The chief of staff's action speed is no slower than Li Hao's, and he produces results faster.
Early the next morning, the fishing and hunting team, wild vegetable team, and purchasing team set out yesterday afternoon.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the wild vegetable team was the first to come back. Everyone carried a large bag of wild vegetables on their backs, some of which could be used as staple food and some as vegetables.
After another half hour, the fishing team came back.
The fishing team of more than 20 people directly brought back more than 100 kilograms of fish.
You know, Hong Linfeng sent out five such fishing teams.
"Captain, it's done!"
Hong Linfeng walked into the war room carrying a steaming pot of stewed fish with wild vegetables and said with excitement on his face.
After putting the basin on the table, he pointed at the big carp inside and introduced: "This was brought back by the fishing team during the day. I made statistics and found that each company could get nearly fifty kilograms of fish, and the group got one."
I asked the cooking team to chop the big carp weighing five kilograms into pieces and stew it in a pot with wild vegetables."
Looking at the large bowl full of stewed fish with wild vegetables, Li Hao was sure that everyone in the regiment could get a big bowl.
Li Hao didn't know that if he had such a big bowl of fish stewed with wild vegetables, he would definitely eat at least one big steamed bun less.
Hong Linfeng continued to report: "The hunting team only brought back a few pheasants today, and I had them sent to the field hospital."
"But they have laid a lot of traps on the mountain, and tomorrow will be the time to really harvest."
"The leader of the hunting team sent out by the regiment told me that there are a lot of prey in the mountains. I conservatively estimate that I can harvest at least 100 kilograms tomorrow."
"The captain of the fishing team also told me that today because of insufficient preparation, we only caught more than 100 kilograms of fish."
"Tonight they will work all night to make fishing tools, and they will be able to harvest at least 200 kilograms of fish tomorrow."
"I have told the cooking team that if there is a lot of prey and fish brought back by the fishing and hunting team, all of them will be salted and dried into dried meat. They will be eaten later when the fishing and hunting team's harvest becomes less!"
"I agree!" Li Hao nodded and replied.
Then he stared at Hong Linfeng and continued to ask: "Is there any movement from the purchasing team?"
"The prey and fish catch can only save one or two thousand kilograms of food, and the rest of the food gap depends on them."
Hong Linfeng thought for a moment and replied: "They set off yesterday afternoon and passed through the first blockade of the Japanese and puppet troops last night. They should have entered the area occupied by the Japs by now."
"The commando team brought a radio. If nothing unexpected happens, news will come back tonight."
As soon as Hong Linfeng finished speaking, communications platoon leader Zhou Liang hurried in.
"Regiment commander, chief of staff, captain Xiao telegram."
"The procurement team and the commando team successfully crossed the Japanese blockade and have joined the underground party in the occupied areas to assist them." After reading the first few dozen words of the telegram, Hong Linfeng couldn't help but report, with a smile on his face.
Crossing the Japanese blockade is the first step in the entire procurement plan.
Now that the underground party in the occupied areas is cooperating with us, the procurement team's chances of winning will definitely increase greatly.
But the smile only lasted for five seconds before disappearing on Hong Linfeng's face. The more he read the content behind the telegram, the more serious his face became. Finally, he changed the topic and continued to report.
"However, the situation in the areas occupied by the Japanese is worse than we imagined."
"The ongoing drought has led to food shortages across North China."
"The little devils not only exploited the people and plundered their wealth through the soaring food prices, but also took the opportunity to control almost all food sales channels in the occupied areas."
"An attempt was made to prevent the development of anti-Japanese armed forces in the occupied territories by controlling food."
"In order to prevent food from flowing into the hands of our Eighth Route Army and starving us to death, the Japs implemented a very strict food purchase policy in the occupied areas."
"In the county town, if people want to buy food, they must get a voucher issued by the maintenance association."
"It says how many people are in the family. Based on the population, you can only buy ten days of rations at a time."
"No matter how much you have, you won't sell it if you have money, and the Japanese and puppet troops will label you as a secret liaison with our Eighth Route Army."
"So it's very difficult for the purchasing team to purchase a sufficient amount of grain through normal channels."
Li Hao's face became more and more serious.
Replacing food with meat would only allow the garrison to expand by a few hundred people.
In a large-scale battle like the attack on Datong City, hundreds of people would not even make a splash if thrown in, and the effect would be very limited.
Therefore, this number of people is far from meeting Li Hao's requirements.
In his plan, for this expansion, the main strength of the regiment would be increased by at least 1,500 people, which meant that the regiment still had a food shortage of 700 to 800 people.
These gaps can only be solved by procurement teams in enemy-occupied areas.
He raised his eyebrows and ordered: "If you can't buy it through normal channels, buy it through abnormal channels."
"Reply a telegram to Commando Xiao Yuan: I will give him the power to act expediently."
"As long as he does not violate discipline, I allow him to use various means and at all costs to assist the procurement team in returning at least two thousand kilograms of grain to the base area every day."
Hong Linfeng couldn't think of any other way, so he could only nod and answer: "I will send a telegram back to Xiao Yuan now."
The chief of staff came back ten minutes later, holding Xiao Yuan's call back.
"Captain, Commando Xiao Yuan called back: Guaranteed to complete the mission."
The serious expression on Li Hao's face suddenly relaxed, and then he replied: "That's no problem."
"He has navigated such complicated environments as Chongqing and Nanjing, so this problem will certainly not be difficult for him."
Hong Linfeng nodded and asked: "Captain, the harvest of the fishing and hunting team and the wild vegetable team is very good. Judging from the feedback from the regiment headquarters: by replacing food with meat and wild vegetables, the whole team can save at least two thousand kilograms of food a day."
"Add the more than two thousand kilograms that the purchasing team sends back every day, that's more than four thousand kilograms, which is enough to feed 1,500 people. Are you going to add another 1,500 people to the main force of the regiment, Commander?"
Li Hao sighed and replied: "Fifteen hundred people are missing."
"Our next target is Datong City. We will definitely not be able to win it by relying on opportunism. We often need to go head-to-head with the Japanese, which consumes a huge amount of troops."
"So we must prepare a sufficient number of troops and be prepared to suffer heavy casualties."
"My goal is to increase the main force of the regiment by another two thousand people."
"Hiss, hiss..."
Hong Linfeng took a breath and shouted: "Two thousand people? This is too exaggerated! Commander, do you plan to form two more battalions?"
Li Hao shook his head and replied: "It's not necessary, and there aren't that many cadres in the regiment for us to form a new unit."
"To put it bluntly, we don't have time to start training new troops from scratch."
"What should we do?" Hong Linfeng asked in confusion.
"It's impossible to expand each main battalion to more than a thousand people, and each main company to three hundred people!"
"I have never heard of a main company with more than 300 people."
"It's not that exaggerated!" Li Hao thought for a moment and replied.
"My opinion for this expansion is that the strength, equipment, and heavy firepower configuration of each main company will remain unchanged."
"The most direct benefit of this is that the combat effectiveness of each main company will not be affected."
Hong Linfeng became even more puzzled and continued to ask.
"Then where do you plan to arrange the two thousand-man regiment leaders?"
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