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Chapter 419 Chapter 418, Busy, Very Busy, Busy Transporting Things
Suddenly, Li Yuexuan became the captain of the largest motor transport team of the Eighth Route Army! Of course, being the captain of the transport team did not prevent him from using the iron can cannon to knock down a stronghold.

At this time, Li Yuexuan's men had a total of 80 trucks, and comrades from the guerrilla special forces served as the accompanying guard team, which was very cool!
You ask where the 80 trucks came from? In the battle yesterday, 45 trucks were seized, and this was only in and outside Yangquan. Then, when the telephone and telegram notification was issued, the comrades who participated in the raid naturally thought of the transportation problem! So, the trucks that had just been seized and had not yet been burned were sent to Yangquan.

There are many talented people in the Eighth Route Army, especially since each military sub-district has its own training system, so it is not a problem to find some people who can drive a car. Even if there is no driver, the comrades of the special operations team can do it for them. A car will take the driver over, and when the job is done, it will be a convoy!

Rumble... The car started, drove for a while, and stopped outside the Zhoucun stronghold. Captain Guo and his men, who had received the news, also arrived at the Zhoucun stronghold. Then, bricks and stones were loaded into the truck bed, and the truck was transported to the ditch to fill it.

In less than an hour, the trench that originally blocked the north side of the base was filled up by everyone's concerted efforts. It was solid and could be used by cars. This saved the convoy at least 5 miles, allowing it to avoid the harassment range of the western base and successfully deliver supplies to the base.

While filling the trench outside the stronghold, Li Yuexuan told Captain Guo and Zheng Changfeng about the battle and explained what to do next.

"You guys organize yourself and take the people to meet us directly at Woniu Mountain. We will use trucks to transport supplies here next time!" Li Yuexuan instructed Zheng Changfeng and others before leaving.

Without waiting for Zheng Changfeng and the others to answer, Li Yuexuan turned around and ran, handsomely got into the cab, stepped on the accelerator, and the car rumbled towards Yangquan City.

As the saying goes, when you encounter mountains, you build a path; when you encounter rivers, you build bridges. Li Yuexuan and his team were familiar with the route the first time they came here, so this time they will go back and really get to work!
An hour later, in Yangquan City, beside the warehouse of the military camp, trucks were lined up to be loaded. As the lead truck, Li Yuexuan was lucky to be the first to be loaded. Of course, there were 19 trucks following behind him, so with more people, they could load together.

"This warehouse is full of rice. The brigade commander said that the equipment is being dismantled. Let's take the food back first!" Captain Kong, along with his political commissar, commanded a battalion of soldiers and transformed themselves into hardworking porters. He ran as fast as he could, carrying two bags of rice on his shoulders, and soon filled the cargo boxes of 20 trucks.

"Okay, team one, let's go!" Li Yuexuan shouted, and led the first team's 20 trucks, rumbling out of the military camp, out of Yangquan, and headed towards the east of Ping'an County.

It didn't take long before another 20 trucks were loaded and the convoy set off again. Then came the third and fourth teams, with 80 trucks moving together, and each trip could take away 120 tons of supplies.

Why did they take away rice first? At that time, food was precious. How many troops could be fed with 120 tons of food? Everyone knows how to calculate this, right? How many comrades died of starvation during the Long March?
So, seeing so much food in Yangquan, many old comrades felt like they were little mice falling into a rice jar, full of happiness... Of course, Yangquan did not disappoint everyone. The Japanese had stored too much food, and it was impossible to transport it all in one or two trips. We had to keep working hard! So, when the cars left, the horse-drawn carriages took over; when the horse-drawn carriages left, the carts took over! If there was no more food in the military camp, there was still a warehouse at the brigade headquarters; if there was no more food at the brigade headquarters, there was even more at the train station!
Otherwise, it has to be a large railway station! A small mountain station like the Turbulence Station can't be compared with Yangquan! Well, the Japanese are stockpiling supplies for a brigade, which is absolutely indispensable! Moreover, the overseas Chinese came here to do business and make money. Under the trickery and robbery, the supplies stockpiled in the warehouse are more!
So, after transporting the food, the next thing was to pack up the supplies of the Japanese field hospital in Yangquan and take them away! These medical supplies were no less valuable than the food, and they had to be transported more carefully! So, they were ranked behind the food... Why them? ? Aren't there some female nurses of the Japanese who were also captured? It's not good to leave them in the city, so they were taken away first.

Although everyone dislikes these female nurses, we can't just watch them being beaten to death by angry citizens, right? What do you mean, the citizens are not that bad? Then who suddenly broke into the homes of the expatriates and smashed things last night? The expatriates bullied the citizens so badly on weekdays, why didn't they retaliate now?
Of course, these things are not a big deal for a county town. The most important thing is to transport supplies.

After all the medical supplies were transported back, the equipment in mines, hospitals, factories and other places had been almost dismantled. The third thing that needed to be transported was these things!
Time and again, day after day, the Japanese reconnaissance planes flew back and forth, and bombers came to bomb, but it still couldn't stop everyone's determination to transport supplies!

At this time, some people are concerned about when the coal from the coal mines outside the city will be transported away? This has to be put at the back of the list... Why? Coal, in fact, there are coal mines in the base area, but it is not a necessity. Moreover, if a family burns more than a ton of coal, it will probably be burned in one winter. Of course, that is the calculation of later generations. In this era, a few hundred kilograms are enough.

Don't ask why. Nowadays, we can burn straw and cut firewood in the mountains. There are many sources of fuel! Besides, poor families don't have many people who can burn coal...

In short, Li Yuexuan was very busy during this period. He was so busy that he had no time to get a good night's sleep and spent most of his time in the car.

Finally, it was August 8th, and most of the things that needed to be taken away had been taken away, and Yangquan had changed drastically.

Let’s take a look at the train station outside the city. Not to mention the train station and the warehouse, the tracks of the train station have been demolished! If you don’t tell me that this is a train station, I guess few people would recognize it! And the county town… well, the city gate is gone, the outer bricks of the city wall have been demolished, and even half of the rammed earth wall has been removed. The entire county town is exposed to the outside world.

Don’t ask who specifically demolished the city wall. It’s meaningless. Everything that could be taken away was taken away, including the people in the city who were willing to live with them in the base.

Therefore, when the raid on the Zhengtai Line ended, all the blocking troops gave up their attacks and retreated across the board, and Yangquan was basically an empty city.

(End of this chapter)