The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 94 Zhuangxingjiu

Hu Biao and the others' guess was absolutely correct.

After waving his hand to signal the soldiers who brought Hu Biao and others to go out and closing the door, the fat colonel spoke with a smile.

The accent has a distinct Cantonese twang, but fortunately I can understand the basic meaning:
"Everyone, please don't be shy. I'm Liu Delu, the logistics director of the 48th Division of the 176th Army.

Although I've only known Director Sun of the Sichuan Army's 134th Division for a short time, we became brothers right away. And you, Hu Biao, are also brothers, so you don't need to be polite in front of me."

After hearing this, Hu Biao and the others immediately came up with a truth that was almost certain:
Director Sun of the Sichuan Army and Director Liu of the Guangxi Army probably didn't know each other before; but it didn't matter. With the combination of interests, they quickly reached some agreements and became good friends.

This allowed Director Liu, the local boss of the Gui army, to help and save the lives of Hu Biao and the others.

Director Liu is so enthusiastic, I think it is simply because that agreement made him a lot of benefits.

So much so that he could risk his life to fool Bai Jiansheng, the leader of the Gui army, and at the same time be so enthusiastic towards Hu Biao and others.

However, modern people like Hu Biao will not do anything without caring about anything once they get too excited. Even if they figure out the dirty deeds between these termites, they will not expose them. Instead, they will climb up the stick.

Soon, Hu Biao and Liu Delu began to call each other brother and younger brother in a very affectionate manner.

Black Star and the others, who were smiling on the side, appeared calm on the surface, but in their hearts they felt extremely annoyed and disgusted.

Fortunately, after some insincere greetings between the two, things finally got to the point.

Director Sun smoked a cigarette and told Hu Biao about their next arrangements: "Brother Hu, you still have to bear with it for a while.

You will be incorporated into the death squad of the 48th Regiment of the 176th Division of our 1020th Army of the Gui Army; this is what Commander Bai has instructed, and no one dares to tamper with it.

But don't worry, this is just a formality.

Brother, I have already arranged everything for you. I heard that Huang Farui, Captain Huang of the 1020th Regiment, had some friendship with you, and I promised him some benefits.

So Captain Huang promised to take care of you. Once you reach the Dunwu Temple position that he is responsible for, you don't have to charge with the suicide squad.

Go directly to the regiment headquarters' kitchen for a few days, and make other arrangements after the counterattack is completed."

After hearing the words "kitchen squad" and "Dunwu Temple", Hu Biao couldn't help but feel dazed for a moment. He really had a connection with these two places...

In the following time, Director Liu sent a bunch of things over.
There were a lot of items including weapons and ammunition, grenades, binoculars, gas masks, M35 helmets, cameras, military rank insignia, etc. These were all the things that were taken away before they were shot, and now they have all been returned.

It is naturally a good thing to be able to continue using equipment that is convenient for you.

But before they were about to be shot yesterday, Hu Biao and his men found something wrong with the rank insignias that were pulled off their collars.

Because based on their status at the time, apart from Hu Biao who was a major, the other six people including Hei Xing had at least one lieutenant.

But among this pile of military rank insignia, the highest one is only a lieutenant, and the rest are all second lieutenants.

When Hu Biao and the others were surprised, Director Liu started to explain: "Is that so? We must take care of Commander Bai's face.

Let's lower the military ranks first. Brother Hu, you will be a lieutenant for a while, and the others will be second lieutenants for a while.

Even if Commander Bai remembered you afterwards and found out you were not dead after asking someone, but seeing that you had been demoted so many levels, I think the last bit of anger in his heart would have completely disappeared, and the matter would have been over.

With my brother's help, you'll be able to get promoted back up quickly, and even Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel won't be a problem."

It must be said that people like Director Liu are very skilled in fooling their superiors and subordinates, as well as in seeking personal advancement in the military.

Hu Biao and others naturally would not object to such a decision.

To put it bluntly, they are now just relying on big promises to fool these parasites, so it is really not a good idea to ask for too much.

After getting their equipment and exchanging a few polite words, Hu Biao and his companions were led out again; they didn't know that just as they left, another person came out of the room inside.

Hu Biao was very familiar with this person. He was his cheap elder brother, Director Sun.

After seeing Director Sun, Liu Delu said impatiently: "

Old Sun, you are being too cautious. If it were me, I would have arrested Hu Biao and his men long ago. Even the strongest man would not be able to withstand it and would naturally reveal the channels behind penicillin.

When the time comes, we can just deal directly with the higher-level channels. There's no need to be manipulated by these small fry." After hearing this, Director Sun shook his head and rejected such a proposal:
"It's too risky. We've inquired and found out that the foreigners in Shanghai can't even produce penicillin, so the person who can produce this miracle drug must be extraordinary.

It is better not to act rashly before finding out the true relationship between Hu Biao and the manufacturer.

Oh right! Have you arranged the manpower?"

"Of course. Once Hu Biao and his men arrive at the 1020th Regiment, he'll try to get closer and gain their trust. It'll take some time until he finds some clues about the channel." Liu Delu replied...

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After coming out of Director Liu's office, Hu Biao and his team did not set off immediately. Instead, they went to the position of the 1020th Regiment in Dunwu Temple to report to their acquaintance, Captain Huang.

Instead, they continued to stay at the headquarters of the 176th Division and would not set off until after nightfall.

It's not that the fighting on the Dunwu Temple battlefield has become fierce again today. If we go there during the day and are discovered by scouts on the Japanese hot air balloon, we might even be caught by Japanese artillery fire.

In fact, since yesterday, the intensity of the fighting along the entire Yunzaobang front has decreased a lot, and the frequency of the Japanese using planes and artillery has greatly decreased.

The small-scale troop movements of the National Army are much safer than in the past few days.

After the Gui army's counterattack plan begins tonight, these carefully selected death squads will have to participate in a pre-war mobilization meeting.

Specifically, at a little after six in the evening, it was already dark in the Magic City which was already in late autumn; at this time, Hu Biao and his companions met the Guangxi clique leader Bai Jiansheng again.

In order to avoid the enemy's air superiority, the Gui army planned to launch a counterattack at night.

Before launching the counterattack, Bai Jiansheng was unable to gather all the 21 troops of his st Army together to make a final pre-war mobilization.

However, it is possible to assemble a suicide squad of 10,000 people selected from the elite of each unit.

On a temporary platform, Bai Jiansheng, who is now 44 years old, looked indescribably high-spirited.

Under the gaze of more than 10,000 elite soldiers under his command, he loudly made the final mobilization.

The brothers were promised compensation if they died in battle and care for the wounded. In this respect, the Gui army did even better than the central army.

At the end, Bai Jiansheng shouted at the top of his voice:
"Even if we fight to the last man, we must let the Japanese devils know how powerful the Gui army's wolf soldiers are."

As the voice fell, the whole place was filled with huge cheers of "Let the Dongyang devils know how powerful the Gui army's wolf soldiers are", which resounded in the sky above the place.

The owners of these sounds had relatively dark faces filled with an indescribable expression of determination.

When the cheers died down, Bai Jiansheng took the large bowl handed over by the adjutant and continued:

"I originally wanted to offer a bowl of wine to all the soldiers before they set out to fight, to boost their morale. However, the war is now at a stalemate, and the logistics department simply cannot get that much wine. Here, I, Bai, can only offer a bowl of water to my brothers.

After we defeat the Japanese, we will make up for this feast with wine."

Then, with a "dry" sound, he drank the water in his hand, and smashed the earthen bowl with a hole in it, which he had found from somewhere, into pieces on the platform.

Seeing this, tens of thousands of death squads in the audience shouted "Cheers!" and people including Hu Biao picked up various earthen bowls and drank the water in them in one gulp.

Then he smashed the earthen bowl in his hand to the ground with equal force, smashing it into pieces.

Just like the determination in their hearts at this moment to die if they fail.

I don't know if it's because the injury to my lungs is getting worse, but I've been coughing up blood the past two days. Anyway, AT smelled a strong bloody smell in this bowl of water...

　PS: Thanks to 'Zisheng Seyingshi' for the generous reward.

　　Thanks to 'AT' for another two 10,000-yuan reward.

　　Thanks for the 10,000-point reward for 'Nanshan sees Nanshan from the south'.

　　Thanks to 'Guifei' for the daily reward of 500 points.

　　Thanks to 'juefeicong' for the 500-point reward.

　　Thank you all for your support. I will update more chapters after the New Year. I would like to wish everyone a happy New Year...

　　
　
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