Zhao Zhiguo also told the old man that if nothing happens, the children will be able to see their parents again in a few days.

"Yao Pengju, can you still persist?" Zhao Zhiguo asked.

The troops have not eaten for a day, and the soldiers' physical strength has dropped a lot.

"Captain, it's superfluous for you to ask this. Aren't you just going to Anyang Town to explore the road? Don't worry, leave this kind of matter to me. I guarantee that the matter will be investigated thoroughly."

Yao Pengju was not ambiguous at all. He borrowed some coarse clothes from his fellow villagers, took two soldiers with him, and left the main force. He went to Anyang Town to investigate the situation.

"Captain, if the incident in Anyang Town is over, should we go to Commander Zhang or return to the ranks of the Shanxi-Sui Army?"

Anyang Town is about the same distance from Bingzhou and Le County.

"Let's fill our stomachs first. The Jinsui Army will definitely go back. If it's convenient, we can also go see Master Zhang."

It's been so long, but they still haven't contacted the Jinsui Army. Commander Chu Jiechu died in the battle, and he doesn't have many people in the Jinsui Army to rely on. Going to find Commander Zhang is indeed a good choice.

The mountains were still very desolate. Zhao Zhiguo and the others passed through Huoshaogou with only fifty households. On the way to Anyang Town, they still didn't see a single person.

It wasn't until they approached Anyang Town that they encountered scattered people.

When the local people saw Zhao Zhiguo's troops, they shunned them like the plague, as if they had seen something terrible.

"Isn't I handsome? Are you so scared to see us?" Zhao Zhiguo felt a little uncomfortable when he saw the people running all the way to avoid them.

"Captain, what they are afraid of is the military uniforms on our bodies and the guns in our hands."

"I know! When we were stationed in Wang County, the local people were not so afraid of us!"

There have also been incidents of soldiers bullying the people in Wang County, but I have never seen the people in Wang County so afraid of them.

"Commander, the Sixty-eighth Division is the elite division of the Jinsui Army. Although there are some problems, there are still no major problems with the overall military discipline. Moreover, Commander Chu manages the army well, and the troops are not short of supplies. They bully the common people.

This is just an example."

Gao Cang had been in the ranks of old warlords and could see many issues more clearly than Zhao Zhiguo.

"What do you mean?" Zhao Zhiguo asked.

"Captain, you also know that there are no birds around here. You can't see a living thing for ten miles. The higher authorities have given them the power to form a security group, but they have not been given the supplies, funds, or food and salary to form a security group.

Rely on the local area.”

Gao Cang has seen many such troops. When the Northwest Army expanded rapidly, it expanded to five brigades in half a year. How could the Northwest Army have so many weapons and equipment, food and military pay to expand so many people?

Those officers who learned about the expansion of the troops only had a big seal, and then led their troops to capture strong men. If they captured ten people, they would become squad leaders, and if they captured thirty people, they would become platoon leaders.

However, the army was expanding rapidly, and the superiors could not allocate military pay, so the soldiers relied on their guns to snatch food and money, causing great misfortune to the people.

Otherwise, how could a warlord with hundreds of thousands of troops raise such a large army?

Later, these warlords also realized the problem. Some officers were on empty pay, and those troops who were not on free pay had little combat effectiveness and wasted resources. After a great war and a complete defeat for the warlords, the situation improved.

Although there has been some improvement, the situation has not gone away.

There are some in the Northwest Army, some in the Shanxi-Sui Army, and some in the Central Army...

Some local gentry, with some money in their hands, bribed everywhere to get the rights they wanted, and then they formed their own team and became a security group. They said they were protecting the peace of the place and avoiding the troubles of bandits, but in fact they were bandits.

When you have guns and money, you have people, and then you feed them all to the point of being fat.

"I finally understand why the Central Army was so defeated even though it had superior numbers and superior weapons!" Zhao Zhiguo sneered.

Zhao Zhiguo immediately understood what Gao Cang said. Of course, these people robbed their military pay and food with the guns in their hands. They robbed more than just military pay. If they were ordered to raise a cart of food from above, they would deceive them.

, they collected ten carts of grain, and nine of them were used to line their own pockets.

"What do you mean?" Gao Cang didn't understand what Zhao Zhiguo said.

"You will understand later!" Zhao Zhiguo did not say clearly, "Since they are willing to be vampires, I also want to know if there is blood on the vampires."

Zhao Zhiguo and the others were not in a hurry to enter Anyang Town. Instead, they stationed themselves at a place two miles outside the town and arranged for soldiers to meet Yao Pengju near the town.

"The town is not big, it looks like there are less than a thousand households!" Zhao Zhiguo looked at Anyang Town with a telescope.

It is said that this is a town, but it is actually a large village, and the village is divided into east and west halves by a river three to five meters wide.

After observing the village, Zhao Zhiguo sat down and asked Gao Cang: "When you followed Mr. Zhang, did you do anything to catch young men before?"

"As long as there is a little bit of stability, who would want to be a soldier and fight and live a life of fear all day long?" Gao Cang smiled bitterly.

"There is a regiment under Commander Zhang. This is how we described it at the beginning. 10% were forced into desperation to become soldiers, 10% were sold into the army, and the remaining 80% were captured by young men.

." Gao Cang smiled bitterly, "Until I met you, the leader, I had never captured a strong man."

"What about you? Did you volunteer to be a soldier, or were you captured by others?" Zhao Zhiguo asked.

Gao Cang smiled and said nothing: "All of them!"

"Both? What do you mean?"

"I killed a man, and some local people wanted me to pay for it with my life. My parents wanted to hide me, but they were discovered anyway, so I escaped over the wall, and was captured by the passing army. Later I thought

After thinking about it, if you follow the army with a pistol and can still have enough to eat, they don't dare to come to me to pay for their lives, so they might as well stay in the army."

"Have you not gone back to see your parents in so many years?" Zhao Zhiguo asked.

"I read it and wrote letters, but there was no news. Later, I received news. It was said that there was a disaster in my hometown and my parents fled. There was no news again. Maybe we can meet again in the future."

Gao Cang was a little sad. He rarely mentioned his past to others, as if it was a memory from his previous life.

"You can definitely encounter it. When the country becomes stable, everything will be fine. By then you will have your own family and your own children."

Zhao Zhiguo has also been looking forward to the future, even though they live a precarious life.

"Captain, Captain Yao is back!" A soldier reported to Zhao Zhiguo.

"Have you found out the situation clearly?"
Chapter completed!