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Chapter 49 Eat You
There really was a big fool with a quick reaction. When he heard Xie Hushan's words, his eyes lit up. He rushed out, swung the long stool in his hand, and smashed it hard at the donkey's leg tied to the open space!
The donkey let out a scream and fell to its knees with a thump of its front legs. The man who had succeeded in getting the donkey smiled triumphantly.

Killing a donkey is a serious crime, but it is normal to accidentally injure an animal during a fight. If you want compensation, just wait for the two teams to argue!

But before the smug smile appeared on his face, the anxious tone in Xie Hushan's mouth had completely disappeared. Just like his mother giving a report at a production brigade meeting, he turned his back to them and gave an impassioned speech to the members of the market who were attracted by the noise outside:
"These people broke in, smashed the stalls, beat the donkeys! They even beat people into idiots! We believe that they are definitely a group of enemy agents who destroyed the production tools and sideline economic development of the rural production team! Comrades, we must not be afraid of sacrifice, overcome all difficulties, and resolutely fight these... CNM! Don't move! Didn't you see me talking?"

Before Xie Hushan finished his speech, the man under his feet tried to get up, but Xie Hushan lowered his head and stomped on him while cursing at him, causing the man to fall back to the ground!

Once the curse words came out, he couldn't continue shouting. Xie Hushan waved his hands dejectedly, looked at Han Hongbing and the other two who were confronting him and the seven people on the opposite side, and cursed:
"They have no sense at all. They are watching this guy destroy my speech and affect my positive image? What the hell are you doing standing there! Kill them!!"

As he opened his mouth, the first person to take action was Lao Meng, who had been lying on the ground shouting and holding his head, and had been stuffing roasted crickets into his mouth while crying. Now, he jumped up flexibly behind the few people!
He picked up a small wooden stool, and while they were confronting Han Hongbing and others, he turned his back to them and swung the stool behind them, smashing it like a hammer at the head of the young man who had just attacked the donkey!

"You're an enemy agent sabotaging production!"

"You beat me silly!"

"You also broke the donkey!"

He hit the other person's head with the elm bench every time he cursed. In the blink of an eye, the other person's head was hit by the elm bench three times!

After Lao Meng stopped his three consecutive lightning strikes, the other party finally reacted. His body swayed a few times and he fell to his knees. He buried his head in his crotch, covered his head with both hands, and screamed in pain while taking a breath.

After the fight, Lao Meng first took out a roasted cricket from his pocket and stuffed it into his mouth, then he picked up the bench and prepared to look for other people.

It turned out that of the eight people from the other side, except for the three who ran away with their heads in their hands when they saw the situation was not good, the remaining five were all lying at the feet of the Zhongping Five People's Group, either kneeling and holding their heads and crying in pain, or lying down and holding their stomachs and groaning.

The deputy Si Ling Lao Meng, who looked intimidating, was the slowest one among the five to end the fight. The other three all moved in a similar way to Xie Hushan, stabbing first with the wooden spear and then smashing, knocking the man down cleanly and neatly.

"I say, Chief of Staff, are these few guys worth making such a big trip? Xie Si Ling can deal with them himself. There is no need to let Lao Meng lie on the ground." Ma Saner kicked a few people who were lying on the ground holding their ribs and groaning, and looked at Xie Hushan and Han Hongbing.

Han Hongbing took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. He took out a burning stick from the stove and put it to his mouth to light the cigarette. Then he handed the cigarette box and the stick to Chen Daxi who came over, and then he scolded Ma Saner:

"What are you doing? Look outside. You have no vision at all. If you really go to the battlefield, you, the commander of the Zhongping Security Brigade, will be at most as good as Tang Erhu of Rehe. At most, you deserve praise for not being a traitor."

Ma San looked outside and saw dozens of young men with unfriendly faces slowly surrounding the braised pork stall from a distance. The leader was a young man in his twenties, who was staring at them viciously:

"Who is this? He is so domineering, hitting people with a pickaxe handle. He dares to bully people like this. Does he think our Lijiazhai Brigade has no one left?"

"Isn't this Li Hu, the captain of the basic militia company of the Lijiazhai Production Brigade? Hello, sir!" Xie Hushan grinned at him and raised his hand to give him an exaggerated salute:
"Someone destroyed the production team's production tools. Look at how they beat up the donkey. They also beat up our team's idiot Lao Meng. We were just acting bravely and courageously!"

