"We don't have time to reclaim wasteland, so where can we have time to grow potatoes with you?" a middle-aged man shouted in the crowd.

The person who spoke was Zhang Shan, who was a foreigner. When this place was still occupied by the enemy, he had no acre of land in his family and lived on renting the landlord's family.

The whole family had a total of five people, including three strong laborers and two children. They rented 18 acres of land to death. However, because the rent collected by the landlord was too high and the Japanese were supported by him, he, like other villagers in the village, dared not speak out.

After working hard for a whole year, I could only get eight or nine hundred kilograms of grain in the end, half of which were mixed grains.

This little food is not enough for the whole family of five. In order not to starve to death, the whole family has not eaten pure essence grain for several years, and almost every meal is filled with wild vegetables and mixed grain cakes.

Although life is hard, you can still survive.

But they far underestimated the Japanese's ruthlessness. After knowing that they could not keep Yangquan, they actually snatched away all the food they could eat at home, not even letting go of iron pots for cooking and farming tools.

Looking at the house that was looted by the Japanese and puppet troops, Zhang Shan was desperate.

Especially after knowing that the whole village was looted by Japanese and puppet troops and had no place to borrow food to live, I had the intention of committing suicide with my family.

Fortunately, the National Rescue Army came here at this time and took out their military rations to make food for them, so that they could see hope of living in despair.

In the next few days, the National Salvation Army not only distributed him fifteen acres of land, but also continued to provide them with food.

Not only that, the two children at home actually ate white flour steamed buns and sticky millet porridge when food was out of stock at home.

This is a good thing that I couldn't eat during the New Year before.

Faced with the various benefits and life-saving grace that the National Saving Army brought to himself and his family, Zhang Shan felt grateful to the National Saving Army from the bottom of his heart.

Even if the National Salvation Army asked him to go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese devils at this time, he would not frown.

Although the National Salvation Army only distributed it to fifteen acres of land, five acres of dry land that could only grow grains, and the yield was very low.

But these fifteen acres of land belong to him. Every year, except for paying a small proportion of public grain, the remaining harvest is his own.

Zhang Shan has calculated that as long as there is no natural disaster or man-made disaster, the ten acres of fertile land distributed to him by the National Saving Army can harvest at least 1,400 kilograms of fine grain, reduce the tax of 200 kilograms of grain, and the family can still have 1,200 kilograms of fine grain left.

Five acres of dry land can also harvest six or seven hundred kilograms of miscellaneous grains, and almost five hundred kilograms of grains are in your hands.

With them, the family will never go hungry in the next year, and they can even eat one or two meals of white flour steamed buns and millet porridge every now and then to improve the food.

Just when Zhang Shan felt that his good days were coming, a better news spread in the village.

The National Salvation Army not only provided them with food and distributed land, but also organized them to reclaim land to ensure that everyone in the village had five acres of land.

More importantly, all the land you reclaimed belongs to you. You don’t have to pay taxes in the first year, and only half of the taxes will be paid the next day, and the full tax will not be paid in the third year.

After hearing this good news, Zhang Shan was particularly happy.

Every day, I take my family to reclaim the land at dawn.

In just three days, the whole family has dug out three acres of wasteland.

Although the yield of new fields will be very low in the first year, as long as you have enough base fertilizer and serve the crops well, one acre of land will definitely be able to harvest seventy or eighty kilograms of grain.

If all the three acres of land that have been opened are planted with grain, at least 250 kilograms of grain will be added to the family during the autumn harvest, and the food for almost one person is more than half a year.

Now there are more than ten days left before spring plowing, Zhang Shan decided to work harder and lead his family to open another ten acres of wasteland.

Then the family can increase its grain by more than a thousand kilograms this autumn harvest, and about 1,500 kilograms of grain next year."

"With these incomes, not only will the family not have to go hungry anymore, but they can also sell thousands of kilograms of grain every year, repair the house at home, buy some livestock, chickens and ducks, and make two sets of clothes for the children... Thinking of this, Zhang Shan couldn't help but smile on his face.

With yearning and expectation for the future, Zhang Shan wished he could appear at the land reclamation site every day at dawn.

Suddenly, I heard the young man in front of me say that the land will not be reclaimed today, and the whole village, young and old, followed him to grow potatoes, so Zhang Shan would definitely not want to.

If you delay a day because of rushing to grow potatoes, your family will lose one acre of land income during spring plowing. If you delay a day when rushing to grow potatoes, your family will lose two acres of land income.

Zhang Shan was afraid of hunger and finally encountered such a good policy that allowed land reclamation, so he definitely didn't want to let it go.

When Zhang Shan heard that the land reclamation would not be reclaimed today, everyone was going to rush to grow potatoes, so Zhang Shan became anxious on the spot!

The first time a young man from the Agricultural Production Department faced so many ordinary people, he was very nervous. When facing Zhang Shan’s rebuttal, his mind immediately became confused and he didn’t know how to refute it.

The captain of the militia discovered his embarrassment and quickly rescued him: "What are you shouting? Let's calm down and listen to me!"

