Suddenly, Abban thought of another question: "The rails have been dismantled, and those sleepers..." As he said this, Aban himself smiled bitterly. The rails were dismantled, and those sleepers must have been transported to build the fortifications.

Do you need to ask?! Only then did Abban notice that there were many Jinan citizens or some nearby war-torn farmers helping to transport various logs, steel, cement and other materials for construction of fortifications.

At this time, the entire inner city of Jinan has become a huge construction site. If you count all the soldiers and the dense crowd of people helping here, Aban believes that the crowd outside Jinan City has gathered more than 10,000 people! This group of people has gathered over the years.

Various series of bunkers and tunnels were dug deep under the mottled Jinan city wall. Batch after batch of ammunition and food were delivered to these tunnels, and drinking water was packed in gasoline barrels and stored in deep dug racks.

In a bunker with railroad tracks and sleepers.

At this time, Abban discovered a strange thing. These people did not seem to be forced to come. They seemed to be extremely excited and worked very hard. This made Abban very strange. Could it be that those people came here under force?

What kind of stimulants did Captain Tu give them?! You know, according to Aban's understanding, the civilian forces mobilized in the current Chinese war have always been forcibly recruited with guns and bayonets. Therefore, most of the civilian forces are almost lazy or numb

Their work was not as exciting and hard-working as the people who were helping Tu Qianjun build fortifications.

"Commander Tu, these people are..." Aban asked a little strangely. If it weren't for his poor Chinese, he might have planned to come forward for an interview. Unfortunately, his current Chinese has not reached the level where he can communicate with others.

All he could do was ask Tu Qianjun about the origins of these people.

A middle-aged man with stubbled long-sleeved leggings and cloth shoes passed by Tu Qianjun carrying a sleeper. He saw Tu Qianjun and Aban who had stopped, and with a flattering smile on his face, he carried the sleeper and unloaded it from the cart.

The sleepers were thrown next to a fortification under construction. After Tu Qianjun smiled at these two people, he said to Abban: "It's very simple. I told them: as long as they help me, every fifty sleepers or twenty

Five rails can be exchanged for twenty kilograms of grain. So they are willing and work hard to help me because I have already given each of them ten kilograms of grain."

Abban was stunned after hearing Tu Qianjun's words. Tu Qianjun was the first person he met in this era who was willing to use his salary to hire people to do things. Abban had met Zhang Zongchang before. This "three ignorant" general had never

They are unwilling to use even a grain of food to hire people to do things. In their view, the people under their rule should do things for free for them. Although the situation of the Northern Expeditionary Army is better, it is not much better. They force people to transport it for them.

There are also situations where supplies or some civilian items are collected for military purposes without paying.

This is now normal in China, and the Chinese people are used to these "bosses" taking what belongs to them without paying. They know that resistance will only bring massacres and beatings. And they are used to it.

This kind of behavior is called a "military disaster". The previous Nanjing incident was also caused by some soldiers of the Northern Expedition who robbed raped women and carried them to foreign embassies. "There were soldiers with Hunan accents, waving guns and shouting loudly that they were going to be foreign."

"All those who have wealth will follow me to rob them," so the cart drivers, gangsters, etc., gathered in groups, and followed them into the churches, schools, and hospitals of outsiders." This triggered a series of shocks.

Abban was silent after hearing Tu Qianjun's words, but he did not believe that Tu Qianjun was really willing to give food to these people. Because during the time he spent in China, he got to know these warlords in China, and Zhang Zongchang once invited him to dinner. In

The banquet was filled with priceless delicacies from the mountains and seas, plus French champagne and high-end brandy, which was so rich that it was sinful.

Zhang Zongchang proudly showed off to Abban a set of Western-style tableware customized from Belgium, which could accommodate forty people dining at the same time. Each piece of tableware, including the coffee cup, was made of cut glass. Zhang Zongchang told Abban that the complete set of tableware

The price was US$55,000! At that time, Abban came to Jinan to organize a fundraiser from the American public for the New York Times to investigate famine relief in Shandong. But after seeing Zhang Zongchang’s extravagant life,

The report submitted by Abban ultimately led to the failure of the fundraiser.

