Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 160

Sure enough, the Chongqing side saw the opportunity to add insult to injury.

In fact, it was Neji Okamura who chose to act at this time because he grasped Chongqing's fear of the Eighth Route Army, which became more and more serious as the Eighth Route Army grew stronger.

This time can be said to be just right, so that Neiji Okamura and Chongqing have common interests, so they reached a certain tacit understanding.

First of all, Chongqing ordered a complete blockade of the Eighth Route Army, and no materials could be transported to the Eighth Route Army bases. Once found smuggling materials, they would be shot on the spot for smuggling.

This is true killing. In history, many soldiers and civilians who smuggled supplies in order to break through the blockade fell under the enemy's guns.

Sometimes it is these "insiders" who are more infuriating.

The devil is an enemy in the first place, not his own kind fighting alone, we will accompany you to the end no matter how ruthless you are, and we can exchange your life for a life with an eye for an eye.

But at this time, when the country is ruined and the family is destroyed, when the two brothers are still struggling to fight the devils together, why do they hate their own people like this, why don't they put the devils down first, why do they want to kill them all?
However, there is no way for this to happen. Not only can people do it, but they can do it even more ruthlessly.

In addition to the blockade, Chongqing has also done three things:
One is to completely stop the military pay of the Eighth Route Army (stopped in December 1940).

The second is to print a large amount of money to participate in the scramble for supplies... This made it impossible for the Eighth Route Army to deal with it, because the Chongqing side printed real money.

Third, use the power of discourse overseas to publicize that the Eighth Route Army only develops and does not resist the war, and withhold overseas Chinese donations to the Eighth Route Army.

The Eighth Route Army's financial sources mainly come from three sources:
One is military pay.

The second is overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese and donations.

The third is that the common people pay public grain.

Military pay has been cut off, donations have been intercepted, people in guerrilla areas have been divided, food in the hands of people in base areas has been plundered in various ways, how can the people pay public food when they can’t make ends meet?
As a result, the Eighth Route Army's financial revenue was almost cut off at this moment.

Wang Xuexin didn't expect this kind of situation to happen either. He only knew about the military blockade of the Devils against the Eighth Route Army, but he didn't expect that there would be such an economic and material blockade.

Thinking about it later, Wang Xuexin knew that this was the reason for his incomplete knowledge of history.

Didn't "mass production" happen in this era?

"Do it yourself and have enough food and clothing" is also now!
When I was a child, I sang the song "Nanniwan" every day!

This song is about how the Eighth Route Army reclaimed wasteland and cultivated land by themselves during the period of economic blockade, turning barren hills into fertile fields!
It's ironic, I read words and sing songs every day, but at this time, I haven't connected them at all!

But then again, so what if I thought of it?
It seems that I can only watch this happen!
The situation in the border area continued to deteriorate, and the chief immediately reported the situation and held an emergency meeting to discuss the countermeasures.

Several regiment leaders including Li Yunlong and Ding Wei also came, because the troops near Zhaojiayu are very important. At least for now, the only way to break through the blockade and get urgently needed supplies is in this direction!

The chief gave a brief overview of the problem, then frowned and said: "This is the situation, we should be glad that we won a battle before and saved most of the bases, otherwise we would have to let the devil draw blood without fighting back power!"

That's what it says, but it's not.

If the root land near the mountainous area is also lost, it will be burned, killed, and robbed by the devils, and there is no need to use fake money to steal it.

"We have already set up checkpoints and guards at various traffic arteries." The chief continued: "No matter how the traitors make troubles in the border area, at least we must ensure that they cannot transport food and supplies out!"

This solves some of the problems, but obviously not all.

Because there are still many bandits bought by devils inside, they will join forces with traitor merchants to hide the grain, and there is no need to transport it out.

Li Yunlong then scolded: "If you want me to say, whoever grabs food at a damn high price will be arrested. Let's see if it's the fake money in his hand or the gun barrel in our hand! Let's beat each other! If you call them, you will still be afraid of them..."

"Li Yunlong!" The chief rapped heavily on the table with his fingers: "The problem is that most of the people who rob food at a high price are fellow villagers. If we catch them all one by one, what is the difference between them and devils? Do we want to fight in the future? ?”

When the chief said this, Li Yunlong fell silent.

The Eighth Route Army is an army from the people, and the people are the foundation of the army. At no time can they point their guns at their own people, even though they know that their behavior of driving up prices is wrong.

In fact, the villagers can't help themselves. If so much fake money is thrown into the base area, the price of goods will definitely skyrocket.

At this time, there is only one wise choice, and that is to hold on to what you have and not sell it.

But how many people are sensible?
"The only good thing now!" said the chief, "is that the superiors decided to issue their own currency to drive out legal currency and stabilize prices!"

Wang Xuexin nodded secretly.

This is correct, otherwise it is to let the enemy fight with your hands tied.Although we can't talk about fighting back, we should be defensive!
"In addition!" The chief continued: "The superiors believe that we should be prepared for a long-term struggle with the enemy and solve our own problems by ourselves. Only in this way can we not be afraid of the enemy's blockade. What do you think, comrades?"

All the cadres present at the meeting were silent. They were good at fighting, and when they suddenly wanted to engage in production and economics, they didn't have a clue.

Seeing that everyone was silent, the chief turned his attention to Wang Xuexin and asked, "Comrade Wang Xuexin, take the lead!"

"Chief!" Wang Xuexin said, "I think we can think about it internally and externally. Internally, what we think about is food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. Among them, clothing and food are the key points, such as spinning and weaving... This will be blocked in the future." , we can’t even buy clothes, so we can’t fight devils naked!”

Everyone laughed, and the atmosphere in the venue eased up.

The chief of staff interrupted and said, "But we don't grow much cotton in Northwest Shanxi, so we don't have enough cotton to spin!"

"This is the problem!" Wang Xuexin said: "So we know what we are going to do! We have to weave clothes, but there is no cotton. If there is no cotton, we need to encourage the villagers to grow it. When the cotton grows, the problem will be solved!"

Li Yunlong asked back: "It's easy for you to say, the fellow grows cotton but not crops, so what do you eat?"

"We can grow crops!" Wang Xuexin replied: "When the time comes, we can exchange the grown grains for cotton with fellow villagers?"

This made the chief nod again and again, secretly thinking that this little Northeast has two hands in production!

(End of this chapter)