During the battle, Li Yunlong wrapped a package of things in a poncho obtained from the corpse of a Japanese soldier. He bent over and ran to Wang Xuexin, who was drinking water with his back to the trench. He threw it at his feet and said, "Here, put it away."
Here you go!”
"What is this?" Wang Xuexin opened it curiously, and said "Yo" when he saw it: "Commander, why are you so generous? There must be thirty rounds at least!"
It turned out that what was wrapped in the poncho was a bright yellow original bullet.
Li Yunlong's eyes widened and he cursed in a low voice: "You kid, can you please keep your voice down? Don't you understand the principle of keeping wealth private?"
Wang Xuexin grinned, how could he have thought that Li Yunlong secretly gave it to him!
Sure enough, someone came up immediately:
"Captain, where are all the bullets?"
"Send me some too?"
"I'm almost done with this!"
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"Go, go!" Li Yunlong waved to them impatiently: "One day, you can shoot like Xiao Dongbei. I will give you not only thirty rounds of ammunition, but a hundred!"
Having said this, the soldiers could only disperse reluctantly.
Huzi also muttered: "Isn't this deliberately trying to make things difficult? Competing with the platoon leader in a shooting competition?"
Li Yunlong ignored Hu Zi. He squatted next to Wang Xuexin and said fiercely: "Xiao Dongbei, I pulled out a machine gun to get these bullets for you. How about you make ten times the profit from these bullets?"
Come back and I won’t give you a single hair next time!”
Wang Xuexin secretly thought that’s how it is, he’s still doing business after a long time! One round for ten rounds, online loans aren’t so ruthless!
But Wang Xuexin didn't say anything. While he skillfully picked the bullets and pressed them into the magazine, he replied confidently: "Captain, isn't it just a few hundred rounds of bullets? What a joke!"
Li Yunlong said "Hey" and praised: "You are ambitious! You are a soldier of my independent regiment! But as soon as you said that, I remembered, what did you do with those two shots that hit the car's fuel tank? Just a few cars of ammunition."
It’s so generous to burn it like this! If you don’t feel sorry for me, I still feel sorry for you!”
"Captain, what you said is not kind!" Wang Xuexin retorted: "That is the supply in the hands of the Japanese. If the ammunition does not burn, it can be given to us, but it will only hit us! Then it will be
It’s not that I feel bad, it’s that there are a few more holes in my body and it hurts even more!”
"Don't come here with me!" Li Yunlong pretended to be a scoundrel: "The Japs are not short of ammunition now, so why don't they give us more holes? Don't you see the Japs one by one?
, he lay down before even two shots were fired! If the attack continues like this, the enemy will have finished shooting and the ammunition will not be used up. Can the ammunition be counted in the enemy's account?"
Wang Xuexin:……
Li Yunlong has this ability, he can explain everything.
After a pause, Wang Xuexin asked: "Commander, our troops don't have much ammunition, right?"
Li Yunlong nodded with a heavy face: "If we hadn't picked some off the corpses of the Japanese, we would have hit the bottom long ago! The shells are almost finished!"
Wang Xuexin asked again: "When will the supplies be delivered?"
Li Yunlong shook his head and squeezed out one word from between his teeth: "Difficult!"
Wang Xuexin knows where the difficulty lies.
The Eighth Route Army has many troops, with a total strength of 400,000. It seems that it has an advantage to defend the mountainous area and rely on anti-slope fortifications to fight against more than 60,000 soldiers from the three Japanese divisions!
The problem is that the 60,000 Japanese soldiers are well supplied, and the production of bullets and artillery shells in the rear is almost continuous.
Looking back at the Eighth Route Army's arsenal, even reloaded bullets have to be collected from shell casings before they can be produced. The output was fine for previous small-scale battles, or barely enough for guerrilla warfare, but like now, large-scale battles involving 100,000 people along the entire defense line
And if you insist on it from the front, you will be stretched thin.
So it's not that the rear is unwilling to send ammunition and supplies to the front line, but that there is no ammunition at all.
Later, Wang Xuexin learned that the Eighth Route Army’s logistics were so tight that they had to collect a unit’s ammunition and send it to the front line!
But even if the east wall is demolished to make up for the west wall, it still cannot meet the needs of the front line.
It's no wonder that Li Yunlong is so worried about the trucks of ammunition that Wang Xuexin burned. There is a shortage of ammunition here, but he is watching the ammunition trucks burn over there...
Wang Xuexin thought further:
If the Japanese army in front of us is just the vanguard, does that mean the enemy army is still behind?
If the main force is behind, it means there will be a fiercer battle next.
At this time, the independent regiment's ammunition is almost at the bottom, how can it cope with the upcoming battle?
Thinking about it, Wang Xuexin turned his attention to the group of cars in the encirclement. Although it had been burned to pieces, there were still a few ammunition trucks that remained.
This is the "contribution" of the Japanese automobile soldiers. They drove the ammunition truck to the side of the road in time to get off the road to avoid being affected by the fire, and drove the ammunition truck to several low-lying places where it was difficult for artillery shells to reach.
In fact, it is not that the cannonballs are difficult to reach, but that the newly produced 50 cannons are not accurate enough. Without measuring the distance and height in advance, it is difficult to hit the target.
Li Yunlong saw Wang Xuexin staring at the ammunition trucks with a sly look, and said angrily: "Don't think about good things, those ammunitions won't be our turn!"
"Captain!" Wang Xuexin asked back: "What did you say just now? What did you say... The Japanese have finished firing their ammunition and haven't finished firing yet..."
"That was just now!" Li Yunlong interrupted Wang Xuexin: "Didn't you see that the Japanese have built fortifications now? Can you still pull teeth out of the tiger's mouth?"
Although Li Yunlong said strong words on the ammunition issue, he was right about the Japanese building fortifications to protect the ammunition.
The ammunition truck was blocked at both ends of the road, so it couldn't drive out and was always surrounded.
But the Japanese were unwilling to give up this batch of ammunition, so they sent a squadron of 200 people to stay in the encirclement and guard it.
The Eighth Route Army relied on anti-slope fortifications in its operations. It would be another matter to go down the mountain to attack the Japanese positions.
In fact, if it was just a Japanese squadron, it could still be captured. After all, this squadron is within the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army.
The problem is that the Japanese who have withdrawn from the encirclement will not sit back and watch this squadron be surrounded and annihilated, nor will they watch the ammunition fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army!
One bad thing: fighting over it like this will shift the battlefield from the anti-slope fortifications to the foot of the mountain. That is not a good thing for the Eighth Route Army!
That's why Li Yunlong was so angry that he screamed: "Damn it, I can't even eat the meat that reaches my mouth!"
Wang Xuexin thought for a while and said, "How about we give it a try?"
"Do you have a way?" Li Yunlong's eyes lit up, and then he laughed "hehe", patting his chest and pretending to be generous: "Xiao Dongbei, if you really have a way to get this batch of ammunition, I didn't say anything, I will give you a hundred rounds of ammunition personally.