Chapter Seventy-Five: Suffering is a blessing
The words that Dai Li said when he got into the car were not only heard by Tang Cheng, Sun Liansheng, who collapsed in the middle of the group of gendarmes with a dead face, also heard it, and Niu Lao Gui and Lao Dongbei, who were guarding outside the gate like a door god, also heard it, but they didn't know what Dai Li's words meant. "Brother, brother, I'll go first, I have time to go to the gendarmerie to find my brother and I'll drink." Dai Li took his group of guards away, and the colonel surnamed Yu also smiled and left with his gendarmes, and Sun Liansheng was very reluctant to be taken away by the gendarmes.
"Let's go, let's all go in, what else is there to see when this person is gone." Seeing that everyone was staring at him, Tang Cheng entered the courtyard with Ha Lu Ha Dang, and Niu Laogui and his gang hurriedly followed and asked about the conversation between Dai Li and Tang Cheng. "I said you can't just go and do all the work, what are you all doing here? I'm not a fragrant meat bun. Tang Cheng's jokes attracted Niu Laogui's collective contempt, and even Heizi, a guy who never jokes, rolled his eyes at Tang Cheng.
Seeing that everyone was staring at him, Tang Cheng smiled a little twisted, "Actually, I didn't say anything, Director Dai was entrusted by the division to come to comfort us, Macheng fought a battle, we fought well in the second row, Director Dai came to verify the results by the way." Tang Cheng's general answer once again attracted a large number of white eyes for himself. But Tang Cheng can't help it, the conversation between him and Dai Li can't be passed on, this is what Dai Li specially emphasized before leaving, Tang Cheng, the small acting company commander, can't fight Dai Li's big Buddha.
"Then Director Dai came to us, and he didn't say anything about promotion? Didn't say a bounty either? "Niu Laogui and Lao Dongbei, one is a fan of wealth and the other is an official fan, they don't care about what Dai Li said to Tang Cheng, they only care about getting promoted and making a fortune. Tang Cheng didn't speak, just nodded slowly with his teacup, which made Niu Laogui and Lao Dongbei very happy.
"Stone, the money is out to buy some meat and wine, let's stew meat and drink wine at night." Tang Cheng admonished Liu Shishi and entered the command post with his teacup. Niu Laogui and Lao Dongbei, who were still waiting for Tang Cheng to announce the news, were dumbfounded, Tang Cheng only nodded but did not announce the content, Niu Laogui and Lao Dongbei's hearts were as anxious as a cat, and they immediately blasted away the guys who gathered around, and they kept following Tang Cheng into the command post.
"Don't ask, you two, I can't say if you ask." Tang Cheng, who was continuously questioned by Niu Laogui and Lao Northeast, was silent, but such an answer could not satisfy Niu Laogui and Lao Northeast, the reason why they carried guns and ate food, in addition to having a place to eat, was to be promoted to a wealthy and glorious lintel. Although the battle to defeat the Mitsui squadron in Macheng ended with a second consecutive victory, it was all fought by the No. 100 brothers of the second company from top to bottom.
"Uncle Niu, how much money do we have in our hands?" Niu Laogui and Lao Dongbei's command post were desperate to leave, and Tang Cheng, who was in trouble, didn't have the heart to fiddle with the sand table that had just been built. Dai Li had already explained everything clearly, and Tang Cheng had already learned from Niu Laogui that the military commanders had great powers, so he naturally couldn't go against Dai Li's decision. But Niu Lao Gui and Lao Dongbei are not wrong in their thoughts, if they don't do anything, it will indeed be a little unfair to those brothers who survived from Macheng, so Tang Cheng plans to reward those old brothers in Erlian himself.
"What are you asking for?" Like Lao Xu, Niu Laogui is also a person who values money bags more than life, and Tang Cheng wants to pull out money from Niu Laogui, I'm afraid it will be difficult. "We just had a fight with the little devil, and there will be more opportunities to fight in the future, if we have to pay for it to the brothers below every time, then we have a lot of money and no place to install it, and you won't have enough to send it." Tang Cheng's move of preparing to give out money privately was once again despised by Niu Laogui, and more than 100 people in the second company needed money for eating, drinking, and Lazar, and the money from selling guns had already been used by Niu Laogui, and he couldn't squeeze out the extra money to Tang Cheng at all.
has been staring at Niu Laogui and Lao Dongbei, Tang Cheng is not sitting or standing, silently turning around the house a few times, Tang Cheng in desperation had no choice but to close the door, signaling Niu Laogui and Lao Northeast to sit beside him. "Director Dai and I didn't actually say anything, he just asked me about some things, most of them were related to me, I told you, and you don't know what to do." Tang Cheng's words made Niu Lao Gui and Lao Dongbei stare again, this was not the answer they wanted.
"The record of the Second Company's defeat of the Mitsui Squadron in Macheng has been reported to the Commander's Department by the division, and even the chairman of the committee knows about it, and Director Dai is here to confirm the matter." Tang Cheng's words made Niu Laogui and Lao Dongbei finally laugh, even the chairman of the committee knew that the second company was in the second company, which was more important than any promotion and fortune, in case one day they entered the eyes of the chairman of the committee, and the brothers of the second company would be soaring.
