Seeing that Wang Hong's face didn't look much better, Li Hao continued: "Instructor, in addition to being prepared for emergencies, these sweet potatoes have other uses!"
"No one likes to eat sweet potatoes, but we can use them to feed pigs and chickens!"
"It can even be processed into more valuable by-products and sold to the people to earn money for the army!"
Having said this, Li Hao had a very bold idea in his mind.
It is obvious to all that the price of agricultural products in later generations is low, but once food is processed into by-products, the price will rise steadily. Not only will it make money, but it will also provide a large number of jobs and increase people's income, killing two birds with one stone.
Seeing that Wang Hong was still confused, Li Hao became more and more excited as he talked, and immediately explained: "The price of miscellaneous grains is cheap. We can definitely give some fine grains to the people in exchange for more grains. The cheaper the grains, the better. They can be used to do things."
Pig farm, chicken farm!”
"In just a few months, the army will be self-sufficient in pork, chicken, and eggs!"
"If there are many of those things, we can drag them to the town and sell them!"
"Chicken and pork are not miscellaneous grains. They are expensive and have no market value. If you take them out, they can be exchanged for oceans!"
"I'm sure that if I use 100 yuan in exchange for grains to feed pigs and chickens, the chicken, pork, and eggs produced in the end can be sold for at least 200 yuan, and the profit will be doubled!"
"In addition, we can also set up factories to further process miscellaneous grains!"
"I don't know anything else, but you should know about sweet potato flour!"
Wang Hong immediately replied: "I know sweet potato flour!"
"Stew sweet potato noodles with pork and add some cabbage. Not only can it be eaten as a vegetable, but it can also fill your stomach. More importantly, it tastes very good. This is a good thing, but it is hard to buy!"
"The sweet potatoes in the hands of ordinary people are either eaten directly as rice, or replaced with other cereals. It takes very little effort to make sweet potato flour!"
"We can do it!" Li Hao said!
"And we can build a sweet potato flour factory to produce sweet potato flour on a large scale!"
"It can either supply our own troops or be sold in the market. I believe this will definitely be a very profitable business!"
"Of course, even if we can't sell it, we can make it into sweet potato flour and eat it ourselves!"
"Instructor, you just said that sweet potato starch tastes good and can be eaten as a meal or as a vegetable. If we eat sweet potato starch every other day, the troops will definitely save a lot of food throughout the year!"
"According to the current market price, one kilogram of fine grains can be exchanged for more than ten kilograms of sweet potatoes. Ten kilograms of sweet potatoes can be easily processed into four or five kilograms of sweet potato flour. Eating four to five kilograms of sweet potato flour will definitely fill your stomach and be more nutritious than eating one kilogram of fine grains!"
"I decided to build a pig farm and a chicken farm after the spring plowing is over!"
"If possible, build a small sweet potato flour factory first, and then expand the scale of the sweet potato flour factory after we harvest a large amount of sweet potatoes in the autumn!"
"When the scale of several factories becomes larger and larger, they will definitely bring us huge economic benefits!"
The training ground of the Hongquan Village Independent Camp is particularly lively today. More than a thousand people in the camp, except for the guard posts on duty, are all gathered here!
The first big competition since the establishment of the independent battalion officially started today.
Because the training period for the troops is very short, the content of the competition is very simple, including target practice, roadblocks, cross-country, bomb dropping, and assassination.
"Report to the battalion commander, the three main companies, the independent company, and the guard company are ready for cross-country travel!" Hong Linfeng, who had recovered, ran all the way to the rostrum and reported.
"Start!" Li Hao ordered decisively.
"Snapped……"
The signal bomb exploded in the air, and a thousand soldiers from five companies of the independent battalion were fully armed, either carrying rifles, light and heavy machine guns, and mortars, and rushed out of the starting line like wild horses.
The ten-kilometer fully armed cross-country training took at least an hour to end. After the five companies slowly disappeared from the training ground, Li Hao, who was holding a telescope, quickly withdrew his gaze and moved to the location of the artillery company.
There are three rows of six mountain guns, mounted on the ground in groups of two.
Boxes of artillery shells were piled nearby, and dozens of gunners, ammunition handlers, and mules and horses transporting shells and artillery stood nearby, waiting for orders.
"Snapped……"
As soon as the signal gun was fired, these people moved.
"Quick, the gunner is responsible for dismantling the artillery and leading the mules and horses over. As usual, a mountain cannon is divided into four parts and placed on the mules and horses!" the platoon leader stood aside and shouted.
"The ammunition squad seizes the time, loads all the ammunition onto the mules and horses, and prepares to advance forward!"
Ten gunners were responsible for a mountain cannon. Under the command of the squad leader, it took less than half a minute to dismantle a mountain cannon into four parts. Then they picked up the parts and hung them on their respective mule and horse racks. Finally, they reinforced them with ropes to ensure that the mules
Cannons and ammunition will no longer fall when horses are marching.
Within a minute and a half, the two artillery squads had four mules and horses each, and the ammunition squad had eight mules and horses, a total of sixteen mules and horses, all ready to go.
The gunner, the ammunition hand, and the mules and horses were guarding the side.
"Let's set off, set up an artillery position one kilometer ahead, target a fixed target two kilometers away, and hit the target in the shortest possible time!" the platoon leader ordered.
In less than ten minutes, the mountain artillery platoon arrived at the scheduled artillery position.
As soon as everyone stopped, the platoon leader gasped and ordered: "Set up the artillery immediately and aim at the target..."
"The ammunition squad prepares the shells and sets the fuses!"
"Boom boom..."
In less than two minutes, a dull explosion sounded in the position.
"It's about eighty meters off. Immediately adjust the shooting at Zhu Yuan, 0.5 degrees to the left, increase the distance by fifty meters, and fire..." the platoon leader ordered, holding up the telescope.
"Boom boom..."
The platoon leader shouted excitedly: "We hit, fire another shell, completely destroy the target, then retreat and return to the starting position!"
On the rostrum, Li Hao's serious face also showed a smile, and he happily replied: "The performance of the mountain artillery company is good!"
"Nearly 90% of Lingqiu is mountainous, which is very inconvenient for mountain artillery marches. This problem can be solved by dismantling the mountain artillery into parts and directly transporting it with mules and horses. No matter whether it is a highway or a mountain road, it cannot stop our mountain artillery company!"
Instructor Wang Hong said with emotion: "Battalion Commander, the mountain artillery company gave me such a surprise!"
"How long has it taken for the mountain artillery battery to be trained like this? Yuan Qingfeng is indeed an old artilleryman!"
"Captain Yuan is good!" Li Hao affirmed.
He hesitated and reminded: "But the mountain artillery battery has not yet reached the speed I want!"
"As far as I know, it only takes one minute for the Japanese army to complete the process from setting up artillery to locking on the target and then firing... The mountain artillery battery still needs one and a half minutes to move. The extra half minute may cost them their lives!"
"Therefore, the speed of artillery transfer needs to be strengthened, more summarization and training should be done, and the time can be compressed to one minute!"
"The shooting accuracy must also be improved!"
"In addition to the first platoon's test firing, the second round of firing hit the target, and the other two artillery platoons fired several rounds!"
"The Japanese have more artillery than we do and are more powerful. If we can't kill them preemptively and as quickly as possible and wait for them to fire back, we'll be doomed!"
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