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Chapter 318, food problem
Liupan Town, located in the northeast of Zhongtiao Mountain, is a slightly open place, accessible from east to west, north to south, and is an extremely important strategic location.

In the hot summer, the weather is extremely hot and dry.

Outside Liupan Town, it has become a large construction site. Strong coolies, under the whip of the supervisor, are working hard to build fortifications and dig trenches.

"Squad leader, when will this be the end of the day! We are soldiers for food, not coolies."

Ding Xiaotu leaned on the shovel and wiped the sweat off his forehead with his hand, with a bitter look on his face.

He is a soldier of the 24th Division and the Second Regiment of the Imperial Association Army.

If it weren't for the fact that the family couldn't open the pot, he wouldn't work hard for the Japanese!

But as a soldier carrying a gun, I have never seen a soldier doing coolies.

In this way, what is the difference between them and those young men who have been brought in?
Squad leader Wang Qingfeng had been the squad leader in the Central Army two years ago, and he was a veteran.

It looked like he was working hard, but in fact the soil he dug was less than one-third of Ding Xiaotu's.

Wang Qingfeng took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and Ding Xiaotu struck a match for the squad leader with a wink.

Wang Qingfeng took a deep breath, feeling very comfortable, squinting and said:
"You, you are still too young. Being a soldier is not just about carrying a gun and fighting. Most of the time, you are waiting and digging trenches.

That's all, you should be happy.It's better to do coolies than go to the battlefield to die. Anyway, we just stutter, so there's no need to risk our lives. "

Wang Qingfeng appreciates this very discerning junior.So I said a few more words and gave some warnings to young people.

"Oh, thank you monitor, it turned out to be like this." Ding Xiaotu said that he had learned it.

He was still carrying a hoe three months ago, but it wasn't that he was complaining about being tired, the main reason was that he was far from what he thought after he became a soldier.

The company commander who supervised them suddenly received an order that there was no need to repair the gun tower, but a watchtower.

The company commander pointed and gave an order: "Your platoon, go over there and dig a trench."

"You guys, go to the other side."

Wang Qingfeng didn't care about digging from one place to another, but he was puzzled: "Company commander, why don't you build a gun tower? An observation tower doesn't work!"

The company commander complained: "Damn, there is news that the Eight Route Army we are going to deal with has several Japanese Type infantry artillery in its hands.

It's useless to repair the gun tower.If two cannons hit it, it will be useless, no different from a living coffin.Then what a fart! "

The veteran who listened with pricked ears couldn't help crying out.

Although the turrets of the building are ugly, they can be used as bullets, giving people inside a strong sense of security.

Many of them have thought that it would be much better to build up the gun towers and station them there than to follow the Japanese into the mountains to encircle and suppress the Eight Routes.

Dreams shattered, is the sound of broken hearts.

On the way to the next destination, Wang Qingfeng warned Ding Xiaotu as a passerby:
"Boy, I'll give you a piece of advice. When you hear a gunshot, get down immediately. If you're bombed by a shell, don't stand up and run around. The more you panic, the faster you'll die."

Ding Xiaotu asked suspiciously: "Squad leader, is that so evil? I heard from them that it's fine if you can't fight against the Eight Route Army and surrender. They won't embarrass us. If you want to come back, you will pay the travel expenses!"

Wang Qingfeng snorted coldly, what kind of old calendar is that?

Indeed, when it comes to ordinary eight-way, past experience is useful.But the wave they are facing now is different from others.

For such a long time in the past, although the Japanese did not allow it to spread everywhere, they were afraid of affecting the morale of the army.

But all kinds of rumors are still flying everywhere, Wang Qingfeng has already heard about it.

This group of Eight Routes has a huge number of skills. When there is a war, there are more bullets whizzing than raindrops falling from the sky.

Those who didn't get down at the first time were all beaten into hornet's nests.

If he didn't want to keep this clever egg, Wang Qingfeng wouldn't have said so much.

Ding Xiaotu heard what happened there, and then he understood the danger of war and the fragility of life.

He wiped the cold sweat off his brow, and thanked the squad leader for reminding him.And said to go back to buy cigarettes to honor the monitor.

The two grassroots soldiers of the Royal Association Army are just small people in this upcoming battle.

In the military camp in Liupan Town, a group of people accompanied Mitsui Ichiro to inspect the environment of the military camp and watch the soldiers' meals.

