Chapter 54: Excitement
Feng Ping was in the driver's seat, looking at Zhou Xiaoshan who had gotten a great bargain, her eyes were blazing with anger, she was just about to rob him at gunpoint. Another one was pulling on the car door, waving a pistol and demanding to be released. Zhou Xiaoshan, who was concentrating on driving at night, felt so angry that he was almost suffocated.
"I'm telling you, I'm a miser, a Pixiu. If you want to rob my car and ammunition, it's impossible!"
"Bullshit, Zhou Xiaoshan, you bastard, are you going to keep your promise? Where are the twenty soldiers you promised me?"
Zhou Xiaoshan really forgot about this!
In the past, watching other people’s small groups create miracles on TV was far less exciting than participating in it in person today.
Until now, he was driving among the group of fleeing soldiers, and his heart was still beating fast!
"Okay, I'll gather them right away , but the third and fifth companies are following Chu Tianshu, and the fourth company beside me is all running around in disarray. It's hard to find them in the dark. If a few of the promised soldiers are missing, you are not allowed to make a fuss!"
There is not a single soldier from the guard battalion around him, only Feng Ping is left, and she cannot be considered one of our own!
"Hurry up, I can't wait any longer. I still have to climb over the ridge to look for someone. If you run for another hour, you'll miss them!"
Zhou Xiaoshan was driving the lead vehicle. As soon as he stopped, the fifteen vehicles behind him also stopped. The horse-drawn carriages, donkey-drawn carts, and human-powered carts behind him also stopped. The fleeing soldiers on both sides of the road also stopped for unknown reasons. He got out of the car and fired a shot into the air!
After the pistol was emptied of bullets, the noisy and chaotic road finally became quiet!
"Dear brothers of the Sichuan Army, I am the adjutant of Commander Feng sent by the 66th Division to accept your reorganization!"
He flashed an officer's ID card and waved it in front of the car lights.
Zheng Chunhua was so anxious that he wanted to curse, "Why are you reorganizing the defeated soldiers at this time? Why don't you assemble the troops? I only need twenty people."
He pulled Zhou Xiaoshan's clothes several times, but the bastard pretended not to see it!
He roared at the top of his lungs!
"Don't panic, don't get confused. Those who have torches, start fighting. Those who have torches, help the brothers carrying ammunition boxes around to light the way. Follow me, along the road, and run together until dawn. You are the members of the 66th Division. If you don't believe me, you can send someone to come here to see my ID. After reading it, just help me shout and come out to prove it!"
Sure enough, several literate second lieutenant and first lieutenant officers came out, squeezed in front of the car lights, and looked at Zhou Xiaoshan’s ID!
"Brothers, this bastard is really the adjutant of Commander Feng of the 66th Division! The 66th Division wants us! This trip in the middle of the night was not in vain!"
"I can prove that he was sent by the 66th Division to take us in. The brothers are saved!"
"I solemnly introduce you to you, this is Adjutant Zhou Xiaoshan, the commander-in-chief of the Yongzhou Defense Zone!"
Listening to the thunderous cheers around them, Feng Ping and Zheng Chunhua looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Why was Liu Cheng, a fire soldier, so interested in the 66th Division? He cried and shouted that he wanted to be a soldier of the 66th Division. Why didn't he join the Red Army?
Most of the army's weapons, equipment and men were given to the 66th Division for free.
Zhou Xiaoshan roared again!
"Brothers, don't panic. It's dark at night and you can't see clearly. Walk slowly along this road. Don't fall. When it's dawn, the 66th Division will start to reorganize you, okay!"
"Okay, we have the entire artillery battalion here, even carrying the artillery shells on our shoulders. Adjutant Zhou, do you mean what you say?"
"No problem. We don't even need the artillery battalion. Our division commander is not a fool!"
In fact, the Sichuan Army’s artillery is more valuable than those old mountain cannons. Zhou Xiaoshan was very happy!
"Where are our three heavy machine gun companies? Our ammunition is also intact!"
"Take them all!"
"Do we have a regiment here?"
"Don't even mention a regiment or a brigade. I'll take them in, as long as there's no one among you who smokes opium or flirts with women!"
