Can these mine-grade tracks, made of core oak rods and cold-hardened iron sheets, withstand heavy trains and loads? Even if Peroniski claims that there is no problem, Yang Mingzhi is still a little worried before witnessing it in person.

He followed Peroniski's advice and covered his ears as the train was about to depart.

Suddenly, the 400-horsepower tank engine roared, and Yang Mingzhi stared wide-eyed, and was shocked to find that the scenery near the front of the car began to shake - the engine was already emitting a lot of heat?

The train was built according to the standard of being able to pull goods, and due to the current situation of the arsenal, this train did not have time to be built too precisely, and the valuable tank clutch mechanism was installed on the train in good condition. Even the sound attenuation device is broken and unusable, and the loud noise has become a lingering nightmare for this train.

The train started slowly, except for the noise, Yang Mingzhi found that it was running on the track, and it was unexpectedly smooth. If the noise from the front of the train was less, it would have been a very pleasant trip on the forest railway.

The noise is like a machine gun firing non-stop, reminiscent of the battle that was going on a few days ago! Yang Mingzhi had to adapt to these quickly, and gradually, his hands were already down. He glanced at Yevlov, but the man did not let go of his hands in the slightest, perhaps, Yevlov had indeed been out of the front line of the battle for a long time.

Trains had a great potential for warfare from the very beginning, and in the early nineteenth century, the best roads in various countries were made of natural stones, and the roads in the wilderness were purely dirt roads. In 1812, Napoleon's war against Russia, they had to march along Ryazan, because apart from this dirt road, Tsarist Russia at that time did not have a reliable road to Moscow. Today, much of the road was only rammed earth, and finally in the autumn rainy season of 1941, the Germans were stuck in a quagmire.

As a result, the Germans gave priority to controlling the railway network and all cities along the railway lines in the occupied territories, so that they could quickly mobilize troops and heavy equipment in the direction of Kharkov, in the direction of Donbass, and even the train guns that were being thrown into the battle for Sevastopol, as well as a large number of mortars with oversized calibers firing two-meter-long explosive shells.

Last time, Yang Mingzhi came to the mine for the first time during the "mushroom operation", and the so-called road of more than ten kilometers consumed a lot of time.

This time, he also deliberately looked at his watch after the train started.

The train's terminus was a fertilizer plant, and Peroniski's task was to make the train replace the horse-drawn carriage for the first time, bringing back the used iron drums, filling them with new black ammonia.

The roar of the train was heard early by the workers of the fertilizer plant, and for these workers, they were also going to try to transport goods by train for the first time.

The fertilizer plant has been in operation for a whole month, and its huge economic and strategic value has given it the same level of importance as the arsenal. It was so important and so fragile that if a German aerial bomb hit the furnace, the fertilizer plant would be scrapped.

The guerrilla republics have no plans to build new ammonia gas generators, and the only ones must be camouflaged sufficiently. The stove was covered by a wood, a large wooden house, and the chimney was carbon filtered. Moreover, deforestation in this area is extremely limited, and it is believed that if enemy reconnaissance planes hovered over it, the pilots would not be able to detect anomalies under the trees.

Unless the enemy pilot has a dog's nose and can smell the faint ammonia in the air at high altitude.

Fertilizer plants, it is always associated with the pungent smell of ammonia, and even if it is well purified, the air will already be filled with some peculiar smells.

The train was traveling fairly smoothly, and suddenly, Yevlov began to pinch his nose and shout loudly at Yang Mingzhi beside him.

"Hey! Berekov, what does it smell like? It's just. ”

"This is ammonia! We'll be at the fertilizer plant in no time! ”

The stench had turned into a fragrance in Yang Mingzhi's place, and he looked at his watch sharply, and was shocked to find that it had been a total of twenty minutes since the train departed. The fertilizer plant was already in the ruler, and he knew the length of the journey, and quickly calculated that the train was already approaching a high speed of 40 km/h.

At the speed of trains in this era, this is already very good, not to mention that this is still a diesel locomotive in the true sense of the word!

The train was smooth, but the faint high-frequency vibration was always there, and Yang Mingzhi had been sitting on the hardwood board for twenty minutes, and his stomach was quite numb. His physical discomfort was quickly ignored, and when the train reached its end, the large factory building of the fertilizer factory, shaded by large trees, appeared in front of everyone.

A month passed, and large and small wooden huts were built in the forest, most of them neatly arranged, and these were the dormitories of the workers.

At the door of the factory, Yang Mingzhi was pleasantly surprised to find that the precipitation pool had been expanded to three, and some workers were still working hard with gas masks, and the pungent smell also came from there.

