Chapter 147: Take Back The Taiyuan Arsenal
“Younger Brother Li, is this the shoulder-mounted cannon that you made!”
“Japanese Invaders mechanized troops are coming up, give it to them for me!”
“Hahaha, Japanese Invaders have tasted the power, right? You’ve never seen our cannon that is placed on the shoulder and fired, right? Bomb those Japanese Invaders for me.”
“Hahaha, this shoulder-mounted cannon is really…”
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In the detention room, Li Yunlong, who was snoring loudly in deep sleep, was talking in his sleep.
Bang!
With a loud kick, the door of the detention room was kicked open by the Brigade Commander with one foot.
“Li Yunlong, you son of a bitch actually still have the face to sleep in front of me, get the hell up for me right now!” The Brigade Commander kicked Li Yunlong.
The Brigade Commander’s kick was not light, and Li Yunlong was directly kicked off the bed.
Li Yunlong, startled awake from his dream, scrambled up from the ground with a smile on his face: “Aiyo, Brigade Commander, why are you so angry? Which son of a bitch pissed you off? Tell me, and I’ll go kill him for you!”
The Brigade Commander was so angry he laughed, cursing: “Li Yunlong, I think you’ve slept yourself stupid, right? You are that son of a bitch. There’s a rope in the detention room right now, isn’t there? Hang yourself from the beam immediately, then I can save myself the trouble from now on.”
“Aiya, Brigade Commander, look at my brain, I really slept myself confused.” Li Yunlong slapped his forehead and sidled up to the Brigade Commander with a smile: “Brigade Commander, a thousand mistakes, ten thousand wrongs, all my fault, Li Yunlong’s fault. Don’t be angry, your health is important, don’t get mad over something not worth it.”
“You dared to sell the cannon from the Division Commander’s hands, your guts are really something.” The Brigade Commander’s spittle sprayed onto Li Yunlong’s face, grinding his teeth: “Do you know or not, you son of a bitch, for hiding and not reporting this, when I went to division headquarters, the Division Commander chewed me out for half a day, and I didn’t even know the reason. And you, you can still sleep so soundly. Fine! Go execute the order for me right now.”
“Execute what order?” Li Yunlong asked in confusion.
“What else could it be!” The Brigade Commander berated angrily, “Immediately haul your cannon to division headquarters to compensate for the cannon you sold the Division Commander.”
Li Yunlong, upon hearing this, immediately straightened up: “Brigade Commander, don’t play such a big joke on me. I, Li Yunlong, have a small bladder, don’t scare me.”
We clearly helped the arsenal side pull in business for machinery, clearly for our army’s military industry production, and in the end, I… my Hell Cannon is gone. How am I supposed to fight wars from now on?
From now on, won’t I be outdone by that kid Gao Liujin?
“Hmph, you have a small bladder!” The Brigade Commander snorted heavily, “If you, Li Yunlong, have a small bladder, then there’s no one with a big one in this world.”
“Brigade Commander, really don’t joke like this with me, you know I can’t live without the Hell Cannon…”
“You’re the one who joked with me first, selling the Division Commander’s cannon. Since you had the guts to do it, you better have the ability to back it up!” The Brigade Commander’s spittle sprayed onto Li Yunlong’s face again, “Anyway, the Division Commander has already said, make you, Li Yunlong, immediately haul your Hell Cannon at hand to division headquarters. If you don’t execute, you can forget about being Regiment Commander of the Independent Regiment too, go follow Kong Jie to the arsenal to mine coal. Handle it yourself.”
“Brigade Commander, this is our brigade’s Hell Cannon. With it in my hands, it’s practically yours too.” Li Yunlong said seriously to the Brigade Commander, “You can’t really ignore this matter, right? If this Hell Cannon is hauled to division headquarters, you’ll only have one Hell Cannon left on hand. Brigade Commander, can you really bear it?”
Demote me from Regiment Commander, make me follow Kong Er Lengzi to mine coal—better to execute me. I’m not doing that stupid hard labor.
“You son of a bitch, how do you know I didn’t fight for it with the Division Commander!” The Brigade Commander scolded, “Do you think I can bear to part with this Hell Cannon?”
“Damn it, that Old Zhang guy, I don’t know how he screwed this up, how did this knife end up cutting on my head!” Li Yunlong cursed and jumped in frustration, “No, I’m going to find Old Zhang right now, must clear this up.”
With that, Li Yunlong started to step forward.
“Stop!” The Brigade Commander roared.
“Brigade Commander, I must preserve this Hell Cannon, otherwise I have no face to come back and see you.” Li Yunlong said from the heart, “I can’t let the Brigade Commander have one less Hell Cannon, I definitely…”
“Enough, stop pretending to be stupid with me.” The Brigade Commander still waved his hand to interrupt Li Yunlong, “I’ve already handled this matter for you.”
