[The Iron Blood King of the Anti-Japanese Army] Chapter 412: The Problem of Food (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything!) ）

The meeting continued, and after Yang Chengwu sat down, Liu Fengchi, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke: "Commander, as far as I know, the Wuhan side has given us a total of one army and two divisions, and the total is less than twenty regiments. ”

Ma Zheng smiled and said, "Lao Jiang will definitely not be happy when we do this, there is no doubt about this." However, it doesn't matter to us whether Lao Jiang Gao is unhappy or not, and it doesn't matter to us whether we fight devils for him. Besides, this army was raised by someone from our horses, and it didn't cost the Nationalist Government a dime, so how and how much to expand the army was formulated according to the actual situation, and it had nothing to do with the Nationalist Government. ”

"Commander, the troops have expanded so many people at once, and the equipment and food required are astronomical, and our logistics can keep up?" Logistics Minister Wang Hansen asked.

"We should not lack weapons and equipment, although we have suffered a lot of losses in this operation, but the captured booty is also amazing, it is completely possible to equip the armed forces with captured weapons, and our arsenal is now regular, and rifles and ammunition can basically be self-sufficient. It's just that there is still a lack of artillery, especially large-caliber artillery, this slowly. ”

Then Ma Zheng continued: "The most important thing is the issue of food, we are not short of money, what we lack is food. The provinces we occupy are all bitter cold lands, there are few places that can be cultivated, and the places where we really produce food are either occupied by little devils or by the national government, and in addition, we have a shallow foundation and have no accumulation, so the food problem is the biggest test we are facing now. ”

Wang Hansen nodded and said: "The commander is right, the grain stockpiled by our military region now lasts for a maximum of twenty days, and after twenty days, we will all be hungry." And after a while, it will be the season of spring ploughing, and many farmers do not even have the most basic seeds in their hands, so we must provide them with seeds and necessary food, so that they can persist until this autumn harvest, otherwise they will miss the spring ploughing, and they will also encounter a food crisis next year, which will become a vicious circle! ”

Ma Zheng thought for a while and said: "Although the problem of food is severe, it is not an unsolvable problem. On the one hand, we can raise grain through our own channels, as far as I know, there was a bumper harvest of grain in the Hetao Plain last year, so Fu Yisheng must have a large amount of grain in his hands, and we can buy from it. In addition, there were basically no natural disasters in the northern grasslands last year, and the herdsmen's cattle and sheep were also fat and strong, so we could also buy cattle and sheep with them, in short, we tried every means to increase grain stocks and deal with the crisis! ”

Wang Hansen said: "Fu Yisheng does have food there, but we contacted him, and he refused to provide us with food. ”

"That's because the conditions you gave are not attractive enough, Fu Yisheng is not short of money, if you take money to trade with him, you will definitely be blind. But as far as I know, Fu Yisheng has now fallen out with his old master Yan Xishan, and he is now in urgent need of expanding his strength, but he has no weapons and equipment. It just so happens that we have seized a large number of miscellaneous weapons this time, including Hanyang-made, old sleeves, Ying Qiqi and other old-fashioned equipment that we don't look down on, so you can talk to Fu Yisheng on behalf of the military region and exchange equipment for food, I believe he will agree! Ma Zheng said.

"I'll try my best, I hope Fu Yisheng is really in urgent need of weapons and equipment!" Wang Hansen said.

Yun Jian also said: "Actually, we still have a channel where we can obtain a large amount of food, as long as this channel is opened, it doesn't matter if Fu Yisheng disagrees or not." ”

Ma Zheng looked at Yun Jian, and then said with a smile: "The political commissar is talking about the Japanese, right?" ”

"Well, we captured more than 13,000 Japanese soldiers this time, and there are also more than 10,000 Japanese expatriates in Chengde and Zhangjiakou, and now Japan has not reacted, but paper can't contain the fire, as long as Japan knows that so many Japanese have fallen into our hands, we will inevitably let Sugiyama Moto, an old devil, find a way to rescue him."

