7th month, 6th day, afternoon, Wanping.
Chen Liujin brought a group of people and drove three fat pigs. There were also more than ten carts that were full of vegetables and rice noodles. They arrived at the entrance of the military camp with gongs and drums.
Ji Changwen, who had already received the news, naturally led the crowd to welcome them.
Chen Liujin was Chen Li's favorite, and Chen Li was his sworn brother. After a long period of sugar-coated bullets, many officers treated Chen Li as one of their own.
Of course, some people didn't take him seriously. They just thought that he was using his family's money to lord it over the county town.
Ji Changwen was obviously not the latter. Although he did not understand many of Chen Li's actions, he still opened the door for him.
Of course, there were some things that he needed.
For example, Ji Changwen had seen Chen Liujin using Chen Li's name to build a large number of buildings in the county town. Without his approval as a garrison, it was naturally impossible for a security regiment to build military fortifications privately.
However, everyone could see the benefits of Chen Li's fortifications. These reinforced concrete fortifications were exceptionally strong. If they relied on these fortifications to fight the Japanese in the city, the casualties would definitely be reduced by a lot, and the damage to the Japanese would be more direct and effective.
Moreover, Chen Li had done a good job. The large amount of money he had thrown out not only did not anger the people, but some people even invited Chen Li to his house to build a construction project for the people. This was power.
This was also one of the reasons why Ji Changwen didn't stop him or report it.
If a war really broke out, even if Chen Li's security regiment did not have much combat power and even ran away, Ji Changwen could still lead his troops to use these fortifications.
Therefore, he even let his subordinates familiarize themselves with Chen Li's fortifications. Chen Li did not seem to have any objections to this. Instead, he carefully explained and explored the use of fortifications to them.
Other than the fact that the defense of the Chen residence did not allow anyone to visit, Chen Li even expressed that he welcomed them to visit and guide them.
Therefore, Ji Changwen felt that Chen Li did trust him. As for the defense of his family, it was nothing more than that. It was human nature to leave some information for him.
Ji Changwen even shamelessly asked Chen Li for some cement. He did not expect that he would really give it to him. Moreover, there were a total of 100 bags, and there were even quite a few steel bars that were difficult to buy in this era.
Ji Changwen was greatly surprised by this harvest. The next day, he used it all on fortifications. He even learned from Chen Li's fortifications and built two machine gun bunkers on both sides of the Lugou Bridge.
Less than two days after the bunker was built, Ji Changwen deployed two Maxim machine gun teams into the bunker without even removing the roof.
This thing was covered with a thick layer of steel cement and a thick layer of soil. It was also surrounded by a circle of sandbags. Even if a cannon were to blast it directly, it might not collapse. It was much safer than just digging a pit and surrounding it with a circle of sandbags.
Of course, in Ji Changwen's eyes, Chen Li had also done a lot of f * cking things.
For example, when he mentioned the military exercise in the city, they thought that he would pull his hundred soldiers out of the city and enter the fortifications. At most, they would shoot a few shots.
Thus, Ji Changwen nodded in agreement.
Who knew that this guy would send people to control the post office, telegram office, hospital, school, market, and even a part of the private houses. He even let a soldier pretend to be a profiteer who deliberately raised prices during wartime and was dragged out to perform a public trial and execution.
Fortunately, it only took ten minutes before everything returned to normal. It even had a certain effect of shocking the tiger. Otherwise, Ji Changwen really didn't know how to explain it to the peak.
Just this one action made Ji Changwen feel that Chen Li was at least hot-blooded and ready to deal with the invasion of the Japanese at any time, even if his method was not proper.
However, Ji Changwen sometimes felt that it was strange. Recently, the activities of the Japanese had been frequent. The 37th Division and even the 219th Regiment would occasionally convene a meeting with the officers to emphasize strengthening the defense. Even the battalion commanders of the Security Brigade participated.
What made Ji Changwen feel a little frustrated was that Chen Li, who was part of the Wanping County Security Regiment, had never received a single notice of a meeting. It seemed that the entire 29th Division did not take him seriously.
Ji Changwen had an idea of the size of Chen Li's security regiment and the training situation. At the very least, it was much stronger than the security battalion sent by the security brigade in Huabei.
Just from the quality of the soldiers and their weapons and equipment, they were already on par with regular troops. In fact, Ji Changwen was very envious of the equipment of Chen Li's troops.
Even if it was a position bought with money, it shouldn't be so unpopular, right? Ji Changwen had such thoughts before, and he had even tactfully raised this question with Chen Li.
However, Chen Li did not care. He continued to train his hundred soldiers and build his fortifications. He was more active than anyone else in preparing for war.
Ji Changwen had even told him to take his troops out of Wanping. Anyway, no one would care about these hundred people here.
Unexpectedly, Chen Li, who had moved his father to the rear early in the morning, directly rejected his suggestion. He even expressed that he was not afraid of the devils and said that he would defend the country to the death.
In Ji Changwen's opinion, this was simply a big joke. He had spent money to buy the name of the security team, and he had also spent his own money to raise a group of guards to guard the house. He had spent a lot of money to arm the hundred or so people.
