"The devil has increased his troops again." Meng Xiang took this information and kept searching on the map, and he was now slowly learning military command.

"Here, the 114th Division of the Central China Dispatch Army landed from Qingdao; The Fifth Division moved down to Zhucheng; The 16th Division was transferred back by the First Army, and the direction of their march was Jinan. These two divisions were also included in the Second Army, and the 108th and 109th divisions were included in the First Army. What are they doing? Offensive or southward? Meng Xiang was confused by the continuous transfer of a large number of establishments, and after pondering for a long time, he still didn't dare to determine his judgment.

"What are you doing here?" In the command, the replacement role of Mao 18 was played again.

"They're going south!" Fan Chong immediately gave a positive answer. In this regard, although Meng Xiang also guessed, he was not sure.

"The devils have increased their troops so much at once, why don't they come to attack us?" Mao 18 became a curious baby again and continued to ask.

"They're not coming for the rest of February!" Fan Chong seemed very confident, after half a month of training of the 54th Army, at this time, even if he faced a siege of three divisions, he believed that it could hold it.

"From the many arrangements I have, I have seen that I plan to use food to drag us to death. Mr. Tang's delaying tactics have already paid off. Fan Chong glanced at Pharmacist Tang, who was sitting there drinking tea slowly, "In the past three days, more than 60,000 refugees have come over from all sides, and most of them are old, weak, women and children. They have already started to use this method to bring our economy to collapse, and there should be no need to do it again. Even if they come, we are not afraid. I think what they need most now is to control the food in the surrounding area, and then tightly block our external contacts, and always be on guard against our counterattack. The most critical thing is the Huai River, where the 13th Division of the Chinese Army has been blocked from attacking and has been confronting the 21st and 31st Group Armies along the Huai River. Yan Junliu, the new commander of the newly established Central China Dispatch Army, could not hold his breath and sent the Ninth Division over yesterday. The North China Front also needs to make a difference. ”

When he said this, he looked at Meng Xiang, who was listening, and Tang Yaoshi, who was drinking tea slowly, and said again: "All we need to do is wait." The veterans are recovering and returning to the team, and the training of recruits should preferably take another month of running-in. If we can successfully wait until April, we will have at least 80,000 available troops, and even if three divisions of the army go south and cooperate with the Central Army, we will be sure to gather and annihilate them together. ”

"No, we can't wait until April!" Meng Xiang took the lead in shaking his head and said, he vaguely remembered that the Battle of Taierzhuang was in March, when the war was a big battle, and the vanguard army could not stay out of the matter, there were too many uncertain surname factors, and it had to be considered in advance. Even with the vanguard army's arms deal and support, perhaps this time the battle of Taierzhuang or even Xuzhou will be a different situation. But the tide of history has been disrupted, and he must think it through.

"I know that waiting until April is a bit unrealistic, and the food problem will have to be solved in advance." While Fan Chong admired this strategy, he was also a little worried about the guarantee that Meng Xiang had repeatedly emphasized that there was no problem with food. Although only 60,000 people have come now, more than 30,000 people came in one day yesterday. The number of people is growing at an accelerated pace every day, so is there enough food?

"After the railway, it is the territory of the vanguard army!" Mu Pingyang raised his sleeves to wipe his sweat, and happily turned back to the old lady sitting on the wheelbarrow and said, "When we get there, we won't have to worry about food and clothing!" ”

His wife Liu Guiying beside the car helped her son who was napping in the car, and couldn't help but ask worriedly: "Is there really anything to worry about food and clothing?" ”

Mu Pingyang hesitated for a moment, and said with a smile: "Others say that they have guaranteed that no one will starve to death, and they have opened hundreds of porridge shops that don't require money, but they didn't say it by one person, so is it fake?" Uncle Li went on a trip for a few days, ran back again, and picked up the whole family, this shouldn't be fake! He also had some drumming in his heart, but the little food was robbed by the devil, and without food, he couldn't survive the summer grain, anyway, because the family was treating his mother, there was no land, and there was no harm in looking at it in the past.

"There! That's the place they are talking about, there are no devils paying attention, only the puppet army. As long as you don't bring anything over, it's easy to talk! Mu Pingyang happily pointed ahead.

Sun Qiren looked at the household in front of him, and after looking at it for a long time, he felt that there was not much oil and water, so he put away the ten coppers in his hand, waved his hand and let it go. There are already instructions above, as long as it is not entrained, it will be released. In the past three days, there have been a lot of things left, but all of them are poor ghosts.

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!" Mu Pingyang thanked him in a series of ways, picked up his mother, and left quickly with his wife. The wheelbarrow was detained, but luckily everyone was fine.

There was no activity along the 300-meter Jinpu Railway, which made Mu Pingyang a little flustered.

"What for?" After walking a mile, someone in front of me suddenly asked.

Mu Pingyang hurriedly put down his mother, stepped forward alone, bent his waist and shouted, "Flee here." ”

Zhao Tiedan, who had noticed it a long time ago, walked out of a bunker, and in the past two or three days, there were too many people coming.

"Let's sign up!" Zhao Tiedan beckoned, turned around and left.

"Sir!" Mu Pingyang hurriedly followed and came to the front. He looked at the military uniform on Zhao Tiedan's body, although he was a little afraid, he still asked timidly, "Is it really good to eat here?" Guaranteed not to starve? ”

Zhao Tiedan also smiled bitterly when he heard this. That's what everyone has been asking these days.

A few days ago, in response to the rumor attack of the devil in advance, Meng Xiang solemnly made a promise two days ago to promise not to let people starve to death on the territory of the vanguard army. He immediately reversed the direction of the wind and began to help hype around and exaggerate this promise on the territory of the vanguard army, which caused many poor households in the surrounding area to flee here to forage for food.

