Throw away the crutches An Yi can't stop, he can't stop if he doesn't practice guns, his hands are itchy and unbearable, there are too many new brothers, he needs to show up to encourage and spur, Xia Jian's four battalions and four companies of 600 officers and soldiers are outdated, and there is a serious shortage of machine gun firepower, because now all regiments of the First Army basically use Russian-made Mogan 7.62mm rifles and imitation Makqin heavy machine guns aided by the Third International, and only An Yi's troops use German-made or imitation German-made weapons that are the easiest to replenish and capture.

In this regard, the quartermaster section of the 2nd Division Headquarters had no choice but to provide the supplementary regiment with 200 semi-new and old 7.92mm caliber German-made rifles and Hanyang-made rifles, 30 brand-new shell guns, and five American-made M1918 light machine guns. Xia Jian, the new commander of the fourth battalion, followed An Yi every day, like a debt collector, constantly complaining that his equipment was simply a beggar compared to the other three battalions.

Although An Yi has a way to solve it, many things have to be done by him in person, although He He, the elder of the Quartermaster Department of the Military Department, has a deep relationship with An Yi, but the military department has many eyes, all of them are staring at the batch of equipment that has just arrived, and he does not dare to blatantly favor An Yi's regiment too blatantly, and he can send a henchman to the General Temple in advance to inform An Yi of the situation of the new two batches of equipment from the headquarters, which is already a big face.

After 15 days of rest and replenishment, the strength of the whole regiment swelled rapidly, and the total number of the four battalions and the regiment's subordinate units reached 2,650, and most of the more than 100 veteran brothers and brothers who were wounded in the First Battle of Nanchang returned to do what they could while recuperating from their wounds.

An Yi and Yin Jinan weighed it repeatedly, and transferred Mu Juanyi, an instructor of the second battalion, to the fourth battalion as the battalion deputy and instructor, and transferred Lieutenant Guan Shan, Dong Yanzi, from the instructor of the quartermaster logistics unit to the second battalion as an instructor, and then transferred a group of wounded but experienced squad and platoon veterans to the fourth battalion as company and platoon commanders, so that the shelves of the fourth battalion were erected.

The six horses trotted all the way into Gao'an City, and when they saw that the streets were full of revolutionary officers and soldiers, they immediately lowered their speed, and immediately An Yi, Gu Laoer, Shi Lejun, Li Meisheng, Xia Jian and his deputy official Tianming.

Xia Jian looked around, while suggesting that the boss arrange his adjutant and guards as soon as possible, An Yi smiled, pointed to Shi Lejun, the quartermaster behind the horse, and Li Meisheng, Xiaolangzhong, and said loudly This is my adjutant, which made Xia Jian's face red for a while, and he didn't dare to speak again. Now that all the battalion-level brothers have their own adjutant and a squad of personal guards, only their own regiment commander has nothing, and the only good envoy around him, Dong Yanzi, has also let him go down to exercise, how can he not let Xia Jian, who loves to talk about pomp and circumstance, feel ashamed?

Gu Lao Er saw that Xia Jian was deflated, laughed, and said Lao Xia, don't worry about taking your soldiers, the boss has me by his side.

An Yi led a few brothers straight to the headquarters munitions warehouse in the west of the city, stopped his horse in front of the heavily guarded gate, and whispered to the little black horse, "Get down and let Lao Tzu get off the horse", the little black horse immediately lay down carefully and lay down steadily, and waited for An Yi to get off the horse smoothly and tell it to get up before standing up quickly, shaking off the dust stuck to the black shiny fur, standing quietly beside An Yi, and seeing that the eyes of the seven or eight officers and soldiers guarding the door were straight.

An Yi lovingly brushed the mane of the little black horse, turned around and explained his identity to the captain on duty, and asked to meet the chief of the ordnance department, Yu Jiasheng.

As soon as the captain saw that the person was the famous An Yi, and it was Director Yu who was looking for him, he hurriedly respectfully let An Yi and a few people into the camp gate, and ordered a few soldiers to bring chairs for Colonel An and his party to sit on, and ran in to find Yu Jiasheng in a hurry.

