Yushe County Grain Depot.

Zhao Gang came over anxiously and asked: "Old Li, what happened?"

He was temporarily recruiting mule carts, and the people were very supportive, and most of them were willing to lend their family mule carts to the Eighth Route Army.

But because it was evening and the time was too short, not many people around Yushe County had mule carts at home.

After more than half an hour, more than 20 mule carts were borrowed.

Then he received a call from Li Yunlong, telling him not to recruit a car yet, but to quickly return to the county grain depot.

"Deputy Brigadier, Chief of Staff Zhang!" Zhao Gang got closer and saw clearly the two big guys next to Li Yunlong, and quickly saluted.

"Old Zhao, the situation has changed." Li Yunlong said to Zhao Gang, "The enemy's cavalry regiment is only more than 70 kilometers away from us. It will definitely be too late to temporarily requisition manpower and mule carts."

"Cavalry regiment?" Zhao Gang's expression changed and asked: "The Japanese army dispatched a cavalry regiment?"

"That's right." Li Yunlong said, "The Black Island Cavalry Regiment of the Fourth Brigade set off from Yangquan in the afternoon and has now arrived in Heshun County. It is expected to arrive in Yushe County in about six hours!"

Zhao Gang looked solemn: "Then what should we do now?"

With the transportation capacity of the independent regiment, it is simply impossible to transport 300,000 kilograms of grain back to the base area within six hours.

Do we have to give up so much food?

Li Yunlong said: "We have discussed it and plan to transport all the food to Antgou, which is twenty miles away. The division headquarters will send a transportation team to Yushugou for emergency response."

"This is a good idea." Zhao Gang rolled his eyes and said, "However, transporting 300,000 kilograms of grain to Antgou within six hours is not that easy."

"So I called you back." Li Yunlong said, "This time we will split up. You will direct the loading of grain in the grain depot, and I will direct the unloading of grain in Ant Valley. First, transport the grain and ammunition to the mountains. Time is tight.

Let’s start now.”

"Okay." Zhao Gang nodded, "Just do it."

The first trip of grain, about 100,000 jins, had already been loaded onto mule carts and horses.

"Set off!"

Li Yunlong gave an order, and the mule carts and horses were loaded with food, lined up in a long queue, and walked quickly out of the city.

In the arsenal, soldiers from the First Battalion and the Special Operations Battalion quickly gathered here.

Each soldier went to the arsenal to carry a box of ammunition, and then trotted towards the ant ditch.

More than a thousand boxes of ammunition require at least a thousand manpower to transport them.

When we arrived at Ant Valley, we also needed a large number of people to unload the grain and carry it into the ravine.

The soldiers carried ammunition, which could be used to kill Japanese soldiers in the future, but they did not feel tired.

Soon, seven trucks were also filled with grain.

The Japanese Army's Type 94 truck has a load capacity of 1.5 tons, which is 3,000 kilograms, and its transportation capacity is relatively reliable.

Its ruts are scattered throughout the old Japanese Empire-controlled areas from Manchuria to Saipan.

As a pawn of Japanese imperialism, due to Japan's relatively weak industrial base, insufficient resources and short-sighted strategic vision, the Type 94's output and performance could not be compared with the main trucks of the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and other countries at the same period.

In the Battle of Nomenkan, the Japanese army even used Type 94 trucks to make a suicide charge against the Soviet steel torrent.

At present, Wei Dayong is using seven Type 94 trucks to transport 100,000 pieces of grain to Antgou, which is 20 miles away, within six hours.

"Fill up the gas in every truck!" Wei Dayong shouted while refueling the car.

In addition to Wei Dayong, Chen Feng and Yao Shangwu, there were finally seven truck drivers in the entire independent group.

One is the second battalion commander Shen Quan, the other is Yang Dahe, and two soldiers from the special warfare battalion who have served as automobile corpsmen in the national army.

After filling up the gasoline, Wei Dayong said to the soldier sitting on the roof of the car: "Pay attention to safety, be sure to hurry up, and don't fall off on the road later!"

In addition to 3,000 kilograms of grain, there were also a dozen soldiers sitting on the truck. They were responsible for unloading the goods when they arrived at Antgou.

Although this kind of behavior is a serious overload, it is treated specially in special times and under special circumstances.

This section of the road is a two-way road. Although it is not a cement road, the terrain is flat, there are no cliffs, and there is no traffic police jurisdiction.

It was the first time for many soldiers to ride in a truck, and they couldn't help but have novel expressions on their faces.

This reminded Wei Dayong that he once saw in a video the scene of Indians taking trains, which looked like they were cheating.

After filling up the truck's mailbox, Wei Dayong sat in the driver's seat.

The co-pilot, Li Yunlong, sat down.

"open circuit!"

Wei Dayong started the truck, then turned on the low beam headlights. The truck slowly drove out from the grain station, followed by one after another.

The truck drove out of the east gate of Yushe County and then entered the Yuliao Highway.

On the road, you can always see soldiers trotting along carrying ammunition, and mule carts and horses carrying food.

At this moment, every soldier in the independent regiment was busy, even the regiment commander and the guards around the battalion commander were helping to carry ammunition and food.

The cohesion and mobilization power of the Eighth Route Army were fully demonstrated at this moment!

The twenty-mile road starts from the grain depot, and the truck's speed is controlled at more than thirty kilometers per hour. It only takes 20 minutes to drive there.

Ant Valley is two miles away from Yuliao Highway. Fortunately, there is an open space in the middle, and trucks can drive directly to the foot of the mountain.

The terrain in southeastern Shanxi is not like that of the plains. Trucks can only drive on roads. Trucks cannot go to the mountains without roads.

Like some hills and low hills, mule carts and donkey carts can easily climb them, but trucks cannot.

Therefore, even if the Eighth Route Army captured the truck, it would be difficult to drive it into the mountains.

After reaching the foot of the mountain, the soldiers on the roof jumped out of the car.

In just a short period of time, several Eighth Route Army soldiers who had never been in a car actually suffered from motion sickness.

The other soldiers were also frightened and thought the Japanese had cast some evil spell on the truck.

After unloading all the grain onto the ground, the truck turned around and headed towards Yushe County.

Li Yunlong stayed here to direct the soldiers to carry the grain to the ant ditch.

As time went by, more and more food and ammunition were transported into the ant ditch by the soldiers of the independent regiment.

As the last bag of grain was transported into the ant ditch, exactly five and a half hours had passed.

The soldiers of the Independent Regiment were almost exhausted from exhaustion, lying on the food and gasping for air.

From the attack on Guanshan Town to the great victory in Shipan, and then on to the capture of Yushe County, in just three days, the independent regiment fought consecutive victories and won three major battles.

Within six hours, the transfer of more than 300,000 kilograms of grain and a large amount of ammunition was completed.

If it were any other army, the soldiers would have been exhausted long ago. Only an army like the Eighth Route Army, with its amazing will, could create such a miracle.

Subsequently, Wei Dayong ordered that the wheel marks in the open area from Yuliao Highway to Antgou should be cleaned up.
Chapter completed!