"You beat up people from our team. Even if you are the king of heaven, you can't leave today. Take you to the team headquarters. I will listen to you talk to me slowly when we get back." The young man named Li Hu waved his hand, ready to let his men take Xie Hushan and others away.

Another voice sounded from the crowd not far away:
"Captain Li, I think I should step out and say something to persuade these bastards to lay down their weapons. It may be a bit difficult for you to rely on the masses to forcibly disarm them, and it may easily get the masses hurt." Li Hu's face changed, and he looked in the direction of the voice. A sturdy young man walked out of the market in the distance. He was about 27 or 28 years old, wearing a wide-brimmed cloth hat, a red vest, and a gray cloth sweatshirt with his chest open, vaguely revealing the missing half of the holster on his waist. Except for the lack of a pair of round-frame sunglasses, his appearance was telling everyone that he was cosplaying Luo Jinbao, the scout in "Little Soldier Zhang Ga".

"Captain, are you hot? Let me use a rag to wipe the sweat off you. The sweat is all..." Seeing the appearance of the man who came, Xie Hushan felt hot for him. Wearing a stuffy cloth hat in the middle of summer, the sweat on his face was enough to raise fish.

The other party glared at Xie Hushan unhappily:
"I'm not hot, please don't talk, okay! Can't you see this is a conversation between two senior officers of the production brigade? Go to the side and squat, or I'll scold you later!"

He then adjusted his mood after being interrupted by Xie Hushan, and said to Li Hu with a smile:

"Captain Li, are you bringing the people from your brigade to the market?"

Xie Hushan, Han Hongbing and others couldn't hold back their laughter because of this sentence, and laughed out loud on the spot, while Li Hu on the opposite side turned pale because of his words of bringing the masses to the market:

"Isn't this Captain Ge from the Zhongping Militia Company..."

"Stop. In a formal setting, use your full name. I am Ge Baosheng, the company commander of the armed militia company of the Zhongping Production Brigade. If you omit two words, it will make people think that I am the same as you, a basic militiaman. I can't afford to lose face." The man interrupted him, and repeated his position, and finally added:
"And speaking from the perspective of the militia, I am the battalion commander, and you have to salute me, but I am not the type to be picky. We are all so familiar with each other, so there is no need to salute."

The person who came was Xie Hushan's direct superior and another half-master besides Zhang Cheng, the head of the commune's armed forces department.

The Zhongping Military Marshal commanded all the militiamen of the 19 production teams under the Zhongping Production Brigade.

Han Laogou's double-flowered red stick is the leader of the friendly activities between Zhongping Brigade and other brigades in grabbing water, electricity, machines, etc.

Ge Baosheng is an important member of the Party Branch of Zhongping Production Brigade, the battalion commander of the basic militia battalion of Zhongping Production Brigade and the company commander of the armed militia company.

"Look at how you got beaten up. Why don't you help Captain Li's main forces to apologize?" Seeing that Li Hu didn't say anything, Ge Baosheng turned his head, pointed at Xie Hushan and others and cursed in disgust:

"A bunch of rubbish! Four armed militiamen and a fool, they only managed to beat down Captain Li's five core militia comrades with weapons! And they let three of them escape?! Do you know what it means to be disgraceful? Your performance is disgraceful!"

"Don't tell me you learned military skills from me in the future! I can't afford to lose face! Your performance just now is just like the battlefield in Korea. I thought you could fight with the American devils, but it turned out that you could only fight the puppet army of South Korea! You bully the conscripted civilians of South Korea..."

"Mr. Ge, watch your mouth. Who the hell are you talking about conscripting men and who are the puppet soldiers?" Li Hu started to curse when he heard Ge Baosheng's sarcastic tone!
Ge Baosheng turned his head, put his hands on his hips and looked at Li Hu, then spat on the ground:

"Hey, Captain Li, are you a little dissatisfied? Then why don't the militiamen from our two battalions have a friendly match. Count me and Hu Saner. There are five militiamen coming to Zhongping. Don't disturb the people going to the market, or they will try to stop the fight. After the market is over, pull out your militia company and we'll have a fight. Isn't it a bit bullying? Five people are a bit too many. Why do I feel like you're at a disadvantage? How about this, I'll subtract four of them from my side."

"I can beat your entire company by myself?"

(End of this chapter)