Chapter 60: The Busyness Before the General Attack
I don't know if Li Lishan's persuasion has been effective, and Xiao Qingfa's attitude has changed a lot this time. When Ren Laifeng entered his hall, Xiao Qingfa was very respectful and courteous to the battalion commander. Ren Laifeng asked him if he would like to lead his Dadao congregation to participate in the Flying Tiger Camp, and Xiao Qingfa did not object. However, he said that he would hold a meeting for his backbone and then do everyone's ideological work, which was estimated to take at least a month.
During the whole conversation, Li Lishan always looked at him with a smile on his face, as if he knew all this in advance.
A month? It certainly can't wait. Ren Laifeng can't even wait for a day, and everything has to be decided before the general attack tomorrow. It's no problem for him to wait for a month, but the devil can't wait, and it is impossible for the Ninth Division to wait for another month to attack.
"I'm sorry Brother Xiao, I can't wait for you that long. I'll give you a clue, tomorrow morning, the main force of the Flying Tiger Battalion will start a general attack on the Japanese army's material warehouse! Once the material warehouses are taken, our troops will soon be evacuated. If you agree to join the army, it will have to be decided tomorrow before our army acts! Those who can't be notified will talk about it in the future, you can gather as much as you want, and we will act together tomorrow! ”
"Huh? Tomorrow? In such a hurry? Battalion Commander, I have agreed to join the Flying Tiger Battalion, can you give me a few more days? Tomorrow is really too tight. ”
"No, it has to be tomorrow. Is military order child's play? Ren Laifeng straightened his face, "The fighter plane is fleeting, please Brother Xiao overcome it." ”
Xiao Qingfa looked at Li Lishan with an embarrassed expression. Both of them are the leaders of the Big Knife Society, and it was Li Lishan who participated in the Flying Tiger Camp to build a bridge from them, and when something went wrong, he naturally thought of him, a fellow disciple in Shandong.
"Battalion commander, things can always be changed, right? Qingfa has already agreed to join us, and when the general attack is carried out tomorrow, let Qingfa send a group of people to join the Flying Tiger Battalion first and act with us. The rest of the aftermath was for him to take his time. Ten days and half a month later, can't he come to us after arranging the back road? Li Lishan had no choice but to stand up and intercede with him.
"No, I can't. Brother Li, alas, this originally involved military secrets, and I couldn't leak them to the outside world. But neither of them is an outsider, so it doesn't hurt to tell them about it. In ten days at most, or three days at least, the 9th Division of the Japanese Army will land in Ruichang! When the time comes, let alone Wangfu Mountain, even whether Ruichang can hold it is in two words. It is likely that our army will have to retreat completely. You say, can I go to the next moon? ”
"Brother Xiao, I might as well be honest with you now. You are now close to our Flying Tiger Battalion, and when our army retreats in the future, your broadsword will definitely be the key target of the Japanese devils! If you don't go with me, I advise you to dissolve the Dadao Society now, pack up the gold and silver, leave Jiangxi, Hunan and Hubei, and go to Chongqing to spend your old age in peace. ”
Well, Ren Laifeng not only said that other people's big knives were gone, but also said that he even spent his old age in peace.
Although what he said was good-intentioned, this kind of kind words were definitely not a taste in the ears of the person concerned. Xiao Qingfa's face was red and white, and he had obviously entered a fierce ideological struggle. Ren Laifeng and Li Lishan glanced at each other, quietly waiting for Xiao Qingfa to make a decision.
The result has been decided, but the decision is more difficult. If you don't join the Flying Tiger Battalion, you will have to disband the gang and flee your hometown. And joining the Flying Tiger Battalion, not to mention becoming a soldier of the country, he can also kill the enemy for the country and make a name for himself for the Broadsword Society. It is clear which side is good and which side is bad, as long as the person's intelligence is fine, it is impossible to make another choice.
After scratching his ears and scratching his cheeks for more than ten minutes, Xiao Qingfa finally made a difficult decision: to join the Flying Tiger Battalion! Ren Laifeng appointed Xiao Qingfa as the deputy captain of the Independent Brigade of the Flying Tiger Battalion on the spot, with the rank of captain.
Xiao Qingfa is also a decisive person. It turned out that it had not been decided, but now that it was confirmed, he immediately entered the substantive stage. The orders were sent out in waves, and the reports were also sent in batches. Xiao Qingfa and Li Lishan checked the two people, and picked the young and strong ones who had a skill. The old, weak, sick and disabled, who have no special skills, are all persuaded to retire.
Xiao Qingfa told every congregant who did not pass the recruitment interview: After you go back, you will either move or go incognito, and never mention the Dadao Club to anyone from now on. It's just that you've never been a member of, and you've never known there's such a gang.
The people who were persuaded to retire were shocked, and wanted to inquire about something, this matter involved confidentiality, and Xiao Qingfa couldn't reveal it yet. In the end, Xiao Qingfa simply opened the Tangkou vault, took out all the money in the vault, and gave everyone who was persuaded to quit a small amount of settling-in allowance. No matter how much, everyone got a more or less amount of money anyway.
Xiao Qingfa's handling of this matter is quite satisfactory. Ren Laifeng told those congregants who did not pass the interview: You will gather at the gate of the Japanese munitions warehouse tomorrow morning, and wait for Hall Master Xiao to send you another settling-in allowance. This time, it is likely to be distributed in kind, and anyone who does not come will be deemed to have given up the benefit automatically.
Ren Laifeng didn't know how to notify the masses to receive the supplies, and now the masses took the initiative to send them to the door, isn't that just right! In this way, even the explanation work is done for you. Ren Laifeng only explained twice at the beginning, and then Xiao Qingfa and Li Lishan took over.
By the time Ren Laifeng rushed back to the barracks of the security regiment, dinner was over. In the kitchen, for the sake of his chief, he worked overtime, fried a few side dishes, and made a small pot of wine. Ren Laifeng took Yu Xiaoqian to have a beautiful meal, and he called the battalion and company commanders of the security regiment together for a meeting.
It was a busy night, and it wasn't until eleven o'clock that he found a room and slept for a while. Yu Xiaoqian didn't separate from him when he was sleeping, Ren Laifeng slept on the bed, and Yu Xiaoqian made a bunk in front of the bed. Ren Laifeng is so depressed, he actually had a tragedy in his life living in the same room with a beautiful woman, and nothing happened. And looking at this trend, this record will continue to be broken in the future.
At half past four in the morning, when Ren Laifeng was sleeping soundly, there was a knock on the door outside. Ren Laifeng jumped up, and saw a person with long hair and shawl in front of the bed swaying back and forth. Startled Ren Laifeng, and then took a closer look, hey, isn't that Yu Xiaoqian? Why is this chick okay pretending to be a scary ghost in the middle of the night?
When I lit the lamp, I saw Xiaoqian sitting on her own bunk, looking at Ren Laifeng with bright eyes, and there was no trace of sleepiness!
"Xiaoqian, you haven't slept all the time?"