After coming out of the new barracks, Liu Yu rode the Bian Sandou captured by the Japanese and took the guard Ma Chao along the mountain road to Shijiashan in the west of Xiyang.
Xu Liqing and Wu Hongbo are digging caves here with the mobilized people.
Now the entire independent column or the Lunan Military Division is busy. Political Commissar Song Renqiong is in charge of Xiyang City and is coordinating the overall situation. Deputy Commander Wu Hongbo and Director of the Political Department Xu Liqing are in charge of logistics and infrastructure. Chief of Staff Wang Zhitao is in charge of recruit training and officer training.
The first regiment leader Huang Zhentang led the veteran reinforcement company to garrison at Xilai Temple. The second regiment leader Yuan Xuekai took the propaganda section chief Jiang Yueqin to recruit refugees in central Henan.
Even Liu Yu, a "shoulder", couldn't find time to be lazy. He would occasionally go to the recruit training camp and stay there for two days, thinking of new tricks to "torture" the recruits. Occasionally I would go to Shijiashan to see the progress of cave excavation, and sometimes I would roll up my sleeves and work together.
Fortunately, Wu Hongbo had invited several students, two of whom were studying civil engineering. Under their command, there has been no collapse in the cave excavation so far.
Bian Sandou stopped at the foot of Shijia Mountain, and the "chugging" sound was so recognizable that the overt and covert whistles at the mountain pass knew that his commander was coming.
After greeting the sentry at Shankou Road, Liu Yu slowly walked up the mountain.
When he met Wu Hongbo, Liu Yu asked directly: "Old Wu, how's your work going?"
Wu Hongbo was settling accounts at the moment. According to Liu Yu, the people who helped with the work would not only be provided with food and accommodation, but also be paid wages, 2 cents per person per day.
Don’t think it’s too little. 2 cents a day is 6 yuan a month. Our party cadres’ monthly allowances are not that much.
This time, they mobilized more than 1,400 people to help with the construction. At the same time, they dug 5 large caves as future arsenals, and 12 smaller caves as granaries. Half a month later, they were almost done.
The excavated dirt and gravel were not wasted and were hauled down to build the road. Now the mountain road going down the mountain is enough for two ox carts to pass side by side.
Eating, drinking, and eating for more than 1,400 people was a big deal, and Wu Hongbo was feeling a little overwhelmed at the moment.
"Coming?" Wu Hongbo raised his eyes and looked at Liu Yu, then lowered his head and continued to calculate: "The work is almost done, but when will your food be delivered? Yuan Xuekai and the others have done things very neatly, and there have been more and more people in the past few days. When the refugees arrive in Xiyang, if you can't bring out food anymore, let alone the political commissar, those refugees will tear you alive."
After hearing what he said, Liu Yu immediately sank into his system.
"System, is the food so neat? If so much food suddenly appears, others will think of me as a monster. I need to think of something right."
That's right, Liu Yu had already redeemed the food. He spent 500 points to redeem 5,000 tons of white flour that northerners love to eat. But it has been in the system warehouse. Because I couldn't think of a reasonable way to make it appear, it has been postponed until now.
"Ding! The system can provide freight services. The charges are calculated according to the mode of transportation. Land freight is 5%, sea freight is 3%, and air freight is 10%!"
"What? Is there a charge for this?"
"Ding! Use it if you like!"
"Use it, you're cheating on the system, you're so evil." Liu Yu said with a dark face, "Then let's go by land."
"Ding! The system has arranged transportation. To avoid accidents, the fleet will arrive at 9 p.m., deducting 25 points from the transportation fee, and the current remaining points are 744 points."
"By the way, let's exchange for two more Bofors 75mm field guns, um... two more PAK37 anti-tank guns. Cannonballs, 1,000 rounds of each, let Lao Luo have a good time. Transport these two cannons and cannon shells together with the food."
"Ding! Swedish Bofors 75mm field gun, exchange price: 50 points/door, 10 rounds of free artillery shells. 75mm grenade, exchange price: 1 point/50 rounds."
