"Regiment commander, the logistics department has counted all the food we captured in this sortie, which can be maintained until the autumn harvest, and this is still the case that the second battalion has not been rebuilt and the troops are not full!" Zhong Chenggong frowned and introduced.

"Once the troops are fully established and the second battalion is rebuilt, the total strength of the whole regiment will reach 3,000 people."

"In the absence of a fight, each soldier needs one and a half catties of food, which adds up to nearly 150,000 catties a month. In the face of such a continuous battle that has just ended, the consumption of grain will increase greatly, which means that after the autumn harvest, we must store nearly 2 million catties of grain to meet the needs of the troops for a year! ”

"However, according to statistics, the total population of the two towns under our control is just over 60,000. After the autumn harvest, even if a grain is not snatched away by the devils, we can only collect 800,000 catties of public grain at most, which is less than half of the total! ”

"Our standard for apportioning public food is too low, and for the people who only have food ration fields, it is not even 5 percent. As for the original government army and the little devils, it is often 30 percent of the public grain apportionment, or even 50 percent! ”

"But even so, I estimate that we will be lucky if there will be four or five hundred thousand catties of public grain that will fall into our hands in the end!"

"After all, the devils are not vegetarians, they will definitely not watch the grain fall into our hands, and after the autumn harvest, they will definitely send troops into our base area to carry out armed food grabbing. When the time comes, the base area will definitely lose a lot of grain! ”

Wang Ping frowned and didn't speak, and waited until Zhong Chenggong finished speaking, and the expression on his face fluctuated slightly.

"It seems that we have harvested a lot of fertile land by exterminating the remnants of the Japanese puppet army in the base area, although we promise to distribute these lands to the landless people free of charge, but the grain still belongs to us!"

"If I'm not mistaken, the two towns have a total of more than 16,000 acres of land, even if the average yield per mu is only 100 catties, all of them add up to more than 1.6 million catties, plus public grain, enough for us to consume for a year!"

Zhong Chenggong replied with a wry smile: "Commander, you only counted the total output, not the part that was distributed to the tenants. ”

"According to the agreement, those tenants will take almost 50% of the grain, and the grain that can fall into our hands in the end will definitely be less than 800,000 catties. All together, it is only 15.6 million catties, and there is still a gap of 4.5 million catties! ”

"Also, this is still a good year and there is no reduction in production. If there is a drought in the future, we will definitely receive less grain. So, in order to prevent accidents, the best thing to do is to take advantage of this year's harvest and stock up on a little more grain. However, we can't make up enough food for the next year, let alone hoard more? ”

A word to wake up the dreamer!

Wang Ping suddenly thought that starting next year, the whole of North China would experience a major drought that would last for three years.

During these three days, because of the reduction in grain production and the blockade by the Japanese puppet army, almost all the base areas controlled by the Eighth Route Army fell into the most difficult time. In the end, we had to implement a series of measures, such as streamlining the administration and self-sufficiency, to tide over this difficulty.

At that moment, a very bold idea popped up in Wang Ping's mind.

Immediately report your foresight to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and now begin to prepare for the next three-year drought, so as to reduce the losses of the Eighth Route Army as much as possible.

However, as soon as this idea appeared, it was rejected by himself.

Although he knew the deputy commander-in-chief, he suddenly told him such a big thing, and it was something that had never happened. The other party will definitely regard himself as a psychopath, and even arrest himself, saying that it is possible to disturb the morale of the army.

After thinking about it, Wang Ping decided to hide this idea in his heart.

However, he did nothing and watched the drought occur, causing unprecedented losses to the Eighth Route Army and the people in the base areas, and he was unwilling.

After some painful hesitation and choice, Wang Ping decided to do his best to minimize the losses of the Eighth Route Army as much as possible.

Seeing that Wang Ping's face was constantly changing, Zhong Chenggong thought that something had happened to Wang Ping, and immediately asked, "Commander, did you think of something?" ”

Wang Ping no longer hesitated, and directly decided: "Chief of Staff, you just said that we must take advantage of this autumn harvest to gather at least two million catties of grain to meet our needs for the next year. Now I'll tell you, two million catties is too little, and we have to scrape together at least ten million catties, or more. ”

"Impossible!" Zhong Chenggong denied it without thinking about it.

"Even if the whole of Linfen is our base area, all the public grain will be collected and it will be less than three million catties of grain. Unless we forcibly collect grain from the common people according to the proportion of the devil's apportionment of grain, it will be impossible to collect 10 million catties! ”

Wang Ping was unmoved and continued: "10 million catties is my minimum requirement, and 20 million catties is my goal. In the next six months, the task of our new regiment will be to produce grain. If we can't get enough public food, we will buy it, and if we can't buy it, we will grab it from the devil! ”

"Why, Commander!" Zhong Chenggong asked rhetorically with a frown.

"We only have 3,000 people, and even if we can eat closely, 10 million catties of grain will be enough for us to eat for four or five years. And even if we get so much food, there will be no place to put it! ”

Wang Ping didn't explain, and continued to insist: "There is no reason, 10 million catties of grain, this is my minimum requirement, and not a catty can be less!" ”

"Also, what you just said reminded me that even if we had gathered so much food, there would be no grain storehouse. Now there is still more than half a month before the autumn harvest, and it seems that we still have a lot of prisoners in our hands, so let the guard company take them into the deep mountains, a few hidden places far away, dig caves, use them as our grain depots, and hoard grain! ”

"Let the engineer platoon also cooperate with the past, they know where it is suitable to dig a cave, where it is dry, and the stored grain will not rot!"

"The most important thing is that the grain depot must be hidden!"

Wang Ping's firmness made the chief of staff, who was still ready to continue persuasion, obediently shut his mouth.

Then he hesitated for a moment and asked: "I will arrange the matter of digging a hole in the ground and repairing the grain depot in a while." However, regiment commander, 10 million catties of grain is not a small amount. We can't increase the burden on the people, how to make it up, you have to give me a bottom, otherwise I won't worry! ”

"Three steps!" Wang Ping replied very directly.

"The first step is public food, and the logistics department can take care of this!"

"The second step is to buy, this year's grain harvest is bumper, the price of grain is definitely not high, and those landlords and gentry must have hoarded a lot of grain in their hands. We buy directly from them with real money, and we buy as much as we want. You can also buy grain from the surrounding area through grain merchants. If possible, they can also buy military rations from the Jin Sui army and even the government army. As for the problem of money, I will solve it, and this will also be handled by the logistics department! ”

"The third step is to rob, grab it from the devil!"

"There are more than 10,000 puppet troops in Linfen, and they need to consume a lot of food every day, and these grains are the targets of our robbery!"

"And the Tongpu Railway, which is a fat, oily railway. In the past, our new regiment did not have the strength and could not move. But now it's different, if we can't get food by guarding such a railway, then we have occupied such a good position in vain! ”

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