"Director Dai, have you made any new discoveries over there lately?" In a courtyard in Zhaojiayu, General Chen was sitting with Director Dai under a big tree and drinking tea leisurely, and in front of a landlord's mansion not far away, Li Yunlong was pulling Zhao Xiuqin to take wedding photos, yes, it was a wedding photo, for Li Yunlong's wedding, Wang Yue specially returned to China, bought a lot of wedding supplies, and also got a few imitation Zeiss cameras, plus a whole box of thousands of rolls of 120 film, and entrusted our Brigade Commander Chen to take wedding photos for Li Yunlong and Zhao Xiuqin according to the sketch style of the wedding photos he got.

"It's shocking, the Eighth Route Army is so well armed and the supplies are far more abundant than we imagined about 20,000, haven't you noticed? All the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are wearing new military uniforms, mechanism stitching, most of them have not been washed, and the same information we got before, they are all Italian-style military uniforms, the only difference is that this time they almost all changed into M35 steel helmets of Hans, as for weapons, almost all the weapons of the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army we have seen have been standardized, and they are not at all the previous state of focusing on captured weapons. Director Dai took a sip of tea and replied calmly, he was looking forward to coming to the base of the Eighth Route Army for a long time, and this time he finally came, and he naturally obtained information from all the details.

"I noticed that the camera didn't have it, Zeiss's, even in Hans country, it cost a few hundred marks, which was not something that the previous Eighth Route Army could afford." General Chen's eyes drifted to Brigade Commander Chen, at this time Brigade Commander Chen was taking a single photo of Zhao Xiuqin wearing a cheongsam, although it was the first time to wear a cheongsam, but our Director Zhao was still very open, and Lao Li's face was about to smile like a flower.

"See those buckets?" Director Dai glanced at a few little soldiers who were fetching water, and saw that each of these little soldiers was carrying two tinplate or white iron buckets.

"It's a bit much, but it's not like it's a small workshop, is it made by the Eighth Route Army Arsenal using machines?" General Chen recalled that it seemed that this kind of keg could be seen everywhere in the base area, and it was used for everything, but because it was ordinary, General Chen didn't care too much.

"It was a canned box, a kind of imported canned meat weighing no less than ten kilograms, and I noticed the taste on some ordinary soldiers, who ate this kind of canned meat almost every day, and these cans would never have less than five flavors." The corners of Director Dai's mouth imperceptibly revealed a wry smile, the degree of lack of materials in the rear is unimaginable, as far as the soldiers of the national army are concerned, some miscellaneous troops are estimated to eat meat less than once a year, and the staple food is just some soybean meal, black beans, this thing is horse feed, and it is not a top horse feed, the real warlike horses, eat sorghum rice of the year, and also with refined salt, eggs and jerky.

"The Eighth Route Army actually gave ordinary soldiers canned meat, or did they eat it every day?" General Chen can no longer maintain the previous indifference, obviously, due to the limited transportation capacity, the government will not waste precious transportation capacity to purchase food, the same across thousands of kilometers, ten kilograms of transportation capacity, is enough to transport two rifles and two pistols. As for home-grown? Then hehe, canned food is an industrial product, and the few canneries in China are basically on the coast, and they have long become devils.

General Chen and the others obviously don't know that Wang Yue has brought another 10,000 tons of canned food in the past few days, so even if you don't count the 10,000 tons of canned food sold to the Jin Sui Army, the Eighth Route Army still has 50,000 tons of canned food in its hands, which is definitely a happy worry for the Eighth Route Army, these things are very difficult for the Eighth Route Army to transfer, and it is also very difficult to store, and there are still many scattered in the woods near the base area. At least 500 grams per person per day, which is already a very remarkable standard, and even most Western countries cannot do it.

"They also sold 10,000 tons to the Jin Suijun, which is chicken intestines and roasted potatoes, radish stewed chicken neck, and fried chicken blood clots stewed corn, high oil and salt, and a large amount of sucrose is added, which is extremely high in calories, which is surprising enough, but now it seems that the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army seem to eat better." Director Dai shook his head, the matter of Jin Suijun's acquisition of a batch of imported canned food naturally could not be concealed from the Military Control Bureau.

"Ten thousand tons, Director Dai, you should have told me about this matter in advance." General Chen's first thought was to find the Eighth Route Army to buy canned food, and then add nutrition to his soldiers, don't think how good the Central Army is, even if it is a descendant army, it will still be hungry, at most the proportion of soybean meal and black beans in the food is a little less.

"Come on, what if the Eighth Route Army sells 10,000 tons of canned food to the government? It would be nice to have a tenth of it reach the soldiers, and instead of that, it would be better to use the money to buy more soybean meal and black beans, at the very least, the soldiers can still eat them. Director Dai's tone was full of helplessness and self-deprecation.

"Well, I'll admit it, you have a point." General Chen also changed into the same expression, don't think that there is no one greedy for soybean meal and black beans, in fact, even if these things are still a large proportion of them are deducted, but compared with canned food, more will fall into the stomach of soldiers.

