The severe enemy situation that Yang Zhen told not only shocked the two top commanders of the First Army, but also the commander-in-chief and Li Yanlu who had no idea about it before. Hundreds of thousands, even hundreds of thousands
What does the Japanese army mean to the Jidong Military Region, which is still weak compared to the behemoth Kwantung Army, and even the entire Anti-Japanese Alliance, although its current strength has been expanded to a certain extent? They know it very well. [.Com text]
Looking at the few people in front of him who were shocked and silent by the news he revealed, Yang Zhen smiled bitterly and said: "This is why I insisted on expanding the army regardless of our actual bearing capacity. And we must complete the production and construction before the end of the year.
Half of the formation of the Corps is to prepare for next year's war."
"Do you really think I care about those second-hand goods provided by Jiangbei? But there is no way, our own production capacity is not strong, and we cannot meet the fundamental needs of the army without foreign aid. Commander Yang, Political Commissar Wei, I have said what I should say
Well, if you insist on going south, I won’t force you.
"I sincerely hope you can stay. The First Army must be used, but it really cannot be used according to the previous situation. Since the First Army is a sharp knife, it must be inserted into the chest of the Japanese and puppets at the most critical moment. Let the First Army
The military's sharp sword is sharpened in advance, which is something none of us want to see, let alone see."
After Yang Zhen finished speaking, Yang Jingyu and Wei Zhengmin were silent for a long time. After looking at each other, they finally nodded slightly. Although they did not say it directly, their expressions seemed to agree that Yang Zhen hoped that they could continue to stay in the Xiajiang area.
Suggestions for a break.”
Seeing that they finally nodded not to go south for the time being, after looking at each other with the commander-in-chief and several others, Yang Zhen, who breathed a sigh of relief, paused and said: "Commander-in-Chief Yang, I think what the First Army urgently needs now is not to go south, but to go south.
Expansion. In this way, you can choose the troops of the entire Jidong Military Region. As long as you like the troops, they will be allocated to the First Army in a complete system."
Regarding Yang Zhen's actions, Yang Jingyu shook his head and said: "You have just finished a big battle with so many casualties. The remaining old soldiers will still be used as the backbone of the expanded army. Our army cannot take advantage of this.
This is an opportunity to defeat you. Let’s talk about this later. Our first priority now is to train the remaining 300 people to meet the standards.”
"Comrade Yang Zhen, although I cannot accept your actions in some aspects, what you just said is still right. As long as the old foundation remains, the army will be able to recover at any time. So I appreciate your kindness.
.But I can’t take advantage of this moment to dig into your old foundation.” After all, it’s Yang Jingyu who is first and second, and has a very broad mind.
Looking at Yang Jingyu in front of him, Yang Zhen said with some embarrassment: "Commander Yang, if you say this, you are out of touch. We are all from the same family, and talking about these two families is too alienating. In this way, I will give you
Replenish one thousand new soldiers and equip them with a complete set of equipment according to your existing equipment organization."
"I am sending you a platoon from the reconnaissance battalion as instructors to cooperate with your work and enhance their survivability behind enemy lines. When you move behind enemy lines in the future, you still need to have a certain level of strength, right? My tactical synthetic training ground has been completed
After that, your army can use them first. But whether these people can be trained in the end depends on you."
Yang Jingyu wanted to refuse Yang Zhen's idea of allocating recruits and instructors to him. However, Wei Zhengmin, who was beside him, secretly pulled his sleeve and nodded. Although he was a little reluctant, he finally nodded in agreement.
Wei Zhengmin understood what he meant. According to the current army of more than 300 people, if they really go to fight guerrillas behind enemy lines, judging from the current strength of the Japanese and puppet troops' control over their old guerrilla areas, not only may they not be able to lift a single wolf flower,
Even if it fails, it will result in a meat bun beating a dog.
Last year and this spring's anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the First Army fought too hard and its strength declined drastically. Even with the one unit that stayed in southern Manchuria and persisted, it now has less than 500 troops at full strength. It has reached the point where it cannot fight without reinforcements.
The situation. The well-equipped 1,000 new soldiers could not help but solve an urgent need for both Wei Zhengmin and Yang Jingyu.
Seeing that Yang Jingyu finally accepted the recruits, the commander-in-chief turned to Yang Zhen and said: "In the days since you went to the first division, we and Jiangbei have reached an agreement on the issue of opening an air route from Luobei to Yan'an through Jiangbei, Outer Mongolia and Yan'an. Jiangbei agrees.
After taking off from Luobei, our plane passed through Tenda, Ulan-Ude, and a field airport of the Soviet army in Dalanzadagad, the capital of South Gobi Province in Outer Mongolia, which served as an alternate landing and refueling point."
