Chapter 1070 The golden pie falling from the sky!
Tang Dao waited until a week later, the Japanese army transported the last batch of infantry regiments to the war zone before leaving Linfen City.
There is also a small episode among them. When Tang Dao accompanied Brigade Commander Geng and his infantry battalion to receive equipment, he was surprised to find that the Japanese army's baggage convoy was equipped with not only firearms, but also mortar shells and various machine rifle bullets.
This moved Tang Tuanzhang on the spot. He almost had a 'tear' in his eyes and said to the Grand Secretary of Hidemizu Hide Castle who came with the car to see with his own eyes how healthy the Fujiwara Jae-okao was: "The Chief of Staff Okabe is so polite. Please express your sincere greetings to him for me. I wish him to stay in the position of Chief of Staff and negotiate again in the future. I promise to prepare high-quality green tea for him."
Qingshui Xiucheng almost fainted from being angry with Tang Dao's face. If he had been called out again in the past, he might have been "Baga!Baga!", but this time he endured this tone.
Typically, it’s hard to say, but you can’t win if you can’t bear it. What can you do if you can’t bear it?
Qingshui Xiucheng, who was so angry that he was dizzy, finally waited until Tang Dao left before running to find trouble for the major captain of the logistics brigade.
After all, the Japanese are not idiots. The agreement signed by Saburo Okabe was equipped with equipment from an infantry brigade and an infantry regiment, but he never said that he had brought ammunition with him. Who was not enough to get the guns and even brought the ammunition with him?
This is indeed a subjective mistake made by the Japanese General Staff, who ignored a characteristic of their own nation.
Almost all Japanese individual tactics are basically made from the same mold, because they all have the same thing, the Japanese infantry exercises even stipulate how many centimeters to turn over a sideways, and when fighting a bayonet, you need to turn off the insurance.
Although it also reflects the fineness of the Japanese nation, it more reflects the rigidity of its nation. Everything strictly follows the regulations and will never exceed the scope of the regulations. Everyone is like a mechanical part and absolutely obeys instructions.
Including their tactics in the southeastern Jin battle, the reason why the 772nd Regiment was able to withstand the fierce attack of the Second Mixed Brigade, which was eager to escape, was because of the Japanese army's somewhat rigid infantry tactics on the front line. After the cannons bombarded the infantry attack, the infantry could not attack and the cannons bombed, and they began to detour on the side, with almost no other modifications.
If it is placed on the plain, this tactic will naturally be fine. The Japanese army repeatedly defeated the Chinese army without artillery fire to lose.
However, in the mountains, and there is a waist-deep river that lies across the battlefield, they still use this tactic, especially when the 772nd Regiment has built enough trenches and anti-aircraft holes, then they are stubborn, right?
When Yamashita arrived, he redesigned a new tactic, and the four teams that followed him also chased him. Under the enemy from both sides, the Second Mixed Brigade completely lost its vitality.
It can be said that the reason why Changle Village won a great victory was that the Chinese commanders were united and firm in their will and used their tactics ingeniously, and the second was that the Japanese front-line commanders used their tactics in a rigid way.
And this rigidity is not only on the battlefield, but also on the implementation of the military orders of the Japanese General Staff.
The military order issued by the General Staff of the North China Front Army was to load all light and heavy weapons and equipment seized from the 39th Independent Brigade of Pingbei City, except for mountain artillery, and then transport them to the original city.
The Japanese army has its own independent military industry, and they use their own Japanese equipment from top to bottom. No matter how advanced the weapons and equipment seized from China are, they are basically placed in warehouses or distributed to the "Imperial Army" that has completely defected to them.
The Japanese baggage soldiers who received the military order did not know what they were going to use above the batch of weapons. The officers of the staff who were threatened by the Chinese and had to be frustrated to exchange weapons and equipment were naturally not obliged to explain the purpose to the warehouse. The baggage soldiers had no courage to run to ask whether the batch of equipment they were transported contained ammunition.