"To be honest, I'm not very optimistic about the old man's idea of moving the 1,000 regiment to Chongqing." Director Dai looked at Li Yunlong, who had changed into a straight tunic, and said, what kind of life is the 1000th Regiment living in the northwest of Shanxi now, once they go to Chongqing and cut off the supply of materials, their living standards are bound to plummet, and if they can't keep it at that time, there will be chaos.

"You really guessed wrong, I have already talked to the deputy commander-in-chief about this matter, what the northern Shaanxi side means is that the 1000th Regiment can be ordered to move to Chongqing as a government army, but we must ensure the integrity and independence of the 1000th Regiment, to put it bluntly, as long as we don't interfere in the internal affairs of the 1000th Regiment." General Chen naturally knew what Director Dai was worried about, but as a soldier, whether it was the Eighth Route Army or the Central Army, ordinary soldiers actually had no choice.

"'Jianbing' and I revealed the situation of the 1,000 regiment, the current 1,000 regiment has more than 3,200 people, under the jurisdiction of four infantry battalions, a tank company with twelve Hansiguo No. 1 tanks, an artillery company equipped with nine Italian 75mm guns, 12 Soviet-style 120mm heavy mortars, light machine guns are equipped with squads, mortars and heavy machine guns are sent to the platoon, and there is also a battalion machine gun platoon, this is definitely the top main force of the Eighth Route Army, they let go so easily?" Director Dai was obviously a little shocked, the sleeper agent codenamed "Jianbing" had been released in advance, and he had already met with Director Dai as early as last night, and a large amount of information about the Eighth Route Army was also leaked, but there was no way, this is the price of the united front.

"So strong? This firepower is almost catching up with a division of the Central Army. General Chen said that in fact, because of the proper equipment rate of the national army, the firepower of a division may not be so strong, and perhaps only a few Soviet armed units can meet this standard.

"It may not be as good as it, the predecessor of this 1000 regiment is the new regiment of the 129th Division, the foundation is from before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the proportion of veterans can be called the crown of the Eighth Route Army, even if it is facing the troops who dare to fight bayonets in the upper sakata unit, the strong morale and military quality can be seen." Director Dai couldn't help but pout, and said goodbye to putting gold on his face, the equipment of the national army is always good on paper, the Eighth Route Army is trying to eliminate the old weapons in the army, but the national army is to sell the new weapons issued, and then use the rags to fill the number, the most ridiculous thing is that some troops even give the soldiers the wooden guns used for stabbing training, once the battle starts, if you don't escape, you will go out of the ghost.

"Did 'Jianbing' figure out the weapons channels of the Eighth Route Army?" General Chen didn't want to continue this unsolvable topic, so he had to change the topic.

"No, the only thing that is clear is that every time a weapon is purchased, Brigade Commander Chen of the 386 Brigade and Logistics Minister Zhang Wanhe are in charge of contact, and then the 1000 Regiment assists in protecting the transport team." Director Dai is very helpless, this guy 'Jianbing' is really too careful, and he never asks indiscriminately, which leads to his intelligence always having a third-party perspective, if it weren't for this adventure to steal photos, it is estimated that he can continue to lurk.

"1000 regiments, this 1000 regiment again, is it possible for Li Yunlong to know something?" General Chen's eyes lit up.

"This Li Yunlong is not simple, my feeling is very difficult, you know, there is a kind of person, you can understand at a glance, Li Yunlong is this kind of person, he will not be bought, and he will not give in easily, if he is caught in wartime, I will not interrogate him, just shoot him directly." Director Dai is a little disdainful, after being an agent for so many years, many times he trusts his instincts more than appearances.

"People have shortcomings and weaknesses, Li Yunlong is greedy for money, good wine, and likes beautiful women, plus a few ups and downs, it is enough for the old man to include him in the target of wooing, and even if he can't win him over, the old man will not be too disappointed, you know, the old man likes that kind of loyal ministers and fierce generals, just like that Brigade Commander Chen, if he were someone else, he would have died a thousand times." General Chen poured tea for Director Dai disappreciatively, as a confidant of the Standing Chairman, he did not believe that Director Dai did not understand this.

"Yes, everything is possible, tomorrow is this Li Yunlong's wedding, an hour ago the Military Command Bureau received a piece of information that General Cui Kefu, the general adviser to the military of the northern powers aiding China, has arrived in northern Shaanxi, and it is said that it is very likely to come to the northwest of Shanxi to attend this wedding." Director Dai smiled.

"I know this, the advisory group has informed the Ministry of Military Affairs, saying that it is to investigate the source of a large number of Soviet-style artillery pieces in the Eighth Route Army." General Chen smiled similarly.

"If you want to cover it up, who knows, I don't believe that such a large number of weapons and equipment can be made by some people who sympathize with northern Shaanxi." Director Dai sneered, the intelligence agencies of the big northern countries will only be more powerful than the Military Command Bureau, and the flow of heavy weapons cannot be concealed at all.

"Who knows, it may also be bought from the White Russian aristocracy, didn't the Northeast Army have lost a large number of Soviet-style weapons? The M1910 122mm howitzer has been equipped by the Russian army for decades. "General Chen is not so sure, from a political point of view, for the northern powers, the Eighth Route Army is obviously not as valuable as the Chongqing government.