The place where Kong Jie and his entourage ate was a resting area specially set aside by the comrades of the 358 Brigade for everyone, and it was not far from the garrison of other units of the 358 Brigade.

Even not far away, you can see cooking smoke rising from the stoves of the cooking squads of other companies.

When the group arrived, they were also catching up with the comrades of the 120th Division for lunch.

When Kong Jie rushed over with a group of company commanders and squad leaders, Brigade Commander Zhang naturally saw it, but after all, he sighed and did not stop him.

Brigade Commander Zhang knew that Kong Jie was a smart man, and he would find out about the situation in the area sooner or later.

When they followed the smoke all the way to the compound of a cooking class that was relatively close, everyone stopped, looked over, and saw clearly that most of the soldiers of the 120th Division were filled with food in the kiln bowls with gaps, and they understood at that time.

What do you eat?

Multigrain rice, millet black beans, and a pot of gruel made from various grains.

Then it was piled up on the surface, it looked like vegetables, and if you looked closely, it was obviously a wild vegetable that could be seen everywhere on the mountain, and there was no oil and water at all, and it was a side dish fried in a large pot.

This is the lunch that the comrades of the 120th Division eat every day.

Even if the conditions were so difficult, what did the comrades of the 120th Division take out to entertain Kong Jie and his party?

That's the potatoes that people don't have a lot of reserves, and there are elm noodles.

It can be said that the best things were taken out to entertain the soldiers of the 129th Division.

What is it?

This is the friendship of revolutionary comrades-in-arms!

Just when Kong Jie and his entourage were feeling a little heavy, Li Yunlong also rushed over with some cadres of the New Second Regiment, and waited until they saw what the other soldiers of the 120th Division were eating.

Li Yunlong was silent.

After returning to the station, Lao Li passed by a soldier and scolded: "Damn, how many noodles are still in the bowl, don't you see?" Eat him clean!

You kid entered the army late, I don't know what it's like to be hungry, don't say it's elm noodles and potatoes before, that's the bark, and it's good to eat some! ”

When Li Yunlong and Kong Jie asked Brigade Commander Zhang why the living standards of the soldiers of the 385th Brigade were still so difficult?

Brigade Commander Zhang replied with a bitter face:

"Our situation here is not as good as your 386 Brigade!

In fact, the headquarters has a lot of high-quality and high-yield potatoes sent over, and there are hundreds of thousands of catties before and after!

But we still can't stand the fact that there are too many of our troops, too many mouths to eat, and the land in our mountainous areas is barren, just in time for the great drought of the past two years, and the harvest has not been as smooth as imagined.

From time to time, the devils come to sweep up, and even come to destroy the crops we have grown with great difficulty.

This comes and goes, it's good to be able to fill your stomach, how can you expect to live a comfortable life. ”

Speaking of this, Brigade Commander Zhang, who has the spirit of revolutionary optimism, turned to smile and said with relief: "However, the situation is much better than in previous years, when the troops even had to pick off the bark and stuff it into their stomachs.

Since the beginning of this year, with the support of some grain that you have continuously sent from the Taihang base area, as well as the planting of high-quality potatoes, coupled with the fact that our troops have followed the elite soldiers and streamlined the administration, the burden on the team has been reduced a lot.

Fortunately, there were multigrain noodles and wild vegetable soup to eat, so that the soldiers would not go hungry. ”

Hearing this, Li Yunlong, who had a bit of a true temperament, couldn't help but start wiping his tears, and while wiping his tears, he turned his head and said to Kong Jie:

"Lao Kong, don't say anything, our Huasheng Company must wrap the comrades of the 120th Division for him, at least let our comrades have enough to eat, right?"

Brigade Commander Zhang looked confused: "Huasheng Company? ”

"Brigade commander, in fact, what Lao Li means is that in the future, our 120th Division can have more exchanges with our 129th Division, carry out some business exchanges, military cooperation, and promote the common economic development of each other.

So that our soldiers can have a full meal and can wear warm clothes! Kong Jie explained.

"Is it really possible to do this?" Brigade Commander Zhang asked a little nervously.

Looking at the old brigade commander who worked hard for the troops, and even his hair was a little gray, Kong Jie nodded solemnly: "Please rest assured, brigade commander, we don't have other abilities, but we still have this confidence that every mouth of the army can be fed!"

