jdhmnovel Chapter 141 I'm so poor that I only have money left
Chapter 141 I'm so poor that I only have money left
Gu Wenxuan looked at the two battalion commanders of the Sichuan Army Independent Regiment.
"So what are you going to do next? Are you going to return to Sichuan or continue to stay here and fight against the Japanese?"
Rodpei shook his head and said:
"We were ordered to fight against the Japanese, so how can we go back like this?
We were afraid that our fellow villagers would laugh at us to death. Besides, even if they didn’t laugh at us, we would still be considered disobeying military orders and would be shot.”
Yao Xinghua frowned and said:
“But with only seven or eight hundred of us left here, and without our direct leaders, our logistics supply cannot keep up!
Even if our livelihood is temporarily secured, it won’t last long, right? "
Rodpei said, "You have to go back anyway, so go back!
I must make some money on the anti-Japanese battlefield before I can return. We have been so pathetic from last year to now!
We have seized so many good weapons now. No matter what, we must fight a big battle with the Japanese before I am willing to evacuate this area!"
Gu Wenxuan's mind moved: "Brother, why don't you take down this Heping Town and make it your base!"
Yao Xinghua thought for a moment:
"I know that there are four artillery towers in Heping Town, east, west, south and north. We have taken down one of them, so there are still three artillery towers left.
Although the Japanese and Imperial Army in these three artillery towers are not as strong as this one, they still have more than 1000 people in total. How can we, with just a few hundred people, defeat them?"
Yao Xinghua is only in his 30s and looks strong and powerful, but he is certainly not as brave as Luo Depei.
That's because they fought countless battles with the Japanese from Sichuan to Shanxi and then to Henan.
They failed every time, and their numbers became fewer and fewer. Originally, their regiment had about 1500 people, but now there were only to left, which could be said to be a loss of half of their men.
Of course, some of them slipped away along the way, while others were injured and stayed behind.
Not exactly beaten to death.
Rodpei: "If you are afraid, you should just stay as a defender. My battalion and I will go in the front. Besides, I have my fellow countrymen here, so why should I be afraid of them?"
Yao Xinghua glared at Luo Depei:
"Captain Luo, please stop talking so foully. What do you mean I'm afraid of the Japanese? If I were afraid, I would have gone home long ago. I've fought more than a dozen battles with the Japanese here, big and small!"
Gu Wenxuan saw that the two battalion commanders were neither of them was convinced by the other, but they were only reluctant to fight together because they were from the Sichuan Army and were fighting in an unfamiliar place.
Gu Wenxuan said to both of them:
"I think this Heping Town is a strategic point. Although it is now a no-man's land, why don't you really take over this town and make it your base.
I tell you that I still have seven or eight hundred people in Hebei. If you need them, I can bring them here and we can work together to fight against Japan.
As for what you said about the lack of supplies, that's not a problem at all.
I have plenty of weapons, I will bring them to you and make your equipment the best in the area."
Gu Wenxuan said that he still had a group of people, which made Luo Depei very happy, especially when he heard that he still had a large amount of weapons to equip.
You have to know that what soldiers like most is arms. With arms, they have strength, and with strength, they have the right to speak.
Otherwise, why would each of those warlords, in order to preserve their strength, be unwilling to send their forces to the front lines to fight the Japanese? It is because only with strength can one have a say.
Rodpey said happily:
"Brother, do you still have a group of people in Hebei? Then quickly call them over, and we will join forces to fight against the Japanese!"
But Yao Xinghua still had doubts:
"But according to what the little brother said, he has 1500 to people, and we have to people, which adds up to nearly people. Where will our supplies come from?"
Gu Wenxuan understood that Yao Xinhua was afraid that there would be no money if the army expanded!
He immediately said: "Brother Yao, Brother Luo, don't worry about the money. I have nothing but money, which is all I have left."
These two Sichuan Army battalion commanders thought Gu Wenxuanzi was bragging!
Seeing that they didn't believe him, Gu Wenxuan took out a stack of money from the space.
All his money is in US dollars, with a denomination of 100 yuan.
This stack of US dollars is $1.
This really shocked Yao Xinghua, because he knew that one dollar was equivalent to two and a half oceans.
So, this $1 will cost 25,000 dollars.
Yao Xinghua grabbed the ten thousand dollars:
"Oh, brother, I didn't expect you to be a wealthy man. This is $1. This $1 will be enough for us to use for a while!"
Because Yao Xinghua had lived in a big city, he knew that US dollars were more valuable than the ocean.
