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

After receiving the intelligence, Section Chief Sun determined, based on the enemy's measuring equipment, that the Japanese would use aircraft to attack our hydroelectric power station facilities.

In response to this emergency, he immediately reported it to his superiors and also included his personal suggestions.

If all the manpower of the Fourth Division of Zexian County can be mobilized, all the enemies can be captured in the shortest time, and the casualties can be kept to within two people.

But after waiting for half an hour, the superior replied with only one short line: "Continue to monitor, do not alert the enemy, and do not take any action."

Upon receiving the telegram, Section Chief Sun first withdrew the action team that had followed the enemy to the hydroelectric power station outside the city, and at the same time, all the troops inside the city that were preparing to destroy the enemy's liaison point in one fell swoop also suspended their operations.

Leaving only two observation teams to monitor the enemy's every move was tantamount to keeping the enemy's life and death in their hands at all times.

Meanwhile, Mizukusa Isamu and Sakai, who had just narrowly escaped death, were bragging to each other:

“Sakai-kun, everyone says that the Eighth Route Army’s base area is heavily guarded, but tonight it seems quite ordinary to me. So many of us sneaked in silently, and the people here didn’t even notice.”

“Waterweed, that’s normal. A lot of things are just hype. Otherwise, I could have stayed in the county town for so long without leaving any trace.”

"After all, we are all intelligence elites, while the Eighth Route Army's intelligence personnel are just greenhorns to us, not worth mentioning at all."

"If we blow up this hydroelectric power station tomorrow, we'll earn merit and might even get promoted and transferred back to headquarters. I never want to stay in this godforsaken place again."

At this point, both men revealed sly smiles, as if this tremendous credit had already fallen into their pockets.

If Section Chief Sun heard this, he would probably laugh at him in his heart, thinking that these Japanese devils were really blindly arrogant and dared to take credit for everything.

If our intelligence agents hadn't deliberately let them pass, we probably would have caught the new Japanese agent the moment he stepped out of the stronghold. How could the enemy have been allowed to be so arrogant?

They originally thought they could wipe out all the enemies at the hydroelectric power station, but who could have imagined that the higher-ups had even deeper plans?

Although Section Chief Sun had not yet guessed his superiors' intentions, he estimated that the damage to the enemy would far exceed the value of a small hydroelectric power station.

And so, it wasn't until after 11 o'clock that the Japanese agents finally made a preliminary measurement of the lights emanating from the hydroelectric power station.

They will have to stay here for another night, and they can only leave tomorrow morning after the hydroelectric power station guards have changed shifts and confirmed everything has been completed.

The next morning, the Japanese soldiers were resting in a grove of trees.

Suddenly, the lights in the entire hydroelectric power station came on, and then a lot of people ran out with flashlights.

"Sakai-kun, what's going on? Has our location been exposed? We need to retreat immediately."

"Waterweed, this shouldn't be the case. If the opponent has spotted us, they should sneak up quietly and then launch a sudden attack, not make such a fuss."

"Judging from the current situation, it seems that the hydroelectric power station has encountered something serious. Let's observe first before deciding on our next course of action."

After they finished speaking, the two took their binoculars and slowly approached the hydroelectric power station to see what had happened.

The soldiers and workers guarding the hydroelectric power station were all carrying flashlights and wooden sticks, searching for something in the nearby wasteland.

Some people, upon seeing a dark shadow appear before them, immediately raise their sticks and strike, thus reaping a large, fat rabbit weighing several tens of kilograms.

Some even form a special team of five or six people who can easily capture large wild animals like wild goats and wild boars.

The influx of large numbers of wild animals into the base area was a rare occurrence that had long been commonplace.

The local people in the original base area were even more particular about what they ate.

The meat of this wild animal is relatively tough, it has a higher activity level than domesticated poultry, its muscle fibers are coarser, and its fat content is lower.

It needs enough seasonings and simmered for a longer time to be palatable. Nowadays, everyone values ​​work efficiency, and ordinary people really don't have that much time to wait.

Domesticated animals taste better; their meat is tender and nutritious.

In particular, the base areas stored a huge amount of soybeans, and the soybean meal left after pressing the oil could be made into high-quality feed. Various large-scale breeding farms were built in various places, which could provide the Chinese people with a large amount of fat and protein in a very short time.

The research departments in the base area even developed some drugs to prevent diseases based on the needs of the farms.

Now the people in the base area can finally eat meat every now and then, and their meals are more oily and nutritious every day. Their bodies are gradually becoming stronger and more robust, and their faces have a rosy glow. Their mental outlook is completely different from before, and they are full of hope for the future.

In the heart of our current base area, it takes three pounds of wild animal meat to exchange for one pound of good meat from a farm.

Fortunately, we also opened a number of canning plants, and the wild animals that appear every day are canned and preserved.

This is something that Kong Hao has been advocating. He clearly remembers that in a while, a drought and locust plague will occur in Henan Province, affecting several surrounding provinces.

According to historical records, this natural disaster caused the starvation deaths of approximately two million people, and millions more joined the ranks of refugees, wandering around several surrounding provinces.

In the past, the entire Chinese nation simply didn't have enough resources for disaster relief, which led to the disasters occurring and the people having no choice but to scatter and flee for their lives.

But now it's completely different. Not to mention anything else, just take the large amount of canned meat we have stored. It's all made by stewing wild animal meat until it's tender using high-pressure equipment, and then adding soybean oil, chili peppers, and various seasonings.

One can of this kind of one-pound canned meat can provide nutrition for a family of four in disaster relief for three days. At most, they can consume ten cans a month, and a total of one hundred and fifty cans a year.

The disaster lasted for more than a year. If we calculate based on 40 cans of food per person per year, 40 million cans would be needed for 1 million people, and 200 million cans would be needed for 5 million people.

Each can of food weighs one pound, so one ton is two thousand cans, which adds up to 100,000 tons of canned goods.

A single wild rabbit can yield twenty pounds of good meat, so two hundred million pounds would only amount to two million rabbits. Compared to the enormous population of Australia, that's probably not even a drop in the ocean.