Rise From Eight Hundred

After the drinking party that night, General Zhang never mentioned drinking to Tang Dao again.

He is still a young man after going through a thousand things, but the premise is that he has gone through a thousand things. This is definitely not a silly boy anymore.

Even though Tang Dao stayed in Xuzhou City for three whole days, with meat and company, he definitely did not drink.

Of course, Tang Dao did not just play in Xuzhou City.

First, he had to wait for the military pay and rewards that the Four-Line Regiment should get from the Fifth War Zone Command; second, he needed to buy enough packhorses and carts, otherwise, with only the 2,000 people in the Four-Line Regiment, how could he transport the equipment of an infantry regiment given to him by Comrade Lao Wu to the far north?

Of course, it was also Tang Dao's wish to stay with General Zhang, an interesting friend, for a few days.

Feeling similar to Tang Dao, General Zhang also valued Tang Dao, a like-minded younger brother. In the afternoon of the second day after sobering up, he went to the War Zone Command in person to ask for military pay and rewards for the Four-Line Regiment.

Sure enough, the commander did not refuse Zhang Junchang's face, verbally agreed, and after listening to Zhang Junchang's explanation of his views on the battle situation in Xuzhou, he was very happy and immediately appointed Zhang Junchang to lead the 59th Army and several other infantry armies to form a defense along the Huaihe River, with more than 150,000 troops deployed. Five days later, the entire army rushed to the Huaihe River to resist the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Army coming from the south.

This was also the trajectory of the 59th Army in the early stage of the Battle of Xuzhou in the past. After fighting hard along the Huaihe River and blocking the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Army to the south of the Huaihe River, the 59th Army was transferred to LY and fought with part of the Itagaki Division because of its excellent performance.

However, this time, the trajectory of history has changed slightly because of the arrival of the little butterfly of Tang Dao.

The main force of the 59th Army, which was exhausted from blocking the enemy along the Huaihe River, will be responsible for guarding LY. Instead, it will be replaced by the 67th Army, which has been equipped with new equipment and supplemented with the Sichuan Army Security Corps. Its combat power is only stronger than that in Songjiang.

Tang Dao can almost foresee the end of the so-called steel army from the north being beaten to a pulp by the 67th Army.

You know, the 59th Army in the past was on the ly defense line, with more than 10,000 casualties in exchange for thousands of Japanese casualties. Although the three-to-one casualty ratio is at a disadvantage, it is also an extremely outstanding record among the current Chinese army.

The Japanese North China Expeditionary Army was inevitably proud of its successive victories in the northern battlefield. Whether it was Itagaki Seishirō's 5th Division or Isogai Lianjie's 10th Division, facing Xuzhou, a battle-level battlefield that China attached great importance to, they only dispatched a detachment-level unit each.

In order to achieve its strategy of "rejecting the south and attacking the north", China deployed more than 300,000 troops around Xuzhou, nearly ten times the strength of the Japanese army.

It would be unforgivable for the Japanese not to fail here.

That is to say, the general surnamed Tang pretended to obey but secretly disobeyed, just like the reincarnation of Li Jing. The procrastinating King Tang led tens of thousands of troops to wander around the battlefield and refused to fight. If it were not for his principal's personal order, he would not have joined the battle until the end of the battle, so he lost the best opportunity and let the defeated Japanese army hide in Zexian County to wait for help.

And this time, because of the addition of the 67th Army, the commander Li no longer pinned all his hopes on the principal's direct line, and had a secret talk with Commander Zhang for three hours in the small conference room of the theater headquarters.

No one could know the content of the meeting, even to Tang Dao, who accompanied Tang Dao to visit Xuzhou City for a whole day on the third day. Commander Zhang did not say a word, but from his eyebrows that were completely opened when he climbed up the city and looked into the distance, Tang Dao could clearly feel his extremely passionate fighting spirit when facing the upcoming war.

Sure enough, before Tang Dao left Xuzhou, the Fifth Theater Command issued a military order to appoint Commander Zhang as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Xuzhou South Line Corps.

This has nothing to do with military rank promotion, nor does it mean that Commander Zhang can have command over several infantry armies on the southern front. The real command power is naturally in the hands of the theater commander, but this position gives Commander Zhang a little more power to choose the battlefield independently.

Or, to some extent, this shows the attitude of Commander Li, and Commander Zhang was reused in this battle.

It is said that when the military order was passed to the army gathered in Xuzhou, the general surnamed Tang turned pale and directly smashed the cup in his hand.

