Chapter 252: Farming? Resettlement of the Wounded
"Troops...breeding?"
Listening to Qin Yangming's words, the brigade commander and the political commissar were both completely confused.
If the logistics troops were to engage in breeding or something, the brigade commander and the political commissar would understand.
After all, logistics troops do not need to be moved all the time, can stay in one place for a long time, and have sufficient time and manpower for breeding.
But Qin Yangming and his men are different, they are a combat force!
There is not much time to stay in one place, so where is the time to do breeding or something?
Moreover, their four regiments are now seriously short of logistics personnel. They are basically all combatants. Where do they get the manpower to organize breeding?
Seeing the puzzled faces of the brigade commander and the political commissar, Qin Yangming knew that the brigade commander and the political commissar definitely did not know about these things.
In fact, Qin Yangming always left these matters to Zhangye.
But Qin Yangming did not expect that Zhangye did not report the matter to his superiors.
However, what Qin Yangming didn't know was that after Zhangye told Zhao Gang and Zhong Zhicheng about this, he thought that Zhao Gang or Zhong Zhicheng would report it to their superiors.
Then after Zhao Gang and Zhong Zhicheng learned about this, they both thought that Zhangye must have reported it to the higher authorities. After all, Qin Yangming and others were military chiefs, just like Li Yunlong, who only cared about fighting and left all logistics to the political commissar.
In addition, this matter was relatively unimportant, and Zhao Gang and others were the political chiefs, mainly responsible for ideological and life work, as well as some intelligence gathering. Gradually, no one paid attention to this matter.
Therefore, no one reported this to the higher authorities, resulting in the brigade having no idea why the four regiments had so many supplies.
"Xiao Qin, can you tell me in detail, how do the troops raise animals?
You are all combat troops, where do you get the time, space and manpower to engage in breeding?"
The brigade commander and the political commissar did not investigate why no one reported the matter, but instead began to ask Qin Yangming what was going on.
As for Li Yunlong, everyone simply ignored him.
It is obvious that the idea of raising livestock in the army was definitely not something Li Yunlong came up with.
If it was Li Yunlong who came up with this idea, he would have done it long ago and would not have waited until Qin Yangming showed up before starting.
So this method must have been thought up by Qin Yangming.
"Commissar, it's like this. To put it simply, I was the one who came up with this idea in the first place.
During the war, there were wounded soldiers in the army. Even if some of the seriously injured were rescued, some with broken arms were not so bad and could be directly assigned to the kitchen team.
But some soldiers with broken legs and some who cannot do heavy work will definitely not be able to stay in the army.
But if we just send these soldiers back home like this, what will happen to them in the future?
Although care will be provided in all places, their own living ability is already very low, so how can more care be provided?
So I thought about whether I could find a safe place and build a farm there, so that I could send those who wanted to go home.
If they want to continue staying in the army, the army will support them.
Send them directly to the farm.
I bought a lot of chickens, ducks, sheep, cows, dogs and other animals and threw them on the farm.
A warrior who has lost both arms can drive sheep to graze.
The soldier without legs can cut grass.
Blind soldiers can help transport items.
……
Sometimes we would also buy some livestock and place them in the villagers' homes, asking the villagers to help take care of them.
Or mobilize the villagers to help cut grass and hand it over to the mule and horse team...
Finally, most of the money we got from each battle was used to buy food.
Because we have enough weapons, ammunition and other military supplies, we don't need to buy extra things, so we need a lot of money to buy food."
Qin Yangming roughly explained what his four regiments were about and how his breeding was. The brigade commander and the political commissar also understood what Qin Yangming meant.
The political commissar spoke thoughtfully.
“No wonder some troops down below said that some villagers were delivering fodder to the troops, and then asked us whether the local party committee had arranged for the villagers to help cut fodder.
But the Party Committee said no, so the source is here.
Where is your farm?
How come we haven’t seen this before?”
“There’s one in Duanjiaao, and there’s another one in Taiyue Mountain.
