The troops are still training and have not yet formed combat effectiveness. The battle plan formed in their minds must not be advanced!
This means that the base area must survive the next month and a half!
But according to the political commissar, the remaining food in the regiment would not last even half a month, let alone one and a half months!
At this time, Li Hao also had the idea of using the garrison to reserve food!
But he quickly rejected it!
That food is reserved for future life-saving use. The situation the army will face in the next few years will definitely be worse than this, so it must not be used unless absolutely necessary!
Hong Linfeng suddenly said: "Commander, why don't we reduce the rations of the troops and replace some of the fine grains with coarse grains? Every pound we can save is a pound!"
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Li Hao rejected it without hesitation!
"If the soldiers don't have enough to eat, they won't have the physical strength to train, and the time for the troops to develop combat effectiveness will be pushed back!"
"The most important task of the base area now is to form the main force into combat effectiveness and shoulder the responsibility of protecting the base area. We must not lose the big for the small! Otherwise, everything we have now may be in vain, and the base may be taken away by the Japanese again!"
After saying this, Li Hao suddenly had an idea in his mind and seemed to have thought of something.
Then he stared closely at Wang Hong and Peng Chang and asked: "After spring plowing begins in the base area, will we not need to consume so much food?"
"Yes!" Peng Chang affirmed!
"Recently, wasteland has been reclaimed, and each household has exchanged a lot of food from the base area. Even those folks who have run out of food have now saved dozens of kilograms! If we continue to reclaim wasteland before spring plowing, we will give them twenty kilograms per mu of land.
With regard to food, the villagers can not only ensure their food rations during this period, but they will also have a lot of surplus if they save on food! In addition to the food they saved before, they must have forty or fifty kilograms of food, which is enough for them to survive more than half a month of spring plowing!"
"That's enough!"
Li Hao shouted excitedly, and the solemn expression on his face disappeared completely in an instant!
"There is still one and a half months before the action. After deducting more than half a month of spring plowing, there are only about twenty days left before spring plowing!
This means that as long as we survive the next twenty days or so, the food shortage problem will be solved.
Thinking of this, Li Hao directly turned his attention to Wang Hong!
"Political Commissar, if you only guarantee the food supply to the villagers who have already run out of food, will the food left in your hands be enough to support the spring plowing?"
Wang Hong thought for a moment and replied: "Absolutely!"
Following the change of subject, he added: “But I think it’s impossible to do this!”
"Twenty pounds is a small amount, but it is still food!"
"Even if there is no shortage of food at home, there is still no surplus. No one will complain that there is too much food!"
"So even if we turn fifty kilograms of grain into twenty kilograms, there will still be a large number of villagers who are not short of food and will continue to cultivate wasteland!"
"And as long as they reclaim the wasteland into fertile farmland, we will provide them with food, no less than a pound!"
Li Hao shook his head and replied: "Political Commissar, I didn't say I wouldn't give it to them. If I really don't keep my word, the credibility and popular support that our garrison has finally built up in the base area will be gone, and the gain will not be worth the loss!"
"I mean, in addition to food, we can also give other things, such as the ocean and so on!"
"When the troops captured the traitor agents lurking in the three counties, in addition to food, they also seized a lot of oceans. We still have no use for saving all this money!"
"We can convert grain into oceans and let the folks choose whether they want grain or oceans!"
Wang Hong's eyes lit up, and just as he was about to speak, Peng Chang suddenly interrupted!
"Captain, even if we give these two choices, the folks will definitely choose food!"
“Everyone knows that there is a shortage of food right now, and many times we can’t even buy food with the ocean in our hands!”
"Furthermore, the price of grain changes every day. Today, a piece of ocean can buy 120 kilograms of grain, but tomorrow it may only buy 110 kilograms!"
"The Tao Dao'er folks here are all well-educated. Instead of holding on to the ocean that cannot be used as food and is still depreciating, it is better to get real food!"
The smile on Wang Hong’s face disappeared!
He has never done local work and does not know enough about the people. He has never thought of these things, and he cannot understand them!
Now with Peng Chang's reminder, it is directly proved that the possibility of success is not high, and everyone must think of new ways to solve this problem!
Surprisingly, Li Hao's expression did not change. He was still confident in this method and was not affected at all!
"Political Commissar, Comrade Peng Chang, I have a way to make the villagers choose Dayang!"
"We will give 20 kilograms of grain for each acre of land cultivated. If the villagers choose Dayang, I can buy them 30 kilograms of grain!"
"Although there is a shortage of food in the base area, now is the lean period. Food prices have skyrocketed. Sometimes you can't even buy food with an ocean!"
"But this situation is short-term. After the autumn harvest in a few months, food prices will definitely drop!"
"Those fellow villagers are not short of food at home. If you choose to buy it from Dayang, you can get 50% more! When the price of autumn harvest grains drops, it is possible for these people to buy forty kilograms of grain from Dayang. It is better to just get twenty kilograms of grain now.
