Chapter 57 Stealing Wires
The first thing to solve is the problem of electricity. For this reason, Chen Xiao decided to build a watchtower, the kind with a searchlight.
Before I traveled through time, I watched TV and found that the Japanese army’s bunkers and artillery towers all had searchlights.
When I got here I discovered that this was not the case at all, unless one was close to a county town where electric wires could be pulled in without being cut.
Or maybe there are enough generators, but where can Japan get so many generators?
Therefore, only the more important and remote artillery towers would be installed with generators, many of which were hand-cranked or foot-pedaled. But after 40 years, diesel generators began to appear.
For Chen Xiao, having a generator is enough. He doesn't care what kind of power it uses, whether it is hand-cranked or diesel.
He was planning to switch to hydroelectric power anyway.
But these are not the most important, because Chen Xiao also has a generator set, and it is a hydroelectric generator set.
But unfortunately, he had no cables, no wires, no light bulbs.
This is the most important thing, and the hydroelectric generator requires a dam and takes time to install.
He had seen it when he took it out just now. The hydroelectric generator set that the system rewarded him was larger than he expected.
No wonder the system description says it can power 60 households.
But this thing is modern, everything is designed, and it can be installed and put into use as long as the side dam is built.
Such things are not easy to modify directly, otherwise they will be damaged.
So he simply decided to grab a diesel or hand-cranked or foot-pedaled generator. If it was a diesel one, he would use it directly. If it was a hand-cranked or foot-pedaled one, he would pull a belt from the water truck and get some lighting first.
Just do it when you think of it. I have to say that the Japanese cage policy is still very effective. I don’t know how many artillery towers we bypassed on the way from Taiyuan.
Every time he would let the monk take the person away first, and then he would put the motorcycle into the inventory and go around the artillery tower to take it out without telling the monk.
The monk also knew that he was very strong and thought that he had carried all those hundreds of pounds by himself.
He did it right away. He took out gasoline and a funnel from the inventory and added them to the motorcycle. He shook the small gasoline barrel and found that there was not much oil left, so he had to steal another barrel.
He remembered that on the way here, at the intersection of the four roads in Luoziling Village, there was a watchtower with a searchlight on it. That was it.
The artillery towers of this era were not just simple artillery towers or bunkers.
Instead, barbed wire will be set up around the area, and mines will be laid inside the barbed wire.
There are special entrance and exit roads in the minefield, and at the end of the roads there are firing holes of the bunkers and turrets.
This is why, in the past, taking down a watchtower meant sacrificing lives. That’s the reason.
The Eighth Route Army had too few engineers capable of bomb disposal, or it could be said that this type of soldier and this skill did not exist in 1940 .
There are some, but they are very few. Of course, there are only a few troops like those in the movie Mine Warfare who are specialized in laying mines and clearing mines.
But for a scout with master-level infiltration skills, a mere minefield is nothing more than ammunition delivered to his doorstep.
The enemy's searchlights would only turn on and illuminate a circle after a period of time.
This point needs to be explained. As a fighter in a turret, they will remember the situation of each area, how many trees there are, how much grass there is, and what colors it has.
If there is anything wrong, it means someone is lurking there.
They used searchlights to scan these areas to see if there was anything wrong. If there was anything wrong, they would just shoot with machine guns.
This is the real purpose of the existence of artillery towers. They are located on bridges, tunnel entrances, river intersections, and road intersections.
With their high-altitude vision, they monitor every wrong area and almost every necessary route.
This is the cage tactic, the purpose of which is to destroy the connection between the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and the 129th Division and various bases.
so,
Chen Xiao had to sneak into the artillery tower during the intervals when they were scanning with searchlights.
He needed to pass through barbed wire and minefields, and there was absolutely no way he could enter through the path left by the enemy.
Even with his strength, now three times that of the strongest adult, he couldn't stop the machine gun bullets.
As someone with master-level scout stealth skills, observing minefields is also a must.
He can tell at a glance which locations are suitable for laying mines and which locations are not suitable for laying mines.
It is impossible to clear the mines because there is not enough time between the last searchlight and the next one.
So he can only sneak in, and why should he clear mines?
If he doesn't clear the mines this time, he will have to do it again the next time the Japanese army enters this bunker and turret, otherwise they will not feel safe.
Moreover, if someone like him needs to make a big fuss and throw mines as bombs to sneak into such a blockhouse, then he is really a bad guy.
He just needed to avoid the enemy's sight, step on the gaps between the mines, and get close to the artillery tower.
The door of the turret could not be opened at night, but as long as there was a tiny gap where he could grab hold of it with his fingers, he could use it to climb up.
Like many professional rock climbers, they only need a tiny crack, as long as they can put a little bit of their fingers in, they can use it to climb up.
Chen Xiao can also do this.
So he climbed up and did not crawl in through the machine gun firing hole in the middle. Although he could get in, it was a bit narrow and he didn't like to do things in a forced way.
So we climbed all the way to the top of the artillery tower, where there was a post that was responsible for operating the searchlight, which would shine a circle once in a while.
Unfortunately, he could no longer shine the searchlight, because his head turned around like a searchlight and then fell down limply.
Holding a bayonet in his hand, without even a gun, Chen Xiao tiptoed down the stairs.
In this era, stairs are all made of wood, and if you step on them heavily, the noise they make is very loud.
But Chen Xiao did not make any sound. From the top of the turret to the first floor, there were 14 people in total. He killed them all without firing a single shot.
Sure enough, there was a generator that was pedaled. Every once in a while, the Japanese soldiers would pedal the generator.
The searchlight above will light up, and when it lights up, the person above will turn the searchlight to look around, and they cooperate very well.
There is a bundle of wires next to the generator. It shouldn't be very long, but it must be at least dozens or hundreds of meters.
There were also spare light bulbs. After all, light bulbs of that era were not durable and would burn out if not handled with care . Therefore, the Japanese army usually had spare light bulbs and replaced them in time to avoid being taken advantage of by the Eighth Route Army.
There are fewer wires, fewer lamp holders, and fewer bulbs, but I am basically satisfied with the results.
After putting away the generator, light bulbs, wires, guns and ammunition, Chen Xiao went home.
He planned to install the water truck overnight, connect it to the generator and start enjoying life with electricity.
The monk was on the road, walking fast with his two thighs. As for getting a horse, forget it. At this time, you can't just snatch a horse if you want to, and not everyone is Chen Xiao.
At the headquarters hospital, Tian Xiaoyu, who had just made a great contribution, also encountered a turning point in his life.
