Chapter 1045 The Japanese want to take advantage of the fire
Water shortage is the biggest problem caused by drought. If the water shortage problem is solved, the impact of this major drought on the base area will definitely be minimized.
Wang Hong's eyes immediately shifted to Li Hao and asked anxiously: "Captain, do you have a solution?"
Li Hao nodded and said in acquiescence: "The water from the well can be drank by people, and it can also be used to water the fields."
"I decided to concentrate all manpower and material resources to dig a large number of wells within the base area. It is best to locate these wells in low-lying areas of the fields, so that water can be released more easily."
"During spring plowing, one deep well is responsible for fifty acres of land."
"As long as we can ensure a good harvest for these fifty acres of land, that's nearly 10,000 kilograms of grain, which can keep dozens of people from starving to death within the next year."
"It's still the old rules. Our garrison group exports grain and organizes the villagers to dig wells to ensure that at least 30% of the land in the base area has well water for irrigation."
"After spring plowing begins, we will ensure that every household in the base area has a ration field to grow food."
"In new base areas like Laiyuan, in addition to digging a large number of deep wells through work-for-relief to ensure that water is available for grain fields, large-scale land reclamation is also required."
"The drought cannot continue forever. Once the wasteland is reclaimed, food can be grown immediately once the drought ends."
"Also, we can take advantage of this drought to dredge rivers."
"As far as I know, the silt in the river is good fertilizer. If the silt is cleaned out and used as fertilizer in the fields that will be cultivated this year, the food output of these fields will definitely increase."
"Due to the lack of water, there is less land that can be cultivated in the base area. We can only increase the harvest by increasing the yield per acre of land, and increasing land fertility is the most direct way."
The political commissar listened and took notes, his face becoming more and more shocked.
Although it is not clear where Li Hao knew these solutions, nor is it known whether these solutions are useful.
But my mind has become a mess, and I don’t have any clue, so I can only act like a dead horse.
As for whether it is useful in the end, you will only know if you try it.
Time passed day by day, and a large amount of food was shipped out from the regiment headquarters every day and sent to various places in the base area, especially Laiyuan, which had been out of food.
"Captain, something happened, the kid took action!" Hong Linfeng walked in hurriedly, with a solemn expression on his face.
"One of our grain transport teams heading to Laiyuan was attacked by Japanese spies on the way. By the time the reinforcements arrived on the battlefield, the two platoons of escort troops had been wiped out and the grain had been burned."
"A whole hundred thousand kilograms of grain, not a single grain left, were all burned to ashes."
"Boom..."
Li Hao punched the table in front of him, his anger suddenly emerged, and he cursed: "What does the intelligence department do?"
"Find these spies for me immediately and eat them. We can't let them continue to be a cholera base."
"We didn't have much food to begin with. If we suddenly lost 100,000 kilograms of food, the gap would become even bigger."
Hong Linfeng nodded and replied: "I have already issued the order. With the cooperation of the intelligence department and local troops, it will be no problem to eliminate this agent."
"What I'm worried about now is that the little devils are eyeing the food in our hands."
"In addition to the attack on the grain team, grain depots in several villages have been burned down in the past few days."
"Each grain depot lost a small amount of grain, only two to three thousand kilograms, but it added up to a lot."
"I did some statistics. As of now, the regiment headquarters has received reports that seven grain depots have been burned, with a loss of nearly 20,000 kilograms of grain."
"This was obviously a premeditated sneak attack."
"By burning grain, we will increase our food gap. After the base area is completely out of food, we will take the opportunity to mess up our base area and eliminate us."
Li Hao's brows were already twisted into the character "Sichuan".
The chief of staff's judgment was correct.
The Japanese are not fools and must have seen the problem of food shortage in the base area.
Seizing the opponent's vital points and unexpectedly delivering a fatal attack are the most common tactics used to attack the opponent on the battlefield.
It is normal for the Japanese to focus on the shortage of food in the base area and use this to attack the garrison.
It is certain that grain teams and granaries will be attacked for a long time to come.
It's not that Li Hao doesn't want to take care of it, but the base area is too big and the limited troops cannot defend it.
The Japanese took advantage of this opportunity to amplify the problem of food shortage in the base area, and finally reached the point where the garrison was unable to deal with it.
There will definitely be chaos in the base area by then.
They take advantage of the chaos and rush into the base area, and they will definitely inflict heavy damage on the garrison.
If the Japanese were more cunning and brought food into the base area, and distributed the food to the hungry people, they might be able to win some people's hearts...
The more he thought about it, the more solemn his face became.
After taking a deep breath, he replied: "To solve this problem, we must start from two directions at the same time."
"One is to stabilize the base, find those spies, kill them, and protect food security."
"One is to increase food reserves and find ways to buy more food."
"With food in hand, we will not panic when encountering problems, the villagers will not be in chaos, and the little devils will have no opportunities to take advantage of them.
Hong Linfeng immediately called for battle: "Captain, leave the task of catching the spies to me."
"I'm worried that I don't have a target to train the troops so that the new recruits can adapt to the battlefield as soon as possible."
"Since these spies have come to our doorstep by themselves, we can use them to train soldiers. This will kill two birds with one stone."
"Okay!" Li Hao affirmed.
"I will notify the political commissar and ask the intelligence department, security department, and local guerrillas to fully cooperate with your actions."
"Food is so important to us, we must protect it at all costs."
"Don't worry, commander, I promise to complete the mission!" After saying that, the chief of staff planned to leave here to formulate a combat plan.
As soon as his front foot moved, Li Hao shouted with his back foot: "Wait a minute."
"Passive defense is not the combat style of our garrison."
"In addition to passive defense, finding these agents and killing them, we also need to take the initiative."
"The little devils can sneak attack on our grain transport teams and grain depots, and we can also sneak attack on their strongholds to retaliate in kind."
"The main force stayed in the base area to find spies and protect food. Deploy several main companies to cooperate with the commandos, cross the Japanese and puppet blockades, enter their hinterland to fight, establish strongholds, ambush the transport troops, attack traitors, and disrupt the areas they occupied.
We can also steal food from the Japanese and puppet troops and use it for our own use, reducing the logistical pressure on the base area."
Hong Linfeng's eyes lit up and he replied: "It's a good idea to let the little Japanese have a taste of being attacked by surprise. Commander, I will make a battle plan now and send the troops out as soon as possible."
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