coobybook Chapter 437: Money is attractive. No one can get close to gold without my order!
Chapter 437: Money is attractive. No one can get close to gold without my order!
After entering the forest, Mitsui Harahei and Colonel Matsuda immediately used the radio they carried with them to ask for help from the nearby Yushan and Gaoqiao regiments, asking them to help them recapture Ningyuan Town. After sending the telegram, they did not stay where they were, but moved further into the forest to avoid the pursuers behind them.
The Yushan Regiment and the Gaoqiao Regiment, which received the telegram for help, did not dare to be negligent in the slightest. They knew that there was a gold mine in Ningyuan Town, so they immediately gathered their troops urgently, left a battalion of troops to garrison, and marched towards Ningyuan Town with most of their main forces.
Chief of Staff Ippei Mitsui, who was in Ping'an County, was furious when he learned that Ningyuan Town had been occupied. Ningyuan Town was about to become the territory of his Mitsui family, but now it had been occupied by someone else. Isn't this a slap in the face of the Mitsui family?
"Taro, Operation Trojan Horse will continue as planned. I need to rush to Ningyuan Town now. No matter what the cost, I must take Ningyuan Town back. Otherwise, I will not be able to explain to the headquarters and my family."
Mitsui Ippei gave a hurried instruction and hurriedly left Ping'an County by car. Under the protection of a squadron of Japanese devils, he rushed towards Ningyuan Town.
When Taro Mitsui learned that Ningyuan Town was captured by the enemy, his face was extremely shocked. He quickly judged that this was most likely done by Li Yunlong, and the informer should be the traitor Guo Wencheng. This made Taro Mitsui feel like he was shooting himself in the foot!
"This must have been done by Li Yunlong. The elusive troop before was deliberately trying to attract our attention. All of us were deceived by Li Yunlong. Mr. Hirata, Guo Wencheng has become a serious threat to us. We must find ways to kill him. Otherwise, if we are held accountable, we may not be able to escape punishment." Mitsui Taro said with some regret.
Kojiro Hirata did not expect things to develop to this point. He felt that he should call everyone else over to discuss countermeasures. There must be a huge secret hidden in Ningyuan Town, otherwise Chief of Staff Ippei Mitsui would not have left in such a hurry.
"Mr. Sanjing, there is no need to be soft-hearted towards Guo Wencheng's family. We need to get rid of his family immediately and erase all traces of the Guo family's existence. Only in this way can we resolve the current predicament."
Hirata Kojiro had already made a phone call and called everyone over to discuss countermeasures. The two had just said a few words when Colonel Kuroki and others filed in. After hearing Mitsui Taro's truth, everyone's faces turned ugly. They didn't expect that things would go wrong here.
"Mr. Yamamoto, Guo Wencheng must die. This time we need your special forces team's full support." Mitsui Taro said seriously.
Yamamoto Ikki didn't expect that he would fall into Li Yunlong's trap again this time. What made him even more angry was that his people also pushed him. He could only suppress the anger in his heart and promised in a serious tone: "I will send someone to assassinate Guo Wencheng immediately, but we don't know where Guo Wencheng is now. The only thing we can be sure of is that this person should have a close relationship with Li Yunlong. If Guo Wencheng stays with Li Yunlong all the time, we will have no chance to commit suicide. I think our most important task at present should be to eat up all the fat meat of the Guo family. Only in this way can we deny it to death!"
"Also, we should take this opportunity to clean up those businessmen who followed us but have second thoughts. This way, we can cover up what we did before. We can't just target Guo Wencheng's family. We need to have a fake team to fool the real one! I plan to have the special forces team stage a show and pretend to be Li Yunlong's team to ruin Li Yunlong's reputation first. Then we can turn around and focus on dealing with Li Yunlong."
Yamamoto Ikki's intention was to create a real and fake independent regiment, and use the fake independent regiment to gradually replace the real independent regiment, so that Li Yunlong's independent regiment would lose its reputation in the entire northwest of Shanxi. Only in this way could the purpose of isolating Li Yunlong be achieved. He explained his thoughts in detail, and everyone present nodded and expressed their willingness to cooperate.
Among these people, the most depressed one was Colonel Kuroki. He was the one who messed up the last time. He also wanted to do things perfectly, but he didn't expect that an unexpected situation would occur. Now there is only one thing he can do, that is to stay in Ping'an County honestly and ensure that Ping'an County will not die. Apart from this, he has no right to participate in anything else.
Dozens of light transport planes began to land on an open space two miles west of Ningyuan Town. After waiting for them to land safely, three-wheeled motorcycles carrying food came to the transport planes. In the cabin, with the help of the soldiers, the food was loaded into the transport planes.
