Chapter 246 Farming? What if this becomes an addiction? "Guangting, long time no see." Zheng Dongguo looked at Du Yuming who was rushing over and asked with a kind face. He did not expect that Du Yuming would arrive in Tianzhu in such a short period of time. “Brother Guiting, I didn’t expect to see you here.” Seeing his old classmate, Du Yuming naturally had a smile on his face. “Yeah, I didn’t expect to see you here either.” Zheng Dongguo said while introducing a few people around him. Liao Yaoxiang needs no introduction. Du Yuming naturally knows it. After all, he is originally from the Fifth Army. As for Sun Liren, Du Yuming naturally didn’t look down upon him. However, considering the situation at the time, he thought about it carefully later and felt that what Sun Liren did was not wrong. Continuing to retreat, the final outcome of the newly formed Thirty-Eighth Division may not be any better than that of the 200th Division. But he was very disgusted with Sun Liren's behavior of obeying the rules and violating the rules.
Have any comments to make? He is not someone who cannot listen to opinions. The results of it? They didn’t even send a telegram, and just followed Stilwell to Imphal. Hand, as the deputy commander of the expeditionary force, he was completely ignored. If these were his subordinates, they would have killed him long ago. As for the Sichuan Army, it is not an expeditionary force, so it is understandable if they do not obey his orders. But the newly formed 38th Division was an expeditionary force and was under the command of Du Yuming. As a result, if you don’t obey orders, you will naturally not look good on them. Fortunately, Sun Liren also knew that this group of direct descendants looked down on outsiders like him, so he did not come forward to ask for trouble. "Guangting, brother Fumin also had difficulties in the situation at that time. If he didn't evacuate to Imphal, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to return to the country. And even if he went back, the fate of his non-direct troops would not be good. Where to go." Zheng Dongguo felt something was wrong in the atmosphere and explained for Sun Liren with a smile. Hearing this, Du Yuming was surprised. He didn't expect Zheng Dongguo to speak kindly to Sun Liren. And judging from the relationship between the two parties, it seems to be pretty good. Did Zheng Dongguo take the other party under his command? impossible! The other party is that person's direct army, and shouldn't be recruited so easily. Perhaps seeing Du Yuming's doubts, Zheng Dongguo continued. “We are all in Tianzhu now. It would be better for us to unite sincerely in a foreign land. As for some minor conflicts in the past, let’s put them aside for the time being.” Hearing this, Du Yuming thought for a while, felt that what he said made sense, and then took a deep breath.
"Brother Guiting is right. In a foreign land, we can only stay together to keep warm. Otherwise, we will be used as guns by the British army again." At this time, Zheng Dongguo suddenly became interested. "Guangting, do you have any other ideas? We are all our own people. If you have any ideas, you have to let us know. You can't hide them." When Du Yuming thought about it, he felt that there was no point in hiding it. If Zheng Dongguo can cooperate, they may be able to better deceive Stilwell and General Wavell. "Once bitten by a snake, I am afraid of well ropes for ten years. Last time, I trusted the British army too easily. As a result, tens of thousands of soldiers of the expeditionary force were buried in foreign lands. Many of their bones are still unknown. This was a mistake in my command. "Du Yuming will never shirk his responsibilities. So, he is a pure soldier. He only thinks about fighting and obeying orders. He doesn't think about much at all. As a result, not much benefit was gained. There is a lot of blame to be carried. They are all from one issue! He just doesn't do well. "So this time, I learned my lesson and asked Cun Yunsheng of the Sichuan Army Corps for advice. I specially obtained the scriptures from him and knew how to deal with Stilwell." Du Yuming felt that everyone was one of his own, so there was no need to Hide and tuck. "Have you also gone to the Sichuan Army to learn from it?" Zheng Dongguo couldn't help but said. "You went too?" Du Yuming was not a fool. Looking at the other party's expression, he guessed that the other party must have gone too. “Well, why else would it take so long for my troops to advance this far?” Zheng Dongguo said helplessly. “What did he tell you?” Du Yuming asked doubtfully. Zheng Dongguo naturally knew who Du Yuming was talking about. “What else can I say? It’s nothing more than making excuses to slow down the march.” “He even told me that if the foreigners are determined to conquer China, then the British and Japanese troops will fight each other. It has nothing to do with us.” Zheng Dongguo said casually. “It’s really exactly the same.” Du Yuming sighed with emotion. “What reasons have you been looking for recently?” After sighing, Du Yuming asked doubtfully. Logically speaking, after stopping for so long, Stilwell must have gone crazy? result! Looking at Zheng Dongguo's expression, it was obvious that Stilwell didn't urge him. What was the reason for not urging him? “Farming.” Zheng Dongguo said nothing, but Liao Yaoxiang on the side explained. “The military commander believed that the troops lacked vegetables, causing many soldiers to suffer from night blindness, so he thought they should stop and replenish some vegetables, but there are no decent vegetables here.” “As a result, we are allowed to grow vegetables on site, and the seeds are flown over by plane from China.” This directly confused Du Yuming.
