"Food! Now from Jinan to Qingzhou, the population is estimated to be two or three million, but the grain reserves are not enough to support next year's summer grain harvest! You have tens of millions of gold and silver, and when the time comes, you won't be able to buy food if you blockade yourself! Zhou Bai said bitterly. When he roughly counted Meng Xiang's inventory, he realized the crisis of more people and less food. This is not an uneven crisis, but a real total shortfall.

Meng Xiang, who came from later generations, did not have the experience of being hungry, and when he came to this time and space, he had always had the base nutritious meals and nutrient solution supplements, and he did not realize the problem of famine before the summer grain. People who have not experienced hunger cannot appreciate the horrors of the food crisis.

"How many months?" Meng Xiang's experience at this time was like this.

"In February, there will be frequent deaths of starvation; After March, there will be a large number of dead people, and almost all food will be exhausted. It will definitely not support the summer grain harvest in May. ”

"A large number of dead people? Starve? Meng Xiang's heart was terrified, he only listened to the elders tell about starving to death, and he had seen people starving to death in the overnutrition of later generations.

Pharmacist Tang also had a solemn face. The time for the vanguard to take over the territory was too short for them to integrate resources. With the rapid rise of the vanguard army, the large number of people who have fled in various places has exceeded the previous estimate, and it has also brought an even greater crisis to this already tight food problem. A few days ago, the soldiers who rushed to Weixian to rush supplies had already arranged to put food first, but the time was too short, and the rapid advance of the Fifth Division disrupted everyone's arrangements. He was also a little uneasy in his heart, but he didn't expect the situation to be so bad.

"There is a lot of food in Weixian!" He said in a deep voice.

"The Kunisaki Detachment, the vanguard of the Fifth Division, has been stationed in Weixian!" Fan Chong interjected.

"South! There is plenty of food there. It is necessary to adjust the plan to block the Yuekou outside Jinan for a few more days and rush to transport grain from the south. By the way, I also want to teach Yue Kou a lesson, so that he can avoid the large number of casualties in Jinan City. Pharmacist Tang said directly.

Meng Xiang was constantly calculating the time, once the battle of Xuzhou started, the food would inevitably be tight again, and after a few months, there was no need to wait for the rear to take advantage, but I was afraid that the vanguard army would already be in chaos.

He directly ordered: "The third regiment is temporarily mobilized, preparing for a counterattack on the western front, and consolidating the defense line of the railway station!" Telegram Li Ting to immediately organize people to buy grain locally. Then he ordered, "Telegram to Jian Ba, let him contact the American merchant house to transport grain from Southeast Asia." "As soon as the war starts, there will be a shortage of grain, and the total amount of grain in the country will naturally be insufficient, and importing from abroad will cost money, but if you import more than one ton of grain, you will be able to have one more ton of grain in China.

As long as food prices are not shocked, it is still cost-effective to import grain. Although there is less domestic circulation and recycling, compared with human life, these can be ignored for the time being.

"Attack west!" As soon as Kunizaki Noboru arrived in Weixian and learned that the vanguard army had already set up a defensive line in the hilly area to the west, he directly ordered. He had already heard of the strength of the vanguard army, but the Fifth Division was the elite division of the army. Itachi Seishiro was one of the instigators of 918, and the annihilation in the great victory of Pingxingguan was more than 1,000 people in a wing of the Fifth Division, but it also inflicted great casualties on the Eighth Route Army at that time. His abilities are something that the devils all agree with.

The Kunisaki detachment had just been included in the establishment of the Fifth Division, and had advanced all the way in Central China, and was transferred to Qingdao to land first, which made Kunisaki not believe how powerful the Chinese army would be. That's just Ryosuke Isoya's incompetence. In the past few days, he has surprised everyone with the speed of his advancement, and speed has become his magic weapon to win. Shen Honglie was caught off guard, retreated again and again, and retreated directly from Weixian to the south. If it weren't for the fact that there was a vanguard army in the west, I was afraid that he would have to advance all the way to Nanjing. He looked at the west contemptuously and sneered, and directly ordered the troops who were just about to rest to continue to advance.

