The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 209: Prepare Overnight
"Sir, my name is Wang Jinfu.

Born on the Dragon Boat Festival in the third year of the Republic of China, he never went to school and lived in Wangfu Village outside the city. His parents are no longer alive, but he has a wife and two sons. Their names are..."

In the darkness of the night, a former Teng County policeman with a ruffian look on his face began to report loudly.

At the same time, Annie lay on a table, relying on the light of an oil lamp, and quickly recorded the above information in a small notebook.

Whether it was the man who was reporting loudly or Anne who was recording quickly, both of them had very serious expressions.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is full of a solemn sense of ceremony.

No other reason! Just as Hu Biao and Hu Tuanzuo had emphasized before, since you have chosen to join the Subei Independent Regiment to defend the county seat of Teng County, then you should consider yourself a dead man.

The current registration process represents too many things.

It means that they died fighting the Japanese invaders. They were all upright men and will be recorded in the family tree in the future.

This means that in the future, Hu Tuanzuo will be able to find their families and provide them with compensation based on the above registered information, provided that Hu Tuanzuo is not dead.

So when it comes to such an important matter, no one dares to be careless.

No! There are still some discordant factors. The newbie, Xiangcai, has lost his focus again.

According to Hu Biao's idea, Annie was responsible for registering the new recruits of the Subei Independent Regiment. After the registration was completed, Xiangcai had to cooperate and give them some hard currency as settling-in fees.

After Annie completed the registration for Wang Jinfu and repeated it once to confirm that all the information was recorded correctly, Xiangcai was supposed to issue hard currency.

But no one knew what she was thinking, her eyes were blank and she didn't react at all.

Seeing this, Annie reached out from under the table and secretly twisted her thigh hard. Only then did Xiangcai come to her senses in pain.

He hurriedly poured out five 0.4 gram sulfa pills from a large medicine bottle, carefully wrapped them in oil paper, and handed them over, not forgetting to remind him:
"Commander Hu said that if these pills are sold, each pill must be sold for at least four taels of silver. Don't sell them for less than that."

That's right! Hu Biao's Subei Independent Regiment used sulfanilamide as resettlement allowance. In such a chaotic time, this stuff was completely hard currency.

According to the plan discussed by Hu Biao and Commander Wang, one of them was to secretly release the people stranded in the city before dawn to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Japanese.

At that time, new recruits like Wang Jinfu can ask someone to bring these sulfonamides to their families as settling-in fees for their enlistment.

The Subei Independent Regiment has a share of resettlement allowances for those who join the army and pensions for those who die or become disabled. Commander Hu is not a man who knows how to do his job well.

So there was the scene where every new recruit was given a few sulfa pills.

As for why Xiangcai was distracted? I can only say that this selfish woman didn't want to die in Teng County.

In other words, from the beginning to the end, she had great doubts about Hu Biao's statement that he could be resurrected in the modern dimension after dying in battle.

I was worried that if I died, I would really die. There was absolutely no point in taking any risks.

She didn't want to die here as long as there was any possibility, so she wanted to escape and blend in with the crowd of people.

After taking the oil paper package containing sulfa, Wang Jinfu gave Annie and Coriander a military salute that was not at all standard.

Then he hurried away carrying a shovel, intending to join Commander Hu and his construction team.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night for all the soldiers and civilians in the city, because they have to make all possible preparations for tomorrow's street fighting.

The kind where everyone works together, everyone is united...

******
At 10:20 that evening, in the courtyard of a wealthy family in the city.

"Everyone, just watch carefully and learn how to do it as I do." Mo Shuiyan gave these instructions to the six soldiers in front of him who were said to have some skills as blacksmiths, carpenters and leatherworkers.

After saying that, he picked up a tin can.

First, he filled most of the bottom of the box with loess, and then put some precious yellow explosives in and compacted it carefully.

A fuse similar to a grenade was installed in the yellow explosive, and the fuse was carefully pulled out from the reserved hole.

Then, some steel nails, porcelain pieces, and stones were placed on the yellow explosives. Finally, after sealing the entire tin can with a thin layer of semi-dried yellow mud, a DIY anti-personnel mine was ready.

In this way, whether it is to use personnel to ambush and pull the fuse from a distance.

Or treat it as a mine and pull a hidden silk thread to trigger the fuse by stirring.

Those large numbers of steel nails, porcelain pieces, stones, etc. will be splashed under the power of yellow explosives; because the yellow explosives used are limited, they may not be enough to kill the Japanese directly.

However, their legs will basically be disabled and they will not be able to participate in subsequent battles, and the Japanese will have to spare manpower to take care of them.

If you think about it carefully, it seems to be better than killing these devils directly.

In addition to this DIY anti-personnel mine, Mo Shuiyan then demonstrated some methods of making DIY smoke bombs and DIY poison gas bombs. The production process of each one can be described as simple and crude.

It can be said that anyone with a normal brain can understand it at a glance, and there is no difficulty at all.

In the following period, six soldiers with some skills began production.

But seeing this, Mo Shuiyan still sighed silently, because time was too tight and no processing machinery could be found in the county seat of Teng County.

Even if he has great abilities, what he can do now is quite limited.

Look! At this moment, he looked in front of him and saw a severely deformed thick gun barrel.

It came from the damaged Mauser M1918 anti-tank rifle. Hu Biao asked Mo Shuiyan to find a way to repair this most powerful anti-tank weapon at hand.

After some inspection, Mo Shuiyan came to a helpless conclusion:

With the tools at his disposal, he could forget about it.

Although some methods can be used to straighten the barrel, the barrel can no longer withstand the ultra-high chamber pressure of the 13.2mm bullet, and the accuracy will be seriously reduced after the rifling is worn.

The only thing that can be done at the moment is to saw off the barrel of the gun and make two DIY shotguns.

There are people who share the same helpless thoughts as Mo Shuiyan, including this wizard, a novice time traveler.

Let's put it this way, as long as he is given some simple materials such as ammonium nitrate fertilizer and sulfuric acid, he can prepare some powerful enough explosives to give the Japanese a surprise.

But where are these chemical materials available in Teng County now?

The only thing he could do was to bring a few helpers to make ancient black gunpowder and provide it to Mo Shuiyan to make various makeshift equipment...

Two hours later, in a private house, Xu Feng waved a manuscript vigorously and waved at the blue brick wall in front of him.

With a loud 'boom', a hole big enough for a person to pass through while crouching appeared before his eyes.

The next second, a big hole appeared on the opposite wall. Amidst the flying dust, the fat man Huang Yizi, weighing more than 200 pounds, which was particularly eye-catching in this day and age, appeared in front of Chen Tang.

Representing this street, all the courtyards and rooms are connected.

Once the fighting started, even if the Japanese occupied the commanding heights on the city wall, the defenders would be able to maneuver quickly by constantly passing through the buildings.

And such a passage is just one of the many things they urgently renovated and built tonight.

For example: machine gun bunkers were built at some key intersections.

These bunkers were not large and could only accommodate a machine gun team; but they were reinforced with a large number of rails and sleepers, so they could withstand a direct hit from the Japanese 75mm caliber artillery shells.

There are also many soldier hiding holes and hidden firing points around the bunker.

Once the Japanese try to rush in with their numbers to overwhelm the machine gun bunker, there will definitely be a huge surprise waiting for them.

Or in an area already occupied by the Japanese, someone might suddenly appear at any time, shoot them from behind, or throw a grenade.

In short, the entire Teng County has become a ferocious beast with bared fangs...

(End of this chapter)