Liang Jian: Commander, save some for me

"This... doesn't seem to be the case..." Fang Ligong fell silent as he spoke. It seemed that what he thought was too simple.

Although they were able to capture the floating city, the price they had to pay was not something they could afford. It’s not that they couldn’t afford it, but the price was too high and it was somewhat not worth it.

Moreover, if the Japs were not intimidated and instead continued to send reinforcements, their threat would be even greater.

"Brother Ligong, you should consider the consequences of everything." Chu Yunfei said!

Although Fang Ligong's idea was barely acceptable, the cost was too high. No commander would be willing to pay such a high price.

"The commander is right." Fang Ligong nodded quickly in acknowledgement, not daring to refute.

He also had to admit that Chu Yunfei's ability was indeed far superior to his. As expected of a student from the Whampoa Military Academy, he was much better than ordinary people in commanding operations and considering the battle situation, and he could see further.

"Commander, according to what you said, Mu Jin and the others will do us a favor in the future. Doesn't this count as completing Mu Jin's task of building good relationships in disguise?" Fang Ligong said, changing the subject.

"Just barely. If we become enemies with them in the future, perhaps Mu Jin will let us go because of our past friendship. Or, we can also save some people because of this." Chu Yunfei nodded and said.

Therefore, in Mu Jin's eyes, their 358th Regiment was still reliable. At least when they really fought the Japanese, they were not ambiguous.

"This is a good thing. Although Mu Jin did not have a good impression of our Jinsui Army, at least our relationship with them is still okay." Fang Ligong laughed. He felt that this battle achieved many goals.

One of the goals was to kill many devils and puppet troops with very few casualties, and another was to achieve the goal of training troops. More importantly, they had a good relationship with Mu Jin!
"Yes! Let the soldiers of the communications squad immediately connect to the county town. We need to restore the previous communications." Chu Yunfei nodded and gave the order.

The communications in this city were destroyed by the Japanese after we left here and it was occupied by the Japanese. Now we need to restore the communications.

"Yes!" Fang Ligong turned and left.

Chu Yunfei asked someone to come in and clean up the office. He was somewhat fed up with the messy office.

.........

On the other side, Li Jin and his men were still resting. Since the Japanese airport had been bombed by them, they did not have to worry about being detected by Japanese planes during the day, so they decided to travel during the day and rest at night.

"Captain, Commander." The telegraph operator hurried over to find Li Jin and woke him up.

"What's wrong? Is it a telegram from Old Xu?" As soon as Li Jin saw the telegraph operator, he guessed that it was Xu Qingfeng who sent the telegram.

"It's from Deputy Commander Xu. Take a look. It's good news." The telegraph operator handed the telegram to Li Jin.

The noise here also alarmed Lu Changgong, who opened his eyes and came to Li Jin.

"Captain, is this the battle report from Fucheng?!" Lu Changgong asked. Calculating the time, Deputy Captain Xu should have taken Fucheng!

"Well, the floating city was successfully taken down. More than a dozen soldiers were sacrificed and more than thirty were seriously injured. This record is considered quite good." Li Jin told the story with a satisfied smile on his face.

These new recruits did not disappoint him. They did a great job in the siege and fought very well.

"Captain, this is all thanks to your good leadership and long-distance command, which made it possible for the floating city to be captured easily." Upon hearing this, Lu Changgong immediately started to flatter him.

"Boy, when did you become a flatterer? Who did you learn this from?" Li Jin couldn't help asking after hearing this.

"Captain, who do you think I learned this from? Didn't you say that we should understand the ways of the world, put leaders first, and give credit to leaders first!" Lu Changgong said with an embarrassed smile.

"Bullshit, when did I ever teach you the rest?" Li Jin admitted that he was the one who said the first part, but he never said the rest.

"This is what I realized on this basis!" Lu Changgong smiled. In fact, there is no harm in learning more.

"You kid, you're tall and strong, but you can actually summarize. Keep it up. Of course, don't flatter me. I won't fall for it. Otherwise, don't blame me for being rude." Li Jin said the latter part with a threatening tone in his voice.

He was also very happy about Lu Changgong's transformation. Being able to flatter his superiors, Lu Changgong would probably do well even if he was not around in the future.

