Liang Jian: Lao Li, I'm really not a military expert

Chapter 305: Nothing matters if you are hungry. If the problem of food is not solved, it will be use

"In order to ensure the safety of the city, I think we must deploy a company of troops there. When I go there tomorrow, I will first bring a squad of soldiers, and bring more food and drinking water to carry out the preliminary construction of the camp. We must speed up and build the transfer station. We can't delay the next transaction!"

"After meeting Chen Minggeng, I plan to use his connections to buy two radios for us, which will solve our problem of long-distance communications. According to my estimate, it will take us ten days to open up this air transport line, and this is still a very optimistic estimate. If there is an error in the middle, this time will be further extended!" Lin Zhenhua said with a serious face.

Everyone is well aware of how difficult it is to open this air transport line, and the current progress has made everyone feel incredible, especially that Lin Zhenhua actually found an ancient city that can shelter from wind and rain as a stopover, which is beyond everyone's expectations. With the city wall as a barrier, it will be even safer and more secretive.

Li Yunlong was the first to speak up and expressed his support. "College students, we still have nearly two tons of rubber in our hands. If we can produce enough for the arsenal in a month, it will be very difficult to open up an air transport line. We have discussed this several times before. Even I didn't expect that we would find a stopover on the first operation. This is really incredible!"

"There's really no way to rush this matter. Even if we have to rush it, we can't. We have to eat one bite at a time. No one can eat a fat man in one bite. Everyone understands this simple truth. We have discussed it before. You, the college student, will make the full decision on this matter. We will do our best to provide logistics support for you!"

Zhao Gang and several others also stood up to express their support, which made Lin Zhenhua feel much less stressed. He had previously vowed to Li Yunlong that it would only take ten days to build the two transfer stations.

But when they actually started to do this, they found that plans could not keep up with changes, and in the end it might take twice as long as planned. More importantly, problems are likely to arise during long-term flights of transport aircraft, and a large number of spare parts for maintaining the transport aircraft must be stored at the transfer station to ensure that if problems are found, they can be repaired in time. This will also take up a lot of transportation capacity, which made Lin Zhenhua worried.

When he had more time to do this, Lin Zhenhua finally felt relieved. He turned his attention to the market and the disaster victims, and asked in a worried tone, "I heard that our base has resettled more than 3000 disaster victims today, and there will be more than disaster victims tomorrow, and more than disaster victims later. This will have a huge impact on our base."

"Old Zhao, I asked you to build a large number of houses and purchase a large amount of grain from the market. How are these two things going?"

Zhao Gang cleared his throat and replied with a worried look on his face: "College student, we started preparing for the resettlement of disaster victims a month ago. We selected eight resettlement sites in total, but now it seems far from enough. According to our previous plan, each resettlement site can accommodate more than 5000 people. In total, we can only accommodate people."

"But according to the news brought by Captain Kong, hundreds of thousands of disaster victims will arrive at our base in the next few months. This will have a major impact on our base. If we don't prepare in advance, it will cause great chaos. Even if you don't mention this matter today, I will bring it up. After all, this matter concerns the stability of our base. We must not be careless in the slightest, otherwise we will regret it!"

"As for the purchase of large quantities of grain through the market, it is mainly handled by Captain Ding. Next, Captain Ding will give a detailed introduction to the trading of materials at the market these days!"

Everyone looked at Ding Wei. Ding Wei felt a lot of pressure. He cleared his throat and said in a serious tone, "I know everyone is very concerned about the food problem. After all, no matter how big the problem is, it is not as big as eating. If people don't have enough food, there will be big problems."

"In order to increase the amount of grain purchased, I have been busy these days. I only accept grain in exchange for the two magic medicines. I no longer accept gold, silver, salt, copper, and even rubber. I have also significantly reduced the price of salt. At the same time, when trading medicines, I require buyers to pay with half of the grain. However, this has only been implemented for three days, and the effect is not significant."

"If we want to see real results, I estimate that it will take some time to ferment, plus the time for transportation back and forth. According to my estimation, it will take at least ten days to see real results. These days we have increased the amount of grain we purchase, and the price has also increased slightly, but even so, we have not purchased much grain. In total, it is only 200,000 to 300,000 kilograms. Compared with the food gap we are facing, it is simply a drop in the bucket!"

