"Recruitment, recruitment, both men and women are fine. Two meals a day, five catties of brown rice and one tael of fine salt a day. If you want money, two silver cents a day.”
Lin Yi shouted loudly on Chanda Street with a megaphone. Soon, many commoners surrounded him. They had seen the soldier looking for female soldiers two days ago and now he was recruiting workers. They were all very curious.
"Sigh, why are you recruiting, sir? Don't tell me you want us to go to the front line? If we go to the front line, you have to give us guns.”
"I'm not going. The Japanese are so scary. Can you fight them?”
"Cowards, men without eggs, what is there to be afraid of? They all have one nose and two eyes.”
Lin Yi saw that they were talking back and forth and felt that it was a little funny. He said loudly," I'm not asking you to go to the front line. I'm asking you to repair the airport. We'll fly a plane hundreds of kilometers away to fight the Japanese. Are you willing to come?”
"What kind of thing can fight the Japanese from a few hundred kilometers away? What is a plane, sir?"
"Old bumpkin, planes are iron birds flying in the sky. There are bombs hanging from the bottom, and they fall to blow people up. I heard from my relatives in Yu City that they were blown up by the Japanese planes.”
"I'll go too, I'll go too, fix the airport and blow up the Japanese.”
The commoners were excited and wanted to go. Lin Yi was naturally overjoyed. He quickly ordered the military police to record their names. The items had to be given. The officer had ordered that the commoners 'labor was not to be wasted for any reason, lest someone find various excuses to labor the commoners in the future.
Five hundred people were soon enough, but there were still people who came to sign up, saying that they didn't need money. Lin Yi could only ask Zhou Heng for instructions. In the end, he got the answer that he wanted as many as he could and that the supplies would be distributed.
The selected airport was a piece of flat farmland behind Chanda City. There was no way to land the plane. It had to have a wide view and flat ground. There were many mountains on the border of Yunnan. It was difficult to find a large piece of flat wasteland. Most of it had been developed into farmland. Zhou Heng could only pay the landlord to buy it.
The landlord did not agree at first, but Zhou Heng said that he wanted to build an airport to blow up the Japanese, so he agreed. However, he did not agree to sell it directly. He said that it was the ancestral property and was rented to them for only 50 silver dollars a year. When the Japanese ran away, they would take it back.
After the location was chosen, the construction of the airport began. Thousands of men, women, and children came to help build the airport. Chan Da and the people nearby heard the news. Many of them said that they did not want supplies and only wanted to build the airport to fight the Japanese.
"No wonder the textbooks say that the War of Resistance against Japan is a war to awaken the national consciousness. Today, I finally saw it. With such citizens, China will not perish.”Zhou Heng sighed.
Zhou Heng had already exchanged for the blueprints of the US military field airport in World War II. However, Chanda didn't have any engineers, so the civilians couldn't read the blueprints. Fortunately, He Jinming had studied airport construction when he was learning to fly. Under the command of him and the other three pilots, the construction of the airport began in an orderly manner.
Relying on manpower was too slow, especially when the land was flat. It was too slow to rely on people to carry it. He Jinming directly asked Zhou Heng for construction machinery. He needed at least bulldozers, road rollers, excavators, and trucks.
Zhou Heng quickly satisfied his request. The construction machinery was in place. At the same time, he asked Kang Huolian, who had already learned how to drive a truck, to lead the military supplies department to learn how to drive a truck while constructing. Soon, the prototype of an airport appeared.
However, Zhou Heng could not focus all his energy on the airport. He was also responsible for the training of the soldiers and dealing with the sudden appearance of the telegram.
Apparently, Yu Xiao Qing had reported the appearance of the 3rd regiment of the Sichuan Army in Chan Da as soon as he returned. These days, Yu division, Sichuan Army, and the People's Party had been sending him telegrams nonstop, asking which division he was from.
When he learned that his regiment was full of members, more and more telegrams were sent to him. Yu Shi said that if he was willing to join Yu Shi, he would be the deputy commander. The Sichuan army said that he would be promoted to colonel. As for the People's Party, they said that they could directly bring him into the direct line and promote him to colonel.
Looking at the telegram in front of him, Zhou Heng gathered all the officers who could hold a meeting and asked," You've seen these telegrams. What do you think?”
No one said anything. After all, the third group was single-handedly pulled up by Zhou Heng. What to do was still up to Zhou Heng.
Zhou Heng didn't like this kind of atmosphere. After all, these people were from the warlords or the people's party. They didn't know anything about the military and the people's cooking. They also didn't know that once the highest officer in the army spoke, the people below were all quails. Then the army would soon be destroyed because the people below didn't care about the army at all. Whether it was good or bad had nothing to do with them.
Although Zhou Heng had taught them before, these guys still hadn't completely changed. The habits they had left behind were too deep and difficult to wear down. This was also the reason why many people liked to recruit new soldiers directly. It was because those people were easy to cultivate habits.
"I'm terrified that everyone is not talking. The third group is not only my team, but also yours. If you want to be reborn in this team and use this team to defeat the Japanese, then you have to care about this team. The choice you make now may very well affect the survival of the team.”Zhou Heng asked seriously.
Finally, someone couldn't hold it in any longer. The Lost Dragon said loudly," Regiment Commander, choose the Direct Line. Although it's a no-name Direct Line, it's still better than the local army. You'll be promoted and get rich.”
Zhou Heng rolled his eyes. This Mystic Dragon was as greedy as ever. If he wanted to get promoted and make a fortune, he would still have to torture them here. He would spend money to rely on a big shot. It would probably be easy for him to rely on a major general or lieutenant general.
However, his speech also livened up the atmosphere. Everyone chuckled. Meng Fan spoke up." How we choose depends on what the leader wants. I wonder if you can tell us."”
He didn't expect Meng Fan to ask this. Zhou Heng looked at Meng Fan. He realized that this kid was really smart. He had a lot of thoughts, and his questions hit the nail on the head.
"What do I want? I want a strong army to defeat the Japanese and accept their surrender. I want a strong army to open up a new country and give these poor and bullied people a place to live.”Zhou Heng swept his gaze across everyone and asked.
Everyone was stunned. They had never thought that Zhou Heng would have such ambitions to establish a new country. Ever since the Manchu Empire entered the pass, who among the Han people still had such ambitions? Those who had ambitions only wanted to strengthen the country and make the people rich. No one had ever wanted to create a new country.
" I'm willing to follow you, sir." Lin Yi said excitedly.
"I'm willing to do it too." Meng Fan said after a moment of hesitation.
"You still dare to say that I'm greedy? Leader, you're much more greedy than me. I like people like you, and I'm willing to do so.”the Enchanting Dragon said.
"I'm willing to do it too."
"I'm willing to do it too."
Now that everyone was united, the rest was easy to handle. Zhou Heng smiled and said," Since everyone is willing, then fine. We will accept the Direct Line's reorganization. However, they request that we be incorporated into the expeditionary army. We want to go abroad to fight.”
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