At Shashi Wharf, Heixiazi was carrying Ergua, Li Mu and six other veterans were carrying big bags. Nine of them and Shu Tongwen were the only strong laborers in the entire 19th brigade. The rest were Cao Jiao, Gu Yaqin and wounded. However, Shu Tongwen got off work two hours in advance and went to the division headquarters to find the military commander to soak mushrooms.

Finding the Military Chief to soak mushrooms has almost become a compulsory course for Shu Tongwen every day.

After another ship of cargo was unloaded, Heixiazi and the others were so tired that they could not even breathe. Their eyes were turned black. A manager wearing glasses came to Heixiazi and put down three silver dollars in his big hand like a palm fan. After thinking about it, he also put down the other two silver dollars in his palm.

He carefully put away the five silver dollars, and Heixiazi took Ergua and the others to wait for work.

After waiting for a while, another manager went to the dock. A large group of people who were waiting for their work immediately surrounded him. The manager walked straight to Heixiazi and asked, "Will the soldiers take on the job?"

"Let's go, go." Hei Xiazi quickly stood up and nodded repeatedly.

"Then let's go with me." After saying that, the manager turned around and left.

Heixiazi took Li Mu and Ergua and the others quickly followed. Ergua was still a little lame when she walked. His leg injury had not been cured yet, but there was no way. Yu Sheng in the 19th Brigade Yu was too few, but there were too many people to support. You should know that there were more than 100 wounded people waiting for them to buy rice and put them into the pot.

When they came out of the dock, the black blind man's legs began to tremble, all of them were hungry. Except for drinking a large bowl of porridge that was so clear that they could reveal the shadows when they went out in the morning, they had never eaten anything. They were so hungry that they drank a handful of cold river water into their stomachs, filling them with a stomach full of water, and now they were wandering around when they walked.

Li Mu sat down and said weakly: "Brother Heizi, I'm hungry."

Although Ergua and the other six veterans didn't say anything, they were just as hungry.

Heixiao touched the ten oceans in his pocket, gritted his teeth and said, "Be patient, it's soon. When we take another job, we can go back for dinner."

Li Mu shook his head and said, "Brother Heizi, I really can't stand it anymore."

"You have to bear it even if you can't bear it. Don't forget that you are all soldiers of the 19th Brigade." Hei Xiazi also felt black, and her face began to sweat on her back. This was a sign of exhaustion, but Hei Xiazi still gritted her teeth and whispered, "As long as it is a soldier of the 19th Brigade, you will never give up easily."

As soon as the words came to the ground, a hard voice suddenly came in: "You soldiers, are you intentionally trying to force us to the dead end?"

Hei Xiazi looked up in shock and saw several groups of people who were taking on the job.

Speaking of which, these people who take on the job have been tolerated by Heixiazi and the others for several days. Although Shashi Wharf is the second largest wharf in Hubei after Hankou, there are only so many jobs every day. Although there are many people living there, it is basically enough for these people who carry big bags to support their families. However, when Heixia and the others come, the order here is chaos.

Seeing that the national army was taking over the work, the ships and business travelers who passed by were basically taken care of. As a result, it turned out that those who carried big bags were difficult to get the job. After enduring for more than ten days, these people carrying big bags finally couldn't stand it anymore. There was no way. They had old people above and young people below, and there were several mouths at home waiting for them to support them.

"Do you think about it?" Hei Xiazi asked vigilantly, holding his purse tightly.

"Beat, beat them to death." I don't know who shouted first among the crowd. A hundred people carrying big bags immediately exploded. They rushed up and pressed Heixiazi and the others to the ground, punched and kicked. Don't look at Heixiazi and were like a hill, but now they are so hungry that they have no strength at all. They can only protect their heads and be beaten.

In fact, even if Hei Wei Zi is strong, he will definitely not attack these big bags. Although he is big and thick, he looks like a big black bear, he is actually the kindest. Otherwise, when Xu Shijiu met Hei Wei Zi, Hei Wei Zi would not have been chased by the three small Gui Jun men, and was beaten by the shortest Gui Jun cavalry under his crotch.

Of course, the little Japanese is exceptional. When facing the little Japanese, the black blind man is more fierce than the real big black bear.

Ergua instinctively reached her hand to her back, with a box cannon there, but as soon as his finger touched the cold gun handle, Xu Shijiu's cold voice sounded in his ears: "The military rules of the 19th Brigade must never point the gun at his brothers, and must not point the gun at his compatriots. Violators... kill them without any judgment."

