Sanjin belongs to the mid-latitude zone of the inland of China, belongs to the typical temperate continental monsoon climate, has the characteristics of four distinct seasons, rain and heat synchronization, sufficient sunshine, very suitable for the planting of various crops.

After the first detachment of the independent anti-Japanese resistance in the northwest of Shanxi Province gradually achieved military stability, in the economy, in addition to the trade of various commodities abroad, more emphasis was naturally placed on basic agriculture.

In the planning of the agricultural development of the base areas of the detachment, at the agricultural development meeting held by the headquarters, Kong Jie put forward a total of three aspects:

First, it is necessary to mobilize the masses and ordinary people to reclaim a large amount of wasteland and expand the area of cultivated land in the base areas at the upper and lower levels, including the relatively surrounding stable guerrilla areas.

It also encouraged the people, the disaster victims, and the troops themselves to devote themselves to the large-scale production movement of self-cultivation and self-help.

Distribute land to households, and try to implement a contract responsibility system in the vicinity of a team.

After the people sweat, they will get more food as a reward to use the land rationally and mobilize the enthusiasm of the people to plant the land to the maximum.

As for the household responsibility system for later generations.

Even though it is an excellent system, it may not be suitable in the current period, and Kong Jie has temporarily given up this plan.

At present, the situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is still grim, especially behind enemy lines, in an environment where the environment for the enemy is complex, and the soldiers and people of the Eighth Route Army should share the same hatred for the enemy.

At this time, the warriors, including the common people, were still quite pure.

When we farm, we want to make the country rich, strong, revitalized, and independent.

It is to work for faith and freedom.

Coupled with the people's support for the troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Kong Jie is not worried about the large amount of wasteland that has been reclaimed, and there is no problem of villagers helping to plant.

The military and the people are close to each other and help each other.

The food grown together ensures the food supply of the people and the troops.

Second, Kong Jie especially proposed the cultivation method of scientific planting and management of land and crops.

"What does the so-called scientific planting and management mean?

To put it simply, one is to maximize the use of land reasonably, this acre of land, you can't just plant half an acre of potatoes, and the remaining half an acre of land is all wasted, right?

There are also many crops that can be interplanted, for example, when we plant soybeans, it will not delay us to plant some sweet potatoes, only need to separate the two crops, they will not only not affect each other, but can even promote the common growth of the two crops.

We have to take into account whether the soil is barren and fertile, and consider that the land also has a buffer time for cultivation......"

"The other is the problem of breeding, we also know that those excellent seeds, the same acre of land, the final yield, that is completely different.

This is even the most important and effective way to rapidly develop our base agriculture.

Instead of tossing around in the ground, it is better to cultivate this fine seed.

For example, the high-yield potatoes in our base area yield thousands of catties per mu, if we can cultivate similar high-yield varieties of corn, sorghum, peanuts, soybeans, sweet potatoes and so on.

One person can even manage dozens or hundreds of people to eat.

Are we still worried that there is not enough food to eat? ”

Of course, this agriculture is scientific planting management and breeding, and so on.

Based on Kong Jie's remarks at the meeting, although many relevant agricultural cadres who participated in the meeting were enthusiastic, the effect was limited after all.

Therefore, Kong Jie got a relevant guidance book of "Scientific Planting and Management of Common Crops" through the system.

It contains a variety of scientific planting experience and skills in agriculture, which is quite rich.

In addition, in order to promote the rapid development of agriculture in the base area.

Kong Jie also set up an independent Ministry of Agriculture in the detachment.

He also appointed Zhou Ainong as the head of the agricultural department of the first team, and led the development of agriculture in the whole team according to the ground.

In addition, many farmers with rich experience in farming were recruited from the base areas, and the cadres of the Ministry of Agriculture gave special instruction under the guidance of books on scientific planting and management.

"As for the last one, it is naturally a question of how to defend our harvest fruit."

Chief Kong's words are clear:

"Over the years, everyone knows that our military and civilians are behind enemy lines, and there is not much arable land, and when the crops planted every year are about to be harvested in autumn, the little devils will always send people to grab grain and cause sabotage."

"The grain that our soldiers and civilians have worked so hard to grow for so long can't be stolen by others when the harvest is about to be harvested."

"If you can't protect the crops, what's the difference between planting them and not planting them? On the contrary, it nourishes the enemy in disguise! ”

"Therefore, every piece of land planted by our military and civilians, and every grain planted by our military and civilians, must ensure that not a penny is snatched away by the little devils during the harvest."

In the end, his words became unusually sharp:

"In this autumn harvest defense battle, we can only win, not lose!"

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It's late September.

At the time of the autumn harvest, many of the crops planted on the wasteland that had been reclaimed by a large number of people were close to maturity, or even ripe.