But the one from Taiyue has already moved to Fu'an with the New 1st Group and is looking for a new place to make arrangements."
Hearing Qin Yangming's words, the brigade commander immediately thought of a piece of news sent by local comrades.
It is said that the Independent Regiment and the New 1st Regiment have never asked local comrades to help arrange for the wounded.
At first, the brigade commander thought that the independent regiment and the new 1st regiment helped to make the arrangements on their own, thus reducing the burden on local comrades.
Now it seems that it is entirely because the New 1st Regiment and the Independent Regiment have considered things more comprehensively.
After all, the local comrades helped to arrange for the wounded, but they could only give more land and food to supplement the supply.
However, the wounded who need to be arranged to return home basically have little ability to live independently.
You will basically have to rely on other people for support for the rest of your life.
It’s not so bad for those families where there are other people at home, so the local burden won’t be too heavy.
However, those wounded who had no other relatives at home were all taken care of by local comrades.
There are even reports from various places that many soldiers who are unable to live independently have exhibited extreme behaviors.
In order not to add burden to local governments, they chose to go to extremes.
There were even many wounded soldiers who felt that the army had abandoned them and felt resentful.
Or maybe they think that living will only add burden to the troops and comrades, and that living is meaningless...
In order to ensure that these soldiers do not go to extremes, local comrades asked the troops to send a large number of political workers to help with ideological work.
But now the way Qin Yangming and others raise wounded soldiers is different.
The wounded troops who were unwilling to go home remained.
If you can't go to the front line or follow the troops, then go to the farm and continue to serve the troops.
A blind soldier can carry a soldier with broken legs on his back.
A soldier with broken legs can do things that don't require movement, such as cutting grass.
There is always something the wounded can do, such as herding sheep, mowing grass, raising chickens, raising pigs, and packing eggs.
If the wounded have something to do, they will not think about other things. They will believe that they are still useful, that the army has not abandoned them, and that they are accompanied by a large number of comrades, so they will not feel lonely.
In this way, the wounded will not go to extremes because of these things.
In this way, these wounded soldiers will not think that they have been abandoned by the army, nor will they think that they are useless, and they will not be looked down upon by others because of their disability.
Arrange all the wounded in one place, and then only arrange a small number of normal personnel to help watch over them, so that most of the problems of placing the wounded can be solved directly.
In particular, opening a breeding farm can not only solve the problem of wounded soldiers, but also provide a large amount of meat for the troops. In addition, in addition to providing meat, the breeding farm can also provide a large amount of other supplies.
For example, if you raise sheep, you can harvest their wool.
Raising cattle, cow horns and other things can be used as medicine.
At this moment, the brigade commander looked at Qin Yangming, wishing he could open Qin Yangming's head to see what was going on in Qin Yangming's mind and how he could come up with such an idea.
At the same time, Qin Yangming's method also gave the brigade commander a great inspiration.
Since the wounded can be used to start a breeding farm.
So is it possible to arrange troops to reclaim wasteland and cultivate the land?
When the troops are not fighting, there is no need to train every day.
The troops are basically young and strong, and sometimes they can be asked to reclaim wasteland and cultivate the land.
Especially local forces, who do not need to be second-line troops for defense or offense.
If the troops are arranged to reclaim land and cultivate the land, they can not only use it to replace the troops' physical training.
A lot of food can also be harvested.
Besides, most of the soldiers were originally farmers, so they didn’t need to be taught how to farm.
Because of the war, a lot of land was abandoned in both the Shangdang area and the Taihang and Taiyue mountainous areas.
These lands are just sitting there anyway, so it would be better to let the troops take over directly and let them reclaim and cultivate the land if the results are good.
Maybe the troops can directly meet their own food needs.
This can relieve a lot of pressure on local comrades, and the people will also have to pay less military rations and eat better.
Maybe we can even start hoarding food.
"Brigade Commander, to be honest, it seems like we can really start farming now."
What the brigade commander can think of, the political commissar can also think of.
It's nothing more than letting the troops engage in farming.
