Episode 57 Mingyang opens the way

The company commander of the leading tank company immediately raised his binoculars and looked forward.

Three or four hundred meters ahead, the road was densely jammed with people, all of whom were local peasants, carrying hoes, rakes and other tools, pointing and pointing at the armored divisions that were driving over. There were more peasants in the fields on both sides of the road, and they scattered there, scattering far away, like a fence, just blocking the way of the tanks of the 1st Blue Division.

The commander on each tank held up a telescope and looked in disbelief. For a while, there was everything in the radio headset. But the company commander immediately reported to the battalion commander. Because the commanders of the regiments and the commanders of the first division were having a meeting in Rommel's command car, the radio called Rommel directly.

Rommel listened to the report on the radio, and for a moment could not believe his ears, so he asked the translator to translate it into German again. He put on a headset, climbed up the iron ladder, lifted the roof of the command car, and looked into the distance with a telescope.

It's too far away to see anything. Although it is not a column formation now, the marching column of a division is still very long. Here is two kilometers away from the vanguard.

He slammed the roof of the armored car hard, and then said into the headset in Chinese:

"Order the vanguard to halt its advance."

He glanced at his watch and continued:

"Give you five minutes to solve the problem. After five minutes, move on. ”

Rommel then tried his best to look ahead with his telescope, but could see nothing. While muttering in German:

"I can't believe it'......"

……

There were still more than 100 meters away from the peasants blocking the road, and the vanguard tank stopped even all the tanks. The engine was still spinning, and the commanders were not getting out of the car, still outside the turret, looking through binoculars. The company commander shouted in the headset, and soon the herald came over on a sidecar. The company commander leaned over the tank and ordered:

"Go over and ask!"

The herald received the order and drove his motorcycle "suddenly" to the crowd more than 100 meters away.

The company commander watched him in the binoculars and gestured with the villagers for a while, and then rode back on a motorcycle.

"Report," said the herald, tilting his head up at the tank, "the villagers said that we had crushed their crops, and they didn't agree, and asked us for an explanation." ”

The company commander was stunned for a moment, a little angry, and shouted:

"Say? What is the statement? Didn't the local government promise them one and a half times the compensation? What else to say? ”

Herald says:

"That's what I told them, but they still didn't do it, saying how much money to lose is another matter, crops are the lifeblood of croppers, as long as they still have a breath, they can't watch us press like this anymore!"

The company commander smashed the top of the turret and said angrily:

"Nonsense! This is a military exercise, what did they take it for! Tell them to get out of the way or you do it at your own risk! ”

"Yes!"

The herald rode over on his motorcycle again. The company commander saw through the telescope that the herald had negotiated with the villagers again, but it seemed that the villagers did not pay attention to him at all, and were just holding tools to make a fuss there.

The voice of the regiment commander sounded in the headset:

"What's going on? Why hasn't it been dealt with yet? Lord Long and Shizuo are already on fire! ”

The company commander hurriedly told the peasants in front of him that they were blocking the road and "wanted to explain the law" and did not let the army pass.

In the command car in the back, Rommel, the division commander, and several regiment commanders listened to the sound on the radio, barely believing their ears.

"If this were in Germany," Rommel said, staring at the others, "we could have given them one minute to get out of the way, and the other minute they would all be arrested." How to do it here? ”

The division commander and several regiment commanders looked at each other. After a while, the division commander said:

"Da Ming definitely can't do this."

Another regimental commander suggested:

"We can contact a local government agency and have them deal with it."

Rommel lowered his head and stared at the map:

"What exactly do they want?"

He briefly measured the map with his hand, and said to himself:

"It's only 15 kilometers from the Red Sixth Division. …… And we're moving too fast. At least in the eyes of the Red Sixth Division. ”

Rommel gestured to himself a few more times, raised his eyes to look at the people in front of him, and suddenly said:

"If the Red side pays these farmers to get in our way, it's a good way to slow us down."

As soon as these words were said, there was a sudden silence in the command car, and then several people suddenly realized, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt right.

"If that's the case," said one of the regimental commanders, "then no matter how we explain it, they won't let us go." ”

The division commander nodded and said:

"Makes sense. Now what do we do? There are two options, either go to the local government agency and get them to come forward. Or, we will also take out the money and let these villagers get out of the way. ”

Several regiment commanders looked at each other and thought it was too ridiculous. It is really ...... for the military of one's own country to conduct exercises on its own territory and to use money to "buy roads" It's better to send someone to the local government and negotiate with them.

But Rommel looked up and said:

"Okay, let's make some money."

Several people were stunned:

"Lord Taka!"

Rommel raised his wrist to look at his watch, then at the map, scolded in German, looked up and said rudely:

"Hell, it's too late! Do you want money or do you want to win the exercise? ”

……

Ten minutes later, a sidecar motorcycle drove up to the villagers, and a junior officer sitting in the sidecar took out a large bag, then took out a large handful of banknotes from the bag, shook it in front of the villagers, and said:

"Everyone, look at it, this bag is 1000 Mingyang! Do you see that hill bag in the south mile? We're going to wait under that hill bag now, and whoever goes over now will give 10 Mingyang directly! It's okay to say that there are only 1,000 Mingyang in total, that is, only the first 100 people have money to get! It's not too late! ”

With that, the sidecar turned south and went straight to the hill.

Hundreds of villagers blocking the highway exploded with a "bang", all of them straightened their heads, looked at the direction where the motorcycle was going, and talked a lot in their mouths. The people standing at the back didn't hear clearly, and they were still asking each other. But no one moved, they all looked at others, hesitating.

Finally, a young man looked around at the people around him and ran in the direction of the motorcycle.

Immediately afterward, a second young man followed.

The crowd stirred, and soon a third, fourth, and fifth followed. But most of them haven't moved, just talking.

After a while, several young men returned out of breath but elated. Each of them held ten bills in their hands.

The crowd exploded. Nothing is needed anymore. All the villagers, men, women, and children, ran like crazy to the hill to the south.

10 Mingyang, it's a lot of money. In this era, 10 Mingyang can buy more than 1,000 catties of high-quality rice, more than 200 catties of pork, and more than 6 grams of gold.

More than 100 meters on the road and on both sides, there was no one left.

……

Looking at the empty roads and fields in front of them, the little bit of depression and depression in the captains' chests also disappeared at this moment. The company commander was full of pride, holding the top of the turret with one hand, waving back with the other, and commanded into the headset:

"Tanks - Forward!"