Li Xia said: "Commander Qiao has an overreputation. ”

After a pause, Li Xia said with a smile: "Speaking of which, it is really our fate, if it weren't for Commander Qiao passing by here with a team, several of our brothers would have died." ”

Qiao Risheng laughed and said, "Brother Li Xia, do you really think that I happened to be passing by here?" ”

"How?" Li Xia pretended to be stunned and said, "Could it be that Commander Qiao made a special trip here?" ”

"Yes, I'm here to keep you." Qiao Risheng didn't hide his intentions at all, and said, "But I didn't expect that you just four people would dare to fight with the devils and two dogs in a stronghold, and let you kill more than a dozen devils and two dogs, brother, you are this!"

After speaking, Qiao Risheng gave Li Xia a thumbs up again.

"What's the matter?" Li Xia said abruptly, "Let Commander Qiao smile." ”

While the two were talking, Kong Huan had already cleaned up the battlefield with people and came back happily.

"Big brother, sixteen three-eight big covers, four king-eight boxes, and more than five hundred rounds of ammunition have been seized." Kong Huan smiled and said, "By the way, there are sixteen melon grenades, this ticket has made a lot of money." ”

"That's where it goes." Qiao Risheng smiled and said, "The Yakou stronghold is the real fat sheep. ”

"What? A base in Kakuguchi? Kong Huan was stunned for a moment and said, "Big brother, don't you want to take this opportunity to take the Yakou stronghold?" ”

"You're right, that's what Lao Tzu thinks."

Speaking of this, Qiao Risheng said to Li Xia again: "Brother Li Xia, I won't hide it from you, the devil has set up such a stronghold in front of the mouth, which has caused a great obstacle to the business and travel between Datong and Yingxian, which can be said to have cut off Lao Tzu's financial route, Lao Tzu has long wanted to end this stronghold, but he has not been able to find an opportunity, this time it can be said that it is thanks to you. ”

"Commander Qiao strategizes and uses soldiers like a god, and the younger brother admires him." Li Xia complimented and said, "But this matter has nothing to do with us, we still have to thank Commander Qiao for his great kindness." ”

"Then we'll help each other and settle the matter." Qiao Risheng said with a smile.

"How's that going to work?" Li Xia said, "How can the great grace of life be leveled? ”

"Don't talk about that." Qiao Risheng waved his hand and said, "What are the next plans of Brother Li Xia?" ”

"Plans? What can be planned. Li Xia laughed at himself, "In such a world, you can only rely on a little skill and a gun in your hand, and eat wherever you go." ”

After a pause, he said: "If you go back to the word one day, you can only be buried in a ditch and a dead ditch." ”

"Ah, that's too negative." Qiao Risheng said, "Brother Li Xia, then I have a good suggestion, I don't know if you want to hear it?" ”

Li Xia said: "Commander Qiao, please speak." ”

Qiao Risheng said: "How about joining us in the northern Jinbei bandit area?" ”

After a pause, Qiao Risheng said again: "I don't dare to guarantee anything else, but as long as I, Qiao Risheng, have a bite to eat, I will never let my brothers go hungry. ”

Li Xia showed a look of embarrassment and said: "Commander Qiao, it is said that you saved the four of our brothers, if not for anything else, just to repay your life-saving grace, we should all stay, but ......"

As soon as the conversation changed, Li Xia said again: "But the four of us brothers are used to being free, and we can't be restrained, and we won't hide it from you, the four of us brothers have voted for the Japanese army, the Central Army, the Jin Sui Army, and even the Eighth Route Army, but they can't do it for long, because the four of us are used to being careless, and we can't be constrained by military discipline at all." ”

Hearing this, Qiao Risheng had a good impression of Li Xia and the others.

Because Qiao Risheng is such a person, he can't be restrained.

At that moment, Qiao Risheng patted his thigh and said, "This is not a problem at all. ”

After a pause, Qiao Risheng said again: "Our bandit army in northern Jin comes and goes freely, if there is an unpleasant quarrel between brothers one day, you can leave freely, not only will my surname Qiao not force him to stay, but he will also give a sum of money!" ”

Li Xia pondered for a moment and said: "Since Commander Qiao has talked about this, if we still insist on leaving, it will be too ignorant to lift, so let's stay!" ”

After saying this, Li Xia said solemnly: "Big brother! ”

Duan Peng, Lin Han, and Feng Shenhe behind Li Xia also shouted big brother.

