Chapter 48: Preparing for the Great War!
The feeling of having one's mouth torn apart was really unbearable, the oozing blood and severe tearing pain made Song Dengxian, a tough guy, retreat several steps, sit down on the ground, and look at Gao Dquan with a shocked expression, mixed with deep fear and incredulity! Lifting his 100-jin self, he realized that in front of Gao Dquan, he was nothing! A sense of despair suddenly arose!
Looking at the tall and majestic figure smiling and walking over, Song Dengxian was wavering between a thread of inexplicable fear and terror, and his natural instinct for fear made him unconsciously reach for the revolver at his waist. The other two hundred or so God's Legion soldiers holding miscellaneous weapons also quietly raised their gun muzzles slightly, and the bullets were loaded with a series of clicks!
Gao Quanhai just smiled and pulled Song Dengxian up. The bright eyes made Song Dengxian feel a deep sincerity! Intuition, a kind of intuition made him think that Gao Quanhai was a trustworthy person, although they had only met once, although they were once mortal enemies, and although he had experienced too many betrayals and escapes.
Two guys who hit it off just like that, at night, in a big bowl of inferior liquor, got drunk and became sworn brothers of the opposite sex. "Sharing good fortune together, sharing hardships together, not seeking to be born on the same year, month and day, but seeking to die on the same year, month and day!" Simple words yet a lifetime of steadfastness and devotion! And that deep trust!
In addition to providing some weapons and ammunition, there were also some military cadres who reorganized the troops of over 200 people. Gao Quan also specially selected seven or eight veterans from the special operations company who were good at mountain guerrilla warfare to provide guidance to the newly formed Anti-Japanese Resistance Army.
Gao Quan, with a piercing gaze, sat under the tree with Song Dengxian, smoking a pungent bag of tobacco. Watching Gao Quan coughing from the swirling smoke, the knot in his heart that had been unresolved for days finally untangled. Song Dengxian chuckled and said: "Brother Gao, originally we thought you were invincible, definitely looking down on us, but it turns out you also have something you can't do! You can't even smoke!" Haha! The relaxed smile on his face left Gao Quan speechless, unable to retort, and he could only sit silently, gritting his teeth in annoyance.
"Big brother, I didn't send so many people to your unit this time to seize power!" Gao Quan suddenly changed the subject and took the initiative to clarify the rumors that had been circulating today. After all, if everyone has any misunderstandings in their hearts for a long time, it will definitely lead to trouble! Especially after Gao Quan's unit learned about the Nationalist Party's third encirclement campaign, they immediately wanted to return to Ningxia and Foping, and couldn't stay here for long. Therefore, regarding the anti-Japanese and anti-communist army that had gained fame in Chang'an, Zhen'an, and Ningxia, Gao Quan had to win them over.
"Brother, don't say that! I understand! Actually, I've been thinking of bringing our troops into the Red Army for a long time now! I know you still look down on us right now! Otherwise, you would have let us join the Red Army directly! I know my men's combat skills are not up to par, their training is lacking, and they don't even have decent guns or ammunition! But brother, just wait! With all these capable people you've sent over, I guarantee that within half a year, you'll see a completely new and improved Anti-Japanese Donation Army! And when the time comes, don't refuse our request to join the Red Army!"
Under the influence of Deputy Political Commissar and Director of the Political Department who followed the army to the battlefield without knowing much about him, the ordinary conversations with Song Dengxian and a series of mobilizations had already turned this peasant army leader into a staunch communist! Although he may still have some theoretical shortcomings, his devotion to communism was rare! Even this illiterate peasant army leader was preparing to join the Communist Party! More regular than Gao Quan's joining the party on the battlefield, like going through the Party School to improve awareness and consciousness!
In late April, Wei Lao and Li Zhengwei, who were still active in the mountainous area, suddenly received confidential intelligence intercepted by the underground party. The Kuomintang would gather more than 20 regiments of heavy troops within a month to launch another encirclement campaign! Seven regiments in Ningxian, Foping; seven regiments in Zhen'an, Shanyang, and Zhexi; plus six regiments led by Gaoquan, the Kuomintang was really prepared to go all out this time. Chiang Kai-shek's pressure and temptation made the warlords decide that even if they were defeated along with Gaoquan, they would not mind losing everything!
