In eastern Henan in April, the spring breeze made the earth clothed in a layer of green, the thin young leaves stretched their bodies as much as possible, the pink peach blossom stars fell and dotted on the field, the smell of war was covered by the increasingly strong spring, in addition to the collapsed houses, the rest of the explosive shrapnel, burned cars, were recovered by the hard-working peasants, quickly turned into a hoe and sickle, and the heavier tanks were recovered by the troops. In the field, the farmer was busy, and when it was close to noon, the little daughter-in-law hurriedly carried a basket to the field.

In the eastern battlefield of Yucheng, where the war was most intense, the torii village and its surroundings were in ruins for dozens of miles, and the villagers who returned to their hometown wanted to cry without tears, so they could only shelter in the grass hut full of builds, shivering in the cold wind.

When the sun was high, five sedans rolled up long dusty clouds at the entrance of the village, and several literati in long shirts and suits accompanied the two glittering soldiers from the cars and entered the village under the protection of a large group of guards.

Soon when the armor guards were called, a group of people were already in the northern part of the torii shop, where the fighting was most intense, almost all the houses had been destroyed, and now there were only dense low-rise shacks, and the family was cramped inside.

Zhuang Jihua lowered his head and walked into the shack, the room was dark and damp, there were piles of broken cotton wool on a bed made of several wooden boards, there was almost no furniture, and if there were two more people, he couldn't turn around.

Zhuang Jihua only stood inside for a few minutes, and then left as if he had escaped, and when he went out, he saw a simple stove built with a few stones in the corner of the house, and the pot made of steel helmet was a black and mushy ball, and he didn't know what was cooking.

"Old man, what about the rest of the family?" Zhuang Jihua's expression was gloomy, and he frowned and asked an old woman who was basking in the sun on the side and was looking at them indifferently.

The old man had only a thin layer of single, I don't know what color it was, tattered, revealing what was inside, and a bed of cotton wool was draped over his body to resist the whole cold wind. His eyes were dull and cloudy, as if he hadn't heard Zhuang Jihua's words, Zhuang Jihua thought she hadn't heard clearly, raised his voice and asked loudly, but the old man still didn't respond.

"Old Lady Li, what did the chief ask you about, you are deaf!" The local security chief was a little anxious, and hurriedly scolded loudly.

Zhuang Jihua couldn't help frowning, he looked at this security chief, the chief was also dressed very coldly, his long shirt was wrinkled, his cheeks were sunken, his face was pale, and he looked very bad, so he whispered: "Light, don't scare her." ”

Then he reached out and stirred the black paste in the pot with a spoon, and the air immediately emitted a little mushy and a little indescribable choking smell, Zhuang Jihua hurriedly put the pot on the lid.

"What is this?" Zhuang Jihua turned his head and asked the chief of security.

The chief replied, "The bitter mustard root, the bark, are mixed together, and now everyone eats this." ”

"You eat this too?" Zhuang Jihua asked.

The chief didn't answer, just nodded. Zhuang Jihua sighed softly and patted him on the shoulder: "It's hard to hurt the villagers." Just these two times, the bodyguard shook, and almost softened to the ground, Zhuang Jihua hurriedly helped him.

"Is this how the folks here?" Zhuang Jihua turned his head and asked Su Chenling, the magistrate of Yucheng County.

Su Chenling was about forty years old, wearing glasses and a long shirt, a bit of a literati temperament, he hurriedly replied: "It's almost, it's all the same." ”

Zhuang Jihua couldn't help but ask: "What does it mean?" How much worse is it? How many townships and towns in the county were affected by the war? How many townships have you run during this time? What is the life of the folks in these places? How many have been without food like this? ”

After recovering Fengxian, the counterattack gradually stopped, Zhuang Jihua's full energy was devoted to the replenishment and rectification of the troops, the losses of each branch were very large, the results of this operation were huge, Yucheng counterattack eliminated more than 50,000 Japanese troops, more than 60,000 Japanese troops on the north and south banks of the Yellow River, plus the Yimeng Mountain blockade and the southern line to destroy the enemy, a total of 240,000 Japanese troops were eliminated, but the squadron also paid 460,000 casualties, of which 280,000 were killed, Qiu Qingquan's fast column, 110 tanks only 63 remained, nearly half of the loss, Not to mention other troops, Sun Tongxuan's and Sun Lianzhong's troops, which were the first to engage in battle, as well as the 59th Army and the 40th Army, and Tang Enbo's 20th Army, all lost more than half.

200,000 recruits from all over the country, as well as 100,000 recruits recruited locally in eastern Henan and northern Anhui, have entered the barracks one after another, and all units are speeding up training.

Zhuang Jihua, who was devoted to the troops, suddenly received a report of a desert robbery of the army's grain trucks two days ago, and then received a report of famine in a large area of the war zone, which made him wake up from the joy of victory, and hurriedly went to Yucheng to inspect the situation, and at the same time also pulled Cao Xinping, commissioner of the Eastern Henan Travel Agency, and Jia Zhongxian, chairman of the Shangqiu Support Association, which was established when the Japanese offensive was at its most fierce, and was established by all walks of life in Shangqiu, and the newly arrived Yu Xintao, director of the People's Mobilization Committee of the Fifth War Zone, and Che Jun, director of the county party department.

