plumnovel Chapter 105 Wang Mingzhang was shocked; Li Jianghe had quite the grand gesture.
Chapter 105 Wang Mingzhang was shocked; Li Jianghe had quite the grand gesture.
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Wang Mingzhang has a buzz cut, a square face, short and thick eyebrows, and bright, piercing eyes.
Staring at Li Jianghe, he realized that this great hero was younger than he had imagined, only about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, yet he had already achieved such a feat, which was truly astonishing.
"Brother Li, it may be our first time meeting. I am deeply grateful that you are here to support my troops and help defend Teng County."
He grasped Li Jianghe's hand, his gaze passing over his shoulder to look at the trucks, armored vehicles, and various artillery pieces towed behind them as they roared along.
Wang Mingzhang was somewhat dazed. This... were these remnants of the army that had broken out of Nanjing? How did they possess such equipment?
It looks more like the legendary German-equipped division of the Central Army.
No, the German-equipped divisions were essentially infantry, with not many armored vehicles or trucks.
"At this critical moment when the nation is in peril, how can we sit idly by?"
As Li Jianghe spoke, he noticed that Wang Mingzhang's gaze had been drawn to the large amount of weaponry and equipment behind them.
"Brother Li, this..."
Wang Mingzhang pointed to an M3 armored tracked vehicle and asked, "Is this all your equipment?"
Li Jianghe smiled wryly and said:
"That's right, they're ours. With these, I believe defending Teng County shouldn't be a problem."
Wang Mingzhang swallowed hard, thinking to himself that this was not just not a problem, he was even considering launching a counterattack.
"Commander Li is truly too kind, sending such elite troops to provide support. I, Wang... am deeply grateful."
Wang Mingzhang spoke with great excitement, his words even becoming somewhat incoherent.
Recalling what Sun Zhen had said on the phone earlier, she wondered what the higher-ups meant. They had clearly sent the elite of the elite, yet they said it was just a bunch of greenhorns.
Even if they were a bunch of greenhorns driving so many armored vehicles, they could still intimidate the Japanese from the front.
Li Jianghe could understand Wang Mingzhang's feelings, after all, this Sichuan Army division commander had defended Tengxian to the death and died for his country.
His three thousand men all died in battle while defending the city; not one survived.
"By the way, Commander Wang, what's the current situation with the Japanese troops outside the city? And is there enough supply of provisions and ammunition inside the city?"
Li Jianghe asked.
He knew very well that the Sichuan Army was very poor, extremely poor.
Wang Mingzhang's troops were even poorer, because they had received almost no replenishment since the Battle of Niangziguan.
Wang Mingzhang said with some difficulty:
"There are many Japanese troops outside the city, at least tens of thousands, who are the main force of the Japanese 10th Division, led by Seya Kei."
As for the city, there are no more than two thousand soldiers capable of fighting, less than fifteen thousand of them have firearms, and each soldier has less than ten bullets on average, with a total of four cannon shells.
"Less than 10 bullets?"
Although Li Jianghe was somewhat prepared, he was still caught off guard by the situation of the Sichuan Army.
After all, he had never worried about ammunition when leading troops into battle.
Even during the war against the Japanese invaders, the use of bullets and shells had reached the point of waste.
These 10 bullets are only enough for an infantryman to fire for a few minutes.
If it were machine gun bullets, they would be used up in the blink of an eye.
As for artillery shells, his artillery battalion could consume 56 shells of various calibers in a single salvo, and could easily fire thousands of shells.
These four shells weren't even enough for them to calibrate the trajectory.
Li Jianghe couldn't help but sigh:
"There is indeed a shortage of ammunition and firearms."
"How about this, Commander Wang? Our detachment has some extra ammunition and firearms. How about we lend them to your unit for temporary use?"
Anyway, these bullets and shells won't fire automatically if they're in my hands.
It would be better to replenish the supplies for these Sichuan soldiers who are short of guns and ammunition, so they can kill more Japanese soldiers.
"Is that really true?"
Wang Mingzhang grasped Li Jianghe's hand firmly, then looked troubled and said:
"I know that your unit has just gone through a major battle. If ammunition is not very plentiful, I appreciate your kindness."
"Don't worry, Commander Wang. I can't produce more bullets with those bullets in my hands. I might as well kill more Japanese soldiers."
Having said that, he shouted:
"Long Wenzhang, go to the logistics department and get a batch of bullets for the Sichuan Army brothers. You should know the ammunition caliber, right?"
"I know, so how much would you like to give to the Sichuan Army brothers?"
"Long Wenzhang asked."
Upon hearing this, Wang Mingzhang hurriedly said:
"This... giving twenty or thirty thousand is already quite a lot."
"Did you hear that? Bring Commander Wang two or three hundred thousand rounds of ammunition."
Li Jianghe waved his hand and said.
With this much firepower, it's just a matter of killing a few more Japanese soldiers.
"Two or three hundred thousand rounds?!"
Wang Mingzhang thought he had misheard and stopped Li Jianghe:
"Brother Li, this is no small sum. Do you think it'll be enough for you?"
Li Jianghe thought to himself, "Commander Wang, you're really overthinking it. The supply battalion alone has over five million rounds of ammunition, and the ammunition carried by each unit is almost the same number."
Moreover, Li Jianghe himself would frequently exchange ammunition to replenish the stockpile, so the Independent Detachment would never lack ammunition, at least not in other aspects.
"It's enough, don't worry."
Li Jianghe smiled and said, "By the way, let's transfer a few more Maxim and Czech-made machine guns, and also some of the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns and Type 96 light machine guns."
Most of those weapons were captured earlier or collected from the Nationalist army. In any case, they can definitely come in handy now.
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Wang Mingzhang knew that if he continued to be polite, it would be somewhat pretentious.
Since Li Jianghe dared to give them so many weapons and ammunition, it means that he has ample reserves of his own, so there is no need to worry.
This made Wang Mingzhang admire his superior. He thought to himself, "Commander Sun is amazing. He actually managed to borrow such a unit as reinforcements. His ancestors' graves must be burning with fire!"
"Thank you. Only with these weapons and ammunition can we kill more Japanese devils."
Wang Mingzhang thanked him again.
After saying that, he gestured for him to proceed.
"Brother Li, please come with me to the command post for a detailed discussion."
Inside Tengxian County, Chief of Staff Zhao Weibin was quite surprised to see Wang Mingzhang and Li Jianghe walking in, chatting and laughing.
I was thinking, "Wasn't the commander just worried about this? Why is he all smiles now?"
"Commander Li, I am Zhao Weibin, Chief of Staff of the 122nd Division. It's a pleasure to meet you."
Zhao Weibin introduced himself.
He dared not presume upon Li Jianghe, a heroic figure whom Zhao Weibin greatly admired.
After a brief self-introduction, Li Jianghe got straight to the point:
What is the current situation?
After listening, Wang Mingzhang personally gave a brief introduction, mainly about the battle situation over the past few days, as well as the approximate troop deployment of the Japanese army outside the city.
"In short, the Japanese army has been launching a pincer attack, repeatedly flanking and penetrating from both sides, and yesterday afternoon they approached the city wall of Tengxian."
Commander Li ordered that my troops hold Teng County for three days to the death.
Wang Mingzhang pointed to the map and said.