Chapter 29 Teochew people

The freighter slowly moved away from the docks, its elongated steam whistle paused and then honked again, as if to say goodbye to New York one last time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Huang Baitao looked at the docks farther and farther away quite reluctantly, he was not reluctant to New York, he was reluctant to accompany the more than 4,000 soldiers.

"Brother Baitao, when we get to Yangon, the commander will also be there." Chief of Staff He Zhixing received the news that Li Kongrong was safe before he got on the ship, which made him put a big stone in his chest and his spirit soared.

"Brother Hansheng is auspicious, and every time something happens, he can turn evil into good fortune." Led by a pilot ship, three 10,000-ton ships slowly sailed past the Statue of Liberty. Huang Baitao didn't care about this, but the officers and soldiers on the deck who were not wearing military uniforms were vying to take pictures, they all wanted to leave the last memorial of the United States, and the Qingtian sailors on the ship were willing to help, even if they didn't understand each other's language.

"Down with Japboy!!" Someone shouted when they took pictures, which immediately provoked a burst of laughter. Immediately after that, the scolding started again, and someone raised his fist and shouted: "Japanese boy, I lost my mother!" Everyone laughed again.

There was a lot of laughter on deck, and for the more than 700 passengers on the ship, dozens of them were lucky, because they just left port when the wind was released, and they could snap a few photos and send them back to their families before leaving the United States. However, the rules and regulations of the navy are extremely strict, because it is a departure from the port, and the release time is only one-third of the usual, and as soon as the photo is taken, the whistle sounds, and the soldiers hurriedly enter the cabin to avoid military law.

Huang Jiongtang was the one who raised his fist and scolded the 'old mother of Lost Lei', and he jumped out of the inner cabin at the moment of the pause in the whistle, narrowly escaping the eyes of the naval non-commissioned officer with his arm stabbing the military police. His platoon commander, Rong Robb, glanced at him and remained silent.

"Hurry up next time. Brother. When he returned to the cabin, Robb Rong pointed at him. This made Huang Jiongtang a little stiff, the army is even sitting, and the whole platoon will be unlucky if he commits a crime. He swallowed his saliva and was about to admit his mistake, but the platoon commander's attention was attracted by a young boy, who seemed to be named Xiong Wei, also from Canada, he was a pilot and helicopter pilot.

"Big guy, big guy, let's take a plane?" A few old fritter soldiers pulled the bear, which had not grown all the hair, to hand out cigarettes vigorously - they had just received the news that although the whole brigade was the 1st Brigade of the Marine Corps, this was an air assault brigade. Everyone knows what it means to assault, that is, to rush forward. But the air assault was wondering, but fortunately, the battalion commander Sun Shixiu said that the air assault means that the air assault means sitting on the plane and rushing forward, and suddenly going around behind the devil. After saying this, the whole battalion shook, and the war could still take a plane, which was very sharp and easy to handle.

"It's a helicopter." Xiong Wei doesn't know how to smoke, and it's really hard to take a few cigarettes when they are handed over. Corporal Liu Bohai picked out a good luck cigarette and lit it for him, and threw the other cigarettes back to others.

"Boss, helicopter is this kind of plane?" After lighting a cigarette, Corporal Liu Bohai raised his hand and turned around a few times above his head, looking very funny.

"yes, that's the kind of plane." Xiong Wei was also a little inexplicable when he was suddenly stopped by a group of soldiers, and he thought that they were going to deal with him.

"Stand-up!" The battalion officer on duty suddenly shouted, and the regiment commander Shan Zheyuan happened to come over to inspect.

"What are you doing here?" Seeing that more than a dozen soldiers suddenly surrounded a pink and tender baby soldier, Shan Zheyuan thought that this group of veteran soldiers were plotting against him.

"Report to the regiment commander," platoon commander Rong Robb immediately stood up and replied, "We are asking what plane to take." ”

"Airplanes? Oh-" Shan Zheyuan came to his senses, and he smiled: "We are not paratroopers. The paratroopers took a transport plane, and when they arrived at the place, they jumped down as soon as the lights came on, and the big umbrella hit the ground as soon as they opened their buttocks. This is called parachuting, and at present only Germany and the Soviet Union have such troops, and Britain, the United States, France, and other countries have not yet. It's a very flexible kind of operation, and if you're in New York right now, you'll be landing with a parachute over San Francisco the next day. ”

"Commander, commander, aren't we like this?" Shan Zheyuan talked eloquently, he wanted the soldiers to know more about airborne operations, but he didn't think that anyone could wait.

"Don't worry." Shan Zheyuan is a native of Hebei Province and speaks in a round manner, but he is also learning Cantonese because his soldiers all speak Cantonese. "Parachute combat is a kind of airborne operation, because transport planes need airfields to land, and the battlefield cannot find airfields, even if there are and are enemies, so soldiers can only jump down in the air. Helicopters are different, they can land on any terrain, and if they can't, they can hover in mid-air and land along a rope, so you don't have a parachute on your back, just carry a combat weapon.

