Also considering the problem of supply, the advancing army, which was originally resting and reorganizing on the spot, left the troops that insisted on staying in the Rexi area, and the supply troops stationed in Linxi were responsible for the reorganization and training. The rest of the main force moved to Tongliao.
After meeting up with Chen Hanzhang's troops, they all got on the train from Shuangliao and went directly to the Qiqihar front line for training.
A large number of local cadres who were transferred to work in the Northeast along with the advancing army were all handed over to the Northeast Bureau and the Northeast People's Government. As for the hundreds of college students mobilized from Peking that were transferred by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region in accordance with the orders of the Central Committee, they were also handed over to the Northeast Bureau.
Assign work to the Northeast Bureau.
After nearly a month of busy work, the latest deployment of the entire army was completed. However, Yang Zhen was at a loss to supplement the troops needed by various ministries. The work in the new district had just begun, and it was extremely difficult to mobilize troops. The advancing army was handed over to several new recruits from the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
The total strength of the corps cannot meet the supplementary needs. It cannot even meet one-third of the gap.
Of the laborers and puppet Manchukuo prisoners rescued by Chen Hanzhang on the Tongliao front line, only half of them could meet the requirements for recruitment by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. The rest could only be temporarily placed in the production and construction corps. Or they could be arranged into various factory infrastructure teams.
Use their civil engineering abilities developed by working as coolies for the Kwantung Army to speed up the progress of the project.
Among the workers recruited by the Kwantung Army this time, except for a small number of workers captured from Shandong, less than two-thirds of the remaining workers were young adults. Most of the remaining people were over thirty years old, and there were even some
He is over 40 years old. Coupled with long-term cruel torture, his physical condition can no longer meet the needs of military recruitment.
Most of the laborers forcibly recruited by the Kwantung Army live in southern Manchuria. Although the Japanese army has stopped counterattacking, the areas controlled by the Anti-Alliance are still strictly blocked. Even if travel expenses are paid to workers who do not meet the conditions, these workers
He was unable to return to his hometown and could only be temporarily placed in the Production and Construction Corps.
The biggest dilemma now is not only that the additional troops needed to supplement the casualties in this battle cannot meet the needs. The biggest difficulty is to prepare for the next step, the most critical second phase of the battle to open up the communication line with the pass, and the necessary expansion of troops.
There is not even a hint of the source of the soldiers.
Although the current strength of the Anti-Japanese Alliance can still meet the needs of the current stage of defensive operations, if the central government approves Yang Zhen's plan, then once the second phase of the operation is fully launched, the gap in strength will be quite large. According to Yang Zhen's plan,
It is necessary that before the second phase of the battle is fully launched, the Anti-Japanese Alliance needs to increase the establishment of at least the Ninth Division.
In addition to the strength of at least twelve divisions required to open up communication lines, a large amount of troops are required to fully seize Rehe, defend Rehe and Western Manchuria against the full counterattack of the Kwantung Army, and defend the entire base area.
.At this scale, the current establishment of the Anti-League is far from meeting the needs.
But at present, the potential of soldiers in the Beiman-Lao base area has basically been excavated. If the soldiers continue to be mobilized, it will damage the vitality of the base area. It will not only have a shocking impact on the construction and development of various factories, but also even affect the development of the base area.
Agricultural production in the old base area.
In the newly recovered areas, local work organizations have just begun to be established, and the elimination of enemy and puppet remnants is still ongoing. Local armed work departments of military divisions and county committees have not been set up in some cases. This makes the work proceed very slowly, and the recruitment of soldiers is quite slow.
It is very unsatisfactory. The inability to recruit enough additional soldiers has become the most troublesome thing for Yang Zhen.
In addition to the serious inability to replenish the number of troops to meet the needs, Li Yanping's negotiations with the Soviet Union have not yet yielded results, and all the urgently needed supplies have not been delivered, which makes him even more annoyed. Seeing that it is time to change clothes, the source of winter clothes
The lack of a solution made him even more angry.
This is winter in the Northeast, which is tens of degrees below zero. If there is not enough winter clothing, the Kwantung Army does not need to attack, even the cold will collapse the troops. Although certain alternatives have been devised, these alternatives cannot
Completely replacing the original cotton used to make winter clothing. The amount of cotton required for the entire army to change clothing is still quite large.
And not only the troops need a lot of cotton to make winter clothes. People in the entire base area and the newly opened areas also need a lot of cotton to make winter clothes. The most important thing is that frost is about to fall in the North Manchuria area. If the passage is
If you don't open it, even if you get additional cotton by then, it will be too late.
There are also urgently needed military raw materials, as well as the most needed gasoline at present, which are stuck in Soviet ports and cannot be transported in. Time waits for no one, and if these materials cannot be transported in, it will not only affect the issue of troop reloading.
The severe situation forced Yang Zhen to temporarily put aside holding a combat summary meeting and personally negotiate with the Soviet Union.
There was no way. Even though the Americans also exerted some pressure, the Soviets were obviously not convinced. The attitude of the Soviet representatives in the negotiations with the Northeast Bureau and Li Yanping could be described as being messy. No matter how Li Yanping said it,
Don't give in at all.
If the Soviets don't spit out their words, the urgently needed supplies will not be shipped in. The winter clothing that the troops need for the winter cannot be provided. And for every day that the American transport fleet is delayed in Soviet ports, the Anti-Japanese Alliance will have to pay a large amount of breach of contract to American shipowners.
Gold also put huge financial pressure on the Anti-League.
