under fire

Chapter 249 Bragging
Facing the young people's conversation, Chen Chong saw that the other party's equipment was not bad, so he quickly replied: "It's just that our platoon's equipment is better!"

After Chen Chong finished speaking, he thought to himself, if you had come half a month earlier, we would still have armored vehicles!

"Hey, you, a broken platoon leader, still hang a box cannon?" The young man was filled with emotion.

"You mean... this Mauser?"

"Hey, kid, you know a lot. Tell me, how many bullets does your Mauser pistol have?" The young man looked at the three cowhide bullet boxes hanging on Chen Chong's Japanese belt. Of course, he certainly didn't believe it. It's full of bullets. The lower regiments in the division have seen a lot of bullets filled with branches, so I'm just asking.

"Not much! Just thirty!" Chen Chong began to count.

"Uh, so much? Well, it's not surprising that you're going out to carry out missions. Otherwise, I really wonder if you're pretending to be an independent group!" The young man didn't care, looking at Chen Chong with a smile.

"Report to the chief, there are 140 Yousaka bullets, plus Mauser bullets, a total of [-] five in the gun!" Chen Chong hurriedly reported.

He was talking about the Tomosaka rifle. Hearing this, the young man suspected that he had misheard the number of bullets: "How much did you say?"

"140 five!"

The young man was dumbfounded, and his jaw immediately fell to the ground, smashing into pieces.

Half a day later, he closed his chin: "Show me?"

"No!" Chen Chong looked wary.

"You bastard, you're still smart. I don't want you. Your rifle bullets are different from ours. It's useless to ask for it!" Seeing that Chen Chong was dumbfounded and didn't answer, he couldn't help turning his head to look at other similarly dressed people. The soldier, also with a heavy bullet box, raised his hand and pointed to the soldiers standing aside: "What about them?"

"They? They're all the same except grenades and machine guns!" Chen Chong answered honestly.

"What? Twenty or so of you brought more than 3000 bullets?" The voice of the young man became louder.

The suddenly louder voice attracted the attention of the people who were dozing around: "Captain Liu, who has [-] bullets?"

"Hey, this time we met a local rich man. The soldiers of these independent regiments said that half of their platoon had more than 3000 bullets, as well as machine guns and grenades! Do you believe it?"

"I believe you, Captain Liu, have you heard them bragging to the heavens?" The person who was speaking saw a soldier coming down from the hill, with a shiny black machine gun on his shoulders: " No, their platoon is really crooked!"

The cadre rotation training team of the Anti-University Division of the division has just finished training, and the cadres have not yet returned to the army. They received a task to find people in enemy-occupied areas, but the headquarters was raided by the enemy.

The division headquarters ordered the rotation training team to find ways to avoid confrontation with the Japanese army, and to sneak through the gaps in the devil's encirclement to preserve their strength.

And these students are basically battalion-level cadres of combat troops!All of them are cadres from the Red Army period, and their fighting qualities are very good.

Therefore, most of the outsiders were blockades led by the devils and security forces, and there was almost no problem in breaking through. On the way, they encountered raiding Japanese troops several times, but they all managed to avoid them. The whole team soon arrived near Yangcun.

Since it was on the periphery, the enemy situation nearby was not serious, so the marching troops happened to meet Chen Chong's row.

The small army of the Independence Regiment attracted everyone's attention. They still dubiously believed what Chen Chong said.

The sun was scorching, and the rotation training team didn't move on. They planned to stay in the woods until dark before making plans.

A middle-aged man turned around from the east. He didn't have a rifle on his back. His holster dangled in front of him. Beads of sweat were all over his black face. He lowered his hat and waved it vigorously in front of him, bringing a trace of hot wind, "Report! A village was found in the east, but there is no one there!"

After speaking, he pulled the kettle and took two sips.

"The villages here are like this, well, continue to investigate south!" Captain Liu thought for a while and replied.

"Yes! Uh, captain, I have something to report." The visitor continued.

"Don't tell me you want to go back to the army. Your regiment can't collapse without you as the regimental leader. You have to look like you are learning!" Captain Liu looked at the middle-aged man who was older than himself and was the regimental leader. direct criticism.

"Where are you going! This time I really don't want to talk about going back, haha" The middle-aged man known as the head of the team has a black line: "j Like this, when I was resting with the correspondent, I found a house in the village. There was a group of pigeons resting, and his kid took a slingshot and shot two of them, and was about to fight the tooth festival! Later, he found one of them, hehe, it was different!"

"What's the difference? Get to the point!" Captain Liu looked up at him.

"This pigeon is fatter and bigger than other wild pigeons. Moreover, there is a delicate metal hoop on its foot. There is also a piece of thin paper stuffed in the hoop, which is densely written in Japanese!" After finishing speaking, He took out the ankle strap and handed it over.

"Carrier pigeon?" Captain Liu reached out to take it, and unfolded it carefully. It was full of unfamiliar Japanese, and he immediately frowned.

"In my opinion, it should be a military pigeon for the devil to deliver information!" The regiment leader judged.

"Well, it must be, the devils kept the radio silence of the raiding troops in order to keep secret, and it was really thoughtful to transmit information in this ancient way!" Captain Liu couldn't help feeling: "Immediately find comrades from the anti-war alliance to translate! "

"Where can I find it in this deserted place?" The head of the group looked helpless.

"Uh, isn't this near the military defense zone?"

"But along the way, we didn't even meet a single comrade except some ordinary people." The head of the group frowned.

Captain Liu thought for a while, and said to the person next to him: "Uh, by the way, go and call Chen Chong from the independent regiment! Ask."

After a while, Chen Chong, with a mournful face, quietly walked under the tree and saluted.

"Hey Chen Chong, what are you doing with such a sad face? Let me ask you, is there anyone in your army who knows Japanese?" Captain Liu asked.

Chen Chong went to the instructor of the third battalion just now to inquire about the situation, but it turned out to be good, except that he knew that the young man in front of him was Wang, the political commissar of the rotation training team, but he didn't find out anything about it. In exchange for a scull without bullets!
Chen Chong hurriedly stepped forward, and replied with a vigilant face: "Japanese? There is no one with this name in our army! I don't know him!"

"Let me tell you, I don't even know what Japanese is. Japanese is the language of devils. What a fart! The independent regiment doesn't even have a cadre participating in the training, so I don't think it's possible! I have to find another way." Long happy, said with a smile.

"I didn't ask you again, where is there so much nonsense!" Captain Liu said with a serious face.

"Yes!" A group leader was criticized by the young captain continuously!The old face was flushed.

"Hey, I'm confused." Captain Liu finally remembered: "Send someone to the division immediately to find Coach Miyamoto! Their station should not be far away."

"The division is not far away, it's more than 100 miles away. I know someone who can speak devil's language!" Chen Chong couldn't help but said, he remembered that the surnamed Park who came here with Company Commander Chen of the Beishan Regiment seemed to have said that he could speak devil's language. Still in Jiulianli.

"Where is it?" Captain Liu was overjoyed.

"Our company is stationed! However, I heard from him that he is from the anti-war alliance, not from our independent regiment. This time, he seems to follow us on a mission." Chen Chong said while thinking.

"Back and forth. How long will it take you to travel more than 50 miles on one side and more than 100 miles back and forth?" Captain Liu asked.

"We have horses! Send someone back, and back and forth, it takes about half a day!"

Captain Liu looked up at the sky, and then at his watch: "Then quickly send someone back, take this note with you, let him translate it, and try to come back before dark! Is there any problem?"

　These chapters are taken from the memoirs of Qin Zhong, political commissar of the Eighth Route Army Cadre Training Team.

　　
　
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