My client Li Yunlong

Mid April.

Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region.

"here it is···"

The famous friction expert, Commander Zhu Huaibing, looked at the empty space in front of him and was silent for a long time.

"This is the camp of the 229th Regiment."

The accompanying staff officer provided additional explanations.

"Where's the 229th Regiment?"

Zhu Huaibing looked at the staff officer.

"···"

The staff officer fell silent.

The reselling of soldiers has been going on for a year. In fact, everyone knows that the army has begun to lose personnel on a large scale.

But can't beat it!
Really can't beat it!
The equipment is actually similar, but I just can't beat it.

Don't dare to fight either.

The situation of the Zhengzhou 339th Regiment is not an exception, but a very common situation. The attacking troops often rush forward aggressively, and then all fall into the arms of the enemy.

What can be done?
It caused panic within the family.

If it weren't for the Japanese fighting against Tubal Road recently, and if it weren't for the high-level officials urgently improving the treatment of soldiers, I'm afraid the front line would have collapsed.

But the problem is still very serious.

Fiat currency is still depreciating,
Even in mountain cities, one pound of sorghum now costs two hundred French coins, and it is still inferior bulk sorghum mixed with impurities. One pound of sorghum contains 20 taels of impurities in bulk.

You know, before the Anti-Japanese War, you could buy four cows with two hundred French coins.

And in the Eighth Route Army base area.

A pound of sorghum, a pound of well-covered sorghum without a trace of impurities, only costs 20 cents.

Fiat currency is like waste paper.

Under such circumstances, can the troops not disperse?

Even if the opponent doesn't spend money to buy it, the army will probably fall apart in the end.

only··
"Should it be nearby?"

The staff officer did not expect that the 229th Regiment would even disappear at the camp.

"The latter, they also..."

The staff officer did not continue.

But everyone knows what is behind it.

Or, the 229th Regiment also joined Tubal Road and joined the real army on the opposite side.

"check!"

The friction expert sounded hysterical:

"Once the leader of the 229th Regiment is found, he will be dealt with immediately by military law."

"Yes!"

The staff officer responded with his mouth, but he was thinking in his heart.

Is it time to leave too?
This unit seems to be hopeless.

The future of China belongs to the Eighth Route Army, and it is time for him to make a choice.

Moreover.

Even if you don't join the Eighth Route Army, finding any job in the Eighth Route Army's base area is far better than here.

He earns 10,000 French currency a month.

Sounds like a lot.

If it had been in 37 years, I'm afraid it would have made everyone envious, but now, just buy fifty kilograms of sorghum?

Still inferior sorghum.

···
"It is estimated that starting from mid-April, the Shuiyaozi Arsenal will be able to produce 300,000 rounds of ammunition, 500 guns, 10,000 grenades, and 10,000 grenades per day?"

"Good good!"

Border area.

The commander of the garrison was overjoyed when he heard the news from Taihang headquarters.

The biggest problem of the army today is the shortage of light weapons.

120 mortars are enough.

Last year, 120 mortars were obtained every month. After the year, the independent regiment established a heavy artillery battalion, increased the artillery establishment, and reduced the infantry establishment, so that the monthly acquisition of mortars reached .

Recently, the troops have been engaged in positional defensive warfare, with sufficient troops. Positions have been breached and troops have been defeated and annihilated rarely, so artillery losses have been relatively small.

The 120 mortar is of very high quality and rarely malfunctions.

So after so many months of accumulation, there are already six hundred 120 mortars.

According to the organization and equipment list of independent regiments, the entire army has formed fifty main regiments, each with four branches. Each brigade and division headquarters also established artillery regiments and independent artillery battalions.

Among them, there are five main regiments deployed in the border area.

as well as,

Two independent artillery battalions and one independent artillery regiment.

It is precisely because of these artillery, coupled with the economic offensive, that the recent border area has been very quiet, with almost no conflicts.

But the total strength of the fifty main regiments is only 150,000.

Because the current army equipment can only meet the scale of 150,000 people.

With the addition of a large number of preserved fruit troops, there are currently 290,000 combat troops in the border area alone.

And the number is increasing by hundreds every day.

Although according to the new army plan formulated by the headquarters, only half of the current 290,000 troops in the border area remain, after all, the future troops will be equipped with a large number of advanced weapons and equipment, which will require high quality of soldiers.

There is no need for so many people anymore.

But even if half were left, there would still be 150,000 people.

