"Mountain stronghold?"
Zhang Dabiao, who was looking at a map, raised his head." Bandits?”
" They are not mountain bandits. They are the former Jingxian Militia. They did not bully the commoners."
Li Yong shook his head." This group of people refused to join the Japanese to kill the Second Ghost, so they hid in the mountains. There's a deep forest there with a cave inside. They hid in groups and made a living by fishing in the Jingshui River. They also had a few guns and would usually rob the Second Ghost.”
"It is said that the nearby puppet soldiers and devils have been wiped out several times, but they could not do anything to this group of people.”
"This militia is quite powerful."
Zhang Dabiao nodded in admiration." There are Japanese soldiers stationed nearby. It's not easy to survive here.”
The 8th Route Army had been trying to establish a small anti-Japanese organization in the rear of the Japanese army. The military teams, county teams, and district teams were like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. However, the Japanese army had been cleaning up the rear. Coupled with the lack of supplies, weapons, and ammunition, these troops could barely survive. It was almost impossible for them to develop and grow. If they were not careful, they would be uprooted by the Japanese army.
"Work hard today. Think of a way to contact this group of people. They must have spies in the nearby villages.”
Zhang Dabiao pondered for a moment." We can give them a few pistols and bullets as a greeting gift and ask them if they have any way to take us across the river. Although there are other ways to break through the Japanese encirclement, they are all very risky, and we have to give up the seized medicine.”
"Also, ask those old boatmen if there's a way to go west along the mountain torrents.”
"Follow the mountain torrents to the west?"
Li Yong's eyes widened." Why is this mountain flood heading west? It must be flowing eastward."
The great river flows eastward. How could there be a river flowing west? Even if it was a valley waterway, it was impossible!
Zhang Dabiao smiled and opened the map in his hand. He called Li Yong over and pointed at the dense lines on it." Didn't you ask me how I could tell that we could travel by boat in this mountain torrent valley?"”
"Haha, I saw it on the map. Look at this map.”
Zhang Dabiao pointed at the map. The scale of the map was very large, and every hill could be seen clearly. He drew a line along the valley with his finger." From this map, the valley of these mountains is a river valley. The river valley is washed out by the flood, and it runs from east to west. Look, the river valley is narrow in the east and wide in the west.”
Li Yong nodded. The mountain torrents were fierce at first, but they gradually calmed down. The valley that was formed by the impact naturally became wider and wider.
"However, that's just what it looks like.”
Li Yong raised a question." Rivers flow from west to east. Even mountain torrents mostly flow in this direction. There are only a small tributary that is different.”
"Look at this map again."
Zhang Dabiao took out another map. This map was different from the other maps. It was filled with dense circles of lines. Even the mountains were surrounded by circles of lines.
Zhang Dabiao drew out the valley on the map and continued,
"This is a map of the contours. Judging from the contours, this valley is obviously higher in the west and lower in the east. It also extends very far and doesn't cross the Jingshui River.。”
Due to the size of the map, the end of the river bed in the valley could not be seen on the map.
"It really is."
Li Yong was also an intellectual and was proficient in cartography. Naturally, he knew the contour map and was very good at reading it. He could see the valley from west to east on the map at a glance, and he also saw more things.
His eyes widened and he exclaimed,
"What an exquisite map. The contours are actually marked to the decimeter level, and even the seasonal water depth of the valley is marked.”
"There's actually a soil mark."
"And the types of vegetation."
"And the speed of the river."
Li Yong opened the canvas waterproof document bag that Zhang Dabiao brought with him and flipped through the thick stack of maps inside. The more he read, the more excited he became. In the end, his eyes almost lit up.
"This mission is really worth it. Even without those weapons and ammunition, just this stack of maps is worth it!”
"Definitely worth pawning!"
A map, especially one with high precision, data, and information, was no less useful than an aircraft or cannon to an army.
With this kind of map, people who could read the map did not need to investigate the scene too much. They could directly formulate a battle plan on the map and then make some adjustments on the spot.
How much time could he save and how many opportunities could he gain with this move?
With such a map, there would definitely not be a situation where they found that the river was too deep, the soil was too soft, and the forest was too dense. Their marching speed would definitely increase by a lot!
"After the mission is completed, I will be able to finish this map in two weeks, no, one week.”
After returning to the guild, he had to make a few more copies of these maps.
It didn't take two weeks. He slept less and made a copy every week.
Compared to this thing, the Japanese military maps were trash, absolutely trash. Even the legendary aerial photo maps were probably not as good as this.
"Where did this come from?" Li Yong asked.
He had created a map before. The difficulty of creating such a map was high, and the amount of data needed to be examined was unimaginable.·
The contours were accurate to the decimeter. The vegetation, soil quality, and even the changes in the water depth and current of the rivers in each season were all expanded to a radius of hundreds of miles. What a huge workload this was.
Even a professional drafting team of hundreds of people would not be able to produce it in a year.
"Haha, there are still a few spare parts on the mule. I'll give you one later. Just remember not to lose it.”
Zhang Dabiao was a soldier and a battalion commander, so he naturally knew how precious and difficult it was to make this map. He gritted his teeth and said," As for how they made it, I don't know."
"It was probably taken by a plane and then drawn by a university professor or something."
"Haha, thank you!"
Li Yong was all smiles." I'll leave now."”
He called a soldier, brought half a box of shell gun bullets and two shell guns, and took the map book given by Zhang Dabiao. Li Yong hid in the shadows of the night and walked towards the village in the distance.
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