Tang Yufeng is an old Red Army soldier and must have suffered more than he himself.

During the Long March, I had almost everything I could eat except food.

Zhou Cheng decided to ask him for advice and find more food that can be used as food to fill hunger, so as to help more than 100,000 victims survive the crisis in front of him.

When he thought of it, Zhou Cheng immediately asked Tang Yufeng: "Old Tang, I just went to the disaster area to see it. Although the food we have to help the villagers is very limited, everyone is very wise."

"Except for children who can eat essential grains, adults eat all the foods mixed with wild vegetables and mixed grains, and they have to make half a pound of grain per capita per capita food. Although the taste is very poor and it is not nutritious, it can fill your stomach."

"I wonder if we can think of some solutions from this aspect."

"If the per capita ration for villagers can be reduced by one or two, the limited food will allow everyone to eat twenty more days."

"If you reduce the price by two taels, you will save more than a month of rations."

"And our troops, more than 100,000 victims in the defense area have no food. We will definitely not be able to take enough white flour and steamed buns like before, regardless of the lives and death of the people."

"So I decided to reduce the per capita ration standard for the main force, local troops and local cadres by 20%, and the saved food is used to help the people."

"In order to ensure that the soldiers can eat enough and have enough physical strength to fight, everyone can learn from the victims and dig more wild vegetables to eat. Of course, if there are troops who have the ability, they can grab food from the Japanese and puppet troops. I have no objection to the big fish and meat every day."

Tang Yufeng's frowning brow stretched for half in an instant, and he became more and more excited as Zhou Cheng thought about it. He was very happy to answer: "Captain, if we can really save 20% of the food to help the victims, the food can at least allow more than 100,000 victims to hold on for at least twenty days."

"I think this method is feasible! We are the team of ordinary people. We must not be separated from the people. We cannot watch the people eat wild vegetables and miscellaneous grains in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the troops, and we can't watch them eat wild vegetables and mixed grains, and we can't live a white flour and steamed bun every day."

"We must also learn to live a hard life. Only by sharing the joys and sorrows with the people can we get everyone's support and trust. Our defense zone can develop into an iron barrel-like defense zone that cannot be defeated by anyone who comes."

"After a while, I will give the troops an order to organize them to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, dig yam eggs, hunt, and fill in 20% of the food reduced by the regiment headquarters, and work with the people in the defense zone to survive the food crisis we will face next and last until the autumn harvest."

Zhou Cheng immediately made a decision: "Then this matter is decided!"

"With the ration saved by the troops, the victims can hold on for twenty days. As long as we find a way to solve the ration for twenty days, there is no need to worry about the food problems of the victims."

"Old Tang, what's the other way I just said? Just reduce the per capita ration of more than 100,000 victims by one or two, and the food saved will be enough for everyone to last for another twenty days."

"I have asked several people transferred from the war zone to start studying food with a short winning cycle, and the results will be released in two days."

"I asked them to organize the victims to temporarily rush to plant some life-saving food, and to ensure that the first batch of food is harvested within four months. As long as we find ways to keep the victims through the next four months, our problem of food shortage will be solved."

The news Zhou Cheng said later was very gratifying, and Tang Yufeng was particularly excited.

If the defense zone can really receive a batch of edible food within four months, then the food gap in the defense zone will be solved half of it at once, and it will definitely be much easier to solve it.

But when Tang Yufeng thought of Zhou Cheng’s proposal just now, he was in trouble.

Although the victims made half a pound of food by adding wild vegetables to make one pound of food, they ensured that the victims could have a full meal every day.

However, its nutrition is very limited. If the proportion of food inside continues to be reduced, the nutrients will definitely be less. If consumed for a long time, more than 100,000 victims will definitely have major problems.

Tang Yufeng immediately expressed his worries.

After hearing this, Zhou Cheng's brows frowned into a big Sichuan character.

Short-term malnutrition may recover. If malnutrition is over for several consecutive months, the victims' health will definitely collapse.

More than 100,000 victims are not a small number. If their bodies collapse due to malnutrition in a few months, it will definitely be a huge loss for the defense zone and may even bring other hidden dangers to the defense zone.

Although Tang Yufeng did not say it clearly, his meaning has been expressed: for the sake of the health of more than 100,000 victims, he did not agree to continue to reduce their rations."

Tang Yufeng's refusal did not make Zhou Cheng give up this idea and continued to ask: "If we find a way to provide some nutritious things to the victims and supplement the nutritional value that reduces food losses by one or two, do you think this will affect the victims' health?"

After hearing this, Tang Yufeng showed a disbelief expression and asked, "This is impossible. We can't even get all the food now. How could we get something more nutritious than food?"

"If there is such a thing, and it can also ensure supply, the victims will be fine if they eat three taels of food every day."

Zhou Cheng was happy as soon as he heard this: "Then we have a way to solve the problem of food shortage."

