Nine hundred and ninetieth chapters dig potatoes (two)
The morning bugle was blown on time, and the sound of the bugle woke up not only the soldiers, but also the local villagers.
After yesterday's meeting, Kavitsky, the head of the blacksmith village, immediately started mobilizing. The production groups were ordered to prepare digging tools, sufficient sacks, rattan baskets, and wheelbarrows overnight.
Warehouses have also received information. A large number of warehouses in Montenegro have been empty for a long time, and they believe that the harvested potatoes will surely fill all the granaries.
The army also received the order to harvest. In February, the farmland originally reclaimed by the soldiers urgently sown roots. Now is the time!
As the main elite, the soldiers of the second regiment of the 284th Division have a high degree of awareness. After all, they have gradually developed from the "Special Anti-Tank Battalion" to the present. Belekov, who is now the commander of the group army, is their beloved old battalion commander.
As elites, they must implement the orders of their superiors. Whether they are fighting or digging, they do a good job.
After the battle at the end of March, Lavrenti and Yevgeny were severely weakened, and their second regiment had to be reorganized. Although the two men mentioned their opinions on participating in the expedition at the end of April, they were rejected one by one.
Since they can't participate in combat, they can only work hard on training. After training, soldiers always lack entertainment. Since potatoes enter the critical growth period, taking care of the fields has become a military task. They go to the fields to pull weeds and spread human and animal excrement.
, and later blended ammonia and sprayed it into the fields. These tasks became serious tasks for soldiers in their spare time, and all the troops began to do this, but they were not as good as the second regiment!
Logically speaking, potato fields do not need to be taken care of at all. According to the habits of old people, they think that just burying the potato roots in the soil and then sprinkling water is enough. Why do they need to be as careful as taking care of a wheat field?
An order is an order. Yang Mingzhi once took the time to write "Some Requirements During Potato Planting." This is a very short order. Condensed into one sentence, it requires intensive farming.
When traditional agricultural civilization develops to its extreme, intensive farming is inevitable. The Russians lack this process. Their land is vast, the soil quality and climate are generally poor, and traditional Russian farmers still use crude methods to grow potatoes.
Since Yang Mingzhi issued the order last year, villagers and soldiers had to hold their noses and splash their feces and urine on the green potato seedlings and black soil after tending their fields. Not many farmers had done this before.
Well, human intestines can't produce so much fertilizer, and secondly, it's really unnecessary.
But this method of intensive farming is indeed effective. According to the confessions of the original villagers of Catfish Village and Blacksmith Village, most of the potatoes they planted before were only as big as eggs, and the yield was very limited. After improving the planting methods, in the winter last year
During the harvest period on the eve of the harvest, a large number of fist-sized potatoes were welcomed, and a few "potato kings" were even discovered.
Having tasted the benefits, various production teams began to do this. However, people still had limited excrement and urine, so they had to find other ways. For example, they mashed the crabs they caught and didn't know how to eat them to use as fertilizer, and collected silt from the miasma-emitting swamps to improve the soil.
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With the air landing of Salinchkin, this guy who claimed to have some research in agriculture, after he took up a position in the Novgomel Municipal Committee, he used administrative means to collect firewood from the stoves of each household and burn it.
The powder is mixed with water and poured into the potato fields. This is considered to provide potassium fertilizer for potatoes.
Potatoes like potassium and nitrogen, but these methods are of little use, and each production team can only focus on pulling out weeds until mass production of chemical fertilizers begins.
Intensive cultivation of farmland is only carried out in the farmland surrounding the three major collective farms. Newly reclaimed and too remote fields are too far away to take care of. Some people also believe that the neglect of remote farmland is not limited by geographical factors.
It is purely because the production team responsible for that land lacks experience or awareness.
"They are city people, they have been eating rations, bread and bacon every day, and their children have eaten chocolate. They have no idea how food is produced!"
Such remarks stem from farmers' complaints against urbanites. For a long time, Stalin's agricultural model has led to rapid urban development, while rural development has been slow. Stalin's policy was to use agriculture to support workers. This policy hurt the majority of farmers in the Soviet Union, but objectively, because
The rapid development of industry also meant that even if the Soviet Union lost half of its country to the Nazis, they still had enough industrial manufacturing to fight the invaders!
But it is a real reality that urban people lack agricultural production technology. After urban residents fled into the forest, they either died or found guerrillas. Anyone who escaped into the swamp was very lucky. It is very safe here so far. Come
When they arrived here, they said goodbye to their previous life. Skilled citizens were immediately organized, such as shoemakers, tailors and even steel factory workers, who went to various workshops to engage in complex production. As for many who had no skills, they were incorporated into collectives
The farm's production team learned from scratch how to grow potatoes and cut trees.
The good old days are gone forever, and you are lucky to be alive now.
This luck is based on everyone working together. When the harvest season comes, these citizens are also organized to go to the fields of other production groups to help dig.
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Early in the morning, Yang Mingzhi got up quickly. His shovel, a modified engineering shovel, was already standing quietly by the wall.
This trip involves digging potatoes in the fields, so formal clothing is not suitable at all. And because this is considered heavy physical labor, the clothing should be simple.
So when he went out and ordered his guards to assemble, more than thirty guards saw their commander's new appearance.
Yang Mingzhi was dressed very simply. There was no so-called jacket and the cotton sea soul shirt was close to his chest. The gunshot wound scar on his left arm was clearly displayed.
Wearing military trousers with a secure belt, his feet were on boots captured from the German army, and his trouser legs were tucked into the boots.
Even in this simple dress, he did not forget to wear his honor, with a medal on his chest and a big-brimmed hat on his head.
He just held the long-handled shovel on his left and right, inspecting his men with a nondescript image similar to that of a farmer.
"Hey! You are dressed too formally! Take off your leggings and put the helmets back in the dormitory. Today we must travel lightly! Even if necessary, go shirtless!"
After giving the order, the group of soldiers quickly ran back to their dormitories. After a while, more than 30 people also changed their appearance.
Abram became a farmer. He and his comrades all wore boat-shaped hats, and many of them even had a towel tied around their waists.
"Report to Comrade Commander! The guard platoon has assembled, please give instructions!"
Yang Mingzhi returned the gift and looked at the soldiers again and was very satisfied: "After the ceremony! Now follow me to the cafeteria! Let's show off our new image."