"We carefully selected four pilots from Xinjiang's pilots who arrived in the Jidong Military Region to fly two Japanese 100-type transport aircraft captured in Jiamusi. With the assistance of the navigator sent by Jiangbei, we have completed the inspection of this route.
Test flight of the route. We returned to Luobei safely yesterday."
"Among this route, in addition to the two sections from Luobei to Tengda and Dalanzadagad to Yan'an, which are the first flights, there are also flights from Tengda to Ulan-Ude, and from Ulan-Ude to Dalanzada.
Gad's routes are all routes that Jiangbei has opened long ago. Our navigator should be familiar with them after this flight."
"After taking off from Luobei last week, they refueled and rested at Tenda and Ulan-Ude as transit points. At Daranzadagad, the Soviet army strictly controlled them and prohibited them from leaving the airport, so they just refueled and took a short rest.
, flew directly to Yan'an. The journey went smoothly and was not affected by bad weather."
"At our request, this route took off from Luobei and headed straight north. Before entering Outer Mongolia, the entire route flew within Jiangbei and as far away from the Manchurian-Soviet border as possible. Even if it entered the customs, it would bypass the Japanese occupation.
The area, overall, should not be attacked by Japanese aircraft, it is very safe."
"The entire flight time, taking off from Luobei plus transferring between the two places and resting, if all goes well, will take a total of four to five days from taking off from Luobei to landing in Yan'an. Even including the return time, it will take a total of four to five days.
It’s only about ten days.”
"Although if you encounter weather that makes it impossible to fly, the time will be postponed. However, this is a full month shorter than the time it took to pass through Lanzhou, Xinjiang, and enter the Soviet Union and then transfer to a train to go around thousands of kilometers. Safety
There are many more guaranteed ones.”
"According to the navigator sent by Jiangbei to coordinate, the two Japanese transport aircraft frequently landed for refueling because of their short range. If we use the Li-2 transport aircraft or the C46 transport aircraft produced by Jiangbei, we can only choose the Ulan-Ude one.
After refueling at your base, you can fly directly to Outer Mongolia."
"Our pilots have now arrived in Khabarovsk, where the headquarters of the Jiangbei Far East Military Region is located, and are receiving the transport aircraft transferred from Jiangbei. The aircraft below are all active aircraft they have drawn from the aviation force of the Far East Military Region, so the handover is very fast.
"In addition, we pilots have been trained on Russian aircraft and are very familiar with these aircraft. After half a month of adaptive training and flying, they can all be put into use."
"In addition, the forty-eight Polish-made fighter jets and fifteen light bombers that Jiangbei promised to assist us have also arrived. Should we start selecting pilots and send them to Jiangbei for training so as to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible? This Jiangbei
The action was very fast. As soon as the agreement here was signed, the things from the other side were shipped. This was a bit unprepared."
Hearing this, Yang Zhen, who always felt that Jiangbei acted so quickly this time, seemed to be trying to cover up something, frowned and said: "Commander-in-Chief, not only cannot the landing point of the plane be reduced, but we must also discuss with Jiangbei to add three to four more backup stations as much as possible.
Landing point. The aircraft is greatly affected by the weather. Once it encounters bad weather during the flight, there is no alternate landing point, and the people on the plane will only die. Our more than 20 pilots are precious, and we must
Try to keep their flight as safe as possible."
"In addition, when we train pilots, we can't just see the few planes in front of us. We must train pilots from the entire army, including company and platoon cadres, veterans who have fought two wars, and fresh high school students according to the standard of six pilots per plane.
We will carefully select the best. Together with the ground staff, we will first select about 600 to 1,000 people. Although the conditions are not yet available, we must prepare for the establishment of our own air force."
"In this way, let the comrades of the aviation team first receive the transport aircraft handed over by Jiangbei. As for these fighter jets, I have to take a look at them before making a decision. Anyway, we don't have enough pilots now. Even if we accept them, no one can fly them. They will be stored in Jiangbei first.
.The rest will be decided after I come back from the Fourth Division."
What Yang Zhen didn't expect was that after he returned to Luobei from the fourth and third divisions to inspect the work a month later, at the invitation of the Soviet Far East Military Region Commander General Abana Shenk and Political Commissar Ivano Kungfu,
I went to Jiangbei to discuss the next step of cooperation between the two parties. When I met with the first batch of selected pilot students, I almost got angry when I visited these fighter jets.
If Yang Zhen hadn't suppressed the fire with force, Yang Zhen would have almost lost his mind and kicked Kovalev to death who had been following him all day long. Do they really think they don't understand the development of fighter jets? They are using these old antiques to fool themselves.
If you use these things on the battlefield, you will let your pilots die.
To be honest, those twelve fighter-bombers are pretty good. Not only are two of them considered the latest models in Poland, but they are also not far behind in the entire world. The overall performance, especially the bomb load of up to two and a half tons, is far away.
