Rise from the sword

Chapter 64 Difficulties and Choices ([-])
"Da Biao, how did you think of this?"

Under the starlight, among the hidden mountains and forests, Su Jigang came up panting heavily. He first took a sip of water and gave Zhang Dabiao a thumbs up. His tone was a little excited:
"I went to ask people in the nearby villages. At first, they said it was impossible. There was no trace of flash floods. The path of each flood is different, and the water is fierce.

"But I listened to you. I asked a few more people, and then I asked an old man in the village. The old man said that there really is such a waterway, or a mountain torrent. You can go by boat and even drift all the way down..."

"but···"

Having said this, Su Jigang sighed:

"This mountain and flood road is very dangerous and requires a sturdy wooden boat to pass, and only the most experienced boatman can handle the boat, and very few people know about it, but now the wooden boats have been impounded or destroyed by the devils, the villagers can use only rafts or bamboo rafts”

"Besides, even if we can get a boat, the experienced boatmen from the nearby villages are all in Tuozi Mountain to the north. There is a group of cottages there, and no one in the village can handle the boat."

"Copycat?"

Zhang Dabiao, who was looking at the map, raised his head: "Bandits?"

"It's not a mountain bandit, it's the former Jingxian militia group, but it didn't bully the people."

Su Jigang shook his head: "This group of people refused to join the Japanese to kill two devils, so they hid in the mountains. There was a deep forest over there with a cave in it. They hid in a group and hunted fish in the Jingshui River. I have a few guns, and I usually grab two devils.”

"It is said that the nearby puppet army and the devils have slain several times, but they can't do anything about this group of people."

"This gang is a bit powerful."

Zhang Dabiao nodded in admiration: "There are devils stationed around here. It's not easy to survive here."

The Eighth Route Army has been trying to establish a small anti-Japanese organization in the rear of the devils. The military engineering team, the county brigade, and the district team have sprung up like bamboo shoots after the rain. It is almost impossible to survive and grow, and even if you are not careful, you will be uprooted by the devil.

"You have to work hard today, go find a way to contact this group of people, there must be their eyeliner in the nearby village"

Zhang Dabiao pondered for a while:
"You can give them a few pistols and bullets as a greeting, and ask them if they can take us across the river. Although there are other ways to break through the circle of devils, they are all very risky, and you need to give up the seized drugs."

"In addition, the key point is to ask those old boatmen, if there is a way to follow the torrent all the way to the west..."

"Follow the torrent to the west?"

Su Jigang opened his eyes wide: "How can this torrent go west? It must be flowing east."

The river flows eastward...

How can there be a westward river, even a valley waterway, it is impossible!

With a smile, Zhang Dabiao spread out the map in his hand, beckoned Su Jigang to come over, pointed to the dense lines on it, and said:
"Didn't you ask me how I can see that this mountain torrent valley can go by boat?"

"Haha, I saw it from the map"

"Look at this map..."

Zhang Dabiao pointed to the map. The scale of the map was very large, and every hill could be clearly seen. His finger drew a line along the valley:
"From this map, the valley of these mountains is basically a river valley. The river valley washed out by the flood, and the direction is actually east-west. You see, the river valley is obviously narrow in the east and wide in the west."

Su Jigang nodded, the mountain torrents were fierce at first, and then became more and more gentle, and the valleys that were impacted naturally became wider and wider...

"However, that's what it looks like."

Su Jigang raised a question: "Rivers all flow from west to east, even mountain torrents are mostly in this direction, and there are differences, just a small section of tributaries."

"Look at this map again"

Zhang Dabiao took out another map. This map was different from other maps. It was full of dense circles of lines, and even the mountain peaks were surrounded by circles of lines.

Marking the valley on this map, Zhang Dabiao continued:

"This is a contour map. Judging from the contour lines, this valley is obviously higher in the west and lower in the east, and it spreads very far all the way, and it does not intersect with the Jingshui River..."

Due to the size of the map, the end of the riverbed between the valleys cannot be seen on the map.

"It really is··"

Su Jigang is also an intellectual, proficient in cartography, naturally aware of contour maps, and very good at reading. He can see the river valley from west to east on the map at a glance, and see more things...

He suddenly opened his eyes wide, his tone exclaimed:
"What an exquisite map, the contour lines are actually marked to the decimeter level, and even the seasonal water depth of the river valley is marked."

"There is even a soil mark..."

"And the types of vegetation..."

"And the speed of the river..."

Opening the canvas waterproof document bag that Zhang Dabiao was carrying along with him, and flipping through the thick stack of maps inside, Su Jigang became more and more excited as he looked, and his eyes almost lit up in the end:
"This mission is really worth it. Even if there is no one hundred tons of weapons and ammunition, just this stack of maps will be worth it."

