XXVII. North

Twenty-seven went north

After the Japanese bombed and sank the gunboat, the six people went ashore, their bodies were dirty and not human, but their faces were full of happy smiles, Kane didn't know if old Matsui would cry, but sadness was certain, the devil cried, let's laugh.

Yangzhou is in the hands of the 111th Division at this time, but Kane and they are not so capable of bothering others, and they are all like calling Hanako, and it is not interesting to go to fight themselves. Came to a big car shop outside the city to rest, there were few people in the store, many people in the city went out to hide from the soldiers, and now even the shopkeeper is packing up, seeing Kane, he was originally going to push people out, but when the other party slapped a handful of the ocean that snatched the devil on the table, his face immediately turned cloudy and clear, "A few guest officers, it's not that the small shop doesn't entertain, it's really this chaos, you see, if you want to eat something, we have a cake just made."

Kane didn't feel bad, "Just give us a few sets of your clothes, and some more dry food and salt." "This one, this one, a few wait a while" After a while, all five of them changed into civilian clothes, but when it was Kane's turn, the shopkeeper was embarrassed "This foreign guest officer, you are too tall, that, that, otherwise, all my clothes are here, you can pick whatever you want" Kane rummaged through the pile of clothes, and finally found a large cotton jacket covered with a satin robe, and grabbed a melon skin hat before leaving, and then let the shopkeeper go.

The padded jacket was a little tight, and it was hanging everywhere on his body, Kane unbuttoned it in one go, which was better, the crimson silk robe, printed with round blessing characters on it, and then buttoned the melon skin hat, and got rid of the old wealth of a rent-collector! The five people in the back were wearing coarse cotton jackets, the big cotton pants were black, the crotch was too big, and the snake eyes covered it when they walked for a while, and the carriage was out of breath with laughter.

All the way to the north, soon arrived at the border of Xinghua, Jiangsu, at noon, a few people grilled fish on cotton stalks, the warm winter sun was particularly comfortable, five guys fell asleep under the roots of the grass pile after eating, most of the way were night marches, and it was really tiring. Kane took out the pistol and put it on the grass and began to wipe the gun, only halfway to wipe it, twisted his ears, woke up the others with his feet, and quickly assembled it in his hands, and after a few people were ready, Kane's pistol was also loaded, in the distance, there were several figures in the grove, and there were more than a dozen lying on the other side of the river behind, Kane secretly blamed himself, and relaxed his vigilance when he didn't meet a devil along the way, if he was on the battlefield, he would be made dumplings.

Someone in the woods on the other side began to shout, "Friend on the other side, which part is it?" Can you explain where you came? Kane is not easy to answer, he can't say that he is a foreigner, there is a road opened by the Xi'an Pacification Office, no one knows what it is in this small place! Kane had an idea: "On the other side, are you the National Army or the Eighth Route Army?" "We are from the Xinghua County Brigade of the New Fourth Army" In fact, Captain Sheng also pulled a big banner first, and now this place is far away from the central government, and he has just returned from Maoshan to prepare to organize the county brigade, but there are only a dozen or so people with two or three guns, and a voice came from the opposite side, "I know you Mr. Zhou, and I also know your Division Commander Lin and Political Commissar Nie" Kane immediately reported a personal name and said the characteristics of each person, which cleared up the misunderstanding.

