"People, the key breakthrough point of this battle lies with the people!" Wang Ping replied staring at the map.

"As long as the people are not in the hands of the Japanese, we will have much less concerns when facing the Japanese. We can build the house again after burning, it's no big deal!"

Zhong Chenggong replied with a consent look on his face: "Yes, it's the common people. The four companies that were eaten by the Japanese in one day were all caused by rescuing and covering the common people... Commander, do you already have a way!"

Wang Ping did not answer, stared at the political commissar next to him and asked, "Old Huang, if I remember correctly, this year, the entire base was very poor in defending the city!"

"That's right~" Huang Yuanqiang affirmed.

"The harvest of ordinary people is only 30% or 40% of the previous years. This is the result of mobilizing everyone to reclaim a large amount of wasteland and increase the land cultivation area. Otherwise, it would be thankful that the harvest of ordinary people this year will be as high as that of previous years..."

"In other words, these harvests are only enough for the common people to eat for three to four months..." Wang Ping continued to ask.

"If you save on wild vegetables, you should be enough to eat for half a year!" Huang Yuanqiang replied.

Then he sighed: "Captain, I want to admire you again when I say this~"

"I hoarded tens of millions of kilograms of grain in advance, and let the troops take turns to reclaim wasteland during the battle, ensuring two acres of land per capita. Although due to the reduction of production of dry land, our new regiment's more than 15,000 people still harvested nearly 1.5 million kilograms of grain, which is enough for the troops to eat for three months."

"In addition to the tens of millions of kilograms of grain stored in advance, it not only ensures that more than 10,000 main troops of the New Regiment will not be hungry, but also ensures that the people will persist until next autumn harvest!"

Wang Ping shook his head and replied: "The base area has two or three million people. Even if one person only eats half a kilogram of grain a day, two or three million people will have to eat more than one million kilograms of grain a day. The little food we stockpiled can at most be considered a drop in the bucket!"

"It is better to be able to solve problems than to solve problems without food!" Huang Yuanqiang affirmed.

Obviously, because of the existence of this batch of grain, the pressure on the shoulders of political commissar Huang Yuanqiang has been much less!

Wang Ping did not continue to discuss this issue. He frowned and thought for a few seconds and continued to ask: "It has been more than three months since the autumn harvest, which means that every household in the ordinary people has at most one or two hundred kilograms of food left!"

"Those who can have 100 or 200 kilograms of food are all good at harvesting this autumn. I guess most ordinary people have less than 100 kilograms of food left at home!"

Wang Ping replied unexpectedly: "If you have less rations, it will be much easier to move on!"

"The political commissar, with the name of the New First Regiment and the Military Sub-district, all the people who entered the front line and retreated within a 100-kilometer range of the base area. The people should not be allowed to become our concern in the entire anti-sweeping... According to the current attack speed of the Japanese army, it would take at least twenty days to completely occupy this 100-kilometer area. And what we have to do is to control the Japanese's offensive pace within this 100-kilometer range and not allow them to further penetrate our base area!"

Huang Yuanqiang stared at Wang Ping, asked with disbelief, "Captain, do you know what you are talking about?"

"The people within a 100-kilometer-deep range are hundreds of thousands of ordinary people. How can they transfer it if they say they are transferred!"

Wang Ping shook his head and replied: "What's wrong with hundreds of thousands of people? Our front-line combat troops, local garrison troops, and guerrillas, all together must have more than 20,000 people!"

"It is not too difficult to command the transfer of hundreds of thousands of people. Moreover, I did not ask them to transfer all of them to the rear at one time, but to transfer them step by step in steps. First, transfer the people closest to the Japanese, and then transfer the people behind!"

Huang Yuanqiang continued: "Even if we have this ability, have you ever thought about whether those ordinary people will be willing?"

"Especially the people closest to the front line, they directly move nearly a thousand kilometers to the rear. What if the people don't agree?"

"This requires you to do your work by the political commissar!" Wang Ping replied with a hand-off manager.

Seeing the political commissar looking embarrassed, Wang Ping followed closely and added: "Political commissar, I can be sure that we all underestimated the destructiveness of the Japanese army's sweep to our base~"

"It's only one day, and the base has lost four infantry companies to cover and rescue the people. More importantly, more than a hundred people and local armed forces have been massacred by the Japanese!"

"This means that the Japanese are trying to sweep us at all costs this time!"

"Look at the way the Japanese sweeps, ten infantry brigades are pushing forward together, and they only advance five kilometers a day. Then they stop to build artillery towers and strongholds in the occupied villages and towns, and leave troops to completely control the place!"

"If you follow the previous style of fighting, and wait until the main Japanese forces have the people, I'm sure these ordinary people will soon become the handle for the Japanese to threaten us!"

"According to the situation reported by the military region, the people who support us will first be retaliated by the Japanese and puppet troops, and then they must completely surrender to the Japanese and puppet troops and cut off contact with us. At that time, burning, killing, looting will definitely be inevitable, and maybe the people in the entire village will be massacred by the Japanese!"

"In order to avoid such tragedy, we must eliminate it in advance and prevent problems before they happen!"

Huang Yuanqiang hesitated for a long time and replied: "To completely transfer the people in this area to the rear can indeed eliminate future troubles!"

"However, the entire transfer project is too large. Even if we explain the strengths clearly, the people may not be willing. Especially those old people, who may not have left the village in their entire lives, and now they have to travel a long distance of 100 kilometers at once, they will definitely not agree to it if they beat them to death!"

"Then use food to attract them to the rear!" Wang Ping answered confidently.

"Hold at home with a lucky mentality. Even if the Japanese don't kill them, the food in their hands is only enough for them to live for two or three months. After two or three months, if the Japanese don't kill them, they can starve them to death!"

"I believe that no matter how much they believe the Japanese, they don't believe that the Japanese will share their food!"

"All ordinary people who agree to transfer in the future, regardless of gender, age or young, will be responsible for their food and drink when they arrive at the resettlement site!"

"During the transfer period, we agreed to the arrangements of the base government to build water conservancy in the base area. The base government will pay everyone a wage according to the standard of one kilogram of grain per person per day!"

"The base government is responsible for their food and drink, and also provides them with job opportunities to earn rations. I believe that the people in the base area, regardless of age, will agree to transfer!"

Huang Yuanqiang was stunned for a long time before he realized it.

Staring at Wang Pingbing, he asked, "Captain, this is a big deal, you have thought about it!"

"Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people will consume nearly 10 million kilograms of our food in one month. If the entire sweep lasts for three months, then the 30 million kilograms of food we have worked hard to hoard will be exhausted!"

"Also, is it necessary to transfer the people to the rear to build water conservancy, and also give them a kilo of grain a day to pay for their wages!"

"The land in the base area basically relies on the weather for its own income. Is it necessary to build water conservancy?"

"It's necessary!" Wang Ping answered very affirmatively.

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