Looking at Xia Wei and Zhang Fakui in front of him, Su Rui couldn't help but secretly speculate. Although Zhang Fakui is the commander-in-chief of the fourth theater, his situation is not much better than his own. He only took over the command from He Yingqin at the beginning of this year.
This is the position of chief.
Now, there are four armies in the fourth theater. Although Yu Hanmou's Twelfth Army and Wu Qiwei's Ninth Army also obey his orders, they are not his direct troops after all. Although Xia Wei's Sixteenth Army is his confidant.
, but he is the weakest one. This time he brought Xia Wei over and asked for equipment in a joking tone twice. It can be seen that he may not have the intention to sell himself well and ask for assistance.
That means. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have offered him hundreds of thousands of kilograms of food and 20,000 new soldiers as soon as he arrived. Otherwise, you really think he thinks he has too much food and too many new soldiers, so he should learn to be a good person and good deeds.
But Su Rui doesn't blame others. After all, there may be gratuitous hatred in this world, but there is absolutely no gratuitous love. People are kind to you because they are useful, otherwise they will come to you to show their kindness.
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Therefore, Su Rui thought for a while and then said to Zhang Fakui: "Brother Xiang Hua, don't be embarrassed. If you need anything, just say it. As long as I can do it, I will never refuse."
Zhang Fakui probably had a thin skin, so he murmured for a long time before saying: "This loyal brother, my fourth theater has a weak foundation and poor equipment, especially Xu Cang's 16th Army (A Ding wrote it wrong in the previous chapter, it's not
Although the Twelfth Group Army nominally has six divisions and more than 70,000 troops, it is not even enough for one man and one rifle. Fortunately, I was so generous last time and gave us thousands of rifles. Otherwise, many of them would still be carrying spears.
As for the broadsword. But even so, we still lack weapons, medicines, and military uniforms. We are short of almost everything. Brother Yu has long heard that Brother Zhongxin has great powers. Not only can he get in-demand medicines and weapons, he can even get airplanes.
Cannons are no big deal, so...so Brother Yu wants to buy some weapons and medicines from you, but now he doesn't have the money, you see..."
"Oh, that's it!" Su Rui finally understood. He smiled boldly and said: "Brother Xianghua, brother, you are out of touch. If you are short of weapons, just tell me. Tell me how many rifles you need.
, three thousand or five thousand? Let’s put it this way. When I attacked Guangzhou, I also seized a lot of Japanese weapons. I dare not say how many there are. There are still tens of thousands of Type 38 rifles and hundreds of light and heavy machine gun grenades.
When you go back in a few days, I will send someone to send it back to you. What do you think? As for the money, forget it, just treat these things as a meeting gift from my little brother."
Now, Su Rui has developed to this point. He has long looked down upon those captured Japanese weapons. Now that Zhang Fakui has spoken, it is better to give them to him as a favor. But when Su Rui finished speaking, there was no Zhang Fakui.
He and Xia Wei showed joy on their faces. On the contrary, they both had expressions of embarrassment. Su Rui couldn't help but become curious and asked: "Why, Brother Xiang Hua doesn't like the Japanese weapons? Or does he dislike the quantity?
Too little? It doesn’t matter. Just tell me how much you want. If it’s not enough, we’ll give it to you!”
"No, no!" Zhang Fakui waved his hands repeatedly. His face suddenly turned red: "That's right, we don't plan to ask for Japanese weapons anymore. We plan to buy a batch of Garand rifles that your army is equipping from you, Brother Zhongxin.
What do you think about temporarily equipping a division?"
"Garand rifle? Equip a division?"
When Su Rui heard this, he couldn't help being startled. He and Liang Zhi looked at each other and asked curiously: "Brother Xiang Hua, can you tell me why you have to equip the Garand rifle? You must know that although this weapon
The rate of fire is fast and the power is good, but the amount of ammunition it consumes is also very alarming. Are you sure you want to use it to equip Brother Xu Cang’s 16th Army?"
To be honest, since Suri's rise, he has been victorious against Japan one after another. Many people have studied the reasons for his frequent victories. After research, people have found that Suri's tactics are not remarkable.
He always fights head-on. To put it bluntly, he has no technical content. It has always been the same old routine, with planes bombing artillery, and then infantry attacking again, but this exact routine made the Japanese lose their temper.
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After research, both the senior advisers of the National Government and Japanese military experts had to say in amazement that it was not that the Japanese were incompetent, but that Suri was too arrogant. He always relied on advanced weapons and the toughness of his opponents to fight.
However, this most unskilled thing made the Japanese lose their armor. After research, it was found that Suri's troops were no less than the Japanese army in terms of light weapons and heavy weapons, and were even more advanced.
In particular, the Garand rifle he is equipped with is much more powerful in terms of performance and firepower than the Japanese army's standard Type 38 rifle. In combat, as soon as the Japanese army fired one bullet, they could fire four to five rounds.
