After the recruitment order was issued, in less than five days, all the more than 8,000 people missing from the main force and local troops were recruited!
The speed was so fast that Li Hao, the group leader, even doubted whether he had heard it wrong!
Then he looked at Hong Linfeng and asked with a dumbfounded expression!
"How could it be so fast? The consciousness of the people in the three counties is already so high. They all want to join the Eighth Route Army to fight the Japanese and protect their homeland!"
Hong Linfeng smiled bitterly and replied: "Captain, it would be great if everyone really had such a high level of consciousness!"
"I don't know about the other recruits. I know about the special agent battalion, the independent battalion, and the recruits sent back by one battalion!"
"They joined our Eighth Route Army. At least half of the recruits came for the settlement allowance we offered, which totaled a hundred kilograms of grain!"
"There are also some people who came to take revenge by joining our Eighth Route Army because their family members were killed by the Japs!"
Li Hao's face became solemn at that time, and he replied with a long sigh: "Now I finally understand what life is like a piece of grass!"
"The more chaotic the world is, the less valuable human life is!"
"I sold my life for a hundred kilograms of grain. I didn't expect the people to suffer to this extent!"
Hong Linfeng replied with a stern face: "It is indeed very bitter, and it has even reached the point where I can't live anymore. I sold my life to our garrison for a hundred kilograms of grain!"
"Many new recruits only have one sentence when they decide to join us: One hundred kilograms of food will be delivered to their homes. Their lives belong to our Eighth Route Army. Even if we let them die, they will not frown!"
"I asked, these recruits are all out of food at home, and the 100 kilograms of food we gave them are used to save their lives!"
"One hundred kilograms of grain, plus what can be exchanged from us for reclamation and canal construction, is enough for their family to last until the autumn harvest!"
"If we didn't have these 100 kilograms of food, someone in our family would definitely starve to death!"
Li Hao suddenly said: "Chief of Staff, go back and tell those new recruits that their lives are still their own and they were not sold to our Eighth Route Army!"
"I want them to live well, practice hard at killing enemies, and kill more Japanese while protecting themselves!"
"Also, tell our political cadres that we must do more ideological work for them: tell them that joining the Eighth Route Army is not just for the settlement allowance of one hundred kilograms of grain. Our real purpose is to defeat the little devils, protect the base area, and let people
May your family and fellow villagers in the base live a good life!"
Hong Linfeng immediately promised: "Don't worry, leader, I will explain it to you!"
"The political cadres in the new barracks are the best in the entire regiment. They will definitely be able to do a good job in their ideological work and fully integrate into our Eighth Route Army!"
Li Hao nodded and continued to order: "Since each battalion has recruited all its troops, let them immediately replenish their troops and start training!"
"Starting from tomorrow, the two of us will work separately, one battalion at a time to supervise and inspect!"
"I don't care about the local troops for the time being, but the main force must compress three months of recruit training into two months!"
There is only one way to compress training time while ensuring training quality: further increase the daily training volume and training time!
And there is only one way to ensure that the soldiers have enough physical strength to support such high-intensity training without being exhausted!
Eat enough, and eat well, and make sure you have enough oil and water!
The political commissar sitting next to him frowned at that moment!
As the logistics manager of the garrison, no one knows better than him how much grain, vegetables, and pork each soldier of the garrison eats in a day!
Li Hao shortened the training time by one-third, which means that the daily training volume and training time of the soldiers have to increase by one-third. It also means that the food, vegetables, and pork that the soldiers have to eat every day are at least
To increase by one third!
The most lacking thing in the base area now is food. There are more than 10,000 people, and they eat one-third more food every day. For me, a logistics manager, the pressure is unprecedented!
Thinking of this, Wang Hong immediately stood up and retorted: "Captain, I don't agree with compressing training time!"
"You don't know how expensive vegetables, rice, oil and salt are!"
"By reducing the training time and increasing the amount of training, the troops' daily food consumption will definitely increase greatly!"
"Commander, please don't underestimate the increased consumption of the troops. In order to ensure combat effectiveness, the soldiers eat the food, vegetables, and pork every day. If it were replaced by ordinary people, three people would not be able to finish it!"
"Even if the consumption is only increased by one-third, it means that the army will directly take away the rations of 10,000 people!"
"The three main battalions seized a total of 2.3 million jins of grain, plus the 1 million jins left by Lingqiu, the total is 3.2 million jins!"
"In my original plan, this food was enough to support the military and civilians in the base area for three months!"
“But the form can’t keep up with the changes!”
"The demand for food in the base area is greater than I thought. If the food consumption of the troops also increases, the food can last for two months at most!"
"If there are no new sources of food by then, we will have no choice but to use our food reserves!"
Li Hao had already guessed that the political commissar would ask such a question, and answered confidently: "Don't worry, political commissar, I have already thought of a way to solve the problem of food shortage in the base area!"
"Don't worry. In two months, I will deliver the food you need to the base area!"
"You are responsible for the base area, I don't care how the food is distributed!"
"But the army must have sufficient food supply!"
"We will give the troops as much as they need! There will also be pork and vegetables. If there is not enough, we will transfer it directly from the pig farm. The amount required will be directly deducted from our share next month!"
"There is still ammunition. The arsenal has recently reloaded a lot of ammunition. Deputy Commander Luo, please arrange it. Each main battalion will send 50,000 rounds of reloaded ammunition for special training!"
"If a new recruit wants to train like a Japanese soldier and dare to fight a Japanese soldier with a bayonet on the battlefield, even if it's two to one, he can't do it without more than a year of training!"
"But we can find another way and find some shortcuts!"
"The little Japanese are very good at bayonet fighting, and bayonet fighting is the most difficult thing for the troops to practice, so we should try our best to avoid bayonet fighting with the little Japanese!"
"The way I thought of was to compete with the Japanese in marksmanship!"
"As long as you have enough bullets and practice vigorously, the new recruits will be able to master marksmanship in a very short time, and maybe even a lot of sharpshooters will be trained!"
"On the battlefield, even if one-on-one can't beat the little devil, let's do it two-on-one!"
Wang Hong was not a fool. He immediately smelled a hint of war in these words and stared at Li Hao closely and asked!
"Captain, is there going to be a war? Otherwise, why would you be so anxious?"
"Not only has the training time for new recruits been shortened by one-third, but their marksmanship training has also been specially strengthened. This is obviously a rush to get them onto the battlefield!"
"Captain, if there is any unexpected situation, you must not hide it! There are too many new recruits in the army. They are not prisoners or absentees. They have zero basic skills in fighting Japanese soldiers. They have to be trained from scratch!"
"Drawing them into the battlefield rashly is no different from sending them to death!"
Li Hao admired the political commissar very much. His vision was so vicious that he analyzed in just a few words that the army would go to war in two months!
However, Li Hao does not intend to say it now!
The battle plan that is taking shape in my mind is too big, and I must not reveal any of it until the last step!
In order to reassure the two partners, he shook his head and said in denial: "Political commissar, you think too much!"
"I made this decision because I was worried that the Japanese would launch a new round of raids on us!"
"No one knows when the Japanese will come over. The earlier the troops can form combat effectiveness, the more confident we will be in holding the base!"