“Absolutely worth it”

Maps, especially such high-precision, multi-data, and multi-information maps, are not much worse than aircraft cannons for the military.

With this kind of map, people who can read maps can make battle plans directly on the map without having to do too much on-site investigation, and then make some adjustments on the spot...
With this one hand, how much time can be saved and how many fighters can be won?

With this kind of map, in the future, there will never be a situation where the river is too deep to cross, the soil is too soft, and the woods are too dense.

"When the task is completed, I will end up with this map for two weeks, no, just one week..."

After returning to the group, be sure to make several copies of all these maps...
It doesn't take two weeks, sleep less, and make a copy in a week...

And this thing, the devil's military map or something is garbage, absolutely garbage, even if it is the legendary aerial photo map, I am afraid it is not so good...

"Where did this come from?" Su Jigang asked.

He has made maps. The difficulty of making such maps and the amount of data that needs to be investigated is unimaginable...

The contour lines accurate to decimeters, the vegetation, soil quality of each mountain and forest, and even the seasonal water depth and water flow of rivers change, and then expand to a range of hundreds of miles in a radius... What a huge workload.

Even a professional drafting team of hundreds of people would not be able to do it in a year.

"Haha, there are quite a few spares on the mule. I will give you a copy later, just remember not to lose it, and the head of the regiment still has quite a few points, which are provided by our employer."

As a soldier and a battalion commander-level officer, Zhang Dabiao naturally knows the value of this map and how difficult it is to make. He bared his teeth: "As for how the other party made it, I don't know."

"I guess it was taken from an airplane, and then I asked a university professor to draw it."

"Haha, thank you"

Su Jigang smiled: "I'll go now"

Called a soldier, brought half a box of shell gun bullets, and two shell guns, and then took the atlas given by Zhang Dabiao. Su Jigang hid in the shadow of the night and walked to the distant village.

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Independence Corps.

Yang Village.

at dusk.

"Political commissar, the bullet casings and weapons and ammunition have been loaded into the vehicle." A platoon leader from an independent regiment ran over and gave Zhao Gang a military salute.

"Okay, get ready, bring something to eat, ready to go"

Zhao Gang nodded: "This time I'm going to the headquarters arsenal, and we have to hurry back and let the comrades speed up. We have to hurry overnight."

"Yes" The platoon ran towards the convoy loaded with supplies.

"Commissar, this is the list"

After waiting for a while, a soldier ran out from the regiment headquarters, holding a stack of documents in his hand: "This batch of supplies has a total of 37 shell casings, 60 rounds of 4 mortar shells, 60 [-] mortars, and Two thousand German-made big tumors"

The soldier took a piece of paper from the dilapidated Japanese folder and handed it to Zhao Gang.

"Ok"

Zhao Gang took the paper, folded it and stuffed it into the bag on his chest, and then followed on foot with the carriage team that had reached the entrance of Yangcun Village.

Before leaving Yangcun, he looked back at the village and squinted...

Li Yunlong asked him to lead the transport team, transport the shell casings to the headquarters arsenal and the headquarters, as well as some weapons and ammunition. The reason is that the officers have been unable to walk away during the recent training in the regiment...
This reason is reasonable. He has also seen the great progress of the soldiers recently, and he can't refuse...

but!It's been nine days and the commandos haven't come back...

There is definitely something wrong with Li Yunlong, he doesn't know what he is planning.

"Set off"

Zhao Gang turned his head expressionlessly and followed the transport team: "Speed ​​up and try to come back the day after tomorrow"

Want to leave me alone?
After driving all night, I can reach the headquarters tomorrow, and then I can drive back to the Independence Regiment at noon by borrowing a horse. I want to see what this guy wants to do.

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Under the eaves of a house in Yangcun, Li Yunlong and Kong Jie were watching Zhao Gang leave.

Kong Jie tsk tsk tsk tut, and took a sip of his pipe:
"How did your kid let him go now? Didn't this little show discover the problem? He was willing to leave?"

"Hey hey..."

Li Yunlong smiled:
"I told this little show to let him set off in the morning the day after tomorrow, but he naturally refused. If he wants to set off overnight today, he will not be busy all afternoon."

"Little Xiucai fights with me..."

"Desire to Indulge"

Kong Jie raised his eyebrows: "Okay, Old Li, this will be a battle of wits."

"Hahaha···"

Li Yunlong laughed, then the topic changed, and his tone was solemn: "You go to organize the troops, we will set off tonight, according to the predetermined plan, the assault company should have arrived in Yangquan soon."

"it is good"

(End of this chapter)