50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 97 Sparrow Battle 4
The logistics department needs to prepare various materials for the activities within two days, including instruments that can be struck and bamboo poles that can be waved with cloth strips tied to them.

Promotion of the event is also essential. The art teacher is responsible for writing banners, drawing blackboard newspapers, and writing press releases, while the general knowledge teacher is responsible for taking photos.

The music and dance teachers organize cheerleading teams to boost morale, while the doctors and nurses in the infirmary are responsible for medical safety.

Finally, it was Sun Zhiwei, who was responsible for leading the older children to collect fallen sparrows. The children would definitely like this task.

Sun Zhiwei knew, however, that his mission wasn't to take care of the sparrow, but to keep an eye on the child. If he accomplished his mission but the child had problems, that would be putting the cart before the horse.

After the tasks were arranged, the teachers who were free began to help prepare the materials. Various discarded iron buckets, washbasins, and various musical instruments in the music classroom were collected together and equipped with simple drumsticks.

The aunt in charge of logistics suggested to the principal that instead of making separate strips of cloth, it would be a pity to have the whole piece of cloth torn into pieces. It would be better to just take out the red flags used in previous activities and use them, which would also serve the same purpose.

The director agreed to this suggestion, and dozens of big red flags were taken out from the logistics warehouse.

Two days passed quickly. In the early morning of the 19th, the whole city was in motion. The primary schools had already closed early, and Nannan followed Sun Zhiwei and Tong Jiajia to Beihai Kindergarten.

Nana was very excited to revisit the old place. She greeted every teacher she met. Most of the teachers were impressed by this lively girl.

Only then did they realize that Nannan was actually the sister of Teacher Sun in the school.

At 4: in the morning, the head teacher ordered the children to be woken up first.

Babies are most afraid of being woken up by fright, especially young babies. If they are frightened, they are likely to get sick, but there will be no problem if they are woken up in advance.

Then, the lights in each child's dormitory were turned on, and the children began to wake up gradually.

The teachers dressed the children in an orderly manner, and told them to get up quickly because they were going to catch sparrows today.

The children were happy to hear that there was a group activity and started to get dressed and wash up quickly.

Just as the children entered the restaurant to prepare for breakfast, the teachers were already in their positions and ready.

At 5: a.m., the "Capital Sparrow Suppression Headquarters" issued an order and the sparrow suppression operation began.

All over the city's 8,000 square kilometers, firecrackers blasted, colorful flags fluttered, and gunshots roared.

The entire city was divided into poison bait area, expulsion area and annihilation area.

Poison baits were placed in hundreds of areas, and the yards, roofs, and trees were filled with people. Countless pairs of eyes stared at the sky vigilantly, vowing not to give sparrows a place to land.

The command center dispatched dozens of motorcycles to monitor the movements of sparrows and command various areas by phone.

In each driving-away area, everyone, young and old, joined in, making loud noises, beating gongs and drums, releasing smoke, and setting off firecrackers and fireworks. Large numbers of sparrows were driven to various extermination areas.

In the Tan annihilation zone, over 30 sharpshooters, supported by the army, were ambushed and killed over 500 sparrows in a single day. In the Yutan annihilation zone, the sparrows were driven to an island in the middle of the lake. Troops advanced both on land and water, using boats to fire intensively, killing countless sparrows, and many that survived fell into the lake.

Except for the elderly who could not move and the children who could not walk, almost everyone in the entire city took part in the battle. The movement of millions of people was simply terrifying.

The sparrows were besieged and suffered heavy casualties. At night, the big kids started to move out.

Their targets were the bird nests and eggs on the trees. They had already scouted the area during the day, and at night, when the sparrows were blind, they took advantage of the situation and wiped them out.

At the end of the day, the headquarters counted that more than 8 sparrows were killed in the entire capital. The headquarters called on people to conserve their strength and fight again another day.

On the evening of the 19th, the noise everywhere died down. Sun Zhiwei, who was tired after a day of work, wanted to lie down on the spot and die.

These kids are so active, he's been running around with them all day, worried that one of them might get hurt. These are all precious babies, and nothing can happen to any of them.

After all the children in the garden had gone to bed, Sun Zhiwei and Tong Jiajia were too lazy to go back. Tong Jiajia took her daughter to the female teacher's dormitory, and the whole family stayed directly in the garden.

The next two days were almost the same process. According to subsequent statistics, after three days of fighting against sparrows, a total of 3 sparrows were killed in the city, with brilliant results.

The children collected a large number of bird eggs, but most of them were eaten, so we were unable to count the results, which was a pity.

After three days of fighting, Sun Zhiwei sent the sparrows in the space and the results of the three-day battle to the headquarters.

After this, the number of sparrows in the capital city decreased significantly, and the command center no longer required students and teachers to hand in sparrows. The command center was disbanded shortly afterwards.

Once the story of the sparrow-killing campaign in the capital was published in the newspaper, it immediately received responses from all over the country.

At the end of the month, good news came from Haicheng. On April 4th alone, the people of Haicheng eliminated 28 sparrows and destroyed 25 sparrow eggs.

A few days later, the sparrow extermination campaign in Huangpu City also achieved brilliant results. The troops stationed in Huangpu City also joined the sparrow extermination team. A total of 3.9 sparrow nests were destroyed and 31 sparrows were eliminated in the city.

Similar battles soon spread across the country, and under the encirclement and suppression of the masses, the sparrows were almost wiped out.

According to incomplete statistics, from the beginning of 58 to November 58, the cumulative number of sparrows killed nationwide reached 11 billion.

Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimps. This is the law of nature.

Sparrows are omnivorous animals that eat both grains and insects. Especially during the breeding season, sparrows will prey on insects in large quantities.

The sparrows were gone, but the pests that fed them, the sparrows, did not disappear. Without the sparrows' natural enemies, the pests began to flourish.

These are all things that happened later, the actions in 58 are not over yet.
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