As for the war, for the Eighth Route Army, everywhere is a battlefield now, but it is not suitable for the Japanese. Some places are activity areas that they fought bloody battles to defeat, but such activity areas have become new battlefields. All this
None of it seems like a logical battlefield. The occupied area has become a new battlefield. With continuous occupation, new battlefields are constantly being opened.
This is something that Japan has not taught in military academies, and it is also a problem that is very difficult for the military to solve. In the future, the two major powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, will not be able to win the security war by relying on effective methods, but the security war was finally called the anti-terrorism war.
However, the Kuomintang is very vague about this concept. It only talks about military affairs and not strategy. It just wants to ensure that its military role does not decline, at the expense of the long-term interests of the country. For example, the explosion of the Yellow River dam in 1938 was still propaganda at the time.
bombed by the Japanese.
The Huayuankou Incident only delayed the Japanese for three months, but the losses caused by the flood to the people far exceeded the losses caused by the Japanese. Four to five thousand villages were destroyed, a large town was flooded, and 2 million people
People are homeless. The whole city of Changsha is also a tragedy caused by the Kuomintang's scorched-earth war of resistance.
But for the Eighth Route Army, these are just written descriptions. They have already taken in more than 30,000 victims and settled them in their base areas. At this time, China was still a vast country with a sparse population.
Needless to say, later generations have never experienced the feeling of a vast land and sparsely populated areas.
"Are you ready for the spring plowing? The repair shop has been working on it all winter, and there are quite a lot of farm tools piled up in the warehouse. Why haven't they been distributed yet?"
Spring plowing is actually quite a troublesome thing. Although today’s farming depends on the weather, and the harvest depends on the weather. But if we don’t make preparations now, it’s hard to say whether all the subsequent work can continue. The troops need tools.
, farmers also need new farm tools. Now is the Republic of China. Can you imagine that farmers still use wooden farm tools to go to the fields?
There are many village chiefs here in Hancheng. The village chiefs are responsible for all the affairs of the village. Now all they have is one farm tool for a new one. Those who don't have farm tools owe the repair shop first, and they can just pay back with food when the time comes.
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"Our village is still short of 20 hoes. In addition, everyone wants to use our plowing tools. After all, they are very fast."
"We have to agree, this thing is not for nothing, you have to spend money, this thing can take over all the land in your village in a few days. Of course, our price is still very reasonable
, 2 measures of grain per acre.”
At first, these village chiefs were a little unhappy when they heard that they had to spend money, but when they heard about two buckets of grain, they thought it was quite appropriate. Two buckets of grain can open an acre of land. If it is cultivated by manpower, it will be difficult.
It's not something that can end in one day.
"We have agreed, this is the price!"
What is there to say about this? After all, food cannot be exchanged for gasoline. Fortunately, there is still a lot of seized gasoline in the warehouse, otherwise there would be no hope of being able to cultivate land for the villages. The efficiency of the large machines brings more than just
They were shocked and surprised, it was the first time they saw the land could be like this.
Two buckets of grain is actually much more cost-effective than borrowing cattle. To borrow cattle, you need to prepare not only grain, but also fodder to feed the cattle. Borrowing other people's things can't be done badly, or it can't be done well.
What if I don’t want to borrow it next year? Not only do I have to give the owner food, two buckets is considered a small amount, but the fodder for the cattle is even better. In addition, I have to get some soybeans, black beans, etc. to supplement the cattle.
At that time, cows ate much better than humans.
Logically speaking, winter is not a good time for reclamation. The soil is frozen hard, but this is not a problem for mechanical equipment. The locust eggs and grass seeds in the land have been dug out. Next spring, the soil here will be
There will be fewer locusts, but the number will be limited.
Spring plowing is now the top priority of the army's production. This is actually the first time for a combat army to engage in large-scale production. The land has been plowed very soft. When the right season comes, you can plant whatever you need.
All the seeds have been prepared, and they were all done before the Fifth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the Kuomintang began.
People now feel that the battle line has been basically stabilized and they can free up their hands to deal with the Communist Party. Now there is basically nothing useful that can be obtained from the nanny Hu Zongnan. People have also stopped selling rice and flour, and now the price of food is faster than
Before the introduction of legal tender, one dollar could no longer buy the same grain as the original dollar.
"The supplies agreed by the Kuomintang this time are half less than last time. Do you think I'm right? They don't have that. We treat us as human beings. We are just tools."
If it were placed on other warlords, once the food and ammunition were grasped, they would basically have no choice but to obey the command of the Kuomintang. Those miscellaneous troops who were not led by the Kuomintang central government risked their lives to fight, but all they got was insufficient
The food, ammunition, and military pay could only be withheld.
Han Cheng was now holding the ammunition supplies and food supplies copied from the brigade commander. He was basically furious. If he hadn't exchanged fine grains for coarse grains before, it would have been impossible to support so many troops.
Do you know? Just relying on the food from the land acquisition can barely feed the rear agencies, but a large number of combat troops on the front line will go hungry.
"How about the brigade commander can show you this account book? We are all rough people, and we will have to look at you, an intellectual, to provide us with food and clothing."
Several regiment commanders now seem to regard Hancheng as logistics. If they didn't need to go through the brigade commander to get supplies from here, they might have started to rob them openly.
"Didn't I get nearly a thousand acres of land for each of your troops to farm? Didn't the victims also reclaim some of the land? As long as you keep these things safe for me, there will basically be no problem with food and drink.
Worried."
After all, the base area still has too few people and is vast and sparsely populated. It is difficult to support an army of thousands of people just by relying on the support of a few villages around the army. Therefore, we must not only protect the villagers, but also reclaim the land for planting.
Han Cheng simply did a calculation for them. Fortunately, the size of the current army has not reached the level of the later period, and the regiment does not have the size of eight battalions. Basically, each regiment has no more than 2,000 people.
Yes, the existing scale of cultivated land can basically meet their needs. As long as they can grow everything they can eat, they will basically not be able to starve.
This cake must be drawn well, otherwise, these group leaders will have opinions. In addition, they are all related. In fact, the news from Yan'an also mentioned production more or less. All
The superiors had to ventilate the things in advance. The people below naturally knew what was going on. Since the superiors planned to do this, let's do it.