In fact, even though Sun Yongqin moved a lot of supplies, compared to the huge number of supplies warehouses of the Eighth Division, it can still only be considered a small amount.
There are still nearly 180,000 kilograms of grain left; 20,000 rounds of artillery shells of various types; 6 million rounds of machine rifle bullets; 1,500 brand-new Type 38 rifles; and infantry artillery, still remaining.
There are four remaining weapons; 1,500 Japanese-style melon grenades remain; 40,000 kilograms of various other supplies remain;
In the face of this huge amount of supplies, Liu Lang's more than 600 men and a hundred large vehicles could only sigh with dismay. After searching for only one hundred large vehicles in the city, they could only load 20,000 rounds of artillery shells.
That’s it.
Without enough transportation capacity, these mountains of supplies can only be burned.
Although many new bandits who had taken off their bandit clothes and put on military uniforms had vigorously publicized the brutality of the Japanese invaders throughout the city, less than 10% of the people in the city were willing to leave their homes and the Great Wall Regiment.
Fortunately, Liu Lang's trick of driving sixteen big merchants to earn back their own finances really worked. It only took less than two hours for the merchants who came to Goat Hu Chen's accounting office to report their spare time.
Liu Lang was shocked.
In Chengde, the total number of residents finally counted was 19,842, including 2,078 children under 14 years old, 6,193 women, and 2,339 men over 55 years old, leaving only more than 9,000 men under 55 and over 14 years old.
And these sixteen merchants who wanted to try their best to recover their losses, and I don’t know what methods they used, actually provided a total of more than 14,000 people.
Liu Lang compared the demographic report of Chengde City and almost smashed the teacup on the heads of those "greedy" businessmen.
At this time, they actually played tricks in front of him for money. Are they asking for money rather than their lives?
"Why is Commander Liu so angry?" Han Tianhao had the courage to ask the livid-faced Liu Lang.
"Hmph, why are you so angry? Boss Han, yes, I, Liu Lang, robbed you with my troops, but you were national traitors at that time. Do you think that I, Liu Lang, was a soft-hearted person just because you just robbed but didn't kill them all?"
No?" Liu Lang snorted coldly, looking at this group of silent businessmen with murderous intent in his eyes.
This is human nature. If you retreat, others will advance. In the previous life, Liu Lang and those old officials had many opportunities for advancement and retreat. However, for some reason that cannot be explained in detail, no one has ever been as greedy as these greedy people.
Businessmen are so ignorant of how to advance or retreat.
This is forcing Liu Lang to kill chickens and monkeys! Liu Lang's heart was filled with cold murderous intent.
"I don't dare, I don't dare. Not only do you have a lot of troops at your disposal, Chief Liu, but you also have great virtues and want to save the people of the city from the fire. We dare not disobey you, but even if Chief Liu wants to punish us, you have to give us a reason."
Ah!" A thin layer of sweat broke out on Han Tianhao's forehead, but his mouth was very stiff.
That clearly means that no matter how strong Liu Lang is, they can't resist if he wants to kill someone, but he still has to give a reason for killing him, right?
"Haha, no wonder Boss Han can become the richest man in Rehe. He is really brave. I have said before that the employment of each family must not be mixed, and the employment of each family must be based on fingerprints. But can you tell me now?
"The total number of people in the city who can participate in transporting goods, including young people over fourteen years old, is only more than nine thousand. How did you get me more than fourteen thousand people?" Liu Lang laughed angrily.
Starting from Han Tianhao, the principals of the sixteen families who were summoned by Liu Lang to reprimand looked at each other in shock.
After doing this for a long time, the fat officer actually became furious because of this.
Seeing that the merchants were not panicked when he heard what he said, but seemed a little surprised, Liu Lang was slightly startled. There must be some inside story that he didn't know.
Han Tianhao spoke with a wry smile, "It turned out that Chief Liu had doubts about us because of the number of people. I'm afraid Chief Liu didn't know this. Because the transportation of military supplies is a major matter, we employees at the merchants may usually do some stealing.
It's cunning, but I don't dare to lie on this matter. The number of people counted is okay, but it has never been said that women and the elderly cannot participate in transporting supplies! An adult woman and an elderly man over 55 years old
It should be considered as an adult hired worker! Although five children under the age of fourteen and over seven years old can carry slightly less things, they are probably not much different from one adult man! The common people want to avoid the disaster of the war.
It’s not just the Japanese bullets, they also need to eat when they get to Pingjin!”
Liu Lang suddenly realized that after all, his thinking was more focused on the time and space he was more familiar with. He completely forgot that in this era, seven-year-old children can already help the family with many things, and the elderly have no such thing as retirement.
, in order to survive, they must also work until the day they die.
So, when Liu Lang was led by the principals of more than a dozen merchants to the location in the east of Chengde City that was originally the Japanese army's baggage warehouse.
Because there were too many people and the place was too small, mountains of supplies were first transported outside the city by horse-drawn carriages, and then distributed to tens of thousands of people who were waiting in open areas outside the city to receive the supplies.
With the help of bandit rookies and employees of sixteen merchants, the ragged people lined up in family units in an orderly manner to receive the food and supplies they wanted to carry.
The three little foreign girls who had been following Liu Lang looked at this incredible but shocking scene in amazement.
Almost every family has two small carts unique to the north. One cart contains all their belongings, pots, pans, and bedding. The adult women in the family have swaddling clothes wrapped around their chests or carry young children in their arms.
He is responsible for pushing the cart. The adult man is working hard to load as much food or other supplies as he can on the other cart.
Apart from the adults and men who shoulder important responsibilities, the elderly and children at home are also not relaxed. A little boy who is no taller than Liu Lang's chest and is only eight or nine years old is carrying a bag weighing at least ten kilograms and holding his younger brother in his hand.
Or my sister, the gray-haired old man also carried the heavy burden on his shoulders.
Watching the children carrying the heavy supplies on their young shoulders and the old man carrying the heavy supplies on his frail backs as he staggered away firmly, Liu Lang's eyes were not only a little moist.
On their shoulders, they carry not only their own future, but also China's future.
Liu Lang had never believed that the Japanese invaders would be defeated as he does today, even if he didn't know any history. How could such a strong nation be conquered by an island nation? Liu Lang believed that even without the beatings of the two big Americans,
, China will also win the final victory in this great Patriotic War.
If possible, Liu Lang hopes that the beautiful reporter Liu Xueyuan, who is still with the main force of the Great Wall Regiment, will publish an article about the people of Chengde carrying military supplies and retreating with the army a few days later after the people have reached a safe place.
The title is: Long live the people.
Yes, this is the power of the vast ocean of people. On their shoulders, at least hundreds of thousands of kilograms of materials were carried away.
Although they were also paid, without the concerted efforts of the 20,000 Chengde people, this huge seizure would have been nothing, and what could not be taken away would have to be burned.
Although Liu Lang organized their retreat and saved them, they also achieved the Great Wall Regiment's great achievements.
This raid-style seizure turned the 8th Division into a team of beggars. If they had to play with them for a few more days, they would probably eat dirt.