Chapter Forty-six: Radio Station

  "This is the radio." Liu He looked at the box in front of him and smiled, this was already a relatively simple electronic product, but it was still quite cumbersome, with a bulky main body and an attached battery, the battery was for convenient use in emergency situations.

  There is also a low-pressure hand-cranked generator, which is just a cumbersome iron box with two handles on the outside of the box and two terminals. Wires can be drawn from the terminals to connect to the dedicated interface of the radio.

  The radio comes with high-impedance headphones and also has a built-in speaker. It also comes with a telegraph key for sending Morse code, which is the small device that you see in some movies being pressed by the operator's hand to connect or disconnect the circuit, depending on the length of the connection, to record or send Morse code signals.

  This is the antenna, Liu He took out a piece of wire from the box, which was a bare wire. It's impossible to use it as a feeder line, so it's an antenna. Soon, Liu He tied one end of the bare wire to the beam and the other end to the antenna terminal of the radio.

  "Someone's coming." Liu He called out towards the outside, "Master, you're looking for us." Several people immediately entered from outside, "Alright, no need for so many, just leave two behind will do."

  On the box of the radio set, there was a special place for installing the hand-cranked generator. Liu He installed the generator on it. "Come on, give me a turn, stupid! I'm asking you to turn these two handles, not to twist your ass in place."

  Liu He was momentarily at a loss for words, and when he started shaking his head, the two of them thought Liu He had come up with some new training method again, so they started twisting their buttocks on the spot.

  Since they had eliminated several batches of devils, the team members who followed Liu He were really executing his orders with precision. At first, when hunting, some people may still have had some resistant thoughts, but now everyone has no resistant meaning at all. Especially after Er Gouzi and others joined, every time Er Gouzi and others talked about things on the battlefield, they felt very fortunate to have such a good master who gave them very good training in advance, which allowed them to not only enjoy fighting devils but also avoid casualties. Although there was one person killed by the devils, it wasn't because of inadequate training, but rather an accident.

  Liu He personally taught the two how to turn the handle, "Hum..." As the hand-cranked generator spun rapidly inside. "Squeak, drip, drip." A string of noise came out from the radio's speaker, and this noise sounded so familiar in Liu He's ears, only then did it have a bit of modern flair, after all, radio waves and noise were basic conditions for modernization.

  Liu He stared blankly at the flashing lights on the radio in front of him.

  "Master, master." A long worker put his hand in front of Liu He and shook it, "What are you doing, keep shaking." "Master, this is too scary, why is there still a red glow on top, is there something strange inside, or have the ghosts of those little devils all come in here?"

  "Alright, stop talking nonsense, these are indicator lights, it's useless to explain to you guys, just shake them well and they'll work."

  "Beep, beep, beep. Drip, drip, drip." Liu He slowly turned the frequency knob on the radio until he finally found a frequency that emitted a rhythmic sound.

  "Ma Jian, come here." "Captain." "From now on, this will be under your management. You must record the sounds that are emitted from within carefully." "Captain, I don't understand."

  "This is called Morse code, you're a student studying abroad and you haven't even heard of it?" "No." "Alright, this might be a bit difficult for you, but here only you can do these things."

  Soon, Liu He taught Ma Jian some knowledge about Morse code. It's actually very simple. The long and short sounds form a numerical code, which is then looked up in the password book to translate the content of the radio wave.

  "Ma Jian, I estimate that most of the telegrams we can receive here are from the little devils, but it's also possible that they're from our side. Try searching through several frequency bands and you'll be set. Once you successfully translate them, it will prove that you've found the right one. Now, we only have this captured password book, so naturally, you can only translate the little devils' telegrams, which is exactly what we need."

  Liu He's idea was simple: once the translation is successful, it will be easier to deal with ambushes in the future.

  "You two, just work with Ma Jian here and shake hands, training you can study on your own, take turns going out to train."

  From then on, Liu He's first wireless team was formed. Although it is still in the learning stage, it has taken shape, isn't it? After all, nothing is easy to build.

  With this radio station, Liu He had an extra pair of ears and eyes. This might reduce casualties and running time in the future, just like when they ambushed the devils twice before, they ran several times to ambush the funeral team, but went several times because there were many devils and did not dare to take action. Liu He's idea was that he would only attack on the premise of ensuring his own safety. The enemy in front had exceeded the range of his own people. If he attacked rashly, his side would suffer heavy losses. Therefore, Liu He directly terminated the operation.

  Once this radio station is studied successfully, they will know in advance the direction of the enemy's dispatch, the number of personnel, and everything else. Liu He will arrange ambush personnel according to the number of enemies.

  "Captain, I don't understand." Ma Jian had translated the first document, which turned out to be a report on the Japanese army's occupation of Nanjing, the capital city of China. The article was a summary of the Imperial Army's efforts, stating that Nanjing had been taken over.

  Ke Ma Jian didn't know that the Nanjing Massacre wasn't mentioned in the Japanese army's telegram, so his anger wasn't that great yet. Now he was just angry that several hundred thousand of our people were killed by those devils.

  Liu He was even more furious, not only because he was powerless to stop the Japanese army's massacre, but also because this little Japanese beast was so cruel.

  "Ma Jian, that's what I'm saying. We must work hard. If we can kill one more devil, it will reduce the burden on our anti-Japanese troops by a bit. Your task is very heavy. If you can thoroughly study the devils' telegrams, we'll be able to kill even more of them."

  "Yes, Captain, I will keep a close eye on the little devil's telegram day and night." Liu He's few words had already stirred up Ma Jian's fighting spirit.