Chapter 180: The Caravan Heading North (2/3)

The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and the price of northern goods in Tianjin has risen again and again, and the price of northern goods in Tian Buzi's notebook has to go through several cross-out and rewrite processes from the morning to the market inquiry and report to the green paint district in the evening. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty was still in the hands of the Japanese, and the Beiyang Army on the Liaodong Peninsula was still waiting to be slaughtered, this did not affect the enthusiasm of the dignitaries and nobles to buy ginseng skins.

Due to the backlog of goods in the north, the price of northern goods has dropped again and again, and ginseng is about to sell at the price of cabbage. In Tianjin, the price of northern goods rose again and again because the traffic between the outside and the inside of the customs was blocked by the Japanese, and the members of the provisional executive committee could no longer sit still.

The caravan that went north to purchase goods from the north finally set off, ostensibly led by Li Duofu, an old Li Tou of the outer intelligence officer of the Military Intelligence Department, who was a clay man, and an armed escort team of 100 people with braids provided security for the caravan.

Many of the guards were security forces with false pigtails, and Zou Heming was also mixed in with this armed escort team, and the purpose of his trip was, of course, to scout the Japanese army more closely. It is basically a foregone conclusion that the Liaodong Peninsula will fall into the hands of the crossing people, and it is difficult to say whether the Japanese who lost the Liaodong Peninsula will stay in the northeast of China.

In addition to the convenience of shipping, the Liaodong Peninsula actually has no industrial resources. The coal, iron ore, timber and oil needed for industrial development are all deep into the inland northeastern region of China. Now Koman has brought the most preferential investment to cross the crowdfunded Lushun-Mukden railway. The caravan sent by the Provisional Executive Committee will not only have the task of going north to purchase goods from the north. Whether the Japanese in the north finally withdrew or not, they had to be prepared for war, and it was the land of Longxing in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was impossible for the old witch and Guangxu to give it up.

Considering the more complex terrain conditions in the north, heavy armored vehicles may no longer be able to follow the infantry, and the crossing must be countermeasured. So Zou Heming, who had experience in reconnaissance behind enemy lines, disguised himself and mixed in with this armed escort and went north to reconnoiter the situation in the north.

Zou Heming is a member of the Navy SEALs, who worked in international trade before the crossing, and he is the real leader of this caravan. Zou Heming was wearing a security army uniform, a captured Japanese tweed coat turned security army coat on the outside, carrying a magic M14 rifle on his back, a compact MPX submachine gun hanging under the coat, and an MK23 pistol pinned to the back of his waist. He wore sheepskin fur on his head, and his false braids were sewn into his hat, so that he could not be fake. In Zou Heming's own words, not showing off automatic weapons, and adding a money rat tail to the hat is already worthy of the tens of thousands of taels of ugly cover fees of the foot basin chicken, if the devil dares to pick another thorn, he will blow it up. The M14 demon on Zou Heming's back was changed to the appearance of the 1888 rifle of the committee used by the security army, and a short magazine of ten rounds was used.

To say that it is also a bit good to dress more in the cold, this is not Zou Heming hung a bunch of bits and pieces on his body, put a set of tweed coats on his body, you can't see what he hung under the coat. On his chest was a small high-definition camera, disguised with the fur collar of his coat, and the arming of the footbasin chicken was clearly recorded along the way.

The caravan came to the gate of Fuzhou City, and Lao Li Tou found that this Fuzhou City was no longer the Fuzhou City he fled from three months ago. The town had become a paramilitary fortress, and the Japanese began to build fortifications a few kilometers outside the city of Fuzhou, with anti-tank trenches, anti-artillery bunkers, foxholes, and camouflaged gun emplacements. In the eyes of Lao Li Tou, the fortifications here are obviously not as strong as those permanent fortifications in Dalian Bay, and laymen always feel that the fortifications of civil structures are not as strong as those of concrete fortifications.

However, in Zou Heming's eyes, the fortifications here are very targeted, and it is obvious that the fortifications here are more troublesome than the semi-open-air fortifications of the Dalian Bay Fort.

After many baptisms of shelling, the Japanese no longer dig the kind of infantry trenches that are in a straight line, and the trenches that Zou Heming encountered today are all jagged, and the Japanese have found a way to limit the shock wave of the explosion to the greatest extent.

As for the anti-artillery bunkers, they are not as funny as they were originally built, they are all half-buried in the ground, and the roofs are reinforced with a large number of sandbags. However, the anti-tank trench is still very funny, this kind of trench with a width of only about one meter and two is meaningless to block modern tanks, and it is obvious that Japan still does not understand the cross-country ability of tanks.

However, the opponent is already improving, and now if you want to flirt with the footpot chicken again, you will have to pay more ammunition. At the speed at which they were repairing the fortifications, when the Sino-Japanese War was over, the footbasin chickens would build more fortifications further north, and if they didn't leave, it would be a lot of effort to kill them.

Watching the caravan swaggering through his own defense area, Daji Anchun felt very uncomfortable, the soldiers of the Second Army did not show any anger and humiliation towards the passage of this caravan belonging to the Great Song Dynasty, and they showed a lot of worry. Oji heard soldiers whispering about their efforts to eliminate the remnants of the Qing army in the vicinity in order to make the caravan safely northward a few days ago. The soldiers feared that their recent actions had not completely wiped out the remnants of the Qing army, and that if the remnants of the remnants clashed with the caravan, the First Volunteer Brigade would retaliate against them.

It was really a shame to be thrown into my grandmother's house, and the dignified Japanese Army actually carried out a military operation to sweep away the remnants of the enemy and escort it for the passage of a caravan of quasi-hostile forces. Instead of feeling shame and anger, the soldiers involved in the operation feared that their actions were not done well and that they would be angered by the quasi-hostile forces. Morale is low to this extent, this battle is really impossible to fight, I hope that after the secret agreement is signed, this low morale will not be brought to the battle against the Qing army, Oji Yasujun thought helplessly.

The Japanese provided the caravan with water for the horses and some fodder along the way, which was also the price to pay to maintain their pitiful self-esteem, and they paid more than a monetary price to prevent the regular troops of the Great Song Dynasty from passing through their defense area. Looking at the Japanese soldiers who were seriously brushing and feeding the caravan horses, Oji Yasumi felt that it would be difficult for the Second Army to defeat the First Volunteer Brigade again, even if they changed to the armaments ordered from Europe in the future, it would be difficult to make any essential changes, and the soldiers of the Second Army already felt that the First Volunteer Brigade was an invincible powerhouse in their bones.