"Commander, the Logistics Department has made statistics and found that all the food we seized during this attack, combined, is enough to last until the autumn harvest. This is because the Second Battalion has not returned to the establishment and the troops are not at full strength!" Zhong Chenggong frowned.
introduced.
"Once the troops are fully established and the second battalion is restored, the total strength of the entire regiment will reach 3,000."
"Without fighting, each soldier needs one and a half kilograms of grain, which adds up to nearly 150,000 kilograms in a month. In the continuous battle just ended, food consumption will increase greatly, which means that we
After the autumn harvest, nearly two million kilograms of grain must be stored to meet the needs of the troops for one year!"
"However, according to statistics, the total population of the two towns we control now is only more than 60,000. After the autumn harvest, even a grain of grain will not be taken away by the devils. We can only collect 800,000 kilograms of public grain at most. Even the total
Less than half of that!”
"Our standard for apportioning public grain is too low. For the people who only have ration fields, it is less than 5%. As for the original government troops and little devils, the share of public grain is often 30%, or even 100%.
It’s available to everyone in their fifties!”
"But even so, I guess we will be lucky if the final amount of public grain that falls into our hands is four to five hundred thousand kilograms!"
"After all, the Japanese are not vegetarians. They will definitely not watch the food fall into our hands. After the autumn harvest, they will definitely send troops into our base area to carry out armed food grabbing. By then, the base area will definitely lose a lot of food!"
Wang Ping frowned and remained silent. He waited until Zhong Chenggong finished speaking before the expression on his face showed any fluctuation.
"It seems that we have harvested a lot of fertile land by annihilating the remnants of the Japanese and puppet troops in the base area. Although we promised to distribute this land to the landless people for free, the food still belongs to us!"
"If I remember correctly, the two towns have a total of more than 16,000 acres of land. Even if the average yield per mu is only 100 catties, the total total is more than 1.6 million catties. Including public grain, it is enough for us for a year.
consumption!”
Zhong Chenggong replied with a wry smile: "Captain, you only calculated the total output, not the portion distributed to tenants."
"According to the agreement, those tenant farmers will take away almost 50% of the grain. The final amount of grain that will fall into our hands will definitely be less than 800,000 jins. Added together, it is only 15.6 million jins, leaving a shortfall of 400,000 jins.
Five hundred thousand catties!”
"Also, this is still a year of good weather and no reduction in production. If there is a drought in the future and production is reduced, we will definitely receive less public grain. Therefore, in order to prevent accidents, the best way is to take advantage of this year's bumper harvest and stock up on more grain.
.But now we can’t even get enough food for the next year, let alone hoard more food?”
A word that wakes up the dreamer!
Wang Ping suddenly thought that starting next year, the entire North China will experience a severe drought that will last for three years.
During these three days, due to the reduction in food production and the blockade by the Japanese and puppet troops, almost all the base areas controlled by the Eighth Route Army fell into the most difficult period. In the end, they had to implement a series of measures such as better troops and simpler administration and self-sufficiency to overcome this difficulty.
At that moment, a very bold idea came to Wang Ping's mind.
Immediately report your foresight to the Eighth Route Army headquarters, and now begin to prepare for the next three years of severe drought, minimizing the Eighth Route Army's losses as much as possible.
However, this idea was rejected by me as soon as it came up.
Although I know the deputy commander-in-chief, if I suddenly tell him such a big thing, and it has never happened before, the other party will definitely treat me as a lunatic, and even arrest me, saying that I may disturb the morale of the army.
After much deliberation, Wang Ping decided to hide this idea in his heart.
However, I was unwilling to do anything and watch the drought happen, causing unprecedented losses to the Eighth Route Army and the people in the base area.
After some painful hesitation and decision-making, Wang Ping decided to do his best to reduce the losses of the Eighth Route Army as much as possible.
Seeing the constant changes in Wang Ping's expression, Zhong Chenggong thought something had happened to Wang Ping and immediately asked: "Captain, did you think of something?"
Wang Ping no longer hesitated and decided directly: "Chief of Staff, you just said that we need to take advantage of this autumn harvest to collect at least two million kilograms of grain to meet our needs for the next year. Now I tell you, two million kilograms
It’s too little, we need to collect at least 10 million catties, or more.”
"Impossible!" Zhong Chenggong denied without thinking about it.
"Even if the entire Linfen is our base area, all the public grain collected will be less than three million kilograms of grain. Unless we forcibly collect grain from the people according to the proportion of the grain distributed by the Japanese, it will be impossible to collect ten million kilograms.
!”
Wang Ping was unmoved and continued: "Ten million jins is my minimum requirement, and 20 million jins is my goal. In the next six months, our new regiment's task is to collect grains. We can't collect the public grains.
, we will buy it, and if we can’t buy it, we will snatch it from the devils!”
"Why, Captain!" Zhong Chenggong asked with a frown.
"We only have three thousand people. Even if we can eat close by, 10 million kilograms of food will be enough for us for four to five years. Moreover, even if we get so much food, there will be no place to store it!"
Wang Ping did not explain and continued to insist: "There is no reason. Ten million kilograms of grain is my minimum requirement. Not a kilogram less!"
"Also, what you just said reminded me that even if we gather so much food, we still don't have a granary. There are still more than half a month before the autumn harvest, and we seem to have many prisoners in our hands. Let the guards take them away
Go deep into the mountains, dig caves in a few more secluded places, and use them as our grain depot to hoard food!"
"Let the engineer platoon also cooperate with the past. They know where to dig caves and where it is dry so that the stored food will not rot!"
"The most important thing is that the grain depot must be hidden!"
Wang Ping's firmness made the chief of staff, who was still ready to continue persuading him, shut his mouth obediently.
Then he hesitated and asked: "I will make arrangements for digging holes and repairing the grain depot in a moment. But, leader, ten million kilograms of grain is not a small amount. We can't increase the burden on the people. How can we get it together?"
, you must explain everything to me, otherwise I won’t worry!”
"Go in three steps!" Wang Ping answered directly.
"The first step is public rations. The logistics department can be responsible for this!"
"The second step is to buy. This year's grain harvest will be bumper, and grain prices are definitely not high. Those landlords and gentry must have hoarded a lot of grain. We buy directly from them with real money and silver, and we can buy as much as we have. We can also go through grain merchants.
, buy food from surrounding areas. If possible, you can also buy military food from the Shanxi-Sui Army or even the government army. As for the money problem, I will solve it, and this will also be left to the logistics department!"
"The third step is to snatch it from the hands of the Japanese!"
"There are more than 10,000 puppet troops in Linfen, and they need to consume a lot of food every day, and this food is the target of our robbery!"
"There is also the Tongpu Railway, which is a fat and oily railway. In the past, our New Regiment had no strength and could not move. But it is different now. If we can't get food by guarding such a railway, then we will be in vain.
It occupies such a good position!”
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