I’ve made twice as much money per kilogram of grain!”
"If I had to choose, I would definitely take the ocean, buy more grain after the autumn harvest, and then save it!"
Peng Chang's eyes lit up at that moment, and he shouted excitedly: "What a great idea!"
"If it were me, I would choose the latter!"
"Captain, as long as the base area has enough funds to support it, this trick will definitely work!"
Li Hao answered very confidently: "You don't have to worry about the funds. If you don't say too much, you can still come up with 10,000 yuan!"
At this time, Wang Hong's heart completely relaxed!
"Captain, as long as the food is taken care of, I will have no problem here!"
Peng Chang responded: "I don't have a problem here either!"
"Preliminary estimates show that the three counties of Laiyuan can add a total of 150,000 acres of land before spring plowing. These are good lands. We plan to plant wheat and millet together with spring plowing!"
"After the spring plowing is over, at least 300,000 acres of sloping land can be added within a month. The idea of the base area is to plant sweet potatoes in all areas, and plant every acre of it!"
“The base area’s goals for this year are: including Lingqiu, the planting area of sweet potatoes and corn in the four counties of the base area will exceed 600,000 acres, and the planting area of wheat and millet will exceed 1.2 million acres, ensuring that the per capita cultivated land area in the base area will exceed five acres.
land!"
"Very good!" Li Hao's face beamed with joy!
With 1.2 million acres of wheat and millet, even if the average yield per acre is only 150 kilograms, after the autumn harvest, the base area can still harvest more than 35 million kilograms of public grain!
This does not include the income from sweet potatoes and corn,
Together with them, it will be no problem to break through 40 million kilograms!
Before the soldiers and horses move, food and grass go first!
With food, no matter whether the garrison continues to expand its troops or fight against the Japs, I will be more confident!
He immediately ordered: "Comrade Peng Chang, I will take your answer just now as an order to bomb the regiment headquarters!"
"I believe that the base will definitely achieve this goal under your leadership!"
"From now on, we will unconditionally cooperate with you to complete spring plowing. You must ensure that the cultivated area of the base area is not reduced, and strive for an unprecedented bumper harvest this autumn!"
Peng Chang immediately replied: "Captain, don't worry, with the cooperation of the troops, we will definitely be able to complete the mission!"
Hong Linfeng followed up with the report: "Commander, the training progress of the troops is faster than we expected!"
"With no restrictions on the supply of grain, pork, and vegetables, the battalion and company commander below went crazy and trained the troops whenever they had time!"
"Although the soldiers work very hard, they have no complaints because they eat and drink well every day!"
"Almost all the 50,000 rounds of reloading ammunition approved by the regiment headquarters for each battalion have been fired. The effect is very obvious. Each company has trained many sharpshooters!"
"Judging from the current situation, as long as the logistics supply is sufficient and no accidents occur, the army will definitely be able to complete the training of new recruits in the next month and a half!"
Li Hao proudly ordered: "Political commissar, give them some reloading bullets!"
"Each battalion will be divided into 50,000 rounds and continue to strengthen live-fire training!"
"Practice your marksmanship well is the only shortcut for recruits to go head-to-head with the Japs in the future!"
"Tell all battalion and company commanders that each infantry squad must train three gunners for me!"
"I don't require them to reach the standard of sharpshooters, but they must hit eight out of ten shots at a 100-meter moving target and a 150-meter fixed target!"
Hong Linfeng answered confidently: "Don't worry, captain, there will definitely be no problem!"
"Except for a few sharpshooters who have shooting talent, most sharpshooters are fed bullets!"
"As long as the troops have enough bullets for training, it will be no problem to train five gunners in one squad!"
The commander of the Japanese Army Headquarters in Taiyuan just finished talking to his old classmates at the headquarters and was in a very good mood!
In order to satisfy the incoming Major General Nakata Yamaro and completely eliminate the garrison, the Nakata family is trying their best!
Of course, these are all superficial!
The real reason why the Nakata family is so dedicated is that they don’t want to be threatened by the garrison anymore!
The garrison holds evidence that can severely damage the family, discredit the family, and turn them into traitors!
As a big family with a profound foundation, we must completely destroy this hidden danger and threat!
The chief of staff has been standing by, and he also wants to know how many reinforcements Nakata Yamaro will bring over as soon as possible!
He immediately asked: "Sir, what did your classmate say?"
"How many troops does the front army headquarters plan to dispatch to reinforce us and deal with the garrison?"
The army commander did not hide anything and answered with a smile: "The infantry is an independent mixed brigade, and the artillery includes two field artillery brigades and an independent mountain artillery brigade!"
"If nothing unexpected happens, the headquarters will issue an order in two days: appoint Major General Nakata Yamaro as the brigade commander of this brigade!"
"In addition, Nakata Yamaro is already on his way over. Come here first to understand the situation! Troops and combat supplies will arrive on the battlefield in the next two months!"
