Li Yunlong said to Lao Wangtou: "You organize people to transport everything back."
After saying that, he walked towards the regiment headquarters. Xu Dalong picked up the document package and followed him.
Arriving at the regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong asked Xu Dalong about his origins in detail.
Xu Dalong had already made it up, saying that he was from Shandong. When he was a child, there was an expert in the village. Under his guidance, he practiced martial arts at home, knew how to shoot a gun, and also learned some military knowledge. When the Japanese entered Shandong, his family was bombed by Japanese planes. Now he was the only one left in the family. He fled to northwestern Shanxi. When a new regiment was recruiting soldiers, he joined the army and became a cook.
The reason why he made up this routine was to pave the way for him to continue to show off his skills in the future.
Li Yunlong likes capable soldiers. A capable person like Xu Dalong is a treasure to him. What he is thinking about now is how to arrange Xu Dalong. Since Xu Dalong was unwilling to be a guard for him, he planned to assign Xu Dalong to the police communication platoon, give him a deputy platoon leader, and let him teach his skills to the soldiers of the police communication platoon.
Li Yunlong told Xu Dalong his thoughts.
From a new recruit, he was directly promoted to the deputy platoon leader of the police communication platoon. This is a rare honor, and most people would be happy to do it. Unfortunately, Xu Dalong was unwilling.
What does the police platoon do? Just standing guard, serving as a guard for the regiment, and running errands to deliver letters were boring and boring things that Xu Dalong had no interest in. Besides, he likes Li Yunlong and plans to hang out with him in the future. Sooner or later, Li Yunlong will leave the New Regiment and become the leader of the Independent Regiment.
The future leader of the New Regiment will be Ding Wei, and that guy is not easy to talk to. If Xu Dalong becomes a cadre of the New Regiment, it will not be so easy to leave the New Regiment in the future.
He said: "Captain, you think highly of me, so I should listen to you. But I'm used to being lazy and can't do the delicate work of serving tea and pouring water. You'd better let me go back to the cooking class, where I'm more comfortable and can still do it when I have time. Help the cooking team go out and get something."
Wang Xiaohu, who was standing guard at the door, really didn't expect that Xu Dalong was so ignorant of promotion. He ignored his promising future and decided to return to the cooking class to work as a cook. He felt that Xu Dalong was a bit stubborn and stupid.
Xu Dalong refuted Li Yunlong's face twice, and Li Yunlong was a little unhappy. He said impatiently: "That's okay. You can go to the cooking class first."
Xu Dalong didn't care about Li Yunlong's attitude. He believed that Li Yunlong would be reluctant to leave him in the future and would take him with him when he got to the independent group.
After Xu Dalong left, Li Yunlong called for the paperwork from the regiment headquarters and opened the file package belonging to the Japanese artillery lieutenant.
The clerk could understand Japanese and figured out why Xu Dalong was able to capture this cannon in Qingshui Town.
It turned out that these artillery units belonged to the artillery brigade of the Japanese independent fourth brigade. They damaged a Type 92 infantry gun during a previous battle. Not long ago, they received instructions from their superiors, requiring ministries to replenish personnel and equipment. This gun was transferred from the equipment department of the First Army Headquarters stationed in Taiyuan and supplemented to the artillery brigade. When they passed through Qingshui Town, they happened to meet Xu Dalong, and it became Xu Dalong's trophy.
Although Li Yunlong was born with mud legs, he had natural military acumen.
He saw from the documents that the Japanese troops were replenishing weapons and ammunition, and he had a premonition that the Japanese army might make big moves in the near future. It's just that he is only a regiment commander now, and his sources of intelligence are limited, so he cannot judge the specific intentions of the Japanese army, so he decided to send someone to send this document package to the higher-level agency.
Because this document was important, Li Yunlong asked the police platoon leader to lead two soldiers to escort the document to the brigade headquarters.
The police platoon leader was very depressed because he already knew that there would be meat for dinner tonight. He carried the documents on his back and mounted his horse. Before leaving, he did not forget to tell his men that when eating meat, they must save their fair share.