Gu Lao Er asked An Yi in a low voice Who is Yu Jiasheng? An Yi replied that Director Yu Jiasheng was the nephew of Yu Feipeng, the quartermaster minister of the headquarters and the director of the military station, and the nephew of Mr. Yu, just like the colonel's attendant officer Yu Jishi, who was next to the commander-in-chief.

Gu Lao Er and Xia Jian were taken aback when they heard this, it turned out that their boss was so familiar with these cattle people, so they understood why their subordinates could always get good equipment that was in demand, which made other regiments envious.

But how did Gu Lao Er and Xia Jian know that on the second day after obtaining the consent of President Jiang, An Yi had reached a secret agreement with Yu Feipeng, the principal's confidant quartermaster, under the guidance of Yu Jishi, the senior brother of the first period, to jointly establish the "Nanchang Jiangnan Food Manufacturing Company", and he and Ou Yaoting, the two Guangxi chaebols, will purchase the best processing equipment in the world to produce military biscuits, compressed food, canned meat and other military food, from building a factory to introducing machines to recruiting technicians to install and debug, etc., all with an investment of about 300,000 yuan. After completion, it will become the largest and most advanced military food production enterprise in the country, and the whole process does not require the Yu family to spend a penny, and the Yu family only needs to be responsible for the allocation of raw materials, transportation, and sales of finished products to obtain 20 percent of the shares. With this relationship in it, it is natural to respond to requests.

After a while, Yu Jiasheng, who had been promoted to major general, strode over, helped An Yi and asked for warmth, knowing that An Yi's leg injury was basically healed, so he complained with confidence.

The two of them got along like two brothers, and they were envious of the officers and soldiers around them.

An Yi took Yu Jiasheng's hand one by one, turned to the open space inside, and explained his tasks and the difficulties and disadvantages after the expansion, asking for help.

Yu Jiasheng rolled his eyes, and told An Yi with a smile: "It's okay, I just arrived three days ago with a batch of equipment purchased from Europe and the United States, including 1,000 German-made long and short guns, eight water-cooled heavy machine guns, 30 American light machine guns, 200 flower machine guns, 300 boxes of grenades and corresponding ammunition that were originally planned to be supplied to the Sixth Army. The seventy truckloads of Russian-made equipment that the Soviets have just arrived in the past two days, and the Wuhan side has half of it, and we have half of it, so I just need to exchange this batch of equipment for them, and you just have to do this......"

An Yi was overjoyed, thanked him repeatedly, saw that no one was paying attention, quickly took out a small cloth bag containing four gold bars from his pocket and stuffed it into Yu Jiasheng's pocket, and said with a smile: "This is the capture of the younger brother to Fengxin, and the elder brother has many brothers, and it often costs ...... Brother Yu, don't shirk, pushing back and forth makes people see that the impact is not good, what is our own brother polite? The junior brother will go to see Mr. Yu and the principal, and ask Yin Jinan to come to you as soon as he gets the approval slip. ”

"Let's go, it is estimated that a group of bosses at the headquarters are preparing to have lunch, and the afternoon meeting is dedicated to discussing the distribution of weapons and equipment, I will go back immediately to change the report, and I have to send it to Mr. Yu before half past two."

Yu Jiasheng took An Yi's arm and sent him out of the gate.

Under the friendly gaze of a group of officers and soldiers of the Quartermaster Department, Le Haha ordered the little black horse to lie down and get on his horse, and led the five brothers who were full of admiration to the headquarters of the revolutionary army on the shore of Phoenix Lake in the city, and easily entered the gate and dismounted in front of a row of tethered stakes in front of the side of the western-style building.

Zeng Guangqing happened to walk out of the door, and when he saw An Yi coming, he hurriedly stepped forward, looked An Yi up and down, and then punched him in his right arm.

An Yi took Zeng Guangqing's hand and whispered about the equipment, Zeng Guangqing didn't say a word, sent the adjutant behind him to do something, and led An Yi into the building to the quartermaster's office on the west side of the first floor, just about to knock on the door, Yu Feipeng and the adjutant happened to open the door and walked out, ready to attend the working lunch set by the commander-in-chief.

