Xu Rui said: "It seems we have to find a way to hoard some gold."
"Gold?" Leng Tiefeng turned to look at Xu Rui, but hesitated to speak.
"What?" Xu Rui noticed Leng Tiefeng's strange behavior and asked with a smile, "Old soldier, do you know where the gold can be?"
"How is that possible?" Leng Tiefeng shook his head and changed the topic, "I just think that if we enter the stalemate stage as you said, and the Japanese really blockade our base, even if we have gold in our hands, I'm afraid we won't be able to buy it.
When it comes to military supplies, the little devils are our enemies, will they sell supplies to us?"
"Haha, veteran, you are wrong." Xu Rui said with a smile, "There are scum among us Chinese, and little Japan is not monolithic. There are scum among them too. As long as we can afford the price, let alone military supplies.
Supplies, even top-secret information about the little devils can also be purchased."
What Xu Rui said is not nonsense.
This kind of thing has really happened in history.
While talking, Wang Husheng hurried over with hundreds of civilians.
"Captain Xu, am I not too late?" Wang Hu ran up to Xu Rui panting angrily and said with a smile, "You beat me to death along the way."
Xu Rui said: "It's not too late, we have enough time."
Before seizing the city, Xu Rui had already had people cut off Pu County's telephone lines to the outside world, so the news of Pu County's fall would not spread to the provincial capital or even Nanjing so quickly. They would wait until the Japanese sent maintenance personnel to discover the problem and then make a judgment.
Chupu County has been lost, and any reinforcements will have to be sent tomorrow afternoon.
This time was enough for them to transport all the supplies back to Meizhen.
Wang Husheng asked again: "Captain Xu, looking at you like this, you should gain a lot, right?"
Xu Rui waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's a lot less. Secretary Wang, wouldn't you know if you went to the warehouse and took a look?"
At that moment, Xu Rui personally led Wang Husheng to the warehouse where the Japanese stockpiled grain. Wang Husheng's eyes widened when he saw the piles of sacks piled in the warehouses.
"My dear, so much food?"
Wang Husheng couldn't help but be surprised. He made a rough estimate and found that the millet, beans, millet and wheat stored in the warehouse amounted to more than one million catties. This meant that it was not only the grain requisitioned by Pu County, but also the grain collected by neighboring counties.
The military rations collected by the counties were all here. Now the Japanese were at a huge loss, but their Dameishan base area had made a fortune.
However, Wang Husheng soon had another worry about happiness. How to transport so much food back?
Xiao Yanyue, who came with her, came up with an idea: "Secretary Wang, did you forget to walk on your feet?"
"Yes, how could I forget this?" Wang Husheng's eyes lit up when he heard this. Meizhen has been an important trade town since ancient times. In ancient times, there were no roads. The transportation of goods was all carried by horse-drawn men. This trade was easy to do on foot.
It came into being and gradually developed into a guild with a large number of employees and great influence.
Hong Jiugong is a footman, and he has hundreds of porters and carts under his command.
Now that Hong Jiugong has been arrested, and his footwork has been taken over by the newly established Dameishan Anti-Japanese Democratic Government, Wang Husheng can fully use the footwork's porters and carts to transport grain.
Xiao Yanyue added: "In addition to walking, we also have trucks and three-wheelers seized from the Japanese. I calculated that one night is enough for us to transport all the seized materials back." After finishing speaking, Xiao
Yan Yue said with regret, "The grain seized this time is quite large, but the meat is a little less."
"It's good to have food to eat. Do you still want to eat meat?"
Wang Husheng smiled and shook his head, and hurried back to Meizhen overnight.
Trucks and tricycles move faster, so they start loading first.
In order to gain time, members of the special operations team also came over to help.
Xiao Taohong and Sai Hongfu did not carry the bags, but they also helped to make the register.
While Xiao Taohong was writing down the accounts in the account book, she whispered to Sai Hongfu: "Sister, do you know how anxious the captain was just now after he heard that you were in danger?"
"How anxious is he?" Sai Hongfu asked in a low voice, but his pair of really seductive beautiful eyes couldn't help but cast a loving glance at Xu Rui's back in front of him.
However, Xu Rui suddenly looked back as if he had a blind eye.
Sai Hongfu was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head, but his heart couldn't help but beat wildly.
Sai Hongfu didn't want to lie to herself. She knew that she had developed a love for Xu Rui, and this love was so fierce that it was like a raging fire and almost made her nod. However,
Sai Hongfu didn't want to reveal her feelings to Xu Rui so early. No matter what, she was just a young lady.
A girl's family should be as reserved as a girl's family, otherwise she should be looked down upon.
Xiao Taohong saw all this scene and couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle.
"Why are you laughing?" Sai Hongfu said anxiously, "If you laugh again, see if I don't tear your mouth to pieces."
"I don't dare anymore, sister, I don't want to laugh anymore." Xiao Taohong waved her hands repeatedly, but before she could finish her words, she immediately chuckled again and quickly reached out to cover her mouth.
Sai Hongfu was so anxious that she stretched out her hand to scratch Xiao Taohong's itch.