For example, if you want to land on a house, you may miss it as soon as the wind blows, and you end up hanging on a tree. Airborne combat is not, you can land behind the enemy's position if you want to land, you can land behind his position, and if you want to land on the roof, you can land on the roof. You can appear in any unexpected place for your enemies and take them by surprise. In particular, to seize the high ground, in the past, the infantry needed to attack on the back, braving the rain of bullets and artillery fire to climb up little by little, and the losses were extremely heavy, but the airborne combat was not, you flew up directly, and when you got off the plane, you occupied the high ground. In short, this is a revolutionary tactical advance. ”

Shan Zheyuan had read the minutes of the formation of the air assault division, and he was very proud that he could be in such a unit. This pride of his also infected the soldiers below, and everyone stared at him intently, listening to his northern dialect for fear of missing a word.

"This is an unprecedented combat method in the world, and it is also the world's first airborne combat unit, so everyone should cherish this opportunity, train well when they arrive at the training camp, and never let down the expectations of the commander and the elders." After all, Shan Zheyuan has been educated in the Three People's Principles, although the Navy does not mention this, but he still mobilizes his subordinates in that mode.

"We're going to train well." The soldiers were poured lard into their brains by the words "eternal unprecedented" and "world's first", and they immediately became excited.

"Sir, when can we see the Commander?" Again, the soldiers of the 1st Brigade often ask such questions, according to the plan, Li Kongrong was indeed going to inspect the 1st Brigade, but he returned home urgently.

"You'll see you when you get off the boat." Shan Zheyuan replied, "I heard that the commander is waiting for us in the training camp. ”

"Good! Great! There was a pause in applause, and many of the soldiers who signed up to join the army admired Li Kongrong, and they were really happy to see people.

Major Shan Zheyuan on the freighter outside New York Harbor told the soldiers that the commander was in the training camp, and Li Kongrong was actually in Singapore at the moment. He arrived yesterday, with a large group of Navy men, and two spies: Zheng Pingru and Drech. Although he holds a British passport, Drech still saves a lot of things by his side, at least he does not need to get cowpox, get vaccinated or pay any 'coffee fee' when he leaves the port, and the group boarded the ship from Hong Kong smoothly and disembarked in Singapore smoothly.

Because of the report on the strength of the Japanese army, Drech asked about various details of the Japanese army along the way, but Zheng Pingru, who kept changing cheongsam and dressing herself up, interjected from time to time to speak, she was probably performing the task assigned to her by her superiors - ** Li Kongrong. However, Li Kongrong doesn't think she is beautiful, the only thing that interests her is that she is still unemployed, and she is very immature and young.

"I think Miss Zheng still looks good in a military uniform." In a temporary apartment in Singapore, Zheng Pingru, who had just moved in, changed into a cheongsam again, and patted her chest complaining that the weather here was too hot. It's a pity that the clothes are thin, and Li Kongrong found that her breasts are basically flat, and A's are not. It's really a failure, isn't there any other female spy in Zhongtong?

"What, does Commander Li think I don't look good in a cheongsam?" Zheng Pingru saw Li Kongrong's gaze sweeping over her chest, her expression lagged and she laughed amorously, and stroked her hair.

"Hehe," has no breasts and no ass, I really don't know where the confidence of this woman in front of me comes from. Li Kongrong smiled and said, "I like to see women wearing military uniforms, so that they look petite and charming." Of course, the cheongsam is also good-looking, so everyone has their own love. ”

"How ugly it looks to be in a military uniform." Zheng Pingru seems to have begun to enter the state of Shanghai women's hair, and is ready to let Li Kongrong accompany her to go shopping as planned, but she didn't think that Li Kongrong would disappear in a blink of an eye.

"Okay, I'll be right here." Li Kongrong, who entered the inner room, answered a phone call and immediately prepared to go out. "Miss Zheng, please take care of yourself. We have a day off and we will start work tomorrow, you contact the country as soon as possible, and let them send people as soon as possible. ”

After Li Kongrong finished speaking, he went out, and Zheng Pingru, who was shopping for a lot of fun, only stomped her feet when she saw this. But she didn't want to go upstairs, at this time she wanted to fly out like a pigeon that had been closed for a long time, and the first time she came to Singapore, she wanted to go everywhere.

TTelok Ayer Bay, Singapore is home to Singapore Tien Hok Palace, which is where the Hokkien Huay Kuan is located. Chen Jiageng and others asked Li Kongrong to talk about things in the guild hall, and he came directly to Tianfu Palace. After washing hands and worshiping Mazu at the door, I went to the east wing with the hall to discuss with everyone, and this time the discussion was about the Chaozhou people.