In China, it is not uncommon for troops to establish military farms on the border. Since ancient times, many dynasties have chosen to establish military farms on the border to relieve pressure.
The reason why the Eighth Route Army did not cultivate land in the past was purely because the Japanese raids were too brutal and many of the Eighth Route Army bases could not withstand the Japanese raids.
Moreover, the Japanese specifically chose the harvest season in autumn to carry out their raids.
Sometimes, if you are unlucky, everything you have worked hard for a whole year will be taken away by the Japanese.
So no one considered military farming.
But now it is different. The Eighth Route Army has the confidence, ability, and believes that it can stop the Japanese.
And there was a large piece of territory like Shangdang area.
The Eighth Route Army is fully capable of engaging in military farming.
Listening to the political commissar's words, the brigade commander nodded.
"Well, that's fine. Send someone to go back with the two of them and bring all the information about the wounded soldier breeding farm you guys have to the brigade headquarters. I want to report this to the division commander.
Let the division commander and local comrades discuss this.”
"Okay, no problem. If you want, you can send someone to get it directly, or I can ask Sun Zhigang to come over directly. Sun was in charge of logistics at the beginning, but he came from Zhangye later.
The logistics were directly handed over to Zhangye. I was only responsible for the combat aspects of the troops, and everything else was basically handled by Zhangye. Zhangye and Sun Zhigang were in charge of the logistics. ”
Listening to Qin Yangming's words, the brigade commander nodded and expressed his affirmation of Qin Yangming's words.
After Qin Yangming finished speaking, the political commissar looked at Qin Yangming and Li Yunlong seriously.
“I don’t care how you run the farm, but I want to make one thing clear: the meat raised in the farm can be eaten by your four groups or given to the people.
But there is one thing: selling is absolutely not allowed!
You four regiments are absolutely not allowed to use your troops to do business!
If there are really too many things and you cannot use them all, you can hand them over to local comrades and ask them to help you deal with them, or you can hand them over to the brigade headquarters and I will help you deal with them.
But one thing is for sure: you four groups are not allowed to do business!"
The political commissar was worried that Qin Yangming and his group would use the army to engage in selfish business, so he gave them a warning in advance.
Although the Eighth Route Army also does business, otherwise it would not be able to support so many troops.
But there are special troops in charge of that, or local comrades are in charge. At least one has to be a brigade commander to be qualified to set up such a special department to be responsible for this matter.
Qin Yangming and his men are only regimental commanders, especially some of them are commanders of frontline combat units. If they do business and other troops follow suit, when all the troops start to do business, will the troops still have combat effectiveness?
The political commissar was worried that one day one of Qin Yangming and his gang might suddenly get crazy and suggest that the farm had so many livestock and we couldn't eat them all, so we might as well sell them.
It will be troublesome then.
Once other troops follow suit, it’s okay for those who can learn it, but we’re just worried about those guys who don’t have the skills or ability but still try to learn it.
Not only did they not make any money, but they also lost their troops.
So the political commissar gave the two of them a shot of prevention in advance.
The four groups are absolutely not allowed to do business.
If there are too many things, we can sell the excess supplies to local comrades and let them deal with them.
Or you can hand the things over to the brigade, and the brigade can allocate additional funds.
In short, the four regiments are not allowed to sell the supplies directly.
What if these four groups get a taste of the sweetness and start reselling other supplies...
Especially among the four groups, three of them are large and powerful.
They are fully capable of reselling military supplies to other troops.
Although the meat still rotted in the Eighth Route Army's big pot.
But this kind of behavior is seriously unacceptable.
Listening to the political commissar's words, the brigade commander also began to think about it.
"No, we can't let the four regiments do this. We need to see if we can ask the division commander to build a large military farm, gather all the wounded, and even their relatives, and build a special military farm.
In this way, the supplies can be directly distributed by the entire military region."
Looking at Qin Yangming and Li Yunlong, the brigade commander was thinking in his heart.
(End of this chapter)
