Liang Jian: Lao Li, I'm really not a military expert

Chapter 583: Capture all the evil Japanese minions and interrogate them. I want to be Justice Bao ag

Following Lin Zhenhua's order, Li Yunlong left the Zhaojiayu base with two battalions of troops overnight and marched towards Ping'an County. After rushing, they arrived near Ping'an County at 3:30 pm the next day. After a simple meal, Li Yunlong led his troops to attack Ping'an County.

After learning that Li Yunlong was attacking the county town, Hirata Kojiro and two other men immediately led their men to escape from Ping'an County. Li Yunlong captured Ping'an County at the cost of only six casualties.

"Zhang Dabiao, you must immediately lead your men to wipe out the remaining Japanese and puppet troops in Ping'an County. If you find anyone who dares to resist, shoot them all."

"Monk, you must lead your men to patrol the county immediately and resolutely suppress those ruffians. Do not let them disturb the normal lives of the people."

"Shen Quan, you must rush to Anjiaji immediately. There is a special operations team of the Japanese stationed there. Be careful when you move. These bastards are very accurate in their shooting. Bombard Anjiaji first before launching an attack. Make sure you are safe!"

"Duan Peng, you must immediately come with me to search and confiscate the property of the Japanese and puppet troops. These bastards have been plundering the people's wealth on a daily basis. This is a good opportunity to return all these ill-gotten gains to the people. I want to be the Justice Bao in Ping'an County."

Li Yunlong's actions were extremely swift. After just three hours, the entire Ping'an County calmed down again and the people lived their lives in an orderly manner. No one could have imagined that a battle had taken place here three hours ago.

"College student, my name is Li Yunlong. I have successfully occupied Ping'an County and seized a large amount of food, guns and ammunition. This time I have made a fortune. When we attacked Ping'an County before, we suffered losses several times. This time, I finally made a lot of money!"

Lin Zhenhua quickly congratulated him, "Old Li, it seems that you really made a fortune this time, otherwise you would never show off your cleverness in front of me! Okay, no more jokes, let's get down to business."

"A few months ago, I told you that we can support as many soldiers as we have food. At that time, you didn't understand this statement deeply enough. This time, I will tell you clearly. The drought in the Central Plains is much more serious than you think. In the past two days, I have sent out five or six reconnaissance planes to conduct a detailed investigation of the Central Plains."

"Many places in the Central Plains have no harvest, and there are a lot of people fleeing. The nearest refugee is less than 200 kilometers away from us, and it is expected to arrive at our Zhaojiayu base in about half a month. I have asked people to airdrop some propaganda posters and leaflets to the victims, telling them that there is food in the Zhaojiayu base. I estimate that in the next two or three months, we will have to accept at least 100 million victims."

"Our current food reserves are far from enough. In order to increase food reserves, we need to take measures to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. On the one hand, we need to ask the Japanese for food and increase the amount of food purchased from Chen Minggeng. On the other hand, we need to reduce unnecessary food consumption on weekdays and reduce the original per capita ration of 600 grams to 500 grams. This way, we can feed more people!"

"Old Li, food is more precious than oil nowadays. I have arranged for a transport plane to go to Ping'an County to transport food tomorrow. You must be prepared in advance!"

Li Yunlong didn't expect the situation to be so bad that Lin Zhenhua would actually send out transport planes to transport food and even said that food must be precious. This made him feel a sense of urgency.

"College students, I've released some food to the people in the city today, and I'll release more tomorrow, leaving enough food for the people to eat for a month. The rest will all be taken back to the base. I'll arrange troops to escort the people who are willing to go to our base. If they are not willing, let them stay in Ping'an County and help us build fortifications."

"When the transport plane comes tomorrow, please deliver some anti-aircraft gun parts to us. We can then assemble the anti-aircraft guns ourselves. Since Ping'an County has been occupied by us, we can't give it back to the Japanese. We can turn Ping'an County into a trade market and collect grain from the surrounding counties."

"We have a lot of medicine in stock now, which can be used to exchange for food. As for the disaster victims, we really have to treat it as a big deal. Let Lao Kong lead a battalion of soldiers to support them, and at the same time arrange for some soldiers to start building houses. We will try to build the houses before the disaster victims arrive, so that when they arrive, they will have houses to live in."

"As for the drought relief and planting work at the base, I can only leave it all to you. You have to plant the seeds no matter what. This is related to our autumn food supply, and there can't be any problems."

