Chapter 29: Take a Bite of It

  "Liu He, did you know? The little Japanese devils have really invaded Beiping! They're really going too far. I want to go fight the ghosts." Zhang Zhen rushed in and shouted at Liu He.

  "I say big sister, you sit first, fight the devils, you alone can't fight the devils, wait a bit, we'll go together to bite them." Liu He pressed Zhang Zhen onto the stool with both hands.

  "Sister, calm down first. Didn't I say it before? The Japanese devils will eventually attack the Central Plains. Isn't what I've been doing all for this?"

  "Alright, Liu He, what time are we departing?" "Soon, let's get ready now." "Hurry up, Beiping has been occupied by them already."

  "Come in." "Master." "You go find Uncle Li, let him arrange for everyone to switch to new guns, ten rounds of ammunition per person for trial shooting, and get familiar with the new firearms as soon as possible." "Yes."

  Right after that, shouts and gunfire sounded outside. "Boss, we've finished checking the guns, they're all good ones, what are your orders?" Just then, Uncle Li walked in. As Liu He's age grew, Uncle Li had also changed his way of addressing him from "young master" to "boss", indeed, over these years, Liu He's prestige had grown stronger and stronger.

  "Big brother, whatever action you're taking, we want to follow along." At this time, Dog Egg saw that they had all switched to new guns and were testing them, so he ran in as well. "Big brother, last time you went out for training, you didn't bring us along, we got angry. This time, you must bring us along!"

  "Brother Dog Egg, this time we're going to fight the Japanese devils, will you guys go next time? This time is too dangerous." "No way, big brother, we must go, fighting the Japanese devils, we should go even more."

  "Dog egg, go away, don't bother the master anymore. This is a big deal, you kids shouldn't get involved." "Big brother, I won't, I won't. We're going too, our marksmanship is also good, and we won't fall behind either."

  "Uncle Li, look," Liu He said with some difficulty. Indeed, these children were known to Liu He, and they were even stronger than their logistics team.

  "Liu He, just let them go, but a few girls don't have to go." At this time, Zhang Zhen interrupted, these children, Zhang Zhen is familiar with, can say that all of these children are brought out by Zhang Zhen.

  "Oh, okay, thank you sister, oh, thank you sister-in-law." It turned out that over the years, everyone had already started treating Zhang Zhen as Liu He's wife, it was just that they hadn't gotten married yet. And it seemed like Zhang Zhen also thought so, while Liu He was still clueless.

  Liu He was delayed for another day because he brought fifty more children with him and specially made camouflage clothes for the kids.

  It's 500 kilometers away from Beiping, Liu He's plan is to march at the fastest speed, trying to arrive in about ten days. If they encounter Japanese troops, if it's a small team, they'll fight a battle. If they encounter a large team, they'll have to avoid them. They don't have the ability to fight against large Japanese troops, all with light weapons, not even machine guns, fighting hard is not what they need.

  This time the march was much easier than last time, this time they were only not letting people discover them in the first fifty miles, but after fifty miles they walked openly in front of people, naturally it wasn't intentional to walk in front of people, and even if they really bumped into each other there was no way.

  The food problem was easily solved, as everyone carried dried meat and biscuits with them. Every time they rested, the logistics team would boil a pot of hot water, and each person would take out an iron bowl to soak the dried biscuits and meat in the hot water to eat. This could fill their stomachs and resist hunger. The iron bowls were specially made by Liu He at great expense. They were very convenient for marching and could withstand rough handling. All you needed was a cloth bag hung from your waist.

  With the addition of fifty more children around twelve or thirteen years old, Liu He had to reorganize the marching sequence of the troops again, which delayed everyone's progress by another day. This day was spent getting familiar with each other and arranging what to do in case someone fell behind, as well as battle formations and other situations.

  Although this child is good in military quality and physical quality, after all, his thinking is not mature yet. Sometimes he may be impulsive, which also needs to be educated.

  In this two-day mutual adaptation, Liu He found that the development of these children is really good. In recent years, they have had enough food to eat, and occasionally there will be rabbit meat, wild chicken meat, and wild boar meat to eat. Even Liu He often buys pork bones to make soup. These children look like they are not children at all, each one tall and strong.

  "Alright, everyone's quiet now. I'll say this: this time we're going to fight the devils for real. If anyone is afraid, speak up now and you can leave the formation. Anyone? Hurry up."

  "No, we are not afraid, we will go and fight the devils." Everyone shouted in unison. "Alright, since everyone is so determined, I will start announcing the discipline now. This time, we are going to fight the devils, it's a regular army battle, they have planes, artillery, and machine guns, while we only have rifles and a few short guns. This requires us to be more clever, don't engage in battles with the devil's main forces, you must listen to commands for all actions, not like fighting bandits, where one shot can solve the battle. This time, we plan to resolve the battle within five shots, if it goes beyond that, we won't fight anymore. Do you understand?" "Understood."

  "Alright, now I'll arrange the marching sequence. The first sequence is still led by Li Lu's scouting team. You guys need to send out scouts 30 miles ahead and report back in a timely manner. Remember to do a good job of hiding before encountering the enemy, especially pay attention to anti-aircraft defense.

  The second sequence is the formal combat troops led by me and Li Shu. We need to bring one rifle, 50 rounds of ammunition, water bottle, rice bowl, and some dry rations. What we need to do is maintain good physical strength, keep a steady pace, not too fast or too slow.

  The third sequence is Zhang Zhen's juvenile sequence, you guys are following as reserve troops. You need to bring one rifle, 20 rounds of ammunition, water bottle, dry rations, and rice bowl. During the march, you must be quiet and cannot speak casually."

  "The fourth echelon is the logistics team, your task is relatively heavy, you not only need to bring weapons, but also bring more dry rations, this requires you to work harder. It takes a thousand days to nurture a soldier and one day to use him, what you are training for in peacetime is carrying heavy loads and doing various logistical tasks, can all of you do it?"

  "Alright." "Then let's set off."