Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Chapter 182 Chapter 181, Spring Ploughing (skip if you don't like it)
"Hey... let's do this. Store more food so that the soldiers can have enough to eat and have the strength to fight the Japanese!" Zhu Xingyu said, "Anyway, the policy is there. When the district chief is appointed, we will just follow the organization's standards! If it doesn't work, we can just buy the land here and turn it into our military farmland!"

"Oh, this account is really not as satisfying as fighting the Japanese. Okay, let's do this. Starting tomorrow, organize the soldiers to prepare for spring plowing. Repair those plowshares that need to be repaired, and pound those that need to be pounded! Go find the villagers in Yin Jiulang Village and ask them if they want to return to the village to farm. This requires communication with the 1st Company and good protection! By the way, we also need to consider what to plant."

"Grandma Sun has a hundred acres of irrigated land, where wheat is planted. We need to water it to help it turn green. Also, the sweet potatoes need to be raised and the nursery needs to rest. Well, that's basically it! You should discuss this matter with the villagers first. After all, we are still not familiar with the planting here! Unfortunately, there is no suitable place to grow rice!" Zhao Danian shook his head after he finished speaking.

"Rice is delicious, but unfortunately there are few places to grow rice here!" Zhu Xingyu added, "But can we get it from the devils?"

"Hahaha..." Amid the laughter of several people, this year's spring plowing and planting work began.

Just as Zhao Danian said, the guerrillas had 6 oxen, 5 pack horses (the carriages they had seized before), 5 donkeys, 4 mules, and 5 war horses. These large animals, except for the war horses that could be ridden to deliver messages, and the donkeys, mules, and pack horses that could occasionally help pull the mill, were kept in the stables and cowsheds the rest of the time. Now, it was time to move them!

It has to be said that Chinese farmers are the most hardworking, kindest, and hard-working people in the world, and they have also suffered the most! For thousands of years, they have been working hard, watering the land under their feet with their hardworking hands and sweat, producing countless grains to supply the operation of the country! Even so, they have been looked down upon, and even targeted by spies, ridiculed by birds, and can only listen to Daolang's songs. Even, they have to be calculated by various experts who can't tell the difference between wheat seedlings and leeks...

If we count the changes of dynasties in history, apart from the invasion of foreign races, the most common reason was that the peasants could not survive, so they had to rise up and fight for the arrival of an era where they could eat as much as they wanted.

It is said that Chinese people have the gene for growing vegetables, but who can say that this gene is not brought about by hunger that has been deeply engraved in the memory of the nation for thousands of years? How many years have the Chinese people really been able to eat their fill?

Now, deep in the Taihang Mountains, under the leadership of the Beishan guerrillas, with the participation of the villagers of Yinjiulang Village, and with the efforts of the soldiers who temporarily stopped training, the new year's spring plowing and planting has begun! The first to start were the blacksmiths in the ordnance workshop! The iron plows that had been idle for half a year were taken to the blacksmith workshop, and after some severely damaged plows were reforged and repaired, they were assembled together.

Then, according to the existing number of livestock, everyone worked together with the carpenters to make up for the lack of plowshares to ensure that every animal would not be idle! Especially the 6 oxen, they are the protagonists this time, donkeys, mules and pack horses are not professional for plowing. Of course, donkeys, mules and pack horses will not be idle.

Blacksmiths and carpenters were busy, and masons were also busy. They tidied up several sweet potato seedling nurseries that were low in the south and high in the north, refilled them with fertile sand, buried the selected sweet potatoes in the sand, sprinkled them with water, and waited for the sweet potatoes to gradually sprout in the warm sunshine.

While waiting for the sweet potatoes to sprout, the soldiers ordered the oxen to go to the dry land in the mountains, using their brute force to drive the plow, breaking the dusty soil that had been sealed for a winter and turning the soil upside down. At this time, some insect eggs hidden deep in the soil would be turned out, and some insect pupae would also be exposed to the cold wind.

Then, when the sub-zero wind blows at night, some of the eggs and pupae will freeze to death, thus reducing the insect disaster. Although donkeys, mules and pack horses are not as strong as oxen, nor as professional as oxen, there is no need to worry about it. If the quality is not enough, the quantity can make up for it. Two donkeys can pull a plow.

Judging from the time alone, it is a little late to start spring ploughing and planting now. However, the temperature is relatively low this year, so it is just right to start now. Please do not doubt the old farmers' grasp of the farming time.

Liangjia Village was the first village to complete spring plowing. Then the people of Yinjiulang Village, carrying the elderly and children, returned to the dilapidated ruins of Yinjiulang Village. After taking a look at their homes, they turned around and devoted themselves to their own fields. Then, men, women, old and young joined the battle, and the guerrillas and livestock helped. It took several days to complete the spring plowing.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of spring plowing, the guerrillas and the 1st Company sent teams to provide accompanying protection, and were even prepared to fight and evacuate at any time.

Fortunately, the Japanese soldiers of the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade are not bad enough to come out and cause sabotage, or they have not yet recovered the strength to be able to cause sabotage, so they can only let the people get busy.

"Brigade Commander, why don't we attack these farmers?" At this time, a senior Japanese officer asked the Japanese brigade commander.

"We have to strike, but to strike the enemy, we must have sufficient interests as a basis! Now, we don't need to resort to killing to gain power. After all, we have killed enough! Now is the spring farming season, so let these farmers get busy! And when it is the harvest season, it will be time for us to go out!" The Japanese brigade commander gave the answer.

The most important thing in the world is eating. After the most tiring spring plowing is completed, it is time for spring planting. At this time, Li Yuexuan also has a new move!

He led the soldiers of the comprehensive class to trim all the jujube trees they found, and then went up the mountain with all the branches. Since there were ready-made techniques in Lao Wai's book, Li Yuexuan naturally had to do some grafting work on the wild jujube trees on the surrounding mountains. Anyway, there was the information sent by Lao Wai in the group, and you would understand it after taking a look!
It is legitimate to graft the jujube tree onto the sour jujube, just like the catalpa tree can be grafted onto the walnut. Of course, Li Yuexuan would not care about the walnut and catalpa, he just focused on the sour jujube.

Why choose jujube? First of all, there are many jujubes in Shanxi, and the quality is very good; secondly, jujubes can replenish blood, which is the most suitable for the wounded! Shanxi is also the main production area of ​​​​Astragalus, and there are a lot of Astragalus in the mountains! Astragalus plus red dates, one replenishes qi and the other nourishes blood, which is very helpful for the recovery of the wounded! Besides, when there is not enough food, eating dates can save lives! Don’t believe it? Ask Qiu Qianchi.

PS: I have my own outline, and it’s in the production stage now. Those who like to kill devils have to wait for two chapters.

(End of this chapter)