He is certainly not jealous!

As a student of the principal, he simply disdains to hug the thigh of the one sitting in Xuzhou. He is angry, angry at Tang Dao's "good at scheming".

For this master, Tang Dao clashed with his subordinates two days ago, and his trusted adjutant had to throw out a shopkeeper who had served for many years as a scapegoat. What made him most angry was not the loss of the grain store opened by his brother, but his face.

A shopkeeper died, and there were at least hundreds of people who wanted to be the shopkeeper, which was nothing at all.

But face is something that cannot be lost.

If one person comes up and hits you in the face, if you don't fight back with enough weight, the final result can only be more people rushing up to hit you in the face.

This is human nature, and it is also a cruel law of survival!

As early as two days ago, the seemingly calm person had actually started an investigation into the background of Tang Dao and a plan to fight back against Tang Dao.

But what he didn't expect was that the background of Tang Dao was far more complicated than he imagined.

A kid who came from an ordinary small merchant family who made a living by brewing wine, but he shined in the battle of Sihang Warehouse and won the hearts of the elite of the 1st Battalion of the 88th Division.

And he became one with the 67th Army and the 43rd Army in the Battle of Songjiang, thus truly stepping onto the battlefield. His military rank rocketed from a second lieutenant to a colonel, and his troops also changed from an infantry battalion to an independent regiment directly under the military headquarters.

That was fine, even if he had the 43rd Army commander above him and the 67th Army to help him, they were just two miscellaneous armies that were destined not to be valued by that person. As a direct descendant of a certain general surnamed Tang, he did not take them seriously at all.

But Tang Dao and this great army commander traveled together in Xuzhou City these two days, and it was naturally difficult for people not to imagine their relationship.

Then, this great army commander was also appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of the southern line by the theater command, and his military power even surpassed him, the corps commander with two infantry armies.

Originally, he was just a little hesitant to move Tang Dao, but now, it has risen to fear, and the difficulty has increased exponentially. How can he not be angry and throw the cup in his hand.

Of course, the drama of Zhang Junchang's rising military power making his "enemies" afraid was only a pleasant surprise for Tang Dao. Since he had caused trouble, he was naturally not afraid of it.

Not to mention that there were two great generals behind him, a real man should do what he should do and not do what he should not do. The reason why Tang Dao offended the notorious tyrant was not only because of Mingxin, the future elite soldier, but more because of his insistence on justice.

Tang Dao was very smart, even cunning. Whether facing the experienced commander of the Japanese army or old foxes like Lao Wu and Lao Guo, he could use his wisdom from two lives to deal with them and win.

But in his bones, he was still a young man with blood not cold. He could not do it like that commander Li, for the so-called overall situation, allowing those disgusting darkness to suck the wealth of the people like vampires.

In the face of darkness, if you retreat because of the strong forces behind it, it seems wise at first glance, but in fact it is a loss of the courage to seek light. Just like this Sino-Japanese war, if you retreat once, you can retreat every time, and eventually you can't retreat anymore.

After congratulating his new big brother, Tang Dao intentionally or unintentionally talked about another important gateway to Xuzhou-Teng County.

In the past, although there was an infantry division stationed in Teng County, it was actually just an incomplete Sichuan Army infantry division. The entire division, security regiment and police only had 3,000 people. Excluding the wounded, there were only more than 2,000 people who could participate in the war, which was less than an infantry regiment.

Although the Japanese army only had an infantry battalion attacking Teng County, they were assisted by airplanes and artillery. The Sichuan Army, which had almost no heavy weapons, could only fight with their lives. They held on for several days and failed to wait for the legendary reinforcements. From the heroic division commander down, 95% of the division died in battle. The division commander, brigade commander, regiment commander, and battalion commander all died in the city. Only more than 200 people broke through, becoming one of the most tragic battlefields in the history of the Anti-Japanese War.

The Japanese army did not have an absolute advantage in the number of troops it invested at that time. If there were troops that could go to rescue, it would not have happened so tragically.

Unfortunately, the commander of the war zone at that time ordered the rescue, and it was still the general surnamed Tang who had a large number of troops.

Not only did he suck the blood of the people under his rule, but he also abandoned his comrades on the battlefield. Such a bad guy, Tang Dao did not say to kill him with a single shot, which was very restrained.

