Liang Jian: Lao Li, I'm really not a military expert

Lin Zhenhua used the method of back and forth transfers and finally arrived at dawn the next day. He arrived at a small valley ten miles away from Lijiazhuang. After working all night, everyone was very tired.

Lin Zhenhua took a sip of water and panted as he made arrangements: "Li Sanwa, hurry up and ride to Lijiazhuang. Ask a row of soldiers to send someone to support us. Just ask them to send a squad. Make sure there are no problems with the defense of Lijiazhuang!"

"Alas, we don't have a radio. If we had one, it would be much easier to communicate. I wonder where Captain Li is now?"

A platoon of soldiers who were on guard at Lijiazhuang saw Li Sanwa coming back, and the platoon leader asked anxiously: "Li Sanwa, why did you come back alone? Where is Captain Lin?"

Li Sanwa panted and said, "First Platoon Leader, Captain Lin and his men are in a small valley away from Lijia Village. This time we captured Huangjia Town and seized a lot of supplies, which filled more than 60 carts. Now we are short of manpower. Captain Lin asked you to send a squad of soldiers to support us and help us drive the carriages back!"

Upon hearing the good news, the platoon leader couldn't help but patted Li Sanwa's shoulder, almost knocking Li Sanwa to the ground. He said embarrassedly, "Sanwa, I'm sorry, I was too excited and didn't control my strength well. I will arrange for the third squad to go with you. I will take the first and second squads to stay in Lijiazhuang. We must not let anyone steal our home!"

Li Sanwa took the water handed over by the platoon leader, rolled his eyes, and replied unhappily: "Platoon leader, gather the people first and let me rest for ten minutes. I've been rushing all the way here and I'm exhausted. Do you have any food? Give me something to eat first so I can catch my breath!"

The platoon leader quickly grabbed a handful of fried noodles, scalded them with hot water, and handed them to Li Sanwa, saying, "Sanwa, you've come at a good time this time. Xiao Wan'er was making a fuss yesterday, and I kept the hot water on to heat her milk powder. You should thank Xiao Wan'er, otherwise you wouldn't have a chance to eat a hot meal!"

Li Sanwa waved his hand, took a short break, and happily started to eat the fried noodles. It tasted so damn delicious. If he could eat it every day, he wouldn't exchange it for a gold ingot.

"First Platoon Leader, I'm done eating. I have to lead the others out! Use all our horses. We have to hurry up and get there!"

Li Sanwa led a group of soldiers on war horses and rode non-stop for an hour before arriving at the small valley. By then, it was already dawn.

Seeing Li Sanwa and his men coming over, Lin Zhenhua didn't say anything and directly ordered: "Leave a squad to guard the remaining carriages, and the others will drive half of the carriages back to Lijiazhuang with me. We don't have much time left. I estimate that Huangjia Town will explode soon. We have to hurry back to Lijiazhuang to be safe!"

"Doctor Wang, take two soldiers with you. Don't forget to clean up the traces of our carriage. We must not let the Japanese and puppet troops find our whereabouts!"

After explaining everything, Lin Zhenhua left with the carriage. After walking for nearly two hours, he arrived at Lijiazhuang. With the help of a row of soldiers, he drove the carriage into the village.

"First Platoon Leader, the guard of Lijiazhuang is in your hands. I will also take people to drive the remaining carriages back and have the soldiers load their guns and prepare for battle!"

After being busy for nearly a whole morning, they finally drove back all the 60-plus carriages and cleaned up all the ruts. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, with joy on their faces. Wang Xuecheng began to report on their gains.

"Captain Lin, comrades, I have good news for you. The food we brought back this time is enough to feed all the soldiers for more than half a year. It's more than 1000 kilograms of food, including millet, sorghum, wheat, and more than kilograms of flour. We have never had so much food before. We are really going to make a fortune this time!"

"In terms of money, we seized two boxes of silver ingots, four boxes of silver dollars, and one box of banknotes. A rough estimate is that the value is 500,000 or 600,000 silver dollars. We haven't done a detailed inventory yet!"

"We also seized five truckloads of weapons and ammunition, four Czech light machine guns, one Maxim heavy machine gun, more than a hundred Mauser rifles, more than 80 rounds of bullets, and two 60mm mortars, plus rounds of shells. We've really made a fortune this time, and we don't have to worry about guns and ammunition for a while!"

"Of course, what makes me happiest is that we also seized six boxes of medicines, which are what we need most right now. Now our medical team can finally put them to use, and we are no longer helpless due to the lack of medicine like before!"

Lin Zhenhua was also surprised and exclaimed: "I didn't expect that Huang Shiren's son was also engaged in the business of reselling arms. Otherwise, where would he get so many bullets and shells? Add to that the medicines we found, no wonder the Huang family is so rich. Arms and medicines are very profitable these days. I guess the Huang family's wealth is grown in other places, and we just haven't discovered it yet!"

"Food, weapons, ammunition, medicine, we have everything we need, so we have time to focus on production. The first and second platoons will continue to guard Lijiazhuang. Today we need to arrange for these supplies. I think it will snow in two days at most. We also got some quilts and cotton cloth. Let's hurry up and make some new cotton-padded clothes for everyone. Maybe we will celebrate the New Year in Lijiazhuang this year!"

Under a series of arrangements made by Lin Zhenhua, the soldiers of the Second Battalion spent two days and finally sorted out the supplies. On the morning of the third day, snowflakes began to float in the sky and the temperature suddenly dropped below 0 degrees. Fortunately, with the help of the kang, no one suffered frostbite.

"College student, I'm going to take advantage of my free time these two days to check on my comrades. It just so happens that we don't lack medicine now!"

Lin Zhenhua warmed his hands by the stove, picked up the sweet potato and blew on it, saying, "Doctor Wang, you decide on the arrangements! Let's make more ginger soup these two days for the comrades to drink to warm their bodies. We also got two lamb legs from the Huang family. The weather is cold, so it's just right to make two meals of lamb soup for everyone to drink to replenish the fat and water in their stomachs!"

"Doctor Wang, how is the production of penicillin going? Have you encountered any problems?"

When Dr. Wang heard Lin Zhenhua ask this, he smiled bitterly and said, "College student, I came to see you this time just for this matter. According to the method you said, we did not culture Penicillium, but instead cultured some miscellaneous bacteria, wasting so much sugar, which made the three of us feel so distressed that we were too embarrassed to come to see you!"