coobybook Chapter 587 We have been forced into a desperate situation now, and this is the only way to overcome
Chapter 587 We have been forced into a desperate situation now, and this is the only way to overcome
The next morning, Li Yunlong sent a telegram to Chu Yunfei, clearly stating the conditions. After reading the conditions, Chu Yunfei sent Li Yunlong's conditions to his old superior intact. An hour later, he received a reply with only the word "agree" on it.
Chu Yunfei quickly sent the old commander's reply to Li Yunlong. After reading the contents of the telegram, Li Yunlong couldn't help humming a little tune and forwarded the telegram to the base again. He was busy building the Ping'an County Market. He wanted to turn Ping'an County into a material trading market for the surrounding counties, and solve the food crisis that the base was about to face through a plan of exchanging medicine for food.
Compared to the more leisurely Li Yunlong, Lin Zhenhua was very busy. In order to determine the threat of the locust plague, he risked his life by taking a transport plane to the vicinity of Hongliu Village. Especially when he learned that the locust plague had not disappeared and was still expanding in scale, the expression on his face was very ugly.
"Old Zhao, stop the irrigation operation immediately and organize everyone in the base to hurry up and harvest the food. The locust plague is expanding. I estimate that it will take at most five days for the locusts to reach our base. We must store the food within four days. There is no room for delay. Immediately follow the No. 1 plan I made earlier!"
When Zhao Gang learned from Lin Zhenhua that the scale of the locust plague was expanding, he had a bad feeling in his heart, and he immediately activated Plan No. 1. All forces in the entire base were mobilized, and except for children under five years old and necessary defense forces, everyone else was involved in the action of harvesting food.
Even the arsenal had to stop working at night and use electricity for lighting. The grain harvesting operation did not stop not only during the day but also at night. Under the organization of Lin Zhenhua and Zhao Gang, they adopted a six-shift mode, braving the severe cold and scorching heat, just to store grains of grain.
The air force battalion that was originally going to support Gu County had to postpone its departure for a few days in order to ensure the airspace safety of the base. Even Kong Jie postponed his departure and devoted himself to the grain harvesting operation in the base. Ding Wei even pulled back half of the troops defending the three fortresses in order to grab the grain into the warehouse as soon as possible.
After four and a half days of hard work, all the food in the base was finally stored in the warehouse. After seeing all the food stored in the warehouse, Lin Zhenhua was completely relieved. Before he could call everyone to rest, a buzzing sound came from the air. Looking up, locusts flew over the mountains and plains. Wherever they passed, there was really no grass left, and even the big trees became bare.
"Old Zhao, quickly arrange for people to release the chickens, ducks and geese we brought back so they can eat the locusts. Also, take out the insect-catching lamps and nets we prepared in advance to catch and kill locusts. These locusts can be eaten dry and ground into powder to feed chickens, ducks and geese. Let everyone work harder and catch as many as you can. Whether we can eat meat this winter depends on how many locusts you can catch."
"Old Ding, get the arsenal ready immediately. Once the locusts are delivered, dry them immediately and store them well. They are high in protein. If you feed them to pigs, chickens, and ducks, they will help these livestock grow faster."
"Old Kong, don't just sit there. Take out the flamethrower that our arsenal just produced. We can use the locusts to do experiments. Let's see if the flamethrower works well."
Under Lin Zhenhua's order, a locust eradication operation was launched in the base, which lasted for three days. It was not that Lin Zhenhua had killed all the locusts, but that the locusts had eaten up all the edible things, left the Zhaojiayu base, and flew forward.
After learning that the base had been attacked by locusts, Li Yunlong could no longer sit still. He sent telegrams every day to inquire about the situation at the base. Only after learning that the losses at the base were not great did he feel completely relieved.
"College student, this time we have to replenish more than 20 kilograms of locusts, which will be about 600 kilograms after being roasted into dry goods. I have prepared to grind these locusts into powder and mix it into pig feed according to your request. We now have more than 400 piglets in our base, and we should be able to sell more than pigs in winter. I have to say that your previous method was very useful, otherwise our piglet survival rate would not have been so high." Zhao Gang exclaimed with admiration.
Lin Zhenhua accepted all of Zhao Gang's compliments without feeling the slightest bit embarrassed. He did not feel ashamed of it. Thanks to the livestock breeding encyclopedia he obtained from the system, he has now become a famous pig breeding expert in the entire base, and even has the reputation of the Pig King.
