Although the central government desires advanced machinery and equipment and a large number of skilled workers more than anyone else, and more than any other country or army in the world, it desires to build its own military industry, even if it is so difficult behind enemy lines and there is not even enough food to eat. Under the circumstances, they are still trying to find ways to create their own military industry.
But the central government, which has always been concerned about saving people and losing land, will not take such a big risk to loot the industries in Taiyuan City, especially among the troops dispatched, there are also elite tank troops of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. The central government will definitely not agree to such a huge price.
Under the circumstances that the central government would definitely not approve, Yang Zhen could only adopt the method of killing first and then reporting later. Taking advantage of the central government's hope that the Anti-Resistance Alliance could send some troops to rescue those captured in the continuous sweeps of the Japanese army last year, Taiyuan's military industry The overall relocation of enterprises to northern Shaanxi will increase the military industry capabilities of northern Shaanxi and increase the blood supply capacity of the internal troops.
In fact, there is no other way for Yang Zhen to do this. At present, the entire Northeast base area is already overwhelmed. The number of skilled workers is increasingly difficult to meet the needs. Moreover, as the Anti-Japanese Alliance continues to expand, military production capacity is still limited. Under the circumstances, the need for internal troops has become increasingly difficult to support.
Especially the support for Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia and Shanxi-Suiyuan is now almost unsustainable. With no railway lines available and all transportation can only rely on roads and aviation, the amount of fuel consumed for each transportation , can be said to be an astronomical number.
One ton of ammunition is transported from Qiqihar, transported by rail to Tongliao, transported by road from Tongliao to northwestern Shanxi, and then crossed the Yellow River. At least half a ton of gasoline is consumed along the way, plus a lot of losses of cars and parts. , this price is too high, transportation can be carried out at any cost during a combat period, but in the long run it will be really difficult for the Anti-Japanese Alliance to bear it.
If the connection between the ground inside and outside the pass is established in this battle, according to the plan studied by Yang Zhen and the central government, in addition to rotating into the northeast for training, the troops in the pass will also receive an upgrade in equipment, although it may not be comparable to It's possible to join the Japanese army, but it has to be more than one level higher than before.
According to this plan, in half a year, the main forces in various base areas within the pass will have one light machine gun, two submachine guns, three rocket launchers in each combat squad, and four to six heavy machine guns, and four 60-gun cannons in each battalion. Four recoilless guns, the regiment has four 82mm mortars and four rapid-fire guns, and four to six 12mm anti-aircraft machine guns as standard.
Each brigade must be equipped with at least one company of mountain artillery, one company of field artillery and infantry artillery, and one company of anti-aircraft machine guns. Each military region must have a directly subordinate ground artillery regiment, and an anti-aircraft artillery regiment. According to this standard, the firepower standards of the internal troops will be A substantial increase.
However, during the battle, the amount of ammunition consumed is not comparable to the original. If we follow the development speed of the troops within the customs and the ammunition required by the local armed forces, all ammunition and materials will be supplied by the Northeast, plus the anti-war forces The expansion needs of the Union itself will be quite unaffordable for a region.
Especially when gasoline still needs to be completely dependent on the outside world for the time being, the consumption of fuel alone is now unaffordable for the Anti-Japanese League. Although the Anti-Japanese League has begun planning the railway from Tongliao to Jining, this railway is still not available after all. Without a shadow, given the technical strength of the Anti-Japanese War, it would be difficult to complete the construction until the day the Anti-Japanese War is won.
But the war situation cannot wait, and the development of the troops within the customs cannot wait. However, all materials and personnel rely on road transportation, and the fuel consumed is also unbearable by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Yang Zhen cannot use all the limited fuel in this aspect. With the Anti-Japanese War, The development of the Union's own armored forces also requires a large amount of fuel.
Although his own oil field is about to be mined, mining it and refining it into gasoline are two different things. For at least half a year, this oil will have to rely entirely on foreign aid. What's more, the production of oil is a step-by-step process. Yang Zhen cannot hope to My own self is also suffering from a serious shortage of technicians and skilled workers. The industry is always short of industry and can satisfy its own needs all at once.
Increasing the hematopoietic capacity of the troops within the customs has become the only way to solve this problem. However, there are many large and small arsenals in various base areas within the customs, but most of them lack machinery, equipment and skilled workers. Most of the ammunition production is only It can be made by hand, the output is small, and the quality is unstable.
There are many factories under the military industry of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, but there are only a dozen civilian machines and equipment. There is not a single professional bullet machine in any arsenal of the army. Except for the Military Industry Department of the Taihang Military Region, there are several second-hand bullet base manufacturing machines and closing machines. In addition to machine guns, all military arsenals generally rely on local manufacturing methods. Even the loading of bullet primers needs to be done manually. Basically all base areas cannot manufacture new bullets and can only produce reloaded bullets.
It cannot be said that it has no hematopoietic ability, but it is simply unable to meet the development and needs of the army. Under this situation, despite the massive plunder by the Japanese army, the industrial foundation left by the Jinsui Army in Taiyuan is still there. , has become the first choice to solve this dilemma.
And this operation is not a whim of Yang Zhen. Not only the military production in various base areas within the customs requires a large number of skilled workers, but also the military production in the northeastern base areas is also in urgent need of skilled workers. At present, the Japanese army's blockade is becoming increasingly tight, and the entire earth has been destroyed. Since it was no longer possible to mobilize workers from Pingjin in North China and East China to the Northeast, Yang Zhen had already made up his mind to start from the Japanese-controlled areas before this battle.
