Devil's Army

At eight o'clock the next morning, yesterday's miners arrived at Shujigou on time again.

Everyone boasted for a while next to the mine they dug yesterday, and then went down into the mine again under the personal leadership of Professor Li.

After digging three or four hundred meters deep, no copper deposits were found.

Professor Li pondered in the mine for a long time and decisively changed the direction of the mine from east-west to northeast. The change of direction was about 200 meters into the mine.

Wenlang divided the miners into three teams, and had them take turns resting and digging.

When they dug more than 500 meters, the miners were pleasantly surprised to find that the mine was harder and more difficult to dig, and that all the ores they dug out were yellow-brown.

The miners happily trotted out of the mine with the ore and handed it to Professor Li to see.

"Yes, these are it! These are copper ores!" Professor Li said after hitting the ores with a small hammer.

The miners happily threw the copper ore into the air. After so many days of hard work, they finally got results.

The next step is to organize miners to start mining.

Mining under the management of a military force was a popular job, and it was not difficult for Wenlang to organize the sufficient number of miners he needed.

Shujigou Copper Mine officially went into production, and truckloads of copper ore were transported to the smelter next to Diaobeishan Coal Mine. At this time, the construction of the smelter was also in the final stages.

Seeing that the mining of Shujigou Copper Mine was on the right track, Professor Li accompanied Wenlang to the smelter next to Diaobeishan Coal Mine for guidance.

Professor Li and Professor Li Xiao put forward their own opinions on the height of the gold and copper smelting furnaces, and Wenlang adopted them one by one.

As the most important smelting furnace in the smelter was about to be completed, Leng Feng, Wen Lang and Professor Li began to prepare the gold mold.

The mold is made into two types according to the popular small yellow croaker and large yellow croaker on the market. The small yellow croaker is 31.3 grams, and the large yellow croaker is 313 grams.

This is 0.05 grams more than the small and large yellow croakers on the market. In other words, as long as the quality is good, the large and small yellow croakers smelted by Yijun are more valuable than those circulating on the market.

However, Leng Feng and Wen Lang had different opinions on the design of the pattern. Leng Feng wanted to use the "Local" of the First Anti-Japanese Army, but Wen Lang was worried that the Japanese might arrest people who had the yellow croakers with the "Local" of the First Anti-Japanese Army printed on them for collaborating with bandits. This would affect the circulation of the yellow croakers in the market.

For this purpose, Leng Feng convened a special hearing in Tieling County to recruit merchants from Binshan County.

At the meeting, some businessmen thought that Wenlang's worries were not unreasonable. The Japanese might take advantage of the opportunity to make money.

The meeting finally decided to print a five-pointed star as the pattern of the big and small yellow croakers of the First Anti-Japanese Army.

In this way, the color of the First Anti-Japanese Army is not too obvious, and ordinary people can also think of the First Anti-Japanese Army when they see the five-pointed star, which increases the influence of the First Anti-Japanese Army.

The high-grade coal dug out from the Diaobeishan Coal Mine began to be transported to the smelter in an endless stream, while the lower-grade coal was transported to the Tieling County Power Plant.

With the completion of the smelting furnace of the smelter, the first bucket of gold began to be poured into the mold.

The small yellow croaker and large yellow croaker of the First Anti-Japanese Army began to be officially produced.

Professor Li tested the yellow croakers of different sizes cast from the first bucket of gold water and found that the purity was insufficient and the production was rather crude, so he increased the number of smelting times, improved the smelting process, and increased the purity of the gold water.

With the skilled casting of the workers in the smelter, the yellow croakers are no longer rough and the quality is much better. Compared with the yellow croakers circulating in the market, they are not inferior at all.

So Professor Li arranged for mass production of large and small yellow croakers for the First Anti-Japanese Army according to this smelting frequency and smelting process procedures.

With the mass production of large and small yellow croakers, the First Anti-Japanese Army's arsenal became more abundant, and the treatment of soldiers and their families also became better.

The scale of the farm in the tribe is more than ten times larger than before, and the original ten chicks have now grown to more than five hundred.

Wenlang formed a breeding unit with the injured soldiers who were unable to go to the battlefield again, and they were responsible for raising animals on the farm.

This not only solved the problem of meat and egg supply for the troops, but also solved the problem of reemployment for the wounded.

The wounded soldiers were already emotionally fragile, thinking that they could no longer kill the enemy and were no longer of any use to the army. But now they have found the value of their existence and are becoming a hundred times more motivated.

The first trial of the large and small yellow croakers of the First Army was carried out in Tieling County, Diaobingshan County, Zhangwu County, and Chaoyang County in the base area. Once launched, it won the favor of merchants for its good quality and large weight. It also began to flow to all parts of the country through merchants in the base area.

But it also gradually attracted the covetousness of the Japanese.

The Japanese began to try to occupy the Wangjiadagou gold mine.

But the First Army's defense there was tighter than anywhere else. The First Army's only mobile unit was also deployed near the Wangjiadagou gold mine.

The Japanese, who had run out of tricks, wanted to use their air supremacy to destroy the army's ground forces.