Although Yang Zhen had already made preparations when he came. After all, the losses caused by the Japanese raids last year were in his mind at this time. He also knew very well that the northwest of Shanxi, which was originally barren and impoverished, might not be able to fully bear the cost.
If he could afford half of the food needed for the first battle, he would be satisfied.
But he still didn't expect that even if the quantity he wanted was not large, he would still have difficulty raising it. He knew that killing people to raise troops was absolutely unacceptable. Even if the army ran out of food, he could not plunder all the people's food and kill them.
The people raise the army. The army is the fish and the people are the water. Without water, even if the fish can survive for a while, it will not last long.
However, the food problem has now become the biggest dilemma for the combat troops in northern Shanxi. The northern Shanxi region itself has never been a major food-producing area. On weekdays, a large amount of food needs to be transported from other places to meet the needs. Especially in Pianguan, Zuoyun, and Right
Jade has never been a source of food in Shanxi. Now that so many troops are concentrated, it is even more difficult to raise enough food.
Although all the miners rescued from the Datong Coal Mine have withdrawn to their base areas, they are no longer able to support the combat troops alone. Since Mu Changqiu transferred to Datong to fight, the total amount of food he can raise locally is less than one thousand dan.
In this regard, the Anti-League also had certain conflicts with Zuo Yun's local armed forces.
The amount of food seized in Jining is indeed large, but it is impossible to sustain unlimited consumption for a long time. After Wang Minggui's troops and the troops deployed by the advancing army arrived in northern Shanxi, the food problem escalated to a level directly related to this time.
The key issues for the success or failure of the Datong Campaign.
Although Wang Minggui's troops carried a lot of food, they could still meet part of their needs in a short period of time. The troops mobilized from the direction of the advancing army also seized a lot of food in the relatively wealthy Yanggao and Tianzhen.
, and raised part of the food in Yanggao, but this was not a long-term solution after all.
Yang Zhen did not expect that northwest Shanxi, which was continuously raided by the Japanese army, would be able to provide a large amount of food for a long time. However, Yang Zhen still hoped to raise a batch of food in the short term to ease the pressure on anti-union transportation. After all, with the Japanese army
As reinforcements arrive one after another, all logistics transportation must prioritize ammunition.
The standard weapons of the Anti-League, except for some mountain artillery shells, whether they are light weapons or heavy weapons, the captured trophies cannot be used at all. In the entire world, only the Anti-League uses 7.62*39 rifle ammunition, and only the Anti-League uses 7.62*39 rifle ammunition.
Liancai uses the 82 recoilless rifle and twin 23mm anti-aircraft guns.
107 rocket launchers and 122 rocket launchers. In addition to the 107 mm rocket launchers that are also used by the Soviet Union, the 122 rocket launchers are the only ones used by the Anti-Japanese War. These weapons with unique calibers are indeed amazingly powerful, surpassing those of today's large-scale rocket launchers.
Small arms and similar weapons used by most countries.
However, these ammunition are only used by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the world. There is simply no place to capture them, and the captured ammunition cannot be used universally. In particular, these weapons generally have fast firing rates and high firepower density. The amount of ammunition consumed is also
Far more than a manual rifle.
These ammunitions, which are only for the Anti-Alliance equipment, including all the ammunition required by other Anti-Alliance forces, can only be transported thousands of miles from the rear. Especially in the absence of railway lines, nearly half of the transportation can only rely on roads.
, which will inevitably affect the transportation of food.
The most critical issue now is not only the heavy pressure on transportation, but also road conditions. As the weather begins to get warmer, large areas of last winter's frozen soil have recovered. Simple roads that were already in poor condition have fallen into trouble.
into a patch of mud.
The driving of wheeled vehicles has been greatly restricted. It not only consumes more time and fuel, but also limits the transportation capacity and efficiency to a certain extent. The muddy roads make even American-made vehicles with excellent performance and high engine horsepower
Trucks often get stuck.
Yang Zhen's idea is that the northwest Shanxi region can provide at least half of the food needed for the Datong battlefield, which is enough to relieve some pressure on the already overwhelmed Anti-Japanese supply lines. But even with all the efforts in the northwest Shanxi region, and Yang Jicai's
The Japanese army's food stocks rushed out of Taiyuan could only produce more than 10,000 shi of food, which was far from the amount they expected.
As for the drought that the boss mentioned, he remembered that it only happened in Henan. How come the southeastern Shanxi, southern Hebei, and Hebei, Shandong, and Henan regions were also in famine? But given the boss’s personality, and since he said it from his mouth, Yang Zhen believed this kind of drought.
The situation has definitely happened. It is definitely not an exaggeration for some reason.
In fact, Yang Zhen did not know that the drought and locust plague that occurred in 1942 was not concentrated in Henan Province alone, but swept across the entire North China region. Henan was just one of the hardest hit areas, with the largest number of people starving to death.
It is just one of the hardest-hit areas. Of course, Henan, which has only dozens of counties but bears the supply of hundreds of thousands of troops, is also the province with the largest number of disaster victims.
In the various base areas behind enemy lines in North China, the disasters in southern Hebei, Hebei, Shandong and Henan were no worse than those in Henan. The Taiyue and Taihang districts in southeastern Shanxi were also severely affected, but after painstaking deployment,
However, the situation has not deteriorated to the level in Henan.
Among them, the disasters in southern Hebei and Hebei, Shandong and Henan were particularly serious, not much less severe than in Henan. Moreover, the disasters that had been revealed since the end of 2001 would have lasted far longer than when the grain supply came down in the summer of 2003.
Henan had completely alleviated the disaster situation. By 1942, the situation had only worsened.
