"Captain, the location of the secret arsenal has been found!" Chief of Staff Chen Zhengyu pointed to a point on the map.

Zhou Cheng looked and analyzed: "The straight-line distance between the arsenal and the defense zone is more than 20 kilometers. If you walk on a mountain road, I estimate that it is at least 30 kilometers. There is also a Japanese blockade line and two strongholds in the middle. You must have careful deployment to transport the things inside back."

Tang Yufeng reminded him cautiously: "Captain, I think we can't be happy too early."

"The location of the arsenal was occupied by the Japanese a year ago. No one knew whether it was exposed. Moreover, we don't know what was stored in the arsenal. If the arsenal was empty, we would be in vain!"

Zhou Cheng showed a calm expression to Tang Yufeng: "Old Tang, don't worry, I will definitely not send heavy troops across the Japanese blockade line with a telegram from the war zone."

"In order to find out what the gift given to us in the war zone is and whether it is worth it to be cannon fodder, I decided to lead the reconnaissance team to the arsenal in person."

"Although there are two strongholds and a blockade line between the arsenal and the defense zone, the strength of the reconnaissance team can reach the destination quietly."

"After determining the value of the arsenal, we will decide whether to send heavy troops to the arsenal to transport the things inside, whether to accept the order of the war zone to let us be cannon fodder, and whether we should continue to ask the war zone for supplies!"

In a valley more than 20 kilometers southwest of Xiyang, Zhou Cheng led the reconnaissance team to rummage inside, but still did not find the secret arsenal mentioned in the war zone.

The war zone will definitely not use a non-existent arsenal to deceive itself, and Zhou Cheng firmly believes in this.

Looking at the team members who returned empty-handed, Zhou Cheng decided to search again: "Let's check it out again. The Japanese controlled this place a year ago. The arsenal we were looking for was built for at least a year and a half. The grass and trees here are lush. The traces of building the arsenal must have been gone long ago, but as long as we are careful, we will definitely find some clues."

"The arsenal cannot be built by one or two people. It requires a lot of stone and cement, and the digging of earth also needs to be transported out, so there must be a road surface for transporting materials and soil under our feet."

"Even if there is thatch covering the road surface, you can still see the difference between someone stepping on it and no one stepping on it."

"As long as we find the road surface where the materials were transported back then, we can find the arsenal along the mountain road!"

After changing the aimless search to a purposeful search, the reconnaissance team made a discovery in just half an hour.

"Captain, we found the road surface for transporting materials and soil back then! Although it was covered with thatch, because the ground was trampled, the thatch obviously grew not as good as the surroundings."

"When we searched the mountains just now, we were always focusing on the slopes on both sides of the ravine, thinking that there was a gate of the arsenal hidden there, and we ignored the foot, so we did not notice the difference between weeds on the ground!"

Although Zhou Cheng didn't say anything, his actions had already reflected his excitement at this moment.

Taking two steps at a time, he was very anxious to rush towards the suspicious target that the team member had just found.

There is indeed a long thatch in the ravine that is not as green as the surroundings, but it must be observed carefully.

After seeing the real thing, Zhou Cheng was more excited than just now: "Walking along this line, you will definitely find the location of the arsenal."

The mountain road I just found was indeed left behind by the construction of the arsenal and extended to the ground under the earth slope next to the ravine.

But the soldiers searched the surrounding earth slopes of more than ten meters but couldn't find the gate of the arsenal.

Wang Tieshan, the captain of the investigation team, reported with a disappointed look: "Captain, there are ordinary hillsides around this. Not to mention the gate of the arsenal, we didn't even find a slightly larger stone, and we just dig three feet into the ground!"

A word woke up the dreamer, and Zhou Cheng's brow that had just frowned was immediately stretched.

"You're right, we should have dug three feet long ago?"

"This arsenal has no troops to defend, so for safety, there will definitely be no door left."

"If I were an officer who built the arsenal, I would definitely seal the arsenal completely, cover it with soil, and when there was thatch on the soil, the Japanese and puppet troops would not even find it when they walked in front of them."

"We dig inside from the end of the road we just found, and we will definitely find the arsenal..."

Seven or eight team members took turns to work and dug a big hole on the hillside in just one hour.

Zhou Cheng kept guarding the side, his eyes always stayed in the pit. After seeing a bag-shaped thing being dug out, he immediately shouted: "Stop, everyone stops to see what the bag is in the pit."

Wang Tieshan was the first to jump into the pit: "Captain, it's a sack!"

Zhou Cheng laughed as soon as he heard this: "How come there are sacks in the mountain? They are buried in the soil. Maybe the arsenal is under the sacks, so everyone will continue to dig..."

Another hour later, a retaining wall piled up with sandbags was displayed in front of Zhou Cheng.

Perhaps it was to prevent the soil from breaking through the retaining wall and blocking the gate of the arsenal, two floors of this retaining wall were built in total.