Fifty main groups!
There are combatable troops in the Taiyue base area, equivalent to forty regiments. There are combatable troops equivalent to fifty regiments in the Luliang Mountain Base Area. There are 85 combatable regiments in the Taihang base area. In the Jinan base area, there are combat troops equivalent to seventy regiments.

Such a large force did not have enough weapons. Many soldiers were not even made in Hanyang.

Otherwise, the Japanese would have been bulldozed long ago.

Now, hope has finally come.

Our own base can now produce qualified new weapons and equipment.

"Headquarters ordered us."

The Eighth Route Army officer who reported the report continued:

"Intensify."

"it is good!"

"Hahaha··"

The border commander suddenly burst out laughing.

Although the army began to dig into the preserved fruit corner, its strength was not large, with a monthly budget of only 12 million silver dollars.

As for the reason, it is because there are not enough officers in the base area, and rashly recruiting too many candied soldiers will lead to chaos within the army, and the gain will not be worth the loss.

But now, the training at the headquarters is based on the military teaching materials obtained by Li Yunlong, and the ideological teaching materials developed by himself by summarizing and integrating the development experience of the base over the past year.

More than 3,000 basic officers of battalions and companies have graduated from the training based on old Red Army veterans and combat heroes.

All troops will be deployed soon.

The Anti-Japanese University also trained more than a thousand political commissar seedlings and put them into the army.

The time has come to further improve the cultural level of the troops and the combat level of ordinary officers and soldiers.

Naturally, it was time to deal harshly with the preserved fruit troops.

There are a lot of talents there.

Pilots, tank drivers, and mechanical logistics soldiers make the troops very jealous.

"The budget is 60 million silver dollars per month."

"Sixty million?"

The commander was shocked.

Although it is expected to increase efforts, the price that used to be 12 million silver dollars per month has suddenly increased to 60 million, a five-fold increase.

Too harsh.

But...

"it is good!"

The commander nodded with satisfaction.

he likes!
···
"Tuanzu, the situation is much more serious than we expected." At the same time.

The headquarters of the 358th Regiment.

Fang Ligong handed Chu Yunfei an investigation report summarized by his personal visit.

"It's actually gotten so serious."

Looking at the summary report of the meritorious investigation in his hand, Chu Yunfei sighed.

"It seems that we were wrong!"

After a long time, Chu Yunfei sighed and concluded:

"Economic development is the last word!"

"really."

Fang Ligong also sighed.

Before the Japanese came, they and Li Yunlong's group were fighting fiercely even though they were going back and forth.

But in terms of controlling the territory and population of grassroots villages and towns, the two sides are also competing fiercely, and in this process, Preserved Fruit actually does not suffer much.

Even take advantage.

This is because those landowners and businessmen who actually control the basic villages and towns will instinctively get close to the preserved fruits, so that their own preserved fruits can control the basic villages and towns through these people.

The so-called ordinary people who support Tubal Road have no say at all, so naturally their own preserved fruits have the advantage.

This competition, even after cooperating to fight the Japanese, is still very fierce.

Because the more territory you control, the more financial funds you get and the more resources you can gather.

only··
Recently, things have changed.

Earth-shaking changes.

The cheap, abundant, and high-quality grain produced by the Eighth Route Army flooded the market. Coupled with the large-scale recruitment of workers at high wages, the landowners who relied on grain went bankrupt one after another.

no way.

The labor was robbed.

The landowners could hardly find anyone to farm the land, so in the end they had no choice but to sell the land. The grain received in the fields in a year is not enough to pay the wages of farmers.

What can we do if we don’t sell the land?
Even if some means are used to plant the land, the food cannot be sold, and the farming will be a complete loss.

Sorghum costs two cents per catty, and millet costs three cents per catty. The cost is still high!
In the end, I still sold my land honestly.

The Eighth Route Army, which had sufficient funds, naturally took all the land into its hands and gave it to the people for farming.

After a set of actions, the landowners who were aligned with Guo Prei completely lost their influence on the region, so that Guo Prei had almost no power over the Tubal Road base.

Then, based on low-priced food, the breeding industry will be launched.

Raise ducks, raise chickens, etc.

In the end, these chickens, ducks and pigs were purchased by the army, which not only solved the market problem, but also returned it to the militia and provided better food for the soldiers.

The soldiers have better food, and the people have money.

Win-win.

As for the means of selling one's body and other means to force people to farm for free...
The methods of Li Yunlong's group are also very simple. For the purpose of fighting against the Japanese, they establish a full-name identity system. Everyone must be registered and become a militia.

