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

Chapter 210 Blind in the eyes, blind in the heart
"What new information?" the brigade commander asked.

"Director Li said he needs equipment from the Japanese natural gas plant," Ding Wei said. "So, Brigade Commander, you need to keep an eye on this and gather intelligence on it."

"Okay, I understand." The brigade commander wrote it down.

If we could pry open the mouths of the managers at the Cui Village arsenal, we might be able to get some information about the natural gas arsenal from them.

After all, these arsenals are all interconnected.

"Brigade Commander, we'll head back now." Li Yunlong and Ding Wei prepared to go back to rest.

"Wait a minute." The brigade commander stopped the two men and said, "I almost forgot, you brought back the copper smelter and tungsten ore, what did Xiao Li from the arsenal give you?"

"He didn't give me much, just two coupons," Li Yunlong said. "Brigade Commander, you probably already know that Brother Li is working on a new type of rocket that doesn't require a gun barrel to fire. He gave me and Lao Ding thirty rounds each."

Thirty shots per person?

Upon hearing this, the brigade commander's eyes widened: "You only want this little bit? This is such a useful thing, and you only want this little bit? Did you let Xiao Li smear it in your eyes again?"

The brigade commander thought that each of the two men could easily get fifty or sixty rounds, and with Blind Cheng, they could get a total of over one hundred and fifty or sixty rounds.

As a result, the three of you combined didn't even have a hundred.

That's a copper smelter, and that's tungsten ore!
After being glared at by the brigade commander, Li Yunlong said, "Brigade commander, this is a medium-sized artillery piece that can be fired without a barrel. You can just dig a hole and fire it. These shells must be very precious. I think giving each of you thirty shells is quite a lot, Brother Li."

Ding Wei suddenly realized, "Old Li, it seems like we can't calculate it like that. We've sent so many raw materials to the border region's arsenal. When these new rockets are manufactured, the quantity will definitely be considerable. Thirty rounds seems a bit like giving alms to a beggar."

Upon hearing this, Li Yunlong's eyes widened: "Damn it, according to what Lao Ding said, it seems that Brother Li really didn't do things properly."

"You two go find Xiao Li again later and ask him to give you some more," the brigade commander said.

"Yes, Brigade Commander." Ding Wei and Li Yunlong both nodded.

"Also, why do your Li Yunlong troops have so few artillery pieces and light and heavy machine guns?" the brigade commander asked.

In the brigade commander's view, given Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, and others' greed in seizing the weapons from the military train, it was possible that Li Yunlong, that son of a bitch, would not only not share them equally, but would also take half for himself.

Even if he asked Kong Jie to share some, Li Yunlong wouldn't have only this much artillery and munitions.

"Brigade Commander, didn't you tell me to give some artillery ammunition to Lao Kong?" Li Yunlong explained with a smile, "I only kept this much artillery ammunition for myself, and gave the rest to Lao Kong."

The brigade commander glared at him and questioned, "Li Yunlong, you son of a bitch, are you being this generous?"

"Brigade Commander, although Lao Kong is helping the military factory mine coal, he still needs to protect the arsenal if the Japanese show up one day. So, considering that, I gave him a little more," Li Yunlong explained with a smile.

"So you gave us more? There are already sixty or seventy grenade launchers and mortars, and you even gave us three Type 92 infantry guns!" the brigade commander roared.

"It seems like I'm giving you a bit too much, but I'm doing this to prevent you from being robbed by the division commander," Li Yunlong laughed. "With more weapons at our disposal, Kong Jie can continue to expand his troops, don't you think?"

Kong Jie's side, relying on logistics units, has a natural advantage in expanding its troops.

"Prevent my ass!" the brigade commander cursed angrily, then turned to Ding Wei: "Ding Wei, you have as many artillery pieces as Li Yunlong. Keep the rest at the brigade headquarters."

The border region's arsenal was very important.

However, Kong Jie still had quite a few artillery pieces.

We need to quickly issue an order to Kong Jie, instructing him to bring all the county brigades and district squads in that area under the command of the New Second Regiment, and to rapidly arrange the deployment of these artillery pieces. In this way, we should be able to preserve as many artillery pieces as possible.

