Chapter 350 Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight
Guo Bingxun believed that fighting a division-level battle would capture some key areas. Although it would be beneficial to changing the situation in North Korea on the whole, it would consume the remaining troops in the Northeast to some extent, and there would be no recovery. Guo Bingxun believed that the central government planned to launch a campaign.
Before the end of the Jianghuai Campaign, the Northeast was still mainly about cultivation and living.
The North Manchu base area has been supporting hundreds of thousands of troops and tens of thousands of off-duty cadres for a long time, and it has been almost breathless. If Yang Zhen hadn't taken the initiative to build a production and construction corps and carry out large-scale land reclamation in the Sanjiang Plain.
Development. We have basically achieved self-sufficiency in military supplies, and can export part of it. The fragile economy of Northern Manchuria has probably been on the verge of collapse under such great pressure.
It is true that the Northeast is rich, and it is also true that the Northeast is the largest industrial center in the country. But all of this is mainly concentrated in Southern Manchuria. Except for a few light industries in Harbin, Northern Manchuria has almost no heavy industrial base. Even the Japanese have little regard for Northern Manchuria.
Full development has just begun.
When the entire Northern Manchuria base was established, the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains, Zhangguangcai Mountains, and Wanda Mountains, apart from the Japanese fortresses and small residential areas along the railway lines, were still primitive areas that were shielded from the sky and sun.
Forest. Even in the Sanjiang Plain, the most densely populated area, swamps and wastelands still occupy a large area.
Compared with southern Manchuria, the population in northern Manchuria is also quite limited. In a county like Fengshan, the total population of the county is less than 20,000. The population in northern Manchuria is mainly concentrated along the railway line and in the Songhua River and Nen River basins.
In most other areas, the population base is quite sparse.
With such a weak foundation, hundreds of thousands of troops can be supported, and even sufficient supplementary troops cannot be provided. In the words of the chairman of the Northeast People's Government, China has achieved the largest scale of military operations in the shortest time in history.
Under the situation of industrial construction, the pressure on the entire North Manchu base area can be imagined.
With a limited population, we must not only ensure enough soldiers, but also cultivate a large number of industrial workers to meet the needs of industrialization. The most important thing is to ensure that there are enough agricultural production personnel to ensure sufficient food production.
Food is the most important thing. Without sufficient food production, even if industrial construction is strong, it will have no effect.
If the people don't have enough to eat, then they are really going to rebel. Let alone expanding the troops and driving away the invaders, even the North Manchu base area itself will cause chaos. Although after opening up the connection with the pass at all costs, the continuous
Migrant population. However, the pressure on the entire North Manchu base area is still quite huge, and the agricultural population continues to decrease.
Fortunately, the base area has always tried every means to import tractors and pesticides at all costs. It even converted some light tanks that were no longer suitable for battlefield use and captured battle-damaged tanks into tractors, and tried every means to increase the number of large livestock in the countryside. Even in
When necessary, we will not hesitate to reduce the military's oil use, but also ensure agricultural oil during spring plowing and autumn harvest periods.
Engineers and even combat troops directly under the headquarters are mobilized to build water conservancy facilities during non-combat periods. During busy farming periods, a large number of troops are also dispatched to the countryside to support agriculture. Even for a certain period, the planting of cash crops such as soybeans is completely stopped to ensure food security.
Only then could we barely ensure that grain production did not decline in the good years.
However, the output of agricultural grain in Northern Manchuria, except for the Production and Construction Corps, is still stagnant in most areas. Over the past few years, in the entire old base area of Northern Manchuria, although industry has caught up from behind, in other aspects such as agriculture, it has already reached the peak.
Tolerable peak.
If the Anti-Japanese League had not implemented strict all-round and extremely strict planned management after sweeping across Northern Manchuria, and maintained the stability of the RMB at all costs. It would still have been managed in the same way as during the Puppet Manchukuo period, and I am afraid that the Northern Manchu base areas would have been under triple pressure.
It had already completely collapsed.
You must know that central Jilin, which has long been in turmoil, and the area around Xinjing, which is also the main grain-producing area in the entire Northeast, completely recovered its strength last year. The North Manchu base area can support itself with just a corner, and now it has grown to the size of the Anti-Japanese War with millions of people.
For a long time, Yang Zhen's various advance arrangements can be said to be indispensable on the one hand, but the long-term overload operation of the North Manchuria area is also another aspect.
After the Kwantung Army retreated to Southern Manchuria, it was squeezed almost three feet away from the ground. The people's livelihood in the entire Southern Manchuria was exhausted and the economy was in decline. As the main grain-producing area in the Northeast, Southern Manchuria, whose grain output used to be several times that of Northern Manchuria, is actually in the
After the war, grain support from Northern Manchuria and Jilin will be needed to last until next year's autumn grain harvest.
Judging from Jilin's recovery experience, Guo Bingxun judged that it would take at least a year for the entire Southern Manchuria to recover except for industry. At least the major grain-producing areas of Southern Manchuria, including Kangping, Faku, and Changtu counties, are densely populated
It is difficult to completely clear landmines and unexploded ordnance before spring plowing.
According to the estimate of the engineering troops dispatched by the headquarters, the number of landmines laid by the Japanese army in Changtu alone is over one million. Although the headquarters has concentrated almost all the engineering troops and adopted a variety of mine clearance tactics, can it be done before spring plowing begins?
Clearing landmines and remaining explosives is still an unknown.
After the Japanese army retreated to Southern Manchuria, in order to hold on to this most important territory for the Japanese, they changed their previous dismissive attitude towards passive defense such as landmines and laid a huge number of mines on the front line of the confrontation between the two armies and in areas where there were insufficient troops.
