The mixed brigade stationed in Yangquan has a total of seven or eight surrounding counties. After 15 million kilograms of grain are distributed, each county only needs to raise two million kilograms of grain, which seems easy.

In fact, this is far from as simple as imagined.

The grain needed by the brigade command center is delivered to Yangquan step by step from the hands of the people, and many people need to be handed over to each floor. A little bit is deducted by the war during the transportation process. If Yangquan wants to receive 15 million kilograms of grain, each county must raise at least 30 million kilograms of grain. It is 4 million kilograms of grain to be distributed to each county.

Of course, if these counties are completely in the hands of the Japanese, raising four million kilograms of grain per county is still not a problem.

However, one of the eight counties controlled by the brigade has been completely controlled by the National Salvation Army, and the other half of the National Salvation Army. Among the remaining six counties, each county has the activities of the Eighth Route Army, and half of the grain-producing areas of several counties have been built by the Eighth Route Army. The possibility of the troops raising grain from those places is almost zero.

By doing this, the pressure on the brigade to raise 30 million kilograms of grain from the occupied area is great, and if you are not careful, you will not be able to complete the task.

At this moment, compared with the revenge of the national rescue army and venting its anger, the autumn harvest of the troops' food rations in the next year is obviously more important.

"Bageya Road, let the National Salvation Army live for a while!" The brigade commander was very unwilling to make a decision.

The chief of staff on the side breathed a sigh of relief: "Sir, wise!"

"It can be seen from the latest information sent by each county that the Eighth Route Army, which is active in our defense zone, also attaches great importance to this autumn harvest."

"Their situation is the same as ours. All the rations for the next year come from the occupied areas. If they cannot raise enough food after the autumn harvest, their troops will not be able to survive."

The brigade commander has completely regained his sanity and stared at the complex sphere of enemy and us staggered on the sand table and asked: "To be specific?"

"Hayi..." The Chief of Staff took the baton and pointed to a small Eighth Route Army base in the defense zone to introduce.

"The Eighth Route Army was active here. Some time ago, using the weapons and ammunition purchased from the National Salvation Army to actively attack us. In just half a month, the base area was expanded by one third!"

"In order to raise enough food to spend the winter, they not only transferred all local troops and guerrillas in their jurisdiction to patrol and guard the area bordering us, preventing us from sending people to infiltrate their base areas and using the method of dealing with the national rescue army to deal with them. They also gathered forces from two main battalions around the defense zone and put on an attitude of attacking our occupied areas."

The brigade commander quickly frowned and stared at the chief of staff and asked, "Can they still want to enter our occupied area and grab food?"

"Are you afraid of coming and going without returning?"

The Chief of Staff paused for a moment, and waited for the angry expression on the brigade commander's face to relieve a little before continuing to speak: "This possibility is not ruled out!"

"Reported by the local garrison team: Although the Eighth Route Army controlled several towns, in order to make the base easier and difficult to attack, these towns were basically covered by mountains and hills, and the grain output was very low. The grain from the base area alone would definitely not support so many of their troops."

"If the Eighth Route Army wants to survive there, it must find a way to grab food from our occupied areas."

"The garrison decided to assemble the forces of the two strengthening squadrons to confront the Eighth Route Army to prevent them from entering our occupied areas!"

Hearing this, the brigade commander frowned even deeper.

The sand table clearly shows the strength and equipment of each garrison in the occupied area.

The garrison that the Chief of Staff just introduced only has three infantry squadrons and some direct troops. If all the troops are transferred to the front line that confronts the Eighth Route Army, wouldn’t there be no troops in the occupied area.

He asked directly: "Who will defend the occupied area controlled by the garrison? What if the National Salvation Army of Xiyang sent troops into the occupied area?"

The Chief of Staff pointed to the blockade line around Xiyang and explained: "If Xiyang's national rescue army wants to enter our occupied area, it must first tear a hole in this blockade line."

"We have arranged heavy troops on the blockade line? Even if they have the strength to break through the blockade line, it will take a long time? It's enough for us to draw heavy troops from other places to encircle the gap."

"The intelligence department has also strengthened the intelligence collection efforts of the National Salvation Army and closely watched all the main forces stationed in Xiyang by the National Salvation Army? Any mobilization of theirs cannot escape our eyes, so it is best if the National Salvation Army does not attack our defense zone? The enemy and our army can live peacefully for one or two months. If they dare to attack the occupied zone? Ensure there is no return!"

"As for the defense of the occupied areas, the puppet army will temporarily take responsibility. In addition, two mobile units of the strengthening team will be arranged to deal with emergencies to shock the young people!"

The brigade commander did not answer the conversation immediately? Frown and analyzed the feasibility of this method.

Two minutes later, he suddenly shook his head: "No? Your plan is too conservative and it is simply a disgrace to our reputation!"

"You just said that you used two reinforcement squadrons to resist the two battalions of the Eighth Route Army. Don't you think this arrangement is a bit too overestimating the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army?"

"If you really can't defend, I think a strengthening squadron is enough."

"The Eighth Route Army has no heavy weapons, so it will take a lot of trouble to attack a small stronghold of ours? Not to mention a strengthening squadron."