"Don't think about those things in the clouds, we should be unlucky, on the third day of our departure from Macheng, the chairman of the committee went to Macheng to supervise the war, Sun Liansheng's grandson was driven back to Wuhan because of his exploits, if it wasn't for their Sun family to find someone to help talk, Sun Liansheng's head might have been cut off." Tang Cheng's words made Lao Dongbei suddenly realize, no wonder Sun Liansheng, who was already the head of the garrison regiment, was still a captain now, and it turned out that he was driven back from Macheng.
"Then you can't leave us here and ignore it, even if we don't have a promotion, and we don't have a reward, at least we have to send us some supplies, we can't always let us feed ourselves." After pouring a few sips of tea, Niu Laogui slapped the tea bowl in his hand on the table, and complained to Tang Cheng, from the day he entered the second company in the cyclamen, the second company was self-sufficient, and the second company was either Tang Cheng's own private army, or spent more money on the second company, and those big officials above couldn't see it.
Feeling that the appetite of Niu Laogui and Lao Dongbei has been almost hanged, Tang Cheng lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth and said with a smile, "Promoted, promoted, Director Dai brought the warrant for the division's seat, and all the people in our second company who were evacuated from Macheng alive were all promoted to the next level, and I am now a captain." New uniforms and ammunition supplies will be delivered soon, but this warrant cannot be revealed, so let's celebrate behind closed doors, and don't make a big fuss. ”
Hearing that all the people in the Second Company who were evacuated from Macheng alive were all promoted to one level, Niu Laogui and Lao Dongbei didn't care about theorizing with Tang Cheng, and they were already thinking about their current military positions in their hearts. When Tang Cheng rebuilt the second company in Macheng, Niu Laogui and Lao Dongbei were both in the second lieutenant rank on the new roster, and now they have been promoted to the rank of one level on the ground, so they are both lieutenants in the national army now.
"I knew that Lu Dao would be like this, we might as well stay in Macheng, although Wuhan is good, there are no little devils to fight, if we stay in Macheng, if we are lucky, we will have a few more battles with the little devils, then we will all have to be a school official." Lao Dongbei was heartless, and then he learned that he had become a lieutenant, and in a blink of an eye, he complained that Tang Cheng should not have come to Wuhan with the second company, so that he lost a great opportunity to become a national military academy officer.
got the good news he wanted to hear, Niu Laogui and Lao Dongbei hooked their shoulders and went out, but Tang Cheng's face had already hidden a smile. He and Dai Li had a secret conversation in the command post for an hour, and the content of the conversation was certainly not as simple as a flat promotion to a higher rank, and the words that Dai Li said when he left were not untargeted, it was to remind Tang Cheng to remember the content of the conversation between the two. Since the start of the battle at Fujin Mountain, although the 71st Army has killed and injured a large number of Japanese troops and blocked the Japanese army's attempt to cross Fujin Mountain to the south, the 71st Army has also suffered heavy casualties.
In order to boost the morale of the national army, not only did the chairman personally visit Macheng to supervise the battle, but even the chairman's wife personally went to Fujin Mountain to express condolences to the national army troops on the front. Tang Cheng and his second company repelled more than 1,000 Japanese troops, horse bandits, and traitor troops in Macheng, which was of course good news, but it also exposed the fact that Sun Liansheng could not be saved when he saw death, and the fact that the national army was holding each other back, which was the last thing the committee members wanted to see. Dai Li came here not only to confirm the battle record, but also to express his condolences to Tang Cheng and his cadres on behalf of the chairman of the committee.
Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, this is an old saying in China that has not changed for the ages, and when Zhong Bin reported the battle record for Tang Cheng, it aroused the suspicion and temptation of the bigwigs from all sides of the military department. In order to maintain the balance between the forces of all parties in the army, the chairman of the committee had to let go of Sun Liansheng, who had faked his military exploits, and for the sake of the current hard-won situation, the chairman had to listen to and adopt the suggestions of his staff, and did not publicly commend Tang Cheng and the Second Company, and crowned the record of the great victory of Macheng on other troops, that is to say, the Second Company had nothing to do with the matter of the great victory of Macheng.
Tang Cheng was also very reluctant at first, but the conditions given by Dai Li were indeed tempting, not only giving Tang Cheng the expedient convenience of recruiting supplementary soldiers in Wuhan, but also providing enough supplies for the second company in recuperation. The second company needs to restore its combat effectiveness, and it is far from enough to just eat and drink, Tang Cheng still lacks enough spacious training ground, and more than 100 people have been training with live ammunition all day, and the ammunition consumed is also a big problem.
The most important thing is that the second company is not familiar with the place in Wuhan, and with the promise made by Dai Li on behalf of the military commander, Tang Cheng believes that there will never be a second ancestor like Sun Liansheng to come to the door to make trouble. Tang Cheng didn't want to have anything to do with the military commander, but at the moment the second company really needed external help, after Dai Li's preaching and his own pondering, Tang Cheng had to agree to Dai Li's plan, close the door and make a fortune, and give the honor on the surface to others in vain.