After Tang Yufeng recorded the order, Zhou Cheng immediately turned his attention to Zheng Yunshan: "Old Zheng, the intelligence department has developed to a level, is there any problem that needs the cooperation of the regiment headquarters? It has been almost a month since you came to the National Rescue Army. Are there anything that is not suitable? If so, just mention it. We are all our own people, and there is nothing to be embarrassed about?"

Zheng Yunshan was very satisfied with his current life and was very happy to answer: "I have adapted!"

"The National Rescue Army has eaten well, slept well, and the Japanese can fight. They live a very fulfilling life every day. Even if I give me a leader now, I don't want to change it."

"When I was in the division headquarters, if I encountered something good, the division commander would definitely be sent to the field hospital to replenish the wounded. I remember once I hadn't tasted the meat in the division headquarters for about two and a half months."

"The National Salvation Army can eat a meal of meat every two or three days, and there is enough white flour steamed buns. There is still half an egg every other day. Such a good day is even more exciting than the New Year. Commander, don't you think my face looks much better than when I first came?"

"So I have no objection to the National Salvation Army and I am very satisfied with my current life."

"The intelligence department has also developed very rapidly. I used the activity funds given to me by the regiment headquarters and the underground transportation stations of the Eighth Route Army lurking in several surrounding counties, and developed many intelligence officers."

"In this battle to eliminate the Japanese Operation Team, the five operation teams that sneaked into Xiyang were discovered by our intelligence officers, and then immediately notified the troops to wait and kill them before they could take action!"

"There is indeed a problem that requires cooperation from the regiment headquarters. I hope the regiment headquarters can provide us with one or two more radio stations within its capacity, so that the information from the enemy-occupied area can be sent to the regiment headquarters as soon as possible. I will also draw a few intelligence officers from the enemy-occupied area to learn how to operate the radio station, and ask the regiment headquarters to let the communications scheduling teach them."

Zhou Cheng was both excited and shocked after hearing this. Unexpectedly, Zheng Yunshan's intelligence reception department began to achieve results in such a short time. He immediately replied: "I can only give you one radio station for the time being, but there is no telegrapher. You need to find someone to conduct a communication and study schedule. In a while, I will notify Xue Ya and leave you five study places. The communication schedule is in the radio study schedule, and your people can study when they arrive!"

"In addition, I will approve you the activity funds for ten small yellow croakers to further expand our intelligence network? Especially the Zhengtai Railway? Is there a way to instigate a few people within the Japanese and let them use it for my own use."

"The railway department is different from the Japanese army? You have many of us Chinese? You should be able to develop several inside lines."

"There are also the railway guerrillas we are active on the Zhengtai Railway Line, and from now on your command? Specially collect information on the railway line and figure out what is transported on each military train on the Zhengtai Railway Line? Pay special attention to some military production equipment."

"The Japanese seized a large amount of military equipment from the Taiyuan Arsenal? But there was no news that they were going to build an arsenal in Taiyuan."

"The Japanese have very scarce resources. They cannot keep the equipment piled up in the warehouse and rusted. They will definitely find an opportunity to send it to the Northeast. If we can know the transportation route and transportation time of these equipment in advance, and cut off some? Then our repair shop will immediately become a small arsenal!"

Building an arsenal is a big deal.

For a unit? With the support of the arsenal, it will have a complete logistics support system and no longer have to worry about the enemy's blockade. It takes a long time to calculate the gains and losses in a battle.

Although the Eighth Route Army had poor equipment, it started from the time they went to the enemy to form an anti-Japanese base? The troops began to find ways to form an arsenal.

Those who have equipment use equipment, but those who don’t have equipment rely on manual labor. If they cannot produce weapons, they will make bullets. If they cannot make bullets, they will directly reload bullets?     Make grenades with relatively low technical content. If they cannot make them, they can repair weapons.       By the way, some bayonets are given to the army...

In a word, do everything possible to produce the weapons and equipment needed for troops to fight? Reduce their combat pressure.