The Nationalist Party's sudden move almost caught Gaoquan off guard. After wandering around the top of Mount Hua, Gaoquan received urgent intelligence and found that three or four regiments of Nationalist troops had already followed him! If it weren't for fear of provoking more Nationalist troops and damaging the main force of the base area, Gaoquan would have fought them long ago! These troops from Hanzhong were almost as good as the Red Army in mountainous terrain!
After gathering two regiments of the Nationalist Party's uprising and incorporating them into the troops, Gao Quan led the troops to rush to the mountain stronghold without stopping. The Nationalist Party is really too disobedient! "Not going to fight them is already giving them face! If it weren't for considering that they will be the backbone of the resistance war in the future, they would have been cleaned up long ago! Now it's just a case of wanting to be calm but the wind won't stop! For now, we can only defend against the enemy and cover ourselves with mud."
Gao Quan's inner self is extremely uncomfortable with this passive state! He isn't a person who likes being passive, putting his fate in others' hands and then following the course of events. This isn't what Gao Quan likes! A man should have a man's appearance! When facing over ten villains, a man should be able to charge forward with hot blood! A man can be foolish, but he absolutely cannot lack even a bit of masculinity!
So when everyone was about to use the familiar tactics, dragging the enemy into the inner line and then having the main force go to the outer line to turn the enemy upside down, it was vetoed by Gaoquan! The raging fire in his heart made him want to lead a group of soldiers with machine guns and shining bayonets to defeat the enemy in a bloody battle. Savoring that indescribable feeling.
"The enemy has twenty regiments, with troops divided into three routes. Each route alone cannot pose a threat to us! However, they also want to threaten our lifeline at any time like three sharp swords! So my reason is that we should concentrate all our strength and thoroughly defeat one of the enemy's routes, so that the other two routes will be forced to flee in disarray after losing their cover. Moreover, this time the enemy's method of attacking our outer lines has already assembled two divisions of troops around Xi'an, with a regimental force in many county towns! This is not something we can conquer with our current strength."
Gao Quan's majestic and sonorous voice filled the conference room, but others had no way to refute him because the kind of shock in their hearts made them deeply believe that Gao Quan's words were beyond doubt!
"We are now very powerful! Since the division of troops at the end of last year, our army has made tremendous progress! For example, Vice-Chief Chen's troops have more than 2,500 people, an increase of over 1,000 compared to when we divided. Our main force also has more than 4,000 people, including some local Red Army forces. The strength of the Red Army in southern Shaanxi has never been as strong as it is now! We have passed through those difficult days before, can't we get through these days now?"
Confident and radiant with a sunny smile, infecting all the participants, in the gradually warming weather, with an unusual warmth, even more comfortable than a gentle breeze and fine rain, making people who have experienced the harsh winter feel enchanted.
That nurse was stupidly and stubbornly facing the still dazed high wall, fluffing up a lot of hair, discussing "work problems" in the pharmacies that had been repeatedly robbed around the county town, seizing a large amount of medicine, kidnapping many highly skilled doctors, but it was hard to fill the beautiful little nurse's inner chasm when the high wall suddenly went crazy and ran wildly!
Watching the wretched and disheveled division commander flee his office time and again, the numerous guards of the division headquarters, even the secretaries and political commissars, couldn't help but burst into loud laughter! "One thing brings down another!" "Heroes can't escape a beauty's grasp!" During the dull and tedious times when Commander Gao was directing troop deployments and preparing for battle with the local government, that lovely face brought countless joy and laughter to the 74th Division headquarters, even boosting everyone's work efficiency! Not in the least did they think that with Commander Gao gone, it would be difficult to complete the already scheduled battle plan timeline. In their eyes, doing a bit more themselves was just giving their division commander another good opportunity!
But they all seem to have forgotten that Gaoquan is still a 17-year-old kid! Even if he was a top-notch otaku and virgin in his past life, having watched plenty of porn, when it comes to the opposite sex, he's clearly at a loss, flustered and completely out of his depth! The wonders of nature are indeed mysterious, aren't they? If the Nationalist Party knew that Gaoquan was afraid of girls' advances, who knows if they wouldn't send out 180 women with their "towering waves" to crush him to death?!