"Whoa!" Qiao Risheng answered loudly, and his heart was full of joy for a while.

At this time, Zhou Zhongwen of the Second King Kong and Wang Tiancun of the Third King Kong had already returned from the mountain road ahead with more than a hundred people.

Qiao Risheng laughed and said, "Haha, it seems that Lao Zhou and Lao Wang have already taken over the Yakou stronghold, and they have made a lot of trouble, let's go, let's welcome them." ”

Qiao Risheng was really in a very good mood at this time.

What a double blessing today!

……

Chu Yunfei's mood was extremely bad.

"Brother Meritorious Service." Chu Yunfei asked with a dark face, "Is the investigation clear?" ”

Fang Ligong said: "Brigade seat, the investigation is clear, it is indeed the people of the Eighth Route Army who bought the stock of grain from various grain stores, and they all blame me for my lack of vigilance, so that the Eighth Route Army took advantage of the loophole." ”

"Hey, I don't blame you for this, who would have thought that Li Yunlong would make this bad move."

Chu Yunfei waved his hand and said, "Then have you investigated, how much grain is still in the county seat, Dagu Town, and Lijia Town?" How long can it last? ”

Fang Ligong said: "If there is no grain from outside to transport in, the county can support it for three days at most, and Dagu Town and Lijia Town are slightly better, and they can only support about five days." ”

After a pause, he said: "And if we buy all the only grain left on the market, then tomorrow there will be a food shortage in the entire county, as well as Dagu Town and Lijia Town." ”

"Li Yunlong, you are really ruthless."

Chu Yunlong said with a dark face: "You only left me three days' rations!" ”

Fang Ligong said: "Brigade seat, we must immediately find a way to raise food, otherwise even if the troops can be stabilized, the people of the county seat, Dagu Town, and Lijia Town may also break out into a civil uprising, and once a civil uprising occurs, Li Yunlong will have another excuse, and when the time comes, he will definitely lead troops into Dagu Town, Lijia Town, and even the county seat. ”

Chu Yunfei paced back and forth in the war room with his hands behind his back, and after a while, he stopped and said, "Immediately call the Dujiu4 Brigade and borrow food from Brigade Commander Liang, as much as you want!" ”

Fang Ligong replied yes, and said, "Luzao, I have a worry. ”

After a pause, Fang Ligong said again: "Li Yunlong can come up with this poisonous plan and buy out the grain in our Heyuan County, but I am afraid that he will not leave too much grain for Fu'an County." ”

"yes, forget it." Chu Yunfei waved his hand.

After a pause, Chu Yunfei said again: "In this way, you immediately gather all the squires and merchants in the county seat, and I will personally borrow grain from them." ”

Fang Ligong replied again, and said: "Brigade, borrowing grain from the merchant squire can only be an expedient measure, and the fundamental solution is to urge the chief's department to send supplies over as soon as possible. ”

"You're right." Chu Yunfei said, "Send another telegram to the chief's department to urge food, indicating that 100,000 is urgent!" ”

Speaking of this, Chu Yunfei said again: "In addition, send a telegram to the attendant room to explain our difficulties, and ask the attendant room to submit a motion to the Ministry of Military Affairs to increase the amount of military salaries and supplies for our only brigade as appropriate. ”

……

Qiulin Town, Northern Shaanxi, World War II Zone Governor's Department.

Chu Xichun, the chief of staff, took two telegrams, walked into Yan Xishan's room, and reported: "The general seat, the Suiyuan Fu Yisheng Department and the Chu Yunfei Department in the northwest of Shanxi Province have sent urgent telegrams to urge grain at the same time. ”

"Urge, urge, and they know how." Yan Xishan was instantly on fire.

After a pause, he said: "If Russia has food, will it withhold it and refuse to give it to them?" The problem is that Russia doesn't have it. ”

Chu Xichun was silent, and said in his heart that the commander's department originally had food, but because you resold most of it, it was not enough to send supplies to the troops on the front line, and could only wait for the supplies to be delivered in the second half of the year.

But then again, eating food is a routine operation in various war zones.

The Second War Zone, which was only in arrears for half a year, was already exemplary, and the First War Zone had dragged on for almost three years, and it was said that even the officers and men of the 13th Army of Townsend were already hungry and thin.

Chu Xichun slandered Yan Xishan for reselling military rations, but Yan Xishan also had hardships.

