bookrandom Chapter 290 I made a fortune this time, and the two Japanese were scared into cowards by me!
Chapter 290 I made a fortune this time, and the two Japanese were scared into cowards by me!
It was September 9. As the Japanese troops returned to their previous strongholds, Li Yunlong withdrew his forces in time and led his five battalions to escort the last batch of seized supplies and began to rush to the base. They finally arrived at the base at eight o'clock in the morning on the 12th.
After learning the news of Li Yunlong's return, Zhao Gang immediately prepared the warehouse in advance and sent a battalion of troops to meet him. When they learned the news of Li Yunlong's arrival, Zhao Gang and his men immediately put down their work and went to Xiaoyunling to meet Li Yunlong.
"Old Li, I originally thought that you would come back from Xiaobao Zhang, but I didn't expect that the Japanese would send troops to garrison in Zhangzhuang stronghold again. It is indeed very unsafe to come back from that direction. I was planning to send someone to inform you, but I didn't expect that you had already rushed back from Xiaoyunling. I have been worried for the past few days!" Zhao Gang said with a happy face.
Li Yunlong replied with a smile on his face: "Lao Zhao, the Japs' army has returned. If I don't hurry back, I will probably be caught by the Japs. In the next two or three months, the Japs will not launch a large-scale attack on us. It is a good time for us to recuperate. Besides, I have not been idle in the past month. I have recruited two battalions of new soldiers and seized a large amount of food and money. This time I have really become a local rich man. I have also scared the surrounding Japs so much that they dare not come out of the city. They have become cowards one by one, so I can't even find the target of attack, so I have to return early. Besides, it is also dangerous to stay outside. It is better to end this outdoor combat operation!"
Ding Wei laughed and scolded, "Li Yunlong, you are such a disloyal boy. Lao Kong and I stayed in the base to look after the house for you, but you took people out to eat and drink, and didn't even leave us some soup. You really don't care about the friendship of comrades. You must listen to Lao Kong and I drinking, and don't fool us with that damn sweet potato stew. This time you must take out the Japanese sake you seized and share it with us, otherwise Lao Kong and I will never agree."
Kong Jie also cheered on the side, "Li Yunlong, you left all the hard work to me and Lao Ding, while you went out to have fun. This time you must come up with something good to shut me and Lao Ding up, otherwise we will complain to the brigade commander!"
Li Yunlong curled his lips and angrily scolded: "Lao Ding, Lao Kong, for your safety, I kept you two in the base, but you two bastards don't appreciate my kindness. In this case, I allow you to lead the troops out tomorrow. You can do whatever you want to the rear of the Japanese, and Li Yunlong will not fight for your credit. What do you think of my proposal?"
When Ding Wei and Kong Jie heard that Li Yunlong was so shameless, their faces turned black and they were about to fight with Li Yunlong. They did not expect Li Yunlong to be so shameless. Since that was the case, they would take this opportunity to take revenge and avenge their grievances, so that Li Yunlong would not have to act like the boss every day.
Li Yunlong saw Ding Wei and Kong Jie surrounding him and knew that what he had said just now had made them very angry. However, he remained stubborn and continued to curse: "Old Ding, Old Kong, I have been out for so many days. Even if I have no merit, I have worked hard. As a result, you two have no conscience and want to attack me. You are really nothing."
"Not to mention that you two bastards eat and drink my food every day, and even the weapons and ammunition are provided by me. You complain when I ask you to help with some work. You two are just wheat pickers working in the independent regiment. Isn't it your duty to help me with some work?"
Seeing that Li Yunlong wanted to continue talking, Zhao Gang quickly changed the subject and said, "Old Li, stop talking about these useless things. The dispute between the three of you will take three days and three nights to finish. Let's settle the people and supplies first, have a good rest today, and gather the college students tomorrow to discuss the next step!"
"Our plan to exchange materials for equipment has been going very smoothly these days. More and more merchants are rushing to the Zhangjiazhuang market. However, we have discovered some bad signs in the past two days. I have sent people to investigate this matter. I estimate that there will be news in two or three days. After the results of the investigation come out, I will talk to you in detail about this matter. Let's finish the things at hand first!"
No one refuted what Zhao Gang said. Li Yunlong and the other two stopped fighting and began to arrange for the people to settle in the base and settle the new recruits. They were busy until the evening before they finished all these things. After they had dinner, they checked the sentries and secret sentries in the base before they went to sleep peacefully.
Early the next morning, Li Yunlong notified everyone to come to the regiment headquarters for a meeting. After receiving the news, Lin Zhenhua arranged the matters at hand and hurried to the regiment headquarters. When he arrived, everyone had been waiting in the headquarters for half an hour. When they saw Lin Zhenhua coming, Li Yunlong knocked on the table before everyone had time to say a few words of greeting, attracting everyone's attention.
