Chapter 169, Westbound

The war was temporarily over, Li Shucheng and the two rested, in a quiet mountain forest, Li Shucheng was drinking tea and reading the newspaper, and suddenly a sip of tea couldn't stop spurting out, and said with a smile: "This Oriental devil will also whitewash!"

"What can make you laugh?" Jiang Mingyue asked. During this time, she was worried that the army in Xuzhou had retreated safely, and the explosion of the garden mouth blocked the pursuit of the Oriental army. However, because the embankment burst at the mouth of the garden, the water of the Yellow River rose sharply during the rainy season, and hundreds of thousands of people were caught off guard and died in the flood. The entire Yellow Flood Area stretches from northwest to southeast, more than 400 kilometers long, and flows through hundreds of thousands of square kilometers in more than 40 counties in Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces, and tens of millions of people are bankrupt and displaced. How can you save so many people? Watching them struggle but unable to do anything.

The Oriental newspaper said that they had no more than 10,000 dead and wounded, so they routed more than 1 million Chinese troops, wiped out more than 100,000, and killed countless wounds. Li Shucheng said with a smile, "There are more than 10,000 people who died under our noses, plus the great battles in Tengxian, Taierzhuang and Xuzhou during this time, at least 30,000 people died, and there are not enough who are seriously injured." In order to boast of their martial arts, this stucco painter has done his best!"

Having said that, this battle alone did end in the defeat of the Chinese side, and the words were naturally not loud.

"The difference between 10,000 and 30,000 is huge. According to my rough judgment, the number of casualties in the Chinese army this time was 1230,000, and of course it is impossible for the newspapers to report accurate casualty figures, so as not to discourage the enthusiasm of the Chinese people in the War of Resistance. If there were 30,000 casualties and more than 1 to 4, then the Oriental people would think that the casualties were too great, and once there was a murmur inside, the battle would not be easy to fight in the future. If they reduce their own casualties and exaggerate the casualties of the other side, for example, if the Chinese army suffered 200,000 casualties, that is a casualty ratio of 1:20, or if the number of troops participating in the war is 1:4, it will be a great victory! Their Oriental people will do their best to support this war of aggression, and many Chinese in the occupied areas will also lose the heart to resist because of the huge casualties of the army. Jiang Mingyue said.

However, this war did wipe out tens of thousands of Oriental troops, and it was natural for public opinion to do its best to propagate and rally the people to resist the invasion. It really makes people see that if they keep fighting, they will have the hope of victory. Countless students and enthusiastic young people who were unwilling to be slaves of the country rushed from school, from their hometowns, from the rear, and from the occupied areas to join this war that was related to the fate of the whole nation.

I haven't extended it for a few years, and I don't know how the Salesian Institute is doing now, but now that the war is on hold, it was decided that it will be extended.

The two rushed from the periphery of Xuzhou to Yanchang, and met a lot of young people who rushed to the west along the way, some of them took a carriage, more on foot, and encouraged each other along the way, and their destination was Yan'an, which was full of blood and hope.

"This is hope!" Li Shucheng looked at these enthusiastic young people and sighed in his heart, it was precisely because of them that more and more people joined the war to resist aggression that China won the final victory!

Tong Xiangyu has a good saying: Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Although the general trend of the War of Resistance was unstoppable, the means between the various forces did not stop, Lao Chiang suppressed the local warlords, sent them as cannon fodder, and integrated the army did not stop, and the same did others. Now this kind of thing is happening in front of Li Shucheng and the two, and several soldiers in front of the checkpoint stopped a group of young people and did not let them pass.

"We went to Xi'an to join our relatives. An eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl in a school uniform said.

"Whatever you're going for, get the pass. The platoon commander who led the troops to guard the checkpoint said, "Without a pass, who knows if you are spies, whether you are going to join the Communist Party or bandits?"

"What's the matter with you? Are you still a soldier! Now that the devil has come in, what kind of party are there to divide in, and it is only right to protect the country first, and not to be a slave to the country!" said one person in the crowd.

"These big things are the big people above to worry about, I'm a small platoon commander, it's not my turn to worry about it, I only act according to the broken orders. The platoon commander said, "You have a reason to say this, the CCP is suspicious, come on, arrest him." ”

"Ahem. Li Shucheng approached and coughed, and said, "Second Lieutenant, what's going on? So many people are blocking this level." ”

"Hello sir!" As soon as the platoon commander saw Li Shucheng, he immediately saluted. For the sake of convenience, Li Shucheng and the two stole several sets of clothes during the battle in Xuzhou, including those of the state, the army, and the Oriental Army, and forged documents. At this time, Li Shucheng was wearing a major officer's uniform, and the platoon commander naturally wanted to salute when he saw it. "Sir, there are only a few people in this group who have a pass, but they want to pass the level. ”

Li Shucheng looked at the leading girl and said with a smile: "You Nizi, didn't my brother say that you should wait for your brother to go together?

