Chapter 50: Preparing for the Decisive Battle

This is the gold mine? Ren Laifeng looked at the bright yellow hillside in front of him, although he didn't know how to mine, he instinctively felt that the color of yellow and gold were obviously not the same thing. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info especially, the faint but ubiquitous smell of sulfur wafting in the air made Ren Laifeng even more suspicious, this can't be a sulfur mine, right? You know, the sulfur is yellow, too!

It's actually easy to tell whether this yellowish hillside is a gold mine or a sulfur mine, and if you can't tell the ore, someone will, so you can find someone who can recognize the ore. Although there are not many such talents, they are not absolutely absent, Ren Laifeng gave orders to six divisions and two brigades, and in less than half a day, sixteen so-called experts came to Fengming Village to report.

Ren Laifeng took these sixteen so-called experts who had studied ore to the yellow hillside, and pointed his hand upward, "Everyone, you take a closer look at me, why is this hillside yellow?" What are the stones on the mountain and what are they used for? Well done, I've got a reward! ”

The commander-in-chief has spoken, can the experts not be satisfied? Sixteen experts divided their way and climbed the yellow hillside. This one picked up a stone and looked at it carefully, the other picked up a piece and put it under his nose to smell it, and some picked up two palm-sized yellow stones and knocked them on each other, as if they wanted to see if the two stones could collide to create sparks. Did he use this as a flint?

After a while, an expert finally came back from his research. Ren Laifeng nodded secretly, and from this point it can be seen which of these experts is higher or lower. However, Ren Laifeng's eyes widened in the next second. Just now the experts who were doing various studies on the hillside suddenly rushed down the hillside, and their research ended at the same time?

The experts' research did end at the same time. In particular, the experts involved in the ore exploration also came to a surprisingly unanimous conclusion, and the experts agreed that the ore on this yellow hillside was sulfur ore, or the kind of sulfur ore with a fairly high sulfur content.

Knowing that this mountain was really a sulfur mine, Ren Laifeng completely let go of the surprise of discovering the gold mine. Sulfur ore doesn't seem to be very valuable, right? Of course, even if sulfur is not valuable, it must be worth more than bluestone slabs all over the mountain, how to say that sulfur is also a chemical raw material, isn't it?

Of course, the most depressed person about this news was the platoon commander Huang Yuping Huang who thought he had discovered the gold mine. The gold mine has become a sulfur mountain, and the gap between them is also wide, right?

"Brother Feng, with sulfur and then find charcoal and saltpeter, our arsenal will have the raw materials for the production of explosives!" Just when Ren Laifeng was about to put the sulfur mine aside and stop caring about it, Feng Wenying suddenly said such a sentence, which made Ren Laifeng's just calm heart hot again!

When he was in Qinggang County, Ren Laifeng once got a batch of lathes to produce rifles by himself. At that time, a batch of good quality rifles were also produced, and Ren Laifeng gave him a resounding name called Xiao Zhongzheng. Later, although the arsenal was shut down due to the war, and the lathes were moved to the mountains, they were still restarted several times one after another.

Rifles can be produced in-house, but none of the bullets are made, and the reason for this is the lack of raw materials. The traditional recipe for the production of black powder is one sulfur, two nitrate and three charcoal, and there is a lack of sulfur and saltpeter, how can only charcoal produce gunpowder? Well, now that the sulfur mine is there, as long as the saltpeter is found again, the raw materials for the production of gunpowder will be ready!

There is always not enough in people's hearts. With sulfur, Ren Laifeng still wanted saltpeter, and he asked sixteen experts to look in the nearby mountains to see if they could find saltpeter mines. No matter how bitter these experts were, Ren Laifeng instructed Xiao Qingfa, who accompanied him, to send a force to protect these ore experts, and at the same time listen to the experts' orders to mine sulfur ore. Let's get the sulfur out first!

After giving the experts the order for exploration and mining, Ren Laifeng returned to Fengming Village. He didn't leave, the first was that Zhang Sheng's pursuit force didn't come back; The second is that he is waiting for news from the saltpeter mine. In China, the distribution of saltpeter ore is very extensive, and the difficulty of identifying saltpeter ore is not very high, so Ren Laifeng's expectations for the manufacture of gunpowder are quite high.

The experts did not disappoint Ren Laifeng, and two days later the news of the discovery of saltpeter ore came. When Ren Lai heard the news, he rushed over in a hurry, and found that the saltpeter mine and the sulfur mountain were only separated by a mountain road of less than ten miles, which was another mountain next door.

After receiving this slightly metallic stone from the expert, Ren Laifeng seemed to see bullets and grenades being packed and transported to the front line and sent to the hands of the soldiers. The soldiers of the 49th Group Army took small and medium-sized rifles, bullets and grenades of their own production to eliminate the Japanese devils. A strong country and a strong army have since embarked on the fast track!

After finding all the raw materials, Ren Laifeng naturally refused to delay time, he sent a telegram to tell Lin Xincheng the good news, and at the same time informed Vice President Lin to immediately start transporting the lathes and skilled workers from the suburbs of Qinggang to Fengming Village! While doing this, Ren Laifeng had an unstoppable heart for Tangyuan County and even Jiamusi

Jiamusi is the largest city in the vicinity, and it is also the seat of the Provincial Office of Puppet Sanjiang Province and the capital of Puppet Sanjiang Province. Jiamusi is next to Tangyuan County, a city and a county are on the bank of the Songhua River, one in the east and one in the west. It can be said that taking this city and one county is equivalent to taking the entire Sanjiang Province.

It is conceivable that Umezu Yoshijiro will not easily give up the province of Mijiang even for his own position, and once this battle starts, it will inevitably be a decisive battle. The decisive battle between Ren Laifeng and Umezu Mijiro!

In order to ensure the victory of this quasi-decisive battle, Ren Laifeng secretly mobilized the Flying Tiger Battalion, a regiment of the cavalry brigade, a regiment of the artillery brigade, and a large amount of baggage equipment to the Sanjiang Plain.

At that time, Japanese spies and spies were almost everywhere, and no matter how covert Ren Laifeng mobilized his troops, he could not hide from everyone. Almost on the day that the Flying Tiger Battalion left its station, the information on the large-scale mobilization of troops of the 49th Army was sent to Umezu Mijiro's desk.

Umezu Mijiro was furious when he saw the information! He has to pretend to be angry if he is not angry. This thing is too big for him not to be angry.

"Eight Tooth Road! What do you want to do? Don't think that I, Umezu Mijiro, ignore you, I'm afraid of you! Don't go too far! "Admiral Umezu slapped the table and was furious! frightened a group of adjutant staff officers into a blank face. The one who was close to the door slipped away, and he didn't dare to look at General Umezu when he lowered his head from the inside.