Chapter 40: Return to the City

When the telegram from the military commander came, Zhao Zhi was washing his face and brushing his teeth, he directly set up a tent last night and lived outside Zhangwu City, not because he didn't want to contact the national army in the county, but for the batch of supplies they brought back and those tanks and ironclad vehicles. The materials that Luo Ying transported back and forth, except for the grain that was brought in for the first time, the other materials pulled back were hoarded in a col outside the city, and there were weapons and ammunition left by the Japanese army in the county town, and Zhao Zhi also pointed to the great use of these materials outside the city, so he did not plan to bring the materials into the city.

"Okay, I know, let's go into the city for breakfast" Zhao Zhi listened to the telegram read by the operator, and was not very surprised by the news that the Japanese army sent heavy troops to encircle and suppress, and his intention to send a report in clear code was to lure the Japanese army to attack, only in this way would the name of Thunder Defense really be known to the world, and he could continue the next action, otherwise he would be a little embarrassed to rashly do the following things.

Xu Yunzhao learned the news of Zhao Zhi's return, so he immediately took people to guard the city tower, but he waited until it was almost dark, and he didn't see Zhao Zhi's shadow, but a few mercenaries on horseback entered the city, and it was rumored that Zhao Zhi defeated the Japanese puppet army reinforcements from the Maliang River in Banqiao, which would be cleaning the battlefield. The troops had just experienced continuous battles, and their physical strength and spirit were exhausted to the extreme, so Zhao Zhi decided to rest for two days before returning to the city, so that Xu Yunzhao did not have to worry, he just needed to guard the county seat.

Xu Yunzhao knew that Zhao Zhi did this because he didn't trust them, who told him to detain the cart that was so easy to collect for no reason, but he couldn't complain that Zhao Zhi would be like this. Xu Yunzhao, who looked lonely, had no choice but to take his troops to strengthen his control over the county, waiting for Zhao Zhi's return, but the next day he still didn't wait for Zhao Zhi's figure, but waited for two tanks that were painted black with thunder defense flags. Xu Yunzhao was born in Huangpu, is a descendant of the national army of 800, and the Japanese army has fought several times, Xu Yunzhao has not suffered less losses from the Japanese tanks, seeing that Zhao Zhi even has tanks in his hands, Xu Yunzhao is a little more curious about Zhao Zhi.

"Commander, Zhao Zhi is here" Xu Mang, who was standing on the city tower with Xu Yunzhao, pointed to the yellow dust outside the city and shouted, Xu Yunzhao took the telescope and looked out of the city, and the things that appeared in the telescope made him gasp. Originally, I thought that Zhao Zhi only had the two tanks that came yesterday in his hands, but how could four tanks that were also pitch black appear here, and there were four black ironclad vehicles with machine guns behind the tanks, how many such big killing weapons did Zhao Zhi have in his hands, and it really made people look forward to meeting Zhao Zhi.

"Let's go, go down to greet Chief Zhao" Although Xu Yunzhao, as the head of the national army, is also the same rank as Zhao Zhi, but Zhao Zhi's military rank was personally appointed by Chairman Jiang, and Zhao Zhi now has such a large number of weapons in his hands, both in public and private, Xu Yunzhao must lower his body and make good friends with Zhao Zhi. Otherwise, not only the chairman of the Chongqing Committee couldn't let him go, but even the people from the military command would also come to the door, isn't it because he Xu Yunzhao has an elder brother in the military command that he will get the inside information that Zhao Zhi is going to attack Zhangwu, and he will rush to receive the peach picking in Zhangwu County?

"Hello Sir Zhao, brother Xu Yunzhao, my brother Xu Yunbiao asked me to say hello to you on his behalf" Xu Yunzhao had just walked down the steps down the city tower, and Zhao Zhi, who was sitting on the turret of the first tank, had already entered the doorway. Xu Yunzhao had never seen Zhao Zhi, but he had heard his brother describe Zhao Zhi's appearance and appearance, and almost all of the mercenaries who entered and exited the county town only had a pistol tied to his right leg, but the young man who jumped off the tank just now had a pistol tied to both legs.

Xu Yunzhao's familiarity made Zhao Zhi slightly stunned, and when he heard Xu Yunzhao say that his brother was Xu Yunbiao, Zhao Zhi nodded suddenly in realization, when he was in Chongqing, Dai Li took the person named Xu Yunbiao to the training camp several times, and that person should be regarded as Dai Li's confidant. It seems that this Xu Yunzhao is planning to get close to himself, Zhao Zhi, who has been on guard, put his hand behind him and made a gesture, and followed the mercenaries who entered the city to remove his hand on the trigger intentionally or unintentionally.

Xu Yunzhao had a large number of subordinates in the early stage, and after forcibly taking over the jurisdiction of the county seat, he detained part of the cart in Luo Ying's hand for no reason, and if it weren't for Zhao Zhi's strict order, Yan Wudao, who stayed in the barracks according to Zhao Zhi's order, would have turned against Xu Yunzhao a long time ago. Luo Ying, who has a lot of potential, naturally learned from Zhao Zhi all these situations, and the reason why Zhao Zhi rushed out of the city to stay for another day was to rest the mercenaries on the one hand, and to see the attitude of the national army in the city on the other hand. If the national army in the city still looks arrogant and domineering, Zhao Zhi doesn't mind helping the Ministry of Military Affairs teach them a lesson.

"Obediently, where did you get these tanks and armored vehicles, these are good things" Xu Mang, who was the commander of the guard company, touched the tanks and armored vehicles that drove into the city, opened his mouth and looked like he had never seen the world, which made Yu Dazhi and his group laugh and leaned back and laughed. It is no wonder that although there are armored units in the national army, it was only a flash in the pan and was lost in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing.

"This one, we snatched it from the Japanese army, don't you see that this is a small Japanese tank? My husband said that there is a more powerful tank than this. This is nothing, we just look at this thing's motivation is not bad, temporarily use it to pull something or something" Yu Dazhi and Eugene made it clear that they wanted to tease Xu Mang, and there was a little more ridicule between the words. Xu Mang is a straightforward master, looking at the boxes tied to the tanks and armored vehicles, he didn't think carefully about the ridicule in Dazhi's words, but just rubbed the tanks and armored vehicles in a rare way.

Xu Yunzhao, who was accompanying Zhao Zhi to speak, heard the meaning of Yu Dazhi's words, but because of Zhao Zhi's presence, he couldn't talk about Xu Mang, so he had to shift the topic to the information that the military commander had just sent. "I also received the same information, a scout team under my command has gone to the direction of Yuncheng to reconnoitre, if the Japanese troops stationed in Yuncheng are really coming at us, I mean, let's fight with them here and teach them a profound lesson, don't let the Japanese army think that no one in China dares to fight with them" Zhao Zhi just shrugged his shoulders, with an expression of not taking the Japanese army seriously, Xu Yunzhao was stunned for a while, he didn't know where Zhao Zhi came from with this kind of courage and determination.