On the way back to the independent regiment, Li Yunlong quickly sorted out his mood.

More than ten years of war career, countless ups and downs, and accustomed life and death partings have forged Grand Master Li's super-first-class mental quality, and he never dwells on things that have passed and cannot be changed.

The price has been negotiated, the wood has been completed, and it is pointless to regret it.

It's better to look ahead.

"This time it's careless."

"When I heard that there were one hundred and sixty officers and cadres, I was a little carried away with joy, and I lost my square inch for a while, and the brigade commander at that time obviously opened his mouth, and he actually agreed."

"Careless, careless."

"When we talk about business in the future, even if we are satisfied, we must press the price of one hand!"

After silently writing down the lesson of this time and learning the lesson, Li Yunlong quickly plunged into the planning of the next business.

The brigade headquarters was successfully completed.

Although the cost was far beyond the budget, it was only planned to spend 500 tons of grain, but it ended up spending 2,000 tons of grain, and five large mules were taken away. But the harvest was also far beyond expectations, 160 officers and cadres, completely solved the problem of the shortage of officers in the independent regiment.

There are even seven mechanical technical units in hand.

"There are now 2,400 tons of grain left."

Riding a horse, on the way to meet Zhao Jiayu, Li Yunlong counted with his fingers in his heart.

Next up is the headquarters.

"The budget for the headquarters is two thousand tons of grain."

Li Yunlong counted his price.

He left a stock of 400 tons of grain for the Independent Regiment, and the rest was used to support other base areas, and of course, by the way, there was also some benefit.

You can't give it for nothing, can you?

Although, according to his calculations, an independent regiment of 5,000 men would need to consume about 13,400 tons of staple food every year, or more than three tons per day, under the condition of maintaining high-intensity training, the actual consumption was not such a amount.

Zhao Jiayu is located in a dense mountainous area, with only mountains, forests and horse roads nearby, and has always been a stable base with a high mass base.

Recently, there are devils stationed, and it is also Ping'an County, 50 kilometers away, and there is only one brigade of devils, which is still a second-line brigade, plus the puppet army is only more than 1,000 people, with the strength of the independent regiment, unless the devils launch an army of 10,000 to attack again, this is a solid base area.

In a solid base area, there is no need to be ready to transfer at any time, and the troops can engage in production.

Grow your own food and raise your own livestock.

Five thousand soldiers, five thousand well-fed and well-fed fellows, that is, five thousand strong laborers, training and vigilance in peacetime, can mobilize a part of them to work in the fields when the farm is busy.

And big mules.

It's not just shipping that's good hands.

Agricultural production, the big mule is also very eye-catching, ploughing the field, picking and pulling camels, that efficiency, a minimum of ten cows, but also more than the cow endurance, easy to feed, not easy to get sick.

When water is scarce, it is even possible to transport water from the river to water the ground.

In a famine year, there are few rains throughout the year, wheat and corn have a large water demand, and they cannot be satisfied by transporting water by big mules, after all, it is impossible for the troops to grab good land with the common people, and all that the independent regiment can plant is some remote dry land, but millet or something, there is still no problem.

As long as the first few months are passed, the independent regiment will gradually become self-sufficient, and then the consumption of food will be greatly reduced.

Not to mention that you can also find devils and earn food.

Fighting devils is much more cost-effective than farming, and killing a devil's technical arms at will will be a bumper harvest year, which is comparable to looting the granary of a big bully landlord.

After setting his own purse, Li Yunlong began to ponder in his heart:

"Continue to ask for grassroots officers and cadres, the more this, the better, anyway, the first batch of Kang Da is 800 people, and there must be a lot of them at the headquarters, just exchange 1,000 tons of grain for it."

"Change a few more artillery crews that can use mountain artillery, preferably three, this has to find a division commander or boss, well, two 120 mortars, plus a thousand tons of food, will definitely be available."

"In this way, plus Yan Sheng himself, there are six qualified artillery groups, and the mountain artillery company can form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, presumably, the little devil has already started to repair Taiyuan Airport, and he has to speed up!"

"Also, ask Brother Chen to change more medical kits, go to Lao Liu, train more military doctors, there are not enough military doctors in the army."

"And ·····"

After the defense of Shou County and the sweep, Li Yunlong also discovered the problems faced by the independent regiment.

There were not enough military doctors in the regiment, although there were medical kits and sufficient medicines, but there was a serious shortage of doctors, and each company could not be assigned one, resulting in many soldiers not having time to be treated, or treating them wrongly.

By the time Li Yunlong returned to Zhao Jiayu, it was already late at night.

As soon as he entered the regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong saw Zhao Gang and Sun Desheng sitting at the table, muttering to a book, looking at it, it was Sun Desheng discussing something with Zhao Gang.

Under the oil lamp, the two of them were extremely focused, and they didn't notice Li Yunlong's entry at all.

"That's right..."

Seeing this scene, Li Yunlong's heart moved.

"I have to go to Zhang Wanhe to ask intellectuals, preferably college students, Lao Zhao is in charge of the cultural knowledge training of the whole regiment alone, and he is too tired, the big mule livestock farm, plus technology, Zhang Wanhe will definitely agree."

