Chapter 67: The Trick of Money
Sitting alone in the room, although the teacup in his hand had long since lost its temperature, Tang Cheng still sat in the chair as when Niu Laogui left, and he was still thinking about what Niu Laogui said just now. Niu Laogui, who was sent to Wuhan by Tang Cheng, did not see Huang Hanju, Huang Hanju, who did not like martial arts in the past, had left Wuhan and went to Kunming, and Huang Hanju, who was appointed to the rank of colonel, was now the deputy director of the Southwest Administration for managing logistics, and when Niu Laogui arrived in Wuhan, Huang Hanju had already gone to Kunming to take office.
Huang Hanju was promoted to the military position, Tang Cheng knew that this must be Mrs. Huang's idea, his cheap sister was already an idea, but he didn't wait for Wuhan, why did he want to go to Kunming, which made Tang Cheng a little puzzled by Mrs. Huang's thoughts. The things stolen from the traitor landlord's house have been entrusted to Mrs. Huang, but Niu Laogui said that the Huang family is dealing with the industry in Wuhan, and the situation is ready to follow Huang Hanju to Kunming.
Tang Cheng sighed lightly and picked up the envelope that Niu Laogui had brought back from Wuhan from the table, which contained the letter that Madame Huang had written to herself. Tearing open the envelope, Tang Cheng opened the few pieces of letter paper full of words, and after only one glance, Tang Cheng smiled. I originally thought that a beautiful woman like Mrs. Huang should write a letter with a bit of bookishness, but I didn't expect that the whole article was in vernacular, and there was a complete atmosphere of rivers and lakes between the lines, and the word righteousness was revealed in the handwriting all over the page.
Huang Hanju's visit to the Southwest Office was completely unexpected by Tang Cheng, and even Mrs. Huang herself did not expect that going to Kunming would mean that the Huang family's plan to establish relations with the US Consulate would change. Mrs. Huang knew that Tang Cheng's current situation was worrying, and it happened that Niu Laogui had escorted a large number of valuable things to Wuhan, so out of selfishness, Mrs. Huang wanted to fool Tang Cheng to Wuhan as much as possible. Tang Cheng knew that Mrs. Huang had a backstage in Wuhan, but he didn't know if Mrs. Huang could defeat the 88th Division in the background, which was also the main reason why he pondered alone for a long time.
"Forget it, don't think about it yet." If he couldn't figure it out, he simply didn't think about it, put the letter away, and Tang Cheng, who had already changed into a clean military uniform, got up and walked out of the room. Liu Shishi, who followed Niu Laogui back from Wuhan, was squatting under the corridor and bragging and chatting with a few lightly wounded members of the second company, when he saw Tang Cheng coming out, several people hurriedly got up, Liu Shishi came up with a smile and handed the barge gun that had been wiped to Tang Cheng, and quietly winked at the wounded.
"What about the others? Why are there only a few of you? "In the past, there were always a lot of idlers gathered at the gate of Tang City, but there were only a few of them, Tang Cheng looked left and right to see no other people, and couldn't help but ask Liu Shishi, who was sorting out his military uniform, in his heart. Although the Second Company fought and suffered heavy casualties, it did not lose its popularity, and suddenly there were fewer idlers gathered at his door, and Tang Cheng was still a little uncomfortable.
"I went to the backyard, Lao Dongbei said that he wanted to interrogate the traitors who were caught, and Uncle Niu went to the treasury to see the seized weapons and ammunition." Liu Shishi, who was arranging the military uniform for Tang Cheng, replied with some dissatisfaction while carefully adjusting the gun belt for Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng sent him and Jiujin to Wuhan, originally wanting them to follow them to Chongqing, but Mrs. Huang intended to ask Tang Cheng to go to Wuhan, so Liu Shishi volunteered to follow Niu Laogui back as a lobbyist, but he didn't expect to see Tang Cheng covered in blood on the first side of his return.
Everyone had already run back, Tang Cheng couldn't force Liu Shishi to go back to Wuhan alone, and he also knew what Liu Shishi was running back for, and Tang Cheng had no choice but to let Liu Shishi stay in Macheng temporarily. Tang Cheng, who tied his belt and carried two shell guns, walked towards the backyard, Liu Shishi fell behind Tang Cheng step by step, Tang Cheng didn't blame him for running back secretly on his own initiative, Liu Shishi couldn't help but open his mouth with a big smile.
Niu Laogui, who had just returned from Wuhan, was taking two people to look through the weapons and ammunition stacked together in the backyard, but he was not interested in the bloodstained rifles, and his attention was all focused on the two heavy machine guns. The heavy machine gun is a good thing, although the heavy machine gun does not move as fast as the light machine gun or submachine gun, but its range and lethality are extremely strong, Niu Laogui even heard those who fought in the Battle of Shanghai say that someone once used this Japanese heavy machine gun to hit through the little devil's iron ball tank.
"It's a good thing, if only there were a few more." Before he knew it, Tang Cheng was standing behind him, and Niu Laogui, who was stretching out his hand and rubbing his chin, was still squatting in front of the heavy machine gun and was amazed. The two heavy machine guns in front of Niu Laogui were captured by Tang Cheng from the Mitsui squadron, and next to the heavy machine guns were three Japanese-style light machine guns and two 50-millimeter grenadiers, and other Japanese-style 38 rifles and three or four Chinese-made rifles were piled up in a small pile, looking like there could be more than 300 of them.