The food of the Japanese army is better than that of any army on this land.

Polished rice and wheat, fresh meat and vegetables, and canned biscuits are all commendable for their abundance and rich nutrition.

So don't think that the Japanese soldiers are easy to bully because they are not tall.In fact, the underside of the military uniform is full of shuttlecock meat, which is very powerful.

When fighting bayonets, often one person can only deal with two or three, eight ways of eating corn-bread pickles and millet porridge, and fighting bayonets one-on-one, few of them are their opponents.

Mitsui Ichiro looked at the barracks and expressed his satisfaction.

The adjutant called: "General, Colonel Yamashita is here, waiting for you at the headquarters."

After sending everyone else away, the two went to the headquarters of the brigade.

Communicate while walking on the road.

"How's the situation everywhere?"

The thunderous voice was heard by others from far away.Fortunately, his adjutant's voice was quite normal, and he didn't turn the report into a yell all over the world.

"The two captains are already in place and are organizing manpower to build defensive positions and block roads. In about a week, the initial blockade can be completed."

"Very well, tell them that the fortifications must be constructed according to the highest standards.

These eight groups are very fierce, and they all have to cheer up.Whoever let them run away easily will confess to the emperor by disembowelment. "

"Yes, General." The adjutant said in his heart, he knew that the head of the brigade would definitely do what he said.

The commanders of the troops sent to block the intersections absolutely dare not take it lightly.

Almost at the door, Mitsui Ichiro stopped and asked in a rare voice of a normal person, which was a whisper to him:

"Is the task force in place? Has it not been exposed to outsiders?"

"It's already in place. I did it myself. All the insiders have been controlled. There will never be rumors about it." The adjutant replied immediately.

There was a flash of fierce light in Mitsui Ichiro's eyes, he sneered, turned and walked into the headquarters.

Toshihide Yamashita was the last senior commander to arrive.

After a short exchange of pleasantries, the topic turned to Liu Xiongfei.

After all, he ran back from Balu, and his understanding of Balu is much better than those who see flowers in the fog.

Toshihide Yamashita said: "According to the available information, the Eight Routes must be very short of food, and their reserves can't last a month at most.

Once our plan of destroying fertile land is carried out, they will face a predicament with no good food to eat, so they can only break out and fight us to the death. "

It wasn't once or twice that the Japanese army entered the mountains to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army, but the Eighth Route Army was too cunning to fight them head-on.

Constantly going around in circles in the mountains, the food carried by the imperial army was exhausted, and the soldiers were also very tired, so the encirclement and suppression often failed.

The difficulty of the Eight Route Army is often not because they are capable of fighting, but because they don't fight against the imperial army at all.

No matter how powerful the imperial army is, if they can't catch anyone, they can't do anything about it.

The subtlety of Yamashita Toshihide's plan lies in forcing the Eighth Route Army to confront the imperial army head-on.

Give full play to the superiority of the imperial army's firepower and fight the battles that the imperial army is best at.

No matter how powerful this group of Eight Routes is, there are only more than 2000 people in the area, just one for one, even two for one, the imperial army can crush them to death.

Mitsui Ichiro admired this tactic and made it one of his general arrangements.

The latest information only strengthened his confidence.

"Mr. Yamashita, what do you think of Liu Xiongfei? Is he a trustworthy person?"

He was thinking about whether Liu Xiongfei might betray the imperial army?

Toshihide Yamashita didn't understand why the general had such doubts, he replied: "General, he is an outsider, and I can only give him limited trust."

"Yeah, he's a Chinese, and it's not unusual to stand on the side of the Chinese." Mitsui Ichiro sighed.

The population of the empire is too small. If it can have half the population of China, there will be no need to raise these two or five children who waste food.

……

In the forest on the mountain, a group of heavily armed soldiers is hiding here.

It was the special forces team that hadn't played for a long time.

Fighting alone and engaging in reconnaissance and sabotage are their strengths.

Carrying enough supplies, they wandered in the mountains, looking for valuable opportunities.

"Captain, the tongue is back."

Two soldiers pushed a puppet prisoner to the front.

It could be seen that the captured prisoner was terrified, and his body kept shaking, as if he was suffering from dysentery.

"Are you afraid of us?"

Wang Gensheng asked.

The prisoner raised his eyelids and took a sneak peek at him, then quickly lowered his head again.

"afraid."

The painted faces of these individuals are colorful and their clothes are tattered, like savages.

