The Boss of the Yan Family in Siheyuan

Chapter 467: Recruiting Bandits

Author: Star Traveler

Chapter 467: Recruiting Bandits

Li Yunlong's arrival was expected by Chu Yunfei. After all, the two parties were so close and the movement just now was so loud, but Li Yunlong's arrival in such a timely manner was somewhat beyond his expectation.

"Could it be that there are spies planted by the Eighth Route Army here?" Chu Yunfei thought in his mind.

"There are our intelligence agents over there with the Japanese. They sent back news before that Qian Bojun was going to betray him. But there was no evidence and he was afraid that Brother Chu wouldn't believe it, so he didn't notify you." Li Yunlong cupped his hands and said to Chu Yunfei.

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Chu Yunfei didn't believe this rhetoric. The reason why Li Yunlong didn't tell him must be because he wanted to laugh at himself.

So Chu Yunfei waved his hand and said: "Thanks to Brother Yunlong for your generous action this time, I won't say thank you. Now I ask for something again. I wonder if Brother Yunlong can agree?"

"Brother Chu, just tell me what's going on. As far as our relationship is concerned, I will definitely help you if I can."

"Brother Yunlong, can you pick me up a fast horse? I will personally chase Qian Bojun and clean up the family." Chu Yunfei gritted his teeth and said. He was always worried about Qian Bojun betraying him and joining the Japanese.

Huai, after all, Qian Bojun had been with him for more than ten years, and he still had some feelings for him, otherwise it would not have been possible to appoint him as the leader of the regiment.

But this kid was so unreasonable. He actually colluded with the kid behind his back, and he didn't even know it, which he couldn't accept.

After hearing Chu Yunfei's words, Li Yunlong knew Chu Yunfei's character and took charge of the organization department himself, so he turned back to Sun Desheng and said, "Go and bring a horse to Brigadier Chu."

After Li Yunlong finished speaking, he said to Chu Yunfei: "Brother Chu, do you need me to send a few soldiers to follow you?"

"No, I can handle it myself." Chu Yunfei directly rejected Li Yunlong's kindness, got on his horse and chased in the direction where Qian Bojun left.

In his opinion, it would be better to clean up the house himself.

After Li Yunlong watched Chu Yunfei leave, he quickly asked the soldiers to disarm the soldiers of Qian Bojun's regiment, and then returned directly to his station with the equipment of a regiment.

The reason why he came to help Chu Yunfei was because he took a fancy to the equipment of this regiment. Since the end of the last battle, the Japs have fully entered a passive defense situation, huddled in the city and did not even leave the city gate.

It is no longer easy to snatch things from the Japs. At most, we usually attack the Japs' logistics troops and seize some supplies. As for weapons and equipment, we have not seized them on a large scale for a long time.

The weapons and equipment of this regiment of more than 3,000 people are equivalent to a timely help for Li Yunlong.

More than eight months have passed since the merger of the New First Regiment, the New Second Regiment, and the Independent Regiment. In the past six months, the troop strength has increased from the peak of more than 40,000 to more than 50 to 60 million now.

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The defense zone has also expanded from the previous three counties to seven complete counties, and also includes some vast rural areas in North China.

Although the strength of the army has increased a lot, Li Yunlong is not satisfied. After all, as a veteran, he knows that in less than a year, the Japanese will surrender, and when the time comes, they will be quick and slow.

Those with quick hands can accept weapons, equipment and supplies from the Japs on a large scale, while those with slow hands can only drool while watching others get rich.

Therefore, during this period, Li Yunlong was doing his best to expand his troops, but due to insufficient weapons and equipment, most of the expanded troops were militiamen.

The troops that Li Yunlong can now mobilize include 56,000 people in 12 infantry regiments, and more than 20,000 militiamen.

Li Yunlong's purpose was to expand the strength of the infantry force to more than 100,000 before the Japs surrendered.

In this way, he will be able to take advantage of the opportunity and collect more Japanese equipment and materials. After all, even if he does not collect them, it will be an advantage for the Central Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army.

When Li Yunlong returned to the station with the soldiers of the cavalry regiment, Zhao Gang, Ding Wei and Kong Jie had been waiting in the command room for a long time.

After seeing Li Yunlong come back safely, he immediately went to greet him.

"Old Li, how was the harvest this time?" Ding Wei asked Li Yunlong while squinting at the supplies brought back by the soldiers in large and small bags.

