Early in the morning, Liu Shitou and Zhang Xiaobao, who had just gotten up from bed without even washing their faces, rode away from the snoring yard with unkempt faces. The reason was that the peerless little devil Huang Duoduo was coming today.
Playing in Dabanqiao Town. Since the last time she pestered Tangcheng to come to Dabanqiao Town, Huang Duoduo always asked Huang San and others to send him to visit his uncle, but Huang Duoduo did not come back here, Liu
Shitou and Zhang Xiaobao are always miserable and tortured.
"Brother Shitou, where are we going? It's so early in the morning that even the restaurants are not open. We can't hang around here all the time, right?" Zhang Xiaobao, who was on horseback, asked Liu Shitou next to him in a low voice, who was sitting on horseback.
Liu Shitou, who was dozing on the bed, woke up when he heard the sound. Yes, he couldn't keep wandering around like this. After thinking about it, Liu Shitou decided to go back to the yard first. Before Huang Duoduo came, he took the crossbow and lighter.
, took Zhang Xiaobao to hunt nearby and eat barbecue.
Liu Shitou's hand crossbow was a gift from a Tujia man, and his lighter was a trophy seized from the corpses of Japanese army officers. Liu Shitou has been following the dice around the surrounding mountains and forests these days, so he naturally knows where to find prey. "Oh my God,
Fortunately, we were walking fast, otherwise we would have been blocked in the yard by that little girl." Looking at the jeep driving into the yard from a distance, Liu Shitou on the horse let out a long sigh, and stood next to him.
Zhang Xiaobao's face also changed from nervous to relaxed.
"Uncle, Duoduo is here to see you." Huang Duoduo was still waiting for Huang San to carry her out of the jeep, and her childish little voice was already heard in the yard. Huang Duoduo has been here not once or twice,
So he is very familiar with this place, so there is no need for Huang San to worry. The little man has already walked into Tangcheng's house quickly. "Uncle, get up quickly. You agreed last time that you would take Duoduo with you today."
Riders, get up quickly, or it will get dark." Huang Duoduo, who struggled to climb onto the bed, reached out and pinched Tang Cheng's nose, forcing Tang Cheng, who had been pretending not to wake up, to open his eyes.
"Duoduo, come down quickly. How can you ride on your uncle's body? Your uncle's injuries are not healed yet." Huang Hanju, who followed in casually, laughed, and saw Tang Cheng, who had already dressed and gone to the ground, lying on his stomach.
Kneeling on the ground, Huang Duoduo, with a charming face, was riding on Tang Cheng's back, doing a straddle-horse whip-raising gesture. At first glance, it was his precious daughter who regarded Tang Cheng as a tall horse that traveled thousands of miles a day.
"Huh, that's not the case. Mom has already said that my uncle is a big slacker. Duoduo has come here from the city, but he is still sleeping in. Uncle Mu also said that he needs to exercise more. Exercising more will hurt his body.
It will heal quickly. I am helping my uncle to exercise more." Although Huang Duoduo is only three years old, he talks about a lot of truths. Huang Hanju and Tang Cheng couldn't help but laugh.
With a sudden thought, Tang Cheng, who turned over and sat up, reached out and pulled the pouting Huang Duoduo into his arms.
"Okay, I wronged you. Go and play with your sister Yingzi. Daddy and your uncle have something to talk about." He coaxed Huang Duoduo to go to Lin Ying, and Huang Hanju followed Tang Cheng who was eager to wash up and left the house.
Knowing that Huang Hanju came to him so early in the morning, it was definitely not just to send Huang Duoduo away, so Tang Cheng washed his face much faster than usual. Even Huang Hanju who was waiting aside said that Tang Cheng washed his face more like
It's the kitten washing her face.
"The war ahead is unfavorable." Huang Hanju's first words stunned Tang Cheng who was preparing for breakfast. It has been more than two months since he took Hou San and the others to live here, and this is the first time Huang Hanju has ever spoken.
Hui took the initiative to mention the war ahead in front of him. "In the battle of Changsha in September last year, although the National Army defended Changsha, the Japanese army occupied Kunlun Pass in January, and the National Army's Fifth Army suffered heavy casualties."
Tangcheng had never heard of the name of the Fifth Army, and did not know where the Kunlun Pass, which had been occupied by the Japanese army, was located. Naturally, it was even more unclear what Huang Hanju's intention was in mentioning the fall of the Kunlun Pass at this time.
Seeing the confusion on Tang Cheng's face, Huang Hanju was not in a hurry, and then patiently explained to Tang Cheng, "Since the fall of Guangzhou in October 1938, the National Government's main international transportation line from Hong Kong to the mainland has been cut off. But.
The Nationalist Government can still import some supplies from the Xijiang area along the South China coast and the Guizhou-Vietnam Highway, the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, and the Yunnan-Burma Highway."
Today, Tangcheng is no longer the child who just wandered around the streets doing nothing all day long. Knowing that Huang Hanju would never mention these things for no reason, he hurriedly took a few mouthfuls of rice from the bowl and took it with him.
