Chapter 374 Who Made Chief Yan's Subordinates Unsatisfactory
When Huang Yu arrived at the headquarters of the 354th Regiment, the cavalry battalion's raid had ended successfully.
"Report to the Deputy Chief of Staff: We had a coincidence. When the troops arrived at the town's entrance, the 354th Regiment was holding a meeting of company and above officers to discuss the troops' reorganization of the Imperial Association Army!"
"Captain Zhou mistook us for little Japs and brought all the officers to the town entrance to greet us!"
"The troops did not know that these people were officers of the 354th Regiment or above, so they directly attacked them..."
"Except for one company commander who ran too fast and hid in a nearby yard and was captured by us, the rest of the battalion and company commanders were all wiped out by us!"
"We also killed all the two hundred little Japs stationed outside the town."
"The headquarters of the 354th Regiment, the residence of their commander Zhou, the residence of the guard company of the 354th Regiment, and the residence of their chief of staff are all under our control, and we have also captured several combat staff officers of the 354th Regiment!"
"They stay in the war room every day and follow Captain Zhou. They must know many of his secrets!"
"By the way... I found all the little devil's appointment documents you asked me to find, and they are placed on the desk of Captain Zhou!"
"The 354th Regiment was reorganized into the Second Guard Brigade in Northwestern Shanxi... The Little Japs were really generous. They only had one brigade in total... The reorganization document also had the signature of Commander Zhou. It should be regarded as the 354th Regiment joining the Little Japs.
The most direct evidence!”
"Captain Zhou's appointment letter as the commander of the Second Guard Brigade, the commendation telegram signed by the Japanese, and the agreement he signed with the Japanese...all are there!"
"Great!" Huang Yu's face beamed with joy at that time, and he said with emotion: "With this evidence, our attack on the 354th Regiment will be even more famous!"
"Battalion Commander Zhang, while the other troops of the 354th Regiment don't know that their regiment headquarters has been raided by us, immediately divide your troops to raid the remaining troops of the 354th Regiment!"
"Use all our captured company commanders and staff officers to force them to surrender as much as possible. Transport all the captured weapons, ammunition, and food back to the base area. The faster the better..."
"All the captured soldiers of the 354th Regiment were also escorted back, and the instructors were asked to immediately organize political cadres to mobilize them to join the Eighth Route Army!"
"The real weaklings of the 354th Regiment are the officers. Few ordinary soldiers are willing to surrender to the enemy and become traitors!"
"As long as they are willing to join us, with the Eighth Route Army's ideological mobilization capabilities, we will definitely be able to transform them into elite veterans!"
"Arrange another cavalry squad to go to the regiment headquarters and send all the evidence of the 354th Regiment's defection to the Japs to the regiment headquarters and report it to the brigade headquarters. The brigade headquarters will report it to Commander Yan to justify our actions!"
Shen Quan on the side suddenly reminded: "Deputy Chief of Staff Huang... what if Chief Yan sends a telegram to us asking for personnel and equipment?"
"Although the Jinsui Army has great wealth, after all, it only has two thousand men, four mountain cannons, and nine mortars. No one would be willing to part with it!"
"Give it back to him if you want, but the cost of sending troops and the weapons and ammunition consumed by our independent regiment must be settled with us!" Huang Yu replied with a smile.
"Then why do we have to transport the captured and prisoners back to the base? Isn't this a waste of effort?"
Huang Yu shook his head and explained: "How can it be in vain?"
"The 354th Regiment has 2,000 people. We only need the ordinary soldiers and technical units in it... and minus some who don't meet the requirements, it will be good to mobilize 1,000 people!"
“It’s impossible to just let the remaining 1,000 people go!”
"If Chief Yan really wants to take these people from us, then use money to redeem them..."
Shen Quan was startled by Huang Yu's bold idea and continued to ask: "Chief Yan is not a fool..."
"The 354th Regiment suddenly lost thousands of people. Will he agree?"
"Of course!" Huang Yu blurted out.
"People will die in war, and with the deserters on the battlefield, it is reasonable for the 354th Regiment to lose a thousand people!"
"Besides, what he wants is officers, not ordinary soldiers!"
"As long as the officers are in hand, the 3rd, 5th and 4th regiments can be formed immediately!"
"As for ordinary soldiers, instead of spending money to redeem them from us, it would be more cost-effective to recruit them directly in the defense zone!"
"What should I do with the weapons?" Shen Quan continued to ask!
"We transported the seized weapons and ammunition back to the base area. When Commander Yan asked us for weapons and equipment, what weapons should we give them!"
"Simple!" Huang Yu replied bluntly.
"Weapons and ammunition are all consumables. We raid the 354th Regiment, and then we have to fight the Japanese in the east and west directions. We will definitely consume a lot of weapons and ammunition!"
"If Chief Yan really wants to ask us for equipment... it would be nice to give him eight or nine hundred rifles!"
"In the last counter-sweep operation, the troops seized a large number of 79-caliber weapons that were damaged by bombings. They can definitely collect 800-900 rifles!"
"If Commander Yan is still not satisfied, let's get him another ten or twenty light and heavy machine guns that were damaged by bombs!"
"The 354th Regiment is far away from the rear, and they resell weapons and ammunition all year round...all the good guns and cannons were sold by Commander Zhou. Whether Commander Yan believes it or not, the original 354th Regiment only has a few broken guns."
"Anyway, Captain Zhou was killed by the cavalry battalion. There is no evidence of his death..."
"No matter how aggrieved and dissatisfied Commander Yan is, he can only swallow this bitter pill. Who can let his subordinates fail to live up to expectations!"
With that said, Huang Yu rushed to the residence of Commander Zhou. He promised the commander that he must take back all the money that the 354th Regiment had earned from the Eighth Route Army, including the capital and profits.
"Have you seized a large sum of money?" Huang Yu asked as he walked into the yard.
The platoon leader protecting the yard shook his head and said: "Except for more than two hundred pieces of ocean, three small yellow croakers, two Mauser pistols, four military maps, and a pair of binoculars, nothing valuable was found!"
Huang Yu frowned after hearing this: "It can't be just this little thing!"
"Commander Zhou of the 354th Regiment resold arms everywhere, and also resold the trophies we captured from the Japs... He has at least 100,000 yuan in his family... There must be some place that he has not found..."
"Let comrades continue to search and dig deep to find those financial assets!"
"The residence of the Chief of Staff of the 354th Regiment also needs to be rechecked twice!"
"He is the deputy of Commander Zhou, and he is also involved in selling arms. He must have a share..."
"Not to mention too much, a family worth tens of thousands of dollars is definitely indispensable..."
Huang Yu personally inspected...
Under the bed, on the floor, on the walls, in the yard... Knock where you need to knock, dig where you need to dig, and don't miss a single spot...
"Found it...there is a small secret room behind this wall..." An excited exclamation suddenly sounded in the room.
Huang Yu rushed over and saw several soldiers moving boxes outside...
"Ocean... This box contains all the ocean..." A soldier shouted after opening the box.
"Everything in this is gold..." Another small box was opened by the soldier...
After reading this, Shen Quan said excitedly: "Deputy Chief of Staff, you are so amazing. This place is indeed a treasure house..."
"There are twenty thousand oceans in total, twenty thousand oceans worth of gold!"
"The quantity is still wrong, continue searching..." Huang Yu's expression was calm and he ordered calmly!
