EBE Chapter 117 Li Dabenshi's abacus is making a lot of noise
Chapter 117 Li Dabenshi's abacus is making a lot of noise
All I could hear was Li Dabenshi mumbling something softly.
“We, the Eighth Route Army, are well disciplined, so of course all the credit for these captures must go to us.
But what if these weapons were not captured from the enemy but given to us by good friends..."
When Captain Tong heard this, he was overjoyed. He was a veteran Red Army soldier and had many ideas.
Li Dabenshi: Battalion Commander, why do I feel like you are implying something to me?
It has been said that all captured items must be turned over to the public, but there must be captured items before that can be done.
Now that the Japanese in the two artillery towers have been eliminated, now is the harvest season.
Under the leadership of Captain Tong and Li Dabenshi, everyone began to tear down the artillery tower.
Among them, the puppet soldiers were the most active, all trying to behave well in order to be treated leniently.
It took them a whole morning to finally clear out all the supplies.
In the battle of Xiaojia Village, a total of 28 Japanese devils and more than 30 puppet troops were wiped out.
It seems that the Japanese attach great importance to this place, and each artillery tower is heavily guarded.
They were stationed with a squad of Japanese troops and a reinforced platoon of puppet troops.
The spoils of war in this battle were quite rich, including ten usable Type 38 rifles, two Type 99 rifles, and about three to four thousand rounds of ammunition.
The two Type 92 heavy machine guns were severely damaged and broken into several sections, and were obviously unusable.
The heavy machine gun has quite a lot of bullets, more than 2,000 rounds.
The two grenade launchers can still be used, and there are more than thirty special grenades.
Sixty-five Hanyang-made guns, with one thousand five hundred rounds of ammunition and two Czech-style guns.
There were only 500-odd bullets for the light machine guns, and only 100-odd grenades, including those from the Japanese. It seemed that the puppet soldiers were not treated very well.
Finally, Captain Tong decided to ask the comrades from the county brigade and district squad to hand over all the scrap metal they had.
We picked out the useful Hanyang-made ones and allocated them to them.
Each family had a Type 99 rifle, fifty grenades, and five pistols.
Each family was given 15 brand new Type 38 rifles, and they were asked to go back and train more militia.
What he meant was that the main force now had the hard stuff in hand and was starting to prepare to recruit soldiers.
The weapons that Song Wenwan gave were nominally owned by Li Dabenshi.
As for how to deal with the situation, Captain Tong still has to listen to his opinion.
Li Dabenshi said: "Although these are all mine, given our leader's temper, I guess he can't leave them all to us."
Captain Tong nodded. He knew what his regiment commander was like.
Li Dabenshi continued, "Two hundred Type 38 rifles, in addition to those given to local comrades.
We will keep seventy of them and hand over the remaining one hundred to the regiment headquarters.
"We can keep twenty of the one hundred Mauser pistols so that our reconnaissance platoon will have something useful to do.
We'll keep three of the ten light machine guns, and one of the four Maxim heavy machine guns.
We can keep more grenades and give each of our soldiers two.
It seems that we can’t keep the mortars. We can’t be too greedy. Let’s hand them all over!
But we have to keep half of the four grenade launchers. I don’t think our superiors will mind.”
The county captain next to him curled his lips when he heard this and said, "Isn't this greedy?"
Two grenade launchers with fifty grenades, one Maxim and three Czech-type.
This is the treatment that even the main battalion... No, this is the treatment that even the main regiment doesn't have!
Captain Tong also asked worriedly, "Old Li, we left so much equipment behind at once, will our superiors have any objections?"
Li Dabenshi said: "With these two mortars and three heavy machine guns, who dares to say you are wrong?
Besides, we still have four telescopes! If the regiment gets two and the column gets two more, everyone will praise you for your ability to do things!"
Captain Tong said reluctantly: "Look, Lao Li, our battalion doesn't even have a telescope..."
Li Dabenshi said softly: "When the supplies are delivered, you go there in person, and before you leave, you secretly take our leader's old telescope away..."
As Li Dabenshi's voice became softer and softer, Captain Tong's mouth was full of smiles.
Hehehe, this Li Dabenshi’s abacus is making a lot of noise.
It is said that after they returned to the base, they delivered the supplies to the regiment headquarters, and finally even the head of the column was alarmed.
After some discussion with their group leader, the two families finally divided the gifts equally.
As for the supplies that Captain Tong had seized...
Now that I have a brand new high-power telescope, I can just pretend not to see anything else.
However, meritorious service must be rewarded, and the superiors upgraded Captain Tong's Third Battalion to an independent battalion directly under the regiment headquarters.
The county brigade and district squad that cooperated with him in the battle, along with more than 50 captured puppet soldiers, were all assigned to the independent battalion of Battalion Commander Tong.
Comrade Li Dabenshi was promoted to deputy battalion commander of the independent battalion.
They also solved his organizational problems and restored his party membership.
During this period, no matter what Captain Tong and his men did, the Japanese and puppet troops in the nearby strongholds were very honest.
None of them dared to come out and cause trouble for Captain Tong's Eighth Route Army.
He was probably frightened by the national army that just passed by and didn't know what to do.
Fifty to sixty thousand troops were marching in multiple columns, and from time to time a few artillerymen would appear, fiddling with the Type 92 infantry guns.
Then fire two shots at the artillery towers and strongholds. Do you think they will be scared?
If it weren't for the fact that they were surrounded by powerful enemies on all sides, the current strength of the Gansu-Sichuan coalition forces would not be able to defeat everything.
Song Wenwan was thinking, otherwise just push forward smoothly.
He wanted to vent all his anger on the Japanese strongholds along the way.
But rationally, Song Wenwan still restrained herself a little.
The first few major victories he won were based on the enemy's lack of understanding of him.
Moreover, most of the time, it was because he first tricked the Japanese invaders and disrupted their tactical rhythm that we achieved today's results.
But now every move of his troops is under the enemy's eyes.
Once the Japanese react, they may mobilize troops to besiege him.
Although he was not afraid, a large number of casualties were inevitable.
As the old saying goes, the lives of the Chinese are more valuable than the lives of the Japanese.
So Song Wenwan led the troops and went straight to the base without making too many stops.
When Song Wenwan entered the base, the Japanese finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka of the Japanese First Army in Taiyuan suddenly felt that he was able to do it again.
He kept making speeches across the air, saying that Song Wenwan had already stepped down and could only hide in the mountains like a rat, which was not what a warrior should do.
When the Japanese army saw that Song Wenwan's tens of thousands of troops were heading west, they guessed that he wanted to take the Sichuan Army with him and return to Gansu.
They immediately jumped out, rebuilt their strongholds and watchtowers, and established a blockade line.
They attempted to use roads, strongholds and artillery towers to limit the activities of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and the Eighth Route Army.
They would be locked up in a small area and would not have the opportunity to develop and grow.
The Wuhan Ministry of National Defense was also panicked about the whereabouts of the 60,000 Sichuan and Gansu troops who suddenly disappeared.
These were the main forces that dared to fight tough battles with the Japanese devils, and were considered the backbone of the anti-Japanese war in the Second War Zone.
Now the commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone sends telegrams to Wuhan every day.
Let them return Song Wenwan to him, let them return the 60,000 main forces to him.
The Wuhan Ministry of National Defense didn't want this to happen either. It was because someone was narrow-minded and "forced" away the anti-Japanese heroes.