Zhou Cheng replied indifferently: "As long as you don't suffer any losses! Now we have an arsenal, and our dependence on seizures is not as high as before. As long as we can kill the Japanese, it doesn't matter whether we can seize a good gun!"

Chen Zhengyu was worried at first that the troops had seized too little equipment. After the regiment leader's analysis, he was not worried. He looked at Zhou Cheng continuing to report: "There are no Japanese and puppet troops or spies in the base area, so we basically did not seize food or finance during the attack. But because the Independent Group left enough food for everyone, the villagers in the base area still had a lot of surplus grain, so it would be fine to survive until the autumn harvest this year."

"The enemy-occupied area we just seized from the Japanese and puppet troops is not that good."

"The Japanese and puppet troops gathered more than 10,000 people in the two places to deal with us. Although these more than 10,000 people brought a lot of food and supplies, the Japanese and puppet troops stayed for too long, and those food and supplies were far from meeting their needs."

"In order to eat and drink well, the Japanese and puppet troops directly extended their vicious hands to the occupied area."

"In addition, many Japanese and puppet troops felt that they could not defend Shouyang and Yangquan, and believed that these two places would be occupied by us sooner or later. It would be better for us to give them the food in their hands than to be cheaper. Therefore, they robbed food too much. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as scraping three feet of the ground, and they completely ignore the lives and deaths of the people.

"In less than a month, every ordinary person in the defense zone was robbed by the Japanese and puppet troops more than twice."

"Even food, grain, and food, as long as it is edible, they were almost all stolen by the Japanese and puppet troops."

"Although we seized a lot of food in Shouyang County, in front of more than 100,000 ordinary people who are not fed, the little food cannot last for five days."

Zhou Cheng's good mood disappeared all of a sudden.

Arsenals can produce weapons and ammunition, so that the troops will no longer lack guns and ammunition, so it doesn’t matter whether the number of weapons and ammunition is seized on the battlefield.

If food is not good, there is no third way to obtain it except for the villagers who farm and buy it themselves.

Now the war zone has regarded the National Rescue Army as a major concern and wants to get rid of it quickly; the Japanese also regard the National Rescue Army as a thorn in their eyes, and they will definitely not let a grain flow into the National Rescue Army defense zone; the Eighth Route Army has just acted and made the Japanese and the War zone feel that the National Rescue Army has had a stumble with them, and they will definitely not be able to contact them in a short period of time... It means that the road of purchasing from abroad will not work for the time being.

Then you can only choose the way to grow food by yourself.

Now the cold winter has just passed, and the autumn harvest will not reach nearly half a year later, so the national rescue army will not get any food in the next six months.

If the defense zone just won only 10,000 or 20,000 disaster victims need to be treated by the troops, the national rescue army had enough food to deal with, and could support them until the autumn harvest.

Now the Chief of Staff told him that there were more than 100,000 victims who were not in full food waiting for emergency treatment. Even if he took out all the stored food he had previously reserved, it would not be enough to stuff them into teeth.

The more Zhou Cheng thought about it, the deeper his brows frowned, and he couldn't help asking: "Even if the Japanese and puppet troops stole fifty kilograms of grain from each of them, the total amount was six or seven million kilograms of grain."

"We only seized less than 300,000 kilograms of grain in Shouyang County. The Independent Group seized less than 400,000 kilograms of grain from Yangquan County. The total total was less than 700,000 kilograms. Where did the remaining more than 6 million kilograms of grain go? Although there were more than 10,000 Japanese and puppet troops entering Yangquan and Shouyang, it was impossible to eat them all in more than half a month!"

Speaking of this issue, Chen Zhengyu's face became particularly ugly, and he replied with a calm face: "After learning that the people in the enemy-occupied areas were stolen by the Japanese and puppet troops, and we did not find these foods, I immediately found the puppet army officers among the prisoners, hoping to find the place where these foods were from them, and found a huge secret."

"When the Japanese army decided to consume a lot of our troops in Yangquan and Shouyang, they were ready to give up the two places. In order to cause trouble for us and prevent our strength from increasing our territory, the Japanese issued a three-light order to the troops stationed in Yangquan and Shouyang."

"I asked the Japanese and puppet troops to take away all the food and livestock that can be eaten in the occupied areas!"

"All the houses of all living people are burned, all the farm tools are destroyed, and all the clothes that can be grabbed are burned..."

"To sum up, in one sentence: except for more than 100,000 ordinary people who are not covered in clothes and cannot eat, they can snatch everything they can use and eat, and destroy what they cannot snatch, and cannot be left to us!"

"Our attack speed is too fast. Before the Japanese and puppet troops could burn their houses, they were destroyed by us. Therefore, more than 100,000 people still have houses that can shelter from the wind and rain. If we come two days late, more than 100,000 people would even burn their houses by the Japanese and puppet troops!"

"The only houses left for the Japanese and puppet troops to the villagers."

"The food, iron pots, livestock, and iron farm tools that everyone can survive are all stolen by the Japanese and puppet troops, and nothing is left."

