Chapter Twenty-Four: Fighting the Autumn Wind

After meeting with Zhao Zhi, looking at the tiredness on the faces of those Jewish soldiers, Guan Xiangying discussed with Zuo Quan and others, and decided to arrange for Thunder's people to go to the camp to rest first, and also prepared food for Thunder. Taking the initiative to contact the people of the Eighth Route Army, Zhao Zhi was just preparing for his next step, and asked his soldiers to rest for a few days, so Zhao Zhi also pushed the boat down the river and exchanged a few words with Zuo Quan and others, and then took his soldiers to the camp to rest.

Speechless all night, Zhao Zhi can be regarded as a solid sleep, since he left Zhangwu County, as a commander, Zhao Zhi can only sleep for 4 hours a day, this relaxation lying on a clean bed, Zhao Zhi's whole person is completely relaxed, directly from the day before the sun set until the next day's sun rises before waking up. "Mr. Zhao has slept long enough this night? If you sleep a little longer, you may be able to catch up for lunch" Zhao Zhi stretched his waist and came out of the house leisurely, just in time for Zuo Quan's slightly humorous words.

"Chief of Staff Zuo, is this looking for me?" was teased, Zhao Zhi was not annoyed, when he just met with Zuo Quan and others yesterday, Zhao Zhi noticed that these people in the Eighth Route Army seemed to be holding back something to say to him, and then he saw that his soldiers needed to rest, so he forced himself back. At dawn this day, Zuo Quan, who was the chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, was waiting outside his room, and he couldn't be idle and exercise before cooking.

Zuo Quan, who was standing under the tree in front of the door, just smiled, but he didn't mean to step forward to speak, Zhao Zhileng paused, and then smiled and waved his hand on the roof. Before Yu Dazhi left Zhangwu County to go to Yangquan, he secretly instructed Luo Ying that before he came back, no matter whether Zhao Zhi lived in the barracks or the airport, a latent sentry post must be arranged outside Zhao Zhi's residence. Luo Ying is a solid-eyed boy, it is related to his own husband Zhao Zhi, so he naturally actively implements Yu Dazhi's explanation, Yu Dazhi's instructions are to arrange two sentry posts, and when he arrives at Luo Ying, it has been doubled to four latent sentry posts.

At first, Zhao Zhi was a little uncomfortable, but both his officers and Luo Lin agreed with Yu Dazhi's arrangement, and after a long time, Zhao Zhi let it go. As soon as Zuo Quan waved his hand just now, Zhao Zhi saw that Zuo Quan had an iron crossbow bolt nailed to his feet, it must have been earlier, Zuo Quan wanted to come here to find himself, and was warned by the sentry lurking on the roof with a steel crossbow, so this will Zuo Quan can't insist on it, and people are picking on it.

"Mr. Zhao's subordinates are all elite soldiers" If it weren't for the sentry lurking on the roof to shoot crossbow arrows as a warning, Zuo Quan probably wouldn't have thought that there were still people hiding on the roof, and the people who watched the thunder yesterday were all so tired that they couldn't straighten their waists, how could they still have the energy to arrange a guard post outside Zhao Zhi's house? Zuo Quan secretly gave his guard a look, and the guard who was not slow in his mind slipped away quietly, before Zhao Zhi woke up, Zuo Quan's two guard regiments walked through the entire Thunder station, and came to the conclusion that Zuo Quan was envious, and there were actually sentinels arranged in the Thunder station.

The troops of the Eighth Route Army also had the practice of arranging sentry posts when camping, but the soldiers of Thunder came after a big battle and walked through the mountains and forests for three days in a row. After arranging a camp for Thunder, Zuo Quan also suggested that a guard post be arranged on the periphery of Thunder's camp, thinking that it might affect Thunder's rest, and the Eighth Route Army did not tell Zhao Zhi about arranging a guard sentry at all. As a result, Zuo Quan's guards walked around a long time, and the sentry in charge of the Thunder garrison of the Eighth Route Army last night didn't even know that Thunder himself had arranged a guard post.

"Chief of Staff Zuo, please sit down" Zhao Zhi had just gotten up and hadn't eaten, Tang Lei, who had already gotten up, directly beckoned his subordinates to move the table and stool out of the house and put them in the yard, Zhao Zhi personally moved the stool for Zuo Quan, and seemingly unintentionally kicked the crossbow arrow stuck in the ground aside. "Chief of Staff Zuo tastes our Thunder's food" The food Tang Lei brought was the same as the rations of the Jewish soldiers, canned food, compressed biscuits, and hot drinks made with boiling water and chocolate, seeing that Zuo Quan was also there, Tang Lei took an extra one and put it on the table.

"Okay, then I'll dip your Zhao Boyuan's light and open a foreign meat" Zuo Quan didn't shirk, picked up the canned food on the table and ate it, and praised the taste of the canned meat while eating. Zhao Zhi was really hungry, Tang Lei took a canned meat and a pack of compressed biscuits that he ate all the time, looking at the residual residue in the canned food box, Zhao Zhi was not hypocritical, poured the hot chocolate water into the canned food box and soaked it again, and drank the soup and water cleanly with his head up.

