The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

"Boss, the head of the independent regiment, Kong, has an urgent call..." The radio operator suddenly rushed in front of them to report.

"Kong Jie's telegram, maybe he already has a solution to the food problem, give it to me!" the brigade commander ordered anxiously.

After reading the telegram, he was stunned, and then he showed an expression of incredible shock, and while handing the telegram to the chief of staff, he sighed: "If the contents of the telegram are true, then Yoshio Shinozuka is targeting the economic development of the Northwest Shanxi base area. The blockade is dead in name only..."

"How is this possible!" The chief of staff asked directly after reading the telegram.

"A chicken farm that only eats earthworms and vegetable leaves..."

"Place your own people in the Imperial Association Army, secretly control the strongholds of the Japanese and puppet troops on the blockade, and deliver food to the base area from under the noses of the Japanese and puppet troops..."

"It's almost unheard of. No matter how I look at it, I feel that these two things are a bit ambiguous!"

After listening to the chief of staff's analysis, the brigade commander also had doubts in his mind, but it was quickly replaced by joy. He shook his head and said, "Do you think Kong Jie will joke with us on such a big matter?"

"Call Kong Jie back immediately and ask him to report in detail..."

"Forward this telegram to the general headquarters again... the chief is also facing difficulties in the Northwest Shanxi base... With this telegram, he should be able to sleep peacefully.

At the Taiyuan Japanese Army Headquarters, Shinozuka Yoshio did not know that the blockade he had planned for a long time had been infiltrated by the Eighth Route Army, let alone that the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi was continuously obtaining food and other supplies from the outside world through the blockade.

Still according to the original combat plan, we will consume the combat potential of the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi step by step, restrict their further development and growth, and mess them up by the way.

"Your Excellency, Commander...Information shows...the rations of the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi to rescue the victims have begun to decrease!"

"In order to save military supplies, many Eighth Route Army troops began to go into the mountains to dig wild vegetables, hunt, fish..."

"But this amount of food is like a drop in the bucket in front of hundreds of thousands of victims!"

"According to the current consumption rate, the Northwest Shanxi Eighth Route Army will be completely out of food for at most two more months!"

Satisfied, Yoshio Shinozuka asked, "Is there anything wrong with the blockade?"

"Whether we can trap the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi, restrict their development, and consume their war potential, the key lies in the blockade!"

"As long as nothing happens to them, they will not be breached by the Eighth Route Army... No matter how powerful the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi is, they will be powerless!"

The chief of staff reported with a smile: "Your Excellency, please rest assured...the more than [-] strongholds on the blockade line are all safe!"

"The Eighth Route Army wanted to attack the west and disperse our troops stationed on the blockade...but we were not fooled!"

"They also sent a lot of people to bypass the strongholds on the blockade line, trying to smuggle supplies to their base area on a small scale... But we found out and wiped them out..."

"Even if some food is lucky enough to flow into the base area of ​​the Eighth Route Army, it will still be in the amount of a few thousand catties, which is a drop in the bucket!"

The smile on Shinozuka Yoshio's face became wider, and he continued: "As long as the food problem is not resolved, the war potential of the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi will be exhausted by us sooner or later!"

"But we can't sit still and wait for death. We must find a way to add two more fires to the Eighth Route Army and further speed up their food consumption. It is best to make their base areas chaotic and lose popular support!"

...

The chief of staff answered immediately: "The commander is wise..."

"We've already started doing it as planned..."

"The humble staff has mobilized more than [-] elite imperial troops from the entire army, plus more than [-] imperial association troops who are familiar with the terrain in Northwest Shanxi, and formed ten [-]-member action teams!"

"All wear the uniform of the Eighth Route Army and communicate in Chinese..."

"Each action team is equipped with a radio station, three light machine guns, 27 rifles, and three pistols... equivalent to an infantry platoon of the Eighth Route Army..."

"I'm going to let them go after another ten days of training, and sneak into their base area as the Eighth Route Army to wreak havoc..."

"If an important target is found during the operation, immediately use the radio to contact the air force to carry out precise strikes!"

"As long as one action team destroys the headquarters of ten battalions and companies of the Eighth Route Army and the local government, all the branches of the Eighth Route Army operating in Northwest Shanxi will fall into chaos because the dragons have no leaders!"

"Our intelligence personnel lurking among the victims took the opportunity to spread rumors and encouraged them to rob and destroy everywhere... The base of the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi will definitely be a mess!"

"Their war potential will be exhausted in civil strife!"

Dingjiazhuang Assault Battalion Station, Huang Yu is taking Kong Jie to visit the chicken farm...

"Team leader... this is the earthworm we feed the chickens..." Huang Yu introduced the earthworm that had been crushed into powder in the frame.

"The farmed earthworms are cleaned first...then boiled in boiling water, sterilized...then dried in the sun...finally ground into powder..."