The territory of SX Province was lost, but the officials of SX Province, especially the managers, engineers, technical backbones and their families of steel mills, power plants, and arsenals, followed him and retreated to northern Shaanxi.

However, the problem still has to be faced.

After pondering for a moment, Yan Xishan said: "Fu Yisheng's department doesn't care, he now governs Suiyuan in an orderly manner, and he can collect hundreds of thousands of oceans every month just for commercial taxes, and he still has the face to cry poverty to Russia?" I think he is a drunkard, not because he wants to drink, but because he wants to cry poor to stop Russia's mouth, so that he will not give up his old face and beg for food from him. ”

Chu Xichun said: "The general seat is Mingjian, Fu Yisheng means this. ”

Yan Xishan said again: "And what's the matter with Chu Yunfei?" Didn't he rob the Heyuan County seat of the Eighth Route Army? Heyuan County is a major grain-producing county in Shanxi, and there will be no food to eat if you guard Heyuan County? ”

Chu Xichun said: "Boss, it is said that this is the case......

After listening to Chu Xichun's words, Yan Xishan's old face fell: "This Chu Yunfei is too unvigilant, the grain in the entire county has been bought out by the Eighth Route Army, and he actually doesn't know about it?" What are you doing? ”

"Yes." Chu Xichun echoed, "It's too unvigilant. ”

After complaining, Yan Xishan said again: "But the matter has come to this point, there is no other way, Chief of Staff, you go and find a way to make up, no matter what, you can make up three months' rations for Chu Yunfei." ”

After a pause, he said: "It's late May now, and the first batch of autumn grain should come down in three months, and the ration crisis of Chu Yunfei's department will be solved." ”

……

Chongqing's Huangshan official residence, Yunxiu Tower.

Chen Bui handed a telegram to Chang Kaishen and said, "Commission, this is an urgent telegram just sent by the only brigade of the Jin Sui Army, and Chu Yunfei requests to increase the military salary and the amount of military rations of the only brigade. ”

Chang Kaishen frowned and said, "Didn't you just add it at the beginning of the year?" ”

Chen Bui was silent, you don't know how much the fiat currency has depreciated?

After a long time, Chang Kaishen said again: "Okay, then let the Ministry of Military Affairs add one or two as appropriate." ”

Chen Bui answered, and was about to turn around and leave but Chang Kaishen stopped him.

Chang Kaishen beckoned: "Yan Ji, wait." ”

Chen Bui turned around and asked, "What else do you have to say?" ”

Chang Kaishen frowned and said: "Chu Yunfei sent a telegram twice in three days, asking for food, salary, and weapons and equipment, why didn't Liang Gang send me a telegram?" Isn't his 94th Brigade short of food, salary, or equipment? ”

"This ......" Chen Bui was speechless.

Chang Kaishen suddenly reacted, officialdom bad habits.

The bad habit of officialdom is that the wall falls down, everyone pushes it, and the drum is broken and ten thousand people hammer it.

As a high-ranking general in an army that has been defeated on the battlefield and has hardly achieved any decent results, Liang Gang's situation can be imagined.

It should not be that Liang Gang did not send him a telegram, but that the telegram sent to him has been disposed of.

And there is no way to investigate this kind of thing, even if it is clear, it is not easy to investigate, how to investigate? He Chang Kaishen can't go against the entire officialdom, right?

At this moment, Chang Kaishen's weakness as a comprador class can be said to be exposed.

Chang Kaishen did not have the courage to open up to all kinds of unfair and unjust bad habits.

It is precisely for this reason that after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in four or five years, when the senior generals of the various theaters of the national army took advantage of the ferocity of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and used their hands in the occupied areas, all kinds of eating and taking cards to be greedy for ink, so that most of the seized Japanese fake assets fell into private pockets, but Chang Kaishen did not dare to take advantage of this phenomenon, and did not dare to sacrifice the iron fist of the heavy ceremony!

To get back to the point, after realizing the problem, Chang Kaishen did not have the slightest intention of rectifying the attendant room, but only blamed himself a little, he should not have forgotten Liang Gang's 94th Brigade, and he forgot it so thoroughly.

With Liang Gang's background, if no one supports him, it will be difficult to move an inch.

At that moment, Chang Kaishen asked Chen Bui: "Yan Ji, how did you arrange the American equipment of the three divisions that were just airlifted to Kunming?" ”

Chen Bui said: "One division of the First Army, one division of the Thirteenth Army, and the remaining one division to the Seventy-fourth Army." ”

"That's right." Chang Kaishen's brows furrowed, the First Army, the Thirteenth Army, and the Seventy-fourth Army are also his heart's meat, and the palms and backs of his hands are all meat, how is it good?

