The property seized from the landlord's old rich family was distributed according to the original plan, and after Wang Laogui and Wang Kai left enough materials and equipment for a short period of time, the remaining materials were still piled up with more than a dozen chicken carts.

Except for a small amount of gold, silver, and antiques, the most of these things are all kinds of dried meat confiscated from the landlord's house.

"These things, but they are all scavenged from the villagers by the landlord Lao Cai of Cangshui, leave them in Cangshui for the soldiers to eat, how inappropriate are we to bring them back?" Zhang Ran said.

"What's inappropriate, the Cangshui team is also a team of the detachment, and they are all family!"

Wang Lao Gui Wang Kai said with a sly smile: "And I have left a lot of it here, and it is completely enough to supplement the nutrition of the soldiers for the time being, besides, when we finish eating here, you can also find the captain You - when the chickens and rabbits in our chicken farm and rabbit farm come out, is it that the captain is embarrassed to eat alone with the brothers in the base area, can you send some water to the brothers to taste?" ”

"Okay, you old crutch, you were waiting for me here!" Zhang Ran feigned anger.

"Lao Gui, you have just become the captain of Shangcang Shui, and you sharpen your head and want to take advantage of the base - you are still not human!"

Wang Wenping's thin monkey Shi Yuan shouted even louder: "Tell you, your Cangshui team should not fight the chickens and rabbits in our chicken farm, and raise them yourself-our detachment will be expanded when we go back, this team is getting bigger and bigger, and we may not have enough to eat ourselves!" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, now that the captain of Lao Tzu is talking to our captain, where is it your turn to interject with you cats and dogs? There are no rules at all! ”

Wang Lao hummed with a fork of his waist, the official authority was full of pride, and the angry Wang Wenping, the thin monkey and others had crooked noses, and scolded Wang Lao for turning his face and not recognizing his brother as soon as he was promoted.

"Captain Wang!"

When the brothers had enough of the jokes, Zhang Ran called Wang Laogui, Wang Kai and Huang Hu and other main leaders of the detachment and said: "Just kidding and joking, although your Cangshui team is under the jurisdiction of our detachment, you really can't think about everything to me, you still have to be self-reliant and self-sufficient, chicken farms, rabbit farms and the like, you have to find a way to open them yourself, and usually give the soldiers of the detachment or the villagers in the county to fight tooth sacrifices, in case the main force comes, you can also support them some ......"

"Don't worry, captain, I know how to do this, but in terms of technicians, you have to send it to me, captain!" Wang Laogui lowered his eyebrows and said pleasing to his eyes.

Zhang Ran nodded, and then ordered the team to go on the road.

In addition to Wang Laogui, Wang Kai and others, the three platoons that originally belonged to Wang Kai also stayed in Cangshui and handed over to Wang Laogui for dispatch, and at the same time, some veterans were also in the town.

In addition to these people, the rest of the men and horses, including the independent company composed of the Cangshui soldiers, all set off back to the base area with the large team.

Coupled with the people brought out by Lu Kelangzi, Ren Haifang and others, the team was more than 1,000 people, with more than a dozen chicken carts full of dried meat and property, and returned to the base in Yanggou Town through Cangshui.

"Come on, come on, give me a push!"

"I haven't even pushed it yet, give me a little more push......"

Wang Wenping, the thin monkey and others scrambled to push a few chicken buses that had been installed with bearings processed by Cheng Dongshan, Cui Sanyuan and others, and all the teeth were happily exposed: "Oh, this chicken cart with bearings and without bearings is very different when pushed, and it is really easy to save money, Lao Tzu can push this cart with more than 200 catties a day, and he will not be tired of walking hundreds of miles a day......

Listening to these guys' smiling bragging, Zhang Ran didn't think so at all.

After seeing the era of cars flying all over the sky a few decades later, he didn't even have the interest to take a second look.

Not to mention, he also had to check the surrounding terrain with Wang Laogui, who saw him off all the way, as well as Huang Gui, Hu Lijun and others, to determine matters related to road repair.

As the saying goes, if you want to be rich, you should have fewer children and build more roads.

Only the development of transportation can drive more people out of the land under their feet, so that all kinds of output can be better circulated, so as to drive economic development.

The same is true for the current warehouse water.

The coal mines in Longwanggou have to be transported to the detachment's base area, and the fertilizer produced by the detachment's base area also has to be transported from the detachment, and the grain exchanged for chemical fertilizer and the grain that is taxed is transported back to the base area, and so on, all of which will face tremendous difficulties.

If there is no relatively convenient and easy-to-walk road, suitable for the extensive use of the chicken carts built by the detachment with bearings to transport, then the transportation of coal mines and fertilizers will consume a lot of labor costs!

