Chapter 17: The Gun Dealer (1)
Cai Dashan would never have thought that the young man in front of him who looked calm was his connector, and the age of the other party made Cai Dashan in a trance, so that he didn't hear the other party's question. "Did you bring the money?" Liu Shishi, who was a little impatient, repeated what he had just said, and his tone was slightly higher just now, which made Cai Dashan come back to his senses in a trance.
"Come with me" After carefully counting the ocean brought by Cai Dashan, Liu Shishi raised his right hand and waved it a few times at the bushes in the distance, and then walked towards the forest with Cai Dashan. The two guerrillas who followed Cai Dashan wanted to persuade them, but they were stopped by Cai Dashan with his eyes, the money had already been taken away from others, and it was impossible to go back empty-handed. As Cai Dashan guessed, there were still a few people with guns in the forest, but they just glanced at it casually, and Cai Dashan's eyes tightened, because one of them was holding a Czech light machine gun in his hand.
"Money, I've already ordered it, here are the things you want, let's buy and sell fairly, if you still want the goods, leave a mark on the stone south of the big stone bridge." Liu Shishi opened a pile of leaves and weeds to reveal several long wooden boxes, and Cai Dashan stepped forward to open a box, which contained 4 Japanese-style 38 rifles. "15 rifles and 500 rounds of ammunition are all here, you better make it clear now, out of this forest, we won't admit it again."
Cai Dashan and his two guerrillas pulled the bolts one by one to confirm the integrity of these rifles, although there were still residual blood stains and bullet marks on the rifle body, but it did not affect the normal use, as for those bullets, Cai Dashan carefully counted them one by one. "I know you're not bandits, but if my guess is correct, you're supposed to be from the guerrillas or the New Fourth Army, right?" Tan Fei, who was wearing glasses, stood beside Cai Dashan and whispered, and the frightened Cai Dashan's heart hung in his throat.
Tan Fei guessed right, Cai Dashan is indeed a guerrilla, but their guerrillas are directly under the command of the New Fourth Army, and this time they came to Liuyang to buy weapons and ammunition to provide them to the New Fourth Army. As the Japanese army pressed forward step by step and the Nationalist troops deliberately released water, the space for the New Fourth Army's activities became more and more difficult, but the most troublesome thing was not to deal with the Japanese army's attack and the provocation of the Nationalist army, but to lack weapons and ammunition for the New Fourth Army's troops. It is precisely because of this that many guerrillas under the command of the New Fourth Army have an additional task of collecting weapons and ammunition, and Cai Dashan and his team made a special trip to Liuyang to purchase weapons and ammunition.
was exposed by Tan Fei, Cai Dashan was somewhat flustered, but he still bit himself to death because he bought a weapon for Luo Da in Luoyan Mountain. Since Cai Dashan bit himself to death to do something for the bandits, Tan Fei only smiled but did not continue to ask, but Cai Dashan's panic just now did not escape Tan Fei's eyes. "I don't care whether you are bandits or bandits or guerrillas, as long as you are not Japanese, as long as you have money, except for airplanes, cannons, heavy machine guns, we can get you whatever you want, of course, the price is not cheap."
Tan Fei's words made Cai Dashan subconsciously move his eyes to the Czech light machine gun in Hou San's arms, Cai Dashan is a person who has fought in the war, knows the difference between a machine gun and a rifle, if he wants to choose between 5 rifles and a light machine gun, Cai Dashan will not hesitate to choose a light machine gun. "This is not good, this is what we keep for ourselves to fight the little devils, but we can provide light machine guns, grenades, grenades, and if possible, maybe mortars." Tan Fei's words made Cai Dashan, who turned back suddenly, almost break his neck, grenadiers and mortars are good things.
"You don't care where we got these things, as long as you can get the money, we can get you things, the little devil's cowhide military shoes are good, if you are interested, you can also get some back, this thing is the most suitable for climbing the mountain." Liu Shishi, who counted the ocean again, was completely like a profiteer, and he was still thinking of selling those cowhide military shoes full of blood to Cai Dashan. It's a pity that Cai Dashan and they all made up the money to buy guns, where would they spend money to buy some impractical cowhide military shoes to go back.
I have been staring at Cai Dashan and the others to pull the cart carrying the wooden box and walked away, Hou San in the forest and they returned to Liuyang with pheasants and hares or something, hunting is just an excuse to go out, and pouring out arms is a big crime to kill the head, and the less people know, the better. Back at the shelter, Liu Shishi took Qian Jing to find Tang Cheng, while Hou San and the others took their prey and Ma Fatzi to work together, all of them were the same as usual, so the wounded soldiers in the shelter had no way of knowing what they were doing when they went out.
