Jiang Cheng was the first to disembark from the ship accompanied by Jin Shan. He saw Lin Sanhu and others looking at him with a smile. After Jiang Cheng introduced both parties, Lin Sanhu said, "Lianyungang may be attacked by the Japanese army at any time and is not safe. We
It seems that it would be better for you to leave as soon as possible."
Borede refused and said, "General Lin, we are very interested in this only port that is still in the hands of you Chinese people. And I am also a soldier. I am not afraid of death."
Xie Weisi walked aside and wanted to take a photo of Lin Sanhu and Bao Ruide. Immediately, a soldier stepped forward to stop him and said, "Comrade, we are not allowed to take pictures!"
Xie Weisi can also speak Chinese, so he naturally understands it. He looked to Jiang Cheng and Lin Sanhu for help. Jiang Cheng explained to Bao Ruide and Xie Weisi, "Although this is where the Eighth Route Army is located, it is still behind enemy lines, so this confidentiality work
He was the first, especially General Lin Sanhu. Starting from Pingxingguan, he defeated the enemy many times. He can be said to be one of the most hated generals by the Japanese army. Just at the beginning of this year, General Lin also made the Japanese army in North China attack the Shandong Anti-Japanese Base Area.
The siege conspiracy went bankrupt, so let’s forget about taking pictures. If you really want to prove that you have arrived in Lianyungang, I think you can take some other things.”
Lin Sanhu is indeed famous for the Chinese and Japanese armies, but it is nothing to Bao Ruide and the others. Bao Ruide knows that it is not that he is not allowed to take photos, but that some sensitive photos cannot be taken, but he also understands that Bao Ruide is not allowed to take photos.
Lin Sanhu said, "General Lin, I have long heard that your Eighth Route Army is very powerful and can fight evenly with the Japanese army behind enemy lines without rear. I am very curious, how did you do it? What is the fate between your Eighth Route Army and the Chongqing government army?"
What's the difference?"
Lin Sanhu thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid what I say is a bit untrustworthy. Why don't you go to our military camp and you can take a look and ask questions for yourself. This should be better than me telling you."
Ruide Bao immediately said happily, "It would be best if this is the case."
Xie Weisi raised his hand and said, "I want to know about the lives of the people in your base area, so can you let me go to your village and have a look."
Lin Sanhu also agreed and said, "Okay, I'll give you our map. If you decide which village to go to, I'll let you go to that village."
Bao Ruide happily went to the military camp to understand the situation. Xie Weisi also ran out of the city with the camera. Jiang Cheng stayed to discuss with Lin Sanhu what resource subsidies the 115th Division needed, not to mention Jiang Cheng.
, we only look at Bao Ruide’s trip to the military camp.
It was three o'clock in the afternoon when the two arrived at the military camp. Ruide Bao felt his stomach growling uncontrollably. He hadn't eaten yet. Nie Rongzhen, who was accompanying him, said to Ruide Bao, "Lieutenant Colonel Bao Ruide, our time is up too."
It's time for dinner, why don't we go eat together first? After dinner, we can just watch the soldiers training."
Bai Ruide looked at his watch strangely and asked, "It's afternoon now. Do you want to have afternoon tea?"
Nie Rongzhen laughed loudly and said, "Where do we have so much time? This is dinner. We in China are not as wealthy as you in the United States. And I don't know if you know that China now has a large-scale food shortage problem. How can the soldiers
It's good to be full. We are now using a two-meal system. We only eat three meals when fighting, just to save some food. After lunch, we will train until dark, and then study culture
Knowledge, disband at 8:30 and turn off the lights at 9:00. This way you won’t be too hungry at night.”
Ruide immediately nodded and said, "I see, I'm really hungry too. I'm very interested in your Chinese food. Let's go quickly."
Nie Rongzhen laughed when he heard this and said, "I'm afraid this will disappoint you. We don't have any delicious food in the army. At most, we just feed you."
When he came to the restaurant, Ruide only saw groups of soldiers taking pictures of the neat teams preparing meals. Ruide nodded and asked, "Where is the room where we eat?"
Nie Rongzhen was stunned for a moment and said, "Sorry, our Eighth Route Army is composed of officers and soldiers. There is nothing special. Only the sick and injured have small stoves. In order to supervise the officers who do not eat small stoves, all officers must eat with the soldiers. So, we also
You have to line up with bowls and chopsticks." After saying that, someone brought bowls and chopsticks and handed them to Nie Rongzhen, Bao Ruide, Xie Weisi and others.