Yu Feipeng saw An Yi, greeted him repeatedly, smiled slightly when he heard An Yi's explanation, turned around and led An Yi into the office.

An Yi was formally reporting on the establishment and personnel of his supplementary regiment and the difficulties that could not be solved at present, Yu Feipeng nodded and ordered the adjutant to fill out the form and stamp the big seal, and the matter was done in three clicks and two clicks.

Yu Feipeng helped his glasses, carefully read the application form, thought about it, took out his pen, added 24 legal 81mm mortars to the artillery column, and filled in the number 1,200 in the ammunition column, handed it to An Yi and handed it to the adjutant after signing, and asked him to go to the second floor to find Liu Zhi who had finished the meeting to sign in the column of declaration and review of the department.

Ten minutes later, Yu Feipeng's lieutenant colonel adjutant and Liu Zhi came to the gate together, and the diligent and rigorous adjutant handed over all the approval documents and forms stamped with three big red seals to An Yi, saluted and turned to leave.

Liu Zhi pointed to the form in An Yi's hand, and smiled admiringly: "It's really yours, usually I go to ask Mr. Yu, but I can't get one-third of your hand ten times, how did you do it?" ”

"Shi Zuo doesn't remember Director Yu Jiasheng of the Ordnance Department? He and Yu Jishi, the senior of the first phase, have always had a good relationship with their subordinates, and when their subordinates heard that several batches of new equipment had arrived, they rushed over to ask if they didn't care about anything. Fortunately, if it weren't for the subordinates who came to the door today, this batch of equipment would have belonged to the Sixth Army! It's so dangerous to think about! An Yi sighed and whispered.

Liu Zhi nodded happily: "After the morning meeting, the congregation will disperse, I listened to the principal and Vice President Bai discussed, tonight Vice President Bai will rush to the front line of Qixi in the north of Wuning, and send one million rounds of ammunition and 100,000 oceans of military funds to General Li Zongren's Seventh Army." Vice President Bai also specifically mentioned that the Seventh Army was in urgent need of mortars, and the principal promised on the spot that as long as the inventory was available, the Seventh Army would be transferred immediately, and called Mr. Yu to inquire. Mr. Yu said that there were no mortars replenished these two times, and the number of stocks was already below 100, and the specific number needed to be verified immediately and reported in the afternoon, so just now I saw the twenty-four mortars above, and immediately understood Mr. Yu's deep friendship, we all have to thank him, Mr. Yu usually does things fairly, honestly and impartially, but he always thinks about our first army in his heart! ”

An Yi echoed continuously, and then asked in surprise: "Isn't Vice President Bai the former enemy commander-in-chief of our Central Legion?" Seeing that the war was about to start, how could he go to the Left Wing Army at this juncture? ”

"Why, I can't figure this out?" Liu Zhi looked at An Yi with a smile.

An Yi was stunned for a moment, his brain was spinning rapidly, and then he sighed and admired: "My subordinates understand that the victory or defeat of the line from De'an to Jiujiang directly affects the battle situation of our Central Army, only General Li Zongren defeated De'an again, and our Central Army has no worries, and Vice General Bai is estimated to have supervised the war as the deputy chief of general staff of the whole army in the past, no wonder the principal promised him everything."

However, his subordinates had long heard that the officers and men of the Seventh Army had captured countless battles in Wangjiapu, and it was enough to equip one or two more divisions, so how could there be a shortage of mortars? Even the first division of our army also made a lot of profits in the battle of Wangjiapu, and Hu Zongnan captured a battalion of the other party, and even replenished all the men and equipment to his regiment...... Alas, it seems that everyone is blindfolded and rich, and ......"

An Yi shook his head when he said this: "All the armies and departments have hidden the benefits, and when they raise their heads, they cry to the headquarters one by one, only the subordinates are honest, if they don't come out in time this time, I'm afraid they won't be able to pick up a single bird feather!" It seems that you can't be too honest in the future! ”

Liu Zhi pointed at An Yi and laughed: "You kid got cheap and behaved, you got so many benefits out of thin air and put on a sad posture, others don't know that you must think that you are always angry!"

