Chapter 246: Farming? What if I get addicted to farming?
"Guangting, long time no see." Zheng Dongguo looked at Du Yuming who came hurriedly and asked with a kind face.

He also didn't expect that Du Yuming would arrive in Tianzhu in such a short time.

"Brother Gui Ting, I didn't expect to see you here." Seeing his old classmate, Du Yuming naturally smiled a lot.

"Yeah, I didn't expect to see you here." Zheng Dongguo said as he introduced several people around him.

There is no need to introduce Liao Yaoxiang. Du Yuming naturally knows him, after all, he was originally a member of the Fifth Army.

As for Sun Liren, Du Yuming naturally did not give him a good look.

However, considering the situation at the time, he thought about it carefully and felt that what Sun Liren did was not wrong.

If they continue to retreat, the final outcome of the newly formed 38th Division may not be much better than that of the 200th Division.

But he was very disgusted with Sun Liren's lip service.

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He is not someone who doesn't listen to opinions.

The results of it?
He didn't even send a telegram and just followed Stilwell to Imphal.

He didn't take him, the deputy commander of the expeditionary force, seriously at all.

If it were his subordinates, they would have killed him long ago.

As for the Sichuan Army Corps, they were not part of the expeditionary force, so it was understandable that they did not obey his orders.

But the newly formed 38th Division was part of the Expeditionary Force and was under the command of Du Yuming.

As a result, he didn't obey orders, so naturally he wouldn't be treated well.

Fortunately, Sun Liren also knew that these direct descendants looked down on outsiders like him, so he did not go up to cause trouble.

"Guangting, Brother Fumin had his own difficulties in the situation at that time. If he didn't withdraw to Imphal, he might not be able to return to the country. And even if he went back, the fate of his non-direct troops would not be good." Zheng Dongguo felt that the atmosphere was wrong and explained for Sun Liren with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Du Yuming was surprised. He didn't expect Zheng Dongguo to speak well of Sun Liren.

And looking at the relationship between the two sides, it seems to be pretty good.

Could it be that Zheng Dongguo took the other party under his command?
impossible!

The other side is that person's direct troops, it shouldn't be so easy to be incorporated.

Perhaps seeing Du Yuming's confusion, Zheng Dongguo continued.

"We are all in Tianzhu now. It would be better for us to unite as one in a foreign land. As for the minor conflicts in the past, let's put them aside for now."

Hearing this, Du Yuming pondered for a while, felt that it made sense, and then took a deep breath.

"Brother Gui Ting is right. In a foreign land, we can only stick together for warmth. Otherwise, we will be used as guns by the British army again."

Now Zheng Dongguo suddenly became interested.

"Guangting, do you have any other ideas? We are all family. If you have any ideas, you must inform us. You can't hide them."

Du Yuming thought about it and felt that there was no point in hiding it.

If Zheng Dongguo could cooperate, they might be able to better fool Admiral Stilwell and Wavell.

"Once bitten, one will be afraid of ropes for ten years. Last time, I trusted the British army too easily, which led to tens of thousands of expeditionary soldiers being buried in a foreign land. Many of their bodies are still unknown. This was my command mistake." Du Yuming would never shirk his responsibilities.

So, he was a pure soldier, who only thought about fighting and obeying orders, and never thought about so many other things.

The result is that not much benefit was gained.

I have to take a lot of blame.

They are all from the first issue!

He's just not doing very well.

"So this time, I learned my lesson, and at the same time consulted Cun Yunsheng of the Sichuan Army Corps, and learned the truth from him, so that I knew how to deal with Stilwell." Du Yuming felt that everyone was his own people, so he simply did not hide anything.

"You also went to the Sichuan Army to learn from them?" Zheng Dongguo couldn't help but say.

"You went too?" Du Yuming was not a fool. Looking at the other person's expression, he guessed that the other person must have gone there too.

"Well, otherwise why has it taken so long for my troops to advance only this distance?" Zheng Dongguo said helplessly.

"What did he tell you?" Du Yuming asked puzzledly.

Zheng Dongguo naturally knew who Du Yuming was talking about.

"What else can I say? It's nothing more than finding excuses to delay the march."

"He even told me that since the foreigners are still determined to destroy China, we should just let the British and Japanese armies fight each other and it has nothing to do with us," Zheng Dongguo said casually.