Landmines. In addition to huge manpower and material investment, the clearance of these landmines also requires a lot of time.
Now Guo Bingxun believes that it is time for Northern Manchuria, which is still actually responsible for the supply of the entire Northeast, to take a breath. At least the amount of grain purchased and the restrictions on population movement should be slightly relaxed.
.Some necessary economic policies have reached the point where adjustments should be made. The scale of military production can also be appropriately compressed.
After all, the battlefield within the Pass currently controls the entire territory of Hebei, Shandong, Chahar, most of Shanxi and Suiyuan, northern Shaanxi and eastern Henan, as well as the North China base area of Pingjin, the most elite area in North China. Including food and many other supplies
It can still meet most of your needs.
Based on the Japanese military repair factories in Jinan and Beipingyuan and the Taiyuan Arsenal in Shanxi, with equipment and personnel provided by the Northeast, the two arsenals in Zhangjiakou and Jinan that are being expanded can at least be satisfied with the supplement of mortars and mountain artillery shells.
If necessary, the Northeast can only make up for the shortcomings in terms of food.
If the scale of the war is expanded on the Korean battlefield, the follow-up reaction of the Korean army is likely to cause the scale of the battle to be uncontrollable. Guo Bingxun believes that southern Korea is different from northern Korea. There is only a strait between southern Korea and the Japanese mainland. If southern Korea is lost, the entire Japanese mainland will
The West Coast will be directly exposed to the attack range of the Anti-Union.
As a barrier to the Japanese mainland, the Japanese base camp attaches far more importance to southern Korea than to the northern part. If an offensive is launched in central Korea, the reaction of the Korean army and even the Japanese base camp, as well as possible follow-up actions, must be taken into consideration. The scale of the war may be difficult to control.
Within the range that Kanglian wants to control.
At present, except for a few remaining bandits, the Northeast has basically been cleared and northern North Korea has been occupied. The situation in the entire Northeast has been completely alleviated, and there is no need to immediately capture southern North Korea. At least until the troops completely recover their strength.
, it is not necessary at all.
A big fight at this time is not conducive to the cultivation of the entire Northeast. What's more, the main force of the remaining troops has not yet been replenished. Except for a few divisions on the Korean battlefield, most of the remaining troops are incomplete. The expansion of the Korean Independence Army will also
It is far from finished. If we launch an offensive now, we may end up failing to defeat the tiger because the offensive will not be able to follow up, which will in turn injure ourselves.
Guo Bingxun still meant that on the Korean battlefield, it would be more realistic to adopt the cannibalization tactic of focusing on attacking points and advancing gradually and unobtrusively to the south. If Yang Zhen had not already made up his mind on this matter,
Guo Bingxun didn't even agree with launching a division-level offensive on the front line.
I don't agree, but Yang Zhen's strategy was to alert the enemy and mobilize the North Korean army as much as possible. Control the rhythm and intensity of the attack so that it would be frightened three times a day and exhausted, so as to facilitate the overall idea and planning of the next battle.
Guo Bingxun’s intention is still very clear.
Although I don’t know why No. 1 insisted on the current Korean Japanese army, facing the attack of the anti-allied North Korean cluster. As long as they do not launch a full-scale attack, they will only stick to the mountains in southern Korea and not make a full-scale counterattack. Where does the confidence come from? It can be compared with Yang
After so many years of cooperation with Zhen, Guo Bingxun, who had already connected with her soul, finally chose to support him.
Since Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun, the two top military leaders, and the actual second in command have maintained a high degree of consistency on this matter, then the scale of this battle, even if Du Kaishan had full ideas, could only
Able to act in accordance with the headquarters’ intentions.
Yang Zhen, who had made up his mind to sit on the mountain and watch the battle between tigers and tigers at least until May. In addition to paying close attention to the changes in the battlefield in Guanhai, more eyes were placed on the US military in the Pacific battlefield. If the US military fought too hard on the battlefield of Iwo Jima,
If it went smoothly, wouldn't it mean that all his hard work was in vain?
On the Korean battlefield, Du Kaishan's bridle was tied tightly by Yang Zhen. On the Pacific battlefield, in February 1945, the U.S. military, regardless of the fact that the Philippine battlefield had not yet completely ended, also began to attack Iwo Jima, a location that had been destroyed.
Saipan, which was occupied by the US military, launched an attack on the small island in the middle between it and the Japanese mainland.
The start of the first offensive campaign launched by the US military against the Japanese army in 1945 also made Yang Zhen, who was afraid of self-defeating himself, not only did not put a burden on the US military, but actually reduced the offensive pressure on the US military, entering 45 years later
The heart that was always hanging finally fell to the ground quietly.
Originally, Yang Zhen thought that after reaching an agreement with the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the US military had obtained the best base for air strikes against Japan. There was no need to use the Mariana Islands. As the US military bombed Japanese bases, it might not be as good as he knew.
As in history, they launched an attack on Iwo Jima.
In fact, the B-29 bomber group deployed by the US military in Northern Manchuria, both in number and scale, far exceeds that of the Northern Mariana Islands deployed in the round-trip range, which has almost reached the limit of such bombers.
It is true that the air strikes against Japan have always been based in North Manchuria.
The current changes in the international situation have given Yang Zhen some doubts about the next strategic direction of the US military after the Philippine campaign. It can even be said to be a certain degree of confusion. After all, the current situation on the entire Asian battlefield has long since changed.
Then there is the period of history that I am familiar with.
With the rise of the Northeast Anti-Resistance Alliance, the rut of history has deviated far away from the starting point. Under this situation, will some inevitable events in history happen again? Historical changes, especially this change in myself.
The real manipulator. This made Yang Zhen no longer as confident as before about the next strategic move of the US military after the Philippine Campaign.