Chapter 167: The War in the Northeast
"This, what kind of gun is this?" In the warehouse of the Peking Chanchen Foreign Company, Zhang Sike was stunned with a rifle that was more than one meter two in length without a bayonet, which was about to catch up with his height with the bayonet.
"The original Mauser K98, it will never be wrong, but I have repeatedly emphasized to them that it must be Mauser K98." Yang Feng looked at him strangely and said.
"But how is this a lot longer than the Mauser on the market?" Zhang Sike was at a loss.
Yang Feng was also at a loss, he didn't know much about this, but he felt that this gun seemed to be longer than the Mauser that Heinz sold him before, and this product quickly called Heinz over.
"This is the Mauser K98, the Kar98b type, the K98a model has been discontinued many years ago, as for the one I sold to you before, it was a commercial Mauser that was finalized in 1924 and specially used for export, because you specifically asked for K98, so I didn't give you that!" Heinz said with certainty.
"Huh?" Yang Feng couldn't help but touch his head in embarrassment, and then asked cautiously: "So what is your latest German rifle now?" ”
"The K98K, or simply called the 98K, has just been finalized and has not yet begun production." Heinz said.
Well, Yang Feng understood, he misplaced K.
"Yang, I think that for your Chinese army, this rifle may be more suitable than the commercial Mauser or even the 98K, it has a longer range, more powerful, and importantly, your main enemy is the Japanese, and your soldiers usually have to settle the battle with them with bayonets when they lack bullets, this rifle is only two centimeters smaller than the Arisaka rifle, and the other two are more than ten centimeters smaller, do you think that one is more suitable?" Heinz said.
Yang Feng looked at Zhang Sike, this gun was not used by him.
Zhang Sike hesitated with K98. The Sichuan army is generally not tall, and such a long rifle and bayonet, they are estimated to be not much different from a spear, but Heinz does have a point, fighting bayonets is an inch long and an inch strong.
"I'll send a telegram to ask Chairman Liu!" He thought for a while and said, Yang Feng has a telegraph there. When he went back to send a telegram to ask, Liu Xiang did not hesitate, in fact, it was their turn to pick and choose such a pie-in-the-sky thing.
The deal was decided in this way, as for the transportation, this was a trivial matter for Yang Feng, contact Jardine Matheson, and they would contact a British destroyer, take advantage of the high water period of the Yangtze River channel to sail straight to Chongqing, load Liu Xiang's old gun and various medicinal materials he used to subsidize, and then sail directly to the sea off the mouth of the Yangtze River.
Yang Feng's Marauder is waiting here. After the goods were loaded onto the ship, they sailed to Tianjin, loaded them on trucks at the special wharf at Dagukou and transported them back to Beiping, and then loaded new guns in Beiping and then went back to load them on the ship, and transported them back to Chongqing in the same way.
The old guns sent by Liu Xiang are not a pit for themselves, although they are old, they are still usable, and each gun comes with thirty rounds of ammunition. This saves Yang Feng from having to match another bullet, you must know that these gun models are not consistent. Just matching them with bullets is a troublesome matter, and as for those medicinal herbs, Yang Feng is even more satisfied, Cordyceps, Sichuan fritillary, musk, bezoar and even Tibetan antelope horn. Rhino horn is more taboo in modern times, anyway, it adds up to more, not to mention that it is still very simple to sell it for 30 or 50 million, and only this 300,000 Mauser investment will be recovered.
This thing is sitting in the warehouse, guarding a large pile of medicinal herbs, as beautiful as the Grande guarding the vault! Han Caiyi hurriedly came in and told him. Outside, a German named Hans asked to see him, saying that he was a clerk from Tonghua Chanchen Foreign Company.
Tonghua is naturally his secret liaison with Tang Juwu, it is now the late spring and early summer, these guys who have been holding back in Changbai Mountain for a winter should also come out to let off steam, but they don't know what they need, Yang Feng hurriedly returned to his upstairs living room.
Hans came to ask for help for Tang Juwu, the spring is also a good time for the Japanese, the Kwantung Army suppressed them for two years, not only did not succeed but made them sit bigger and bigger, which has seriously hurt the feelings of the Japanese people, and the confidence of His Majesty the Emperor of Manchuria, this time the Kwantung Army has been ruthless, licking the wounds of the Duolun War a little, and immediately launched a large-scale sweep.
