UGB #150 - Poised to win
#150 - Poised to win
Due to Ren Zhong's suggestion, the base headquarters very cautiously changed the second phase of expanded combat plan. In the winter of 1940, they chose a contractionary strategy of rest and consolidation of results, avoiding a large number of blind siege battles. In particular, local base areas that did not have RPGs and other siege weapons, fully followed the configuration of the main regiment of the Taihang base area in the difficult task of supplementing equipment and gathering strength. At the same time, they launched the Yangcun model of military industry and large-scale grain production movement.
In this way, after a large-scale battle, the strength of the Eighth Route Army's main force was not weakened, but after recuperation, it reached a new level in the spring of 1941. The number of fully equipped main regiments reached 40, each main regiment had 3 infantry battalions, each infantry battalion had 3 infantry companies plus 1 firepower company, each infantry company had 3 infantry platoons plus 1 firepower platoon. The regimental headquarters also had directly subordinate guard companies, artillery companies, and transport companies, and some even had cavalry companies, a total of 15 or 16 companies, with a total number of more than 3,000 people.
There were more than 60 second-line backbone regiments, each backbone regiment had 3 infantry battalions and 9 infantry companies, plus a guard company directly under the regimental headquarters, a total of 10 companies, with a total of more than 1,500 people in the regiment. All of these regiments had unified serial numbers from the headquarters and were equipped with radios provided by the headquarters for unified deployment.
Next were more than 100 local base area reserve regiments, usually with 2 fully staffed infantry battalions (guerrilla brigades) or 3 understaffed infantry battalions, 6-8 infantry companies, with a total of more than 1,000 people in the regiment.
In this way, the entire regular force of the Eighth Route Army remained above 400,000 people.
If it weren't for Ren Zhong's reminder, after the Japanese's multiple large-scale mopping-up operations in 1941, the Eighth Route Army's main force would have suffered heavy losses due to the unprecedented difficulty in supplying weapons and ammunition, and would have dropped sharply to about 300,000 people. Moreover, many of the main regiments' old foundations would have suffered significant losses, just like Li Yunlong's Independent Regiment in the original timeline, where the cavalry company was completely wiped out and the infantry battalions suffered heavy losses and had to start all over again.
In this timeline, according to Ren Zhong's suggestion, and referring to the Independent Regiment's development model in Heyuan, after the end of the large-scale counterattack operation, the headquarters adjusted its combat strategy. A portion of the backbone regiments were reorganized into zero, forming squad and platoon level work teams to jump out and open up new base areas behind enemy lines, while the local reserve regiments were required to mostly be reorganized into zero, fully entering behind enemy lines for guerrilla warfare and opening up new fortress villages in the form of county brigades and district squads.
This not only stabbed the enemy in the heart, but also greatly alleviated the heavy grain burden of the base areas.
With Ren Zhong's reminder and the Independent Regiment taking the lead in launching a large-scale production movement for the entire regiment, they achieved a great harvest in the autumn of 1940. More than 5,000 mu of cornfields, planted more than 2,000 mu of improved high-yield corn. Under the careful care of organic fertilizer and the team, the yield per mu of improved high-yield corn exceeded 1,400 jin, and ordinary corn also reached more than 900 jin, accumulating a harvest of nearly 3,000 tons of corn. This alone basically solved the Independent Regiment's food problem.
Therefore, after carefully researching and summarizing these experiences of the Independent Regiment, the headquarters officially promoted it to all subordinate troops!
Not only that, the experience of the base area was also passed on to the border area, and the border area also began to call for learning from the Independent Regiment's experience and carrying out a self-reliance and large-scale production movement.
Ren Zhong received this information through Jiang Chongjing, and did not expect that his suggestion was not only adopted, but also promoted ahead of schedule.
In order to better promote this matter, Ren Zhong specially consulted some information about the large-scale production movement in the original historical timeline in the main world, preparing to absorb the beneficial parts for optimization suggestions, but who knew that he only discovered after checking that our ancestors paid too much bloody price back then.
In order to develop the Jiangnan of northern Shaanxi, reclaiming wasteland in extremely harsh natural environments, the troops also paid a heavy price. According to historical records, in less than two months of wasteland reclamation, nearly a thousand soldiers sacrificed due to various reasons!
Because of the lack of food, clothing, and necessary labor tools, they relied entirely on human labor with high intensity, sometimes working more than 10 hours a day. It's okay in the hands of a workaholic like Li Yunlong in Yangcun, because Yangcun still has food to sustain them, and Ren Zhong initially restricted heavy physical labor to a 6-hour shift system!
In this way, no non-combat attrition was caused in the rapid construction of Yangcun.
The original problem in the timeline must be changed, and such serious losses cannot be caused for the sake of large-scale production.
Thinking of this, Ren Zhong freed himself from dealing with various problems in the research institute and began to fully consider solutions in seclusion.
Ren Zhong initially thought of tractors for cultivating land. If the research and imitation of the GAA V8 engine is successful now, the biggest obstacle to developing a tractor will be cleared, but in this way, new problems will arise. The border area simply does not have so much fuel to drive tractors.
Although there is oil underground in the border area, from petroleum to fuel, such as transforming into gasoline, kerosene, and diesel, the small amount of crude oil obtained by drilling wells on the border area has not formed an industrialized oil refining system. And Ren Zhong has no way to solve this problem in the short term.
So Ren Zhong rejected the idea of fuel-driven.
Besides this, then it can only be electric-driven. As for the power acquisition, of course, it depends on Ren Zhong's hydro-generators. The wasteland reclamation should be carried out along the banks of the river, which can also solve the water problem!
Thinking of this, Ren Zhong found several miniaturized rotary tillers on the Internet for reference. Replacing the diesel engine with an electric motor seems to be possible. Ren Zhong converted these materials and re-printed them into black and white picture materials, and handed them over to the mechanical design staff for further improvement and design.
After discussion, the electric rotary tiller named Nong 100 by Ren Zhong was quickly designed.
After day and night work in the production workshop, the first Nong 100 was finally produced half a month later. After Ren Zhong's trial, it was confirmed that under the soil conditions in northern Shaanxi, the Nong 100 could loosen the soil by more than 30 centimeters. One person operating the machine can loosen nearly 2 mu of land per hour.
Considering the arrangement of the wires, two people can be in a group, one person is responsible for arranging the wires, and the other person is responsible for operating the Nong 100 to loosen the ground. In this way, one day is divided into two shifts, working 12 hours, and one Nong 100 can reclaim 24 mu!
Compared to manual wasteland reclamation, this efficiency is directly a massacre! It's completely not on the same level. Getting 100 units out can reclaim 2,400 mu a day, and only requires more than 400 people.
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Of course, as an electric power package, at least 20 or more 50KW hydro-generators need to be configured for these Nong 100!
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