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    The next morning, Xia Yang got up early.

    In this vast cave, Chen Shiliang's soldiers are still sleeping.

    He walked out of the cave, stretched his muscles, and saw Chen Shiliang walking towards him with a few people not far away.

    Xia Yang noticed that in addition to the two soldiers sent out last night, there was one more person this time.

    The man was wearing the uniform of the Jinsui Army, but the uniform was dirty. Obviously, they did not have the conditions to clean their clothes.

    Since the Japs approached Taiyuan, they have been trapped on Mount Wutai.  I didn't want to be a bandit or a traitor. I was afraid of being caught by the Japs when I rushed out, so I simply stayed on Mount Wutai.

    "Tuanzuo, this is the person they sent. He wants to talk to you." Chen Shiliang introduced to Xia Yang.

    Xia Yang looked at the man. The man in front of him was not very old, but the beard on his face had obviously not been shaved for a long time. Because he had not had a stable food source for a long time, it was not an exaggeration to say that he was sallow and thin.

    But this man¡¯s eyes were bright and clear, and when he looked at Xia Yang, he didn¡¯t have the slightest fear or timidity.

    "My name is Song Tao, and I am the person in charge of this military factory." The man said, "Lieutenant and deputy battalion commander."

    "Where is your battalion commander?" Xia Yang asked.

    "Dead." His answer was very straightforward.

    Xia Yang continued: "How many more of you are there?"

    "There are more than fifty people, all former guards or workers of the military factory. Now they have no place to run, and they are hiding from the little devils on Lingjiu Peak." Song Tao said.

    "How about working in the military factory again?" Xia Yang said.

    "Is there anything to eat?" Song Tao asked.

    Hearing this, Xia Yang chuckled lightly, and then said: "Just take care of yourself."

    "I want to take a look." Song Tao said with some disbelief. After all, he came on behalf of more than fifty people. The final way out for these people depends on him.

    Xia Yang smiled and said, "I can still lie to you."

    With that said, he said to Chen Shiliang: "Take him to see the food that our individual soldiers carry." Then they walked into the cave.

    When Chen Shiliang's soldiers set off from the ancient city of Mongolia and Yuan Dynasty, Xia Yang specially distributed some cans to each of them.

    These cans were all seized from the Japs. They were in large quantities, so Chen Shiliang and others were asked to take some of them with them when they set out.

    Seeing those cans, including canned beef and canned fruit, Song Tao also swallowed a sip of saliva.

    Xia Yang picked up a can of beef, opened the can with a can opener, handed it to Song Tao and said, "Deputy Battalion Commander Song Gu, give it a try."

    Song Tao had not eaten anything all day long, so naturally he would no longer be polite to Xia Yang. He took the can and started to devour it.

    Xia Yang and Chen Shiliang waited patiently beside them. After Song Tao finished eating, Xia Yang asked: "How is it? It tastes okay."

    Song Tao chewed the beef in his mouth and nodded sharply: "Well, it's delicious, it's delicious!" As he said this, he gave Xia Yang a thumbs up.

    "You, the deputy battalion commander, are already so hungry. The brothers under you are probably even more hungry!" Xia Yang said.

    Song Tao nodded and said: "Yes, Captain Xia, since you have food here, we will follow you. I will go find them now and ask them to come back here."

    After saying that, he clapped his hands and started heading towards Lingjiu Peak.

    While waiting for Song Tao, Xia Yang was not idle.

    He purchased some raw materials needed to make bullets.  By putting these raw materials into the equipment of the military factory, bullets can be manufactured in batches, and then simply packaged by the original workers of the military factory, they can become deadly weapons in the barrel of the gun.

    The key is that these raw materials are very cheap.  As for the labor cost of producing bullets, it is so low that it can be ignored.  It's nothing more than giving them food, or a few oceans a month.

    At noon, Song Tao came to Xia Yang with more than fifty sallow and thin people.

    Xia Yang took a rough look and found that these people were obviously not living a good life in Mount Wutai.  With their ragged clothes, Xia Yang would believe them if you said they were refugees or beggars.

    Looking at it this way, the tattered military uniform worn by Song Tao, the deputy battalion commander, is already quite good.  At leastYang Yang could still recognize that they were the clothes of the Jinsui Army.

    After these people arrived, Xia Yang distributed food to them without saying a word.

    These people had not eaten for a day or two. When they saw Xia Yang handing out food, they were moved to tears.

    Xia Yang specifically asked them to eat slowly.  Because when a person is in a state of extreme hunger and suddenly eats haphazardly, it can easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort.

    There are many examples of this in history. For example, Du Fu, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, suddenly received beef and liquor ordered from the local government after not eating for several days. After gobbling it up, he suffered from indigestion and finally died.

    After all the workers and soldiers had finished eating, Xia Yang said to Song Tao: "If nothing happens, let's start production here!"

    Song Tao was eating comfortably. When he heard Xia Yang's words, he was unambiguous. He shouted and began to lead the soldiers to the equipment.

    These soldiers and workers have been hungry for a long time. Now that they are full and full of food, they are naturally full of energy.

    The entire production line entered production status in less than two minutes.

    These workers and soldiers have been engaged in production here for a long time.  So everyone has their own division of labor, a bit like an assembly line worker.

    Because the raw materials are already available, when the production line starts running, these workers start to complete every step of bullet manufacturing with great skill.

    Song Tao watched from the side, then walked to Xia Yang's side and said: "Captain Xia, if we can eat and drink enough every day, my brothers will follow you."

    Xia Yang looked at the cave here, and then asked Song Tao: "Deputy Battalion Commander Song, let me ask you, is there any way you can move this equipment? It is not safe here. I want to transfer this production line to the headquarters.  "

    "Headquarters?" Song Tao asked in surprise, "Aren't these all your troops, Commander Xia?"

    There are more than 600 people here. In the National Army, which was severely underpaid at the time, a regiment reported a thousand people, but actually only had 500 people. This phenomenon is really normal.

    So when Song Tao saw more than 600 people here, he thought it was Xia Yang's entire force.

    But Xia Yang said: "This is only a small part. If the military factory goes to the headquarters, it will be safer than here." (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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