Chapter 585: Development is the last word

Dagoutun Village is located on the edge of the base area, a strategic point bordering the mountains and plains of the base area. Originally, here, a village with hundreds of families was uniquely located here, planting large tracts of fertile land outside the village. However, with the arrival of the Japanese army, they launched many encirclement and suppression operations against the base areas. The whole village has long since become empty...

However, just a few days ago, the village, which was deserted and only a few ruins, suddenly became lively. Because, the 1st Agricultural Division of the Reclamation Corps, which had just been formed, chose its own station in this village... With the arrival of more than 3,000 people in the First Agricultural Division, tents and rooms were quickly erected, so that the entire lifeless Dagoutun once again regained its former vitality...

And just after the construction of the garrison, the 3,000 prisoners belonging to the 1st Agricultural Division. Under the leadership of their respective commanders, they took various agricultural tools and began to take Dagoutun as the center. Around the village, a large area of land that has long been a wilderness is being cultivated...

A few days passed, under the hard work of more than 3,000 people, each with ten xiǎo hours per day. Around the village, vast expanses of wilderness have been reclaimed. And early this morning, all the cadres above the regimental level of the entire First Agricultural Division gathered at the entrance of the village, waiting for the inspection of Commander Liu Hua....

In the midst of everyone's anxious waiting, a faint sound of horses' hooves slowly reached everyone's ears from far and near... As the sound of horses' hooves got closer and closer, the figures of dozens of cavalry appeared in everyone's eyes. And Liu Hua, the commander he had been waiting for, walked at the front of the entire cavalry team...

"Report to the commander, Zhang Degui, commander of the 1st Agricultural Division, led the commanders of the whole division at and above the regimental level, and was ordered to come to greet him, please instruct the commander..." The former commander of the Anti-Japanese Joint Battalion, at this moment, Zhang Degui, who was directly appointed as the commander of the First Agricultural Division, saluted with his still intact left hand and reported loudly...

"Master Zhang, comrades, don't be so polite. Let's go, let's go to your headquarters first..."After speaking, Liu Hua was the first to take the lead and walked towards the village...

Walking into the humble headquarters, without having time to make any greetings, the commander Liu Hua asked a few people behind him...

"Master Zhang, what's the situation? In the past week since the formation of the 1st Agricultural Division, has there been any disturbance in the troops? Also, what happened to the results of the troops. Can we reclaim enough land in half a month to catch up with the season of growing grain, and seriously injure the first batch of grain..."

"Commander, after all, he is a prisoner of three thousand people, and there are all kinds of characters in it, and there must be problems. However, fortunately, most of the captives were from ordinary people. Since all the thorns in the army have been singled out and managed separately. The face of the troops' jīng gods immediately took on a new look... Under the guidance of commanders at all levels, a week's time, except for three days, was spent setting up camps. In the remaining four days, the whole division has reclaimed at least 3,000 acres of land...."Zhang Degui said confidently...

"Good job... If possible, after the grain of the season has been planted, a part of the more than 3,000 people will be selected to raise all kinds of livestock. The agricultural reclamation troops may not only grow grain, but we must develop them in an all-round and multifaceted way... My request is simple. Within a year, the entire Reclamation Corps will be able to ensure the supply of grain, vegetables and ròu products for all the troops in the base area..."Liu Hua nodded and encouraged...

After the inspection of the 1st Agricultural Division, in the following time, Commander Liu Hua, followed by more than a dozen guards, inspected all the division-level units under the Agricultural Reclamation Corps...

And just as night fell, Commander Liu Hua dragged his tired body on the way back to the base area from the station of the Seventh Agricultural Division. Around the headquarters, a scene in the training camp of the troops attracted his attention. Ignoring the dissuasion of the guards around him, he still rode a war horse and came to the training camp.0...

"Commander... Why are you here, it's so late, why didn't you notify us..."Just when Liu Hua and the others just walked to the entrance of the barracks. Commander Zhou Baozhong, who was also about to enter the barracks and order the troops to end a day's training, was surprised and his voice appeared in Liu Hua's ears..., "What's the matter, isn't our Commander Zhou welcoming my arrival..."

"How can it? Commander, it's too late to welcome you? I've heard Liu Xiǎo just say that the training mode of the entire special operations brigade is all summed up by you alone. I have long thought of the headquarters to ask you to give the entire army a training outline... However, seeing that you and Deputy Commander Yang are busy all day long, I am not embarrassed to bother... It just so happens that the commander, the unit has not been disbanded yet, do you want us to go together to see the training effect of the unit, and you can also give guidance..."Zhou Baozhong, who reacted, quickly replied with a smile on his face...

"Okay, then go and see, I just have something I want to ask you..."

While speaking, the group began to shuttle back and forth in the huge training ground under the personal leadership of Zhou Baozhong... Liu Hua did not have any doubts about the training plan and various tactical actions of the troops, but was very satisfied. After all, the Anti-Japanese Federation has been fighting with the Japanese army in the three northeastern provinces for ten years, and these quick actions are summed up by countless soldiers with their own lives and blood, and using these tactical moves to deal with xiǎo devils is definitely the best weapon...

