Chapter 255: Negotiation 1 (Fourth Update) (Asking for subscriptions, monthly passes, and various !! ）

The love of this era is actually very simple, as long as they stare at each other, it will be inseparable, even if they don't like each other, as long as the combination of two people is conducive to each other's survival, it is barely okay. In short, in this era, marriage is only secondary, survival is first.

The wedding in this era is also very simple, the groom has no dress, the bride has no wedding dress, and the two parties actually wore a yellow and green camouflage dress to hold the wedding, and Chen Feng couldn't cry or laugh when he saw it. Originally, Chen Feng also planned to send someone to Fuping City to purchase, at least the bride's red dowry. But this proposal was rejected by Li Haiping and Liu Li, on the grounds that everything was simple during the war years.

The banquet was also very simple, as far as these officers and soldiers of the brigade headquarters were concerned, everyone went into battle, and it was easy to gather 40 tables of eight immortals, and on each table was a pot of braised pork, a pot of Japanese canned stew, and then the staple food was steamed buns, and the most important thing was that there was no wine, according to Li Haiping, all the soju in the army was passively sent to the health center to be used as medical alcohol, and all the officers and men of the brigade had not touched a drop of wine for a full year.

It can be seen that the conditions here are indeed very difficult, far inferior to the second independent battalion of Laiyuan and the eighth battalion of Yixian, and even less than the troops in the rear of Chahar. However, according to Li Haiping, the living conditions of their troops are already very good, and if it is said that they are hard, they are far inferior to the Eighth Route Army, which is also active in this area. He went to the garrison of the Jinchaji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army and the Jizhong Military Region, and the soldiers only had 2 sweet potatoes per meal. In the winter, there were no cotton clothes, and many of the fighters' hands and feet were frozen. Compared with them, Li Haiping felt that this kind of life was too luxurious, at least they could eat enough and dress warmly, and they would have a meal of meat for three or two days.

After staying in Fuping County for two days, just as Chen Feng was about to continue his journey south to inspect the next independent battalion, Guisui sent another telegram. This time it was sent by Deng Xiaoping, who asked Chen Feng for help on behalf of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

Not long ago, the Japanese army carried out a large-scale sweep of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, and more than 40,000 elites were dispatched at that time. Then it was opened with chariot artillery. There were also planes in the sky to help the battle, trying to completely solve the troops of the Eighth Route Army on the border of Hebei and Shanxi.

Due to the fact that the enemy was outnumbered, the top level of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region decided to jump out of the outer line and carry out a strategic shift. The troops are good to transfer. Even if you encounter a large force of the Japanese army, you can break through. But there is also a nursery in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. They are all orphans of martyrs and children of senior commanders of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. These children were too young to make long-distance marches, so the top brass of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region decided to let the nursery stay in the homes of local villagers.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese army didn't know where to get the news. A squadron of soldiers was sent to arrest children in the nursery. Sensing that things had changed, Wang Jinlan, the director of the nursery school, and two female teachers immediately gathered all the children and came to the village overnight, and at the same time contacted a guard team who was responsible for staying behind to protect the nursery at that time.

But the Japanese army seems to have received accurate information, the arrest action was very fast, the goal is also very clear, and before the nursery school ran far, the Japanese army caught the tail, fortunately there is that guard squad to protect the children, otherwise they would have been caught by the Japanese. 3 days ago, the nursery was entangled by the Japanese army, after half a day of fighting, although the children escaped, but a guard squad responsible for protecting the nursery was wiped out by the Japanese army, and all 11 soldiers in the class were killed.

Since the majority of the Eighth Route Army has been transferred to Shanxi, there is no formed force in Jizhong, and now even if you want to rescue the nursery, you don't have the ability to do so.

Commander Nie of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region knew that the 40th Group Army had a small unit in Hebei and had very strong combat effectiveness, and the most important thing was that the main target of the Japanese army's operation was the Eighth Route Army, and it was not interested in the Kuomintang troops who were also operating in this area. In addition, Commander Nie also knew that this unit of the 40th Group Army was very well concealed, and the Japanese did not know their strength at all, and often regarded them as bandits in the nearby mountains and forests, and they were the most suitable to rescue the nursery, so he called the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, hoping that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army would come forward and ask the 40th Group Army to save the children in the nursery.

Deng Xiaoping's request Chen Feng had to be considered, and seeing that a group of children were about to fall into the hands of the Japanese, Chen Feng really couldn't be indifferent. In addition, this group of small eight roads is not very far from the station of Li Haiping's department, and the straight-line distance is only more than 80 kilometers.

After thinking about it again and again, Chen Feng decided to send the special combat team to Lu, led by Chen Tiebao, and rushed to Ligezhuang in the southwest of Fuping County in the starry night, making sure to ensure the safety of the 43 children. In addition, for the sake of insurance, Chen Feng also asked Li Haiping's subordinates to immediately send strong troops to support Chen Tiebao and others.

Before the matter was resolved, Yang Yi sent a telegram saying that the American delegation and the Soviet delegation had asked for negotiations, and he asked Chen Feng what to do.

