Chapter 67: First Meeting with Zhao Gang (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
In the morning, Qin Yangming was discussing the battle plan with Li Yunlong and Kong Jie.
Hu Zi entered the room.
"Commander, the political commissar sent to us by the brigade commander has arrived."
The three of them looked at each other.
"Why did the political commissar come so soon?"
"Didn't you say you'd arrive at noon?"
"Quick, pack up your things!"
Kong Jie looked at the battle map on the table and quickly cleaned it up with Qin Yangming.
If the new political commissar saw this, he might suspect that they were planning to take some action.
It's not a good idea to let the new political commissar know about this kind of thing.
It would be fine if the secret mobilization of troops to fight was not made public.
If the truth were revealed, Kong Jie might really have to feed horses, and Li Yunlong might not even be able to become the director of the clothing factory.
It’s also very simple to pack up, just a map and a few pencils.
But there was no time to clean up the wine, peanuts and other things on the table.
"report!"
"The new political commissar has arrived."
Hu Zi went out again and arrived at the door of Li Yunlong's room again.
But now there is a man with a backpack following Hu Zi.
Hu Zi turned around and left the room directly, and then Zhao Gang walked in with a smile on his face.
Unlike Li Yunlong who was still drinking.
Qin Yangming and Kong Jie quickly stood up and saluted.
"Hello, political commissar!"
"Kong Jie, deputy head of the independent regiment."
"Qin Yangming, the commander of the independent regiment's vanguard battalion."
"Hello, the political commissar of the independent regiment, Zhao Gang."
Kong Jie pulled Qin Yangming and took him out of the room first.
"Oh no, the political commissar is here so soon, our plan may have to be postponed."
Kong Jie took Qin Yangming directly to Hu Zi's room, asked Hu Zi to pay attention, and then started talking to Qin Yangming about things.
Qin Yangming shook his head and said, "No, we can't delay this, we must take the troops there tonight at the latest.
Otherwise, the Japanese will take the goods away tomorrow. It is impossible for us to occupy the mining area and mine it ourselves, right? "
According to the information Duan Peng obtained overnight, the Japanese in Xianchi County had already sent a convoy to prepare to ship the ore this afternoon.
We will leave the Chiyang Town mine with the ore tomorrow morning.
Kong Jie listened to Qin Yangming's words, thought for a moment, and then said, "Well, you take the vanguard battalion there in the afternoon.
Wait for me to go to your base with a battalion, and then I will rush over to meet you at night after dark."
"The political commissar just came here, and he may not know the difference between the Vanguard Battalion and the First Battalion. He may think that the Vanguard Battalion is the First Battalion. I will ask Lao Li to confuse them when the time comes."
"Wait a moment, you take a company from the first battalion over there to camouflage and hide the other soldiers from the vanguard battalion.
The political commissar will definitely visit the troops below when the time comes.
At noon at the latest, I will go to the Vanguard Battalion with the regiment commander and the political commissar to inspect it. By then, you will be considered as the first battalion."
"The Second Battalion will serve as the original First Battalion, and the Third Battalion will be considered to have been demolished and not rebuilt yet."
"We can talk about the rest later, let's make it a done deal first!"
"At worst, I, Kong Jie, will take the blame and hand over all the seized items."
"After all, if we hand over our goods, it will be useless. It will still benefit our Eighth Route Army, which is better than being taken away by the Japanese devils."
……
On the other side is Li Yunlong's room.
Li Yunlong glanced at Zhao Gang and said in a low voice with some dissatisfaction: "Another white-faced scholar has come."
Zhao Gang, who had originally raised his hand with a smile on his face, also felt a little embarrassed.
Li Yunlong drank a little wine by himself, then suddenly smiled and raised the bowl to Zhao Gang and said, "Come on, have a sip?"
Zhao Gang was originally a little dissatisfied with the fact that the regiment commander, the deputy regiment commander and the commander of a main battalion were drinking together in the morning.
But he thought that Li Yunlong couldn't be a good-for-nothing, and maybe there was some reason he didn't understand, so he didn't say anything.
But now that he was treated like this by Li Yunlong, he was also angry.
The brigade commander had told him that Li Yunlong was difficult to cooperate with, but he had not expected that Li Yunlong would not even bother to put in some superficial effort and would directly give him a warning.
"Captain Li, I'm sorry, I don't know how to drink."
