At the Baipogou Independent Regiment Headquarters, Kong Jie was discussing with Li Wensheng the problem of food shortage in the base area.
"Captain, the people in the base area have given us great support... After mobilization, we have borrowed a total of 14 million kilograms of grain..." Li Wensheng reported seriously while looking at the statistics in his hand.
"But the number of victims forced into our base by the Japs far exceeds the estimate and has reached an astonishing 430,000!"
"Although they have been dispersed and resettled by the local government and guerrillas, more than a thousand work-for-relief work teams have been formed to build water conservancy projects, reclaim wasteland, and build roads in the base area..."
"But the consumption rate of food has not slowed down..."
"The military rations plus borrowed food can last for three months at most!"
"Is there any news from Xiao Huang?" Kong Jie asked with a frown.
There was only so much food in the base area. It was impossible for the local people to go hungry to relieve hundreds of thousands of victims, and it was impossible for him to conjure food out of thin air. Faced with this almost unsolvable problem, Kong Jie was helpless and could only put his hope in Huang Yu, who once took over the task of providing food with confidence.
Li Wensheng shook his head: "I haven't received any news yet!"
"That's wrong!" Kong Jie shook his head!
"Xiao Huang never fights with uncertainty...I think he was very confident when he took the task. He should have had an idea at that time!"
"Almost a month has passed. There should be news about whether the idea at that time was successful or not, and what happened!"
"There is also the matter of the chicken farm. After such a long time, there should be results!"
Li Wensheng hesitated to explain: "Comrade Huang Yu is embarrassed to report whether it failed or not!"
Kong Jie shook his head: "Xiao Huang is not the kind of person who insists on saving face without caring about the overall situation!"
"He knows the importance of food to us... If his idea really doesn't succeed, he will definitely report it to the regiment headquarters as soon as possible and let us think of other ways!"
"Report..." Guard Battalion Commander Duan Yong suddenly ran to the door.
"Regiment commander, chief of staff... Wei Dayong, commander of the first company of the assault battalion, came and brought ten carts of food. He said he had something important to do.
Reporting to you, we have arrived at the entrance of the village! "
"Ten carts equal 20,000 kilograms of grain... Where did the assault camp come from so much grain?" Kong Jie asked in surprise and confusion.
"You'll know after you go and see it!" Li Wensheng also wanted to solve this question quickly, so he stood up and rushed out.
Seeing Wei Dayong and looking at the wheels of the big cart, Kong Jie knew that Wei Dayong had sent 20,000 kilograms of actual food, and asked directly: "Captain Wei, this can feed your assault battalion for almost half a month... How can you save it?" of……"
"Never let the soldiers go hungry just to save food. It would be too much of a loss!"
Wei Dayong said with a proud look on his face: "Commander, please rest assured. Not only is no one in the assault camp hungry, the food is better than before, and the soldiers' physical fitness and health are also better than before!"
"This doesn't make sense?" Li Wensheng's mind was filled with questions.
"The rations are getting less and less. How can I eat better than before... You are trying to trick me and the group leader!"
Wei Dayong quickly explained: "We have eaten better during this period than before! If I remember correctly, the assault camp ate a total of three thousand kilograms of fish and three thousand kilograms of various prey during this period..."
"Meat is more filling and nutritious than food... These 6,000 kilograms of fish and prey alone saved the troops more than 12,000 kilograms of food!"
"We also exchanged 4,000 kilograms of prey and fish meat for 8,000 kilograms of grain from the people in the defense area. A total of 20,000 kilograms of grain were all handed over to the regiment headquarters and distributed uniformly by the regiment leader!"
"There are so many prey and fish coming from your place!" Another question suddenly popped up in Li Wensheng's mind and he asked it anxiously. Wei Dayong continued to report: "The battalion commander gathered all the sharpshooters in the battalion to form a hunting team. I served as the captain and went deep into the mountains to hunt prey... Not only can we get a lot of meat, but we can also train marksmanship..."
"Captain Zhang of the Second Sudden Company took the lead in selecting soldiers from the entire battalion, forming a fishing team, and fishing in all rivers in the defense area..."
"In order to prevent us from killing all the prey and fish in the water, the leader specially stipulated that all fish caught under half a catty must be released, and small prey must be released..."
"Otherwise, if we encounter another famine year in the future, the folks in the defense area will not even have a way to save their lives!"
"This is the fishing and hunting plan summarized by the battalion commander. He asked me to submit it to the regiment headquarters for promotion throughout the regiment!"
"If each battalion can save 20,000 kilograms of food every month, the entire regiment can save more than 200,000 kilograms of food a month. At the very least, the victims in the base area will be less hungry for one day!"
Wei Dayong handed the two reports to the group leader while reporting.
Kong Jie couldn't wait for a long time. He quickly grabbed the report and read it ten lines at a glance. It only took two minutes to read it, and then handed it to Li Wensheng: "Although these two methods can't change the overall situation of our food shortage, they can alleviate us a lot." pressure!"
"We will promote it soon... Each battalion must set up its own fishing team and hunting team!"
"There are so many rivers and mountains in the base area, so it will be no problem to catch more than 100,000 kilograms of prey and fish!"