"Just these two are snatched from the Japanese army by the brothers with their heads, you don't have a backache when you stand and talk, and you have a few more, I'm afraid that if you put all of our two companies in, you won't be able to get the amount you want." I wanted to come and see what Niu Lao Guizi was doing, but I didn't expect to be amused by Niu Lao Gui's self-talk as soon as he came over, Tang Cheng couldn't help but laugh. The sudden voice behind him startled Niu Laogui, and when he turned around and saw Tang Cheng, Niu Laogui put his heart down, and took out a cigarette and handed it to Tang Cheng.
"Do you know what is the most valuable thing in Wuhan right now?" Niu Laogui lit the weapons in front of him with the cigarette in his hand, "These are the things, all the rifles that the Huang family brought to Wuhan were all sold by Huang San on the black market, when Lao Tzu sold guns in Bengbu for food, a Mauser rifle was only fifteen oceans, and Huang San's dog goods were only sold for sixteen oceans in Hanyang, and the dog's day was really valuable." Niu Laogui's eyes were shining at this time, and Tang Cheng wondered in his heart whether Niu Laogui had already regarded these weapons as an ocean of white flowers.
"The Huang family sold all the guns, so what about Huang San and their family?" With a few chuckles, Tang Cheng suddenly thought of a question, Huang Hanju went to Kunming, the rest of the Huang family are old and weak women and children, Huang San sold the rifle of the family Ding team again, what about the safety of the Huang family? Could it be that Mrs. Huang tricked herself into going to Wuhan to protect the women and children of the Huang family? The more Tang Cheng thought about it, the more wrong it became.
Niu Laogui flicked the cigarette ash, and then replied, "Huang San, don't they still have more than a dozen short guns, in a place like Wuhan, who dares to swagger and go out with a spear on his back, and before you can go out and walk a few steps, you will be caught by the gendarmes on the street who even bring guns, and you will have to spend money to eliminate the disaster after reaching the worst." After listening to Niu Laogui's answer, Tang Cheng realized that he wanted to go wrong, no matter how much Mrs. Huang loved money, she would not make a fortune with a dozen rifles.
"Can you shoot these things? Will it cause trouble? Tang Cheng, whose face was slightly red, changed the topic in time and changed the topic that Niu Laogui was interested in. Niu Laogui was really interested in the inverted weapon, perhaps stimulated by Huang San, Niu Laogui did not answer Tang Cheng's question for the first time, but squatted down again, looking at the pile of rifles in front of him, as if he was calculating something in his heart.
Tang Cheng didn't interrupt Niu Laogui's thoughts, and casually opened the ammunition boxes and looked at the bullets and grenades in the ammunition boxes. Tang Cheng's rule for cleaning up the battlefield has always been that the particles are returned to the warehouse, except for the personal belongings on the corpse, all other captured weapons and ammunition must be handed over for centralized storage, so the three boxes of grenades in front of Tang Cheng should be all the captured grenades, and it looks like there can be fifty or sixty of them.
The captured grenadiers are all intact, plus these fifty or sixty Japanese-style grenades, the current Tang Cheng no longer envy the mortar of the garrison regiment, although the mortar was still given to the garrison regiment by himself. Tang Cheng had been exposed to Japanese weapons when he was in Qiandeng Town, and he had also seen this Type 92 heavy machine gun when he was fighting the Japanese army in Nanjing, but it was the first time that he had been observed as close as he was now. There was no shortage of machine gunners in the second company, but they were only novices who could shoot bullets into Czech light machine guns, and as long as they were strong, they could be appointed as machine gunners by Tang Cheng, who was not sure if he had anyone under his command who could fiddle with this kind of Japanese heavy machine gun.
From the diaries found from the corpses, Tang Cheng already knew that the highest-ranking soldier killed this time was a Japanese Shaozuo, and the Japanese Shaozo named Yuo Mitsui had died in the dry grass ditch, and his adjutant knife was on the table in his room at this time. According to the common sense that Liu Shanyang told Tang Cheng, the Japanese army Shaozuo generally commanded troops above the squadron level, which was in harmony with Tang Cheng's speculation.
According to the number of Japanese soldiers and the number of those traitors in plain clothes, even if the Japanese puppet army was defeated and some of the enemy troops were dispersed, Tang Cheng still estimated that there would be at least 300 rifles captured this time. If calculated according to the price of Huang San's Hanyang Shot, these 300 rifles alone can be exchanged for at least 4,500 oceans, and among the trophies this time are not only these rifles, but also one hundred and ten short guns and a large number of bullets seized from the hands of those traitors in plainclothes, thinking of this, Tang Cheng suddenly came back to his senses, and he seemed to have forgotten to ask Niu Laogui about one more thing.
What about the firearms that were brought to Wuhan with those boxes? Tang Cheng suddenly remembered that Niu Laogui went to Wuhan not only for those boxes, but also for the weapons and ammunition that he had snatched from the bandits, and he left the grenades and machine guns himself, but all those rifles were taken to Wuhan by Niu Laogui. Niu Laogui just brought back a letter to himself, but he didn't mention those rifles, thinking about how much money the pile of weapons in front of him could be exchanged for, Tang Cheng realized that he had forgotten something.