After saying a word, he took the platoon commander aside and said: "Our two families are old friends, this girl's father is now in Wuhan, and his official position is not small, it is not good for you to stop them like this." ”

"But most of them don't have passes. The platoon commander said cautiously, "If I let them go, I'm afraid I'll make a mistake." ”

"There are a few passes that people can do, and they can do them all, but now it's a time of war, and Wuhan is preparing for a big war, and it's a lot of chaos. If you let them go, no one will blame you for letting the daughter of the deputy director of the Wuhan Xingying Staff Office pass. Li Shucheng said, "There must be a lot of such things in the back, you have to be enlightened, if you offend someone who shouldn't be offended, I'm afraid that this platoon commander won't be able to keep it." Look at me, I can talk and do things, although I can't fight, and now I'm a major staff officer. ”

"There are people above you, whether you have fought or not, it is naturally easy to be a major staff officer. The platoon commander said yes, but he thought in his heart. Due to the recovery of their strength, Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue have become uncontrollably younger in recent years, and now they look like they are no more than twenty-three or four, that is, twenty is also believed by people. Twenty-three or four-year-old major, it's not like there is someone in the family at the top, how is it possible!

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After some scare, the platoon commander was frightened, and respectfully sent a group of people through the customs. Li Shucheng saw that his son was teachable, so he gave him some ocean and asked him to invite his brothers to drink. The platoon commander understands in seconds, this is hush money! The daughter of the deputy director of the camp ran to the rear, which is not good to say!

After leaving the checkpoint for a distance, the girl asked suspiciously, "Sir, you help us like this, do we know each other?"

"I don't know. Li Shucheng smiled, "In addition, I am not a chief. I stole this major's uniform. ”

"Then you dare to pass the level like this!" said the girl in surprise. Her words are also what a group of people think.

"We were going to bypass the level. Li Shucheng smiled, "But I saw you being stopped from afar, so I came to help you." You guys, there are checkpoints on the main road, so take the small road! Although the small road is difficult to walk, it is better than being stopped and unable to pass. ”

"We don't know the road, and it's easy to get lost when we take the path. A male student said.

"I once heard a saying: the foot is the country, the mouth is the road. If you don't know the way, you ask, and if you ask wherever you go, you will always go to the place. Li Shucheng said with a smile.

Since they met, the two simply sent them all the way to Yan'an.

After arriving in Yan'an and separating from the group, Li Shucheng found a cave, made a batch of gold and a box of calligraphy and painting porcelain, and then guided the soldiers to the cave.

"Hey, there's something in this hole, open it and see what it is?" said one of the soldiers.

The leader stepped forward to open it and said, "This is a box of copper." Li Shucheng laughed in his heart when he heard it. This reminded him of a news he saw on the Internet in his previous life: a general didn't know gold, thought it was a copper nugget, and confiscated the silver when he was fighting a local tyrant, and his bed was uneven, so he used these gold bars to pad the foot of the bed, and the rest was thrown into the pit, and it was the logistics people who came to him to recognize it as gold. After the news spread, the general got the nickname of "local tyrant".

Seeing that there were a lot of things, the squad leader sent someone back to inform the platoon commander and company commander to bring people to carry them, and these coppers can be used to make bullets to hit the enemy!

Seeing that the other party had found the cave, Li Shucheng left. As for the gold, it must be handed over, and there must be people who know it.

He didn't expect that the company commander and platoon commander who came couldn't recognize it as gold, but the box of calligraphy, painting and porcelain knew that it was a treasure, so he handed it in, and the gold was sent to the arsenal as copper.

Although the name of this arsenal is called the arsenal, it can only make some earth bombs, refill gunpowder, or repair guns by blacksmiths.

"Lao Wang, what kind of thing are you pulling over! I looked at a car with a few small boxes, and they were sweating profusely! Your physical strength is too poor, you still have to practice!" The company commander of the arsenal guard laughed when he saw that Company Commander Wang had brought people to transport things.

"My soldier's physical strength is too heavy!" said Company Commander Wang, "This is a copper block, and you know that copper is very heavy." The fellows near our station found something in a cave, and we went and found a box of calligraphy, paintings, and porcelain, as well as these copper blocks, thinking that it would be useful to pull them over to the arsenal. ”

"It's a copper block, no wonder it's so heavy!Okay, pull it in, I'll notify Master Liu to receive it." The guard company commander said.

Master Liu arrived soon, and Company Commander Wang said, "Master Liu, quickly find someone to move down, there is still one more trip." ”

Master Liu opened the box to check the purity of the copper block to see if it needed to be re-smelted, and to estimate the weight.

Seeing that the color was wrong, he hurriedly picked up a piece, so heavy......! What kind of copper is this, this is not copper!"

"What's that? not copper?" Company Commander Wang was dumbfounded, "Then we took so much effort to pull in a bunch of?"