"Ding! PAK37 combat anti-cannon, exchange price: 50 points/door, 10 rounds of free artillery shells. 37mm armor-piercing explosive shells, exchange price: 1 point/50 rounds."
"Four cannons plus shells, plus freight, a total of 252 points. After deduction, the remaining points are currently 492 points."
"It's so beautiful, it's so beautiful!"
The system is of high quality and low price, and Liu Yu is so beautiful that his nose is bubbling.
In reality, Wu Hongbo lowered his head and calculated the accounts carefully. After finishing the calculation, he realized that Liu Yu was silent. When he looked up, he saw Liu Yu giggling with his eyes closed, and his face turned dark.
"Hey! Hey, hey! Are you dreaming of marrying a wife?"
Wu Hongbo shook Liu Yu awake and complained: "Are you not worried at all? You can fall asleep standing up? What a skill!"
Liu Yu licked the saliva from the corner of his mouth and said, "What are you worried about? The food will be delivered tonight."
"Real or false?" Wu Hongbo obviously didn't believe it.
"Just ask, it's all right, and remember to arrange for someone to help carry it when the time comes." Liu Yu said, patting his chest, and then put on a mean expression, "By the way, where is your blasting expert? "
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The time soon came to 9 o'clock in the evening, beside the highway in the north of Xiyang City.
A large group of people, at least a thousand people, were waiting on the side of the road. There were also hundreds of ox carts, horse-drawn carriages, and mule carts, waiting for the grain to arrive, and then they would be transferred to the cave in Shijiashan.
Big trucks can't drive up to Shijiashan, there are no roads there.
Song Renqiong, Liu Yu, Xu Liqing, Luo Haiming and others stood at the front of the crowd. They were shivering in the cold on the twelfth lunar month night.
Even if it's cold, you still have to eat dog food.
"Xiaoyu, are you cold? Let me rub your hands for you."
Wu Hongbo pulled a girl's hand with a shy face, exhaling and rubbing it.
This was his college sweetheart and high school classmate named Zhang Wanyu. Originally, after Wu Hongbo escaped from Peking, he was afraid of implicate her, so he cut off contact with her.
Who knew that this girl had been inquiring about Lao Wu's whereabouts. This time Wu Hongbo wrote a letter to recruit classmates, and a classmate who had a good relationship with her directly revealed the news to her, and then she went to Xiyang.
When they met, Zhang Wanyu first slapped Wu Hongbo, then beat her chest with small fists, and then the two hugged him and ate them. Liu Yu said that he was indeed an advanced member of the late old society, and that he was so open-minded.
But despite the fact that this pretty girl wears glasses, she looks very polite. She is a top student in the Chemistry Department of Tsinghua University, which means that making some explosives, poisons, etc. is not a problem at all. This kind of person is the worst to mess with. According to her, she has hundreds of recipes that can make people die silently, and she also has a way to explode a square iron block into an apple.
Liu Yu originally nicknamed her "Poison Lady", but was frightened by her cold eyes and changed her nickname to "Explosion Master".
Not to mention, the girl with this nickname quite likes it, and she is also very surprised.
"You've asked me 800 times, I'm not cold! I'm not cold! I'm not cold! Please pay attention when there are so many people!" Zhang Wanyu said shyly, unable to stand Wu Hongbo's disgust.
The girl was still shy, but when we met, she was so excited that she couldn't help herself.
After looking sideways at the two dog-food spreaders over there, Liu Yu and others all rolled their eyes.
It's already cold, but with these two around, it's even colder.
In order to divert attention, Lao Song raised the topic and asked Liu Yu: "I said, do you have any accurate information? It's already past nine o'clock, why hasn't it arrived yet?"
Liu Yu looked at his watch and felt a little uneasy. God knows if the system is reliable.
With so much food, it would be terrible if the Japanese discovered it.
