Chapter 282 The Long March Story
Brigade Commander Chen pulled out a stool, sat down, and explained his reasons to the boss.
"Boss, if Xiao Qin hadn't seized so many artillery pieces and shells at the beginning, he would have been lucky enough to discover three arsenals in succession, including two large ones.
Not to mention the faraway place, there is the arsenal on Baihu Ridge.
If it weren't for the supplies in the arsenal on Baihu Ridge, it would have been a big question whether Li Yunlong could break through from the front when the New 1st Regiment faced the Sakata Regiment at the beginning.
But it was because of the equipment replenishment from the arsenal on Baihu Ridge.
Li Yunlong led the New 1st Regiment to defeat a Japanese field regiment, and finally beat the Japanese Independent 3rd Mixed Brigade half to a pulp, and basically all the officers who could be named were killed.
The first and second brigade commanders of the Japanese Independent 3rd Mixed Brigade were all defeated by us. In one battle, the organization of the Independent 3rd Mixed Brigade (Kimura Brigade, which appeared in the first Battle of Baihuling) was directly destroyed.
Boss, among these, Xiao Qin can be said to deserve the greatest credit!
If Xiao Qin hadn’t been lucky enough to get so many weapons and equipment.
Even if Li Yunlong and the New 1st Regiment could successfully complete the rearguard mission, there was a high possibility that the New 1st Regiment would not be able to withdraw from the Japanese encirclement.
Not to mention that they could also destroy the Japanese command center and kill the old Japanese, Nobutsu Sakata, who had just become the brigade commander a few days ago.
Boss, if it weren't for Xiao Qin, the New 1st Regiment might have developed under the leadership of Li Yunlong, but it would never have developed to the level of the original battle."
"If Li Yunlong is a spark, he can turn a pile of dry wood that does not attract attention into a raging fire.
Then Xiao Qin is a barrel of gasoline that can turn this flame into a raging fire.
Li Yunlong has many clever ideas when fighting, he always likes to win by surprise, he believes in the spirit of Drawing the Sword, the brave one wins when two meet on a narrow road!
The key is to overwhelm the enemy with momentum, no matter how difficult it is, no matter how powerful the enemy is, but first you must dare to draw your sword against the opponent. You must never dare to show your sword just because you see that the enemy is strong.
This is Li Yunlong's temperament.
But Xiao Qin gave me the feeling of a tiger.
A tiger that has to use all its strength even to fight a rabbit!
Xiao Qin doesn't have that many tricks when fighting, he basically just acts straightforwardly.
And because of Xiao Qin's personal reasons, the morale of the entire vanguard group was maintained at its peak by Xiao Qin alone.
Xiao Qin is a banner of the vanguard group. As long as Xiao Qin does not fall, even if there is only one person left in the vanguard group, they can hold their position and fight the enemy to the end.
At the same time, I have to admit that Xiao Qin's luck was really good. He could seize a large number of weapons in every battle. They were either the logistical supplies of the Japanese devils or some hidden weapons.
Or maybe some hidden arsenal.
Originally, I thought that Xiao Qin had set up some kind of intelligence department, and that every action was taken only after obtaining the corresponding intelligence, so he was able to seize so many weapons and equipment. I asked about this specifically later.
There is no need for Xiao Qin to lie to us in this regard.
So, all of this is just Xiao Qin's good luck...
And Ding Wei is not an easy guy to deal with either. Boss, don't be fooled by Ding Wei's honest look.
In fact, Ding Wei is the smartest guy among the four of them, shrewd to the extreme!
Ding Wei, like Li Yunlong, is the kind of person who won't do anything unless there is a benefit, unless there is an order.
Otherwise, Ding Wei would never do anything that is doomed to bring no benefits.
The other is Kong Jie. Kong Jie is the most honest among the four people and he always completes the orders given by his superiors meticulously.
Unlike Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, who are always thinking about whether they can be clever, get discounts, or complete the tasks assigned by their superiors according to their own ideas.
In short, these two guys are trying every means to gain benefits for their own troops.
Kong Jie is more concerned about the overall situation and does not care about his own gains and losses. To some extent, cadres like Kong Jie have no outstanding features, but they also have no shortcomings.
