1044 When it comes to taking the blame, Lao Li is the most experienced
Licheng is now a stable recovery area of the Eighth Route Army. Even with the military defense and air combat system built around Licheng, the Japanese army was in despair for a while and could not even raise the intention to compete.
The 36th Division of the Japanese Army, which was completely driven out of Licheng, had no choice but to move from the rich land of Licheng to the remote countryside like a bereaved dog, lingering on.
The Eighth Route Army made a huge noise in Licheng this time, and even announced to the outside world that it would convene an allied military competition.
In addition to the Eighth Route Army, the commandos of the British, American, Soviet and other allied countries, the Shanxi-Sui Army, the Central Army, the local national army, and even some unnamed anti-Japanese armed forces were all invited.
On the one hand is the military competition.
On the other hand, it is also like a joint mobilization to further denounce how to deal with the Japanese invaders.
After the military meeting at the Licheng headquarters, the people in charge of each base area began to prepare for the participation of their own troops.
Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei, the three old comrades-in-arms, liked to join in the fun. As soon as the meeting ended, Li Yunlong immediately suggested: "This time, all the elites from each base area came to compete. After all, it involves base areas and troops from all sides.
The layout problem.
Lao Kong and Lao Ding, it’s okay to have nothing to do. Let’s go to the city gate building to take a look at the excitement in advance and see what the situation is like with the troops coming from all sides.
The name of our Iron Triangle Steel Helmets has already been spread out. It would be a shame if we fail to win the championship in this competition.
If you know yourself and the enemy, you can win a hundred battles, but we have to find out first!"
"This is a good idea, let's go and have a look!" Ding Wei also became interested.
Kong Jie smiled and said: "Old Li, who can you blame? Who told you to brag too early? If you can't keep it, it will be embarrassing for you, Old Li. What does it have to do with me and Old Ding?"
"That's right!" Ding Wei agreed with a smile.
Li Yunlong said: "Fart, who doesn't know that the three of us are a team? Now the three of us are like grasshoppers on the same rope, and the cooks sitting on the same boat. We are all prosperous, and we are all damaged."
If we, Lao Li, are really going to be embarrassed, then you, Lao Kong, and you, Lao Ding, will be embarrassed, and you two can’t help but take it seriously!”
In the midst of joking, the three old comrades rushed all the way to the gate tower of the main gate of Licheng.
Let’s take a look at which troops are coming from various base areas to compete.
Among the commanders leading the team, there were many familiar faces, all of whom were old comrades from the Red Army days.
The conditions in each base area are different.
"Hey, this old Wu's army is good! Now everyone is on horseback! It should be that the cavalry in the base area has developed!"
Seeing a team from a distance, Li Yunlong was the first to speak.
Ding Wei's eyes were sharp and he shouted to a team farther away: "Who are the people on horseback? Lao Li, look to the northeast, there are people driving over on four wheels. It's amazing. They all sit on it."
The car is gone!”
Of course, in addition to those on horseback and in cars, there were also many teams who came on foot. It was obvious that the conditions in the base area were relatively poor and the level of equipment was relatively low.
When teams one after another entered the city, Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei rushed to the city gate to greet them.
As soon as these old comrades met, the deep comrades-in-arms friendship back then broke out, and tears burst into their eyes, almost hugging each other and crying.
Captain Lao Wu Wu has a carefree temperament. They are all old comrades in arms. They have squatted in the same trench and carried guns in the same army. When they met, they did not say a few words to each other. I completely apologize for this sentiment:
"Haha, I said that from a long way away, I saw a big head dangling on top of the city gate. I couldn't see clearly from a distance. I thought it was a mascot specially placed by the headquarters on the city gate building.
!
I took a closer look, hehe, it turns out to be you Li Datou, let me tell you, apart from you Li Yunlong, who else can have such a big head on a normal person?"
Ha ha ha ha--
Li Yunlong said happily: "You, Old Wu, dare to tease me now. It seems that the base area has developed well in the past two years. I think the team seems to be full of Japanese horses. Could it be that you killed one of the Japanese cavalry?"
"Hey, I accidentally made a little fortune, ambushed a Japanese cavalry regiment, and finally captured nearly half of the horses of the Japanese cavalry regiment. I gritted my teeth and formed a cavalry battalion, plus ours
Some mechanized combat vehicles were combined and organized into a semi-mechanized combat battalion.
If it weren't for our insufficient level, I would have originally thought of forming a semi-mechanized heavy equipment group!" Old Wu said proudly.
