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The brigade commander understood what he was going to do next as soon as he said it, and immediately suggested: "General, the Fourth Battalion is nearest across the railway station, I immediately ordered them to march back to Chengjia Station!"

Major General Honda nodded: "This is not enough. Contact the aviation army and rushed to Chengjia Station immediately to prevent the National Rescue Army from transporting the equipment on the train back to the defense zone!"

The chief of staff of the wing hesitated for a moment and reminded: "General, it's already past five o'clock now. It's too dangerous for the aviation troops to dispatch planes. I guess they will refuse!"

Major General Honda replied helplessly: "That's it, let's order the Fourth Brigade to march to Chengjia Station, regain the railway station, and take back all the equipment snatched by the National Rescue Army from Jingxing Coal Mine. If it really doesn't work, blow it up. The things that the Imperial Army can't get can't be obtained. Let's give orders now!"

Before the gunshots in Chengjia Station stopped, the car transport team under the logistics company appeared at the end of the pipeline and drove towards the station quickly through the checkpoint that the troops had just taken down.

Tang Yufeng and Zhou Cheng also met at this moment.

"Old Tang, we have made a lot of money in Jingxing Branch!" As soon as we saw Tang Yufeng, Zhou Chengru began to report good news.

"Although we have to pay hundreds of thousands of bullets to the Eighth Route Army, we transported six vehicles of equipment back from the coal mine and rescued three thousand absenteeism!"

"The equipment is all in the car behind me. In addition to two sets of power generation equipment, there are also many machine tools, all equipment and parts that coal mines think are useful."

"More than 2,600 absenteeism were following the reconnaissance company and the cavalry company to return to the defense zone. Nearly 400 absenteeism with slightly less physical strength came back with us by train, scattered in the four tank carriages in the valley!"

"I have already asked clearly that the absentees we rescued were all our soldiers captured by the Japanese on the front line, including the Central Army, the Jinsui Army, the Sichuan Army, the Northwest Army and the Northeast Army..."

"They are the best materials for joining the army. If they can mobilize them to join us, the National Salvation Army can immediately pull up three main battalions!"

Tang Yufeng was the deputy commander of the National Salvation Army on the surface, but secretly did the work of the Eighth Route Army political commissar. He was very clear about the thoughts of cadres and soldiers at all levels of the army, so he was not optimistic about Zhou Cheng's thoughts and hesitated for a reminder.

"Captain, it is not difficult to join us by stimulating the Sichuan Army and the Northwest Army. Their conditions in the old army are very poor, and they have always been used as miscellaneous troops. There is no difference from us, so it is not embarrassing to join us."

"It will be difficult to persuade the Central Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army prisoners to join us."

"They have very good conditions in the old army. They claim to be from a direct army and look down on miscellaneous troops like our National Salvation Army. In their eyes, following us to fight the Japanese will definitely be better than returning to the old army."

After hearing this, Zhou Cheng refused to comment: "Old Tang, if it were other prisoners, the situation you just said would definitely be like that, but the situation of this group of absenteeism is a little different."

"You have never been to Jingxing Coal Mine, and I don't know how the Japanese torture them."

"Every time I was sent to Jingxing Coal Mine, I was fine. At most two months, I would be tortured by the Japanese. Every day, I would be tortured by the Japanese to death or killed by the Japanese, and then the bodies were still in a cliff behind the mining area. I went there and saw thousands of corpses of absenteeism stacked layer by layer under the cliff, and many of them were rotten into bones!"

"We rescue them from the devils, which is equivalent to pulling them out of the gates of hell."

"I don't ask them to repay their kindness with their lives. They just join our National Salvation Army and fight the Japanese with us."

"As long as they can be temporarily incorporated into the army and become a member of our National Salvation Army, I believe that with Lao Tang's ability, you can definitely transform them into a qualified soldier, and then follow us to fight the Japanese from the bottom of your heart."

After listening to Zhou Cheng’s introduction to the coal mine, Tang Yufeng’s first reaction was that he didn’t believe it: “Captain, is their experience in the mining area so miserable?”

The scene that Zhou Cheng saw on the cliff a few days ago appeared in front of him again, and his expression became unnatural. He took a deep breath and replied: "It's even worse than you can imagine, but it's not as good as you can imagine!"

"I'll tell you one thing: the Japanese in Jingxing Coal Mine do not raise idle people."

"Three thousand absentees are not only poorly eaten, but also have to do heavy work. Under normal circumstances, there will definitely be absentees because they are sick and cannot go to the mine to do things. However, if you search the entire coal mine, you can't find a sick absentee!"

"Why?" Tang Yufeng asked in confusion.

"These people were killed by the Japanese!" Zhou Cheng gave an explanation that made Tang Yufeng stunned.

"In the eyes of the Japanese, absenteeism sent to the mines is for work, and the importance is not as important as a mule and horse that pulls coal. If you don't go in after you get sick, you can't continue mining, and you will waste food. If you don't control it well, the disease will be transmitted to other absenteeism."

"It would be better to kill and save trouble. Anyway, the Japanese army will replenish some prisoners for the coal mine every month. No matter how many people die in the coal mine, there will be no shortage of work."

