Chapter 39: A Call from Wuhan

I have signed a contract, please rest assured that you can smash the ticket, recommend, collect, and reward together, I can bear it!

On Tuesday, Gou received a telegram from Xue Yue that he had been transferred to the first war zone and stationed in eastern Henan, hoping that his caravan would follow, and there might be a chance to make money. On Tuesday, the dog was overjoyed and immediately called Zhao Dahu, Shi Jilun and others. Then Zu Jing came to the news of "fisherman and farmer" Dai Li: the loyalty and righteousness of northern Zhejiang will move westward, passing by Xishan, and looking at Tuesday Dog to see the Qinggang in the vein, out of the righteousness of the rivers and lakes to help. Everyone looked at these two telegrams and smiled tacitly: It's time to buy and sell again!

Everyone discussed that in view of the negotiations between Wu Mujun and the Japanese, this deal was made by the Xishan Self-Rescue Association.

The Xishan Self-Help Association has been continuously improved, and the structure has also been enriched:

Tuesday Dog served as the president of the Xishan Self-Rescue Association,

Wang Changgeng served as the secretary general of the Xishan Self-Help Association and the director of the pharmaceutical factory, responsible for the administration, organization and taxation of townships, towns and villages;

Shi Jilun served as the deputy secretary-general of the Xishan Self-Rescue Association and the president of the Xishan Chamber of Commerce, responsible for the commercial activities and intelligence collection of various towns and villages and foreign countries;

Zhou Yuzi served as the deputy secretary general of the Xishan Self-Rescue Association and the chairman of the trade union, responsible for the production of food, medicine and non-weapon equipment for the army;

Shu Jintang is the principal of Xishan Comprehensive School, responsible for cultural education, technical training, and the development and production of technical products;

Zhou Dagou is the director of the Xishan Supply and Marketing Department, under the jurisdiction of the Chamber of Commerce, responsible for the organization, transportation and operation of foreign trade, and is Mao Ziqing's "big customer";

Wan Zixiong served as the captain of the Xishan garrison, which was under the jurisdiction of the Chamber of Commerce, and was responsible for the organization, training, and command of the self-defense forces in various towns and villages;

Lu Ao served as the captain of the Xishan Action Team, under the jurisdiction of the Chamber of Commerce, responsible for foreign trade disputes and intelligence disposal;

Liu Qinghe served as the captain of the escort team, which was under the jurisdiction of the Chamber of Commerce and was responsible for the safety and security of all caravans;

Wu Dalang served as the director of the liaison office, which was under the jurisdiction of the Chamber of Commerce, and the liaison of all kinds of relations;

Wang Danfeng served as the director of the publicity department, under the jurisdiction of the Chamber of Commerce, and the liaison of artists from all walks of life;

Qiao Xingzhu served as the director of the General Affairs Department, under the jurisdiction of the Chamber of Commerce, and the management and deployment of various materials;

Wu Zhen, the Wu brothers, served as the director of the mobile department, and Wu Lei and Wu Ting served as the deputy directors, under the jurisdiction of the Chamber of Commerce, and was responsible for providing temporary support to various departments.

In particular, most of the heroes of the rivers and lakes were separated from the regular army and incorporated into the Xishan Self-Rescue Association. Under the subordinates of Zhou Dagou, Liu Qinghe, Lu Ao, Wan Zixiong, and the Wu brothers, only Li Jinshan, Liu Maoer, Qi Yuankai and other leaders and soldiers who were familiar with the local situation, educated, and disciplined, were left to complete intelligence, reconnaissance, transportation, and other tasks. The main reason is that the habits of these heroes are difficult to change and do not tolerate strict discipline in the troops; at the same time, these people have high combat quality and are experienced in the battlefield and society, so they cannot play an effective role in the organized operations of the troops.