Xu Shijiu's voice buzzed, and Ergua could only curl her body into a ball, and then use her hands to protect her head. Li Mu and the other six veterans also had guns on their bodies, but none of them pulled their guns toward each other. Until a team of police officers came after hearing the news, the harsh sirens rang throughout the dock, and the group of those carrying big bags dispersed.

At the 58th Division shelter station, Cao Jiao was already cooking in a fire.

Wang Yulan cleaned Li Zihan's wounds and came out to chat with Cao Jiao.

There was no big iron pot, only a large jar set up with a big stone. Cao Jiao poured half a jar of water into the big jar, then took out half a bag of moldy and smelly brown rice from the house and poured it into the jar. After thinking about it, he grabbed two handfuls of rice from the bag and put it into the jar, and then carefully kept the remaining little rotten rice.

Halfway through cooking, another female soldier from the health team also came back.

This female soldier joined during the street fighting in Tofu Square. She didn't say much. She only knew that she had studied the girl's middle school, named Gu Yaqin, and didn't know anything else. Wang Yulan stood up and greeted Gu Yaqin, but Gu Yaqin just nodded coldly, and then turned around and went in.

"Jiaojiao, is Yaqin okay?"

Wang Yulan sighed. It was no secret that Gu Yaqin's experience was in the 19th Brigade. If it were another girl, she would have collapsed or committed suicide long ago. Speaking of which, Gu Yaqin was already very strong. She did not dare to assert that she would be as strong as Gu Yaqin.

Cao Jiao nodded lightly and said, "Yaqin is pretty good, she is very strong."

Wang Yulan picked up the wooden stick and stirred it in a large jar. Only a few black brown rice floated up, and then frowned and asked, "Jiaojiao, are you going to eat this?"

"It would be good to eat with this." Cao Jiao sighed softly, "Sister Yulan, you don't know that other shelter stations can't even eat such rotten rice. Many soldiers can only use their own guns and grenades to go to Dangdang. After they get the guns and ammunition, they can only starve. There are people who starve to death in the 71st Army, the 78th Army and the 78th Army.

Wang Yulan looked back at the rows of defeated soldiers sitting against the wall not far away. Although these defeated soldiers were dirty and smelly, they were all hungry, but most of their weapons were there and they had not replaced them with food to fill their stomachs. Obviously, this was probably due to the veterans Shu Tongwen and Hei Xiazi.

As he spoke, Hei Zaizi and the others all came back, with bruised and swollen faces.

"Brother Heizi, what's wrong with you? What's wrong?" Seeing that Heixiazi's face was blue and purple, a big bag was swollen on his forehead, and bleeding from his nostrils, Cao Jiao felt very distressed and quickly got up and fed water, wiped Heixiazi's face with a towel, while tears were already oozing out of her beautiful eyes.

Li Mu was so hungry that he was almost dead, but he was still in the mood to tease Cao Jiao: "Sister Jiao, I feel pain, so wipe my face."

Cao Jiao blushed in an instant. Wang Yulan picked up a rag to wash dishes and walked up to Li Mu, smiling and said to Li Mu, "Isn't this Li Yifeng?" Because Li Mu ran fast, he often boasted that he ran faster than Feng. Wang Yulan made fun of him as Feng who was escaping, and later he simply called him Li Yifeng.

"Sister Yulan, when will you come back?" Seeing that it was Wang Yulan, Li Mu was immediately happy and turned around and said to Ergua, "Why did I say Ergua? I just said that Sister Yulan would not leave us behind, she would definitely come back."

"Is this what I said? You have been saying bad things about Sister Yulan." Ergua exposed Li Mu's lies impolitely, ignored Li Mu's glare, and smiled and walked up to Wang Yulan and said, "Sister Yulan, I knew you would come back. There would be no deserters in our 19th Brigade. There was no before, no now, and there would be no future."

Wang Yulan was inevitably a little ashamed when she heard this. She really didn't want to be a deserter, and she couldn't help it. In Xuzhou, her father, Wang Chonghui, the Foreign Minister of the National Government, tricked her home. However, this time she came back, she had negotiated with her father in advance. This time she was afraid she would really be a deserter of the 19th Brigade.

While he was talking, the sound of leather boots stomping on the stone slabs suddenly came outside the gate. When everyone heard the sound, they looked at the gate. They saw a colonel officer strode in. The officer was wearing a woolen coat, shiny long horse boots on his feet, and with his hands on his back, followed by a second lieutenant officer and two guards carrying flower mechanisms.

