Chapter Twenty-Eight: Drink Sticks
"Boyuan, what are you doing here? Could it be that our Eighth Route Army can't tolerate people? Do you have to go? Zuo Quan, Guan Xiangying and the others who got the news all looked like they had just woken up and hadn't washed their faces, Guan Xiangying came with an open heart, and even the shoes on Zuo Quan's feet were not the same pair.
"Chief of Staff Zuo, I don't mean anything else, don't think about it too much" Zhao Zhi greeted Guan Xiangying and Zuo Quan with a smile, and pointed to the Japanese-style 38 rifles that a group of Jewish soldiers were moving over, "This is the Japanese-style weapon we captured when we were ambushed by the Japanese army, there are about 300 38 rifles and more than 40,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as some grenades, bayonets or something, although there are not many things, but it is also a heart of our thunder, don't pick your eyes."
Zhao Zhi beckoned, and Tang Lei, who had a black face, came over with a group of mercenaries carrying two Type 92 heavy machine guns, "Our Thunder weapons are all American-style, and they are given to you, I'm afraid your ammunition supply will become a problem, this is the Japanese-style heavy machine gun we brought back from Xiangtangpu, I left two for my soldiers to familiarize themselves with Japanese-style weapons for training, and the extra two will be left to you."
Zuo Quan wanted to persuade Zhao Zhi and them to stay, Guan Xiangying also made several words to stay, but Zhao Zhi had already made up his mind, and Thunder's troops had begun to move towards the new camp, and Zhao Zhi had no intention of talking to Zuo Quan and them anymore, so he left after a few hasty chats. Looking at the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who happily received those weapons and ammunition, Zuo Quan was quite speechless, but who can blame this, there is only one regiment of the Eighth Route Army in the base area, and the others are armed like some guerrillas, Zhao Zhi took out the weapons and equipment that the Eighth Route Army currently lacks, and everything is in hand, who cares about Zhao Zhi and Lei Ting.
"This Zhao Zhi is too picky, didn't he watch them carry the ninety-two style of immortality yesterday? Why did you give us two of them, and this bullet is only two boxes, which is not enough for an ambush" Wang Mancang, who got the bargain, complained loudly, but he didn't notice that Zuo Quan, who was standing behind him, had changed his face at this time. "Oh, who's kicking Lao Tzu?" Wang Mancang, who was making nonsense, was kicked heavily on the buttocks, and the angry-eyed Wang Mancang scolded without coming back, and after he saw clearly that the person who kicked him was the chief of staff Zuo Quan, he was busy with a smiling face.
"Your Wang Bald Man is angry enough now, who do you want to be, tell me, so that I can have a long experience" are all people who know the roots, and there is no need for Zuo Quan to hide it, pointing at Wang Mancang's nose is a stinky training, and Wang Mancang scolds him almost can't find that his head is still on his neck. Zuo Quan rarely scolds, especially a guy like Wang Mancang who can fight tough battles, he always gives the green light, and when the battalion commander below goes to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to be scolded, it is mostly Zuo Quan who helps to save them, but what is wrong today, Zuo Quan, as the chief of staff, scolded Wang Mancang's nose is not a nose and a face.
"Your king is bald, you are the king of the mountain, whoever wants to pass by you has to leave the money to buy the road, right? God, your second child, you are amazing, people's thunder things are not blown by the wind, why do you have to make it, who do you think you are? Zuo Quan scolded more and more, carried the guard who pulled him away with his shoulder, and finally rolled up the sleeves of his clothes, "Wang Bald, let me tell you, you are a short-sighted guy, and you always say that Sun Jin's life is good, and you ask for things casually from the thunder, I think you are too far worse than Sun Jin, and Sun Jin knows what he should want and what he shouldn't want."
Zuo Quan's words completely scolded Wang Mancang confused, Sun Jin has been secretly marking with Wang Mancang when he was at the headquarters, and the two of them have to compare everything secretly, but since this thunder appeared in Shanxi, Sun Jin has obtained a large number of Japanese-style weapons and equipment from the thunder several times in a row, and the battalion he brought has already become one of the few all-Japanese-style equipment troops in the Eighth Route Army, and the combat effectiveness has also pulled Wang Mancang's battalion down a lot. Although Wang Mancang has always claimed that Sun Jin is the light of the thunder, Sun Jin has nothing to do with today's matter, why did the chief of staff mention Sun Jin?
