In fact, there is one thing Xu Dalong didn't say, that is, under the current circumstances, the guerrillas have no ability to manage the county.
The guerrillas have no external source of supplies. With so many people in the county to eat, wear, and use, the guerrillas simply cannot afford to feed them. It would be better to leave them to the Japanese and puppet troops to manage, and the guerrillas will snatch supplies from them to feed them.
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Daliu Shu Village.
Nowadays, the scale of the guerrillas has grown so large that they can no longer live in Mantou Peak. It is inconvenient for the brigade to live in the mountains. Therefore, the guerrillas left an infantry squadron in Mantou Peak to take care of the materials in the cave.
People came down the mountain and lived in various villages at the foot of the mountain.
The guerrilla brigade headquarters moved to Daliushu Village in Xinhe County.
The Japanese army was temporarily unable to mobilize troops to supplement the 32nd Division, so it did not invade the base area again.
Xu Dalong and others took the time to prepare supplies for the winter. Now that the food problem has been solved, the fuel needed for the winter has become the biggest problem at present.
It turns out that people in the villages and towns around Mawu Mountain relied on firewood in the mountains, crop straws, and coal transported from other places to solve their winter problems.
But now that there are so many out-of-work people from the Mawushan guerrillas and the county brigade, we cannot compete with the common people for fuel for the winter, we must solve it ourselves.
The most indispensable thing in Shanxi is coal. In Xu Dalong's impression, Mawu Mountain also has a large amount of coal reserves.
Xu Dalong called County Magistrate Gao Youtian and asked about coal mining in Mawu Mountain.
Gao Youtian had already investigated in advance and had seen some dry coal stones in Mawu Mountain, which were of little value. He had also asked the local people, but they did not know where coal could be mined in Mawu Mountain.
Xu Dalong has many problems to solve. He not only wants to mine coal mines, but also wants to build an arsenal in the mountains.
His ambitions are not big, as long as he can reload bullets and produce mortar shells, and repair damaged guns.
In order to solve these problems, Xu Dalong decided to go to the World War II District Chief's Department to recruit some professional and technical talents.
Xu Dalong appointed Sun Desheng as the commander-in-chief of the guerrillas during his absence, and he took Wei Monk's special operations squadron to the World War II District Chief's Headquarters.
Fendong County.
Arriving at the World War II District Chief's Department, Xu Dalong first went to the Eighth Route Army Office to meet with Representative Wang and gave the office 3,000 French currency.
Representative Wang was very happy and fully affirmed the achievements of the Mawushan guerrillas in the anti-siege struggle.
After leaving the Eighth Route Army's office, Xu Dalong went to the office building of the Shanxi-Sui Army Headquarters to find Li Kun.
As soon as she entered the gate, she saw Chu Yun'er talking to a tall, slender, handsome-looking lieutenant colonel officer wearing a pair of glasses at the stairs.
Seeing Xu Dalong, Chu Yun'er walked over quickly and said angrily: "Brother Dalong, what's the matter with you? Why don't you send me a telegram back?"
Xu Dalong smiled and said: "Miss Chu, we really don't have time. Tens of thousands of little devils surrounded Ma Wushan, and we just beat them away."
Chu Yun'er was a little unhappy at first, but when she saw Xu Dalong, her mood improved and she forgot about Xu Dalong's failure to reply to her telegram.
She said happily: "Brother Dalong, the Japanese siege of your guerrillas really worries me. Just wish you were fine. Are you going to do something? After you finish the business, remember to come to me. I will treat you at noon.
Have a meal."
Just as Xu Dalong was thinking of finding an excuse to refuse, the lieutenant colonel officer came over, looked Xu Dalong up and down, with hostility in his eyes, and said in a very unkind tone: "Are you that Xu Dalong from the Eighth Route Army? I heard that you are quite powerful.
It doesn’t look like that.”
Xu Dalong came out of nowhere and spoke so irritatingly.
Xu Dalong couldn't figure out his identity and didn't bother to pay attention to him.
When the lieutenant colonel officer saw Xu Dalong ignoring him, his pride was hurt, especially in front of Chu Yun'er, he felt very humiliated.
He said: "What's so great about being a Tubalu?"
When Chu Yun'er saw this person being so rude, she said angrily: "What's wrong with you? Why are you so rude? Do you know how to speak?"
When he heard Chu Yun'er reprimanding him, the officer not only didn't get angry, but said with a smile: "Miss Chu, these Eight Route Army soldiers are not of the same mind as us, stay away from them in the future."
Xu Dalong originally wanted to find an excuse to reject Chu Yun'er's invitation, but when he saw how rude this guy was, he couldn't help but feel a little angry.
He still ignored the guy and said to Chu Yun'er: "I will go find you when I finish my work."