The PZL 37B medium bomber is superior to the Type 97 medium bomber currently equipped by the Kwantung Army.
A PZL 46A light bomber that flies faster than the Type 97 fighter currently used as the main force of the Kwantung Army. Although it is a prototype, it is already mature and ready to be put into production, and has actual combat capabilities. The remaining
The ten slightly older ones below are all PZL 43 light bombers with good performance.
This type of bomber, which was originally intended to be exported to Bulgaria, has been greatly improved compared to the PZL 23 used by Poland itself. Because of the installation of a high-power engine, its performance has been improved a lot. These light bombers were not captured by the Soviet army, but by the German army.
They were later handed over to the Soviet Army in accordance with the agreement. However, after careful maintenance by the Germans, these aircraft were obviously well maintained. Yang Zhen was generally satisfied with these bombers.
As for relatively good fighter-bombers, those fighter jets almost made Yang Zhen angry to death. Among the forty-eight fighter jets, except for 22, they were captured by the Germans and handed over to the Soviet army. They were the latest models produced by Poland for Bulgaria before the war.
Except for the PZLP 24F fighters, the rest are all old PZLP Type 11 fighters originally captured by the Soviet army. Among them, there are even six PZLP Type 7 fighters produced earlier.
Although these obviously repainted aircraft look bright on the surface, most of them have incomplete parts and even over-used engines. The machine gun rifling of several aircraft has been worn away. Those aircraft with over-used engines are often damaged.
A large amount of thick smoke comes out when it is started, which looks like a fire from a distance and can choke people to death.
Let the ground staff at the Soviet airport start the aircraft. These ground staff have to piece together the available parts from the aircraft parked in a corner of the airport, which is obviously a parts provider for these aircraft. Even a
As soon as the plane started, the engine simply burned due to the aging of the aircraft body.
As for finding a pilot to take a test flight, at this airport where an entire Soviet aviation group is stationed, there is no pilot who dares to fly with these six old-fashioned P-7 aircraft. Not to mention these six antiques, that's all
Twenty of them are relatively new, but facing the same predicament, no one dares to fly them.
All the pilots at the airport had already reached a consensus when these planes arrived at the station. What the superiors do is a matter for the superiors, but now they will not fly even if they are killed. Since these planes are not flying to their station,
But because of the special way of transporting them by train, these pilots knew that these aircraft were definitely not good goods.
It is one thing to die gloriously in defense of the great Soviet airspace, but it is another thing to fly these old antiques into the sky and then fall to death. Even the threat of the political commissar is useless, none of these pilots are willing to test fly for this distinguished guest.
These rags.
Finally, under Kovalev's threat to send his family to a military court right now, the navigator director of the regiment, who had participated in the air battle at Nomonhan and shot down a Japanese aircraft, climbed onto a P-11 aircraft with great trepidation. Perhaps in
In his opinion, this aircraft is old, but it should be safer than those older P-7 models.
But what do you think of it, this plane that had just been overhauled fell down in front of everyone as soon as it left the runway and before it could completely climb into the sky. Although the pilot was not high off the ground and was experienced, he was not seriously injured.
, but the plane was completely smashed.
After careful inspection, it was discovered that the engine of this aircraft, which was produced in 36 years and has been used for nearly four years, has reached the end of its lifespan. Moreover, as someone of British descent, I am used to using high-grade fuel and the Soviet-made engine has too low a grade.
The aviation fuel showed obvious incompatibility.
After watching the poor performance of these state-of-the-art aircraft, the livid Yang Zhen turned around and walked away without saying a word. He finally understood that the man in front of him was familiar with these aircraft, and he didn't look at them anymore.
Kovalev looked embarrassed.
After returning to the station, Yang Zhen called the person in charge of the aviation team and said straight to the point: "You can have those bombers, but except for the twenty-two P-24 type fighters, all of them will be returned to them. I don't want any of them."
"
Of course, these things are beyond Yang Zhen's imagination now. Although he has learned from Jiangbei's generous actions this time, especially Jiangbei, who always believed that the weapons manufactured by the Soviet Union are the best weapons in the world, he would brag about this aircraft so hard this time.
In terms of the fact that it was the latest fighter jet, he noticed something strange, but he didn't think too deeply about it.
For him, the aviation issue is something he will consider in the future. It is gratifying to have his own aviation force, but it is not fatal to not have one. Although he desires to build a powerful air force in his heart, he is very self-aware.
It cannot be made, and there is no money or space to buy it. So Yang Zhen believes that it is better to do less daydreaming.
For Yang Zhen right now, the most important thing in his mind is to go south to check the terrain of the four divisions with the heaviest tasks in the future, so as to make plans for next year's battle plan.
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