Bright Sword: From Border Region Manufacturing to Major National Heavy Industry

Chapter 131 Li's mouth was stretched to his ears.

"Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, you two, proceed immediately to intercept the enemy according to the pre-arranged plan."

Zhang Wanhe led the transport team and rushed over, and Li Yunlong and Ding Wei's troops withdrew.

Some might ask, since the train had already been taken down, why not have Li Yunlong and Ding Wei's troops help dismantle it?

That's a bit amateurish.

First of all, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei are combat troops.

Their mission wasn't over just because the train was taken down.

It is not safe to rely solely on the 772nd and 771st Regiments to block enemy reinforcements.

Therefore, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei also need to join the blocking team.

Then there is.

Zhang Wanhe has brought enough men; he doesn't need any help.

"Yes, Brigadier."

"Yes, Brigadier!"

Li Yunlong and Ding Wei received their orders and led their troops to set up defenses.

"Li Yunlong, listen to me properly, you better hold off the enemy. If you dare to desert and cause the transport team to be attacked by the enemy, don't blame me for not showing mercy with my bullets!" The brigade commander pinched Li Yunlong again.

"Brigade Commander, look at what you're saying. I can still distinguish between primary and secondary matters," Li Yunlong quickly said.

Ding Wei, however, said to the brigade commander, "Brigade commander, why don't you go with Li Yunlong? With you keeping an eye on him, he definitely won't be able to slip away. Minister Zhang is here, so I think you don't need to stay here."

Without a doubt, given the chance, that bastard Li Yunlong would definitely not behave himself.

Ding Wei didn't want to be implicated by Li Yunlong, so it was safest to have the brigade commander personally keep an eye on him.

What's more!

The fighting here is over, so Old Zhang and his transport team can get back to work as soon as possible.

Leave a small force to maintain order at the scene; the brigade commander doesn't need to stay here.

"Old Ding, if you don't speak, no one will think you're mute..." Li Yunlong said angrily before he could finish.

The brigade commander nodded: "Hmm, it seems it's safer for me to keep you, Li Yunlong, under my control personally."

"Old Zhang, I'm leaving this place to you," the brigade commander called out to Zhang Wanhe.

"Don't worry, you hurry up and go fight the reinforcements. I guarantee that we'll bring everything back within the planned timeframe," Zhang Wanhe responded enthusiastically.

The brigade commander left some troops for Zhang Wanhe, and then sent Li Yunlong to the blocking position.

"Brigade Commander, you really don't need to come with me." Li Yunlong said with a bitter face, "If we get into a fight with the Japanese reinforcements, bullets don't have eyes, Brigade Commander, what if..."

"Don't worry, we haven't even invented a bullet that can kill me yet." The brigade commander's expression was solemn, as if to say, "Do you think I'm afraid of war?"

It's been one or two decades since the Northern Expedition, and I've been fine all along.

"Brigade Commander, please trust me this once. I really can tell the difference between primary and secondary tasks."

"If you keep talking nonsense, believe me, I'll kick you back!" the brigade commander glared.

The more you say these things, the more uneasy I feel.

"Alright, brigade commander, I'll shut up." What else could Li Yunlong do but keep quiet?

You always say I'm prone to daydreaming, but I don't believe you can resist the urge to daydream!

Just as the brigade commander and Li Yunlong reached their sniping position and the hell cannon was set up, a bright beam of light rushed in from the distant horizon, speeding along the railway.

Seeing the beam of light, the brigade commander cursed, "That damn Japanese devil is coming fast! Li Yunlong, fire the cannon and take it down!"

"Iron Turtle" is a Japanese armored train, specifically designed for rapid reinforcement along railway lines.

"Brigade Commander, the iron turtle is a good thing too. Let's keep it and dismantle it." Li Yunlong said to the brigade commander while aiming.

"Demolish my ass!" the brigade commander yelled. "Just blow it up!"

The brigade commander knew, of course, that this iron turtle was a valuable item, and if it could be dismantled and taken back, it would certainly be worth a lot of money.

but!

The arsenal only conducted a paper-based exercise on dismantling locomotives; it was all just theoretical!

If technical difficulties are encountered during on-site disassembly, the disassembly time will be extended.

In short, if they can successfully dismantle the locomotive and bring it back, today's mission will be a stroke of good luck!

Are we still dismantling the Japanese iron turtle?

The workers at the arsenal were also unfamiliar with the internal structure. With such a tight schedule, they couldn't afford to bite off more than they could chew!
As long as we still have artillery shells, taking down those Japanese devils' iron turtles will still be just as easy as it is today.

We can knock down the bunkers and pillboxes along the railway line, and then we can take whichever of those Japanese trains or iron tortoises we want.

"Ah, what a pity, such a fine treasure." Li Yunlong sighed and lit the fuse.

The iron turtle runs so fast, it's hard to aim at.

Li Yunlong didn't aim at the Iron Turtle, but instead calculated the distance and aimed at a section of railway in front of it.

boom!
The Hell Cannon roared, and its shell exploded on the railway twenty meters in front of the Iron Turtle.

The railway tracks were blown into pieces, and a huge crater was blasted into the road.

"Damn it!" the Japanese soldier driving the iron tortoise cursed, forced to brake suddenly.

