Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 221 I’m rich!

Kazuki Seiji had heard the title of transport team leader more than once.

Li Yunlong led his troops to ambush the locust army's transport team at Wangdongbao. After seizing a batch of combat supplies, he sent a clear text telegram saying that Itagaki Seishirō was the transport team leader of the Eighth Route Army.

Because of this title, Itagaki Seishirō was often laughed at by his fellow lieutenant generals.

The last time Katsuki Seiji met Itagaki Seishirō at a meeting at the North China Front Army Headquarters, he used this title to tease him.

At that time, Itagaki Seishirō was so angry that his face turned blue, and Kazuki Seiji felt so happy.

I didn't expect that Li Yunlong would give me this title. It's simply damn right!

But he couldn't refute it, after all, the military train transporting equipment and raw materials was indeed robbed by the Eighth Route Army.

Moreover, this military train was arranged by him personally, which was really frustrating.

Thinking that he would be teased as the transport captain of the Eighth Route Army next time he attended a meeting at the North China Front Army Headquarters, Kazuki Seiji became furious.

This is not a good title. Once it is confirmed, it will have a great impact on his future.

Kozuki Seiji called the intelligence officer and asked about Li Yunlong's situation, and the reply he received was that it was under investigation.

If Tanaka Takayoshi had not held Kazuki Seiji back, the intelligence officer would have been hacked to death on the spot.

After Kazuki Seiji regained some composure, Chief of Staff Tanaka Takayoshi said in a deep voice, "Commander, there has always been something strange about this matter."

Taking a deep breath, Xiangyue Qingsi asked with a sullen face: "What's strange?"

Li Yunlong's plain text telegram was not very harmful but extremely insulting, and it almost made Xiangyue Qingji lose his mind in anger.

Tanaka Takayoshi said, "When the Eighth Route Army robs the Locust Army's train, they only have two options: either blow up all of the Locust Army's equipment and raw materials, or transport the equipment and raw materials away."

"Since the entire site wasn't blown up, it means the Eighth Route Army had already taken away all the equipment and raw materials, even the rails and military trains."

Although the Japanese army has not yet implemented the ball cage policy, no strongholds or artillery towers have been built on both sides of the Zhengtai Railway.

"Every ten or twenty kilometers along the Zhengtai Railway, there are train stations, and these stations are garrisoned by the Locust Army and the Locust Support Army."

"Headquarters has called the garrisons at these stations, and they've all reported that no military train transporting equipment and raw materials has been spotted passing through, nor has the train been found in any of the tunnels."

"The entire military train, its equipment and raw materials, as well as the one kilometer of track in Songjia Village, seemed to have vanished into thin air."

"This is truly unbelievable, Commander. I suspect something strange has happened in Songjia Village."

"Otherwise there's no way to explain this whole thing!"

"Tanaka-kun, shut up!"

Tanaka Takayoshi was usually a bit weird, and Kazuki Seiji didn't expect him to be so outrageous:
"Do you know what you're talking about?"

"As a soldier of the Empire of Japan, you actually believe these things. If the Chinese army really had divine help, how could the Locust Army occupy so much Chinese territory?"

Tanaka Takayoshi disagreed in his heart, but still lowered his head: "Hi."

"Check it for me!"

Kazuki Seiji's eyes were red and he was furious:

"Mobilize all intelligence personnel to investigate the military train. I don't believe that over a thousand tons of stuff could just disappear out of thin air."

"And this Li Yunlong, find out the whereabouts of this man and his troops."

"To challenge the dignity and honor of the Locust Army time and again is simply courting death!"

Although it was a loss of face for the commander of the First Army to personally take action against a small regimental commander of the Eighth Route Army.

However, Li Yunlong has been jumping around recently, which has made Xiangyue Qingsi unbearable and he no longer needs to tolerate it.

"Hi."

The Japs suddenly lowered their heads.

……

As soon as Li Yunlong's plain text telegram was sent.

Almost all radio stations across the country that were receiving signals received this telegram.

Shaanxi Province, Luochuan, Second War Zone Headquarters.

"Report to the Commander."

Chu Xichun, the communications director of the Second War Zone, reported to Yan Laoxi with a shocked expression while holding a telegram:
"Just now, Li Yunlong of the Eighth Route Army sent a clear-coded telegram. He led his troops to intercept a Japanese military train."

After Linfen was captured by the Japanese army, Yan Laoxi led his headquarters and troops across the Yellow River to the west and took refuge in Luochuan, Shaanxi Province.

Yan Laoxi naturally hated the Japanese army for invading Shanxi Province and occupying his precious Taiyuan Ordnance Factory.

Moreover, according to reports from intelligence personnel lurking in Taiyuan, the Japanese army was loading the better equipment of the Taiyuan Arsenal onto trucks and transporting it to Beijing.

Even though the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army later recaptured the Taiyuan Arsenal from the Japanese, the good stuff had been taken away by the devils.

However, the meager force left by Yan Laoxi in Taiyuan was unable to stop the Japanese army from transporting good equipment to places like Beijing.

This made the stingy Yan Laoxi so angry that he couldn't sleep for several days.

Hearing this, Yan Laoxi instantly perked up, his eyes flashing: "What did you say? The Eighth Route Army robbed the Japanese army's train again?" "Yes, Commander."

Chu Xichun's expression of shock remained unchanged. He nodded and handed over the telegram in his hand:

"Li Yunlong said that this train was loaded with equipment and raw materials for the Taiyuan Arsenal to produce light machine guns, and he also referred to the commander of the Japanese First Army, Kazuki Seiji, as the transport captain of the Eighth Route Army."

