Chapter 35: The Price of Gold
In a small mountain village of the Eighth Route Army, Li Yunlong, who was removed from his position as regiment commander, was complaining to Ding Weida, who came to take over his position.
"Damn it, I worked hard for a year and finally brought out the new ball, but I ended up eating it ready-made. Is there any other way to the king?"
Unlike Li Yunlong's big head, which looked like a country farmer, Ding Wei had a national face and looked thick eyebrows and big eyes, but Li Yunlong, who was familiar with him, knew that this kid was also a guy who could kill himself when he heard the gunshot.
He is happy when he fights, and when he goes out, he thinks about something happening. He is not afraid of heaven or earth. He bites the enemy when he fights and does not let go, and even tear off a piece of meat if he can't swallow it.
Moreover, Ding Wei is not a rough man. He finished junior high school before joining the Red Army. He was considered a big intellectual in the Red Army team at that time. According to convention, such people should do political work, but Ding Wei likes to fight. Li Yunlong, who is brave enough to be from a bamboo craftsman, can be said to be half a dozen.
Ding Wei was smiling at this moment, and his mood was particularly comfortable. He patted Li Yunlong on the shoulder and comforted him: "Old Li, don't blame me. Who told you to retreat immediately without obeying the headquarters' orders at that time? You just wanted to have a fight with the Sakata United. Are you stunned now?"
Li Yunlong glared: "You kid, don't behave well if you get cheap. If you don't have me, you can take over such a wealthy new group?"
"That's true, indeed beyond my expectations."
Ding Wei had no objection to this. When he first took over the army today, he was shocked by the wealth of the New Regiment.
Although the number of people in the new regiment at this time was only more than 1,000, not to mention everyone had guns, but there were all light and heavy machine guns, and there were quite a few. Even there were four mortars, and there were even more shells. In his opinion, they could be made into a cannon company. Even in the 386th Brigade, such equipment was the only one for the scorpion.
He asked curiously: "Old Li, I'm not surprised that you can get the Japanese Type 38 rifle and the light and heavy machine gun. After all, you are famous for your old Li's ability to steal things. But what happened to those two American 60 mortars? Don't tell me that they were seized. The Japanese don't have that thing."
Li Yunlong laughed and said proudly: "You don't know this, you have saved someone else. In order to thank me, that kid even delivered 100 shells."
"You got it?"
Ding Wei sneered: "Don't think I don't know. I've inquired. That day, people specially led the team to support you. Not only did they drop the Japanese command center, but they even killed the old Japanese, Bantian, by him, and finally surrounded by Japanese on the hillside.
If you dare to leave, even I would look down on you."
"Hey... it's better for you, Old Ding, understand me." Li Yunlong sighed as if he saw his confidant:
"Do you think I can leave in that situation? In the end, I personally brought the brothers of the New First Route to relieve him of the siege. In the end, he not only gave me more than 200 large 38 covers, two Type 92 heavy machine guns, six crooked handles, and more than 12,000 bullets, two American mortars and one hundred shells. Do you think this business is worth it?"
"It's worth it...it's too worth it!" Ding Wei nodded without hesitation.
"And I have also inquired about it these days. The guy's name is Gao Hongming. He is a big landlord in Liantai County. He is a real fellow villager with Yan Laoxi. He is rich. You may not know it yet. At that time, I saw the equipment of the militia under his command, and my eyes were red. If it weren't for the help of others, I would have been so eager to grab it."
Looking at Li Yunlong's regretful look, Ding Wei couldn't help laughing.
"Old Li, since you have this friendship, you can walk around often in the future. People are so rich, just a little bit of it leaks out of your fingers is enough to make you eat enough."
Li Yunlong snorted softly: "You're just a fool. Now I'm just the director of a bedding factory. I can't use any more things I give. But the day before yesterday, I asked my guard Shi Zhanbo to give him two bottles of Fenjiu, which is a thank you gift."
Ding Wei nodded secretly. Li Yunlong also has a thick and delicate personality. Although these two bottles of Fenjiu are not worth much money, this lover must still receive it. As the saying goes, giving a goose feather gift from thousands of miles is more intent, which is what it means.
He comforted, "Okay, you can stay in the clothing factory for a while first, just think it's a holiday. Even the person who is ready to study at Yan'an Anti-Japanese University has been called back. It can be imagined how much the army lacks military cadres now. I bet that at most, you will not be able to recover from your position for three months."
Li Yunlong snorted and stopped talking. The two of them spoke while walking, and the soldiers of the new regiment also spontaneously lined up in two rows to bid farewell to their old regiment commander.
After walking to the entrance of the village, Ding Wei suddenly shouted: "There are all new group members, salute the old leader!"
"brush!"
All the soldiers around saluted Li Yunlong in unison.
Li Yunlong replied with a greeting and walked out of the village silently. When they walked to the entrance of the village, a burst of rapid horse hooves came. Ding Wei looked sharp and smiled after looking at it, "Oh... Isn't that your guard? Are you back so soon?"
Soon, Shi Zhanbo rode his horse to everyone. He was carrying a huge military backpack behind him with a dusty face. He jumped off his horse and saluted Li Yunlong: "Captain... I'm back."
Li Yunlong nodded and looked at him: "It's good to come back, why are you carrying a bag behind you?"
As soon as he asked this, Shi Zhanbo immediately became excited: "Captain, this was given by the leader Gao, but there are a lot of good things inside."
Ding Wei, who was standing beside him, interrupted, "Oh...what good thing is it? Open it and let me see."
As soon as Shi Zhanbo said something, Li Yunlong regretted it. He actually forgot that Ding Wei was also beside him. But he had already said something, so he couldn't go back on his word, so he could only bite the bullet and said, "Then open it and take a look."
Shi Zhanbo took off the burden behind him and opened the zipper.
When everyone saw it, even Ding Wei couldn't help but exclaim: "Good guy, there are really a lot of good things."
Shi Zhanbo took out the things and said, "Captain Gao gave me twenty canned meat, ten American cigarettes, five boxes of sulfonamide powder, two boxes of penicillin, some biscuits and a sugar called acrylic. In short, I can't remember too much."
"penicillin?"
Li Yunlong and Ding Wei looked at each other, and their faces changed a little.
Shi Zhanbo may not know the value of these two drugs, but as the leader, they know best, especially penicillin, which is more expensive than gold and can be regarded as a life-saving drug.
"Send someone immediately to send these boxes of medicine to the headquarters, and you must hand it over to the headquarters leader in person!" Ding Wei issued an order without hesitation.
Chapter completed!