Chapter 76: Has Regimental Commander Li Run Into Trouble?
“Old Zhang, look at your money-grubbing look.”
Seeing Zhang Wanhe’s eyes light up, Li Yunlong scorned: “I came here empty-handed, are you going to chase me away?”
“Hahaha.” Zhang Wanhe laughed heartily, “No, no, Regimental Commander Li is a capable man. If I chase you away, wouldn’t that be chasing away my god of wealth?”
“Every time I came to logistics before, you, Old Zhang, said I was shameless. Now you say I’m the god of wealth. Your face changes too fast.” Li Yunlong scorned again.
“Haha.” Zhang Wanhe laughed again and said: “There’s an ancient saying: don’t look at a man with the same eyes after three days.”
“Old Zhang, don’t bully me for being uneducated and not understanding your fancy words.” Li Yunlong stopped bullshitting with Zhang Wanhe and said: “I’ll talk to Younger Brother Li alone first.”
“Sure, sure, you talk. I won’t disturb you.” Zhang Wanhe nodded, waiting happily, thinking to himself, wondering what Li Yunlong would bring back this time, sugar, or money, or food…
Ouch, speaking of this food, Zhang Wanhe had a headache.
The livestock in the New Second Regiment ate way too much. Once the Hell Cannon Shells were made, he must have the combat troops loot more food back as soon as possible, or they would go hungry.
Li Muzhi was pulled aside by Li Yunlong, who asked with a grin: “Little brother, I remember you said before that once the Hell Cannon Shells are made, you’ll give me a task. What kind of task is it? Can you tell elder brother in advance now?”
“Regimental Commander Li, have you run into some difficulty?” Li Muzhi saw that Li Yunlong had something to ask.
He had just gotten the cannonball test data and hadn’t even looked at it yet, but he was already eagerly asking about the task. There must be a difficulty.
“Little brother, to be honest, this time to get more things for your arsenal, I went a bit hard on the Japanese invaders outside, and the brigade commander is very angry…” Li Yunlong’s attitude was: this mistake I made was for your arsenal, Younger Brother Li, you can’t be unreasonable.
Before Li Yunlong finished speaking, Li Muzhi smiled and said: “If I’m not mistaken, did your brigade commander confiscate your Hell Cannon?”
Li Muzhi knew exactly what kind of person Li Yunlong was.
Given four cannonballs, if he didn’t stir up trouble, would he still be Li Yunlong!
However, Li Muzhi was still very curious.
What exactly did Li Yunlong do this time to make the brigade commander angry enough to confiscate his Hell Cannon.
“Little brother, your brain is different from ordinary people; you saw through it at a glance.” Li Yunlong didn’t hide it, nodding and continuing to lay on the emotions toward Li Muzhi, “Little brother, I did all this for the construction of your arsenal. Little brother, elder brother has it hard in my heart. The brigade commander doesn’t understand me; you must understand me more.”
“Regimental Commander Li, can you tell me what you did out there?” Li Muzhi asked.
“Didn’t do much, just went to Ping’an County Town to get some copper wire and copper billets for the arsenal, plus a bit of acidic liquid. The brigade commander said it’s industrial acid; I don’t know what industrial acid is…” Li Yunlong didn’t finish his words.
Li Muzhi was very surprised: “Really got copper wire, copper billets, and industrial acid?”
In Li Muzhi’s plan, even if the locomotive could be converted into power, the power was too strong and couldn’t be wasted.
So, Li Muzhi would later set up a generator connected to the locomotive power, and also make batteries to store electricity.
Copper wire was an essential material for the generator.
If the industrial acid was sulfuric acid, it could be used as electrolyte.
Nitric acid could be used to make explosives.
Even hydrochloric acid or other acids would be useful in military industry.
In short, our arsenal couldn’t produce industrial acid ourselves. Li Yunlong looting industrial acid back was of great significance.
Seeing Li Muzhi’s surprised look, Li Yunlong played the emotion card again: “Little brother, you don’t know, to help you loot this copper wire, copper billets, and industrial acid, elder brother took the risk of disobeying orders. Little brother, when my brigade commander comes, you have to put in a good word for elder brother.”
“Regimental Commander Li, logically speaking, as a logistics person, I’m not in a good position to interfere in your combat troops’ internal matters.” Li Muzhi smiled at Li Yunlong and said, “However, seeing that you did it for the construction of the arsenal, I’ll have a good talk with your brigade commander.”
“Hahaha.” Li Yunlong beamed with joy upon hearing this, extremely happy: “I knew I didn’t pick the wrong little brother. No need to say more; little brother, just for helping elder brother at this critical moment, in future operations, whatever the arsenal needs, even if it means disobeying orders again, I’ll loot it back for you.”
Li Muzhi glanced at Li Yunlong and thought to himself: “As expected of you, Old Li. This is giving you a reason to disobey orders in the future.”
Of course, Li Muzhi couldn’t make the conversation unpleasant, so he smiled: “Regimental Commander Li, I’ll also give you my word: as long as it’s for military industry construction, if the trouble you stir up is too much for your brigade commander to handle, I’ll handle it for you.”
“Really?” Li Yunlong’s eyes immediately narrowed into slits with laughter.
Trouble that the brigade commander can’t handle, Li Muzhi’s side can!
What does this mean!
It means in future operations, he could do whatever he wanted.
As for the brigade commander, heh, he couldn’t control it either… cough cough, right, speaking of the brigade commander, there’s another matter.
Li Yunlong immediately said to Li Muzhi: “Little brother, can you reveal now what task you’re giving me?”
“Loot the Japanese locomotive and convert it into power for the arsenal.” Li Muzhi said.
Li Yunlong’s eyes widened: “What, loot the Japanese train?”
Then Li Yunlong burst out laughing and said: “I’m interested in this. To be honest, I’ve been thinking about it. Even if you didn’t give me this task, elder brother would find a way to get you two Japanese locomotives.”
“Regimental Commander Li, although I don’t know fighting wars, I know looting a locomotive isn’t that easy. You still need to be careful…” Li Muzhi reminded.
“Little brother, when it comes to military industry construction, I can’t compare to even one hair of yours. But when it comes to fighting wars and looting, not to brag, as long as there are enough Hell Cannon Shells, there’s no locomotive elder brother can’t loot!” Li Yunlong patted his chest and boasted.
“Haha.” Li Muzhi laughed, “Alright, once the cannonballs are made and supplied to you, I’ll wait for your good news.”
“Little brother, there’s another matter now; I need to talk to you in advance, it concerns our brigade commander.”
“What matter? Tell me.”
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