Chapter 47: Take Monk Wei to Drink Wine
Liu Qiang and others thought what Zhao Gang was asking? It turned out to be this.
"Hey! The source of the ammunition is fine. We looted them from the Japanese."
Fang Dafu understood why Zhao Gang was so serious and explained.
“When we trained before, it was often the principal who led us in actual combat training.
These are guns and ammunition captured during actual combat training.”
Zhao Gang was furious: "Why don't you hand in all these guns and ammunition?
Do you know how many people can be mobilized to fight against the Japanese with so many guns and ammunition?
A regiment, these guns and ammunition can form a regiment of anti-Japanese forces!
You actually chose to conceal the truth and not hand it over. Don't you know the military regulations of the Eighth Route Army?
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Liu Qiang and Fang Dafu were stunned. Liu Qiang asked hesitantly, "Vice President, don't you know that the Northwest Shanxi Scouting Agricultural Science School has nothing to do with the Eighth Route Army?
This is Principal Chen’s private school. Principal Chen said that the reason he did not dare to ask for supplies from the Eighth Route Army was to retain its autonomy.
Because many of the ways he does things are beyond your comprehension.
For example, he was going to keep this batch of ammunition to train new students.
When the principal was training us, he told us that there are actually very few sharpshooters who rely on natural talent. After all, there is no way to select talented soldiers on a large scale to train them as sharpshooters.
In fact, sharpshooters are fed with bullets. The principal once joked that the bullets he trained us with would probably have been brought to a military court if they were in the Eighth Route Army.
So he has been working hard to accumulate bullets and ammunition. This much is the first batch, and we need to get the subsequent ammunition ourselves. Do you think this amount of ammunition is enough to train 500 people?
The reason why we scout trainees can graduate is because we have to take assessments.
For a moving target of 200m, you must hit it every time you shoot. For a moving target of 300m, you must hit six or seven out of ten times. The moving target is the Japanese.
The principal said that even so, our marksmanship was still far inferior to that of the Japanese sharpshooters.
He said that if he just picked a random person, gave him a gun, and gave him dozens of bullets, what's the use if he can't hit the target?
Isn't it the same death on the battlefield? Look at the Eighth Route Army soldiers now, how many of them are good at shooting?
Once on the battlefield, they usually fired two or three shots, and then fought desperately with bayonets.
If we practice shooting well and can use bullets to eliminate the enemy, we can save many casualties and kill more enemies.
The principal often said that our lives are precious, much more precious than the lives of the Japanese. Although we are not afraid of death, we cannot die in vain. "
Hearing him say this, Zhao Gang remembered what Chen Xiao had said when he entrusted the people he had rescued from the prisoner-of-war camp to him: "Our lives are precious..."
But he still felt that something was wrong. He always felt that it would be good to have one more regiment of anti-Japanese troops. But what Fang Dafu said just now made sense. This school was Chen Xiao's private school. Although it was to train talents for the Eighth Route Army and recruited himself, it did not mean that he had the right to dispose of these ammunition.
In terms of training students, facts have proved that Chen Xiao is right, but Zhao Gang has not been exposed to these kinds of work and has only studied political work.
"Since the source of these ammunition is legitimate, why do you have to wait until Principal Chen comes back before moving them?" Zhao Gang still wanted to clarify his doubts.
When it came to this, Liu Qiang and Fang Dafu's faces turned bitter.
"Vice-Principal! You just arrived and don't know that the New 1st Regiment was our old unit, and its current commander is Commander Ding Weiding.
Our former regiment commander was Li Yunlong, who is now the commander of the independent regiment. In addition, 20 of our 40 graduating students were assigned to the independent regiment.
You said we want to move, is this amount of ammunition enough for the two captains to grab?
You say, can you stop them, or can we stop them?
Only when the principal comes back will we no longer have to worry about the ammunition being snatched away and divided by the two regiment commanders.
Otherwise, without ammunition, we have 500 new students!
How to train? We have to make up for the previous training."
Zhao Gang had just arrived and didn't know how vicious the two bandits Li Yunlong and Ding Wei were when they robbed things. It was said that he had been eyeing the cavalry camp in Wanjia Town for quite some time.
If it wasn't a little far from him and out of his jurisdiction, he would have gone there and taken the cavalry camp in Wanjia Town to his home.
At this time, if he knew that the school had more than 100,000 rounds of ammunition and four or five hundred guns when it moved, it would be strange if he didn't try to rob them!
And Li Yunlong is such a shameless person. It is normal and reasonable for you to lose tens of thousands of bullets when moving because the principal is not here!
Although Liu Qiang, Fang Dafu and others had such concerns, they still had to move.
In fact, Zhao Gang still has a way. There are 500 students and 50 instructors. If he distributes the bullets, there are more than 100,000 bullets, and each person only gets two or three hundred bullets.
Two or three hundred rounds were just the standard ammunition for two Japanese soldiers.
It seems like a lot, but that 's only the case in the eyes of people like Zhao Gang who are used to being poor.
You have to know that at that time, the standard equipment of five bullets per person in the Eighth Route Army was already good, let alone two or three hundred rounds.
In addition to the 500 almost brand new rifles in the ammunition depot in the tunnel, there were also eighty to ninety submachine guns, a dozen or twenty light and heavy machine guns, more than a dozen grenade launchers, two mortars, and dozens of rifles.
When he finished the statistics, Zhao Gang no longer knew what he wanted to say.
No group is so rich!
Are Ding Wei’s New 1st Regiment and Li Yunlong’s Independent Regiment so wealthy?
Except that there weren't enough people, it was totally the third group.
After completing the statistics and moving, Zhao Gang reported to his superiors again and gave them a clear account of the situation.
When the brigade commander heard that Chen Xiao's hidden firepower was so strong, he was jealous. He was a bit distressed because he was used to robbing his subordinates. It was not easy to take action against Chen Xiao! He was not his subordinate.
The brigade commander said there was nothing he could do about Chen Xiao’s training philosophy as reported by Zhao Gang.
After all, not everyone is as wealthy as Chen Xiao, and not everyone can become a sharpshooter if they want to.
But at the end he said to Zhao Gang: "Don't worry about the military training. Those 50 instructors were trained by Chen Xiao himself. Their combat effectiveness shows that Chen Xiao's training method is correct, so you can let them decide how to train them.
Your most important task is to manage their ideological education and their lives."
Zhao Gang understood the instructions after receiving them, so he was very busy, dealing with school affairs on the one hand and the political work of the independent regiment on the other.
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Chen Xiao had no idea what Zhao Gang was doing. He was currently drinking and having fun with Monk Wei in Taiyuan City.
Looking at the three words "Yihongyuan", he thought he was in Yangzhou.
"Principal, let's not go! With this money, we can buy two more big steamed buns to chew on, or at worst, buy two more pounds of braised meat.
I heard that there is a lot of money burning here!"
Monk Wei was extremely unhappy. He thought to himself that if he had so much money he could buy two more steamed buns, or even two roast chickens.
Then Chen Xiao kicked him and said, "Hurry up, don't dawdle!
Taking you to visit brothels and drink wine is to let the girls there teach you what to do in the wedding night?
So that when I marry you a young wife, you will think that you can have a baby just by holding her!"