"Uh-huh." Xu Rui loaded a sack into the car, walked back and coughed at the two women and said, "Pay attention to the impact. How can you let others concentrate on their work when you are like this?"
Sai Hongfu and Xiao Taohong turned their heads and saw that many civilian husbands were secretly looking at them. It was true that two such delicate beauties were chatting and laughing in a low voice. Which man in the world could not be tempted after seeing them?
But Sai Hongfu used to be a notorious bandit. These civilians wanted to see it but didn't dare to see it. Even Xu Rui felt troubled for them.
At that moment, Xiao Taohong stuck out her tongue and stopped joking, but Sai Hongfu rolled her eyes at Xu Rui again.
After loading a car, he took advantage of a break and said to Xu Rui: "Old Xu, now you have got your wish. The Japanese have lost so much supplies at once, and they will definitely not let it go. The old Japanese like Shan Shanyuan has been
In anger, they might call back the 9th and 13th divisions that are fighting on the Huaihe front line to attack us specifically."
"It would be great if the little devil is really willing to do this." Xu Rui shook his head and said quietly, "But I think that the old devil Shan Shanyuan will not be so stupid. The loss of a mere million kilograms of military rations
, I’m afraid it’s not enough to make this old devil change the established battle plan, we may have to do something else.”
Leng Tiefeng was very disapproving after hearing this: "Old Xu, you are thinking too much."
"I hope." Xu Rui said, "I hope you are right. In this case, we can share some of the pressure for the 59th Army along the Huaihe River. Maybe the Huaihe Defense Line can hold on forever."
There is another sentence that Xu Rui did not say. If the 59th Army can persist along the Huaihe River and gather Li Zongren near Xuzhou, the Tang Enbo Group will no longer have worries and can concentrate its full strength on the North China Front Army heading south along Jinpu Road and the canal.
, then the results of the Taierzhuang victory will be even greater!
In this way, the outcome of the Battle of Xuzhou may become different.
If the outcome of the Battle of Xuzhou had changed, and the squadron and the Japanese army would have reached a stalemate on the Xuzhou battlefield, there would have been no subsequent Battle of Wuhan. In this case, the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese War would have been greatly changed.
However, this is just Xu Rui's beautiful vision, and it is difficult to say whether it can be realized.
The key still depends on how the Japanese Central China Front Commander Shan Shanyuan will react.
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Shanshan Yuan learned the news early the next morning.
Late last night, Akira Muto, deputy chief of staff of the Central China Front, discovered that the phone number in Pu County could not be reached. He immediately sent a maintenance team to check the line and went all the way to the vicinity of Pu County. As a result, they were ambushed by the brigade. Two tricycles of the maintenance team
, one was blown up by a mine, and only one escaped.
By the time the maintenance team escaped back to Feicheng, it was already early the next morning.
After Feicheng received the news, it immediately reported it to Nanjing.
After receiving the telegram, Muto Akira did not dare to neglect and quickly reported it to Shan Shanyuan.
After reading the telegram, Shanshan Yuan asked Muto Akira: "Muto-san, what do you think?"
Muto Akida: "I believe that this is most likely done by a certain unit infiltrated by the China Army. Its purpose is to relieve the pressure along the Huaihe River, and the strength of this infiltrated unit will not be less than one division."
, otherwise it would be impossible to have the courage to attack Pu County, let alone form an encirclement situation around Pu County."
Because Kameda did not carry a radio before the expedition, and the brigade cut off the telephone lines before attacking the county seat of Kameda, the information the Japanese army knew at this time was very limited. They did not know that Kameda’s military police had been completely wiped out, let alone
Knowing that the county seat of Pu County had also been captured, they could only make some basic judgments based on limited information.
"A division?" Shan Shanyuan immediately frowned, then stood up and walked to stand in front of the big map.
Muto Zhang followed and walked over, focused his gaze on the map, and said: "The troops that attacked Pu County should have crossed the mountains from the north of Damei Mountain."
"Da Mei Mountain?" Shan Shan Yuan's brows furrowed even more.
Judging from the map, Damei Mountain is too important. From Damei Mountain to the southeast, you can threaten Bukou and directly attack the starting point of the Jinpu Railway. To the west, you can attack Feicheng, and Feicheng is currently the forward base of the Central China Front. From Damei Mountain
To the north are Mingguang and Fengyang, which can directly threaten the flanks of the Japanese troops on the Huaihe River front!
With such an enemy force entrenched in Damei Mountain, the Japanese army was like a thorn in the back.
"This army must not be allowed to occupy Pu County, let alone stand in Damei Mountain!" Shanshan Yuan said categorically, "Immediately order the Iijima Division to quickly attack Pu County eastward, and cooperate with Kameda's Military Police Brigade to
This squadron is encircling Pu County and must be wiped out as much as possible, especially not allowing them to break out of the encirclement and then rush into the Damei Mountain area."
Muto Akira said: "Don't worry, Commander, General Iijima has sent an infantry regiment to support Pu County overnight. Judging from the time, this infantry regiment will be able to arrive at Pu County at noon today at the latest."