"It's exactly the same." Du Yuming sighed.

"What excuses have you found recently?" Du Yuming asked puzzledly after expressing his feelings.

Logically speaking, after stopping for so long, Stilwell must have gone crazy with anxiety, right?
result!

Judging from Zheng Dongguo's expression, it is obvious that Stilwell did not urge him. What was the reason for not urging him?

"Farming." Zheng Dongguo didn't say anything, but Liao Yaoxiang on the side started to explain.

"The commander thought that the troops were short of vegetables, which caused many soldiers to suffer from night blindness, so he thought we should stop and replenish some vegetables, but there were no decent vegetables in this place."

"As a result, we were asked to grow vegetables locally, and the seeds were transported from China by plane."

This completely confused Du Yuming.

Not going to war?

And then farm here?
The key point is that Stilwell agreed?
More importantly, the seeds were airlifted in?
"Guangting, this is not an excuse I made up on purpose. There are indeed many soldiers in the army suffering from night blindness, and many officers greedily took the vitamin tablets provided by the Allies. For this reason, I shot several officers in a row before I put an end to this evil trend." Zheng Dongguo said at the end, with a murderous look on his face.

In addition to the newly formed 38th Division, the New First Army also consisted of the remnants of Liao Yaoxiang's newly formed 22nd Division.

These two divisions were originally direct descendants, and corruption was not that serious.

But the soldiers who were added later were not good enough.

Many officers took vitamin tablets directly from soldiers' mouths and sold them on the black market.

This kind of good stuff is very expensive on the black market.

It was originally done very covertly and was impossible to be discovered.

As a result, non-combat casualties during the march were very serious, and after investigation, most of the soldiers suffered from night blindness.

This made Zheng Dongguo very confused.

If it were in China, he would definitely not care.

After all, it’s good enough to be able to eat enough in China, and you are also given vitamin supplements. You are just thinking too much.

But they are now in a foreign land, and their logistics are provided by the Allies, so they have no shortage of vitamin tablets.

As a result, so many soldiers still suffered from night blindness, which made Zheng Dongguo realize that something was wrong.

After an investigation, it was discovered that many officers had withheld vitamin tablets.

He originally thought that the matter would end here, but what was the result?

These officers actually took vitamin tablets out of the soldiers' mouths.

This can't be tolerated.

In order to stop this evil trend, he directly ordered the execution of more than ten officers, which completely stopped it.

But relying on vitamin tablets alone is not enough, as they consume too much energy.

After some thought, I decided to grow vegetables locally to reduce logistical dependence and increase the menu.

Otherwise, if he eats canned food and compressed biscuits every day, not only the soldiers would not be able to bear it, but he himself would not be able to bear it either.

"So you have been farming all this time?" After understanding the whole story, Du Yuming was dumbfounded.

Tens of thousands of troops are farming here?
No one would believe it if I told them.

"Didn't Stilwell urge you?" Du Yuming had dealt with this stubborn old man before and knew that he was not easy to get along with, so he asked in confusion. "Who said he didn't urge us? I have urged him countless times, but he always said he was not able to deliver enough supplies. I don't know what happened recently, but he didn't urge us. Instead, the amount of supplies delivered is decreasing. Fortunately, I grew some vegetables myself, otherwise, we would probably starve to death now."

"Brother Yunsheng is right, these foreigners are just unreliable." Zheng Dongguo kept complaining.

In fact, it was not that Stilwell deliberately withheld his supplies, but simply that the supplies he received had decreased a lot recently.

Especially after the equipment of twenty divisions had just been sold to Siam, the weapons and equipment he could mobilize were pitifully few.

The reason is that the Suez Canal was lost.

The cost and time of transporting weapons for the US military has now increased.

Naturally, this resulted in him receiving less and less supplies.

The support has certainly been reduced.

The main focus of the US military is on North Africa and Persia.

Only the above-mentioned areas can be supplied on a priority basis.

Other places can only wait patiently.

But Zheng Dongguo could not receive any of this information.

After all, this concerns the overall strategic direction, and he, a small army commander, is not worthy of knowing it.

Moreover!
These are all British and American affairs, what does it have to do with him?

In fact, if Cun Yunsheng didn’t have a good relationship with William, he probably wouldn’t have received this information.

