Chapter 112: Farewell
The battle on the second day was not beyond the expectations of Gao Hongming, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang. After several days of fighting day and night, the Japanese army in Ping'an County had already been extremely exhausted. Faced with the general attack of the Lotus Territory and Independent Corps, which were almost twenty times more powerful and well-armed Lotus Territory and Independent Corps, they only persisted in less than three hours before they were all wiped out.
What is unexpected is that when cleaning the battlefield, not only did they seize a lot of weapons and ammunition, but they also found a lot of money. After counting it, they obtained a total of 60,000 yuan in oceans and more than 100 taels of gold.
After Gao Hongming and Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang discussed, they decided to send all the seized weapons and ammunition to the Independent Regiment, while Ocean and Gold were returned to the Liantai militia. In this way, one side asked for weapons and the other side asked for money, which was very happy.
After the two sides had finished dividing the spoils, Gao Hongming took Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang to a place guarded by heavy troops, and smiled and said to the two: "Brother Li, Political Commissar Zhao, when you first came the day before yesterday, didn't I agree to give you a generous gift? Today I am here to fulfill my promise. Do you think you are still satisfied?"
After saying that, he asked the soldiers guarding the door to open the door and walked in first. Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang looked at each other and followed them in.
As soon as the three of them entered the door, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang felt their breathing a little rapid. They saw stacks of boxes neatly placed inside, and many boxes were written in Shanghai with words such as "王王类" and "王王".
Although the two of them don’t understand Japanese, many Japanese and Chinese are interrelated, and you can guess just by looking at the font. The two of them even saw four Type 92 infantry cannons and six Type 99 81mm mortars.
Seeing almost a warehouse of weapons and ammunition, Li Yunlong even changed his voice.
"My God, this... is this the Japanese arsenal?"
"Yes!"
Gao Hongming nodded and said, "Our regiment took this ammunition depot yesterday. There are enough weapons and ammunition for equipped with a Japanese wing. But you also know that my troops are equipped with German weapons, and it is useless to come, so I gave it to you. How about it... Are you satisfied with this gift?"
"Satisfied...I'm so satisfied..." Looking at the weapons and ammunition piled up in the warehouse, Li Yunlong almost couldn't walk like a mouse that fell into a rice jar.
Zhao Gang was so excited that he only held Gao Hongming's hand, and his eyes turned red. Gao Hongming's more than just a generous gift, he was simply inhumane.
With these weapons and ammunition, the Eighth Route Army can immediately expand two main groups. If the expansion is released, it can even expand four to five basic groups. This gift is simply a timely rain for the Eighth Route Army, which is now in short supply of guns and bullets.
"Captain Gao, I won't say anything grateful. From now on, you will be our Eighth Route Army's best friend."
Gao Hongming laughed loudly, "Political Commissar Zhao, it's okay for the three of us to listen to this. It's not a good thing for you to spread it."
Zhao Gang realized that his words were obviously a bit overrepresented. What qualifications does he, a political commissar of the regiment, represent the Eighth Route Army? This was almost the same as the head of the headquarters.
He said a little embarrassedly: "Captain Gao is right, it's me that he has made a mistake, but no matter what, you will always be our best friend in the independent group."
"Of course, we are already friends!"
Gao Hongming pointed to the arms full of the warehouse and said, "But I would like to remind you that you must move these things away as soon as possible, otherwise when the Japanese troops arrive, it will be impossible for you to take them away."
When Gao Hongming reminded this, Zhao Gang woke up from his excitement and then remembered a serious problem, that is, there were too many weapons and ammunition seized this time, and the more than 1,000 people from their independent regiment could not move these supplies away at once. Not only Zhao Gang, but Li Yunlong was also a little stunned.
In the past, they always thought that the most painful thing in the world was that they seized too little materials after the war, but now they realized that what is more painful than the capture of too little is that they can't move away too much, which makes the two of them very worried.
But he could also say that Li Yunlong's ghost spirits were still there. When he saw him standing aside and smiling and looking at them with a smile, he felt like he was not concerned about his own affairs. He immediately grabbed Gao Hongming's arm, "The old saying is good, do good things and send them to the West. Since you gave this generous gift to us, you must be responsible for delivering them to the place, right?
I don’t care. You have to help us with this matter, otherwise I will pester you and stop leaving!”
Seeing Li Yunlong appearing as a scoundrel, Gao Hong couldn't help but laugh and cry. This guy really can pester him.
He shook his head helplessly: "You guys are so smart for a lifetime. You don't think about it. Although most of the people in Ping'an County have been evacuated, many people have remained, and there are so many villages around.
The Eighth Route Army must have grassroots organizations nearby, so you can gather them all right away. If you have too many, you dare not say that it should be no problem to gather six or seven thousand troops. With people, are you still afraid that you can't move these things?"
"yes!"
Li Yunlong slapped his thigh.
"Why didn't I expect that our Eighth Route Army dare not say anything else. When it comes to mobilizing the masses, we think we are second, and no one dares to recognize the first. Lao Zhao, you are doing this, so please give me."
"No problem, I'll do it right away." Zhao Gang said and left happily.
In fact, Li Yunlong did not brag. In the afternoon, the county brigade, district brigade and district brigade near Ping'an County were flocking, and there were also dense crowds of ordinary people who came with them.
These people are all men, women, young and old. They are either pushing wheelbarrows, carrying shoulder poles or driving large chariots. Gao Hongming roughly estimated that there are eight thousand or eight thousand.
Seeing this, Gao Hongming was also shocked by the mobilization ability of the Eighth Route Army. No wonder Chiang Kai-shek's regime was about to finish after the War of Resistance. It can be seen from these trivial matters that this sentence is really not just a saying.
At this time, it was time to part ways, and Gao Hongming, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang said goodbye.
Li Yunlong waved his hand: "Brother Gao, I won't say anything polite to me. I will write down your favor, and we will always contact you in the future."
"No problem, I will definitely go and have a drink with you if I have the chance."
"That's a must. I'll treat you to canned Japanese wine!"
"Hahaha……"
The three of them laughed together, and in the end, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang left. They were all soldiers, so there were not so many children who had a long love relationship. Although everyone knew that perhaps this parting was a farewell forever, no one still cried. This may be the most common thing in this era.
Chapter completed!