Huang Hanju went to fiddle with the map. "Kunlun Pass is the gateway and barrier to southern Guangxi. The terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is also an important pass on the Guangxi-Vietnam international transportation line that controls the Binyong Highway. If the Japanese army occupies this place, they can successfully intercept it.
Guiyue International Transportation Line.”
Huang Hanju pointed out the location of Kunlun Pass for Tangcheng on the map, then moved his hands around and drew a circle around the coastal periphery. "The Japanese army has controlled our outer seas with its own fleet. All coastal docks are already within the reach of the Japanese fleet."
Under control, there is no way that the supplies from foreign aid can be transported ashore by water." Huang Hanju took out a cigarette and lit one with some depression, "You may not know that when the Changsha war started in September last year, Germany suddenly declared war in Europe.
, the little devil has now formed an alliance with Germany, and foreign merchant ships that could have come along the Yangtze River now no longer dare to come."
Looking at the map carefully, Tang Cheng couldn't help but nodded, "The little devil played this trick very cleverly, cutting off all our supply channels. This is to force us to consume all the supplies, and finally hit the spear with him."
To resist their attack." Although Tang Cheng's words were a bit exaggerated, Huang Hanju agreed. If the Japanese army was really allowed to block all material channels entering China, the national army might have to rely on cold war in the end.
weapons to fight the Japanese troops.
"Here in Myanmar, there is a highway from Yangon Port on the seaside to Yunnan. It was built by Yunnan Chairman Long Yun at the end of 1937, who mobilized more than 200,000 people and spent nearly a year building it. As of now, this Yunnan-Myanmar Highway
It has become the last hope of the National Government, but this is also what I am most worried about, because the trucks of our transportation company have always been on this road." Huang Hanju had already said this for the sake of his words, but Tangcheng did not.
Still don't understand what Huang Hanju means.
"You are stupid. If you think about it carefully, if there is only this last road left connecting the country, can the government still allow our transportation company to run on it? Besides, the little devil's intentions are already very obvious.
They just want to cut off our communication with the outside world. If the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway is taken over by the little devils, the transportation company that our family invested a lot of money will be doomed." Huang Hanju said this, and Tangcheng finally understood.
But he wasn't as worried as Huang Hanju.
"That's not enough, brother-in-law, Burma is the territory of the British. Although the Japanese have allied with Germany, they are at war with us now. Isn't it overestimating their capabilities to provoke the British? After all, the British are also at war with us.
It's not dough." What Tang Cheng said was well-founded. When he was in the Shanghai Concession, Tang Cheng saw the British teaching Japanese ronin with a long knife in his waist more than once.
"Maybe, I also hope that the British can be tougher and don't let the little devils occupy that road." Huang Hanju naturally hopes that the British can hold Burma, but he is still uneasy in his heart. "
What if the higher-ups send people down to integrate these transportation companies in Kunming? I heard that Chongqing has set up a war material support committee. I heard that the most important thing of their committee is to ensure the smooth flow of the Yunnan-Burma Highway and ensure the smooth flow of goods from the outer sea.
Supplies that come ashore can be transported in quickly.”
"Brother-in-law, isn't this what we want to see? The government needs to ensure the rapid delivery of supplies, so there cannot be a shortage of trucks. Anyway, our trucks are also transporting war supplies now, but they just have a different manager.
We're just human beings, so we can't just take all our trucks into the government's hands, right? There are so many transportation companies in Kunming, I don't believe the government can take them all, so you can rest assured." Tang Cheng tried his best to console him.
He looked at Huang Hanju, but the latter still felt a little uneasy.
"Oh, I was just talking to you about this, and I almost forgot about the real thing." Huang Han patted his forehead, took out a warrant from his pocket and handed it to Tang Cheng. "Your place now officially belongs to our Southwest."
Under the signature of the administration, this time not only has the official title been given to you, but the administration has decided to expand this place and plan to set aside a place in Dabanqiao Town to set up a receiving station for broken troops to prepare for the upcoming retreat of broken troops."
The warrant Huang Hanju brought had restored the rank of captain in Tangcheng, but his appointment with this rank had been changed to the Southwest Administrative Office. Not only Tangcheng, but also Hou San and others were promoted to non-commissioned officers, and Mulianshan was promoted to the rank of sergeant.
He became a second lieutenant military doctor. "This is not bad. Among us, the one with the lowest military rank is Shitou." Tang Cheng's calculations did not include Lin Ying and Zhang Xiaobao. One of them is a girl and the other is just a man.
For children under the age of 16, Tangcheng originally did not want them to wear military uniforms.
Compared with Tang Cheng's reaction, Huang Hanju's face was more solemn, "You have to be prepared. The administrative department estimates that the number of defeated troops coming to Kunming will not be very small. Many troops in front of them will fight with the Japanese army.
There are more or less deserters and small groups of defeated troops. The scale of your shelter is temporarily set to be able to accommodate 500 people. You can’t be careless about this matter." Tangcheng has always been confused about small things and not big things.
Seeing that Huang Hanju spoke carefully, Tangcheng also made a guarantee to Huang Hanju.