Rise from the sword

Chapter 22 Arrival
The deputy general staff made a surprise attack.

Depart half an hour early.

Li Yunlong just received a call. The dozen or so horses he had brought with him had already restrained the reins at the entrance of Xingjia Village. One of the officers pointed to a village in the distance:
"In front is Xingjia Village, where the Xinyi regiment is located."

Everyone looks.

Not far away, a standard Jin-style village is located on a sloping land. It is built with a large number of earth-rock bricks. Dilapidated low-rise houses with yellow mud walls are scattered everywhere. There are only a few houses made of blue bricks, but there are also many houses. year old.

This is a rather poor village.

Around the village, there is a messy dry land between rocks and hillsides. There is a shortage of water here, and even the water to eat needs to be picked from a distance, so there is no such high-quality goods as irrigated land.

"Are you going to notify Captain Li to come?"

When everyone dismounted and tied the horse, a staff officer from the 386th Brigade Headquarters asked.

"No, he should know now, let's go straight over, just to see the situation of this new regiment." The deputy general staff waved his hand, motioning not to tell Li Yunlong.

He deliberately came over half an hour earlier, just to quietly take a look at the situation of this new group.

Today is a rare sunny day. Although the temperature is still very low, there is not much wind. Under the sun, I can still feel a lot of warmth.

Everyone walked into the village, led by the staff of the brigade headquarters, and the platoon leader in charge of vigilance around Xingjia Village did not stop everyone, and the platoon leader obviously did not know the deputy general staff, and only thought it was a regular brigade communications inspection. Report to the chief.

Walking into Xingjia Village along the road paved with bluestones, everyone saw a large number of new soldiers who were helping the villagers repair their houses and pave the village roads. In the open space to train and fight for thorns, hehehe drowned.

"Xingjia Village has done a good job"

Looking at the surrounding villages where military and civilians are harmonious, the deputy general counselor's tone was satisfied.

"Xingjia Village had a working group entered a long time ago, and many people in the village have joined the army, so the mass base is relatively good, and the village welcomes the presence of the Eighth Route Army. In addition, our soldiers took the initiative to help the villagers to work. After this, the relationship between the two has become familiar.”

The brigade staff on the side explained.

In this era, many villages have suffered from the robbery and bandits, and are naturally vigilant and resistant to the soldiers. Therefore, the Eighth Route Army usually sends a working group into the village to publicize the policy, and then let the village know about the Eighth Route Army through a small amount of contact, and then resolve the village through word of mouth. The vigilance of the Eighth Route Army, as long as the people in the village know that this is an army that is different and will not bully the people, then everything will come naturally.

Fighting bandits to protect the villagers, eliminating the bullies and dividing the fields, and the soldiers helping to open up wasteland and cultivate the land.

"Well well done"

The deputy chief of staff nodded and walked, observing left and right.

The place where they entered the village was at the west end of the village, and the Xinyi regiment was stationed in an adobe house at the east end of the village, so they had to pass through all the villages along the way. Not long after entering the village, the deputy general counselor locked his sight on a house at the east end of the village. on open space.

The open space paved with bluestone was originally supposed to be the place where the villagers used to dry the millet, and apparently no one would dry the grain during this season. At this time, five mortars were placed on the bluestone slab, and Wang Chengzhu was facing the crowd. , humming a little tune, holding a towel and wiping a gun vigorously, and after wiping it, smeared butter on the movable parts of the gun bracket for maintenance.

Under the sunlight, the gun barrels shone with a faint metallic luster.

Five artillery pieces... The deputy chief of staff raised his eyebrows. It was normal for the regiment to have small-caliber mortars, but five artillery pieces were a bit too many, enough for one company.

The deputy chief of staff walked directly behind Wang Chengzhu, and his pupils shrank immediately after seeing the five mortars on the clearing ground.

The 60-caliber mortar is a long-barreled and extended-range model. Judging from the quality of the steel and the inscription, it is definitely not made by domestic arsenals, but imported from abroad.

Even brand new.

As the deputy general counselor, he is naturally well-informed and has deep military skills, so he can see the difference between these mortars at a glance.