On the leveled field, a large number of gasoline barrels were placed, and Yang Mingzhi estimated that these black iron barrels should have been filled with inferior ammonia that agreed to be black.

Workers are always working hard, especially at night, when the chimney's special valve is opened, and the black smoke rises to the ground. The night brought the safest cover, the workers did not need any camouflage, and the production capacity reached its peak!

Captain Yevlov was in the blacksmith village, staying at the headquarters of the army group, and his mission determined that he would be active in the barracks and residential areas of the blacksmith village at most, so it was indeed the first time that he had traveled all the way south to the fertilizer plant, not to mention the mines that were more fresh to him.

On the train, the two senior officers talked to each other about today's itinerary, and experienced that the train was one of the activities, since they had to go to the fertilizer factory, in addition to a surprise inspection of the place, by the way, they continued to the south, to inspect the sulfur mines, and to inspect the prisoner of war camp. What's more, there are hot springs in the mine.

As for the workers of the fertilizer plant, the surprise arrival of the two commanders of the group army really caught them off guard. In the midst of the panic, all the workers and garrison troops urgently assembled and accepted the commander's review with trepidation.

Yang Mingzhi easily guessed what these people were thinking, what they were most afraid of was that the commander would reprimand him for his sloppy work, and in any factory, wouldn't the workers at the grassroots level be afraid of the leaders who inspected? What they fear most is not the leadership itself, but the bad nitpicking.

The production capacity of the fertilizer plant and other details, through the previous stack of documents placed in the headquarters, Yang Mingzhi has known seventy-seven, eighty-eight, for example, the daily output of ammonium nitrate of the fertilizer plant is stable at about 1.1 tons, which is basically in line with Yang Mingzhi's assumption.

This is only ammonium nitrate, the output of ammonia is higher, simply packed in a large number of iron drums to pull away, directly poured into the ground, these due to the limited volume of the precipitation pond and the additional supply of rough processing ammonia, the output is also more than ten tons. Compared with making weapons, nearly seventy percent of ammonium nitrate is only used as fertilizer to strongly stimulate the potato harvest!

When it comes to fertilizers, he knows only the surface, and is far less proficient than Ivanov. Therefore, he did everything to find fault with the workers, but did not hesitate to pretend to be a chemical expert in front of Yevlov, who was completely ignorant and extremely curious. In short, as long as you pull out some professional terms that you know, you can scare him as soon as possible.

Yevlov listened inexplicably, and he admired: "Berekov, although I don't know what you are talking about, in short, it is very powerful. ”

"Yes, that's the power of science! After all, science is the primary productive force! ”

Dozens of workers are wearing masks, making their images extremely striking. With huge monster-like eyes, a fox-like face, and a long elephant trunk, all of them in human shape, Yevlov had actually seen these scenes for the first time. Who was he afraid of on the battlefield? Only this time, an inexplicable sense of fear came over him, even though he knew that behind the mask were living Russians.

"Let's get out of here quickly." Yevlov urged with anxious emphasis.

"Oh? You don't want to continue visiting? I also want to watch the workers carry all the iron drums filled with ammonia onto the train! ”

"Forget it! Let's continue south. The smell here is so pungent, I'm going to get poisoned if I stay here! Do you still fall in love with the stench? ”

Here in the fertilizer factory, Yang Mingzhi and Yevlov don't want to stay longer, not to mention that the smell here is indeed pungent, and the ammonia itself is toxic, and inhaling too much will cause headaches. Yang Mingzhi also borrowed the donkey from the slope to say a few words of encouragement to the person in charge of production at the fertilizer plant, and specially instructed Peroniski, who was proud: "This is the first railway transportation in a guerrilla republic that I have personally experienced, and you have made great contributions." Keep up the good work, and I'll take credit for you. ”

A medal of honor, and bonuses that cannot be distributed at the moment, these spiritual rewards are somewhat empty. Yang Mingzhi's attitude towards the train was pleasantly surprised, and he wanted to give Peroniski a reward immediately, and took out the cigarette case with a touch of his coat pocket.

"You can take these and draw them, they can be regarded as my personal reward for you."

Cigarette reward from Lieutenant General Commander, it means a lot!

"Thank you! Comrade Commander! Peroniski immediately opened it and looked at it, there was still a lot of stock of the seized cigarette packs, and a smile quickly appeared on his face, "Your gift is really good, I will not take the honor alone, I will share it with my right-hand man who repairs the railway, and everyone will share it." ”

"It's up to you. Alright, you guys get on with it. Next, I have to go to the mine to inspect it. ”