"Hey, there's a reason why our old Li goes out and comes back empty-handed. I've done Chu Yunfei such a big favor, so it's not too much to accept a regiment of weapons, equipment and supplies from him, right?" Li Yunlong said with a grin.

It was really worth it to help Chu Yunfei put down the rebellion this time. He gained a whole regiment of weapons and equipment, and he didn't suffer much losses himself.

After all, Qian Bojun wanted to defect to the Japanese, but the soldiers in the trenches didn't think so. The only people who were willing to follow Qian Bojun all the way to the dark side were those close to him.

However, Qian Bojun and his cronies were at the regiment headquarters to deal with Chu Yunfei, so Li Yunlong did not encounter fierce resistance when he led the cavalry regiment there.

It can be said that Li Yunlong just took the soldiers of the cavalry regiment out for a training camp and brought back a regiment's weapons and equipment without losing any blood.

Zhao Gang and the other two people on the side didn't know what to say when they heard Li Yunlong's words. They thought that this kid Li Yunlong was really evil, and not only was he evil, he also had a dirty heart.

With such a small favor, he collected weapons and equipment from a regiment. You must know that even though Chu Yunfei was promoted to brigade commander.

But he only had four regiments of troops under his command, which was equivalent to losing a quarter of his family wealth.

And this ratio needs to be mentioned even higher. After all, Qian Bojun's regiment is the main regiment under Chu Yunfei. Although it is not the strongest, it will definitely have more troops than the other three regiments.

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Li Yunlong was given an advantage this time, and Chu Yunfei would definitely not do it, thinking that there would be more trouble in the future.

"Lao Li, you took back all the weapons and equipment from a regiment. Isn't that appropriate?" Zhao Gang said with a frown.

Although it was his troops who took advantage of this matter, after all, we were now in the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and he did not want to create conflicts between the two sides because of this matter.

After all, he still doesn’t know that the little Japanese will surrender in more than half a year. By then, there will be no need for them. As long as the KMT and the CCP are in conflict, they will split.

But Li Yunlong couldn't tell him about it, and he couldn't explain what didn't happen.

So I could only bite my tongue and say: "Old Zhao, I don't think what you said is right. It is only natural that you should get paid for your work. I have helped Chu Yunfei so much, so I shouldn't charge him something."

"Old Li, Chu Yunfei didn't even ask you to help. You seem to be buying and selling by force." Kong Jie, who was on the side, felt a little sorry when he heard Li Yunlong's words, so he said a few fair words.

"Yes, Lao Li, I think it's better to give it back to Brigadier Chu. I messed up the relationship between the two parties for such a small thing. I don't think it's worth it. And last time we launched an attack on the 21st Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

During the general attack, Commander Chu helped us, but his lover didn’t let us return the favor.” After hearing Kong Jie’s words, Zhao Gang also tried to persuade him.

Although Li Yunlong didn't agree with what the two said, they both said so and it wouldn't be appropriate for him to object, so he thought about it and found an excuse and said: "Okay, I will give him the weapons and equipment I agreed to.

But not now, we have to use it for a few months anyway. It just so happens that our army is expanding its strength during this period, and there are still some gaps in weapons. Let us use this batch of equipment for a few months to train the soldiers."

After Li Yunlong finished speaking, he looked at Ding Wei and wanted Ding Wei to say a few words for him.

Originally, Ding Wei did not want to get involved in this matter. Although he was moved by the sight of so many weapons and equipment, he was not as thick-skinned as Li Yunlong and could not say such shameless words.

But now that Li Yunlong was looking at him, and he was just borrowing it and not taking it back, Ding Wei said: "I think what Lao Li said is right. Our army is indeed facing the dilemma of insufficient weapons and equipment. Let's borrow Chu

The weapons in Yun Fei's hands are not useless. After all, we are not not returning them to him, we are just borrowing them for a period of time. At the worst, we will pay him an interest."

Although Ding Wei didn't know what medicine Li Yunlong was selling, he instinctively stood on Li Yunlong's side.

In fact, Ding Wei and Li Yunlong are the same kind of people from the bottom of their hearts, the kind of people who only take advantage and don't suffer any losses. Seeing so many good things, of course they are not willing to just give them back.

Seeing that Ding Wei also agreed with Li Yunlong's approach, the battlefield now formed a two-to-two situation, and no one could convince the opponent for a while.

Zhao Gang looked a little unhappy and said, "What if Chu Yunfei comes here?"

Li Yunlong didn't care at all about Zhao Gang's words, and replied with a smile: "What else can I do? Find a way to delay it. It's only a few months. It's gone after two shirks. And the Chu Yunfei family has a big business, maybe

People don’t care about this equipment at all.”

