Chapter 68: Reasonable Atlas
This time, Chen Xiao asked the monk to go and ask for someone and deliver a letter at the same time. In fact, asking for someone was just a side job, and delivering the letter was the most important thing, because there was a map book among the things to be delivered.
The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia mineral distribution map has been materialized by him, but in order to conceal his identity, it was in Japanese. Of course, the Japanese at that time also contained a large number of Chinese characters, and the place names were definitely in Chinese.
Because during this period, the Japanese army's writings contained a large number of Chinese characters.
Especially the place names, which are definitely marked in Chinese on the map, but I don’t know when they were changed later.
(I have seen a map used by the Japanese army during the Anti-Japanese War. It looks like this, with a small amount of Japanese and a large number of Chinese place names.
In addition, even the statistics of the Japanese arsenal were written in Chinese.)
Moreover, this atlas is deliberately hand-drawn, and has the surveyor's name at the back, a Japanese name.
Anyway, it looked like when Chen Xiao went to rob supplies, he accidentally killed the team with the surveyor, and then snatched back this book.
It is normal for Chen Xiao to rob things now, near Taiyuan, not far from the railway.
The ShiTai Railway (Zhengtai Railway) transports a huge amount of supplies, and just a little bit of it would be enough to eat.
It's just that he had been robbing quite a lot recently and brought back a lot of food, including canned food, rice, flour and the like. The Japanese army may have noticed this, so there were a lot more escort personnel on the vehicle.
As for the monks.
Of course it was impossible for the monk to go directly to the Eighth Route Army headquarters. He couldn't go there because he was not a member of the Eighth Route Army.
However, only after they went directly to Li Yunlong's independent regiment, found the political commissar Zhao Gang, and handed the letter and the things to be delivered to Zhao Gang personally, did the ten-man escort team behind him breathe a sigh of relief.
That’s right!
There were ten other people who came with the monk as an escort team. Eight of them were holding newly produced submachine guns, and each of them had sufficient ammunition. One of them was holding a rifle for shooting long-range targets, and he also carried several magazines and a machine gun barrel. Another one was holding a Czech light machine gun.
In particular, the magazine they had already installed on the gun had two more magazines tied with cloth at the bottom, a total of three magazines with 90 rounds of bullets.
This method was taught to them by Chen Xiao, because he had seen a documentary that showed that this was how the Americans used this type of submachine gun on the Yalu River back then.
The three magazines were tied together, so you could just pull them out and replace the head, and then put them back on for non-stop fire.
Of course, the prerequisite is that the movements must be skillful.
After they saw Zhao Gang take the things handed over by the monk, they all breathed a sigh of relief, lifted the alert formation they had maintained all the way, and turned off the safety.
The sound of them all heaving a sigh of relief was quite loud, which made Li Yunlong and the other man look at them sideways.
"What is this? What's the explanation?" Zhao Gang took the thing and originally wanted to put it aside, but this time he didn't dare to put it aside.
The monk was as relieved as if he had put down a heavy burden: "Vice President, this is an atlas of all the mineral deposits that have been discovered in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region.
I followed the principal and attacked a Japanese team. When I saw what the principal took out from the man's arms, he said it might be a Japanese prospecting team.
According to the map book, there are many shallow mines and open-pit mines, which are easy to mine and very suitable for the Eighth Route Army without large tools.
The principal said that this thing would have a great impact on the development of the Eighth Route Army, and he gave us a strict order to ensure that the map book was delivered safely.
Now, I have completed my mission!"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Gang opened the package, picked up the letter addressed to him first, put it aside without reading it, and opened the thick hand-drawn atlas.
There are gold mines, copper mines, iron mines, coal mines, silver mines, tin mines, aluminum mines, tungsten mines and many more, and even oil and natural gas!
These mines are marked with local villages and mountains, as well as their locations and approximate depths.
They are all clearly marked.
God!
Zhao Gang's hands began to tremble. He understood that if the exploration in this atlas was true, then the changes it would bring to the Eighth Route Army would be enormous.
Even change the whole situation.
In addition to our country's underdeveloped industry, mineral resources have always been scarce due to problems with exploration technology.
Just like our army has been making weapons all the time, but due to the lack of raw materials, they have to use the railroad tracks that were stolen from the Japanese to make weapons.
Although rail steel is good for making rails, it is relatively poor for making guns and cannons.
Li Yunlong didn't know how important this atlas was, but he could see that Zhao Gang was very serious.
Hu Zi has been sent out to quietly give orders to keep on alert.
Zhao Gang took a breath and looked back at the two letters. One of the letters was from Feng Lin to the headquarters, which he was not qualified to read.
The other letter was from Chen Xiao to Zhao Gang. He opened it and took a look . There were only two sentences on it: select 30 outstanding students for the monks, as he wanted to form a special forces team.
"Special Forces?"
Li Yunlong was startled: "What? Special forces! Xiucai wants to train special forces?"
"Yes!" Zhao Gang nodded: "That's what he said in the letter."
Li Yunlong actually didn't know what kind of troops , but he had seen the training of the scouts in the Agricultural Science School. He estimated that ten of those scouts could beat a hundred people in his regiment.
I've also heard that there's still a big gap between the students in the school and those in the special forces.
He also had a deep impression of the special forces. The reason why his deputy commander Kong Jie was dismissed was because of this special forces.
He was able to become the head of the independent regiment because of this Japanese special forces unit.
"Do you want my independent group to get one too?"
Although Zhao Gang was a sharpshooter, he was not very confident in military affairs, so he did not speak. He wrote a note and gave it to the monk, asking him to go to the school to select people himself.
After the monk led his men out, he immediately called the brigade headquarters. Upon hearing the call, the brigade headquarters knew that there could not be any mistakes with this kind of thing, so they asked him to quickly send troops to escort the atlas to the brigade headquarters.
He sent someone to meet him at the brigade headquarters.
Not to mention anything else, if the gold mine is real, then at least the economy will be much more affluent.
We can send someone to escort him, but we cannot mobilize a large number of people and attract attention.
In this area, the most powerful group is the students from the Northwest Shanxi Scout Agricultural Science School that Zhao Gang is currently leading.
Zhao Gang clapped his hands. Since Chen Xiao said he wanted to pick people, then he should pick out the best 30 people to escort the documents to the brigade headquarters and headquarters first, and then go to Chen Xiao.
After asking Li Yunlong to put away his things, he hurried towards the school. Choosing people based on their ability was secondary, the most important thing was that they were trustworthy and had high political awareness.
He could only feel at ease if he went there in person, because he was the one doing the political education work for all the students in the school.
As soon as Zhao Gang left, Li Yunlong quickly asked the guard Hu Zi to call the deputy commander Kong Jie.
As soon as Kong Jie entered the room, he complained: "What's wrong? I'm busy training the team. Unlike you, the head of the group, who stays in the house all day and does nothing!"
Li Yunlong rebuked him with one sentence: "Chen Xiao is a scholar, he wants to form a special forces!
Do you have any ideas? "