Tang Dao hoped that Commander Zhang, who had enough decision-making power, could change this outcome. It didn't take much. An infantry brigade could go there, not to mention defending Teng County, and it was still possible to help the defenders out of the city that was destined to be unable to defend.

Commander Zhang looked at Tang Dao thoughtfully, but nodded and agreed to pay more attention to this place.

Tang Dao's mission to Xuzhou City was finally completed. The Fifth War Zone Command was very powerful. The day after Commander Zhang told Commander Li, the monthly salary of 60,000 silver dollars for the Four-Line Regiment and the 40,000 silver dollars rewarded for destroying the Sixth Heavy Artillery Brigade on the Jiashan front were distributed.

According to the convention, the military supply department responsible for distributing military pay would deduct 10% of it as hard work fees for the officers. Tang Dao, who learned about this unspoken rule from Comrade Lao Wu, was also prepared to lose 10,000 silver dollars.

Tang Dao was very brave. He could attack the blood sucker like Tang's Grain Store, but he was also powerless to do anything about the ugliness that was almost exposed in the old army. Of course, he could oppose it in an extremely tough manner, but that would challenge the superstructure of the entire old army.

Even this included people like Comrade Lao Wu and Comrade Lao Guo.

The bad habit of drinking soldiers' blood was not formed overnight. It was determined by the old social system and the rotten superstructure, that is, the so-called taste of power.

This kind of darkness that grows because of power is disgusting, but compared with the invaders who want to destroy the country and the race, the harm is much lighter after all.

Tang Dao can only guarantee that he will not do so, even if he is regarded as an alternative.

But when he and Zhuang Shisan went to receive the baggage platoon from the camp outside the city, they were surprised that nothing was deducted.

This surprised Zhuang Shisan, the chief of staff who had long been accustomed to all this, and he even took out ten dollars to invite a lieutenant colonel from the Fifth War Zone Quartermaster Department to drink tea and ask for the secret.

The lieutenant colonel was so embarrassed that he looked at the country bumpkin chief of staff several times before revealing the secret.

"Hasn't it been 59th Army Commander Zhang called the highest officer of the Quartermaster Department and said that your Four-Line Regiment is not easy, and the whole regiment has lost thousands of people in the battle of Guangde and is waiting for this money for compensation? Do you think your small Four-Line Regiment can be an exception?"

To put it bluntly, someone still has to stand up, and it has to be a person of sufficient weight.

Tang Dao suddenly realized at that moment, no wonder Commander Zhang, who was busy with military affairs, took time to accompany him to visit the ancient city of Xuzhou. It was not only to talk about brotherhood with him, but more importantly, to tell the entire war zone that his relationship with Tang Dao was extraordinary.

By simply tying oneself to Tang Dao, the small group leader, one would be both prosperous and one would suffer, but that was the next best thing.

Tang Dao could completely imagine the struggle before making this decision for a veteran soldier who had already been betrayed once by his comrades.

No one is willing to fall in the same pit again. Just like a person who has been hurt in marriage, he (she) must be extremely afraid before entering into a second marriage.

Of course, if you don’t have a heart, that’s a different story!

Faced with this kind of deep friendship that was almost gambling, Tang Dao could only remember it in his mind and didn't even mention it in front of Commander Zhang.

And Tang Dao knew even more that if he didn't mention it, that person would be truly happy.

What he wants is a comrade who can block the gun in his back, not gratitude.

Some people can become friends after just one meeting, while there are more people who spend their entire lives together without ever having a single intimate word. That's it!

With these 100,000 silver dollars, Tang Dao suddenly transformed into a famous prodigal son in Xuzhou City.

purchase! purchase! purchase! It became Tang Dao Tang's only tactical act in Xuzhou City.

Food, buy it!

Tang Dao ordered 100,000 kilograms of polished rice and white flour from the other three major grain stores in Xuzhou City in one go. The order price amounted to 7 kilograms of polished rice per piece. The centralized purchase price was even higher than the market price.

However, Tang Dao's requirements for polished rice are extremely high, requiring that there should be no more than 3% impurities in it, which is much higher than the common standard of more than 10% impurities at this time.

If you can do it, sell it, if you can't, get out. Tang Dao is extremely domineering when facing the shopkeepers sent by the three major grain stores.

That's not the arrogance of an army colonel's military rank, but the foreign arrogance in his hands.

What's more, Tang Dao had the feat of leading a cavalry platoon to attack the guard platoon of the 20th Army a few days ago. Several major grain stores with the same profound background did not dare to offend such a hob meat easily.

