Wei Zhenyu didn't expect that one day he would be rescued from the devil's cave. This train was definitely a train bound for hell. In a small car, hundreds of people were forced into it by the Japanese. They were almost piled on top of each other, and they couldn't even breathe.

difficulty;

Everyone wore thin clothes, had no food or water, and the weather was freezing. In just one day, three people died around him. Some people were so frightened that they became incontinent, and the stench almost made them faint.

He had just returned from studying abroad in Goshawk Country. His family was a well-known wealthy businessman in Taiyuan. When he returned to Taiyuan this time, he did not expect to encounter Japanese laborers who arrested him indiscriminately and then was put on this train.

;

He had no talent, but when he returned home, he was arrested by the Japanese before he had a chance to display his ambitions. He almost died unjustly. Fortunately, with the blessings of the ancestors of the old Wei family, he was miraculously saved!

Chu Xiong did not expect that four or five thousand people would be crammed into seven or eight carriages by the Japs. What made him angry was that many people were suffocated to death in the carriages;

He didn't even have time to bury these compatriots now. The Japanese reinforcements might arrive at any time. He had to organize people to evacuate to a safe area as soon as possible. The further away from the railway the better before dawn.

Thousands of workers were in a mess after getting off the train. They did not listen to the greetings of Chu Xiong and others. They were crying and laughing. Some people were clamoring to go home. If the chaos continues like this, let alone evacuating within 20 minutes, it will take two hours.

Neither can retreat.

The Japs' armored vehicles were approaching in the distance. Chu Xiong pointed his submachine gun at the sky a few times before the rioting crowd calmed down. Only then did they remember that soldiers have guns in their hands, and soldiers can be more ruthless than bandits.

cruel.

"Fellows, we are the Eighth Route Army. The Japanese are coming soon. Anyone who wants to live must follow us!"

After Chu Xiong finished speaking, he didn't wait for their reaction and took the lead to evacuate towards the mountain. Not to mention that this move was quite effective. It was like a herd of wildebeest on the African savannah. When being chased by a pride of lions, as long as there is one leader,

If you run in one direction, they will blindly follow you;

Everyone has a mentality of blind obedience. Chu Xiong and the members of the first team led the way, while Shitou consciously led the second and third teams at the back to hold down the formation. Just a few minutes after they evacuated, the Japanese armored vehicles came over.

They faced the bombed train. They angrily fired wildly into the darkness, but unfortunately it had no effect other than wasting bullets.

The armored vehicles were invincible on the railway, but they could not leave the railway to pursue the fleeing Chinese, and could only vent their anger.

Two hours later, it finally dawned, and the crowd was seven or eight kilometers away from the railway, and it was temporarily safe.

"Fellows, now you can decide where you want to go. Those who want to go home can go home, and those who want to visit relatives and friends can go and visit relatives and friends. Those who are willing to return to the base of Liu Town with us, come to my right.

After the town is over, each of us will receive 30 kilograms of grain!"

Chu Xiong's words immediately made the people below explode. They had all kinds of ideas. Chinese people have a strong sense of ruralism. Those who can go home want to go home, even if they have to beg for food along the way.

In the end, more than half of them chose to go home, and less than two thousand people were willing to follow Chu Xiong back to the Liuzhen base. Many of these people were homeless or their homes were too far away.

Wei Zhenyu chose to go back to the Liuzhen base with Chu Xiong because he had seen reports about Liuzhen in the newspaper before, and he decided to go and take a look before talking.

In fact, many people also hold this idea. If they follow the Eighth Route Army, they will at least not starve to death until they receive 30 kilograms of grain.

Chu Xiong's intention is to bring people to the base area first. He believes that many people will choose to stay, especially those prisoners of war. They are used to being soldiers and have no intention of going home to farm!

One day later, we finally returned to the Liuzhen base area. Everyone was exhausted from hunger. If it weren't for the support of one thought, many of them would not be able to make it to Chenjialing.

Gao Wancheng received a telegram from Chuxiong a day ago. In order to save the workers from walking dozens of miles, Gao Wancheng mobilized the people in the base area to move the pot to Chenjialing in advance. The thick hot porridge was cooked in advance and waiting. Because he was hungry for too long

, the first meal is only suitable for liquid food.

When the hungry workers smelled the fragrant porridge, they all cried with joy, they were finally saved!

Wei Zhenyu never thought that one day he would be betrayed by a bowl of porridge. The strong smell of wheat would never be forgotten in his life. It was the breath of life!

A unit that opened porridge sheds dozens of miles away in order to let workers eat hot porridge in advance was definitely worthy of his service. He was willing to become one of them and fight the Japanese with them.

Chu Xiong didn't expect that his bowl of porridge could be exchanged for a weapons manufacturing expert. Of course, that was a story later.

This porridge not only retained Wei Zhenyu, but also made most of the workers choose to stay in Liuzhen. Some prisoners of war chose to join the independent camp, and more than 800 "new recruits" were added to the old camp;

These are all veterans who have been on the battlefield. They only need to be trained in the old camp for half a month to let them learn the tactical system of the independent battalion. These people can be directly added to the garrison company.

Others are dispersed to various villages, and each person is given a subsidy of 30 kilograms of grain. They can choose to rent land from the landlord's family before spring, and only need to pay 50% of the land rent;

For housing, the militia company helped build simple mud houses. The rations before the summer harvest could be borrowed from the base area government without charging any interest, and they could be slowly returned to the government after the summer grain harvest.

You can also do casual work for the landlords and earn some food rations. The base area does not support idlers. If you blindly provide food for free, it will only breed a group of lazy people. This is what Chuxiong does not want to see.

Wei Zhenyu did not wait until Chu Xiong visited the thatched cottage, and he did not know how to farm, so he had no choice but to recommend himself to Chu Xiong, but he did not have any confidence, and not everyone knew him.

When Chu Xiong understood Wei Zhenyu's purpose, he was as happy as if he had picked up a treasure, and took him directly to the Laoying Military Factory. The military factory is now nothing more than a workshop.

"Heartless cannon" aroused great interest in Wei Zhenyu, and asked curiously:

"Is this kind of mortar also useful in modern warfare?"

In Wei Zhenyu's view, the mortar was a technology from two hundred years ago, but he didn't expect that Battalion Commander Chu would actually use it as a treasure to show off.

Chu Xiong knew that this top student from the Goshawk National Institute of Technology must look down on heartless cannons. His expectations for Wei Zhenyu were not to improve the heartless cannons. He planned to develop the black technology bazooka, if conditions allowed.

Then we launched the "Katyusha". The conditions in the base area were not suitable for howitzers and automatic rifles, which are advanced weapons that rely heavily on the industrial base.

The rocket launcher is different. This black technology has no technical content at all. It is just a rocket. China would have made it three hundred years ago. As long as you can buy seamless steel pipes, it is not a problem for Wei Zhenyu to make it.

"Gong Wei, please see the power of this thing first before you say anything!"
Chapter completed!