Ruide Bao looked at the aluminum lunch box, wooden chopsticks and soup spoon, shook his head and said, "I don't know how to use chopsticks, but I brought a fork, it's okay. I'm curious, why do you do this? In the United States, even I
In any army I know, officers and soldiers are hierarchical, and there will never be a time when a general and a soldier eat together."
Nie Rongzhen smiled and said, "This is our difference. In your eyes, we are superiors and subordinates, but in our eyes, we just have different positions. We are comrades with the same goals and common aspirations. We believe that if officers and soldiers are separated
, then there is no way to know the situation of the soldiers, so they will not know themselves during the war, and it will also cause the soldiers not to understand or obey the orders of the officers, making the military orders blocked. These will lead to the failure of the war. I studied in France as a work-study student.
, I studied an article at that time, which was about the French Emperor Napoleon who was exiled after his failure. When he was in exile, he reflected on why he failed, and finally sighed, do you know what it was? "
Beauregard was also a soldier and was naturally very familiar with the deeds of this great French emperor and military strategist. He smiled and said, "Emperor Napoleon said that it has been a long time since I had soup with the soldiers on the front line."
Nie Rongzhen clapped his hands and said, "That's right, and we are now doing what he didn't do back then."
Soon, it was the turn of Nie Rongzhen and others. Bao Ruide looked at his meal. Today he ate noodles. Probably because they were at the seaside. In addition to cabbage, potatoes and other vegetables, the noodles eaten by the troops here also included fish balls.
These fish balls were made by Jiang Chengjiao, and were mass-produced using machines from later generations, which can maximize the use of fish meat. They are easy to make and nutritious to eat. Bao Ruide counted three in each person's bowl.
no more, no less.
Nie Rongzhen pointed to the side and said, "There are chili, soy sauce and salt over there. You can season it yourself. There is no limit to these condiments."
Ruide frowned and looked at the noodles, smelled them, and then added some chili pepper at Nie Rongzhen's insistence. After eating them again, he nodded and said, "Although it's not a delicacy, you can still eat it. Vegetables are very important.
Grains are also very important, but what is this white ball? I have never seen it before."
Nie Rongzhen smiled and said, "This is called fish ball. Legend has it that there was an emperor in China who liked to eat fish very much, but did not like fish bones. Every time he ate fish bones, he would kill someone. The chef had no choice but to hate it every time he cooked fish.
Afraid, he once broke out by smashing fish to vent his anger. As he was smashing, he suddenly found that the fish meat turned into a paste, so he had an idea and made the fish meat paste into balls and served them. These are fish balls. You can eat them, and the taste is still the same.
Very good."
Ruide took a bite slowly with some hesitation. He was immediately surprised by the chewy texture of the fish balls. He gave a thumbs up and said, "GOOD! Your soldiers eat very nutritious food, including wheat, vegetables, and...
Fish, is this the case for just one meal, or is it the same for every meal?”
Nie Rongzhen turned around and asked the company commander next to him, "What did you eat yesterday? Tell the truth!"
The company commander immediately stood up and replied, "Yesterday morning we ate steamed buns and millet porridge with radish strips as side dishes and an egg per person to supplement nutrition. In the afternoon we ate white flour steamed buns with spicy and sour potato shreds and fish ball soup.
, we eat the same thing every day, there is just one problem.”
Nie Rongzhen asked in confusion, "What's the problem?"
The company commander immediately said with a bitter face, "Company commander, can we stop eating fish balls and replace them with pork or something? The soldiers are tired of eating fish balls every day."
The regimental commander next to him grabbed the company commander and lectured him, "You eat some and you still scream! I think you have too many good days!"
Nie Rongzhen waved his hand and said, "What the soldiers said makes sense. If you eat one dish every day, you can't stand it no matter how good it is. Well, the reason why we eat fish balls every day is because our patrol troops will eat fish balls every day when they go out."
I caught some fish by the way, and these fish were made into fish balls. I will report it to the teacher when I get back, take out some bacon, and eat bacon at least one day a week."
The company commander snapped to attention and said, "Yes!"
Suddenly, bursts of singing came over. "Every soldier in the Ming Dynasty must keep in mind the three major disciplines and eight points of attention. First, follow the command in all actions. Only by working in unison can we win! Second, do not take a stitch from the masses, and the masses will support me again."
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Bao Ruide quickly looked around, but he saw that a platoon had finished their meal and was lining up to leave singing songs. Looking at the energetic Eighth Route Army, and then thinking back to the National Army he had seen in Chongqing, Bao Ruide suddenly felt something.
I have a hunch that if these two teams really fight, the victory will definitely go to the Eighth Route Army.