As soon as the lieutenant came in, he opened his throat and shouted loudly: "Everyone has... gathered."

Heixiazi, Li Mu, Ergua and six veterans, who were sitting on the ground, quickly stood up and started line up. Li Zihan and a dozen wounded men who could barely stand also joined the queue with their legs. The remaining 100 wounded men could not move, so they could only sit next to them and look at the colonel officer with a cold or dull look.

The colonel officer stood in front of the queue two steps, but did not speak for a long time.

Cao Jiao leaned into Wang Yulan's ear and whispered: "He is Li Song, the leader of the 348th Regiment, and he often comes these days."

Wang Yulan was about to ask Li Song what he came from, but Li Song spoke there. He said to the black man standing at the front, "Big Hei, have you gone to the dock to carry a big bag again? And let those carrying a big bag be beaten? Why bother? I said, why are you doing this?" Pointing to the more than a hundred wounded people sitting against the wall, Li Song said again, "Is it worth it for these defeated soldiers?"

"Report to Chief Li," Hei Xiazi straightened his chest and shouted, "They are now soldiers of the 19th Brigade, and our 19th Brigade will never abandon their brothers."

"Never abandon it? Childish," Li Song said coldly, "If you hold on, you will starve to death and be exhausted."

Heixiazi replied: "Report to Chief Li, even if we die, our 19th Brigade will never abandon our brothers."

"But you can't die yet, the party and the country need you." Li Song had the urge to grab Hei Xiazi and beat him up, but he couldn't help but admire Hei Xiazi and others. There were really few who could truly live and die with their comrades like them, but this strengthened Li Song's determination to incorporate them.

At that moment, Li Song pulled down his face, showed off the majesty of the colonel commander, and shouted loudly: "Big Hei, I will order you now, bring your weapons and follow me, right away

Hei Xiazi didn't say anything, but just stared straight ahead without hesitation.

Li Song frowned, turned his eyes to Li Mu and Ergua on the right, and said, "Li Mu, Ergua, are you hungry? You must be very hungry? As long as you follow me, I will care about your full meals, and you will have two meals a day." Li Song's eyes turned to the remaining few veterans, and then said, "And you, let's go with me."

Li Mu, Ergua and the veterans didn't say anything, as if they didn't hear it.

"Are you deaf?" The lieutenant behind Li Song was angry and shouted, "This is an order."

"I'm sorry, we are from the 19th Brigade, not from the 348th Corps. I'm not willing to accept the orders of Li Tuanzhu." A voice that was neither arrogant nor humble suddenly sounded outside the gate of the shelter station. Everyone turned around when they heard the sound, but Shu Tongwen, who was promoted to the captain's company commander by Xu Shijiu's front line of fire before breaking through Nanjing, came back.

"Shu Tongwen" Li Song stared at Shu Tongwen and shouted, "Do you think the 19th Brigade will continue to exist?"

Shu Tongwen stood attentively and saluted Li Song first, and said in a humble manner: "At least until now, the division headquarters has not received the order to abolish the 19th Brigade."

Li Song said coldly: "That's because the teacher is busy and I can't take care of it for a while."

Shu Tongwen said: "In other words, the 19th Brigade still exists."

The second lieutenant behind Li Song was furious and immediately pulled out his gun, but was stopped by Li Song. Li Song actually wanted to use force, but as Shu Tongwen said, at least until now, Feng Shengfa has not yet revoked the organization of the 19th Brigade. If Li Song forcibly recruited the officers and soldiers of the 19th Brigade at this time, it would be a blatant violation of military discipline.

As for why Feng Shengfa has not yet revoked the 19th Brigade, no one knows.

Li Song suppressed his anger and said patiently: "Company Commander Shu, Xu Shijiu is dead no matter what. It will be a matter of time before the 19th Brigade is withdrawn. Don't be stupid anymore. Take your soldiers and I go with you and the company commander of the guards. Otherwise, when the day of the revocation, you and your brothers will be disbanded and incorporated."

Shu Tongwen said calmly: "I am still the same thing as the humble one, and the 19th Brigade has not been removed."

Seeing that Shu Tongwen was not good at soft and hard, and Hei Xiazi and several veterans were not in trouble, Li Song could only groan and turn around and leave, but he felt particularly regretful in his heart. The remaining veterans of the 19th Brigade were really rare good soldiers. Now the 348th Regiment has just added a large number of new recruits, and the one he lacks the most is such a bone Yu veteran.
Chapter completed!