Chapter 100: Another Rogue Under The Brigade Commander
Li Muzhi heard this and was speechless for a long time.
Crossing the grassland, the troops ahead bought up all the grain, so Regimental Commander Li Yunlong’s regiment couldn’t gather grain, and Regimental Commander Li Yunlong indeed let his troops snatch grain.
He thought he snatched it from civilians, but unexpectedly, he snatched it from his own people’s team!
Now thinking about it carefully, it seemed to make sense.
If Regimental Commander Li Yunlong really snatched from civilians, the brigade commander probably couldn’t protect him.
“I really didn’t expect that there was such a grudge between you and Regimental Commander Li.” Li Muzhi said.
“My grudge with him is huge!” Gao Liujin bellowed in his loud voice, “After this incident, others all joke about me. Why didn’t he Li Yunlong snatch from others, but targeted me? Isn’t that thinking I’m easy to bully! Am I easy to bully? I have to compete with him Li Yunlong, where am I worse than him? I’m clearly stronger than him, more capable than him. This time, I snatched four thousand jin of sugar, he only got three thousand jin, I beat him.”
Li Muzhi was still a bit puzzled: “Regimental Commander Gao, you and Regimental Commander Li aren’t even in the same division, in your respective zones, you don’t usually see each other, do you really need to compete with him?”
“I must compete, if I don’t beat him, others will still think I’m easy to bully!” Gao Liujin said seriously, bragging, “Watch me, beating Li Yunlong is nothing, I still have to beat his brigade commander too…”
Alright!
Gao Liujin’s bragging wasn’t finished when he saw Brigade Commander Chen coming over.
“Greetings, Brigade Commander!”
Seeing Brigade Commander Chen arrive, Gao Liujin immediately restrained his bragging posture and stood straight, saluting Brigade Commander Chen.
This posture was surprisingly similar to Li Yunlong seeing the brigade commander, quite like a mouse seeing a cat.
“Gao Liujin, I just heard you say you want to beat me.” Brigade Commander Chen narrowed his eyes.
“No, no, you must have misheard.” Gao Liujin hurriedly tried to pull out cigarettes from his waist pouch to apologize, but only then remembered upon touching his pocket.
Coming to the arsenal, how could he smoke? That would be asking for trouble!
Fortunately, Brigade Commander Chen didn’t mind too much, and looking at the sugar counted by Lao He, he was surprised: “Not bad, Gao Liujin, you’ve got skills, got so much sugar, must be three or four thousand jin.”
“Not much, not little, four thousand jin.” Gao Liujin smiled politely.
“Good, four thousand jin of sugar, you went to 120 Division and didn’t disgrace me.” Brigade Commander Chen praised.
Gao Liujin had also once been under Brigade Commander Chen.
When the Japanese invaders came in, the troops were reorganized, and Gao Liujin was assigned to 120 Division.
“Mainly because you taught well.” Gao Liujin flattered.
“You brought so much sugar to the arsenal, how come you’re alone? Where’s your superior, your partner?” Brigade Commander Chen suddenly changed the topic and asked, “You didn’t go behind the leadership’s back like that bastard Li Yunlong again, did you?”
This Gao Liujin was just like Li Yunlong, also a troublemaker.
This kid was assigned to 120 mainly because he had some connection with the brigade commander.
After all, having one troublemaker under him was headache enough.
Keeping two, the brigade commander really wanted to live a few more years.
It was just hard on Gao Liujin’s brigade commander, definitely tormented quite a bit.
Several times people saw Brigade Commander Chen, their eyes were full of resentment.
“How could that be, Leader, you know I’m the most obedient, never cause trouble…” Gao Liujin hurriedly said.
“Go, go, I don’t have time to listen to your nonsense.” The brigade commander waved his hand. Anyway, this scourge was sent out, whatever he did in 120 Division had nothing to do with him anymore.
Lao He tallied the sugar and said to Li Muzhi: “Factory Director, four thousand jin, the quantity is correct.”
“Store the sugar, give the cannons and cannonballs to Regimental Commander Gao.” Li Muzhi instructed.
“Yes.” Lao He nodded, leading people to store the sugar first.
Then, Li Muzhi’s gaze fell on Brigade Commander Chen’s face: “Brigade Commander Chen, you didn’t come empty-handed, did you?”
“How could I come empty-handed? I came ahead first, the stuff is behind.” The brigade commander’s tone was deliberately raised a bit, saying: “That kid Li Yunlong, caught me off guard again with something unexpected.”
Hearing this, Gao Liujin nearby immediately perked up his ears.
He got four thousand jin of sugar, originally thinking he could beat Li Yunlong.
Did Li Yunlong get good stuff too?
How was his speed so fast?
“What is it?” Li Muzhi asked curiously.
“I don’t recognize it specifically either, but Li Yunlong snatched it from the Japanese invaders’ mine, I guess it’s mining equipment…” The brigade commander didn’t finish his words.
Gao Liujin nearby stumbled, almost not standing steady.
My god, did I hear that right?
Li Yunlong could even snatch the Japanese invaders’ mine!
And snatched back mining equipment, this is really… one step behind, step by step behind.
If I had gotten the Hell Cannon earlier, I wouldn’t be chasing him now, so infuriating.
Li Muzhi was surprised: “Really mining equipment?”
Although, this mine could be mined by manpower.
But how could manpower compare to professional mining equipment!
Moreover!
Some mines are deep underground, impossible to rely on manpower.
“Wait for the stuff to arrive, then you can see.” The brigade commander said.
“Good, then I’ll wait.” Li Muzhi was very expectant.