Then, the devils would conduct a live-fire drill outside the city and then dig cellars and cause trouble in the county town. Who would believe that they were not afraid of death?
However, Ji Changwen still acknowledged Chen Li in his heart. Not only did he give him equipment, but he also often thought of him when he did things.
When the Japanese military exercise was going on vigorously, they spent a lot of money on this labor.
Although the 29th Division was entrenched in Beijing and Tianjin and could still afford to pay, it was difficult for the soldiers to get some meat. During the holidays, one person could not even get two taels of meat, let alone during normal times.
"Brother Liujin and fellow villagers, I thank you all on behalf of the brothers of the 3rd Battalion. I won't say anything else, but with the 3rd Battalion here, Wanping City will definitely not be lost!”Ji Changwen said solemnly.
"Our young master, uh no, the regiment commander said that he would come over later to have fun with the soldiers.”Chen Liujin said in a neither humble nor respectful manner.
He did not understand what was wrong with Young Master today. The hundreds of people on his side were also killing pigs and eating meat tonight, and then he had to come to the 3rd Battalion to help the army.
The person who knew Chen Li's power the best, other than Chen Li and a few of the main instructors (system officers), was Chen Liujin.
The young master had 700 to 800 men under him, which was more than the Wanping Guards. Their equipment was also on a completely different level.
It was as if Wanping City, which wasn't that big, already had more than a thousand people guarding it, yet the young master was still carefully planning every step, as if he was plotting something.
After all, he had followed Chen Li for many years. Chen Liujin had learned how to observe people's expressions. He had also learned how to look at things from the big picture, and then from the big picture.
Perhaps he would be dragged by Chen Li to eat and drink with those officers. To put it bluntly, he was just blocking the wine. However, Chen Liujin was very willing to do so. At least, this meant that he was a trusted aide.
Therefore, when this anomaly appeared, he was a little worried. It seemed that something was about to happen. Otherwise, if it was just to comfort the army, why couldn't it be carried out the next day?
After drinking with most of the security guards who were already living in the tunnel, he came here to drink with the people from the 3rd Battalion. What was this?
Chen Liujin's mind was filled with doubts, but he was determined.
Chen Li, who was dressed in camouflage, appeared at the entrance of the 3rd Battalion's barracks with 20 to 30 soldiers who were also dressed in camouflage.
Chen Liujin had a feeling that this battle might really start.
This was because when the set of clothes was given out, his young master, Chen Li, had said that this was a combat uniform. It was not allowed to be worn normally. It could only be worn after accepting a combat mission.
The people who were sent out to fight the Japanese and said that they would fight in turns had worn this kind of combat uniform.
However, was Young Master really going to provoke the Japanese? If something happened to her, how would she explain it to Old Master?
Chen Liujin's heart was extremely conflicted at this moment. It was even more painful than that sleepless night in Shanghai.
At the same time, Chen Li was introducing the people he had brought to Ji Changwen and the others. Chen Liujin knew very well that these people were officers appointed by the young master, and many of them had the surname Qian.
The person that the young master valued the most was Qian Quite A. He was the battalion commander of the 1st Battalion. At the same time, the young master's troops were all under the 1st Battalion, including himself. However, his position was called the adjutant. What should an adjutant do? He didn't know. Anyway, he would do whatever Young Master asked him to do. If someone hit Young Master, he would just step forward and take the bullet. It would be worth it for instigating Young Master to cause trouble all these years.
When the banquet was over, the fragrance of wine permeated the air, and the fragrance of the dishes was alluring.
Chen Li raised his glass.
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7th month, 7th day, Wanping.
Fifteen meters underground, there were more than twenty people standing in a basement with a map of Wanping City and North China that Chen Li had asked someone to draw.
"Brothers, everyone has worked hard during this period of time. However, the Japanese's gunfire is still ringing out outside the city. In order to protect our country and our people, we must rise up and fight!”
Chen Li waved his fist and said. He was already starting to get a little proficient in this kind of speech.
Although, other than in the restaurant with those low-level military officers, he would occasionally talk wildly after drinking.
However, most of the time, the people who listened to Chen Li's speech were basically those who had been trained by him to doubt their lives, or the system officers who were like wooden blocks.
"Now, I'm going to give you a mission. Please note that this is not a drill!”
"Chen Liujin, bring your third squad to the homes of everyone who can send and receive telegrams in the telegram office as soon as the battle starts. I don't care what method you use, but you must send all the people who can send and receive telegrams to me.”
"Yong Wang, lead the fourth squad and invite all the doctors and nurses into the tunnel as soon as the battle starts.”
"Ma Jialang, lead the 11th and 12th squads and evacuate the civilians into the tunnel."
"Qian Duoduo, once the battle starts, bring your squad to the city wall and kill all the enemies you can see!”
"The rest of you, except for the reserve team, follow the previous plan and enter your positions to wait for the next order.”
"Those who don't listen to military orders will be killed! Those who flee will be killed!"
Chen Li carried a bit of killing intent as he made arrangements without hesitation. In the end, he said very seriously.
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