Because of his understanding, Abban did not believe that Tu Qianjun would hand over the food in his hands to these people. He preferred to believe that Tu Qianjun used guns and bayonets to force these people to do things for him. Tu Qianjun looked at Abban without saying anything and said with a smile:

"You don't believe it, do you? It doesn't matter, because I'm just stating a fact. I don't care whether I believe it or not."

After saying that, Tu Qianjun left Abban and walked back to Jinan City with Shang Dinan and others. This time when Tu Qianjun came to Jinan, he didn't have time to visit any scenic spots such as Daming Lake Qianfo Mountain. In addition, there were corpses all over the streets in Jinan City.

, the collapsed city walls and houses everywhere and the coming Japanese threat also made him less interested. However, after investigation, he decided to locate his artillery position on Qianfo Mountain. There was no way, the commanding heights of the entire Jinan City was Qianfo Mountain.

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The artillery position standing on Qianfo Mountain can directly carry out covering artillery bombardment on the outer city and commercial port. Some of the remaining soldiers of Su Zongzhe's department were assigned to take up deputy positions under the old Fourth Battalion, and the other part were incorporated into the new ones.

The established reserve team was stationed near Qianfo Mountain. When Tu Qianjun arrived, it was just when a group of soldiers were crunching and eating green onion pancakes. Tu Qianjun and the others hurriedly stood up and gave a military salute.

Tu Qianjun smiled and took a pancake rolled with scallions from the bamboo frame on the side, bit it open, and ate it with a slurp of hot soup from the earthen pot next to it. These people looked at this scene.

The veteran gangsters were a little stunned. They had never seen a military commander willing to stand next to them and eat green onion burritos like them. They watched Tu Qianjun start eating, and all the soldiers and gangsters, look at me, I look at you, you have to bury

He continued to eat. After a while, Tu Qianjun finished three scallion rolls in one go, drank four bowls of hot soup, unbuttoned his collar and looked at the soldiers and gangsters with a smile.

"The food is good!" Hearing Tu Qianjun say this, the soldiers burst into laughter. It was the most full they had eaten in a while. Even in the Northern Expedition, it was rare to eat so full.

, and each of them also received ten oceans of salary. Just these two points have already made these soldiers fall in love with this young commander.

"After eating this green onion burrito, you have to be worthy of the common people who provide us with this pancake!" Tu Qianjun slowly withdrew his smile and solemnly said to the newly recruited soldiers: "Let's eat it.

These big cakes, even if they are a scum, are the grains paid by the common people! Why do they pay us the grains?! Because there are a bunch of bastards who come to Jinan City to harm them, and when they harm them, we eat them

People who want food can stand up and find justice for them!!"

After listening to Tu Qianjun's words, the newly recruited soldiers stood up slowly. Listening to Tu Qianjun's instructions solemnly, Tu Qianjun glanced at the group of soldiers and then said slowly: "I will give you the food that should be given.

You have eaten. I have not deducted the food and salary from you! My request is very simple: when the naughty boys are here, you must risk your lives to get those naughty boys that I fucked to death, and to beg for the old and young men who died tragically in Jinan City.

Give me justice!! Do you hear me?!"

"I heard it!!!" A group of soldiers roared loudly. Tu Qianjun nodded and was about to say something. But at this time, Lin Bao ran over from a distance, anxiously walked to Tu Qianjun's side and whispered in his ear.

What did he say? Tu Qianjun frowned and listened to Lin Bao's words, turned around and said to the soldiers here: "Practice hard!! Try to kill a few more guys for me by then! Disband!"

After saying that, he led Shang Dinan, Lin Bao and others out of Qianfo Mountain and rode all the way back to the headquarters. Inside the headquarters, Qimudeng looked at Tu Qianjun with a solemn face and said slowly: "Commander, the latest

News: Japan has noticed the unusual movements in Jinan! Now the Japanese reconnaissance front team has approached Jinan City!"

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Chapter completed!