But after the sheep are killed and skinned, the meat cannot be thrown away. The huge amount of mutton is exported to the Soviet Union in the form of frozen meat as part of the repayment of the original debt. The rest can only be digested internally. In order to digest these accumulated In addition to distributing large quantities of mutton to troops as meat, the Northeast Bureau also called on the common people to eat mutton.
Even for a long period of time, only mutton was available in the markets of major cities in the region. Pork, the main meat eaten by Northeasterners, ended in the first phase of this battle and was not available at all until the Spring Festival. Traces, even beef, are basically in supply.
If it weren't for the ice and snow outside, most people might smell the smell of mutton everywhere when they arrive at the base area, and it's also because they are not coming to the Northeast, where the number of Muslims is not large, but to the northwest, where the Muslims live together.
The Japanese spies lurking in the base area also released false information to the Kwantung Army that an economic crisis broke out in the anti-Japanese occupation areas and that they could no longer afford the supply of pork and could only replace it with mutton that was abundant in Western Manchuria or from Outer Mongolia.
In fact, the biggest headache for the subsequent impact of this incident was not Yang Zhen, but the division chiefs and cooking squad leaders of each army. Faced with the large, almost excessive amount of mutton rationed by their superiors, the cooking squads of each army thought of many ways. Adjust the mutton preparation method as much as possible.
Although there are special recipes for making mutton distributed by superiors, the materials at hand are limited. How to make them is just the same ones. The monotonous taste, coupled with the unique smell of mutton, has caused many people to feel uncomfortable for a long time. For a long time, the sight of mutton made me sick to my stomach. After all, most Chinese people still eat pork as their main meat.
In fact, mutton is more nutritious than pork, but its inherent smell is difficult for most people who have not eaten mutton since childhood, such as the Hui people, to adapt to it. Therefore, although the military region has issued some mutton production methods, But they were still not very popular, and some seriously injured people were even admitted to the hospital. They had no other requirements but were given pork to eat.
As for the winter military cap, which is called a three-tile tile, depending on where to find hundreds of thousands of dogs on the ground, if they all use dog skins to make military caps, it is impossible to find the required number in Northern Manchuria alone. There are one hundred thousand dogs. In order to save cotton as much as possible, the number of dog skins is not enough, so they can only use rabbit skins and goat skins instead.
In order to raise enough raw materials for hundreds of thousands of winter cotton military caps, not only did they kill almost all the dogs and rabbits in the entire base area, but in order to raise enough rabbit skins, a large number of people from various places were mobilized to hunt rabbits in the mountains, and even He found a way to smuggle dog and rabbit skins from enemy-occupied areas and North Korea. It took a lot of effort to get together the skins needed for winter clothes.
As for the goat skins exchanged from Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia and produced in the base area, which cannot be made into coats, they are instead used to make winter Japanese-style suede cotton shoes, which are also known as big-toe shoes in later generations. Considering the heavy snow in the Northeast, As for the importance of feet for marching, all large-toe shoes are in the style of winter-wear large-toe shoes used by the Japanese troops stationed in Heihe, and all are high-waisted.
However, although the mutton-eating troops and the people in the base area have reached the point where they are nauseated by the mention of mutton, it becomes dead once it gets wet, and it is extremely easy to get damaged and damaged during marching and combat, thus reducing its warmth retention. For a Chinese-style thick cotton-padded jacket.
These sheepskin short coats not only have better warmth, but are also quite wear-resistant and lightweight. At the same time, the white appearance is also a good protective color in the ice and snow of the Northeast. At the same time, the large collar made of all sheepskin can be used when necessary. Stand it up and fasten it with the buttons on top to prevent your face from frostbite.
With these advantages compared with the old tied cotton-padded clothes, this kind of winter clothes, which was originally only used as a temporary means, is quite popular with the troops. As for the two small white ones, which are not resistant to stains, and the hem is necessary The two shortcomings of being unable to be tucked into cotton trousers are nothing to worry about.
Moreover, sheep, which have a short growth period and are resistant to roughage, are also suitable for partially replacing the local production in the Northeast. They can only rely entirely on foreign aid and imported cotton. In addition to the imported cotton, they also need to be woven into cotton cloth to supply summer clothes and guarantee for the troops. The daily needs of the people, cotton is always in short supply.
Sheep skin is the easiest to source, can provide the largest quantity, and is easy to process. It has become an important raw material for the Anti-League to make winter clothes. After all, this Soviet-style short coat is not a high-end leather jacket and is not used. For fine processing, as long as rough processing is completed, even some small tailor shops can make it.
But to everyone's surprise, Yang Zhen, on the grounds of keeping military secrets, firmly refused to the Logistics Department to mobilize all the people in the base area to make winter clothes for the troops. He insisted that the expansion had just been completed less than two months ago, and even after the expansion was needed, The newly-recruited workers have not been found yet at the Military District's No. 1 and No. 2 Clothing Factory.
Although the two quilt factories have just completed expansion and have quadrupled their original production capacity, the number of workers required is still far behind the required number. In addition, they also need to produce cotton trousers, which makes the winter army In the case of hats and military shoes, it is quite difficult to complete hundreds of thousands of sheepskin peacoats within a month.
Although the sheepskin short coat is a short coat, it depends on what kind of coat it is. Compared with the original anti-collision cotton coat that reaches below the knee, it is naturally short, but compared with the cotton-padded jacket, this kind of coat is more popular in Yang Zhen. Under the request, the coat was lengthened to the knees, but it really cannot be considered short.