The transfer of troops from the Southern Hebei Military Region to the Taihang District to participate in the war is certainly to solve part of the reason for the Taihang Military Region's original shortage of troops in the face of an unprecedented war. But a considerable part of the reason is also due to last year's disaster and the cruelty of the Japanese army.
As a result of the raids, quite a few areas in the southern Hebei District were already experiencing food shortages and were no longer able to supply so many troops.
Last year's autumn grain harvest in Hebei, Shandong and Henan was massive due to the lack of water all winter and the delay in sowing winter wheat. In the beginning of this spring, the scope of the spring drought continued to expand. In the beginning of this spring, the southern Hebei Military Region was really unable to provide food.
Next, disband the only cavalry regiment.
With the disbandment of this cavalry regiment, the entire Guan Nei army no longer has any bases except for the fifth division of the New Fourth Army operating in the southeastern Henan and northern Anhui areas where economic conditions are slightly better, and an established cavalry regiment.
into an organized cavalry.
What Yang Zhen didn't even know was that the situation that the entire North China base area would encounter this year and next would be much worse than he had originally understood. The drought that swept across North China only lasted for one year in Henan.
After the summer grain harvest in 1943, there was fundamental relief. However, in parts of southeastern Shanxi, southern Hebei, Hebei, Shandong and Henan, the epidemic lasted for three full years.
In 2003, the drought and the locust plague that accompanied the drought in the entire Taihang and southern Hebei, Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions were more severe than the drought in 2042. In particular, the southern Hebei and Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions suffered the longest drought.
It is also the area with the greatest losses. In some areas, the drought has lasted for four or four years.
Long-term natural disasters, as well as the frequent raids by the Japanese army in 44 years ago, have caused the area of the North China base area to shrink sharply since last year, and the development of the army has come to a standstill. Especially after the loss of the Jizhong Plain, known as North China Ukraine, the various base areas in North China have become increasingly
difficult.
Troops in various places are not only severely downsized, but most of their time can only be used for production and self-rescue. The shortage of guns, ammunition, food and clothing has seriously adversely affected all troops. It has become a common phenomenon in various troops. A meeting was held at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and all the people participating in the meeting were
He was a senior officer, but he couldn't even sit still because he was hungry, so he could only lie down and listen to the report.
This is true for high-level agencies, not to mention the troops below? What is placed in front of each base area is that we must first solve the problems of food and survival for the troops, and then fight. If the troops cannot eat, they cannot even stand up, let alone fight.
, fought.
This period was also a period that was constantly criticized by some so-called fans of later generations. In fact, after experiencing this famine that lasted for three years, the troops in North China did not partially recover until the autumn of 1944. Not to mention the weapons and equipment.
, First of all, if the troops don’t have enough to eat, why should they talk about fighting? But some people just pretended not to see it.
At this moment, Yang Zhen had no idea how much of a burden the drought in North China had brought to the Northeast throughout the second half of 1942 and 1943. Throughout the winter of 1942 to the first year of 1943, Northeast China passed through Shanxi Province.
The amount of grain transported into the Customs by the Northern Diversion reached millions of tons, and millions of victims were received in the Henan, Southern Hebei, Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions. The soybeans used as nutrients were transferred to the Customs alone, amounting to 50,000 tons.
Coupled with the troops from various base areas in Guan who entered the Northeast for rotation training, the burden on the Northeast base in 1943 exceeded the total of the years before 1942. It can be said that during 1943, the Northeast and the Anti-Japanese Alliance borne almost all the troops in Guan except
The food needs of party, government and military personnel in all base areas except the New Fourth Army and Shandong Military Region.
Fortunately, the weather has been good in the North Manchuria area in the past two years, coupled with the adjustment of the agricultural planting structure, the planting of low-yielding sorghum and millet has been basically canceled and replaced by the planting of much higher-yielding wheat and corn. This has improved the overall food quality of the North Manchu base area.
The yield is several times higher than when sorghum was the main crop.
In addition, in 1942, the Production and Construction Corps used a large number of tractors and harvesters aided by the United States to reclaim a large amount of wasteland and harvest nearly one million tons of additional grain. During the battle in 1942, several famous villages around Xinjing were captured.
Large grain-producing counties have added many new channels for grain sources.
In addition, emergency negotiations with the United States and the Soviet Union used 10,000 tons of mutton to obtain back the 150,000 tons of Canadian flour, 10,000 tons of sugar, and 20,000 tons of American canned meat that were originally planned to be transferred to the Soviet Union. This was also to a certain extent.
This relieved the pressure. Otherwise, the economy of the Northeast base area would have to collapse.
At this time, Yang Zhen had no idea how much impact this natural disaster sweeping across North China would have. And the current food dilemma has just begun. The real dilemma is still waiting for him and Northeast China.
Bureau, as well as major base areas in North China within the pass.
But these are all things for later. For him now, the most critical thing is to solve the problem of the food needed. Even if there is only part of the food needed to solve the battlefield in northern Shanxi, it is better than transporting all the food from the rear area.
.At least part of the transportation capacity can be freed up to increase the transportation volume of ammunition.
However, these more than 10,000 kilograms of grain amounted to only 1.2 million kilograms of grain, which could only meet the needs of the troops participating in the battlefield in northern Shanxi for six days. Based on the calculation of four kilograms of grain per person per day, the more than 50,000 troops needed 20 kilograms of grain per day.
Thousands of kilograms of grain. Coupled with the large number of war horses and pack horses, this amount of grain is really insufficient.
But fortunately, it is better to satisfy one week than nothing. Although the quantity is far from what I originally expected, it still partially meets my needs. With these 1.2 million kilograms of grain, plus the addition of food in Jining City
There are still more than 200,000 kilograms of grain left, and the transportation line, which has been extremely tense, can breathe a sigh of relief.