"The devil is really here!" Huang Huamin said with a smile, Fan Chong had already guessed that he would definitely attack directly, and he was ready now. Since the devil crossed the Yellow River from the Yellow River railway bridge, the pressure on him and Hu Minghe has been reduced a lot, and the artillery group there is enough to make the devil retreat.

When the 5th Division of the Eastern Front landed and advanced, he was immediately transferred to the Eastern Front to participate in the defense. As soon as he came to the Eastern Front, he was immediately startled, and the Eastern Front had built fortresses on many hills at some point, and the barrels of the cannon that were inclined to the sky made him full of awe of the dragon in his heart. "With so many artillery pieces so quickly, how strong are they?" There was no one to answer the questions in his mind.

After Weixian, the railway is also blocked. Along the way, people from all over the country began to dismantle the rails early, but the fast advance speed of the Guoqi detachment made it too late to dismantle and transport in many places, and he seized the opportunity. But west of Weixian, the railroad tracks were completely demolished. The vanguard army only needs time.

"Keep going!" Kunisaki ordered with a straight face.

"Pay attention to the camouflage on both sides, let the devils in first!" Seeing the vanguard of the devils attacking directly, you know that their successive victories have made them arrogant. They have also experienced a lot of resistance battles, but the devils have not suffered a big loss. This makes them a little contemptuous of this kind of mountain ambush.

However, the basic tactical literacy still made Kunizaki Noboru send someone to initially reconnoiter the surrounding situation.

"What's going on?" In front of the 41st Wing was Tetsujiro Yamada, and Qingdao had been occupied by the old men of the later Fifth Division. What he needs is a new honor.

"No anomalies!" Yucha Iijima replied directly, but after hesitating, he added: "There are many wolves in the surrounding mountains, and there are some places where we can't get through." ”

"Lots of wolves? Could it be that the people of China could stay with the wolves? Ha ha! Tetsujiro Yamada smiled, "When I have time in the future, I will come over and peel off a wolf skin and send it back to Tokyo!" What he didn't know was that the dogs' fur was not so easy to pick, and out of the need for camouflage, dozens of cloned wolfdogs successfully played the role of wolves, scaring off the footsteps of the devil scouts.

He raised his binoculars and looked around carefully, but unfortunately he only saw the gray and yellow of the earth and rocks and the white remnants of snow.

"Toyota's brigade let's go!" Out of caution, he still let some of his men go first and gain a foothold.

"It's a pity that there are too few fillings!" Huang Huamin followed the vanguard army for a long time, and the record of a brigade seemed to be a little too little, "Three regiments are in ambush, how can you fight a wing!" ”

After Huang Huamin thought about it, he ordered: "Order the first battalion of the eighth regiment in front to block it first!" Don't use all your strength, and don't move the artillery! After he finished speaking, he looked at Niu San and Huang Huamin, who accompanied him, due to his outstanding performance some time ago, he was temporarily pushed to the position of the commander of the third brigade on the east road, and the temporary deputy brigade commander was Niu San, the commander of the eighth regiment. Niu San nodded approvingly.

"Da Da Da!" A military bugle sounded, and the machine guns of a battalion on the western hill were the first to speak, and they were caught off guard, and the men of the Toyota Brigade were swept away by a dense rain of bullets. They lay down, looking for a place to hide.

"There's an ambush ahead!" Tetsujiro Yamada was shocked. He listened attentively for a moment, and then he was relieved that there was at most a regiment in front of him.

"Ahh Forward all! Tetsujiro Yamada pointed his finger forward and added, "Don't let them run!" "The troops he met along the way all retreated early, which made him depressed when he couldn't fight anyone, and a regiment in front of him could be regarded as an appetizer.

"It's time to make dumplings! Don't let them run! Huang Huamin saw that the vanguard of the devils had entered the ambush circle, and couldn't help shouting excitedly.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The dense charge in the narrow mountain road was immediately interrupted by the muzzle of the black hole exposed on the mountain.

With an April Fool's Day-style realistic humor, the collective collision of the three regiments of the 41st Wing and the 41st Division began with the roar of artillery on the hill.