However, after looking around, as the team of soldiers finished training and left the training ground, Commander Liu Hua's frowning brows did not fully stretch out...

Seeing Liu Hua's frowning brows, Zhou Baozhong was surprised and at the same time, he hurriedly asked, "Commander, is there any problem with the training of the troops?" ”

"No problem, everyone's training plan is very perfect....it's just that, Commander Zhou, almost a week has passed since the reorganization of the troops, why are the troop clothes still so miscellaneous. Even some of the soldiers are wearing military uniforms that have not been modified in any way...."Liu Hua raised the question that he had always had in his mind...

"Commander, this is the case. Although in the last battle, we captured a large amount of cotton cloth and cotton. However, the production capacity of the clothing factories in the logistics offices of the base areas is too weak. So far, I've only received less than a thousand sets of new uniforms, and there are no extra uniforms at all, so everyone can change their uniforms, so..."

"I see, I see... Okay, Commander Zhou, you're tired for a day, go back and rest early, I will definitely solve the problem of military uniforms for you in the shortest possible time..."Liu Hua nodded thoughtfully and said...

With the problem of being served, a haunting force is in my heart. Early the next morning, Liu Hua came to the logistics office of the base area. Of course, Liu Hua's first goal is to base the quilt factory....

Under the personal leadership of the director of the logistics department, in less than a few minutes of walking, the compound where the clothing factory is located appeared in Liu Hua's eyes... At the entrance of the quilt factory, several large wagons were parked, and several soldiers, in an endless stream, loaded bundles of brand-new homespun military uniforms into the wagons from the quilt factory. The first impression of the whole scene is that the quilt factory must be a busy scene...

Sure enough, as Liu Hua expected, entering the quilt factory, dozens of middle-aged women sitting in the courtyard appeared in Liu Hua's eyes. And these middle-aged women are gathering together to use the most primitive methods to sew the soldiers' military uniforms and quilts... Walking into the factory building of the quilt factory, a middle-aged woman who also used her own hands and needles and threads to sew military uniforms appeared in her eyes...

Visiting the entire quilt factory, Liu Hua was disappointed that there was not a single sewing machine found in the entire quilt factory. The entire quilt factory, although it has hundreds of middle-aged women, sewing military uniforms day and night. However, as a result of the non-stop efforts of these hundreds of people day and night, they can only produce less than a hundred sets of military uniforms per day....

I think of the production capacity of a quilt factory with nearly 100 sewing machines in the original Shanxi base area, which can produce at least 1,000 sets of military uniforms every day. Looking at the scene of the quilt factory in front of him, Liu Hua suddenly had a feeling of suddenly returning from modern society to decades ago, and shook his head helplessly......

"Commander, is there something wrong. One hundred sets of military uniforms a day is already the result of the hard work of all the workers in our clothing factory working overtime day and night. If you want to continue to expand production, you can only increase the number of workers... However, according to the current bearing capacity of the base area, 200 people has almost become the limit of the entire clothing factory..."Seeing the commander who was frowning, the director of the logistics department hurriedly replied..., "Director Li, I want to ask, is there not even a single sewing machine in the entire base area?" You must know that although the clothing factory works overtime every day, it can produce 100 sets of military uniforms. However, such an output can be said to be a phoenix for us, who have tens of thousands of regular troops, and it can't meet the needs of the troops at all..."Liu Hua nodded and asked rhetorically...

"Sewing machines? When I first fought the local tyrants, the quilt factory did have more than a dozen units, but. During the enemy's repeated encirclement and suppression operations, almost all of these sewing machines were destroyed... At the beginning, Deputy Commander Yang also considered giving the quilt factory a few sewing machines, but because of the Japanese army, none of them succeeded, and in the end, the matter was over...

"I see...Director Li, let me ask you. If I raise 100 sewing machines for you in the shortest possible time, can you increase the output of the entire quilt factory to 1,000 sets? In the shortest possible time, let the whole army change its clothes. All changed into the military uniforms of my Eighth Route Army..."After a short period of contemplation, Liu Hua raised his head and asked...

"What, a hundred sewing machines... Commander, what you say is true... If we really have 100 sewing machines, I guarantee that the output of the quilt factory can be increased to 1,000 sets in the shortest possible time, please rest assured, commander..."In an instant, Director Li's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly...

"Yes, a hundred sewing machines. In a week's time, I'll send you a hundred sewing machines. However, I ask you to make a military order, and within a month, let all the commanders and fighters of the whole army change into brand new military uniforms of the Eighth Route Army..."Under the gaze of Director Li's expectant eyes, Liu Hua nodded affirmatively and said...

"Yes, Commander, promise to complete the mission...."