So, the Japanese baggage soldiers loaded the ammunition as equipment.
Of course, the senior officials of the Japanese General Staff would not go to check one by one. In this way, not only the equipment, but also the supporting ammunition was sent in a mess.
A group of sand sculptures, Qingshui Xiucheng was almost madly angry by his compatriots.
Because weapons and equipment are dead objects, they are the easiest to transport goods, but prisoners of war are humans. Not only does the Japanese army need time to transport, but the recipients sent by China also need to identify and verify the prisoners of war.
Thinking about it, everyone knows that Japanese people will definitely play tricks in it, maybe in addition to traitors, there are Japanese people hidden in it.
Originally, the soldiers had their own set of logic to check this, and they stripped me naked, overweight, and overweight. The scars on their bodies and their skinny skinny due to long-term hunger, plus overweight weight, they could basically determine the authenticity of 95%.
The cruelty of the Japanese has long been famous all over the world. The treatment of prisoners of war can be imagined. 2 2 meters per leaf per day is a normal operation. Many soldiers who were originally strong and strong from the north were thin and weighed less than 100 kilograms.
But the Japanese were really willing to do so. Perhaps it had a long-term response strategy. China only identified less than 100 suspects in several temporary prisoners of war camps outside the outskirts of the original city where more than 30,000 people gathered.
This is definitely not the style of the Japanese. The proportion of sand mixed into it is not just this. Then you can only use other methods, such as home accent verification, etc. These are all necessary. Otherwise, the exchange of prisoners of war this time will most likely turn into shooting oneself in the foot.
You know, the Second War Zone is currently guarding the last line of defense in North China. If the defense line is broken because it is not a small number of spies, then the large-scale exchange of prisoners of war will become a big joke in the history of war. No matter how Commander Yan doesn't do military affairs, he will never let this happen to him.
So, it all takes time.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But Tang Dao couldn't wait. Lou Dehua and the others could return to the original city by sitting on the ash machine. He had to sneak into Handan first and then take the coal transportation train with a speed of less than 30 mph to Tianjin City. What's more, there was a Dr. Grunov waiting for him!
That was a little hen who could lay golden eggs. Tang Tuanzuo would fool this person into the car first. As for whether Lou Dehua would hold a knife to chop him up in the future, that was all for the future.
Moreover, this week, Tang Dao was not wasting his time, and he was also waiting for Gong Shaoxun's arrival.
It turned out that when Tang Dao went to Tianjin City this time, he naturally could not have at least 20 special forces soldiers to protect him as before, and the number of people could not exceed 4 people at most. Tang Dao thought about it carefully and chose Mingxin and Shen Laoliu.
In his words, Mingxin can see that it is harmless. Shen Laoliu's face with deep grudges and small size can see that it is harmful even if it is harmful?
To put it bluntly, the most eye-catching thing among the three people is a group of 1.8 meters tall.
However, Tang Dao worked hard to study how to dress up when he could not hide his body shape. The so-called dressing is not about dressing up himself so undetectable, but rather finding a suitable identity based on his body shape and appearance, and it is vivid.
Therefore, Ming Xin, who had a pretty face, became a rich young man. Tang Dao turned into a personal bodyguard. Shen Laoliu, who had more pleats on his face, naturally became a porter carrying a salute, and Gong Shaoxun, who rushed over from the Sixing Group's resident, became a housekeeper. It was a typical example of the rich young man traveling during this period.
Shen Laoliu: Who is Laoliu?
Why did Gong Shaoxun stubbornly come and go to Tianjin with Tang Dao and his party? The telegram could not be explained clearly, but the Four-way Group had Lei Xiong and Ye Chenghuan in charge, and Tang Dao was not too worried. Since Gong Shaoxun had such a demand, there must be his own reasons.
When Gong Shaoxun arrived in Linfen and met Tang Dao, the first sentence he met, "I have deposits at Citibank! I want to withdraw them." He was stunned by Tang Dao and the others.
