"What do you say? You also killed all those devils, and the casualties were not large, except for a dozen people in the team who were injured, not a single one was killed, did you hear it wrong! ”

Many people in the regiment headquarters heard the report of the signal soldiers of the Fifth Company, and their first thought was that they had heard it wrong.

Liu Fang's eyes twitched, and he didn't believe the words of the signal soldier.

"No, the battle was over when we went to Chen Village, and Li Huan and the others were eating braised pork!

And there are already more than thirty of their militia, and everyone has a gun!

Li Huan also invented a kind of earthen cannon, which will fly out a lot of steel balls and shampnel when it explodes, and when fighting in the street in the village, it can put down many devils by spraying it on the devils!

I heard that Li Huan was able to win the devil because he built several of these earthen cannons, and now our company commander has also brought back an earthen cannon, and also brought back some ammunition and food! ”

"Oh, this kid is amazing, I thought he couldn't handle it, but I didn't expect to win the devil.

No, I'll have to see what the five have brought back! ”

Liu Fang was very excited, he always thought that Li Huan was a leather boy, and now it seems that this leather boy is very good!

Soon the commander of the fifth company returned, and the content of the report was not bad from what the signal soldier said, and the power of the earthen cannon was not small.

Liu Fang and many others have tried the power, and they can make a big hole in the earthen wall with one shot, and there are many small holes, and even more than ten meters away, many steel balls and iron pieces are stuck in the wall.

If this power is on a man......

Liu Fang could think of himself holding a cannon, shrinking into the wall and facing the slowly approaching devils, and then going down with one shot and putting down seven or eight devils, that feeling was really cool!

"It's really good, you can let the arsenal imitate it, it's just that this kid's recipe is a bit weird, and he actually wants to get egg whites and stir gunpowder, it's really ......"

Eggs are money, these years are better than the ocean, and they are actually used to stir gunpowder, alas~

"Forget it, let's grit our teeth and get a little first, and then talk about this kid's formula when it improves, we won't need much anyway!"

Many persuaded on the side, but he was the most distressed, it was all food, and now that the chief of staff is injured, he is the one who is in charge of the money, and the head of the family knows that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive!

Unlike Liu Fang, when he was distressed, Li Huan was taking Li Hong to the mountain, and saw that there were many more mines in the mountain, and some people in yellow uniforms were digging coal with coal ash on their faces, Chen Hong was shocked, but he didn't expect Li Huan to find a coal mine here and dig it!

"Chief Xiao Li is really witty, he can actually think of a way to dig coal for heating!"

Li Huan glanced at Chen Hong, he always felt that this guy was scolding himself.

Digging coal and burning this kind of thing is also called witty?

"Young Master Chen, in fact, you can call me Captain Li, or call me Li Huan directly, just don't call me Chief Li, in fact, I am very big!"

Seeing Li Huan say something with a displeased face, Chen Hong sighed in his heart, he seemed to have offended Chief Li!

"Yes, yes, little ...... What Captain Li said is that Chen will call you Captain Li in the future! ”

"Young Master Chen, you are really ...... It's too polite, our Eighth Route Army doesn't engage in that set of class thinking, we pay attention to equality for everyone, you don't have to be so restrained, and you don't have to be so afraid! ”

Li Huan could see that Chen Hong was a little afraid of the army, this was the norm of people in this era, and everyone had no good impression of the army.

In ancient times, the difference between the army and bandits was not very big, especially in terms of views, whether it was a literati or a common people, they were basically reluctant to let their families become soldiers, and joining the army was purely military service.

"Uh...... What Captain Li said is that Chen will definitely know more about your army's thoughts in the future! ”

Chen Hong is still very restrained, but it doesn't matter, Li Huan is now concerned about how to turn these coals into money!

"Young Master Chen, I don't know if you know about the coal sales around here?"

"Uh......"

Chen Hong was stunned, does this little chief want to sell coal?

In fact, it's not that Li Huan wants to sell coal, the main thing is that the system has a side quest to let him sell coal, and the reward is a way to sneak attack the devil and run the building, which makes it difficult for him to do it!

And he asked to sell at least 10,000 catties of briquettes, he is an ordinary person who doesn't know how to do business at all!

"Captain Li, if your army also wants to sell coal, then Chen can help one or two......

"Say it quickly!" Li Huan instantly became excited when he heard this, if he couldn't make money guarding a coal mine, then it would be useless to have a mine at home.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Hong told Li Huan that due to the closure of many coal mines in the vicinity of the war, the demand for coal in the market was huge.

However, many people feel that this business is more risky and does not make a lot of money, so they simply flee.

The rest of the people don't know how to make briquettes either, especially when they hear that the briquettes they make themselves don't dare to make their own briquettes after poisoning people at night.

Therefore, Chen Hongcai felt that this business could be continued, and there was a lot of profit in it!

"I see, so I don't know how to find a buyer?"

"If Captain Li gives me this matter, I can help you handle it, there are many shops in the city that need coal, and Chen also knows some businessmen, and they also need coal at home and in business, so they will definitely buy a lot!"

It's just that...... Your supply here may not be enough by then, so I think you can recruit more workers to do the work! ”

"No, I think these workers can work seventeen or eighteen hours a day!"

Li Huan's man in yellow leather clothes said, which made Chen Hong frown, and persuaded him a little nervously:

"Isn't it a bit inhumane for Captain Li to do this? Let people work for seventeen or eighteen hours a day, and if you squeeze too much, you may be ......"

"They're the puppet army!" Li Huan said coldly, and then Chen Hong was stunned, and the next words did not continue, but added:

"I think these people are very powerful, even if they do it for twenty hours a day, it's no problem!"

The two of them didn't care at all about letting these puppet army captives work, and even the people of Chen Village felt that it was normal.

It's okay if you don't kill these puppet soldiers, you have to have a little bit of flesh and skin.

After Li Huan and Chen Hong discussed, Chen Hong went back, saying that he was helping him find customers.

For people like the Chen family, the Eighth Route Army must adopt a co-optation strategy, so Li Huan is not prepared to monopolize all the profits, and he will also share some of these profits to the people of the Chen family.

So that they know that following the Eighth Route Army is not only fighting devils in vain, but also ensuring their interests and allowing them to stick closer to the Eighth Route Army, which is an important strategy of the united front.

Chen Hong didn't really care about him about these things, and now he just wanted to stabilize these troops, as long as they didn't maintain the township, then there was hope for the Chen family and Chen Village.

But don't be like those previous armies, all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes are complicated, and many people go to the countryside to rob, which really makes the people miserable.