Be prepared to join the troops in fighting the Japanese when necessary.

Of course, after joining the militia, training is not forced, but food is used as a benefit to attract people to participate in training.

Do you dare to use unreasonable contracts and coercion and threats to deal with the army?
Are you helping the devils?

Once a set of measures is adopted, it won't take long for people whose living standards improve and whose pockets begin to bulge to support Tubal Road crazily.

Common people joined the army one after another.

They even gave up their job opportunities and participated in militia training.

And those people who are adjacent to Tubal Road will also try their best to get closer to the Tubal Road base area, while the neighboring landowners, because they cannot stop the influx of cheap commodity grain, sell their land in buckets and run away.

This way.

Even Tubal Road did not exert any force. Those areas adjacent to Tubal Road that were originally controlled by Guo Preserved became the base areas of the Eighth Route Army.

No one can stop it.

Slowly, the territory controlled by preserved fruits became smaller and smaller.

at this time,

The statistical report in Fang Ligong's hand is to calculate the territory near the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army and the degree of control over surrounding villages.

When he was stationed here at the beginning, Chu Yunfei made statistics. Thirty-seven villages and towns around the 358th Regiment were under the control of the 358th Regiment, and they were all under the control of Guozhou people.

but now!
This quantity is zero!

zero!
Except for the 358th Regiment, which was stationed in the county and was still under the control of Guopu, the rest were controlled by the Eighth Route Army. Village chiefs, town chiefs and other structures were all appointed by Tubal Road.

The policies implemented are also those of Tubal Road.

Even schools were built, and people in the county began to drain out.

Chu Yunfei saw the core at a glance - following the Eighth Route Army, everyone would be fed and clothed, and the wages would be high. In the preserved fruit-controlled areas, most people only hope to have a full meal once in a while. In such a situation, even if you threaten him with a gun, you can't stop him.

"How many more of us are there?"

Chu Yunfei asked again.

No investigation is needed to know that this is the case in the territory near his 358th Regiment. The situation around other garrisons can be imagined.

Today's Jin Dynasty.

Except for the important towns controlled by the Japanese, almost all fell into the hands of Tubal Road.

"Two thousand five hundred people."

Fang Ligong hesitated for a while before answering.

"Two thousand five hundred people."

Chu Yunfei sighed.

There are only 2,500 people left in his 358th Regiment. One can imagine what the situation is like for other Shanxi-Sui Army troops.

This situation almost means that

Jinsui Army,
Even after being defeated in Taiyuan, there are still 120,000 main troops, and the Jinsui Army, with a total strength of more than 200,000, will quietly disappear without a trace in the next few days.

And there's nothing they can do.

The trend is unstoppable.

Not to mention other regiments, even the 339th Regiment, if he, Chu Yunfei, ordered a war with the Eighth Route Army, the solution to the th Regiment would not be much better, or even more serious.

There won't be many soldiers fighting against the Eighth Route Army.

It’s not just the treatment.

There is another main reason.

Most of the Jinsui army were from Jin.

The main core base area of ​​the Eighth Route Army is also in Shanxi.

The families, relatives and friends of these soldiers all benefited from the Eighth Route Army. They had enough to eat, wore warm clothes, bought cheap and easy medicines, and lived in warm houses.

Lived a good life.

Who is willing to break a good life with his own hands?
"Tuanzuo, we have to stop..."

Fang Ligong suggested.

The 358th Regiment has grown from 5,000 to 2,500.

If we don't intercept the leaving soldiers, it won't take long before there will be a thousand people.

"No need."

Chu Yunfei sighed:

"It's unstoppable."

Unstoppable...
Fang Ligong was stunned for a moment and then sighed.

Yes!

Unstoppable!

No one can stop it.

Unless we follow Tubal Road’s treatment, provide soldiers with good food and drink, and provide them with adequate military pay, they will not be able to stop them.

Don't talk about the army, don't talk about military law.

Military law is useless.

After all, we are all Chinese!
They are all anti-Japanese troops.

But what can preserved fruit do?
Although Tubal Road has external aid, if Preserved Fruit also receives external aid, can it provide good treatment to grassroots soldiers and benefit the common people like Tubal Road?
Or even use violence as a deterrent to increase workers’ wages?

"Yes!"

Fang stood at attention and saluted after making meritorious service.

The answer is obvious. (End of chapter)