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Chinese generals are all professional soldiers who have nothing to do except lead troops to fight, and the army is their home. Moreover, China does not have a good retirement system, and they cannot survive once they leave the army.

Since the central authorities have used various methods to eliminate them, they have also used various methods to save themselves and survive. In peacetime, on the front line, afraid of enemy attacks, afraid of being disarmed by friendly Central Army. In this case, there is no time to save the picture, where is the heart to resist the war? If you are cunning, you will use a lot of money to go to the central government to pull relations.

For example, Xu Yuanquan insisted on taking refuge in He Chengjun, and then used He Chengjun to dredge the attendant room. The route of the attendant's room was opened, and all reports that were unfavorable to Xu Yuanquan in the future were all withheld and not reported. As a result, Xu Jun was able to replenish the funds and then use a portion of the supplementary funds to fund his activities, thus creating a cycle of corruption and bribery.

As a qualified politician, you must have a broad mind, even if you are pretending, you have to pretend, Mr. Jiang has not done enough in this regard, his appearance is too ugly, and he is far inferior to his biggest opponent in political propaganda.

It is for these reasons that the Third Army is in a difficult position. Fortunately, the commander of the First Theater is Wei Lihuang, and he can basically treat the troops who can contribute to the war of resistance equally. Therefore, putting aside patriotic enthusiasm, Sun Tongxuan still has to work hard to make achievements so that the Third Army has a capital that people look at differently. And the price is the loss of officers and soldiers.

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The sky was bright, and the morning breeze was still cold on my face. The birds of the forest are singing indulgently, as if to open the way for the sun's departure.

Hurried back to Yongcheng, Yang Tianfeng only stayed at his home in Huangkou Town for one day, discussed with Zong Hui and others and finalized the work of the Commissioner's Office, and then rushed to the headquarters of Mangshan Town non-stop to command the new stage of military operations.

After capturing Dangshan and Sucheng, the Third Column once again greatly expanded its army training, and there was no major military action, but the tactical operation of "Gong" never stopped. On the one hand, small villages and towns are not easy to attract the attention of the enemy, and can form a force unconsciously by the enemy; On the other hand, through continuous skirmishes, recruits are trained and have actual combat experience.

Based on Mangshan Town, it "arches" into Xiayi to the west; Taking Suxian County as a foothold, it "arches" to the south, consolidates the townships of Mengcheng County, and enters Huaiyuan, so as to open up the connection with the Dabie Mountain base area. This is the main development strategy of the three verticals.

Originally, the infiltration and development of these two directions were balanced, and there was no distinction between priority and subordination. However, with the victory of the Kaifeng Campaign, the Japanese army's forces in northern and eastern Henan were redeployed, and the enemy in Shangqiu was also transferred five or six hundred people, and the strength declined.

Yang Tianfeng actually somewhat anticipated this situation, and made preparations for the development of Shangqiu in advance. Now, westward expansion has become the main direction of operations. Although Shangqiu has a cavalry brigade of the Japanese army, which is considered a very strong enemy, it is still a small number of people, with a full strength of only more than 1,000 people, and all kinds of guerrilla forces can operate, and even just ten days ago, the three major teams of the Sulu-Yu detachment also conquered Yucheng (Limin Town) in one fell swoop, which shows that the enemy's defense is not tight.

The Third Column is expanding its army by a large margin, and in order to ensure the supply of food and materials, it is necessary to seize larger territory and more resources. More than 90% of the Shangqiu area is a plain, rich in grain and cotton, and is known as the "granary of eastern Henan". In Henan, Shangqiu's status is similar to that of the central and eastern Hebei plains in North China, not only because of its important geographical location, but also because of its rich strategic resources.

If the strength of the current three columns and the territory occupied, even a few thousand more soldiers and horses than planned, they can still be supplied. However, the Third Column had many differences from other anti-Japanese armed forces and needed more resources.

Taking food as an example, the officers and men of the Third Column have three meals a day, one thin and two dry, and there is meat to taste at least once a week, which is already a very high standard in China's army.

Yes! If you study the history carefully and turn the page to the history of the diet of the national * army, there are only two big words written in the whole article: bitterness.

In 1935, the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Nationalist Government formulated the army's wartime food standards: 1.5 catties of rice, 4 taels of canned meat, 2 taels of dried vegetables, 2 taels of pickles, 3 yuan of salt, and 4 yuan of soy sauce per person per day. It sounds quite rich, but the standard is the standard, and the implementation is the implementation, during the Anti-Japanese War, the actual staple food distribution for ordinary soldiers of the National X Army was nine or two meters per person per day.

This number sounds a lot at first glance, and for those urban white-collar workers who don't touch the spring water with their fingers in later generations, they can't eat this amount in two days. But what about the soldiers who had daily military training, marched to war, and had an astonishing physical exertion?

Ideal plump, realistic skinny. The usual non-staple food of the soldiers of the National * Army can be summed up in four words -- basically zero. What canned meat, dried vegetables, don't even think about it. When the war was not urgent, the man went out to buy vegetables, and when he bought greens, he ate vegetables, and when he bought turnips, he ate turnips, and if he couldn't buy anything, he boiled a pot of soup with pickles, and everyone ate a spoonful of it. This is still good, most of the time there is not even pickles, just salted rice.

What is even more surprising is that during the actual Anti-Japanese War, soldiers of the Nationalist Army could only eat two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. It is said that only the Fifth Army, the most elite mechanized unit, and the most valued Whampoa cadets in the rear, can eat three meals a day. Among them, the Fifth Army or Lao Jiang personally ordered: three meals must be eaten! to be executed.

These are all non-combat situations, and the food situation of the National X Army during the real battle can only be described as "miserable".

During World War II, almost all of the emergency rations of the participating countries and the X army were mainly canned beef, but the vast majority of soldiers of the X army had never even seen what the cans looked like in their lives. Their wartime emergency food is generally the kind of multigrain flatbread often eaten by farmers in the north, and then there is the fried noodles that everyone is familiar with. A flatbread or a pinch of fried noodles, along with the pickles you bring with you, is a meal.

It is precisely because of the lack of food and poor food that the soldiers of the national * army have what to eat, and some foreigners have been surprised to see the Chinese soldiers on the march carrying dead dogs on their guns.

In fact, in the eyes of the Chinese, that is really strange. The direct consequence is that many Chinese soldiers are still agile, but their physique, physical strength, and endurance are poor, and it is not surprising that they are at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the Japanese army.

Is it really barren and poor that there are not enough resources? This is only a non-major reason, and the fundamental reason lies in the system and whether or not efforts are made.

Eight roads are poor, eight roads are poor. But the army can share weal and woe, Nanniwan, large-scale production, millet plus rifles.... That's really a way to feed the soldiers in a desperate situation, and it's all a real strategic gain! (To be continued.) )