Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 108 Construction of a Sub-base
After investigation and questioning, it was found that among the more than 600 people, more than were reluctant to leave their hometown and decided to stay. The rest, some young miners, were captured from various places and were still afraid of going back, so they all agreed to follow the Eighth Route Army.

Although they didn't know what to do in Heyuan, at least the Eighth Route Army would provide them with food, which was much better than working in the Japanese's illegal coal mines.

"Brother Ren, I'm leaving this man in your hands. I'll let guard Li Hu serve as the captain of the escort that will escort you to Heyuan. This escort team will be with you for a long time. There will be 30 people in total, one Type 5 light machine gun, five spent machine guns, and 25 old-style slides. Don't think it's shabby, you can make them yourself anyway. You can just replace them yourself in the future." As they parted, Li Yunlong pulled Ren Zhong aside and said.

"Huzi, from now on you must follow Boss Ren closely and protect him well. If Boss Ren loses even a hair, I will beat you up!"

Hu Zi stood aside, looking somewhat reluctant. Ever since Monk Wei came, Hu Zi felt that the leader didn't want him anymore. Sure enough, today he was asked to follow Ren Zhong. Hu Zi pouted and lowered his head.

"Huzi, what are you doing? I asked you to learn more from Boss Ren, but you're still unwilling, right?" Li Yunlong was a little disappointed. "If you can learn even one percent, no, one ten-thousandth of Boss Ren's skills, you'll be lucky. Don't be ungrateful, little brat."

"But I just want to follow you to fight the Japanese." Hu Zi muttered in a low voice.

"Excuse me, Brother Ren. Excuse me, I'll leave this kid Hu Zi to you. Take good care of him." Li Yunlong turned around and said to Ren Zhong helplessly.

Although Hu Zi looked reluctant, Li Yunlong believed that Hu Zi would handle the matter well after handing it over to him. Ren Zhong's safety was of vital importance, and there were not many reliable people around Li Yunlong in this regard. Although Hu Zi's combat power was much worse than that of Monk Wei, he would rush forward without hesitation at the critical moment to block the bullet for Ren Zhong.

"Okay, Lao Li, I know what you mean. I'll leave it to you this time. I will take good care of Hu Zi." Ren Zhong replied with a smile.

Seeing that Hu Zi looks reluctant now, Ren Zhong believes that he will say it is really nice after he gets the newly developed weapons.

three days later.

Exhausted, Ren Zhong led the large group to a small village called Nangou on the edge of Heyuan.

This place is surrounded by mountains and water, and is hidden deep in the mountains. Ren Zhong has checked the terrain and mineral conditions of this area in the main plane world. The mineral resources are extremely rich, not to mention coal mines. Coal mines are almost everywhere here, although some have small reserves of tens of thousands of tons or hundreds of thousands of tons. In modern times, there is no value in large-scale mining, and they can only be mined in small private coal mines.

But for Ren Zhong, this was enough. A small coal mine would be enough for him to use for several years. In addition to coal, there were several metal minerals such as iron ore, copper ore, and bauxite, as well as a lot of non-metallic minerals such as clay and limestone.

It can be said that most of the main mineral raw materials that Ren Zhong needs are already available here, which is also the biggest reason why Ren Zhong chose this place as his new development base.

Zhang Dabiao had been waiting here for a long time, and had prepared hot meals for Ren Zhong and his team - corn steamed buns and wild vegetable soup. For modern people, these coarse grains are too hard to swallow, but the hungry miners' eyes lit up when they saw these things, and as soon as the order to eat was given, they picked up the corn steamed buns and devoured them greedily.

"Brother Da Biao, how are you doing here?" Ren Zhong asked while chewing a corn bun.

The information transmitted through the radio was very limited. Ren Zhong only knew that Zhang Dabiao was doing well here, but he was not very clear about how well he was doing.

"Boss Ren, let me put it this way. Now the city of Heyuan still belongs to the Japanese, but the area outside the city belongs to our Eighth Route Army." Zhang Dabiao said confidently. "If the regiment commander had not forbidden us to attack Heyuan County, we would have taken it down long ago."

“Come on, we still have to endure and develop secretly. It doesn’t make much sense to capture Heyuan County. Instead, it will attract the attention of the Japanese. Now we have captured all the Japanese strongholds outside Heyuan City. Although Ichiro Hirata of Heyuan is very uncomfortable, I’m afraid he will have to rack his brains to cover up this fact for us, otherwise he will not be able to continue his job as the captain of the gendarmerie.” Ren Zhong is very familiar with the development of the plot of the world of Bright Sword. Although Ichiro Hirata, the Japanese, is not good at fighting, he is very good at deceiving his superiors and subordinates.

He is also good at plotting and scheming. If Li Yunlong hadn't intervened, Chu Yunfei's battalion would have almost been instigated to rebel by him!
Ren Zhong felt that although keeping such a person would be a nuisance, at present the benefits outweighed the disadvantages, as it would be beneficial for the independent regiment to secretly develop in Heyuan County.

"Brother Da Biao, you did a good job in Heyuan. No wonder Lao Li keeps praising you." Ren Zhong said to Zhang Da Biao with satisfaction, "Next we have to do two things well. One is to build a new military industrial base and open a mine, and the other is to develop food production. Both of these are very important. The new base must lay a solid foundation. Both are indispensable."

Zhang Dabiao nodded repeatedly after listening. Although Ren Zhong did not have any clear position in any independent regiment, Zhang Dabiao knew clearly that even the regiment commander obeyed Ren Zhong's orders. When Ren Zhong arrived in Heyuan, Li Yunlong told him very clearly that except for military matters, he had to follow Ren Zhong's command in everything else!
This is a very clear order, and Zhang Dabiao needs to execute it whether he understands it or not.

Of course, Zhang Dabiao had long admired Ren Zhong for what he had done in Yangcun, and there was no possibility that he would be dissatisfied.

"Next, we will build a bullet reloading factory. Among these miners, I will select some smart ones to be trained as workers, and the rest will continue to dig holes. I have already selected several mining sites, including coal mines, iron mines and copper mines. I will start with them tomorrow to build temporary accommodations and simple warehouses for storing ore at the mining sites. Basically, we will follow the method we did in Yangcun, building against the mountain and camouflaging the roofs with vines.

After I show you the address of the mine, you will be in charge of the construction there. I will lead another group of people to build an iron smelting blast furnace and a copper smelting reverberatory furnace. We will smelt steel and copper in Heyuan as soon as possible."

While Ren Zhong was deploying the tasks, Zhang Dabiao was taking notes carefully. From what Ren Zhong said, the base being built in Heyuan would be bigger and more complete than that in Yangcun!
Zhang Dabiao was so happy after hearing this.

Because next it will be Zhang Dabiao's turn, as he has the upper hand over the water!

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