"Captain, where is our mission?" Dong Hao, who was standing beside him, was anxious. He looked at Tan Ming beside him and was both jealous and envious, and asked anxiously.

"Tan Ming and others are engaged in agriculture and know about grain and crops. We are engaged in water conservancy. Although we have some connection with farming, we don't know about crops at all. If you want to help Tan Ming and others, you can't do anything!"

Zhou Cheng replied: "Don't worry, since I asked the war zone to transfer you to the National Salvation Army, I will definitely not leave everyone idle."

"Your mission is also very heavy: I will give you two months first, and travel around the defense zone of the National Rescue Army to find out that our National Rescue Army has a place to build reservoirs and canals. Our National Rescue Army is deep behind enemy lines. Food is more important to us than other troops, so there must be no problems."

"Now, the common people almost rely on the harvest of food in heaven. If they encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters, they cannot collect food in the fields. Not only will the people in the defense zone go hungry, but the troops will also collapse due to food outages."

"I want to change the situation where the villagers rely on the heaven to harvest. If there is a natural disaster, everyone will not lose any grain."

After hearing this, Dong Hao was very excited and asked with disbelief: "Captain, you want to build water conservancy in the defense zone!"

Whether it is the theater command he knows or other troops, the funds are very tight, and the limited funds are almost all spent on training and expansion of troops. No one would think of building water conservancy and changing the situation where the people rely on heaven to grow food.

It is precisely because of this that they are idle by the provincial government and have to join the headquarters as a document and use military pay to subsidize their household income.

When Dong Hao heard that the regiment commander was going to build water conservancy behind enemy lines, he was shocked and his first reaction was that he did not believe it.

The construction of water conservancy is not an ordinary project. It requires a lot of manpower and material resources. The National Salvation Army has only one regiment. Do they have the ability to support themselves in the construction of water conservancy in the four counties of Yangquan? Dong Hao couldn't help but doubt it in his heart.

Zhou Cheng knew their concerns and answered very affirmatively: "The practice must be repaired, but the specific scale of construction, where to repair, and how much, I will only make a decision after seeing your survey report."

"So your next survey is very important: divide four people out, each of them is responsible for a county, and I will assign you a guide to the class and order four garrison brigades to cooperate with you unconditionally, and people need to be given and funds are required. Within two months, travel to all parts of Yangquan County and mark all the places that can and are suitable for building reservoirs, the more detailed the better."

"There is one person left to summarize the statistical results of the other four people, and also conduct a verification to determine that all reservoirs can be successfully built, and by the way, find out the amount of land that each reservoir may irrigate and the number of people that benefit!"

Dong Hao believed this after hearing this.

If the leader of the group did not intend to build water conservancy, he would never have spent so much manpower and material resources to do this. He immediately accepted the order: "Please rest assured, the leader, we will definitely be able to come up with a report that will satisfy you within two months."

Zhou Cheng continued to order: "Since Dong Hao, you are so confident, then you will take the lead in this matter."

"It's done, the rewards from the regiment headquarters give you are the same as those of Tan Ming and the others!"

When Zhou Cheng was planning to continue talking, the first guard company's correspondent rushed towards him: "Report to the regiment commander, Deputy regiment commander Tang has arrived!"

Tang Yufeng should have been to Yangquan a few days ago.

But because of the allocation and purchase of grain, it has been delayed until now.

His arrival means how much military rations the National Salvation Army can use to help the victims, how much grain the troops can purchase from the defense zone, the specific amount has been calculated.

Moreover, I have several major issues to discuss with Tang Yufeng, so I immediately decided to return to the command center!

"This matter is decided. If you have any needs, just contact the Chief of Staff. I have explained it to him and will definitely support you unconditionally.

When returning to the county town, Tang Yufeng was frowning and counting the data in his hand, his expression was very solemn.

Zhou Cheng's heart skipped a beat and a bad premonition flashed.

He walked quickly to Tang Yufeng and asked anxiously: "Old Tang, can we use the food to help the victims not as much as we imagined!"

"A lot less!" Tang Yufeng nodded.

"When we were reserving military rations before, our main force and local forces had only seven or eight thousand people."

"Now our main force adds local cadres, arsenal workers, and disabled soldiers who need to support the troops. The total strength of the military rations has exceeded 15,000. The military rations that were previously reserved for two years are only enough for one year."

"Now we have seven or eight thousand more prisoners, and the consumption of military rations is faster."

"I have already made some calculations. I have left the food that lasts until the autumn harvest. The troops can take out up to one-third of the military food to help the victims. If there are more, the troops will be affected."

"The people in the defense zone have not reserved as much as we expected, especially the people in Xiyang, which is almost enough for them to survive until the autumn harvest, and there is no spare grain to sell to us."

"So the military rations I raised and the food I purchased were only enough for the victims to last for three months."

"Too few!" Zhou Cheng's expression also became heavier.

The task he just gave Tan Ming was to harvest the first batch of food within four months, which means that the victims were still a month away from 2 million kilograms of food.

With two million kilograms of grain that will be needed soon, the National Salvation Army will have to solve the problem of four million kilograms of grain within at least two months.

This is because Tan Ming and others can successfully complete the task and harvest the first batch of food within four months.

If the task cannot be completed, the National Rescue Army will need to raise more food...

Thinking of this, Zhou Cheng was in trouble.

The channels for obtaining food from outside the defense zone were almost cut off by the Japanese and puppet troops and the war zone.

Although he could still get food from the Eighth Route Army, in order to make the Japanese and puppet troops and the war zone continue to feel that the National Salvation Army had a quarrel with the Eighth Route Army and despise the National Salvation Army. Without any necessity, the National Salvation Army would definitely not buy food from the Eighth Route Army.

Tang Yufeng's brows also twisted into a big character with Sichuan.

He didn't know that Zhou Cheng had arranged for Tan Ming to rush to grow grain and strive to harvest the first batch of grain within four months. He still believed that the victims were still three months away from food. With two million kilograms of grain, the regiment headquarters would raise at least eight million kilograms of grain in a short period of time, so he felt even more pressure.

At this moment, Zhou Cheng thought of the situation he saw in the ancestral hall just now.

For adults, half a kilogram of food a day is definitely not enough to eat, and it is difficult to fill your stomach.

In order to make the victims eat more, local cadres' methods can be said to eat endlessly. The most common method is to mobilize the victims to dig wild vegetables around the village, mix the wild vegetables into the grain, and half a pound of grain will be turned into one pound of food.

Although it's not delicious, it's full.

Wild vegetables can be eaten as grain, allowing the limited grain in the defense zone to last longer.

Other foods that can be eaten can definitely be mixed with food, so as to reduce food consumption and allow disaster victims to last longer.
Chapter completed!