As for why William sent him intelligence, it was simply because he felt that Cun Yunsheng's intelligence network was so powerful that he must know more than he did.

Therefore, every time he sent intelligence to Cun Yunsheng, he would attach his own analysis.

Because of this, the information that Cun Yunsheng knew was not too outdated.

"Reduced logistical supplies?" Du Yuming's scalp suddenly went numb. You know, his expeditionary force of more than 100,000 is right behind him and will arrive here soon.

If the logistical supplies are insufficient by then, we will be really finished.

"Yes, the supplies are obviously much less. We used to airdrop supplies every day, but now we can only wait for the trucks to arrive. The journey is long, and each supply takes several days. Now it is the rainy season and the temperature is high. We can only transport some canned food and biscuits. Eating that stuff every day will make the situation worse."

"There is no other way. I can only farm here."

"I have to say, the land here is very suitable for growing vegetables, and the yield is particularly high, several times better than the land in my hometown." Zheng Dongguo became more and more excited as he spoke, only Du Yuming felt a chill in his heart.

Am I being tricked by the Allies again?
"According to my estimation, it should be able to make up for our food shortage."

"I'm afraid it's not enough." Du Yuming took a deep breath and said helplessly.

"What?" Zheng Dongguo was confused. Why was it not enough?

"Because I am leading an expeditionary force of more than 100,000 this time, and they are only a few dozen kilometers away from here."

"Not only that, Stilwell also gave me the command of more than 200,000 natives. That means now I am not only responsible for the logistics of the more than 100,000 expeditionary forces, but also the logistics of these 200,000 natives."

"I'm afraid the vegetables you grow are not enough." Du Yuming's words stunned the people present.

Just three hundred thousand?
Although the number of 200,000 indigenous people is largely inflated.

But it sounds scary.

If you calculate it this way, the vegetables we grow are not enough.

"What should we do then?" Zheng Dongguo was also dumbfounded and directly threw the question to the other party.

"What else can we do?" Du Yuming said unhappily.

"Of course it's farming. Let's make use of 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.

"Go to war! What kind of war is this if we can't even get enough food to eat?" Du Yuming was completely furious.

He is a good guy and normally he won't get angry.

But this time I really couldn't help it.

So many people are entrusted to him, and now the logistical supplies are reduced. Isn't this a joke on him?
"In that case, the fields may not be enough. After all, the land nearby belongs to the indigenous people." Zheng Dongguo said with some embarrassment.

They were occupying unowned land, so there was no problem.

But now with the arrival of 300,000 people, that piece of unowned land is definitely not enough to be divided.

"Natives? Let the natives 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 had become such a different person.

In the past, he would never have done such a thing.

But now, there seems to be no guilt at all.

"These natives are all Burmese. They have harmed tens of thousands of expeditionary soldiers." Du Yuming's words made Zheng Dongguo react instantly.

So that’s it!
There's nothing much to say then.

Stilwell was very dissatisfied when he received Du Yuming's telegram informing him to stop and rest.

Tianzhu is becoming increasingly deteriorating. If we don't rescue it, there will really be problems.

The results of it?
Du Yuming actually stopped right away.

"Insufficient logistical supplies?" After reading the contents of the telegram, Stilwell remained silent.

Supplying more than 300,000 people is indeed a troublesome task.

His original budget was about 150,000 people, so the logistical pressure would not be too great.

The results of it?
Yangon insisted on sending 200,000 people over.

He refused outright.

As a result, people said that the Allies didn’t want to accept them.
Do you look down on them?

He also said that these 200,000 people only needed to be given a meal and did not need to follow the US military's food standards.

Hearing this, Stilwell almost fainted.

What is the food standard for the US military?

turkey?

coffee?

milk tea?

He can't afford it either.

In the end, there was no choice but to agree to accept these people.

I regretted it in the end!

Because the Suez Canal was lost, the supplies he had placed high hopes on were cut by more than half.

In other words, he can no longer afford to support so many troops.

"Farming?" Stilwell murmured.

“Can we still walk after this land is planted?”

He knew how much the Chinese loved their land. If it was an addiction, what would he do if he didn't leave?
By then, I'm afraid Admiral Wavell will really explode.

When I thought of this, my head started to hurt.

"General Stilwell, I suggest collecting food from Rangoon and Bangkok to make up for the shortage of supplies." The adjutant suddenly made a suggestion.

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