Just when Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang conspired to bombard the Devil's Airport, Ma Rongshun hit the Devil's bomber that bombed the Zhizishan Bridge.

"Sorghum?"

Ze County.

Su family.

When the big landlord Old Lady Su heard the news, her brows furrowed deeply.

"You're saying that Balu no longer sells rice and white flour to the market, but starts selling sorghum?"

"Yes, sir."

The housekeeper replied:

"Fifty grain sales points, each selling 40,000 catties per day, a total of 1,000 tons per day, although it is also a pack of five catties, but they are all in bulk bags, which are not suitable for long-term storage."

"Sorghum!"

"Sorghum."

Old Lady Su paced back and forth several times and asked again:

"Do you still sell rice and white flour?"

"The report of the Eighth Route Army said that the sale would be temporarily suspended."

"Dad, two million catties of sorghum a day, this Eighth Route Army wants our lives."

Hearing the news, compared with his father, the eldest son of the Su family was very nervous:

"In this way, I am afraid that the price of food will really fall."

Sorghum is not lower than white flour and rice, and the market demand is low.

But it's also a staple.

Although they don't eat it, those Tuhaha people like it very much,

It is full and cheap.

Once a large amount of sorghum flows into the market, the demand for grain decreases, and the Eighth Route Army does not allow it to be sold in Japanese-controlled areas, the price of grain will inevitably drop, and the grain they hoard will be lost.

"Don't worry."

Old Lady Su took a deep breath and slowed down:

"Sorghum is a coarse grain with a poor taste."

"For the time being, the price of grain will not be significantly lowered."

"The sale of rice and white noodles was temporarily stopped on the Tuba Road, either because the convoy was really attacked by the Japanese and lost thousands of tons of grain, or there was not enough grain imported from abroad."

"That's not necessarily a bad thing."

"Then we..."

The eldest young master of the Su family looked at his father.

"Wait..."

Old Fox Su took a deep breath and decided to continue waiting.

A large amount of sorghum entering the market will definitely pull down the market grain price.

But it's not without a solution.

A thousand tons of sorghum per day, which is not much.

Recently, the Japanese have driven a large number of refugees into the base areas, which has intensified the demand for grain in southern Hebei, and as long as they buy a batch of food and cause a shortage of grain in the market, they will be able to stabilize the current market grain prices.

But it's a game.

How much sorghum is there in Tuba Road?

How much money do they have?

Will the Japanese interfere?

Who will have the last laugh?

If you stop now, the loss is acceptable, and the grain is sold, plus the silver dollars in the inventory can recover the mortgaged land.

···

Night.

Another piece of news reached the ears of Su Lao Fox.

"The Zhizishan Bridge was bombed by the Japanese, and the smoke can be seen more than ten miles away?"

"However, the Eighth Route Army blocked the bridge, I don't know if the bridge was blown up?"

Old Fox Su was immediately overjoyed.

The Zhizishan Bridge is a necessary passage for the Eighth Route Army to transport grain from other base areas to the southern Hebei base area, and if this bridge is blown up, the Eighth Route Army will not want to transport grain in.

Although no one saw that the bridge was not blown up.

But the fact that the Eighth Route Army blocked the bridge and did not let people approach it showed that the bridge must have been blown up by the Japanese.

In this way··

"Quick, notify all the shops and buy food immediately."

Su Lao's tone was eager.

Who wants to lose money?

If the price of grain does not fall, he can earn more than 100,000 silver dollars, and if the price of grain rises to the level of the Japanese-controlled areas, they will earn more than 500,000 silver dollars.

"Yes, sir."

The steward immediately went to execute it.

···

"According to the report, Sujiapu has stopped selling grain to the outside world and has begun to purchase grain on a large scale."

"This old fox has finally been fooled."

Hearing the report, the person in charge of economic warfare in southern Hebei breathed a sigh of relief.

The first goal set by the General Headquarters for the economic war in southern Hebei is to stabilize grain prices in southern Hebei, establish a broad and stable credit order, and complete land reform.

All three are indispensable.

With the military strength of the southern Hebei region today, and the fact that the Taiyue Mountains have attracted the attention of most of the devils, the troops can use coercive means to promote the redistribution of land.

But in this way, it will have a bad effect.

Weaken the credit order of the base areas in southern Hebei.

In the plan of the headquarters, the southern Hebei base area in the future will be a window for the economic development of the base area and a window for attracting talents, and the construction of credit order will absolutely not allow any mistakes.

Therefore, even if he spends a lot of silver dollars and grain, he spends more than ten times, or even dozens of times, to play with merchants by commercial means, so as to obtain the land in the hands of those landlords.

And now it's finally working.

The fleet of trucks alone transported 2,000 tons of grain from the Taiyue base area is 2,000 tons a day. Counting ten mule and horse convoys, that's 2,500 tons per day.

Among them, 2,000 tons of sorghum.

There were 500 tons of fine grains such as rice, white flour, etc.

This batch of grain can not only meet the grain demand of the southern Hebei base area itself and thoroughly stabilize the grain prices in the southern Hebei region, but also export it to foreign countries.

