Chapter 451: The Great Retreat (3)
In fact, don't look at the materials that Sun Yongqin moved, it looks like a lot, but compared to the huge number of baggage warehouses of the Eighth Division, it can still only be regarded as a small amount.
grain, there are nearly 180,000 catties left; All kinds of shells, there are still 20,000 rounds left; machine rifle bullets, with six million rounds remaining; The brand-new Type 38 rifle has 1,500 left; infantry guns, four remaining; Japanese-style melon-style grenades, 1,500 remaining; all kinds of other materials, there are still 40,000 catties left;
In the face of this huge amount of materials, the more than 600 people under Liu Lang's command plus more than 100 carts could only sigh with joy, and the 100 carts that only the whole city had could only be loaded with 20,000 shells.
Without enough capacity, these piles of materials can only be burned.
Although there have been many bandit rookies who have taken off their bandit clothes and changed into military uniforms, the whole city has vigorously publicized the brutality of the Japanese invaders, but the people who are willing to leave their hometowns and the Great Wall regiment are less than 10% of the city.
Fortunately, Liu Lang's trick to drive sixteen large businesses to earn back their own finances really worked. It only took less than two hours for the merchants who came to the Goatee Chen account office to report the backup workers gave Liu Lang a huge shock.
In the whole city of Chengde, there are a total of 19,842 residents, including 2,078 children under the age of 14, 6,193 women, 2,339 men over the age of 55, and only more than 9,000 men under the age of 55 and over the age of 14.
And these 16 merchants who want to try their best to recover their losses, I don't know what method they used, but they actually provided a total of more than 14,000 people.
Liu Lang compared the demographic report of Chengde City, and almost didn't smash the teacup on the heads of the "greedy" businessmen.
At this time, they were actually playing tricks in front of him for money, is this asking for money and not dying?
"Why is Regiment Leader Liu so angry?" It was Han Tianhao who had the audacity to ask Liu Lang, who was blushing with a blue face.
"Hmph, why are you so angry? Boss Han, that's right, I, Liu Lang, robbed you by arson, but at that time you were national thieves, did you think that I, Liu Lang, was a soft-hearted person? Liu Lang snorted coldly, looking at these silent businessmen, his eyes showed murderous intent.
This is human nature, if you retreat, he will advance, Liu Lang and those old officials and oilmen in the previous life did not less I entered and you retreated, but, for some reason that cannot be explained, no one is so ignorant of advance and retreat as these greedy businessmen.
This is forcing Liu Lang to kill chickens and monkeys! Liu Lang did not have a cold killing intent in his heart.
"Don't dare, don't dare, Sir Liu, you don't say that you have a heavy army, and you also have great virtue in your heart to save the people of the whole city from fire and water, we don't dare to disobey, but even if Chief Liu wants to punish us, you have to give us a reason!" A layer of fine sweat broke out of Han Tianhao's head, but his mouth was very hard.
That clearly means that no matter how strong Liu Lang is, they can't resist if they want to kill someone, but they have to give a reason for killing, right?
"Haha, no wonder Boss Han can become the richest man in Rehe, this courage is really not ordinary, I have already said before, all household workers must not be mixed, and each household labor must be subject to handprints, but can you tell me now, the people in the whole city who can participate in the transportation of goods, plus teenagers over the age of fourteen, a total of only more than nine thousand, how did you give me more than 14,000 people?" Liu Lang laughed angrily.
Starting from Han Tianhao, the sixteen principals who were summoned by Liu Lang to reprimand looked at each other.
After doing it for a long time, the fat chief turned out to be furious because of this.
Seeing that the merchants were not frightened when they heard what they said, but they seemed a little surprised, Liu Lang was slightly stunned, there must be something he didn't know.
Han Tianhao smiled bitterly and spoke, "Chief Liu originally questioned us because of the number of people, I'm afraid Chief Liu doesn't know about this." Because of the importance of transporting military supplies, the employees under our merchants may usually be a little cheating, but they dare not cheat in this matter, and the number of people counted is no problem, but it has never been said that women and old people cannot participate in the transportation of materials! It should be okay for an adult woman and an elderly person over 55 years old to be counted as an adult employee. Five children under the age of fourteen and over the age of seven carry a little less than that, but they are about the same as an adult man. The people want to hide from the soldiers, not only from the Japanese bullets, but also from the food when they arrive in Pingjin! ”
Liu Lang suddenly realized, after all, his thinking still stayed in the time and space he was more familiar with, and he completely forgot that in this era, seven-year-old children can already help the family do a lot of things, and the old people have not retired, in order to survive, they must also work until the day of death.
Therefore, when Liu Lang was led by more than a dozen merchants, he went to the location in the east of Chengde that originally belonged to the Japanese army's baggage warehouse.
Because there were too many people and the place was too small, the piles of materials were transported by horse-drawn carts to the outside of the city, and then distributed to the tens of thousands of people waiting in the open space outside the city to receive and carry the supplies.
With the help of the bandits, rookies and employees of sixteen merchants, the ragged crowd lined up in an orderly manner as a family unit, receiving the food and supplies they were going to carry.
The three of them who had been following Liu Lang looked at this incredible but shocking scene in amazement.
Almost every family has two carts unique to the North, one carrying all their belongings, pots and pans and bedding, and the adult women of the family, wrapped in swaddling clothes or carrying young children on their chests, are responsible for pushing the carts. Adult men, on the other hand, worked another cart to carry food or other supplies that they could bear.
In addition to the adult men and women who take on the heavy responsibility, the elderly and children in the family are not easy, the height is not higher than Liu Lang's chest, at most the little boy who is eight or nine years old, carries a burden of at least ten catties or more, and holds his younger brother or sister in his hand, and the gray-haired old man also carries the heavy burden on his shoulders.
Seeing the child with his immature shoulders, the old man carried the heavy supplies with his weak backbone, and left with a faltering and firm step, Liu Lang's eyes were not only a little moist.
On their shoulders, they are carrying not only their own future, but also China's future.
Liu Lang never thought that the Japanese would be defeated as he did today, even if he didn't know any history. How could such a strong nation be conquered by an island nation? Liu Lang believes that even if it is not for the two big men of the Americans, China will win the final victory in this great patriotic war.
If he could, Liu Lang hoped that Liu Xueyuan, a beautiful reporter who was still following the main force of the Great Wall Regiment, would publish an article on the people of Chengde retreating with the army with military supplies after the people arrived at a safe place a few days later.
The title is called: Long live the people.
That's right, this is the strength of the people's vast sea, and on their shoulders, at least hundreds of thousands of catties of materials have been resisted.
Although they were also paid, if it were not for the concerted efforts of the 20,000 people in Chengde, this huge seizure would be a flash in the pan after all, and what could not be taken away could only be burned.
Although Liu Lang organized them to retreat and rescued them, they also achieved great achievements in the Great Wall Regiment.
This seizure of the house directly formed the Eighth Division into a team called Hanako, and if they played with them for a few more days, they would probably have to eat dirt.