Chapter 634 There is always a way (two in one chapter)
The time was June 30, 1944, around 6 o'clock in the afternoon.
Location: Changning area of Baoshan, western Yunnan.
"What the hell! What the hell is going on with the system? At this moment, there is no movement at all in the first phase of the mission. What kind of trouble are you planning to make?"
Sitting on a stone by the roadside, Hu Biao cursed distractedly.
While cursing, this guy habitually planned to take out a cigarette from his pocket to calm his anxious mood.
As a result, I saw the pack in my hand. Only the last three of the golden leaf cigarettes that I had finally confiscated from Lang Qing were left.
I had to put the cigarette case back depressedly and took out a cloth bag from another pocket.
I rolled myself a hand-rolled cigarette using shredded tobacco and cigarette paper from the local cigarettes in western Yunnan...
Thanks to my cigarette-rolling skills that I developed using Maozi's Malheb cigarettes during my mission in Volgograd, this hand-rolled cigarette turned out quite beautifully.
It is a pity that the tobacco leaf varieties, planting and processing technology in Dian Province today are far behind those of later generations.
So after lighting up the hand-rolled cigarette, he just took a big puff, and Hu Biao suddenly choked like a tractor and started coughing violently.
Suddenly, the mood in Hu Biao's heart became more and more depressed.
So what! In fact, it is not to blame that Hu Biao is always cursing. It is because the distance between reality and ideal is too huge.
Regarding the Honorable First Division of the Fruit Army they joined, Hu Biao, who had made up for the military history of the Republic of China in the modern dimension, still had a certain understanding of it.
This is a new force that was recently established in the Liuyang area of Hunan Province in 1938.
But thanks to the initial batch of soldiers, they were all composed of wounded soldiers from the 50th Division, the 92nd Division, the 190th Division, the Hunan Provincial Security Regiment, and other units who returned to the team after their injuries recovered.
Compared with the rookies who have just joined the army, these veterans have rich combat effectiveness.
Therefore, in later generations, it even had the actual combat effectiveness of the Honorable First Division, but it was said to be stronger than the five main forces of the Guo Army.
The key to the problem is that the specific unit into which Hu Biao and others were organized was the supplementary regiment of the Honorary First Division.
Such a magical unit seems to have an indissoluble bond with their Zhongzhou team.
Comparing it to my memory, other troops of the Honorable First Division were about to participate in the main attack on the Japs in the Songshan position.
The specific task of the current supplementary regiment is just to provide some logistical support for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments under the Honorary First Division. To put it bluntly, they are just a group of coolies doing soy sauce.
In this way, it is completely different from what Hu Biao and others expected when they joined. They are two different concepts.
No! It's already the third day since they joined the supplementary group.
But except for the first day of joining, a group of veterans were slightly organized and unified into a three-battalion-seven company with only 67 people.
In addition to receiving a bunch of relatively new military uniforms, straw sandals, and weapons that can only be described as tattered.
At other times, there is no training process at all.
Because in the early morning of the next day, the supplementary group used a small number of cars, not too much animal power, and more of a means of transportation on the shoulders.
They began to escort a batch of combat supplies and rushed all the way towards Songshan.
According to the order from the superior headquarters, the New 8th Army, including the Honorable First Division, needs to capture the Xia Songshan position as soon as possible.
Then, under the sweeping trend, they quickly captured the county towns of Tengchong and Longteng.
In the end, the goal of opening up the Burma Highway and restoring this strategic transportation line was achieved.
Of course, after experiencing so many missions, Hu Biao has grown up more or less.
Even if the amount of growth is not much, I still know that no matter what, as a team commander, I must act confidently and not bring negative emotions to my team members.
Therefore, his current frustrated movements and cursing sounds are just adjusting his mood behind the back of the team members to avoid affecting their morale.
Soon after, when a stick of hand-rolled low-quality tobacco was almost burned out.
The current specific position is Hu Biao, the acting company commander of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the Supplementary Regiment. He has already adjusted his emotions.
After throwing away the cigarette butt, he walked towards the open space at the corner where a temporary camp had been set up.
It was only after he turned the corner that an expression that seemed to be confident about everything appeared on Hu Biao's face...
"What a liar, come here quickly."
Facing the big fool who was smoking a cigarette and bragging and spanking with Secretary Liu, Hu Biao greeted him from a distance.
Then, the big fool came to Hu Biao's side with a mouthful of alcohol in his mouth. He didn't know how much local wine he drank, but the strong smell of alcohol in his mouth was very pungent.
But faced with such a scene, Hu Biao showed no sign of cursing.
Because the fact of going out to drink in broad daylight was actually his instigation and arrangement.
By the way! People like Hu Biao basically didn't bring long guns, and they basically hid their short guns and hid them in the space ring.
After joining the supplementary regiment of the Honorable First Division, each person was still assigned one weapon.
It's a pity that the 51 members of the Central Continent Team were only given weapons that were old, with worn rifling, and an outrageous number of models.
Among them are the classic Hanyang-made rifles of the Guo Army, which are obviously N-hand Chinese and formal, British-made Lee Enfield rifles, and Soviet-made Mosin-Nagant rifles.
