Having said this, Yang Zhen paused and said almost word for word: "I have emphasized more than once that the entire country is a chess game without anyone. Spring is not spring, but spring is thousands of colors. Now the North China brothers
The troops suffered heavy losses under the continuous sweeps by the Japanese and puppet troops, and now they have lost the essence of North China's Jizhong Plain."
"I once said that Jizhong is the granary and warehouse of soldiers for North China. It can be said to be the military depot and financial source of the entire North China. Losing Jizhong means that the entire North China has lost food and material supplies. Without the Jizhong Plain
Without support, I'm afraid the major base areas in North China will have a hard time."
"Although the raids by the Japanese and puppet troops have gradually begun to weaken, as the Japanese army in North China has fully realized its cage plan, the blockade is becoming increasingly tight. At present, the North China army is raising supplies for the winter.
It must be quite difficult.
"During this campaign, the fraternal troops in North China have made such a great contribution to us. Now they are encountering serious difficulties themselves. We must not sit idly by and ignore them. We are well fed and clothed without caring about our brothers.
The life and death of the troops is definitely not our style."
"After you go back, call the central government and ask the central government to count the amount of cotton that Taihang, Taiyue, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and our major military regions cannot raise for winter clothing this year. And ask the central government to help establish air transportation lines. Please select the major military regions.
Determine a stable and reliable airdrop location and develop detailed contact signals.”
"And please ask the central government to provide our aviation troops stationed in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region with a batch of detailed maps of North China, especially detailed maps of major military regions. Order our aviation troops stationed in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region to deploy the best transport aircraft and the best pilots
, be ready for airdrops at any time.”
"While formulating a strict airdrop plan, we must also make a plan for escort. Deploy a group of P-40 fighter jets and prepare for escort. We must ensure that these materials are safely delivered to our northern China troops. If these four
After negotiating with the C46 transport plane, after returning to China, they will not stay in the base area and all will be transferred to Yan'an."
"One C46 has the same load capacity as two C47 and Lier transport aircraft. Although the fuel consumption is higher, the one-time transportation volume has also increased. With the C46 as the main transport aircraft, it can significantly increase
"To reduce the number of transport aircraft dispatched by our military and ensure the safety of air traffic lines."
"In addition, please ask the central government to assist us as much as possible in raising a batch of sheep skins, wool, and some goat skins. Even in exchange, it can also solve the shortage of winter clothing replacement materials for our army. Since we want to use sheep skins instead of cotton products, then
We still need to make more preparations.”
"Lao Li, Lao Guo, Ningxia's tan sheepskin is world-famous. When the central sheepskin arrives, I will have someone prepare a tan sheepskin hat for each of you two, so that the two brothers can become wealthy. If you can get it,
When it comes to purple lambskin, it’s even higher quality.”
Li Yanping didn't pay attention to Yang Zhen's good-natured teasing. But as for his thoughts, Li Yanping pondered for a moment and shook his head: "Old Yang, the thing is like this. But the problems here are not as you imagined.
It's that simple. We can ask the central government to reduce the supply as appropriate, but we have nothing to do."
"After we received the telegram from the Central Committee, we did not fail to think of a way. The commander-in-chief, who was negotiating with the Soviet side, even coordinated with the Soviet side. He hoped to use barter to purchase 500,000 yuan from the Soviet side.
kilograms of cotton to meet the needs of the central government."
"But the Soviet Union has always been hesitant about this matter and has never had a clear attitude. Kovalev told me privately that cotton is also a strictly controlled strategic material in the Soviet Union. Without the approval of the base camp, they can't buy a pound of cotton.
The cotton won’t be sold either.”
"And the Soviet Union, after the loss of Ukraine, it is difficult for cotton production to meet its own needs. Now all the cotton in the Far East, except for the Far East's own use this year, the original reserves have been shipped to the Western Front. As for transportation,
Wherever he goes, he has no comment."
"At present, the Soviet Union has entered the most difficult period, and there is extremely slim hope for Moscow to approve this matter. The Soviet Union is now about to enter winter, and all its original plans have been disrupted, and the loss of reserve materials is staggering.
Under such circumstances, all materials that can be used for military purposes are strictly controlled materials, and the approval authority rests with Moscow."
"In this matter, what he can do is coordinate the Far East Military Region to provide us with some old sheepskin pea coats specially used by the Soviet Siberian troops. They still have a large reserve of such old coats, as well as a batch of production
Felt for boots, but not too much. As for buying cotton, let’s not talk about it now. Let’s think of other ways, otherwise it will easily delay things.”
"As for Peng Dingjie coordinating the Americans to meet our second batch of imported cotton as soon as possible, let's not say whether it can be negotiated. Even if it can be negotiated, transportation problems, export procedures, and a series of other issues must be solved.
.I’m afraid it will be difficult to guarantee arrival before the entire army changes uniforms.”
"You must know that this batch of cotton was ordered from the United States in the spring. It took several months before it was shipped to the port of the Soviet Union. According to this efficiency, it may be difficult to transport the subsequent supplies before the freeze. If you insist
If we want to increase the supply, we must make all preparations to prevent the winter clothing that is urgently needed by the troops and the people from being unable to be issued."
