Anyway, it is estimated that it will take a few days after the matter of Cangshui is dealt with, so Zhang Ran directly led the team to camp in Longwanggou.

These stonemasons are all craftsmen, and they have never done this kind of work of digging into the mountains, and it is not good to teach them how to do it without staring at them.

Otherwise, Zhang Ran is sure that these guys may really plan to use the chisel to cut out a digging surface on this mountain rock little by little!

According to Zhang Ran's memory, although this Longwanggou Coal Mine is a shallow coal mine, it also has to go down more than ten meters to see the coal mine.

The hollow excavation method is not profound, but it is a complete novelty for these stonemasons who have never seen the world.

They would never trust things they had not touched, which could be seen from the extremely unkind eyes of several stonemasons every time they looked at Zhang Ran.

Zhang Ran could only smile cheekily, what he had to do now was to stare at them and do it according to his own ideas, and when the first time he saw the effect, these stonemasons would not resist!

The hollow excavation method of later generations is mechanical, using air compression as the power of the empty drilling rig or oil drilling rig, the efficiency of the opening is extremely high, and it takes only a few hours to excavate two meters at a time.

A group of stonemasons wheel hammers to cut holes with iron drills, which is much slower, and at most about a meter at a time - after all, high-quality iron drills are pitifully rare now.

However, after two shifts of more than 20 stonemasons hammering day and night, the center hole of the seven plum blossom piles and more than ten boreholes distributed around the perimeter were finally excavated.

Black powder mixed with a small amount of good medicine, black powder wrapped in oiled paper, and an earthen fuse rope were also delivered last night.

Zhang Ran called a group of stonemasons over and instructed them to charge the medicine!

The plum blossom-shaped opening in the middle is only filled with the shaft hole.

The six openings around the perimeter are used for the release of explosive power, and there is no need to reload explosives at all.

In modern tunneling, because the quality of the fuse rope is high enough, it can be detonated at intervals by the length of the fuse rope and electric ignition control, but the fuse rope made by the detachment is not safe, and Zhang Ran directly uses the method of exploding one blast hole at a time.

Inefficient, but safe!

Boom!

The stones that were shattered in the plum blossom-shaped hole were sprayed out like cannonballs under the action of the explosion, and a hole the size of a fist and nearly a meter deep appeared on the excavation face!

Then the openings scattered around the perimeter collapsed one after another in the sound of explosions, with the opening the size of a fist in the center as the direction of collapse!

After these crumbling stones were cleaned up by the people who had gathered from the wages and the stewards, a tunneling passage of more than one meter square was presented in front of everyone!

"Captain Zhang is amazing, this method is so good!"

"It is worthy of being a learned person, if we follow our own method, this more than one meter of excavation face, we are afraid that we will have to knock it with a chisel for a month......"

A group of stonemasons admired inexplicably, and gave Zhang Ran a thumbs up, it seems that Zhang Ran has a black face when he sees it many times this day, Zhang Ran's ass just turned around and said behind his back that Zhang Ran doesn't know how to move, but he likes to command blindly, and he is not the same group of people as them!

Zhang Ran naturally couldn't deal with them.

After all, no matter how much he knew, if it weren't for these stonemasons who wielded small hammers day and night to knock on the iron drills, and used themselves as human flesh drilling machines, Zhang Ran would have been useless in knowing how to excavate.

"This excavation face is excavated, you can't rush to carry out the next wave of excavation, you must first reinforce the excavation face, and wait for the reinforcement to be completed, before you can carry out the next stage of work!"

Zhang Ran instructed the stonemasons to let the men see logs of the right length to reinforce the excavation pit mouth to prevent the occurrence of landslides.

Although in this era, human life is not valuable.

But people's hearts are long, and he doesn't want the villagers to be buried in the pit when they work for the detachment, then he is really sorry for others.

"According to my estimate, if you dig down more than ten meters at such an angle, you should be able to see the coal mine, how many days do you think it will take?" Zhang Ran asked.

"Although Captain Zhang, your hollow excavation method is very good, but the further down, whether it is opening a hole or pulling out the blasted slag, it is much more difficult than now!"

Several stonemasons discussed and replied: "We will take turns to dig, but it is estimated that it will take more than two months!" ”

"Then you big brothers will be tired, so let's take a month and a half as a deadline - if we see the coal mine one day in advance, the wages of the masters will be doubled by one day, how about it?"

Zhang Ran smiled and used the incentives, and at the same time asked the stonemasons not to patronize the progress without paying attention to safety, and they must follow their own instructions, and strengthen a section of excavation before excavating the method of excavation!

While the excavation is taking place at the mouth of the pit, a variety of work is also being carried out randomly.