The scooter braked suddenly, sparks flying, the ear-piercing screeching sound almost bursting eardrums. But the scooter's reinforcement speed was too fast, and the powerful inertia still caused the front of the scooter to crash into the ditch.

The front of the car lost its balance and overturned on the side of the road.

The carriages pulled behind the locomotive came crashing in one after another.

Finally, they clashed together like building blocks.

The Japanese soldiers above were either dead or wounded, and they were screaming loudly.

The iron turtle that the guerrillas feared most was destroyed so easily.

"Brigade Commander, there's something good on that iron turtle. I can go and grab some, right?" Li Yunlong said to the brigade commander after destroying the iron turtle with a single shot.

"Hurry up." The brigade commander nodded.

This Japanese devil's iron turtle not only has machine guns, but also cannons; these are all good stuff.

Take it here to strengthen our defensive capabilities.

The brigade commander could foresee that this iron turtle was just the fastest Japanese reinforcement force, and that a large number of Japanese troops would definitely follow.

"Da Biao, go get the stuff right now!" Li Yunlong shouted to Zhang Da Biao immediately. "Take care of the rest of the Japanese devils for me."

"Yes." Zhang Dabiao led his troops over immediately.

The Japanese soldier on the iron turtle was badly hurt, but Zhang Dabiao dealt with him easily.

"Hurry, hurry, take all the weapons and ammunition away right now, quickly!" Zhang Dabiao personally carried a heavy machine gun down from the iron turtle, very happy.

"Battalion Commander, there are still cannons here! They're fixed in place and can't be dismantled. What should we do?" A soldier quickly shouted to Zhang Dabiao.

Zhang Dabiao looked over and saw that it was indeed a cannon with a caliber of 105 millimeters.

Even though we already have the Hellfire Cannon, this 105mm caliber artillery has been delivered right to our doorstep. If we can't take it, the regimental commander will definitely be cursing.

"Battalion Commander, this iron turtle burns oil, and we can't leave the oil in the tank unattended. We don't have any buckets, what should we do?" Soon, another soldier shouted at Zhang Dabiao.

"Take all the weapons and ammunition you can carry first, then I'll go report to the regimental commander." Zhang Dabiao ran to Li Yunlong as fast as he could.

Before Zhang Dabiao could speak, Li Yunlong cursed, "Dabiao, you son of a bitch, why did you come here instead of waiting for Tie Wangba to tell you to get the stuff!"

"Commander, there are two 105mm cannons on that iron turtle, they're fixed on there, I can't take them," Zhang Dabiao said hurriedly. "Also, the iron turtle runs on oil, we don't have any oil drums, we can't take the oil with us."

Upon hearing this, Li Yunlong immediately said to Zhang Dabiao, "This is very simple. Send someone to find Lao Zhang right away and ask him to find someone to come and help."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Dabiao was about to send someone when the brigade commander called him over: "You can have Minister Zhang send someone over with barrels to fill the oil. If there aren't enough dismantling workers, don't send them over easily."

Old Zhang's transport team brought enough manpower and tools, and they had containers to store oil, which was fine.

However, dismantling artillery requires skilled workers.

The dismantling of the locomotive is the most important task and must not be affected under any circumstances.

We can't let dismantling two 105mm cannons interfere with the important task of dismantling the locomotive!

"Yes." Zhang Dabiao nodded and immediately sent someone off.

"Li Yunlong, immediately ask your troops if they have any artillery?" The brigade commander looked at Li Yunlong seriously.

This standard artillery is not the Hellfire Cannon; the operation is different.

I wonder if there were any artillerymen among Li Yunlong's direct-line prisoners of war.

If not, the dismantled cannons can only be transported back first and cannot be used for artillery reinforcement.

"Yes, yes, there are artillerymen." Li Yunlong nodded hurriedly and immediately shouted to Wei Dayong, "Wei Dayong, didn't you say you knew some artillerymen? Call them over right now."

"Yes." Wei Dayong immediately went to call for help.

A few artillerymen came over, and upon asking, it turned out that two were mortar soldiers and the other two were proper 105mm howitzer soldiers.

The brigade commander laughed and said, "Li Yunlong, you've really picked up a lot of treasures while taking over Concentration Camp No. 9."

"That's right, Brigade Commander, when have we ever done a losing deal for you?" Li's mouth stretched to his ears with a grin from the praise.

……

Zhang Wanhe mainly focused his attention on dismantling the locomotive.

Watching Lao Qi lead the workers to unload the locomotive parts one by one and take them away, Comrade Zhang's smile grew even brighter.

According to Li Muzhi, with the power source, we can make cannonballs.

If he tinkers with the key components of the bullet-making equipment a bit more, we can make bullets too.

Of course!
Most importantly, we can now smelt iron!

It's unclear whether the power of this locomotive is sufficient.

It's okay if it's not enough!
We now have enough sugar and fertilizer, enough to give the Hell Cannon plenty of ammunition.

If that's not enough, we'll dismantle more from the Japanese railway later.

"Minister Zhang, we've found something that looks like flour, but isn't flour," someone reported to Zhang Wanhe.

"Who cares what it looks like? Just take it back first, won't you?" Zhang Wanhe said without even thinking.

Anything that this train is carrying must be useful.

With such a tight schedule, there's no time to figure out exactly what it is.

Regardless of whether it's flour or not, just take it back.

(End of this chapter)