If you want to make money, you can only earn what you should earn honestly and don't dare to play any tricks.

One hundred thousand kilograms of polished rice and white flour would cost more than thirteen thousand Tang Dao.

But that's not all. Tang Dao also issued a notice to the cloth shops that they needed to order all kinds of cloth, especially cotton cloth used to make military uniforms. They wanted to buy it in large quantities. Because the major cloth shops were in short supply of cotton cloth, the price of rice grains was very stuck. The damn Tang Dao was very relaxed about the price of cloth this time, and even allowed the cloth shop to increase the price to more than 20% of the usual price.

In addition, Zhuang Shisan took the baggage and went around to buy other supplies that were in short supply, such as sugar, liquor, meat, salt, oil, and spices.

The news that the Tang Dao Si Xing Regiment had received 100,000 ocean military pay from the Fifth War Zone Headquarters had already been released through a caring person. The big trading house didn't know that the current Commander Tang was shopping in cash, so he was naturally relieved.

In particular, Captain Tang showed up at the bank in Xuzhou City and exchanged ten large yellow croakers for more than 14,000 oceans. The funds were even more abundant, and his local tyranny made the entire Xuzhou City wait and see what happened to this heroic captain. Transport the supplies he had spent a lot of silver money on out of the city.

Just relying on the cavalry platoon and baggage platoon he led, I'm afraid it would be good to leave with a fraction.

But Tang Dao seemed to have no worries about this. The only thing he did was to wave the big oceans in his hands to buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy with the big ocean in his hand. He went out without blinking an eye, and his energy seemed to be unstoppable. He vowed not to give up after buying out the city of Xuzhou.

Even Comrade Lao Wu couldn't stand it anymore. He reminded Tang Dao tactfully that the money was the military salary and rewards of the entire Si Xing Regiment, not Tang Dao himself. No matter how well he fed the soldiers and how warm they were, If money is not put into individual pockets, officers and soldiers will always complain.

Only then did Tang Dao stop his shopping spree.

Then, a middle-aged man in a long mandarin went directly to the liaison office of the 67th Army. After receiving the notice from the guard, Tang Dao strode out and received the businessman who came to the door in the yard.

Tang Dao smiled when he heard the visitor introduce himself as the owner of the largest horse market outside Xuzhou.

When Ma Wenxu saw the rumored unparalleled domineering Captain Tang smiling so brightly, his heart skipped a beat.

It seemed that he had made a huge mistake by taking the initiative to come to the door this time.

Yes, although those supplies were included in the purchase list for this trip to Xuzhou, he could complete these transactions quietly without making such a big fanfare that even the common people knew that Captain Tang was doing it like a fool. So being so blatant is mainly just fishing.

Catch a big fish!

It is also the biggest expense on his shopping list during his trip to Xuzhou!

horse!

Not only are there war horses, but also pack horses!

These are much more expensive than any kind of food and cloth. If Tang Dao comes to buy them, it is difficult not to guarantee that he will not get ripped off.

But if the other party comes to the door, it will be different.

To put it bluntly, it is a matter of who takes the initiative.

Now, Tang Dao, who had spent more than 20,000 yuan like crazy, finally waited until Boss Ma threw himself into the trap.

"I have heard about Captain Tang for a long time, but when I actually meet him, I realize that what is truly famous is not as good as meeting him!" Ma Wenxue, who was stunned for a moment, is worthy of being a businessman who has been traveling all over the country for decades. He could quickly calm down and talk to Tang Dao.

"Why? Boss Ma, do you think nothing of Tang Dao?" Tang Dao's smile did not diminish. "If that's the case, Boss Ma can leave a quote. Whether to buy or not will be determined according to the needs of various types of horses in our group."

"It's true that Captain Tang himself is much more heroic than the rumors say, otherwise Ma would not be so impatient and take the initiative to be fooled." Ma Wenxue smiled bitterly.

If he was just suspicious before, Tang Dao's attitude now has told him that, yes, Tang Dao is waiting for him, waiting for him to take the initiative to quote.

But he has completely lost the initiative to quote, so it's better not to take out the quotes for various types of horses in his pocket to embarrass himself.

If this person turns against him, he, the person in charge of the largest horse market, is likely to be kicked out and lose face.

It's okay to lose face, but the key is that Tang Dao is the only one who can take over the horses available for trading in his horse market on a large scale at this time. If he misses Tang Dao, he is more likely to lose everything.

In fact, the war is imminent!

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