Devil's Army

Leng Feng told Wen Lang: There is good news from Secretary Li. A geology professor named Li from Yenching University agreed to their invitation. After handing over the work at hand, he came with several of his disciples to assist Yijun in surveying the Shujigou copper mine.

But Professor Li never came, and the geological team made no progress except marking a dozen places where they found hard, yellowish-brown minerals.

One of the team members asked Wen Lang a little disappointedly: "Minister Chen, how can you be so sure that there is a copper vein here in Shujigou?"

Wen Lang had no way to answer this question. He couldn't say that according to historical documents, the Japanese Kono discovered copper mines in Shujigou in 1937. He could only perfunctorily say:

"I have found this kind of green-haired ore near here before. These are the result of free copper oxidizing with oxygen in the air, which means there is copper ore here."

The team member nodded as if he understood something.

A week later, Professor Li and his two disciples arrived at the tribe under the guidance of Secretary Li's people.

Leng Feng entertained Professor Li and his team warmly. When Professor Li and his team arrived at the tribe, they were immediately attracted by the tribe's paradise-like life.

Professor Li did not expect that there was such a piece of pure land in Northeast China under the ravages of the Japanese invaders.

"Professor Li, if you like the environment here, you can stay a few more days. Your work doesn't need a few more days." Leng Feng said to Professor Li.

"No, I want to go there as soon as possible to explore the copper mine because I like the environment here."

"Oh?" Leng Feng was a little confused. If you like someone, but you want to leave as soon as possible, what kind of logic is this?

"Because only by finding copper mines as quickly as possible and smelting the raw materials needed to manufacture weapons and ammunition can we drive the Japanese out of our Northeast as soon as possible. Build more paradises."

Having said that, it was no longer convenient for Leng Feng to continue trying to keep Professor Li and the others.

The next morning, Professor Li and his two disciples took a truck and headed straight for Shujigou under the escort of the First Army.

When they arrived at Shujigou, Wenlang and his team had already received advance notice and were waiting for Professor Li and his team at the intersection.

"Professor Li, welcome. We have done some preliminary surveys and discovered some copper mines. But due to our lack of knowledge, we cannot determine the direction of the copper veins and their burial depth." Wen Lang said to Professor Li after welcoming Professor Li into the office.

"What did you find?"

"Bring the ore we dug here and let Professor Li take a look." Wen Lang instructed several team members next to him.

Several team members brought the yellowish-brown ore and the ore with green hair that they had dug up these days to show Professor Li.

Professor Li was immediately attracted by the green-haired minerals.

"These are copper oxides," Professor Li said happily.

"We continued digging down to the area where copper oxide was discovered, but we did not find these green-haired ores," said a geological team member.

"The green hair is the result of exposed copper oxidizing with oxygen in the air to produce copper oxide. If you continue to dig deeper, there will be no oxygen deep underground, so there will definitely be no copper oxide," Professor Li explained.

"But as we dug deeper, we discovered these yellowish-brown ores. These should be copper-containing ores." Wen Lang handed the labeled yellowish-brown ore to Professor Li.

Professor Li took a small hammer he carried with him and smashed the yellow-brown ores. After studying them for a while, he said happily, "These are copper ores. Let's go over there and take a look."

"Drink some water first, there's no rush."

"No more drinking. I'll drink again when I come back." Professor Li said excitedly.

Wenlang had no choice but to take Professor Li and the others to the area where the green-haired mineral was found.

When Professor Li arrived at his destination, he immediately took off his coat, picked up a pickaxe and started digging.

Two of his disciples were also there to assist with the excavation.

While digging, Professor Li carefully studied the excavated ore.

Professor Li dug for a while, climbed up the mine trench, and asked Wen Lang: "Can you find the miners to come over?"

"Yes, there is a Wangjiadagou gold mine not far from here. The miners there are working in three shifts 24 hours a day. We can transfer the miners on the night shift here."

"Okay, get a team of miners here right away and dig along the east-west direction."

"it is good"!

Wen Lang immediately used the two trucks that brought Professor Li to go to Wangjiadagou Gold Mine to pull the miners over.

Soon, two cars of miners got off the cars.

Professor Li handed the yellowish-brown ore in his hand to the miners and asked them to look for this ore.

Under the guidance of Professor Li, the miners began professional digging.

The miners dug for most of the day but found nothing and became discouraged.

Wen Lang comforted him, "Keep digging tomorrow. Don't be discouraged. Finding a mineral deposit is not something that can be done overnight. The treatment you get for digging these ores here is the same as digging for gold over there. But there is one thing you must pay attention to. You must not tell anyone that you are digging this kind of ore here. Otherwise, we will investigate it thoroughly! We will deal with you severely!"