But speaking of which, except for Jiang Mingsan in our second division, no one has your level of communication in this regard, Jiang Mingsan was injured and no one ran away, if it weren't for the good fighting of your second division this time and saving the reputation of our second division, our main forces would not have gotten a large number of supplementary materials approved by the principal himself.

The other armies and divisions are all people who can't afford to make a profit, and the sale of military funds and opium is commonplace, and seeing the benefits is like ants sniffing syrup and rushing up, but now it is the time to employ people, and the principal can only turn a blind eye, and when the water is clear, there is no fish, and it is difficult for the principal! Thanks to your cleverness, I really don't know what to equip your four battalions. ”

An Yi smiled and asked where Jiang Dingwen was recuperating, and learned that he was still living in the field hospital north of Fenghuang Lake, so he hurriedly said goodbye to Liu Zhi, and handed over the relevant documents to the overjoyed Xia Jian when he left the gate of the headquarters, and instructed him to return to the General Temple to hand over to Yin Jinan, and immediately rushed to the munitions warehouse in the west of the city to find Director Yu after lunch, and asked him to send the weapons and ammunition on the list back to the camp by truck.

The field hospital occupies a vast area, with tents set up in front of more than a dozen rows of houses, where thousands of lightly and seriously wounded officers and soldiers from various armies gather, and more than 200 military doctors and nurses are busy with smoke on their buttocks.

An Yi finally came to the door of a spacious private house under the leadership of a gendarme brother, and the scene in front of him shocked him and made him even more amazed:

A group of injured people with their heads and feet wrapped around the correction sat around a large table of eight immortals, and many captains and officers who had no table positions and held crutches stood in a circle, and the sound of pushing pai gow on the table and the bustling laughter and scolding were like those of a vegetable market.

An Yi walked in and saw that Jiang Dingwen, who was sitting on the main seat, had his head wrapped in gauze, one arm and one leg were wrapped like a dumpling, and his head wounded by shrenel had just been swollen, and the bruises were still there, but he was in good spirits, and he was urging this to laugh and scold that urging people to bet money, and the ocean gold bars won in front of him were piled up like a hill.

The adjutant reminded Jiang Dingwen a few times before he raised his head, and when he saw that it was An Yi who laughed, he immediately gave up his position to his adjutant, greeted An Yi loudly with the support of the two guards, and called the shopkeeper Zhao, a big grain merchant of Gao'an who had been standing behind him with a smile, to come to the wooden sofa at the door and sit down, and look up and down to see An Yi recover so quickly.

An Yi admired his boss very much, on the day of the siege, he was able to stand up with the dignity of the deputy division commander to experience the rain of bullets, and led his brothers of the fifth regiment to fight repeatedly, and in the case of the failure of the siege, he was able to gather more than 2,000 brothers who were scattered and successfully broke through the siege when he was wounded by three pieces of shrapnel and two gunshot wounds, which is really remarkable.

The two brothers had been discussing secretly for a long time, Jiang Dingwen opened his mouth and put the cigarette handed by An Yi to his mouth, and motioned for the short and fat shopkeeper Zhao to come and sit beside him.

Shopkeeper Zhao was flattered and hurriedly sat down, and when Jiang Dingwen introduced him and learned that the tall and handsome young colonel in front of him was the former commander of the model battalion and the current commander of the second division supplementary regiment An Yi, the shopkeeper Zhao grew his mouth in shock, and his lips trembled for a while before he stammered and said hello.

An Yi was very arrogant and ordered to be polite, and kindly asked the shopkeeper Zhao about the business and the current rice and grain market, where did the shopkeeper Zhao dare to hide it, and immediately reported it in a low voice.

