Chapter 158: Teacher, I congratulate you on getting rich!
Not long after the brigade commander finished breakfast, the division commander called.
Ding ding ding——
The operator picked up the phone and answered it, then covered the phone and shouted over his shoulder: "Brigade commander, division commander's call!"
The brigade commander felt nervous and walked over quickly, hoping that the division commander was not here to fight against the autumn wind.
But the more you are afraid of something, the more it will come. As soon as the brigade commander answered the phone, the division commander's laughter came from the receiver: "Chen Geng, I congratulate you on getting rich."
In fact, when the brigade commander beat the autumn wind, he said "congratulations on getting rich", which he learned from the teacher.
When the brigade commander makes a fortune, the division commanders will come to congratulate him on his fortune and ask Brigadier Chen to hand over some of his equipment. This is an old tradition.
"Sir, how can I get rich? It's nothing." Brigadier Chen said, "I'm so poor that I can't even open the pot."
"Can this matter be hidden from my eyes?" Master Liu asked, "Li Yunlong handed over to your mountain artillery battalion yesterday, and you still want to hide it?"
"Teacher, what did you say?"
"Hey Hey hey…"
"Sir, can you hear me over there?"
"I can't hear you clearly. There may be something wrong with the phone. Sir, don't worry. I'll ask the phone operator to fix it."
"Chen Geng, please keep pretending. If you keep pretending, I will come to the 386th Brigade Headquarters to find you in person." The division commander's tone was calm and not anxious at all.
He doesn’t know Chen Geng yet?
Like Li Yunlong, he has a lot of tricks.
Seeing that he could no longer pretend, Brigadier Chen pretended to pat the phone and said, "Hey, hey, I'm fine now. I can hear you. What did you just say, Commander?"
"I asked you to send the American mountain artillery battalion handed over by Li Yunlong to the division headquarters." the division commander said on the phone.
"What are you doing, sir? Robbery, no, no, absolutely not."
Brigadier Chen was dumbfounded. The division commander wanted to rob his entire mountain artillery camp as soon as he took action. It was so cruel, even more ruthless than when he robbed Li Yunlong.
This mountain artillery battalion was his lifeblood. As soon as he got it, before his hands were warm, the division commander came to rob him.
What a sin!
After a pause, Brigadier Chen continued: "I am planning to keep this mountain artillery battalion to form an artillery regiment. Besides, my artillery regiment will be your artillery regiment, division commander?"
"See what you can do." The division commander smiled, "If your brigade needs an artillery regiment, my division should have an artillery brigade?"
The brigade commander said: "Commander, if I build an artillery regiment, you can use it at any time. But if you build an artillery brigade, will the boss also have to rob you? The boss will tell you when the time comes, he will watch you.
Yes, if you only have an artillery brigade in one division, then does my group army have to have an artillery division? Then don’t you have to hand over the mountain artillery to the headquarters?"
"What you said makes sense, but I won't listen." The division commander said, "Hurry up and send someone from the Mountain Artillery Battalion to the division headquarters for me."
"Division commander, let's discuss it again," the brigade commander said, "Do you think it's okay for me to hand over half of the six mountain guns? By the way, there are also 3,000 rounds of 37 mm and 3,000 rounds of 47 mm caliber artillery shells. I will also hand over all of them."
"Chen Geng, do you think this place is a vegetable market?" the division commander said, "You are still bargaining with me. It's not like you don't know that only when artillery is used together can the maximum power be exerted. There is no need to discuss this matter."
"That's what you say." Brigadier Chen said, "But the Japanese have planes. We can't put our eggs in the same basket. If the Japanese planes find out and take away all our guns, won't we suffer a big loss?"
"This is not a question you should consider." The division commander asked, "Let me ask you, what are the three major disciplines and the eight points of attention?"
The brigade commander said: "Commander, look you are here again."
"Don't you just want a mountain artillery battalion? I'll hand over 6 mountain artillery pieces to the division headquarters here. Can you go to Li Yunlong and ask for 6 more?
"He also has a mountain artillery battalion with 12 mountain artillery pieces."
Anyway, the New Regiment still has a mountain artillery battalion. Even if the brigade commander doesn't tell it now, the division commander will know about it sooner or later.
The division commander will definitely attack Li Yunlong when he finds out. It is better to sell Li Yunlong now and keep the six mountain cannons of the brigade.
In this way, the entire 386th Brigade still has 12 mountain guns, and the brigade headquarters and the New Regiment have 6 guns each.
"Is this still the case?"
"Then you hand over six mountain cannons and I'll call Li Yunlong."
The division commander originally guessed that Chen Geng had robbed this mountain artillery battalion from Li Yunlong. Li Yunlong must have still had mountain artillery in his hands, but he probably didn't have many.
It seems wrong now. Li Yunlong still has a mountain artillery battalion? Did Li Yunlong take the initiative to hand over that mountain artillery battalion? This kid has learned a lot.
"Thank you, Commander, thank you, Commander, thank you, Commander." Brigadier Chen looked happy and said repeatedly.
"Hang up." The teacher said and hung up the phone.
The brigade commander was a little confused when he heard the blind voice on the phone. He was also planning to take this opportunity to ask the division commander for recruits and military cadres, but it seemed he could only wait until next time.
"Yes, our brigade's artillery regiment is gone."
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In Yangcun, the new regiment headquarters.
After Li Yunlong came back from the brigade headquarters yesterday after drinking, he fell asleep, but he got up early today.
After losing a bet with Zhao Gang last time, I didn't drink for almost half a month, which made him hungry, but yesterday I finally got over my alcohol addiction.
In fact, Li Yunlong is not a good drinker. He just likes to drink. He gets drunk after drinking a few taels. He is addicted to food.
