Chapter 323 Yang Xiuqin, District Chief Yang

“That’s right. I was punished and didn’t get the position of leader of the 772nd Regiment. I was only assigned the position of leader of the New 1st Regiment.

This time I won’t be so generous. You should give us the number of the First Column anyway.”

Listening to Zhang Dabiao’s words, Li Yunlong said without comment.

Li Yunlong’s idea was very simple. When the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, he was punished. In addition to some other reasons, he did not become the commander of the 772nd Regiment, but only became the commander of a basic regiment.

But now his Independent Regiment, the New 1st Regiment, the Vanguard Regiment, and the New 2nd Regiment, the combat effectiveness of these four regiments can be said to be the first-class main force regiments in the Eighth Route Army. Even if the New 2nd Regiment was placed in other military regions, it would still be ranked among the top ones apart from the factor of number of people.

Their fighting power is so strong that we should at least give them the title of the First Column.

As the saying goes, there is no first in literature and no second in martial arts.

As a soldier, naturally you have to do your best to strive for the first place.

Even if it’s just a number, even if the first column and the second column only differ by one character.

But one is one, and two is two.

One must be established before two.

The column that can be formed first will definitely be the strongest one.

Even if the First and Second Column were established at the same time, Li Yunlong would still compete for it.

“Captain, when the column is formed, do you have any ideas?”

Seeing that Li Yunlong supported his idea, Zhang Dabiao asked again.

Li Yunlong was just about to answer Zhang Dabiao and tell him his thoughts, but Hu Zi came to the regiment headquarters with another telegram.

“Captain, you are amazing. This is really the telegram sent by Captain Qin and his men.”

Hu Zi quickly handed the telegram in his hand to Li Yunlong.

Li Yunlong also raised his hand to take the telegram, and then began to read it.

Zhang Dabiao also stretched his head to look at the telegram in Li Yunlong’s hand.

“Hiss, Captain Qin and Captain Ding are so cruel that they actually want to use water attack! They also asked us to prepare more cloth bags so that we can use them as sandbags when the time comes.

Captain Qin is not planning to cut off the Dongzhang River, is he? “

Looking at the message on the telegram, Zhang Dabiao couldn’t help but take a breath.

Although Li Yunlong had said long ago that Qin Yangming and Ding Wei were definitely planning to target the Japanese 11th Brigade, and even wanted to completely annihilate the Japanese 11th Brigade.

Now that the telegram from Qin Yangming had been sent over, Zhang Dabiao looked at the content of the telegram and found it was similar to what Li Yunlong had guessed.

Qin Yangming and Ding Wei really wanted to completely wipe out the Japanese 11th Brigade and gave a battle plan.

Ask the independent regiment to prepare more cloth bags, as many as possible, and also prepare tools such as shovels.

If the independent regiment does not bring much, they will immediately send a telegram to Fu’an County and ask them to deliver the supplies to the independent regiment as soon as possible.

Then, after the Vanguard Regiment captured the county seat of Ping’an County, the Independent Regiment would deliver the cloth bags to the Vanguard Regiment.

According to the plan on the telegram sent by Qin Yangming, Qin Yangming intended to blast open the upper reaches of the Dongzhang River, then block the river with sandbags, increase the flow of river water, and try to flood the open space between the upper reaches of the Dongzhang River and the Song River.

In addition, prepare more sandbags so that if the situation goes wrong, you can plug the gap in time to avoid causing greater harm.

After all, by that time two regiments of troops from the Yi-Zhong Military Region will come over to capture Gucheng County and cut off the retreat of the Japanese 11th Brigade.

If both the Dongzhang River and the Song River collapsed, the two regiments sent from the Yi Zhong Military Region would be in big trouble if they were unlucky.

If you were not injured by the Japanese, but instead were damaged by the river water, that would not be a good thing.

“Hey, Qin Yangming, you are a real genius. You can even come up with this idea.”

Looking at the plan on the telegram sent by Qin Yangming, Li Yunlong couldn’t help but praise it.

Zhang Dabiao, who was standing by, looked at the telegram that Qin Yangming had entrusted to their independent regiment, and spoke to Li Yunlong with some embarrassment.

“Captain… Captain Qin and Captain Ding asked our independent regiment to prepare some sacks and cloth bags… But now we have crossed the Dongzhang River and entered the Ping’an County area… And we have to organize migrant workers. We haven’t even met with local comrades yet. How are we going to prepare?”

