Chapter 34 Tongdeng Town
"Brothers, the old rules, what do we do first when we go to a new place?"
"Familiar with the terrain, find a place suitable for offense and defense to be a camping site."
"Not bad, we all have made great progress. Let's rest on the spot now, and we will go out to find a bigger cave tomorrow. Remember, we only brought food for five days, so we should try to save some of the past few days. After we found a good campground, we started looking for food."
"Report. I know there is a big cave, right in the mountain ahead, where we went to hunt and rest."
A local recruit raised his hand and reported.
"Oh, let's go over and take a look."
There is a cave with openings on both sides on the hillside, which can accommodate thousands of people, but there is no exit and no water in the cave. It is easy to deal with the opening of the cave. A chest wall can be built to shelter from the wind and rain.
The sight here is good. When the weather is clear, you can see Tongdengcheng, which is convenient to enter and exit. A dozen miles away is a great avenue in Vietnam.
But if there is no water, it will be troublesome. You have to go to the spring at the foot of the mountain to get water. As long as you block the hole, you may be trapped inside.
"It's okay. There was water in the low-lying area inside the cave, but it was dry somehow. We could get water manually. There were bamboos on the mountain. We could make dozens of buckets and a reservoir."
The recruit said confidently.
"Then let's do it, first store a pool of water, and then fill the bucket."
The mountains here are rainy, so as long as you can have half a month's water storage, you won't be afraid of siege.
These people are all from mountain people. They are familiar with cutting bamboo, building walls, building stoves, and carrying buckets of water. Perhaps they are annoyed in training every day, and they are very happy to do physical work.
Lu Yongzhi brought Feng Hu, Adong came to the top of the mountain and looked at the scenery from afar. "Do you know why you brought you here?"
"I guess, you should be fighting the French military warehouse." Adong said confidently.
"It should be the idea of making this road? You have said that you should attract the attention of the French soldiers and provide cover for the construction of large and small units in Longzhou, Zhennanguan."
"Yes, we must make a fuss on the road so that the French soldiers cannot take care of each other."
"It's simple. I put a lookout on the hills on both sides. As long as there are no large French soldiers, we will block the road and rob. If there are too many French soldiers, we will do it."
"Fenghu, I have observed it in the village. Every week, there are people who come from the same mountain to the mountains to provide supplies. Generally, there are three to five carriages, and each carriage is only one or two French soldiers. According to the time, it is only these few days."
"I'll take people to grab the carriage." Feng Hu said very simply.
"Just bring a dozen people, worn in tatters, and the rest are hidden to meet them. In this way, we can catch some fish. If the French send within a hundred people to search the mountains, we can take the opportunity to annihilate them."
"Then I'll send someone to put the lookout and put a message tree on each hillside. You can use your lookout glasses to observe. If the tree falls, you can retreat quickly."
"That's it, we're going to replenish supplies."
The next day, only five people were left to guard the cave, and the others followed Feng Hu to intercept the carriage. Adong arranged for two people to climb the hills on both sides to test the message tree first. Then, he quietly waited for the carriage that he had been brought out from the same boarding.
It was almost noon, and the message tree gave a signal of retreat.
Back at the cave, the lookout sent by Adong received the reward. The three carriages had already returned from the mountains and we were one step late.
"Then wait, wait for the supplies and car maintenance next week, and don't alert the snake. Seal the tiger, arrange for people to go to the village to sell grain, and the rest of them will train normally. This cave training is a good place."
"Ruan Qi, come here, are you familiar with Tong Deng?"
Ruan Qi was the deputy captain of the first team who was demoted. Later, he always felt that he could not raise his head in the first team, so he asked him to go to the third team. After the squadron was established, he served as the team leader again.
"I grew up in a village near Tongdeng. Tongdeng is just that big, so I am familiar with it."
"How about you let you pretend to be a rich man who made a fortune in China and then return home to open a store together?"
"I have never been a shopkeeper, I have only worked as a guy, a guy in a hotel."
Ruan Qi thought Lu Yongzhi was going to arrange for him to do business and generate income for the team, so he rubbed his hands in a dilemma.
"It's either you can make money, or you can find out the information about the French army if you have nothing to do, and send any abnormal movements back to the mountains in time."
"Okay, just open a teahouse or something. There are many people in the teahouse and you can hear any news."
"Let's disguise yourself first and then talk about it. It's just you, Adong, and the three of us."
Tongdeng was originally a small town with only more than 10,000 people, not far from Zhennan Pass. Since the French troops entered the establishment of barracks and military warehouses, the population here has gradually increased.
Nearly a thousand French soldiers were stationed, as well as expatriates who followed French soldiers. French mining companies also opened branches here. In addition, the Sino-French New Testament stipulates that China and Vietnam can trade freely. Together, Longzhou is a designated open port, and more and more people are doing business.
Now there are 50,000 or 60,000 migrant populations in Tongdeng Town.
There are several bars, coffee shops, western restaurants, shops specializing in French wine and cigarettes.
Lu Yongzhi took a fancy to a three-story inn not far from the French barracks. The downstairs is a hotel and the two floors above are guest rooms. He told Ah Dong that as long as the boss intentionally re-sales or rents it out, he would buy it no matter how much it costs.
Lu Yongzhi went in first and asked for a room on the third floor, from which he could see the entire French military camp.
This military camp is newly built, with dozens of rows of houses. According to accommodation, it can accommodate at least 5,000 soldiers. There are three playgrounds in the middle, and French soldiers are training in one playground.
Next door to the military camp is the military warehouse, with more than 200 French soldiers guarding it.
Lu Yongzhi shook his head. The idea of trying to attack this military warehouse would not work at all. He had so many soldiers stationed in himself. Whenever there was any movement, reinforcements from the next military camp arrived in five minutes.
The design of this military warehouse also has its shortcomings. There are a row of houses next to the wall, which is only two or three meters away. If you rent one of the houses, dig an authentic tunnel and you can really get into the warehouse.
This warehouse is big enough, and the warehouse floor is usually covered with wooden boards. It shouldn't be difficult to dig a hole below to enter and exit.
I just don’t know what material the warehouse near the houses are installed.
At this moment, Ruan Qi knocked in and said that the inn owner intended to transfer it, but the offer was 200 taels of silver, which was too dark.
"Pick it up. Don't open a hotel, change it to a teahouse to save trouble."
Chapter completed!