An Yi was very satisfied with the honesty of the shopkeeper Zhao, and praised Jiang Dingwen a few words: "Shopkeeper Zhao is an honest person, big brother, isn't it more than 5,000 tons of grain?" You just call the shots, and the little brother will listen to you. ”

Jiang Dingwen nodded with a smile: "Okay, you are going to lead your troops to fight Nanchang, I know that you have a heavy burden this time, and you don't have time to take care of such trivial matters, when you get to Nanchang, I will transfer 60,000 yuan to your account, and you don't care about other things, haha!" Lao Zhao, Lao Tzu is really this brother, right? ”

"Really, really, young and powerful, prestigious! The whole of Jiangxi knows that there is a model battalion of the revolutionary army, and the great military exploits of the model battalion have long been known to women and children, and everyone praises them, and they all know that General An, the tiger general who led the model battalion, has always thought that he was a tall and burly beard, but it turns out that General An is so young and talented! Haha......"

Shopkeeper Zhao is really not an ordinary person, and a few words of flattering sycophants made An Yi sigh.

Jiang Dingwen laughed, An Yi shook his head frequently, seeing that there was nothing to do here, he wanted to say goodbye, Jiang Dingwen raised his intact left hand and grabbed An Yi's sleeve, and asked in a low voice in his ear: "Are the hundreds of long and short guns you captured on the east coast last time still there?" ”

"Yes, but there are not many, only two hundred and seventy half-new and old Hanyang-made guns and about twenty imitation German-made barge guns. How? Big brother useful? An Yi replied truthfully.

Jiang Dingwen snorted at the shopkeeper Zhao with his mouth, and said in a low voice: "Sell it to him, he formed a local militia group for joint defense and joint protection in the name of the Chamber of Commerce in line with the regulations, but no one has any weapons to sell to him, he was so anxious that he couldn't look for me a few times, this time Lao Zhao paid a high price to clear all the grain in our hands at one time, but with this small request to buy a gun, I know that only you kid in our second division have been seized, and I am about to send someone to find you, I will save a lot of trouble if you come." Sell it to him, no matter how long or short it is, old or new, it will be fifty oceans a piece, and it is imperative to take back some oceans and reward his brothers, I will let the five regiments sell him the ammunition, and it is useless for the five regiments to store the wrong caliber, so you don't care. ”

An Yi was amused when he heard it: "Okay, but you have to let him hurry up, tonight at twelve o'clock the little brother will start the general martial law preparations, and no longer let a living person approach the camp." ”

"Haha! Go back, it is estimated that he will arrive after dark, and Lao Tzu will ask him to send you dozens of boxes of 'Hademen' to ......"

At night, Qu Tongyuan, the star officer who had received An Yi's secret order in advance, ran into the temple and muttered to An Yi who was holding a meeting of the regiment headquarters, An Yi nodded and signaled to Gu Lao Er, Gu Lao Er immediately stood up and left quietly.

Half an hour later, dozens of brothers from the guard company carried 50 boxes of 'Hademen' cigarettes into the main hall and stacked them neatly on the left wall, and the two platoon commanders happily carried a heavy cloth bag on the long table in the middle, making a pleasant "jingling" sound.

Gu Lao Er returned to An Yi and handed him a letter, An Yi looked at Gu Lao Er with a calm face, opened the envelope and took out the letter, took a closer look at it and smiled:

"You go and tell Lao Zhao, just say that Lao Tzu still has 500 new spears, all of which are equipped with the fifth battalion that is about to be expanded, considering the outstanding contribution of Gao'an County to the revolutionary cause in the previous period of conscription, you can immediately hold a meeting to study it, but the price will rise by at least fifteen yuan, if you want it, prepare the money, you take the brothers to send it to him, don't go back, how to talk about it later."

"Yes."

Gu Lao Er went out again under the stunned gaze of the brothers, and came back with a spring breeze on his face in less than five minutes: "It's done, it's all cash, and the goods are paid on arrival, and it's in Zhaojiawan, four miles behind our General Ridge." ”

An Yi laughed: "The shopkeeper Zhao of the dog is really a character, otherwise Brother Jiang wouldn't look down on him, haha!" Go, Tiger Head, promise him to be there in an hour. ”

"Understood!"

Gu Lao Er left again.

The brothers looked at the big bag of ocean on the table, and then at An Yi, who was overjoyed, and they all smiled excitedly when they understood.

(To be continued)