The monks in the group, Sun Desheng, Huang Baowang and others can learn to read and write so quickly, and even read books by themselves, not only because of their own efforts, but also because of Zhao Gang's careful teaching.

Looking for the cultural knowledge training in the teacher's group, Li Yunlong planned to find Zhang Wanhe directly.

With the development and growth of the logistics department, especially the expansion of the arsenal and the establishment of the livestock farm, Zhang Wanhe, who is in charge of logistics, has more and more people under him, and he can directly transfer some personnel.

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The next day.

Li Yunlong is very busy.

The second batch of 1,000 tons of grain also arrived, and there were some weapons and ammunition, and he had to organize people to carry them, which was a big project, and in addition, the troops had just arrived with a group of new officers, and he, as the regiment commander, had to arrange for them to run in one by one, which was also a troublesome matter.

After the two things were done, even with Zhang Dabiao's assistance, Li Yunlong was tired enough.

On the third day, the transport team of the brigade headquarters also arrived, Li Yunlong was busy integrating the troops, and Zhao Gang was in charge of reception.

In order to transport grain, Staff Officer Luo, who was in charge, not only sent more than 100 carts of the transport team, but also mobilized three main regiments and a transport team of nearly 4,000 people, and borrowed a large number of wheelbarrows from the homes of ordinary people.

On the road, a small cart can transport two hundred pounds of small one trip.

The strength of the outnumbered people, the mighty transport wheelbarrows, and the requisitioned transport convoys of the Independent Regiment, transported more than 500 tons of grain in just one trip, which was comparable to a steam train.

The transport work lasted six days.

By the way, the transport team also widened the road, and although it was not possible to drive cars and trucks, it was easier to travel unicycles and horse-drawn carriages.

Such a huge transport team even alarmed the devils, and the latent devil intelligence officers, after figuring out the grain transported, used a telegraph to transmit the news back to Taiyuan as soon as possible.

The Taiyuan devils who received the news were originally going to sabotage, but in the end they found that they were helpless.

The plane bombed, Taiyuan Airport has not been repaired, and the flight range of other airports is not enough. Moreover, the previous sweep had used up all the fuel and bombs, and the reconnaissance planes could not take off.

It's even more useless to launch a sweep.

That is the core area of the people's base area, and if you want to attack, you have to use at least more than 10,000 troops, and you also need a lot of materials, and after the large-scale sweep of the previous 60,000 troops, now the imperial army warehouse, the rats will cry when they enter.

Helpless, the Taiyuan devil could only stare at the mighty transport team.

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On the first day of the big grain shipment.

Ding Wei returned to the new regiment from the brigade headquarters, on his horseback, dragging a bag of grain.

Yes, a bag.

"Captain, you are..."

Looking at the bag of grain on horseback, and then looking at the smiling appearance of the regiment commander, the first battalion commander was a little flustered.

The losses of the new regiment this time were not large, the reduction of about one-fifth of the personnel, and the equipment was still complete, but even the food was very scarce, and the new base area could not be replenished, and the regiment commander went to the brigade headquarters this time to report on the work, and by the way, he wanted to think about how to solve the food problem.

But why don't you bring back a bag of grain?

Moreover, he laughed very happily

"Haha..."

Ding Wei laughed, and unloaded the bag of grain on the horse's back with his own hands, and his tone was cheerful:

"The food problem has been solved."

The brigade headquarters gave him a bag of grain and told him about the deal of two thousand tons of grain, and then drove him out.

Ding Wei instantly understood, this meant that he wanted to go to Li Yunlong himself to ask for it, implying that there were many, many more on Li Yunlong's side, and the family happily returned to the new group.

"Solved?"

Cheng He was stunned for a moment, then looked at the bag of grain, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and his tone was surprised:

"This is, from the Independence Regiment."

He recognized this grain bag, this cotton, exquisite grain bag, which only existed on the side of the independent regiment, and in other areas, even devils, were reluctant to use such a good cotton cloth for food.

The new regiment had received food help from the independent regiment before, and originally wanted to go over to the independent regiment for help, but then news came that the independent regiment had suffered heavy losses in this sweep, with nearly half of the fighters reduced, two-thirds of the cadres lost, and the equipment also suffered heavy losses, so it did not go.

"Then let's leave for the Independent Regiment now?"

Chenghe's tone couldn't wait.

After all, the new regiment has been expanded, and its number is comparable to the size of two main regiments, and the loss this time is not large, and the daily food consumption is not small, and it will not last long.

As for whether Commander Li will give it or not, Chenghe is not worried at all.

Grand Master Li is rumored to be notoriously stingy, but when he really needs help and has the ability to help, he has never slammed the door.

"Nope."

Ding Wei narrowed his eyes:

"I'll go to Kong Jie's place first."

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It was also the third day of Li Yunlong's return from the brigade headquarters and the first day of grain transportation.

Staff Officer Mo from the General Staff Headquarters came to the brigade headquarters and met with Staff Officer Luo of the brigade headquarters.