Zhao Gang was very angry after hearing Li Yunlong's words. He thought to himself that if he didn't care about a little equipment, then how powerful would Chu Yunfei be.

But he knew that Li Yunlong was a manly dog, and it made no sense to reason, so he kept his mouth shut and stopped talking. Anyway, Chu Yunfei came and asked Li Yunlong to deal with it, and he didn't care.

After harvesting more than 3,000 weapons and equipment, Li Yunlong's troops entered into an intense expansion of troops.

After Chu Yunfei hunted down Qian Bojun, he returned to the station and was busy reporting Qian Bojun's rebellion to his superiors.

Because of the Qian Bojun incident, he was also worried that other people in the army also had Qian Bojun's thoughts, so after reporting to his superiors, he kept busy with other military commanders in the army.

After everything was dealt with, I had time to pay attention to the situation of the group. After discovering that all the weapons and equipment in the group had been confiscated by Li Yunlong, I was so angry that I had a toothache.

He still knew Li Yunlong's character. He was a typical rural rich man. People who were born in the year of Pixiu could not get in.

Once something enters Li Yunlong's mouth, it will be difficult to get it back, but no matter how difficult it is, he has to get it. After all, this is a regiment's weapons and equipment, which is not a small sum of money. If his superiors pursue him, he will not be able to withstand it.

If you fail, you will be demoted.

So Chu Yunfei came to Li Yunlong's headquarters with gifts at the end of the day, hoping to get the weapons and equipment of that regiment back from Li Yunlong.

In front of Chu Yunfei, Li Yunlong smiled and agreed, saying that he would personally send the regiment's weapons and equipment back to him in a few days.

This made Chu Yunfei doubt his own judgment, thinking that this old boy Li Yunlong had changed his gender, otherwise he wouldn't have agreed so happily, but he didn't think much about it and went back to drink happily.

But then Li Yunlong's series of operations made him understand that Li Yunlong was just playing with him and had no intention of returning the equipment.

He went to Li Yunlong's residence several times to find him, but every time Li Yunlong found various reasons to shirk.

Anyway, it just means the same thing. It's not that he, Li Yunlong, wants to occupy these equipments, but that he can't decide. Chu Yunfei was so angry that he wanted to beat Li Yunlong.

Zhao Gang, Ding Wei and Kong Jie, who were standing next to Li Yunlong's operation, were stunned for a moment, thinking that this person could be so shameless. It was really eye-opening.

But they did not open their mouths to expose Li Yunlong. After all, this was the weapons and equipment of a regiment, and it was his own troops who took advantage, and it was Li Yunlong who took the blame. Even if his reputation was affected by doing this kind of thing, it was Li Yunlong's reputation.

After returning without success several times, Chu Yunfei understood in his heart that the equipment would definitely not come back, and he couldn't afford to go to war with Li Yunlong for this equipment. Besides, even if he did, he wouldn't be able to take advantage.

After all, their brigade had just experienced Qian Bojun's rebellion and lost a regiment's weapons and equipment, so its original strength was somewhat affected.

He also had some knowledge of Li Yunlong's troops and knew that he was no match for Li Yunlong now, so Chu Yunfei had no choice but to endure it.

For the equipment that the troops lacked, they had to find various reasons and report to their superiors to supplement it. After all, this kind of thing is normal in the Central Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army.

Some troops even secretly sell their own weapons and equipment, and then find reasons to ask their superiors for equipment replenishment.

Although Chu Yunfei had never done this kind of thing before, he didn't understand it at all.

Therefore, in the next four months or so, the pretense in Chu Yunfei's army was gradually supplemented and improved. When Li Yunlong embezzled the equipment of one of his regiments, Chu Yunfei no longer bothered him.

And Li Yunlong was not idle during this period. Not only did he send troops to continue to expand the base area further into North China, but the seven counties he had already occupied were also undergoing large-scale infrastructure construction.

While constructing, we were also fighting against bandits and bandits in the occupied areas. After more than four months of fighting, there is now no room for any bandits and bandits to survive in the occupied areas.

The previous bandits and bandits were either captured or killed by Li Yunlong's troops. Even the largest bandit in the occupied area, Shantou Heifengzhai, was defeated by Li Yulong's troops.

Except for the most heinous bandits who were shot by Li Yunfei, the old, weak, sick and disabled were released by Li Yunlong, and the rest were collected by Li Yunlong.

(End of chapter)