"I originally planned to arrange for people to go out and buy food, but when I thought about the Japanese blockade of us, if I really did that, it would very likely bring about an unexpected crisis, so I had to suppress this idea. To be honest, I really haven't thought of any good way to deal with the food crisis we will face in the future. The more than 200 million kilograms of food we have stored now will not be of much use in dealing with the next crisis. It can't even guarantee that 40 people will have enough food for a month. I am really at my wit's end!"

Ding Wei's words made the people present feel depressed. After all, if they really accepted 300,000 or 400,000 disaster victims, the base would not be able to sustain it for even a month with its limited resources. I'm afraid the Japanese would wake up laughing in their dreams. Zhao Gang had discovered something strange these days. The Japanese were deliberately driving more people into the base of the independent regiment to consume its food reserves. The independent regiment was now in a situation of internal and external troubles.

Lin Zhenhua did not speak at this time. Even if an air transport line was opened in the future and a large amount of compressed biscuits could be transported in from outside, it would still not be able to solve the problem of feeding hundreds of thousands of mouths. In addition, it was already mid-September and the autumn grain harvest season was about to come. If they did not take advantage of this time to store more food, the independent regiment would not be able to survive until the summer grain harvest, and they might not even survive this winter.

"Old Li, I want to make my position clear on this matter. We absolutely cannot cut the soldiers' rations at this time. It's not that I, Old Kong, am hard-hearted, but if the new recruits cannot be fed enough, they will not be able to complete the current training program. If we don't have a usable army in our hands, how can we deal with the next attack by the Japanese?" Kong Jie said seriously.

Kong Jie jumped out and was the first to play the villain. He really had no other choice. If he didn't find a way to solve the difficulties before him, not only would the victims die, but they themselves would probably become stray dogs, forced to flee their base and go into the mountains to find a way to survive.

But the next step is a long winter, the weather is so cold that people can freeze to death. Once the troops enter the mountains, it is basically a dead end. Even if some people can survive in the end, I am afraid that not many people will survive. It is not that Kong Jie is too pessimistic, but the fact is that without sufficient food to replenish energy, people will really be frozen to death in the wild.

Ding Wei also stood up and echoed, "I agree with Lao Kong's proposal. The soldiers' rations must not be reduced any further. We have already reduced them once before. If we reduce them again, there will be big problems. If there is no food, we will go to the devils to take it. If the soldiers are starved to the point of dizziness and can't even stand up, how can they fight?"

"Next, I will try every possible way to purchase more grains, and at the same time increase the purchase of other grains. The autumn grain harvest is about to begin, and the price of grain will plummet at this time. If we maintain the original price and then increase it a little, the profit we can make will be much greater. I believe that more people will want to do this grain business."

"As for the two miracle drugs, I don't plan to increase their quantity, as that would only attract more covetousness. To be on the safe side, we'd better be cautious about this matter. In addition, we usually have a great demand for these two drugs, so we must reserve some in case of emergency!"

Zhao Gang also stood up and said, "The opinions of Captain Ding and Captain Kong are very pertinent. The crisis has not yet broken out, so we cannot panic. As long as we prepare in advance, there is still a great possibility of resolving the future food crisis."

Li Yunlong did not keep silent at this time, and said with a smile on his face: "Everyone does not need to worry too much. Our Zhangjiazhuang market has only prospered in the past few days. As long as we increase the purchase of grain, we will soon be able to achieve remarkable results."

"The more civilians that enter our base, the better. We have conquered a large base before, but the population of the base was too small, so we had no way to compete with the devils. I think the more people the better. If there is no food, we will find a way. If it is not enough, we will go and rob the devils."

"It's just that robbing from the devils is a bit risky now. Let's try to open up a dense food transportation line through trade. Even though the devils' blockade of us is quite strict, I really don't believe there are no loopholes. As long as we don't give up, we will always find a way in the end!"

Lin Zhenhua coughed twice, attracting everyone's attention, and said in a deep voice: "The autumn grain harvest this time is very important. We must ensure that every grain is stored in the warehouse. Whether our base can feed more people in the future, this autumn grain harvest is crucial!"

"In addition, I have also made up my mind to produce transport planes with all my strength in the next month, expand our transport plane fleet, and let Chen Minggeng purchase a large amount of compressed biscuits for us and transport them back to the base by air to alleviate our upcoming food crisis!"