Bright Sword: Leading the Special Operations Squadron to Fight the Japs

Chapter 321 Planning of Linfen City

After finalizing the details, Mao Hang prepared to use his brain to recruit as many soldiers as possible.

Wang Meng left behind a guard platoon and brought a group of students and professors from Southwest Associated University onto the plane.

He did not recruit these students and professors. It was mainly because of the newspaper reports from the past few days that these teachers and students voluntarily followed him to Pingshun.

Wang Meng returned to Pingshun and took advantage of the war to further improve the infrastructure of Pingshun, Changzhi, Yuncheng and Linfen, ensuring that all major cities were connected by railways and that county towns were connected by high-standard roads.

In addition, all the gold brought back this time was invested in education and medical care to ensure that southern Shanxi’s development will have successors.

"Mengzi, tomorrow we, Lao Zhao, will go to Linfen to visit Lao Ding and the others."

"Okay, after this battle, we haven't gone to Linfen yet."

The next day, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and Wang Meng arrived in Linfen.

Before reaching the city gate, they saw Ding Wei and his two companions as well as Jia Guier waiting to greet them.

Ding Wei and his two companions were full of high spirits. The highest honor for a soldier is to capture a city, so it was inevitable that the three of them felt a little "proud".

"Lao Ding, Lao Kong, Lao Xing, you fought brilliantly in this battle! Not only did you capture Linfen, you also gave the Japanese a slap in the face!"

Old Ding raised his eyebrows and took all the credit without hesitation.

"Of course not! Our three infantry divisions broke the myth that Linfen City would never be broken. More than 10,000 devils and more than 20,000 puppet troops failed to stop us!"

Kong Jie also added something.

"Old Ding is right. It's mainly because the Japanese are so hated, and we have a noble person to help us!"

Li Yunlong nodded. He already knew about Zhu Ziran's affairs. Zhu was a civil engineering expert who had studied abroad.

"Zhu Ziran, what are you going to do?"

Everyone turned their eyes to Kong Jie. After all, he was the one who discovered this man and he was his prisoner, so the right to dispose of him was also in Xing Zhiguo's hands.

"Don't look at me! Old Zhu has been poached."

Li Yunlong was shocked that such a great treasure had been taken away, and pointed at Kong Jie's nose.

"Kong Erlangzi, when we were in the independent regiment, you were an honest man and were bullied by them every day. Why are you being bullied by the two of them now?"

Ding Wei and Xing Zhiguo quickly shook their heads, saying that they would not take the blame.

"Old Li, I swear to God, I didn't poach any of Old Kong's people. I couldn't do it before because I had few resources and you were suppressing me every day. I had no choice but to do this!"

"That's right, Lao Li, even if you want to rob, you can't rob Lao Kong. He is such an honest man, not like you, who has all kinds of tricks in his head."

Li Yunlong squeezed his face and a big chrysanthemum appeared.

"Hehe, it's just a misunderstanding. It's my fault for not asking clearly! Lao Kong, who poached him? How come you can't keep an eye on him?"

Zhao Gang pressed Lao Li's hand down and twitched the corner of his mouth slightly.

"Old Li, don't ask anymore, Chief Engineer Zhu Ziran has come to our armed police force!"

Li Yunlong looked at Zhao Gang suspiciously, somewhat surprised. How did this old Zhao become a bad person?

"you?"

"Well, Lao Zhu is a civil engineer. It just so happens that our armed police force's engineering and hydropower units usually dig pits, build bridges and dig holes, and they need such talents. So, Lao Xing reluctantly gave up!"

Li Yunlong had nothing to say now. The meat was rotten in the pot anyway, and the armed police force was also his team.

"Old Zhao, you are doing a great job as the commander-in-chief of the armed police. Let's go in and see how they are doing!"

Now they all witnessed once again how quickly Wang Meng's expression changed, and now they were all in high spirits and happy.

As we entered Linfen City, we saw engineering and hydropower troops in military uniforms busy clearing the ruins.

Zhu Ziran, wearing a safety helmet and with dirt all over his face, was directing the work on site.

As the person in charge of the reconstruction of Linfen City, Jia Gui has long been familiar with Zhu Ziran and they are on the same page.

"Chief Engineer Zhu, this is Commander Li Yunlong and Chief of Staff Wang Meng of our independent column."

Zhu nodded at them, but then buried his head in the drawings and continued his study.

"Uh... Commander Li, Chief of Staff Wang, don't mind me, he is just like that! Otherwise, he wouldn't be the head of a municipal office with such great talent."

"That's understandable. He's just arrogant because of his talent! Chief Engineer Zhu, could you please tell us about the city's planning?"

When Zhu Ziran heard that he actually wanted to know the plan, he slowly raised his face from the drawing.

"The subsequent construction of Linfen City will make full use of the fortifications left by the Japanese. We will transform them into underground air-raid shelters. In peacetime, we can rent and sell the air-raid shelters to vendors, allowing them to do small businesses. In wartime, we can use them for air defense!"

Zhu Ziran also introduced the functional areas of the city one by one, which are roughly divided into four administrative districts. Each administrative district has a core business center, and then three ring roads plus two horizontal and two vertical roads, a total of seven main roads, supporting the entire Linfen traffic.

In short, these buildings are at least four-story villas, ensuring that they can accommodate enough residents.

“Is this house expensive?”

"Well, it's definitely more expensive than in the countryside, but people who originally had land can move in for free, and the rest can apply for rental or discounted housing based on their points."

That’s right, this is Wang Meng’s idea. He wants to start doing what he did before now.

Let everyone have a house to live in. Those who contribute to society and work hard should have a place to live.

In order to disperse the crowd effectively, Wang Meng asked Zhu Ziran to keep the industrial areas and some non-essential functions outside the city when planning, and leave as much land as possible in the city.

Nowadays, there are many radar observation stations. The independent column will be able to discover the Japanese planes as soon as they take off, so there is no risk of being bombed at all.

"Lao Zhao, Mengzi, I wonder if Linfen should also build an airport?"

Wang Meng nodded. Linfen is located between Qingyang Airport and Pingshun Airport. In addition, with the vigorous development of Linfen now, an airport is definitely needed for air defense and transportation.

"Okay, I'll let the comrades in charge of the airport construction choose a site and start construction!"

After a brief visit to the fortifications of Linfen City, Wang Meng came to the temporary command post of the 1st Infantry Division.

"Old Zhao, how are the arrangements for the armed police force going now?"

"It's basically done. We'll follow the previous model, selecting some backbones from mature teams and training them as we go. The seven or eight counties we've conquered have each established a battalion of armed police forces, and Linfen City is preparing to form a regiment!"

Li Yunlong was still very confident that Lao Zhao was in charge of the work. He gave local security and defense to Zhao Gang and government affairs to Jia Gui. The two worked well together. These counties have now returned to normal and are seeing the light of day again.

"Lao Ding, Lao Kong, Lao Xing, let's talk about your stories next."