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Chapter 534 Chapter 533, There's Another Woman

Thinking about the instructions given by Minister Zhang before leaving, Li Yuexuan led the team to a village south of Matan and stopped here. It was not that Li Yuexuan did not want to move forward, but the chief of staff was waiting for him here with a smile on his face.

"Hello, Chief!" Li Yuexuan saluted, but secretly sighed in his heart, maybe Liao County will not change its name this time! He knew the course of the Cross Ridge battle, so he also knew that with the current number and quality of the Eighth Route Army's artillery, it was enough to fight back and forth with the devil's troops! Therefore, some things don't need to be said, just know it yourself...

"Haha, hello, Comrade Youshun!" The chief of staff returned the greeting, then took out something from the bag beside him and handed it to Li Yuexuan, saying, "These are your certificates of merit, one first-class merit, and some others, all of which were assessed based on your contributions during this period. It's not too late to give them to you now, right?"

"It's not too late. Thank you for the organization's... recognition!" Li Yuexuan paused for more than a second before thinking of a fairly appropriate word.

"Haha, of course I recognize you! Look at the top one, it's the Special Contribution Award that was just awarded to you, to reward you for the improvements and suggestions you made in the construction of our artillery unit. By the way, there are some border area tickets in it, which were specially approved for you by the head of the headquarters!" The chief of staff said patiently.

"Thank you for the organization's kindness. My contribution is nothing, but I get the highest allowance, and my food and drink expenses are several levels higher than Minister Zhang. It's really... I feel like I'm being treated specially." Li Yuexuan said very humbly.

"What do you mean by special treatment? It means special treatment! Even if you don't mention it yourself, the organization has remembered your contribution! The appearance of sulfa and penicillin has saved too many of our wounded. There is no way to count how many people have been saved! In addition, according to your original opinion, we used penicillin oil as a bargaining chip and got a lot of supplies from the Russians."

The chief of staff didn't continue, but Li Yuexuan had already received some news from Minister Zhang, so he knew that penicillin really made the Eighth Route Army earn a lot of good things! Especially when the Mao Bear family was being pressed to the ground by the little mustache leader, and the number of wounded was countless, the life-saving drugs at this time were really sky-high!

Don't think it's too expensive, it's not available anywhere else. Between life and money, it depends on how you choose! Well, Li Yuexuan didn't ask about the specific details of the transaction. Anyway, at this time, many comrades in the Eighth Route Army have a tendency to turn to the direction of the charred rabbit, and the profiteer value is about to explode.

After finishing the conversation, the chief of staff pointed to the field east of the village and said, "Come on, follow me to see the results of the artillery regiment's training, and let you review it."

"I'll just go with you to see it for myself, don't talk about inspection!" Li Yuexuan didn't think he was qualified to review these old seniors, although he had already made enough achievements here.

At the foot of the mountain east of the village is the Qingzhang River, whose water volume has decreased significantly in winter. Between the river and the village is a large open space, where dozens of trucks are parked and heavy guns are placed one by one. No need to guess, this is definitely the training ground of the headquarters artillery regiment.

Obviously, the comrades of the artillery regiment had received the notice long ago, so they were all standing neatly beside the trucks, and the mortars were wiped spotlessly. After Li Yuexuan and the chief of staff stepped onto the reviewing stand, a commander waved the red flag, and the soldiers immediately got busy.

Starting the trucks, loading ammunition boxes, mounting mortars, people boarding the trucks, and the trucks moving… After a series of actions, I wouldn’t say that everyone was in unison, but it’s no problem to describe it as orderly. Then, the trucks started moving, and the convoy drove south, raising a large cloud of dust.

After the convoy drove out for more than 300 meters, a truck turned and stopped in the field near the river. Then, the soldiers got off the truck, took off the mortar, and the soldiers of the mortar squad set up the mortar on the spot. The soldiers of the ammunition group carried the ammunition boxes down and soon set up the mortar by the river. After all the ammunition boxes were placed on the side of the artillery position, the truck started and stopped more than 200 meters away from the artillery position. The driver and machine gunner stood on the truck bed.

"Today we are just reviewing the speed of getting on the vehicles and setting up positions. It is very different from actual combat!" Only then did the chief of staff say, "Do you have any other opinions?"

"Of course there are opinions. Mortars can operate at a long distance, but they are also easily attacked by enemy artillery and air strikes, so combat pits need to be dug. Ammunition boxes should also be kept away from mortars, and there should be pits specifically for ammunition boxes. The entire combat pit should also be surrounded by sandbag walls to block shock waves and stray bullets. It is best to place some shelter on the top of the pit as camouflage to deceive aerial reconnaissance and enemy ground reconnaissance."

"In addition, if conditions permit, we need to dig out some pits to accommodate the trucks where they are parked, so that the truck squad can be exposed and the machine gunners can be better protected... Also, the distance between the mortar positions must be far enough to at least avoid the explosion diameter of the mountain artillery! Also, the communication lines must be kept unobstructed..."

Li Yuexuan gave the chief of staff his opinions based on his own experience. Although his opinions were not well organized, the chief of staff wrote them down quickly, as if they were very important.

After reviewing the artillery regiment's training, Li Yuexuan's mission to the headquarters came to an end, and it was time to continue heading north. However, when passing the headquarters, the chief of staff stopped him again and stuffed a woman who was about 20 years old into his team. At first glance, this woman was just an ordinary woman, nothing special.

"Chief of Staff, what's going on?" Li Yuexuan was puzzled. Why did a woman suddenly appear? What important mission did she have?
"Oh... it's hard to describe!" said the chief of staff. "She had just been married for a few months and was pregnant when her husband said he was going to fight against the Japanese and left home. Two years later, a group of puppet soldiers broke into her home and asked her to prepare a table of food and wine for the puppet soldiers. So she took her two-year-old daughter to the street to buy a table of food for the puppet soldiers."

"Isn't this a big deal?" Li Yuexuan still didn't understand.

"This is a strong-willed woman. She put poison in the food. 13 puppet soldiers, one of whom was our comrade, were poisoned after eating it!" At this point, the chief of staff paused before continuing: "This woman was also cruel enough. She picked up the door bar and beat the puppet soldiers to death one by one. Our comrade was also accidentally injured. And her little daughter was poisoned because she stole the food!"

"You don't mean to say that the comrade who was accidentally injured was her husband? She recognized him, and then, without knowing it, killed him with her own hands..." Li Yuexuan said.

"Yes, fortunately, she still doesn't know that her husband, who was beaten to death by her own hands, was an intelligence agent who was ordered to infiltrate the puppet army. She just thought that she killed a group of traitors..."

"Unfortunately, she doesn't know either!" Li Yuexuan added.

(End of this chapter)