Although the captain was temporarily transferred, he was not from the village, and he was also a disabled person, his prestige in the village was not inferior to that of the village chief.

After the National Salvation Army took down Yangquan, it distributed the fields to everyone, led the militia to share food for everyone every day, and led everyone to reclaim land... They were all organized by the captain.

As soon as he spoke, the noise in the crowd disappeared, and everyone focused their attention on the captain.

The captain didn't say nonsense and said frankly, "I know you all want to reclaim a few acres of wasteland before spring plowing, and make hundreds of kilograms of grain for autumn harvest."

"But everyone should not forget one thing: there are still five or six months left from now to autumn harvest."

"The food in the hands of the villagers was stolen by the Japanese and puppet troops. Now the food they eat depends on the relief of the National Salvation Army, but no one can guarantee that the National Salvation Army has reserved enough food to help us."

"If the National Salvation Army has no food in its hands and the autumn harvest has not yet arrived, what should we eat?"

"The growth cycle of potatoes is short. If you plant it now, you can harvest it in three months. At that time, there are still two months before the autumn harvest. If the grain reserved by the National Salvation Army is eaten up by us, the villagers can also rely on potatoes to storm the autumn harvest."

"So what we rush to plant today is not only potatoes, but also life-saving food that we can survive until the autumn harvest."

"This brother next to me was sent here by his superiors to guide everyone to grow potatoes. He has read books and knows more knowledge than us. As long as we listen to him, we can grow twenty acres of potatoes in two days."

"In two days, should you reclaim the land or continue to reclaim the land, I will definitely not stop you!"

While potatoes were being planted everywhere in the disaster area, the garrison brigade and the main force were also busy.

As soon as the sky was dawn, Zhou Chengru took the First Guard Company and the Second Guard Company to leave Yangquan County, and headed straight to the hilly area eight kilometers southeast of the county.

There are lots of wastelands and hills everywhere, and rivers nearby, which is the best place to reclaim land.

Zhou Cheng decided to lead the guard battalion, communication platoon, reconnaissance company, regiment headquarters staff and documents to reclaim 1,000 acres of wasteland there, and plant all the food during spring plowing.

Time is limited, and in addition to the guards and staff on duty who must stay in the regiment headquarters, Zhou Cheng brought out all the troops and staff who could be brought out, with a total of more than 600 people, and plans to reclaim 200 acres of land a day today.

"Captain, we are here..." Guard battalion commander Liang Hongjiang looked unwilling to report.

Although the group issued an order to reclaim wasteland, be self-sufficient and be self-reliant, Liang Hongjiang was always unwilling to accept it.

In his opinion, the army is specialized in fighting, and it is not unwilling to do its job by spending some training time to reclaim land and farmland?

Along the way, he was very resistant to today's land reclamation operation.

Not only Liang Hongjiang, most of the cadres and soldiers in the team did not understand this order.

Their ideas are similar to Liang Hongjiang. If everyone's training time is used to farm, it will not only not do its job properly, but may also affect the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Zhou Cheng saw everyone's reactions, but did not explain them in depth.

He felt that any explanation was not as good as his own words and deeds.

I am the commander of the National Salvation Army. If I take the lead in reclamation of land, I will definitely dispel the concerns and confusions of most soldiers.

As for the few remaining soldiers and cadres, they can't even object to the general trend.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. As long as you get the start, as time goes by, everyone sees the benefits of self-sufficiency to the army, the disharmonious ideas in the team will naturally disappear!

After glanced at his subordinates with different expressions, he decisively waved his hoe and smashed it hard towards the ground.

In the blink of an eye, a large piece of soil was turned over by himself.

Zhou Cheng's movement did not interrupt at all. He raised his hoe again and smashed it hard on the ground...

In less than five minutes, the group leader Zhou Chengdi dug out a piece of wasteland that was half a meter square.

Seeing many subordinates standing beside him with reluctance expressions, Liang Hongjiang was embarrassed to order: "Why are you still standing there? Start doing things!"

"The leader is all clearing the land, we can't stand by and do nothing."

"Everyone rotates to open up the land, with limited tools. Half of the troops dig the ground, and half of the soldiers cleaned the stones on the ground while resting. We change them every half an hour..."

With Zhou Cheng's personal guidance, everyone became more and more motivated.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, more than 600 people were wrong and they actually reclaimed 250 acres of wasteland.

At this pace, you can cultivate all 1,000 acres of land in five days, then add them to fertilizer and prepare for spring plowing...

After five days of mobilization, more than 6,200 of the nearly 8,000 prisoners took the initiative to join the National Salvation Army.

More than 1,600 people left chose to go home, including some deadly men who worked hard for the Japanese.

As expected, these people would go to the Japanese as soon as they left the National Salvation Army and continue to be dogs for them.

Tang Yufeng was clear about it, but he did not say it out loud, because according to the regiment commander's plan, it would be impossible for them to leave the National Savior Army in a short period of time.

When those deadly and hard-working elements really leave the National Salvation Army, they have received several years of labor reform and ideological education. Even if the other party’s heart is a stone, the National Salvation Army can grind it!

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