Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

In the face of Kong Jie's complaints, everyone could only sigh and then continue the next topic. Especially Li Yuexuan, he knew more details! The matter of factory production of food, let alone 1943, even in 2023, this problem has not been solved! It's okay for the factory to take the food grown by farmers for deep processing, but as for producing food from scratch, forget it.

However, it is said that starch can be synthesized from carbon dioxide, but starch cannot replace food! After all, a single starch cannot replace food with a variety of nutrients.

By the way, from the perspective of genetics, genomics and human development, the first and easiest fats for the most primitive humans were animal oils rather than vegetable oils! Therefore, the human body's absorption and utilization rate of animal oils is more effective and stable than that of vegetable oils! At least the group of humans who can't eat animal oils have long died out, and those who are left are all eating animal oils.

Well, just like us Chinese, a five-nut mooncake, as long as there is no high-tech added, will basically not have any negative effects when eaten. But if it is a foreigner, they will probably be allergic...

I've strayed off topic... Kong Jie's words made everyone feel a little pressured, but the pressure was not obvious. After all, the economic situation of the Beishan Detachment was good, so they didn't have to worry about not having enough food.

Of course, as the news spread during this period, everyone also knew that HEN Province was suffering from famine at that time, and the scale was huge, with starving people everywhere, and the starving people were migrating along the railway line towards Shaanxi in an attempt to find a way to survive. However, this time, 300 to 500 million people starved to death, and the Nationalist government did nothing.

People in later generations may not understand what the Great Famine is. Let's put it this way. Looking around, there was nothing to fill the stomach. Everyone could only move westward step by step. When the human body can no longer bear it, it will fall to the ground and never get up again. And this is not the most difficult thing to endure. The most difficult thing is the burning hunger!

At this time, women and children were no longer precious, but food to be eaten in exchange for children, rice and meat, two-legged sheep, and...

What morality? What rationality? What is good and evil? Nothing in the face of hunger... At this time, if you have a little millet in your hand, you only need a few liters to buy a virgin girl as your wife, and she is the kind who will follow you wholeheartedly.

"Lao Kong..." Zhu Xingyu spoke at this time: "Where did the headquarters arrange for you to be when you came back this time?"

"This is not a secret!" Kong Jie pointed to the map on the wall and said, "Isn't Li Yunlong in Zhaojiayu? Ding Wei is in Dazhai, and the headquarters gave me the position in the Mafang area. That's right, it's where the Qinlai Detachment once developed, and it was also our base when we resisted the six-way siege. Now there is only one division and one local regiment guarding there, and our regiment will go there."

"The situation over there is not very good! Our Pingdong District was not hit hard this year, but there was a drought and locusts there in the spring, so the harvest this year is not very good," said Zhu Xingyu.

"That's better than being in central Hebei. At least we have a solid mass base and are close to the enemy's three transportation lines, so it's easy to conduct guerrilla warfare!" Kong Jie said.

"Okay, you go over there, just in time to form a support with us! Your new second regiment, Lao Li's independent regiment, and Ding Wei's new first regiment just cover a large triangular area, holding Ping'an County in it. With your three regiments, no matter where the Japanese come from, they will pass through your defense zone. And we can concentrate on guarding the east side!" Zhao Danian said. "I think this is what our headquarters means! This year is not easy for us, and in fact, it is not easy for the Japanese either. Everyone is not easy, it depends on who can hold on longer!" Kong Jie said.

"In fact, the situation in front of us is much better than the initial stage of the war of resistance, isn't it?" Li Yuexuan said: "Although our overall strength is not as good as the devils, we have a large base, the support of the people, and hundreds of thousands of troops. What we lack is time! Persevere, time will eventually turn disadvantages into advantages!"

"Peregrine Falcon sees things clearly. We must persist in a protracted war and a mobile war, and wear down the Japanese bit by bit!" Kong Jie stood up, saluted everyone and said, "Thank you for the support of the detachment. We must keep moving forward! When we are stable, we will come back to reminisce with you!"

"Okay, you guys go and settle down first! So..." Zhao Danian thought for a moment, then whispered to Zhu Xingyu, "I'll give you some support. Our rapid response team will go with you and help you quickly stabilize the situation before coming back! Send an order, have the rapid response team gather all their equipment, supplies, horses, and vehicles to Liangjia Village quickly! Tell Hu Lanzhou that there is a mission!"

The signalman ran out quickly to pass on the order. After receiving the order, Hu Lanzhou, who was fishing with his men, quickly returned to the shore, rode his horse and headed towards the garrison.

Two hours later, Kong Jie and his team had arrived at Weijia Village. The team also received and distributed new weapons and was about to set off. At this time, the rumbling sound of car engines came from far away, and the sound of sidecar motorcycles rang out continuously, followed by the sound of war horses' hooves.

Then, under the astonished gaze of the soldiers of the New Second Regiment, all the soldiers of the Quick Response Company directly under the Beishan Detachment made a collective appearance.

Four trucks, carrying two 4 mortars and shells, as well as an artillery squad and some baggage, were the most conspicuous. Then, 82 sidecar motorcycles came one after another, but there were only the riders and the passengers behind them. There were no people in the sidecars, but there were a lot of wooden boxes, which were obviously filled with bullets.

Then, there was a cavalry team consisting of more than 100 war horses. Each cavalryman carried a gun and ammunition, as well as some supplies on his horse's back.

When the last warhorse stopped at the threshing ground outside Weijia Village, a soldier with a fishy smell on his body dismounted and came to Kong Jie to salute: "The Beishan Detachment's direct rapid response company, with a staff of 182 people, is here. Company Commander Hu Lanzhou reports to you!"

Looking at the neatly-ordered troops, the snorting war horses, and the trucks and motorcycles, the soldiers who saw their own people with such equipment for the first time were stunned. Are our Eighth Route Army so strong?
Looking at the astonished expressions of the people in the New Second Regiment, the soldiers of the surrounding Beishan Detachment were already used to it and all looked indifferent.

"Ha, ha, ha, our team has reached this level, why should we be afraid of the Japanese raids? We should go to counter the Japanese raids!" Kong Jie's voice broke the brief silence. (End of this chapter)