Captain Sheng has two old sleeves in his hands for more than a dozen people, one of which is ten rings and a big red nine. It's just that there are not many bullets, only 79 round bullets 8 rounds, 9 mm bullets 32 rounds, this is still to go to Maoshan when the top support, originally crossed the river and brought back several guns, but unfortunately the devil began to attack Yangzhou, the four-person team encountered a class of devils on the road, only three came back, and only two spears were brought back, but the two team members arrived well, and the two broken radio stations picked up on the road have been carried on their backs and not put down. Dai Brigade talked about the hardships of Calais this time: "You don't know, now the devils in the south of the Yangtze River are crazy, I heard that someone was gouged out of their hearts a while ago, and they killed a thousand people at once, and then more than 2,000 people were killed on the river, and now the devils open fire when they see the boat, and sometimes they see small wooden boats bombarded with planes!" They used more than 20 large bombs to blow up our small wooden boat, and the woods only got separated from us when they turned back to get their guns, but the woods are familiar, and as long as they don't get hurt, they will definitely come back," Kane thought to himself, if only he could come back, otherwise this would make people feel very guilty. When I saw this unit that was even more shabby than myself, I couldn't help but feel big. There were only two rifled rifles, which turned out to be equipped with advanced Siemens radios, albeit broken. He pointed to the radio station, "Can this thing work?" Captain Dai has read, "This is a German radio station, it is expensive, and now there is no money to buy it, although it is broken, but we can fix it by finding an expert in Shanghai" In the end, his voice was lowered, not to mention whether the experts would come or not, it was impossible to deal with the current blockade situation.

Kane said, "Put it down, I'll take a look" Dai Brigade suddenly met a savior and put the radio on the ground, but people are foreigners, isn't this German radio station also foreign? Kane opened the gadget box on the side and found the screwdriver to turn on the radio. One receiver had a bullet inside that broke one resistor, the other was mostly burned out, and only a few electronic components and tubes were good. Kane opened the toolbox and searched for a long time, but he didn't find the soldering iron, and said to Captain Dai, "Can you find the soldering iron?" "No," Kane said. There was a young man on the side who was quite clever, "Captain, doesn't Dong Coppersmith have a soldering iron?" "That's right" Lao Dai patted his thigh, and the soldering iron is also a soldering iron.

After Lao Dong arrived, Kane repaired the radio station in three or two times, and then asked the old coppersmith to make a thin copper wire tied high to the tree, the radio station was only five watts, he didn't know if he could contact Xi'an, turn on the phone in the middle of the night and try it, yes, he could contact. Hurriedly reported safety to Xi'an, and soon Xi'an called, everything was fine, but the raw materials were a little tight, Lao He placed an order again, but there were no materials and he couldn't do much for a while, plus he owed some ammunition to the Eighth Route Army last time, and Luo Peizi was very worried about the safety of the team. Kane called back, don't make mortars first if you don't have materials, make more small cannons, make thick guns if the quality of cannon steel is not imported, don't engrave rifling, make the pipe longer and use it first, as long as there is no problem, don't care about more weight. And let the four eyes contact the Eighth Route Army, let them contact this radio station, and go back in two days.

After translating the telegram, he patted Lao Dai on the shoulder, "We will contact the Xi'an office tomorrow, and Mr. Zhou will contact you at that time, let's go first" "Don't, no one will use this thing as soon as you leave" Kane nodded, turned back to Snake Eye and said, "You teach this young man, I think he is quite clever, little guy, are you literate?" The young man shook his head, "Our Captain Dai has read a lot of books" I didn't see that this man with five big and three rough was actually a high-achieving student. Kane evened out 100 rounds of 9 mm bullets in his hand to Captain Dai, two small cannons were not easy to bring, and even five chemical bombs and eight arson shells were also given to the county brigade, and the most surprising thing for Lao Dai was the two cannons, although the shells were only fourteen rounds, but if this Dongdong hit a tank, it was not one cannon? The pins took advantage of the time to teach a few team members how to trip and trap simple mines, and then left the place.

When he arrived in Xuzhou, he found that the army in front of him was gathered, but fortunately, the national army saw that Kane was a foreign official, and no one embarrassed him, but their eyes were a little wrong when they stared at the carriage, and Kane was also afraid that there would be unnecessary conflicts between a few people and the national army, so he had to go to the street to order a set of clothes for a few. Fortunately, there are people in big cities who know the dollar, and Kane converted some of the dollars into fiat currency with him, and it is really difficult to move an inch without any money in these years.