Chapter 71: A Gift to the 129th Division
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When Deng Chenggong took Chen Geng around the base for a while, Chen Geng felt that the terrain here was dangerously conducive to defense. Before he was fully familiar with the local situation, his 129th Division could have such a well-established base station, which would undoubtedly increase the hope of survival. Even if the Japanese were touched here, Chen Geng would also be confident in relying on these complete fortifications and caught the Japanese off guard.
Just as the two inspected the fortifications of the station and places that need special attention, Deng Chenggong's guards heard news that the rest of the 129th Division had arrived at the gate of the camp. In order to show the politeness of the militia column, and give these military generals who were well-known in later generations a good impression. Deng Chenggong specifically explained that he would notify him as soon as the other party arrived.
When Deng Chenggong brought Chen Geng to the mountain road in front of the base, he had already seen several familiar and somewhat unfamiliar faces. Every time he thought of the group of people who didn't seem to attract much attention now, two marshals, a second-generation national leader, and countless founding generals appeared in the founding Congress, Deng Chenggong felt a little happy. As long as he could deal with the other party well, even if he did not continue to lead the troops in the future, I believe that the rest of his life would be good.
In order to suppress the impulse in his heart, even if Deng Chenggong knew the few people standing in front of him, he could only let Chen Geng introduce them to him one by one.
Liu Bo, the commander of the 129th Division, was one of the ten marshals in later generations. He founded the country and gave up the command of the army as the dean of the Military Academy. Deputy Commander Xu Qian was also the founding marshal, the division political commissar Deng Ping, the second generation leader of the country, and the designer of the reform and opening up who founded the socialist economic system.
After Chen Geng called out one by one, Deng Chenggong felt a little cautious and felt sweaty when shook hands with these people. If he wasn't afraid that he would show some unscrupulous flaws, Deng Chenggong would have to endure the shock in his heart and said some welcome words to the representatives of the two forces who had met for the first time.
Seeing such a team standing on the mountain road was a bit conspicuous. After some politeness, Deng Chenggong led the way and led everyone to the base.
Political Commissar Deng Ping, who was following behind, suddenly said to Liu Bo beside him: "Old Liu, do you think that Commander Deng seems to know us at first glance? And when he shook hands with the other party just now, didn't you think the other party's palms were sweating? Although he tried his best to control his emotions, I think he should not know nothing about us as he seemed."
If Deng Chenggong, who was also ignorant of frightening and sweating profusely, heard that the Political Commissar Deng Ping, whom he admired, could actually see the excitement he tried his best to hide, what would he think!
Uncle Liu looked at the other party's guidance that seemed a little fleeing, and said with a smile: "Yes, this guy seems to be pretending, but in fact he is trying to cover up the truth. Didn't Lao Li say that after he went back last time, this person is very familiar with our intelligence. Even you, the new political commissar of the division headquarters, knew when you welcomed Chen Geng.
Now he pretends to be unaware of anything, and he really doesn't know what to do. However, he gave us such a resident that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and he still has to bear some love for the other party. Since they don't want to provoke it, we will pretend not to know. We will have many opportunities to deal with him in the future. Are you still afraid that you won't have the opportunity to communicate with the other party?"
When the 129th Division and his group all entered the Xingtai Militia Regiment station, they brought Liu Bo and several other division leaders to a warehouse located in the back mountain and said, "This is the Yongbei warehouse built by my militia column for the war of resistance. There happened to be a batch of Japanese equipment seized by the first few. If you leaders don't dislike it, I will hand over this warehouse to you today. It is also my behalf on behalf of the militia column and express my feelings for your support from thousands of miles away."
When the other party arranged troops to station, Deng Chenggong discovered that although this unit was known as a division, its troops were far less than that of a regular division. There were even many soldiers in it, with big swords and red cherry rifles. Even a few well-known regiment-level main troops used mostly not unified standard weapons, and as for heavy weapons, they were even less pitiful. This is almost the same as the equipment configuration of the Eighth Route Army recorded in the early days of the War of Resistance in the previous life.
Although I don’t know how many weapons and equipment are stored in the warehouse, but the other person offered a gift, Commander Liu smiled and said, “Everyone gathered together to fight the Japanese. From now on, our 129th Division will be bound to trouble you, the landlord. I believe you have seen it just now. Our army is indeed lacking weapons, so I’m not polite to success. For this kind of free weapons, we will have as much as you give. Haha!”
In view of Deng Chenggong's repeated requests, Liu Bo, the leaders of the 129th Division, who were much older than Deng Chenggong, still talked to Deng Chenggong as the title of "Success".