Wang Mancang couldn't understand the meaning of Zuo Quan's words, Guan Xiangying and the others were also confused, and Zuo Quan's temper came a little too quickly, as if Wang Mancang didn't say anything excessive just now. After looking around at the expressions on everyone's faces, Zuo Quan gritted his teeth and said with some hatred, "You guys, you guys, you're really some guys, Zhao Zhi sent you away with such three melons and two dates in his fingers, when they came yesterday, they didn't see the American heavy machine gun carried in the team?" Didn't see those American-style mortars either? ”
Only then did everyone suddenly realize that the emotional chief of staff thought that his group was gagged by Zhao Zhi's fly-headed small profit, but he let the real big head go. "You don't think about it, Zhao Zhi dared to come here from Zhangwu County to ambush with only 4,000 people, which shows that the Japanese transport team ambushed by them is definitely not simple, otherwise Zhao Zhi would not have been able to run so far. Since the enemy is not simple, what is Zhao Zhi's reliance on only bringing 4,000 people, isn't it the weapons and equipment they brought, you know how to take a small advantage, but you don't know how to analyze the problem and find the problem"
Zuo Quan's madness made Wang Mancang's face full of shyness, and his big black face rose like a boiled crab, but the thunderous people were gone, could it be that he had to change these weapons that had already been in his hands again? Turning his head to look at the shiny Type 92 heavy machine gun, it was difficult for Wang Mancang to make a choice, in the troops of the Eighth Route Army, almost only the regimental level troops were equipped with Type 92 heavy machine guns, if there were these two Type 92 in his battalion, now he would dare to take people to Ding'ancheng.
"Wang Bald, do you know what you did wrong?" Although Wang Mancang's face had already shown shame, Zuo Quan didn't want to let him go easily, "Do you think that these things were given to us by someone else's thunder, and we should be at ease with our subordinates?" But I said that you are wrong, this is what Zhao Zhi used to gag us, it is a means to make us stop pestering them in the future, it is to make concessions, and it is to draw a clear line with our Eighth Route Army, it doesn't matter if you are greedy, it will be difficult to get things from the hands of Thunder in the future."
Zuo Quan said that the problem was so serious, among the people present, only Xiang Ying bowed his head and pondered, but Wang Mancang and several other cadres in the base area didn't care with a face, "Chief of Staff, don't be so alarmist, these things were given to us by Zhao Zhi willingly, did we force him with a gun to his head, besides, without Zhang Butcher, we wouldn't be able to eat pork?" I don't think so, can we still find Butcher Li, Butcher Wang, or even we can be butchers ourselves? Chief of Staff, why do you have to grow the prestige of others and extinguish our own spirit?"
"Xiucai don't talk about military affairs, this old saying is not bad" Looking at the glasses cadres who were vibrating and eloquent, Zuo Quan hated to go up and slap them, which in the end became Zhao Zhi and his own. "Director Guo, this is not called the prestige of others to extinguish his own spirit, what kind of person is Zhao Zhi, I think you should all know that Yan'an has also been actively contacting Zhao Zhi, hoping that Zhao Zhi can go to Yan'an and his party. Now is a special period of the All-People's War of Resistance, we can even unite the Kuomintang, and patriots like Zhao Zhi who actively responded to the War of Resistance, why can't you be generous? ”
The more Zuo Quan spoke, the more angry he became, and after taking the kettle handed by the guard and filling it together, he continued generously and forcefully, "In the forward base established by Zhao Zhi in Zhangwu County, there has always been a recruit battalion we sent to receive their combat training, and when this recruit battalion left Zhangwu County half a month ago, Zhao Zhi also equipped them with all the weapons and equipment. Do you know how much Zhao Zhi spent to train and equip an infantry battalion for us? Zuo Quan stopped, and after scanning everyone with his eyes, he slowly stretched out a finger, "Enough for us to equip a main regiment"
"What? Equip a battalion with something that equips a main regiment? "Military commanders like Wang Mancang are all in a god, and they are all people who have been on the battlefield and off the army, and there are too many things in it. Although it is said that it is a difference between battalions and regiments, the difference is quite large, and at most there is a mortar platoon or a heavy firepower platoon in a battalion-level unit, but the regimental-level troops are attached to the artillery company directly under the regiment and the heavy firepower company under the regiment, and if the heavy firepower belonging to a main regiment is allocated to an infantry battalion, then the intensity of their firepower can be imagined.
"The soldiers who went back to the headquarters said that the warehouse at Qinglongping Airport was full of captured Japanese-style weapons and equipment, and a large number of weapons and ammunition would be airlifted from Xi'an almost every day, and we might not be able to finish it even if we went to a division" Zuo Quan's words made Wang Mancang's eyes widen, if there were really weapons and ammunition equipped with a division, the Eighth Route Army's days in Shanxi would be much better. "It's a pity, Zhao Zhi doesn't want to entangle with us now, I'm afraid that these things left today are the last time, and if you want to beat other people's ideas, it may not work" Zuo Quan's next words completely extinguished the small flame rising in Wang Mancang's eyes.
"Zhao Zhi is a handsome talent, and he is also a high-minded and arrogant person, you have already used guns with the people he relies on for a little medicine yesterday, if it is you, will you still be stupid to give away your own things with both hands?" Zuo Quan's words made Wang Mancang a rat crossing the street, and the people present, including Guan Xiangying, all stared at Wang Mancang with a look of hatred that could not eat him raw. It's a pity that things have become like this, even if he eats him, what can he do, Zhao Zhi is afraid that he will not return to the base area with the troops.