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Chapter 195: Find a solution for food

After seeing off Li Shuangquan and his entourage, Zhou Zheng returned to his office at the headquarters and carefully examined the map of China and the world. He looked at it for a long time, having some thoughts in his mind, but decided to leave it at that.

After a while, the commanders of the eight divisions, including the Independent 1st Division, Independent 2nd Division, Independent 3rd Division, Independent 4th Division, Independent 5th Division, Independent 6th Division, New 1st Division, and New 2nd Division, came to Zhou Zheng's headquarters office.

Commander Zhou Zheng ignored the eight division commanders and instead called the communicator, asking the other division commanders and brigade commanders of the Shuang'ershan Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army to hold an emergency meeting in the headquarters' combat conference room.

Then Zhou Zheng went to the combat conference room with the eight commanders. Seeing Commander Zhou Zheng's serious expression, the eight commanders did not dare to speak. They just saw Commander Zhou Zheng hanging the military map of China on the wall.

Soon, the division commanders and brigade commanders of other units came to the combat meeting room.

Commander Zhou Zheng saw that all the division and brigade commanders had arrived, and then he said to the eight division commanders, "How did you eight division commanders discuss it?"

Then, the commander of the 1st Independent Division, Zhao Hu, immediately stood up, saluted Commander Zhou Zheng, and said, "The eight of us have already discussed our respective directions of advance, which are very different from our previous offensive directions."

"After discussion among the eight division commanders, the final direction of the attack was: the Independent 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Divisions will advance into Shanxi. The Independent 4th, 5th, and 6th Divisions will advance into Hebei. The New 1st and 2nd Divisions will advance into Henan."

"The eight of us division commanders unanimously decided to take root in Shanxi, Hebei, and Henan, to establish and stabilize our base. Then we will slowly eliminate the Japanese's effective forces and continuously erode the territory they have occupied."

"Once we have taken root, we will immediately recruit new members to continuously expand our team and consolidate our foundation."

"However, our eight divisions still need the commander to give us a lot of support. Weapons, ammunition, various supplies and so on..." After saying that, Zhao Hu laughed...

Zhou Zheng found Zhao Hu's expression amusing, and then said with a smile: "Weapons and ammunition to support your eight divisions are no problem. Military uniforms, medicines, and medical supplies are also no problem."

"But forget about food and meat. Don't the Japanese have them? If your eight divisions slaughter all those Japanese and seize their food and meat, won't you have them? Won't all the Japanese's daily necessities be yours?"

"With all the supplies these little devils have, you no longer need Shuang'ershan Base to support you. Don't you eight division commanders understand the principle of fighting to support the war?"

"Furthermore, those puppet soldiers, traitors, traitors to the nation, merchants friendly with the Japanese, landlords who bullied the common people, bandits and bullies... If you kill them all and ransack their homes, wouldn't you have everything?"

All the division and brigade commanders present felt that what Commander Zhou Zheng said made a lot of sense.

Commander Zhou Zheng went on to say, "We had nothing to eat or wear, but the enemy provided them for us. We had no guns or cannons, but the enemy made them for us."

"So, everything else is easy to deal with, but you have to figure out how to get food and meat yourself. Let each of you division commanders take charge of your own affairs, and then you will understand the value of money, food, oil, and salt. Then you will understand how hard it has been for your commander over the years."

"You are all division commanders who will take charge of your own affairs. The lives and property of over 10,000 soldiers under your command are all in your hands. If you are not careful, the entire army may be wiped out. Don't treat the Japanese as fools. Therefore, the eight of you division commanders shoulder a heavy responsibility. Don't really think that you are the best in the world."

"Yes...I will follow the commander's instructions." The eighth master replied loudly.