Chapter 572: Let's take a scapegoat
Xiaowan, captain's room.
In the middle of the night, the radio broadcast sounded.
Xiang Chu was awakened and was about to get up and copy it.
"Brother Chu, I'll go, you work so hard teaching."
Yu Xiaowan was quicker than him and got up to copy and decode the telegram.
She handed the message to Xiang Chu and said with a wry smile:
"Brother Chu! Our 34th Division can't even recruit one person, how can we fight?"
After reading the telegram, Xiang Chu said disapprovingly: "Don't worry! I have a way."
Yu Xiaowan said angrily: "I am worried. Can you really turn beans into soldiers?"
Xiang Chu smiled and said, "Sister Xi said that the stragglers, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled are unwilling to join, so we can recruit student soldiers and exiled youths, or children from poor families who can't get enough food."
Yu Xiaowan was excited by his reminder and kept talking: "Brother Chu! Why don't we recruit soldiers along the way? Recruit more Yunnan troops. Have you forgotten that during the Battle of Xuzhou, they held off two Japanese divisions at Yuwang Mountain, and the female Yunnan soldiers were also very powerful, okay?"
"Okay! It's all up to you."
Xiang Chu nodded dazedly.
Yu Xiaowan snatched the telegram from his hand and said sourly:
"You're still holding Sister Mou Xi's message while sleeping. Aren't you afraid of having nightmares? Humph!"
Xiang Chu shook his head and said, "No! I'm worried about how we can transport so much equipment and supplies back to the country."
Yu Xiaowan said angrily: "Why don't you send Hongyi and Gan Rong to Myanmar to make contact in advance?"
Xiang Chu smiled bitterly and said, "The train from Myanmar to Lashio is occupied by the new equipment of the elite 1st Mixed Division. Our 34th Division has to stand aside. We can only find more cars to transport them back home."
Yu Xiaowan said angrily: "What kind of elite mixed 1st division can have more advanced equipment than us?"
Xiang Chu shook his head and said, "Don't underestimate them. They all have their own ways. I hope they can finish transporting them by the time we get to Myanmar."
The distance from Hong Kong to Myanmar is 1090 nautical miles, and it took the three new cargo ships four days to travel.
Xiang Chuman thought that in 4 days, the equipment of the elite 1st Mixed Division would have been transported.
However, the equipment of the elite 1st Mixed Division was piled up at the train station and on the cargo ship and was not moved at all.
Hongyi reported: "Division Commander! I heard from the elite mixed 1st Division that their division commander was watching a transvestite show in Bangkok and we don't know when he will come here. All the freight trains have been at the train station and have not moved."
Xiang Chu said bitterly: "The survival of the country depends on life and death, and these dandy boys are ruining the country. Let's go! Let's go and take a look."
Yu Xiaowan said anxiously: "Brother Chu, don't be impulsive! Send a telegram to Sister Mou Xi to explain the situation first."
Xiang Chu nodded and said, "Okay! Send a telegram to the boss."
"Who am I?!"
Yu Xiaowan said angrily and ran to send the telegram.
Soon, Song Xi replied: "Feng! Don't compete with the 1st Mixed Division for railway transportation. They also bought their own advanced weapons and equipment, and were praised by the Supreme Command.
Sister and Uncle Caiwei have sent you about 200 trucks. Our equipment will be transported back to China by road. Ya!"
Yu Xiaowan said unhappily: "Don't argue, it seems that the commander of the 1st Mixed Division has connections."
"Just a Japanese spy!"
Xiang Chu said angrily, and ordered Hongyi:
"Chief of the Quartermaster Department! Our goods are loaded onto the trucks and shipped to the country along the road next to the railway."
"Yes!"
Hongyi hurriedly accepted the order.
At this time, Gan Rong ran over and said anxiously:
"Division Commander! The people from the 1st Mixed Division unloaded the equipment and supplies from the freighter and occupied our dock. Deputy Division Commander Liu is negotiating with them."
"We have three cargo ships and only have this one dock. Where can we unload our cargo if they occupy it?"
Xiang Chu said unhappily, and hurriedly put on his lieutenant general's uniform, put on his military cap, and ran out of the captain's room.
Now the Lamma Squadron collectively acted as regular Chinese soldiers, and everyone was wearing military uniforms.
Even Yu Xiaowan changed into a female lieutenant colonel's military uniform, looking extremely heroic.
