Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

Just the day before yesterday, someone from the army came to inform Lao Zhou that they wanted him to do the army a favor and start a train to transport some supplies tonight.

Old Zhou agreed without thinking. He had been waiting for this moment for a long time. Now it was finally his time to play a role. All the grievances he had suffered over the years were not in vain.

However, when he arrived at the assembly point, he found an old acquaintance who was also an old enemy.

His family and the Zhang family are old friends. The two grew up together, both learned train driving, and basically started working on the railway at the same time.

The two of them are considered to be the most skilled train drivers on the entire railway, with the most experience, and they are also friends for life and death.

It’s a pity that everything changed after the Japanese came.

The two went from being good brothers who could talk about anything to enemies who never had any contact with each other, and even the two families stopped having any contact with each other.

But now that the two of them are together in this place, all the mysteries have been solved.

I saw Lao Zhou scolding with a smile: "You old man, it's so painful for you to hide it from me."

Old Zhang responded not to be outdone: "So you are too. Alas, it seems we have misunderstood each other."

After saying this, the two hugged each other and laughed, and all the previous unpleasantness disappeared.

It turned out that since the Japanese came, the two of them followed the organization's arrangements and hid in the Japanese train station, but this kind of thing could not be said openly, not even to their families.

Sometimes, in order to obtain intelligence, they even had to fawn over the Japanese railway personnel, which was also the root cause of the two people's dislike for each other.

Both of them stubbornly believed that the other had surrendered to the Japanese, became a shameful traitor, and brought shame to their ancestors.

Years of affection are not worth mentioning in the face of national justice. This is something that is engraved in the bones of the Chinese people.

Now that they met in this place, the two of them immediately understood each other's position. After smiling at each other, they both felt very relieved that they had finally not made friends with the wrong person for so many years.

The same was true for other people present, and it gave me a feeling that I was not alone.

Although everyone may pretend not to know each other or even be hostile to each other afterwards, at least they all know in their hearts that they are all family members and are all working to fight the enemies.

Over the next day, many train station staff received confidentiality training, mainly to prevent anyone from accidentally leaking the next action in the future, which would bring unnecessary danger to many people.

Tonight, Lao Zhou, Lao Zhang and other train station personnel were on standby near Taigu Railway Station.

Around nine o'clock in the evening, everyone was notified to go to the train station and inspect the trains on the platform as quickly as possible to ensure that they could start at any time.

When Lao Zhou and Lao Zhang were on their way to Taikoo Railway Station, they were in a daze.

"Lao Zhang, I've been to Taigu County Railway Station several times. The Japanese guards are very tight. Is it appropriate for us to just walk over there in such a brazen manner?"

"Lao Zhou, I don't know about that, but since the Eighth Route Army dared to let us go, they must have made every possible preparation and would not let us die."

When everyone arrived, they found that all the people standing on the battlefield were soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, which completely put everyone's uneasy hearts at ease.

No matter how the Eighth Route Army captured this railway station, it is now in our hands, and that is enough.

All they have to do is drive the train according to regulations, and everything else has nothing to do with them.

After all the personnel arrived at the train station, they checked the condition of the train immediately. About two hours later, the first train successfully left the train station.

Under the guidance of an Eighth Route Army soldier, the train will stop at a predetermined location five kilometers away from the train station.

After the train started, a special person in the cab gave Zhou directions and asked him to stop at the agreed location.

The train ran very smoothly. Lao Zhou and Lao Zhang had the best skills. They were driving the first train and they also served as pathfinders for the other trains.

Since this train only travels about five kilometers, many things have been streamlined.

For example, in long-distance transportation, a large amount of coal and water needs to be stored on the train. Now, if the distance is only five kilometers, as long as the demand is calculated, a lot of transportation capacity can be saved to transport materials.

Another thing is that you can add more carriages. Anyway, this is a one-time deal. After the transportation is completed, all the trains will be abandoned and will definitely not be left for the Japanese to transport supplies.

Even the key facilities of the entire railway station were destroyed after the troops completed their mission. Even if the Japanese wanted to repair them afterwards, they would have to pay a huge price.

If it weren't for the high risk of capturing two train stations at the same time, Kong Hao would have wanted to use trains to move back and forth between the two train stations and transport all the supplies away.

Lao Zhou's train had twenty-two carriages loaded with eighty tons of cotton, two thousand pieces of cloth, one hundred and twenty tons of rice and flour, and four carriages loaded with military uniforms, quilts, military shoes, engineering shovels, etc.

At the same time, they also took away the miscellaneous rifles and bullets replaced by the 1st and 3rd Regiments, as well as grenades produced by their own arsenal.

After all, the Japanese melon grenades are indeed more fragrant. Now that they are allowed to take as much as they want, the grenades produced by our country will inevitably be despised.

This is also human nature. There was no choice before, but now all the officers and soldiers of the 1st and 3rd Regiments have to admit that the Japanese weapons are good.

In order to allow the train to carry more supplies, the staff at the railway station tried every possible means.

Based on the experience of Asan Ge in later generations in using trains, Kong Hao had people tie various goods on the roof of the train, and put cotton, which is large in volume and light in weight, on the roof of the train.

It’s only five kilometers anyway, so it doesn’t matter if we go a little slower.

As the train whistle sounded, the first train slowly left Taigu Railway Station and headed towards its destination.

This is probably the steam locomotive with the largest cargo load in Chinese history, reaching a level that has never been seen before and will never be surpassed.

It’s a pity that there is no Guinness World Record now, otherwise it would be impossible to apply successfully.

Master Zhou drove the train very slowly and carefully.

There was no other way. Even the train cab was stuffed with more than twenty bags of rice. Except for a small area where coal was originally stored, the rest was filled with grain.

The train was heading towards its destination at a snail's pace of ten kilometers per hour. Fortunately, the road was relatively flat, and there was even a downhill section, so there was no need to worry about the train not being able to climb up the uphill slope and breaking down.

About half an hour later, the Eighth Route Army soldiers on the vehicle saw a bright light ahead and asked Lao Zhou to slow down and stop at the designated location.

Lao Zhou is an experienced driver. This is a small scene. After a few operations of his, the boat was parked steadily at the designated position.