At the beginning of the new year, the Lunar New Year is coming as promised.
Although during the war, the atmosphere of the festival was not as great as expected, there were still many people in non-enemy-occupied areas busy preparing for the festival.
For the general public, the Spring Festival is the most important, solemn, and lively traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It carries many wishes of the Chinese people to reunite, pray for blessings, and pursue a better and happy life.
Although the people are shrouded in the haze of war and their conditions are very poor, they still can't stop their desire and joy for the festival. Even if they eat an extra bowl of rice on this day and wear clothes that they usually don't want to wear, it can be regarded as celebrating the New Year. .
The Chinese residents in the 88th Army base area in the absolute control area are also decorating with lanterns. For this reason, Liao Mingyu specially gave the mining areas and factories a holiday. In addition to the frontline theater, the large troops in the rear also had a half-day rest for recreation.
Liao Mingyu is also generous. As long as he is a civilian working in the army or in industries affiliated to the army, everyone will receive a certain amount of grain, canned food, candies, and three half-opened New Year red envelopes.
For those tough guys, ordinary things are no longer enough. Hard currencies such as cigarettes and chocolates are available in the United States anyway.
With Stilwell's strong support, 60% of international aid has entered the Myanmar area. Weapons and equipment are not much, and now we can produce them ourselves. The key logistics food is eye-opening.
The United States is indeed the country that valued logistics the most during World War II and was the most capable of maintaining huge supplies. When others were fighting, it didn’t matter what it was. If you could take a hot bite, you would cry and complain. The buns are all stained with blood.
They have a good supply of chocolate, Logan bars, canned meat, and Spam luncheon meat, as much as you want. In particular, everyone is tired of eating luncheon meat, and they even provide a certain amount of cigarettes, candies and cola, which also made Liao Mingyu call out the evil capitalism.
Because it is aid supplies, although the quality is not at the same level as their own supplies, in the eyes of the Chinese soldiers who are used to living a hard life under difficult conditions, this is no better than the life of a landlord.
The dazzling array of food was dazzling. Those who didn't know it thought it was specially prepared for officers, but they never expected that it was all for ordinary soldiers.
After the last battle, Liao Mingyu tried his best to ask Stilwell for ammunition and food. He took all the logistics materials that could have supplied two or three army groups. This is why he was able to be so heroic during the festival.
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"I was at the city tower, watching the mountain scenery... I heard... chaos outside the city..."
As soon as Liao Mingyu came to the door of the military command room with a cigarette in his mouth, he heard a Beijing opera tune with perfect lyrics coming from inside.
The guard at the door was about to salute but he raised his hand to stop him.
Peeking in through the crack of the ajar door, okay... a gramophone was playing the Peking Opera "Empty City", and this guy Meng Fanxiao gathered together with several combat staff, sitting on a chair, smoking and drinking tea while shaking his head. I feel so uncomfortable listening to the music leisurely.
These brats, even though today is New Year's Eve, they can't be so slack in the headquarters.
Liao Mingyu raised the corners of his mouth slightly, opened the door and pretended to cough when he came in.
"Ahem!"
"Junzuo?"
"Meet sir!"
Several people stood up quickly and stood at attention in a panic to salute Liao Mingyu. Some people had not had time to pinch out the cigarette in their hands, so they had to hide it behind their backs. They looked like migrant workers who were caught fishing by their bosses at work.
"Take a break..."
Liao Mingyu walked in expressionlessly, his eyes lingering on the gramophone and teacup on the table for a while, and then he said: "Camel brand, black tea, yo, there are also beef jerky and canned luncheon meat..."
Meng Fanxiao quickly took out the cigarette and handed it over, and said with a playful smile: "Hey... Jun, please don't belittle us. How can this be in your eyes? I wonder if this is not the New Year, then what... there is no such thing today No matter what, just relax a little with my brothers."
Liao Mingyu did not reply immediately, but stepped forward and fiddled with it a few times before blurting out: "The gramophone is very good. It's a British product. Where did you get it? It's boring to just drink tea and smash it. How about I keep talking? Can I get you a bottle of good wine?"
"Hey... how can that be possible? This gramophone is from the military supplies shipped by the United States last time. There is no point in bringing it here to eat dust in the warehouse. Forget about the wine, military regulations cannot be broken. Who... hurry up Put the things on the table away, what are you talking about? We are still on duty!"
Meng Fanlao realized that the other party was unkind, so he immediately changed his tune and scolded his subordinates.
"You also know that when you are on duty, an acting chief of staff of the military department is not doing business at the headquarters, but is taking the lead in fishing. Do you want to go to the gendarmerie to report? Believe it or not, I will remove you from your post!"
Liao Mingyu, who was very playful, pretended to teach him a lesson, hoping to take the opportunity to scare this usually cynical guy.
"Jun Zu, calm down. In this Chinese New Year, peace is the most important thing. Don't get angry. The luck is not good."
"People who are on duty must act like they are on duty. How can we fight if everyone is like you? Huh, it seems that I am usually too indulgent towards you..."
As soon as these words came out, the client, Meng Fanle, was so frightened that he quickly begged for mercy: "Don't bother me, Jun! You also know that it's not easy for anyone... I usually have hard work even if I don't have credit. I'm on vacation when others Being on duty, without any reward, you have to be..."
"Come on...stop it, don't talk glibly to me here!"
Liao Mingyu was annoyed and stopped the other party's chatter. If this guy starts chatting, he can chat with you from day to night.
He found a chair and sat down, looked up at these dejected guys, and almost laughed out loud.
Now that the goal of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger was achieved, Liao Mingyu didn't want to continue to show off, and then said to a few people: "For the sake of the Chinese New Year, I won't do it next time! You guys who are waiting for the shift can go and have fun when you come back, why do you have to do it? Are you here to support me?"
"Yes, yes, Junzuo taught you the right lesson."
"We don't dare anymore..."
The few people felt like they had been granted amnesty and quickly "wrote" the guarantee. Meng Fanlai immediately took out a lighter and helped him light a cigarette. The flattering look made Liao Mingyu couldn't help but get goosebumps.
"Okay, okay, why is Commander Fan not at the base? Where is he going?"
After the two battles of Yan'an Qiang and Siam Chiang Mai, the troops have entered a period of rest and recuperation, and have been relatively calm in recent times. The 3 infantry divisions and 2 directly affiliated brigades of the 88th Army are intensively preparing for combat preparations and supplies, as well as new recruits. Training and running-in.
In addition to the update of new weapons and equipment, several new teams have been formed in addition to the main force, including the air force.