After moving the sandbags, I went deep into the arsenal gate that was three meters deep in the ground slope to reveal my true appearance.

This is a heavy iron door with thick iron chains and large copper locks hanging on it, which looks very sturdy.

It took the reconnaissance team ten minutes to open the copper lock and iron chain and push open the iron door.

Compared with the weedy ravine, the arsenal is very dry, with many footprints and ruts on the ground, which becomes dark inside and you can't see anything.

"Flashlight..." Zhou Cheng quickly ordered.

Wang Tieshan took out the flashlight of the Japanese seized the Japanese and walked into the arsenal first.

The two commandos also held flashlights and followed behind with a look of vigilance.

Zhou Cheng followed them, staring at the front with anticipation.

After walking along the cave less than ten meters, the cave began to expand and then turned into a huge cave room filled with various boxes. Although it was not clear what was in the box, Zhou Cheng had already smelled a very strong smell of gunpowder.

"Please pay attention to fire prevention. No one can move guns or torches. They can only use flashlights to illuminate them. A lot of gunpowder should be stored here."

When Zhou Cheng gave the order, Wang Tieshan had already begun to command the command to move boxes.

According to the size and style, one box is carried in each type and placed neatly in front of Zhou Cheng.

Zhou Cheng was full of anticipation and ordered: "Pry open it and see what is inside?"

Wang Tieshan took action himself, and in the blink of an eye he pried open a box that looked like a bullet box, opened the kraft paper wrapped inside, and the yellow bullets quickly came into everyone's sight.

Zhou Cheng took a look and made a judgment: "This is a 79-caliber pneumatic gun bullet, one box is loaded with a thousand rounds of bullets. Please count how many such boxes there are in this arsenal."

After saying that, he turned his attention to the second box that Wang Tieshan was opening, which was also filled with yellow bullets, but they were six or five caliber.

The third box contains heavy machine gun bullets, followed by grenades, mortar shells, mountain cannon shells...

When the last three boxes were left, the expectation on Zhou Cheng's face could no longer be described in words.

Among the ammunition displayed in the previous boxes, except for a small number of ammunition that cannot be used by the military that saves the country, the other ammunition can be used by the military that saves the country.

Looking at the size of the arsenal and the number of boxes, the number of these ammunitions will definitely not be too small.

Compared with the boxes in front, the boxes in front of you are larger and more closely protected. According to common sense, their value should be higher than the ammunition in front.

After Wang Tieshan carefully opened a wooden box, it was wrapped in three layers of kraft paper, sealing the things inside tightly.

Under this situation, Wang Tieshan himself became nervous and carefully opened the kraft paper inside layer by layer. After seeing the things inside, Wang Tieshan's first reaction was that he didn't believe it, and then he showed a disappointed expression.

"Captain, the box contains gunpowder... I thought it was a treasure? I was so happy."

Zhou Cheng suddenly reminded: "Be careful and don't move around. This is not ordinary gunpowder. If I guess correctly, it should be a special launching medicine for bullets and shells..."

"It's so strange. Why do you do a good arsenal to store launch medicine?"

"But for us, the launching medicine in the box is more expensive than the bullet!"

"Only with these launching drugs can we produce bullets, and at least we can reload bullets!"

"Let everyone watch these ejection drugs and never move around... and then see what the next box is in?"

This box contains firing medicine, just like firing medicine, it is two types of gunpowder that are indispensable for the production of bullets.

The third box is the largest and heaviest. After opening it, it surprised everyone because it contained pieces of copper ingots.

There are firing drugs and launch drugs. The war zone has also reserved a certain number of copper ingots in the arsenal, and the purpose is obvious.

It must be because the war zone was worried that the Jinsui army, which was active behind enemy lines, had no ammunition available, so it deliberately left these raw materials for the anti-Japanese army behind enemy lines to produce ammunition by itself.

But the result did not develop in the direction expected by the war zone.

The Jinsui Army, which was active behind enemy lines, was either eliminated by the Japanese army, incorporated by them, or entered the mountains to become bandits. Few troops took root behind enemy lines like the National Salvation Army and continued to grow and grow.

Without troops, the ammunition and raw materials reserved in advance in the war zone will lose their meaning, and in the end, all the troops will be cheaper.

At this time, Zhou Cheng suddenly thought of a question.

If there are no equipment and machines for producing bullets, the troops moving behind enemy lines cannot process the raw materials into bullets, and they will still be useless.

The war zone must have considered these issues when it decided to store raw materials, which means that the arsenal under its feet may also have machines and equipment for making bullets hidden.

With this idea, Zhou Cheng was both expectant and nervously ordered: "Captain Wang, please search the arsenal carefully again, and there must be other good things hidden inside!"

Wang Tieshan didn't understand why the regiment commander's reaction was so big. He was excited, worried, and looked forward to it. He was so sure that the arsenal was hiding other things.

But he believed Zhou Cheng and did not ask the reason, and executed the order very decisively.
Chapter completed!