Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 181 The ecstatic Zhang Wanhe!

Because the New 1st Regiment and the Independent Regiment voluntarily withdrew from Yangquan.

The Japanese reconnaissance planes could not find any trace of them.

The Japanese troops from Shimen City and Taiyuan, with a total strength exceeding that of an infantry regiment, were defending Yangquan.

This thwarted Li Yunlong's plan to launch a second attack on Yangquan.

If the Japanese only had one infantry battalion stationed in Yangquan, then Li Yunlong would have to go and fight again.

The main force of the Japanese is still fighting in southeastern and southern Shanxi, so it would be good to add to their troubles.

However, the Japanese soldiers in southeastern and southern Shanxi did not come back to support, and there were not many Japanese soldiers in eastern Shanxi.

So Li Yunlong and Kong Jie led the troops and passed through the Zhengtai Railway overnight with the captured spoils.

With the support of the main force of the 386th Brigade, they returned to southeastern Shanxi unexpectedly smoothly.

Because the original base of the New 1st Regiment, Shangzhuang Village, had been exposed.

So the superiors arranged a new base for the New 1st Regiment in Chenjia Village.

The first thing I did after returning to southeastern Shanxi was to send a telegram to contact Boss Lin.

The second thing is to sleep.

"Li Yunlong!"

"Old Li!"

Early the next morning, two voices were heard outside the regiment headquarters. One was a male voice calling Li Yunlong, and the other was a female voice.

Li Yunlong lifted the door curtain and walked out, and saw the logistics director Zhang Wanhe and the director Zhu of the division hospital walking towards the regiment headquarters.

His face was filled with anticipation and impatience.

"Yo!"

"Minister Zhang, Dean Zhu, what a rare guest! What brings you to my humble abode today?"

Looking at their anxious expressions, Li Yunlong had already guessed their purpose.

"Why are you pretending to be a cultured person?"

"Stop talking nonsense and quickly hand over the military equipment and explosives raw materials. The logistics department still has a lot of things to do!"

Zhang Wanhe looked disgusted.

The news that the main force won a great victory in Hexi Village a few days ago has spread.

In addition, since the main force of the Japanese army arrived, the Eighth Route Army retreated with the local people. The local people who did not believe in the Eighth Route Army and stayed in the village were all killed by the Japanese army.

Now the enthusiasm of ordinary people to join the army is getting higher and higher, and the total strength of the 129th Division has exceeded 4 people.

For so many people, the daily expenses for food, drink, defecation and urination alone are not a small amount, not to mention necessities such as uniforms, weapons and ammunition.

Behind Zhang Wanhe, Dean Zhu with short hair looked very capable and looked at Li Yunlong with gratitude.

Dean Zhu was holding gifts such as cigarettes, Fenjiu and tea, while Zhang Wanhe had nothing in his hands.

"Comrade Zhang Wanhe, look at Dean Zhu. He even brought a gift when he came to visit, but you came empty-handed. Do you know any etiquette?"

"Hey hey hey..."

"President Zhu, please come in."

"But Dean Zhu, we didn't seize many medicines during this attack on Yangquan."

Li Yunlong took the gift from President Zhu and invited President Zhu and Minister Zhang into the Youth League headquarters.

Dean Zhu smiled slightly:
"I'm not here for medicine this time, Lao Li. I'm here specifically to thank you. The 30 tons of medicine and medical equipment you provided saved many soldiers' lives last time. You are the benefactor of our entire division field hospital."

Dean Zhu is very outgoing and calls everyone "Old Li" without any awkwardness.

The quality of the Japanese medicines and the medicines Li Yunlong got were not at the same level at all.

Moreover, even the Japanese themselves did not have effective medicine to treat poison gas. Li Yunlong's batch of medicines really helped the field hospital a lot.

The batch of medicines provided by Li Yunlong saved the lives of at least thousands of veteran soldiers.

Moreover, only a small half of that batch of medicines had been used, and the remaining medicines could save more soldiers in future battles.

Li Yunlong said seriously, "President Zhu, you're too polite. This is all part of my job. From now on, the medicines and medical equipment needed by the field hospital will be provided by me, Li Yunlong."

The last time I was drinking with Boss Lin, he said he had a lot of medicines and that you could get them by killing the Japanese.

Li Yunlong may not be good at other things, but he is good at fighting and killing the Japanese.

Dean Zhu's expression brightened: "Thank you very much, Old Li."

Li Yunlong laughed: "President Zhu, you're too polite."

Those medicines were originally supposed to be handed over to superiors. Last time, because the soldiers in the hospital were in a hurry to use the medicines, they didn't have time to ask their superiors, so they sent Zhao Gang directly to the field hospital.

This bastard... I'll bring a gift next time I come.

Zhang Wanhe, who was standing aside, did not feel unhappy at all. After all, Li Yunlong had helped him a lot as the logistics minister.

Li Yunlong not only handed over a lot of weapons and ammunition, but also provided a large number of military supplies such as cotton-padded clothes, military boots and helmets. Many troops said that Li Yunlong was the logistics minister of the Eighth Route Army, and Zhang Wanhe was just a bystander.

Suddenly, Zhang Wanhe's eyes flashed. The more he looked at the gifts on the table, the more familiar they seemed to be. "These cigarettes, Fenjiu, and tea seem to be sent by Wei Lihuang to the leader."

"What?" Li Yunlong jumped up in shock. "President Zhu, you brought the chief's things to me? I can't accept the chief's things."

Dean Zhu, who was wearing an Eighth Route Army uniform, smiled slightly and said, "The commander is in poor health and cannot smoke, drink alcohol, or drink tea. I have confiscated all his belongings."

