"Platoon leader, there seems to be someone over there!" Li Jie, who was walking at the front, suddenly shouted.
A few hundred meters away on a meadow, two men in Red Army uniforms were sitting on it, leaning against each other.
"Come over and take a look!" Li Hao's most worried thing happened and he shouted anxiously.
When they rushed there panting heavily, Li Jie and Hong Linfeng were checking them. The excited expressions just now had been replaced by solemnity. They sighed and replied: "Platoon leader, they died!"
"I didn't find any food on them, and their clothes were thin. I guess they either starved to death or froze to death!"
Li Hao's face suddenly darkened, and he ordered with a serious face: "We can't let our comrades sacrifice themselves here and expose their bodies to the wind and rain. A few more people came over to bury them and mark them.
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"Yes, Platoon Commander!"
Seeing several of his subordinates burying the bodies of the two fallen soldiers in the meadow, Li Hao, who should have been relieved, turned his expression more and more solemn.
Then he suddenly ordered: "Next, we have to speed up!"
Hong Linfeng looked puzzled, frowned and reminded: "Platoon leader, the speed is already very fast. If it goes faster, I'm worried that some of the new recruits will not be able to keep up!"
"This is a grassland, and there are quagmires everywhere. If you walk too fast, you will accidentally fall into the quagmire, and someone may die!"
Li Hao insisted: "It's not that I want to be fast, I just want to save more stragglers like this Red Army soldier!"
"Just now when we entered the grassland, the main force suffered casualties. We didn't even have time to bury the bodies of the fallen soldiers. We can be sure that the situation of the main force is worse than we imagined. We will definitely encounter more and more soldiers in the future because of various
There’s no reason to fall behind!”
"We have food and medicine in our hands. As long as they still have breath, we can revive them, and the Red Army will sacrifice one less soldier!"
"As for your worries, it's not a problem at all!"
"Ask the recruits to tie their guns to the horses and move forward lightly. If they still can't move, drag the mules and horses by their tails and move away!"
"As for the quagmire in the middle of the meadow, the road walked by tens of thousands of people in front must be safe. The main force has just passed by and the footprints left along the way are still there. Follow the footprints they left, and there will be no problem!"
Li Hao was very fortunate that they did not find another Red Army corpse exposed in the wilderness until dark.
After the march started on the third day, things went wrong.
Graves appear from time to time on the large and small meadows you pass along the way. The further you go, the more numerous they become.
Everyone knows that one or several Red Army corpses are buried under every grave.
As we walked, everyone's faces became more and more serious, and finally everyone lowered their heads and hurried forward without saying a word.
When the oppressive atmosphere made people almost breathless, Li Jie suddenly shouted.
"There's someone in front of you, hurry up and see if he's still alive!"
"Still alive, platoon leader, they're still alive!" Li Jie was the first to rush over, shouting with excitement.
"Hurry and prepare food. They haven't eaten for a long time. If they want to eat, it's best to eat something thin!"
Li Hao quickly ordered: "Hurry up and set up the pot, cook some highland barley batter for them to eat, and add some salt and dried meat to it!"
More than an hour later, the two people who had fainted from hunger slowly woke up.
After eating a few mouthfuls of steaming batter, a trace of rosy color finally appeared on my pale face.
"Comrade, who are you?" Li Hao asked quickly.
"We are from the third legion, responsible for the rear... When I woke up in the morning, I found that the main force had already left, and then we fell behind and ran out of food!" A soldier regained some strength and whispered.
"Finally caught up with the main force!" Li Hao shouted with excitement.
"Hello, comrades, we are from the Fifth Army Corps. We fell behind more than a month ago. I led everyone to chase the main force for more than a month. We have been chasing them all the way here, and we finally caught up!"
Then he added: "We have food, you guys have a good rest and follow us later. We will return to the team after we catch up with the main force!"
When the troops set up camp that night, they took in four more stragglers.
The two soldiers' wounds were inflamed and they had a high fever after being caught in the rain. In order not to affect the main force, they voluntarily chose to leave the team.
When Li Hao met them, he had already started talking nonsense and fell unconscious.
Fortunately, along the way, Li Hao used his status as a smuggling team to buy and reserve a lot of medicine with Dayang and Dayang. After drinking the medicine and eating some dough, the two of them slowly regained consciousness.
The other two people were starved to death on the meadow. If they hadn't been met by Li Hao, they would have died here in one night at most.
Seeing the six people slowly regaining their energy and strength while drinking steaming hot batter, a rare smile appeared on Li Hao's solemn face.
He felt that he had traveled so long and even bought so much food to bring to the grassland at a loss. It was all worth it.
It was only the third day after entering the grassland, and he had already saved the lives of six Red Army soldiers. If he continued walking, Li Hao was sure that he would save more Red Army soldiers.
"Platoon leader, I have a question!" Hong Linfeng suddenly walked over with a solemn look on his face!
"Problem? What problem!" Li Hao was in a very good mood and asked immediately.
Hong Linfeng frowned and replied: "We walked more than 40 kilometers on the first day we entered the grassland, and the same on the second day. Today we were delayed a lot of time on the way to rescue people, so we only walked more than 30 kilometers in total. We will take them with us tomorrow.
During the march, they are weak, and there are two comrades among them who cannot walk very far because of fever. I guess it will be good if they can walk more than 20 kilometers!"
"According to this marching speed, it will take us at least two days longer than expected to get out of the grassland!"
"This is still the best situation. If we take in more and more soldiers in the future, there will definitely be many who cannot walk or even march, and the marching speed will be slower!"
The smile on Li Hao's face disappeared and his brows wrinkled.
What he was worried about was not the marching speed. The troops had stored enough food and supplies before entering the grassland. Even if they walked on this grassland for another half month, they would not be hungry.
But those Red Army soldiers in front who had fallen behind and were struggling on the line of life and death due to hunger and illness could not afford to wait.
If I was wasted one more day on the road and met them one day later, maybe we would be separated forever!
Frowning, he replied: "Slow down, the food and materials we brought are enough to sustain us!"
"What I'm most worried about now is the Red Army who have fallen behind in front. They can't afford to wait!"
"In this way, after dawn tomorrow, we will divide our troops and advance. Hong Linfeng, you and Chen Bing, two veterans, will stay, plus three recruits, responsible for all the mules, horses and stragglers, and we will advance slowly behind. I will take the others and a group of soldiers.
A mules and horses, bring food and medicine and march ahead quickly. If you find any stragglers alive, leave some food and a soldier to take care of them, waiting for you to meet up!"
"After dark, we will continue to search for those soldiers who are still alive, and strive to find all the stragglers within a hundred kilometers ahead within two days. Then we will wait for you to join us."
"We will soon be out of the grassland if we go further. The main force will definitely send people back to the grassland to search, but we won't go there!"
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