Lao He brought out one Hell Cannon and ten cannonballs, gave them to Gao Liujin.
Gao Liujin took the stuff and slunk away.
He originally wanted to show off, but ended up being shown up by Li Yunlong, no point staying longer.
Better hurry to work, he Li Yunlong can snatch mines, I can too!
Watching Gao Liujin’s back, Li Muzhi still curiously asked the brigade commander: “Brigade Commander Chen, this Regimental Commander Gao is an old acquaintance of yours?”
“This guy was a regimental commander under me for a few days, caused some trouble, I kicked him to 120 Division.” The brigade commander clearly didn’t want to say more, changed the topic, said to Li Muzhi: “For this batch of equipment I brought, if it’s important equipment, how many cannonballs can you give?”
The small lathe gotten earlier wasn’t valuable because it was scrap.
But the equipment snatched now, this wasn’t.
“We’ll see the stuff first.” Li Muzhi heard the brigade commander downplay Gao Liujin causing some trouble, guessing it wasn’t that simple.
If the other didn’t want to say more, he wouldn’t ask.
“Fine.”
About half an hour later, the stuff arrived.
Li Muzhi immediately went over, his eyes lit up: “Not bad, Brigade Commander Chen, this is all good stuff. With it, we can mine copper ore!”
Equipment that can mine copper ore?
Hearing this, the brigade commander’s expression immediately turned serious.
The uses of copper went without saying. From small bullets to large warship giant cannons, all needed copper.
The arsenal lacked iron, but cannonballs were plentiful, our combat troops could go pry from the Japanese invaders’ railway.
But copper wasn’t like that, this stuff wasn’t easy to snatch.
But if we could mine it ourselves, the meaning was different.
“Then how many cannonballs can this exchange for?” The brigade commander asked happily, “One hundred okay?”
“Brigade Commander Chen, this batch of equipment is very important, but one hundred cannonballs, that’s asking too much.” Li Muzhi said tactfully, “Besides, one hundred cannonballs, I can’t make that decision, even Minister Zhang can’t, we must report to headquarters leadership.”
“Then how many can you give?” The brigade commander asked.
The brigade commander of course knew one hundred cannonballs was too many.
Better let Li Muzhi here decide this matter.
If headquarters leadership decided, the exchanged cannonballs would probably be reduced.
This reduction came from two sides, one from headquarters leadership, the other from the division commander handling it.
“Thirty cannonballs.” Li Muzhi said.
“Only thirty, a bit few, right?” The brigade commander looked at Li Muzhi, “This is equipment that can mine copper ore.”
“Brigade Commander Chen, mining copper ore equipment is important, but this doesn’t directly give us copper, still need smelting follow-up processes, this is just the first process.” Li Muzhi explained, “If you can get smelting equipment, no problem, can give you more. Of course…”
Li Muzhi paused here, continued: “If you’re not satisfied, I can report to headquarters, let headquarters leadership decide.”
“Forget it, forget it, no need to bother headquarters with this small matter, the leadership is so busy.” The brigade commander waved his hand, “Thirty cannonballs it is, how many cannonballs have you produced here, give them all to me.”
The brigade commander knew well, if really let headquarters decide, at most a few more.
By then after the division commander handled it, he wouldn’t even get thirty cannonballs.
As for the brigade commander wanting more cannonballs, it wasn’t for busying with attacking the railway line to snatch Japanese locomotive.
After all, protagonist Li Yunlong was out of contact, that task was on hold for now.
The brigade commander wanted to be prepared.
In case that kid Li Yunlong stirred up big trouble, with ample cannonballs in hand, he could handle emergencies at key moments.
“Regimental Commander Gao took ten, eighteen left.” Li Muzhi answered.
“Good, give them all to me.” The brigade commander nodded.
Li Muzhi had people give the cannonballs to the brigade commander, the brigade commander didn’t stay longer, left in a hurry.
Watching the brigade commander’s back, Li Muzhi muttered to himself: “Looks like Regimental Commander Li stirred up trouble for Brigade Commander Chen again.”
386 Brigade sent a batch of equipment that can mine copper ore, and Gao Liujin sent four thousand jin of sugar, after Head of Logistics Minister Zhang heard the news, he flashed to the arsenal at top speed.
“Haha, four thousand jin of sugar, not bad, we can mine copper ore, iron ore now.” Zhang Wanhe looked at this equipment and sugar, grinning from ear to ear, turned to ask Li Muzhi: “What did you give 386 Brigade? They won’t want cannons again, right?”
This mining copper ore equipment could also be used to mine other mines, like iron ore, coal mine, etc.
Of course, couldn’t tell Brigade Commander Chen so specifically, otherwise thirty cannonballs wouldn’t send him away.
“Gave thirty cannonballs.” Li Muzhi answered.
“What, thirty cannonballs?” Zhang Wanhe couldn’t believe it upon hearing, “Brigade Commander Chen really agreed?”
This batch of equipment so important, sent away with thirty cannonballs, really beyond Zhang Wanhe’s expectation.
Brigade Commander Chen really willing?
“I said, if he wasn’t willing, let headquarters leadership decide.” Li Muzhi explained.
“Haha.” Zhang Wanhe laughed, “The waves behind drive the waves ahead.”
If headquarters leadership got involved, then Brigade Commander Chen’s division commander handled it, he definitely couldn’t get thirty cannonballs.
“Minister Zhang, how’s the transportation team preparation?”
“Personnel and transportation tools both doubled, rest assured, on action day, absolutely plenty.”
“Good, that’s fine.”
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