For the large rear base of Yibin, conscription is only one of the functions. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In Huang Haoran's plan, by the end of 1939 at the latest, Yibin must have munitions supporting industries capable of keeping the 25th Army running.

Although the equipment and specialists of the USSR have not yet arrived, the infrastructure can be built first.

The first thing to be built is the barracks, the number of personnel is increasing every day, the housing is never enough, and there are also the venues and facilities needed for the training of recruits, which are the most basic guarantees.

The location of the factory should consider concealment. For a long time to come, the Japanese will have air supremacy, and if it is built in an open area, it will undoubtedly be a target.

In addition to this, roads have to be built. Raw materials, heavy equipment, guns, ammunition, and military supplies must be transported by road. It is absolutely necessary to repair the road in Yibin in advance.

With so many infrastructure projects, a lot of manpower has to be invested if there is no large machinery and equipment. Fortunately, the training office will screen out a large number of unqualified strong men every day. Although these people could not meet the conscription requirements of the 25th Army, they were still fully competent as laborers after they had eaten and drunk.

At present, Yibin is under construction everywhere. The daily expenses of the army and tens of thousands of civilians alone are quite a large amount. Add to that the huge cost of procuring raw materials locally. The money was poured out like water, attracting a flock of merchants from the surrounding area. New trading houses and industries are opening every day in the county, and the economy has become unprecedentedly prosperous.

The strong men who pass the screening will be sent by the training office to the new barracks in the west of the county. After the veterans at the front arrived, Wang Huanzhi selected 600 of them to serve as education non-commissioned officers to educate the recruits individually. All the training in the recruit camp is from the perspective of actual combat, except for discipline regulations and queue training, which can be said to be a complete abandonment of the "Infantry Drill Code" issued by the Wuhan government.

"Give me to lie on the ground and crawl forward, and my chin must rub against the soil! Raising your head will not be of any other fart than being shot! Say what about you? Dare the look up! I don't want to die, do I~"

"The machine gun has a maximum of three bursts, the firing position must be changed! The little devil's grenadier came quickly and accurately, and he had to see Lord Hades to shoot a box of bullets on the spot! So to be a good machine gunner, you first have to learn to run! Twenty meters of roundabout and back, loaded guns, full loads, fifty trips, start! ”

"Give me a two-second delay before throwing the grenades out, or the little devil will throw them back at you!" Don't die in the hands of your own weapons, it's too embarrassing......"

"From now on, you must carry a gun wherever you go, even if it is a squatting hut, you must hold it for me!"

"Tell me! What is the mission of the military? "Fight and prepare for war!"

The training heat on the field made Huang Haoran feel very satisfied, and the last two slogans were explained to the training office after he arrived in Yibin. In Huang Haoran's view, a large part of the reason why the soldiers of the Republic of China lack the will to fight is because they do not know what their mission is. Instead of letting these captured strong men learn the great principles of protecting their families and defending the country, it is better to say to them simply and rudely. From the moment they stepped into the barracks, these people were left with only two things left to do - to fight and to prepare for war!

These people must be made aware that maybe tomorrow, maybe the next minute, they will be on the battlefield. Only by training hard when preparing for war can you survive a real war.

All the hardships I suffered on the training ground were for myself!

The body is the foundation of training, and if you want to have a good body, you must first eat well. After inspecting the training ground, Huang Haoran went straight to the cooking class.

There was no extra money to build a spacious and bright canteen, and the recruits ate in bamboo huts they had built themselves. The containers used for the cooking class to hold vegetables and staple foods are all wooden barrels. Two buckets of vegetables and a bucket of rice, plus a bucket of soup. This is a standard meal configuration for a platoon of recruits.

"Practice so hard, you have to do a good job~"

Huang Haoran personally uncovered the lids on the four wooden barrels one by one, green vegetables and tofu, stewed fish, brown rice steamed potatoes, and thick oil beads floating on the surface of the soup in addition to egg flowers, which is not rich, but it can also ensure the energy and protein required for training.

The five counties of Yibin are rich in water resources, the price of fish and shrimp is cheap, and there is a lot of protein, so it has become the first choice for daily purchases. Brown rice mixed with potatoes is steamed together, also because the budget for vegetables is limited, and I can't afford polished rice. Green vegetable tofu doesn't cost a few bucks, the most expensive eggs only dare to be used to make soup, as for the vegetable oil floating on the surface, it should be the idea that the cooking squad came up with to replenish the oil and water for the soldiers.

"How many meals of meat can I eat per month?"

"Every five or ten, I eat a meal of meat, mainly chickens and ducks, and pork is used less......"

If you talk about the line of fire, this kind of food supply is quite good. But Yibin is in the rear, and he can only eat some meat dishes every five days, which can only show that there is a financial problem.

"Where is the money going? I said that I want to ensure the nutrition of soldiers......"

The accompanying officer of the logistics department stepped forward. Their immediate boss is Huang Haoran's sworn brother Wang Huanzhi. Under the strict management of Deputy Commander Wang, the logistics department has always been known as Huang Haoran's money bag.

"The cost of infrastructure is too high, and there is also the cost of buying military training clothing...... And prices have been rising lately...... The allocation of funds from the Ministry of Military Affairs is simply a drop in the bucket...... The books of the logistics department have long been ......"

The officer who reported the situation looked like he wanted to say something, and Huang Haoran realized that the actual situation in the logistics department was probably even worse than that. In order to take care of Wang Huanzhi's face, he summoned the officer of the logistics department to him and asked in a low voice: "What's unpleasant, let's talk about it now...... Knowing that it is not easy for you to do logistics work, I don't want to be held responsible, I just want to know how short of money is now? ”

"Report to the general seat, our Yibin Garrison Command, we haven't paid military salaries for two months......"

The one who can be sent to Huang Haoran's side to follow the inspection is, of course, Wang Huanzhi's henchman. Seeing that there was no other person next to him, the logistics officer knew everything about the question raised by Huang Haoran.

"Since we started the 99th Division, in addition to the national hardship salary given by the Ministry of Military Affairs, we have to pay another one ourselves, and we have to add another one in wartime. Later, it was changed from a division to an army, and it is still the same. Then there were more and more troops, and they kept fighting, and the salaries naturally increased...... The hole in the account will not be filled slowly...... In order to ensure the front-line combat troops, Deputy Commander Wang could only listen to the military salaries on the Yibin side...... But rest assured, the national disaster salary is still paid, and we have even advanced the part that the Ministry of Military Affairs has not fully allocated, and the suspension is only our internal military salary, and there will be no handle in the hands of others......"

Huang Haoran is willing to stop paying the national difficult salary. High military salaries are one of the important means of winning the hearts and minds of the people. It is impossible to talk about dedication only when soldiers fight in war, and this high-risk profession needs to have correspondingly high remuneration so that officers and soldiers have no worries about the future. The suspension of Yibin is just the beginning, and as the construction continues, the subsequent expenses will only get bigger and bigger. According to the current trend, if there is no way to open source, sooner or later Wang Huanzhi will hit the combat troops with the idea of intercepting the flow. That is to shake the morale of the military.

Cooperation projects with Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan have not yet been put on track, and it is unlikely that there will be a large amount of investment in the short term. Huang Haoran's private pocket has also been taken out.

Finding a way to make money has become a top priority...... (To be continued.) )