The chief of staff's speed of action was not slower than Li Hao's, and the results were faster.

Early the next morning, the fishing and hunting team, the wild vegetable team, and the purchasing team formed yesterday afternoon set off.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the wild vegetable team was the first to return, and everyone carried a large bag of wild vegetables on their backs, some of which could be used as staple food, and some of which could be eaten as vegetables.

After another half hour, the fishing team returned.

The fishing team of more than 20 people directly brought back more than 100 catties of big fish.

You must know that Hong Linfeng sent out five such fishing teams.

"Commander, it's done!"

Hong Linfeng walked into the war room with a pot of steaming stewed fish with wild vegetables and said excitedly.

After putting the basin on the table, he pointed to the big carp inside and introduced: "This is the fishing team brought back during the day today, I counted it, each company can get nearly fifty catties of fish, and the regiment part has a five-pound big carp, I let the cooking squad chop it into pieces, add wild vegetables and stew it in a pot." ”

Looking at a large pot full of wild vegetables and stewed fish, Li Hao was sure that everyone in the regiment headquarters could get a big bowl.

Others Li Hao didn't know that if he had such a big bowl of fish and stewed wild vegetables, he would definitely eat at least one big steamed bun.

Hong Linfeng continued to report: "The hunting team only brought back a few pheasants today, and I had them sent to the field hospital. ”

"But they've put a lot of traps in the mountains, and tomorrow is when the real harvest comes."

"The captain of the hunting team sent out by the regiment headquarters told me that there are a lot of prey in the mountains, and it is conservatively estimated that I will be able to harvest at least 100 catties tomorrow."

"The captain of the fishing team also told me that because of insufficient preparation today, I only got more than 100 catties of fish."

"Tonight they will rush to make fishing tools overnight, and tomorrow they will be able to harvest at least 200 catties of fish."

"I have already told the cooking class, if there is more prey and fish brought back by the fishing and hunting team, all of them will be salted and dried into dried meat, and they will be eaten after the fishing and hunting team's harvest decreases in the future!"

"I agree!" Li Hao nodded and replied.

Then he stared at Hong Linfeng and continued to ask, "Is there any movement on the procurement team?" ”

"The prey and fish can only save one or two thousand catties of grain, and the rest of the food shortage depends on them."

Hong Linfeng thought for a moment and replied: "They set off yesterday afternoon, crossed the first blockade line of the Japanese puppet army last night, and should have entered the area occupied by the little devils by now." ”

"The commando team has brought a radio, and if nothing else, news will come back tonight."

As soon as Hong Linfeng finished speaking, Zhou Liang, the communications platoon commander, hurriedly ran in.

"Regimental Commander, Chief of Staff, Captain Xiao telegram."

"The procurement team and the commando team have successfully crossed the devil's blockade line and have joined up with the underground party that received them in the occupied area." After reading the dozens of words in front of the telegram, Hong Linfeng couldn't help but report, with a smile on his face.

Crossing the Devil's Blockade is the first step in the entire procurement plan.

Now that the underground party in the occupied areas has taken over and cooperated with the action, the chances of victory for the procurement team will certainly be greatly increased.

But the smile only lasted on Hong Linfeng's face for five seconds before disappearing, and the more he looked at the content behind the telegram, the more serious his face became, and finally he continued to report with a twist.

"However, the situation in the area occupied by the devils is even worse than we imagined."

"The ongoing drought has led to food shortages across northern China."

"The little devils not only exploited the common people and plundered their wealth through the soaring grain prices, but also took the opportunity to control almost all the grain sales channels in the occupied areas."

"An attempt to stop the development of anti-Japanese armed forces in the occupied areas by controlling food."

"In order to prevent food from flowing into the hands of our Eighth Route Army and trapping and starving us to death, the little devils implemented a very strict grain purchase policy in the occupied areas."

"In the county, if people want to buy food, they must get a certificate issued by the maintenance committee."

"It says that there are several people in the family, and depending on the number of people, they can only buy rations for ten days at a time."

"No matter how much money you have, you won't sell it, and you will be labeled by the Japanese puppet army as secretly communicating with our Eighth Route Army."

"Therefore, it is too difficult for the procurement team to buy a sufficient amount of grain through normal channels."

Li Hao's face became more and more serious.

Replacing food with meat can only expand the garrison regiment by a few hundred more people.

In such a large-scale battle as the attack on Datong City, hundreds of people could not even make a splash when they threw it, and the effect was very limited.

Therefore, this number of people is far from Li Hao's requirements.

In his plan, this expansion will increase the main force of the regiment by at least 1,500 people, which means that there is still a food shortage of 7 or 800 people in the regiment.

And these gaps can only be solved by procurement teams in enemy-occupied areas.

Raising his eyebrows, he ordered: "If you can't buy it through normal channels, you can buy it through abnormal channels." ”

"Send a telegram back to the commando Xiao Yuan: I will give him the authority to act cheaply."

"Without violating discipline, I allowed him to use all kinds of means and at all costs to assist the procurement team in sending back at least 2,000 catties of grain to the base area every day."

Hong Linfeng couldn't think of any other way, so he could only nod and answer: "I'll send a telegram back to Xiao Yuan now." ”

Ten minutes later, the chief of staff returned, holding Xiao Yuan's return call in his hand.

"Regiment commander, commando Xiao Yuan called back: guarantee the completion of the task."

The serious expression on Li Hao's face suddenly soothed, and then replied, "Then it's no problem." ”

"He has overcome such a complex environment in Chongqing and Nanjing, and this problem will definitely be difficult for him."

Hong Linfeng nodded and asked: "Regiment leader, the harvest of the fishing and hunting team and the wild vegetable team is very good, judging from the feedback from the regiment headquarters: using meat and wild vegetables instead of grain, the whole regiment can save at least two thousand catties of grain a day." ”

"Add more than 2,000 catties sent back by the procurement team every day, that is, more than 4,000 catties, enough to feed 1,500 people, do you want to expand the main force of the regiment by another 1,500 people."

Li Hao sighed and replied, "Fifteen hundred people are missing. ”

"Our next target is Datong City, and we will definitely not be able to take it down by opportunism, and many times we need to fight the devils, and the consumption of troops is very huge."

"So we have to have a sufficient number of troops, and we have to be prepared for heavy casualties."

"My goal is to increase the main force of the regiment by another two thousand."

"Hiss ......"

Hong Linfeng gasped and shouted, "Two thousand? That's an exaggeration, isn't it? Commander, are you going to form two more battalions? ”

Li Hao shook his head and replied: "There is no need, and there are not so many cadres in the regiment for us to form a new unit." ”

"Ten thousand steps back, we don't have time to start training new troops all over again."

"What then?" Hong Linfeng asked puzzled.

"It is impossible to expand each main battalion to more than a thousand people, and each main company to three hundred!"

"I've never heard of a main company of more than 300 people."

"It's not that exaggerated!" Li Hao thought for a moment and replied.

"My opinion on this expansion is: the strength, equipment, and heavy firepower configuration of each main company will remain unchanged."

"The most direct benefit of this is that the combat effectiveness of the main companies will not be affected."

Hong Linfeng was even more puzzled and continued to ask.

"Then where are you going to arrange these two thousand people, commander?"

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