Yan Laoxi took the telegram and read it, his expression shocked: "It's actually true."

Chu Xichun exclaimed, "Commander, judging from this telegram, the Eighth Route Army not only successfully intercepted the Japanese military train, but also transported away the equipment and raw materials. It's hard to imagine that the Eighth Route Army could do this. What's even more surprising is that the Eighth Route Army obtained intelligence about the Japanese military transport train. This shows that the Eighth Route Army's intelligence system is even more powerful than our Shanxi-Suiyuan Army's."

Yan Laoxi didn't care about these things. He sighed deeply: "These are all my things!"

For Yan Laoxi, the equipment and raw materials of Taiyuan Arsenal are most valuable only when they are in his own hands.

Whether it was occupied by the Japanese army or fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, Yan Laoxi's heart would bleed.

His own 30 Shanxi-Suiyuan Army was almost gone, while the mere to Eighth Route Army had won successive victories after arriving in Shanxi Province, and had continued to grow and develop, and their influence had continued to expand. Now they had snatched the equipment and raw materials for producing their own light machine guns from the Japanese, which made Yan Laoxi envious and jealous.

It was even more painful than cutting his flesh.

at the same time.

Shuangqing City.

Principal Chang also saw the plain text telegram sent by Li Yunlong. Like Yan Laoxi, Principal Chang was not happy but angry, and cursed loudly.

What Principal Chang most hopes to see is the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese Army exhausting each other. The more lively and intense the fighting is, the happier he will be.

What he least wanted to see was the Eighth Route Army growing stronger, which would be greatly disadvantageous to his Kuomintang government.

Principal Chang never expected that the Eighth Route Army would develop its military industry by looting equipment and raw materials from the Taiyuan Arsenal.

That night, Principal Chang, a diary-loving maniac, wrote in his diary:

The Eighth Route Army is growing stronger day by day. Is its impact beneficial or harmful?
The next day.

The Eighth Route Army published a headline in the "Xinhua Daily" in Shuangqing City, saying that the Eighth Route Army's newly formed Jinzhong base launched an offensive, killing and wounding more than 2000 Japanese and puppet troops.

Li Yunlong's plain text telegram also gained a large number of fans, most of whom are patriotic young people.

of course.

It also attracted a lot of hatred from the Japanese, but it didn't matter to Li Yunlong.

……

Meng County.

Xujia Village.

Ding Wei, Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, Li Wenying, Xing Zhiguo and others gathered together.

Like the New First Regiment, the New Third Regiment had no political commissar, and Ding Wei served as both the regiment commander and the political commissar.

Li Yunlong glanced at everyone and said, "Everyone is here. Let's start dividing the spoils. No, let's divide the trophies."

Li Yunlong always regarded himself as the king of the mountain. He ambushed the Japanese army train and claimed that it was a robbery of the Japanese army train.

However, today some battalion commanders and staff officers from three regiments are present, so Li Yunlong cannot be too rude.

But as soon as Li Yunlong said this, everyone burst into laughter, but no one thought that Li Yunlong was wrong.

Li Yunlong has participated in the revolution for 10 years and is an old revolutionary, his blood is redder than theirs.

Then, Li Yunlong looked at Zhao Gang and said, "Staff Officer Zhao, please read out to everyone the spoils of this battle."

Now Li Yunlong is the head of the Jinzhong base. According to the discipline of the Eighth Route Army, the spoils of the New Third Regiment and the Independent Regiment must be handed over to the headquarters of the New First Regiment, and then Li Yunlong will make unified distribution after the personnel of the headquarters are counted.

"We have made a great haul this time."

Zhao Gang took a list from Li Yunlong and read it with a smile:
"First, weapons and ammunition. A total of 823 rifles, more than 25 rounds of bullets, and more than 2000 grenades were seized."

"There are 26 light machine guns, 7 heavy machine guns, and 8 damaged light and heavy machine guns that can be repaired with spare parts."

"There were also 12 sabers and more than 832 bayonets, 23 pistols and some pistol cartridges."

After all, Meng County is not a military stronghold like Yangquan. The weapons, ammunition and food stockpiled by the Japanese are not even as much as those in Wuxiang County.

The seized pistols were mainly the Japanese Type 14 Nambu pistols, commonly known as Turtle Boxes. No one in the Jinzhong base area looks down on this type of pistol now. It is not even as good as a Mauser pistol, not to mention the Colt pistol provided by Boss Lin. The bullets are not easy to replenish. What's the point of having this kind of garbage?
“掷弹筒8门、迫击炮3门、步兵炮1门，掷榴弹162发，迫击炮和步兵炮弹82发。”

"As for food, it's mainly grain from captured Japanese granaries and confiscated by traitors, totaling 186 tons. It's all been brought to Xujia Village."

"In addition, we also seized a lot of valuables, including over 5 silver dollars, over 30 Japanese yen, 23 small gold bars and some miscellaneous gold nuggets totaling over five kilograms, watches, and kilograms of silverware."

The seized silver dollars were mainly collected from the homes of traitors, while the Japanese yen and gold bars were mainly seized from the Japanese bank in Meng County.

This time it involves dividing the spoils. Except for bullets which are difficult to count, all other spoils must be counted accurately to the single digit.

Brothers, settle accounts.

After Zhao Gang finished reading the statistical list, Ding Wei, Kong Jie and a group of battalion commanders and staff officers immediately smiled.

Got rich!

(End of this chapter)