The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 468 Black Heart Merchant
The meeting continued. After the second battalion jumped over, the commanders of the third battalion, fourth battalion, and fifth battalion respectively reported the seizure situation of each battalion.

The seizures of each battalion were actually very rich, especially in terms of weapons and equipment, as well as ammunition.

For war, these things are also the most important for the overall combat troops of the Eighth Route Army with outdated equipment and scarce ammunition.

Even for the independent regiment, which has developed quite well in equipment over the past year, the more guns and ammunition it needs, the better.

After the report on the seizure situation of each battalion was completed, the current organizational situation was reported in more detail.

Kong Jie also proposed to build an internal selection system for the independent regiment to motivate soldiers to train and fight.

"There is only one requirement. A year ago, our battalions and companies had few soldiers, but we focused on unity, strong coordination ability, and strong execution ability."

"Right now, our battalions and companies have made considerable progress. The team is growing stronger day by day, and the number of troops is increasing day by day. You battalion commanders, company commanders, instructors, and instructors must not relax.

It is necessary to ensure the unity of the entire team and ensure the ability to execute.

Neither military training nor cultural study can be left behind, and the construction of the army must be kept improving. "

This move naturally won the support and approval of the cadres.

Shen Quan replied: "Regiment commander, don't worry! Whether it's military training, cultural study, or ideological education, our battalions and companies will not be left behind.

It can't be that the scale of the battalion has increased now, there are seven or eight hundred people, and it is not as powerful as the two or three hundred people in the past, right?

What do you need so many people for?I have to waste a lot of food every day! "

As he said that, Shen Quan gave Wang Leihu, the commander of the first battalion, an extra look, and Wang Leihu stared back immediately.

What do you mean old Shen?Scold the soldiers of our first battalion for eating dry food!
Kong Jie suppressed a smile. It is a good thing that the battalion and company commanders compete with each other and make progress together.

……

After the meeting, the cadres left in twos and threes, and Li Wenjie, who was in charge of the overall statistics, stayed behind.

Report to Kong Jiehui: "Regimental Commander, after this battle, excluding our combat attrition and taking into account the further development of each battalion, so far, our independent regiment has more than 800 combat personnel. "

"That's it, not counting all kinds of non-combatants, and there are more than 500 wounded who are temporarily unable to participate in the battle."

After Kong Jie listened, even though he was mentally prepared, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion.

That's good, when other people fight, the troops are fighting less and less, but when it comes to the independent regiment, they are fighting more and more.

As far as the current combat strength is much higher than before the start of this battle.

The larger the development scale of this independent group and the better the construction of the root settlement, the heavier the burden on the head of the group, Kong Jie now has a deep understanding.

It is completely different to eat with hundreds of mouths and eat with thousands of mouths.

Considering the growing independent group, Kong Jie thought it was time for him to sort out the situation and adjust the existing economic operation mode of the independent group.

When it was time to expand the base area, the base area had to be expanded to support such a large army.

Li Wenjie naturally guessed what his regiment leader was worried about, and he said with relief: "Regiment commander, don't worry, our regiment is now larger and has more troops, but each battalion is stationed in separate sections and is responsible for supporting each other.

Coupled with the abundant supplies seized this time, at least within half a year, there will be no problem with the support of the troops of each battalion. "

Kong Jie was naturally aware of this.

After the follow-up industries in the group, such as briquettes, cigarettes, chicken essence, and other products are produced in large quantities, the independent group can also obtain a continuous supply of materials from the outside world.

This time the Japanese army set off a big spring raid, but fortunately they did not hit the base camp of the independent regiment in Niukou Village.

In February, a large amount of wasteland was reclaimed around Niukou Village. The potatoes that were planted were only bombed by Japanese aircraft a few times, and there was no serious problem. They could be harvested in a short time.

This time, the fine-bred potatoes weighed at least 1 catties after harvesting. These high-yielding, fine-bred potatoes are the source of Kong Jie's confidence.

As long as these potatoes can be produced stably and in large quantities, let alone the current strength of more than 5000 troops, even if the size of the independent regiment is doubled, it may not be impossible to support them.

This is also the reason why Kong Jie would never easily choose to retreat in the face of the massive Japanese attack.

The final focus is still on the words "the stability of the base".