"Don't worry, Captain. I won't say that anymore." Lu Changgong made a promise solemnly. In fact, he just wanted to show Li Jin what he had summarized, so he used Li Jin to practice.

"Well, that's more like it. But sometimes you have to pay attention to the occasion when you flatter someone. Don't flatter someone all the time, as it's easy to flatter someone's legs. Do you understand?!" Li Jin reminded him that flattering someone is also an art. If you don't grasp the essence of it, you can only flatter someone's legs.

"I understand!" Lu Changgong nodded repeatedly, and agreed with what Li Jin said in his heart.

"Captain, what should I say to Deputy Commander Xu?!" the telegraph operator couldn't help but ask at this time.

"Just tell him that he did a good job. After you handle the follow-up matters, continue to train the new recruits and wait for me to come back from Yan'an." Li Jin instructed.

Everything that would happen to Xu Qingfeng later had already been mentioned in the telegram, so Xu Qingfeng only needed to continue training the soldiers. As for causing trouble for the Japanese, he could put that aside for the time being.

They have caused heavy losses to the Japanese one after another. If they continue to make trouble, the Japanese will really blow up, and then the bases will be the ones to suffer.

"Okay!" The telegraph operator left immediately to send a telegram to Xu Qingfeng.

.........

"Political Commissar, the regiment commander sent a telegram!" At this time, Xu Qingfeng, who was on his way, also received Li Jin's telegram.

After reading the telegram, Xu Qingfeng asked the telegraph operator to reply with two words: received.

After doing all this, Xu Qingfeng took out the walkie-talkie and began to give assembly orders to the company commanders of several companies that had previously ambushed the Japanese.

Fortunately, there was a walkie-talkie, otherwise someone would have to go over to notify them, which would have wasted a lot of time.

.........

Jinsui Army Headquarters.

In the communication room, Zhang Shizuo leaned back in his chair, yawning from time to time, tears coming out. After learning that Xu Qingfeng and his men were going to attack Fucheng in the early morning, he chose to stay up all night and waited for the telegram from Chu Yunfei in the communication room. "Waiting is really a tormenting thing." Zhang Shizuo couldn't help but yawn again, feeling a little emotional. In fact, what he really cared about was whether Chu Yunfei had a good relationship with the Northeast Army. Only in this way could they have a chance to keep their lives in the future.

"Commander, there's still no news from Captain Chu. I don't think we can take down this floating city so quickly. Why don't you go and have a rest? I'll come to you as soon as Captain Chu sends a telegram, how about that?!" A computer operator came to Commander Zhang and showed concern.

After all, Master Zhang is not young anymore and he always stays up late. This time he even stayed up all night. He was really worried that something might happen to the Master.

"It's okay. I can handle it. You guys continue with your work and don't need to pay attention to me." Master Zhang waved his hands and said nonchalantly. To him, these seemed to be commonplace and not worth taking to heart.

"Well, Commander, would you like to eat something? I'll ask someone to get it for you." The telegraph operator stopped forcing him and asked Chu Yunfei if he wanted to eat something.

"No need. You don't have to worry so much about me. Your job is to stick to your own posts. Do you understand?" Master Zhang said seriously.

"Yes!" All the signalmen in the communication room widened their eyes, as if they were afraid that they would miss some important news.

Master Zhang waited until daytime, and only when someone brought them breakfast did he eat something.

At this moment, there was a movement from the telegraph operator. Master Zhang came behind the telegraph operator without even having time to swallow the noodles in his mouth.

"What's going on? Did Chu Yunfei send a telegram?!" Master Zhang asked anxiously.

"Master, please wait a moment. I feel that this telegram may be a bit long." The telegraph operator said hurriedly.

"Then speed up and come over here quickly to receive and translate!" Commander Zhang also ordered people to come and help.

With the help of others, the content of the telegram was quickly translated.

"Give it to me!" Master Zhang immediately snatched the written translation telegram paper and checked the content.

"Hahaha... Chu Yunfei didn't let me down. They actually took down the floating city, and the price they paid was far less than expected." Commander Zhang laughed happily. He was worthy of being a person that both he and the commander valued.

