Section 57 How to improve the lives of soldiers

When the governors at all levels were busy organizing various celebration banquets and toasting parties, Shi was also busy. Of course, the instincts he had always cultivated from the battlefield made him naturally not think about enjoying and celebrating, and the things he needed to consider at the moment were how to make the people of Yifeng live a prosperous life, and how to establish a complete supplementary system for the independent regiment. Now that he has taken root here in Yifeng, he must not only stand upright, but also stand firmly. A small county in a place may not be anything to others, there are several provinces that have been occupied by devils in the past two years, and there are countless cities, not to mention county seats. But it was different for Shishi, this was the first time he was in charge of a county, the first time he was responsible for the survival of two or three hundred thousand people, not only in terms of war, but also in daily labor, this new experience made him bear a lot of pressure, but also full of energy.

As the saying goes, the more you give, the more you get. In the past two years, Shi has a very deep understanding of this sentence on the battlefield, and he has taken risks with his brothers countless times, and has been in a desperate battle countless times. However, it is this act that seems almost death-seeking to outsiders that makes them continue to win and grow stronger. Today, it has developed into a powerful independent regiment with 4,000 soldiers. Yifeng is the same, a little smaller, a little poorer, but when the landlord and squire were almost swept away by him, he believed that he could take his brothers and the people to do something out of it.

Some time ago, he commanded the brothers in the regiment to confiscate the fields, and half of the fertile land is now owned by the soldiers of the Independent Regiment, when it was already September, and it was the season when the grain was about to be harvested. Now that these landlords and squires have long been finished, the income from autumn grain is naturally included in the category of military rations by them. Of course, now the family of the independent regiment is too rich, and the grain is piled up in warehouses, and these autumn harvest grains are just used to lend to the displaced people. When the grain is harvested in the field next year, the borrowed grain will be reaped. When the time comes, the borrowed grain, together with the rented grain handed over by the ordinary people, will be enough to fill the warehouse again, as long as such a virtuous circle is ensured, not only the rations of the soldiers will be guaranteed, but the common people will also be filled. As long as there is enough to eat, who still wants to go up to the mountains to be a bandit and live a life that is not guaranteed?

In this way, the place is stable, the soldiers can train with peace of mind, and the combat effectiveness will be greatly improved, and it will be more effective to fight devils.

Of course, food is only one aspect, and managing the stomachs of the people and soldiers is only the most basic requirement and task. After all, it is a war year, and the combat effectiveness of the army still comes first. In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of a unit, it is necessary to proceed from two aspects: On the one hand, it is necessary to improve the quality of the soldiers and enhance the command level of the officers. On the other hand, it is to strengthen the reserves of weapons and ammunition. In terms of weapons, they are not lacking, when they were in Dacheng before, they moved the devil's warehouse to an empty one, and it was too late to move the many things they had seized, plus a batch of weapons and ammunition replenished by the military department, not only can they fully equip all the newly formed troops, but they can also organize such extravagant troops as artillery companies, although the main combat firearms of the artillery company are grenadiers, but they are better than enough in number, easy to carry, and within a short distance, they can cause quite strong lethality.

Sufficient weapons and ammunition seem to have always been their advantage, before the reorganization into an independent regiment, the combat power of the 302 regiment far exceeded the general infantry regiment, which of course there are many veterans, the relationship between the fierce generals, but more still rely on their weapons and firepower that are not weaker than the Japanese army, although there is no mountain artillery and field artillery, and there is no air superiority, but the rifles and light and heavy machine guns captured in one victory after another make their firepower in the hand-to-hand combat is not weaker than the Japanese army. In particular, the stability of the rifle, which rarely jams, ensures the consistency and lethality of the fire.

For the time being, there is no need to worry about the issue of firepower, and the most important issue is the quality of the soldiers and the quality of the officers and men. In order to improve the quality of the soldiers, it is natural to increase the intensity and difficulty of training, and it is best to use actual combat to make them adapt to the battlefield as soon as possible, so that they can become qualified fighters in the shortest possible time. And the first thing to do to achieve this is to improve the food of the soldiers. Perhaps many people think that this is simply incredible, what does improving food have to do with the quality of soldiers? In fact, this is mainly related to the era of life.

If it is an era of peace and abundance, naturally every household will not lack rice and grain, and every household will raise pigs, chickens and ducks, and will be self-sufficient in meat. But now in this world, even rice can't be eaten, let alone meat, people don't eat meat, the amount of food is large, the nutrition of all aspects of the body can not keep up, not only lack of strength, the growth of bones is not sound, such a sick and weak body, in the hand-to-hand combat is naturally much worse than the Japanese army. The so-called poor scholars, rich martial arts, and martial arts practitioners, if the nutrition can't keep up, the body will collapse while practicing, and this is the situation that the stone wants to change. The soldiers of the independent regiment must not only have the determination and courage to fight with the devils, and have the bloody nature of exchanging their lives with the devils, but also have the ability to kill the devils face-to-face.