"When I was investigating the enemy situation, I saw with my own eyes that the Japanese stabbed a person who was carrying a corpse to death. At that time, the absenteeism should have fainted due to exhaustion and had to recover by resting for one night, but the Japanese did not give them this opportunity at all. As long as they couldn't do anything, they would stab them to death with a bayonet."

"So the absenteeism in the mine is most afraid of getting sick. As long as you can stand up, you have to go to the mine to do things, otherwise you will be stabbed to death by the Japanese!"

As Tang Yufeng listened, his eyes began to turn red, as if he could spray fire out. His fists were tightly pinched, gritting his teeth and cursing: "A bunch of beasts... no, the Japanese in the mines were not even as good as beasts!"

Zhou Cheng nodded with approval: "Old Tang, don't worry, those beasts have paid the price for their actions."

"The Japanese who were stationed in the mine and the traitors who worked hard for the Japanese were all eliminated, and no one of them was left behind. After the absentees were released, they were still unhappy and asked us that we wanted more than a hundred bayonets and wanted to cut off all the Japanese's heads."

"I don't have to object to those who are absent from work. As a result, four or five hundred Japanese devils were cut off by their heads. I guess the Japanese reinforcements would be so angry that they vomited blood on the spot after seeing this scene!"

Seeing that Tang Yufeng's face looked much better, Zhou Cheng immediately got back to the point: "How is it? Now, Lao Tang, are you confident that you have to absent from work and join our National Salvation Army?"

Tang Yufeng finally recovered from his anger and replied confidently: "Don't worry, after hearing these absenteeism experiences, I have the confidence to mobilize at least two thousand people to join our National Salvation Army!"

Zhou Cheng replied with satisfaction: "If you can really persuade more than 2,000 absent from work to join the National Salvation Army, I will immediately use them as the foundation and form three main camps."

"Although our National Salvation Army is a regiment-level organization, the theater does not require us to expand several more battalions. Even if the main battalion is not good, we can form local independent battalions directly under the regiment headquarters, and there are ways to use these absenteeism."

Seeing Tang Yufeng nodding in his approval, Zhou Cheng continued: "There are dozens of special talents in the absenteeism. Before the Japanese occupied Jingxing Coal Mine, they worked in the mine and were specifically responsible for repairing and operating large and small equipment in the mine. They should be considered technical talents. Among them, several absenteeism union transform machines, which can use the motors and equipment seized by the mine to assemble machine tools with different functions."

"Mr. Li, who is leading the way, told me that many of them want to join us."

"In addition to continuing to mobilize more technical talents to join us, you also need to check their background and send them directly to the arsenal after confirming that there is no problem."

"I think with them joining, our arsenal will definitely be further enhanced."

"Not to mention building guns, it should be fine to repair guns. If possible, the grenade production line will be built."

"In addition, we can also develop coal mines in the defense zone for use in the arsenal."

"We are so close to Jingxing Coal Mine, there must be coal mines within the defense zone."

"Clang..." A loud bang interrupted Zhou Cheng's words before he finished speaking, and a stuffy tank car full of equipment was opened.

A car slowly approached the car and stopped when it was about to be together.

The soldiers guarding aside immediately climbed into the tank carriage, and several people transferred the large equipment in the car to the car in groups.

Small equipment and parts are piled aside, and they are ready to be transported back to the defense zone with a slightly smaller load.

"Drive a few more cars and several tank carriages to transport equipment out at the same time..." Zhou Cheng walked to the side and directed.

"The big cart also brought over to ship parts and small equipment, and set off immediately after filling a car..."

"There is another company behind. You are responsible for protecting the absenteeism in the carriage and returning to the defense zone safely. Many of them are very weak, so you must rest more on the road..."

With the train as the center, the entire station is like a huge transit station. One empty car after another enters the train station, and in just over a dozen minutes, it is loaded with various equipment and leaves the train station and heads towards the direction where the defense zone is located.

On the official road more than ten kilometers away from the railway station, more than 600 Japanese were holding torches to smear and advance to reinforce Chengjia Station!

The brigade commander gave them the task of recapturing the train station before 8 o'clock. Now there is only one and a half hours left before the specified time, but there is still more than ten kilometers to go ahead. Even if everyone runs forward, they cannot reach the train station on time.

The captain led the team was both angry and frustrated.

He had the opportunity to arrive at the train station on time, but the guerrillas who harassed them were too cunning.

Guerrilla warfare, cold guns, cold cannons, landmines...the endless means made them suffer a lot on the road.

The road that could be completed in more than an hour was dragged by the opponent for three hours, which made the troops not have time to take the next road now, and they could not retake the train station on time.

"Our speed is going to speed up!" The captain walking in the middle of the team was very anxious to order!

"Dadadada..." As soon as the order was released, a sound of machine gun fire came from a hill on the flank of the team. Then two screams came from the team, followed by the sound of counterattacks from their subordinates.

Such a quick response is already very powerful, but it is obviously a little tender to the guerrillas who are good at sneak attacks.

Because when they fired, the gunshots on the hill had stopped...

The captain was no longer surprised at this scene, and when his face sank, he ordered the troops to continue moving forward.

I walked around and stopped and finally arrived at the train station at nine o'clock in the evening.

But the planned battle did not happen. The railway station was dark and quiet, with no figure, and there was no sign of being occupied by the National Savior Army.
Chapter completed!