Americans don't care why you can't unload, they will do everything according to their own regulations. As long as you exceed the provisions of the original contract, you will have to pay a day's penalty for not unloading for one day. The American merchant fleet is privately owned.
, it is not easy for the U.S. government to intervene in this aspect.
Not to mention that the Americans have not started mobilizing yet, even if they have already started mobilizing across the country and shifted to a wartime track, the Americans are also brothers and have settled accounts. The pressure coming from all sides almost at the same time made Yang Zhen feel unhappy even if he was 10,000.
Willing, but reality is pressing. Facing the harsh reality, he can only...
There was another reason that forced Yang Zhen, who originally planned to sit behind the scenes, to personally come forward. On the first day of the battle, the British military delegation approached Li Yanping and agreed to the Anti-Japanese Alliance's proposal not to send troops to Southeast Asia.
But if the Japanese army invades the British Southeast Asian colonies, the Anti-Japanese Alliance is launching an offensive to contain the Japanese army's suggestion of going south.
In order to increase the combat effectiveness of the Anti-Alliance and contain the Japanese troops heading south, the British government agreed to transfer all the Italian tanks it had originally promised to capture in North Africa to the Anti-Alliance before November. At the same time, an additional one hundred
Fifty Maltida II tanks and Crusader cruise tanks that were converted from the British Army in North Africa.
However, the British put forward two conditions. First, since the German army's anti-tank capability was much higher than that of the Japanese army, they hoped that the Anti-Japanese Alliance could transfer the American-made tanks that the Americans prepared to assist them to the British for use. The British would
Use your own tanks to replace these American-made tanks one-to-one and give them to the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
As compensation, the British will transfer a batch of Hurricane fighter jets to the Anti-Alliance. If the Anti-Alliance can accept it, they can also provide Covenant cruise tanks that cannot be used in North Africa due to radiators and can only be used in the mainland.
Give 500 vehicles to the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Considering that it is difficult for the Anti-Japanese Alliance to accept the replacement of these inferior British-made tanks with American-made tanks with much better performance. At the moment, the British do not want to offend the Anti-Japanese Alliance too much. The British representative specifically pointed out that these 500 tanks are
Provided to the Anti-Japanese Alliance for free. All shipping costs, including all shipping costs, will be borne by the British.
Second, and the most critical thing is the issue of transportation lines. The British hope that the Anti-Japanese Alliance can reach an agreement with the Soviets as soon as possible and open transportation lines to ensure that all these equipment can be transported to the Anti-Japanese Alliance before the Japanese army goes south.
The British have personally taken the initiative to negotiate with the Soviets in Moscow, but hope that the Anti-Resistance Alliance can make concessions as much as possible in order to reach an agreement in the shortest possible time.
In addition, the British also suggested that the Anti-Japanese Alliance could select a group of pilots and ground crews to go to the UK to receive training in long-range bombing, ground navigation, and air defense operations to prepare for strategic bombing against certain hostile parties in the future. This hostile party
Naturally, everyone knew who it was.
Yang Zhen was very clear about the purpose of the British proposal. They had very careful calculations. The Anti-Japanese Federation sent personnel to the UK for training. Even if they sent old pilots, it would take at least half a year to complete the training. If a group of them were sent
For new pilots, the time will be extended.
There is no doubt that the British have ulterior motives for opening this hole now. Training a group of long-range bomber pilots is definitely not something that can be completed in a short time. Compared with British pilots, the cultural and knowledge levels of anti-alliance pilots are lower.
within a longer period of time.
Although not even a fool can smell the smell of war smoke in the air in Southeast Asia. But after all, the Japanese troops stationed on the border of Thailand have not yet marched south to British Malaya. The British, who do not want to be attacked on both sides, still try their best not to provoke
The angry Japanese army. In their opinion, it would be best if they could at least delay the attack for a while and let their British Empire take a breather.
Compared with a large amount of military assistance, training pilots is in the British's own interests, and will not offend the Japanese and advance their invasion plan. Because they are now at war and still need assistance from the United States.
The British could not provide much equipment to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which was half a world away from them.
At the same time, providing equipment in active service will also give the Japanese a good excuse to attack the British colonies in Southeast Asia. Training pilots will not have this worry. First, the time to train pilots cannot be too short, and in Britain, which is far away from China
Native.
When these pilots go to the UK and go directly to the military base, they can keep strict confidentiality and avoid irritating the Japanese. They can also block the mouths of some people and let them know that they are not equipped enough.
They couldn't find any reason to be picky. It greatly reduced the pressure on the British in armaments and made the Americans look better.
And once the Japanese really go south to invade the British Southeast Asian colonies, then Britain and Japan will openly break up, and there will be nothing to say. Once these pilots are trained, or the British will provide a batch of heavy
Bombers, or a group of heavy bombers provided by the Americans, can carry out air strikes on the Japanese mainland at the first opportunity.
Weaken the Japanese war potential and military production, and reduce the pressure on the British army in Southeast Asia. Even if you cannot do this, you can still attract the Japanese aviation forces heading south back to the homeland and reduce the British air pressure in Southeast Asia. This is for the British
, it’s basically a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.
If the Japanese had not gone south, then everything would have been fine once the anti-Union pilots were sent back to China. Anyway, as long as they were not given British aircraft, these pilots trained by the British would bomb the Japanese if they liked them, and they would not do anything to the British.
What a big impact. Even if they are captured, the British can come back and refuse to admit it. By then, the Japanese will have nothing to do with their British Empire.