What was a thatched wasteland two days ago is now surrounded by a two-meter-high earth wall.
In the middle of the wall, thatched huts and tents are scattered throughout. These are more than a dozen temporary warehouses set up by the troops.
No one in the escorting force of more than 2,000 people, ranging from Commander Chen to ordinary soldiers, rested.
Most of the soldiers were hiding behind earthen walls with guns in hand, looking alert to prevent a sneak attack.
A small number of elites were arranged outside the earthen wall, lurking among the thatch and bushes. Under the cover of night, they blended in with the surrounding environment, and then stared at the surroundings with vigilance to prevent anyone from approaching the earthen wall.
If they hadn't taken a closer look, no one would have thought that there were more than two thousand elites hiding in the seemingly empty courtyard.
"The signal light appears!"
Hong Linfeng stood on a high platform at the entrance of the courtyard and shouted with excitement.
Then I saw the lights from three flashlights appearing at the end of the road.
"Chief, this is the signal we agreed with the outgoing observation post. The three lights represent the convoy coming."
Commander Chen's frown relaxed a lot, his eyes continued to look at the end of the road, and then he ordered with a serious face: "All troops inside and outside the courtyard are on standby, and there can be no outsiders within two kilometers of the surrounding area. If you discover the enemy's situation, regardless of whether
One, arrest him first and then talk about it."
"In addition, without my order, except for soldiers dressed as members of the protective factory team, who can show up and move freely, everyone else is on standby and is not allowed to show their heads."
Soon, the first car came into everyone's field of vision. With its headlights on, it rushed all the way into the innermost part of the yard before stopping.
Then I saw Li Hao jump out from the passenger seat.
A few seconds later, a second car also rushed into the yard and stopped. This time the person who jumped out was an American, carrying the rank of lieutenant colonel on his shoulders.
Li Hao walked up to Jack and said his request directly without saying a word: "Jack, take your friends and the driver, go to the nearby tents to drink tea immediately, and don't come out within an hour."
"In an hour, I will pay everyone in the tent."
"no problem!"
Jack answered readily and without any doubt.
In his eyes, Li Hao arranged everyone into the tent because he definitely didn't want to cause any accident during the operation and leak the penicillin production formula.
actually not.
Li Hao's real purpose was not to expose the troops brought by Commander Chen to these Americans.
More than two thousand soldiers wearing Eighth Route Army uniforms appeared here. Even a fool would guess that this place has something to do with the Eighth Route Army.
There are many people with mixed eyes, and they will definitely leak the news.
Early tomorrow morning, the news that more than 2,000 Eighth Route Army troops are here will spread throughout Chongqing.
After careful analysis, everyone will know that there is something wrong with the things they transported tonight.
Then the escorting troops will be watched by the Japanese and puppet troops, who will try their best to figure out what they are bringing back.
The journey was nearly a thousand miles, and the Japanese and puppet troops had to pass through blockades and occupied areas. There were many opportunities for the Japanese and puppet troops to take advantage of.
At that time, the risk of escorting the troops will definitely increase greatly, and even an accident may occur.
Of course, this is not what Li Hao is most worried about.
If the opponent realizes that these items are unusual tomorrow, it will be very difficult for the escort troops to successfully leave Chongqing.
Therefore, Li Hao must maintain absolute confidentiality and make everyone mistakenly think that these things are pharmaceutical equipment and raw materials. The later the news leaks out and the later suspicion is made, the better it is for him.
Ten days.
As long as this matter can be kept absolutely confidential for ten days, the escorting troops will have taken them at least 300 kilometers away from Chongqing, and may not be far from the base area.
When the time comes, no matter how suspicious the Japanese and puppet troops are, they will definitely find nothing.
Seeing that Jie readily agreed without any doubts, Li Hao swallowed back the explanation that had come to his lips.
I was secretly happy that the thousand dollars given to Jack was not wasted.
In front of a thousand dollars, Jack was dizzy and chose to believe in himself unconditionally.
"Comrade Li Hao, how's it going? Did anything happen?" As soon as Jack left, Commander Chen's voice sounded behind him.
Commander Chen, who was dressed as a member of the factory protection team, walked up behind him at some point.
"Hello, Chief."
Li Hao knew they were impatient, so he saluted with a military salute and hurriedly answered.
"It went very smoothly. The ten thousand dollars was not wasted. As soon as these Americans showed up, the spies and intelligence personnel lurking around the dock... all acted like cowards."
"Even the fearless military commander didn't show up. The routine inspection at the dock found nothing, and they just let us go."
"Okay!" Commander Chen's tense nerves relaxed a lot.
With a look of emotion on his face, he said: "It seems that the chief's decision to entrust this task to you was correct. Only a young man like you with a flexible mind and an eclectic approach can successfully complete the task."
"What should we do next? We all listen to you."
Li Hao replied seriously: "Chief, I have asked Jack to take all the drivers and foreigners involved in the operation into the tent to rest, and they cannot come out within an hour."
"After all the outsiders entered the tent, all the troops were dispatched to participate in the subsequent transportation operations. Forty-five cars were evacuated in the shortest possible time. All supplies were piled into temporary warehouses, and then heavily defended to prevent anyone from getting close."
"The whole process must be fast. We must not let outsiders know about the existence of the escort unit, nor let them know that this pharmaceutical factory belongs to our Eighth Route Army and is related to our Eighth Route Army, and then suspect that there is something wrong with the things we just transported."
At five o'clock in the morning, the last car left the pharmaceutical factory and finally disappeared at the end of the road.
Commander Chen's nerves completely relaxed, and a smile finally appeared on his serious face.
Until then, the entire operation is truly completed.
"Click..."
A wooden box nearly two meters long was pried open by Xiao Yuan with a bayonet, and the strong smell of gun oil quickly spread to the surroundings.
The straw covering the surface was separated, and five dark machine guns appeared in everyone's view.
It is more damaging than the Czech-made light machine gun, has a longer barrel, and is thicker.
Commander Chen is definitely the most excited among everyone. As a well-deserved veteran revolutionary, he has basically experienced all revolutionary processes since the uprising. It can be said that he has suffered a lot from airplanes.
Now that we have anti-aircraft machine guns, the situation of being stared at and bombed by airplanes will definitely be gone forever.
Holding an anti-aircraft machine gun, he fumbled and checked it several times before putting it back in the box, and then said with great satisfaction.
"What a gun!"
"I really want to see them go to the battlefield right now and blow up the Japanese planes."
"Comrade Li Hao, thank you for letting us use such a good weapon."
"With it, we will definitely lose many fewer soldiers on the revolutionary road ahead?"
"It will also be much easier for the Japanese to attack us because they don't have planes to attack us as unscrupulously as before."
Speaking of which, Commander Chen gave Li Hao another military salute.