Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 150 Wei Dayong, the Rescued

After hearing Zhang Dabiao's words, Li Yunlong nodded in a perfunctory manner and said:

"That's a good idea. I'll go to Shibu tomorrow. Brother Chu, you wait here for a few days. I'll be back in four or five days at most! Brother Chu! The exercise is an order from our superiors, and I have no choice but to obey! I hope you can understand!"

Chu Yunfei snorted coldly in response:

"By the time Brother Li returns in four or five days, my two battalions will probably have starved to death!"

"Then what should we do! Brother Chu, what do you say!"

Seeing that Li Yunlong had passed the buck to him again, Chu Yunfei was unwilling, but in the end, he still said:

"I said forget it. Seeing your sincerity, brother, I'm really touched. You don't need to go to Guishibu. There's something I want to ask you, brother. Ask your troops to make an exception for my troops. My two battalions are about to be withdrawn. Brother Yunlong, you should be able to make the decision on this!"

Seeing that Chu Yunfei was finally willing to withdraw the troops stationed in Daguzhen, Li Yunlong didn't want to get entangled with Chu Yunfei any further. After all, if things got out of hand and a conflict broke out, the Japanese would be the ones who benefited, and Li Yunlong might not fare well either.

Therefore, he immediately agreed to Chu Yunfei's request to open an opening for Chu Yunfei's two battalions to withdraw, which is called knowing when to stop.

Of course, this is also because Chu Yunfei did not want to start a fight with Li Yunlong.

However, according to the plot, Li Yunlong would have arranged for Wei Dayong to deliver the message, and then Wei Dayong would have been beheaded by Shanmaozi, the second-in-command of Black Cloud Village. However, due to Wang Gensheng's intervention, the first, second, and third leaders of Black Cloud Village were all killed by Wang Gensheng.

After the prisoners were handed over to Kong Jie, Kong Jie used the same method he had used to deal with the puppet troops: interrogating them separately and having them expose each other. In the end, he killed all the criminals in Black Cloud Village before releasing the rest who had not committed any crimes.

In fact, if the original story had been followed exactly, even if it had been Commander Shi who persuaded Li Yunlong instead of Kong Jie, he probably would have been able to convince him. He wouldn't have mobilized a battalion to launch a fierce attack on Black Cloud Village, and he wouldn't have been demoted to battalion commander for arbitrarily mobilizing troops. It would have seemed like the matter ended there.

That's right, the punishment Li Yunlong received for avenging Wei Dayong was not for killing the second-in-command, Shanmaozi, but for illegally mobilizing troops.

Therefore, it's highly unlikely that Ma Chang would try to persuade Li Yunlong about Wei Heshang's death.
They even strongly agreed, after all, their own comrade was killed and they didn't utter a sound, and even wanted to make the murderer a common comrade-in-arms. Isn't that a joke? In the hearts of the soldiers of Han!

To the average person, Xie Baoqing of Black Cloud Stronghold is a member of Kong Jie's army, an allied force. Li Yunlong is attacking an allied force? Come on, the real problem here isn't Li Yunlong or Kong Jie at all. If Lion Chief and Shiwei find out about Black Cloud Stronghold, not only will Li Yunlong not let them go, but he will be wiped out even if he comes over. Because from the moment they killed Wei Heshang, they have been mortal enemies of the Eighth Route Army.

As for why Kong Jie is said to have the biggest problem, it's mainly because in the original story, he recklessly recruited bandits into his own forces, disregarding the law and acting recklessly. Kong Jie didn't consider the quality of the bandits at all when he recruited them.

They didn't even send political officers to Black Cloud Village. Instead, they operated it as an independent brigade. Xie Baoqing remained the brigade leader, and there were no organizational adjustments. It wasn't until later, when the incident occurred, that Kong Jie hurriedly gathered his men to prepare to go to Black Cloud Village.

Li Yunlong was giving Kong Jie face. The second-in-command in the drama committed murder and robbery, which was extremely heinous. He was unwilling to reform and had a weak sense of friend or foe. Especially since Black Cloud Village was planning to join the Eighth Route Army, his actions made the situation even more serious, constituting an act of betrayal and treason. Fortunately, it was Li Yunlong who handled it. If it had been someone else, given the temper of the village chief, do you think they would have let him off the hook?
If Kong Jie were to be dealt with seriously, this matter would most likely cause him the most trouble. This is because Kong Jie had taken in bandits into his own ranks without authorization, which had also led to the death of an Eighth Route Army communications soldier. This was already a fact. So if the Lion Chief and the Ma Chief found out, Kong Jie's best course of action would be to atone for his crime by quickly gathering troops to attack Black Cloud Village and wipe out all the bandits.

Then the culprit, Shanmaozi, was put on trial. Actually, it was mainly Li Yunlong who acted impulsively. It was also Zhao Gang's fault for being in the hospital at the time; otherwise, he could have just reported it directly. Even if Kong Jie didn't want to take action, he would have been forced to clean up the mess. Otherwise, the higher-ups wouldn't have let Kong Jie off the hook.

After all, this matter involves a matter of principle.

However, the reason why Kong Jie was so indiscriminate in the original story, even taking people from Black Cloud Village, was mainly because the battle of Ping'an County had just ended, and Kong Jie's New Second Regiment had suffered the greatest losses.

Keep in mind that Kong Jie was facing a regiment of Japanese soldiers who had been reinforced from the Taiyuan direction!

Furthermore, Kong Jie's New Second Regiment was a newly developed regiment, and it suffered the most losses during the large-scale mopping-up operation. Therefore, it is not surprising that Kong Jie was so desperate that he even targeted bandits.

However, all of this changed with Wang Gensheng's time travel. At least for the most part, among the three regiments of the Jin-Sui Iron Triangle, the one with the strongest troops is now Kong Jie's New Second Regiment.

After all, Wang Gensheng had captured a lot of equipment for Kong Jie's New Second Regiment!

Of course, after Wang Gensheng left Kong Jie's New Second Regiment to form a separate Special Cavalry Regiment, Kong Jie's development slowed down.

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When Wang Gensheng saw the familiar Majia Village, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and said with emotion:
"Phew! You're finally back! Du Yiman, send a telegram to the command to let them know you're safe, and also ask what to do with these spoils of war!"

Wang Gensheng felt relieved mainly because it hadn't snowed heavily when he went there; in some places it was even just light snow, making the roads relatively easy to travel.

But when we came back, the snow in some places was already above knee-deep, making it difficult to ride a horse.

The knee-deep snow had made it impossible for the warhorses to run, so it took Wang Gensheng and his cavalry regiment half a month to catch up.

The reply from the command headquarters was exactly as Wang Gensheng had expected. The command headquarters wanted Wang Gensheng to expand the size of the cavalry regiment, preferably to make it a cavalry battalion.

Or perhaps a reinforced cavalry regiment, to which Wang Gensheng agreed without surprise.

After all, with the surrender of the Japanese, the next battle would be a decisive battle involving millions of soldiers.

In battles involving tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of enemies, even elite special cavalry regiments, though capable of fighting ten against one, can become exhausted by sheer numbers.

(End of this chapter)