You have worked so hard to develop the economy and develop the agricultural foundation, but the defense of your base area is not good enough, and the devils will directly wipe out the pot for you, and everything will be in vain.

"So, in this special period, all developments still have to be based on military foundations."

"Only if our team can defend the base area and ensure its stability, can our base area be fully developed." Kong Jie concluded.

Li Wenjie agreed deeply: "Commander, what you said is on point. Without an absolute military foundation, all base construction is useless."

The two discussed for a while about the development of the independent group, Kong Jie suddenly smiled and said: "Wen Jie, our independent group is growing gradually, you see, I am the head of the group, originally I was in charge The military, you can’t manage the military, but you should also manage your life, won’t this exhaust me to death?”

"You have been practicing for more than a year. I want to make a report to the headquarters. You will stay in the regiment headquarters in the future. We will help each other lead the independent regiment well."

The meaning is very clear, this is to let Li Wenjie be the political commissar of the independent group.

If Li Wenjie, who was full of enthusiasm when he first came here, wanted to serve the country and kill the enemy, and show off his ambitions, he would definitely be overjoyed.

Right now, after more than a year of precipitation, Li Wenjie has become more modest and steady, and quickly shook his head like a rattle: "Leader, you should hire someone else, I can't do this, our independent group There are so many veteran instructors, which one is not more experienced than me? If you want to do the job of political commissar, they must be better than me."

This is the truth. Li Wenjie, who has worked all the way from the instructor of the Jiulian, after getting in touch with other instructors and instructors of the Independence Regiment, is more and more impressed by the tenacity of the revolutionary will and the rich experience of these seniors.

Li Wenjie sometimes asks himself, and feels a little ashamed. Compared with these revolutionary veterans, his experience is really too little, but he just has more ink in his stomach!

Li Wenjie, who became more humble and steady, made Kong Jie nod his head in relief, and said, "Well, since you feel that your experience is not enough, then you can be the acting political commissar of our independent group first! When you feel that you have enough experience, then How about formally taking office?"

"Captain, this..."

"You don't want to refuse, anyway, what you are doing now is the work of the political commissar." Kong Jie laughed.

Now that the matter has come to an end, Li Wenjie is not shy. A soldier should have the responsibility and confidence of a soldier. He immediately put his heels together, gave a military salute to Kong Jie, and replied, "Yes, I promise to complete the task!"

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After Li Wenjie left, Kong Jie had someone call the monk again.

"Monk, how are you doing with what you were asked to do? What does the little devil mean?"

The monk had a smile on his face, and said cheerfully: "Hey, don't worry, leader, everything is done, the devil is begging us, the rules have to follow our instructions!"

"We won't do anything less than food, supplies, or even firearms and bullets."

Kong Jie said: "It's time to hurry up and get this thing done. Now it's getting hotter every day, so as not to keep those corpses for a long time and stink again."

"Yes!" The monk replied.

And what happened?

It turned out that in the battle between Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, because they were defeated, the devils retreated hastily, and the Japanese army had no time to take away the bodies of many devil soldiers who died on the battlefield.

According to the habits of the Eighth Route Army in the past, out of humanitarianism, even the invading Japanese invaders would find a pit to bury, or set fire to it.

The battalion and company commanders were going to do the same, but they were stopped by Kong Jie. Kong Jie asked the battalion and company commanders to gather up all the dead bodies of the devils first.

Then, Kong Jie asked the monk to go to the county town to spread the news to the devils, saying that the corpses of the Japanese soldiers could be returned to them.

When the ghosts in the counties heard that there was such a good thing, they were almost moved. They immediately said that after Kong Jie transported the corpse, the Japanese army would come to accept it, and absolutely guaranteed that there would be no ambushes on the way. .

Regarding the remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield, the little devils have always followed the oriental culture of returning fallen leaves to their roots. They will cremate the corpses and then transport their ashes back to the country, which can be regarded as an explanation to the relatives of the soldiers who stayed in the country think.

Not to mention that among the soldiers who died in battle, there may be friends or relatives of the living.

So when they heard that Kong Jie was going to return the body, the little devils were naturally overjoyed.

In order to express his gratitude to Kong Jie, the captain of the devil team in Yangquan, Nakahara Takeo, even wrote a letter in Japanese, and asked the translator to attach the translated Chinese to the bottom of the Japanese, and have someone deliver it to the base of the independent group. Send it to Kong Jie.

