The urgent gathering of war drums was beating loudly in the arsenal. The workers who were busy working in three shifts day and night did not show any panic at the sudden sound of the war drums. Instead, they were excited to try.

The normal factory routine is conveyed by the trumpet. During normal training, the difference is the war drums. A burst of war drums, this is ordinary training. Workers who are not on duty will undergo basic training for an hour. Two bursts.

War drums indicate that there is an enemy situation in the surrounding area, and three arrays of war drums indicate that these workers need to go out for war.

So, except for the workers who needed to be kept safe, all the workers ran to the factory grounds in an orderly manner, and then quickly stood up in formation according to workshop, type of work, squad, squadron, and brigade, waiting for the appearance of the factory director.

But this time it was beyond their expectations. The factory director appeared, and so did his commander. This situation made all the workers even more nervous.

Mao Wenlong stood on the high general's platform and loudly explained the current situation to the workers below: "Dongjiang Town has reached the most critical moment, a time of life and death. Huang Taiji sent 200,000 troops to open up an area in our occupied area.

We have entered three battlefields. Now, all our soldiers are fighting desperately with the enemy on the front line. Our Dongjiang Town is in a temporary situation." Then he deliberately emphasized his tone: "It is in a temporary situation. There is no more soldier.

Soldiers can be dispatched. Therefore, as the commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town, I issue a recruitment order to you. From now on, you have 30,000 workers here, leaving 10,000, but I ask you, brothers of 10,000, to take on the responsibility of 30,000.

The production tasks of the brothers continue to continuously deliver urgently needed ammunition and supplies to the front line. From now on, the remaining 20,000 brothers will go to the battlefield and fight to the death to defend Dongjiang Town and Pidao."

The seriousness of the situation has been explained, but it did not make these workers tremble, nor did it make them feel danger and despair. Instead, it made their blood boil, making them feel that they finally had a chance to shed their blood for the restoration of their homeland in Liaodong.

The survival of Dongjiang Town depends on killing the enemy and making meritorious deeds.

Bi Maokang didn't have any mobilization nonsense, because at this time, there was no need to mobilize again, because at this time, all the words of mobilization seemed pale and ineffective. He loudly ordered: "The blast furnace and gunpowder manufacturing workshop, return to work immediately. Other workshops

Brothers, immediately carry out the weapons stored in our warehouses, arm yourselves, and then accept Commander Mao's command and rush to the front line."

The huge cave was opened, and the attached caves were opened one after another. According to the military units that had been established in peacetime, batches of armors were carried out, and brand-new flintlocks were distributed to the soldiers one after another.

In their hands, brand-new artillery one after another was trained into the team. At this moment, rumbling footsteps came from the gate of the arsenal, followed by waves of high-pitched slogans: "Kill the slaves and restore the Liao Dynasty."

, fight to the death for the sake of our elders." Two thousand trainees from the training camp entered the factory. After reporting to Mao Wenlong, they immediately accepted the workers and soldiers according to the roster. In just two hours, these trainees became

These workers and soldiers are composed of squad leaders, squadron commanders, and battalion commanders.

As the smoothly compiled report reached Mao Wenlong, Mao Wenlong looked at the sky and then loudly ordered: "The Fourth Workers' Division of the Fu Liao Army, set off."

General Liu Xingpei, the newly appointed commander of the Fourth Workers' Division, waved the battle flag of the Fourth Division written by Mao Wenlong, whose ink was still wet, in the air a few times, and took the lead in shouting: "For the sake of the fathers and elders behind us, we will fight to the death, let's set off -" and then stepped forward.

Get on your horse and set off with high spirits.

The brothers drove out of the factory neatly with a rumble. None of the 10,000 workers who stayed behind looked back, and no one said goodbye to the good brothers and brothers in the expedition team, because they did not have the time. The flames in the blast furnace were even more intense.

It was blazing, and the speed in the manufacturing factory was even faster. Batch after batch of steel was being forged, and batch after batch of weapons and ammunition were manufactured at a faster speed, and then they were sent to the front line one after another.

The army arrived at the pier between Yuncong Island and Pi Island. Originally, in order to keep it secret, they deliberately did not build a Strait Bridge, but only built piers on both sides. But at this time, the army needed to pass through, and it was no longer realistic and too late to rely on boats to ferry them.

, in the future, it will be too late to transport materials to the front line by ferry alone.

So tens of thousands of salt workers from the salt factory have gathered here, and they are sweating like rain to build the pontoon bridge on the strait. What moved the soldiers the most was that the common fishermen from Phi Island brought their family fishing boats over one after another.

The door panels of each of their houses were carried over and donated one after another. The local officials were busy registering and evaluating them together.

However, the common people did not accept it or wait. Instead, they abandoned their fishing boats or door panels here and joined the army of building pontoons, so that the officials could not find these boats and door panels no matter what.

The owner just saw more and more ships and door panels gathering here, and more and more people joined the army of building pontoons.

There were shouts and piling sounds, "We need 300 people here." "I need 500 people here." So countless people flocked here and joined there.

"I need 20 boats here." "I need 300 door panels here." "I need ropes here, and I need wooden stakes here."

With every call of need, countless needed supplies would pass by and be put into use in the blink of an eye.

Just when the workers' division rushed to the beach, one solid pontoon bridge after another had been erected. The common people who were still working hard on the pontoon bridges jumped in one after another when they saw the neat soldiers stepping onto the pontoon bridges.

In the strait, make way for the advancing army.

Faced with such a scene, the 20,000 soldiers of the Workers' Division moved more urgently, but there was a fire burning in everyone's heart, and there were tears in their eyes.

As soon as they set foot on the land of Pidao, ordinary people were already standing at the head of their fields, shouting loudly to the army: "The road is closer to the field from this side. Don't worry about the ditch in front of the car getting stuck. We have already used it."

Reinforced with stones and planks, there will be a smooth road ahead."

The soldiers rumbled into the mature fields. The ditches had long been paved with stones and wooden boards. Even some artillery carts and heavy supply trucks occasionally got stuck in the ground. There was no need for the soldiers to do so.

After greeting him, countless people rushed over from the left and right. They carried people on their shoulders and lifted the cart that was stuck in the mud and put it on the hard road.

The few people in front were tearing down the house, because this house made the advancing army take a detour. In fact, the turn was not big, but the people still bulldozed them, and among them was the owner of this house.

Looking at such a scene, Mao Wenlong, who had seen life and death, choked up and said to Liu Xingpei, who was already in tears: "We have such people, how can we not win?"
Chapter completed!