Since we have come here this time, our Northwest Military Region has seen with our own eyes the difficulties of our comrades in eating and living, and as fraternal troops, we naturally have to stand idly by.

At present, we need to find a way to open up the passage from our Northwest Military Region to our Taihang base area, and after this passage is successfully opened, I can arrange for the convoy to transport millions of catties of grain over first to solve the urgent need for our 120th Division troops to eat! ”

Good guys, this opening is millions of catties of grain.

Brigade Commander Zhang was directly dumbfounded, this is even better than our division commander!

Li Yunlong couldn't wait to greet him: "Lao Kong, don't talk so much, let's eat this meal too, let's chatter, hurry up and give the gifts we brought over to our comrades in the Northwest Military Region!" ”

"Yes, yes, that's the reason, I almost forgot about the business!"

Kong Jie, who came back to his senses, immediately turned his head and greeted him.

The company commanders and platoon commanders immediately led the team to unload the goods from all kinds of combat vehicles that drove to the station.

Looking at the boxes and sacks that were carried out by the soldiers from the carriages of the transport cars as if they were juggling, Brigade Commander Zhang was surprised: "This is?" ”

Kong Jie said: "Brigade commander, this is a little bit of gratitude from all the comrades of the 129th Division in our Taihang Base Area to the comrades of the Northwest Military Region.

Mainly some canned food and the like, and the other is a batch of munitions, including some guns and artillery.

This time, in order to avoid the target being too large and easy to be exposed when the transfer was carried out in the middle of the way, our mechanized combat unit was successively transported in three batches, and this was the first batch of materials to be transported, and two more batches should arrive in the next two days. ”

When Brigade Commander Zhang heard this, he couldn't sit still, and this time he saw the heavily armed equipment brought by Kong Jie and Li Yunlong at a glance.

He knew that the development of the 129th Division was much better than that of their Northwest Military Region.

The gifts sent by Kong Jie and Li Yunlong, how can they go?

Thinking of this, Brigade Commander Zhang hurriedly took some cadres of the 358 Brigade and rushed towards those military vehicles, wanting to see with his own eyes the materials sent by Kong Jie and Li Yunlong.

Opening a large wooden box, there were neat rows and rows of cans, and what surprised Brigade Commander Zhang and other cadres the most was that these cans were not written in Japanese, nor did they look like cans seized from the little devil, but some Chinese were written.

If you look closely, you can see that it is marked with various ingredients, including chicken, duck, goose, fish, etc., and it seems that it is a variety of canned meat.

"Aren't these junctures captured from the little devils?" Brigade Commander Zhang was amazed.

Li Yunlong said happily: "Old captain, you don't know this, relying on the seizure from the little devil, when will we be able to eat canned food if we want?"

This is a specially built canning factory, and we produce our own cans. ”

"Make your own canned !!"

Brigade Commander Zhang was almost dumbfounded, he had heard about the rapid development of the 386 Brigade in the past two years, especially the Iron Triangle in the northwest of Shanxi, especially the team led by Kong Jie.

But it's better to hear than to see.

After seeing it with my own eyes, I realized that the development of this detachment has reached this point!

The troops of the 120th Division of the Northwest Military Region are still having a headache and worrying about filling their stomachs, and most of the factories they have built are some of the most basic repair shops for the convenience of front-line operations.

But a detachment of the 386th Brigade even got a canned food production plant.

Does this still make people live?

"With these resources, with such factories and equipment, why not invest in military production?" Brigade Commander Zhang couldn't help but ask, isn't this blind resources?

Kong Jie explained: "There are also many factories responsible for military production, but this canning factory is actually very necessary.

We have built a lot of breeding farms in various units up and down the ground, raising a large number of livestock and poultry, plus some meat that has been brought back in large quantities from the areas occupied by the devils through business.

So many meat resources, if not properly kept, once the weather is hot, it will be wasted in a very short period of time, so it is better to process it into canned food, not to mention the longer shelf life, but also through the business chain to get more funds for us.

You can also exchange it for more military supplies needed for the development of our troops.

This is a concept of all-round development, but it can promote the development of our military industry even more!

In other words, this canning factory can even increase the combat effectiveness of our combat troops by an additional three percent! ”

I see.

As soon as Kong Jie said this, Brigade Commander Zhang was a smart person, so he naturally understood.