Zhang Wanhe asked in a puzzled tone, "The chief is not in good health? I haven't heard anything about it. I saw him fighting with someone a few days ago."

Dean Zhu glared at him and asked, "Am I the doctor or are you the doctor?"

Zhang Wanhe naturally didn't dare to offend Dean Zhu, a popular figure in front of the commander and the division commander. Who hasn't had a headache, a fever, or been injured? He smiled and said, "You are, you are..."

Director Zhu still had surgery to perform, so Li Yunlong arranged for a transport team to load the medicines seized during the attack on Yangquan onto a truck for Director Zhu to take back to the field hospital. Within Yangquan City was a field hospital belonging to the Japanese 20th Division. The Japanese had fled, unable to destroy the medicines and equipment, so they were all seized and brought back by the New st and Independent Regiments.

After Dean Zhu left, Li Yunlong looked at Zhang Wanhe and said unhappily, "If you come empty-handed next time, I'll pretend I don't know you."

"Lao Li, we've been comrades for ten years. Who cares if we're just friends? Why do we still need all this?"

Zhang Wanhe's tone was impatient:

"What about the equipment and raw materials? The logistics department still has a lot of things waiting for me to deal with."

"Old Zhang," Li Yunlong asked seriously, "How many mules did you bring?"

"This time we brought 300 big mules."

Zhang Wanhe sighed, "This big mule is really strong. It's a pity that mules can't reproduce. It would be great if we could raise one ourselves."

Li Yunlong said angrily: "How much can such a big mule carry?"

Zhang Wanhe's eyes suddenly lit up. "So, a lot of equipment and raw materials were seized this time? Lao Li, where are they? Take me to see them."

Li Yunlong took Zhang Wanhe to a forest east of Chenjia Village.

It is definitely not possible to place so many equipment and raw materials on flat ground.

If we are discovered by Japanese reconnaissance planes, they will attract Japanese bombers and fighter planes, and dozens of aerial bombs will be dropped, and all our efforts will be in vain.

So all the equipment and raw materials were placed in the woods, as ordinary warehouses could not accommodate so many things.

Li Yunlong said to Zhang Wanhe:
"In order to transport this batch of equipment and raw materials to southeastern Shanxi, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region mobilized all its mules and horses."

Although the New 1st Regiment had sufficient transport capacity, its big mules had to carry weapons, ammunition, and spoils of war from the attack on Yangquan.

There were no extra mules to transport the equipment and raw materials. Fortunately, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region still had some financial resources, so they were able to transport this batch of equipment and raw materials over.

And the timing is also very important. The main force of the Japanese in southeastern Shanxi is concentrated in Changzhi, Xiangyuan and Licheng.

The equipment and raw materials were not attacked by the Japanese during the transportation, which means that the intelligence was not leaked.

"Headquarters has already selected the location for the arsenal. The smokeless gunpowder production line you submitted last time has been installed and is currently in production. This type of gunpowder is indeed more powerful than black powder and burns more completely."

"At the arsenal, they're already setting up production lines for grenades and reloaded bullets."

"We have solved the problem of creating something from scratch. We have the technology, but the difficulties of building an arsenal are still great, mainly due to the problem of raw materials."

"Although you provided a batch of raw materials, the army is large and powerful, and those raw materials will soon be used up."

The main ingredients of smokeless gunpowder are potassium nitrate, cellulose nitrate and carbon powder. These chemicals can only become highly efficient smokeless gunpowder after precise proportioning and processing.

The raw materials for producing these ingredients were given by Boss Lin together with the production line equipment. In addition to the equipment and raw materials, a complete set of technical information was also given.

"Oh?" Li Yunlong asked, "Where is the arsenal located?"

"A Thread of Sky," Zhang Wanhe said, "There's a 20-meter-wide and 40-meter-deep Yellow Cliff Cave on the cliff over there. Setting up the arsenal there will protect it from enemy bombing."

Li Yunlong nodded, air defense of the arsenal is very necessary.

If the arsenal that was painstakingly built and put into production was bombed by Japanese planes, it would be like going back to the time before the Anti-Japanese War.

"Is this... a machine tool for making bullets?"

Zhang Wanhe, who had suddenly walked into the woods, suddenly widened his eyes, spoke in a hurried tone, and breathed rapidly:

"This is a cutting machine, this is a planer, and, my goodness, this is a drilling machine for making gun barrels..."

Zhang Wanhe had seen pictures of these machine tools during his time in the Red Army, so he recognized them immediately.

While checking the equipment, Zhang Wanhe sighed, "I've heard that Old West Yan is very rich, but I didn't expect him to be this rich."

Li Yunlong said, "According to intelligence, Yan Laoxi only took away 2% of the equipment and raw materials from the Taiyuan Arsenal. Lao Zhang, do you think these equipment can be used?"

Zhang Wanhe smiled broadly: "We are missing a generator and a boiler, but that's not a big problem. We have two generators. As long as the boiler problem is solved, we should be able to operate it."

A total of more than 60 machines and equipment were seized this time, but more than 20 of them were too large and heavy. The Eighth Route Army had no cars and the roads were controlled by the Japanese. Those large machines and machine tools could not be pulled back at all, so they could only be blown up. More than 40 lighter equipment and raw materials were pulled back by large mules and carts.

"That's a pity..." After listening to Li Yunlong's explanation, Zhang Wanhe immediately asked, "By the way, how much raw material do you have for dynamite?"

Li Yunlong chuckled and said, "A rough estimate shows that the raw materials needed to make dynamite are about 80 tons."

"hiss!"

Hearing this number, Zhang Wanhe couldn't help but take a breath:
"Old Li, you've done a great job!"

(End of this chapter)