In less than five days, after the recruitment order was issued, all the more than 8,000 people who were lacking in the main force and local troops were recruited!

The speed made Li Hao, the head of the regiment, a little doubtful that he had heard it wrong!

Then he looked at Hong Linfeng and asked with a dumbfounded face!

"How can it be so fast? The consciousness of the people of the three counties is already so high, and they all want to join the Eighth Route Army to fight devils and protect their homeland! ”

Hong Linfeng replied with a wry smile: "Leader, it would be nice if everyone really had such a high consciousness!" ”

"I don't know about the other recruits, I know about the special service battalion, the independent battalion, and the recruits sent back by a battalion!"

"They joined our Eighth Route Army, and at least half of the recruits were for the settling-in allowance we offered, a total of 100 catties of food!"

"There are also some people who came because a family member died at the hands of a little devil and participated in the revenge of our Eighth Route Army!"

Li Hao's face became solemn at that time, and he replied with a long sigh: "I finally understand what life is like a mustard now!" ”

"The more chaotic the world, the less valuable human life is!"

"For the sake of a hundred catties of food, I directly sold my life, but I didn't expect the people to suffer to such a point!"

Hong Linfeng replied with a calm face: "It is indeed very bitter, even to the point where I can't survive, and I sold my life to our garrison regiment for a hundred catties of food!" ”

"Many recruits only have one sentence when they decide to join us, a hundred catties of food will be sent home, and their lives will be the ones of our Eighth Route Army, even if they are sent to death, they will not frown!"

"I asked, these recruits are out of food at home, and the 100 catties of food we give are all used to save lives!"

"One hundred catties of grain, plus the next reclamation and canal repair can be exchanged back from our hands, enough for their family to last until the autumn harvest!"

"If there is no 100 catties of food, someone in the family will definitely starve to death!"

Li Hao suddenly spoke: "Chief of Staff, you go back and tell those recruits that their lives are still your own, and they didn't sell them to our Eighth Route Army!" ”

"I want them to live well, practice their skills to kill enemies, and kill more devils 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 settling-in allowance of 100 catties of grain, our real purpose is to defeat the little devils, protect the base area, and let their families and the villagers in the base area live a good life!"

Hong Linfeng immediately promised: "Don't worry, head of the regiment, I will confess!" ”

"The political work cadres of the new barracks are the best in the whole regiment, and they will definitely be able to do their ideological work well and completely integrate into our Eighth Route Army!"

Li Hao nodded and continued to order: "Since the battalions have recruited all the troops, let them replenish the troops immediately, and then start training!" ”

"Starting tomorrow, the two of us will act 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 the three-month recruit training into two months!"

There is only one way to compress training time while ensuring the quality of training: further increase the amount of training and training time per day!

And if you want to ensure that the fighters have enough physical strength to support such high-intensity training and not get tired, there is only one way!

Eat well, and eat well, oil and water must be guaranteed!

The commissar sat next to him, and his brows were wrung up at that time!

As the logistics steward of the garrison regiment, no one knows better than him how much food, vegetables, and pork each soldier of the garrison regiment eats in a day!

Li Hao's sentence shortens the training time by one-third, which means that the amount of training and training time of the soldiers will increase by one-third every day, and it also means that the food, vegetables, and pork that the soldiers have to eat every day will also increase by at least one-third!

Now the most scarce thing in the base area is food, more than 10,000 people, eat one-third more grain every day, for themselves, the logistics steward, the pressure is unprecedented!

Thinking of this, Wang Hong immediately stood up and retorted: "Regiment leader, I don't agree to compress the training time!" ”

"You don't know that vegetables, rice, oil, and salt are expensive!"

"Reducing the training time and increasing the amount of training will definitely greatly increase the daily food consumption of the troops!"

"Regiment commander, don't underestimate the increased consumption of the troops, in order to ensure combat effectiveness, the food, vegetables, and pork that everyone eats every day are replaced by ordinary people, and the three of them can't eat them all!"

"Even if it only increases consumption by one-third, it means that the troops will directly distribute the rations of 10,000 people!"

"The three main battalions have captured a total of 2.3 million catties of grain, plus the 1 million catties left by Lingqiu, a total of 3.2 million catties!"

"In my initial 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 change!"

"The demand for food in the base area is greater than I imagined, and if the food consumption of the troops also increases, this food can last for up to two months!"

"If there is no new source of grain, we will only have to use the reserve grain!"

Li Hao had already guessed that the political committee had such a question, and replied very 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 definitely send the food you need to the base area! ”

"You are responsible for the base area, I don't care how to distribute that food!"

"But the troops must have an adequate supply of food!"

"Give as much as the troops want! There are also pork and vegetables, if it is not enough, it will be transferred directly from the pig farm, and how much money will be deducted directly from our next month's share! ”

"There is also ammunition, the arsenal has recently reloaded a lot of ammunition, Deputy Regiment Commander Luo, you will arrange for each main battalion to send 50,000 rounds of reloading ammunition over for special training!"

"A recruit wants to train like a devil, and dare to fight with a devil with a bayonet on the battlefield, even if it is two against one, he can't do it without more than a year of training!"

"But we can find some shortcuts!"

"The little devil is very good at fighting bayonets, and fighting bayonets is the most difficult practice in the army, so we will try to avoid fighting bayonets with little devils!"

"The way I came up with is to compare marksmanship with devils!"

"As long as the bullets are enough and you can practice vigorously, the marksmanship of the recruits can be raised in a very short time, and you can train a lot of sharpshooters!"

"On the battlefield, even if we can't compare to the little devils one-on-one, we will be two-on-one!"

Wang Hong is not a fool, he immediately smelled a hint of war from these words, and stared at Li Hao and asked!

"Commander, are you going to fight, otherwise why would you be in such a hurry!"

"Not to mention shortening the training time of recruits by one-third, we also specially strengthen their marksmanship training, which is obviously in a hurry to pull them into the battlefield!"

"Commander, if there is really any accident, you must not hide it! There are too many recruits in the troops, they are not prisoners, they are not absenteeism, the basis for fighting devils is zero, and everything has to be trained from scratch! ”

"Rushing them into battle is no different from sending them to death!"

Li Hao admired the political commissar very much, his vision was too vicious, and he analyzed that the army would fight in two months after a few words!

However, Li Hao doesn't plan to say it now!

The battle plan that is taking shape in my head is too big to reveal anything until the last step!

In order to reassure the two partners, he directly shook his head and denied: "Commissar, you think too much!" ”

"I'm worried that the devils will launch a new round of sweeps against us before I make this decision!"

"No one knows when the devils will come over, the sooner the troops form combat effectiveness, the more confident we will be in defending the base area!"