What a beautiful white lotus

Under the fierce resistance of the rear troops, Gu Xiuge withdrew from the battlefield with his entourage, and fled into the nearby village in a panic.

He is a regiment leader of a miscellaneous army, and the establishment in his hand is not as good as the normal establishment. It is only because of the reorganization of the troops left by Ding Honglei that the strength of his troops temporarily exceeds the ordinary establishment. The burden was entrusted to him, and the force under his command in this battle reached several thousand people.

It was only later that Ye Rongqiu realized that the team of thousands of people was actually just a small team, and the place they were guarding was not a real fortress.The factional struggles in the national army are very fierce, and the miscellaneous army that Gu Xiuge belongs to is just cannon fodder in the eyes of the superiors, so they are short of food and clothing all year round, and they always fight alone on the battlefield without support from friendly troops.

In fact, the central government has even given up on this battlefield a long time ago, not feeding the horses, but also asking the horses to run, asking them to garrison the position to set a deadline, but not providing assistance. Use your life to buy time for the main force in the rear to retreat.

Ordinary soldiers may not know these things, but the number one cannon fodder—their chief Gu Xiuge and his like should know.Under such a background, mutiny and defection of the motley army emerged one after another. Often when the two armies clashed, the motley army had already abandoned the formation and fled before the Japanese came to the front. Come and fight the Chinese.

But Gu Xiuge still led his men to stick to the battlefield, risking their lives to hold on to the position.There are only a few thousand of them, and they are just a small position, but they are relentless.Even the main force of the national army may not be able to defend the battlefield. They held off the Japanese army for a month, forcing the Japanese army to call in artillery tanks to finally conquer the positions that should have been conquered long ago.

In the past month, there were only dozens of people who died, wounded, and those who finally followed Gu Xiuge out of the battlefield.

These dozens of people have lost contact with the military headquarters. They have resisted for too long, and even the rear headquarters have been evacuated westward.They became abandoned children and had to find other troops to join them.If other troops encountered such a thing, I am afraid that in most cases, these stragglers would take off their military uniforms on the spot, flee for their lives, go home to find their parents and relatives, and there are not a few of them who even turned into bandits.But Gu Xiuge didn't say goodbye, and none of the people in this team dispersed.

All the villagers in the nearby villages were able to run away before the battle, and those who were unwilling to leave also became militiamen to resist the Japanese army. Now there are rows of empty houses in the village, but no one is there.

Guo Wu led people into the village houses to find out if there was anything available—they withdrew from the battlefield in a hurry, and most of the weapons were left for the people in the rear.There will be a long march in the future, and they must find a way to survive by themselves.

The soldiers found some leftover corn cobs, bamboo hats and other things from the houses and gathered them together.

Suddenly a soldier hurried out from a private house and shouted, "Tuan Zuo, there is a cellar here."

Gu Xiuge walked over with Liu Wen.

It was a dilapidated and small residential house, and the wooden door was already crumbling. Open the door and walk in. Inside is a humble house, which can only accommodate five or six people.I am afraid that this kind of house is something that the army that conscripts troops and grain would bother to enter.There was only a stone kang and an old wooden cabinet in the room. On the cabinet were some corn and sweet potatoes, and a straw mat was spread on the kang, but the straw mat had already been rolled up by the soldiers—they wanted to take the mat away. Unexpectedly, I accidentally found a movable wooden board under the mat. When I moved the wooden board, it turned out to be hollow underneath, revealing a dark hole.

Gu Xiuge ordered people to remove the wooden planks completely, and found a passage on the stone kang that could allow one person to enter.It's dark underneath, and I don't know what it's like.He ordered someone to bring a flashlight back and forth to shine a light on it, but the passage was too deep and nothing could be seen.So Gu Xiuge bit the flashlight in his mouth, unloaded the baggage on his body, and supported the stone kang to jump in.

Liu Wen stopped him: "Tuan Zuo, I'll go down and have a look."

Gu Xiuge glanced at him, got off the stone kang, and handed him the flashlight.

Liu Wen got into the passage, and after a while, a muffled voice came from below: "There are weapons here!"

Gu Xiuge lay down on the stone kang and shouted: "Move out!"

So Liu Wen handed things up one by one from the bottom, and the soldiers took over from the top. After a while, they brought out more than a dozen guns and some explosives.

Heigou and Ye Rongqiu squeezed into the house. When Ye Rongqiu saw the guns and ammunition brought out, he immediately widened his eyes: "This is Zhang Xiaomiao's stuff!" He showed Ye Rongqiu his weapons, and Ye Rongqiu also helped them repair their guns.Those seemingly dangerous "iron watermelon" explosives were the formula Ye Rongqiu helped them improve.

When Gu Xiuge heard Zhang Xiaomiao's name, his body trembled suddenly, but he calmed down soon.Not many people noticed, but the black dog saw it.

From the very beginning of this war, something was wrong with Gu Xiuge.Although the black dog didn't know Gu Xiuge for a long time, but after these few months, they got along day and night, and the black dog knew Gu Xiuge very well.No matter what kind of situation they encounter, their leader is calm and unflappable. It is his temperament that makes his subordinates look up to him and regard him as a bright flame in the dark and chaotic world.But after Gu Xiuge shot the cannonball at Zhang Xiaomiao with his own hands, his calmness seemed to have deteriorated a bit, and the black dog saw a suppressed but ready-to-express sense of urgency from him.Black Dog didn't understand why.Because Gu Xiuge likes Zhang Xiaomiao very much?As Liu Wen once said, Gu Xiuge has never really killed a deserter, because too many Chinese have died, he can't do it, but a few hours ago he shot the shot that liberated Zhang Xiaomiao with his own hands. gun……

Liu Wen said: "This place is probably where the red...militiamen hid their weapons."

Gu Xiuge picked up an earthen gun, weighed it, and threw it to Ye Rongqiu: "I'll give you 5 minutes to check how many weapons are available and how many matching bullets are there." After speaking, he led the people out.

A few minutes later, Ye Rongqiu came out with guns in his arms, and reported the number of available guns and bullets to Gu Xiuge. Gu Xiuge inspected the dozens of people who escaped with him, quickly distributed the weapons, and took a few for himself. The militiaman's own native pistol was pinned to his waist, and he led the crowd to move on.

Liu Wen followed closely beside Gu Xiuge.He is more sensitive to Gu Xiuge's abnormality than anyone else, and he is also more worried than anyone else.He whispered: "Tuan Zuo, we don't have luggage, just this few people, if we go west quickly, the marching speed must be faster than the Japanese army. Hurry up and join the military headquarters before the Japanese army..."

Gu Xiuge turned his head and glanced at the remnants of the defeated soldiers following him, ignored Liu Wen, and quickly pulled out a tattered marching map to read while walking.His dark gaze fixed on a certain point on the map, his lips were tightly pressed, and he rolled up the map and put it in the box.

Liu Wen shouted: "Tuan Zuo..."

Gu Xiuge glanced at him, his eyes were a little cold.

Liu Wen swallowed his saliva, and whispered sadly: "There are only a few people."

Gu Xiuge stroked the earthen pistol at his waist, and repeated: "There are only a few people." Then he didn't say a word again.