After receiving the order from the garrison regiment's special agent company, instructor Tang Shucheng rushed to the regiment headquarters in person to learn how to breed earthworms.
After I came back, I built twenty earthworm breeding boxes at one time. The main combat troops, artillery troops, heavy machine gun troops, and even security classes and cooking classes were responsible for one breeding box.
Take advantage of the training break to breed earthworms.
Tang Shucheng is an old man in the garrison, and he has long been accustomed to the various bizarre ideas of the regiment leader.
However, he has always had unconditional trust in the leader's decision.
The group leader said that raising earthworms is useful, and when the time comes, they can be exchanged for eggs and chicken from the group headquarters, so that will definitely work.
Company Commander Dong Chenggong is different. He is the cadre Li Hao asked Commander Chen to come over.
Although I have no doubt about the commander's commanding ability, I admire him from the bottom of my heart.
But he disagreed with the decision to let the troops breed earthworms from the bottom of his heart. As for exchanging earthworms for eggs and chicken, in his eyes, this was simply a fantasy and impossible.
Everyone knows what earthworms are, and no one wants them even if they are not sold or given away. How is it possible to exchange them for precious eggs and chickens?
So Dong Chenggong directly regarded earthworm breeding as a side job.
Due to the regiment's order, although I didn't object in words, I didn't believe it at all.
Three months passed quickly, and the first batch of earthworms bred in the twenty breeding boxes were almost mature.
Because there are so many, the number of breeding boxes for each infantry squad in the secret agent company has been increased from one at the beginning to three now.
Instructor Tang Shucheng was particularly excited.
He personally checked the breeding boxes of the guard class and kept the earthworms that had not grown up. Each breeding box could still produce more than half a catty of earthworms.
There are sixty boxes of earthworms in the whole company, which adds up to thirty kilograms.
More importantly, as the scale of breeding becomes larger and larger, after this batch of earthworms are harvested, the remaining earthworms that have not grown up can be harvested every ten days. Although the yield is not as high as the first time, one or twenty
The pounds will definitely be indispensable.
In this way, the secret service company can continuously exchange eggs and chicken from the regiment headquarters to replenish the bodies of the soldiers.
"Instructor, all the earthworms harvested by each class have been sent over. There are more earthworms than we imagined, almost forty pounds." The company secretary reported.
The smile on Tang Shucheng's face grew wider. He looked at the company commander beside him who had an unchanged expression and said, "Old Dong, I know that you don't agree with the regiment's order asking us to breed earthworms."
"Today I will make you convinced that you have lost, and let you know that the leader can do what he says no matter what."
"Now the regiment headquarters only supplies us with eggs every ten days, and each soldier can only get half of them, which is too little."
"I decided to replace all these earthworms with eggs so that the soldiers can eat half of them every two days."
"If we harvest more earthworms in the future, we will try to get each soldier to eat half a day."
Seeing how confident Tang Shucheng was, company commander Dong Chenggong also hesitated and began to doubt his initial judgment.
But when he thought of the sticky earthworms in the wooden barrel at the door, this hesitation was replaced by determination, and he insisted on his previous judgment.
Earthworms are so dirty and inedible. I don’t want them as gifts for myself. How can I get precious eggs in exchange for them?
The secret service company is very close to the regimental headquarters, and it only takes three hours to go there and back.
What surprised company commander Dong Chenggong was that the instructor actually replaced the eggs.
A total of thirty-eight pounds of eggs were placed in two wooden barrels to prevent them from being broken.
Dong Chenggong's eyes widened, and he shouted in disbelief: "Instructor, can earthworms really be exchanged for eggs?"
"Of course, if the leader says you can change it, you can!" Tang Shucheng replied with certainty.
"You don't know, the regimental security company sent over eighty kilograms of earthworms, not only twenty kilograms of eggs, but also twenty kilograms of roosters. When I came back, they were killing the chickens and preparing to stew chicken for dinner in the evening. It was obvious
I’m extremely jealous.”
"But we are not bad either. With these eggs, I can guarantee that the soldiers can eat half of them every two days."
Although a fishing and hunting team has been set up in the camp, in order to reduce food consumption, a lot of fish and meat are distributed every day. Because there is no oil and water, these things are not very delicious after being made. Their only function is to satisfy themselves and give the soldiers enough food.
It's good for physical strength and nutritious, but it will make you tired if you eat too much. It's not as good as eggs and chicken.
After a brief shock, Dong Chenggong also became jealous and ordered on the spot: "We will also increase the scale of earthworm breeding."
"The order continues. Without affecting training, the number of earthworm breeding boxes in each infantry squad will be increased to five."
As time passes, the garrison base is getting better and better day by day.
The expanded supply company, supply battalion, newly formed recruit company and recruit battalion, because the recruits are all from the Jinsui Army and the puppet army, they have the old foundation, and they will quickly form combat effectiveness.
In order to let them adapt to the fighting style of the garrison as soon as possible, Li Hao thought of a way.
The recruit companies and baggage companies were all broken up in squad units, and temporarily replenished to the main force, and trained together with the main force.
When there is a mission, go back to the recruit company and the baggage company.
Once there is a battle in the future, people need to be drawn from the new army to supplement the main force. They can fight when they are inserted, and even the step of running in is omitted.
While the garrison was trying every means to solve the food crisis and economic crisis in the base area and increase its combat potential, the Japanese were not idle either.
The Datong garrison was re-increased into an independent mixed brigade, with a total strength of more than 5,000 troops.
The Taiyuan Military Headquarters also transferred two newly-recruited main brigades of the Imperial Association Army from other places in Shanxi to station in Datong, increasing the number of the original Imperial Army Association troops in Datong, with a total force of more than 6,000, further increasing the strength of the Datong garrison.
The number of Japanese and puppet troops around the garrison base has also increased from less than 10,000 more than two months ago to 20,000.
With more troops, the Japanese army not only increased the number of troops at each checkpoint, but also set up inspection stations on many small roads to interrogate the passing people and prevent a grain of food, a grain of salt, or a grain of medicine from flowing into the base area.
The special high school class, which had been quiet for more than a month, began to become restless, moving around to explore the true strength of the defense group.
The only thing that made Li Hao fortunate was that the food channels in Yixian County were not cut off.
Under the cover of the maintenance committee, Wang Xin, who sneaked into Yixian County, set up five guerrilla groups in just one month.
On the surface, he worked for the Japanese and puppet troops, supervised the people, secretly protected the grain transport team, and developed secret anti-Japanese armed forces in the villages controlled by the maintenance committee.
In the Taiyuan Japanese Army Headquarters, the commander's expression has been obviously more serious these days than before.
As long as nothing serious happens at the headquarters, just lock yourself in the room.
The chief of staff knew that he was studying new tactics to encircle and suppress the garrison, so he didn't bother him unless there was something important.
"Bang..." With a sound, the door of the Army Commander's office was pushed open, and then he saw the Army Commander walking out with a tired face, but a pair of eyes that were particularly hot and shining.
"Sir, have you prepared the battle plan for attacking the garrison?" the chief of staff asked with anticipation.
The garrison was a serious threat to the Japanese army in Shanxi. No one wanted to kill them, including the chief of staff.
"Not bad!" the division commander affirmed.
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