Not going to fight? And then farm here? The key point is that Stilwell still agreed? More importantly, were the seeds shipped by air? "Guangting, this is really not an excuse I deliberately made. There are indeed many soldiers suffering from night blindness in the army. Many officers took the vitamin tablets provided by the Allies. For this reason, I shot several officers in succession to stop this unhealthy trend. Evil spirit." Zheng Dongguo said at the end, with a look of chilling expression on his face. In addition to the newly formed 38th Division, the New First Army is the remnant of Liao Yaoxiang's newly formed 22nd Division. These two divisions were originally direct relatives, and corruption was not that serious. But the soldiers who were added later would not work. Many officers took vitamin tablets directly from the mouths of soldiers and sold them on the black market. The black market price for such a good thing is quite high. It was originally made very concealed and impossible to be discovered. As a result, non-combat attrition was very serious during the march. After investigation, most of the soldiers suffered from night blindness. This made Zheng Dongguo very confused. If it was domestic, he would definitely not care. After all, it’s good if you can eat enough in China, and they also provide you with vitamin supplements. It’s just too much to think about. But they are now in a foreign country, with logistics provided by the Allies, and there is no shortage of vitamin tablets. As a result, so many soldiers still suffered from night blindness, which made Zheng Dongguo sense that something was wrong. After some investigation, it was discovered that many officers had withheld vitamin tablets. Originally, he thought that the matter would end there, but what was the result? These officers actually took vitamin tablets out of the soldiers' mouths. This is unbearable. In order to stop this evil trend, he directly ordered the shooting of more than ten officers before it was completely stopped. But vitamin tablets alone are not enough. This consumes too much. After some thought, I decided to grow vegetables on site to reduce logistical dependence and increase the recipes. Otherwise, it would be canned food and compressed biscuits every day. Not only would the soldiers not be able to stand it, he himself would not be able to stand it either. “So during this period, you are all farming?” After understanding the cause and effect, Du Yuming was dumbfounded. Tens of thousands of troops farming here? No one would believe it.
"Stilwell didn't rush you?" Du Yuming had dealt with this stubborn old man and knew that this guy was not easy to get along with, so he asked doubtfully. "Who said I didn't urge you? I have urged you countless times, but every time I have excused myself because of the lack of logistics. I don't know what happened recently, and I haven't urged you. However, the delivery of materials has become less and less. I have to thank myself for planting some. Food, otherwise, we might starve to death now.” “Brother Yunsheng is right, these foreigners are just unreliable.” Zheng Dongguo kept complaining. In fact, it is not that Stilwell deliberately deducted his supplies, it is simply that the supplies he has received have decreased a lot recently. Especially after the equipment of the twenty divisions had just been sold to Siam, he had very few weapons and equipment at his disposal. The reason is that the Suez Canal was lost. The . military now has increased costs and time to transport weapons. Naturally, this resulted in him receiving less and less supplies. The support has definitely been reduced. The main focus of the US military is on North Africa and Persia. Only priority can be given to the above-mentioned areas. Other places can only wait patiently. But Zheng Dongguo could not receive this information at all. After all, he, a small army commander, was not worthy to know about the overall strategic direction. Moreover! This is all a British and American matter, what does it have to do with him? In fact, if Cun Yunsheng hadn't had a good relationship with William, I'm afraid he wouldn't have received this information. As for why William sent him information, he simply felt that Cun Yunsheng's intelligence network was so powerful that he must know more than he knew. So every time he sends information to Cun Yunsheng, it will be accompanied by his own analysis. Because of this, the information Cun Yunsheng knew was not too backward. "Reduced logistics supply?" Du Yuming's scalp suddenly went numb. He knew that his expeditionary force of more than 100,000 people was behind him and would arrive here in a short time. At that time, once the logistics supply is insufficient, it will really be over. "Yes, the supplies are obviously much less. We used to drop supplies by air every day, but now we can only wait for the trucks to arrive. But the journey is long and each supply takes several days. It is the rainy season and the temperature is high, so we can only transport a few Canned food and biscuits, if you eat those things every day, wouldn’t it be even more serious?” “There is no other way, I can only farm here.” “I have to say that the land here is very suitable for growing vegetables, and the yield is extremely high, several times better than the land in my hometown.” Zheng Dongguo became more and more excited as he talked, and only Du Yuming felt chilled. Am I being tricked by the Allies again? “According to my estimation, it should be able to make up for our food shortage problem.” "I'm afraid it's not enough." Du Yuming took a deep breath and said helplessly. “What?” Zheng Dongguo was confused, why wasn’t it enough?
