Double-Cut During the War of Resistance: My Wife Came from 1937

"Bang!"

With a gunshot, a wild boar weighing over 200 pounds fell to the ground.

Deputy Division Commander Xu put away his gun and said with a smile, "This Type 56 semi-automatic rifle is still the best. It's more accurate. The AK and Type 56 assault rifle aren't as accurate as this one."

"Of course, this 56-inch model is an original factory product."

Ma Hongwei thought to himself, "The weapons produced by the Huaxia Military Factory are naturally incomparable to those made in the Baishawa workshop."

Deputy Division Commander Xiao said, "That's true at long range, but at close range, these submachine guns are still more effective!"

Whether it's a semi-automatic rifle or a bolt-action rifle, they are both longer and heavier.

Moreover, they can only fire single shots, giving them only one chance to fire at close range.

In contrast, this automatic rifle can fire 30 rounds at once, which is about the same as a light machine gun.

Political Commissar Luo glanced at the rabbits, pheasants, and roe deer on the ground and said, "We've also hunted a wild boar. I think we've had enough prey. Let's go back now!"

"Can!"

Everyone else thought that with so much prey, there would definitely be enough to eat.

Looking at the prey, Ma Hongwei couldn't help but think, "If this were in later generations, it would be truly too much torture."

Among those pheasants are brown eared pheasants, a Class I protected animal in China, as well as golden pheasants and spoonbills, which are Class II protected animals.

As for wild boar, roe deer, wild rabbit, and ring-necked pheasant, although they are not under national key protection, they are still classified as protected animals under the "Three-Protected" category.

However, in this era, there are many wild animals, which can harm humans or waste human food, so there is naturally no concept of protecting animals.

Even if it were a first-class protected animal in later generations, it would be killed without hesitation if encountered.

After all, everything else is secondary until you've eaten your fill.

Before they themselves are full, no one even considers whether wild animals need protection.

Even if someone points it out, others will think they're crazy.

Only when people are well-fed and clothed every day will they start to think about other issues.

It's like some people who post pictures online every day of their cats and dogs eating all kinds of steaks, salmon, lobsters, and the like.

They treat their pets better than they treat their parents.

In the past, he would probably have been condemned to death.

……

The group carried or hauled the game back to the village.

They handed it over directly to the cooking team, asking them to prepare a table full of food.

These dishes include braised wild boar meat, wild boar knuckle with rock sugar, brown eared pheasant stewed with mushrooms, beggar's red-bellied pheasant, roasted roe deer meat, and spicy wild rabbit.

With so much meat, the canned goods remained untouched.

With meat, there must be wine.

It's not a very good wine; it's just sorghum liquor brewed in the countryside, slightly better than sweet potato liquor.

"Come on, come on!"

Deputy Division Commander Xu said with a smile, "Everyone, have a good meal and drinks today!"

Commander Liu then looked at Ma Hongwei and asked, "These wild game... you've probably never eaten them before, right? Come and try them, see if they're good!"

In fact, if he hadn't been thinking about entertaining Ma Hongwei, he wouldn't have bothered to prepare so much wild game.

"Thank you for your hard work, leaders!"

Ma Hongwei thanked him.

This was his third time using a gun, and he was completely unable to hit those running wild animals.

Even when the two sides are very close, Ma Hongwei will still miss the target.

"Next time I go to Peshawar, I'll see if I can buy a sniper rifle!"

Ma Hongwei thought to himself, "The sniper rifle comes with a scope, so it should help me shoot more accurately!"

He picked up his chopsticks, took a piece of braised wild boar meat, and put it in his mouth.

Ma Hongwei originally thought that wild ones would definitely taste better.

After all, many people in later generations specifically pursued wild game, and even broke the law to eat it.

But Ma Hongwei realized he was wrong.

This wild boar meat is really not tasty at all.

Wild boar meat is very active, so it has well-developed muscles, very firm meat, and less fat.

Even after stewing braised pork for half a day, it still felt tough and chewy.

However, this is not the most unacceptable thing.

What truly left Ma Hongwei speechless was the fishy, ​​foul smell of the wild boar meat.

The pigs that people eat in later generations are castrated from a young age.

The meat of castrated pigs has very little gamey or muttony smell.

However, these wild boars are not castrated and often root around in the soil and mud, so they have a particularly strong odor, fishy smell, and gamey smell.

Ma Hongwei picked up another piece of braised wild boar knuckle with his chopsticks, only to find that it wasn't as good as braised wild boar meat.

The braised wild boar meat is cut into small pieces, and after long-term stewing, the gamey smell is somewhat suppressed by the spices.

But braised wild boar knuckle is different; it's made whole, so the gamey and muttony smell is much stronger.

Ma Hongwei shook his head as he ate.

Ma Hongwei originally thought he was going to be disappointed today.

But to my surprise, the pheasant and roe deer meat was incredibly delicious.

Roe deer meat is tender and juicy. Although it has a gamey smell, it's not too strong and is acceptable.

Ma Hongwei felt it tasted better than mutton.

"If you like roe deer, eat more!"

Deputy Division Commander Xu placed the roe deer meat directly in front of Ma Hongwei, exchanging it for the other dishes.

He added, "If you like eating this, I'll have someone hunt a few more in the mountains tomorrow and bring them back for you."

"Please don't!"

Ma Hongwei quickly said, "These wild animals carry a lot of parasites. Eating them once or twice is fine, but you can't eat them too often!"

According to his understanding, some parasites require temperatures of 90 or even 100 degrees Celsius for more than two minutes to be killed.

However, some meats don't taste good if they're overcooked.

Just like apple snails, if they're overcooked, they taste like eating plastic or rubber—hard and impossible to chew.

But if you don't cook it thoroughly, you won't kill the parasites inside.

If you eat wild animals that haven't been completely free of parasites, you're in trouble.

Ma Hongwei didn't want to invite trouble upon himself.

Upon hearing Ma Hongwei's words, Chief of Staff Zhou couldn't help but ask, "Little Ma, do these wild animals carry a lot of parasites?"

When the other party addressed him directly as "Little Ma," Ma Hongwei couldn't help but frown.

Even the future marshals called themselves comrades.

The other side is a traitor, what's so great about him?

Just because you think you're not a cadre and are just an ordinary person, does that mean the other person thinks they're superior?

But he didn't argue with the other party and nodded directly, saying, "That's right. Wild animals carry a lot of parasites and viruses, so they must be thoroughly cooked. We can't just focus on the taste and disregard their safety."

Commander Liu said, "It seems we need to explain this situation to all the soldiers!"

The Eighth Route Army would occasionally hunt to obtain meat to improve their meals, so it is still necessary to explain the situation.

It would be bad if any soldier were infected with parasites or viruses.