Starting from the bright sword to engage in military industry

Chapter 501 Chapter 500, production and life in Jiuzhaigou

In the brick kiln outside Qihui Village, a small group of devils still wanted to rely on the terrain to resist.But facing the powerful attack from the first battalion, the devils in this team were wiped out little by little on the spot.In this way, the battle in Qihui Village is over.

This time, the regiments in central Jizhong, supported by many weapons, did not fight for three days like the original time and space. They wiped out the Yoshida brigade on the same day, and did not let the devils escape with 80 or [-] people.

And calculating the battle damage and capture, the battle damage in this battle is not big.The biggest battle damage was the hand-to-hand combat of the 9rd Battalion and [-]th Company after being hit by gas bombs.The casualties add up to more than a hundred people.However, most of the wounded, only a few dozen people died.

The other regiments also suffered casualties. The biggest loss was the captain of the 30th Battalion, who was shot and killed by a machine gun from the devils in Hejian City while fighting against the enemy.

After this battle, the head of the 27th Division, Toyota Yaqing, finally realized that he could not eat up the 120th Division in one fell swoop, and he settled down.

revenge?Of course I want revenge, but I have to have that ability or strength, right?At least we have to wait until the newly formed divisions in the country arrive.

The Jizhong Plain has settled down temporarily, and it is still the situation where the devils occupy some county towns and the Eighth Route Army is active in the countryside.

If there is anything else to say?That is, when the 120th Division came to the Jizhong Plain, there were only a few thousand people, but now there are seven regiments with more than 1 people.With the help of Brother Yunfei's words: The speed at which the Eighth Route Army pulls troops is terrifying!

And with the arsenal, with the support of a large number of weapons and ammunition, the speed of the eight-way team will only be more terrifying!
It's not just about having more weapons.Another reason is that the combat troops have better weapons and more ammunition, resulting in fewer casualties.With fewer casualties and more veterans, it is easy to pull the team. This is a virtuous circle.

Someone said what happened to the preserved fruit?Those who can do not eat empty pay and drink the blood of soldiers are already very good officers, and they are still pulling the team?What's more, even if you want to pull the team, you have to guard against the eyes around you.You privately expand your strength, what do you want to do?

And... when replenishing, supplying military supplies, and transporting supplies, the difference between the central army and the miscellaneous army is too great, and some people don't have the strength to expand the team.reason?I can't afford to support so many people!

Why does the Eighth Route Army like the name Eighth Route Army but not the 18th Group Army?A large part of the reason is that the title of the Several Route Army and the several Route Army can raise military salaries and recruit soldiers by themselves.If you switch to a group army, you need to have more rules and regulations.

The time is now in late April, the weather is already very hot, everything is recovering, spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and it will not be long before summer will enter.

This month, many things have happened to Jiuzhaigou.Artillery cadets were enrolled, and a new logistics support team began to operate.On the side of the arsenal, many workers and technicians are also working overtime, exchanging their sweat for the production of a large amount of weapons and ammunition.

After the head of the headquarters confirmed that the 82nd oppression of Jiuzhai Arsenal was indeed all right, he also provided great help here.Those cheap white irons were collected and delivered to the smelter with all their might.The purpose is to make more good steel and more good guns.

Of course, these are matters related to the military and military industry, and there are professionals in charge. Hu Changyi only needs to pay attention to the progress every day and solve the problems.

Because it is spring now, the things about people's livelihood proposed by Hu Changyi have also been implemented in Jiuzhai and its surrounding areas.

The first thing to do is spring plowing and spring planting.It's spring, and some spring fields need to be turned over while the soil layer is thawing. While loosening the soil to change the moisture content, it can also freeze to death some eggs and adults hidden in the ground.Then, raise a ridge and plant crops.

After Hu Changyi's proposal, Minister Zhang agreed that all the large livestock belonging to the Jiuzhai Arsenal would be provided free of charge to the surrounding villages.The arsenal also took out part of the steel as the cutting edge, made a lot of plowshares, and then made them into plows.

There are many large animals in Jiuzhai, there are hundreds of big yellow cattle, and dozens of mules, donkeys and pack horses.Therefore, Jiuzhai, including the cultivated land in the surrounding villages, was overturned in a very short period of time.Even, in some suitable areas, new cultivated land was reclaimed.

Of course, no matter how much support Jiuzhai receives, there are only a few places that can be reclaimed, because the surrounding environment restricts it-it's all mountains.