Cantonese, Hakka, Chaoshan. Cantonese people are easy to deal with, loose, small favors can be accommodating, don't force too ruthless; The Hakka people are hard-hearted, after all, they come out of the mountains, they are upright, but they don't go around, they get dizzy after a few turns, they only earn money that can be seen; Only the Chaozhou guy is the most difficult to do, hold a group, starve to death and be the boss, Xiao En Xiaohui can't be bought, and it's not dizzy after a few circles - people also go out to sea to fish, and they are also Fujian people at the root, and they haven't seen any strong winds and waves, and they can't get dizzy no matter how they go around.

Li Kongrong started from Hong Kong to stir up overseas Chinese in Nanyang, and the Cantonese and Hakka people all came to talk to them, but only the Chaozhou Yankees did not show their faces one by one, but the day before yesterday, Yang Zhangwen, the prime minister of the Teochew Bayi Association in Singapore, came, and he said that he came to inquire on behalf of his fellow Teochew villagers, and wanted to know if the navy was recruiting Teochew people? If so, how many vacancies can be given? Is it the same as the Min people?

"Didn't you say that there aren't many Teochew people in Malaya?" Lee Kong Rong was a little inexplicable, last time he remembered saying that there were not many people in Teochew, Malaya.

"There aren't many in Singapore, but there are a lot in Siam." Huang Yihuan, director of general affairs of the association, explained with a smile. "As long as Siam is engaged in the rice industry, all of them are Teochew people. Several years ago, some of them went back to the Whampoa Military Academy to take the exam, and there were a lot of people, and I heard that there were hundreds of them. Now that I saw that the navy was also recruiting people, and I was afraid of losing money, I inquired about it from east to west, and I probably thought it was a trick, so I came to ask. ”

"Whampoa Military Academy?" Li Kongrong was taken aback, but he thought that the current Whampoa Military Academy was not the previous Whampoa Military Academy, and it was useless for a few hundred people to take the exam, and they basically couldn't get ahead. "If they come, how many people will there be?"

There is nothing wrong with Chaozhou people holding together, as for dying to be the boss, the army has no boss, only subordinates. Li Kongrong felt that the source of Chaozhou soldiers was better than that of Guangfu and even Fujian, especially the Marine Corps, and most of the Chaozhou people seemed to know how to water.

"If there is really a head, they will pull out 100,000 people." Li Tiemin, the secretary of the guild hall, glanced at Li Kongrong, and the reason why he wanted to discuss it was because he was worried that these Chaozhou guys would rob them of the benefits of their own people, and they were not easy to fool.

"So many people?" Li Kongrong smiled, he likes a lot of people, but it seems that everyone sitting here doesn't like it very much. He explained: "Aviation school, sea school, military school, these three are the focus, no matter how many of them ......."

"Hansheng, Yang Zhangwen mentioned these three schools, so he asked if the Min people treat them equally." Tan Kah Kee spoke. "There are also a lot of Teochew people who study, and there are many Chinese schools in Siam, if you really want to come, you must go to these schools."

"Then let's divide the shares." Li Kongrong thought for a while, "It's good to give them a quarter, we will give a third, and everyone will divide the rest." The quota is like this, and when you enter the school, you will look at the grades, which is nothing to say. ”

"Then ......" Chen Jiageng stopped talking, and Huang Yihuan added: "What if that island is taken down?" ”

"Take it down, take it down, and take it down." The people Li Kongrong said were a little discolored, but everyone remembered that he said before that the navy could defeat the French. "Oh, I'm not talking about fighting, I'm talking about having children. Black people are very capable of giving birth, and if we can't give birth to others, we will definitely be driven away by them in the future. Not all Teochew people have to have sons, and they are always good at the population. ”

"Having a child is also a war?" Li Tiemin wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh, he didn't have a few boys, and he was almost a lone seedling.

"Of course. It's worse than fighting. Li Kongrong said, "In ancient times, when a war was won, it was usually killed to kill the father and marry the mother, and the Mongols were more than the rut of the man, and they had to kill it, leaving only the children and women; Or castrate the other man's man and work until death is over. In short, it is not to let the other party pass on the ancestry. Chaozhou people can give birth, and it seems that fighting is not bad, and it is okay to pull it in, even if everyone has any grievances before, they are all yellow people who are alone overseas. ”

"There are no grievances, it's just the Chaozhou Yankee ......" Huang Yihuan didn't know how to say it, anyway, he felt that the Chaozhou people were not easy to deal with, and they were tricky, so they were almost not fooled.

"Hansheng said it would be good." Chen Jiageng clapped his head and said that the navy is all Fujianese, and he is not afraid of Chaozhou people. "I asked Yang Zhangwen to come here in the afternoon, and you can meet him."