"Old Tang, didn't you just say that you would let the battalions and garrison brigades organize troops to hunt in the mountains? Tell all battalion commanders and captains that I agree to them hunt in the mountains, and I also agree that they use guns, but the prey they hit must be handed over 60%."

"Most of our defense zone is mountainous areas and hills. There are a large number of old forests that are rarely visited, so there must be a lot of prey hidden."

"A garrison brigade can hand over 10,000 kilograms of meat a month, and four garrison brigades can hand over 120,000 kilograms of prey in three months."

"The nutritional value of meat is much higher than that of grain. With this 120,000 kilograms of meat to make a tooth sacrifice, the victims will save 5 days of food rations."

"This method is feasible!" Tang Yufeng answered silently.

But the frown brows did not stretch at all.

According to the regiment commander's analysis just now, the troops can save the victims about twenty days of food, plus the five days of food saved by more than 100,000 kilograms of prey, which is still at least half a month away from food.

Zhou Cheng continued: "In addition to prey, there is something very nutritious in our defense zone!"

"What?" Tang Yufeng asked anxiously.

If the group leader can really find a food that is more nutritious than food and can replace food in large quantities, then the food shortage problem that has troubled him for several days will be solved.

"Fish!" Zhou Cheng blurted out.

"There are more than fifty rivers, big and small, flowing through our defense zone. There are not even fishermen in many places. There are basically no fishermen. There are basically no one who moves the fish in the river. If we mobilize the people to fish, the harvest will definitely be much smaller?"

"The Japanese can block the ground and prevent a piece of food from flowing into our defense zone, but they cannot block the river."

"Even if we eat up all the big fish in the defense zone basin, the entire river will be connected, and the big fish in the basin occupied by the Japanese and puppet troops may enter the basin where our defense zone is located, so that we can have a steady stream of fish to eat."

"Of course, we can't do stupid things like fishing in dry ponds when fishing."

"Fish can not only be used as our life-saving food now, but also become our future relief food. We cannot eat up all the big fish and small fish in the river at one time. We must catch the big ones and keep the small ones. If we encounter such natural disasters and man-made disasters in the future, we can continue to catch fish and survive."

"Not only that, we also need to find ways to raise fish by ourselves and leave a way out for the villagers."

"Five of the ten people transferred to us in the war zone are engaged in water conservancy. I have ordered them to conduct a thorough survey of the water conservancy situation in the defense zone, the more detailed the better."

"After the spring plowing is over, we cannot feed the hundreds of thousands of victims every day. We must find some things for them to do."

"In addition to the land reclamation we have been doing, I also plan to take this opportunity to build our water conservancy project. All areas where the reservoirs can be repaired are built. Where there are originally reservoirs, we can take this opportunity to increase its reservoir capacity."

"The rivers flowing through our defense zone should also choose some suitable places to build reservoirs to intercept and store the water resources along the river. In the event of drought in the defense zone in the future, these reservoirs can at least ensure the water consumption of the people in the defense zone and the water use of the food fields."

"In addition, we can also use these reservoirs to raise fish and ducks on a large scale... to increase the income of ordinary people, and to save everyone a life-saving food."

"If you encounter such natural disasters and man-made disasters in the future, if a village can have a reservoir and catch thousands of kilograms of fish when the food is most short of food, even if there is no food, the villagers can rely on these fish for an extra month!"

Tang Yufeng's frown completely relaxed his eyebrows, and he became more and more excited as he listened.

After Zhou Chengyi finished speaking, he couldn't help but clapped his hands and applauded: "This is a good method. If we can really catch enough fish from the river, more than 100,000 victims will definitely save food for the second half of the month."

"I also think it is feasible to repair the reservoir. Although I don't know why you are working in the defense zone, as long as it is good for our defense zone and beneficial to the people, and our defense zone does have a lot of idle manpower to use, then repair it!"

Zhou Chengchang breathed a sigh of relief. He was most afraid that Tang Yufeng would stare at him and ask about the repair of the reservoir.

In order to deal with the upcoming drought, large-scale water conservancy construction in the defense zone is one of the most important means of response.

But Zhou Cheng could not tell the reason, otherwise Tang Yufeng would definitely regard him as a lunatic.

Tang Yufeng had almost no thoughts and directly agreed to his proposal, which undoubtedly helped Zhou Cheng solve a big problem.

Looking at Tang Yufeng, he was very happy to order: "Since you agree with Lao Tang, then we will decide."

"I originally thought I would start to build a reservoir two months later. Now I decided to advance this plan and let Dong Hao and the others investigate the water conservancy situation in Yangquan together, and strive to give me the result within half a month. I will start to build water conservancy projects in Yangquan first, and fish while repairing, so as to reduce the daily daily food consumption of the victims, and also find something for the young people among the victims to do, relying on their own abilities to exchange food."
Chapter completed!