Start from the old nine gates

Chapter 55
After five days,

"Really let him be the director of the quilt factory?"

"Don't think about it anymore"

At night, the Eighth Route Army headquarters, deputy commander and deputy chief of staff were still discussing Li Yunlong's affairs.

The two of them, one angrily wanted to punish Li Yunlong, and the other felt that the merits and demerits would not be held accountable. Fortunately, the deputy chief of staff has always been mild-tempered and never impatient, so he laughed and talked with the deputy commander-in-chief.

Despite the quarrel, the atmosphere was good.

Although these two have deputy names, they are both real power factions, holding military and political power.

"Although Li Yunlong's disobedience is true, the Xinyi Regiment defeated the Sakata Regiment, killed the leader of the Sakata Regiment, and broke through the encirclement from the front. Is it still meritorious?"

The deputy commander-in-chief naturally loves Commander Li, otherwise he would not have pleaded for him in front of the commander-in-chief.

"I admit that this guy is a piece of war material. It is very easy to use and has a strong ability to lead troops."

The commander-in-chief nodded in affirmation.

As the commander-in-chief, it is natural to know the gap between the enemy and ourselves.

In his combat deployment, if it is a defensive battle, the devil's non-full brigade, about 500 people, needs a thousand-man main force regiment of the Eighth Route Army. Regiment, or two or three other regiments to block.

As for the attack, he didn't even bother to think about it without ten times the strength and sufficient weapons and ammunition.Unless it is an ambush, with the advantage of terrain, and there are more than five times the force.

No way, the firepower gap between the two armies is really too big.

Not counting the barrel guns, the Guizi's firepower density is more than ten times that of the Eighth Route Army.And if you count the artillery, it's over, I'm afraid it will go to twenty.

The Eighth Route Army has no decent artillery at all. There is only one mountain artillery company directly under the headquarters. The artillery has six old mountain artillery, but the cannonballs, each cannonball requires the approval of the division commander. You can imagine how scarce it is.

But even in this state, it is not easy to defeat the Sakata Alliance head-on and kill the leader of the Sakata Alliance.

Under normal circumstances, this would be considered a great achievement.

However, the commander-in-chief's tone quickly changed, "But you can't get used to the problem of random disobedience, or something will happen sooner or later. No matter how great your achievements are, even if you kill the Emperor of Japan, as long as you don't obey the command, I will still punish you .”

"A merit is a merit, a fault is a fault, these are two different things."

At this moment, a soldier hurried in from the outside, out of breath.

"What's the matter, you are in such a panic, come and drink your saliva slowly."

Seeing this, the deputy commander-in-chief asked the soldier who had just run in.

After he slowed down, he stood up straight and said loudly:

"report"

"Commander, Shanghai Emergency Telegram"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hands and handed over a telegram.

The deputy commander took it over, his face was flat at first, then he became more and more surprised, and finally he laughed and said: "This is really about Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here."

The deputy commander breathed a sigh of relief, and handed the telegram to the two people in front of him.

"Come on, take a look."

Seeing this scene, the commander-in-chief and the deputy chief of staff also felt a little curious in their hearts, what could make the deputy commander-in-chief so happy.

The commander-in-chief took a look at the telegram, and finally understood why the deputy commander-in-chief looked happy.

The telegram said that an overseas Chinese patriot had transported a batch of 20 tons of weapons and ammunition from the United States. If it was just like this, the deputy commander-in-chief would not be so happy.

The 20 tons of ammunition seems to be a lot, but in fact it is divided up. After a few battles, it will soon be gone. What really makes him happy is the latter.

The other party can get them a large amount of American weapons and equipment at extremely low prices, such as Browning M1919, M2 heavy machine guns, howitzers, mortars and other scarce weapons and equipment.

Seeing this, even the commander-in-chief couldn't help but smile.

On the other hand, the deputy chief of staff looked anxious, wanting to know what was written on it.

"Here, take a look too!"

Seemingly remembering something, seeing the anxious deputy chief of staff, he laughed,
"Look at it too."

After a pause, the deputy chief of staff after reading it was not as happy as he imagined, and asked with some doubts between his eyebrows: "Commander, deputy commander, why do you think the other party gave us supplies as a gift?"

It's not that the deputy chief of staff is overwhelmed, but that few people in the Eighth Route Army are paying attention.

We must know that the current Eighth Route Army has few personnel and poor weapons and equipment. It is regarded as a miscellaneous army by everyone, and it is far from the reputation it will have a few years later.

At this time, why the other party would suddenly donate supplies to him, the deputy chief of staff was a little worried.

The commander-in-chief waved his hand, "There's no need to think wildly. Our Eighth Route Army has nothing else. It's poor and empty. There's nothing to be afraid of."

"Since they are willing to provide material support, it doesn't make any sense for us to doubt them here."

"Even if the other party really has some purpose, is there any harm to us?" The commander-in-chief glanced at the two and asked.

"What does the commander-in-chief mean?" said the deputy commander-in-chief beside him.

"Just do what you want. Since the other party is willing to provide us with supplies, is it possible that we can still refuse? There is no reason to give it away for nothing."

"Although these 20 tons of weapons are not many, they can also solve our urgent needs. If" the commander paused, "I mean, if we can really get a lot of ammunition support in the future, it will be really good news for us." ah."

"You know, because of weapons and ammunition, I don't know how many young men lost their lives."

As these words fell, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became gloomy.

"Okay, since the commander-in-chief has said so, I have no objection." The deputy chief of staff went to the bench and said.

"I have no objection either." The deputy commander followed suit.

"Since everyone has no objections, I will ask the correspondent to respond urgently."

The commander-in-chief patted the table and said, the commander-in-chief set the tone for the conversation.

(End of this chapter)