After saying that, he walked upstairs. As he walked, he heard Chu Yun'er scolding the man for being rude, while the man accompanied him and carefully talked to Chu Yun'er.
Xu Dalong understood somewhat. It seemed that this guy was Chu Yun'er's suitor and regarded him as his love rival.
Xu Dalong came to the combat office and met Li Kun.
Li Kun was very happy to see Xu Dalong. He made tea for him with his own hands. After a few words of greeting, he said: "I have already contacted you about the mining experts and the technicians at the arsenal you mentioned in the telegram.
I will inform them soon and I can meet them in the afternoon."
The two chatted for a while, and then Li Kun took Xu Dalong to see the chief of staff and reported to him the situation in the Mawu Mountain area.
The chief of staff highly praised Xu Dalong and others for containing a large number of Japanese and puppet troops in the Mawushan area and ensuring the security of the northeastern direction of the World War II District Chief.
The guerrillas fought side by side and expressed regret.
After coming out from the chief of staff, Li Kun said that he would host a banquet in honor of Xu Dalong.
Xu Dalong just didn't want to be alone with Chu Yun'er, so he invited Li Kun to meet Chu Yun'er.
Li Kun is a veteran, and he is not willing to get involved in this matter.
He smiled and said: "Chu Yun'er is recognized as a beautiful woman by the World War II District Chief. If I want to meet you alone, I don't want to be the light bulb. You'd better go by yourself. However, I have invited several people from the logistics department tonight.
My brothers are here to support you, so you can’t miss this. They are in charge of weapons and equipment, as well as all kinds of supplies. It will be much more convenient to get closer to them through this opportunity. If you want supplies in the future, it will be much more convenient."
Xu Dalong was very happy to see Li Kun thinking so thoughtfully about him.
He took out ten more gold bars and gave them to Li Kun, asking him to sort them out in advance so that he would be able to talk more easily when they met in the evening.
Li Kun took the gold bar and said jokingly: "Don't drink too much on your date with Miss Chu. You have to meet the experts in the afternoon."
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Xu Dalong smiled helplessly and said, "Don't worry, nothing will happen."
Xu Dalong didn't want to be too ostentatious, so he didn't go to Chu Yun'er's office to find her. Instead, he called her from Li Kun and told her to wait for her at the gate of the compound.
Xu Dalong walked out of the headquarters compound and saw Chu Yun'er already waiting at the gate. The lieutenant colonel was talking to Chu Yun'er. Chu Yun'er's face was gloomy and she looked impatient.
Seeing Xu Dalong coming out, Chu Yun'er stopped paying attention to the lieutenant colonel. The expression on her face instantly became vivid. She shouted: "Brother Dalong." Then she ran over and stretched out her arm to hold Xu Dalong.
arms, the two left chatting and laughing.
The lieutenant colonel was left there in embarrassment, looking at Xu Dalong's back with a sinister look in his eyes.
At noon, Xu Dalong and Chu Yun'er had lunch together, and they had a very happy chat.
Chu Yun'er invited Xu Dalong to go shopping in the afternoon. Xu Dalong had something to do in the afternoon and declined her invitation.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, in the conference room of the guest house, Xu Dalong met three mining experts introduced by Li Kun.
Xu Dalong talked about the high-quality coal in Mawu Mountain. One of the mining experts affirmed, saying that before the war, he had organized people to conduct field surveys in Mawu Mountain. There was indeed high-quality coal in it, and it was close to the surface.
It's not difficult to mine.
It was not mined at first, mainly because the coal mine was located near the center of Mawu Mountain. Due to inconvenient transportation, it was very difficult to transport the coal to the outside. In addition, the cost of building roads and railways was too high, so it was shelved.
This is good news for Xu Dalong. The main purpose of establishing this coal mine is not to use coal to sell money, but to supply it to the guerrillas and surrounding people.
He offered generous terms and invited several mining experts to provide guidance in the Mawu Mountain area.
The three mining experts had all heard of Xu Dalong's name. Li Kun also specially introduced it to them, telling them that they didn't need to worry about safety issues, and that Xu Dalong's conditions were very generous. Each of them gave them a small yellow croaker and agreed.
While they were working in Mawushan, they offered them a salary five times their current salary, and said they would be given a generous remuneration after the work was completed.
The three experts belong to the Mining Bureau of the SX Provincial Government. Li Kun said that he has made an agreement with the Mining Bureau to give them long-term leave so that they can work in Mawu Mountain with peace of mind.
The mining experts were very happy and agreed to go back and settle down at home, and then headed to Mawu Mountain with Xu Dalong.
After seeing off the three mining experts, Xu Dalong met with the technicians of the arsenal.
