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Chapter 34: Giving Porridge

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    ¡°These refugees will continue to flee, and Hebei will soon become a battlefield where the Japanese are raging. They cannot survive here and can only continue to go south, crossing the Yellow River or even the Yangtze River.

    As a Chinese soldier, Xia Yang felt guilty.  Because he knew that his power was now too small to protect these people from being trampled by the iron hoofs of the Japanese invaders.

    What he can do for this land and the people of this land is really too limited!

    Dai Caixi looked at Xia Yang, who was looking sad, and couldn't help but ask: "Captain Xia, these refugees have food to eat, why are you still looking sad!"

    Xia Yang sighed and said: "These disaster victims can still have food to eat when they meet me in Mancheng. If they continue to go south, who will give them food in this Kuomintang-controlled area!"

    Dai Caixi said: "You are always like this, always thinking the worst about everything."

    Xia Yang shook his head and said: "It's not that I think about the worst, it's because the world is like this, I have to think about the worst outcome!" As he said that, he continued to serve porridge to the refugees.

    Dai Caixi looked at Xia Yang, feeling that this person was even more interesting.

    She knows many military generals. Although those people always talk about serving the country and the people, in fact, as long as their interests are involved, many people will turn against them.  She had rarely seen such a pure person like Xia Yang, who was devoted to the country and the people.

    Thinking of this, when Dai Caixi looked at Xia Yang, she felt a little more favorable to him.  I think about what the ancients said, people who worry about their people when they are far away from the rivers and lakes are people like Xia Yang!

    It¡¯s just that in this world, people like Xia Yang may not live long.  Dai Caixi felt sad when she thought of this.

    Xia Yang worked in the porridge shed for a long time and then handed over the work to Cai Heyuan.

    Hu San took a company to the Logistics Department of Baoding City early in the morning to ask for supplies.

    These supplies include not only food and grass, but also transported weapons and equipment, as well as ammunition and wages.

    Now that Xia Yang and the others are organized as a regiment, this supply naturally requires the supply of a regiment.  Only in this way can Xia Yang continue to expand his troops.

    At this time, they were four groups. They were said to be one group, but in fact, their total number was only about 500 people.  It is simply not enough for a regiment.

    Xia Yang asked Liu Fudong early in the morning to set up checkpoints on the road from Peking to Baoding.  As long as they encounter soldiers retreating from the direction of Peiping, they will be directly pulled into their troops.  The war is now in chaos, and no one cares which unit these soldiers have taken.

    By this time, although the fighting in Beiping had ended, the fighting near Tianjin Wei and Jinpu Road was still going on.  The national army was retreating steadily, and the defeated troops ran southward like a tide.  Most of them entered Shandong, and many went to Baoding.

    Xia Yang sent people out to intercept these defeated troops.

    According to his memories of the Anti-Japanese War, in one month the Japanese army will begin to gather troops to go south and try to enter the Central Plains and Shanxi areas to fight.  As a gateway, Baoding must bear the brunt.  He must prepare for this upcoming battle.

    And now that he is recruiting new soldiers, he only has one month left to train.  When such soldiers arrive on the battlefield, they may be so frightened that they will pee their pants when the Japs' mountain cannons go off.

    That¡¯s why he sent Liu Fudong to intercept the defeated troops. Those were all veterans who had actually been on the battlefield.  It is simply not comparable to those recruits who have been trained for a month.

    However, Xia Yang did not stop recruiting new soldiers.  Wei Xing, a native of Tianjin, was shouting hard at the porridge shed because of his outstanding eloquence.

    Actually, what he shouted was very simple. As long as the young and middle-aged people in the refugee camp joined one of their four groups, they would not only have food to eat, but they would also be able to get a few dollars a month as payment.

    At this time, there was a war, and those refugees were desperate.  Of course they would be willing to join the Fourth Regiment if we could provide them with a bite to eat.  At that time, the registration area was almost packed with people who signed up enthusiastically.

    However, Xia Yang gave Wei Xing a death order. Their group would only accept young and healthy people. Those who were old or physically disabled would not be accepted.  After all, this is not a nursing home. What he wants are soldiers who can fight with the little devils on the bayonet.

    Xia Yang walked to the place where Wei Xing was recruiting soldiers and admired the long queue at the registration desk.

    Now that he has supplies and a station, it is very simple to recruit soldiers.  If the war in Baoding fails, he may have to retreat to the Taihang Mountains to fight guerrillas.  When the time comes??If he wants to replenish his troops, it won't be that easy.  He can't drag the old men and women in the mountains to fight with the little devils!

    "Old Wei, where did Old He go?" Xia Yang asked Wei Xingdao without seeing He Changxing.

    Wei Xing wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Tuanzu, you are here, but you don't know how difficult it is to deal with this group of refugees! Everyone is squeezing their heads to get into our fourth group. Just now  An old man who can be my grandfather still wants to sign up to join the army! Lao He¡¯s grandson couldn¡¯t bear it and ran directly back to the barracks to train the new recruits he recruited some time ago.¡±

    Xia Yang said: "These days, they will follow whoever can give them food."

    At this moment, a voice came.

    "Hello! I want to sign up to join the army!" A clear voice came from behind Xia Yang and Wei Xing.

    The two of them turned around and saw a tall woman wearing black clothes standing behind them.

    Xia Yang looked this woman, or girl, up and down.

    She is quite pretty, with a heroic air between her eyebrows that is like a woman's.  Her face seemed to be a little yellow due to hunger, but her eyes had a sharp light.  When they looked at Xia Yang and Wei Xing, they didn't have the cowardice and awe that ordinary people would have when they see an officer. Instead, they looked at them with a little vigilance, like a little wild cat.

    Xia Yang smiled and said: "Are you hungry? If you are hungry, go to the porridge shed over there to eat porridge. Our regiment does not recruit female soldiers." He thought it was another hungry refugee who wanted to join the fourth regiment.

    But the girl pointed at Dai Caixi who was serving porridge there and said, "She! She is also a woman! Why don't you accept me?"

    Looking at the girl with a stubborn tone who looked like she was only eighteen or nineteen years old, Xia Yang couldn't help but laugh and said: "She is not from our group, she just lives in our group temporarily. Okay, okay, we don't have it here.  Those who are recruiting female soldiers, let¡¯s go!¡±

    But the girl in black looked at Xia Yang with a pair of stubborn eyes, pulled up her long hair, and then made a martial arts movement and said: "Guandong Song Yumo! Challenge Captain Xia!"

    Although Song Yumo looks thin, his posture is quite interesting.

    Xia Yang also raised his eyebrows, and then said to Wei Xing next to him: "Does she think that if she beats me, she can join our fourth group!" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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