"I haven't made up my mind about rescuing Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment yet. I need to have a good discussion with Chu Yunfei before coming up with a practical solution. Judging from the telegram Chu Yunfei sent earlier, the 358th Regiment is in a good situation and should be able to hold out for half a month."

Lin Zhenhua nodded in agreement. He was very confident in Chu Yunfei. His military command ability was not much worse than Li Yunlong's. Plus, Chu Yunfei now had a strong army, so it shouldn't be a big problem for him to defend Niujia Village for half a month.

The two chatted casually for a few more words before ending the call. Lin Zhenhua had been busy since last night. Hundreds of pumps produced by the arsenal had all been sent to the front line for irrigation.

The gasoline generators in the arsenal were also taken out to power the water pumps. The land that had been watered started to be planted in a rush after just one day. The residents of the base area followed Lin Zhenhua's arrangement and rushed to harvest and plant at the same time to ensure that all crops were planted before July 7.

The fertilizer factory also started working at full capacity, producing fertilizers for crops. All six reservoirs in the base were opened for irrigation. In addition, Lin Zhenhua also organized 20 well-drilling teams to dig deep wells in the base to deal with the upcoming drinking water crisis.

The mountain spring water was also directly intercepted and connected to the base's drinking water system. The unused water was directly sent to the water tank and stored in advance. The entire base was busy dealing with the future food and water crisis. Lin Zhenhua kept his eyes on Hongliu Village, where a locust plague also began to appear. This scared Lin Zhenhua into a cold sweat. He really didn't expect that the scope of the locust plague would continue to expand.

"Old Zhao, we must quickly send people to purchase chickens and ducks. At the same time, we must spread the news of the locust outbreak so that the people can harvest the crops in advance. Only in this way can we minimize the losses caused by the locust plague." Lin Zhenhua said, staring at the map with a serious face.

Zhao Gang poured down half a bowl of mung bean soup, and then he felt his dry throat better. He wiped his mouth with his sleeve and replied in a low voice: "College student, we have been working on the purchase of chickens and ducks, but now is the busy farming season, and the weather is too hot. It will take two or three months to get the quantity you need. I am afraid that by then the daylily will be cold!"

"Compared to the locust plague, what we are most worried about should be the drought. I checked the water in the reservoir yesterday and it was dropping too fast. If it doesn't rain in the next month, the military and civilians will have a big problem with water supply."

"The number of well-drilling teams is too small. I think we should increase it to 50. We must ensure that 20 wells are drilled in each village. Only in this way can we meet the drinking water needs of the villagers!"

"There is one more thing that needs to be resolved as soon as possible. That is, the air transport line must not be suspended any longer. We must quickly restore this air lifeline. Chen Minggeng has stockpiled a large amount of food. We must quickly send a plane to transport it back. If we wait too long, accidents will easily happen!"

While they were talking, Kong Jie and Ding Wei also walked in. They wiped the sweat from their foreheads with towels and drank a bowl of mung bean soup to cool off. Then they talked about the problems they encountered.

"College student, the drought in the base is more serious than I thought. It takes three hours for our water pump to irrigate one acre of land. We only have 820 water pumps in total, and we can only irrigate 3000 acres of land a day. If we want to irrigate all the 100 or acres of land in the base, it will take a full days."

"We can't keep watering like this. We have to think of other ways to solve the problem of watering the land, otherwise we won't be able to finish watering until the autumn harvest." Kong Jie said with a melancholy look on his face.

Ding Wei also echoed, "I thought the college students were exaggerating before, but after learning about the situation on the ground, I realized that what the college students said was the truth, and it was even an understatement. The situation in the base is much more serious than we imagined."

"Yesterday, I led people to open the water in the reservoir and irrigate some fields through the canal. In total, more than 2000 acres of land were irrigated, but the water level in the reservoir dropped by one-tenth. This scared me a lot. I never thought that the drought had reached this point."

"I remember that a month ago, it rained for several days in a row, so there should be no shortage of water in the reservoir. But I didn't expect that the water level in the reservoir would drop so much due to the hot weather in the past month. If the college students hadn't conducted a field investigation, I would probably still hold on to my previous idea. If we really did what I said, there would really be a large-scale famine in our base. Thinking about this now, I feel ashamed!"

Lin Zhenhua listened quietly to everyone's narration. He needed to understand the situation below so that he could make targeted adjustments!