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Chapter 197 Being Slandered
"I... I'm not a drunkard, I'm not even drunk!"
Zhang Wei's face turned red with embarrassment.
He wanted to continue chasing and killing the Japanese regiment commander and brigade commander in one breath.
But he never expected that Yuan Shuai could see through his thoughts at a glance.
Without Yuan Shuai's troops, he did not dare to chase them, and could only lead his team in the opposite direction to collect the spoils along the way.
After this battle, the Black Wolf Army and Zhang Wei seized a lot of spoils.
Various weapons and ammunition, canned dry food.
In particular, they captured 8 infantry guns from the Japanese again, which made the brothers of the Black Wolf Army extremely happy.
So far, the Black Wolf Army has 75 4-caliber mountain guns and 92 20-caliber infantry guns, with more than rounds of mountain gun shells and more than rounds of infantry gun shells.
Although this time they seized a lot of light and heavy machine guns, grenade launchers and other weapons.
But Yuan Shuai only kept the captured grenade launchers and some bullets, and gave all the light and heavy machine guns and rifles to Zhang Wei.
Not only did Zhang Wei not appreciate it, he rushed to Yuan Shuai to argue.
"General Yuan, what do you mean? You didn't give me any of the twelve infantry guns before, and I didn't argue with you. But today, you want to take all eight of them away. This is unacceptable!"
"Why not? Wasn't I in command when we fought together? Without my command, could we have won? Giving you so many weapons and ammunition is already giving you enough face, and you still want my infantry guns. If you want, you can, these eight infantry guns are all yours. From now on, oh no, from now on, you and I will go our separate ways, you go your way, I go mine, don't come looking for me in the future!"
"I……"
Zhang Wei suddenly felt guilty, and he quickly put on a smile and took out a cigarette and handed it to Yuan Shuai.
"Yuan Shuai, I was just joking with you just now, don't take it seriously, smoke, smoke!"
Zhang Wei knew very well that in previous battles with the Japanese, no matter how they fought, they always lost when they had the advantage in numbers.
But since fighting the Japanese together with General Yuan, they have always won battles even when they are not at an advantage in numbers.
Even if he got the eight infantry guns and left General Yuan, he could not guarantee that he could win the battle.
Because this is not a problem of weapons and ammunition, but a problem of technical and tactical play and command ability.
In this regard, he is no match for Yuan Shuai.
Just when they collected their weapons and ammunition and wanted to leave.
Some ordinary people ran over and knelt in front of the burnt houses, crying and shouting.
When several villagers saw that Zhang Wei and his companions' food bags were from their own families, they immediately gathered the villagers to stop Zhang Wei and his companions.
"You bastards, why did you steal our food!"
"They stole our food, and they must have burned down our house!"
"Give us back our food and our houses!"
Some even beat up the soldiers who were holding bags of food.
They were beaten for these things, but they didn't dare to fight back.
After all, they did get the food from inside the house.
At that time, they thought that all the villagers had fled.
That's why the food was brought out.
Unexpectedly, these villagers just hid on a distant hillside. After the Japanese left, they turned back and even slandered them for burning down the house.
All the Hunan Army brothers were so angry!
They came all the way from their hometown in western Hunan to kill the Japanese, but now they are being slandered.
"Stop it, we didn't burn the house!"
"We didn't burn the house down!"
The brothers tried to explain quickly, but the other party didn't listen at all.
"Bah!"
Yuan Shuai pulled the trigger directly into the air.
As soon as the gunshots rang out, all the people stopped, their faces turned pale and they were shaking all over with fear.
But one guy still shouted anyway.
"You stole our food and burned our houses. What's the difference between you and the devils?"
"Bah!"
Yuan Shuai didn't explain. A bullet hit his feet, scaring him so much that he took a few steps back and sat down on the ground.
The other people wanted to say something, but when they saw this scene, they quickly shut up.
Yuan Shuai then shouted loudly.
"Everyone, we have come all the way here to fight the Japanese, but what about you? How many men among you are there? How many men can go to the battlefield?"
"Little sweet potato, mountain cat, shrimp, monkey! Line up!"
The little sweet potato, the mountain cat, the little shrimp, and the monkey quickly lined up.
Yuan Shuai pointed at them and continued.
"See? See clearly. How old are they? The oldest monkey is sixteen years old, and the youngest sweet potato is fourteen! They killed a lot of devils. They are our brothers who followed us out of the pile of dead bodies! We are fighting the devils, fighting desperately. What are you doing?"
"Yes, we did take your food, but there was no one in the village at that time. We thought you had already fled, so we brought the food out to avoid leaving it to the Japanese. If we leave it to the Japanese, will they fill their stomachs and have the strength to hunt us down?"
"We admit that the food was ours, and we also kept some money, but the house was set on fire by the devils! It wasn't us! Believe it or not, it's up to you! Zhang Wei, leave the food to them. The devils will chase us soon anyway. Leaving the food behind can reduce some weight and allow our brothers to run faster!"
"Yes!"
Zhang Wei was furious, but he had no other choice but to order the team to abandon the food they had collected from the village.
"No, Boss, it's a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding!"
At this time, an old man in the village wiped his tears and choked.
"It's all because of these young men who don't know how to behave and offend you, the old man apologizes to you, you all came all the way here to fight the Japanese, you are all heroes, heroes, why don't you hurry up and apologize to me!"
The old man had some prestige in the village, and almost all the villagers bowed and apologized.
The old man continued.
"My fellow soldiers, we have lost our house. The Japanese are coming. I hope you will take us with you for the sake of the Chinese people. Don't worry, we will leave once we get to a safe place and will definitely not drag you down!"
After saying that, the old man knelt down.
The other villagers also knelt down.
These people have already understood that the Japanese have burned down the house and that staying here would mean death. The only way to survive is to escape.
If you want to escape, you must follow these soldiers to have a chance to survive.
Zhang Wei gritted his teeth in anger and said nothing.
He had just treated them as bandits and even beat up his subordinates, but now they were kneeling down and begging him in order to save their lives.
He is not a saint.
Besides, there are more than a hundred people here, both old and young. Marching with all these people would be very slow.
Once the Japanese encircle them from both sides, they will be surrounded.