"Fourth Company Commander, send a few men to move the food!”
"Does anyone know how to drive sheep and donkeys? If he knew, he would deal with these animals!”
"Officer Cui, you go and buy a few handcarts from your hometown with this money and some livestock to pull the carts.”
"By the way, this matter has to be kept a secret. To the public... Just say that we forcibly recruited livestock. Otherwise, when the devils and traitors come back, I'm afraid those beasts will vent their anger on our fellow countrymen.”
“……”
At the end of February, it was still dark at five in the morning in northwestern Shanxi.
The new group of warriors lit up hundreds of torches in one breath, illuminating the empty space where the spoils of war were piled up. Then, they moved the spoils of war in full swing.
However, they had seized too many things in this battle. Not to mention the nearly 300 guns, more than 20,000 bullets, and more than 100 grenades, just the 30,000 catties of food was 15 tons. The 2nd Battalion only had 300 people. They were short on manpower to transport so many seized goods and 261 puppet captives.
Seeing this scene, Li Yun Long was instantly enraged.
"You bunch of idiots, can't you use the captured horses to transport things?”
"Regiment Commander, you don't know, but these military horses are all good horses, but they are also quite expensive. I'm afraid that I'll damage these horses.”
"Nonsense! It wasn't like they had to use these military horses to transport things every day. Just this once, you're so stubborn!”
Li Yun Long helplessly patted the head of the second battalion commander, then said to the soldiers who were moving the goods,"
"Go, bring the horses over and use them to carry a portion of the supplies back!”
" Yes, Leader!" n
Hearing their regiment commander's orders, the soldiers naturally followed. However, the soldiers didn't know how to ride a horse or lead a horse. The quick-witted instructor of the second battalion thought for a while and asked the soldiers to order the puppet captives to bring the horses over. Then, he asked the puppet captives to tie some of the supplies to the horses. This made it easier to transport supplies and captives. The transport provided by the hundreds of military horses immediately made the manpower more abundant.
However, during this process, a small accident happened.
"Go over!"
He carried a tiger with five to six guns and escorted the commander of the puppet cavalry who had surrendered before. Then, he said to Li Yunlong,
"Reporting to Guild Leader, this kid wanted to commit suicide, but we stopped him.”
After saying that, he showed Li Yunlong the damaged Nanbu Type 14 pistol in his hand and mocked,"
"This kid hid a tortoiseshell box in his clothes. Previously, he wanted to use the tortoiseshell box to commit suicide at the place where the captives were detained, but the tortoiseshell box just happened to be stuck. He didn't manage to commit suicide and was discovered by the brothers who were guarding the captives, so they carried him out.”
"Oh? Hehe, this is quite strange."
Li Yunlong took the Nanbu Type 14 pistol from Hu Zi and examined it carefully before throwing it aside with a look of disgust.
For the Eighth Route Army, this was a very rare thing, because the Eighth Route Army had always cherished guns. Even if the guns were damaged, they would not be willing to throw them away. Instead, they would send them to the army's armory to try to repair them.
However, it was not surprising that it was the Nanbu Type 14 pistol, nicknamed the 'Bastard Box', because it was a Japanese pistol that even the guerrillas despised.
The Nanbu Type 14 pistol was designed in 1925 by the Japanese firearms master, Kijiro Nanbu, who was known as Browning of Japan. It was based on the Nanbu Land pistol and had the title of " Eastern Luger."
However, although it was known as the " Eastern Luger " because it was designed based on the German Luger P08 pistol, its appearance was very similar to the Luger P08 pistol. However, its actual performance was far inferior to the Luger P08. Although the Nanbu Type-14 pistol also had the advantages of good ergonomical engineering, accurate shooting, and high lethality of bullets, it had more shortcomings, including the high failure rate of the firing pin in cold weather, the structural design problems that caused the clip to fall off easily, the empty gun safety mechanism was easy to misfire, the gun type was too big and heavy for the Easterners, and the initial velocity and kinetic energy of the bullet were too small.
Of course, the biggest drawback was that the pistol's structure was complicated. If it was not properly maintained, it was easy to cause the second shot to be misloaded, causing it to jam when firing. It was recorded that during World War II, when a large number of Japanese generals committed suicide by committing harakiri, their miscreants watched anxiously as their officers suffered great pain and could not die immediately because their pistols could not be fired in the south. The scene was quite awkward.
