The refugees from Lilchurch learned that they could go south together to build a new home, and almost everyone supported it.
However, when it comes to building settlements in wilderness areas, the work cannot be accomplished overnight.
They all also knew that salt had been discovered near their destination, and excavation there had been fully launched. Their trip was not just about building a house, everyone was obliged to participate in the excavation.
At present, the daily food is large quantities of potatoes, and it is not uncommon for the guerrilla republic to provide these. Some young women, as well as all men between the ages of thirteen and sixty, are unconditionally registered as militiamen. Some have been incorporated into the army,
Intense military training begins.
There are as many as 5,000 refugees in Lierchuchi's hometown. The sick and wounded are still recovering from illness. The able-bodied ones among the refugees have all joined the army. There are still more than 3,000 people left. They are all old and weak, women and children, especially those in their third and fourth grades.
Most women are ten years old.
Most of the women's husbands joined the army a year ago, and their lives are uncertain. Some were forcibly recruited as coolies during the German occupation, and some were executed for resisting. As for the Jews in the towns, their men, women, and children had long been invaded.
The person was killed.
So for these women, Lilchurch is their home, and it is also a sad place. After leaving there, they came to Pripet Swamp, which is a full 200 kilometers away from the sad place, and they ate enough food.
Food makes everyone feel better.
But life has to go on, and the Catfish Village where we live now is the home of the locals, not our own.
Most of them fled with their young children and built new towns in new places. This was the most suitable choice.
As many as 3,500 refugees from the town of Lilchuch, as well as refugees from other small villages, gathered together to form a team of nearly 4,000 people. When they evacuated, they took some belongings with them, except for a large amount of clothing.
Those agricultural production tools will provide them with great help in building new settlements.
Axes, two-man saws, hammers, and long-handled scythes are all tools they need. Catfish Village has provided them with some production tools, which is the icing on the cake.
It has to be said that the mayor of Catfish Village, Boboski, was very kind when it came to the refugee issue. He provided a large amount of food and production tools, and organized some horse-drawn carriages specifically to transport the elderly and young people with handicapped legs.
The child. He even provided some rough hemp rope and iron nails. With these small parts, the wooden house will be completed quickly!
These refugees have rich experience in building houses. Originally, the houses in their hometown were built with their own hands and new settlements were built. As long as the Guerrilla Republic provided sufficient tools, they were confident that they could move into their new houses quickly.
Walking south along the dirt road, a peaceful new life will be waiting for everyone! Only in this swamp, the devil of war has not invaded.
Mothers were carrying children, and old men were holding old people. Some were wearing Lenin's March hats, some were wearing headscarves, and some were even wearing yarmulke hats.
After two days of rest, the mental outlook of the refugees has improved significantly. Their panicked expressions have disappeared. Many of them have rosy faces and they are walking south happily.
It is said that a broken home is worth a thousand dollars. They are pushing their carts and driving their only remaining cattle and sheep, and the cages are stuffed with poultry.
After finishing their meal, this mighty team began their journey southward under the escort and guidance of a company of militiamen.
In just two days, the Partisan Republic had re-established a Soviet committee for the refugees in the town of Lirchuch and elected a first secretary of the collective farm among the refugees. In order to strengthen control, five people under the guidance of Sarinchkin
The trained grassroots political commissars joined the committee, so that when the refugees began to leave, their organizational discipline was no longer the same.
From the perspective of the Soviet army, its major advantage is the Soviet system. It manages every Soviet citizen and through coordination means enables everyone to give full play to their abilities. The value of labor production is distributed according to work and demand. This kind of justice and fairness
The distribution method immediately united these refugees during the brutal war period.
After all, they are ordinary people, and there are many old people and children among them. We can't imagine that they can move quickly. The team set off at two o'clock in the afternoon. When the team bypassed the sulfur mine, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon. Until six o'clock in the afternoon, the first
The batch of refugees slowly arrived at their destination.
Looking at their appearance, Yang Mingzhi guessed that everyone looked tired just because they had walked too far.
But they couldn't delay. The work of building the house had to start immediately while it was still dark.
Asking himself, Yang Mingzhi felt that he had really overestimated the movements of the refugees. They were arriving one after another, and I was afraid that most of them would sleep in the wild on their first night in the settlement.
The affairs of the refugees are all taken care of by Salinchkin, Lyudbalev and others. As the military director, I can just continue to keep an eye on the salt mines.
It was already evening. After a whole afternoon of digging, the officers and soldiers of the 1st Guerrilla Brigade were very tired. The legendary rock salt vein did not appear.