Huang Gui and Hu Lijun organized the people to start building roads to the outside world here, and built houses in hidden places not far from the mouth of the pit, so that they could be used by the coal miners to live and drink during the coal mining in the future.

Of course, the first thing to be built was the kitchen, and all the grain used was confiscated by the landlord's house.

"Secretary Huang, in the future, the villagers here in the mine, whether they are the current stonemasons or the coal miners in the future, will have to eat better!"

Zhang Ran looked at the half-dry porridge in the bowl and said: "It's all hard work, and you can't stand it just by eating this - in this way, you can eat porridge in the morning, but you must eat dry at noon and night, and you will eat meat for everyone in two days......"

"Hey, everyone eats like this now, according to Captain Zhang, your way of eating, it's better than what the landlord and the old rich can eat......"

Huang Gui said that he was distressed.

"Secretary Huang, you are barely a member of my Eighth Route Army now-what do you remember about the most important point of our Eighth Route Army?"

Zhang Ran looked at Huang Gui solemnly and said: "Our Eighth Route Army is a team of ordinary people, we must be people-oriented, we will tighten our belts where we should be stripped into the waistband of our trousers, but we must give it to the villagers, then we must also give it, no matter what, we can't let the villagers be wronged - just give the villagers food according to the standards I said, I will greet Captain Wang of the detachment, as long as the accounts are clear, you go to him to receive food or money, there will be no problem!" ”

"Captain Zhang, the Eighth Route Army, it's really the savior of our people!"

Hearing Zhang Ran's words, Huang Gui and Hu Lijun's eyes were moved with tears, and they got up and shouted: "Captain Zhang's words, have you listened to them?" Three meals a day, two dry meals, and one meat in two days, the landlord and the old rich don't dare to eat like this - don't you thank Captain Zhang, thank you to the Eighth Route Army? ”

The villagers who are helping here shout Long live the Eighth Route Army, and everyone's faces are full of happiness!

A little food is not a thing for people who don't know what to eat after a few decades, but for the people who are lucky to be able to live with their bellies all year round, it is a gift from God to them if they can be fed and eat a little better.

Not to mention that these days, after the detachment came over, it not only defeated the Duan family and other landlords and bullies, but also divided the land and money and food for everyone, and did so many things for them!

"Folks, you don't have to thank me, and you don't have to thank our Eighth Route Army!"

Zhang Ran said loudly: "These are all the rewards you deserve for supporting our Eighth Route Army and supporting our Jindong detachment - as long as the villagers can continue to support us in the future, we will have more benefits to share with the villagers, specifically, I have already explained to Secretary Huang and Director Hu, just listen to them in detail when you go back......"

What was explained to Huang Gui and Hu Lijun was nothing more than what Wang Changtian and Lu Yan had done in the base area.

At the same time, after the coal mine, in addition to the coal miners who dig the coal, the remaining villagers can help build roads to transport coal, transport coal, etc., and can accumulate labor points, labor points in exchange for fertilizer, and so on......

When helping to do these jobs, it is also the old rule, the detachment is in charge of a meal!

Listening to these measures, the villagers are crazy with joy!

Chemical fertilizer can help increase food production, everyone knows, helping to work can change chemical fertilizer, and you can pick up a meal for nothing every day, so don't you save a meal at home?

Just thinking about it, the people feel that these days are getting more and more rushed!

The matter on the coal side has been arranged, the distribution of the spoils of war has been dealt with these days, and the establishment of the detachment is also progressing smoothly.

Five hundred carefully selected young men carried weapons captured by the detachment in the Battle of Tiger Killing Mouth in a lined up in the county square to be inspected by Zhang Ran.

"From now on, you are a glorious soldier of the Eighth Route Army in the Jindong Detachment of our Eighth Route Army, Cangshui Team!"

Zhang Ran said loudly: "You must always remember one thing, our Eighth Route Army is the people's army, and the only purpose of our existence is to protect our country and our fathers and villagers - when our fathers and villagers are bullied by the enemy, what should you do?" ”

"Fight the enemy to the end!"

A group of recruits shouted.

"What should we do if an enemy invades our country?"

"Fight to the death with the enemy, never retreat, protect your home and defend the country!"

"Be louder, I can't hear you!" Zhang Ran yelled!

"Fight with the little devil to the end, don't give up an inch of land!"

"I can't hear you!"

"Defend the Motherland and Kill All Japanese Dogs......"

Countless warriors stood up and roared, and the sound was in the sky!

"Remember your promises!"

Zhang Ran roared: "If someone has to sacrifice, then let's stand up and sacrifice, as long as our sacrifice can be exchanged for peace and the happiness of our children and grandchildren, we will never back down, and we will fight with the little devil to the end......"