Chapter 267: Ending of Chiyang Town
Finally, under Qingquan Muyi's persistence, Ding Wei and Qin Yangming agreed to buy this batch of weapons for 9,000 oceans.
After the transaction was completed, Qingquan Muyi quickly took Qin Yangming into the artillery tower, set out wine and food, and started a conversation.
"Mr. Qin, please, this is our cherry blossom wine, brought from my hometown. This is the last bottle... Please evaluate it."
Qingquan Mu was very clear that doing business is doing business, and asking for help at this moment is asking for help.
Now that the business was done, he would naturally start asking the Eighth Route Army for help in resolving the issues in Chiyang Town.
"Mr. Qingquan, let's talk about the matter first. Mr. Qingquan, how do you want us to help you deal with the matter in Chiyang Town?"
"What's going on in Chiyang Town?
Can you tell me about it first?"
Listening to Qin Yangming's question, Qingquan Muyi sighed.
“It’s a long story.
Mr. Qin, since the last transaction with you, we have been in contact with your army's Northwest Shanxi Military Region.
Since then, we have been trading with a unit of your army's Northwest Shanxi Military District.
Because I want to earn more money.
So I sold all the less important positions to your army.
For example, in some artillery towers and so on, the Imperial Army stationed in those places, although they are called the Imperial Army, are actually your army's people pretending to be them.
I took the military funds of the Imperial Army, and then your army received the supplies of the Imperial Army and used the supplies for training.
Then, at the Chiyang Town mine, which I am in charge of, new ore must be handed in in half a month.
But I have already sold all the ore mined from the mine to your army.
The warehouse was empty.
I was also responsible for grain transportation once.
All the grain was originally piled up in the warehouse.
It should be the food stored in preparation for the attack on your army's Northwest Shanxi Military Region.
I don't know the details.
But I think the food is too much of an eyesore.
Nothing is as beautiful as shiny gold.
So I sold all the food to your army...
I originally planned to ask your army for cooperation in launching another attack on Chiyang Town in two days.
Then I will take advantage of the situation to retreat.
Your army destroyed the entire Chiyang Town mine.
In this way, the materials that are sold can be reported as war losses. At the same time, I can also use this to report more war losses on the weapons and equipment in my hands and keep them for later sale.
But I didn't expect that I would be transferred away directly with a transfer order, and I didn't even have time to deal with the affairs of Chiyang Town.
Moreover, all the people in Chiyang Town who know about this situation are by my side.
The rest are people who are not clear about the situation and don’t know how to cooperate.
So I hope your army can help and cooperate with me to help me deal with the affairs of Chiyang Town.
Otherwise, when the newly appointed commander of Chiyang Town arrives in Chiyang Town, he will definitely find that all the warehouses in the entire Chiyang Town are empty.
I'll be screwed by then.
Qin Jun, you don't want Ping'an County to change its commander again, do you? "
After listening to Qingquan Muyi's words, Qin Yangming also understood what Qingquan Muyi wanted the Eighth Route Army to help him do.
Qin Yangming had no intention of rejecting Qingquan Muyi's request.
This is not difficult.
It just so happened that the Eighth Route Army needed a large amount of raw materials in order to improve its military production capacity, especially from the arsenals in the border areas.
Chiyang Town is right near the border area and is also a copper mine. Qingquan Muyi wants the Eighth Route Army to help deal with the affairs of Chiyang Town.
The Eighth Route Army took Chiyang Town by chance.
"Mr. Qingquan, if that's the case, then Chiyang Town should be returned to our Eighth Route Army."
"No problem, Mr. Qin, this is the contact code. I have an adjutant in Chiyang Town. When someone tells him the code, he will know that this is what I meant.
Later he will take the initiative to cooperate with your army.
As for Chiyang Town, your army can take it if you want.
Anyway, I will give Chiyang Town to your army after making some money, and then make up an excuse to return to my hometown to retire.
Besides, I am not the commander of Chiyang Town now, so even if Chiyang Town is lost, it will not have any impact on me.
Mr. Qin, set up the stall!"
"Okay, leave it to me. I'll send the telegram right away."
……
Qin Yangming was very quick. After talking with Qingquan Muyi, he immediately sent a telegram to the brigade headquarters.
Ask the brigade to help deal with this matter.
