The morning trumpet sounded on time, and the sound of the trumpet woke not only the soldiers, but also the local villagers.

Immediately after yesterday's meeting, the head of the blacksmith village, Kavitsky, began to mobilize. The production teams were instructed to prepare digging tools, a sufficient number of sacks, rattan baskets, and wheelbarrows and wagons overnight.

The warehouse also received the information. A large number of warehouses of the Montenegrin generation have long been empty, and they believe that the harvested potatoes will fill all the silos.

The army also received the harvest order, and in February, the first farmland of the army was urgently sown with roots, and now it is ripe for the roots!

As the main elite, the soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of the 284th Division have a high degree of consciousness, after all, they have gradually developed from the "special anti-tank battalion" to the present, and Berekov, who is now the commander of the group army, is their beloved old battalion commander.

As an elite, they must implement the orders of their superiors, whether it is fighting or plowing the ground, they do a good job.

After the great battle at the end of March, Ravlendi and Evgeny were so demoralized that their second regiment had to be put in order. At the end of April, the expedition, although the two men mentioned their participation, were rejected one by one.

Since they could not participate in the war, they could only work training. When the potatoes entered the critical period of growth, tending the fields became a military task, pulling weeds, splashing human and animal manure, and later blending ammonia and spraying the fields. These jobs became serious in the leisure time of the soldiers, and all the troops began to do so, but they were not as good as the 2nd Regiment!

It stands to reason that the potato field does not need to be taken care of at all, according to the habit of Lao Maozi, they think that the potato roots are buried in the soil and then sprinkled with water, so why should they be as careful as taking care of the wheat field?

An order is an order, and Yang Mingzhi once took the time to write a "Several Requirements for the Potato Planting Period", which is a very brief order, which is summarized into one sentence, that is, it requires intensive cultivation.

When the traditional agricultural civilization develops to the extreme, intensive cultivation is inevitable. The Russians lacked this process, their vast territory, the soil and climate were generally poor, and the traditional Russian peasants still used rough methods to grow potatoes.

Since Yang Mingzhi gave the order last year, villagers and soldiers have had to pinch their noses and pour urine and feces on the green potato seedlings and black soil after taking care of their fields, which not many farmers have done before. First, human intestines can't produce so much fertilizer, and second, it's really unnecessary.

However, this method of intensive cultivation is really effective, and according to the confessions of the original villagers of Catfish Village and Blacksmith Village, most of the potatoes they used to grow were the size of eggs, and the yield was very limited. Just after improving the planting methods, in the harvest period on the eve of winter last year, a large number of fist-sized potatoes welcomed a bountiful harvest, and even excavated a few "potato kings".

The production teams that tasted the sweetness began to do this, but the amount of human feces and urine was still limited, so they had to find other ways, such as mashing the crabs they caught and eating them as fertilizer, and collecting silt from the swamps that emitted miasma to improve the soil.

With the parachuting of Salinchikin, a man who claimed to be a little bit of a researcher in agriculture, after taking up his post in the Novgomel city committee, he began to collect the powder of burning firewood in the stoves of every house by administrative means. The powder is mixed with water and poured into the potato field, which is considered to provide potassium fertilizer for the potatoes.

Potatoes like potassium and nitrogen, but these methods are a drop in the pan, and the production teams can only make a fuss about pulling out weeds until fertilizer begins to be mass-produced.

The intensive cultivation of the farmland was also carried out only in the vicinity of the three collective farms, and the newly cultivated and too remote fields were too far away to take care of because of the distance. Others believe that the lack of management of remote farmland is not limited by geographical factors, but simply due to the lack of experience or awareness of the production team in charge of that land.

"They're from the city, they've been eating supplies, they've eaten bread and bacon every day, and their kids have eaten chocolate. They have no idea how food is produced! ”

Such rhetoric stems from the peasants' complaints against the city, and the Stalinist model of agriculture has long allowed the cities to grow rapidly and the countryside to develop slowly. Stalin's policy of supporting workers with agriculture hurt the vast number of peasants in the Soviet Union, but objectively, because of the rapid development of industry, even if the Soviet Union was taken away by the Nazis, they still had enough industrial manufacturing to fight the invaders!

But the lack of agricultural production technology among urban dwellers is a real reality. The inhabitants of the city, having fled into the forest, either died or found the partisans. Anyone who escaped into the swamp was very lucky, and it was very safe so far. When they arrived, they said goodbye to their old lives, and skilled citizens were immediately organized, such as shoemakers, tailors, and even steel mill workers, who went to various workshops to engage in complex production. Many of them had no skills, so they were assigned to the production teams of the collective farms and learned how to grow potatoes and how to cut wood from scratch.

The good old days are gone, and it's lucky to be alive now.

This is based on the fact that when the harvest season comes, these citizens are also organized to go to the fields of other production groups to help dig.

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Early in the morning, Yang Mingzhi got up quickly. His shovel, a modified sapper shovel, was already standing quietly by the wall.

The trip was to dig potatoes in the fields, and it was not suitable for formal clothing at all, and because it was heavy physical labor, the clothing should be simple.

So when he went out and ordered his guards to assemble, more than thirty guards saw the new appearance of their commander.

Yang Mingzhi was dressed very simply, without a so-called jacket, the cotton sea soul shirt was close to his chest, and the gunshot scar on his left arm was also clearly displayed.

Dressed in military trousers, with a sturdy belt, his feet were tucked into the boots he had captured from the Germans.

Even in this humble dress, he did not forget to bring his honor, with a medal pinned to his chest and a large-brimmed hat on his head.

In this way, he held a long-handled shovel to his left and right, and inspected his men in a nondescript image similar to that of a peasant.

"Hey! You're dressed too formally! Untie all the gaiters, put the steel helmets back in the dormitory, and today we have to travel light! Even if necessary, give me bare-chested! ”

At the sound of an order, the group of soldiers ran back to their dormitory, and after a while, more than 30 people also changed their images.

Abram became a peasant, and he and his comrades wore boat-shaped hats, many with a towel pinned to their waists.

"Report to Comrade Commander! The guard platoon has assembled, please instruct! ”

Yang Mingzhi returned the salute and looked at these soldiers again with great satisfaction: "The ceremony is over!" Now follow me to the cafeteria! Let's show our new image."