Then Yun Jian continued: "And as far as I know, the vast majority of our prisoners are soldiers of the Fourth Division of the Japanese Army, and the Fourth Division is backed by Prince Zaihito Miyaji, Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army. ”

Ma Zheng nodded and said: "Well, what the political commissar said makes sense, it just so happens that I am also thinking about this matter, in the past two years, we have also exchanged prisoners with the Japanese several times, in exchange for at least 100,000 captured soldiers, I think the Japanese army does not have many prisoners now." And this time we captured as many as 25,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians, if we were to exchange with the previous one, the Japanese might not be able to take out so many prisoners, and they were forced to even force the Japanese army to capture ordinary people and pretend to be Kuomintang prisoners, so this exchange plan can be flexible! But now that Sugiyama Moto's old devil is not in a hurry, we have to add fire to this old devil! ”

"Commander, what's the addition?" Wang Hansen said puzzled.

"Didn't that old thing in Sugiyama Moto, during this battle, announce to the outside world that he would not accept the surrender of our army, and threatened that after the city was broken, there would be no armor left, and all the soldiers and civilians would be executed. It just so happens that we are not easy to mess with, so we turned around and asked Chen Jiaying to find someone to say that in order to take revenge on the North China Front, our army plans to execute more than 10,000 prisoners of the Fourth Division on the spot, and we will also put the heads of the captives into Jingguan! Ma Zheng said.

"Real executions?" Wang Hansen asked in surprise.

"Of course it's fake, you know the discipline of our Eighth Route Army, it's forbidden to kill prisoners! So sometimes, if you really encounter those heinous troops, I will let you kill the enemy directly on the battlefield, just like the 16th Division that fought a few days ago, which is one of the culprits of the Nanjing Massacre, so we have almost no prisoners left in this battle. But you have to remember that once you are out of the battlefield, a captive is a captive, and you must not be executed at will, otherwise we will be the ones who commit the crime! Ma Zheng said.

"What if the Japanese don't believe it?" Wang Hansen asked again.

"They will believe it, meanness is the pass of the despicable, and the Japanese have dirty hearts, so in their hearts we are also the same filthy as them. Besides, even if this kind of thing is changed, we would rather believe it than not, in case we really execute these people, the consequences will definitely not be something that Sugiyama Moto, an outdated army general, can afford! Ma Zheng said.

"That's okay, just do it according to the commander's wishes, and I'll find Chen Jiaying to do this after the meeting!" Wang Hansen took a puff of dry tobacco pouch and said.

Ma Zheng continued: "That's all for the food matter, in short, the military region will do everything possible to solve this matter, and it will definitely not let the soldiers go hungry to fight." Of course, during this time, the province still has to save some money, and the food standard of the troops can be appropriately lowered. ”

"Yes!"

Then Ma Zheng said again: "The military region headquarters has also discussed the issue of the defense area of the troops, and decided to establish the Suixi Military Division, the Chabei Military Division, and the Renan Military Division, and the original Suixi Military Subdivision will be renamed the Suidong Military Subdivision, the Jining Military Subdivision will be renamed the Yanbei Military Subdivision, and the Xinghe Military Subdivision will be renamed the Chanan Military Subdivision. The reorganized 1st Division is still stationed in the Yanbei Military Division, and the military division is stationed in Jining. The defense area of the Second Division was expanded to the entire southern Chasa region, and the garrison was also moved from Xinghe to Zhangjiakou in the east. ”

"The headquarters of the Third Division is in Renan, and the administrative office is located in Chengde. The Fourth Division will be stationed in the Suixi Military Sub-district and will be stationed in Baotou. The Fifth Division stayed behind in the Suidong Army Sub-district to defend the headquarters of the Military Region. The rest of the units directly under the military regions are stationed in Qixian near Guisui as mobile troops. ”

"After the troops are stationed in their respective defense areas, you will take the place of the headquarters of the military region to preside over all the work in various localities, including the local political power in the area under your jurisdiction, so you have a heavy responsibility. Do you have any clarity on your location, and do you have any opinions? (To be continued.) )