And what this company needs to complete is definitely not only basic training. There is so much more waiting for them to really mature them. At present, the number of recruits in the army accounts for a considerable number. I want to take the initiative to get a handful of money and solve the problem of weapons and equipment of the troops.

Even if the troops are reorganized, there is still too much difference in combat effectiveness. The current appearance of the troops is a long-distance attack, and it is estimated that the establishment can be scattered to the shelf, how can it be done without stepping up training? Li Ziyuan is still clear about the truth of sweating more in peacetime and less bloodshed in wartime.

The bottom line is, who knows when the battle will come? And now that the Japanese puppet army, which has set up a large number of strongholds in the mountainous area in the eastern part of Hubei, will it be so dissipating and stopping to train itself? Training is for battle, not for watching, and the troops will form combat effectiveness one day earlier, and they will also be at ease one day earlier.

In that battle, the impression of Li Ziyuan was almost unforgettable. If it weren't for Liu Lianming for himself, he bought the only little time. At the last moment, the Japanese army behaved as rigid as ever. Even if this battalion is exhausted, it may not be able to gnaw down. In this case, Li Ziyuan definitely doesn't want to appear once.

Even in order to exercise the troops' ability to attack fortifications, Li Ziyuan also imitated the construction characteristics of the Japanese puppet military fortifications, and used the stones of Taihang Mountain to build a simple fortification group. In the face of everyone's objections, Li Ziyuan still said that not fighting for the time being does not mean that he will never fight.

It's one thing how to use tactics on the battlefield, but how to practice or how to practice during training, and you can't do things that waste food because of choking. In order to speed up the formation of the combat effectiveness of the troops, Li Ziyuan constantly increased and adjusted the training intensity of the troops. In particular, the training of cadres at the three levels of company platoon and platoon is particularly strict, from the use of machine guns to the deployment of troops in front of enemy lines.

Li Ziyuan asked He Sanliang to be the instructor of this cadre training, and formulated strict assessment methods. In terms of recruit training, in order to ensure the intensity of training, Li Ziyuan also pulled out half of the ammunition from the small number of bullets in itself to ensure that the recruits were used in training. It's just that in this way, the ammunition reserves of the troops are even more stretched.

It can even be said that after these training ammunition were withdrawn, Li Ziyuan's department had no ammunition in reserve. But Li Ziyuan knew that this was necessary, otherwise the recruits would not even fire a gun, what would they do when they went to the battlefield? Some things should be paid, and this is not the time to buckle the rope.

As for the two problematic machine guns, Li Ziyuan left the Czech machine gun. As for the machine gun with a problematic ammunition supply system, he sent it to the military region's ordnance repair institute to see if it could be repaired. If it really can't be repaired, Li Ziyuan plans to exchange some ammunition with other troops.

It's just that Li Ziyuan is seizing the time to train his troops, but in addition to the unprecedented sweep launched by the Japanese army before, another huge disaster has also swept the entire southeast of Jin. Since spring in most parts of Hubei, there has been drought and little rain, and since the beginning of summer, there has been almost no rain, and finally caused a severe drought.

In the entire Ludong Army sub-district, except for the north, the situation was better, and it rained a few times in July. In the southern and eastern parts of the entire Ludong Army Division, it can almost be said that there is no rain. The entire eastern mountainous area of Hubei is full of dry streams, and everywhere from the fields to the slopes is a dry and barren scene.

By the time of the summer harvest, the yield of wheat was only a fraction of that of previous years. By October, a major drought had formed in the southern part of the entire Taihang base area. The severe drought reduced the grain production and at the same time caused a shortage of food supplies for the troops. In the case of saving part of the rations to help the victims, the physical fitness of the troops has been greatly affected.

Fortunately, for the entire Ludong Military Division, the disaster in the north is much smaller. The troops, who had just finished the anti-sweeping operation and had not had time to change their bloody clothes, cooperated with the common people to rush and replant according to the orders of their superiors. In addition, a certain amount of small-scale land reclamation was organized to rush to plant some crops with large yields and short growth cycles, so as to alleviate the current grain dilemma.

And as early as when Ma Yongcheng led the team to return to Hubei first, Li Ziyuan asked the two of them to tell Liu Yanlai and Chang Juan after returning, and at the same time organized local militias and various district armies to find ways to reclaim some wasteland and plant some crops with short growth cycles and drought tolerance.

After the harvest of this batch of crops, coupled with the fact that the superiors transferred a batch of grain from the north, which was relatively lightly affected, Li Ziyuan's department did not stop, but it was only not interrupted. The sweep launched at the end of May caused astonishing damage to the entire Taihang base area. A large amount of grain and materials have been looted, and the loss of animal power is even more insignificant.

Under the guidance of Liang De's traitor, more than one-third of the grain reserves of the entire Ludong Army Division were destroyed. As the place where Liang De has worked for a long time, the loss of grain reserves in Hubei is even greater. The Japanese puppets also deepened their control over the areas under their control, causing an extremely difficult situation for the entire Ludong Army sub-district.

The ensuing drought has also exacerbated the already strained food supply to a large extent. Even if the superiors transferred some of the grain, Li Ziyuan's situation was still quite difficult. There is less and less food in the melon paste rice, and the meat is basically invisible at all.

In November, refugees from Henan, the hardest hit area and the epicenter of the severe drought that swept through North China, also poured into the southeastern Shanxi region, which was less affected by the disaster, and the food problem became even more tense. The entire territory of southeastern Shanxi is full of refugees who have fled from Henan.