Relying on the enthusiasm of the common people to support the detachment on their shoulders is time-consuming and labor-intensive, not to mention inefficient, but it is far less practical than using a chicken bus to push a few hundred catties at a time.

It's just that if you want to build roads, you will face all kinds of problems at any time.

And because of the different times, the specific problems faced by road construction are also correspondingly different.

For example, after a few decades, the land is contracted to the household, once the road is built, it will inevitably occupy the land that has been allocated to the people, so it will lead to land occupation compensation, seedling compensation and so on.

In addition to these things, the last thing is the labor, consumables cost and other related things involved in road construction.

In this day and age, the above-mentioned compensation for land occupation and labor costs, etc., are almost negligible.

After all, the enthusiasm of the common people to support the work of the detachment is high, and it is what he Zhang Ran says here, and there will be no obstacles to building a road in this regard.

But there are new problems!

Once the road is repaired, the coal mine in Longwanggou will be convenient for transporting all kinds of materials and grain, but in case the little devils come in, this road will also be very convenient for the little devils to transport all kinds of artillery fire and other things when they enter the base area, which will pose a huge threat to the safety of the detachment.

Therefore, although the road must be repaired, the route selection of the road is extremely important!

Along the way, Zhang Ran was busy observing the terrain with Wang Laogui, Huang Gui, Hu Lijun and others, and finally decided on the specific route of the road.

This is different from the road construction decades later, which requires as many curves as possible to reduce the number of curves and save mileage.

The road from Cangshui to Dongjiang is required to save mileage at the same time, and it is more connected with those places with dangerous terrain, so that there are dangers to defend along the way.

At the same time as the road was built, several defensible places along the way were also built fortifications, and militia were stationed along the way to control the road and form a long-term prevention mechanism!

"Then it's decided, along the roads in Cangshui County, take the three places that must pass through Yangjiaoya, Jinniu Gorge, and the Boat Stopping River as important places to build fortifications and maintain the safety of the traffic arteries!"

When the team drove out of Cangshui, Zhang Ran, who had memorized the terrain along the way, said to Wang Lao, Huang Gui, and Hu Lijun: "Among them, the garrison of the boat stop river is the most important!" ”

Although the surface of the river is only more than 30 meters wide, the river valley is deep enough, and the two banks are now connected by suspension bridges.

In the dry season, you can go around the river valley to the other side, but if it is a wet season, then this suspension bridge is the only passage!

"We not only have to build a large number of fortifications on both sides of the suspension bridge, but it is best to find a way to stop the water and build a dam in the upper reaches of the river to stop the boat, on the one hand, we can adjust the water source to irrigate the surrounding crops in the dry season, and when the Japanese army attackes, we can also cut the suspension bridge, blow up the dam, and block the passage of the Japanese army with floods......"

Zhang Ran said: "The matter of building a dam, we must try to keep it as secret as possible, and do a good job of the people, if the little devil doesn't know that we have built a dam upstream, and want to bypass the river valley when the suspension bridge is cut off, we may be able to flood the Seventh Army!" ”

"Don't worry, captain, we will definitely explain it to the villagers in terms of dam building, and we will never let the little devil's spies inquire about it!"

Huang Gui and Hu Lijun nodded again and again.

After asking Huang Gui and Hu Lijun to arrange these, Zhang Ran called Wang Laogui aside alone and instructed: "Cangshui is not less dangerous than our Dongjiang River and plains, so while paying attention to the training of the soldiers of the detachment, we must also strengthen the training of the militia, so that the militia can cooperate with the detachment for training and coordination. You can also use the mines and tunnels with the cooperation of the militia to maneuver with the little devils......"

Wang Laogui nodded with a serious expression, indicating that he knew the importance of what Zhang Ran explained.

"Now, you're on your own!"

Seeing Wang Laogui's expression, Zhang Ran patted him on the shoulder and said: "Although you are still under my command now, after all, I am in the base most of the time, and I definitely don't have a comprehensive understanding of your Cangshui's situation, so when you encounter any emergencies, you have to make your own ideas and learn to solve the problem in combination with the actual situation of Cangshui-understand?" ”

"Thank you for your trust, captain, I will definitely do my best, and I won't let you down!" Wang Lao stood upright, and said with a firm look in his eyes.

"That's for the best!"

Zhang Ran nodded, and then said with a smile: "Now that you are the captain of the detachment, you can be regarded as having great power, if you have the opportunity, you can find a daughter-in-law, and if you delay it any longer, I'm afraid you really want to be an old bachelor!" ”

Wang Laogui blushed and said to Zhang Ran gratefully: "Captain, thank you!" ”

In the past, because of lameness, the family was poor, and no woman was willing to follow him, but since Zhang Ran came, his life has undergone earth-shaking changes, and it is no longer a problem to find a woman to start a family.

So this thank you, he said it from the bottom of his heart.