"Stir it with vegetable leaves when feeding...it can not only increase the egg production of hens, but also increase fat..."

"How did you come up with this idea!" Kong Jie became more and more shocked, and immediately asked the question he had been thinking about.

It is impossible for Huang Yu to tell everyone that this idea comes from later generations.

I can only repeat the excuse I had thought up a long time ago: "When I was a child, I saw chickens eating earthworms..."

"After joining the Red Army, I asked the political commissar. He told me that the protein content of earthworms is higher than that of grain. Chickens must prefer to eat earthworms..."

"The rest are all figured out by myself!"

The old political commissar is the most knowledgeable intellectual in the independent group and knows a little bit about everything.

As soon as Huang Yu mentioned the old political commissar, Kong Jie chose to believe it.

As for the reason why later generations seldom hear about raising chickens with earthworms, one of the important reasons is the cost.

Breeding earthworms requires a lot of manpower and space. Now it is a troubled time. The most worthless thing is manpower and land. The cost of farming earthworms is almost zero. Eating earthworms is definitely more cost-effective than eating food.

The cost of labor and land in future generations far exceeds the cost of grain, and chicken farms are definitely more willing to feed chickens with low-cost grain.

Kong Jie didn't know what Huang Yu was thinking, and he directly expressed admiration: "I don't care how you figured out the chicken farm...you can't escape the credit for establishing the chicken farm!"

"A chicken farm that doesn't eat food, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it if I was killed!"

"If our Eighth Route Army builds a few chicken farms in each base area, it will not only save food, increase the nutrition of soldiers, but also earn money by selling eggs and chicken... It deserves to kill three birds with one stone!"

"I promise to give you credit as soon as I return to the regiment headquarters!"

...

"The battalion commander... came out... The egg was really hatched by us..." An exclamation suddenly sounded in the room tens of meters away.

Huang Yu was so excited that he almost jumped up from the ground.

He only knows that eggs can hatch naturally at a constant temperature, but he doesn't know the exact temperature.

If you want to expand the scale of the chicken farm, the speed is too slow to rely on the hen to incubate the chicks by himself, and the chicken farm will not be able to expand the chicken farm to the scale of [-] chickens.

The only way is to carry out large-scale artificial incubation through constant temperature.

In order to find a suitable incubation temperature, Huang Yu prepared [-] constant temperature incubators, with fixed temperature and fixed light, to see if the eggs in the last few boxes can be hatched smoothly, and then determine the incubation temperature of the eggs.

The hard work paid off, and after more than half a month of waiting, a chick finally hatched.

Throughout the incubation process, each incubator has a special recording note, through which the most suitable hatching method can be found, so as to hatch chicks on a large scale.

Kong Jie was baffled, and before he had time to ask, Huang Yu reported excitedly: "Leader...we can artificially incubate chicks on a large scale!"

"Without a hen, as long as you control the light and temperature, you can directly hatch the eggs into chicks!"

"With this technology... we can hatch as many chicks as we want as long as we have the right eggs..."

"Incubating chicks artificially without relying on hens...you can also incubate chicks on a large scale...Xiao Huang, I heard you right!" Facing this unheard of news, Kong Jie's first reaction was still skeptical.

But soon he saw determination from Huang Yu's smiling face, and quickly ordered: "Take me to see..."

"I've never seen an egg hatch itself into a chick..."

Twenty incubators were placed in the room, and several warriors surrounded one incubator, discussing something enthusiastically and in a very good mood.

Seeing Huang Yu and Kong Jie walk in, he immediately moved away from the incubator: "Regimental Commander, Battalion Commander..."

"The eggs in this box hatched successfully..."

"Ten eggs have come out and two chicks..."

"There are still several chicks that are breaking out of their shells...will come out soon..."

Kong Jie walked over quickly, glanced at Li Wensheng and exclaimed: "Chief of Staff, this is simply unheard of..."

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes... I would never believe that eggs can hatch into chickens..."

"In this way, the base can hatch as many chickens as it wants... It's shocking!"

In the incubator, a chick just broke out of its shell under their watchful eyes.

Li Wensheng was stunned and opened his mouth. It took him a long time to realize: "It's incredible, it's incredible!"

"I only know a hen hatching a chick... I've never seen an egg hatch a chick by itself..."

"Little Huang, how did you come up with this idea!"

"It's all guesswork!" Huang Yu said embarrassedly.

"The hen didn't do anything to incubate the chicks, and the eggs turned into chicks... I thought it must have something to do with the temperature, so I prepared [-] incubators for experiments..."

"If it happens, we will be able to raise chickens on a large scale..."

"Even if it fails, it will only lose a few hundred eggs..."

"I didn't expect it to come out in the end... It should be considered a pleasant surprise!"

Kong Jie shook his head and said, "No, this is not a surprise for you. Without your research and speculation, without your hard work, do you think the artificial hatching of chickens can be successful? You are equally successful in this matter." No way!"

The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie