Warlords: I just made a little fortune, but I didn’t build a country.

"I say, Commander Liu," Sun Desheng came to sit down in front of the commander of the First Infantry, Liu An, and said, "Your regiment is really powerful. As the first unit in the entire group army to break through the Japanese positions, your regiment has made a great contribution this time."

"Your direct brigade is not bad either."

Liu An exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "You used the strength of a brigade to fight against a division of the Japanese head-on, causing the Japanese division to lose over 10,000 people and taking over 10,000 prisoners. You are also quite remarkable."

"Compared to you, it's nothing."

Sun Desheng took out a cigarette and lit it, saying, "Your regiment fought bravely, and you, the regiment commander, were even more so. I heard that in this battle, you killed more than 700 Japanese soldiers alone, which is equivalent to half a battalion of Japanese soldiers. I, Sun Desheng, have only admired a few people in my life. The commander is one of them, and you are another."

"hey-hey."

Liu An patted Sun Desheng on the shoulder with a smile and said, "I accept your admiration. I'm ready to leave. The battle is not over yet, and we have to keep going."

After saying that, Liu An called for a military truck, then left the battlefield and rushed to the next one.

After fighting for 15 hours, the Japanese lost their first line of defense, with more than casualties. Now they are fighting street battles and blocking battles in the urban area of ​​Aibei City.

So this battle is not over yet. The battle can only be considered over after the entire Ninth Front Army of the Japanese is wiped out. And Liu An was just replaced from the front line. The reserve army is now encircling and suppressing the Japanese. His 112th Army was replaced to rest while the reserve army attacks. After the reserve army finishes fighting, his 112th Army will have to take over.

The main strategy is to carry out 24-hour uninterrupted encirclement and suppression of the Japanese, seizing every minute and second and not giving the Japanese a chance to change their tactics.

"I said."

At the 112th Army Headquarters, Li Yunfei, who had rested for a few hours, came to the headquarters and asked, "What is the situation at the front now?"

"What else could it be?!"

Cheng Hai, deputy commander of the reserve army, responded, "Of course it is my First Reserve Army that is encircling and suppressing the Japanese. We have trapped hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in Aibei City and beat them up severely."

Hearing the words of Deputy Commander of the Reserve Army Cheng Hai, Li Yunfei was immediately unhappy. He squinted his eyes and pouted at him and said, "Then your Reserve Army is really powerful. But I heard that when you were fighting with the Japanese Imperial Front Army, you were almost surrounded by the Japanese. If it weren't for Deputy Commander Chu's help, you, Blind Cheng, would have made a big mistake."

"15 versus 40, the advantage is not in my hands," Cheng Hai responded.

"15 vs. 40. The advantage is on my side," Li Yunfei retorted. "The 112-strong Ninth Front Army of the Japanese was torn into a hole by my 15th Army. In one day and one night, we annihilated enemies and forced the Japanese to hide in Aibei City. If not for your First Reserve Army being right next to you, Cheng the Blind would have picked up a ready-made one. Dream on!"

"I say, Li Yunfei, don't be so ungrateful."

Cheng Hai put down the telescope and said, "If my First Reserve Army was not there, could your 112th Army continue to encircle and suppress the Japanese?"

"Pull him down!"

Li Yunfei curled his lips and said, "If the headquarters hadn't wanted you to practice with the First Reserve Army and accumulate some combat experience so that you can be promoted later, do you think the headquarters would have let Cheng Xiazi take advantage of this?"

"Just watch."

Without waiting for Chen Hai to respond, Li Yunfei continued, "It will take at most one day. If you fail to take over Aibei City within one day, then the headquarters will withdraw you. At that time, my 112th Army will have to go. Do you believe it?"

"Humph!"

Cheng Hai ignored Li Yunfei and spoke to the senior staff officer behind him, "Tell the frontline troops to take over Aibei City within one day, regardless of the cost. We can't let these individuals look down on our First Reserve Army."

"Yes, Deputy Commander."

The senior staff officer glanced at Li Yunfei, then quickly went to execute the order.

"Blind Cheng, don't waste your energy. Why don't you come and smoke with me?" Li Yunfei said leisurely as he sat on a chair and lit a cigarette. "Come and try my Eagle brand cigarettes. You guys in the reserve army are poor and may not have smoked this good stuff. Come and try it."

Seeing Li Yunfei take out the Eagle brand cigarettes, Cheng Hai frowned in anger, wishing he could eat Li Yunfei alive. Because Li Yunfei's words hit him directly in the heart, he really had never smoked this Eagle brand cigarette, usually he smoked Lao Qin Dao or Jing Tiao.

Lao Qin Dao cigarettes, a pack costs two yuan, and Jing Tiao cigarettes, a pack costs two and a half yuan. These two types of cigarettes are considered top-notch in the Qin Empire. There are only five types of cigarettes that are better than these, namely the Special Giant Panda, Red Panda, Eagle, Baoshan, and Shenglu.

Baoshan and Shenglu are cigarettes smoked by rich people. A pack costs more than ten yuan, which can be exchanged for hundreds of kilograms of rice. Even if he is a lieutenant general and his military salary is 800 yuan a month, which doubles to 1,600 yuan a month on the front line during wartime, he cannot smoke these two cigarettes because according to his smoking addiction, he smokes at least 60 packs a month. It is impossible for him to spend 800 or 900 yuan a month on smoking. What about his wife and children?

As for the Eagle brand cigarettes that Li Yunfei smoked, they were special cigarettes with a priceless market. The buying and selling of this type of cigarettes was prohibited openly. Only generals at the rank of admiral would be issued 12 boxes each year, and no one below the rank of admiral would be issued any.

And because some generals do not like smoking, this type of cigarette will appear on the black market. It is called a black market, but in fact it is just a small shop inside the military where people buy and sell, and Eagle brand cigarettes are the most sought-after goods.

Because it can be used as a gift and to gain face, the price is driven up very high, a pack of cigarettes costs fifty or sixty yuan. How could Cheng Hai be willing to buy this kind of cigarettes? So when he saw Li Yunfei smoking Eagle brand cigarettes, Cheng Hai was very angry.

As for why Li Yunfei, also a lieutenant general, could afford to smoke Eagle cigarettes, it was very simple. Li Yunfei's 112th Army captured cities and strongholds along the way. The main attacking forces could get 30% of the spoils captured. Li Yunfei was also lucky. When attacking Miyazaki Island, he captured Haicheng, the richest city of the Japanese on Miyazaki Island. He was the first unit to enter Haicheng and seized nearly billion in supplies. One% of the commission was million. As the deputy commander, Li Yunfei directly got star coins, making him a wealthy man.

So a pack of cigarettes worth just a few dozen yuan was just a drop in the bucket for Li Yunfei, a wealthy old man. What's more, Li Yunfei's old boss, Commander Xu Zhengde of the 112th Army Group, did not smoke, so these 12 boxes of Eagle cigarettes were ordered by Li Yunfei, which was why the other party was able to smoke Eagle cigarettes.

Now the city of Aibei is right in front of him. As long as his First Reserve Army takes it, it will be easy to seize one or two billion, not to mention anything else. After all, this city of Aibei is also one of the ten first-class cities in the East Asian country. So his First Reserve Army will definitely take over this city of Aibei, and Cheng Hai will use Eagle brand cigarettes as firewood in the future.