Based on his understanding of Gong Shaoxun, his colleague, sometimes he is quite stubborn, but he is definitely not a person who has deposed the public for personal gain. He lost the army in order to withdraw his own money?
You should know that Gong Shaoxun was the chief of staff of the regiment and also served as the battalion commander of the cavalry battalion. The cavalry battalion played a big role in this battle. It was not because the four-line regiment was fighting a battle of encirclement and annihilation, but the cavalry battalion is far from the combat power that a cavalry battalion should have. It is only the combat power of a cavalry company that is the most indecent battalion-level combat unit in the entire four-line regiment.
Purchase, train war horses, recruit and train new cavalry and reserve cavalry are all things that battalion commander Gong Shaoxun has to worry about. With the work of his own regiment chief of staff, the work intensity is no less than that of Ye Chenghuan, the director of the Political Department.
Before the war, Ye Chenghuan was recognized by the entire regiment as the busiest commander of the entire regiment. Political propaganda and various military officers were all the time. The training of non-commissioned officers often made him work for more than fifteen hours. Not to mention that he was in a rest period after the war. He could not stop others being a little leisurely.
Otherwise, without these deputy players desperately expelling, the chief officer Tang Dao dared to openly ask for leave from the War Zone Command to rest secretly but secretly walked to the enemy-occupied area thousands of miles away?
"I have 800,000 taels of gold at Citibank. I have decided that instead of putting it in the foreign Russian bank waiting for the so-called comeback of my Northeast Army, it is better to take it out and do all the strength of my Northeast Army for the Chinese nation's war of resistance." Gong Shaoxun continued.
"How many? Chief Gong, you didn't drink before you came!" Tang Dao was stunned for a moment and glanced at Gong Shaoxun's face in confusion. The face of this old cavalry was really dark, so dark that he couldn't even see the red color dyed by alcohol.
Then, Tang Dao saw Gong Shaoxun's black face appearing a little rosy, and quickly comforted him: "Of course, eighty taels of gold are not bad, worth thousands of oceans! I didn't expect that Chief Gong's private property is quite rich. However, our regiment has not yet reached the point where we need to contribute our family to live. You can withdraw this money, but keep it for the withdrawal. We really have to that day, and you Chief Gong will contribute it again."
This is a rare "gentle" moment for the straight steel Tang Dao, for fear of hurting the heart of the cavalry lieutenant colonel who was poaching from the Northeast Army.
"The group seat is 800,000, not 80!" After receiving the warm comfort from a group seat, Gong Shaoxun did not appreciate it. Instead, he carefully confirmed the data he mentioned earlier.
"Eighty hundred thousand taels... gold?" Tang Datuanzu, who had even seen time travel, has seen countless strange things, but in front of this exaggerated and almost terrible number, his mouth suddenly turned into a hippo's mouth.
Mingxin, who has been influenced by the "indifference in the Taoist temple since childhood", has suddenly opened her narrow eyes wide and round.
Shen Laoliu, the Laoliu, not only turned into a hippo mouth like a certain commander, but also had a disrestrained liquid flowing from the corners of his mouth.
What is the concept of 800,000 taels of gold? If it is converted into kilograms, it is 80,000 kilograms. In tons, it is forty tons. If it is used as a truck like the Japanese army with a load of 1.5 tons, it will take thirty cars if it is not overloaded.
Not to mention gold, even copper is worth the money, and even bullets can be made millions of rounds.
The Sixing Regiment fought to death in Shentouling, killing the 1500th Japanese army in Licheng, and robbed the 108th Division who had worked hard to save for several months, but it only had less than 20,000 taels of gold.
In this way, the entire Four-League regiment was like making money, and rewarded the officers and soldiers who died in battle and were injured and rewarded.
As a result, Chief Gong said lightly: We have deposited 800,000 taels of gold at Citibank!
Moreover, looking at that expression, I was very serious.