For example, this year's high-yielding potatoes, which are the key crops, are planted around August, and autumn potatoes.

By October and November this year, the harvest will be officially available.

At this point, Kong Jie is no longer clear about how huge the number of high-yield potatoes owned by the current team is.

Anyway, after the first few rounds of planting, expansion, and sowing, those high-yield potatoes have reached millions of catties.

In addition to the new research of the Ministry of Agriculture on the detoxification of high-yielding potato seeds.

It can ensure that after these high-yield potatoes have been planted one after another, the yield per mu will not drop significantly.

At the beginning, the batch of seeds was only a few dozen catties, and they were used as high-yield potatoes to ignite the prairie fire.

Now it has already spread all over Taihang and Taiyue, and even the corners of the base areas in central and southern Hebei.

Along with the spread of this high-yield potato, there is also the name of Kong Jie.

But all rumors will gradually become outrageous.

Some say that it is the high-yield potato cultivated by the head of Kong.

Others say that it was a coincidence that the head of the Kong regiment didn't know where to get the high-yield potatoes.

Gradually, Kong Jie was rumored to be the father of these high-yielding potatoes.

It is said that some troops even called this high-yield potato "Lao Kong potato" to thank Kong Jie for bringing these high-yield potatoes to feed thousands of soldiers and civilians.

The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army even hoarded a large amount of this high-yield potato as war food.

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In addition to these potatoes, such as millet, which is millet, was planted in mid-June this year, and by late September it was almost time to harvest.

Then there are corn, sorghum, peanuts, soybeans, sweet potatoes and so on planted in July.

These are all autumn harvest crops.

Detachment command.

On the wall of the inner wall of the General Staff, a map that is particularly special compared to the usual military operation map is hanging at this time.

It is marked with a large number of red dots with a red pen, scattered irregularly throughout the map.

Like sesame seeds scattered on the map, some are clustered together, and some are distributed in twos and threes.

Zhou Ainong, the minister of agriculture of the first team, was introducing the specific situation to Kong Jie, Xu Guoan, and Li Wenjie on the map in front of him at this moment.

"Regiment commander, political commissar, chief of staff, you see, I have marked all the points on the entire map with a red pen."

"This is the specific distribution of all the centrally managed farmland with a large area of more than 10 acres in our base area."

"Including some of the farmland planted by the villagers, as well as the farmland cultivated by our troops themselves, and even the farmland planted by the villagers and our soldiers. It's all on the map. ”

"In addition, there are some small areas of cultivated land that are not specifically marked, distributed in the peripheral guerrilla areas, including some small scattered farmlands around the villages."

Kong Jie nodded, and made a joke with a smile:

"It's quite a bit of a hundred flowers blooming, the red flowers blooming on these maps make people happy when they look at it!"

Zhou Ainong responded: "Who said no, regiment leader, before we reclaimed a large amount of wasteland in our base area."

If the original cultivated land was marked with red dots on these maps, it would probably be less than 1/10 of the current area.

But you see, it has not been more than a year, since our detachment has vigorously carried out propaganda on reclaiming wasteland and farming to save itself.

Just one regiment of our independent second regiment, nearly 50,000 acres of surrounding wasteland have been reclaimed. ”

Then, Zhou Ainong's words were full of emotion:

"In addition, head of the regiment, when I talk about this, I only have two words for you - admiration."

"Before the drought in the Central Plains spread, you asked us to build a large number of canals around the base area, in addition to reclaiming wasteland, and using irrigation water."

"Make sure we have water for our crops."

"Later, the disaster in the Central Plains gradually spread to other provinces, and even to our team's base areas. Commander, these canals you asked us to dig in advance really came in handy. ”

"If it weren't for the large number of canals we built in advance, our farmland would not have been so good after the drought spread and our farmland was affected by the lack of irrigation water."

"In addition, what we comrades in the Ministry of Agriculture admire the most is your whimsical ideas, the head of the regiment."

"You said that since the drought has gradually become serious, our comrades in the Ministry of Agriculture, in the face of the gradual shortage of water, have broken the way that we can't think of.

Why did you get to you, the head of the regiment, and solve it in three or two sentences? ”

"Using the open bamboo as a water pipe, and then hitting the eye, drip irrigation of the crop not only saves water, but also ensures that every drop of water is delivered to the roots of the crop that need it most.

Commander, you're absolutely amazing! ”

Ahem cough cough –

Despite his thick skin, Kong Jie couldn't help but cough a few times.

This kid, I've got two praises, and it's endless.

You praise me so much, I can't bear it.

As for the application of this drip irrigation in agriculture, it naturally benefits from Kong Jie's insight on the shoulders of giants.

