The commander-in-chief considered a long time ago but didn't expect the way to let the National Savior Army break the Zhengtai Railway. He could only analyze with a calm face: "Chief of Staff, your idea is very good, but with our current relationship with the National Savior Army, do you think they will obey our command and take the initiative to send troops to break the Zhengtai Railway."

The Chief of Staff had a very serious expression and thought about it for a while: "Sir, you are right. They will indeed think of various reasons to refuse our orders, but we can see from the telegram of the National Salvation Army that rejected us, and where did they develop with the Japanese?"

"If they refuse to execute the orders very firmly, no matter how much compensation we promise to give them, they will not agree, which means that their relationship with the Japanese is already very good, and they have made up their minds to follow the Japanese and do not dare to offend the Japanese at this time."

"The matter will be serious. If we don't find a solution, the next step is to recruit the National Rescue Army from the Japanese Shanxi."

"At this time, we must go in two ways: one way to continue to implement the current plan, destroy the relationship between the National Saving Army and the Japanese at all costs, and prevent the Japanese from reincarnating the National Saving Army. The other way is to make the worst plans. If the National Saving Army is really incorporated by the Japanese, the war zone must minimize the bad impact of this matter, and at the same time be prepared to arm the eradication of the National Saving Army."

"If the National Salvation Army refuses to execute orders, it is not particularly firm, but just wants to use this to threaten the war zone and ask us for benefits, which means that the National Salvation Army and the Japanese are just conducting temporary cooperation for certain interests, and the two sides have not yet reached the point of turning enemies into friends."

"As long as the conditions for the war zone are better than those offered by the Japanese, the National Salvation Army will surely cancel cooperation with the Japanese immediately and become an opponent again!"

The commander-in-chief nodded while listening, obviously very much in his heart in his heart's understanding of the Chief of Staff's analysis.

But soon he realized a new problem and frowned and asked: "Chief of Staff, as you suggested just now, should we keep trying to win over the National Rescue Army in the future and give benefits to the National Rescue Army?"

"What if the National Salvation Army relies on our fear of cooperation with the Japanese to threaten the war zone, we keep asking us what to do if we need to organize, equipment, funds, and ammunition supply, it is impossible for the war zone to give whatever he wants, right?"

"If this happens, what is the prestige of the war zone? Is the war zone in charge of the National Salvation Army or the National Salvation Army managing the War Zone? It's too frustrating, and we can't give the National Salvation Army unlimited benefits, so that's no different from raising a tiger!"

The Chief of Staff quickly explained: "Don't worry, sir, this situation will definitely not happen."

"As long as the National Salvation Army obeys the command of the war zone and sends troops to attack the Zhengtai Railway, and interrupts the Zhengtai Railway for more than half a month, their actions will cause significant losses to the Japanese army. At that time, the National Salvation Army will not only anger the Japanese troops in Shanxi, but the entire North China Front Army will hate them because of this. Even if Zhou Cheng still wants to lean against the Japanese after the battle, the Japanese troops in Shanxi will not dare to accept them rashly, otherwise they will anger the entire North China Front Army because of the National Salvation Army."

"The way to defect to the Japanese is broken, and you have to bear the anger of the entire Japanese North China Front Army at any time. In addition, their relationship with the Eighth Route Army has also broken down. Zhou Cheng had no other way out except to fight with the Japanese in the enemy-occupied area."

"At that time, the war zone will give the National Savior Army some benefits, so that they can be obedient and command them to attack the Japanese army at any time!"

After hearing this, the commander-in-chief fell into deep thought, his mind was running rapidly, considering the Chief of Staff’s proposal just now.

After analyzing it twice without finding any loopholes, he no longer hesitated and immediately ordered: "Just do it like this, don't be tired of all the costs, ordering the National Savior Army to break the Zhengtai Railway and ensure that the Zhengtai Railway is interrupted for more than half a month."

"We can't be idle during this period of railway interruption."

"Some time ago, the Japanese garrisons in Shanxi took away a lot of elite troops from the front line in order to sweep the Eighth Route Army. As a result, the sweep failed. None of the elite troops transferred back to the base, which caused our combat pressure on the front line to plummet."

"I think the National Salvation Army is also an opportunity for us to break the Zhengtai Railway."

"After the Zhengtai Railway is interrupted, the ammunition supply of the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line will not be replenished in time due to the interruption of the logistics line."

"If the ammunition of the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line is in urgent need of emergency, their combat effectiveness and morale will definitely be affected."

"We took the opportunity to launch a counterattack. Even if we cannot defeat the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line, we will tear a few holes in their defense and regain a few county towns. There will definitely be no problem."

"Chief of the Staff, please work hard. First, give the National Salvation Army orders them to break the Zhengtai Railway, and then formulate a counterattack plan based on the specific time when they break the Zhengtai Railway, and as detailed as possible."

"Some people in Chongqing have always said that our Jinsui Army of more than 100,000 is not as many as the more Japanese devils that were eliminated by the Eighth Route Army. This time we will fight a victory for them. Let the Chinese people see that in addition to fighting defensive wars, our Jinsui Army will also take the initiative to attack."

