Chapter 1328: 1329 a chocolate bar
After having a hot meal next to the field dining car on the front line and enjoying the treatment that only the Tang army had, the Qin soldier who survived by chance almost broke through the defense.
If he had known that he would be able to eat such a meal if he surrendered, why the **** would he be running around? His comrades...why are they still running?
They kept running with the troops along the way. They hid when they encountered Tang Jun's planes. They scattered when they heard a shout that Tang Jun was coming...
That is simply not a life for humans to live! Their number became less and less as they fled, and finally there were only a few officers and the poor regiment leader left.
According to the laws of the Qin State, if an officer loses his troops and manages to survive, he must be dealt with according to military law. But because there were too many officers who lost their troops, the senior officials of the Qin Army did not hold them responsible for the crime of humiliating the country by losing their troops.
There is no other way. On the one hand, the law does not punish the public. Otherwise, most of the officers who escaped from Xiajuan and Dongqing would be executed.
On the other hand, it was also because the Qin army was defeated all the way and lost too many officers. Valuable officers can no longer be executed easily, otherwise the troops will be left without management and command.
So we could only keep all these officers, and most of them were even promoted to one level. This was also forced because there were too few officers.
It is not easy to train an officer. These officers and non-commissioned officers are the backbone of the army, especially at a time when a large number of troops are annihilated by the enemy. The value of the officers and non-commissioned officers who escape is immeasurable.
So...he was promoted with the regiment commander who escaped and became a division commander, but he was not promoted and was still assigned to the new unit and served as a soldier.
After all, he is a mud-legged man with little education. In the Qin army, people like him have always been expendable.
There are many people like him. In the past, everyone just wanted a piece of food. Coupled with the strict legal constraints of the Qin State, and the vague national consciousness that had just awakened, they joined the Qin Army together.
Here they fantasized about making meritorious deeds, and in fact many of them actually made meritorious deeds. They did win a great victory when they occupied Shu, and they did occupy and destroy Shu.
With their military exploits in Shu, they all received a lot of rewards, including land and medals. In short, everyone was very happy, and then followed the troops all the way north and entered the territory of Dahua.
In the past, the Qin army's invasion of Dahua was something that the people of Qin could not even imagine. They were afraid of the powerful Dahua Empire. Even if the empire had declined to the point of collapse, they were still as fearful as a tiger.
When the Tang people kicked over Dahua's table, the senior officials of Qin realized that they seemed to have a chance to conquer the Central Plains and occupy the rich territory of Dahua.
Later they really did this, and Dahua was wiped out within a few months. They, the Qin Dynasty, were invincible and no longer took Tang Guo seriously.
There were actually a lot of prisoners. The Tang army attacked too quickly. Many Qin troops and the Chinese who were mixed in surrendered their weapons and chose to surrender in a less than honorable manner.
While following a truck and several soldiers walking back, the young Qin soldier saw a familiar comrade of his again. The two people ran all the way back to the old capital from Xiajuan. As a result, in the suburbs of the old capital, the two of them became prisoners of the Tang people with a tacit understanding.
"How come you were arrested? Didn't you run away this time?" Among the dejected crowd, two people, an old man and a young man, asked curiously after greeting each other.
"Don't mention it... I was stunned by the shell and was caught when I got up." The young Qin soldier finally showed a little bit of frustration when he saw an acquaintance.
The veteran was a bachelor, and he replied directly: "I surrendered directly. It was too scary. We fired several anti-tank shells at the tank but couldn't penetrate it. It just ran over and crushed our company commander to death."
He seemed to be recalling the terrible battle. The Qin army's defensive positions were actually not very strong. The trenches and simple bunkers they built with all their strength were just to buy time for subsequent fortifications.
The Qin Army has been buying time for the next line of defense. As a result, before the next line of defense has been repaired, it has to face the attack of the Tang Army again and continue to buy time for the next line of defense...
This cycle has been going on for several days. The Tang army has been attacking and the Qin army has been retreating. The only difference is that the Qin army is transporting more and more landmines to the front line.
There is no way, landmines are really the best weapon for defense. Sometimes a few landmines can do things that thousands of Qin soldiers cannot do.
As long as a mine is pressed, the Tang army's attack must be forced to stop, and then the mines can be carefully cleared before continuing. The time wasted in this was more than the time gained by the Qin army's defense line.
“Have you eaten?” The veteran sighed, looked around and then asked excitedly. As he asked, he took out a plastic-wrapped chocolate candy from his arms: "The Tang man who caught me gave me this."
The young soldier didn't even know what this thing was, and looked curiously at the weird packaging and the variant text on it. To be honest, he didn't even recognize the formal writing, let alone the variant artistic calligraphy.
“This thing is chocolate!” the Qin veteran explained in a boastful way. He knew that the young people might have only heard about it and had never seen such a thing.
Although chocolate can quickly replenish calories and help people recover their physical strength, and is a very popular "quick energy supplement product" in the military, most countries really cannot afford this kind of thing.
Sugar was a military supply during the war and was controlled. It is impossible for Qin to distribute such extravagant things. After all, it is difficult for them to scrape together enough food.
The veteran has actually eaten one. He really loves and hates this kind of thing that is so sweet that it makes people feel cloying, and even so sweet that it is a bit bitter. He liked the sweet and cloying taste, but he would rather have a full meal.
"I had eaten before I came here." The young soldier had no intention of taking advantage of the veteran, and replied truthfully: "They ate themselves, and then gave me a portion...the taste was really delicious."
“I don’t know where we will be escorted...will we be able to return to Qin in this life?” The veteran sighed with emotion, and soon followed the captives to join the army of more prisoners.