Seeing that Wang Hong's face didn't look much better, Li Hao continued: "Instructor, in addition to being in case of emergency, these sweet potatoes have other uses!" ”

"People don't like sweet potatoes, but we can use them to feed pigs and chickens!"

"It can even be processed into more valuable by-products and sold to the common people to earn money for the troops!"

Speaking of this, a very bold idea had already popped up in Li Hao's mind.

In later generations, the low prices of agricultural products were obvious to all, but once grain was processed into by-products, the price would rise gradually, not only making money, but also providing a large number of jobs and increasing the income of the people, killing two birds with one stone.

Seeing that Wang Hong was still puzzled, the more Li Hao said, the more excited he became, and immediately explained: "The price of miscellaneous grains is cheap, we can take some fine grains to the common people for more miscellaneous grains, the cheaper the miscellaneous grains, the better, used to run pig farms and chicken farms!" ”

"In a few months, the troops will be self-sufficient in pork, chicken, and eggs!"

"If there's a lot of that, we can drag it to town and sell it!"

"Chicken and pork are not miscellaneous grains, they are expensive, and they have no market, and they can be exchanged for the ocean when they are taken out!"

"I'm sure that if you feed the pigs and chickens with a hundred oceans of miscellaneous grains in exchange, the chicken, pork, and eggs produced in the end can be sold for at least two hundred oceans and come back, doubling the profits!"

"In addition, we can also set up a factory to further process miscellaneous grains!"

"I don't know anything else, you should know about sweet potato flour!"

Wang Hong immediately replied: "I know the sweet potato flour!" ”

"Stewed sweet potato flour with pork, and add some cabbage to it, not only can it be eaten as a vegetable, but it can also fill your stomach, and more importantly, it tastes very good, which is a good thing, but it is difficult to buy!"

"The sweet potatoes in the hands of the common people are either eaten directly as rice, or replaced with other grains, and it takes little effort to make sweet potato flour!"

"We can do it!" Li Hao said!

"And you can build a sweet potato flour factory to make sweet potato flour on a large scale!"

"It can be supplied to our own troops, or it can be sent to the market to sell, and I believe it will be a very lucrative deal!"

"Of course, even if we can't sell it, we can eat it ourselves when we make sweet potato flour!"

"Instructor, you just said, sweet potato flour has a good taste, it can be eaten as a meal or as a vegetable, we eat sweet potato flour every other day, and the army will definitely save a lot of food in a year!"

"According to the current market price, one pound of fine grain can be exchanged for more than ten pounds of sweet potatoes, ten pounds of sweet potatoes can be processed into four or five pounds of sweet potato flour, eating four or five pounds of sweet potato flour is definitely more filling than eating one pound of fine grains, and it is more nutritious!"

"I decided to wait until the spring ploughing is over, and we will set up a pig farm and a chicken farm!"

"If conditions permit, we will build a small sweet potato flour factory first, and then expand the scale of the sweet potato flour factory after we have a large number of sweet potatoes in stock in the autumn harvest!"

"When the scale of several factories is getting bigger and bigger, with production, it will definitely bring us huge economic benefits!"

The training ground of the independent battalion in Hongquan Village is particularly lively today, with more than 1,000 people in the battalion, all gathered here except for the guard post on duty!

The first large-scale contest since the establishment of the independent battalion officially began today.

Because the training period of the troops is very short, the content of the competition is very simple, there are only five events: target shooting, roadblocks, cross-country, bomb throwing, and assassination.

"Report to the battalion commander, the three main companies, the independent company, and the guard company are ready for cross-country!" Hong Linfeng, who had recovered, ran all the way to the edge of the rostrum and reported.

"Let's go!" Li Hao ordered decisively.

"Smack......

The flare exploded in the air, and the five companies of the independent battalion were fully armed, either carrying rifles, light and heavy machine guns and mortars, and rushed out of the starting line like wild horses.

The 10-kilometer fully armed cross-country training could take at least an hour to end, and after the five companies slowly disappeared into the training ground, Li Hao, who was holding a telescope, quickly withdrew his gaze and moved to the location of the artillery company.

Three platoons of six mountain guns, two in a group of two on the ground.

Boxes of shells were piled up next to them, dozens of gunners, ammunition men, mules and horses transporting shells and artillery stood beside them, waiting for orders.

"Smack......

As soon as the flare gun went off, the men moved.

"Quick, the gunner is responsible for disassembling the cannon, leading the mules and horses, and as usual, a mountain cannon is divided into four parts and placed on the mule and horse!" The platoon commander stood aside and shouted.

"Hurry up and hurry up, all the ammunition is loaded on mules and horses, ready to assault forward!"

Ten gunners were in charge of a mountain gun, and under the command of the squad leader, a mountain gun was disassembled into four parts in less than half a minute, and then the parts were carried and hung on their respective mule and horse racks, and finally reinforced with ropes to ensure that the artillery and ammunition would not fall off when the mules and horses marched.

In a minute and a half, four mules and horses in each of the two artillery squads and eight mules and horses in the ammunition squad, a total of sixteen mules and horses, were all ready to go.

The gunners, the ammunition men, led the mules and horses to the side.

"Set off, arrange artillery positions one kilometer ahead, fix the target two kilometers away, and hit the target in the shortest possible time!" The platoon commander ordered.

In less than ten minutes, a platoon of mountain artillery arrived at the scheduled artillery position.

As soon as everyone stopped, the platoon commander gasped and ordered: "Set up the cannon immediately and aim at the target......

"The ammunition squad prepares the shells and puts on the fuse!"

"Boom ......"

In less than two minutes, a dull explosion sounded in the position.

"If it deviates by about 80 meters, immediately adjust the shooting of Zhu Yuan, deviate to the left by 0.5 degrees, increase the distance by 50 meters, ......and open fire," the platoon commander commanded, holding up the telescope.

"Boom ......"

The platoon commander shouted with excitement on his face: "Hit, hit another shell, completely destroy the firing target, and then retreat and return to the starting position!" ”

On the rostrum, Li Hao's serious face also showed a smile, and he happily replied: "The performance of the mountain artillery company is good!" ”

"Nearly ninety percent of Lingqiu is mountainous, and it is very inconvenient for mountain artillery to march. Dismantling the mountain artillery into parts and transporting it directly by mules and horses solves this problem, no matter whether it is a road or a mountain road, it can't stop our mountain artillery company! ”

Instructor Wang Hong said with emotion: "Battalion commander, the mountain artillery company has given me too many surprises!" ”

"It's only taken how long to train the mountain artillery company like this, Yuan Qingfeng deserves to be an old artilleryman!"

"Company Commander Yuan is good!" Li Hao affirmed.

After a moment's hesitation, he reminded: "However, the mountain artillery company has not yet reached the speed I want!" ”

"As far as I know, it only takes one minute for the Japanese army to go from erecting artillery to locking on to targeting and then firing artillery...... The mountain artillery company still needs a minute and a half to transfer, and the extra half minute is likely to cost them their lives! ”

"Therefore, the speed of artillery transfer should be strengthened, more summing up and training, and strive to compress the time to one minute!"

"Shooting accuracy should also be improved!"

"Except for the second round of firing after the first platoon tested firing just now, the other two artillery platoons have fired several rounds!"

"The devil's cannon is more powerful than ours. If we can't preemptively kill them as quickly as possible, and wait for them to shoot back, then we're done! ”

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