What was written in the letter was a touching one.

To use the monk's joke: "If that old devil, Zhangxiong Zhongyuan, is here, he must kowtow to the head of the regiment to thank you!"

Head Kong was also greatly moved by this, and immediately wrote back, writing in the letter as follows:
"Your Excellency Masao Nakahara's feelings are sincere, and I am deeply moved. Please rest assured, Your Excellency, I will return the bodies of you soldiers who died in battle to you intact.

We Chinese are still too kind, and we have always complained straight away. Although you invaded our country and killed our compatriots, I will return the bodies of your soldiers who died in battle to you.

As the saying goes, this man, how can he care about animals?Once a dog bites you, you can't bite the dog again, right?

It's just that your Excellency probably doesn't know that our Eighth Route Army doesn't have any means of transportation on hand, and horse-drawn carriages are rare items, unlike your Japanese army, which has trucks for transportation.

Coupled with your hasty escape this time, there are too many corpses left near our base.

I'm going to transport these corpses back to you one by one. The cost involved is not small, you have to reimburse the travel expenses, right?

But, don't worry, I, Kong Jie, have always been generous, and the money, food, guns, and supplies can all be used for travel expenses.

I have also attached a list to you, how many bullets, how many catties of food, how many guns, how much can be used to transport the corpses, I have listed them clearly for you.

As long as you can afford the travel expenses, I will return the corpses of you soldiers to you one by one. "

After the letter was written, Kong Jie arranged for some documents and copied dozens of copies for the common people to take with them and distribute them in major counties.

It is said that the captain of the devil's battalion, Takeo Nakahara, who received the reply that day, almost had his nose crooked.

Of course, the business can't be done, and it will be broken up.

The little devil can understand clearly that equipment and supplies are much more important than corpses. If you don't want to give those corpses to the independent group, I don't want them anymore!
Shit shipping costs, pure nonsense.

Kong Jie had expected this, and then arranged for monks to transport the corpses of some devils who had been stripped down to loincloths overnight to some strongholds and around some county towns, where they were neatly arranged.

Then write the words "Great Japanese Imperial Army" with a large brush dipped in ink.

Then spread public opinion, saying that the Japanese army was ruthless, that after losing the battle, they didn't even want the remains of the soldiers.

See if you little devil can bear this insult, can you afford to lose this person?

This matter quickly brewed a storm, and even alarmed Yoshio Shinozuka in Taiyuan City.

The Japanese garrisons in various counties also became emotional one after another, thinking that the remains of their former companions should be properly disposed of.

In the end, Shinozuka Yoshio personally issued a military order to let the Japanese army in Yangquan come forward, and no matter what, they must return the remains of these sacrificed imperial warriors.

In desperation, Zhongyuan Zhangxiong had no choice but to send someone to convey the news to Kong Jie, expressing his willingness to exchange the soldier's remains at the price Kong Jie proposed.

Director Kong, who was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, happily wrote a reply.

He also stated in the letter that originally there was only transportation fees, but now that there is a delay, the storage fees, labor delay fees, management fees, etc. of the corpses of you soldiers will increase a lot.

Commander Kong used practical actions to perfectly explain to the Japanese army what is called sitting on the ground and raising prices.

In this regard, Zhangxiong Zhongyuan, who was full of humiliation, could only grit his steel teeth and swallow it in his stomach, and accepted Kong Jie's price increase.

Then, after the two parties reached an agreement, the Japanese army placed the supplies needed by Kong Jie at the designated location.

Kong Jie then sent soldiers to take the supplies at night and return the corpses the devils wanted.

In this regard, Captain Kong was quite sincere, "We can't make a one-shot deal. Since the devils have given us supplies, let's return the corpses to them, and don't set up any more ambushes!"

But some people like to make a one-shot deal.

On the side of the New Second Regiment, Li Yunlong heard that the devil's corpse could be exchanged for supplies.

Good guy, some of them have already been disposed of, and the corpses of the devils buried in the soil were dug out again by Lao Li's order.

Immediately afterwards, I used it to do business with the devils, and the business was not counted. I changed the supplies and fought a few ambushes halfway.

The essence of a black-hearted businessman is vividly interpreted by Lao Li...

(End of this chapter)