"Yes, brigade commander." Ding Wei immediately carried out the brigade commander's order, leaving most of the artillery at the brigade headquarters.

Our new regiment can retain a total of thirty grenade launchers and mortars, one Type 92 infantry gun, and one Hellfire cannon, which is still a very powerful firepower.

The brigade commander was very satisfied with Ding Wei's attitude and said to Li Yunlong, "Li Yunlong, you should learn more from Ding Wei in the future. He cooperated well and left the supplies at the brigade headquarters. Look at you, with your limited intelligence, you still try to play tricks on me!"

"Yes, yes, brigade commander, I will definitely learn from you, I will definitely learn well from Lao Ding." Li nodded humbly like a chick pecking at rice.

"Go back and rest. If you've had a good rest during the day, work hard tonight and try your luck to find out that little devil Sato Haruno." The brigade commander told Li Yunlong and Ding Wei to go back and rest.

"Yes, Brigade Commander." Li Yunlong and Ding Wei saluted the brigade commander and quickly left.

After the two men left, the brigade commander seemed to remember something, so he called over a staff officer and asked, "How's the investigation into that secret thing I asked Sato Haruno to do?"

When Sato Haruno parachuted in, what did he secretly do? The brigade commander ordered an investigation.

After listening to Li Yunlong and Ding Wei's description, the brigade commander learned that Sato Haruno had someone sprinkle special powder on tungsten sand in an attempt to track it down with military dogs.

This immediately alerted the brigade commander.

It's possible that Sato Haruno's secret is a trap.

We discovered this bait through investigation, and then we unwittingly swallowed it. This bait was sprinkled with a special powder, which would be a trump card if Sato Haruno were to track it with military dogs.

"We're still investigating. Our initial assessment is that it's likely a nutritional supplement," the staff officer replied.

"Once you've investigated the details, don't act rashly. You must report back to me promptly, understand?" The brigade commander's expression was extremely solemn.

Nutritional supplements—this thing seems unremarkable.

But thinking about it carefully, if we were to seize the nutritional supplements, who would we give them to?

They could either be given to the arsenal, the wounded in the field hospital, or the headquarters commanders to replenish their nutrition.

Of course, it's highly likely that all three aspects will be provided.

If Haruno Sato really did sprinkle some special tracking powder on the nutritional supplements, then this is no joke.

The arsenal, the field hospital, and the headquarters—these three targets were immediately locked onto.

Of course.

At the same time, this is also an excellent opportunity to turn the tables on them.

If things go well, we might be able to catch Sato Haruno.

"Yes, brigade commander." The staff officer nodded.

"Go." "Yes."

The staff officer has gone, and the brigade commander is going to take a rest.

I haven't slept all night, I need to rest.

Once you've recovered your spirits, you can put some more pressure on the managers at the Cuicun Arsenal.

Today, we must make a breakthrough.

If these bastards don't cooperate, they can't blame themselves.

As a result, the brigade commander had just lain down when Blind Cheng returned.

"Brigade Commander, haha, I'm back!" Blind Cheng excitedly rushed into the brigade commander's room.

"Commander Cheng, you've worked hard. Keep thirty grenade launcher mortars, one Type 92 infantry gun, and half of the light and heavy machine guns. Leave the rest at the brigade headquarters. Go back and rest." The brigade commander said, "I need to rest too."

"Brigade Commander, have you heard that the arsenal in this area has new rockets?" Blind Cheng asked.

Cheng the Blind wasn't opposed to the brigade commander wanting him to keep most of the munitions.

When he came, he asked, and found out that Ding Wei and Li Yunlong also had the same share.

Of course, with thirty grenade launcher mortars and one Type 92 infantry gun, this firepower configuration is still quite high.

In the past, I wouldn't have dared to even think about it.

"Okay, I understand." The brigade commander nodded and casually asked, "How many rounds are you getting?"

In the brigade commander's view, this blind man should have as many new rockets as Ding Wei and Li Yunlong.

"Twenty shots," Blind Cheng said excitedly.

"How many, twenty rounds?" The brigade commander wondered if he had misheard.

Li Yunlong and Ding Wei both received thirty rounds, but you, Blind Cheng, only received twenty.