After receiving Director Li's affirmative answer, Liu Hua nodded with satisfaction. Then, he said to the platoon commander of the personal guard platoon behind him...

"Platoon Commander Wang, help me record an order, and then immediately rush back to the headquarters and use the radio to give a new combat order to Division Commander Liu Xiǎo Gang of the Special Operations Division..."

"Order, the special operations division will raise 100 sewing machines for the logistics office of the base area within a week, no matter what means are used... Commander of the Field Army, Liu Hua ...."

After the inspection of the clothing factory, the group, under the leadership of Director Li, came to the firearms repair shop of the logistics department... Similarly, the scene in the entire firearms repair station made Commander Liu Hua feel disappointed again... Because, in the entire repair shop, Liu Hua didn't even see a xiǎo-type machine tool.

And what the whole weapon repair can do is simply repair the broken weapon. Or to assemble two, or even three, damaged rifles into one intact rifle ...

At the same time, through the introduction of Director Li. In addition to being able to give bayonets to the fighters and simply repair weapons, the logistics office of the entire base area cannot even reload the most basic grenades, mines, and bullets... And the usual consumption of weapons and ammunition of the entire army is almost entirely captured by combat ....

Seeing the scene in front of him and seeing the logistics office with almost no foundation, Liu Hua suddenly thought of China, which was poor and white after the liberation of later generations, without any heavy industry, and China where even the most basic bicycles could not be manufactured...

And now I am facing a situation just like the new China at that time, everything needs to start from scratch... And what I need to do next is to lead everyone to develop from scratch... At this moment, Liu Hua once again thought of a sentence that the great man once said, development is the last word....

Of course, there are still things in the entire logistics office that make Liu Hua feel excited and excited. The only thing that makes Liu Hua feel fortunate is that before the Japanese army occupied the three northeastern provinces, the entire northeast, under the management of Zhang Xueliang and his son, had already become the most prosperous and heavy industry area in China. At the same time, the production scale and capacity of the Northeast Arsenal are also second to none in the country...

And with the Northeast Army not firing a shot, it gave up the entire three northeastern provinces. Countless high-ranking workers of the arsenal, mechanics, workers. In order not to make guns for the xiǎo devils, let them kill the Chinese. Resolutely took his family and friends, with the assistance of the underground party of the Communist Party of China, to participate in the Anti-Japanese Federation and became a member of the logistics department of the Anti-Japanese Federation...

In the shoe repair office of the logistics department, a large number of such technicians have been gathered... Under the introduction of Director Li, whether it is the production of rifles, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, the production of artillery of various calibers, and even rare domestic aircraft, tank technicians can be seen everywhere in their logistics department..., thinking of this, Liu Hua, who was still depressed just now, felt a lot better... Because he believed that as long as the base area was expanded and the foot was stabilized. As a large amount of industrial equipment is slowly being transported to the base. In addition, the three northeastern provinces are rich in coal, iron ore and oil resources. Relying on these engineers, coupled with the assistance of Marshal Zhukov in the Soviet Far East, he will definitely be able to build a huge industrial base in the three northeastern provinces. Let the liberated China no longer be a poor and white China, which does not even have any heavy industry...

"Director Wang, these people are our base, no, our entire Eighth Route Army, the treasure of our party... So, you must protect it. In life, give them as much care as possible, and let the political cadres have more jiāo flow with them if they have not yet joined our party, and strive to make them become excellent Chinese members in the shortest possible time..."Looking at the nearly 100 technicians who were busy in front of him, Liu Hua was like looking at a baby, and said with a light in his eyes to Director Li beside him...

"Yes, Commander. We all know this... However, because there is not even a decent set of machine tools in the base area. It would be a grievance to put these people in a shoe repair shop and repair broken guns..."Director Li replied...

"Director Li, don't worry. I'm here to give you a guarantee. We must prepare a set of machine tools for you in the shortest possible time. Let the base area at least be able to make grenades, mines, as well as reloading bullets ... As for all kinds of other production equipment, within a year, I will prepare for you to build an arsenal with the strongest production capacity in the country. However, when the time came, I assembled the equipment for you, but I couldn't find any workers in the entire base area. At that point, I'm going to ask you..."

"Report to the commander, the logistics department will ensure the completion of the task..."For the commander in front of him, who was almost passed on by the soldiers. On the top of Liu Hua's head, the aura of a member of the Central Committee and an alternate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee. The Chief of Logistics replied loudly with almost no doubts, his words full of his own excitement....

A few days of examination passed, under the guidance of Liu Hua, a graduate student from later generations. The entire base area, whether it is in logistics, tuntian, army training, and even people's livelihood, is developing rapidly in a favorable direction...

And Liu Hua, as the commander, also believes that according to the current direction of development. As long as he can lead the troops, he can create better conditions for the entire base area. Relying on the favorable conditions of the base area and the entire three northeastern provinces. The entire base area will certainly develop into a base area that is no less than that of the Shanxi Military Region....