Therefore, after the big animals in Jiuzhai completed their work, they went all the way south and took over the cultivated land in Xijing Town and Nanweiquan Village.

Anyway, these places are our base areas, and the grain output is high, so even if we spend money to buy it, we can still buy more!

"Minister Zhang, you said that if we lend the big animals to the common people, will we get tired and thin?" Although Hu Changyi grew up in the countryside for two lifetimes, he still asked such a question.

"Haha, silly boy, you can find out by yourself! When the big animals are in the hands of the common people, except for working in the fields, they will basically support them like ancestors!" Minister Zhang looked at Hu Changyi and said with a smile .

"Hey, what, you are busy! I'll direct everyone to graft!" Hu Changyi didn't continue to ask, but chose to run away.

It wasn't until Hu Changyi went to the field to see the condition of the cultivated land that he really understood how deep the feelings of the farmers were for the cattle.

What did you say?You can beat your wife and children, but you can't bear to beat the cattle!Hmm, that seems to be the meaning.

Hu Changyi saw a farmer's child walking ahead leading the cattle, the farmer holding the plow, and the peasant woman throwing stones on the ground.Then, the bucket of warm water in the field is not for people to drink, it is for the cattle to drink when they are tired, and salt is added?
There are also sisters and younger brothers mowing grass on the surrounding mountains. The tenderest and greenest pastures are put on the ground by the siblings to feed the cows when they are tired.

Well, before the popularity of agricultural machinery, as the main productivity, the treatment of cattle was very high.

After all kinds of agricultural machinery became popular, the status of farming cattle plummeted, and the ultimate goal of raising cattle was beef...

The solution is that spring plowing is spring planting. Hu Changyi doesn't need to worry about this. The people know what to do better than anyone else.Just like the problem of raising sweet potato seedlings, sweet potatoes in the north are usually planted in sunny and leeward places, and a seedling nursery is built with sandy soil, and sweet potatoes are put in to raise seedlings.

After the sweet potatoes germinate and grow seedlings, the seedlings are cut out and planted in the soil and watered.Basically, a piece of sweet potato can breed many seedlings.

This kind of thing, the common people help the old and the young to do it very smoothly. Even the little doll who can just walk knows to carry the sweet potato seedlings into the pit where he has urinated.Well, it's just that the roots are facing up...

While Jiuzhai is busy with spring plowing and planting, other things are also going on at the same time, including afforestation.In the open space where trees can be planted in Jiuzhaigou, some fast-growing trees are planted, and some economically valuable trees are the focus.

For example, walnut trees, jujube trees, apple trees, etc., where they can be raised, they are planted.After planting trees, Hu Changyi personally demonstrated how to graft fruit trees, mainly jujube trees on wild sour jujube trees.

This job is easy, and you can learn it.And this is a matter of jujubes and jujubes. The common people who are free have grafted the wild sour dates in the wild fields on the mountain.

Not to mention, in the vast mountains of Jiuzhai, there are still a lot of wild jujubes.Some jujubes have grown into small trees with trunks as thick as tea bowls, and I don't know how many years they have grown.Now, all the twigs are grafted onto the branches of the jujube tree on the small number that is as thick as the tea bowl, and they are waiting to grow jujubes after they are alive.

Planting trees seems to be useless in this era, but after a few years when the trees grow up, they will be able to block the view of the sky.Plus those fruit trees, when the trees bear fruit, there is another source of food.

The predecessors planted trees and the descendants enjoyed the shade. Maybe in another 20 years, these fruits can be used to fill their stomachs?
Spring flowers bloom, birds are free...

Flowers are in full bloom in spring, and there is a job that can be done in Jiuzhai—perfume.

Well, it is said that the production process of perfume is very complicated, and it needs to be blended and so on.However, some flowers with a strong fragrance are dried in the sun, and then the essential oil is extracted by distillation, and then blended to get a perfume.

This is one of the secrets to making a fortune for many travelers who traveled through ancient times. For example, a family named Yun did this.

Therefore, even though it is the period of the Anti-Japanese War, it is always useful to make some perfumes by taking advantage of the environment and conditions of Jiuzhaigou?What is it for?Can you sell it for money?Can you buy some military supplies from the ghosts of the Fourth Division in Osaka?

In Hujia Village, at the south end of the village, there are rows of stones as walls, and houses with log roofs have been built.This row of houses is close to the hillside, and a section of the mountain wall has been dug to the south of the houses, and stones have been piled up from the bottom to the top, which is a stone wall more than seven meters long.

