Xiao Yingwu immediately said: "Okay, I'll go find such a person." ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "I suggest you go to big cities like Yanji, Jilin, and Changchun to find them, because only the rich have the money to get those funeral things, so the skilled craftsmen may be in those big cities." ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "We first look around, and if we can't find it, we will go to the big city." Lin Yuan agreed, Xiao Yingwu turned off the communicator, called the reconnaissance battalion commander Zhong Cheng, and said, "You immediately mobilize people to go to nearby villages and towns to find craftsmen who know how to tie paper." ”

Zhong Cheng agreed, and in the evening, he found more than a dozen, Xiao Yingwu called these people to him and asked, "Which of you has the best skills?" ”

For a while, everyone looked at each other, no one answered, Xiao Yingwu asked again, and then a craftsman who looked the oldest stood up and said: "Chief, I am the oldest, I dare not say that I have the best skills, but after all, I have worked for a few years longer than the younger generations......

Xiao Yingwu didn't wait for him to say joking and said with a smile: "Old man, you don't have to be humble, I heard from my subordinates that you used to do these things in a big city like Shenyang, and your business is still very good." ”

The old man smiled and said, "That's right, but later Lin Shuai advocated civilized sacrifices, low-carbon life, fewer and fewer people who accompanied the funeral things, and our business became more and more sluggish, so we closed the shop and returned to our hometown." ”

Xiao Yingwu smiled: "Then will you tie a cylinder?" ”

The old man thought for a while and said, "What are you doing with a cylinder?" ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "Make a cannon!" ”

The old man thought for a long time and asked, "Who still needs to accompany the funeral cannon when he dies?" As soon as the old man's words came out, Xiao Yingwu and the others laughed, the old man was embarrassed by everyone's laughter, and his face turned red, Xiao Yingwu said: "Old man, we don't tie a cannon to accompany the funeral, but to fight the little devil." ”

The old man said: "A cannon made of paper can't beat a little devil, and it may be useful to burn it to the underworld, but in the yang world, a cannon made of paper will definitely not be as useful as a cannon made of steel." ”

Everyone laughed again when they heard this, Xiao Yingwu smiled and said: "Old man, how to fight is a military secret, I can't tell you, just tell me if you can pierce it, right?" ”

The old man said, "I know how to pierce them, but I don't have anything to pierce them." ”

Xiao Yingwu asked, "What do you need?" ”

The old man said, "Paper, long bamboo poles, and paste. ”

Xiao Yingwu turned around and called the logistics chief of the Seventh Division and asked, "Do our troops have these things that the old man said?" ”

The logistics minister said: "We have paper, but there are really no two things in the back, and the division headquarters has glue, I don't know if the road will work?" ”

The old man heard the words of the logistics minister and hurriedly said: "I have seen your paper, it is too hard to tie, if you want to tie it, you have to use the kind of rice paper written in the previous Qing Dynasty." ”

Xiao Yingwu frowned, and thought, "I didn't expect it to be so troublesome to make a fake cannon." But he couldn't do anything, and he couldn't get angry with the old man, so he asked the other craftsmen, "You must have those things in your hands, right?" ”

Everyone said: "Lin Shuai proposed a new way of life, burning paper money and burning funerals are classified as uncivilized behaviors, so there are fewer and fewer people doing these things, our business is getting less and less, and we don't have too much inventory on hand, I don't know how many such cylinders do you want to pierce?" How big is it? How many? ”

Xiao Yingwu gestured with his hand and said, "It's about one person and more than three hundred." ”

Everyone shook their heads and said, "Not enough, definitely not enough." ”

At this time, the logistics minister said: "Division commander, otherwise, let's go and purchase a batch of these things, and then use them as urgent materials, and the rear will be able to send them to us soon." ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "Okay, let's do it." ”

The logistics minister then asked the villagers where to sell those things, everyone said that the nearest was in Changchun, the logistics minister then ordered, from Changchun to mobilize a batch of funeral supplies, transported to the front line, the next morning, these things were all delivered, Xiao Yingwu immediately began to let the villagers tie cylinders as artillery, and mobilized some military paint for painting artillery, painted on paper, from a distance to see that it really looks like the barrel of artillery.

After a busy day, 300 "artillery barrels" were manufactured and transported into the fortifications at night, and the fortifications were covered by sheds, so only the artillery barrels exposed from the fortifications could be seen from a distance. Then our previous efforts will be in vain! ”

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered Zhong Cheng, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, to select elite troops to set up individual bunkers near the bunkers to intercept the Japanese scouts, and once he found out that the Japanese army had sent scouts, he would beat them back.

Early the next morning, Shinichi Abe was woken up by his subordinates in his sleep, and his subordinates said in a panic: "Captain, it's not good, the people of Shina have transported the artillery into the fortifications!" ”

Abe Shinichi frowned and said, "So fast? Did you hear the sound of vehicles moving last night? ”

The subordinate said, "No! ”

Shinichi Abe said, "Then it's strange, how did their artillery get into the fortifications? Could it be that someone pushed it? Let's go and see. Abe Shinichi came to the front of the telescope, opened the shielding cloth, held the telescope and looked at the fortifications, only to see a long tube sticking out of each fortification, the specific color and material were not clear, Abe Shinichi frowned, and said: "It seems to be the artillery of the Zhina, but why did Lu enter the position so quickly?" ”

The subordinate said: "Captain, don't worry too much about this, it's better to notify the artillery to attack, in case that person attacks first, the above will definitely blame you." ”

Abe Shinichi said angrily: "Yaga! Even if I am blamed by my superiors, even if I go to a military court, I can't let the precious cannonballs of the empire be paid! Immediately call a team, and I will lead them to personally cross the river to reconnoitre! ”

The subordinate said, "Captain, how can you go to reconnoiter yourself?" The people of China must have arranged heavy troops to defend their positions, which would be very dangerous. ”

Abe Shinichi glared at his subordinates fiercely, his subordinates didn't dare to speak anymore, Abe Shinichi then led a team of Japanese troops, came down from the mountain, rode a fast horse and ran to the river, Abe Shinichi stopped when he arrived at the woods by the river, he didn't dare to cross the river rashly, because the river was more than 1,000 meters wide, and there was no cover on it, if Lin Yuan put an ambush on the other side of the river, then he would become a target as soon as he got on the river!

Shinichi Abe raised his telescope and looked at the fortifications, but he could only see the part of the barrel, and the back of the barrel was blocked by a mound of dirt in front of the bunker. This is the standard color of Lin Yuan's troops' weapons, it seems that the guy inside is really the artillery of the Zhina, since this is the case, then we are welcome. ”

Abe Shinichi asked his subordinates to turn on the radio and inform his camp: "Immediately notify the artillery position, our department has already reconnoitred clearly, and the opposite position is full of artillery from Lin Yuan's troops, open fire immediately!" ”