Chapter 30 When the transaction is in progress
A mountain road, far from the town, inaccessible, only for mules and horses.
At this time, about 3,000 Rao Eighth Route Corps walked on this road, more than 3,000 people, this is a full regiment, but there are a large number of empty mules and horses in this regiment, and most of the soldiers are empty, and many people do not even carry guns.
"Brigadier, are you going to sell us?"
In the center of the procession, a man of about thirty years old spoke in a pitiful tone, this man was wearing only a military uniform, a pair of sandwich straw sandals, nothing else, not even a water bottle and a drinking basin for the march on weekdays, and not far behind him, there were also about 500 soldiers and he looked the same, and there was only a slightly warm military uniform.
"Sell? What's the matter? It's called fraternal forces supporting each other."
The brigade commander next to him twisted his neck, looked at his subordinates beside him, and said in a big tone.
"I remember you had seven siblings at home."
The man in his thirties nodded.
He was born in the countryside, ranked fifth in the family, because of the lack of food at home due to the disaster, so he left home at the age of 15 to join the army, these years he worked in the warlord army, also served as a squad leader in the miscellaneous army, followed the current brigade commander five years ago, and is now a battalion commander in the 29th Division.
It's just that the brigade commander is asking why this? He has been mixed under the brigade commander for five years, before he was a direct subordinate of the brigade commander, and after the reorganization of the unit, a regiment commander was added in the middle, and the brigade commander was almost clear about his situation.
"The relationship between our 29th Division and the 119th Division is like that between you and your brothers, we are all a family, this is called mutual help"
"But there is a saying that your brother settles accounts, which is like if you go to help your brother's family work, although you don't need to be paid, but at least you want a meal."
"We support them as the elite of your battalion, they give us a little weapons and ammunition, and the brotherhood between the two sides will not leave a gap"
"Of course, don't think about how many weapons and ammunition they give us, this thing is lacking in everyone now, they give us dozens of tons of ammunition and food, I'm afraid that food will occupy the vast majority"
Then the brigade commander began to teach earnestly.
"The 119th Division has recently won several big battles and captured a lot, and their base products are also richer than ours here, and the surrounding villages and towns are also richer, naturally the 119th Division is richer than our division, but there are also more devils over there, and there are naturally more losses in frequent battles with devils, plus their division's recent large-scale expansion, so there must be a lack of experienced soldiers."
"They crippled two devil brigades a few months ago, you should know about this."
The deeds of the ambush in the Wind Pressure Valley and the two subsequent battles of the crippled devils and an entire brigade have been widely spread, and the 29th Division is naturally very clear, but the specific details are not understood.
"Brigade Commander, you told me this" The man in his thirties rolled his eyes.
"I guess you also know how strong the combat effectiveness of a devil's brigade is, even if our whole brigade is ambushed, it may not be able to eat, and maybe a few teeth will be broken" The brigade commander ignored it, still taking care of himself.
"Isn't the devil just relying on training to be more than us, relying on good weapons and plenty of ammunition?" The man muttered in a voice.
"So, what do you think of the losses of the 119th Division?"
Hearing this, the man's expression suddenly became solemn.
In those two battle reports, the 119th Division did not mention casualties. But in two battles, more than 400 devils were eliminated at one time, and more than 200 devils were eliminated at the other time. With the strength of the 344th Brigade of the 119th Division, which was ambushed by the remnants, it was necessary to carry out large-scale bayonet tactics to achieve such results, so its losses were definitely not low, as for why the casualties were not reported, compared to because the casualties were too large, reporting it would affect everyone's enthusiasm for the war of resistance.
It's just that this man can't imagine it now, the reason why he doesn't report the casualties is because the casualties are too low, and no one will believe it when he reports it, after all, he has a huge casualty advantage of ten to one with the devil, and this kind of war report is directly defined as a fake war report.
"You are the battalion with the strongest combat effectiveness in our brigade, so I asked you to help them, anyway, everyone is a family, they are all fighting devils, and it is the same wherever they fight, and where the weapons and equipment of the 119th Division are better than ours, you can better fight devils there"
The brigade commander patted the man's shoulder, and his tone was stunned.
"Yunsheng, you have to fight devils well in the future, don't fall into the prestige of my 29th Division"
"Well, don't worry, brigade commander, I will definitely fight the devil well in the past" The man, that is, Xiao Yunsheng nodded heavily.
The troops walked five miles along the mountain road until they came to a village where the two sides agreed to trade.
The 344th Brigade came to trade with Brigade Commander Chen, and he was accompanied by the long-bearded chief of staff. The two brigade commanders were acquaintances, and naturally as soon as they met, they began to blow each other and friendship in business, and they did not interfere with each other but integrated and coexisted.
After a period of politeness, the brigade commander of the 29th Division of several people got straight to the point, pointing to the man and more than 500 soldiers behind him.
"Let me introduce you, this is Xiao Yunsheng, this is the Yunsheng battalion, including the battalion commander, there are a total of 597 people, these will be handed over to you, people can give it to you, don't think about weapons and ammunition"
"That Yunsheng camp of the camel bell ambush?" Brigade Commander Chen of the 344th Brigade suddenly brightened his eyes, this is a real elite.
Yunsheng Battalion, the elite of the 357th Brigade of the 29th Division, blocked a division of the warlord army with the strength of a battalion, and forcibly blocked a division of more than 10,000 people for three years.
"Of course, this is the elite of our brigade, your brother won't cheat me this time, right" The brigade commander of the 29th had a triumphant expression, like a profiteer who had been in the mall for a long time.
Although they are not businessmen, they are not doing business, and the essence of everyone belonging to the same team determines that it is impossible for the two to have a major conflict.
The next time we meet, I supported an elite battalion of yours back then, and the things given by the other party are not worth the price, so I am naturally embarrassed to export.
This is called a debt of affection, and it is the most difficult to repay...
"Haha, let's talk to whom, look at the good things that my brother has prepared for you" Brigade Commander Chen suddenly laughed, and directly asked someone to open the house behind him.
The door of a tall grass hut was opened, revealing a neatly stacked arsenal of weapons and ammunition inside, and the painted and labeled ammunition boxes that filled the entire room immediately made the commander of the 357th Brigade of the 29th Division suddenly have his eyes fixed.
"So much..."
He stared at the ammunition box in the room in a daze, and couldn't organize words for a while.
"There are 2,000 new 38 caps, 800,000 rounds of 6.5mm rifle ammunition, 60 Czech-style ones, 300,000 rounds of 7.92 Mauser rifle rounds, 10 more 60 mortars, and 10,000 mortar shells."
"These are weapons and ammunition, here is good grain, a few barrels of canned beef"
Brigade Commander Chen's tone was also very similar to that of a profiteer.
This time there were more supplies than planned, because the supplies transported from the 1st Independent Regiment had recently increased significantly, and the division headquarters was already very wealthy.
The brigade commander of the 357 Brigade heard the data reported by Brigade Commander Chen, and naturally believed that the data was true, there was no need to lie to people about this kind of thing, but this plot was completely different from what he imagined.
Is it the other way around?
Isn't it supposed to be a whole bunch of food, and then a little ammunition?
"Did you raid the devil's hometown?"