Of course, the houses in the north are not so tall, only a little over three meters high.

What is this row of houses for?This is the temporary material warehouse of the arsenal in Hujia Village, and it is also the location of the fortifications that will guard Hujia Village in the future.For the half-meter-thick strips, the gaps can be poured with lime paste and cement mortar, which can prevent gunfire to a certain extent.

Now, the window (shooting hole) of the material warehouse (fortification) is wide open as a light source of illumination, and a steamer for steaming wine in the house is gurgling.With the dripping of the dropper, the rich aroma of wine diffuses in the room.

Well, this is not where perfume is made, but alcohol.

Alcohol is an essential item in medical treatment, so a small production workshop was also opened in Jiuzhai.The alcohol produced here is produced for one month, which is enough for the officers and soldiers of the 386th brigade.

At the east end of Hujia Village, there is also a row of houses like this, but here it is clanging.

Because Jiuzhai reduced the production of hand grenades, and even stopped production of the civilian version, the women who were originally organized did not have much work to do.

With less work to do, part of the income is reduced, and women can only make shoes and socks for the team to pass the time in their spare time.

Hu Changyi couldn't stand it anymore, so he got a manual stamping machine here, asked the smelter to make some iron plates and sent them over, and opened such a small workshop.What is it for?Make lighters.

The lighter that Hu Changyi made artificial was actually inspired by the windproof lighter made of bullet casings from the Internet.Well, the video was provided by the armed police rabbit in the army division group, and so was the idea, but now he remembered it.

Of course, it is impossible for Hu Changyi to use bullet casings to transform lighters, otherwise Minister Zhang will go crazy.But is it possible to use iron plates as materials to make some simple windproof lighters?This is not technically difficult, and the seized lighters are basically like this.With stainless steel? ?Too extravagant!
What's the use of making a lighter?Light it up!Light a cigarette?No, no, cigarette lighting is only one of them, it is mainly used as a tool for the troops to ignite.

This year is not the future, lighters, even windproof lighters can be bought from the store at will.Let alone lighters these days, even matches are in short supply!Now the matches are also called "matches".

What do you mean?It was imported from foreigners.

Didn't the arsenal produce a lot of fireworks and cannons during this period, and the ignition became a problem.On the battlefield, it is not so easy to start a fire. The enemy will not give you time to strike a match and light it slowly.

Therefore, a lighter is a more convenient tool.Of course, it is also possible to make the firework cannon into an ignition lead as the fire fuse used on the explosive pack.But the lighter is still needed.If it’s really not possible, when the cigarette factory has products, why don’t you just sell the cigarettes and fire together to make money?
Hu Changyi is busy producing and making money here, because the surrounding environment of Jiuzhaigou is still very good, and the devils are too far away to reach here.Around Jiuzhaigou, there are also Divisional Special Task Forces, Headquarters Special Task Forces, and an independent regiment that has been fighting for some time without knowing where.

The three regiments guarded around Jiuzhai, and there was Qin Lai's detachment in the north, and the main force of the 386 brigade was also active in Wuxiang.It can be said that it is impossible for the devils to go straight to Jiuzhaigou.

Some time ago, the 386th Brigade took over the 169th Division and went back for repairs, all the way to Yuncu Town in the north of Wuxiang.

Along the way, the officers and soldiers of the 386th Brigade really understood what our sabotage battle brought to the devils-this road is too difficult!
That's right, because the traffic lines are being destroyed everywhere, this makes the officers and soldiers of the 386th Brigade feel difficult and uncomfortable during the march.Of course, when there was no artillery before, it was okay to say, let's go all the way across the mountains and ridges.

But don't we have an artillery battalion!You can't climb the hillside with a mountain cannon, can you?Therefore, I used to be able to walk seventy or eighty miles a day, but now I can only walk more than 30 miles a day.

On April 4th, Yuncu Town, the brigade temporary headquarters, the brigade commander received a report on the situation of the scouts ahead.

"Brigade Commander, the devil's situation has basically been found out. The devil appeared in the direction of Yuncu Town the day before yesterday, and it was indeed for road construction. After contacting us, the devil retreated to the watershed line. Now, the devil stays in the watershed, Nanguan , Beiguan, and Laiyuan Town!"

"Our regiment leader said that we have checked the devil's situation clearly. Are we looking for an opportunity to give the devil a hard time?" The communications soldier of the new regiment reported the latest situation to the brigade commander.

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