After the brigade commander saw that this was related to Ping'an County, he quickly forwarded the telegram to the headquarters, asking the headquarters to cooperate and use the high-power radio station to send the telegram to the Northwest Shanxi Military Region.
……
The Eighth Route Army's Northwest Shanxi Military Region, Xianchi Independent Regiment.
The Xianchi Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army was originally the Xianchi County Battalion, and was eventually expanded into the Xianchi Independent Regiment, which was responsible for keeping an eye on the Japanese in Xianchi County and conducting transactions with Qingquan Muyi.
At this moment, the commander of the Xianchi Independent Regiment, Wu Yun, was speaking to the political commissar He Shaowen beside him with a strange look on his face.
"Lao He, it's been almost seven days, why hasn't Qingquan Muyi contacted us yet?
It was originally scheduled to be a half-month continuous, but this time it's almost seven days late. We've never lost contact before. What's going on this time? Could something have happened to Qingquan Muyi and the others?"
Wu Yun was stroking his chin, wondering why Qingquan Muyi hadn't contacted them after so many days.
Not only did they not contact them, but the supplies that were originally scheduled to be delivered to the artillery tower every half a month were also not delivered.
Wu Yunzheng also sent people to Chiyang Town to see if he could contact Qingquan Muyi on his own initiative.
But the people sent over said that Chiyang Town’s defense had been significantly strengthened, and they couldn’t get in at all.
And they didn't dare to contact the soldiers outside directly.
He Shaowen shook his head after listening to Wu Yunzheng's words.
"I don't know. Maybe it's because we wiped out an entire brigade of the Japanese in Shangdang last time, so Qingquan Muyi doesn't dare to continue trading with us.
But if the deal is over, it's over... We no longer rely on the weapons and equipment provided by Qingquan Muyi. There are only so many soldiers stationed in Chiyang Town.
The weapons and equipment that Qingquan Muyi bought and sold cannot satisfy our appetite at all."
He Shaowen didn't feel any pity for losing contact with Qingquan Muyi, although He Shaowen thought that Qingquan Muyi's attitude was indeed good.
But the enemy is always an enemy. Although the other side is unwilling to fight, it is still an enemy, digging up their Chinese mines and then selling them to them.
Seriously speaking, whether it is Qingquan Muyi or Murakuchi Saburo, they can only be said to be wise people, not good people.
Their purpose was not to help the Eighth Route Army fight against Japan.
He just wants to use the existing advantages to gain personal benefits.
In essence, they are no different from those bald guys.
Listening to He Shaowen's words, Wu Yunzheng nodded.
“Indeed, the weapons and equipment provided by Qingquan Muyi can no longer satisfy our appetite.
Three months ago, we were very happy when we had a heavy machine gun in our army.
Having a heavy machine gun means that we are no longer a local force, but a real main force.
And now? Our independent regiment has two heavy machine guns, although they are old ones replaced by the main force. I heard that they are Maxim heavy machine guns replaced by the independent regiment of the 386th Brigade or the new regiment.
But this is also a heavy machine gun.
In addition to the heavy machine guns, our regiment was actually allocated a 37mm flat-fire gun, two 60mm mortars, and sixteen 50mm grenade launchers.
The firepower of the troops was greatly enhanced.
With the current strength of our Xianchi Independent Regiment, I can directly attack the Chiyang Town Mine."
Wu Yunzheng thought about the equipment his troops had now and couldn't help but feel proud.
"Yes, originally our battalion only had about 300 guns in total, although everyone had a gun.
But all these guns were weapons withdrawn by the main force, or some kind of homemade guns.
I remember that at that time half of the guns in the army were single-shot rifles.
What's the result now? They have all been equipped with the new rifles produced by the Border Region Arsenal."
“But it’s still a pity, Qingquan Muyi promised to sell us two Type 92 infantry guns.
As a result, now that Qingquan Muyi has lost contact, there is nothing we can do about the two Type 92 infantry guns.
It would be great if we could get two Type 92 infantry guns.
The last time I went to the military district, I heard from them that the 386th Brigade Independent Regiment had already equipped its infantry artillery at the battalion and company level.
Even the regiment has its own mountain artillery battalion, with twelve mountain cannons. It's really frustrating to compare yourself with others."
"We don't even have infantry artillery, but their entire regiment has a mountain artillery battalion.
The main force is the main force, heroic. "
"Oh, Lao He, you haven't seen the 386th Brigade Independent Regiment. The 386th Brigade Independent Regiment has a lot of pistols. I took a look and found that one squad had six pistols!