"Adjutant Zhou is open-minded. Let's not panic anymore. Let's walk slowly along this road. Brothers, please clear the middle lane. Brothers with torches, please help light the way. Let Commander Zhou go ahead and gather the team!"
Looking at this group of defeated soldiers starting to organize themselves in an orderly manner, Zhou Xiaoshan sighed!
"Brothers from the Fourth Guard Company, come out ? Brothers who are driving, don't move. You are responsible for driving as usual!"
Feng Mingliang took Liu Chenghuo's radio operator to act out the drama of a Red Army soldier guarding prisoners, who was ambushed and rescued by the 66th Division!
The entire fourth company was dispersed, and there were still seven or eight people who had to drive the cars but didn't dare to move!
Mixed in the team of Liu Chenghuo's defeated division, Zheng Chunhua felt like crying but had no tears when he saw only twelve people running to the car lights, some of them carrying ammunition boxes on their shoulders!
The agreed number of people was 20, but this bastard reduced the number to 60%!
No bargaining allowed!
Fortunately, among the twelve people, there was a man with a backpack, and he was wearing Red Army clothes!
Mauser 1924 and Czech models are hung on the chest, and a row of bullets shows that they are elite!
He was not worried about the equipment. Seeing these soldiers running away still carrying ammunition boxes, Zheng Chunhua's eyes lit up!
In front of Zhou Xiaoshan, he asked the soldier who was carrying the ammunition for help, and then took away five ammunition boxes from other soldiers!
Zheng Chunhua and his men disappeared on the side of the road. Feng Ping sighed, thinking that this was like throwing away the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds!
Before leaving, he earnestly instructed Zhou Xiaoshan to wait for him in Nanjiang, saying that he wanted to bring his twelve brothers out and go to Pingjin!
Several colonels from Liu Chenghuo's unit who came to check his credentials were assigned by Zhou Xiaoshan to maintain order. They began to reorganize the troops on both sides in an orderly manner, leaving the middle of the road for cars and horse-drawn carts.
From time to time, there are sounds of gunshots fired into the air!
" Adjutant Zhou, I think something is wrong. When I ran over the valley just now, I saw a group of torches on the ridge on the right side of the road, heading towards the direction of Hongyun Temple!"
Zhou Xiaoshan looked at the report of a defeated soldier major who was helping him to reorganize the troops, lowered his voice and pulled him aside!
"It's not my mission. Don't worry about it. I didn't see or hear anything!"
"Understood, we just need to gather the defeated soldiers!"
A wonderful sight on the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway. In the middle of the highway, the 66th Division and the defeated soldiers are advancing towards Nanjiang. On the mountain road on the south side, the Fourth Red Army is holding torches and rushing towards Hongyun Temple in a mighty force!
They missed each other alternately and minded their own business.
Head in your own direction.
Perfect!
Zhou Xiaoshan was organizing the fleeing soldiers in front, and the 66th Division was chasing the Red Army behind, but they could not move forward!
The 66th Division, which was originally well-organized , was blocked on the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway by tens of thousands of defeated soldiers!
Liu Xiang saw the car stopped and there was a long marching line. There were deafening roars and gunshots in the front, so he quickly asked Feng Tiankui to get off the car to find out!
Luo Jialie and his adjutant had been waiting by the side, leading their horses!
Seeing the commander coming out of the car that was unable to move on the road, he quickly pulled Feng Tiankui to the side of the road, lowered his voice, and spoke urgently!
"That bastard Zhou Xiaoshan killed Liu Chenghuo, took over Liu Chenghuo's headquarters, and sneaked in with a company of soldiers, yelling that Liu Chenghuo and the division commander were dead. He encouraged the soldiers in Qinglonggou to defect to the 66th Division, and finally brought an entire division to our 66th Division!"
"The baggage battalion, artillery reinforcement battalion, cavalry communications battalion, and three heavy machine gun companies directly under the military headquarters in Qinglonggou were not spared. Even two of the brigade that He Guoguang had just replaced with new Hanyang-made guns came with them! They were afraid that we would not want them, so they brought their guns and ammunition and cried and shouted that they wanted to surrender to the 66th Division!"
"Fuck! Isn't this a trap for me? Expanding the army without permission, even eight mouths can't explain it clearly."