Bullets, they relied on this rifle to often beat the Japanese soldiers to the point where they could not lift their heads during battles.
The Nationalist Government was originally very interested in the Garand Rifle, and once wanted to equip it with this rifle. However, after final research, it was found that this kind of rifle is good, but it consumes too much ammunition. If it does not need to be fully equipped, if it is given to the country
If one-third of the army's troops were equipped with this rifle, it would consume all the National Government's ammunition reserves in less than three months. This result also frightened the senior staff of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and it is now commonly used by the National Army.
The bullets are all 7.92 caliber. There is no such 7.62 caliber bullet. In the end, this idea had to be abandoned. Now Zhang Fakui actually made this request to Su Rui, which made Su Rui eat a piece of it.
Shocked, he couldn't help but advise.
"Brother Xiang Hua, are you sure you want to equip the Garand rifle? You must know that it is a semi-automatic weapon and consumes five times more ammunition than an ordinary rifle. Moreover, this kind of bullet is difficult to find in our country.
You have to think clearly about it."
Zhang Fakui gritted his teeth, "Brother Su, I know all what you said, but brother, I have no choice now. Ever since you occupied Guangzhou, brother, there has been a saying in Chongqing that since the Japanese 21st Army no longer exists
Guangdong has been liberated, and the external threats to Guangxi are naturally gone. Therefore, they intend to withdraw from the Fourth War Zone and transfer most of the troops from the Fourth War Zone to the Ninth War Zone and the Third War Zone. Naturally, I will follow.
The troops went to serve in other war zones, but you also know that our motley troops are not favored by the central government. In the past, when fighting in Guangdong and Guangxi, it was better. After all, they are all from the countryside, and it is easier to do anything. But if we arrive here
Outside, if you don't have a certain level of strength, you will probably be eaten to the bone. I also know that the bullets of the Garand rifle are difficult to obtain, but in fact it is not completely lacking. Like the tax police headquarters adapted
The New Thirty-eighth Division uses Garand rifles. If I really don’t have them, I can only shamelessly ask you for them. Anyway, you can’t just watch me run out of ammunition!”
"Hey... you are really..." Looking at Zhang Fakui sitting there and acting rogue, Su Rui couldn't help but couldn't help crying or laughing. He couldn't help but shook his head: "Brother, are you really confused or are you pretending to be confused? What happened on the battlefield is...
There is no room for jokes. If the army is defeated due to lack of ammunition, then my sin will be too great. No, no, I can't hurt you! Well, since you don't want to equip the Japanese Type 38 rifle, then I
Or give you 8,000 original German Mauser K98 rifles, what do you think?"
As soon as Su Rui finished speaking, Zhang Fakui immediately laughed and said: "Haha... That's a good relationship. I'll thank you Zhongxin first."
"Well..." At this time, Su Rui also came to his senses. This is wrong. Zhang Fakui and Xia Wei have been soldiers for decades. Why don't they understand this simple truth? It's not good.
, I was fooled! They had already opened the rope and were waiting for me to be trapped.
Seeing Su Rui's annoyed look, everyone laughed. Xia Wei said apologetically: "Mr. Su, don't blame Chief Zhang for lying to you. We had no choice but to do this. In fact, we wanted Mauser from the beginning."
Rifles, but who made our Fourth Theater District poor? Among the several war zones in the country, our Fourth Theater District has the smallest allocation, so we decided to hit you on the head. You must not blame us."
Su Rui said dumbfounded: "Well, in your eyes, I have become a victim of love."
Suri thought for a while, although he had the help of the mutant notebook and weapons were not a problem for him, he could not tolerate their problems, otherwise he would be troubled in the future.
"Let's do this. Since I just said I would give you eight thousand Mauser K98 rifles, I will give them to you, but I have to pay for the ammunition, as well as medicines, military uniforms and other supplies. You also have to pay the full price.
, can you do it?”
"Okay, we listen to you." Zhang Fakui nodded repeatedly after hearing this. He also knew that Su Rui's words just now were purely to express his dissatisfaction because he was tricked by him.
After several people discussed it, they finally decided that Zhang Fakui would buy 15,000 Mauser K98 rifles from Su Rui, of which 8,000 were donated by Su Rui and 7,000 were purchased by Zhang Fakui. They also purchased 3 million rounds of ammunition and
Two hundred Maxim machine guns, sixty 60 mortars and a batch of medicines cost a total of more than 1.6 million yuan.
This result can be said to be a happy one for everyone. Zhang Fakui used his limited suicide to obtain a large number of favorite weapons, and Su Rui received a sum of funds, which further enriched the funds for rebuilding Guangzhou.
The banquet lasted until dark and then dispersed. Zhang Fakui stayed in Guangzhou for several days. It was not until mid-August that he brought more than 10,000 rifles prepared by Su Rui to defeat machine guns and mortars.
We drove back to Guilin in a mighty truck with a large amount of military supplies. (To be continued)