Anyone who saw it would be terrified.

Wang Gensheng understood it. The method they used to disguise scared the captives not once or twice.

"Be honest, tell me everything you know, and let me know that if you dare to lie to me, you will die."

Are you going to eat me?So think of the captured puppet army.

He was terrified, and told everything he knew like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, even including the fact that he peeked at the widow taking a bath two months ago.

If Wang Gensheng hadn't stopped him, he would probably be able to shake off the bed-wetting incident when he was a child.

With a wave of his hand, the two soldiers took the man down.

Yang Junrong, the leader of the second group, said: "Captain, the little devil is building a position and gathering troops, what is he doing?
He boldly guessed: "Could it be that they want to block us in the mountains and not let us out?"

Wang Gensheng shook his head: "According to what we have learned these days, there are at least four brigade numbers, and there must be no less than this number in other directions.

The little devil must have assembled so many troops for the simple siege, that would be too wasteful.

Eighty percent of them want to pull the net well, and then send people into the mountains to suppress us. "

He has been in the army for several years, and he is so experienced in anti-encirclement and suppression campaigns. The little devil knows what to fart as soon as he pokes his butt.

Anyway, it's not a bad fart.

"Since the devils are about to move, we have to tell the group leader to make them prepare early!" The group leader reminded.

Naturally, Wang Gensheng had already thought about it, "Take two people with you, take the tongue you caught, and go back to report to the head of the group.

The others continue to follow me, we have to find out all these openings, it will definitely be necessary to break the enemy's blockade. "

Whenever there is a war, intelligence and reconnaissance are the top priority.

Neither team leader had any objections, and the others even less.

Before parting, Wang Gensheng tapped his finger on the map: "You come back and find us here."

In Liupan Town, the group leader silently remembered it in his heart.

……

Two Trees Village, Headquarters of the New Second Regiment.

Li Yunlong is watching the formal assessment of the dispatcher.

There are radio stations for communication, so someone needs to use them.

The training of a telegrapher has a certain threshold, and it is time-consuming.

First of all, you have to read and write.

Second, someone has to teach it.

Even if the other regiments had a radio station, they couldn't use it for a while.

After all, the New Second Regiment had a radio station last year. In order to ensure the normal use of the radio station, they also trained several spare telegraph operators.

If someone dies, other people can go up one by one, so that the machine is not broken and the communication is continuous.

Li Yunlong just watched it as a novelty, but in fact he still didn't understand.

Until the Telecommunications Section Chief told him, "The seven fighters participating in the assessment have all completed the tasks of sending and receiving reports, and they are all qualified telegraph operators."

Li Yunlong suddenly realized, with a smile on his face, he encouraged the soldiers.

And according to the distribution that had been decided before, they were decided on the spot to take up posts in the battalions.

After solving the communication problems between the battalions and the regiment headquarters, Zhao Gang came back excitedly before he had time to sit down and drink a sip of water.

"Old Zhao, this is not your style."

Li Yunlong expressed his doubts. Zhao Gang didn't say he was obsessed with cleanliness, but he was very particular about it.Have your own cup and never drink from someone else's cup.

"I'm almost dumb." Zhao Gang drank two bowls in one go before he felt that his throat wasn't so smoky.

He said excitedly: "Distributing canned food is really a wonderful move, which solves the crisis of the common people and solves the problem of trust.

The common people trust us, so it is very easy to mobilize.They can also listen to our propaganda. "

On the day Li Yunlong distributed the canned food, he had already expected the behavior of the villagers when he saw them.

The army has always collected food, and the common people would not be happy if the army gave them something for the first time.

It's not surprising that cannibals have soft mouths and short hands, so they are easy to do work.

Zhao Gang drank the third bowl of water and said, "Oh, many people are actively wanting to join our Eighth Route Army these days. Now there are more than 500 people, and there will be more in the future."

If you count the 500 people digested and absorbed from the Central Army and Puppet Army prisoners, the total will be 1000 people.

This expansion is too fast. In the past, Li Yunlong must have been very happy, but now he is not happy.

The more people there are, the less food there will be.

Li Yunlong called Huzi over: "Go and call Section Chief Wang from the logistics department, and ask him how many more days will the food last for five hundred more mouths?"

Using Section Chief Wang from the logistics department, Zhao Gang did some mental calculations and gave the answer:
"Save and eat, up to eighteen days."

(End of this chapter)