"If you can't drink, then why did you come to our independent regiment?"
"The Independent Regiment is for fighting, not for collecting spoils."
Li Yunlong nodded thoughtfully: "Well, that makes sense. After all, he is a cultured person, so he speaks differently."
"I wonder how many battles Political Commissar Zhao has fought?"
Li Yunlong said with a playful smile: "You can teach me later so that I can understand what war is."
Zhao Gang naturally heard the hidden meaning of Li Yunlong's words. If you, Zhao Gang, really have the ability to fight, then you can take it. If you are not as good as me in fighting, then you should listen to me obediently.
Although Zhao Gang has some fighting skills, it depends on who he is facing.
The man in front of him now is known as the most capable commander of the 129th Division, the ruthless man who defeated the Sakata Brigade head-on!
He thought he was definitely not as good as Li Yunlong in fighting.
"I don't deserve it, let's learn from each other."
After listening to Zhao Gang's words, Li Yunlong realized that the other party was not confident enough, so he took advantage of the situation and pursued the enemy.
"Since this is our first meeting, we'd better make things clear.
The military and the government are separated. I have the final say on matters of war, and you have the final say on matters of life. Oh, and ideological work is also yours."
"In that case, can Captain Li tell me if the independent regiment is fighting now?"
Li Yunlong looked at Zhao Gang in surprise: "Fight? What kind of war?"
"Since we are not at war, could you please, Captain Li, explain what is on the table?"
"A regiment, the regiment commander, the deputy regiment commander and a battalion commander were drinking in a room all day long. Is this normal in life?
Commander, you are a veteran, you know the military rules better than I do."
"I……"
Li Yunlong didn't expect to be outmaneuvered by Zhao Gang. He couldn't possibly say that he was just trying to fool Zhao Gang.
It's impossible to tell what they were doing just now.
Li Yunlong could only swallow this loss.
Li Yunlong VS Zhao Gang
In the first round, Zhao Gang won.
"Commissar, your room is ready."
"Captain Li, I hope to meet with Deputy Captain Kong in ten minutes. I have important intelligence to report.
Also, I hope there’s no wine on the table when I come over later.”
Looking at Zhao Gang's departing back, Li Yunlong began to think.
"This political commissar is quite something, but I don't know if he is just a talker."
……
"Hahaha, the valuable gift that Ding Wei gave me was taken by Xiao Qin, but I didn't expect that Xiao Qin found another valuable gift for me."
"Who said it wasn't true? I've heard that Qin Yangming has incredible luck, but I didn't expect that his luck would start to show after only a few days of his arrival."
"Fujiang, Fujiang!"
"Hahaha."
In the room, Li Yunlong and Kong Jie were laughing and talking about Qin Yangming's luck.
And Zhao Gang also entered the room.
Seeing the political commissar coming, Kong Jie naturally couldn't continue sitting on the kang and quickly stood up.
"political commissar."
"Deputy Captain Kong."
"Political Commissar Zhao, Deputy Commander Kong is here. Tell us if you have any important information."
Zhao Gang said directly: "On my way here, I met a young man who was being chased by the puppet army."
"I rescued him. He escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp."
"He said there was important information, so I brought him here."
Li Yunlong looked at the person he saw after hearing this.
"Could it be that he ran away from Chiyang Town?"
In order to confirm whether the other party ran away from Chiyang Town, Li Yunlong spoke quickly.
"Let him in."
"Wei Dayong, Monk Wei, come in."
Soon, a big man in yellow military uniform entered the room.
"Hello, sirs."
"Political Commissar Zhao said you have important information. Tell us about it."
The monk didn't say anything more and said directly: "I escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp."
"There's a special group of devils in that prisoner-of-war camp..."
"Which prisoner-of-war camp?"
"Bronzetown Prisoner of War Camp."
"Well, keep talking."
When Li Yunlong heard Monk Wei say that he did not escape from the Chiyang Town POW camp, he felt relieved.
"It's like this, that special group of devils used us as a training ground.
Unlike other Japanese devils, these ones never engage in a tangle when they attack, and all their moves are killing moves.
Three of us took short knives and fought against a small Japanese soldier. All of us were killed in less than a minute."
"I can see that those three people have practiced Kung Fu. It's a pity that they died in such a cowardly way."
(End of this chapter)