After an hour of hard work, all 68 light transport planes were fully loaded and immediately took off to return to the base. At the same time, 28 heavy transport planes also began to land, and after they completed the landing, they also began to load food synchronously, thus kicking off a large-scale transportation operation.
"Captain, the first batch of 360 tons of supplies has been successfully transported back to the base. After unloading, we will immediately rush back to Ningyuan Town. We can make three transfers today and can transport tons of supplies to the base. It only takes three days for us to easily transport all the supplies. The college students have mobilized all the transport planes that can be mobilized. According to the college students' transfer plan, the transfer can be completed in two and a half days." Shen Quan reported with a satisfied face.
This time, Lin Zhenhua took out all his family assets. In order to greatly improve the transportation efficiency, he did not care about the fuel consumption and flew at the maximum speed. This shortened the transportation time to six hours. He also started the transportation day and night. Only in this way could he ensure that so much money and food could be transported back to the base within two and a half days.
Li Yunlong did not smile, but said with concern: "Transporting at night is too dangerous. This batch of money and grain is very valuable to us, and there must be no mistakes. I will send a telegram to the college student and ask him to stop the night transportation. We cannot ignore the risks in order to speed up. In the end, we may lose the watermelon and pick up the sesame seeds."
"I'm not worried about the enemy's reinforcements. Sanwazi's artillery battalion has been sent out, and the armored battalion has also been sent out. With our current strength, there is absolutely no problem in defending Ningyuan Town for five or six days. What's more, we can also get reinforcements from the base. There is really nothing to worry about!"
"Shen Quan, go gather all the silver and iron ores mined by the Japanese, and find a way to start working on them. Refine the silver and iron ores. When we leave, we must take the remaining ores with us. We must not leave them to the Japanese!"
"Monk, you follow the next transport plane and escort the gold back to the base. You must ensure the safety of the gold. I will allow you to do as you please!"
"Duan Peng, you have to guard the gold well. No one can get close without my order."
Money can make people excited. Li Yunlong knew very well in his heart how much commotion this gold would cause. If he was not careful, it would attract all the Japanese invaders in northwest Shanxi. He had to act carefully. Before the gold was transported to the base, he had to keep one eye open even when he was sleeping.
Maoershan Airport was unusually busy, with bags of food being urgently transported. Zhao Gang had deployed eight battalions of troops and ordered the entire base to be on alert to ensure that no unexpected situations would occur. After all, Yamamoto's special forces had been eyeing the base, and if they relaxed their vigilance against them, they would suffer a great loss!
"College students, 150,000 kilograms of grain have been stored in the warehouse, and the remaining 90,000 kilograms of grain are being urgently transported. It is expected that all of them will be transported in another half an hour." Zhao Gang said with joy on his face.
Lin Zhenhua wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied excitedly, "Old Li found a total of 2086 gold bars, plus 80 kilograms of roughly refined silver ingots, with a total value of more than oceans. It can be said that a horse cannot grow fat without night grass, and a man cannot become rich without unexpected wealth. Our previously precarious financial problems have been completely solved, and we finally have enough money to maintain the operation of the base."
Zhao Gang agreed: "Lao Li really made some money on this trip, which is much better than before. Our mechanized troops have been dispatched, and the cost is frighteningly high. If many things were not produced by us, we would not be able to afford such advanced weapons."
"When we were college students, you told me that the more advanced the weapons, the greater the consumption of resources. I didn't agree with you at first, but now I really understand the significance of your words."
"Old Zhao, a cannon shot is worth a fortune. This is not a joke. Let's not talk about the ammunition consumption of the armored forces. Just talking about the fuel consumption of the existing air force battalion is an astronomical figure. The three fighters and three transport planes we sold to the 358th Regiment have already made Chu Yunfei feel a huge pressure. If we were not able to synthesize gasoline on our own, the price of purchased gasoline alone would not be something our independent regiment could afford."
"Before I had fighter planes, I really didn't have this feeling. But after I had fighter planes, I realized that if you don't have enough money, you really can't equip them properly. The money needed for maintenance alone is a huge sum. This is the case when we can produce them ourselves. If we purchase them all from outside, we will drain all the money in our base and can only support a fighter squadron at most. I'm not exaggerating, but it's the truth!"
The base's fuel supply has been in short supply these days. If two sets of coal-to-oil equipment had not been added, a fuel crisis would have already broken out. At the current rate of fuel consumption, the base will have a fuel crisis in a month at most. The existing fuel reserves are only enough for one month. Once the war exceeds one month, the fighter planes will not be able to take off due to lack of fuel!