At the new regiment headquarters, political commissar Huang Yuanqiang was in a very bad mood.
As time passed day by day, the losses in the base area were calculated bit by bit and sent to him.
Holding a telegram in his hand, he hesitated for a long time before walking up to Wang Ping: "Commander, our final losses in this counter-mopping campaign have been calculated! The losses are so huge that we can hardly bear it!"
Wang Ping's face looked very ugly from beginning to end.
He shook his head and replied: "Go ahead! No matter what the outcome, I can bear it!"
Huang Yuanqiang took a deep breath and replied: "According to statistics, there are more than 60,000 houses damaged and burned by the Japanese army. Now, at least 200,000 people are homeless in the entire base area, and basically the whole village is homeless.
The people are homeless..."
"In addition to the damage to the house, other financial items, especially food, were not taken away by the little devils or damaged!" Wang Ping interrupted with a stern face.
"There are, but very few!" Huang Yuanqiang replied.
"According to statistics, the Japs stole no more than 40,000 kilograms of grain. However, the Japs' air strikes destroyed a lot, including a newly formed battalion headquarters, with a total of 150,000 kilograms of grain..."
"A total of 190,000 kilograms of grain is still within our acceptable range!" Wang Ping replied with a sigh of relief.
He is the only one who knows the scale of the severe drought in front of him, so no one knows the importance of food better than him.
After hesitating for a few seconds, he continued to ask: "How much food have we consumed by the people who have moved to the hinterland of the base area, and how much food do we have left in our hands!"
"Only 6.5 million jins of grain were consumed, but the construction of water conservancy projects consumed a lot of grain, adding up to a total of 14.3 million jins of grain!"
"We had originally hoarded more than 28 million jins of grain. The autumn harvest of more than 30,000 acres of land reclaimed by the troops for self-sufficiency yielded a total of 3.8 million jins of grain, a total of 31.8 million jins!"
"Since the autumn harvest, 800,000 jins have been used so far, and there were originally 31 million jins left. However, the military region asked us to borrow 5 million jins of grain, and there are still 26 million jins left! After removing the used
More than 14 million jins were lost, but we still have less than 12 million jins left!”
"In addition, there are quite a few cans seized from the Japs, a total of forty tons... Captain, you asked me to keep them all, but I haven't touched them since!"
"Very good!" Wang Ping's face looked even better.
"In this troubled world, as long as there is food, all problems can be solved!"
Huang Yuanqiang frowned and smiled bitterly: "Captain, food can indeed solve the problem. But now someone is eyeing the food in our hands!"
"The common people whose houses were damaged didn't know what was going on, and they were very dissatisfied with our Eighth Route Army! They clamored for our Eighth Route Army to fulfill its promise that if their houses were burned down by the devils, they would be compensated with food, and the per capita compensation would be one yuan.
One hundred catties of grain..."
"More than 200,000 people have lost their houses. If we compensate them based on the standard of 100 kilograms of grain per capita, it will cost more than 20 million kilograms. We simply don't have that much grain available!"
"Our troops went back with the people, because the villages and towns were destroyed and the camps were temporarily set up!"
"During this period, a large number of ordinary people gathered around the station every day, besieging our troops and demanding that our new regiment fulfill its promise and compensate them with food!"
Wang Ping's eyes quickly shot out two rays of light, and then he replied with a murderous look on his face: "Young devil, there must be some little devil doing tricks here!"
"Where's Director Wei Yong? Let him lead his people over there overnight and arrest all the people who are inciting trouble. Remember to keep it secret. Once we have the definite evidence that these people colluded with the Japs, it will be made public!"
"All the main forces of the regiment, local garrison forces, and guerrillas, except for the troops facing the Japanese and puppet troops on the edge of the base area, all other troops marched to this area to help the people repair their damaged houses!"
"Logistics department, bring all the tents we have hoarded over there. If there is no house, use tents. We must ensure that the elderly, weak, women and children do not suffer frostbite or freeze to death..."
"As for food, we still need to compensate. However, we cannot compensate according to the standards they require!"
"Before the house is repaired, each citizen, regardless of age or weakness, will be compensated with one pound of grain per day. After the house is repaired, the compensation will stop."
"We can dispatch more than 10,000 people to repair houses, plus nearly 200,000 local people. As long as nothing happens, we can repair all the houses in a month at most and let the people live in their new homes!"
"Because there is a sequence, we can consume up to five million catties of grain!"
"In this way, we will not break our original promise!"
In Huangjia Village, less than 30 kilometers away from Linfen City, when the Japanese troops retreated, more than a hundred houses in the village were burned to rubble, leaving nothing inside except a series of earthen walls.
Behind a mountain ridge at the east end of the village, more than 500 people from Huangjia Village gathered here.
With the help of the guerrillas, each household built a shack for warmth to ensure that no one would freeze to death on a cold night.
Under the cover of night, in a shack on the edge, three middle-aged men were plotting something in a low voice.
Suddenly, six Eighth Route Army soldiers rushed into the shack, with dark wounds facing their heads.
The three middle-aged men were stunned for a moment, but they soon realized: "Who are you? We are all ordinary people. There are Eighth Route Army troops nearby. You must not act rashly!"
"We are the Eighth Route Army!" an Eighth Route Army soldier with a pistol hanging on his waist said as he flashed into the shack.
Hearing the words "Eighth Route Army", the three middle-aged men became calm and replied very arrogantly: "Then you can't arrest us!"
"There are ordinary people everywhere here. Let us go immediately, or I will call people and you Eighth Route Army will arrest people randomly!"
"I understand. It must be your Eighth Route Army who didn't want to fulfill its promise to compensate us with food, and then came to arrest people. That must be the case!"
The cadre who had just ducked into the tent replied confidently: "Then just scream!"
"By the way, let the people in the village know how you sacrificed your lives for the little devils and how you betrayed your ancestors. When the time comes, not only will you be unable to hold your head up in the village, but your family members will never be able to lift their heads up!"
"You're talking nonsense, we didn't sacrifice our lives for the little Japs!" a middle-aged man shouted bravely.
"You know Zhou Futian from Zhoucun? To tell you the truth, he is the traitor planted by the Japs in our base area. You took Zhou Futian's money and worked for Zhou Futian. Do you think you are a traitor?"
The three middle-aged people who looked arrogant just now suddenly panicked and became panicked.
"As long as you follow us, you can leave after we find out a few things. We in the Eighth Route Army promise not to tell this matter!" the cadre added immediately.
"I'll go with you!"
The three people only left for one night and came back. The next day, many people in Huangjia Village gathered near the shack where they were, preparing to follow them to the nearby Eighth Route Army station and threaten the Eighth Route Army to compensate them for food. The three middle-aged men unexpectedly
Refused.
"Lao Zhang, didn't you ask us to besiege the Eighth Route Army at that time, saying that the Eighth Route Army would definitely compensate us with food? Why didn't you go again?" asked an older man in the village.
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