Late at night, Gao Hongming, who was sleeping soundly with his wife in his arms, was awakened by a rapid knock on the door.
"Who's up late at night?" Qin Xiulian asked displeasedly when she woke up from her sleep. Pregnant women usually don't have a good temper. She was very well behaved if she didn't curse.
Ziying's voice sounded outside the door: "Madam... Dabao came over in a hurry just now, saying that it was an urgent telegram that had just been sent, and specified that it should be delivered to the young master immediately."
"Is there an emergency call?"
Gao Hongming, who had just woken up, was sensitive to his profession. He immediately woke up when he heard the word "urgent telegram", quickly turned on the light and got out of bed, opened the door, took the telegram from Ziying's hand, and started reading by the light.
Qin Xiulian also put on her clothes. With her big belly, she got out of bed awkwardly. When she saw Gao Hongming looking at the telegram attentively, she frowned and said, "Hong Ming, who sent this telegram? Dabao really did.
, can’t I give it to you tomorrow?”
"This is really not possible." Gao Hongming, who had read the telegram at a glance, took a long breath and put the telegram into his pocket. "This is a telegram from Commander He of the First War Zone, saying that he agreed to our request and let us
We will immediately send troops to relieve the siege of Zhongtiao Mountain."
"Are you going to Zhongtiao Mountain?" Qin Xiulian's voice suddenly rose several times.
Although she is not interested in military affairs, it does not mean that she knows nothing about Zhongtiao Mountain. These days, she has occasionally heard Gao Hongming talk about Zhongtiao Mountain, and she also knows a little about the situation there.
, now when I heard that the First War Zone asked my husband to send troops to Zhongtiao Mountain, I immediately became anxious.
"Hong Ming... the crisis of the war in Zhongtiao Mountain has nothing to do with you. You are just the leader of a small militia group, and it is not under the jurisdiction of the First War Zone. Why should he ask you to work for them? If you have any shortcomings, you let
What should I do with my unborn child?" Qin Xiulian was really anxious. As the due date approached, her mood became more and more unstable. Her eye circles immediately became red as she spoke.
Gao Hongming quickly hugged her and comforted her: "Daughter-in-law, listen to me and tell you slowly. Ziying, first go and help Madam heat up a bowl of soothing tea."
Ziying hurriedly went out to get busy. Gao Hongming helped Qin Xiulian sit on the bed and softly recounted the events of the past few days. Finally, he said: "Xiulian, you also know that as the scale of our militia increases, the expenses will increase."
There are also more and more.
As the leader of the militia, I don’t need money for the training, food, military pay, weapons and ammunition. Yesterday, Chief He sent a telegram, asking me to send troops to Zhongtiao Mountain. I offered him 200,000 oceans a day, and every day
I don’t accept credit, I thought it would scare them away, but I never thought that Chief He would actually agree.”
"Two hundred thousand dollars a day?" Qin Xiulian has been in charge of the Gao family's money for more than a year, and has partnered with Yan Xishan in the penicillin and other Western medicine business. She is accustomed to seeing money owners.
The figure of 100,000 oceans can't help but shock me.
"Yes...it's two hundred thousand oceans." Gao Hongming answered affirmatively, "Now Zhongtiao Mountain is in danger. Nearly half of the troops in the First Theater Zone are in Zhongtiao Mountain. The other troops are scattered all over the country. There is no way to mobilize troops for rescue at the moment.
Zhongtiao Mountain.
Didn't he hear that we had formed a flying brigade, so he paid attention to us, which is why he was willing to fire us at such a high price."
"That's it."
Qin Xiulian fell into deep thought for a while. Even though the Liantai Vigilante Group was growing in size, its daily expenses were absolutely astronomical.
Not to mention anything else, nearly 10,000 people had to eat a small mountain every day just to eat. What's more, the food provided by Gao Hongming was full of meat. Such food was not so good even for ordinary small landowners in this era.
Expenses such as military pay, ammunition for training, purchasing weapons, etc. were all over the map.
So even though the Gao family makes a lot of money selling Western medicine to Yan Laoxi every month, there is basically nothing left after deducting the expenses. Now I heard that the First War Zone is actually willing to spend 200,000 oceans a day to hire a lotus.
The militiamen went to fight, no matter how reluctant she was to let go of her husband, she would not dare to say she was indifferent.
Seeing that Qin Xiulian was silent, Gao Hongming continued: "Xiulian, this is two hundred thousand a day. If we fight for ten days, it will be two million. With this money, our militia's annual expenses will be
If you have it, you can save a lot of surplus, isn't that good?"
Qin Xiulian sighed faintly: "But on the battlefield, bullets don't have eyes. If you do anything good, what will you do to me, sister Wen Qian, and Ziying?"
Gao Hongming was silent for a moment, "Xiulian, do you still remember why I formed the Liantai Militia in the first place?"
Qin Xiulian nodded: "Of course I know. When you came back from the provincial capital and learned that your father-in-law was killed by the Japanese, you took Dabao out the next day and begged grandpa to tell grandma to buy more than 20 broken guns, and you kept it secret
I withdrew more than 3,000 yuan from home and gathered a team of more than 300 people to form this militia group.
Although you were still angry with your father-in-law at the time for marrying me into our house without consulting you, you didn't even enter my house for two months in a row because of this."
Gao Hongming blushed when he heard Qin Xiulian reopening old scores. Although this was a good thing done by his predecessor, he couldn't bear the blame.
"Yes, my original intention of forming the militia was to fight the Japanese. Now I have finally grown the militia to this point, and I won't talk about the hard work involved. Now that I have this opportunity to fight the Japanese and make money, why don't I do it?
?
As for the danger, you don't have to worry, I won't run away if you can't defeat me, don't forget, we have a plane."
Gao Hongming talked hard and finally calmed Qin Xiulian down. After a while, Ziying brought the soothing soup and Qin Xiulian finally fell asleep again after drinking it.
After Qin Xiulian finished drinking, Gao Hongming immediately finished dressing, called Dabao and drove to the regiment headquarters.
When Gao Hongming arrived at the regiment headquarters, all the officers who had been notified had already gathered in the office and were waiting.
When Gao Hongming, dressed in military uniform, walked into the office, everyone saluted him with a clattering sound.
Gao Hongming returned the salute casually, scanned the crowd with his sharp eyes, and asked loudly: "Brothers, are you all ready?"
Wu Chengfeng, who was standing at the bottom left, said loudly: "Don't worry, members of the group, all the brothers in the group are ready and ready to go at any time."
"Okay... Now everyone returns to their respective units and will proceed immediately according to the plan."
"yes!"
Soon... in each military camp, military bugles for emergency gatherings began to sound.
On the outskirts of Liantai, the originally dark airport suddenly turned on its lights, and the sleeping ground crew and pilots were all rushed out. Ammunition trucks drove out of the arsenal, roaring towards the bombers parked on the runway...