Draw the sword and cure the fear of insufficient firepower

Soon, the hot meals came out of the pot.

"Commander! The meal is ready!"

The monk had a big white steamed bun in his mouth and was holding a bowl full of braised pork. He ran over and asked Lin Tian to eat.

"Eat slowly! You look like a starving ghost!"

"Look at the way you eat! How long have you been in Division 1? Why do you still look like you're starving?"

Lin Tian looked at the monk and cursed with a smile.

"Platoon Leader Qiao, invite the comrades over for dinner!"

"That's enough for today! Everyone, eat and drink well, and go have a good sleep. You've been working hard these past few days!"

Then Lin Tian waved to Qiao Damao who was standing beside him.

"Platoon Leader...what kind of meat is this? It smells so good!"

"That's right, Platoon Leader. I've never smelled anything so delicious in my life!"

"Platoon leader, the commander has spoken, let's go eat, I can't stand it anymore!"

As soon as Lin Tian finished speaking, the soldiers on Qiao Damao's side became excited.

Originally, when Lin Tian asked them to eat, they felt a little embarrassed at first because they already had dry food.

No one is rich. These 31 people eat a lot, so how could they cause trouble for the leader?

But now that they smelled the braised pork, the soldiers really couldn't help it and their appetite was aroused.

"Hey, thank you Commander Lin!"

"Let's go! Comrades, follow the leader's orders!"

Qiao Damao smiled innocently and led the soldiers towards the kitchen.

"Here you are! I have prepared everything long ago, just eat here! Eat as much as you want!"

The old squad leader of the kitchen team looked amiable. He pointed at the dishes and chopsticks on the table and said with a smile.

"Hey, old squad leader! Then we won't be polite!"

Qiao Damao was not polite either. He quickly picked up a big bowl and filled it with meat.

Then the soldiers lined up to get their meals.

"Old squad leader, what kind of meat is this? It smells so good! The color is so beautiful!"

A young soldier who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old asked excitedly as he stuffed a mouthful of braised pork into his mouth.

The number of times he had eaten meat in his life could be counted on one hand. His family members starved to death, so he begged for food along the way and finally joined the Eighth Route Army.

Forget about eating it in this life, I don’t even know what braised pork looks like.

"Little kid, this is braised pork. Boil the pork belly, cut it into pieces, add oil and sugar to make sugar color, and fry it in the pan! Then stew it!"

"Haha, that means it has the right color and the right flavor!"

"Eat slowly, haha, don't choke. If you finish it, it won't be enough. There's more in the pot!"

The old squad leader of the kitchen squad sat aside, rolled a cigarette, and talked as he smoked.

The old squad leader was also happy to see the soldiers praising his craftsmanship.

"Wow...my parents and little sister, if they had had a bite of braised pork, they wouldn't have starved to death!"

"Old squad leader, can I take a few pieces back? My parents and little sister have never tasted this braised pork... woo woo..."

"Their graves are not far from our group. I want to go back and put it...put it on their graves, so that they can have a taste too...wuwu..."

The little soldier started crying while eating, wiping his tears and sobbing.

"Oh, poor baby!"

"You eat first! The squad leader will fill it for you! Take it back and pay tribute to your family..."

Upon hearing this, the old squad leader also burst into tears.

He lived for more than fifty years, and China had been through hardships, poverty, and weakness during those years, with starving people everywhere.

Looking at the young soldier in front of him, the old squad leader's heart broke.

"Thank you! Thank you, old squad leader! Tiedan has such a hard life!"

"Tiedan! Hurry up and thank the old squad leader!"

Qiao Damao hurriedly put down his bowl and chopsticks, saluted and thanked the old squad leader, then poked the young soldier.

In this day and age, it is good enough to have something to eat, although he also wants Tiedan to take some meat back to commemorate his family.

But meat is such a precious thing. If it becomes smelly by the time they get back, it would be a waste.

Qiao Damao was worried at first that the old squad leader would not agree, after all, there was no food to eat...

Even if there is meat to eat in one section, it cannot be wasted like that.

But when he heard that the old squad leader agreed, Qiao Damao, as the platoon leader, was really happy.

"Thank you...thank you, old squad leader!"

Tiedan also saluted and thanked the old squad leader.

……

After lunch, the 1st and 2nd Regiments began to build defensive fortifications.

"Monk, go call Fang Zheng over. I have something to tell him."

"Yes! Commander!"

Lin Tian was sitting in the office of Inujiro Yamagami, the former commander of the 36th Division.

Now all the traces of the devils have been eliminated.

What replaced it was the style of the Eighth Route Army.

Behind the huge desk hangs a map of the latest enemy and friendly situation around Qucheng drawn by Zhou Weiguo and Fang Zheng.

This will be the office of the first division’s garrison stationed in Qucheng in the future.

Now that I have some free time, I can take a look at the rewards for liberating Qucheng.

Lin Tian sat at the table and opened the system panel in his mind.

"Eh? Huh? Ah? What's going on?!"

"Where's the reward? Are you kidding me?"

"Ah Tong, where is the reward? Qucheng is much bigger than Yi County, why is the reward gone?!"

Lin Tian opened his eyes suddenly, looking confused.

But after shouting for a long time, there was no response from the system.

Lin Tian was almost going crazy. How could the mine he had obtained be gone?

[Ding! Qucheng non-host is released, and the hidden task is not triggered. ]

Just when Lin Tian was puzzled, the cold voice of the system sounded in his mind.

"What the hell?!"

"Didn't I annihilate the 36th Division? Why wasn't I the one who liberated Qucheng?!"

Lin Tian was quite shocked and resisted the urge to swear.

"Oh, right. It must be because there were still five devils in Qucheng. When the brigade commander came, Qucheng was truly liberated."

"Although I completely wiped out the 36th Division, I did not immediately enter Qucheng."

"Oh no! If I had known earlier, I should have sent two companies to occupy Qucheng first. It's my mine!"

After Lin Tian figured out the reason, he slapped his forehead in regret.

It’s a pity that I didn’t think of this at the time, and I didn’t even know there was such a hidden task.

"No, I have to go back to the headquarters as soon as possible and take up a nominal position there!"

"Otherwise, the war will get bigger and bigger, and we will definitely need our allies to cooperate with us!"

"If Division 1 doesn't have time to capture the city when the time comes, then we must let the nearest friendly forces go!"

"Encircling the cities from the countryside, that's just because the Eighth Route Army is not strong enough at this stage. If it becomes stronger, it will definitely control the cities!"

"This is a lesson learned. Don't make such a stupid mistake again!"

Lin Tian murmured.