"Old Zhao, the number of pigs we raise is still too small. I think we should raise two to three thousand to barely meet the meat supply of our base. If we hadn't gotten a lot of canned food from Chen Minggeng before, so that the soldiers could replenish their oil and water, even if we raised these hundreds of pigs until the New Year, the soldiers would not be able to get a pound of pork. At most, they would get one or two ounces of pork to satisfy their hunger."
"In order to solve our future food crisis, I have decided to increase the volume of material transactions with Chen Minggeng. Starting tomorrow, we will expand the production of the transport aircraft manufacturing factory and produce hundreds of transport aircraft within the next month to solve our problem of insufficient transportation capacity."
"In order to make the transport plane stronger, we used very solid materials, which made our transport plane very bulky. In fact, there is no need to make it so strong. We plan to start a production capacity expansion plan. Anyway, the flight life of our transport plane is less than 200 hours. We can manufacture it as a consumable. This will greatly simplify the process and increase the construction speed."
Zhao Gang did not expect Lin Zhenhua to have the idea of cutting corners. He quickly stopped him and said, "College student, you can't do this. It's simply not taking the lives of the soldiers seriously. We can't ignore quality for the sake of output. In any case, we can't let a problematic fighter take off. No matter how you explain, I, Zhao Gang, will not agree. We can't do such opportunistic things. We must not joke with the lives of the soldiers!"
Kong Jie and Ding Wei on the side also stood up to persuade him. They also disagreed with Lin Zhenhua's idea. Using the method of large-scale reduction of quality to ensure production capacity will seriously threaten the flight safety of the pilots. They are firmly opposed to this!
Lin Zhenhua knew that this would lead to opposition from everyone, but he had no other choice. In order to transport more supplies back to the base, he could only take this risky move. In order to convince everyone, he had to explain earnestly: "Everyone, I told you the same idea before. Every fighter plane is made to perfection, but the facts have proved that no matter how strong we make the fighter plane, its battlefield survival time is very short, not even an hour."
"Don't think I'm exaggerating. What I said is true. According to the intelligence we got from Chu Yunfei, the Japanese 12th Army will be supplemented with more than 300 fighter planes. Half of them are old and have been in service for many years. From this point, we can see that the Japanese are also facing the dilemma of insufficient production capacity. It is not easy for them to drown us with a sea of planes. After all, the Japanese have won several naval battles in a row and destroyed three Allied aircraft carriers, but this does not mean that the Japanese have completely established a foothold in the Pacific."
"A war of attrition of unprecedented scale is approaching the devils. This real world war has only just begun. Whoever has more weapons, ammunition and manpower will win in the end?"
"This is why I want to make large-scale adjustments. We can only use quantity to counter the enemy's quality. If we can't defeat the enemy with one fighter, then we can use two. If two are not enough, then we can use three. We will first gain the advantage in quantity, and then find a way to improve the quality."
"With the second upgrade of our semi-automatic cylinder production line, the production of engines will be raised to a higher level, and its production capacity will be 1.5 times the original one. Then there will be a very embarrassing situation. The engine production capacity in our hands will greatly exceed the production capacity of our fighter planes. If we don't consume these engines as soon as possible, we can only throw them into the warehouse to gather dust, which will be a huge waste of resources."
"I have told you all before, don't think about letting our soldiers fight the devils with bayonets. We should use the guns and ammunition in our hands to fight the devils. We have no shortage of guns and ammunition, but we lack people."
"No matter how much you object, I will go my own way this time. If we don't increase the production capacity of fighter planes at this time, we will completely lose the air superiority on the battlefield. Once the Japanese start a large-scale bombing campaign against us, it will be difficult for us to maintain a high-speed production of fighter planes. At that time, its production capacity will drop to one plane every 2 to 3 days. If that time comes, it will be extremely difficult for us to revive our forces, and we will have to pay more sacrifices."
"The most important thing is that the lack of fighter jets will make it impossible for us to carry out normal flight training for cadets. Once there is a gap in the training of pilots, it will cause a series of chain reactions. When that time comes, we will really be powerless to save the situation."
"Don't forget one thing. Before, the Japs couldn't sustain their bombing campaign against us due to lack of fuel. Now they have oil fields, which means they no longer have the problem of lack of fuel. At that time, they won't need to throw ammunition down. Just throwing rocks will cause us a lot of trouble. I'm not exaggerating. The situation is actually much more serious than you think!"