After a long time, Chang Kaishen said again: "In this way, the equipment of an infantry battalion and an artillery platoon will be deducted from the equipment of each of these three divisions, and the equipment of an infantry regiment and an artillery company will be combined into an infantry regiment and an artillery company, and Liang Gang's 94th Brigade will be sent over. ”

"Yes." Chen Bui had a very good impression of Liang Gang, and whispered, "Why don't you go again?" ”

"Well, that's fine." Chang Kaishen nodded happily and said, "Then hard work and you will go to the northwest of Shanxi again, and in addition, bring a word to Liang Gang for me, just say that he has suffered for the party and the state, I know everything." ”

"Yes." Chen Bui said in response.

The skill of the commissioner is really powerful.

……

Dagu Town, Niujiayu.

Dagu Town was originally the station of the third battalion of Shenquan.

The last time he hit Taiyuan, Shen Quan came out with the three battalions, and only the militia was left in Dagu Town, and it was not the district squad in Dagu Town, because the district squad in Dagu Town was transferred to the front line to cooperate with Sun Bin's four battalions to guard the devils in Ping'an County, so there were only a dozen backbone militiamen with dozens of second-line militia.

As a result, these militiamen were disarmed by the Jin Sui army in their sleep.

After occupying Dagu Town, Chu Yunfei left a regiment.

Lijia Town is also a regiment, and it is just the same as Heyuan County.

After Shen Quan returned with the third battalion, he could only disperse and be stationed in various villages outside Dagu Town, and his brigade headquarters was stationed in Niujiayu, which was less than a kilometer away from Dagu Town.

From Shen Quan's battalion headquarters, you can directly see the regimental headquarters of the Second Regiment of the One Brigade.

This will, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and Wang Ye are all in Shenquan's battalion headquarters.

Zhao Gang was worried: "Lao Li, Xiao Wang, will we go too far?" ”

"Too much?" Li Yunlong said, "Where has it been?" Why don't I feel like there's anything too much? ”

Zhao Gang said again: "I don't sympathize with the officers and soldiers of the only brigade of the Jin Sui army, although the officers and soldiers of the only brigade are pitiful, but they follow Chu Yunfei and act perversely, they are not worthy of sympathy at all, I am worried about the people of Heyuan County, Dagu Town and Lijia Town, we only left them three days' rations, in case Chu Yunfei ruthlessly scavenged the only stored grain, then these tens of thousands of people will immediately have a food shortage, and they will have nothing to eat." ”

Li Yunlong said: "Old Zhao, don't worry, Chu Yunfei doesn't dare to do this." ”

Wang Ye continued: "Because doing this will definitely provoke the militia, and then we will have an excuse to send troops to intervene, Chu Yunfei will not scavenge food to the death in order not to leave us an excuse to send troops." ”

After a pause, he said, "If I'm not mistaken, he should be searching the county town and the merchants and squires in the town." ”

Hearing this, Li Yunlong snorted lightly and said: "These landlords, old wealth, local tyrants and inferior gentry deserve to be looted by Chu Yunfei, we were so polite to them at the beginning, but these bastards were stunned and didn't give us an independent group of face, all kinds of strikes and all kinds of price hikes, if it wasn't for Lao Zhao to stop you, Lao Tzu would have to clean them up." ”

Zhao Gang said: "Lao Li, the economy is different from the military, and to manage the local economic order, you can't use brutal military means, because this destroys the economic law." ”

"Then I didn't listen to your advice and didn't do anything to them, did I?"

Li Yunlong smiled and said, "However, now Chu Yunfei will clean them up for Lao Tzu." ”

Wang Ye smiled slightly and said: "These local tyrants and inferior gentry lifted stones but smashed their own feet, they thought that Chu Yunfei was their savior, but it turned out to be their disaster star." ”

After a pause, he said, "It's a bit of trouble over there in Fu'an County." ”

Li Yunlong said: "I really didn't pay attention to this Liang Gang before, but through this grain trading competition, I found that this guy is more difficult to deal with than Chu Yunfei." ”

"Yes." Wang Ye said, "Liang Gang is more low-key and cautious than Chu Yunfei, as soon as our people started to buy grain in Fu'an County, Liang Gang was already aware of it, and quickly issued an order to limit purchases. ”