According to the original plan, Li Yunlong should have been waiting for the signal for the general attack in the direction of Fu’an, and then after the general attack began, he would start to destroy the Japanese strongholds and artillery towers along the river and quickly lead the large force across the river.

As a result, Li Yunlong himself led the most powerful battalion in the independent regiment, which accounted for one-third of the combat effectiveness of the entire independent regiment, across the Dongzhang River and hid behind the stronghold along the river.

Now, the only ones left in Fu’an are the remaining troops led by Xing Zhiguo.

More importantly, Xing Zhiguo also led his troops to hide in the mountains and villages opposite the strongholds built by the Japanese on the Dongzhang River, and not in the county seat of Fu’an County.

The telegram sent by Qin Yangming now obviously indicates that he thinks Li Yunlong is still near Fu’an County, and when the troops set off, they can take all the things directly from Fu’an County.

“Hiss, the cavalry… Damn it, the cavalry company has been taken away. Send a telegram to Deputy Regiment Commander Xing, asking him to take the transport team back and lie down. Tell him to hurry up. Then send a telegram to our Political Commissar Zhao, asking him to collect all the sacks and cloth bags in the entire Fu’an County as quickly as possible, and also prepare all the tools such as shovels and mattocks for me.

If there are not enough sacks, pour out all the grain and sew the bedding into cloth bags for me. Tell Political Commissar Zhao that we need a lot of sacks to block the Dongzhang River. Let him calculate how many sacks are needed!”

“Yes!”

Listening to Zhang Dabiao’s words, Li Yunlong frowned, and he also thought of the problem.

The telegram sent from Qin Yangming had already marked the time of the attack.

We can launch the attack in the evening when the Japanese planes are unable to take off.

Qin Yangming also sent a confirmation telegram, saying that Murakuchi Saburo had agreed to hand over the county seat of Ping’an County to their Eighth Route Army, and the Vanguard Regiment Special Forces had followed Murakuchi Saburo and others to the county seat of Ping’an County.

After dark, the special forces will open the city gates, and the vanguard group will take this opportunity to enter Ping’an County.

It’s almost noon now…

So now the time is relatively tight.

“Huzi, after sending the telegram, go ask when the district chief of Zhaojiayu will be back!” “Damn it, it’s been more than a day. What kind of meeting would take so long?! After this battle is over, I must report to the brigade headquarters and find out what the county committee of Ping’an County is doing!”

Li Yunlong looked at the telegram sent by Qin Yangming and told himself that if he had the ability, he should gather some civilian workers. It would be best to gather all the militiamen in Ping’an County, whether they were basic militiamen or on-duty militiamen, and bring them together to be responsible for filling sandbags.

Thinking that the head of the district committee in Zhaojiayu has not returned yet, Li Yunlong became increasingly angry.

Originally, this time, the local comrades in Ping’an County had been notified in advance to be prepared to cooperate, although for the sake of confidentiality, the specific situation was not told to the local comrades here.

But we also asked the local comrades to stay where they are and not run around everywhere, and all the work of the local comrades should be stopped first.

As a result, after Li Yunlong arrived, he found that the local comrades did not stop their work as required, and no local comrades were waiting in Zhaojiayu.

Originally, local comrades were asked to cooperate, but now Li Yunlong hasn’t even seen them.

Without the cooperation of local comrades, Li Yunlong would not have the time to regroup the masses and organize a transport team, or to organize migrant workers to help fill the river as Qin Yangming requested.

He brought combat troops but no one from the political department.

Seeing that Li Yunlong was obviously about to lose his temper, Hu Zi did not dare to hesitate and quickly got up and left as Li Yunlong requested. He told the confidential room next door the news Li Yunlong had said and asked them to send a telegram to Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo. Then he quickly left the regiment headquarters and went to the village to ask when the person in charge of Zhaojiayu would come.

Not long after Hu Zi left, he saw several militia soldiers dressed in ordinary people’s clothes, wearing Eighth Route Army caps and carrying long rifles. They were surrounding a female comrade wearing flowery clothes and a military cap and walking towards him.

“Comrade, comrade, are you the person in charge of the district committee in Zhaojiayu?”

Seeing the person coming, Hu Zi’s eyes lit up and he quickly went up to him and asked.