(PS: The TV series Li Yunlong said that the Bastard Box was a good gun. Either he was lying through his teeth, or the original author did not have enough military knowledge. After all, this pistol was despised by the guerrillas during the war. If there were other pistols, they would definitely not use this gun.)
Li Yunlong threw the damaged 'turtle box' on the ground and squinted at the puppet cavalry commander, who was also the captain of the original national army, Liu Ming, who had his head lowered and remained silent. He then said,"
"Hehe, you want to commit suicide? He even committed suicide with a Japanese pistol? Don't you have anything to say to me, Old Li?”
“... Eighth Route Army officer, can I have a cigarette?”
“... Hu Zi, give him one."
"Yes, Guild Leader."
Hu Zi took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket and handed one to Liu Ming. He even lit it up for him with a match.
Liu Ming took a puff of his cigarette in enjoyment, then lowered his head and said in a low voice,"
"8th Route Army officer, I was captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Xinkou in 1926. "At that time, I, Liu Ming, can say that I really risked my life for this country. I still remember that time, our division commander personally went to the front line to supervise the battle. My brothers and I charged at the Japanese mountain without any regard for our lives. After the battle, there were only six people left in our company who could stand. At that time, our division commander appointed me as the company commander of our company and promoted my military rank to captain.
After that, our commander and division commander died in battle. We continued to be pinned down at Xinkou under the leadership of the commander of the guards. Our brothers withstood the Japanese's aircraft and artillery. Many people died, but no one said they wanted to retreat.
I still remember that your army blew up the Japanese airport railway and recovered more than ten counties. At that time, we were so happy that we thought that if we were to face them head-on, the Eighth Route Army would stab the Japanese in the ass. No matter how many people died, we would definitely win.”
As Liu Ming spoke, he suddenly became agitated.
"But that bunch of trash from the Jinsui Army! Our Central Army helped them defend Xinkou, but the useless Jinsui Army of Jindong did not! Niangzi Pass was not defended, Pingding and Yangquan were also lost. We lost more than 100,000 brothers at Xinkou and killed and injured more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers, but in the end, we were defeated! What's the point of my brothers dying?!!”
After pausing for a moment, he continued.
"When I was retreating, our troops were attacked by the Japanese. I was injured and captured. He was thrown into the coal mine by the Japanese and worked as a coolie for two years. I was tortured half to death in the coal mine. I really didn't want to die quietly in the coal mine, so I surrendered to the Japanese. The Japanese also appreciated me, but they didn't trust me very much, so they let me be the deputy commander and company commander of this newly formed cavalry battalion.
During the year I was a traitor, I felt very guilty. I felt very sorry for the commanders, teachers, and my brothers who died in the Xinkou Battle. However, I wanted to commit suicide, but I couldn't do it. I didn't have the face to return to the army, so I lived muddle-headedly until now…"
At this point, the man from Sichuan Province (the 9th Army was building the Sichuan-Guizhou and Sichuan-Yunnan Highways in the southwest before the July 7 Incident) had tears in his eyes as he knelt down in front of Li Yunlong.
"Eighth Route Army officer, please give me a pistol. I was supposed to die in 1926 with our commander, division commander, and our brothers in the company!”
“……”
Looking at the man who was crying, Li Yunlong was silent for a while. Then, he took out the shell gun from his waist and placed it on the ground.
Upon seeing this, Liu Ming was stunned for a moment. He then wiped the tears off his face, picked up the gun, and aimed the muzzle at his temple. Then, he closed his eyes and pulled the trigger.
There were no gunshots.
At that moment, Liu Ming, who had committed suicide, heard Li Yunlong's voice."
"Alright. You traitor, you've died twice. You can be considered to have washed away your shame. Next, you can fight the Japanese with me!”
In fact, the Jinsui army had also given their all in the early stages of the war. Before the war, the Jinsui army had more than 100,000 regular soldiers, and they could mobilize more than 200,000 soldiers. In the end, after the fall of Taiyuan, the Jinsui army only had less than 50,000 people left. The armies of the various factions in the Second World War were at least true heroes in the early stages of the war.
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