Xiang Chu walked out of the watertight hatch and saw from afar Liu Zhengxiong, who was wearing a major general's uniform. He was negotiating with a colonel of the 1st Mixed Division at the dock with Ning Qiang and others.
Ning Qiang and others were very powerful with new weapons, and they blocked the equipment of the 1st Mixed Division outside the boundary of their own freighter terminal.
The colonel of the Mixed 1st Division pointed at Liu Zhengxiong and others and shouted angrily: "Do you know? We are the elite Mixed 1st Division."
Liu Zhengxiong said angrily: "Colonel! Our 34th Division has three freighters, and we unload cargo at this dock. Why do you want to cross the border to unload cargo on a freighter of the 3st Division? Where should we unload cargo?"
The colonel of the 1st Mixed Division said coldly, "I repeat, we are the elite 1st Mixed Division. How can we compare with your 34th Division, a rubbish unit? Get out of the way and let us unload the goods."
Ning Qiang shouted, "You are rubbish, and your equipment is even rubbish."
The colonel of the 1st Mixed Division shouted angrily, "Colonel! All our weapons and equipment are imported, and in huge quantities. How can we not spread them out? Can you afford to pay for them if they break down?"
Liu Zhengxiong sneered, "Colonel! How can your crappy equipment be better than ours?"
"Do you still have equipment?"
The colonel of the 1st Mixed Division sneered and pointed at the soldiers carrying the military supply boxes and shouted, "You guys! Open the box lids and let them see what they have to offer."
"Yes!"
Several soldiers of the Mixed 1st Division proudly accepted the order.
They excitedly opened the boxes containing weapons and equipment and were stunned.
There were no new weapons or equipment in the equipment box, only a few broken guns.
Ning Qiang and others burst into laughter and boasted about the weapons in their hands:
"Ah! Are these the only crappy things you have? Haha!"
"Come! Take a look at our Garand automatic rifle."
"There are also American-style Bolan light machine guns and Springfield rifles."
"Don't laugh too soon!"
The colonel of the 1st Mixed Division shouted angrily, pointing at his soldiers and saying,
"Pull the gun off the top and see what's underneath?"
His soldiers hurriedly did as they were told and took out the broken gun, which was actually full of opium.
The colonel of the 1st Mixed Division was still not convinced, so he opened the lids of other boxes and found that they were all exactly the same.
Everyone was stunned and the scene fell into silence.
Yu Xiaowan hurriedly took out her camera and kept taking pictures.
Xiang Chu stepped forward, pointed at the colonel and said coldly:
"Colonel! What's your name?"
The colonel of the 1st Mixed Division saw that it was a lieutenant general, saluted in panic, and reported loudly:
"Sir! I'm Wu Sheng, the quartermaster general of the 1st Mixed Division. This is none of my business."
At this moment, a jeep squeaked and stopped in front of Xiang Chu.
Long Sheng, wearing a major general's uniform and sunglasses, jumped out of the car with a fashionable young man in a suit and tie, dressed in a flashy manner.
Long Sheng glanced at the beautiful Yu Xiaowan and asked in confusion: "Female lieutenant colonel? What is your position in my Mixed Division 1?"
Yu Xiaowan was too lazy to click on him. She put away her camera and turned around to get on Xiaowan's wheel.
Long Sheng felt bored, pointed at Wu Sheng and shouted: "Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and load the weapons and equipment onto the truck and transport them to the train station for loading. Miss Song has complained that we are occupying the railway transportation."
Wu Sheng said weakly: "Commander! We have too few people and can't handle it."
Long Sheng looked at Xiang Chu and said arrogantly:
"You are the commander of the 34th Division, right? I'd like to borrow your men for a while."
Xiang Chu sneered, "I'll lend you my brothers to carry the opium? Besides, there are thousands of you and I only have a few men."
Long Sheng took a look and found that it was true. There were only about 34 people from the 30th Division at the dock.
The fashionable young man dressed in fancy clothes said with a smile: "Captain Long! The ship carrying 2 young volunteers from Southeast Asia will soon dock. I will encourage them all to join your Mixed Division 1."
Long Sheng shook his head and said, "Ye Guang! My Mixed 1st Division cannot have some new soldiers, otherwise the combat effectiveness will be too weak."
Ye Guang smiled bitterly and said, "Captain Long! If you don't want them, they will all become rubbish soldiers of the 34th Division."
Long Sheng happily said, "Okay! I'll take them all, so that the rubbish 34th Division won't be able to recruit any soldiers. On the front battlefield, I'll use someone to take the blame."