Moreover, not only the Kwantung Army was dispatched, but even the Korean garrison army was involved, two reorganized divisions, plus a mixed brigade, as well as the puppet armies of Jilin and Liaoning provinces, gathered more than 100,000 troops to prepare to wipe out Tang Juwu's base in the Changbai Mountains in one fell swoop.
Although Tang Juwu recruited rebels in the Changbai Mountains, it has now grown to nearly 50,000 people, and played the banner of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and according to Yang Feng's proposal, Li Du was respected as the commander-in-chief, and he commanded all departments as the deputy commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief, because only he could have direct contact with Yang Feng, so the cohesion of this team was very strong, and even some famous Zhonggong figures in history followed him.
After all, when the heavy snow closed the mountains, food was more effective than doctrine, and faith could not be used as a bullet, and Tang Juwu himself was more sympathetic to the revolution, so these people were half-pushed.
This can be seen from his five army commanders, you must know that when Lu Dao first saw the list of this combination, Yang Feng had a feeling of thunder.
Li Du, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, Tang Juwu, deputy commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief, Zhao Shangzhi, chief of staff, Tang Juwu, commander of the First Army, Guo Jingshan, deputy commander, Wang Fengge, commander of the Second Army, Wang Dianyang, deputy commander, Yang Jingyu, commander of the Third Army, Wang Detai, deputy commander, Deng Tiemei, commander of the Fourth Army, Miao Kexiu, deputy commander, Li Yanlu, commander of the Fifth Army, and Zhou Baozhong, deputy commander of the Fifth Army.
There are both the old Northeast Army, the Gong Party, and the natives who raised troops, such as Wang Fengge and Wang Dianyang, not only that, but Tang Juwu now has one more Korean Liberation Army, and under Yang Feng's matchmaking, more than 200 exiled Chinese sticks have gone to the Northeast to join the Anti-Japanese Federation.
Such a group of patchwork teams, now all shrunk into the Changbai Mountains, ready to rely on the terrain advantage to fight guerrilla warfare with the Japanese puppet army, if they are served in a pot, it will be a huge loss for Yang Feng, the value of ginseng transferred out through Chanchen Foreign Bank alone in the past two years will be hundreds of millions, so even in order to keep his own supply, he must think of keeping this team.
But how to operate it is a big problem, arms support is no longer of much significance, and now Tang Juwu's subordinates are basically brand new water beads and 38 big covers. In the past two years, Yang Feng has airdropped at least 5 million rounds of ammunition to them, even more than 50 of the 150 heavy mortars, and thousands of grenadiers specially produced for them in the arsenal, so there is no need to worry too much about the firepower problem.
The most important thing to solve now is their command problem, the vast majority of these guys have not received any decent military education, and the highest education is Zhou Baozhong. He still graduated from Yunnan Lecture Martial Arts Hall, Zhao Shangzhi is from Huangpu, but unfortunately he did not graduate, and the best other is Northeast Lecture Martial Arts Hall, so Yang Feng decided to throw them an advisory group.
"Come, tell me, who wants to go?" This thing immediately summoned all the officers above the battalion level of his security division, and then asked directly about the situation.
A gang of people looked at each other, which was not a good job. Maybe you won't be able to come back, you let them defend Beiping Tianjin is to block the gun's eye, they have nothing to say, after all, their parents, wives and children are watching behind them, but if they want to go to Changbai Mountain, which can't be beaten by eight poles, to fight guerrillas, this is really a bit hesitant.
"No, I'll take the reconnaissance battalion with me? With our skills, it is also more suitable for drilling old forests. Lao Lin asked tentatively, although he held the title of deputy division commander, he had actually been in charge of Yang Feng's special forces construction. His reconnaissance battalion was full of 1,000 people, holding Yang Feng's special forces training manual. I've been training for almost two years, and now all of them are good at killing people and setting fires.
And when Yang Feng recruited special forces, he chose those who had no family, or simply fled from the Northeast to enter the customs, and if there were parents who were killed by the Japanese. Sisters who are QJ by the Japanese are all given priority, so these people will definitely not be resistant to going to the Northeast.