Where did Li Yunlong get these things?The devil doesn't have such a thing, did he rob the national army?But when did the national army import foreign 60-caliber mortars?

Doubts turned into doubts, but the deputy general counselor did not disturb Wang Chengzhu, who was concentrating, but left with a group of people.

As soon as he reached the center of the village, he made a new discovery.

The center is an open space, which is also paved with bluestone bricks. The bluestone bricks are full of scratches and look very old.

In the small open space, about a hundred soldiers lined up neatly in uniform, walking in unison, thrusting, shouting slogans loudly, with great momentum, and the guns in their hands were all three or eight.

Many villagers around were watching, but the officer in charge of the training was still in charge of the training on his own, not caring about the surrounding villagers, and even occasionally a daring child ran into the team, and he didn't care, just let a soldier send him away. To the side, even the request to touch the gun will be satisfied.

In front of the team, there are [-] brand new machine guns. Next to each machine gun, there is an opened bullet box.

This is showing muscles, showing the strength of the Eighth Route Army, indicating that the army has the ability to resist the devils and protect the villagers.The deputy general counsel naturally understood the purpose of this seemingly meaningless training.

but···
Thirty Czech-style, all brand-new imported goods, and these bullets, this box of bullets should be [-] rounds, thirty boxes totaling [-] rounds of bullets... Look at the machine guns placed in front of the team Arrayed, the deputy general counsel couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth.

so rich
The devils don't have the Czech style, and the puppet army is poor. Moreover, these Czech styles are imported goods at first glance.

It's imported mortars, and it's imported Czech-style guns. Damn, where did Li Yunlong get these things... Could this kid stole Yan Laoxi's arsenal?
For a long time, Li Yunlong and his new group have always been an oddity.

The Xinyi regiment was originally a backbone regiment, which belonged to the second-line regiment in the Eighth Route Army. The main purpose of its establishment was to defend the base area, strengthen the occupied area, and occasionally block the tasks of the puppet troops, so that the main regiment was free to fight against the devils.In addition, it also has supplementary troops for the main force.

Only a small amount of living materials are distributed in the backbone group, and there is no allocation of weapons and ammunition. If you want weapons, you need to exchange materials to the headquarters, such as steel rails for guns, and cartridges for bullets.

Or seize the ghosts and puppets, and seize the guns left by the people.

The other basic groups did a good job, but this new group didn't do the right thing. Originally, he was asked to deal with bullies, bandits, and puppet troops. As a result, Li Yunlong wanted to beat the devils, and he beat the devils so loudly, more than the regular main force. The group is even tougher.

In a mere year, it has changed from the weakest backbone group to the most capable main force.

It is very embarrassing for the main force of the 129th Division.

Still undisturbed, silent for a while, the deputy general staff found a staff officer who came from the headquarters and said: "Feishan, you have a fellow here who is the battalion commander, and you are familiar with this place, you go and find out, these weapons are from where did you get it?"

"Yes" The staff officer nodded and left alone.

The deputy chief of staff has also met Captain Li many times, and naturally knows the character of this kid. According to his estimation, this kid will never say the source of these weapons. Even if he asks, he is mostly confused.

The crowd continued to head towards the headquarter of the new regiment in the east of the village.

When everyone was about to arrive at the headquarters of the eastern head of the village, they met a group of mules. Unlike the common mules, each of these mules was extremely tall, and each of them was carrying a lot of items.

There are stone bricks, firewood, and most of them are buckets...the weight is not light. The big wooden bucket is filled with about 120 kilograms of water, and each mule has six camels, which is [-] kilograms.

The camel has more than 200 catties of water and can climb the slope so easily. This mule is a bit powerful...

The crowd looked at each other for a long time.

The mule was very important in the Eighth Route Army, and it was the only means of transportation.

"This is the transport platoon of the new regiment. That is the old Zhao head, a veteran, but he was injured and left a dark disease, so he was transferred to the logistics force," said the brigade staff.

The deputy general counselor gave a 'um', looking at the mules with increasingly strange eyes.

These mules were good mules, strong, strong, sturdy, the best mules he had ever seen in his life.

A good mule that is frighteningly strong is just a little surprising, but 30 mules that are so strong are very strange.

(End of this chapter)