At this time, Xishan's industrial, commercial, military, educational, armed and other departments have begun to take shape:

Zhou's pharmaceutical factories, livestock farms, food factories, equipment factories, garment factories, and cigarette factories have all been put into production:

In addition to sweat medicine and five drums and chickens to break the soul, the pharmaceutical factory mainly produces first-aid kits, including 4 pieces of hemostatic gauze, 2 rolls of bandages, 4 opium painkillers, antipyretics, antidiarrheal drugs, and poisonous mushrooms and other poisons specially supplied to the troops by the head of Baiyi Dao; Lou Sanchun served as the factory director, and Zhou Dagou was responsible for procurement and sales, in addition to ensuring the supply of troops, a small amount was also exported to the first army.

The livestock farm mainly houses the disabled wounded soldiers, breeds chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, pigs, sheep, donkeys, horses, cattle, planted a large area of pasture, has more than 800 breeding rabbits, 1,200 breeding chickens, more than 2,000 breeding ducks, more than 600 breeding geese, more than 100 breeding pigs, more than 200 breeding sheep, more than 60 breeding donkeys, more than 40 horses, more than 20 breeding cattle, 2,000 slaughtered rabbits, more than 2,300 chickens, more than 5,000 ducks, more than 1,000 geese, and provided supplies to food factories.

The food factory mainly produces fried rice for the troops, which is fried with chicken, duck, goose, pig, sheep, butter and salt and sugar, and then packaged in bamboo tubes to make combat dry food; The brown sugar was pressed into sugar pills, which was used as a supplementary food for combat, and it also had a nice name---- "Anti-Japanese Strength Pill"; All kinds of chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits are cleaned and pickled, dried in an oven reconstructed from a devil tank, soaked in lard, and made into easy-to-preserve jerky as a combat non-staple food; The offal of the animals were made into casings or boiled for the troops to improve their diet, or sold in the market; Animal bones are boiled into bone glue and given to Shuqingtang's technology factory.

The garment factory mainly produces military uniforms, military hats, quilts and other materials, and has been able to produce 50 sets of military uniforms and 100 sets of quilts per day. In addition, a large number of manpower was organized to weave tatami mats from thatch and straw, and supplied Maozi Qing for sale to Japan.

The equipment factory is still in preparation, and at the moment it can only produce military shoes and raincoats. The soles of military shoes and raincoats are impregnated with rubber from car waste tires, and the effect is quite good.

The cigarette factory mainly produces three types of cigarettes: one ordinary cigarette, which is supplied to the army for consumption; one added opium for Japanese consumption; A kind of incense with five drums and chickens to break the soul, for special purposes.

Shu Qingtang also began to establish ammunition factories and repair factories.

The ammunition plant produces fuses, earthen detonators, blasting canisters, smoke grenades, incendiary explosive packs, stun bombs, grenadier canisters (incendiary bombs, flares); Bullets, grenades and artillery shells cannot be produced for the time being. The earth detonator is filled with black powder with a bullet casing and a fuse; The blasting barrel is made of scrap steel pipe filling**; The smoke grenade is a large hemp thunderbolt rolled with wax-soaked moisture-proof paper and black powder mixed with rubber powder; The incendiary explosives package is a large hemp thunder made of beeswax and bone glue soaked through rags and rolled with black powder; The Meng Tun Bomb is a large hemp thunder made of black powder mixed with five drums of chicken song and soul-breaking incense. Due to the limitation of the technical level, only some simple ammunition can be made, and this kind of black powder that is easy to prepare but has little power is used as much as possible. However, these "additions" have greatly increased their effectiveness and have become a sought-after commodity for all troops. Equipment for the production of explosives and bullets is being built.

The factory is responsible for the repair of weapons, the installation of machinery and equipment, and the production of grenadiers, sapper shovels and pickaxes, steel helmets, blaster jackets, anti-tank mines and auxiliary equipment, vices (for the destruction of barbed wire), hand tools and other metal equipment. The so-called rebound clay and auxiliary equipment, cannonball bounce clay is the invention of Tuesday dog, and the Luoyang shovel is Wang Laodun's secret weapon.