“Really?” Li Yunlong, upon hearing this, was overjoyed and quickly asked: “Brigade Commander, how did you handle it?”
This Brigade Commander really…
You’ve already handled the matter, but you still scare me like this. Don’t you know I have a small bladder?
“I suggested to the Division Commander that this Hell Cannon be considered as loaned by our Division Commander to Old Zhang’s side, let Old Zhang use it to exchange for equipment with the Jin Sui Army side. Once the arsenal produces more Hell Cannons later, the arsenal will replenish our Division Commander.” The Brigade Commander said.
“Did you collect interest?” Li Yunlong asked.
“Nonsense, how could we loan out our Hell Cannon for free? Of course we collected interest.” The Brigade Commander glared and said, “The new grenades from Border Region Manufacturing that you used work pretty well, right? Made Old Zhang bleed a bit, count that as interest.”
“Brigade Commander, see, hasn’t this matter been perfectly resolved.” Li Yunlong laughed, “Since you’ve handled everything, then I have nothing to do at brigade headquarters, right? Then I’ll head back.”
With that, Li Yunlong tried to slip away.
“Did I let you go!” The Brigade Commander grabbed Li Yunlong.
“Brigade Commander, aren’t you annoyed just seeing me!” Li Yunlong said with a grin, “I wouldn’t dare annoy you anymore, I’d better disappear and go back to my Independent Regiment.”
“Stop bullshitting me.” The Brigade Commander cursed, “If I don’t see you, you son of a bitch won’t cause me trouble anymore?”
“I wouldn’t dare, I wouldn’t dare. Brigade Commander, how could I? I won’t dare anymore.” Li Yunlong quickly shook his head.
“There’s nothing in this world that you wouldn’t dare do.” The Brigade Commander cursed again and asked, “When I came back, I heard the Deputy Brigade Commander say that the arsenal side is making shoulder-mounted cannons, which can be used to deal with Japanese Invaders’ armored war vehicles?”
“Yes, Brigade Commander.” Li Yunlong nodded quickly, “I’ve already secured priority equipment rights for you.”
“Exchanging bullet-making equipment for priority rights, you son of a bitch are really generous.”
“Brigade Commander, isn’t it just bullet-making equipment? In the future, as long as you arrange these shoulder-mounted cannons for me, I’ll go rob more. When the opportunity comes, we’ll go rob back the Taiyuan Arsenal that Officer Yan lost. This little bullet-making equipment is nothing!” Li Yunlong boasted.
“Rob back the Taiyuan Arsenal, you bastard really dare to say that!”
That’s deep in the First Army’s territory.
At that time, that Japanese Invader Shinozuka would mobilize tens of thousands of Japanese Invaders, and even if each spat, they’d drown you, Li Yunlong.
Even the North China Area Army Commander Gangcun would send troops.
The Taiyuan Arsenal now provides important arms to the Japanese Invaders. You’re poking the hornet’s nest for me.
“Hehe, Brigade Commander, didn’t you say it yourself? As long as there’s no loss, let me do whatever…” Li Yunlong chuckled.
“Stop grinning like an idiot with me.” The Brigade Commander interrupted, “Now there’s no Hell Cannon shells, and the arsenal side is still producing them. The Japanese Invaders lost the train, a lot of supplies were robbed, next they’ll definitely have bloody retaliation operations. Without my orders, stay put honestly for me, don’t do anything, got it!”
“Brigade Commander, rest assured. Our Hell Cannon has no shells, that’s like I have no diamond drill. Without the diamond drill, I definitely can’t do porcelain work.” Li Yunlong nodded slickly, then remembered something and said, “Did the Deputy Brigade Commander tell you about Younger Brother Li wanting puppies and kittens?”
“I’ll collect the relevant intelligence on that. If action is needed, I’ll notify you.” The Brigade Commander nodded.
Dogs have high alertness, most suitable for sentry and tracking.
The Brigade Commander has done intelligence work and knows the battlefield meaning of military dogs.
As for kittens, our warehouse is starting to have things, indeed need to prevent rats.
Arsenal Factory Director Li Muzhi thought of this detail very thoroughly.
“Yes, Brigade Commander, then can I go now?” Li Yunlong asked.
“Get lost. If you’ve got the guts, go behind my back and cause me more trouble!” The Brigade Commander finally let go.
“I wouldn’t dare, I wouldn’t dare, how could I, I won’t dare.” Li Mouren slipped away like oil under his feet and ran out of brigade headquarters in a flash.
Until he ran to a safe spot several kilometers away from brigade headquarters, seeing the Brigade Commander didn’t chase.
Li Yunlong finally let out a long sigh of relief!
