The problem of eating is a complex problem that the devil needs to face, and it is not easy to live.

The winter in the northwest of Hebei is a typical northern winter, the weather is cold and the water drips into ice, which can be seen everywhere, and there is no winter of chopping wood and coal, that is, it can freeze to death! Why is it that most of the rural areas in the north burn the kang, and if the kang is not burned, the house is the same as the ice cellar!

Where is there heating in this remote mountain town, if you want to heat up, you have to make a fire, Qing Shui knows that if you want to garrison, you have to face the coldest months in the mountains, which is what the Chinese call the nine severe cold, and in the plains are still afraid of the cold, this is the mountains!

How bad the Chinese people are, not only have they hidden all the grain and everything, but the wells have been destroyed, and even the door panels have been removed! The straw and firewood were still left, but no matter how you look at it, they won't burn for long.

When the devils did not come, the town began to store charcoal for the winter from January to October every year, and the wealthier people bought coal from the military camp town and other places, and then mixed it with charcoal and chopping firewood to survive the winter. The poor family relied on going up the mountain to collect firewood and buy some charcoal, and the stove and the kang were the same, and once they cooked, the walls of the house and the earthen kang were warm, and they could cope with the warmth that could go for several hours.

There is basically nothing on the mountains around the town that can be used as firewood to burn the trees, and the firewood used in the town is all cut firewood, which is cut in the distant mountains, and picked up to sell in the town, and now the old and young people in the town have moved away, who still comes to the town to sell firewood.

Well, even if the Japanese soldiers wore thick coats, the yellow tweed coat that was issued in October looked quite protective from the wind and cold, in fact, I said before that this thing is far worse than the padded jacket, and Qing Shui didn't plan to let his soldiers carry it like this for a winter.

Having a house is the first thing to do, and you have to be able to survive the winter to get a foothold, so even if you solve the problem of eating, this housing is a big problem!

It's not enough to just occupy these hundreds of houses in Zoumayi Town, if you want to make the plane airdrop go smoothly. At least a few square kilometers of airdrop field is required, which means that it must be extended at least two or three kilometers to the periphery with the town of Zoumayi as the center, judging from the current topography. To the south and north, the control area of the town should be about a kilometer out, and the mountains on both sides of the town must also be controlled.

Shimizu Dazuo thought so and gave an order, the troops had shrunk back to the town in the days when it was windy and snowy, and they had to fight back, but fortunately, the Eighth Route did not make a decent resistance, so they withdrew to the more peripheral mountains.

By the time the soldiers began to build positions on the newly acquired territory, Qing Shui understood why Balu had given him the territory so easily!

The soil on the hill was frozen hard, and the stone had a white spot with an iron pickaxe, and not even a bit of scum had been dropped!

This is the characteristic of the north, when the soil and rocks are frozen in winter. When the wind blows, the temperature drops, and the moisture in the soil begins to condense, and when the snow, especially the first snow, melts, and the snow seeps into the ground, the temperature drops below zero again at night. The depths of the soil are also beginning to freeze, and this frozen ground is as hard as stone!

The little devils are blistering on their hands, and the civil engineering work that could have been completed in an hour has not been finished all day! At this pace, if you want to complete the three-layer defense structure that Shimizu Daizo envisioned, you won't be able to finish this job in a month!

If the fortifications on the outskirts cannot be repaired, it is equivalent to a house without courtyard walls. If you want to hold on for a long time, you have to connect the entire outer position and the fortifications of the inner line to prevent this kind of surprise attack.

It is calculated according to the repair of peripheral positions. At least 10 kilometers of barbed wire is needed on the mountain beams on the east and west sides alone, which cannot be obtained on the spot, and it also needs to be transported by plane, and it weighs more than 20 tons.

As for Shimizu's special operations wing, it is allocated according to the minimum number of personnel. In fact, a lot of support units have been reduced, and the number of engineers in his wing is very small, only the number of a squadron, and it is only a simple tool to bring, and if you want to build a large fortification, it is impossible to do it under the current conditions, and the tools and machinery have to be transported by plane.

The field army is a field army, and there are many things that you don't have to worry about and do, and Qing Shui didn't want to be an officer of the garrison army because the field troops only need to march and fight, but I didn't expect that I would give up the official position of calculating trivial things such as firewood, rice, oil, and salt, and become the commander of the special operations wing, and now I have to think about these things.

The house he lived in was a very good house for a big family in the town, and as long as the charcoal fire in the brazier was extinguished for a while, this house would be untreatable!

Food, fuel, barbed wire, tools, etc., this is not the end, and most importantly, the problem of ammunition reserves, this is not to complete the task without leaving, there is still a war, Qing Shui knows his opponent, how can he let him stay here in peace until next spring.

Qing Shui understands that according to the current amount of ammunition and reserves of his wing, if he encounters the situation that the Kuroda Wing is surrounded at Xingshutai, I am afraid that he will not be able to hold out for even three days!

More than 100 tons of ammunition were reported for three months according to the base number, Shimizu Dazuo didn't sleep well for two days and two nights, and took advantage of the heavy snow to draw up a list of materials to be stationed with the staff officers, and as soon as he pulled it out, even Shimizu himself was beating in his heart, the good guy actually needed nearly 600 tons of various materials!

At this time, the staff headquarters in Beiping also frequently sent telegrams to check various numbers, and they were also preparing for the special operations wing to be stationed in the mountainous areas, and the list of materials also needed to be provided to the highest decision-making level.

The main reason is that the supply of rations is lacking, and the staff officers of the group in Peiping believe that the special operations wing is stationed, and it is not a three-month continuous march, and the ration ratio of individual soldiers, such as meat and candy, should be correspondingly reduced, and cannot be supplied according to the standard of field marching.

The seriousness of the little devil has also been exerted to his own people, and the reduced individual rations are accurate to the gram! Even sweets such as yokan were reduced from once a week to once a month, and sake was largely eliminated and only a token was reserved for senior officers.

Anyway, it's just that what can be reduced will be reduced, and what can be given less will be given, and what makes Shimizu Daizo angry the most is that the solid alcohol fuel they rationed according to the heating requirements has also been canceled, this is mainly for heating meals, and Shimizu also considers that this can be used instead of firewood to heat the stove.

The 92-style lunch box commonly used by the Japanese army in the Anti-Japanese War is divided into inner and outer boxes: the outer box is used to cook vegetables, and the inner box is used to cook soup or rice, which can cook rice and vegetables at one time.

Using the ninety-two formula and one can make two servings of rice, which saves time for cooking the next day. Before 1940, the Japanese army had to use wood or various fuels for cooking, including candles. After 1940, the Japanese army began to use portable stationary alcohol fuel, each of which could burn two lunch boxes.

In the absence of other fuel, Shimizu Daisa's list of supplies asked for a large amount of this solid alcohol fuel for long-term garrison, saving time and trouble, but I didn't expect that the gang of guys in the staff headquarters would cancel the rationing all at once.

There is only one thing that is not missing, that is, the amount of ammunition, and these young staff officers still have a little military common sense, and they know that they can't fight without bullets and shells.

Of course, the problem that worries Qing Shui Dazuo the most still happens, Beiping said that the supply will be completed at one time, and the old transport planes of the Army Aviation Brigade can do it, so they can only take six or fifteen days to replenish the way and air the materials in batches, this is what Qing Shui is most afraid of! What worries him most is the transportation of logistics materials!

The Chinese said that if you don't catch the money in your hand, it's not called money! This material that is not placed around him is not called a material, and the pilots of the Army Aviation Brigade are less reliable than the staff officers in Beiping!