After thinking about it all night, Jiang Hongchun finally decided to ask the group leader Wang Ping for help!
After listening to Jiang Hongchun's introduction, Wang Wangping thought for five minutes before replying: "Don't think about Laiyuan City. The Japanese and puppet troops are heavily gathered. Even if we enter the city and buy things, we can't transport them out! So, making military uniforms
The cotton and cotton cloth needed for clothes and quilts can only be obtained from surrounding villages and towns!"
"There are seven or eight small and large towns in Laiyuan. Each town has many shops. It's going to be the cold winter soon. These shops must have a lot of cotton cloth and cotton! Find a few locals from the army and ask them to bring them.
The logistics department goes to buy food, cotton cloth, and cotton... In short, we will buy as much material as the troops can use!"
"You were right in what you said at the meeting. Once the Japanese army encircles us with heavy troops, we will be blocked by the Japanese in this mountain at our feet. By then, not to mention cotton and cotton cloth, not even a single grain of food will be able to be transported in!"
Jiang Hongchun responded with excitement: "Thank you, leader, I will arrange the people when I get back!"
"But the medicines urgently needed by the troops are definitely not available. Western medicines, especially those for treating gunshot wounds, are only available in hospitals controlled by the devils in the county towns, and they basically don't take out medicines. Even if we have silver dollars and gold in our hands, we can't buy medicines!
"
"I checked the medicines in the army's inventory. It can last for 500 wounded people for ten days. Any more will be gone!"
Wang Ping frowned and said: "The tragedy of the next anti-encirclement and suppression battle will definitely exceed all of our imaginations. This small amount of medicine is definitely not enough. We must find a way to reserve medicines that a thousand wounded people need for a month!"
After hearing Wang Ping's request, Jiang Hongchun collapsed instantly, with a helpless expression on his face.
Wang Ping didn't look down on Jiang Hongchun because he couldn't do anything, nor did he scold him.
Medicines are different from other materials. In China, especially in war-torn China, medicines are as precious as weapons and ammunition. Otherwise, there would be no words to describe the preciousness of medicines.
Such precious strategic materials are not enough even for the wealthy Central Army, let alone the Eighth Route Army, which has to raise its own equipment.
Wang Ping didn't even think about Laiyuan City where the Japanese and puppet troops gathered heavily.
The Japanese and puppet troops are not fools. At this time, the wounded of the Japanese and puppet troops are all in the hospital. The only ones who need large quantities of medicines must be the anti-Japanese troops.
At this time, no matter who appears in Laiyuan City to buy large quantities of medicines, they will be attacked by the Japanese army. Not only that, the Japanese who control hospitals and medicines will not sell large quantities of Western medicines to treat gunshot wounds.
After much deliberation, Wang Ping could only think of one solution, and that was the Central Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army who were still active around him!
"We can only find a way to exchange medicines from them!" Wang Ping frowned and muttered to himself.
"Captain, whoever has medicine in hand, I will buy it with the money now!" Jiang Hongchun stared at Wang Ping and asked, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.
"The Central Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army operating in several surrounding counties have supplies from their superiors and are on the front line of the battlefield. They must have a lot of medicines in reserve!" Wang Ping replied.
"Then I'll contact them now and go there in person!" After saying that, the anxious Jiang Hongchun planned to leave the regiment headquarters.
Wang Ping quickly stopped him: "Wait a minute, the Central Army and the Jinsui Army must have medicines in their hands, but for them, the medicines must be very precious. If you just run over there, even if you bring money, they may not
Will sell!"
Jiang Hongchun immediately stopped and returned to Wang Ping and asked: "Captain, what should we do? If we can't buy medicines, after the battle starts, many wounded people will surely die because they cannot get timely treatment!"
Wang Ping frowned and fell into deep thought. He was thinking about what benefits would allow the Jinsui Army and the Central Army to sell the same precious medicine to him.
Suddenly, a very bold idea appeared in Wang Ping's mind, and he asked Jiang Hongchun next to him.
"Director Jiang, you said, if I could find a way to allow the Jinsui Army and the Central Army to gain promotion through combat merit and reapply for new medicines from their superiors due to serious battle losses, you said that the officers on the front line would
Won’t sell drugs to us!”
"Definitely!" Jiang Hongchun replied very definitely!
"I have dealt with them before when I was raising supplies at the headquarters. As long as it can help them get promoted and make a fortune, they will dare to sell out even the firearms equipped by the army!"
Then the conversation changed and he asked with a look of disbelief: "But, how can we help them get promoted and make a fortune? We are not their superiors, and we can't help them!"
"I've already thought of a way!" Wang Ping replied mysteriously.
Then he stared at Jiang Hongchun and asked: "Since arriving at Laiyuan, more than a thousand Japs have died in our hands. Every time I clean the battlefield, I have people take away the Japs uniforms. No surprise.
, there should be a lot of little Japs’ command knives, epaulettes, and nameplates representing the Japs’ identity in the warehouse!”
Although he didn’t understand why Wang Ping suddenly brought the topic to this topic, he immediately replied: “There are indeed more than 20 command knives, including a Japanese officer’s knife, four captain’s command knives, and five lieutenant’s command knives.
, the rest belong to the second lieutenant!"
"The epaulettes and command swords all match. As for the nameplate representing the identity of the Japanese, there are more than 800 pieces!"
After thinking about it, Wang Ping continued to ask: "With epaulettes, command knives, and nameplates, can four infantry squadrons be assembled?"
"Definitely. According to the Japanese army's establishment, there are only six to seven hundred people in four infantry squadrons. We have more than 800 nameplates alone!" Jiang Hongchun affirmed.
"That's good!" Wang Ping breathed a sigh of relief obviously.
Then he stared at Jiang Hongchun and continued to ask: "Director Jiang, if we go to them with these epaulettes, command knives, and the nameplates of the little devils, and use these things to exchange medicines from their mobile phones, if it is not enough, add some money, you say,
Will they agree?"
Jiang Hongchun's eyes lit up, and she immediately showed an expression of sudden realization, and then she answered with surprise!
"I understand, Captain, the way you said is to give them military exploits!"
"Both the Central Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army are in urgent need of military exploits. If we send these epaulettes over, it will be like giving timely help. They will definitely rush to get it. However, we must choose good targets. It is best to choose those troops who have no military exploits but are
A troop with good equipment but a poor commander who wants to climb up the ranks!"
"Captain, please leave this task to me, and I will definitely be able to exchange you for valuable medicines!"
As a veteran logistics cadre of the Eighth Route Army, he must be better at things like trading. Wang Ping agreed without thinking about it: "You are the director of the logistics department, of course I leave it to you! Remember to bring some silver coins, their officers are very
Greedy, spend money where it should be spent, don't be reluctant, as long as you can exchange for medicines and save two more veterans, it's worth more than anything else!"