"Boyuan, how can I see that you are a Shanxi old man's face, you are also the head of the thunder family, and I don't beat your autumn wind, do you need to make such a face?" Zuo Quan pointed at Zhao Zhi is sarcasm, and Tang Lei, who was standing on the side, rolled his eyes in his heart. Listening to Zuo Quan's tone, he didn't treat himself as an outsider, damn, the weapons and ammunition that the Eighth Route Army took away from Thunder were still less, if he didn't want to get benefits from Thunder, why did this chief of staff come to Mr. so early in the morning?

"What are you doing standing here stupidly? Go, make tea for me and Chief of Staff Zuo" Zhao Zhi had already found that Tang Lei was rolling his eyes at Zuo Quan, this is the territory of the Eighth Route Army, as the old saying goes, a strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, anyway, now is not the time to turn his face with the Eighth Route Army. After being trained by Zhao Zhi, Tang Lei didn't talk back, just turned around and went into the house to make tea, the cigar box lighter that Zhao Zhi likes to smoke has long been placed on the table, and Zhao Zhi, who has filled his stomach, leaned on the chair and smoked beautifully, thinking about Zuo Quan's intentions.

"Our Deputy Commander Peng has always said that Boyuan is a rich man, I have never believed it, now it seems that Deputy Commander Peng is really true" Zuo Quan said something to play with the cigar cigarette that Zhao Zhi handed him, "The money for such a cigar is enough to buy a bullet for a soldier of our Eighth Route Army to fight an ambush" Zuo Quan's words are not bad, since the formation of the Eighth Route Army, weapons, ammunition, and clothing are all difficult problems, the national government has not given them a penny, and the Eighth Route Army has always been three guns and one charge, Many soldiers only had two or three bullets in the chamber of their guns, and after two shots, they had to fight the Japanese with bayonets.

"Chief of Staff Zuo, if you don't say it, I have to forget, we ambushed the material transport team brought into Shanxi by the Japanese army in Xiangtangpu this time, in order to familiarize my foreign soldiers with Japanese weapons, we brought back some of the captured Japanese weapons and ammunition with the team, since the chief of staff of Zuo said that the Eighth Route Army is in difficulty, then we can take a part of it out to support you" Zhao Zhi was also not ambiguous, rather than waiting for Zuo Quan to make a bid, it was better to take the initiative himself, anyway, his own troops did not need these Japanese-style equipment.

Seeing that Zhao Zhi was so up-to-earth, Zuo Quan, who was playing with cigars, was happy, and from Zhao Zhi's position, he could almost see Zuo Quan's back molars. "Mr. Zhao is really a kind person, no wonder our Deputy Commander Peng always praises you when he is in a meeting" Zuo Quan, who got the benefits, gave Zhao Zhi a big hat that didn't want money, and Zhao Zhi didn't wait for Zhao Zhi to ease up, Zuo Quan's tone changed and asked about the number of weapons, "Boyuan, how many weapons can you support us this time?" I think those Type 92 heavy machine guns are very good."

When Zuo Quan said this, it happened that Tang Lei came out with the freshly brewed tea, and when he heard this, he immediately put the teapot in his hand on the table, stared at Zuo Quan and didn't speak, Zhao Zhi, who was watching, shook his head vigorously and smiled bitterly, "Chief of Staff Zuo, let you laugh, this is one of my most powerful assistants, named Tang Lei, who is from the original Sichuan Army." The Type 92 heavy machine guns you mentioned were captured from the Japanese by the Japanese with his brothers, this kid is good at everything, but he likes to fiddle with weapons or something, and he has learned a dime a dime."

Zhao Zhi's words just wanted to make a round, but they fell into Zuo Quan's eyes, but Zhao Zhi and Tang Lei became a singing and harmonizing double reed, when even Zuo Quan made a big red face, gnawed and gnawed for a long time to find an excuse to leave first. "The people of the Eighth Route Army all want to dig a piece of meat on our thunder, what do we all think of us, are you wronged?" Watching Zuo Quan walk out with the guards, Tang Lei, who was huffing, sat there with a dark face and was lucky.

"I think you kid has really become an old man in Shanxi" Zhao Zhi smiled and threw Tang Lei a cigar, and before deciding to come to the *** site to rest, Zhao Zhi was ready to be slaughtered. Originally, the Youhan rifle cartridges and 38 rifles that Zhao Zhi brought back from Xiangtangpu were prepared for the Eighth Route Army, but he didn't think of the idea of which Type 92 heavy machine guns Zuo Quan had put his mind on. Tang Lei, this kid has such a black face, but he avoided the topic raised by Zuo Quan, at least Zuo Quan will not have the idea of hitting a few heavy machine guns again.

Wounded soldiers need treatment and recuperation, Zhao Zhi's subordinates have their own military doctors and medicines to solve the problem, but there are nearly 4,000 soldiers who also need time to rest, and there are too many things involved. Seeing that there would be time, Zhao Zhi asked Tang Lei to call the officers who had also just woken up to a meeting to discuss the issue of food and accommodation in the base area in the recent period. As soon as the officers sat down in the courtyard, they heard a burst of gunfire not far from the courtyard, and Zhao Zhiteng stood up, "Something's wrong, it's the sound of Thomson shooting, go over and take a look."