When the grain prices in the base areas in southern Hebei are stable, we can export grain, mainly sorghum, to the areas controlled by the devils, so as to solve the problem of high grain prices in the areas controlled by the devils and the lack of food for the common people.

"Haha..."

"Next, just wait for these landlords to go bankrupt."

The person in charge of economic warfare touched his chin.

This kind of battle is full of capital and directly uses the capital to pile the opponent to death, which is too comfortable to fight.

···

"These mules and horses..."

The other side.

Headquarters.

Directly under the cavalry battalion stables.

Zhang Wanhe looked at the mules and military horses in the stable in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh.

Li Yunlong got good things again,

Sorghum.

Although sorghum is not as good as rice and white noodles, lard with sorghum buns is also a delicacy, not to mention the taste, you can eat it to your heart's content, and you can eat it well.

However, sorghum is not suitable for long-term feed.

Not to mention a delicate military horse, it is a durable donkey, and it is easy to bulge the stomach and indigestion if you eat too much.

The sorghum brought by Li Yunlong is nothing special, although the quality is good, it is also ordinary sorghum, but those ordinary military mules and horses can actually use sorghum as their staple food.

And there are no problems with eating it for a long time, and fighting and carrying heavy camels, there is also no need to specially supplement much staple food.

It was very much out of Zhang Wanhe's prediction.

"Good stuff."

Zhang Wanhe's smiling face was crooked.

The military horses brought by Li Yunlong have good personalities and sufficient endurance, which greatly improves the mobility of the troops, and is even easy to feed.

In this way, a lot of staple food can be saved.

In the past, military horses and mules were required to eat corn and other things during the march and transportation of the army, but now they can eat sorghum directly.

According to Li Yunlong, there are 150,000 tons of rice, white flour and corn, 20,000 tons of pork and lard, and 500,000 tons of sorghum every month.

500,000 tons!

The entire army of the Eighth Route Army is added up, counting the militia, plus horses, mules and horses, and this is the number.

···

Some people rejoice, some people are sad.

In the base,

Whether it is the landlord or the Eighth Route Army, everyone is happy.

But the devil is different.

"The Type 99 bombers that bombed the Zhizishan Bridge lost two?"

"The Eighth Route Army has arranged a dense anti-aircraft fire network at the Zhizishan Bridge?"

Northern Review.

Garner Shun was receiving the bomber's telegram that was returning home, and his face suddenly turned pale.

The new Type 99 twin-engine bomber was expensive to build and very difficult to manufacture, and only 50 were allocated to the North China Front, and all of them were planned to be delivered within three months.

Now on the first mission, two aircraft were lost.

And··

"The other four were also damaged to varying degrees?"

"Two in need of overhaul?"

"The bridge wasn't blown up either?"

The follow-up news also didn't have a good one.

Although the 12.7 mm heavy machine gun has a certain anti-aircraft capability, and the anti-aircraft firing range is as high as 800 meters, the Zhizishan Bridge is still arranged with twin installations, which are specially used for air defense.

But after all, it is not a specialized anti-aircraft weapon, its ballistic performance is poor, and its power is insufficient.

The actual air defense efficiency is relatively poor.

Coupled with the inexperience of the first air defense operation of the independent regiment, even if the devil was careless, the six planes descended to a height of 600 meters without maneuvering to evade.

Only two fights were brought down.

Li Yunlong was very dissatisfied.

But for the devil, it's complete bad news.

"About fifty anti-aircraft weapons."

When the remaining four bombers returned to the airfield, Major General Garner Shunzheng, commander of the North China Front, took a look at the two planes that needed to be overhauled, and his eyes went black on the spot, and he almost fainted.

The engine has been broken down, and the repair has to be replaced, and you can only wait for domestic parts, which will take at least ten days,

Although ammunition and fuel are still available,

But the bombing program had to be suspended.

The only good news is that, judging from the bullet holes and the warheads remaining in the fuselage, the enemy's anti-aircraft weapon is a large-caliber machine gun, which is expected to have an effective anti-aircraft altitude of about 700 meters to 1,000 meters.

As long as the bomber increases altitude and flies at an altitude of about a thousand meters, there is almost no threat.

But

Even if it is only an anti-aircraft machine gun, as long as there are enough of them, it can effectively cover low altitudes.

Bombing targets in mountainous areas, dropping bombs at an altitude of more than a thousand meters, has little effect.

"General."

"Commander Tada called."

At this time, a staff officer came over and conveyed Tada's inquiry.

"I'll report back to the general personally."

Garner is a little pale on the front.

Not to mention that the target was not destroyed, two precious bombers were also lost, and four returning bombers also needed to be repaired.

Since the enemy can deploy a large number of anti-aircraft weapons on the Zhizishan Bridge, other bridges and important facilities will inevitably have air defense deployments.

His bombing program, before it even began, went bankrupt.

···

"Bombing failed?"

"Two bombers were lost, and the four that returned home were also badly damaged?"

"A large number of large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns?"

Hear Ghana's debriefing.

Tada Jun was a little dizzy.

Recently, the pressure from the base camp has been increasing, and the voices about letting Gangcun Ningci serve as the North China Front Army have become louder and louder, and the Chongchen group and even the Locusts have agreed.

At this time, can't there be a good news? (End of chapter)