"The worthless furniture, plates, porcelain bowls, quilts... all you can smash and smash, and all you can't smash and burn to ashes."

"When we took down the enemy-occupied area, the villagers almost all relied on wild vegetables, and didn't even have a pot of hot water. They all used wheatgrass and thatch as quilts at night..."

"In less than three days, more than 300 weak elderly people in the enemy-occupied area had lost their lives due to hunger and cold."

"I am here now to ask the delegation leader: I will immediately allocate grain and quilts from Xiyang and Ping to help the hungry people in the enemy's area. At least they must first solve their food and clothing. None of the people will be frozen to death or starved to death. As for other problems, we will find a way later!"

When Zhou Cheng heard the word "Three Lights", he instantly widened his eyes and looked shocked.

He didn't expect that the "Three Lights Policy" that would appear on the battlefield in North China would appear in advance two years later, and as soon as it appeared, he was encountered by himself, and he would attack him and attack him.

After Chen Zhengyu finished speaking, Zhou Cheng was instantly covered in anger. His big round eyes had turned red at some point, as if he could spit fire...

Immediately ordered: "Now send a telegram to Deputy Commander Tang, asking him to allocate grain and quilts at all costs, and send it to the enemy-occupied area we just occupied as quickly as possible, and send some local cadres to come over. The more the better, the better, and help the people in the enemy-occupied area as soon as possible. Now these people are under our national control. I don't care what their situation was in the enemy-occupied area before. From now on, no other ordinary people will be starved to death or frozen to death."

"We also need to transfer some doctors and medicines to rescue critically ill patients at any time."

"In addition, you immediately give orders to the Shouyang Garrison and the Yangquan Garrison, asking them to raise food and quilts from the independent regiment base we just took down, and to help the people in the enemy-occupied areas nearby."

"Tell the people in the base area that the quilts and grain we temporarily collected were borrowed by them and they would be returned to them at the latest one month."

After arranging the relief of the disaster victims, Zhou Chengcai returned to the question just now: "You haven't told me where the millions of kilograms of grain stolen by the Japanese and puppet troops went, as well as the livestock, iron farm tools, iron pots and so on that they stolen."

"Those things are necessities for the villagers to survive. We must snatch them back. Otherwise, the spring plowing connected by more than 100,000 people will not be able to be carried out, and eating is also a big problem!"

"I can't catch it anymore!" Chen Zhengyu replied with a heavy face.

"The Japanese are so cruel. After Taiyuan issued the Three Lights Order, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line and make them execute the orders more thoroughly, a special sharing plan was formulated."

"The food, livestock, iron farm tools, iron pots they snatched from the people... as long as they were exchanged for money, they only paid 50% of them, and the remaining 50% were given to the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line."

"Under the stimulation of a large number of benefits, the robbery of the Japanese and puppet troops was so thorough, completely ignoring the lives and deaths of the people."

"In addition, in order to get the ocean faster, they would send their things to the train station after robbing, and send the things they snatched to the enemy-occupied areas for sale through the train, or hand them over to Taiyuan..."

"I have calculated it roughly. In less than a month, the Japanese and puppet troops stole 8 million kilograms of various grains, more than 42,000 iron pots and more than 80,000 iron agricultural tools from Shouyang and Yangquan. If all of them were melted into pig iron to produce weapons, at least 150,000 kilograms."

"If these pig irons are placed in our base, they will be enough for the arsenal to have six months."

"Now all these iron tools have been stolen by the Japanese and puppet troops. Our National Rescue Military Defense Zone not only reduced the pig iron by more than 150,000 kilograms of pig iron, but also found a way to make up for this gap and cast pig iron into agricultural tools and iron pots that everyone urgently needs, and return it to the people as soon as possible, otherwise they would even have a problem with the minimum meal."

"Damn it!" Zhou Cheng was angry and smashed his fist on the table in front of him, gritting his teeth and cursing.

Then he frowned and fell into deep thought. Unexpectedly, the famous "Three Lights Policy" in history would be encountered by himself.

No, this should be the changed "New Three Lights Policy".

The "Three Lights Policy" in history is to kill, burn it all, and steal it all, and to create a large number of unmanned areas in the Eighth Route Army base areas through the "Three Lights Policy" to attack the Eighth Route Army and weaken the Eighth Route Army's war potential.

Although the Japanese's current "New Three Lights Policy" has turned all the killings in history into robbing farm tools, robbing iron pots, and burning down the clothes and quilts that the people rely on for survival... it seems not as fierce as killing them, but the attack on the National Salvation Army is indeed fatal.

Because the Japanese did this to add more than 100,000 victims to the National Savior Army who were hungry and had no living conditions.

The foundation of the National Salvation Army is already very thin. If such a great pressure is increased at once, it may crush the National Salvation Army in terms of economy and food, so as to disrupt the national Salvation Army's defense zone and crack down on the military morale and morale of the National Salvation Army.
Chapter completed!