Political Commissar Wang Hong participated in the entire negotiation.

The mood is like a roller coaster, sometimes excited, sometimes nervous, ups and downs.

When he heard that Li Hao was going to send twelve heavy artillery pieces to the Jin Sui Army for nothing, and also asked the Jin Sui Army to make money from the Eighth Route Army, he was anxious.

Punch the eyes, kick the ...... used various methods to remind Li Hao to be cautious and not to be too impulsive, but it was useless.

After he couldn't bear it, Wang Hong decided to temporarily interrupt the negotiation and could not let the head of the regiment continue to make mistakes.

But when the words came to his mouth, before he could say them, he was stopped by a very stern look from the head of the regiment.

In the end, he could only swallow the words back and hold on until the end of the negotiations.

After the negotiators of the Jin Sui Army left the conference room one after another, Wang Hong finally found a chance to speak: "Regiment Commander, are you confused, the Jin Sui Army has taken advantage of the cheapness, what should we do with the Eighth Route Army, do you just keep suffering?" ”

"You must know that the money that Jin Suijun earns us is likely to be saved by the head of the headquarters."

Li Hao shook his head and replied: "Jin Suijun is not a fool! ”

"If there is not a big enough stake, will they take the risk of buying us food?"

"Don't forget, food is now what we are most in short supply, without food, our Eighth Route Army will be hungry, the morale of the army and the people in the base area will be affected, and it will be too late to talk about anything."

"As long as we ensure that the morale of the army and the people in the base areas is stable, and we get the food that we urgently need, we will suffer a little loss."

"And I can tell you for sure that this loss is only temporary."

"When the transaction is over and the grain is obtained, I promise to let Jin Suijun spit out as much as he eats, and he will spit it out the emperor and us exponentially."

Li Hao is a person who says the same, he will definitely do what he says, and he will never joke with himself on the issue of right and wrong.

Wang Hong's wrinkled brows immediately stretched, a pair of eyes became hotter and hotter, staring at Li Hao and asking, "Commander, do you still have a backhand?" ”

"Of course!" Li Hao did not deny it.

"You've known me for so long, when have you ever seen me suffer?"

"What's the backhand?" Wang Hong continued to ask.

The corners of Li Hao's mouth curled slightly, and he replied with a mysterious expression: "Heavy artillery shells and penicillin that we have already produced!" ”

At six o'clock in the morning, it was already dawning.

On a highway in Datong, a large convoy was heading to the station of the Independent Brigade more than 10 kilometers away.

There were a hundred carts in total, each loaded with heavy grain, and the wheels of the carts were creaking and creaking.

The rider kept waving the rattan in his hand, urging the mules and horses to speed up.

More than 100 soldiers were escorted next to the convoy, wearing the uniforms of the Jin Sui Army, with rifles on their shoulders, each with a sad face.

After the failure of the last counteroffensive on Datong, in order to prevent the Jin Sui army from attacking Datong again, more than three planes cruised over everyone's heads every morning to confirm that there was no large Jin Sui army assembled in Datong.

If there is, it will definitely be preemptive, bombing on the spot.

So once the grain convoy is discovered by them, it will definitely bomb and destroy the grain.

"Sir, we're still three hours away from our destination, and it's almost dawn, and I'm worried that the devil's cruising plane will be eyeing us." The platoon commander walked up to the company commander and reminded him, his expression solemn and anxious.

"The troops continue to pick up pace." The company commander replied with a calm face.

Although he didn't say a word, the furrowed brow had betrayed his anxious mood at this moment.

"Sir, there are troops coming from the front, it seems to be our people." A squad leader of the avant-garde rushed over and reported.

Then I saw a troop at the end of the road, and rushed towards them in a hurry.

Although the nearby Japanese puppet army was all assembled in Datong City, it could not be ruled out that a small force would come out to attack the Jin Sui army.

The company commander's nerves tensed up suddenly, and he immediately ordered: "The whole army is on alert and ready for battle." ”

Then he took out his pistol and hid behind the grain truck, staring at the rushing troops without blinking to prevent accidents.

A minute later, the company commander spotted a familiar figure in the middle of the rushing team, the commander of the baggage battalion of the Independent Brigade.

The tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and he exclaimed with a long sigh of relief: "The guard is lifted, it's your own person!" ”

Ten minutes later, the stopped convoy continued its departure.

The difference is that the escort unit has been changed from a company to a battalion, and a company of the original escort unit has turned around and returned to the station.

An hour later, a series of explosions loomed behind them.

"Sir, could it be that the grain team was discovered by the little devil plane......" The platoon commander walking beside the company commander reminded.

The company commander flashed a hint of worry, but quickly shook his head and denied: "It shouldn't be, the baggage battalion is the head snake here, familiar with the terrain, and it is too difficult for the little devil plane to find them." ”

"We're a little bit more dangerous."

"If we are targeted, we will definitely be attacked, and when the time comes, a bomb will be able to reimburse most of our company."

"Order the troops to speed up their march and try to get into the mountains before they find us."

More than 10 kilometers away on the road, the baggage battalion of the independent brigade has been turned into a baggage company, and only 10 truckloads of grain are left in the grain transport team with 100 carts, and more than 10 soldiers are surrounding a cart and pushing the grain carts together to march forward in the direction of the forward station.

Two kilometers of the road behind him, there was billowing smoke and blazing fires.

A total of nine craters are scattered on both sides of the road, each crater is at least three meters deep, the impact point is the center, and the surrounding area of more than 10 meters is all blown up floating soil, and they are all burned black, and when you step on it, it directly reaches the ankle, which shows how powerful the bomb is.

Around the crater, there were burning carts everywhere, parked on the road in a mess.

It didn't take long for the wooden carts to be burned to ashes.

Around the cart, there was still a lot of unburned grain, which looked as if it had been scattered when it was blown up.

When people who don't know see this scene in front of them, they will definitely think of it as the bombing scene just now.

The Japanese planes spotted the food convoy protected by the baggage battalion and then attacked decisively.

The baggage battalion desperately snatched out ten truckloads of grain, and the remaining grain trucks and the remaining two companies of the baggage battalion were killed in the bombing because they did not retreat in time.

This was true, but the bombing was not an accident, but a premeditated operation.

Ninety carts of food and two companies of the baggage battalion were not destroyed in the bombardment, they were transferred before the bombing.

The things you saw at the bombing site were all deliberately put on display.

On the mountain road one kilometer away from the bombing site, more than 200 soldiers, nearly 600 mules and horses, man to man, mule to mule, carrying heavy grain on their backs, marched to the depths of the mountains.

Deep in the mountains three kilometers away from them, a whole regiment of the Eighth Route Army lurked here, looking forward to something.

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