"Su San left Hongdong County and came to the main street..."

Does this libretto sound familiar? This is not what Hu Yizhou is singing, this is what he is listening to!

Want to ask why he is so leisurely? It's just because he has left Taiyuan City and brought his five hundred recruits to the famous Hongdong County. After getting off the bus here and receiving a month's rations from his uncle, Hu Yizhou

It’s complete “freedom”!

At the very least, he can have the final say on future matters by himself under certain circumstances, and no longer has to be constrained at every turn!

Therefore, after getting off the bus, Hu Yizhou decided to lead his people to stay in Hongdong County for a day, find or buy enough carts of mules and horses, pack the horses, pack the donkeys, pack the mules, and then head east to Jiuzhaigou.

As for why he dared to stay here, it was just because Hu Yizhou knew that it was safe for the time being! Commander Wei and the others would build a new defense line in Hanxinling in the north to prevent the Japanese from moving south!

After the little devils captured Taiyuan City, they stopped going south. Instead, they packed up several surrounding towns and then settled down!

Then, they will remove half of their troops to reinforce the Songhu battlefield, leaving only the troops stationed here to guard several important cities and transportation lines.

And by February next year, the little devils will comb southeast Shanxi from east to west like a comb, occupying some major cities. Well, that’s a story for another day!

The security team now has a lot of guys. In addition to one month's food supplies, equipment obtained from Boss Yan, and several tons of Kaizi explosives obtained from the Department of Ordnance, these things are

Quite a few!

If you want to return to Jiuzhaigou, you have to find enough transportation capacity!

Once enough transportation capacity is found, the train will then head east from Hongdong County, pass through Anze, cross Taiyue Mountain, and return to Licheng via Changzhi. Once in Licheng, you are basically home.

The mountain road into Jiuzhaigou is relatively easy to walk for the time being. There is a road from Licheng to the north leading to Liao County. Jiuzhaigou is in the mountain col next to the road (fictional, there is a prototype).

But now, the security team is still far away from Jiuzhaigou and needs to walk for several days.

At this moment, Hu Yizhou came to the famous big locust tree in Su Sanqi's opera!

"Ask where my ancestors came from, the big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi; what is the name of the ancient residence of my ancestors, the old stork's nest under the big locust tree." This sentence sounds familiar, right? It's about here!

From the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1370) to the fifteenth year of Yongle (1417), the Ming Dynasty made several trips from Pingyang, Luzhou, Zezhou, Fenzhou and other places in Shanxi, passing through the big locust tree in Hongdong County, Shanxi.

After going through the formalities and receiving the "Certificate of Sichuan Capital", they can immigrate to vast areas across the country.

One from the four families will be left alive, two from the six families will be left alive, and three from the eight families will be left alive! From now on, we will be separated from each other and will never see each other again in this life!

It was a tragic history, a history of the Chinese nation’s perseverance, and a history of the Chinese nation’s enduring humiliation and rejuvenation! The floods, wars, and massacres of aliens in the late Yuan Dynasty made Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places almost a white land. There was no rooster crow for thousands of miles.

, the bones exposed in the wild is the most true portrayal!

At that time, there were more than 59 million people in the country, and Shanxi accounted for 4.1 million people... If you don't immigrate, who will immigrate?

What to do with those who are unwilling to immigrate? Walk with them tied up! If you need to go to the toilet or something on the way, just untie your hands and let them do it! So the word "relief" came into being! Well, it's not commonly used in some places now.

After standing under the big locust tree and remembering his ancestors for a long time, Hu Yizhou finally fulfilled his small wish of staying in Hongdong County. At the very least, there is no charge for coming to his hometown to see his ancestors...

After a day of shopping, the security team finally gathered enough animal power to transport these things, and they were ready to set off.

The legal currency these days is pretty strong, so after Hu Yizhou got the legal currency used as military pay, the first thing he thought of was to spend it and exchange it for supplies, food, etc. to store it.

As for the soldiers' pay, if they are in arrears, they will be in arrears, and they will be replenished when the time comes. Compared with the food of other teams, the money and food consumed by these recruits is enough to offset their military pay.

Of course, money still has to be given, and we can just replenish it when we have more income in the future.

But the thing that bothers Hu Yizhou is that the military rabbits don't seem to receive military pay, only a small allowance. In this way, the gap seems a bit big? Forget it, let's talk about it then!

The security team bought a total of ten oxen plus ten oxen carts, eight mules, five pack horses, and 20 donkeys. After equipping the mules with trailers filled with supplies, the oxen carts were also filled with things, and they were put on the donkeys' backs.

After filling the grain bags and putting saddles on the pack horses, the security team headed eastward in the morning sunshine.

Along the way, the security team moved very slowly! One of them was too slow to move, the other was that the old cows walked slowly, and the donkeys were so angry...

In short, it was very noisy with people neighing and horses roaring!

Hu Yizhou didn't take it seriously. Traveling like this was actually a kind of training!

Let the Third Company break off behind to protect the baggage, and let the soldiers of the logistics platoon take care of the ox carts and mule carriages. The soldiers of the heavy machine gun platoon follow the baggage. Further ahead are the food bags and shell boxes carried by twenty donkeys.

, three artillery squads walked in front of the donkeys carrying mortars and some shell boxes.

On both sides of the donkeys and artillery, there was the second company divided into two teams to protect them! The first company walked at the front of the team, with a distance of about 200 meters behind them.

As for the special operations platoon, let them move forward in advance to clear the way! It doesn't matter if they are not familiar with the terrain and roads. Your mouth is right under your nose, so you can ask for directions!

Seventy miles of mountain road a day, this is the marching speed prescribed by Hu Yizhou.

This speed can be said to be fast or slow, and it can be considered a compromise speed. Mainly because the oxen pulling the carts move too slowly, and some difficult roads require help from people.

"Lao Jiang, how is the marching speed?" I also asked Lao Jiang for his opinion. When it comes to marching, no one is the opponent of the Red Army.

"Compared to the flying capture of Luding Bridge back then, it's far behind! But this speed is not slow!" Lao Jiang didn't have much opinion.

"Then it's settled!" Hu Yizhou just settled.

Hu Yizhou didn't have much objection to this marching speed. But he had two things to say. Now we needed to transport things. If there was a war, we couldn't run so slowly.

As for why he had to choose the slow-walking old cow, Hu Yizhou mainly considered that after returning to Jiuzhaigou, he still had to reclaim more mountainous land in the surrounding area to grow food. It would be easier to have cattle! Of course, cattle can also be killed.

Eating meat, right?

PS: I'm stuck on the map, so I'll post a chapter first! I studied the Shanxi satellite map for three hours, because I really couldn't find the road map from that time, so I could only find a few words from other records...
Chapter completed!