Just as he was about to speak, two beams of light came from afar, shining directly on Liu Yu's face, and then the roar of the car engine also reached his ears.
After a while, a huge convoy of more than 500 American-made ten-ton trucks came into view. The long convoy stretched for more than ten miles, with no end as far as the eye could see!
Most of the people at the scene were farmers. Where had they seen such a battle before?
Even Liu Yu was stunned.
When they got closer, the truck stopped, and the sound of the brakes deflating brought everyone back to their senses.
In the first car, the door opened, and a foreigner with blond hair and blue eyes wearing a warm leather jacket got out, walked up to Liu Yu and others with a folder, and asked in fluent Chinese: "Excuse me, who is this?" Mr. Liu Yu?"
Liu Yu took a step forward: "I am!"
The foreigner showed a standard smile, shook hands with Liu Yu, and then handed the folder to Liu Yu: "5,000 tons of flour, 4 artillery pieces and corresponding shells have been delivered, please sign for them."
"Oh, okay."
Liu Yu took out the pen from his pocket and signed the document quickly.
After he finished signing, Lao Song and others walked up to Liu Yu with shock on their faces, and heard Lao Song exaggerate: "Commander, your business partner is really awesome. How many trucks are there?" This grain, 5,000 tons of white flour, was just taken out?"
"Look at your ignorant look!" Liu Yu scorned him, "This is nothing. Do you know Germany's annual car production last year? It was more than 380,000 vehicles, and the United States has even more. Their car production capacity At least 10 times that of Germany!”
"As for 5,000 tons of grain, it's not enough for a large cargo ship. Do you know how many American cargo ships there are on the Atlantic route? Let's say thousands! This is an industrial power! The little devils just bully us for being poor, and follow In a comparison between the European and American powers, is this little devil just a loser?!"
In order to conceal the existence of the system, Liu Yu had to pretend.
When he finished pretending and directed the people to start moving things, the problem came again.
The fleet is too large and there are not enough manpower here.
Originally, Liu Yu didn't have much idea about the number "5,000 tons". After all, in his previous life, he had been numbed by news reports that reported hundreds of millions of tons.
But if he was asked to organize manpower to transport 5,000 tons of materials, his claws would suddenly become numb.
Those bullock carts, horse-drawn carriages, etc. can only pull one ton at most per trip. It's not that the bullocks and horses can't move, but the wooden structure of the cart has a limited load-bearing capacity.
Finally, someone went to Zhangzhuang Town and brought the new recruits over. Today, the new recruits experienced double the usual training during the day and had to receive cultural classes in the evening. It was just when they were exhausted both physically and mentally that they heard the instructions. When I was moving things, it exploded.
Finally, Liu Yu "opened the door" and explained that he would have a holiday tomorrow and let them sleep until they wake up naturally, and everyone was happy.
Compared to training, moving food counts as a ball? Moreover, they are all made of white noodles, and they look energetic just by looking at them. One person can walk as fast as he can while carrying a large bag of them.
Liu Yu also found out that he had been tricked by the new recruits. These guys usually had very good food. They had only practiced for half a month, and all of them had grown visibly stronger. Moreover, they were all in their 20s at the peak of their physical fitness. Extremely resilient. He said he was not happy, but actually he wanted to negotiate terms!
I don’t know who I learned this from!
Liu Yu didn't say anything about this. At worst, he will continue to double his training the day after tomorrow. At worst, he will double his training the day after tomorrow...
At the same time, Lao Song also mobilized the people and refugees in Xiyang City to greet thousands of people.
Fortunately for the refugees, the Eighth Route Army gave them a bite to eat. When they heard that they wanted to help, they came without saying a word and dragged their families with them.
It's difficult for the folks in Xiyang City. If it weren't for the wages, these folks who had been on the kang for a long time would not be willing to come.
It's not that the people are not simple enough. In this winter, the temperature in Jinzhong can drop to more than ten degrees below zero, which is too much for just one person.
A large group of people worked until midnight and finally moved all the food back.