There are only three results. Either, he was crazy! Or, the three people were collectively auditory hallucinating! Or, what he said was true.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! I guess I realized that the amount I said was too huge, which made it difficult to believe. Gong Shaoxun quickly explained: "To be precise, this money is not mine, but Shaoshen, but he doesn't want it anymore, so he can only leave it here for the time being."
This statement made Tang Dao somewhat believe that he had the money.
After all, in terms of wealth, who in China can compare with the Zhang family, a big farmer who has been operating in Northeast China for more than ten years?
Although the stingy old man is also a stingy farmer and is stingy and economical, in Jinzhou, a poor mountain and water-lost place, can it be compared with the black soil that can produce oil by just a handful of soil?
The Jinsui Army has actually developed very well. During the Battle of Xinkou, 300 artillery regiments were dragged out to knock Itagaki Shiro out. If the Japanese army had not had air control, the 70,000 army would never have entered Jin Province in their lifetime.
But what was the equipment of the Northeast Army at its peak? As of the 918 Incident, the Northeast Army had more than 200 fighter jets of various types, 150 of which could be launched into the air, and 30 Renault tanks; the Navy was under the jurisdiction of the three fleets of river defense, coastal defense, and Bohai Sea, with a total force of 400,000; the three arsenals distributed in Yangcheng, Fengtian and Chuncheng can produce more than 60,000 rifles, more than 1,000 light and heavy machine guns, 150 guns and hundreds of millions of guns and shells; sometimes this person! No matter how hard he works, he finally found that the ceiling of his efforts is actually just the starting point of others. This is life, and this is the reality. If you compare the stingy old man with the old Zhang family, it is the most typical example.
In fact, the certificate of deposit that Gong Shaoxun had personally stored with a large seal of Citibank is enough to prove its authenticity.
But if the "prodigal son" who inherited all his inheritance after his father's death had 800,000 taels of gold, Tang Dao Cliff had no doubt at all, but if you say such a huge sum of money, don't throw it to others, it's a bit too incredible.
"That's right. Before 1934, I was the deputy captain of the Young Marshal's guards. When that big event happened in 1936, I was leading the Young Marshal's order to lead troops in the cavalry battalion under the command of the Wu army..." Facing the puzzled eyes of Tang Dao and the other three, Gong Shaoxun smiled bitterly and said the secrets he rarely told to others.
It turned out that Gong Shaoxun was an orphan since childhood and was met by Lao Zhang by chance. Because he was not much different from his son's age, he took him into the mansion to become his son's book boy and playmate. When he became an adult, he naturally became his son's personal bodyguard.
In 1935, Zhang Shaoshang, who was stationed in Chang'an, specially sent him to serve as the cavalry company commander in order to promote his deputy guard captain. If it weren't for that incident, the person closest to him, the young marshal, would at least be a colonel, not just a lieutenant colonel chief of staff of the Four Corps.
As for the 800,000 taels of gold that was "disliked" by a certain young marshal, it was even more incredible, but as Gong Shaoxun's account was told, it seemed quite in line with the character of the young marshal.
It turned out that the 918 Incident was not originally the original intention of the Japanese Army Base Camp, but was launched by some young officers independently. The Northeast Army's strength during that period was at its peak. The strength of the 400,000 army was only a crushing advantage compared to the Kwantung Army's tens of thousands of people. Not to mention a few months, if the Kwantung Army really had a fight, it would not necessarily occupy the three northeastern provinces in a few years.
But a scene that shocked the Japanese base camp actually appeared. Hundreds of thousands of Northeastern troops fled without fighting, and the rich three eastern provinces handed over to others.
But shortly before this incident, in order to stabilize the border situation, the young marshal also visited Japan in person and had a great chat with the Japanese emperor who was not ready for war.
The moment before, he swears that he had no intention of invading, and he occupied other people's territory in the next second, and the territory of hundreds of thousands of big men with troops was somewhat embarrassed by someone. Perhaps it was to win over or for some non-existent face, the man ordered the Kwantung Army to return all the wealth that had occupied the Young Marshal's Mansion, including the 800,000 taels of gold.