In fact, as early as the Battle of Northern Shanxi started, Yang Zhen had focused on the large number of skilled workers and large amounts of machinery and equipment that had not been evacuated from Taiyuan City. Although the Japanese army plundered a lot, there were still some Japanese soldiers who survived there and looked down upon them. Machinery and equipment kept in order to support war.
There are several special-purpose bullet machines, specifically producing and manufacturing 65 bullets for the Japanese First Army. Although these equipment are generally used for too long and their performance is not ideal, they can basically still be used. If they are shipped to northern Shaanxi, they can Greatly strengthen the scale of military factories in northern Shaanxi.
These machines and equipment can only help the Japanese massacre the Chinese. It would be a pity to blow them up. Since the central government requires the Anti-Japanese Alliance to help rescue the prisoners held in the Taiyuan concentration camp, what are you waiting for if you don't take this opportunity to do it? At that time, when he was in the first year of junior high school, Yang Zhen no longer cared about being in the fifteenth year.
But Yang Jicai, who was currently fighting hard under Taiyuan City, didn't know that Du Kaishan was actually asked to talk to him by his eldest brother. As for the selection of this candidate, Yang Zhen had already made the decision after repeated consideration after receiving the telegram from the central government. Yang Jicai was designated for execution.
In other words, no matter what his choice is, this task will eventually fall on his head. However, Du Kaishan, who knew the relationship between Yang Jicai and Yang Zhen, was more tactful during the conversation. If Yang Jicai did not agree to go, Du Kaishan would not agree.
Of course, Du Kaishan didn't know at that time that Yang Zhen's work was not just about rescuing prisoners of war. If he had known it earlier, he would not have let Yang Jicai carry out this mission if he was killed. Now Du Kaishan knows why his number one has to travel thousands of miles away. I went all the way to Taiyuan, but I no longer had the ability to change the situation.
The anti-alliance operation in Taiyuan was only part of the code-named Operation Harvest that Yang Zhen personally formulated. As for the scale and the number of troops invested, due to restrictions, it was not comparable to the same operation Yang Zhen did in the Northeast. , then a small witch can become a big witch.
Almost at the same time that Yang Jicai took action in Taiyuan, similar actions began to be carried out in Nanman in the Northeast. Due to the convenient location and the different scale of the industries involved, when this plan was implemented in the Northeast, The more effort you put into it, the more goals you have for action.
The only difference is that in the Northeast, Yang Zhen only robbed people, not equipment. Unlike in Taiyuan, where he wanted both people and equipment, the target in the Northeast was, to put it bluntly, workers in major factories in Fengtian. and the steelworkers of Benxi Lake.
Throughout South Manchuria, from Fengtian to Dalian, there are large factories with towering chimneys everywhere, including aircraft manufacturers, large arsenals, chemical factories, machinery factories, train rolling stock factories, etc., all of which are workers and technicians that are urgently needed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. If these workers can get to Northern Manchuria, 80% of the biggest problem in the Anti-Japanese Alliance industrial planning can be solved.
In particular, the skilled workers at the Shenyang Aircraft Manufacturing Factory can help the Anti-Japanese Alliance build the aircraft industry and save one-third of the training time. Of course, the technical staff of this aircraft manufacturing plant are all Japanese and will not work for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, but those Technical production workers are what the Anti-Japanese Federation is most in need of right now.
If the robbery is easier, the workers of Fushun's petroleum smelting and fuel synthesis factories will also be included in his plan, which also includes a large number of workers from several large coal mines in Fushun by the Japanese army, as well as the Benxi Lake iron ore and coal mines. It was Yang Zhen who asked to be rescued by name.
The entire Southern Manchuria was within the original jurisdiction of the Kwantung Army. In addition to various fortress construction sites in Northern Manchuria, the areas with the highest concentration of labor even surpassed Northern Manchuria in terms of quantity and quality, especially as the most important coal and iron industry of the entire Kwantung Army. The production areas of Fushun and Benxi Lake have more workers than those in Northern Manchuria combined.
Not counting the workers in the iron ore and coal mines in Benxi Lake, there are more than 80,000 workers in the Fushun coal mines and oil shale mines alone. Adding in the workers in the coal and iron mines in the Benxi Lake area, the total number is more than 100,000. Except for the special workers composed of prisoners of war in the Guan Civil War, most of the remaining workers were strong men.
Even if only one-third of them can join the army, it will be a big solution to the current shortage of soldiers in the army, and the skilled miners among them can also make up for the losses caused by excessive recruitment in Jixi, Hegang, The coal mine output in the Qitaihe area has always been unable to meet demand.
In particular, the Qitaihe mining area, which has rich reserves of high-quality industrial coal and thermal coal, is crucial to the future industrial development of Northern Manchuria. Coal output has never been able to increase, which is a fatal impact on industrial development. This group of workers can be This will not only significantly weaken the Japanese army's ability to maintain the war, but also solve the current situation of a huge labor shortage in Northern Manchuria in the shortest possible time.
In order to implement this plan to seize people from a tiger's mouth, Yang Zhen took the main force of the independent reconnaissance brigade directly under the general region into his hands before the battle. In addition to assigning a small number of troops to the Western Cluster, this elite force has been on the ground since the battle started. He held it in his hand and did not place it on any battlefield.
Many drills were conducted before the war, and strict plans were made from the beginning of the operation to the evacuation. In order to ensure the smooth execution of this operation, not only the intelligence department launched all new intelligence stations in southern Manchuria to ensure the plan For the implementation, Yang Zhen also specially deployed a squadron of electronic jammers from the battlefield, plus a large number of combat aircraft to ensure the completion of this mission.