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

There are many places like this in Zexian County. We have only recovered them for a few months, and we cannot clean them up at all. We can only wait for an opportunity to find them slowly.

This is also the most unique aspect of the intelligence war between the two sides; it is all conducted in secret. Although there is no face-to-face combat, the battle of wits and courage is the norm.

In fact, this is the result that Section Chief Sun has always wanted. As long as our people track us down, we can easily uncover a well-hidden enemy stronghold.

After Sakai settled the injured pilot in the basement, he decided to bring two intelligence officers with medical skills from other bases.

Major Ozawa's leg injury is quite serious. If the wound is not cleaned and bandaged, it may have to be amputated if the time is too long.

A pilot missing a leg is basically useless to the Japanese, so their contribution is negligible.

If he still wants to make amends, forget about it; he'll probably still face certain death in the end.

However, while waiting, Mizukusa Isamu frowned and asked:

“Sakai-kun, treating Ozawa-kun’s leg injury is no easy task. The medical conditions here are not as good as in Taiyuan. Even if we wanted to send supplies over, it would be too late.”

His concern stemmed primarily from the fact that medical supplies for treating injuries were extremely scarce everywhere.

It was alright before when they occupied Ze County; if someone was injured, they could be sent to the army hospital for treatment. But now their forces have long since retreated, and there's nowhere to get treatment.

In fact, as intelligence personnel, they also have several ways to prevent wound infection, such as pouring out the gunpowder from the bullet and disinfecting the wound with high temperature, or directly using a dagger to cauterize the wound.

Of course, doing this will definitely have some impact on future actions, but compared to my life, nothing else matters.

The difficulty in this matter lies in the fact that the wounded soldier to be treated is an air force pilot. If there is a problem with his thigh, it would be tantamount to a death sentence, rendering the treatment pointless.

However, Sakai said smugly, "Mizukusa-kun, you may not believe it, but in Zexian, medical supplies are not lacking, and are even more plentiful than when we were in Zexian before."

"Sulfonamide powder and various medical devices are available on the market, and the prices are very cheap."

"Sakai-kun, this can't be right. These are strategic materials that are strictly controlled. Even if you have money, you might not be able to buy them."

The events of the past few days have truly broadened Mizusaku Yu's horizons, even making him question whether the place he is in is still the China he remembers.

In Zexian County, many people are wearing new clothes and can often eat meat. Their faces are glowing with health and their eyes are full of hope.

Unlike other places, the people here are numb, their eyes are empty and lifeless, and they have never seen any hope.

Prices in Zexian County are extremely cheap, down by 40% from before, and are still slowly decreasing.

This means that the Eighth Route Army's base areas did not lack these basic necessities, which indirectly shows our current strength.

Of course, on the other hand, our base area is not very large at present. If we gain more territory, then it's hard to say.

This was also thanks to the supplies that Kong Hao brought back from abroad, as well as a large amount of high-quality minerals and meat that appeared every day without fail, which gave the base area enough confidence to control the prices of goods among the people.

In those territories occupied by invaders, resources were already scarce, and a large amount was seized by the enemy and taken back to their homeland. It would be strange if prices didn't skyrocket.

The Japanese devils came to China to plunder money and resources, not to deliver welfare. How could they possibly care about the Chinese people?

“Those who are not of our kind will surely have different hearts. The ambitions and attitudes of the Rong and Di tribes are not the same as those of the Hua.”

This statement was vividly reflected in this era. Even the people in the occupied areas mostly secretly supported our own army and did everything they could to prevent the enemy from taking anything from China.

For example, the common people would hide their grain and give it to the troops fighting the Japanese, so that the soldiers would be well-fed and have the strength to fight the Japanese.

When the dockworkers were working for the Japanese, they deliberately slowed down the process. What should have been a two-hour unloading session took half a day.

Factory workers deliberately produce defective products, such as machine shops producing parts that exceed precision standards, or textile factories producing poor-quality fabrics.

In short, the goal is to prevent the enemy from easily profiting from China.

Perhaps one person's strength is limited, but the combined strength of millions of ordinary people can make the invaders feel a deep sense of pain.

This is one of the reasons why the Japanese have been finding it increasingly difficult lately; the effort they put in is not commensurate with the rewards they receive.

At the same time, we have to face our attacks every day. Today we lose a battalion, tomorrow a regiment is defeated, and it adds up to a lot.

According to incomplete statistics, the enemy spent over 100,000 silver dollars on weapons and ammunition alone when building a new battalion. If personnel training and material consumption are added, the cost would be more than 150,000 silver dollars.

Let's not talk about anything else, just consider all the battlefields across the country. If we wipe out an enemy battalion of 1100 men every day, that's a regiment in four days, a brigade in half a month, a division in a month, and enough to cripple the Japanese in a year.

Of course, the data is not compiled in this way. In most cases, the Nationalist government's central army and local troops were on the defensive. If the Japanese did not attack their positions, many of them would choose to remain at ease.

The main reason was that they were terrified by the previous attacks by the Japanese invaders, losing cities and territory every day and suffering heavy losses of soldiers.

We are currently in a stalemate, with neither side capable of launching a large-scale battle.

Currently, only the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army are still launching small-scale attacks against the invaders. They are recovering some lost territory every day, especially in rural areas and small towns, and stabilizing these places to enhance our national strength.

Our base now has the beginnings of large-scale industrialization. While population may be a burden for other powers, it is a guarantee for us to rapidly increase our strength.

For example, the roads in China used to be dilapidated, and most of them were even dirt roads, making them impassable when it rained.

In the past, in order to stop the rapid advance of the Japanese mechanized forces, the few good roads were dug up and became full of potholes, but the situation is different now.