diymy Chapter 88 The brigade commander's intelligence gathering skills are truly impressive.
Chapter 88 The brigade commander's intelligence gathering skills are truly impressive.
grass!"
Li Yunlong started to get agitated; Kong Jie's analysis was correct.
He was so excited just now, but now the mere mention of "brigades commander" makes him lose interest...
Given the brigade commander's habits, wouldn't he have been completely ripped off?
Even in his dazed state, his right eyelid started twitching again.
what's going on?
Damn it, they say a twitching left eye means good fortune and a twitching right eye means bad luck. My left eye twitched all day the day before yesterday, which caused a political commissar incident. Now it's twitching again, looks like it's going to cause trouble again!
"Ring ring ring!"
Just then, the phone at the regimental headquarters rang...
"Gulp..."
Li Yunlong was startled by the ringing of the phone, and his buttocks fell off the chair, his entire lower body slumped to the ground.
"Holy crap! That scared the hell out of me!"
Li Yunlong subconsciously started cursing.
He didn't get up, feeling he couldn't answer the phone...
Seeing that he didn't move, Kong Jie said, "Old Li, the phone is ringing, why aren't you answering it?"
Li Yunlong gave the other person a disdainful look and said, "I have a feeling something's not right."
"How so?"
"My eyelids keep twitching; I have a feeling something big is about to happen."
"Go away, go away," Kong Jie said with a smile. "This is the regimental command post's phone; how can I not answer it?"
"Then answer it and hear who's calling."
Kong Jie then stood up, picked up the phone, and said, "Hello, this is the Independent Regiment Headquarters."
A kind voice came from the phone.
"I am the commander of the 386th Brigade. Where is Li Yunlong?"
"brigadier!"
Kong Jie quickly stood at attention and subconsciously glanced at Li Yunlong.
Li Yunlong was startled again and quickly gave Kong Jie a meaningful look.
Kong Jie immediately understood and shouted into the phone, "Reporting to the brigade commander, Li Yunlong is not here. He went to inspect the camp. This is Kong Jie. Is there some important combat mission?"
On the other side, the brigade commander also began to have doubts.
What's going on? Li Yunlong went to inspect the camp early in the morning?
The brigade commander then asked, "How long have you been gone? When are you coming back?"
Kong Jie was also the type to lie without batting an eye, saying, "He went out early this morning and probably won't be back until tonight."
"So long..."
The brigade commander started to have doubts again. He had long known that the Independent Regiment had made a fortune from its side businesses. Now they had enough food and soldiers. He originally wanted to ask Li Yunlong a question, but he didn't expect that the brat was not here.
Was it just that I arrived at the wrong time?
However, the brigade commander also had a plan.
The brigade commander said, "Kong Jie, I heard that the Independent Regiment has won several battles recently and captured a lot of grain. Go to the First Battalion and tell Li Yunlong that I will send comrades from the Logistics Department to pick up some grain tomorrow."
"What?"
Kong Jie was dumbfounded.
Sure enough, the brigade commander came for the grain.
Li Yunlong, standing to the side, also heard it. The brigade commander really knows how to pick his time! He's not doing anything but coming to the Independent Regiment to haul grain?
No wonder my right eyelid was twitching; it turns out this was the cause!
How could Li Yunlong agree? He quickly gave Kong Jie a meaningful look.
The Independent Regiment was a unit he had led, so Kong Jie naturally stood on the same side as Li Yunlong. When the brigade commander asked for supplies, he didn't want to agree.
Kong Jie then feigned grievance and said, "Brigade Commander, you must be joking! What great victory? Where did you hear this fake news?"
"Go away! Kong Jie, you've only been hanging out with Li Yunlong for a few days, and you've already started acting recklessly with him? Don't forget what I'm here for."
"this……"
Knowing he couldn't hide it any longer, Kong Jie feigned grievance and said, "Brigade Commander, you really can't hide anything from me. Actually, there wasn't much grain, only a few thousand catties."
"Several thousand kilograms?"
The brigade commander understood. It turned out that Kong Jie and Li Yunlong had conspired to reduce the grain weight from tens of thousands of kilograms to a few thousand kilograms.
The operations staff officer next to the brigade commander couldn't help but joke, "My goodness, now Kong Jie is also learning to lie. Their grain escort team has been stretched into a supply line several kilometers long, but now it has turned into several thousand kilograms. Could it be that it was all consumed in a few days after it was brought back? No one would believe that."
The brigade commander nodded in agreement, and then said into the phone again, "Kong Jie, don't try to fool me. Tell Li Yunlong that I'm going over there to pick up grain tomorrow."
Kong Jie was speechless for a moment, stunned and unsure how to respond.
The brigade commander has already figured out the intelligence perfectly, so how can they continue making things up?
Li Yunlong watched anxiously! Kong Erlengzi, have you been a good kid for too long? The brigade commander yells at you a few times, and you're too scared to say a word?
He jumped up, snatched the phone, and chuckled into the receiver, "Brigadier, hehe! It's me, Li Yunlong."
"Li Yunlong? You're back so soon?"
"Hehe, we're just in a hurry. I just heard Kong Jie say that the kid is really careless. Actually, there aren't many kilograms of grain, only tens of thousands of kilograms."
"Tens of thousands of kilograms? Wasn't it just a few thousand kilograms a moment ago?"
"That's because Kong Erlengzi can't count, and his eyes are in his ass."
"How many kilograms are those tens of thousands of kilograms? Is it 90,000 or 20,000?"
Li Yunlong did not answer immediately; the brigade commander's words were a test!
This is a difficult question to answer; neither option is correct.
Let's choose 90,000. The comrades in the intelligence section under the brigade commander are not blind; they will investigate thoroughly. Let's choose 20,000. The troops are escorting such a long route of grain; are you going to let him explain it as them carrying stones?
In the end, Li Yunlong chose a compromise.
Li Yunlong said, "Brigade Commander, what are you doing? You know the situation of the Independent Regiment. We've acquired over 50,000 jin of grain through sideline production. The reason we've created such a long supply line is because most of this grain is soybeans and wheat, which are labor-intensive and not heavy enough to support a whole regiment."
Although soybeans have a high density, they are bulky, dry, and take up a lot of space, so they use up more bags. Millet and wheat flour are different; the same bag can hold more millet and wheat flour. Li Yunlong is just being evasive.
"Fifty thousand? Li Yunlong, you're lying to me again."
"Brigade Commander... what are you saying? I know the brigade headquarters is also facing difficulties. How about this, I will donate 5,000 catties of grain to the brigade headquarters free of charge."
"Five thousand? Well, Li Yunlong, you've amassed over ten thousand jin of grain, and you're only trying to fool me with five thousand jin?"
"Hundreds of thousands of kilograms? Brigade Commander, you must have misheard. That's not true, absolutely not."
"Are you sure?"
"No! It's just over 50,000 jin!"
Li Yunlong would never admit it, and he was now sweating profusely. Although the brigade commander was from the Special Branch, he wouldn't have gotten this much information, would he?
How could the brigade commander know that those bags contained millet and wheat flour after only a few days?
The brigade commander continued, "Hmph, Zhao Gang has already told me everything, and you still want to keep it from me? What, do you think your time as regimental commander is over?"
"What?"
"Damn it, how dare you snitch on me!"
Li Yunlong was stunned. It turned out that Zhao Gang, the political commissar, had reported him to the brigade commander.
Is Zhao Gang a personal spy planted by the brigade commander?