On Tuesday, they agreed: The Wu brothers led a team to Xue Yue's place to cheer the field, bringing 1,000 pairs of military shoes, 1,000 raincoats, 100 kilograms of jerky, 100,000 anti-Japanese booster pills, 1,000 steel helmets, 1,000 first-aid kits, 40 grenadiers, 1,600 grenadier cartridges, 50 blasting canisters, 500 smoke grenades, 500 incendiary explosive packs, and 1,000 sets of anti-tank mine aids as a welcome gift. With 300 people, 50 large cars, other equipment optional; Liu Qinghe led 150 people to cooperate with the loyalty and righteousness of Zhejiang West to save **, and brought their own equipment.

The next day, Zhexi Zhongyi rescued **, is the independent brigade of the first detachment of Zhongyi rescue**, captain Liu Weitao, was the backbone of the Qing Gang, and clashed with Zhou Dagou many times, but at this time they met but felt very cordial, Zhou Dagou sent 10 submachine guns to Liu Weitao, Liu Weitao sent Zhou Dagou a Jinhua ham. Through the broken weapons, the untidy appearance, the tired faces of the soldiers, and the wounded soldiers, it can be seen that there must be a lot of loyal and righteous rescue ** battles. On Tuesday, the dog replenished a part of the ammunition for the rescue, and after treating the wounded soldiers, Liu Qinghe and the Wu brothers drove west with the rescue.

Wan Zixiong and Lu Ao were very unhappy that they didn't get a "business". The two discussed it privately, and the bad water bubbled up.

In Xiashu, at the northern foot of Baohua Mountain, a Japanese train was slowly passing by, heading for Nanjing. Lu Ao took people to board the locomotive, and before the two devils in the car could react, they were put down by Lu Ao with a few shots, and they were shoveled in the chest by the devil stoker, and almost shoveled Lu Ao off the train, Lu Ao endured the pain and killed the devil's driver and stoker, and the people behind hurriedly supported the crumbling Lu Ao while controlling the locomotive. Soon the locomotive and the carriage were unhooked, and as soon as the escort devil in the tail car felt that something was wrong, the windows and doors were smashed open, and then 7 or 8 Japanese-style grenades flew in, and the carriage without any explosion became a slaughterhouse.

Behind the train, the armored patrol car guarding the road by the devil patrolled normally, and from time to time strafed suspicious targets on the side of the road. Suddenly, a huge explosion shook the body, and a large crater was blown out of the road in front of the car. The devil in the car hurriedly stopped, looking for the traces of the attacker, the headlights of the armored car illuminated the front slightly, and there was no shadow of the attacker, and then used the machine gun to strafe the suspicious targets around, but there was still no sign. At this time, two agile figures behind the armored car rushed up and glued several small explosive packets to the armored car. There was a loud bang, and there was no movement in the armored car, and all the devils in the car were shocked to death. Then, several black shadows leaned in, pried open the door of the armored car, dragged out the corpse of the devil inside, stripped naked of clothes and equipment, and then boarded the car and drove towards the train ambush site. Those charioteers left behind by Xue Yue are finally useful!

On both sides of the railway, under the headlights of armored vehicles and many horse lamps, thousands of people and horses were unloading and loading. Time is pressing, so I have to see what to move, first move to the mountains, and then talk about it, there are not many vigilant troops on both sides. Wan Zixiong and Lu Ao each led more than 300 people, a total of more than 700 combat troops, more than 30 armored soldiers left by Xue Yue, and a carrying team of more than 1,000 people participated in the operation.

The devil reacted quickly. First, the warships on the Yangtze River bombarded them, and then the sailors and marines on the warships attacked. Wan Zixiong, who was in charge of the command, decisively ordered the evacuation, and led people to burn the remaining materials in one fell swoop.

The sky was bright, and Wan Zixiong commanded the men and horses to hide the supplies in the cave that had already been explored. Because of the lack of troops and the deep forests of Baohua Mountain, the devil could only fire indiscriminately at the foot of the mountain to vent his anger. Wan Zixiong and the others calmly concealed the personnel and materials, but found that the roads at the southern foot of Baohua Mountain had been blocked by devils, and the surrounding devil reinforcements were also coming.