Of course, the idea is beautiful, the reality is also very cruel, and the problems in front of the stone are even more arduous. The main and most difficult question is where does the meat come from?

Generally speaking, if you want to eat meat, the most direct way is to raise pigs. Pig is a good thing, it grows fast, and the meat production is sufficient, that is, the meat and bones are used to make soup, which is also a great tonic delicacy. In the past, each family had to raise a few heads, except for killing one head for the whole family to eat at the juncture of the New Year's Festival, the others were sold for money to subsidize the family, but now it is definitely not possible.

Pig food is generally rice bran or leftovers, not pigweed. In the case that people are not full, rice bran is also one of the important foods of people, many people use rice bran as cakes or porridge to satisfy hunger, but also to support a period of time, in this case, it is naturally impossible to feed pigs. Then only cut pigweed every day to feed, but this is also a troublesome thing, although the growth cycle of pigweed is very fast, but it only grows at the water's edge, not to mention the trouble of cutting, the number is also limited, other weeds, pigs actually eat, but do not like to eat, and can not be fed for a long time, so in this way, the number of pigs is actually limited.

The other is cattle and sheep raising. We often hear that the children of the Changgong family have been herding cattle for the landlord since they were young, but in fact, this cow is not a cow for eating, but a cow for ploughing the land. Cattle are valuable items for ordinary people, not ordinary people can afford to buy, if you can have a cow at home, you can plough more than a dozen acres of land, who would be stupid enough to kill cattle and eat meat? Another point is that the growth cycle of cattle is relatively long, generally speaking, it takes more than two years to grow and mature, which is naturally more precious. Raising sheep is good, but the reproductive ability of the sheep flock is not outstanding, each litter is generally one or two, and it takes a period of time to breed if you want to grow into a scale. But what Shi lacks now is time, he needs a lot of meat to supply the troops now, so as to improve the food of the army from now on, and after the Japanese army withdraws, he will start training the army immediately in order to cope with the battle that may come at any time.

After all these have been eliminated, all that remains are poultry such as chickens and ducks, which are much faster than these livestock, and hens hatch eggs, and a nest is a litter, which is very easy to scale, and obviously this is very important for a unit of the size of an independent regiment. But Shi Zhizi doesn't have any concept of this in his mind, in his concept, raising chickens and ducks obviously need to be fed rice and other food, can this kind of consumption independent group afford? With Yifeng's current rice grain storage situation, is this consumption cost-effective?

Stone does not understand these, so after having a general direction, he urgently summoned Lin Xiufeng to come to the meeting, in the past few months, Lin Tuan's outstanding performance in local government affairs has given him great help, and also impressed the soldiers of the independent regiment, Lin Xiufeng's outstanding performance is also to make the stone more and more dependent on the county's government affairs.

Lin Xiufeng returned to the regiment headquarters in the dust, and he has been deploying personnel and materials in the Guanshan area during this time to reclaim barren land along both sides of the river. Although Yifeng is known as Qifen Mountain, the river is vertical and horizontal, and there is still a lot of land along the river that can be cultivated, especially around Guanshan, which is the birthplace of Yexi, with clear spring water and rich nutrients, whether it is drinking or irrigation. In the past, because most of the bandits were gathered here, the landlords and gentry naturally did not set their sights here, and the ordinary people did not have the financial resources to reclaim, so most of them were barren, but now the situation is different, and the stone decided to reclaim the wasteland on a large scale, expand cultivation, and greatly increase the grain output of the county, so that the income of each household has increased, and the county's tax revenue has naturally increased.

However, most of the barren fields in the Guanshan area were for the purpose of rehousing the old and weak who had been incorporated into the "heavens no matter what", and in the case that the young and strong were all incorporated into the supplementary battalions, in order to avoid their worries, the field reclamation work must not be sloppy at all. This is also the reason why Lin Xiufeng needs to be on the scene to command, but now that the stone is calling, he also put down what he was doing and hurried back to report.

Now in vain to hear that the stone is preparing to raise chickens and ducks on a large scale to increase the supply of meat, Lin Xiufeng can't help but be a little wide-eyed, because of his family origins, he has been in contact with government affairs since he was a child, and he is far better at local affairs than stones, but people like them, who will study this kind of breeding things?

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