Basically, they are the cadres most favored by commanders like us.
Because he will obey your orders and you can rest assured when handing things over to him without worrying that he will cause any trouble for you.
But precisely for this reason, Kong Jie must never be assigned tasks that are beyond his capabilities.
Once the enemy is given tasks that are beyond the size and capabilities of their forces.
Then the opponent will be helpless, and even the troops will suffer large-scale casualties.
Because Kong Jie is not flexible, he will meticulously and do his best to complete the tasks assigned by his superiors without violating the regulations.
But Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Qin Yangming are different. If the task of a brigade is given to them, although the difficulty of this task is obviously beyond the scope of what a regiment can accomplish.
But these three people will still take on this task.
But don't expect these three people to complete the task according to the orders given above.
For these three people, as long as there are no issues of principle, the process is completely unimportant as long as the result is correct.
They will try every possible means to complete this task, including but not limited to directly violating some regulations that do not violate principles.
Take Li Yunlong for example. When the Fourth Front Army crossed the grassland, Li Yunlong was asked to raise food on his own.
Kong Jie honestly prepared money to buy food.
Ding Wei is a talented person and a good money-maker. I heard from the deputy brigade commander that Ding Wei's troops are the vanguard troops, mainly responsible for supporting the rear troops.
Ding Wei led his troops there first to set up an outpost.
Therefore, Ding Wei had enough time to prepare for crossing the grassland and climbing the snow-capped mountains, and at the same time let the troops have a good rest.
Under normal circumstances, once the commanders of other troops have collected enough supplies, they will let the troops rest.
This is to save energy for climbing the snow-capped mountains and crossing the grasslands later.
During the Long March, although all the troops were gathered together, they were still somewhat scattered. It was obviously not feasible to purchase food collectively and then distribute it equally.
So at that time, the Fourth Front Army and the Central Red Army were similar, both using the method of self-raising food.
Ding Wei led his troops to the destination first. At that time, the price of food was not high, and there was still plenty of food.
Therefore, Ding Wei directly spent a lot of money to buy a large amount of high-quality grain. At the same time, he also commissioned local merchants to help buy a large number of livestock on credit.
Under normal circumstances, if it were a regimental commander like Kong Jie, Kong Jie would definitely choose to arrange for the troops to rest and recuperate, while collecting as much food as possible to provide some help to the brother troops behind.
Moreover, it does not take much effort to collect food on the spot, and it will not affect the troops' rest.
After all, the price of food really changed every day at that time.
But Ding Wei was different. Although he was also collecting information, he did not let all the troops rest directly. Instead, he adopted a rotation system.
The three battalions of troops took turns to rest, and each time they would send out two battalions of troops to cause trouble for the white dogs' logistics transport teams and the local landlords.
Then there were special hunting teams, fishing teams, hunting in the mountains, gathering teams, fishing in the river, and taking advantage of the rich local resources to collect a large amount of edible wild vegetables, etc. In the end, a large amount of meat and dried vegetables were collected.
Finally, after the other troops arrived, they could only buy food from Ding Wei, even though Ding Wei didn't make any money either.
But that only applies to the fact that Ding Wei did not make any money from the grain he collected from the common people and grain merchants.
The grain snatched from the landlords and the white dogs really made Ding Wei a lot of money.
There is also smoked meat and dried fish made by Ding Wei who arranged for his people to hunt and fish.
Especially these meat products, which are basically a no-cost business.
After the troops behind arrived, there was basically not much time to rest. Without enough time to rest, there was naturally no time to hunt or anything.
So Ding Wei took this opportunity to make some money directly from various troops.
In the end, Ding Wei used the money directly to repay those merchants, and bought large quantities of mules, horses, donkeys, and ewes from those merchants. He also specially selected ewes and yaks that had just given birth to lambs and had goat milk, as well as sows!
Relying on these livestock, Ding Wei's preliminary preparations, and the losses of Ding Wei's troops who entered the grassland and climbed the snow-capped mountains, it can be said that the troops suffered the least losses among all the Long March troops.