Before the start of the Anti-Japanese War, Taiyuan Arsenal was the third largest arsenal in the country, second only to the Fengtian Arsenal of the Northeastern Army and the Wuhan Hanyang Arsenal in Guofu. It was able to produce various types of mountain artillery, mortars, light and heavy machine guns, rifles and other weapons.
It is the lifeblood of the King of Shanxi.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army surrounded Taiyuan City. Later, the Shanxi-Sui Army retreated hastily. Most of the personnel in the arsenal were withdrawn, but the factory buildings and machine tools and equipment basically fell into the hands of the Japanese army.
After the headquarters of the District Governor was relocated during World War II, the arsenal was rebuilt, but the scale was much smaller than that of the Taiyuan arsenal. A large number of workers and technicians in the arsenal lost their jobs. In order to support their families, some people returned to Taiyuan and were forced to work for the Japanese.
.Some people were recruited by Guofu and other warlords, and many others could not find jobs and had to be forced to take other jobs.
They said that if the conditions provided by Xu Dalong were favorable enough, they could be responsible for recruiting a group of technical backbones from the arsenal and go to Mawu Mountain to help the guerrillas build the arsenal.
Xu Dalong was very happy and negotiated terms with them on the spot, telling them that although the future arsenal would be owned by the guerrillas, their supply system would be independent of the guerrillas, and their wages would be twice as high as those at the Taiyuan Arsenal.
They were provided with free housing, and three large yellow croakers were given to them on the spot to help recruit technical backbones and experienced technical workers.
People in the arsenal were very happy. They told Xu Dalong where he could get the machine tools and equipment needed by the arsenal and the raw materials needed to produce weapons and equipment.
Xu Dalong told them that no matter what was needed to build the arsenal, he had a way to get it.
The experts at the arsenal left happily and immediately went back to recruit people, preparing to go to Mawu Mountain with Xu Dalong and others.
In the evening, Li Kun came forward to help Xu Dalong invite powerful figures from various departments of military supplies, logistics, and equipment in the World War II District Governor's Department. These people had previously helped Li Kun provide Xu Dalong with a large amount of weapons, ammunition, and other equipment. During the long-term cooperation process
, they knew that Xu Dalong was generous and admired Xu Dalong's great achievements in the war against Japan, so everyone was willing to make friends with Xu Dalong.
The banquet was filled with people drinking and drinking, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.
This meeting laid a good foundation for the future supply of weapons, ammunition and other materials to the guerrillas.
Since it would take some time to wait for the mining experts and arsenal technicians to settle down, Xu Dalong and others temporarily stayed at the World War II District Governor's Headquarters.
Chu Yun'er specially asked for leave to accompany Xu Dalong on the trip.
Lin Xueying felt very bad when she saw Chu Yun'er coming to Xu Dalong every day.
However, she is completely different from Chu Yun'er's passionate and unrestrained personality. She is a reserved and quiet woman who keeps everything in her heart.
This morning, Lin Xueying saw Xu Dalong exercising in the yard and kept watching.
When Xu Dalong finished exercising, she came over and handed her a fragrant handkerchief. Xu Dalong didn't care, took it and wiped his sweat.
Lin Xueying mustered up her courage and said, "Brother Dalong, I have been in the mountains for a long time and haven't gone shopping in a busy place for a long time. Can you accompany me today?"
Xu Dalong smiled and said: "Of course, we will go after breakfast later."
Lin Xueying also had her own little thoughts. She was worried that Chu Yun'er would come to Xu Dalong again after breakfast, so she said, "Brother Dalong, I want to eat breakfast on the street. Let's leave now, okay?"
Xu Dalong smiled and said: "Okay, I've heard that the local snacks in Fendong County are very good, let's go and try them now."
Sure enough, not long after Xu Dalong and Lin Xueying left, Chu Yun'er came over.
Seeing that Xu Dalong was not there, she was a little disappointed. She handed an invitation to Monk Wei and told him that she would invite Xu Dalong to attend the World War II Zone Fruit Festival Dinner and attend the dance after the dinner.
Xu Dalong accompanied Lin Xueying for shopping all morning, and then went to have lunch. It was already half past two in the afternoon when he returned to the guest house.
Monk Wei took the invitation from Chu Yuner and told him about attending the Guoqing reception tonight.
Xu Dalong didn't plan to go. He didn't want to show his face in public, so he told Monk Wei that he had other things to do in the evening. If Chu Yun'er came to see him, he would help him refuse the invitation to the dinner.
In order to avoid trouble, Xu Dalong invited Lin Xueying to go out for dinner with him, which was equivalent to hiding outside.
Of course Lin Xueying was happy and agreed immediately.
At this moment, Representative Wang from the Eighth Route Army Office sent an officer and sent an invitation to Xu Dalong, inviting him to attend Minguo's fruit celebration dinner. He said that this was a work requirement for the united front and asked Xu Dalong to attend.