The one who received the property of the Young Marshal's Mansion sent by the Japanese army and lost the territory of his father for more than ten years was embarrassed and angry. He believed that this was a humiliation from the Japanese. At that time, he ordered his confidant general Wang to throw this batch of gold into the Bohai Sea.
"This is really a young man. If you don't want it, don't throw it into the sea! It's fine to cut it into small pieces and send it to the common people!" Shen Laoliu smashed it and his mouth was full of regret.
If it weren't for Tang Daoheng's glance, this guy probably had to sprinkle salt on Chief Gong's wound.
The Northeast was lost without a single shot, which was a shame that hundreds of thousands of Northeast troops could not erase in their lives. There was no reason to cover it up.
Gong Shaoxun was also depressed when talking about this past event, but he would not care about this with the heartless Shen Laoliu. As he continued to tell, Tang Dao finally knew why this batch of gold ended up in his hands.
Wang Yizhe was reluctant to throw such a huge amount of funds into the sea, so he asked Gong Shaoxun, the personal guard to discuss. Finally, the two decided to deposit the gold into the Western Bank in the Tianjin Concession in the private name of Gong Shaoxun, so as to leave some funds for the Northeast Army to make a comeback in the future.
The reason why Citibank, which belongs to the United States, is purely because HSBC's interest rate is too low. Citibank made the two choose them with an annual profit of 2.4%. In the past five years, 800,000 taels of gold are no longer the same as that time. It is at least 800,000 or more. If it is converted into US dollars...
Shen Laoliu quietly asked about the exchange ratio of Tang Dao. The current market price is about 35 US dollars per ounce. Even if one or two gold is about the same as one ounce, Shen Laoliu calculated for a long time with his fingers and couldn't get a specific answer. He only knew that if he could exchange it, the four-line group would be well developed.
"You really plan to leave this fund to our Four-League Group. Will Commander Wu and others blame you?" The golden pie that fell from the sky had not knocked Tang Dao unconscious, so he asked Gong Shaoxun very seriously.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Captain Wu and the others do not know that there is such a huge amount of funds. And with his love for you, you will never blame me even if you know, because even if you enter Tianjin City and are unable to take it out, the funds are just a bunch of numbers on the account. What's the use of coming?" Gong Shaoxun was obviously after a long period of ideological struggle, shook his head and replied.
"It would be better to use it for our four regiments first, purchase more arms, cause greater damage to the Japanese army, and also wash away the shame of our Northeast Army losing the three eastern provinces."
At this point, Gong Shaoxun's dark face showed a rare cunning: "Besides, based on my understanding of the chief, as long as you can raise this amount of funds, you will definitely not sit idly by the 67th Army and other Northeast Army."
"Haha! Okay, I promise you that if you encounter your brothers in Northeast Army in danger in the future, my four-way team will do our best to help. This batch of gold has really helped a lot." Tang Dao smiled.
"No, Shaoxun has long since left the Northeast Army and is part of our Four Corps. Even if he meets the old brothers of the Northeast Army, he is only considered a friendly army." Gong Shaoxun smiled and shook his head to deny the title of "Northeast Army Brothers" just now.
"I won't say much, I only represent the entire four brothers of the four teams. Thank you for your trust in Chief of Staff!" Tang Dao solemnly saluted Gong Shaoxun.
"The group leader is so serious!" After Gong Shaoxun hurriedly returned the salute, the two of them held their hands tightly together.
The Chief of Staff did not bring his surname in front of him, which already explained Tang Dao's attitude.
Chief of Staff Gong is not just an officer of the 67th Army who came to the Four Army Regiment to be promoted, but like the attitude he just made, he truly belonged to a member of the Four Army Regiment.
That is as precious as gold for Tang Dao!
Of course, the deposit of 800,000 gold gave Tang Dao and Krupp's investment plans more confidence.
Chapter completed!