Chapter 825: One hundred and eighty million kilograms of war food preparations
Early the next morning, Zhou Weihan was squatting on the steps brushing his teeth when the door opposite suddenly opened and Zhao Gang walked out with his clothes on.
"Hey, Lao Zhao, the groom seems to be quite energetic!" Zhou Weihan joked.
After Zhou Weihan's ridicule, Zhao Gang seemed a little embarrassed: "Why did you get up so early!"
"Wang Ying and the others have to rush back early in the morning, so I'm thinking of giving them away!"
"That's what I thought too. Wait for me to wash up!"
During the wedding ceremony yesterday, Zhou Weihan proposed in front of everyone that he would give Zhao Gang and his wife a three-day holiday so that they could have a good rest. However, Zhao Gang was a hard worker, so how could he take a peaceful holiday?
On the way to the residence of Wang Ying and others, Zhao Gang suddenly said: "When are you leaving? I'll see you off then!"
"Hey, how can I be sure? I haven't reported to my superiors yet. Besides, if I leave, how can I hide it from you, the political commissar? Are you really that reluctant to let me go?"
"screw you!"
"Hey, I really forgot about my brother after marrying my wife, and my relationship has faded!" Zhou Weihan said with a smile.
Since Zhou Weihan returned to Tainan, he has only gone down the mountain when he went to the Huangyadong Arsenal, and usually communicates through the radio or phone.
Li Yunshan and Zhou Weihan hadn't seen each other for more than half a year. Unexpectedly, Li Yunshan was transferred from the army to work in a local area.
"Lao Zhou, take care!" Li Yunshan said.
"You should take more care. If you feel uncomfortable at work, just tell me and I will report it to your superiors!"
"It's okay. I'm fine now. I've thought about it before. The army will definitely move to many places in the future. It's not convenient for me to move with the army after all!" Li Yunshan said, patting his injured leg.
Zhou Weihan knew that Li Yunshan was telling the truth, but he still felt a little uncomfortable. With so many people in the Tainan Military Region, why couldn't Li Yunshan be accommodated?
Everyone said goodbye one by one, and Zhou Weihan lamented in his heart that he didn't know if we could meet again in the future. At least there would definitely be fewer opportunities for Wang Ying, Li Yunshan and others to meet. After all, they are not a system.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and the departments of the Tainan Military Region and the Hebei, Luyu, and Yu Military Region reported their personnel and weapons and equipment status one after another.
Zhou Weihan called over Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo, who were temporarily staying on the mountain. As for the director of the Political Department, Qu Kaiwen was not there, and Zhou Weihan did not call him.
Qu Kaiwen had always stayed away from the top of the mountain in the Tainan Military Region, and Zhou Weihan had no idea of involving him. What's more, Qu Kaiwen himself had no such idea, and usually stayed at the foot of the mountain.
"Take a look, this is the personnel establishment of each regiment, as well as the Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region!" Zhou Weihan said.
"There are so many people in the main force and basic force of the Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region?" Zhao Gang was surprised after reading the report.
"After all, given the population density in the plain area, the troop expansion will definitely be fast, but this is still overwhelming!" Zhou Weihan said.
Although the Tainan Military Region has a strong foundation, it has successively transferred many troops to the Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region for support, and the current personnel establishment has been exceeded.
On the one hand, it is due to congenital constraints, and on the other hand, it is the policy issued by the Eighth Route Army Headquarters to streamline troops and streamline administration.
"Old Zhao, do you know how much food there is in the war preparation warehouses in various places in the base area?" Zhou Weihan asked.
"There are a total of eight counties in the base area. Each county has a war preparation warehouse. The one near Wuyi Mountain is the largest, with a total of nearly 180 million kilograms of grain. At that time, many of them were coarse grains. The local government actually also had a lot of grain in stock.
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"It's not easy here either, and I don't want to take their chances!"
The reason why the Tainan Military Region has so much grain in stock is because most of the land reform in the Tainan base area was completed by the troops, and the grain was collected first. In addition, it has something to do with the fact that it has been buying grain in Kuomintang-controlled areas and enemy-occupied areas.
After the establishment of the local government, public grains began to be collected by the local government, but they also shouldered part of the army's rations accordingly, which can be regarded as relieving the pressure on each other.
Zhou Weihan calculated that based on three kilograms of rations per soldier per day, 180 million kilograms of grain would be enough to feed an army of 100,000 people for 600 days.
"Old Zhao, this is all your fault. You are a qualified steward. You have to pay me 50 million kilograms of grain to send people to the Hebei, Shandong and Henan base areas. The situation there is not as good as Tainan!" Zhou Weihan said.
"How much? Fifty million catties? You, the old Zhou people, are gone, and you still take so much food with you?"
"They say tea becomes cold when people leave. I haven't left yet, and the tea has become cold?"
"No way, I, Zhao Gang, am not a picky person!"
Xing Zhiguo on the side said: "That's right, Lao Zhao has always been generous. In the second half of last year, he transported more than 30 million kilograms of grain to the Hebei, Shandong and Henan base areas!"
Tainan is located in the remnants of the Taihang Mountains, and the mountainous area to the north of the Handan-Changchun Highway accounts for the majority. However, the south of the Handan-Changchang Highway is close to the Shangdang Basin, so the land resources are better.
There has been a drought in the past two years, and the land's harvest has been poor. However, the Tainan base area has made preparations in advance and built many water conservancy projects, so the grain harvest has been preserved.
On the other hand, although the Hebei-Shandong-Henan base areas are all plain areas, they were established late, and with the influx of many disaster victims, the lives of the people in the base areas were difficult.
The harvest of cultivated land was not good, newly reclaimed wasteland was exempted from taxes for one year, and the local government had no food. Instead, Tan Lin had to transfer food from the army to prepare food for the war, and there was not much money left for his family.
The situation in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan base area is pretty good. The four secondary military regions near the Eighth Route Army headquarters have the best disaster prevention measures. The other base areas are divided and surrounded by the Japanese army and cannot form a contiguous base area. Disaster prevention measures cannot be implemented on a large scale.
Implement.
"Okay, just nod your head. I said you, Old Zhao, must not be too soft-tempered in the future. If a new member of the Communist Party of China comes in the future, you will not be able to make the decision even if I ask you to reach out!" Zhou Weihan said.
"I said before that what Yanzhou and the headquarters mean is that the two armies of Tainan and Hebei, Shandong and Yu have the same origin, and we must concentrate our efforts to form a field force!"
"Actually, this is the real intention of the superiors!" Zhou Weihan scratched his head, as if he was a little embarrassed: "The main force of the Tainan Military Region will be transferred to Hebei, Shandong and Henan, and then he will also establish a field force."
"Good guy, you really have to leave, and you have to clean up your heels. Originally, I didn't think you could leave. The troops have been transferred, so what kind of field force will be formed?" Zhao Gang said dissatisfied.
According to the instructions of the superiors, Taiyue, Taibei, Tainan, Jinan, and Hebei Luyu formed a column respectively, namely the first column, the second column, the third column, the fourth column, and the fifth column.
The other military regions are all serious, but the Tainan Military Region put up the sign first, and then replenished its troops step by step.
Zhou Weihan thought at the time that this was also a good thing. Having established his position in advance would also benefit the development of Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo in the future.
