Chapter 1521 Sitting on the mountain and eating in the air will not work
"Chief of Staff, brothers are too tired. They didn't rest for a moment after arriving at Hunyuan. They went straight back. Moreover, they haven't eaten for most of the day. They are hungry. They must stop to rest and eat something. Otherwise, there must be someone.
You're too hungry to fall behind." The regiment leader caught up with the chief of staff, reminding him with a worried look on his face.
The chief of staff took a look at the surrounding terrain and replied: "Tell the brothers, you can rest after walking another three kilometers."
"If I remember correctly, we hid a lot of food there. If we find it, we will have something to eat."
"And there is a village there. If you really can't find food, you can go to the village to collect food to ensure that every brother can have a hot meal."
For a hungry person, the temptation of a hot meal is greater than anything else.
When many soldiers heard that there was hot food ahead, their eyes began to light up on the spot, and their paces unknowingly accelerated a lot...
However, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
As soon as the chief of staff arrived at the destination, the regiment commander who arrived a step ahead came over and said: "Chief of Staff, all the food we hid is gone, not a single grain is left."
"Go to the village to find food!" The chief of staff also became anxious, his face getting heavier and heavier.
The soldiers and horses have not moved, but the food and grass go first.
It's at least thirty kilometers away from where we store our food.
The army has run out of food, and the soldiers are hungry. If they don't have enough food to replenish their strength, even if they rush over with death orders, their brothers will run away during the march, and those who fall behind will fall behind, and in the end there won't be many left.
The group leader also realized the seriousness of the matter and quickly replied: "I will send someone over now!"
A company of soldiers rushed into the village with guns in hand, like a group of hungry wolves whose eyes were red with hunger, rummaging through boxes and cabinets from house to house in search of food.
Ten minutes passed and no soldiers left the village with food.
Twenty minutes have passed and no one has left the village.
The group leader stood at the entrance of the village and looked around, but no one came out.
Not only that, when the troops first entered the village, it was very lively. The soldiers' curses, orders, and the sound of rummaging through boxes and smashing things could be heard clearly from a distance.
Now there was no sound in the village, and the more than a hundred soldiers who entered the village seemed to have suddenly disappeared.
The regiment leader was frightened by this incident and did not dare to send any more troops into the village, fearing that they would disappear inexplicably like the company that had just entered the village.
He quickly found the chief of staff and reported: "Sir, the village next to us is too weird."
"An infantry company went in. Not only did they not bring out any food, they themselves disappeared, and not even the messenger came out."
"This is impossible!" The chief of staff's first reaction was disbelief.
The same goes for the leader.
If he hadn't seen an infantry company enter the village with his own eyes and then lost the news, he would never have believed that such a strange thing would happen to him.
Continued report: "This is all true. There are still troops guarding the entrance of the village. They all saw a company entering the village, and then there was no news. There was no movement in the village at all."
"In order to prevent another accident from happening, I don't dare to continue sending troops into the village. I'll ask you, Chief of Staff, to make up your mind on what to do next."
The chief of staff was also frightened by this strange thing and quickly ordered: "Take me to see it immediately..."
When we arrived at the entrance of the village, the village was still the same as before, quiet and without any movement.
After confirming that an infantry company had indeed entered the village but no one came out, and no shots were fired in the village, the shock in the chief of staff's heart could not be described in words.
After staring at the village for a long time, he made a decision: "We must find a way to find out why the infantry company that entered the village disappeared."
"The village is not big. Give me an order: Immediately mobilize an infantry battalion. The troops will be divided into platoon units to search the village. I don't believe that a company of soldiers can really disappear out of thin air. If you want to see people alive, you will see corpses if you die!"
More than ten minutes later, news came out one after another from the village.
"Report to the Chief of Staff and Headquarters, we found nothing in the village!"
"Chief of Staff, there is no one in the village, and all the food has been taken away by the people!"
"Sir, we found traces in the village of the Second Company entering the village to search for food, but we did not find the officers and soldiers of the Second Company, nor did we find any traces of exchange of fire..."
A series of evidences showed one fact to the chief of staff: the Second Company that had just entered the village had really disappeared out of thin air.
The chief of staff was afraid and did not dare to stay here any longer. He immediately ordered: "The troops will withdraw from the village immediately. The whole army will continue to move forward and leave here. I don't want us to lose another infantry company here."
The leader reminded: "But brothers are too hungry and can't walk anymore."
"Killing mules and horses to satisfy hunger, as long as we keep the troops and stabilize their morale, there is hope for anything else."
"The troops continued to advance for five kilometers and then stopped to kill mules and horses to satisfy their hunger."
"And from now on, no one can enter the villages we pass along the way without my order."
"I have a feeling that the company that disappeared just now must have fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, but I can't figure out how the Eighth Route Army didn't fire a single shot to capture them."
"But they can kill one of our companies in this village, or they can repeat the same trick in other villages and kill more of our troops."
When the grain transport troops were preparing to transport the second batch of grain to Hunyuan City by killing horses to satisfy their hunger, the division commander stationed in Hunyuan City was convening a military meeting.
Although every officer in the conference room had a full meal and was no longer as hungry as yesterday, everyone's morale did not improve at all, but was even lower than before.
Seeing this, the division commander was anxious in his heart, and then he hurriedly convened this military meeting, intending to start with the senior officers to boost their morale and morale, and then restore the fighting spirit of the whole army.
"Let's talk about it, what should we do next?" The division commander broke the silence in the conference room and was the first to speak.
The deputy division commander said: "Master, we have too little food in hand. We have to eat three to four thousand kilograms in one meal. That little food is only enough for us to last until the chief of staff delivers the next batch of food."
"If there is any military action in the middle, brothers' appetite will definitely increase. This little food is not enough for us to survive until the chief of staff comes."
Several regiment and battalion commanders showed expressions of approval and kept nodding.
This result was not what the teacher wanted. He was very dissatisfied and cursed: "Are we just sitting here and doing nothing?"
"And let me tell you the truth, sitting on your back and having nothing to do will not work."
"I did some calculations before the meeting. The chief of staff led a regiment and more than 200 mules and horses to deliver more than 20,000 kilograms of grain to us. Not only did we lose nearly 100,000 kilograms of grain on the way, we also lost almost all the mules and horses, and were injured.
Nearly five hundred soldiers."
"I can be sure that even if the second batch of food sent by the Chief of Staff arrives on time, the total amount will be less than the first batch of food. There will not be enough food to last us until the Chief of Staff sends the third batch of food.
Already."
"Everyone has to consider this issue."
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