"Change the action plan a little, or arrange two reinforcement squadrons to deal with the Eighth Route Army troops? But their task is offense, not defense."

"As soon as the autumn harvest is over, we will enter the Eighth Route Army base to grab food!"

"Didn't we have never had a particularly good way to completely eliminate the Eighth Route Army? Your proposal just now made me think of a solution? Let's start with food."

"The Eighth Route Army claims to be the ranks of the people and will definitely not rob the people's food. If we rob their military rations? If we really can't rob them, we will destroy them? I think how they should survive in this mountainous area? Threat the dominance of the Imperial Army."

The Chief of Staff showed a very admirable expression on his face when he thought about it.

Compared with his own defensive strategy, the brigade commander's offensive strategy is obviously more clever, and he can also get the food urgently needed by the troops, killing two birds with one stone.

Agree immediately: "General, wise, I will contact them now and let them change their action plan..."

The brigade commander called the Chief of Staff who was about to leave: "Don't worry!"

"From the sand table, the occupied area we controlled has two main regiments of the Eighth Route Army and four or five independent battalions, and guerrillas. They should be mainly attacked."

"You directly formulate a combat plan in the name of the brigade command. Once the autumn harvest is over, we will immediately attack the Eighth Route Army base and guerrilla areas, steal and destroy their military rations, so as to weaken their war potential and combat effectiveness."

"The intelligence department keeps a close eye on the defense zone of the National Salvation Army. All the above troops must be kept in check. No matter any abnormal movement, they must report it, and they will not give them the chance to attack us!"

"I decided to get back the losses we suffered from the National Salvation Army!"

"Tell the garrisons that after completing the grain collection task assigned to them by the brigade command, all the food they seized from the Eighth Route Army base will belong to them, and there is no need to hand over to the brigade command!"

The expression of admiration on the Chief of Staff's face became stronger.

All the seized battlefield belongs to the participating troops themselves. Once the order is issued, several garrisons will definitely be crazy happy.

In order to gain more benefits in the operation, several garrisons will definitely formulate very detailed offensive plans to snatch more food from the Eighth Route Army base.

The more food the offensive troops snatched back, the greater the loss of the Eighth Route Army and the greater the food shortage in the next year.

The troops cannot develop without food, and their morale and morale will be affected. The overall combat effectiveness will definitely become weaker and weaker, and will eventually be completely eliminated.

The more I thought about it, the more excited I quickly replied: "General, don't worry, we will definitely make a combat plan within one day."

Zhou Cheng did not know that the Japanese had put the National Rescue Army aside and ignored it for the time being.

However, the National Salvation Army's retaliation against the Japanese was not affected and was still ready in full swing.

At the same time, the autumn harvest in the defense zone has also begun. Everyone is busy surrounding the autumn harvest and wants to put the grain in the field into the warehouse in the shortest time so that everyone can feel completely at ease.

In Taigu Village, Xiyang County, the autumn harvest at the family of Chen Shan, the new recruit, also began.

Millets, corns, and beans are continuously delivered to the yard to dry.

In addition to harvesting grain, there is another major event at home this year: using corn straw to make green storage materials.

The big pit for making green storage was dug a few days ago, and the walls of the soil pit were covered with yellow mud. Then we smoked it on a fire for three days to ensure that there is no moisture inside the pit and no water seepage...

Collect grain during the day, and pull the corn stalks home at night. Choose the greenest straw to chop and press them layer by layer into the big pit to ensure that there is no gap or air between the straw.

After the big pit is filled, it is covered with rain cloth and finally covered with soil to allow the straw to ferment in the pit. After more than half a month, the green storage material will be completed.

In the yard, the family was serving other animals. It was a pig they took the initiative to claim from the town government. It looked like about seventy or eighty kilograms and had to eat a lot of pig grass every day.

In the past few days, my family has harvested a lot of corn and beans. I took a few kilograms of ground into powder at home, and cooked a large pot of pig grass to gain weight...

Although the family life is still tight and busier than before, everyone has a chance.

The child's mother is confident that he can gain weight of more than 60 kilograms within five months, and that as soon as the time comes, he can exchange at least 60 kilograms of millet from the government.

The ewe had a big belly and could get her pussy in two or three months. Then the family had a goat of its own.

After the autumn harvest, you can still go to the nearby area to reclaim wasteland. The land you reclaim is owned by yourself, and you can get a reward of ten kilograms of millet for every acre of land you reclaim...

After summarizing all these scattered incomes, the family can increase the production of at least 200 kilograms of millet in the next year.

Now that the boss is going to join the army again, his family has lost a mouth, and he will definitely not be hungry for food and hunger in the next year.

It will be even better next year. The extra dozen acres of land do not need to pay grain tax, and all the income belongs to you.

Although they are all slope land and are cultivated in the first year, the grain yield is small, but the harvest of a mu of land is definitely no problem to be equivalent to forty or fifty kilograms of millet. The sum of more than ten mu of land is six or seven hundred kilograms of millet.

You should know that Mr. Chen has been in charge of the family for so long, and the family’s food stock has not even exceeded 500 kilograms.

And the increase in millet will be six or seven hundred kilograms in the autumn harvest next year. How could it be without a chance?
Chapter completed!