After finishing speaking, he turned his attention to Wei Dayong again: "Captain Wei... Is there anything else to report?"
What Kong Jie wanted to ask most was how the chicken farm was doing, but he swallowed the words on his lips.
Now that we have agreed to let Huang Yu run a chicken farm, we must trust him and not intervene midway. This is also Kong Jie's consistent style.
Wei Dayong seemed to see what Kong Jie was thinking, and took out the third report and continued: "There is also the matter of the chicken farm!"
"We have built a chicken farm... We have acquired a total of 360 hens, 40 roosters, and more than 3,000 eggs... According to the plan, more than 3,000 eggs will be ready in half a month at most. Hatch into a chick!”
"All three hundred and sixty hens are laying eggs, with an average of about two hundred and forty eggs per day, all of which are supplied to the troops..."
"When the number of eggs produced increases in the future, we can sell them to others in exchange for food!"
After listening to the introduction, Kong Jie was not as happy as expected, but reminded with a worried look: "There are four hundred chickens, and they lay eggs every day... They consume dozens or hundreds of kilograms of grain a day..."
“Wouldn’t it be too wasteful!”
Wei Dayong blurted out: "Captain, our chicken farm does not consume any food..."
"Eating all earthworms and vegetable leaves... I can produce more eggs than eating grain!"
"Chicken eats earthworm...how is this possible..." Faced with this unheard of news, Kong Jie and Li Wensheng both showed expressions of disbelief.
Wei Dayong scratched his head and replied: "I didn't believe it at first, but the battalion commander said it was okay..."
"The results of the test...it really works..."
"Because the amount of earthworms needed for chicken farms is increasing...the earthworms raised by the army alone are definitely not enough to eat...We are mobilizing ordinary people to help us raise earthworms!"
"There is no cost, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can feed earthworms. A pound of live earthworms can be exchanged for an egg in the army... The villagers are very enthusiastic about raising earthworms..."
"With the support of the army, more than 500 households have signed up!"
"At this rate of development, the Assault Nutrition Chicken Farm will be able to expand to 3,000 chickens in another month..."
"When they start laying eggs, they can harvest two thousand eggs every day!"
"If we eat two eggs and save half a catty of food, then we can save an extra five hundred catties of food every day!"
Kong Jie and Li Wensheng were dumbfounded and quickly read the reports in their hands...
The content of the report was more detailed than what Wei Dayong said. The doubtful expressions on the two people's faces were slowly replaced by shock as their understanding deepened.
I don’t know how long it took, but Kong Jie first raised his head, looked away from the report, looked at Li Wensheng and said seriously: "Chief of Staff, if what Xiao Huang said in the report is true!"
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"The base area will not only have an additional channel to save food, but also an additional financial source!"
"Eggs and chicken are both good things... I buy them wherever they are!"
"If we can really use earthworms for large-scale breeding, we can find a way to send eggs and chickens out of the base area, and we can still make a lot of money to use as funds!"
Li Wensheng responded: "The contents of the report should be true!"
"The commando camp has already built a chicken farm, so there must be no problem..."
"How about we go directly to the assault camp and have a look!"
"Hearing is false, seeing is believing. Only after seeing it will you know whether earthworms can be fed to chickens and how to feed chickens..."
"If it is confirmed to be true, we will call all the battalion commanders and instructors to the assault camp to study, and strive to build a chicken farm of their own for each battalion!"
"I want to go there!" Kong Jie nodded immediately.
"Let's take a look at their hunting team and fishing team... and see if they are really as good as Captain Wei said!"
Wei Dayong patted his chest and promised: "Please ask the regiment commander and chief of staff to visit the assault camp at any time..."
"Although the assault camp has not yet reached the standard of eating meat every day, it is still okay to eat one meal of meat or one meal of fish every day. I promise not to disappoint the regiment leader!"
Seeing that Wei Dayong was so confident in his words, Kong Jie became more interested in going to the assault camp and said immediately.
"It's better to choose a different day than to hit it. How about we go there soon..."
"I think it's okay!"
Li Wensheng was also itched by Wei Dayong's words. He wished he could rush to the assault camp station to see what happened, so he nodded immediately.
"Regiment leader...chief of staff...deputy chief of staff Huang has an urgent call!" Communications platoon leader Zhang Xuelin suddenly ran over, breathing heavily and reporting anxiously.
Wei Dayong became anxious when he heard this. He looked eagerly at the telegrams in the hands of Kong Jie and Li Wensheng. He wanted to ask what was wrong and whether something happened to the battalion commander!
When the words reached his lips, he swallowed them back!
Whether the battalion commander sent a telegram directly to the regiment headquarters or an urgent telegram, something big must have happened.
I am just a company commander, so I have no right to know any analysis.
Kong Jie also thought something had happened to Huang Yu at first, and his brows immediately furrowed into a big "Sichuan" sign.
But the frown quickly relaxed, and a smile even appeared on his serious face.
But it didn't last long before the smile on his face was replaced by doubt and confusion, and his brows wrinkled again!
Seeing the constant changes in the group leader's face, Wei Dayong became even more anxious! "
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