At present, five original cranes have been built, and the work efficiency of soil excavation has been greatly improved.
Of the total twenty soil pits, six of them have been dug down for more than twelve meters. If you continue to dig deeper, the shovel will come into contact with relatively hard sapropel mud. It seems that if you continue to dig deeper, what you will dig is not rock salt, but rock salt.
It's peat, or even lignite.
"It would be good if we can dig out lignite. If we can dig out high-quality anthracite coking coal, we can make high-speed steel!"
No matter what, you will definitely find something if you dig deeper. Especially in the field of geological exploration, Yang Mingzhi has limited knowledge of this field. He stood on the ground and continued to bend his back, looking at the soldiers who continued to sweat profusely in the pit. The light was getting brighter and brighter.
It was dark, and some bonfires were lit on the ground. With the dim light scattered by the bonfires, the excavation continued, and it was likely to last all night.
Yang Mingzhi also participated in the excavation in the afternoon. After being exhausted and out of breath, he finally became a spectator.
He grabbed a baked potato and continued to supervise while chewing it. His serious look attracted Antonov to come over involuntarily.
"Comrade Commander, you should go and rest for a while! Don't worry, we will work harder at night, and we will definitely be able to dig the salt mine."
"It's good that you work hard. Soldiers shouldn't overexert their strength."
"Well, if we pay more now, we will be able to see the salt mine earlier. If we have a salt mine at our feet, any effort we make before we can explore it will be worth it."
Yang Mingzhi shrugged: "It's just that the labor intensity we paid was too high."
"There is no way." Antonov looked helpless. "If we don't dig deep pits, how will we know what is underground? The soil blocks our eyes. Digging pits is helpless and necessary. We have nothing better.
Method."
He spoke without intention, but Yang Mingzhi listened with intention.
How to avoid the mud and directly peer into what is under the deep earth? Is there a tool that can accomplish this feat?
Yes! Of course there is.
"Oops!" Yang Mingzhi slapped his head violently, looking remorseful: "Why did I suddenly act stupid at this time? Can't I just make some Luoyang shovels quickly?!"
Antonov did not understand Chinese, so he asked: "Alas! What's wrong with you, Commander?"
"Me? I thought of a good way. You can continue to supervise me here. I... um! I have to go to the blacksmith village in person."
At night, most areas of the blacksmith village were quiet, except for the continuous roar of the machinery in the arsenal.
Nighttime production is very important for the arsenal. Only at night can the chimney discharge sewage without restraint, and all machines can work at their maximum efficiency.
The factory is still working hard to produce artillery shells and reassemble old shells. The workers' production schedule is fully scheduled, especially those critical steam lathes, and each one has basically no time to rest. Both the workers and the machines are operating at overload.
All this is to give the troops a more powerful weapons reserve when facing the next German attack.
Yang Mingzhi took a jeep with the lights on and ran along the railway at night. After all, he was traveling at night and the speed could not be very fast. When he returned to the Blacksmith Village, it was already ten o'clock in the evening.
Logically speaking, he had to report to the headquarters when he returned. Due to the seriousness of the matter, the jeep drove around the edge of the blacksmith village and directly to the arsenal.
The roar of the machine was what he wanted to hear most, and he also knew that at this time, Guschkov was either staying in the office, or still staring wide-eyed in the workshop.
The entire arsenal is brightly lit, and a large number of oil lamps are hung in each factory building. Most of the limited power provided by the fuel generators also supplies lighting here.
Outside the factory, a large number of workers were still wandering around. Most of them were carrying sacks in their hands, and the jingling sounds proved that they contained metal.
Yang Mingzhi did not hesitate. Since the sudden arrival of the jeep attracted many people's attention, he got out of the car, grabbed an older worker and asked: "Where is your factory director? I am the commander, I must see him immediately!"
"
In the darkness, the workers couldn't see Yang Mingzhi's face clearly. They didn't want to be too troublesome and pointed directly to the factory building with the loudest roar: "He's right there."
"Very good. Abram, come with me."
Yang Mingzhi broke into the workshop door and easily saw Liguschkov wearing a Lenin hat.
"Ah! Comrade Factory Director, you are here."
"You...oh, it's incredible. I heard that you went to the south to look for salt mines. Why are you here at this time?"
"Don't ask this again!" Yang Mingzhi hurriedly stepped forward, directly hooked Liguschkov's shoulder, and said bluntly: "There are some problems in the salt digging operation. We blindly dug soil are really low."
