RPAGF Chapter 116 Discovery of Mineral Deposits
Chapter 116 Discovery of Mineral Deposits
After the messenger went to deliver the order, Fang Guoxuan sat in the command post and fell into deep thought. To be honest, he was very confident that he could defend Yanping with the First Division alone in this battle.
But such a stubborn defense would inevitably lead to heavy losses for the First Division.
Fortunately, the Second Division and the Third Division have already entered Changhuan. After more than two months of training, the troops should be able to be used.
The quality of the new recruits of the two divisions may not be as good as that of the Northern Army, but relying on their numerical advantage, they should be able to reduce casualties.
Besides, there are still many veterans in the Second and Third Divisions.
Francis Xan of Nanling was also keeping a close eye on this battle. Of course, he had nothing to worry about right now.
The 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Divisions have all completed two months of training. After some more training, they will be able to go to the battlefield.
Even if the Northern Army continued to invest manpower in this battle, Franciscan was not afraid.
Even if the Northern Army continues to increase its troops, Francis can transport the troops to the front line as quickly as possible. This is the advantage of building roads.
During this period, the arsenal had been completed and the equipment had been delivered to the arsenal. The arsenal also began to produce rifles, submachine guns, general-purpose machine guns, mountain cannons, field cannons, machine guns, anti-tank guns, etc., as well as various bullets and artillery shells.
Of course, the production materials were all exchanged by Fang Jian from the system, which cost a full 500,000 points.
While Fang Jian was lost in thought, Wang Hu came to report: "Commander, Mr. Chen Shuhe is back."
"Quick, please ask Mr. Chen to come in." After hearing this, Fang Jian suddenly raised his head and the expression on his face instantly became full of surprise.
He couldn't help but smile, and his eyes sparkled with excitement.
Chen Shuhe is a five-star exploration expert. Since he is back, he must have discovered a large mineral deposit in Nanshan Province.
Sure enough, after Chen Shuhe came in, he said excitedly: "Commander, I discovered a large iron ore in Eshan County, Nanyun, and also sulfur mines and rare earth metal ores in Qingchang and Pingshan."
"Zhengshan, Changye, Nanfeng, Qingshan, Fenglin and other places have not been explored yet."
"I guess there should be a lot of mineral deposits in these places."
"Well, Mr. Chen, you have worked hard and have made great contributions to Nanshan." After listening to Chen Shuhe's introduction, Fang Jian was overjoyed.
Chen Shuhe waved his hands repeatedly: "It's just a demonstration of what I've learned. I hope I can help the commander, and I also hope to provide some benefits for the development of Nanshan Province."
He asked Wang Hu to call Zhao Zhenquan, and Fang Jian handed over all the mining matters to Zhao Zhenquan.
Zhao Zhenquan is a five-star mining expert. With him, Fang Jian believes that Nanshan Province will soon have its own raw materials and heavy industry.
What is the foundation of heavy industry? Naturally, it is steel. Only with a large amount of steel can we manufacture various equipment and then complete industrial accumulation step by step.
Although excited, Fang Jian still maintained his own emotions. Fang Jian did not understand what happened next, so he naturally left it to Zhao Zhenquan and Chen Shuhe to coordinate.
He only needs to provide mechanical and manual support.
After exchanging 500,000 points for production materials, Fang Jian sighed as he looked at the remaining 150,000 points.
Fortunately, weapons are now homemade and do not need to be exchanged from the system, otherwise it would be another huge expenditure of points.
"Yunong, a large iron mine has been discovered in Eshan County. I plan to dispatch a company there to protect the safety of the mine. You should also pay more attention to the intelligence over there." Fang Jianan asked someone to call Tao Yunong and gave him instructions.
Hearing Fang Jian mention Eshan County, Tao Yunong frowned and said hesitantly, "Commander, Eshan County, that, there."