When Ding Wei first entered the grassland, the entire army was in top physical and mental state because they had just set out.
So in the first few days, we relied on drinking goat milk, cow milk and pig milk... After drinking all the milk, we started to kill the sheep...
Even the brother troops that followed Ding Wei and his troops gained a lot of benefits from following Ding Wei and his troops, and they could eat meat every few days...
Although Ding Wei's behavior was somewhat against the rules... it was indeed because Ding Wei himself was capable. If he didn't have the ability, he wouldn't be able to buy on credit from those merchants and let them pay for the purchase of a large number of livestock.
Then there is Li Yunlong. You let Li Yunlong raise food on his own.
No problem. The troops ahead had bought all the food. Li Yunlong couldn't buy any more food, so he ordered his soldiers to rob food... He used this method to get enough food for the troops from the white dogs, the landlords, and a few brother troops who had bought a lot of food but were unwilling to sell any to Li Yunlong.
It didn’t cost a dime!”
"And Xiao Qin, he's even more talented. I don't know how he came up with that method to get food!"
As the boss listened to Brigade Commander Chen talking about the Long March, he couldn't help but start thinking back to that period of time.
After Brigade Commander Chen finished talking about Kong Jie, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, he took over the topic and started talking about Qin Yangming.
"At that time, Xiao Qin was just an ordinary soldier. He followed me to the mountain stronghold. While we were resting in the stronghold, he and I became sworn brothers.
That little bastard Xiao Qin kidnapped the Eagle King from someone else’s village!
In the end, they managed to form a falcon team. Wow, the Eagle King was almost as big as the Japanese sidecar.
I don’t know how Xiao Qin managed to get the Eagle King to summon all the eagles in the mountains.
Finally, he crossed the grassland with more than forty extremely strong falcons, and relied on the falcons' hunting to provide a large amount of food for the troops.
At the same time, Xiao Qin also used the local methods from his hometown to set various traps along the way. When the traps captured prey, the troops behind could directly obtain it for food.
When crossing the grassland, Xiao Qin used a falcon for reconnaissance and avoided the pursuit of the white dogs several times... If this kid had not run fast at that time, the people in the mountain village would have planned to keep Xiao Qin in the village.
The village chief has put forward a condition. As long as Xiao Qin can stay in the village, he can choose any girl in the village, and Xiao Qin will be the next village chief!
Finally, he suggested that Xiao Qin could not stay, but he had to leave behind a seed.
As long as Xiao Qin is willing, we can take away everything in the village that we like.
Nine ridges and eighteen villages, 180,000 mountain people... If Xiao Qin was willing at that time, he would probably become the king of the 180,000 mountain people... A little kid, he subdued the Eagle King that no other village could subdue, and killed a tiger with his bare hands...
Finally, the village chief secretly sent out a message to call all the village chiefs to come over and block me, hoping to keep Xiao Qin in the village. "
Brigade Commander Chen was a little surprised when he heard the news about Qin Yangming from the boss.
He doesn't know these things.
"Then Boss, how did you leave at that time? Could it be that Xiao Qin really left behind a seed?"
Brigade Commander Chen probably knew why the people in the mountain villages wanted to keep Qin Yangming.
The people in the mountains don't believe in any rules or laws in the human world.
They believe in the laws of nature.
The weak eat the strong, and the fittest survive!
The strong should become the king!
Qin Yangming killed a tiger with his bare hands and subdued the Eagle King who no other stronghold could subdue.
To those mountain people, Qin Yangming is the strong man.
It is understandable why the mountain people in the mountain village want to keep Qin Yangming here.
Brigade Commander Chen had some dealings with those mountain people and knew that it was difficult to change what they had decided on.
So Brigade Commander Chen was also very curious about how the boss took Qin Yangming away at that time.
"How else can we leave? Xiao Qin ran fast. At that time, Xiao Qin looked grown up, but he was just a half-grown child. It's impossible to really let Xiao Qin leave his offspring in the village...
I still remember that night, in order to keep Xiao Qin, the leader of the Eighteen Villages first got us all drunk, and then asked the wizards in the village to prepare medicine..."
"What medicine?"
(End of this chapter)