Efficiency. So I rushed to the arsenal in a surprise attack. I know that only you can help me solve the problem."
"I am willing to serve you."
Liguschkov is currently acting like a monk with two feet in height, and has no choice but to completely obey Yang Mingzhi's arrangements.
With a pen and a piece of paper, Yang Mingzhi hurriedly drew a process drawing. This was Yang Mingzhi's old profession, and the freehand drawing was a bit rough. Liguschkov's eyes widened, and he could tell at a glance that the commander planned to manufacture
A special tool.
"This... what kind of tool is it? It looks like it is used for digging." Then under the dim light of the kerosene lamp, Liguschkov held the drawing in both hands and continued to ask, "Is it possible that you expect this thing to dig hard?
Earthy."
"Yes! It's a digging tool."
"But don't you think the shovel head of this thing is too small? The shovel head also has an exaggerated curvature. With all due respect, you want to improve the digging efficiency. I think we can suddenly build a steam engine that can drive the shovel and
Put it on a truck and it becomes an excavator!”
Yang Mingzhi shook his head and said: "I haven't made it clear to you yet! The drawing you see now, you can process the principles in order according to the process I wrote. In the end, it can be spliced into a special shovel, which is
We Chinese discovered that the shovel head only makes a small hole in the ground, and by digging continuously, we can actually know what is buried fifty meters underground!"
"Ah! I completely understand! Do you want to detect the presence of salt fifty meters underground?!"
"Exactly!" The excited Yang Mingzhi patted Liguschkov on the shoulder: "My dear comrade, I came here in a hurry to hope that you can build this thing quickly. You'd better finish it before dawn.
I want to put it to use as soon as possible!"
"As ordered, Comrade Commander." Liguschkov, who was already a little tired, suddenly became more motivated and asked more: "Commander, what is the name of this shovel?"
"It's called the Luoyang (Лоюн) shovel." As he spoke, Yang Mingzhi pinched his waist and sighed prospectively: "Maybe I am the first person to bring this tool to Belarus. In the future, the entire alliance will explore for mineral resources.
This tool will make the difference."
Liguschkov nodded. He suddenly understood that his assault mission tonight was just to produce a small tool, but it had great historical significance.
This is indeed the case!
The Soviet Union, and even the former Tsarist Russia, had never seen a special excavation tool similar to the Luoyang shovel in the past few hundred years.
Even from a global perspective, the Luoyang shovel, a Chinese tomb-robbing exploration tool invented in the early 20th century, has a strong uniqueness.
The British invented a soil drilling tool called coring at the end of the 18th century. Its working principle is somewhat similar to the Luoyang shovel. Later, Americans developed this technology and it was mostly used to find water sources. Sometimes,
Incredibly, it becomes a metaphysical tool to determine the Feng Shui of the settlement.
The Luoyang shovel, which originated in China, has finally spread to the world and has become an essential tool for archeology, geological exploration, and mineral exploration in various countries. Further research on the excavation principle of this tool, in a sense, is the key to drilling and sampling of Antarctic ice cores.
, also has the shadow of Luoyang shovel technology.
It is a pity that the tool called coring from the United Kingdom and the United States was not introduced to Russia at all, let alone the Luoyang shovel. The industrial foundation of Tsarist Russia was too weak, and its great industrial development still depended on the two five-year plans carried out by Stalin during the Soviet period. In ten years, the Soviet Union
Many new mines were discovered throughout the Union, especially in central Belarus where a large number of salt deposits were discovered.
The Soviet Union used traditional demolition exploration teams to search on foot in inaccessible areas. After identifying suspicious points, they began to use traditional methods to excavate on a large scale. This method is indeed backward, but the area to be explored is huge, and powerful manpower is mobilized for excavation.
A large number of new mines were established, but it was a pity that the war came too suddenly.
The vast majority of Soviet citizens, especially the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians who first settled in Pripet Swamp, have no idea about Luoyang Shovel. The main reason why civilians dig holes is to dig wells. Most of the time, water can seep out of a ten-meter-deep hole.
Then the walls of the well are piled with stones, and the well is completed.
Some cities in the Soviet Union also have pressurized water wells, and the technology for drilling holes is still oil drilling. To be honest, using oil drilling technology to explore whether there are salt deposits underground is technically feasible for the Guerrilla Republic, but it is a bit time-consuming and labor-intensive. As for Luoyang Shovel,
Its technical requirements are not high. According to Yang Mingzhi's estimation, it can be put into use off the production line in a few hours. As for the method of use, it is not easy to describe! (To be continued)