Although the National Salvation Army is currently not short of ammunition, as more and more battles are fought, the Japanese are becoming more and more prepared for the National Salvation Army. Sooner or later, the troops will face the problem of lack of guns and ammunition.

If the National Salvation Army had had a small arsenal at that time, producing and reloading bullets and producing grenades by itself, the guns in the hands of the soldiers would not have been short of bullets, and no matter how bad they were, they could compete with the Japanese.

Zheng Yunshan came from the division headquarters and knew very well the importance of the arsenal to a unit, especially those deep behind enemy lines like the National Salvation Army and the Eighth Route Army, without ammunition supplies.

When the regiment commander said he wanted to set up an arsenal, he immediately raised his hands to agree.

"Please rest assured that the regiment commander is concerned. I understand the situation of the railway guerrillas. With their cooperation, I guarantee to complete the task. At most, I will understand every military line on the Zhengtai Railway in a month. If the regiment commander has nothing to do, I will go down to contact the railway guerrillas and arrange the internal supporters."

Zhou Cheng shook his head: "Don't worry, there is a second mission for your intelligence department!"

"The autumn harvest is about to begin and it will end in about twenty days. I ask the intelligence department to use this time to find out all the traitors around us, and use the county as a unit to rank all the traitors."

"The strongest overall and most trusted by the Japanese. The one who follows the Japanese to do the most evil is ranked first, the more detailed the better."

"It would be best if they could figure out their family's background together..."

Tang Yufeng knew that Zhou Cheng had a new action as soon as he heard it, so he asked quickly: "Captain, do you want to attack the traitors in the enemy-occupied area?"

Zhou Cheng sneered: "Everyone said that the Japanese will revenge, and they will definitely take revenge after suffering losses. Unfortunately, I, Zhou Cheng, are also a person who will not suffer losses."

"Although the loss of more than three million kilograms of grain has won the hearts of the people, we are not at a loss overall, but the gap of millions of kilograms will always be there. If it is not resolved, we will definitely have a hard time before the autumn harvest next year."

"The Japanese used the method of removing firewood from the cauldron, cut off our grain by burning crops, causing famine and unrest in the defense zone, and then dispatched troops to take advantage of the fire to rob."

"I decided to fight back and give them a pot to remove the firewood!"

"The Japanese have very strong combat power. Although this sentence a little bit boosts others' ambition and destroys their own majesty, the facts are facts and there is nothing to be embarrassed to admit. But if the Japanese, no matter how strong the combat power is, do not have traitors to work hard for them, help them come up with ideas, and manage the people in the enemy-occupied areas, the Japanese would definitely not live so safely in the occupied areas."

"Since these traitors are the minions that the Japanese control the enemy-occupied areas and the Japanese cannot live without them, then we will find a way to destroy these minions. I see how the Japanese control can control the enemy-occupied areas after they leave."

"Although I know that the Japanese will select a group of new minions in the occupied areas, with the lessons of the past, these new minions will definitely not dare to work hard for the Japanese to bully the people in the enemy-occupied areas as before."

"In this way, the people in the enemy-occupied areas will definitely be much better."

"In addition, there is a second benefit: most of the traitors and spies in the enemy-occupied areas were formerly local tyrants and evil gentry, and they earned a lot of family businesses by exploiting the people."

"After we execute them in the name of traitors, the wealth they snatched from the people will definitely return to the original owner."

"I decided to return half of the seized to the local people, and take the remaining half as my own and send it back to the defense zone."

"A traitor's family seized 20,000 kilograms of grain, and fifty traitors could seize 1 million kilograms of grain. There must be more than fifty traitors around us!"

Tang Yufeng frowned and reminded: "Captain, kill the traitor and spies, and use the method of removing firewood from the cauldron to deal with the Japanese. I have no objection to half of the seized food and finance to the local people. The only thing I worry about is how we transport the seized back to the defense zone."