"Yunong, just tell me what's on your mind." Seeing Tao Yunong like this, Fang Ji'an looked displeased and spoke rudely.
Seeing Fang Jianan was angry, Tao Yunong did not dare to neglect it: "Commander, the remnants of Zhang Guilin and Zhu Yaoxiang escaped through Eshan County."
"Now a group of bandits has appeared in Eshan County. They are suspected to be..."
"It seems to be the remnants of Zhang Guilin and Zhu Yaoxiang, right?" Fang Jian said unhappily.
Fang Jian was helpless in the face of Tao Yunong's cunning. Tao Yunong did not speak directly about the matter because he was definitely afraid that he would get angry and blame Li Zhongwu and Zhang Wei.
It was they who led the troops to attack Zhang Guilin in the beginning, and now his remnants are entrenched in Eshan. Tao Yunong is worried that speaking frankly will offend these two people.
Fang Jian did not blame Li Zhongwu and Zhang Wei for the remnant of Zhang Guilin. Moreover, Zhang Guilin was not the only bandit entrenched in Nanshan.
The enemy is hiding in the Nanshan Mountains, and sending troops to encircle and suppress them will most likely fail.
I asked the guards to call Wei Hanzhou and told him about the Eshan bandits. Wei Hanzhou was very excited and said, "Commander, leave these Eshan County bandits to me. I will definitely defeat them."
"How many bandits are there in Eshan?" Fang Jian looked at Tao Yunong.
Faced with this question, Tao Yunong hesitated and said, "Probably, there are several hundred people."
Fang Jian did not blame him. If he did not infiltrate the bandits, how could he know the number of bandits? Was he just guessing?
"Han Zhou, I will send two more companies to assist you. Not only the remnants of Zhang Guilin, but also all the bandits in Nanyun must be wiped out."
Seeing Fang Jian's serious expression, Wei Hanzhou also rarely looked serious: "Don't worry, Commander, I will complete the mission."
"Yunong, what's going on in Changhuan City? Are there any new developments in the capital?" After Wei Hanzhou left, Fang Jian looked at Tao Yunong again.
It's no wonder that Francis Xavier is concerned. The Northern Army lost 12,000 men this time. If he could find out where the Northern Army is heading, he could respond in time.
Tao Yunong shook his head: "The capital's top leaders have no plans to send more troops, and it seems that the capital is unaware of the defeat."
After thinking for a while, Fang Jian felt that for the Northern Army, whose assets were huge, the loss of more than 10,000 people was indeed not a big deal.
Francis Xavier was wrong. The reason why the Northern Army did not react to the loss of more than 10,000 people was because Zeng He only reported the defeat but did not report the loss of a division.
At that time, Zeng He did not know that the 31st Division had been annihilated. Even now, he guessed that the 31st Division had been annihilated, but he did not dare to report it.
Therefore, the Northern Government did not take Zeng He's request for help seriously, but only considered the defeat of the vanguard. They felt that if a large force of more than 40,000 troops were sent forward, they would be enough to fight against Nanshan Province.
Francis was happy that the northern government did not send reinforcements. The later the northern government sent reinforcements, the more time the new army would have, and the less pressure he would have.
On the second day, at 7:30 in the morning, the Northern Army launched an artillery attack on the Yanqiu position.
"boom."
"boom."
After hearing the sound of artillery fire, Fang Guoxuan immediately ordered: "Quick, tell the artillery to destroy the enemy's artillery positions."
"Good." Zeng He said excitedly when he saw the artillery shells falling on the Yanqiu position.
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Although most of the soldiers of the 102nd Regiment hid in the anti-artillery holes in the trenches, there were still some unlucky ones who failed to react in time and were blown away by the shells.
Zeng He didn't feel happy for long as explosions were heard at his artillery position and the artillerymen were thrown into chaos.
Noticing the movement of the artillery position, Zeng He thought that the artillery had made an operational error and the shell had exploded, so he said, "Let's go and see what happened."