At night, there was a constant flash of fire at the muzzle of the gun, accompanied by a dense burst of gunfire.

Due to the broken arm, Tang Hu still received special care, for example, someone would load him with bullets.

On Zhou Wen's side, the battle was still fierce.

The attack on Purple Mountain was the 16th Division of the Devils, which was a division of the Japanese army with strong combat power.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, according to intelligence, guarding the Purple Mountain is the teaching corps of the Shina people and a reinforced regiment of the 87th Division, with a total of about 15,000 people." A Japanese lieutenant reported to a Japanese lieutenant general.

"Fifteen thousand?"

"Hey! Moreover, it is the elite of the Chinese army! ”

"Yalu, it doesn't matter if he is elite or not, in Shanghai, are we still fighting less elites?" Lieutenant General of the Japanese Army, who is also the division commander of the 16th Division, Nakajima said lightly to Kingo, "Tonight, let's attack tentatively first." ”

"Hey!"

"By the way, investigate the terrain of the Purple Mountain and prepare for tomorrow's attack."

"Hey!"

"If there are people who are willing to lead the way, please come."

"Hey!"

For the attack, the Japanese army has never been afraid, in this era, the quality of the Japanese army is not much ahead, coupled with the gap in weapons and equipment, the national army is really not the opponent of the Japanese army, the defense of Nanjing, the Japanese army invested 200,000 troops, and the national army is now almost more than 200,000, tens of thousands more than in history. The ratio of troops is about 1 to 1, but in such a ratio, the national army does not have an advantage at all, and in addition, a large part of these troops are the so-called miscellaneous armies, and the combat effectiveness is really varied, and some even don't even have guns.

……

In Hanzhong, Chen Xiu saw the equipment transported by ox carts, horse-drawn carts, and people on their backs, and his eyes turned red all of a sudden.

The national strength is like this, but with the strength of the people and the soldiers' lives, why worry about the enemy?

"Come on, be careful!"

"It's coming soon! The owner has come to pick us up! ”

After more than a month, this batch of equipment was finally shipped from Germany to China and Hanzhong.

Even in the night, Chen Xiu clearly saw Chen Yifu, who was in the dust, sitting on an ox cart.

"Daddy!" Chen Xiu hurriedly walked up, and his tears remained, although he was a future guest, but Chen Yifu's heart of love and care, Chen Xiu really felt it. For this batch of equipment, Chen Yifu traveled from Shanghai to Hong Kong, and from Hong Kong all the way to Hanzhong, which lasted nearly a month.

"Hmm." Chen Yifu also nodded, looked at Chen Xiu, and his eyes reddened slightly, "It's been hard work during this time." I did a good job, and I didn't lose the face of my Chen family. ”

"Daddy." Chen Xiu looked at Chen Yifu and didn't say anything more, just wiped his eyes and calmed down.

"Okay, let's not talk about it." Chen Yifu nodded, "Come, introduce to you for my father, this is an engineer from Germany, Mr. Weir." ”

"Hello, Mr. Will." Chen Xiu spoke.

"Hello, Chen Xiu?" The Chinese pronunciation of foreigners is always a little strange.

Chen Xiu nodded, and then said in German, "That's right." ”

"Do you know German?"

"Yes."

"Oh, that's great!" Will is a little glad that along the way, he has seen too many backward places in China, seen a lot of simple farmers, and now most of the people who transport equipment are also recruited in Chongqing. In his opinion, these people can endure hardships and stand hard work, and the tolerance is really very high, but why are these people living so hard? He didn't understand, but he knew that the group of people in front of him who had bought equipment had come to change their fate.

"It's not too early, Dad, Mr. Will, let's unload the equipment first, and then have dinner." Chen Xiu looked at everyone and spoke.

"Okay."

"Boss, then we unloaded? Unloaded into this yard? ”

"Hmm."

So, the crowd began to unload the goods.

"Worry a little, worry a little bit!"

"Tap, tap!"

"One or two!"

"Put!"

Large wooden boxes began to be lifted down and placed in the courtyard.

Chen Xiu's heart is full of joy, these are the foundation of his future! It is the foundation of China!

Industry, there must be iron! In order to call it industry! Steel is the foundation of industry! Nothing can be made without iron! It took thousands of years for mankind to go from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, and it was not until the Industrial Revolution that the Iron Tool really entered a new era and the world underwent a real change.

In any case, iron is the most basic material.

"Ah Ning, hurry up, go and let the brothers prepare what they eat and drink."

"Hmm." Tang Ning nodded, looking at these big wooden boxes, his heart was also extremely excited, some things, if you really started to do them, you will know how difficult it is.

You know, now the situation in the whole of China is like this, the industry is extremely weak.

However, with this group of people and this batch of equipment, although the industry is still very weak, at least, there is more hope. Moreover, there is a lot of hope.

Tang Ning didn't know how much money the Chen family had, although she married into the Chen family, she had never been in contact with the Chen family's finances. But she knew that the Chen family would probably continue to invest money here.

It took more than an hour for everything to be unloaded and piled up in several yards.

As a loss, Chen Xiu rented a large piece of land here.

The fence has been fenced or something, with the order from above, the construction of these infrastructures is very smooth, most of the fence has been fenced, even if it is a factory, there is already a certain framework.

After all, in this era, the application of cement has become quite common.

"Alright, let's all take a seat!" Chen Yifu looked at it, and then spoke.

"Oh!" The people rejoice!

Chen Xiu had already received the news, so he could be regarded as prepared. It is difficult to go to Shu and it is difficult to go to the sky. Although it is much better now, there is really no way to spend so much manpower and material resources on so many large-scale equipment. But at the same time, it also made Chen Xiu feel the power of the masses. China is poor and backward, but it is supported by thousands of people! Someday, it will be enough to attract the attention of the world! Isn't the Huaihai Campaign the People's Liberation Army mobilizing 5 million people for logistics?

Soon, more than 2,000 people began to take their seats, and on the table, there were steaming meals, large bowls of meat, and the smell of meat spread far away. But they knew that the owner hadn't started talking about eating yet, so he couldn't start eating yet.

"That's it! All the way, thank you for your hard work and dedication! Eat first! "Chen Xiu, as the owner, that's right, it's not Chen Yifu, but Chen Xiu.

After all, the arsenal and steel factory here will be responsible for Chen Xiu in the future, Chen Yifu will not make himself a role like the emperor, even if Chen Xiu messes up, their Chen family can afford to smash it.

"Eat!" The crowd cheered, but they were not polite.

Moving things, transporting things, reminding you all the way, mentally nervous, not to mention, these jobs are also hard work, and they consume a lot.

Among them, there is also a table where all the people are foreigners, so much equipment, the engineer is not the only one. Will was the chief engineer, and there were seven or eight people at the bottom.

They also crossed the ocean and came to this strange country, Chen Xiu didn't want them to have any bad impressions.

"Ou! It's simply delicious! ”

"Oh my God! It's spicy! It's delicious! ”

Obviously, the thing that can conquer this group of foreigners the most is Chinese food.

Chen Xiu had a smile on his face and was also moved, the wine must have been prepared, but it would be better to eat something to cushion his stomach first, and then drink.

……

On December 8, the Japanese attack became more and more intense.