The Yangquan Command of the National Salvation Army had more than 20 million kilograms of grain that Bai Lang had just bought, and the last stone that was pressing on Zhou Cheng's heart finally landed on the ground.

After having food in hand, he was not panicked when fighting. After confirming that more than 20 million kilograms of grain had entered the mountains, Zhou Cheng had more confidence in doing things than before.

At this moment, Dong Hao, who was responsible for the construction of water conservancy in the entire defense zone, suddenly ran over like a kitten smelling fishy fishy: "Captain, can the regiment headquarters support us a batch of grain?"

"My original idea was to repair all the planned reservoirs before the rainy season, so that they could store water as soon as the rainy season came. We started construction of more than a dozen projects at the same time, and focused nearly 10,000 victims to help us do things, but our progress was not as fast as I imagined, and even much slower than I thought."

"According to the current progress, it would be great if we could repair more than a dozen existing projects before the rainy season. We didn't have time to build the remaining reservoir!"

Zhou Cheng understood as soon as he heard this: "Does the villagers have no food and no energy to work?"

"That's why!" Dong Hao nodded quickly.

"The villagers have only four taels of food per capita every day. Although we found a large amount of wild vegetables to eat together, we could barely fill everyone's stomach, but we can't eat it like this all the time."

"It was nothing at the beginning, and the villagers had the energy to work after they had enough food."

"After eating wild vegetables that were not nutritious for more than a month, the bodies of the villagers were slowly hollowed out, and everyone was very thin. Although they could still fill their stomachs with wild vegetables every day, they just didn't have the energy to work, and some people were floating when walking."

"In order to protect everyone's health, we only dare to let everyone do half a day every day, and the remaining half of the day is used for rest."

"I heard that the group had just received a batch of food, so I rushed over to seek support. We should not have too much, and we should ensure that the victims who work can eat two taels of food every day, so that everyone can do a lot of more things."

"I have calculated it before I came. The average person increases by 2 taels of grain per capita, which requires about 8,000 kilograms of grain per day and 240,000 kilograms of grain per month. If the regiment headquarters can support us with 500,000 kilograms of grain, I promise to repair all planned water conservancy projects before the rainy season."

“After the rainy season, make sure all reservoirs are stored.”

What Zhou Cheng lacks the least now is food, and the water conservancy project that Dong Hao is building is related to the grain output of the defense zone in the next two years, and its importance is self-evident.

In Zhou Cheng's eyes, everything in the defense zone now has to be lined up behind the repair of the reservoir.

After thinking for a moment, I made a decision: "I will give you three million kilograms of grain to increase the food rations of all the victims involved in the construction of the reservoir to one kilogram. The extra grain will continue to recruit workers in the defense zone, and use up all of this grain before the rainy season."

"In addition to repairing all the water conservancy projects you have planned, you guys will continue to plan new reservoirs. Even if one reservoir can only manage thousands of acres of land, you will have to repair it for me."

Dong Hao almost thought he had heard it wrong, and he was puzzled for a while before he realized: "Captain, what you just said was three million kilograms of grain, not three hundred thousand kilograms?"

"Three million jin!" Zhou Cheng answered very seriously!

"But only one million kilograms of grain among these three million kilograms is fine grain, and the remaining two million kilograms are considered coarse grains and miscellaneous grains. How about it? Do you have the confidence to complete the task?"

At this moment, a sentence suddenly popped up in Dong Hao's mind: A scholar who dies for his confidant!

He spent a total of seven years in the theater and the provincial government. During this period, he was seconded to the headquarters as a clerk in the last two years, and the remaining five years were engaged in water conservancy work.

Although Shanxi has good economic strength, the funds assigned to the water conservancy department every year are very limited.

If the above embezzles some of the funds, there will be even less funds that can be used to build water conservancy.

I have worked in the provincial government's water conservancy department for five years, and the water conservancy project I have built has not been repaired for more than the National Salvation Army in the past or two months.

As a person who particularly likes his profession, Dong Hao feels that he met Bole today and finally found a platform to be able to use his talents to gain.

Immediately promised Zhou Cheng: "Please rest assured, our Water Conservancy Department will definitely not disappoint you."

Zhou Cheng nodded: "Do it well, once there is a drought in the defense zone, the names of you will definitely be remembered by the people forever!"

In a ravine fifteen kilometers west of Yangquan City, more than 2,000 victims gathered here to build a dam, intending to cut off the ravine horizontally and block the water left on the mountain in a depression to form a small reservoir.

This project has been under construction for half a month, but it is progressing very slowly.

Because the whole process requires a lot of physical strength to be used to drive stones on the mountain and send them to the foot of the mountain, and the disaster victims lack the most now is physical strength, so the progress here is so slow.

After two or three hours of busy work, every victim was hungry, waiting for lunch, then resting for an afternoon, and continuing to do things tomorrow morning.
Chapter completed!