You two do the same work, so how come you, Blind Cheng, have done less than Li Yunlong and Ding Wei?

Hearing that the brigade commander's tone was off, Blind Cheng asked suspiciously, "Brigade commander, what's wrong? Did I take too little?"

"That's a copper smelting plant, it's tungsten ore!" the brigade commander yelled. "Li Yunlong and Ding Wei each received thirty rounds, and that's too little. You, on the other hand, received even less than them. Li Yunlong really didn't give you the wrong nickname. You're really blind."

The brigade commander was speechless. He was doing the same work but getting paid less, and he was still gloating over it to me.

When Blind Cheng heard that Li Yunlong and Ding Wei each received thirty rounds of ammunition while he only received twenty, he was stunned: "Brigade Commander, are you kidding me?"

"Let me see your voucher." The brigade commander held out his hand.

Blind Cheng handed the voucher to the brigade commander, who immediately pointed at the bolded strokes and cursed, "Isn't it obvious? It's been altered. It should have been thirty, but it's been changed to twenty. Are you blind, or are your eyes in your ass?!"

At this moment, Blind Cheng suddenly realized what was happening and immediately started cursing: "Oh dear, I've been tricked by Minister Zhang! He even said that this pen wasn't very good, and that too much ink was dripping when writing, making the strokes a little thicker. I understood that it wasn't easy for Minister Zhang, the head of logistics, to be so frugal that he wouldn't even use a decent pen himself, so I gave him my new pen. Turns out, I've been played by Minister Zhang!"

"What? You even gave your new fountain pen to Old Zhang!" Upon hearing this, the brigade commander almost choked.

You blind man Cheng, not only are you blind in your eyes, but you're also blind in your heart!

"Brigade Commander, I, I, I..." Blind Cheng stammered, his face contorted with embarrassment. Before he could finish, the brigade commander roared, "Get out!!!!!"

Blind Cheng scrambled out of the brigade headquarters in a panic.

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In a wilderness

A small Japanese detachment, accompanied by military dogs, quickly tracked the scent.

"I can't believe it! After stealing five truckloads of tungsten ore, the Eighth Route Army wasn't satisfied and even robbed Yuehua Station." The Japanese squad leader followed the military dog's footsteps, his tone full of surprise. He then said, "Fortunately, the tungsten ore was sprinkled with special powder. As long as we can find the Eighth Route Army's arsenal, everything can still be salvaged."

“Yes, this tungsten ore is so important. If the Eighth Route Army seizes it, they will definitely move it to their arsenal. As long as we can find the Eighth Route Army's arsenal and pinpoint its location, our army can uproot the Eighth Route Army when it arrives, and the stolen tungsten ore and other supplies will be taken away…” another Japanese soldier spoke up in front of the squad leader.

Got it!

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly stopped, and his pupils contracted instantly.

A military dog ​​soldier, who was using his dog to track a scent, stepped on a bounding landmine.

The bounding mine bounced off the ground and landed about a meter high.

boom!
The bounding mine exploded.

The military dog ​​soldier and the military dog ​​were blown up on the spot and met their demise with Amaterasu.

The squad also suffered heavy losses, with six people seriously injured and rendered incapacitated on the spot.

Apart from the squad leader, the rest of the team members also suffered some shrapnel wounds.

In short, this one bounding mine completely rendered the entire squad incapable of fighting and continuing their search.

"Baka! These jumping mines from the Eighth Route Army are terrifying! Baka!" The Japanese squad leader was filled with horror and confusion.

He couldn't understand why the military dog, by such a coincidence, had stepped on a Chinese landmine while tracking the scent.

Could it be that the Chinese already know the tungsten ore has been tampered with, and this is their countermeasure?
The same tragedy soon unfolded in other wilderness areas as well.

More than a dozen small Japanese detachments, accompanied by military dogs, tracked the enemy by scent.

In the end, without exception, they all stepped on bounding mines. The military dogs were killed on the spot, and the small team also suffered heavy losses, losing the ability to continue the search and tracking.

After more than a dozen military dogs were wiped out, the Japanese army's scent tracking operation was forced to stop.

Their planes, like crazy, came out again.

(End of this chapter)