“…… Okay, you kid don't make a lot of sycophants, get down to business! ”

Kong Jie interrupted Zhou Ainong's words that didn't seem to be ready to stop at all.

"Yes!"

Zhou Ainong responded, and then turned to the topic and said: "Commander, please see, according to the distribution area of our main farmland marked with red dots.

Our autumn harvest defense battle this time is mainly focused on these twelve blocks. ”

As he spoke, Zhou Wainong began to work on the map, and he drew twelve circles with a pencil.

Sure enough, under these twelve circles.

There are not many red dots left on the periphery of the circle, most of them are sparsely scattered.

"Therefore, this time our autumn harvest defense battle is mainly concentrated in these twelve areas, as long as we can harvest all the crops in these twelve areas, even if the rest are lost, it will not be a big loss for us."

Kong Jie nodded, but his tightly knit brow did not loosen.

Don't look at what Zhou Ainong said lightly.

Kong Jie, Xu Guoan, and Li Wenjie knew that it was difficult to defend these twelve farmland areas.

For a long time, the main mode of the Eighth Route Army's operations behind enemy lines was often the Japanese attack, and the Eighth Route Army defended with guerrilla warfare.

The devils set off sweeps behind enemy lines again and again.

The Eighth Route Army carried out counter-sweeps again and again.

The most troublesome thing for the Japanese army's attack on the Eighth Route Army was that there was no fixed offensive target at all, and the Eighth Route Army could only be led by the nose in the mountains and fields, resulting in the final sweep in vain.

"The Great Age of Genes"

And in the current autumn harvest defense battle, the Japanese army must have also found out the news.

These twelve areas may be drawn on the map of the Devil's Command at this moment.

No matter how powerful a team is, it is impossible to transfer the fixed land.

In this way, the Japanese army has a fixed offensive target for this operation.

These farmlands that cannot be moved at all are actually much more difficult for a team to defend again.

"Recently, the disaster situation in various counties has been serious, and the enemy-occupied areas of the devils have been affected more than our base areas."

"In addition, not long ago, we intercepted the Japanese army's transportation of military rations many times."

"This batch of autumn harvest grain is not only important to us, but also to the little devils."

"This is also the reason why before these crops are ripe, so far, the devils have not carried out any attacks on the farmland in our base area."

"The little devil is also counting on robbing our autumn harvest grain for the New Year!"

Kong Jie continued to analyze: "Therefore, we can fully imagine that in the autumn harvest defense battle around these farmlands, the devils will definitely use no less troops. ”

"In the case of a set goal, the devil's infantry, tank troops, including aircraft and artillery, may be used."

"So in this autumn harvest defense battle, comrades......" Kong Jie's words paused, "The scale of the battle is probably not small!" ”

In silence, everyone thought about the map.

After a while, Chief of Staff Xu Guoan opened his mouth and said: "Lao Kong, this time the little devil has a clear attack target, once the battle begins, we will definitely suffer the fierce attack of the devil."

We need to be well prepared.

I suggest that the military defense deployment of the base areas be adjusted to a certain extent in the future, and the focus of defense should be gradually shifted to these 12 farmland areas. ”

Zhou Ainong nodded frequently when he heard this, the soldiers and civilians of the detachment have worked hard for so long, and the autumn harvest grain they have grown, otherwise the little devil raised by the son of a dog will be ruined.

Kong Jie didn't reply immediately, and after a moment of silence, he said: "Lao Xu, you said that in our team, the soldiers often say, what is the best defense?" ”

Xu Guoan instantly understood what Kong Jie meant, and said in amazement:

"I said Lao Kong, don't you still want to attack?"

"Why not?"

"The devil chooses to attack, and we don't know the time, place, troops, and firepower.

And the little devil is very clear about the farmland target to be attacked, in this case, no matter how good our defense is, it will eventually fall into passivity.

Being beaten passively is not our team's style.

So I was thinking, instead of waiting for the little devil to take the initiative to attack us, it is better for us to attack the little devil and take the lead in attacking the little devil in turn. ”

Kong Jie said loudly.

"Lao Kong, then how do you want to fight?" Xu Guoan asked, the so-called "raccoon dog", his eyes also glowed.

can take the initiative to attack, who the hell wants to be beaten passively?

Kong Jie smiled, his smile was unusually bright, "Lao Xu, are you a lake?"

Seeing that the autumn harvest season is coming, the crops in our farmland are ripe, aren't the crops in the little devil's farmland also ripe?

Why, he is allowed to rob us, and we are not allowed to rob his little devil?

Is there any royal law left? ”

Xu Guoan: "......"

Li Wenjie: "......"

Zhou Ainong: "......"