Li Yunlong smiled and said: "Look at what you guys can do, and you can also form a semi-mechanized heavy-armed regiment! It seems that your regiment has really made a lot of money in the past few years."
Of course, when it comes to bragging and showing off his wealth, Li Yunlong will never be dishonest.
He turned around and said to Kong Jie inadvertently:
"Old Kong, I remember that our Fifth Bomb Group has almost finished training, right? Lao Wu's team is developing well now. In the future, we will definitely have to fight tough battles and big battles. As old comrades in arms, we will
We need some air fire reinforcements, that’s what I mean!”
Old Wu stopped talking, turned around, and led his team into the city.
"Hey, Lao Wu, don't worry! It's not easy for our old comrades to meet each other, let's chat for a while!" Li Yunlong quickly spoke to stay.
Old Wu said with a dark face: "What nonsense, I brought the team to participate in the competition, not to listen to you Li Yunlong bragging or to be hit!"
After the old comrades had a quarrel for a while, Lao Wu led his team into the city. Kong Jie and Li Yunlong rushed to the city gate building to watch the excitement.
Li Yunlong held up the telescope and made a bet with Kong Jie: "Old Kong, guess which team will come next? If you guess right, I will get you two bottles of good wine that I can't bear to drink!"
"Come on, you, Lao Li, have all the good wine in your own stomach, and you are still willing to keep it for me?" Kong Jie shook his head, not believing it at all.
While we were talking, a new team arrived:
The first one to appear was Lao Yang's team, the number one main force in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region. They were high-spirited and the participating troops came directly on military motorcycles.
Next on the motorcycle was the 115th Division Lao Yang Mobile Detachment.
The most majestic one was Commander Yang from northern Henan. He was driving a prison van that he got from who knows where, and he didn't know if he was planning to capture another Japanese prisoner on the road and just put it inside.
Kong Jie said with a smile: "Now it's interesting. Three old Yangs came in one breath, one was high-spirited, one was proud, and one was domineering.
It is indeed the Sanyang Kaitai combination!”
"Three Yang Kaitai? Haha, interesting, it really is Sanyang Kaitai!" A smile appeared on Li Yunlong's face.
As everyone knows, just when Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei were standing on the city gate tower, looking at Sanyang's team from a distance.
Three old Yangs happened to get together along the way, and they were looking at the three people on the city gate tower from a distance!
Especially the big head standing nearby, which kept shaking.
"Who else could be there besides that boy Li Yunlong?"
Commander Yang smiled and said: "Recently, there is a very interesting saying circulating in our base areas, including the Japanese-occupied areas. I wonder if you two have heard of it.
They all say that in this iron triangle, Kong Jie is called General Tiangong, Li Yunlong is called General Digong, and Ding Wei is called General Renggong.
It's a bit like the Yellow Turban Uprising back then.
Sure, these three old brothers got together and created something like the North Shanxi Iron Triangle. Now they are becoming more and more famous. In the past two years, they have completely eclipsed us.
Even the Japanese newspapers, when it comes to the defeat and the denunciation of our Eighth Route Army troops, are basically directed at the Iron Triangle.
Especially Kong Jie, I'm afraid you don't know how valuable this kid's head is now. If you sell one head, we might have the funds for our entire division."
Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Lao Yang smiled and said: "To be honest, I don't envy Kong Jie's head at all. That's because he really has such ability. If I were a little devil, I would have to give such a high reward. He is worth this.
Price!
But Li Yunlong's bounty is actually many times higher than ours.
It's almost even surpassing the rank of commander in Chiang Kai-shek's army, which is a bit irritating.
Why do you think he has a big head? Just because he has a bigger head? He is also called the General of the Earth, this guy is really embarrassed!"
He then changed the topic: "No, although we are all old comrades in arms, we cannot let these three boys keep suppressing our reputation without making steamed buns to fight for reputation.
This sports meeting is a perfect opportunity to kill their majesty. It’s hard to imagine that their Iron Triangle Army is so elite that they can come out on top even in this military competition, right?”
As he talked, he mentioned sad things again:
"When Lao Kong went out to fight, he had to ask me to guard his home. When my team was the main force, his team, Kong Jie's, had just been raised and had not even developed combat effectiveness. Why is this gap getting bigger and bigger now?
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The Lao Yang detachment of the 115th Division is far away and has basically never had any joint operations with the Iron Triangle Group Army, so it is still relatively unfamiliar with the situation of Kong Jie and the others.