A series of inquiries about Zhuang Jihua, Su Chenling was a little panicked, when the Japanese army attacked Yucheng, he had already led the county government to flee to Zhoukou, and only returned to Yucheng after the Japanese army was repulsed, these days he also organized emergency repairs in the county seat, and the losses in Yucheng were also very large, and half of the city was bombed.

"County Magistrate Su was busy organizing the resettlement of refugees in the city during this time, and there were more than 100,000 refugees in the city." When Su Chenling was in trouble, Cao Xinping, the commissioner of the Eastern Henan Agency, interjected and distinguished a few words for him.

Zhuang Jihua didn't question him anymore, and turned the finger to Cao Xinping: "Do you estimate how many refugees there are now?" How much food is missing? How many are homeless? Does the Administration have any relief plans? ”

"There are no statistics on the specific number, like this completely out of grain, the entire eastern Henan is estimated to have nearly one million people," Cao Xinping seemed to know more about the situation: "There are about 300,000 households that lack housing, and the administrative office has recently focused on spring ploughing, although the people have gone home, but there is no grain for spring ploughing, farm tools, we urgently purchased some seeds from other places, frankly speaking, not enough, but we can't help it, the administrative department only has so much money." ”

Zhuang Jihua nodded silently, Cao Xinping is telling the truth, seeds and farm tools all need money to buy, then you have so much, Cao Xinping saw Zhuang Jihua's attitude, and took the opportunity to say: "Commander Zhuang, can you ask Chairman Liu for help, otherwise the famine in eastern Henan this year is certain." ”

"I'm afraid Chairman Liu doesn't have much there," Zhuang Jihua shook his head and said, thought for a while and said to Gong Xiuhua: "Telegraph to the Wuhan base camp and ask them to allocate it within three days..." ”

"I'm afraid one million catties is not enough, Lanfeng and Yongcheng have suffered big losses, at least one and a half million catties of seeds, and at least five million catties of grain, send them to Shangqiu, and then send a telegram to Chief of Staff Xu, asking him to stop all the transportation in the war zone, concentrate all the cars in Shangqiu, and once the seeds and grain arrive, they will be immediately distributed to Yucheng, Xiayi, Yongcheng, and Lanfeng; The telegram ordered Lan Yundong to quickly check the situation in Dangshan and Feng County, and report it immediately. ”

The record of the palace embroidery painting was very fast, and she almost finished it after Zhuang Jihua finished speaking, and then handed over the pen, and Zhuang Jihua added after signing: "Send it immediately." ”

Of course, Gong Xiuhua understood the power of it, and immediately turned around and left, Zhuang Jihua now has a radio station by his side regardless of the aisle, and keeps in touch with Xu Zuyi at any time, so as to keep abreast of the front-line trends at any time.

At this time, the old man with three long beards under his chin and three strong men hurriedly came over, the old man was raising his hand to greet Commissioner Cao, but when he saw Zhuang Jihua standing with Cao Xinping, he immediately put down his hand that had been raised slightly, and his eyes swept directly to Su Chenling, Su Chenling nodded slightly, and this scene happened to be seen by the palace embroidery painting who was just about to turn around.

"Production must be resumed immediately, housing must be built immediately for the returnees, and medical teams must be formed to patrol the areas to alert them for the outbreak of the epidemic." Zhuang Jihua turned around and said to Cao Xinping again.

Cao Xinping smiled bitterly: "Commander Zhuang, it's difficult, we don't have such manpower and material resources, let's talk about the medical team, let's not talk about the medicine, even the doctors are not enough, such a large-scale battle, there are only two Western doctors in Yucheng, and all of them have been requisitioned by the army, where to find doctors, medicines, I dare to say, there are only diesel drugs in military hospitals in eastern Henan." ”

Zhuang Jihua was stunned for a moment, patted his head lightly, and nodded apologetically, Cao Xinping was right, hundreds of thousands of wounded people are waiting for treatment, the army has already taken away all the doctors' medicines, and the common people will use herbal medicines at most.

The medicine is easy to do, just let the troops divide some out, but the key is the doctor, without the doctor everything is empty talk, Zhuang Jihua pondered for a moment, he couldn't find a good way, at present, about half of the 200,000 wounded were sent to Wuhan, Xuchang, Zhengzhou and other places, and the remaining half were still waiting in the field hospital to prepare for evacuation, the scale of the Shangqiu Field General Hospital was only 20,000 or 30,000, and the rest were still in the ambulance teams of each army itself, and there was a shortage of doctors.

Zhuang Jihua looked at Jia Zhongxian, Yu Xingtao and Che Jun: "How can we let the refugees live and work in peace and contentment as soon as possible, do you have any ideas?" ”

Everyone heard the conversation between Zhuang Jihua and Cao Xinping just now, since the Republic of China, there are really few generals with such semi-specific facts, and the top is the kind of Feng Yuxiang, asking soldiers to help sweep the streets, which has won praise from the society.

Jia Zhongxian cleared his throat and said: "I think the medical thing can be slowed down, after all, the medicine and doctors are very insufficient, and the hospital wounded are even more important, those seriously injured are afraid to die if they have to be relieved for a day, I thought that the first thing to solve is food and houses, in addition to clothes, cotton wool for the winter, Commander Zhuang, this is more than a million people's things, the number is too huge, the old man doesn't know what to do." ”

Zhuang Jihua nodded, and his eyes suddenly turned to Che Jun, director of the party department: "What measures does the party department plan to take?" ”

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