the jar of wine, I went to the medical team to exchange it for two ounces of dried meat from my personal collection. Do you want to drink it?"

"Sir, from what you said, are you addicted to eating potatoes? Do you just like them?" Tang Dao looked at the tough-minded first commander in a funny way.

"Why, I like it!" Lieutenant General Wu ate half of the baked potato in his hand, his cheeks bulging.

Said it was really fragrant.

"What's that, heavy rain! Come in." Tang Dao shouted outside.

Xia Dayu trotted in.

"Go and bring in the gifts I prepared for the officers!"

"yes!"

"You've learned how to give gifts! I don't want to do that!" The Army Lieutenant General, whose mouth was stuffed with half a potato, waved his hand.

"Not money!"

"Bring it in, Master Wu doesn't want it, I want it!" Lieutenant General Guo's head is definitely full of melon seeds, and his eyes are shining.

"Brother Guo, you..." Uncle Beard's face was full of regret.

Where is the military commander who looked so compassionate just now? Why are you so greedy! You have to be so open even when asking for gifts.

30 seconds later!

"Hey! Good stuff!" The bearded uncle's movements were like those of a cheetah.

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