"The reconnaissance battalion is definitely going to go, but not all of them, and a group of people from the northeast of their hometown are selected. Jilin and Liaoning are the best, the number should not exceed two hundred, they are going to be instructors, not for going to the battlefield, as for you, you don't have to go. Yang Feng nodded and said.
"It is difficult to solve the problem in terms of military advisers, our people are trained in accordance with regular operations, and in the guerrilla warfare in the mountains and forests of the northeast, they are not necessarily much stronger than the people of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and it seems to me that it is best to get a group of officers who are familiar with guerrilla warfare, and it is best to have the kind of people who have always confronted the superior enemy in a bad environment." Sun Liren said, this guy's words are very inducing, as Yang Feng's henchman, Boss Yang has a certain hookup with a certain party, and this is not hidden from him.
In fact, at this time, many warlords hooked up with them to a greater or lesser extent, and they never stopped fooling the warlords, and even ran to fool Sun Dianying in the previous time, but Sun Dianying was very polite to send them away.
"Isn't that right? What if they dragged all the people under Tang Ju's five subordinates? Yang Feng was a little hesitant, he knew the ability of these people to fool, Tang Juwu's subordinates were all a bunch of straight-hearted, or it could also be said that they were more enthusiastic, plus they also had a good foundation there, so it was easy to get hit.
"What is the purpose of raising them?" Sun Liren asked.
"Block the Japanese and dig ginseng for me." Yang Feng said.
"Then what do you care about so much?" Sun Liren said with a smile.
Yes! Yang Feng's eyes lit up, what are you doing with so much? Anyway, I asked for two things, one is to make trouble for the Japanese, and the other is to supply myself with ginseng, as long as these two items can be met, their surnames and surnames are related to their own bird affairs, and they can't get a headache in line.
"High, indeed high!" This traitor smiled and gave Sun Liren a thumbs up.
However, how to introduce talents, this will take a little effort, there used to be a Lin Yin as a middleman, since Lin Yin was sent to the United States, he also cut off direct contact with that side, but this is not difficult for Yang Feng, he still has Liu Xiang's line!
So Yang Feng arranged to select special instructors, and he himself flew to Chongqing with Margaret, the little goblin is now inseparable from him, and he is determined to hug this thigh to death, and he followed back directly from the United States, and now when he hears that he is going to Sichuan, he naturally wants to continue to abuse her poor Huahua.
At this time, the construction of Baishiyi Airport had been completed, and in order to build this airport and the supporting asphalt road, Liu Xiang requisitioned nearly 50,000 migrant workers near Chongqing.
When Hercules' huge body fell from the sky, Liu Xiang and the others who were waiting at the airport were even more stunned.
"Brother Yang, your plane is too big, isn't it?" The old tyrant can be regarded as having seen the world, and Aunt Junker has been regarded as a behemoth by him before, but he never thought that Yang Feng's special plane would be at least half larger than Junker.
"So-so, the main picture is convenient back and forth. In the future, there will be two such planes that will fly the route from Beiping to Chongqing, and Brother Fu Cheng likes to sit often in the future. Yang Feng said modestly.
After the two were polite, they immediately took a ride together to inspect the construction of the highway first, because the specifications required by Yang Feng were too high, and only half of the construction of the highway was currently completed.
After inspecting the road, I went directly to the headquarters of the steel plant, and at this time the Mauser had just arrived. The cargo was unloaded at the newly built wharf at Kowloon Beach and transported directly to the steel mill via the newly built railway.
This railway, which is only a few kilometers long, is the first railway in the history of Sichuan, and almost all the leading figures in Sichuan were present when it was completed.
Next is the distribution of guns, in addition to Liu Xiang's 30,000, Yang Sen and Deng Xihou, and Liu Wenhui each asked for 5,000, Sun Zhen asked for 3,000, and Li Jiayu asked for 2,000. Divide it all at once.
After dividing the gun, Yang Feng talked to Liu Xiang about his own affairs alone, Liu Xiang had already established contact with them before, and used a batch of medicines provided by Yang Feng in exchange, and the two sides cooperated with each other on the battlefield to perform a few scenes, and the current relationship is the time of harmony.
Yang Feng's purpose is very simple, didn't they shout the slogan to go north to resist Japan? Then if you are willing to help them, they can choose a group of officers, preferably not less than a hundred. Then he was airdropped into the anti-Japanese coalition army in Tang Juwu in the northeast.