After Li Yunlong finished his breakfast and had nothing to do, he took out a plate of raw peanuts to eat and play with.
The companies directly under the battalions of the New Regiment are all resting and recuperating, and there have been no training tasks recently. Political Commissar Zhao is responsible for ideological and political work, and he has become the boss again.
Ding ding ding——
The phone on the table rang. Li Yunlong picked it up and put the phone to his ear: "Hey, this is Xinyi Tuan."
"Li Yunlong, it's me." The teacher's voice rang on the phone.
"Oh, sir!" Li Yunlong looked serious, "Why do you have time to call me?"
The teacher said:
"I heard from others that you got rich. You have two mountain artillery battalions in storage. Together with the artillery from the new regiment, it is enough for an artillery regiment."
"Someone suggested to me that you should be the commander of the artillery regiment of our 129th Division. Li Yunlong, do you think I should consider this suggestion?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "After all, your ability is obvious to all. The mortars and mountain guns you acquired are enough to equip an artillery regiment."
"What idiot is making blind suggestions behind his back?" Li Yunlong said angrily, "Isn't this nonsense? Our old Li is just an infantryman, but we can't do artillery work!"
Now that the equipment level of the new regiment and the combat effectiveness of the commanders and fighters are high, Li Yunlong would not change even the position of brigade commander, let alone the commander of the artillery regiment.
What's more, as the commander of the artillery regiment, he can no longer lead soldiers to do side jobs like the commander of the infantry regiment, nor can he take a sword to participate in hand-to-hand combat to chop down Japanese soldiers.
"That's it." said the division commander, "Since you don't want to be the commander of the artillery regiment, then hurry up and send your mountain artillery battalion to the division headquarters."
"What are you doing, sir?" Li Yunlong was dumbfounded for a moment, "Robbery? No, no, no."
After a pause, Li Yunlong emphasized again: "Absolutely not."
"I didn't rob you." The division commander smiled, "Didn't you just say that yourself? You, Li Yunlong, are just an infantryman. You can't do artillery work, and you can't be the commander of an artillery regiment."
"As far as I know, you handed over a mountain artillery battalion to the brigade headquarters, and you still have a mountain artillery battalion there."
"Coupled with the nearly 20 artillery pieces of your new regiment, is it enough for an artillery regiment?"
"Since you can't be the commander of the artillery regiment, then hand over the mountain artillery battalion to the division headquarters and continue to be the commander of your infantry regiment."
"No, sir." Li Yunlong said hurriedly, "Do you think it will be easy for me to get these two mountain artillery battalions?"
After a pause, Li Yunlong said again: "Commander, you are being unreasonable. I have just handed over the equipment of a mountain artillery battalion at the brigade headquarters, and now I have handed over the equipment of a mountain artillery battalion at the division headquarters to fight against the seventh Japanese tank regiment."
Before the formation, our New Regiment did not have a single mountain cannon. After taking out the Seventh Tank Regiment, our New Regiment still did not have a single mountain cannon. Then didn’t our New Regiment annihilate the Japanese Seventh Tank Regiment in vain?
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"Teacher, let me tell you the truth. To be honest, you must not tell others."
"These supporting equipment are all earned by winning battles. This time the 7th Regiment of Japanese Chariots was completely annihilated. The amount of assistance was 2 battalions of mountain artillery and 2 basic artillery shells."
"People in my aid channel already think that our new group is weak."
"After all these mountain cannons have been handed over, how can I do business with them next time?"
"The stronger our new regiment is, the bigger the business it will do, the more equipment assistance it will receive, and the stronger our new regiment will be."
"This is called getting rich first to drive wealth later."
"If the other party thinks that our new regiment is weak and seeks assistance from the Jinsui Army or the Central Army, wouldn't that be a huge loss?"
"We must keep the water flowing slowly, sir, do you think this is the truth?"
Like the brigade commander, the division commander had long guessed the assistance pattern of the mysterious patriotic man named Chen, and he only recognized Li Yunlong.
In fact, the division commander did not intend to take all of Li Yunlong's mountain cannons. He just wanted to deceive Li Yunlong to see if he could get some information out of them.
Although the information obtained was limited, the division commander got the results he wanted.
At that moment, the division commander said: "Okay, then you will keep 7 mountain cannons, and send the remaining 5 mountain cannons and corresponding shells to me to the division headquarters."
"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!" Li Yunlong smiled happily and thanked him repeatedly.
In fact, Li Yunlong had already guessed that in addition to the brigade commander, he would also be robbed, either the division commander or the boss, because this was a mountain artillery camp, and everyone would be greedy.
Being robbed by his division commander, Li Yunlong didn't have many surprises, so he still had a few tricks up his sleeve.
In a few days, the new regiment will be able to make up for the number of a mountain artillery battalion.
"Beat your sex!" the teacher laughed, and then hung up the phone with a snap.
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At the 129th Division headquarters, the division commander hung up the phone with a bang and was in a good mood.
11 mountain artillery can barely be considered a mountain artillery battalion. If we collect artillery pieces from other units, we can definitely form an artillery regiment.
After two consecutive phone calls, my mouth felt dry. As soon as the teacher took a drink of water to moisten his throat, he heard a faint voice from behind: "Sir, I congratulate you on getting rich."
The division commander quickly turned around and saw the boss and deputy chief of staff standing behind him. He was dumbfounded: "Boss, chief of staff, when did you come?"
Then, the division commander's face fell and he said again: "Can you please stop robbing my mountain artillery? I want to start an artillery regiment."
"Who said they wanted to rob your mountain artillery?" The boss's face darkened, "I just want to congratulate you on getting rich. The headquarters already has an artillery regiment directly under it. Why are you robbing your mountain artillery?"