“Because I am leading an expeditionary force of more than 100,000 people this time, and they are only dozens of kilometers away from here.” “Not only that, Stilwell also gave me more than 200,000 natives to command. In other words, now I am not only responsible for the logistics of the more than 100,000 expeditionary troops, but also the logistics of these 200,000 natives.” "I'm afraid the few vegetables you grew are really not enough." Du Yuming's words made several people present stunned. This is 300,000? Although there are two hundred thousand natives, there is a lot of water. But it sounds scary. If you think about it this way, the few vegetables you planted are really not enough. "What should we do?" Zheng Dongguo was also dumbfounded and directly asked the question to the other party. “What else can we do?” Du Yuming said angrily. “Of course it’s farming. Let’s use our farming talents. Didn’t you say that the yield here is high? With so many people farming together, how can we not solve the problem of food?” “But, are we here to fight?” Zheng Dongguo reminded again. "Fuck this war, you can't even have enough to eat, what kind of war are you fighting?" Du Yuming was completely angry. He is a good old man and normally would not get angry. But this time I really couldn’t help it. So many people have been entrusted to him, but now the logistics supply has to be reduced. Isn't this a joke on him? "In this case, I'm afraid that field won't be enough. After all, the land around here belongs to the indigenous people." Zheng Dongguo said with some embarrassment. They occupy unclaimed land, so there is no problem. But now that 300,000 people have arrived, the unclaimed land will definitely not be enough. "Aborigines? Let the aborigines deal with it. I believe they will give us a satisfactory answer." Du Yuming said lightly. Now it was Zheng Dongguo's turn to be surprised. He really didn't expect that Du Yuming would look like a different person. In the past, he would definitely not be able to do such a thing. But now, there seems to be no guilt at all. “These natives are all Burmese, and they have harmed tens of thousands of soldiers of the expeditionary force.” Du Yuming’s words instantly made Zheng Dongguo react. That’s it! Then there’s nothing more to say. Stilwell was very dissatisfied when he received the telegram that Du Yuming had stopped to rest. Tianzhu is getting more and more corrupt now. If we don’t rescue it, there will really be problems. The results of it?
Du Yuming actually stopped directly. “Insufficient logistics supplies?” After reading the contents of the telegram, Stilwell fell silent. The supply of more than 300,000 people is indeed a troublesome matter. His original budget was 150,000 people, which would not put a lot of pressure on logistics. The results of it? Twenty thousand people coming from the non-fortress in Yangon. He refused directly. As a result, people asked, did the Allies not want to accept them? Do you look down on them? He also said that these 200,000 people only need to be given a mouthful of food, and they do not need to fully comply with the US military food standards. Hearing this, Stilwell almost fainted. What are the food standards for the US military? turkey? coffee? milk tea? He can’t afford it either. In the end, we had no choice but to agree to accept these people. I regretted it as a result! Because the Suez Canal is gone, more than half of the supplies he had high hopes for have been cut down. In other words, he can no longer afford so many troops. “Farming?” Stilwell murmured. “Can we still walk on this land once we have planted it?” He knows how much the Chinese people love the land. What if this becomes an addiction and they won’t leave? At that time, I am afraid that Admiral Wavell will really explode. When I think of this, my head hurts. "General Stilwell, I suggest that grain be collected from Yangon and Bangkok to supplement the shortage of supplies." The adjutant suddenly made a suggestion. I forgot to mention something in the previous chapter. Thank you for your tolerance. The updates are unstable during this period, but I still subscribe to support. Thank you very much! Guaranteed there will be no eunuchs or interruptions!
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