In order to alleviate its own food pressure, and in order to gain the initiative in some aspects, the Japanese army mobilized a large number of Japanese puppet army troops to drive most of the victims who poured into the Japanese-occupied areas to the base areas of the Eighth Route Army and the areas controlled by the Chongqing side. By the end of October, tens of thousands of refugees had poured into the entire territory of Ludong.

Seeing the refugees waiting to be fed everywhere, and the decline in physical strength caused by the serious lack of nutrition of the troops themselves because of their own food difficulties, Li Ziyuan was unable to maintain the training intensity of the troops, which made Li Ziyuan seem worried. He tried many times to go deep into the western part of Hubei, where the situation was much better, to get some food, but he returned in vain because of the tight blockade of the Japanese puppet army.

Although Liu Yanlai and Chang Juan also tried their best to get more food and supplies for the troops, so as to at least maintain the physical strength of the troops. However, as one of the areas with the greatest losses from the Japanese army's sweep before, and also the mountainous area in the eastern part of Hubei, which was also the main drought area in the southeast of Shanxi this time, it was too difficult.

With the people themselves experiencing a serious food shortage, it is basically impossible to produce more food. Although the higher authorities reduced the public grain in Hubei, the problem was still very serious. Unless the situation in the western part of Hubei can be reopened, the potential of the eastern mountainous zone will be basically exhausted.

In the counties under the jurisdiction of the Ludong Military Sub-district, except for a few counties with better conditions in the north, the situation in the other counties is similar. The people of the counties where the disaster was less affected have also made their best efforts. But after all, grain production is limited, and it is already reluctant to be able to transfer some of it.

At present, Taihang Mountain has entered winter, and it is impossible to open up the wasteland to plant some crops with a short growth period, or pick wild vegetables to replace food. Although Li Ziyuan has squeezed out some of the rations from the army itself and the current small amount of rations to help the victims, this cannot fundamentally solve the problem after all.

As Li Ziyuan, who is already a regiment-level cadre now, he can eat Zhongzao according to the regulations. But he didn't eat it once, and at the same time, he didn't let the other cadres of the army eat it. Except for the wounded and sick, who could enjoy the standard of food with more food, he ate whatever the rest of the fighters ate.

In order to enhance the physical strength of the troops, Li Ziyuan painstakingly got some funds and asked people to go to the north to buy a batch of sheep. Sheep are not picky eaters, they can eat any grass. Although mutton has a heavier taste, it is considered meat after all, and it is also quite nutritious, which can ensure the declining physical strength of the troops.

Li Ziyuan arranged for each company to send a few people out every day to go out to herd sheep every day. As for the pigs, they can't afford to raise them, the wild vegetables are not enough for the people to eat, and there is still something extra to feed the pigs? He gave the horse to him and sent someone back to the district to exchange for a batch of sweet potatoes.

But the food problem is still a serious problem in front of Li Ziyuan. Even if you can barely survive this winter, what will you do at the beginning of spring next year? That's when it's really a green and yellow time, and that's the biggest headache for him. These sheep bought, no matter how much they save, they can't eat after the beginning of spring.

In order to buy these sheep, the troops have hollowed out all their old bottoms. I ran out and wanted to buy it again, but I didn't have the money. Lack of food, how to ensure the physical strength of the troops who eat wild vegetables alone. If you can't guarantee the most basic physical strength, there is no way to guarantee other things. The nutrition of the food and the troops made Li Ziyuan obviously a little stressed.

And that's not all, there are other things, especially salt, which are also quite scarce. The Japanese army's strict blockade of the mountainous areas in the eastern part of Hubei caused considerable tension in the salt in the base area. People who do not eat salt for a long time not only have no strength, but also have a great risk of night blindness.

Every time he met with Liu Yanlai, Li Ziyuan found that the young county party secretary who was under far more pressure than himself was rapidly aging. Looking at this guy's old speed, Li Ziyuan could only shake his head and remain silent, at this time, local cadres are the most difficult.

When Liu Yanlai came to Li Ziyuan's headquarters again, Li Ziyuan almost couldn't recognize the young county party secretary. Chang Juan didn't come this time, but Liu Yan came by herself. After seeing Li Ziyuan, Liu Yanlai's first reaction was a long sigh.

Liu Yanlai, who was at a loss on his face, looked at Li Ziyuan in front of him, but raised his head and hesitated for a moment and said, "Lao Li, there is two pieces of information to tell you." One is that Tsuruta Numan was transferred by the Japanese army, and it is not clear what aspect of the transfer. However, this vicious and ruthless opponent is transferred, and your pressure is reduced a lot. ”

Judging from the information from the local committee, the top brass of the Japanese army was extremely dissatisfied with his successive mistakes and failures. Last month, this guy was transferred out of the 36th Division, and as for whether he was transferred in that direction or retired, this is beyond the capabilities of our intelligence network. But anyway, this guy is transferred. ”

"The second is that the Japanese army collected a batch of grain from the Japanese-occupied area in Hubei, which was about fifty or sixty thousand stones. It was ready to be loaded onto the train and transported to Taiyuan through the Baijin Railway to supply the Japanese troops along the Zhengtai Road. If we can get this batch of grain, the problem of not receiving a grain harvest at the beginning of next spring can basically be solved. I, the secretary of the county party committee, can also breathe a sigh of relief. ”