In the income from the pouring of arms, Tang Cheng and they can keep 2 percent, if it weren't for this, Tang Cheng would not let Liu Shi and them help with the weapons and ammunition sent back from the front. This is the fourth time that Liu Shishi and his team have sold weapons in large quantities, and the weapons sold four times plus one piece already have more than 100 rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition, although there are no strong firepower weapons such as light machine guns and grenadiers, but at present, just the money obtained from pouring out arms is enough for Huang Chengzhong and them to buy medicine.
"The one surnamed Cai is not generous, but it doesn't look like a person who provokes right and wrong, and the glasses said that the surname Cai is either a guerrilla or a New Fourth Army, will we still have contact with the surname Cai in the future?" Liu Shishi didn't know that Tan Feizi would test Cai Dashan completely out of Tang Cheng's instructions, and it was a big crime to dump arms, and the slightest negligence during the period might make his heads fall to the ground, but selling weapons to the guerrillas or the New Fourth Army did not have those unnecessary troubles, because the New Fourth Army or the guerrillas would not sell weapons and ammunition to people all over the world who preached that there was a national army.
"Of course, we have to contact, the New Fourth Army is now squeezed by the Japanese army and the national army, and if they want to continue to stay in the two lakes, they must have enough force. The New Fourth Army does not have an arsenal of its own, and their weapons and ammunition can only rely on capture, and the weapons we got are all trophies, and even if they are handed in, they will always rot in the warehouse. It's all devils, and it's nothing to sell to the New Fourth Army, compared with the bandits, the New Fourth Army is more reliable, at least it won't betray us. ”
Tang Cheng's words were difficult for Liu Shishi to understand, but this was already a matter decided by Tang Cheng, Liu Shishi only needed to do it, as long as there was money in the account, Liu Shishi would not care so much. Tang Cheng was busy selling the guns and ammunition that had come back from the front line, but he did not know that Cai Dashan, who had returned to the guerrilla station, had already informed the New Fourth Army Headquarters of the incident by radio, and that the New Fourth Army was also arguing endlessly over the matter, so Cai Dashan had to go to the New Fourth Army headquarters in person to report on the matter according to the requirements of the New Fourth Army Headquarters. "According to the information we have, these people who sold us weapons and ammunition are not black market dealers, they should be the national army in Liuyang, we have already checked those weapons, they are all Japanese-style, and there are still blood stains on the rifles. There are a lot of wounded soldiers in Liuyang who have been withdrawn from Wuchang, and we speculate that these weapons should have been brought down from the front by these wounded soldiers, who have already doubted our identity, but said that they can provide us with more powerful weapons, as long as we are willing to pay for it. What Cai Dashan said was his own speculation, and he could only say so before there was no exact information to confirm.
"The Kuomintang army can't fight, it's not bad to hide behind and make small moves, if we provide these weapons and ammunition to us free of charge, we can kill a lot of little devils." The New Fourth Army has always been disobedient to the troops of the Nationalist Army, and when they learned that the people who sold them weapons and ammunition were likely to be the Nationalist Army, some people in the top echelons of the New Fourth Army present had already scolded them, believing that if the Nationalist Army could use these skills to fight the Japanese army, perhaps China's current situation would not be so difficult.
"Actually, this is not the incompetence of the national army, what they sold us is what the Japanese army has, and I think these weapons and ammunition should have been captured by the Japanese army during the battle. If they honestly hand over the loot, at most they will get a reward or a small reward, and these loot may be stored in warehouses by the Kuomintang high-level and rotten, and it will be regarded as waste when sold to us. ”
The New Fourth Army is arguing endlessly around this topic, but Liu Shishi's argument that it can improve more powerful weapons has deeply attracted the high-level leaders of the New Fourth Army, and there is no other reason for it to be because the New Fourth Army itself lacks strong firepower weapons. "Captain Cai, this matter still has to be handed over to you, because you have dealt with them and can already be regarded as familiar faces, we will try our best to raise funds and hand them over to you, and your guerrillas' task in the near future is to buy the weapons we need." The New Fourth Army has unified the caliber and made Cai Dashan feel at ease, but a large part of the funds raised by the New Fourth Army are legal tender, which makes him embarrassed.
"You say they only take the ocean and gold bars? What kind of rule is this, aren't these fiat currencies money? After Cai Dashan relayed Liu Shishi's original words, the New Fourth Army couldn't stand the commotion in managing logistics. The depreciation of fiat currency is no longer news, and the fiat currency in the hands of the New Fourth Army is still from the enemy-occupied areas.
"It's not that I don't accept it, this is simply what people say, they think that the ocean and gold bars are the same, and I can't help it." Cai Dashan argued with a bitter face, this is indeed Liu Shishi's original words, people don't accept banknotes, even if they take them, it's useless. Cai Dashan insisted that the other party did not accept paper money, and the New Fourth Army had no choice but to use their reserves, but the number of people escorting these gold bars increased from 2 to 8.