However, Rodpe, who is also a battalion commander, has never seen many US dollars. He still believes that the ocean is hard currency.
He took a dollar bill from Yao Xinhua's hand and looked at it:
"Is this foreign paper flutter worth money? Can it be used?"
Gu Wenxuan and Yao Xinghua pointed at Luo Depei at the same time and said, "You old-fashioned fellow! This is more valuable than a silver dollar. You look so stupid and ignorant!"
Rodpei was not angry when the two of them called him a country bumpkin, because he was a country bumpkin anyway.
The farthest distance he had ever traveled was to Chengdu Province when he followed their group leader.
This time, I followed the Sichuan Army out of Sichuan and visited many places, but they were basically in the mountains in the countryside. I didn't go to any big cities.
"Anyway, no matter what you say, I still like Yuan Datou. It's very practical to hold!" Luo Depei is a very stubborn person!
Gu Wenxuan had no way to persuade Rod, so he had to take out another silver note from his pocket, on which was written 3 oceans.
He handed the 3-dollar note to Rodpei and said, "You recognize this thing, right?"
Rodpey took the banknote and looked at it:
"I know this. Don't treat me like a fool. This is a banknote that can be used to withdraw money from the bank!"
Yao Xinghua laughed: "Our old battalion commander is a connoisseur!"
Rodpei smiled and said, "Xiao Yao, look, I still have 3 dollars, and your 1 dollars is only 25,000 dollars according to what you said. Who do you think is stupid between us?"
Yao Xinghua was also speechless!
Gu Wenxuan said: "We will just use this much money for now. If you need money in the future, just let me know!"
The two battalion commanders thanked Gu Wenxuan at the same time: "Brother, thank you so much this time. If it weren't for you, we, the seven or eight hundred people, don't know how many days we can survive here!"
"We are all from Sichuan, so there is no need to be polite. But now we should go and shoot down the other three artillery pieces and make Heping Town our base camp!"
Now even Yao Xinghua is interested in making Heping Town his base camp. After all, Gu Wenxuan has money, arms, and a number of people. His people are no less than his own. There should be a bright future if he follows him.
So they were originally going to transport the food away, but now they decided not to. Since they want to use this place as their base, then transporting the food to other places would just be asking for trouble!
So the two battalion commanders led their troops and ran towards the other artillery towers. They knew that a gunfight had taken place here and those artillery towers should have heard it.
Moreover, the more than 100 surrendered Imperial Army soldiers were also mixed in the teams of these two battalions. At least these people could do physical work like carrying ammunition boxes.
Gu Wenxuan believed that with only five or six Sichuan troops, they were only one member of the Imperial Army.
He didn't dare to do anything out of line with these surrendered Imperial Army troops.
The town of Heping was quite large, and it took them more than ten minutes to run from the south gate to the artillery tower at the west gate.
When we arrived at the West Gate's artillery tower, we saw that it was brightly lit and the searchlights were constantly scanning the plains outside.
This Heping town is surrounded by plains, and the searchlights can illuminate very far. As soon as any people or horses appear, they can see them from afar.
Sure enough, the seven or eight hundred Sichuan troops plus the nearly 1000 who surrendered were discovered from a distance by the people on the artillery tower.
The people on the artillery tower immediately fired at them with heavy machine guns.
Moreover, there were also Imperial Army troops in the trenches below the artillery tower, who had already taken up positions and were shooting at them.
The Sichuan troops have already replaced their weapons with new ones and are already confident.
You have heavy machine guns, don't we? We also have a few mortars.
So the Sichuan Army set up their battle formation and started fighting here.
All of a sudden, there was a burst of gunfire. The people in the town were suddenly awakened in their beds by the sound of the shells, and no one could fall asleep again.
Rodpei also sent people to bombard the artillery tower with the newly captured mortars.
The Japanese commander in the artillery tower used a telescope to look at the people fighting with them in the fields ahead.
What he saw was that all the people in these troops were wearing the uniforms of the Japanese Army and the Imperial Army, and for a moment he didn't know what was going on.
However, later, the deserters who ran back from the South Gate Artillery Tower told them that these were their uniforms.
It should have been borrowed by these armies, or it should have been used to paralyze us.
However, they didn't know where these troops came from, because when they were defeated, it was Gu Wenxuan alone, and some invisible creatures killed or scared away most of their people.
A squad leader of the Japanese army muttered, "Where the hell did these people come from? They don't look like the White Party's army, and they don't look like the Eighth Route Army!"