Shandong has always had a large number of people and little land, coupled with extremely unreasonable land ownership, resulting in many people living in extreme poverty. It is said that the invasion of the invaders, the repeated wars, and the continuous disasters in various places, have led to an increase in refugees. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people go to the Northeast and other places. But after the vanguard army made a promise that no one would die of starvation, and under the deliberate promotion of the devil, many people chose to go to the vanguard army, after all, this is a closer country.

"Oh! It's guaranteed not to starve! But you can only guarantee that you will not starve to death, and if you want to be full, you have to exert your strength! Only when you have a job can you have enough to eat. "Zhao Tiedan has recently learned a lot of things with the instructors in the army, not only can he read more, but he can also imitate the tone of the instructor when he speaks.

"If you really don't starve to death!" Mu Pingyang doesn't care, as long as he survives this while, with his own strength, he can still mix bowls of rice to eat.

"Come and register!" Zhao Tiedan pointed to a table in front of him. Two student soldiers in the back were registering an old man.

"Name?"

"Zhang Changgong." The old man said with a smile.

"Which word?" Tian Yushu stopped the pen and looked up and asked.

"I don't know! I can't read! The old man lowered his eyebrows and said, "I am Gong Changzhang, and I have been working as a long-term worker in our village for more than 40 years, so everyone calls me Zhang Changgong." This year, when the devil came, Zhang Juren ran away with his family, leaving me with nowhere to go, so he led my granddaughter out together. I'm very good at farming, so stay with me! ”

He looked at the cotton coat his granddaughter was wearing, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart, and made up his mind to stay.

At that time, Zhao Tiedan put on his cotton coat when he saw the **-year-old girl shivering in the cold wind wearing a single coat. In fact, he doesn't need to give it, and soon after, Zhang Laohan and the little girl can also apply for a cotton coat each. In order to prevent people from freezing to death, the Vanguard Army stipulated that everyone on the territory could apply for a cotton coat.

Meng Xiang newly discovered a **ug at the base. Although there is a limit to the number of uniforms, when the damage is severe and submitted to the base for judgment that they cannot be used again, they can be handed over to the base for recycling, and new uniforms can be purchased at double the price. This solves the problem of insufficient winter clothing in the base area at once.

As long as you produce a thick cotton garment from the First World War, take it apart, extract half of the cotton fabric, etc., and keep at least half of the limit of recycling to the base, you can buy a new one. With the discount of the base, the cotton clothes of the First World War era were extremely cheap even if they were purchased at double the price.

The dismantled cotton and fabrics can be sent to the three newly built quilt factories, where they become new cotton clothes in the hands of a large number of female workers.

Of course, this cotton coat is not given for free, if it is given for free, even if it is cheap, the vanguard will die. In addition to allowing direct purchases, you can also buy on credit, but anyone who has registered can apply for a piece on credit. Although money bought on credit can be made without any interest for a period of 5 years, it is to be recorded in the file. If you don't pay the debt later, you will have to calculate the interest and keep a bad reputation record.

At this time, it is said that these ordinary people do not understand, but the price of this new cotton clothes is very cheap, although it is not very thick, but it is enough to ensure that people do not freeze to death, and the fabric is good, and it is widely welcomed by the people on the base for a while. Even some wealthy people can't help but buy one or two, after all, this kind of cotton clothing is much more affordable than the same cotton clothes on the market.

"Zhang Changgong!" Tian Yushu nodded and wrote down the name.

"Age?"

…… There will be no major battles for at least a month on the ground, and the rest need to be integrated and developed for people's livelihood. Planning and layout became the focus.

In order to ensure management, every refugee needs to be registered and recorded, which is also a step for Meng Xiang to further carry out household registration management.

The household registration management and census in later generations made Meng Xiang remember deeply, although it is not very mature to talk about these now, but the family background on the site is not clear, and some follow-up plans are prone to deviations. At the very least, you have to make sure that the data is not very different. Han Fuyu's record of the political axe was also decent, but in the chaos of the war, some people ran away, and some people fled, so all the data was inaccurate. The most important thing to solve is to find out the number of people on the site and the associated demographics.

Demographically important surnames, known to later generations. Relying on his own impressions, Meng Xiang adjusted the content of the census in later generations according to the actual situation and turned it into a new table. This detailed and comprehensive new form and related system made Zhou Bai couldn't help but admire.

But it is very difficult to implement it. It is good to have a good record of those who have families and jobs, but it is difficult to count the displaced people who have fled.

One of the purposes of Meng Xiang's promise to starve people is also aimed at this, he is not afraid of food shortages, and he has already done something about it. He simply used free food and cotton clothes on credit to attract a large number of displaced people. When the time comes, a person with a number plate, with the help of can also roughly figure out a value.

With accurate records and a demarcated range, at least there are relatively few chaos among the displaced people. The powerful role of the Chinese household registration ID card system in later generations made Meng Xiang decide to follow suit, although there were some drawbacks, but at this time, the stability of the base area is the first.

With the current strength of the vanguard army, it is not a big problem to expand outward, but the unstable base in the rear has made Meng Xiang always cautious. If there is a problem in the rear, the safety of the main base is involved.

Step by step, this is the best description of the base. As long as there is the continuous advancement of the sub-base, Meng Xiang believes that it will not be a problem for him to regain the lost ground.

"Report to the Commander, Base Vehicle 5 has arrived at its designated destination!" As he spoke, he handed Meng Xiang an urgent telegram. After a few days of trekking, the base car aboard the Roma arrived without incident.

"Although there is no major battle on the ground now, there is still a need for training elsewhere!" Meng Xiang couldn't help but think of the other two places where the vanguard army was entrenched.

"It's time for the Reading Brigade to expand! There is also a lot of reading power, why has there been no news for more than ten consecutive days? ”