"They can't agree, they won't even believe it in the first place!" After Yang Feng finished speaking, Liu Xiang smiled. Everyone understands that the so-called going north to resist Japan is just fooling fools, and even if they really want to go to the Northeast, it is impossible to believe Yang Feng's words, in case they make up people, and then Yang Feng sells people to bald guys, then who do they cry to?
"Nope. No, Brother Fu Cheng, after you listen to me, first of all, they will definitely like to go to the Northeast to develop, in fact, there are many of them in the Anti-Japanese Federation now. Besides, it's easy to go to the USSR in that place, this is their homeland! Didn't people shout like that back then?
As for the issue of trust, of course I can't make them believe with empty words, I will find a very good middleman, brother, you only need to be responsible for getting people to Chongqing and sending them on the plane. Yang Feng smiled mysteriously.
His intermediary was the Soviet ambassador to China, Bogomolov.
"Your Excellency, I am very sorry to invite you in this way, but I think you will be able to understand my distress." At Yang Feng's home in Shanghai, the man said apologetically to Bogomolov, who had been secretly invited.
"Mr. Yang, there's no need to mind this little thing, I'm just curious, what is your so-called big business?" Bogomolov said lightly, with the pride peculiar to the new proletarian aristocracy in the face of the capitalists, Yang Feng even maliciously guessed that if he knew that he would soon be shot as a counter-revolutionary, he wondered if he could maintain this arrogance.
"A new torpedo, an ultra-long-range torpedo with a range of twenty kilometers and a speed of fifty knots." Yang Feng said with a smile.
Bogomolov's body shook slightly, in this era, this can be called a kind of anti-heaven data, for the Soviet Navy, which is still weak, he naturally understands what it means.
"Shouldn't we sit down and talk about this, do you prefer coffee or tea? Ah, I also have a drink here that you might like, how about a kvas? Yang Feng said with a smile.
Bogomolov sat down quietly, tasted the Tyulingvass, and then said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, I'm curious, why do you want to sell it to us?" ”
He didn't ask Yang Feng about the authenticity of the torpedo performance, he didn't have any doubts at this point, Yang Feng's character could be doubted, but the strength of Yanhuang's laboratory could not be doubted.
"It's nothing, I'm just a little busy right now and I need the help of His Excellency the Ambassador." Yang Feng shrugged and said.
"What's the busy?" Bogomolov asked suspiciously.
"It's a lot of work for you, I believe you can also know that the Japanese are attacking the anti-Japanese coalition forces in the northeast, and I don't need to hide anything from you, General Tang Juwu is my good friend, I want to provide him with some help, I can provide them with arms, medicine, and food, but they also need something that I can't provide, a talent who understands guerrilla warfare!" Yang Feng said.
Bogmolov looked at him and motioned to continue.
"And there is a group of people who are very suitable, and I believe they will also be willing to go to the Northeast, but there is a lack of an intermediary between me and them, I wonder if His Excellency Ambassador Lu Dao is interested?" Yang Feng said.
Bogomolov, of course, understood who he was referring to, and he muttered for a moment and said, "Why not? But then I would like you to be more reasonable in terms of the price of the torpedoes, and I don't want to be ridiculed like the British and French. ”
"Of course, this is a fixed price, a torpedo is a million dollars, I have six in my hand now, you can take out one for test firing, if you are sure to buy, then this one will also be included in the price, if you don't want it, then this one will naturally be mine." Yang Feng said.
"Mr. Yang, this price is too high!" Bogmolov shook his head, the price is indeed high, although Comrade Joseph will definitely agree, but he will definitely find trouble for himself afterwards, and if he can't get it right, he will directly ask himself to report to Comrade Lenin.
"Your Excellency, I think you should know that I am a person who does business, and I have always been known for being flexible in the way I deal with transactions, right?" Yang Feng said with a smile.
"Barter?" Bogomolov's eyes lit up all of a sudden, and when Yang Feng said what to exchange for, his eyes were not as simple as bright.
"Black caviar, natural amber, Siberian tiger bones, tiger skins, polar bear skins, ambergris, for the time being, I think so much, of course, the value of these things must be handed over to a third party to negotiate." Yang Feng said a little unsatisfied. (To be continued......)