But there is a premise for this, that is, your base area has to be developed, or you can't even build an arsenal, how can you build a canning factory?

This can only show that the development of the 386 Brigade has reached a rather exaggerated level.

After that, Kong Jie took Brigade Commander Zhang to visit some of the rice and millet that had been sent over, and said that these were harvested by some crops of improved varieties specially cultivated by some breeding experts in the base areas.

Finally, Kong Jie and Li Yunlong put together some equipment from the three regiments of the Iron Triangle.

Including a considerable number of rifles, machine guns, artillery.

Not only the equipment of the Japanese army, but also the equipment of the Jiang army, the equipment of the Jin Sui army, and even the American equipment.

At this moment, Brigade Commander Zhang was dumbfounded: This little devil's equipment is easy to understand, this is Jiang Jun's, Jin Sui's army, and even the equipment of the American side, where did Kong Jie and Li Yunlong get it from?

In the end, Kong Jie gave only one explanation: "Do business!" ”

"As long as there are enough benefits, for Jiang Jun and Jin Suijun, their arms and equipment even the Japanese dare to sell, if I have money, why is he unwilling to sell it to me?"

What else can Brigadier Zhang say about this?

He could only give a thumbs up, and then look back at the regiment commanders and battalion commanders who were following him, and Brigade Commander Zhang suddenly felt a sense of shame that "his son is not as good as a person".

That's a big gap!

In the end, Brigade Commander Zhang happily accepted the batch of materials and ammunition sent by Li Yunlong and Kong Jie, so there is naturally no need to say much about Li Yunlong and Kong Jie's gratitude and value.

It also strengthened Brigade Commander Zhang's determination to carry out various business cooperation with the team.

In the words of Brigade Commander Zhang: "Not only our 358th Brigade, but also our entire Northwest Military Region, and even the various base areas opened up by our entire 120th Division, all combat units as long as possible.

Kong Jie, you must help us.

As for convincing them, you can leave it to me, and I'll take care of it all for you. ”

Kong Jie naturally responded, but also added: "However, the foundation and premise of all economic development is the stability of the base area and military victory, brigade commander, we can't put the cart before the horse." ”

"Don't worry, I naturally understand this truth, we have people in the army to make the best use of them, all kinds of talents are available, and those who do business and fight will not delay each other!" Brigade Commander Zhang promised to come down.

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120th Division, Division Headquarters.

When Brigade Commander Zhang and Li Yunlong appeared, what surprised the cadres of the 120th Division was that Brigade Commander Zhang's attitude towards Kong Jie and the others was called enthusiasm.

Okay, it's like a brother.

There are priorities, and Kong Jie and Li Yunlong naturally came here this time not mainly to do business, but to carry out the combat mission of a surprise attack on Datong.

This topic immediately became the core of the whole meeting.

When the two sides have communicated.

Kong Jie said: "The current battle situation mainly revolves around the Taihang base area, and the conspiracy that the Japanese army has been preparing for a long time is going to our Huangyadong Arsenal, and the attention of the little devils is basically all on this area."

What we have to do now is to quietly hibernate, first divide our mechanized combat units into three batches, and secretly place them in the territory of the Northwest Military Region.

The next thing is to wait for the changes in the battle situation in the Taihang base area, and wait for the opportunity for our mechanized combat units to be suitable for battle.

Of course, this opportunity does not necessarily have to wait, just wait, maybe it can't wait, we need to take the initiative to fight, to create, to create opportunities.

According to the instructions of the headquarters, the opportunity for our mechanized combat troops to attack Datong this time was precisely when the 26th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Changzhi, including the cavalry group stationed in Baotou, was heading south to engage the Taihang troops.

Before that, what we have to do is to find ways to make the defenders of Datong continue to be transferred outward and weaken the strength of the defenders of Datong. ”

Brigade Commander Zhang said thoughtfully: "Yes, Datong is a fortress and an important transportation hub, the defense that the devils have built in Datong over the years is almost impregnable, unless the defensive forces are empty, it is difficult for us to have a chance to knock it down." ”

The division commander clapped his hands and said: "Then try your best to transfer as many troops as possible from the devils stationed in Datong." ”

The cadres immediately started a discussion.

All of you here are the mainstays of the 120th Division, everyone you say a word, you say a word, you say a word, I say a word.

After brainstorming, there was a specific strategy quickly......