"If it's not too difficult to have no winter clothes in North China and Shaanxi, then here, if we don't have thick enough winter clothes, the troops will freeze to death without having to fight. We all came from that time, and the troops didn't have winter clothes.
We have all tasted it. Lao Yang, I understand your thoughts, but we must take precautions in advance."
"In addition, part of our second batch of imported cotton is going to be put into the market to ensure supply for people's livelihood, and the rest is going to be used to spin cotton cloth for the troops to refit the troops next spring. Now that it is used in advance, next year's plan
But everything was disrupted.”
"If we can meet the needs of the central government as you said, then we can only focus our main energy on livestock products. Judging from the total number of sheep raised in the base area, which is more than one million, we
If you want to only meet the needs of the troops, you can still do it."
"In addition, if northern Shaanxi can provide some sheepskin, it can basically meet the needs, but wool is probably difficult to make. To make a sheepskin coat, you need hairy skin. We can't shave the wool and spin it all into wool.
, and then peel off the sheepskin and make it into a coat. That kind of leather can't be used for anything, let alone making winter clothes."
"A sheep only has one skin, so we can't use it for both purposes. Moreover, the wool spinning factories in Harbin only produce some wool or make some felts. It is difficult to expand both in terms of production capacity and raw material sources.
It is necessary to produce a sufficient quantity of woolen coats in a short period of time. Even the Soviet-style tweed with a relatively simple production process is difficult to meet the demand."
"But this is also a solution. After I go back, I will discuss it with the commander-in-chief and my brother to see how many suede sheepskin coats or short sheepskin coats we can produce with our best efforts as winter clothes for the troops. This way, we can equip this kind of equipment
The troops with short coats are only issued cotton trousers to save some cotton. However, I think we can discuss the issue of wool with the central government."
"The Soviet troops stationed in Siberia are equipped with a short sheepskin coat that is a little bit longer than the waist. I think it is quite good. It is warm and lightweight. The most fundamental thing is to save materials. As for the duffel coat, I think it is better to forget it.
Right. Our woolen mills, even if they produce at full capacity, can't produce enough woolen cloth. Moreover, the thing is too short to be effective, and it is too bulky when it is long, affecting the movement of the troops."
"With all that wool, it's better to issue an extra sweater to the troops. The climate here is not much different from that of Siberia. A sheepskin coat alone is still a bit weak in keeping out the cold. At least it needs to be equipped with a thin cotton jacket.
Or a thick sweater to withstand the cold winter in northern Manchuria."
"If enough wool can be raised, I suggest giving out thick sweaters as much as possible. However, sweaters may be a new thing to women in other places and they are not very good at knitting. But Harbin women, who have a greater influence from the Russians,
Most of them know how to knit it. If it is issued to the troops, there is no need for any patterns, just the simplest style."
"We can definitely use the several wool spinning mills in our hands to spin the wool into wool and distribute it to the women to mobilize them to make part of it for us. There are also Belarusian women, we can also mobilize them to help. This can solve the problem of relying solely on Harbin
It is difficult for the Chinese to meet their own needs, and most women from other places do not know how to knit sweaters."
"At the same time, we will also solve the livelihood difficulties of this group of Belarusians. But the key now is to be able to find a sufficient amount of wool. To make winter clothes, sheep cannot be sheared. If they are not sheared, they cannot get wool to make wool. If Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia
If the Shanxi-Sui area can't exchange enough wool with us, then we won't be able to meet the sweater needs of hundreds of thousands of troops."
"But Lao Yang, we need more than just cotton-padded clothes. The quilts used by the troops in winter are at least twice as thick as those of the troops in North China, as well as cotton gloves, cotton hats, and cotton shoes. The original equipment we have in hand
The captured Kwantung Army inventory, after being used the year before last and last year, there is not much left."
"And this year, we need to add winter clothes and quilts for the advancing troops, as well as the needs of the people in the base areas. There are also single military uniforms needed by the troops in other seasons, which all need cotton to be spun into cotton cloth. In addition to eating, the people also
You need to wear clothes. In addition to cotton-padded clothes in winter, single clothes are needed in spring and autumn, and cool clothes are needed in summer.”
"People also need quilts, towels and other supplies. And with the increasing expansion of industrial construction in the base areas, we have mobilized a large number of people, and even a large number of housewives, to go to cities and enter factories. The homespun cloth in rural areas
The output is already getting lower and lower.”
"Needless to say anything else, we used the textile machinery handed over by the Americans as well as the two cotton spinning mills and three woolen spinning mills handed over by Xiao Yuan's father, as well as several large-scale cotton spinning and mills that were expanded based on the original woolen spinning mill in Qiqihar.
The Woolen Textile Factory recruited more than 5,000 housewives from several surrounding counties to work in the factory at the beginning of this spring."
"With the urban population seriously unable to meet their needs, various factories have turned their attention to the countryside. Now it is an increasingly common phenomenon for rural people to work in factories. And with the gradual completion of the construction of various factories, more people entering the city have
The number of working rural people will gradually increase."