"After the Japanese and puppet troops strengthened their garrison on the defense line, it was difficult for the troops to quietly cross the blockade line, let alone transport food, and the possibility of success was almost zero."

"Then I won't ship it back for the time being!" Zhou Cheng had already considered this question, and Tang Yufeng blurted out as soon as he asked.

"First find a hidden place to hide all the seized. After collecting 200,000 kilograms of food, the main force tear a hole on the blockade line, and then organize the troops to transport all the seized back at one time."

Tang Yufeng continued to ask: "Then which unit should we ask to carry out this mission?"

Zhou Cheng blurted out like before: "Since it's tooth-for-tat, then we must do whatever the Japanese do, and we will return it to him as they please."

"The troops use companies as units to draw veteran backbones, and each company temporarily forms a reinforced platoon equipped with heavy machine guns and mortars. Once the time comes, they will cross the blockade line and enter the enemy-occupied area under the cover of the main force."

"After completing the mission, we will notify the main force to cover their retreat, and transport the seized food and other materials back to the defense zone!"

Chen Zhengyu could no longer hold back and stood up from the chair: "I completely agree with the revenge proposed by the leader."

"The Japanese killed us to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot? Then let us fight back and let them taste the taste of removing the firewood from the bottom of the pot."

"After the autumn harvest is over, the families of those traitors must be filled with rent given to them by the common people. We will take the opportunity to launch an attack. Maybe it will be an unprecedented bumper harvest."

At the command center of the Yangquan Japanese military brigade, the brigade commander's room kept crackling sounds coming from the brigade commander's room.

Half an hour ago, the command center received news that the entire operation team had been destroyed. Although they burned more than 10,000 acres of crops in the National Salvation Military Defense Zone, the brigade commander still felt that he had lost money, so he closed the door and started smashing things to vent his anger, which lasted for almost half an hour.

In the combat room outside the room, whether it was the combat staff or the telephone soldiers, they were all careful to do what they were doing, fearing that the action would shock the brigade commander in the room and make him angry.

"Bang..."

The door of the brigade commander's office was suddenly pushed open, and then he saw the brigade commander rushing out angrily, cursing as he walked: "Bageya Road, I want to send troops to retaliate against the national rescue army immediately..."

The chief of staff of the brigade team followed behind and quickly reminded: "General think twice... the autumn harvest is about to begin. We should first ensure that there is no problem with the autumn harvest in the occupied areas, and then retaliate against the national rescue army after all the food is put into the warehouse."

"The headquarters has told us a long time ago that starting this year, they will not allocate military rations to us. The military rations for the next year will depend on the following autumn harvest."

"If we send troops to attack the National Salvation Army now, the Eighth Route Army will definitely seize the empty gap in the occupied area and attack us and steal the food that should belong to us."

"We command more than 10,000 troops, and we need to reserve 10 million kilograms of grain to last until next autumn harvest."

When it comes to food, the anger in the heart of the brigade commander was instantly extinguished.

On the battlefield in North China, not only did the National Rescue Army and the Eighth Route Army lack food, but the Japanese were also short of food.

The scale of the war of aggression against China was getting bigger and bigger, and more and more troops were invested. In addition, more and more Imperial Army troops were unable to support the logistics supply of so many troops in the country.

In order to relieve pressure from the country, the Front Command decided to use war to support the war.

In addition to continuing to provide military rations to front-line field troops, the garrison troops and the Imperial Army that defended the occupied areas no longer provide food, and each unit will be self-sufficient in the occupied areas.

Not only that, the Front Army also required the garrison troops to hand over a portion of the food each year based on the size and population of the occupied area. This means that the garrison troops not only need to ensure the safety of the occupied area, but also try to collect property and collect food. Various pressures are getting greater and greater.

The Yangquan Mixed Brigade also has the task of handing over the food.

In order to meet their own needs, they have to hand over 5 million kilograms of grain to the headquarters, which means that the brigade commander will raise at least 15 million kilograms of grain in the following autumn harvest.
Chapter completed!