"How could this happen?" The commander-in-chief showed a stunned and shocked expression after reading the telegram.

He couldn't understand at all: Why is Zhou Cheng, who usually doesn't want to suffer any loss now, and he still takes the initiative to suffer losses.

The Chief of Staff hesitated to express his thoughts: "Sir, could it be Zhou Cheng who saw the risks of their isolation after they were isolated and did not want to be alone behind enemy lines. He just took the opportunity to ease the relationship between the National Salvation Army and the Eighth Route Army?"

The commander-in-chief's face darkened as soon as he heard this: "Is this possibility not ruled out?"

"Zhou Cheng is too cunning. The reason why they turned against the Eighth Route Army was, on the one hand, because of the temptation of territory, and on the other hand, because the Independent Regiment did too much in Yangquan, he actually dared to seize Yangquan County while the National Rescue Army was fighting desperately with the Japanese and puppet troops, and robbed the capture that should have belonged to the National Rescue Army, which angered the National Rescue Army. In addition, we promised their medicines to be bait, and we turned against the Eighth Route Army in an impulse."

"Now that the battle is over, Zhou Cheng will definitely calm down from the impulse at the beginning. As long as he thinks about this, he will definitely see the danger faced by the National Salvation Army after being isolated behind enemy lines."

"The Eighth Route Army is the only unit behind enemy lines that can provide support to them. If I sit in his position, I will try every means to improve the increasingly deteriorating relationship between the National Salvation Army and the Eighth Route Army."

"Although the Eighth Route Army is very poor and lacks anything, the most lacking is medicine. If you don't have money, you can buy it."

"Zhou Cheng clearly saw this, and then decided to take out so many medicines to calm the anger of the Eighth Route Army."

"And we just gave these medicines to them in order to tempt the National Salvation Army to attack the Eighth Route Army. If the National Salvation Army really does this, then ease their relationship. We also took the opportunity to occupy the entire Yangquan and Shouyang territory, and received a large amount of medicines given to him in the war zone. They did not need to pay any price to get the Eighth Route Army forgiven them."

"As for us, not only did we not achieve the goal of isolating the national rescue army, but we also lost a lot of medicine in vain, and we really lost our wife and soldiers!"

"If I had known this, the war zone would not have sent them a reprimanding telegram!"

The Chief of Staff also regretted that if he had not chosen to be eager for quick success and instant benefits at that time, and was isolated from the National Rescue Army as planned, and then used the Japanese to get rid of the National Rescue Army, and did not involve the Eighth Route Army, there would not be these troubles in front of him.

But there is no regret medicine in the world. Now that things have happened, all they can do is to make up for the loss and minimize the losses and bad effects of this incident on the war zone.

Frowning and analyzing: "Sir, since I received this telegram, I have been thinking about solutions!"

"At the beginning, I wanted to call the National Rescue Army directly and prevent them from using medicine to compensate the Eighth Route Army."

"But when I think of the order to compensate the Eighth Route Army was just issued by the war zone. This kind of call is undoubtedly a slap in the mouth, which makes the war zone passive, and finally I have to veto this idea."

"But besides this method just now, Bei Zhi really couldn't think of any other way to solve this problem. He can only find you, the chief!"

The commander-in-chief did not answer the conversation immediately, but frowned and fell into deep thought.

For him, this problem is also very difficult, and if you are not careful, it will have adverse effects on the war zone.

After five minutes, the commander-in-chief's frown stretched out, and a hint of heartache flashed quickly on his serious face, and then ordered: "Call back to the National Savior Army: The rebuke telegrams given to them before the war zone were not the original intention of the war zone, but to calm the anger of the Eighth Route Army and acted as if they were in good condition, they had to send a telegram to rebuke them."

"But no matter how the war zone scolds them in the telegram, they are recognized for their actions to take down Yangquan and Shouyang, so they do not need to compensate the Eighth Route Army for anything!"

"In order to show the sincerity of the war zone, the General Command specially gave out 5,000 yuan to commend the National Rescue Army, hoping that they can continue to work hard on the battlefield behind enemy lines and continue to kill the Japanese."

"By the way, the Eighth Route Army has a very powerful ideological work. In order to prevent the National Salvation Army from being infiltrated by the Eighth Route Army, from now on, the National Salvation Army will not contact us if we can contact the Eighth Route Army, and we will not be able to support them with a bullet, a grain of food, and a piece of ocean!"

The Chief of Staff's eyes lit up as soon as he heard this.

The commander-in-chief is worthy of being the commander-in-chief. He played the trick of turning hands to make clouds and turning hands to make rain too easily.

In just one sentence: The previous rebuke telegram was not the original intention of the war zone, and all the problems were solved in an instant.

In order to appease Zhou Cheng, he asked him to give up the idea of ​​eased relations with the Eighth Route Army and compensate the National Rescue Army for another 5,000 yuan.

The Chief of Staff believed that under the support of the theater and the temptation of the ocean, Zhou Cheng would definitely give up ease of relations with the Eighth Route Army.

Especially the last sentence added by the Commander-in-Chief.