He was a little curious: "What do you mean by General Tiangong, General Digong, and General Renggong?"
Lao Yang from Northern Henan explained: "This is General Tiangong, I'm talking about Lao Kong. He can call upon the wind and rain, and use the right time, place, and people just like Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Uprising.
Specifically, it involves a series of battles fought by the team led by Kong Jie over the years.
For example, the swamps in western Inner Mongolia, the heavy rain in Huangyadong, the heavy snow in Yangyuan, and the violent storm that bombarded the mainland of Xiaoli this time.
Every time the Japanese were defeated, this old Kong even used God to use him. What else could he do if he didn't call the wind and rain?"
Yang, the master of the 115th Division, nodded. He had heard of Kong Jie's classic combat prowess.
"Yes, when I think about it carefully, this is really the case. Sometimes I can't help but sigh. The series of victories won by this old Kong are simply unparalleled victories! Even for him, Lao Kong himself, I'm afraid
It’s also difficult to reproduce similar tactics!”
"Then what happened to Lao Li's General Digong?"
"General Di Gong is saying that Lao Li made perfect use of the land. He was able to trick Japanese generals with different fighting styles into places suitable for him, Lao Li, to fight. What you think is inconsistent with common sense is Lao Li's common sense.
The place you think shouldn't be there is the place where Lao Li often appears, completely eating up the little devil. What is this, if not General Digong?"
Shanxi Chaji Lao Yang said with a smile: "That's what happened, but when you meet Li Yunlong later, don't praise him. This guy can't help but praise him. He's bound to do bad things. I don't know what kind of trouble he can make!"
"As for this old Ding's general, he is very good at making moves based on people's personalities, he can figure out the little devils, and he can bring things from the underworld to the world of the sun. Why is King Qi so good at Ziyi? This method is easy to capture, and he specializes in doing dirty things."
It's alive, otherwise why would the little devil tell Old Ding Ding to peel off his skin?"
Lao Yang from the 115th Division nodded and asked: "Then what's going on with Shoujia?"
Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Lao Yang said helplessly: "Well, it was when Lao Kong asked me to look after the Guancun division last time, but he himself led almost all his troops out.
That’s too much to say, let’s talk all night tonight!”
After the two parties met, they exchanged pleasantries and didn't mention it.
Then, at the invitation of Li Yunlong, the three old Yangs also stayed on the city gate tower to join in the fun and see what teams were coming behind.
Then came the rare visitors:
Including Major General David sent by the United States, who came with the US commando team participating in the competition.
Regarding Major General David's arrangements, Kong Jie and his party had already heard some rumors from the headquarters.
Li Yunlong was full of curiosity in his heart, and finally bumped into him. He immediately pulled Major General David and asked: "I said, Lao Dai, you, the Major General of the U.S. Pacific Naval Operations Division, are here to help our Eighth Route Army build coastal defense forces. It's so far away."
,How did you receive such a task?"
David showed a bitter face and explained in a somewhat shocked manner in Chinese that was not very fluent: "I landed from Guadalcanal in accordance with the command of the headquarters. As a result, I failed in the battle and fell into the trap of the Japanese army. In the Guadalcanal area,
The troops suffered heavy losses.
Due to errors in intelligence and improper command, I angrily called Marshal Mai a fool commander, but he took advantage of his authority and transferred me here!"
This American guy is honest and tells the truth.
Li Yunlong nodded, then looked at the other person next to Major General David, and asked: "Brother Dave, then you, as the commander of the Navy's coastal defense torpedo boat formation, should be doing a good job, why have you been transferred here too?"
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Dave said bitterly: "I implemented Marshal Mai's leapfrog tactic, but the intelligence failed. After the troops landed, they were ambushed by the Japanese troops hiding in the tunnels, resulting in extremely heavy casualties.
Marshal Mai has a high position and no one can say anything about him, so I am the only one who is unlucky."
Li Yunlong said happily: "I understand, if we work together, you two will be the ones taking the blame!"
Lao Yang on the side couldn't help but laugh, "What kind of joke are you guys talking about?"
Kong Jie said consolingly and solemnly: "Don't worry, two generals. From now on, you can stay with our Eighth Route Army and cooperate well!"
Our Eighth Route Army will not let our cadres take the blame, at most they will take the blame!"
"Carrying the blame???"
Ahem, Kong Jie said: "About this aspect, you should ask our Comrade Li Yunlong! When it comes to taking the blame, Lao Li is the most experienced!"