After receiving a positive answer, he led two soldiers and hurried towards the brigade headquarters.
In the evening of this day, dinner was served later than usual, but the officers and soldiers of the new regiment had no objection because they knew that the cooking team was stewing meat. Tonight, everyone could taste the stew.
Li Yunlong was very happy today and asked the cooking team to cook a fan of pork in one go. At this moment, the large pot in the cooking class was filled with pieces of meat, simmering in the hot broth, exuding an alluring aroma.
Many soldiers from the new regiment gathered around the kitchen. They sniffed hard and enjoyed the aroma of the stew. Many of them could not help but drool.
Finally dinner was served. Except for the sentries on duty, the officers and soldiers of the regiment headquarters had already crowded into the courtyard of the regiment headquarters. They were holding bowls and looking eagerly in the direction of the kitchen.
It's here, it's finally here.
Following the fragrant aroma, the soldiers from the cooking class came in carrying basins.
Everyone focused their attention on the pot of braised pork, and saw that the braised pork in the pot was full of spikes, which made people salivate just looking at it.
The people in the cooking class were busy, placing the basins on the long table and making preparations for the meal.
Normally, it's basically corn pancakes and pickles, and everyone is tired of it. The cooking team greeted everyone to start eating, but everyone was also lazy.
It's a good day. Without waiting for the people in the cooking class to say hello, everyone spontaneously lined up in a long queue. The team was not as sparse as usual, but people were packed closely together.
Captain Li shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. Except for occasionally secretly drinking sweet potato dumplings, he usually ate the same food as the soldiers. He smelled the aroma of meat and was a little greedy.
Li Yunlong stood up and prepared to say a few words before dinner. But seeing everyone staring at the braised pork in the basin, he knew that anything he said at this time was redundant and no one wanted to listen.
So he sat down again, waved towards the cooking team, and said, "Let's have dinner."
Wang Xiaohu was at the front of the queue and served Li Yunlong a meal first. Of course, he also took advantage of it and made a meal for himself.
The soldiers behind him handed their rice bowls to the cook in charge of serving food one by one.
The soldiers lined up behind Wang Xiaohu watched the large spoonful of braised pork poured into their bowls, and quickly brought it to their noses to smell it.
He couldn't help it and started eating while walking. The long-lost fragrance made him feel comfortable all over, and he narrowed his eyes happily.
The conditions in the New Regiment were poor. Except for a few main cadres in the regiment, most of the people did not have tables and chairs and squatted on the ground to eat.
At the beginning, no one spoke in the yard. Everyone concentrated on the braised pork in the bowl. There was a sound of chewing in the yard. Finally, some people began to click their lips with satisfaction, and some couldn't help but said: "It smells so delicious! I haven't eaten such delicious braised pork in a long time."
"Yes, yes, it smells so good!" Everyone started talking one after another.
Suddenly there was a burst of sobbing from the corner, and a new soldier actually started crying. The veteran beside him asked: "Er boy, are you crying too much?"
The recruit wiped his tears and said: "The last time I ate meat was when I was 7 years old. My mother worked as a servant for a wealthy family and gave me some of the meat left over from cooking by Lao Cai. It has been more than ten years. I just ate meat again, and I still miss my mother." As he said that, he started crying again.
The soldiers were silent for a while. Most of them came from poor backgrounds. Erwazi's words brought back everyone's memories, and the atmosphere suddenly became a bit dull.
Li Yunlong was eating happily, but when he saw that the atmosphere had become dull, he felt a little unhappy. He was very good at boosting morale and said loudly: "Why are you crying? If there is no meat to eat, we will go and rob the Japs. From now on, we will eat whatever the Japs eat, and we will eat better than them."
Wang Xiaohu has been with the group leader for a long time and is very helpful at critical moments. He hurriedly said: "The leader is right. The devils have meat to eat, so we will rob them of what they are doing."
The soldiers liked to hear words like this, and everyone shouted: "Yes, let's take advantage of him."