Chen Feng felt that it was almost time to talk to these foreign devils. So he ordered Xu Bao to inspect the 9th Independent Battalion in Nangong County and the 11th Independent Battalion in Handan on his behalf, and he immediately set off to return to Guisui with a special operations team.

On November 7, Chen Feng finally rushed back to Guisui, and the road was not peaceful. Although I didn't encounter the Japanese puppet army, I encountered bandits. When passing through Xiaomi Mountain, Chen Feng and the others were intercepted by a lock, and the one-eyed dragon master asked Chen Feng and the others to leave 20 flower traps and 20 short guns, and they also had to offer 10,000 oceans before they could leave.

Chen Feng was furious, but he didn't expect that his dignified army general of the Nationalist Government would be robbed by a group of bandits. No, although there were more than 300 bandits, there were only 36 special combat personnel around him. But Chen Feng still took the initiative to attack, he himself went into battle in this battle, the desert eagle was fierce, after three hours of attack, Chen Feng and others finally defeated this bandit.

Later, Chen Feng inquired in a nearby village and learned that this bandit was not a good thing, not to mention the trouble, and often robbed the past business travelers.

Since it is not a good thing, Chen Feng has the bottom in his heart. At night, Chen Feng led the special operations team to quietly appear in the bandits' den in Xiaomishan, and after a while of chopping melons and vegetables, more than 300 bandits were eliminated fifty or sixty people, and the others wisely chose to surrender.

Chen Feng didn't have time to deal with these people, so he sent a telegram to the nearby Laiyuan Independent Brigade, and then a cavalry company of the Independent Brigade appeared at Xiaomishan to take over the prisoners, and Chen Feng and the others were able to continue their journey.

After returning to Guisui, Chen Feng hosted a banquet for delegations from the United States and the Soviet Union, and the venue of the banquet was not in the provincial government, but at Chen Feng's home. Regardless of the outcome of the negotiations, at least the etiquette must be sufficient, and the United States and the Soviet Union must not think that they do not value them.

After half a month of investigation, Little John became more and more interested in Chen Feng, a Chinese general. As Chen Feng expected, before he came, John Jr. did not put Chen Feng and the 40th Army on an equal footing, and he believed that with the current situation in China, the Chinese did not have the capital to negotiate terms with the Americans, even if the Chinese had the best medicine in the world.

First of all, the Chinese do not have the strength to protect American interests in China, and even if they are willing to cooperate with Chen Feng, Chen Feng, like all warlords in China, could be wiped out by the Japanese at any time. Once things turn out like this, then won't the U.S. investment be wasted? The most important thing is that John Jr. now represents the U.S. government, not the Morgans.

The reason why John Jr. agreed to cooperate with Chen Feng before, on the one hand, was to train his son, and on the other hand, the cooperation between the Morgan family and Chen Feng was not very big in John Jr.'s opinion, even if it failed, the loss was only more than 100 million US dollars, and with the foundation of the Morgan family, this money was still lost.

But the U.S. government is different, and once it cooperates, the amount is staggering. In particular, before coming to China, Mr. President had talked to him and said that Chen Feng, a Chinese general, intended to place a huge order with the US shipbuilding company, and conservatively estimated that he would order at least 30 to 100 large surface warships from the US government.

As an adviser to the state and one of the most central members of the Roosevelt administration, John Jr. knew exactly what that meant. The total value of so many warships is at least $2 billion, and more importantly, if the cooperation between the two sides is successful, at least in two to three years, the US shipping companies will have jobs to do, and the government will not have to worry about the laid-off workers of the shipbuilding companies, which is important for the US economic recovery.

In addition, Mr. President also said that the Chinese general also intends to cooperate with the US government in the fields of iron and steel, industrial equipment manufacturing, and weapons, and it is conservatively estimated that the amount of cooperation will not be less than $5 billion. With such a large amount of cooperation, John Jr. had to pay attention to it, and once something happened during the period, the loss of the United States would be extremely heavy.

But after half a month of investigation, Little John found that the Chinese general and his army were far more powerful than they thought. Originally, in the imagination of almost all Americans, although the Chinese army would not fight the Japanese with broadswords and spears, it was at most equipped with some old primitive firearms that were about to be obsolete.

However, in Guisui, John not only saw the most elite army in the world, but also saw the most advanced airfield in the world, in addition to Baotou, he also saw the most advanced tank in the world, the big guy is twice the size of the most advanced tank in the United States, and he saw with his own eyes that the 37 battle defense artillery hit the big guy without any problems. He also saw the most advanced heavy howitzers and heavy mortars in the world, plus superior submachine guns and pistols, and little John was completely shocked.

After visiting the Baotou Iron and Steel Plant, John Jr. has elevated Chen Feng to a position that can affect the national strategy of the United States, and completely corrected the positions of both sides.

Especially when he learned that the delegation of the Red Soviet Union in the north had arrived in Guisui and that Chen Feng's chief of staff was accompanying the Soviet delegation to inspect the 40th Army, Little John was in a hurry and hurriedly made a request for negotiations. (To be continued......)