That's really amazing.

Zhou Cheng is inseparable from the army in his hands.

If he realized that the Eighth Route Army might infiltrate the National Rescue Army, undermine him, and finally kick him out of the National Rescue Army, Zhou Cheng, who regards military power as his life, would definitely be hostile to the Eighth Route Army, and then try every means to guard against them.

With hostility, and the National Salvation Army and the Eighth Route Army are in a state of hostility, there is no possibility of ease of relations between the two sides!

As soon as the front command of the National Salvation Army in Yangquan County sent a telegram to the war zone, Zhou Chengru began to concentrate on dealing with the more than 100,000 disaster victims left by the Japanese and puppet troops.

The order to transfer grain to Deputy Commander Tang just now can only relieve the temporary danger, preventing more than 100,000 ordinary people from starving or freezing to death.

However, the National Salvation Army had limited food storage, and it was not enough for them to last for two months.

More importantly, the total strength of the National Salvation Army has increased from thousands to nearly 10,000 now, and there are still seven or eight thousand prisoners who need to eat. If all the food is saved, the troops and prisoners will go hungry.

The troops are the foundation and cornerstone for ensuring the stability of the defense zone. They must not affect the morale and morale of the troops because of hunger, which in turn affects the combat effectiveness of the troops, and ultimately bring a catastrophe to the defense zone.

Therefore, the regiment headquarters will take out at most half of the stored grain to help more than 100,000 victims, and the remaining grain must be left to the army.

Half of the food seems to be a lot, but there are too many victims to feed. After the distribution is completed, it will take up to two months. At that time, more than 100,000 victims will fall into a situation where there is no food to eat.

As the commander of the National Salvation Army, I held the military and political power of the four counties of Pingding, Yangquan, Shouyang and Xiyang. I could not watch the villagers go hungry and finally fall in front of hunger and cold.

"Captain, because we have greatly reduced the grain taxes of the people in the defense zone, the villagers in the old defense zone still have a lot of grain in their hands. If we pay to purchase all of these grains and help the victims, we should be able to last for two more months." Chen Zhengyu frowned and analyzed.

Zhou Cheng frowned and said, "The original independent group base also had a lot of grain stored in it. If all of them were purchased, it would allow the victims to last for another month."

Chen Zhenyu's frowning brows did not stretch, and shook his head and replied: "It's still too little. Even if we have the food that will last for everyone three months, it's still two months before everyone can hold on until the autumn harvest."

"We calculate that a commoner eats half a kilogram of grain every day. A commoner needs at least 30 kilograms of grain in two months, and more than 100,000 ordinary people all need about four million kilograms of grain."

"Spring plowing is coming soon, and we also need to provide the grain for these victims. Calculated based on the per capita 15 kilograms of grain, we have to prepare two million kilograms of grain alone. Adding four million kilograms of food, our food shortage is at least six million kilograms."

"Besides robbing the Japanese, I can't think of any other way to get so much food in a short period of time!"

Zhou Cheng shook his head: "It's too unrealistic to grab grain!"

After saying that, Zhou Chengzhu took out several interrogation records and handed them to the Chief of Staff.

"This is the information I just got from interrogating several puppet army officers and Japanese translators."

"After hearing you say that the Japanese implemented the "Three Lights Policy" for Yangquan and Shouyang, I felt that this was not simple at the time, because we had never encountered this situation before, and I always felt that it was not as simple as we saw."

"After interrogating several captured puppet army officers, I really discovered some situations."

"In order to prevent us from robbing grain from enemy-occupied areas, the Japanese and puppet troops built large and small strongholds on the blockade line only reserved half a month's rations. The baggage troops sent them supplies five days in advance every half month to ensure that the grain storage in each stronghold does not exceed fifteen days."

"Even if we defeated all the Japanese and puppet troops on the blockade, we could only seize more than 100,000 kilograms of grain in the end, which is no different from our gap."

"Not only that, the Japanese also moved all the landlords and traitors within 30 kilometers behind the blockade line to other places."

"Most of the surplus grain in the enemy-occupied areas is in the hands of landlords and gentry. The Japanese moved them away, which is equivalent to transferring the surplus grain in the enemy-occupied areas."

"Although the remaining people also have food, they are all the food they rely on for their survival, so we must not rob them."

"So when the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line implemented the three-light policy in Shouyang and Yangquan, they began to guard against us entering the area they occupied to grab food."

"This move is too ruthless, so we can't grab food or buy food. In the end, the people and troops in the defense zone have to go hungry, and finally affect the morale and morale of the military and civilians in the defense zone."

Grab food is the only solution Chen Zhengyu can think of.

The leader rejected the matter as soon as he proposed it. His mind was in chaos. He could not think of any other way to solve this problem. He could only look at the leader with anticipation, hoping that the leader would have a way to break the situation.

He asked anxiously: "Captain, what should we do? You can't let everyone fight the Japanese on hungry days!"

"There are still those hundreds of thousands of victims who are hungry and crazy, and everything can be done, just like a time bomb that will bring devastating blows to our defense zone at any time."
Chapter completed!