Moreover, sheepskin is not ready to be used after being peeled off. It also needs to undergo a series of deep processing. Although it is not as time-consuming as making high-end leather clothing, there are still many processes. Only two people from Anti-Liang cannot recruit all the quilt factories. It is difficult to prepare such a large batch of winter clothes in a short period of time.
However, under Yang Zhen's insistence, the Minister of Logistics Zhang Zhenhua was helpless. He could not figure out how a simple issue of issuing winter clothes to the troops could lead to problems of economic warfare and strategic disguise. In Zhang Zhenhua's case, It seems that these are all next to each other.
Although he didn't understand, he had to carry out Yang Zhen's orders even if he didn't understand them. Zhang Zhenhua had no choice but to mobilize some of the family members of the army to work in the clothing factory. They were busy day and night for almost a month. Finally, the winter clothing needed by the generals was completed in a hurry, ensuring that the troops could be distributed in time before the freezing weather, without any delay.
But despite this, under the premise of making every effort to ensure the production of winter clothes, the production of cotton shoes and cotton gloves could not be completed before distribution. Fortunately, there was still a certain amount of stock of the captured Japanese army-standard winter cotton shoes, so this batch of cotton Shoes were allocated to non-front-line combat personnel such as aviation ground crews and rear anti-aircraft artillery units, and the needs were barely met, while cotton gloves, government agencies and other non-front-line combat units were distributed half a month later.
In any case, after the second batch of ordered supplies failed to arrive on time, the Anti-Japanese Federation finally distributed all this year's winter clothing on time before the freezing weather, although some things that may be good or bad may follow. , but finally solved the key problem, at least the troops were not frozen in the ice and snow of Northern Manchuria due to lack of supplies.
During the entire Northeast Anti-Japanese War, a Soviet-style short sheepskin smooth coat, a sweater or a thin cotton jacket used as a second layer of warmth, a pair of thick cotton trousers and a rabbit or dog skin made A cotton hat, a pair of Japanese-style high-top shoes and a three-fingered goatskin muff.
This extremely popular winter clothing combination almost became the standard winter clothing style of the Anti-Japanese League during the entire war. This new style of winter clothing was worn by the Anti-Japanese League until the founding of New China and the cotton crisis was completely resolved. After that, it was withdrawn from the army and replaced with a new two-piece winter combat training uniform.
At the end of 1943, after some troops of the Anti-Japanese Alliance entered the country, as soon as the Japanese and puppet troops in North China saw this uniform, they knew that the Anti-Japanese Army, whom they called the Siberian Tiger, was coming, without even deliberately conducting reconnaissance. This incident was actually Yang Zhen, who was only using it as an emergency measure at the time, didn't expect it.
As for the Soviet Union's request for White Russia, it was not as complicated as Yang Zhen and Li Yanping imagined at first. Yang Zhen did not want to offend the Americans who had something to do with this matter, and Yang Zhen, who did not want to cause confusion among the White Russians working in some base areas, Finally, a bad idea was given to the Soviets.
The Anti-Japanese Alliance held Belarusian war briefings at the Soviet consulate, and the Soviet Union counted the number of overseas Chinese in Kazakhstan, and provided passes to the United States for those who did not want to return to the country, and other messy names that were very tempting to Belarus. All the family members were gathered in a former Japanese military camp north of Harbin.
As for the follow-up issues, they will be solved by the Soviets themselves. Taking into account possible emergencies and unexpected situations, Yang Zhen, after asking the central government for instructions, agreed to the Soviets mobilizing a regiment from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Far East Military Region to deal with this matter. , temporarily stationed in Harbin, but Yang Zhen did not expect that there would be some deviations in this matter.
After the Anti-Japanese Alliance gathered Belarusians, the Soviets who came to receive them, and when a sufficient number of Belarusian young adults were gathered, the consulate officials who cooperated with them directly announced that they would serve the motherland and compensate for the sins of oppression and betrayal during the Tsarist Russia period. The time has come.
Then, regardless of whether the White Russians agreed or not, they directly dispatched the internal affairs regiment stationed in Harbin, used machine guns to force all the young and middle-aged men to change into military uniforms, and then sent them directly to the camp on the spot on trains to bring them all back to the country. Perhaps the manpower The Soviets, whose losses were increasing, were really thirsty for knowledge about these soldiers. Not only those under thirty years old, but even some sixteen or seventeen-year-old children, or middle-aged people in their thirties, were also in the Soviet Union. On the list of people who forcibly recruited soldiers.
In fact, the Soviets, who had also deeply penetrated North Manchuria, had a very clear understanding of these Belarusian bases. When they gathered to a certain scale, they did not need to count the number of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and transfer rosters. The union cadres are far inferior, and they are not selected at all, and those who meet the conditions are taken away directly.
Among them, those who had a certain status or prestige in the Harbin Belarusian Center, with the cooperation and guidance of the officials of the consulate, were handcuffed and thrown into a car directly in front of the Anti-Union handover person, regardless of how others felt. The buses brought from China with iron railings welded on them were escorted to the airport and transported back to the country by plane.
However, perhaps because there was an urgent need to recruit more troops, or perhaps because they believed that women, the elderly, and children were no longer a threat to them, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Far East Military Region who came to receive this batch of Belarusian troops only took away young and middle-aged men, as well as some of the men on the special list. Apart from people, the elderly, women and children were all left behind. This book was first published on 17K Novel Network, and you can read the original content for the first time!