The woman listened to Hu Zi’s question and spoke immediately.

“Well, we are from the Zhaojiayu District Committee. We heard that the head of the independent regiment, Li, came to our Zhaojiayu and has been looking for our district committee. What’s the matter? Is there something urgent?”

Hu Zi listened to what the woman said and quickly spoke.

“Hey, comrade, please call your district chief over here. Our regiment commander is getting mad. We have been waiting for almost two days. Where have you been? Call your district chief over here.

Our team leader has something important to deal with, it’s urgent!

If he doesn’t come again, your district chief will be punished!”

Hu Zi heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the woman in front of him say that she was from the district committee, and then hurriedly urged her to call their district chief over.

“This is our district chief, Yang Xiuqin, District Chief Yang.”

A middle-aged militiaman with a large-eyed box-type pistol on his waist listened to what Hu Zi said, and immediately pointed at the female comrade and introduced her to Hu Zi.

After listening to the militiamen’s introductions, Hu Zi looked at Yang Xiuqin and said in surprise.

“Your district chief is actually a female comrade?”

Seeing the surprise in Hu Zi’s eyes, Yang Xiuqin spoke with dissatisfaction.

“What’s wrong with female comrades? Can’t female comrades be district heads?”

“Comrade, our district chief has killed two Japanese devils. Don’t look down on us female comrades. Women comrades can also hold up half the sky.”

“Okay, okay, I don’t want to talk to you about this. I apologize for what I just said. I don’t mean to look down on women comrades. I just feel a little surprised because this is the first time I see a woman comrade serving as a district head.

District Chief Yang, now is not the time to discuss this. Please follow me to see our head of the group. If he gets angry, he won’t care whether you are a woman or not.”

Hearing the dissatisfaction expressed by Yang Xiuqin and the militia soldier next to her, Hu Zi apologized and quickly reminded Yang Xiuqin to follow him to the regiment headquarters.

Yang Xiuqin was originally attending a meeting at the county party committee. Someone provided the county committee with a very important piece of information, and then the county committee called all of them together to discuss what was going on.

As a result, Yang Xiuqin received a notice halfway through the meeting and rushed back in a hurry.

Halfway through the journey, they encountered a Japanese army unit heading towards Ping’an County. Due to this delay, Yang Xiuqin, who should have returned to Zhaojiayu long ago, had to wait until now to return to Zhaojiayu.

Listening to what Hu Zi said, Yang Xiuqin realized that there might be something very urgent, so she quickly followed Hu Zi to the headquarters of the independent regiment.

“Captain, commander, the district committee chief of Zhaojiayu is back!”

“District Chief Yang, please pay attention. Our team leader is probably very angry now.”

Before Hu Zi entered the regiment headquarters, he shouted loudly, informing Li Yunlong in advance that the district chief of Zhaojiayu was coming, and also letting Yang Xiuqin be mentally prepared.

Hearing Hu Zi’s reminder, Yang Xiuqin nodded, indicating that she understood.

Then a loud shout was heard from the regiment headquarters.

“Come in!”

Hearing that powerful shout, Hu Zi shook his body subconsciously.

As Li Yunlong’s bodyguard, Hu Zi knew that as long as Li Yunlong’s tone became like this, he would start cursing.

Just looking at Li Yunlong’s mouth, not to mention the person being scolded, even Hu Zi standing next to him would be scared to death.

And now Yang Xiuqin is still a lesbian.

At this moment, Du Huzi could only pray that Li Yunlong would be more gentle because Yang Xiuqin was a lesbian and not scare her.

Li Yunlong in the regiment headquarters heard Hu Zi’s call, shouted to the outside, then took the tea handed to him by Zhang Dabiao and took a sip.

After putting down the tea bowl, I saw Hu Zi and a woman wearing a floral jacket entering the house.

“Hmm? Who are you from Zhaojiayu? Are you the women’s chairperson? Where’s your district chief? Damn it, why did your district chief let a female comrade like you come here?! Go, ask your district chief to come here!”

Seeing that the person coming over was a female comrade, Li Yunlong subconsciously thought that it was the district chief of Zhaojiayu who sent someone to deal with him and sent a female comrade to take the blame.

Thinking of this, Li Yunlong could no longer suppress the anger in his heart.

If the district chief came in person, the most he could do was scold the other person.

(End of this chapter)