Chapter Thirty Return

  "This thing's processing doesn't seem that simple, does it?" Yang Feng suddenly thought of something and turned back to ask the sales manager as he was about to leave.

  "The machine doesn't matter, but the knives must be replaced with alloy ones. If welding is involved, the welding rod must also be an alloy welding rod."

  "Then write down the model number for me, and I'll buy some while I'm at it."

  After buying the tools and welding rods, they sent them back to the workshop in Ghost City. Yang Feng then went out to buy other things. Since it was all familiar territory, he quickly got everything ready, including down jackets and bicycles. Yang Feng had them all packed into standardized wooden crates, and soon a whole stack of them appeared in the workshop.

  "You don't hire a watchman, and at night someone will steal from you," Ye Yu said with some concern.

  "In the evening I live here myself, what's the need for a gatekeeper?" Yang Feng said casually.

  The two of them returned to the company again.

  "Boss, are you going to recruit a few more?" The monkey asked eagerly, seemingly looking forward to those girls who easily arouse men's desires.

  "Ah, why don't we just recruit a dozen or so? Come on, I'll write up a recruitment standard." Yang Feng took out a piece of paper and began writing his recruitment standard.

  "My god, boss, are you recruiting a clerk or an engineer? Those who are familiar with steel smelting, petroleum chemistry, and mechanical processing, do you know that all the girls from these fields look like dinosaurs?" Monkey exclaimed.

  "Get him!" Yang shouted at Ye Fen, who grinned wickedly and pounced.

  "Am I telling you that my old man is looking for a consultant?" Yang Feng muttered to himself amidst the monkey's mournful cries.

  The clothing factory worked quickly, as some of it had been done beforehand, so by the seventh day, 30,000 sets of military uniforms, including warm clothes and cotton-padded jackets, were all completed. In addition to the military boots, belts, and medicines brought back by the monkey from the shoe factory, everything was packed in identical wooden boxes and stacked up like a long city wall inside the workshop.

  "Oh no, there's a lot of work to be done!" Yang Feng sat on his newly purchased tricycle, looking at the mountainous pile of goods with a worried expression.

  The shuttle-shaped boat, now transformed into a flat-bottomed vessel, slowly lowered its side hull, then suddenly split in half and stretched forward along the ground, all the way to the bottom of the cargo wall. Under Yang Feng's stunned gaze, it pulled backwards until everything was dragged inside, then re-emerged from the bottom of the boat, folded up, and a merchant ship full of goods was completed.

  "Why didn't you say so earlier?" Yang Feng looked at the beautiful woman's head on the ship's bow with tears in his eyes.

  "You didn't ask!" The beautiful woman's avatar said calmly.

  Dagukou, the Japanese merchant ship Ado Maru is slowly sailing, this is a small ship of only 300 tons, mainly running the route from Andong to Tianjin, transporting goods plundered by the Japanese in Northeast China to be sold at high prices to Chinese people inside the pass, although the relations between the two countries are tense now, its trade has not been affected too much.

  "Dog life you, this time can make a big profit again!" The captain smiled in the driving room and said to the owner beside him.

  "Inoue, earning money from those people is really unfulfilling! We kill their men, play with their women, burn down their homes, and take away their property, but they still put on a smiling face and continue to contribute wealth to us. This is a nation that will never know what dignity is. I think their descendants will continue like this, it's really fortunate for our Yamato people to have such neighbors, with them, our descendants will never need to suffer again!" Inoue said with satisfaction.

  "Bang!" A sudden loud noise exploded above their heads.

  "...How to return..." The terrified Inose hadn't even finished shouting when the top of the control room suddenly came crashing down, instantly crushing him and Inuki into a meat patty. It wasn't just them; the entire ship sank at an incredible speed, as if pressed down by a giant hand of a god, almost disappearing from the surface of the sea in the blink of an eye. Replacing it was a inland cargo ship that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

  "What just happened? There wasn't such a big shock before?" Yang Feng looked at the beautiful woman's head portrait on the windshield in a daze.

  "One of our ships has been sunk!" The beautiful woman's avatar said quietly.

  "Huh? Let's hurry up and go, let's hurry up and go!" Yang Feng said with a somewhat guilty conscience as he glanced around.

  The flat-bottomed boat sailed into the Dagukou, went upstream along the Haihe River, and soon arrived at Tianjin Port. After docking, Yang Feng immediately called Xiao Zhenyan in Beiping.

  "Xiao Lao Ge, hurry up and get your people to Tianjin dock, the military uniforms have arrived."

  "What? You wait there first, I'll arrange for someone to go over right away!" Xiao Zhenyang on the other end of the line was startled, and quickly suppressed his excited emotions. He immediately contacted Song Zheyuan and arranged for people from Zhangjiakou to rush over. Meanwhile, he led the guard troops to take a train straight to Tianjin.

  "Surround the ship and don't let anyone on board except our own people." As soon as he arrived at the dock, he ordered his guards.

  It's not going to work, Tianjin isn't their territory, these military uniforms will make anyone jealous, if the Northeastern Army finds out, they'll find an excuse to seize them directly, it's not impossible, this is also why Yang Feng didn't unload the goods.

  "Customs brother, you go say it yourself!" Basking in the rising sun, Yang Feng lazily sat on the deck and said to Xiao Zhenxun, who was already excited and crazy. This ship had no procedures, no port of departure record, no boat number, and no registration place. There would definitely be trouble with customs.

  "Yang brothers, rest assured, the rest will be handled by me," said Xiao Zhenheng. This small matter is easy to resolve. After all, he was also a member of the Military and Political Committee, even if it was just a decoration, it was still the highest level of decoration. The customs would not even give him this little bit of face.

  Yang Feng waited on the ship until afternoon, when a train directly from Zhangjiakou arrived at Tianjin Railway Station, carrying an entire battalion of 29th Army soldiers. They then began to unload the cargo from the ship and load it onto the train.

  "Zhang, what's the situation in Rehe now?" Yang Feng took out a cigarette and handed it to Zhang Zizhong, who was leading the team.

  "The Japanese have not yet launched a formal attack on Rehe, but military deployments are already in place, and it's probably just a matter of days now." Zhang Zizhong, who was normally taciturn, said with deep concern.

  "Alright, on your way back, stop by Beiping for a bit. I'll get in touch with the Americans and Germans to see if their munitions have arrived. If they have, you can just bring them back directly. Also, after you return, tell General Song to prepare more 82mm mortar shells. In a few days, I might be able to get another batch of 82mm mortars for you, and there should be a lot." Yang Feng said.

  It is now early February, and Mutō Nobuyoshi has issued a combat order. In about ten days or so, on the 21st, the Japanese army will officially begin the Rehe campaign.