Wan Zixiong is not in a hurry, the non-combatants have been hidden, the combatants have been arranged, and the only worry is that Lu Ao and several seriously injured people need to be quickly transported back to Maoshan for treatment. Wan Zixiong sat at the entrance of a cave, listening to the scattered gunshots everywhere, which he arranged to lure the enemy detachment and the devils to catch fire from time to time. On the one hand, the decoy detachment eliminated the traces left by the transported materials, and on the other hand, threw some scattered items along the way to lure the devils (such as new bullets, devil military hats, military shoes, packing box fragments, etc., Chinese-style clothes and shoes), and led the devil search team to the mountain road.

After dawn, Wan Zixiong's situation in Baohua Mountain began to be bad. I don't know how many devils surrounded Baohua Mountain, a day there were dozens of squad-based devil search teams into the mountains to search, a hidden hole was discovered, more than a dozen brothers were killed, luring the enemy detachment and devils to pick up the fire more than 30 times, but also sacrificed more than 10 people, although the devils also paid nearly 100 casualties, but it is still difficult to accept Wan Zixiong, a guy who can only take advantage and cannot suffer, not to mention that it is himself who will suffer in the end. Holding out until dark, Wan Zixiong decided to take a dangerous move to break through in the direction of Nanjing in the west.

Wan Zixiong gathered all the fighters, divided the team of nearly 600 people into three groups, and alternately covered the porters to attack in the direction of Qixia Mountain. Sure enough, the devil only paid attention to the north and south to attack Wan Zixiong, but forgot to guard his nest.

The Japanese army at Qixia Mountain had only one squadron, and immediately after being attacked by Wan Zixiong's troops, they concentrated and deployed defense. Helplessly, Wan Zixiong is a half-man in regular combat, but he is slippery in battle. He first sent 10 squads of elite soldiers to infiltrate the mountains and forests of Qixia Mountain, and then launched an attack under the cover of armored vehicles. When the Japanese army entered the position to confront Wan Zixiong, Wan Zixiong's spearhead squad launched a sneak attack from the back or flank, and quickly cleared the Japanese army.

Wan Zixiong had a former **88 division named Zeng Qi's cooking soldiers stationed in Qixia Mountain, and he reported to Wan Zixiong: Qixia Mountain has a ** German arsenal, and the fortifications are complete.

Wan Zixiong immediately ordered Zeng Qi to bring people to search for it. The equipment is still there, and it's a standard German armament regiment. It turned out that the Japanese wanted to use this equipment to supply the traitor troops in China that would be activated in the future. Total: 6 83-mm mortars, 6 20-mm machine guns, 6 82-mm mortars, 18 heavy machine guns, 81 Czech light machine guns, 120 submachine guns, 150 shell guns, 18 German-made sniper rifles, 1,050 medium-sized rifles, 6,000 German-made grenades, 4 base ammunition, 12 German-made trucks, radios, telephones, medicines, military uniforms, military shoes, and individual equipment.

Wan Zixiong ordered the porters to be armed with these equipment, and the truck with the wounded was led by Gui Sibao to be sent back to Xishan through Maoshan overnight, only Lu Ao, who was dying, refused to go back and continued to command the battle on a stretcher.

With the assistance of Zeng Qi, Wan Zixiong used the original fortifications to quickly complete the defense. ** The fortifications are very complete, with bunkers, trenches, barbed wire, deer barricades, and ...... The echelon configuration of the firepower point fortifications, but unfortunately the ** has not had time to use Nanjing has been lost, and the Japanese army's defense of Wan Zixiong has not been able to borrow light. Wan Zixiong's men were also newly equipped, the original soldiers were all Makqin heavy machine guns, Czech light machine guns, submachine guns, and shell guns, and the sharpshooters were replaced with German-made sniper rifles, and even the porters were equipped with medium formal rifles. Zeng Qi was appointed as a platoon commander by Wan Zixiong.

After tossing all night, Wan Zixiong finally got ready, and the Japanese surrounded Qixia Mountain.

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