Chapter 264 People have a mouth and a pair of hands
Yelentina expected that it would take many days to take the Blacksmith Village with her, so she brought a lot of personal belongings with her on this trip. She is a senior member of the army, and her natural residence is a private room. Her residence is next to Yang Mingzhi, and they are neighbors.
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When it was time to eat, everyone headed straight to the canteen.
Kaweski made some preparations in advance, making this lunch quite sumptuous.
After a tiring journey, it was a real pleasure to have a bowl of hot mutton and vegetable soup. Yang Mingzhi couldn't help but sigh: "If our political commissar hadn't come, my wife and I would have continued to eat bread and boiled vegetables these days.
Potatoes. Even as a commander, you can't eat too much every day, otherwise the soldiers will have objections."
This statement made everyone laugh.
Yelentina rolled her eyes at him and said: "As an officer in the army, the food ration is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers. If they have any opinions, they can keep it. If they want to eat well, there is no problem. As long as they have military exploits, they can
Can be promoted."
"So that's it." Yang Mingzhi's appetite is not here. Exquisite food is not as good as making his own noodles. "Anyway, as long as there is enough flour, I can make many types of noodles, and you
, I just ate a few of my craftsmanship.”
She almost forgot that the Yang Mingzhi in front of her had the ability to turn decay into something magical. The ordinary potatoes eaten by the soldiers could be transformed into different shapes in his hands, not to mention flour.
Yelentina sat up straight: "Berekov, this is why you deserve everyone's love. You don't have the rudeness and arrogance that many officers show, and you even deliberately want to be on par with ordinary soldiers. You seem to be everyone's favorite."
Friend, this is not bad."
In this way, after Yang Mingzhi was praised by this woman, he was afraid that this guy would reveal his fox tail - she wanted to eat the special small stove.
Without much joking, Yelentina suddenly asked a very pointed question.
"Comrades, there are more than 2,000 new arrivals, and at the same time, refugees enter our place basically every day. The population of our controlled area in this swamp has exceeded 20,000, and the food problem will be a big problem. There should be no food for the army.
Question?"
"Absolutely no problem!" Kavitsky said, "I know the core meaning of Comrade Political Commissar even if you don't tell me. Don't worry, the military rations are completely guaranteed."
The implication of these words is that there are some problems with the food of common people? Yang Mingzhi was surprised!
The population has exceeded 20,000, and with more people comes more mouths! I didn't think too much about this before. I thought I could start planting potatoes as soon as spring arrived, but there were too many people. Is this really no problem?!
Yang Mingzhi looked at Kavitsky alertly: "Is there really no problem with the food?!"
"No problem! Military food is guaranteed. As for the civilians, I have to admit that it may be a little difficult for them."
Kavitsky didn't mean that there would be a famine. There were a lot of potatoes in the granary, and there were still some potatoes in the ground that had not had time to be harvested. These old potato varieties have been cultivated for hundreds of years and are all cold-resistant.
Quite a few tubers have not yet died from the freeze, and they continue to grow when the weather warms up.
Yang Mingzhi received a guarantee that the matter was absolutely safe. Kavitsky said: "We are currently talking too much, so we have to reduce the flour ration for ordinary people. For a period of time, ordinary citizens can only eat potatoes until we complete
The first harvest of spring.”
Yes, potatoes were almost the only food for Soviet soldiers and civilians during World War II, and they were also the "contributor" to their victory.
"Okay! I think this matter needs to be discussed carefully. Now I have to say a few more words. Several of the people sitting here are members of the Blacksmith Village Committee. Don't just see how many mouths we have, but also think about
Every mouth also has two hands."
This was said by a great man. If Yang Mingzhi repeats it, the meaning is concise and concise.
Production can still continue even in the cold season, Kavitsky suddenly realized. "I understand what the deputy commander meant. In fact, we can still carry out fishing work. During this period of warming, large areas of the Dnieper River that were originally frozen due to the cold current
After the closure was lifted, fishing can be carried out again. Furthermore, in the southern part of our swamp, there are more wetlands and there should be a large number of migratory birds. It may be suitable for hunting and collecting some bird eggs."
"Very good, since you have thought of it, go ahead and do it." Yang Mingzhi affirmed. "You are the village chief of the entire Blacksmith Village. You are responsible for all the affairs here. Besides, you are responsible for most of our granaries."
.Your accusation is very critical."
Saying this, this person should be more serious. Of course, Yang Mingzhi has always been reassured by him.
After lunch, the militiamen had already arranged for Yelentina's room, and her personal belongings were naturally taken care of by her.
Yang Mingzhi and she still had very important things to talk about, so the two simply decided to hold their secret meeting at this residence.
Although it was a confidential conversation, Yang Tao had to avoid it.
"Xiao Tao, if you are a little tired, go back to your room and take a nap. Your sister Yelentina and I still have important things to do." Yang Mingzhi sent him away, and then entered the room with Yelentina.
He also ordered two guards to stand guard at the door.
"Hey! You called me Besica's sister." Yelentina teased, then sat down on the bed.
A man and a woman were in a "secret room", how could they look like zombies? Yang Mingzhi shook his head and abandoned these distracting thoughts.
He also sat on another bed and said straight to the point: "Now let's continue to discuss the arrangements for those people. I already have some ideas."
"Okay, just tell me."
Yang Mingzhi paused for a moment. Since this woman was all ears, he should start talking non-stop.
"I think there are two things we must pay attention to!
The first point is that they have all been captured. Their combat effectiveness and loyalty cannot be fully trusted by you, me or even Yevlov. For example, Roshakov and Kravsky were also deserters in a certain sense.
, they fled from Ukraine to Belarus. At the beginning, they were discriminated against by the veterans when they joined our battle order. Finally, now, after the Homnich blockade, they have proved their absolute loyalty.
The second point is that if it were not for our rescue, the prisoners of war we rescued would have been taken to larger concentration camps, where I am afraid none of them would have survived. Compared with Roshakov and others, they truly surrendered.
, if they are openly divided into various companies to replenish troops, internal strife will occur without even thinking about it, and it will directly reduce combat effectiveness and morale."
"Yes! This is very dangerous! Once morale is broken, our future military operations will be greatly compromised. I completely understand what you mean." At this point, Yelentina was very clear about the thoughts of the soldiers. They had a narrow escape from death.
People who worship heroes and despise cowards and traitors.
Today's Red Army soldiers, most of them are Belarusians and Ukrainians. Under the iron heel of the Nazis, their families' lives are uncertain. In addition, after seeing the atrocities of the German massacre, the soldiers are almost certain that their relatives will also be killed by the enemy.
.When there is nowhere to vent the anger and violence, either take action against the German prisoners of war, or take action against this group of rescued guys.
"Now our 1st and 2nd regiments have proved their infinite loyalty to the Soviets with their blood. They would rather sacrifice all of them than surrender."
"So, you and I will not imagine that the soldiers of our two regiments can accept these people." Yang Mingzhi added, "It seems that there is only one solution left."
"Yes!" Jelentina stood up directly, "We have no choice, let them form an infantry regiment directly." (To be continued.) 8