Then, Nie Rongzhen took Bao Ruide to observe the soldiers' training. Bao Ruide looked at the soldiers holding wooden guns and hanging bricks to practice postures, and was surprised. Nie Rongzhen explained, "Although our bullets are not as difficult as before,
But we still have to save money, so we ask that you are not allowed to shoot if you are not sure. This requires soldiers to have an excellent hand feel. The first step is to hold the gun steadily, so practice the hand feel in this way. The weight will bring memory to the human body.
, when they get real guns, they won’t tremble anymore. This is a new group with a mix of recruits and veterans. What you see is the first stage of practice. In the second stage, they have to put bullets on the bricks.
Our requirement is that the bullets are not allowed to fall, and if they fall, practice more!"
Although Ruide finally understood that this could help soldiers hold their guns steadily, he still had some complaints. However, the overall training situation of the Eighth Route Army was really satisfactory. At first, Ruide didn't believe it, so he picked it out himself.
Several soldiers came to conduct the test, and it was found that all of them were qualified. Bao Ruide was a little stunned. He did not expect that in distant China, these thin-looking farmers could perform tactical actions without hesitation at all, whether they were shooting, dropping bombs or crawling forward.
, whether it is rolling forward, leaping forward or bending forward, everything is extremely standard. What particularly opened the eyes of Bo Ruide was the infantry tactics of the 115th Division. Three people were in groups, covering each other, one after another.
A 105-mm howitzer could only kill two groups at most, and this was without cover. The civil engineering work performed by the 115th Division showed that it was not an easy task to kill them without cover.
At night, Ruide Bao and Xie Weisi got together again.
When Xie Weisi saw Bao Ruide walking into the room, he immediately closed the door and said, "Lieutenant Colonel Bao Ruide, you are finally back. It's incredible. The countryside here is completely different from that of the Chongqing government. I can see it from their expressions."
I see, they are not afraid of these Red Party Eighth Route Army soldiers at all, and they also have family members who actively joined their army. I went to see their farmland, and the water conservancy here has obviously been repaired. China is an agricultural country.
As long as the political forces that value agriculture have never failed in history, the Red Party obviously pays more attention to the countryside than the White Party!"
Ruide rubbed his hands and said, "I have been in their army all day. Their atmosphere is very different from that of the Chongqing army, and it is also different from the atmosphere of our US military. There is an atmosphere of corruption in the Chongqing army.
Although there are many well-trained officers and soldiers, the prejudices between troops are very deep. Veterans and officers often bully subordinates and recruits. In the Red Party army, I feel that they are a family. They...
.It gives me a very strange feeling. They are still learning culture at night, and the soldiers can also read and write. It is hard to believe that this is a backward East."
Xie Weisi smiled and said, "Lieutenant Colonel Bao Ruide, I think we need to arrive in Yan'an as soon as possible to see what the Central Committee of the Chinese Red Party thinks of us in the United States. You see, after we arrived in Lianyungang, they basically met our requirements. I
It seems that the Chinese Red Party has good intentions towards us, the United States."
Ruide nodded and said, "We in the United States and the Soviet Union can establish diplomatic relations, let alone the Red Party in China. But I am worried that the Soviet Union is very close to Germany now. If the Soviet Union finally forms an alliance with Germany, will the Red Party in China be able to do so?"
Will it also form an alliance with Germany? If that is the case, our work will be in vain. Therefore, our key this time should be to verify that if the Soviet Union wants the Chinese Red Party to form an alliance with Germany and Japan, will the Chinese Red Party obey?"
Xie Weisi shook his head and said, "I think this is impossible. The Chinese Red Party armed forces have been fighting with Japan for so long. How can they just make peace with each other?"
Although Ruide is a soldier, he is surprisingly politically savvy. This is probably one of the reasons why the US government finally chose him to come to Yan'an. He said calmly, "The hatred between the Chinese Red Party and Japan is not the same as the hatred between the Chinese Red Party and the Chongqing government."
Which one do you think has the deeper hatred? As far as I know, the wife of Mao Zedong, the supreme leader of the Chinese Red Party, died at the hands of the Chongqing government, and countless family members of other Red Party members died. Such hatred is
I can't bear to fight with them, let alone the Japanese who have no blood feud with them."
When Xie Weisi heard this, he realized that the hatred between the Red Party and the White Party was so big that he would just let it go. I heard that this was still a request of the Soviet Union. Who knows if they would let go of their hatred against the Japanese again? Don't
If it becomes Italy during the last World War, the United States will become a joke.