Li Ming led the first brigade of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment to successfully complete the raiding mission, and quickly evacuated Jiexiu County before dark. At the same time, Yuci, Taigu, Pingyao, Pingyang and other places in the Jinzhong Basin, under the leadership of Song Tao and Wang Haiyang, also successfully completed the task.

Because of the second brigade led by Song Tao, the target this time was Yuci, which was very close to Taiyuan, only a few dozen miles, and was the deepest target of this mission. Just in case, Li Ming assigned two companies of veterans of overseas brigades, and also armed them with two water-cooled heavy machine guns and two 60mm mortars. In addition, the only formed cavalry company in the Lüliang base area was also incorporated into the second brigade along with the second brigade.

Yuci has been an area where Jin merchants gather since ancient times, and the second brigade led by Song Tao broke through Yuci County, not only killed the traitors and Jin merchants in the city, but also swept the Jin merchant family in the city by the way, and the materials obtained were not much less than Li Ming's first brigade, but the transportation of materials also delayed a lot of time.

Fortunately, there was also a tributary of Fenshui on the edge of Yuci County, and the Military Commission dispatched a large number of river engine sailing boats for this operation, and the materials obtained by the Second Brigade were also loaded and transported away before dark the next day.

After all, Yuci is only more than 300 miles away from Shanxi Town on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, although Song Tao broke Yuci County overnight, but in the process of transporting materials the next day, the movement was too big, so that the people near Yuci fled to Taiyuan in panic in order to avoid the thieves, and reported the news that the thieves broke Yuci to the Taiyuan Mansion.

Several masters of Taiyuan Mansion immediately rushed to Shanxi Military Town for help, and sent more than 1,000 soldiers to rush to the aid of Yuci, but I didn't expect that the Ming army who came to the rescue had not yet arrived in Yuci, and was ambushed by two companies of overseas brigades and a cavalry company arranged by Song Tao, and more than 1,000 Ming troops were immediately scattered. Less than 100 people fled back to Taiyuan.

More than 100 Far Eastern cavalry even chased to the city of Taiyuan, showing off their might for a while, and then retreated to Yuci. Seeing that the thieves were so fierce, Taiyuan hurriedly closed the city gate and waited for reinforcements from Shanxi Town to go south to rescue.

For a time, there was wolf smoke around Taiyuan, and the people in the vicinity fled into Tunpu and Xiangbao to protect themselves. Even the Jin Wangfu in Taiyuan was alarmed, and the Jin King was also frightened by this group of thieves, and he repeatedly ordered the border troops in Shanxi Town to rescue Taiyuan Mansion. The border army in Shanxi Town was also stunned, and hurriedly mobilized thousands of reinforcements and immediately rushed south to aid Taiyuan Mansion.

Just when there was a rumor around Taiyuan, Song Tao led the second brigade, which had successfully moved the materials to the ship and transported them away, and then led the troops to leave Yuci by boat and enter the Fenshui River and go south along the river. Turned into Shengshui and entered the Luliang Mountains.

Several other units of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment that participated in this mission went very smoothly, and they all smoothly escorted supplies and returned to the Luliang Mountains one after another by using the tributaries of the Fenshui in Jinzhong.

When the reinforcements from Shanxi Town arrived in Taiyuan the next day, the thieves who broke through Yuci, Taigu, Jiexiu, Qixian, Pingyao, Pingyang and other counties had long since disappeared. This time, the thieves moved very quickly, and in just one day, they raided several county towns in the Jinzhong Basin at the same time. And looted all the supplies in these places.

The county orders of several counties are also due to the responsibility of losing land. Hanging themselves one after another, countless Jin merchants ran to Taiyuan Mansion to cry, bitterly describing the cruelty of the thieves, and the wealth accumulated for generations was robbed by the thieves.

The border army searched for thieves everywhere in the Jinzhong area, and once again scourged this place, and then collected the troops satisfied. But the newly rising thieves in the Jinzhong region. But it suddenly made a name in Shanxi, and the bandit leader "Optimus Prime" also left his name in various counties, which made the big families and wealthy businessmen all over Shanxi nervous, and even the King of Jin, the King of Dai and the King of the Valley were afraid.

This gang of thieves is too desperate, and their combat effectiveness is very strong. In an instant, several county towns were broken. What is even more frightening is their ability to scrape the ground, unlike ordinary thieves, who will wreak havoc when the city is broken, but they are specifically looking for rich merchants to attack, as long as they are targeted, they will ensure that their wealth is swept clean.

Lüliang Mountain, a mountain range in the western part of Shanxi Province, China. It runs north-north-east and extends about 400 kilometers from north to south. Luliang Mountain is located between the Yellow River and the Fen River, with an area of 13,760 km for the Yellow River and 7,228 km for the Fen River.

The Luliang Mountain base area established by the Far East in Shanxi was selected in the western part of the Jinzhong Basin, a mountainous area more than 200 miles west of Xiaoyi County. The hydrothermal conditions on the eastern side of Luliang Mountain are relatively superior, and the main stream and some tributaries of the Fen River originate from it, which is the main water source area of the Fen River. Historically, mountainous areas were densely forested with a variety of vegetation types. The mountains here are high and densely forested, and there is Shengshui, a tributary of Fenshui, as a waterway, which is convenient for the company to support here.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the Luliang Base Area in Yan'an, which was based on Luliang Mountain and extended the Yellow River barrier, was in this area. The 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, as well as the 343rd Brigade, carried out guerrilla operations here and established a base area.

At a simple wharf by the Shengshui River, countless river engine sailing boats are densely packed here, each boat is full of supplies, and a large number of militiamen are busy here, carrying the supplies on board to the shore and then transporting them to the nearby base area by horse-drawn carts.

It is sparsely populated, the traffic environment is extremely harsh, and the mountain road up the mountain is very steep. The base area organized the displaced people and militia to build a simple road up the mountain as a passage from the base area to the outside world. However, it is a relatively big problem for materials to go up the mountain.

In particular, it is simply not realistic for more than 10,000 people to carry a large amount of materials seized in this operation to the mountains where the base area is located. Therefore, at the beginning of the construction of the base area, Li Ming and everyone brainstormed, and finally established a simple ropeway in this steep mountain area as a channel for transporting materials to the base area.

The ropeway is divided into three sections, each equipped with a set of steam units. The employees of the industrial team sent by the company placed three large groups of steam units between the steep mountains, built a huge wooden frame with logs, and used the steam units as the power, using wire ropes and pulleys to build this simple ropeway to transport materials into the mountains.

The ropeway uses steam power to slowly transport a five-ton cargo platform to the mountain, and at the end of each section of the ropeway, there are militiamen responsible for carrying goods, and five tons of materials can be transported to the base area on the mountain three times.

At the beginning, in order to build several ropeways into the mountain, a lot of manpower and resources were expended, and several airships were also transferred to support. The number of displaced people who fell to their deaths at the foot of the mountain alone reached more than a dozen. It took several months to complete the construction of this simple ropeway. (To be continued......)

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