As well as the Austrian Mannlicher Type 1895 carbine and the Gallic Lebel Type 1886 rifle.
For example, Hu Biao and Hu Biao were assigned a water rifle that was probably a little older than his age.
Good guy! The bad rifling and bayonet don't have these problems. Hu Biao won't talk about them for now. The more outrageous problem is the position of the bolt. Due to too long use, it is now slightly deformed.
As a result, it requires a lot of strength when pulling the bolt.
That is to say, a guy like Hu Biao, who has a lot of brute strength, can still barely use it normally.
If it were other ordinary people, it is estimated that every time they want to pull the bolt again after firing a shot, they would have to push hard with the soles of their feet, or even several times.
In short, the result of Hu Biao's outfit change this time is really shabby.
It's as if the superiors just ignored the others, piled up broken guns in the warehouse for who knows how long, and just gave them to them as usual.
If you really want to rely on these things to fight a war, it will be a huge disaster just in terms of replenishing bullets of different calibers in the future.
That's right! In this seventh company, which is composed of senior veterans, there is still some core firepower.
It was Hu Biao, the acting company commander, who was looking for Wu Wenting, the newly appointed supplementary regiment. Wu Wenting, the commander of the regiment, was writing for a while, and finally helped Yuan Sin get a Czech-style light machine gun.
As for the equipment of the Yishui soldiers that was displayed at the beginning, it was the equipment of the regiment's guard company, and the entire regiment only had that little bit.
Looking at the badly worn gun body, Hu Biao was sure that this thing was just barely usable.
But even with a barely usable Czech, faced with this obviously outrageous system mission, the current equipment level of the Zhongzhou team is certainly not enough.
Therefore, the task of going to friendly units everywhere and trying to get some automatic and semi-automatic weapons back now fell on the social butterfly of the team, Big Hull.
No, it should be said that it’s due to social anxiety disorder.
Of course, Hu Biao still has over 10,000 system points in his team's public account, which can be exchanged for many weapons.
It’s just based on Hu Biao’s experience gained in previous missions.
This thing is their last resort. Unless it is absolutely necessary, it is best not to use it yet...
******
I rummaged through the big fool's pocket and found a pack of Laodao brand cigarettes that I didn't know where they came from.
After popping one out and putting on the wooden cigarette holder that he had brought over deliberately, Hu Biao asked the key point: "How is it? Have you figured out how to get weapons?"
"Of course, you don't even know who is taking action."
The big liar first said something arrogant to Hu Biao.
Then, he spoke with some headache: "In two days, I drank three times and pushed Pai Gow twice with the quartermasters of the regiment and division headquarters, as well as the leaders of the military depot.
Now we can't say that we are brothers, but we can be considered to be familiar with each other.
With our current friendship, I would like to buy weapons and ammunition from them, and I would even like to get some equipment for soldiers from them, but the price is too expensive.
The main reason is said to be because of the wars these days, rich people want to get some guns and keep some nursing homes for self-defense. As a result, the prices have suddenly gone up, making them ridiculously expensive."
"Tell me, how expensive is it?"
Hu Biao, who felt something bad in his heart, still asked more questions.
After sorting out his memory, the big liar reported some sky-high prices that almost made his scalp numb to Hu Biao:
"You probably don't like these things, such as 38-inch caps and Chinese-style rifles, so I won't talk about them here.
Anyway, the automatic firepower and soldier equipment you are looking forward to, a working Czech type costs 200 oceans, and comes with 100 rounds of ammunition, even a broken one can be sold for 50 oceans.
Garand semi-automatic rifle, this thing is out of stock.
Because the rifles provided by the soldiers before and after World War II were all Springfield 1903 rifles. Good things, they kept them for their own use.
Thompson and M3 submachine guns cost 120 yuan each. If you are familiar with them, you can get two more full magazines.
However, if you replace it with Yan Laoxi's imitation Jin-made knockoff, the price will be slightly cheaper. It only costs 80 yuan a piece, and it is still 80% new. It also comes with two full magazines.
As for heavy machine guns, they currently only have imitations of the Maxim, which is the civilian Type 24 heavy machine gun that was successfully copied by the Jinling Factory.
If this thing is second-hand and in barely usable condition, it costs 800 yuan a piece, and bullets are not included.
The prices of bazooka rocket launchers and 80mm mortars are not cheap at all. In the end, they explained that they don’t want to bargain, and they don’t want French currency, as long as they have big oceans and small yellow croakers.
However, the sulfonamide powder and penicillin in our hands are basically the same hard currency as small yellow croakers.
But before we came here this time, weren't we all thinking about playing the role of soldiers and attacking the Japanese-guarded Iwo Jima? So we only brought a few medicines with us.
Socks and toilet water are quite expensive in big cities like Shuangqing, but they can't be sold at high prices in the front lines.
So even if we trade all the medicines, socks, toilet water, etc., there is no way to change the team's clothes; even if the clothes are changed to half of the level, I think it is a bit awkward."
After hearing this, Hu Biao began to think deeply about it.
Naturally, all the medicines carried this time cannot be taken out and traded. Otherwise, what will happen to the injured members of the Zhongzhou team when they are injured?