When Deng Chenggong opened the warehouse that was cast into a gate with cement with a slightly curious expression of several leaders of the 129th Division, skillfully opened the few electric lights installed in the base. When the warehouse half buried in the mountains was presented to several Eighth Route Army generals, Xu Qian, the deputy division commander with good eyes, immediately walked three steps and took two steps. He came to a place where a whole row of Type 92 infantry cannons were placed, and said with a little excitement: "Commander Deng, have these infantry cannons also sent us?"
As an officer leading troops, who doesn’t know the role of cannons in combat? They only have one division, except for some small and medium-caliber mortars seized, there is no such infantry cannon equipped by the Japanese army. Now, how can they not be excited when they see the eight 92 infantry cannons neatly arranged!
Looking at the generals who seemed afraid that he would say something that the cannon would not be sent. Deng Chenggong seemed a little embarrassed and said, "Teacher Xu, you don't need to be so excited, I'm not to hide it. This is the infantry cannon we seized when the Xingtai garrison came to clean up us last time. At that time, the Japanese led a total of twelve garrisons.
Because of our night attack, a lot of bombings were destroyed. After these eight gangs were repaired by the masters of our arsenal, they finally saved only these eight gangs. Even if I give you the cannons now, I am afraid you won’t be able to use them for the time being, because all the shells were bombed during the sneak attack. This cannon can only be used as a decoration for the time being!”
Compared to the officers who heard that there were no shells, Liu Bo and Deng Ping both noticed a detail, that is what Deng Chenggong mentioned. An arsenal that can repair artillery is not small. In addition, when they separated from Deng Chenggong just now, Chen Geng had already mentioned that this militia column was not as weak as shown in the intelligence. It can even be inferred from the tip of the iceberg they are seeing now that the other party's current strength has far exceeded their equipment in a sense.
With this consideration, I heard that the other party had even formed an arsenal, which was undoubtedly a huge temptation for the Eighth Route Army, which had been restricting the expansion of the troops due to weapons. Of course, they also realized that it is not difficult to see from the other party's current attitude that uniting the other party should not be a big problem. However, it is probably not easy to annex the other party. If you are not careful, their troops that are exploring the way may be swallowed by the other party in one mouthful.
It seemed that I felt that it was a bit unauthorized to make people happy to see the cannons, and then said that there were no shells to disappoint the other party. Deng Chenggong continued: "Teacher Xu, in fact, you don't need to be so disappointed. Didn't your Commissioner Mao say a word that the enemy without guns and no cannons will be built for you? Since you have arrived at the front line of North China, you will inevitably fight with the Japanese in the future. This kind of shell is still very popular among the Japanese army. As long as a batch is seized, I believe that the infantry cannon will not be a decoration."
After Deng Chenggong said this, several officers who could not open their eyes when they saw the infantry cannons suddenly felt that the cannon had become so cute again. Before Deng Chenggong could continue to introduce, several brigade commanders began to discuss the allocation of several infantry cannons.
I think these founding generals who were regarded as gods in later generations had such childish side when facing such infantry cannons. If they had a camera or a camera on their hands, taking such a scene would probably make those military fans laugh!
It seemed that he saw that several subordinates were a little embarrassed. Uncle Liu stepped forward and said, "Okay, this infantry cannon has no shells for the time being, so you don't have to fight. When that unit seizes the shells, who will the infantry cannon be allocated to."
This distribution method is very fair. Everyone stopped fighting, but they all began to consider whether to find a Japanese agent to fight. Otherwise, when anyone seizes the shells first, the infantry cannon that was finally won belong to someone else.
Next, Deng Chenggong opened the box storing the rifle again. Looking at the bunch of rifles neatly coded, after hearing Deng Chenggong say that there were 3,500 Type 38 rifles equipped by Japanese Japanese, the officers looked at Deng Chenggong with a hint of good feelings. What's more, these rifles are different from infantry cannons, and there are millions of bullets next to them! These things are good things that can immediately improve combat effectiveness when they are fired to the army!
As for the nearly 100 machine guns I saw in the end, they were also machine guns commonly known as wicked guns. After these brigade commanders who were upset every time they fought because of the lack of heavy weapons, they immediately smiled. Not to mention, there were some special grenade launchers for Japanese devils that Deng Chenggong looked down upon. With these weapons, the 129th Division was able to form a brigade equipped with Japanese weapons. Deng Chenggong's gift was great!
Compared to these ecstatic brigade commanders, political commissar Deng Ping seemed extremely calm and said: "Success, I wish I could ask more questions, why don't you equip the troops with these weapons, but instead store them here?"
Chapter completed!