Devil's Army

Commander Ling Qilong received a telegram from the major, urging the reinforcements that were being assembled to speed up preparations and reinforce the Wangjiadagou gold mine as soon as possible.

Commander Ling Kulong actually guessed that no one had answered the Japanese telegram from Wangjia Dagou Gold Mine, and that Wangjia Dagou Gold Mine must have been lost. But what he had to do was to regain control of the gold mine. The safety of the two squadrons at the gold mine was secondary.

After this large group of Japanese troops retreated, Brigade Commander Liu of the Third Brigade immediately arranged for his troops to build fortifications.

He guessed that the Japanese would definitely counterattack, because he heard from the army commander that the reason why the Japanese expanded abroad was because of the lack of resources at home. Now the Japanese would definitely not give up the big gold mine of Wangjia Dagou easily.

The Eighth Brigade, which had recaptured the Wangjiadagou gold mine, was also rushing to dig for gold. Truckloads of gold were loaded onto trucks and taken to Tiaobinshan County.

Leng Feng once told Chilang that if the Third Brigade was unable to withstand the attack of the Fengtian devils, they should immediately blow up the gold mine and withdraw the troops back to the tribe.

Chilang divided the miners into three shifts, digging for gold 24 hours a day. The truck soldiers were also on standby at all times, and would immediately send the truck back to Shan County as soon as it was full.

Chilang also knew that it would take a lot of money to build a strong army, so he wanted to take advantage of the gold mine in his hands to dig more hard currency for the army.

At this time, Leng Feng was selecting soldiers who knew smelting from an army of more than 60,000 people.

Leng Feng's work will be done in two steps. The first step is to smelt the gold ore that has been brought back. The coal output from Diaobei Mountain has been normal and can fully meet the needs of the smelter.

The second step was that if the Third and Eighth Brigades could successfully stop the attack of the Fengtian devils, he would also take them to explore the Shujigou copper mine. The troops were now beginning to lack the raw materials for making weapons.

However, the prerequisite for developing the Shujigou copper mine is that their troops can withstand the attack of the Fengtian devils, otherwise they would be making things easier for the devils.

Finally, Leng Feng selected the best from the worst and selected more than 30 soldiers and officers to form a smelting plant.

Among them, Yan Jing’s father worked at the Japanese Fengtian Smelting Plant. One summer vacation, his father was ill, and Yan Jing worked at the smelting plant for nearly a month, which made him a person with practical work experience. Moreover, he was a knowledgeable college student, so he was soon elected as the director of the smelting plant.

But Yan Jing has not yet come out of the shadow of his master's sacrifice.

He spent the entire week of his vacation at his teacher's wife's house, helping her with work and taking care of the children. So when he returned to the army after his vacation and the army notified him that he had been selected to be the director of the smelting plant, he refused without a second thought.

Wen Lang, who was in charge of preparing the smelter, didn't say anything and asked Yan Jing to go with him to the arsenal in the tunnel.

The atmosphere in the arsenal was very relaxed. Everyone was chatting and laughing while working without stopping.

"Do you think they are resisting the Japanese?" Lang asked Yan Jing.

"Yes".

"But they didn't use guns to shoot the devils?"

"Although they didn't shoot the Japanese with guns themselves, without the bullets and grenades they made, our frontline soldiers would not be able to kill the Japanese at all."

Wenlang brought his glasses to the tribe's arsenal again.

The masters in this arsenal are manufacturing 40 rocket launchers.

"Which do you think is more powerful, the 40mm rocket launcher or the 150mm howitzer?"

"That must be the power of the 150mm howitzer. With one shot, a pond-sized pit was formed."

"Then why don't they produce 150mm howitzers, but 40mm rocket launchers which are much less powerful?"

Glasses shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

"That's because we no longer have the raw materials to make 150mm howitzers."

At this time, Wen Lang, who was wearing glasses and visiting the arsenal, saw Engineer Li.

"Hello, Mr. Li. Are you so relaxed today?"

"Minister Chen, there is nothing we can do. We are running out of raw materials. We have to relax even if we don't want to."

"Okay, you continue to relax, I'll take him around."

After Wen Lang greeted Li Gong, he turned to Yan Jing and said, "Did you hear that? It's not that we don't want to produce 150mm howitzers and anti-aircraft guns to fight the devils, but because we don't have the raw materials, and we won't even be able to make bullets in the future. If we don't have bullets, what will the soldiers rely on? Stones? There is a copper mine near the Wangjia Dagou gold mine, and copper is an essential raw material for the production of bullets and shells. If you do a good job of the smelter, you can continuously provide raw materials for the arsenal, and we can produce more weapons and ammunition to fight the devils. Can you feel how heavy the burden on you is now? Whether our soldiers in the First Army have enough bullets and shells to fight the devils depends entirely on how much raw materials you can produce."

"Minister Chen, please stop talking. I was too narrow-minded before. I have decided to serve as the director of this smelter."

"This is the responsibility that an intellectual should have. Engineer Li is an international student studying in France. He is an intellectual like you, and he has devoted all his energy to the production of ammunition and the development of weapons at the arsenal."

"Minister Chen, there is no point in saying more. Just wait and see how I perform next." Glasses saluted Wenlang and said.