You must know that if you are unlucky these days, even a slight wound infection may kill a strong man.
At the same time, Hu Biao faced the current bad situation of his team, but he didn't actually regret it that much. He regretted that he was careless and caused the current situation.
In other words, it's not that he doesn't regret it.
But the main thing is that he understands that it is too late to regret now.
Now that the matter has come to this, there is no need for negative emotions such as depression and regret. It has no benefit except affecting your judgment. How to solve the problem is more important.
Let's wait until after the war to sum up and absorb the important lessons that emerged from this mission.
After some thinking, Hu Biao suddenly had an idea after a flash of inspiration, and thought of how to solve the equipment problems faced by the current team.
He gave these instructions to the big fool:
"Now you go find an orthopedic surgeon and a black Chinese medicine practitioner. They are the ones keeping the medicine this time. Just tell them that it was me and ask them to take out one-third of the sulfa powder and penicillin.
Then, tonight you bring a few people as helpers, go find the quartermasters, and get some of the equipment over."
Having said this, Hu Biao glanced at his hand with disgust. After applying a lot of gun oil, it still seemed to have no effect.
He complained: "Isn't it nonsense to fight with such a broken gun?"
Of course, he also knows that many local troops in our country now have many guns of this style, and they still rely on such weapons to fight the Japanese.
It's just like people who have become wealthy. Now Hu Biao is really not used to using such a broken gun.
Under Hu Biao's explanation, the big liar frowned and complained:
"One-third, such a small amount of penicillin and sulfonamide powder, is used to buy some knockoff goods and get a few submachine guns back. What about other people's equipment?
You can't fight with those broken guns that have almost no rifling and the bullets don't know where to fly when you fire them, right?"
"Of course not, there will be enthusiastic people who will send us a full set of soldiers' equipment." Hu Biao, looking at the sunset on the horizon with a mysterious look on his face, said with confidence.
The reason for this is that Hu Biao believes in one thing:
As long as the Central Continent team has this penicillin, which costs up to 8 million ultra-high units, once it is released on the market, it will circulate in the black market.
Those big families who have been thinking about the source channels and related technologies of these things as early as the Songhu Battle will definitely smell the smell of money and come to their door like dogs.
At that time, it was time for Hu Biao to think of a way to fool them.
Let these people provide a group of soldiers' equipment and combat supplies in exchange for technical information and channels that are impossible to give them.
With the abilities of those families, it would certainly not be difficult to obtain a full set of military equipment and some supplies.
The only problem currently is whether this transaction can be completed before Hu Biao and others start the first phase of their mission.
Regarding this point, Hu Biao actually has little confidence.
To be precise, he could only take a gamble now that there was no other better way; if it didn't work, didn't Lao Yang and the others still have 2,000 points of private money that was useless.
Borrowing some money first is enough to fully arm Zhongzhou.
However, considering that those people value these 2,000 points of private money as much as their lifeblood, this method is the last choice...
It was night, Da Huoyou took AT, Xu Feng, Husky and other three people out to do business, but they didn't come back all night.
When it was almost dawn, these four guys came back with excitement on their faces.
The reason why they spent the whole night in ink was that in addition to the expected exchange, they were able to obtain six Jin-made Thompson submachine guns, a Czech-style light machine gun, and a lot of related bullets.
I also got back a shiny, brand-new, Type 24 Maxim heavy machine gun.
When this thing was released from the space ring by a big fool, the gun was still covered with a thick layer of gun oil.
Originally, the few medicines they had in hand were not enough to exchange for so many weapons and ammunition, but after these four goods and the men from the munitions department rolled the dice all night,
Relying on the AT with the vampire bloodline ability and the keen hearing ability, it is barely enough to win until dawn.
Regarding such a result, Hu Biao was dumbfounded.
It's just that after such a night, the AT gambling god's reputation has been established in the logistics department of the Honorary First Division. It is estimated that such a good thing can be regarded as a swan song.
After taking into account these newly arrived equipment, the current firepower situation of the Zhongzhou team is only as follows:
One M2 Browning heavy machine gun, 3,000 rounds of 12.7 mm caliber ordinary bullets, 200 rounds of armor-piercing bullets, 200 rounds of incendiary bullets, and 200 rounds of tracer bullets.
The above can be regarded as the white elephant who has a space ring in his hand and brought it from the modern plane.
Also brought over at the same time were the equipment carried by Ye Yu, Lang Qing, Lao Yang, and Jason.
These include an SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle with 200 rounds of tungsten core bullets; an STG-44 assault rifle, two M3 submachine guns, a Thompson submachine gun, and several related bullets
In addition, during this mission, we obtained a 7.92mm caliber Min-2 Quad heavy machine gun, six Jin-made Thompsons, and two Czech-style light machine guns.
The above are all the equipment that the entire Central Continent team can handle today.
As for the other broken guns, let’s not talk about them.
Compared with the current Guo army, such a firepower density is not bad; but in fact, among the many recent missions, the Central Continent team has the worst equipment.
Facing this extremely mysterious mission, with this level of equipment, Hu Biao was in a panic at this moment...