Chapter 334: Farming and Assisting in Warfare
Li Huan was recruited by the arsenal and became a supernumerary, and his title on the surface was that he was a technical consultant, but unfortunately he didn't have a dime of salary, and maybe he had to pay upside down.
But for Lao Zhang's pitiful sake, he really can't think of refusing, and the next time he comes out with new equipment, he will get dozens of boxes first.
After returning to Chen Village, Li Huan continued to build the tunnel with everyone, and the previous tunnel was blown up by the devil a lot, if you don't dig it again, it will be troublesome when it rains heavily.
Liu Fang took the soldiers to train, and then thought about recruiting, but unfortunately there were no people around, and many of the political commissars were seriously injured, so the recruitment work could not be carried out at all.
But Li Huan has been very busy recently, he saw that the devil did not continue to commit crimes, he simply wanted to farm again, and it was potatoes, these things have a large output, as long as they are done well, maybe there will be food in winter.
It is that growing potatoes especially consumes the fertility of the land, and at this time he needs to burn more plant ash and other things, or get some chemical fertilizers, but unfortunately he can't get them.
But this doesn't mean that Li Huan can't get any fertilizer, the manure in the toilet is still okay, but the smell is a bit big.
However, in order to be able to eat food in winter, there is no way now, so I called Chen Hong and asked him to help repair the land around here, sprinkle some fertilizer and start planting potatoes.
Planting potatoes is actually not troublesome, the trouble is how to manage after planting, if you bombard the devil two times in three days, then this day will not be able to live at all, let alone wait for the potatoes to mature, nine times out of ten the potatoes will be harmed before they are ripe.
The militia is very active in farming, they don't want to train, and they don't want to stay in the tunnel all the time, they like to farm safely and steadily.
So, Li Huan has been planting potatoes with the soldiers for the past few days, and his hands are numb when he cuts potatoes.
In fact, Li Huan still wants to grow a little sweet potato, but although the yield of sweet potatoes is also high, it is not as easy to preserve as potato flour, and there are many sweet potato residues, and there is not much powder in the end.
So Li Huan only hit a small part of the sweet potatoes, and looked back to see if he could exchange some seeds with the system and plant some sweet potatoes with high yield next year.
Just when Li Huan and the others were farming, the arsenal also started the relocation work, as for where to move Li Huan does not know for the time being, this secret.
Even the employees of the arsenal didn't know where they were going, and only a few people knew the location, that is, the commander of the guard battalion and Zhang Wen.
Zhang Wen didn't forget to greet Li Huan when he was leaving, let him keep in touch with him, and once the arsenal stabilized, he would find him back.
Li Huan just nodded casually and agreed, it was okay to ask him to help, but whether he could help was a matter of words, after all, he just knew some military knowledge, and he still had a b number in his heart if he was so powerful in actual operation.
Hundreds of people work together, and as many fields as they can plant quickly.
The next thing is to reload corn, corn and so on in the mountains, no matter what the yield is, it's better than nothing, and you can get a little bit of it.
Everything was going on in such an orderly manner, until one day, Li Huan and Changfeng went to the mountains to pick watermelons together, and suddenly saw another plane flying in the sky, so frightened that they hurriedly ran back, and then found that the plane did not stop above Chen Village, but quickly went south.
Li Huan and Changfeng relieved themselves and continued to go into the mountains to pick watermelons.
These watermelons were planted by Li Huan before, and they were all sprinkled in places with many stones, but I didn't expect the watermelons to be big and sweet.
"Li Huan, this watermelon is really big, it should be more than thirty pounds!"
Changfeng was holding a watermelon, very happy, hearing Li Huan say that this thing was very sweet, and he wanted to eat it now.
Li Huan didn't pay attention to him, but knocked on the watermelon a few times, and when he found that the watermelon was ripe, he asked Changfeng to carry it into the carriage.
A lot of plant ash and straw were put on the carriage to prevent the watermelons from breaking down halfway.
The two of them picked dozens of watermelons, and finally the carriage couldn't fit it anymore, so it stopped.
Changfeng couldn't wait to lead the carriage down the mountain, and after going back, everyone cut the watermelon and found that the green skin and red heart, although there were some black seeds, but the taste was really sweet.
Li Huan gave some to the soldiers, although everyone could only eat a full piece, but the satisfaction in his heart was indescribable.
Only Huang Qiu was watching alone in the corner, not that Li Huan didn't give him food, but that he couldn't eat it.
Recently, this guy has eaten too many spicy strips and has diarrhea, and then he saw meat oil again, and now he is a vegetarian every day.
It's better to eat less watermelon, otherwise it's no worse than eating half a catty of croton, which is enough to kill him.
Just when everyone was eating watermelon, Liu Fang called Li Huan over and said that he had something to tell him.
"Commander, what are you looking for me?" Li Huan took the last bite of the watermelon, and then put the watermelon skin down, and this thing can be fried and eaten by peeling off the outer layer of hard skin.
"Li Huan, we have another combat mission!"
"Ah, didn't you just finish the fight, did the little devil sweep us again?"
Li Huan was a little nervous, now that Chen Cun's vitality was greatly damaged, they might not be able to withstand it if there was another wave of sweeps.
"It's not like this, this time it's mainly to help the Central Army send reinforcements, and they are fighting too badly in the south!
The previous three divisions had lost two-thirds, and each division had less than three thousand men left!
Later, they put in four more divisions of troops, plus three infantry brigades, one detachment, and two cavalry brigades invested yesterday, and the total number of troops invested has exceeded 30,000!
It's a pity that this still can't stop the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders, so the headquarters of the theater commander asked our Eighth Route Army to help them stop some devils!
Especially the scattered ghosts nearby, you can't let them get together, let alone let them support the main battlefield! ”
"That means let's keep an eye on these bunkers, turrets, and strongholds?"
Li Huan instantly understood what the regiment commander meant, and the headquarters of the theater commander hoped that they would form a state of confrontation with the devils, so that they could drag down part of the devils' troops.
However, the higher-level leaders thought differently, they felt that if they wanted to delay, they should take the initiative to attack and eat these turrets and strongholds.
"Hmph, the theater command thought that our Eighth Route Army would only fight guerrillas, not offensive warfare, and was afraid that we would develop, so they gave us some tasks!
However, the northern Shaanxi side requires us to take the initiative to attack and annihilate the enemy's effective forces as much as possible!
Therefore, we must destroy the checkpoints, turrets and strongholds of the devils as much as possible around here, so that the devils know the strength of our Eighth Route Army, and at the same time, we can also develop troops in secret! ”
Liu Fang sneered at this time, since the theater command looked down on the Eighth Route Army, he didn't mind making a fortune secretly.
"Okay, it just so happens that I see that several nearby strongholds are not pleasing to the eye, and this time I just want to eat them!"