"College students, hurry up and find a place to stay. Today's matter is very important and it concerns the next step of our base. I arranged for Heshang and Duan Peng to be in charge of the outer perimeter security. This time, I also called Shen Quan and Zhang Dabiao over..."
Li Yunlong wanted to talk a little more, but Zhao Gang coughed a few times at this time. He stopped immediately and got to the point: "The first thing is to open up the air rubber transportation line. According to the agreement between Chen Minggeng and me, the other party has already arrived at the border and the rubber has been purchased. The most critical problem we are facing now is how to transport the rubber back. This matter will eventually fall on the shoulders of college students!"
Seeing everyone looking at him, Lin Zhenhua met everyone's expectations and said solemnly, "I discussed with Lao Li before about opening an aerial rubber transportation line. Now it seems that we were a little too optimistic. Our transport plane has a range of only more than 2000 kilometers. It is impossible to transport the rubber back in one go."
"According to my calculations, the total distance for a round trip is about 7000 kilometers. Even if I add another auxiliary fuel tank to the transport plane, it is impossible for it to reach a range of 7000 kilometers. This means we must find two places to stop and reserve fuel in advance."
"This will be a huge test for us. We cannot even get past the enemy if we want to transport fuel by ground. This means we can only transport fuel by air and deliver it to the destination in advance. This has dramatically increased our costs, increased the number of flights, and increased the risk exponentially."
"For safety reasons, the two stopovers we set up cannot be too close, nor too far away. Oil transportation can only be carried out at night. We take off at night and deliver the oil the next morning. We use the ant-moving method to reserve as much fuel as possible."
"Our new transport aircraft has a load capacity of about 2.5 tons and can transport about 1.6 tons of fuel each time. Based on the current production situation of the arsenal, I can get six transport aircraft within half a month to participate in this transportation work."
"As for the pilot problem that everyone is worried about, it has been initially solved. After more than 20 days of training and drills, 30 flight trainees are now able to skillfully operate the simulator. Tomorrow I will lead them in flight training. It is expected that within half a month, 18 pilots will be trained to perform the task of transporting rubber by air."
"Using air transport, the cost of purchasing rubber has increased greatly. According to my calculations, the purchase cost of each ton of rubber is about one ocean, of which the transportation cost accounts for nearly half. With our current strength, there is no way to reduce this cost. If the loss of fighter planes is taken into account, the purchase cost of each ton of rubber will be at least one ocean. Fortunately, we can produce many things ourselves, which greatly reduces our costs and can use other materials instead, thereby reducing our procurement costs."
Zhao Gang knew that what Lin Zhenhua said was true, and he echoed with worry: "The college students talked to me about this before. If the purchase price of each ton of rubber reaches more than 10,000 yuan, it is simply not affordable for our independent regiment. Fortunately, we can produce many things by ourselves, and we can also exchange drugs for rubber, so we can spread our costs step by step."
"Although we have seized millions of dollars this time, we have been spending money like water these days. A large amount of money has been used to buy urgently needed supplies. After all, not all businessmen like guns and ammunition. Some only want money."
"Our base was blockaded by the devils once before, and there was a food and salt crisis. Fortunately, we found a way to solve it in the end, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous. In the next long period of time, the devils' blockade of our base will only be strengthened and will not be relaxed. I have consciously stockpiled food and salt in advance and purchased a large amount of salt from salt dealers. Together with the salt seized by Lao Li in recent days, it is enough for more than 100,000 people in the base to eat for a year without any problem."
Lin Zhenhua interrupted at this time and said, "Old Zhao, we must increase the purchase of salt. Salt also plays a big role in the chemical industry. We must prepare for a rainy day. We can even send a team to carry money to trade. Now the Japanese blockade has not yet been formed. We still have a window of about ten days. Dispatch all the trucks and carriages in our base to transport large quantities of salt back. The salt reserves must be enough for the base to use for more than two years!"
Zhao Gang nodded in agreement and said, "College student, I will make a phone call to arrange this matter. Get all the trucks that our independent regiment can spare available and set out this afternoon to buy salt! This time, the task will be handed over to Captain Ding. Old Li, you should just take a few days off and don't come out to fight for it. That will only hurt the harmony among our side."
Li Yunlong curled his lips and did not stand up to refute. He had eaten meat and drank wine before, but did not leave any for Ding Wei and Kong Jie. Now he really could not fight for this opportunity again, so he had to sit back dejectedly.
Ding Wei excitedly agreed: "Political Commissar Zhao, leave this matter to me, you can rest assured, I am much more reliable than Li Yunlong!"