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

Qian Yu, codenamed Squid, was ordered by his superiors to go to Quangang City to set up a liaison station, and also to cooperate with the logistics department to build a transportation line.

It turned out that he thought his superiors were making a fuss over nothing. After all, Quancheng is just a port city and is currently under the control of the National Army. We don't need to put too much energy here.

After arriving at the destination, he contacted Lao Bai, the person in charge of the logistics department, codenamed the driver.

"Comrade Squid, welcome."

"Hello, Comrade Chefu. I have heard of your great name for a long time. You have been providing a lot of logistical support to our intelligence personnel over the past few years, but I have never thanked you in person."

"We are all comrades, no need to be so polite. This is a secret letter from Minister Zhang to us. It requires both of us to be present at the same time before it can be opened, and it must be burned immediately after reading."

"Please check first. This letter has a mark that belongs to your intelligence department. We will open it after you confirm it is correct."

Because this matter is too important, and also for the safety of the secret order, both parties must confirm it before proceeding.

Squid then carefully checked the envelope and found that all the marks matched what his superiors had told him before he left. This also proved that the document had never been opened and was absolutely safe.

Next, Squid and the driver opened the strictly confidential envelope with great anticipation.

You know, secret letters of this level rarely appear. Usually, only intelligence departments transmit information. If two departments are involved, it should be top secret.

After watching it, they both gasped. This was too shocking.

The letter specifically stated that in a week, a cargo ship returning from abroad would dock in Quangang to unload goods. The superiors required the logistics and intelligence personnel to work together to do all the support work and ensure that all the goods were safely stored in the warehouse. They also had to find a way to build a secret transportation channel from Quangang City to our base.

As long as this channel is opened, more cargo ships will call at the port, and a steady supply of supplies will be delivered to China.

After reading the contents of the letter, under the supervision of Comrade Coachman, Comrade Qian Yu lit the secret letter with a match, put the ashes into a bowl, then picked up the teapot beside him and poured the water in it into the bowl. This way, it would be foolproof.

This matter is too important and no one else can know about it except the two persons in charge.

After a long while, Qian Yu raised his head and said, "No wonder the superiors attach so much importance to this matter. This is the most precious international material transportation line at present. It is extremely valuable to our Eighth Route Army and even China. It is an existence that no one can estimate."

The driver felt the same way: "This ship carries 5,000 tons of cargo, of which the least valuable is food, but that's 3,000 tons. Our superiors asked us to transport 1,000 tons of food to the nearest base, and sell part of the remaining 2,000 tons locally, and the rest can be used for transportation."

"There is a food shortage everywhere in the country right now. The wheat shipped back from abroad is hard currency and is useful wherever it goes."

"In addition, for the safety of supplies in the future, we have prepared thirty armed work teams. They are elite troops equipped with Mauser pistols, Mauser rifles, and Czech light machine guns. They will be responsible for armed escort and support work at key nodes along the way."

"The headquarters has even dispatched a special forces team to come here. First of all, we need to clear out all the unstable factors on the transportation line, especially the bandits on the hills. We can use courtesy first and then force. If anyone doesn't know what's best for them, we will not be polite to them."

Our strength now is not like last year when we were short of guns and ammunition. Now our army has three major industrial bases, which can provide our troops with a large amount of weapons, equipment and ammunition every month.

Although the name of the armed work team has not changed, its strength is much different from before. A armed work team behind enemy lines with about 50 people has weapons and equipment including eight Mauser pistols, 32 Mausoleum rifles, two Czech light machine guns, and one grenade launcher.

Each team member has at least eighty rounds of bullets, and as long as they are consumed to a certain level, the logistics department will replenish them as soon as possible. This is the advantage of having your own arsenal.

Now the puppet troops and traitors in various places, or the bandits who occupy the mountains and act as kings, are most afraid of our army's ubiquitous armed work teams.

We have deployed more than 300 armed work teams of this type, which are large in number and have received formal training. In addition, there are at least 2,000 teams organized by local areas, with numbers ranging from five or six to more than 20 people, who are attacking the enemy all the time.

In the past few months, the Japanese felt that their strength was growing weaker and weaker. There had been no large-scale battles recently, but small-scale battles were frequently occurring in various places. Often a county would lose more than a dozen soldiers, causing many troops to be understaffed, and the exact reason could not be determined.

Moreover, fewer and fewer people are willing to be puppet soldiers and traitors. Even the former puppet soldiers and traitors are in panic. This is the deterrent power of a large number of armed work teams scattered among the people.

This tactic was specially proposed by Kong Hao. It is called "boiling a frog in warm water". It means continuously bleeding the enemy through small-scale battles every day without making the enemy feel pain.

Ever since the Zhao Jiayu Arsenal discovered a large amount of high-quality iron ore and copper ore, our army’s military production capacity has exploded.

With high-quality copper ore, smelting is much easier. A 7.92mm bullet requires 17.9 grams of copper, and one kilogram of copper is 55 bullets. If it is 5000 tons, it can produce more than million bullets, which is enough for us to increase the bullet production by more than ten times.

The copper reserves of Kangaroo Country are more than 4200 million tons. If all of it were mined and then smashed on the heads of the Japanese, it is estimated that each of the Japanese heads could get kilograms of high-quality copper ingots.

Even if we consume 10,000 tons of copper ore a month, it is not even a drop in the bucket compared to the huge reserves.

Although a large amount of machinery and equipment, personnel and funds have been invested, the production capacity of the dozen or so mines newly opened by Kong Hao in Kangaroo Country has increased sharply. Except for smelting into various semi-finished products, most of them have been stored in the space.

Anyway, no one cares about this kind of thing. Kong Hao even purchased a large amount of minerals from other places. These are the best strategic resources at present, and they are best placed under the ground of China.