In close combat, we didn't fight the Japanese with bayonets, we just used pistols to shoot them directly."
"And it seems like they have endless ammunition. They have a lot of those fancy machine guns, which look even more useful than those of Yan Laoxi."
"Not only that, the last time the 386th Brigade Independent Regiment discovered an arsenal left by the Northeast Army in northwest Shanxi, they found a lot of weapons and equipment inside. I heard there were also heavy artillery!
It's not a 75mm heavy gun, but a real 100mm heavy gun!"
"So how else could they wipe out an entire brigade of the Japanese in Shangdang? Or a field brigade like the 4th Brigade?"
"We completely wiped out an entire brigade of the Japanese and captured a major general alive... Tsk tsk tsk tsk, I wonder when our Northwest Shanxi Military Region will be able to fight a war like this."
"It will probably be soon. The military district is preparing to set up a cavalry regiment and will head north to Inner Mongolia to expand the base.
If the troops are sufficient, we can connect the Northwest Shanxi Military Region with the Wutai Mountain base of the 115th Division.
At that time, the Taihang Military Region will send troops northward.
The Taiyue Military Region and the Luliang Military Region joined forces.
Then most of Shanxi will be surrounded by our Eighth Route Army troops.
As long as the base outside can hold off the Japanese troops, maybe we can occupy most of the mountainous area.
By then, most of Shanxi will be turned into the base of our Eighth Route Army.
Maybe we can recreate the original Soviet area.”
"It will be soon. Our current strength is not bad. After the Shangdang Military Region has digested Shangdang, they may plan to take action against Taiyuan."
"The battle in the south of the Japanese army has now reached a stalemate.
As long as there are no problems in the Fifth War Zone, the Japanese's large army will be dragged down in the south.
By then, we will be in the north and can give the Japanese a severe blow.
Now the spark of our Eighth Route Army has become a raging fire. Even if the Japanese withdraw a large force from the south at this time, they will not be able to stop the development of our Eighth Route Army.
Unless the Japanese dare to mobilize the Kwantung Army into the pass.
However, as long as the Japanese Kwantung Army dared to move, the Soviet Army and the Anti-Japanese United Army would immediately set fire to the Japanese backyard.
By then, our Northwest Shanxi Military Region and Wutaishan Military Region will be able to send troops northward and directly enter Manchuria from Outer Mongolia..."
Wu Yunzheng and He Shaowen were talking to each other, imagining that after the Eighth Route Army grew rapidly, they would drive the Japanese out of China as quickly as possible.
"Captain, commander, the military district is calling!"
As the two continued to talk, a communications soldier quickly ran in to report.
"Huh? A call from the military district?!"
Wu Yun was listening to this, and he quickly stood up and ran to the communications room to answer the phone.
"Ah? What? A telegram from the Taihang Military Region? Oh, I see... They're over there? Helping to deal with it? Codeword... Did you understand... Are you in a hurry? Don't worry, Commander. I'll take people to deal with it overnight!"
When He Shaowen saw Wu Yunzheng hung up the phone, he quickly asked.
"Old Wu, what's wrong? What's the matter with the call from the military district? Is there a combat mission?!"
“Yes, there are missions, but they are not combat missions.
Qingquan Muyi was transferred to the Taihang Military Region.
Because the transfer was sudden, Qingquan Muyi did not have time to clean up the mess in Chiyang Town.
Qingquan Muyi contacted the troops in the Taihang Military Region, and then the Taihang Military Region contacted our Northwest Shanxi Military Region through its headquarters.
I hope we can help Qingquan Muyi clean up the mess in Chiyang Town as soon as possible.
The Taihang Military District is preparing to take action again. Let us speed up and not affect the battle in the Taihang Military District.
Bugler, blow the emergency assembly call! Gather the troops and head to the Chiyang Town Mine!"
"Yes!"
"Captain, how does Qingquan Muyi want us to help deal with the situation at the Chiyang Town mine?"
“Qingquan Muyi gave a secret code, and there is another one of his adjutants at the mine in Chiyang Town.
All the puppet soldiers in the mines will be handed over to us for handling. In addition, they will send some soldiers who do not want to fight to our side. Let us deal with these soldiers, hide them, or send them to the Taihang Military Region..."
(End of this chapter)