"I have to tell the commander the news first." Commander Zhang quickly stood up, left the meeting room, and rushed to Commander Yan's office.

.........

At this time, Commander Yan was eating noodles in his office. It was very light, with only two fried eggs, but he ate it with relish.

Since he got older, he dared not eat too much meat and fish as his body could not handle it, so he could only eat light meals.

"Slurp..." Commander Yan could be heard slurping noodles from time to time.

boom!
"Commander, good news!"

Suddenly, the door was opened by Commander Zhang, which scared Commander Yan.

"Cough cough cough..." Commander Yan accidentally choked and two noodles even came out of his nostrils.

"Um... Commander, I'm sorry! I should have knocked on the door first!" When Commander Zhang saw Commander Yan's funny look, he was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat.

"What good news?!" Commander Yan resolved his embarrassment calmly, then asked calmly.

"Commander, Chu Yunfei and his men have captured the floating city, and the casualties are not great. The price they paid is much smaller than we thought.

Moreover, Chu Yunfei has established a good relationship with Mu Jin and others." Commander Zhang quickly handed the telegram to Commander Yan and told him the content.

"Very good. Hundreds of thousands of dollars not only established a good relationship with Mu Jin, but also helped to capture Fucheng and gave the new recruits combat experience.

It's a win-win situation. It's worth spending all this money." After reading it, Commander Yan praised it again and again, and everything went smoothly.

"Yes, Chu Yunfei's ability is still very good, Commander. I think we can hold a press conference and talk about the battle to retake the floating city." Commander Zhang continued to praise him and helped the 358th Regiment to make a name for itself.

"Well, it is indeed necessary. Let's hold the press conference in two days. At the same time, send a team of reporters to Fucheng to interview Chu Yunfei and let him show his face." Commander Yan nodded and said.

After all, Chu Yunfei is his man. He has made so many contributions, so there is no problem in letting him show his face more often.

"Commander, you are wise!" Commander Zhang gave Commander Yan a thumbs up and praised him.

"Well, Commander, I think Chu Yunfei's contribution this time, combined with his previous contributions, should make him be promoted, right?! Otherwise, if others find out, they will think that the commander has not received any reward for his contributions." Commander Zhang suggested cautiously.

Chu Yunfei's contributions were indeed not small, but before he cooperated with the Northeast Army to fight the Japanese, his achievements were quite small and he did not achieve any outstanding results. If the commander had not valued Chu Yunfei's background in the Whampoa Military Academy and his ability, he would not have been able to become the regiment commander.

But after cooperating with the Northeast Army, things were different. Chu Yunfei made great contributions one after another. Now Chu Yunfei is fully qualified to move up in position.

"Well, it's time for Chu Yunfei to be promoted. What do you think about promoting him directly to brigade commander?!" Upon hearing this, Commander Yan thought about it seriously and then expressed his thoughts.

In fact, when Chu Yunfei first cooperated with the Northeast Army and made great contributions, he thought about promoting Chu Yunfei, but because he was worried that Chu Yunfei would become arrogant, he suppressed his plan and planned to train Chu Yunfei.

Now that he has been tempered enough, Chu Yunfei has conquered Fucheng again. If he is not promoted, not only Chu Yunfei himself, but also other people may not be able to bear it.

"Commander, I think it's very good. Chu Yunfei is a graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy after all, and he has demonstrated his abilities.
It's more than enough to let him take up a brigade-level position!" Commander Zhang said hastily, with a smile on his face. It was obvious that he was very happy. People who didn't know him would think he had been promoted.

He felt that Chu Yunfei was capable of taking on a position at not only the brigade level, but even the division level. However, it was not the right time yet, but it would be ready later.

"That's settled then. Don't tell Chu Yunfei about this for now, lest he becomes proud and complacent. It will take at least half a month to send him the appointment letter." Commander Yan couldn't help but instruct Commander Zhang.

He still values ​​Chu Yunfei very much, so he wanted to continue training Chu Yunfei. After all, jade cannot be made into a useful object without being polished.

"Don't worry, Commander. I will absolutely keep my mouth shut and never let Chu Yunfei know about this!" Commander Zhang also quickly assured.

(End of this chapter)