Selling the Division Commander’s cannon, this matter is really big.
Didn’t expect the Brigade Commander to smoothly resolve it. I only took two kicks, no skin or hair damaged.
Next time, continue causing trouble for the Brigade Commander… cough cough, can’t say it like that. I still want the Brigade Commander to live a few more years, to protect me.
After dealing with Li Yunlong, the Brigade Commander returned to brigade headquarters and still said to the Deputy Brigade Commander: “Send a heads-up to Ding Wei’s side, keep an eye on Li Yunlong for me. The Japanese Invaders won’t quiet down in this period, really don’t let that son of a bitch Li Yunlong cause trouble.”
“Yes.” The Deputy Brigade Commander nodded and asked, “If the Hell Cannon shells are produced and the arsenal sends people to deliver them here, should we also temporarily not distribute to Li Yunlong?”
“In principle, definitely shouldn’t give them to Li Yunlong.” The Brigade Commander knew what kind of bastard Li Yunlong was.
Once shells are in hand, that son of a bitch won’t stay idle, definitely going to stir up trouble.
But then again.
Next, the Japanese Invaders won’t quiet down, might kill over anytime. If Li Yunlong’s side has no Hell Cannon, at critical moments they’ll definitely suffer.
So, the Brigade Commander still said: “Once the shells arrive at brigade headquarters, I’ll handle it discretionarily at the time.”
“Yes.” The Deputy Brigade Commander nodded.
“One more thing.” The Brigade Commander added, “The arsenal side is making shoulder-mounted cannons, and Kong Jie digging coal over there didn’t send any advance word. Send someone to tell Kong Jie, don’t just bury your head in coal mining, take some free time to see what Xiao Li at the arsenal is doing.”
Speaking of this, the Brigade Commander was dissatisfied with Kong Jie.
Closest to the water gets the moon first, but you Kong Jie didn’t get this moon first, instead Li Yunlong brought this moon back.
The Brigade Commander really suspected whether Kong Jie was only focused on head-down coal mining and neglected the arsenal’s weapon making.
“Good, I’ll send someone right away.” The Deputy Brigade Commander nodded again, thinking the Brigade Commander’s reminder very important.
This time, Li Muzhi making shoulder-mounted cannons was luckily discovered early by Li Yunlong and priority equipment rights secured in advance.
What about next time.
If Li Muzhi makes new stuff again and Kong Jie doesn’t pass info timely, wouldn’t that delay us and let other troops get there first?
“That Puppet Army Company Commander idiot, what’s his situation now? Can we still contact him?” The Brigade Commander remembered this person.
Earlier, this person faced a career crisis and wanted to exchange Japanese Invaders sugar intelligence for our Hell Cannon clues.
We intercepted that batch of sugar, Hirata Ichiro went down, and the reward ended.
The Brigade Commander didn’t use this person to set a trap for the Japanese Invaders because there was no opportunity, delayed by recent series of events.
Now, to get intelligence on cats and dogs from the Japanese Invaders side, maybe can use this person.
“Still in contact.” The Deputy Brigade Commander answered, “He says the sugar was intercepted and wants to exchange other intelligence with us.”
“What intelligence?” The Brigade Commander asked.
“Says to exchange Japanese Invaders army mobilization intelligence.” The Deputy Brigade Commander said, unable to hold back a laugh.
Although we’re not planning to go out now, the Japanese Invaders’ bloody retaliation will still come.
If we can know the Japanese Invaders army mobilization situation in advance, the meaning is extraordinary.
Earlier, couldn’t use this person to set a trap for the Japanese Invaders.
But knowing the Japanese Invaders army mobilization lets us set traps for the Japanese Invaders too, strike at their weakness.
The Brigade Commander laughed upon hearing: “Looks like this person’s career crisis is really serious.”
Still that saying, on the surface this person’s behavior of exchanging Japanese Invaders army mobilization intelligence for our heavy cannon clues is still very stupid, but it also indirectly shows he really wants to climb up.
Yes!
Hirata Ichiro went down, reward ended.
But we used heavy cannon to attack the Jingtai Line, robbed the military train.
In this background, this person providing our heavy cannon clues to the Japanese Invaders is still a great merit.
“Exactly, I’ve been worried he couldn’t hold out and got taken out early.” The Deputy Brigade Commander said, “I even know who his enemy is, I almost wanted to help him kill the enemy, but then his crisis resolves, probably won’t be usable for us anymore.”
“Keep stringing him along, strive to get important Japanese Invaders army mobilization intelligence from him.” The Brigade Commander said, “Best, still use the previous method to get the intelligence.”
Japanese Invaders army mobilization intelligence is very important, don’t let this idiot handle the puppies and kittens intelligence.
Find another way myself.
“Yes, Brigade Commander.”
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