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Chapter 1540 Dongzi's heart

On 15 April, An Yi arrived in Kulen, the capital of Mongolian province, by special plane. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoBecause An Yi instructed not to engage in the kind of showmanship in which the bands and the army lined up to welcome them, the Mongolian military and political leaders did not organize a welcoming ceremony, and An Yi came to the provincial government building in the center of the city under the protection of the military police and the officers and soldiers of the Central Guard Bureau.

After a brief lunch, An Yi immediately entered the work state, discussed government affairs with Yin Jinan, Luo Shaodong, Sun Yinghao, Wen Jin, Zheng Zimo and other provincial government officials, and determined the next economic development plan.

Previously, the Soviet Union had already built the railway from Ulan Uda on the shore of Lake Berga to the Soviet-Mongolian border city of Kyakhta, and at the same time, it had also basically laid the railway embankment from Kyakhta to the city of buying and selling and Kulun, so after Yin Jinan took over the Mongolian government affairs, he immediately sent two engineer divisions and three infantry divisions to work day and night, and successfully built the railway connecting Kulen and the Siberian trunk line in late March.

Along this railway, there are not only super-large coal fields with reserves of 2 billion tons, but also three large iron ore mines with reserves of 1.2 billion tons and an average grade of 51.15% in Tumur Taugai, Tumurtai and Bayangol, where Mongolia's First Iron and Steel Group was built.

With the grid-connected power plant of Darkhan thermal power plant in early March, the smelter put into operation in mid-March, and the completion of plant No. 1 and plant No. 2 in late March, and the start of steelmaking, Mongolia's industry has officially embarked on the road to take-off. Due to the fact that the iron ore here is open-pit mining, easy separation, high iron recovery rate, and the application of new steelmaking technology, the goal of the First Gang Iron Group is to achieve an annual steel output of 2 million tons within two years, and support local construction on the basis of giving priority to meeting the needs of the military industry.

In April, four large steel plants relocated to Mongolia from Komsomolsk, Vladivostok, Boli and Hailanpao in the Far East have also settled in the Darkhan area, and are currently doing the final installation and commissioning of blast furnaces and equipment.

As early as February, the railway connecting Kulun to the Nalaha iron ore mine, 35 kilometers northwest of Kulun, has been completed, the coal mine reserves of 900 million tons, after technological upgrading and transformation, the monthly output of raw coal 500,000 tons, Kulun and the surrounding areas of energy supply has been fully guaranteed.

Today, the engineering units are hurrying to build railways from Kulen to the Baganor Coal Mine (125 km in length) and from Kulen to the Bori Wendur area (300 km in length). In the Baori Wendur area, there are four mining areas, including Erenhonger, Durwuren and Barrigenlet, with an iron ore grade of 45.5% and reserves of 800 million tons. In the future, the Mongolian Second Iron and Steel Group will settle here, and it will be put into construction after the railway is completed in the middle of next year.

In addition, the Erdenet copper-molybdenum mine in the northern Mongolian city of Hangai Mountain has begun to be put into production, the mine is open-pit mining, each layer is 15 meters deep, the annual ore processing capacity is 25 million tons, the annual production of copper concentrate 450,000 tons, molybdenum concentrate 4,000 tons; The Zamar gold mine, located 280 kilometers northwest of Kulun, and the Selgreen Sumu gold mine, 70-100 kilometers southeast of Kulun, can produce two kilograms of gold per day after the start of construction; The Asgert silver mine on the north side of the Altai Mountains and the Mengenwendur silver mine 310 kilometers southeast of Kulen were officially launched, and it is expected to produce 50 kilograms of silver per day in the future.

The economic development plan was drawn up to build railways connecting Erdenet and Darkhan (190 km) and Kulen to Kobdo (1,525 km). Among them, the Kulen-Kobdo railway, which was established and selected by the Soviet Union as early as the early thirties, was aimed at connecting the eastern and western regions of Mongolia with Kazakhstan by rail, and greatly shortening the mileage between the Far East and Central Asia. The Mongol government, under the control of An Jiajun, took over this huge project, and it is expected that it will take at least four years to complete the entire project.

In terms of machine industry, automobile factories, machine tool factories, boiler factories, measuring and cutting tool factories, electron tube factories, aircraft factories, heavy machinery factories, tractor factories, steam turbine factories and other factories and enterprises are being built in the area around Kulun, and it is planned to build industrial bases for petroleum industry, chemical industry, building materials industry, food industry, textile industry, leather and wool washing industry.

By the time the meeting was over, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was tilting a lot towards the western sky.

An Yi had no intention of resting, leaving Yin Jinan, and quickly summoned Mu Chaiyi, Li Fuqiang, Tang Honglei, Zhang Jie and other generals of the military region and the front army to discuss military affairs.

With the start of the war in Central Asia and the obvious weakening of the strategic mobile force of the Mongolian Military Region, An Yi promised to recruit 200,000 young and middle-aged people from among the 6 million immigrants (including those who have evacuated to Mongolia from the Far East) who have migrated to Mongolia in the past four months and organize them into 15 engineer divisions as a new force for building Mongolia and a reserve force for defending Mongolia.

The meeting lasted until 8 p.m., when An Yi announced the end, and then went to Luo Shaodong's home on the shore of Lake Tule in the south of the city. Luo Shaodong had already prepared the wine and food, and the two brothers had eaten together, sat on the hot kang, and talked affectionately.

After many years, Luo Shaodong's emotions finally belonged: Danba Dorji has a pair of twin daughters, sixteen years old, who are of mixed race in China, Mongolia and Russia, who are graceful and beautiful. When Luo Shaodong visited Danba Dorji's house to discuss government affairs, he met two mixed-race children unexpectedly, which hit Luo Shaodong's strong heart to pieces, and he also seemed uncertain when discussing things with Danba Dorji.

Afterwards, Danba Dorji asked the next person, and when he heard that Luo Shaodong was in love with his twin daughters, he was excited. The relationship between Luo Shaodong and An Yi is almost clear to the Mongolian high-level. An Yi is currently China's second only to Chairman Chiang's powerful warlord, entrenched in the southwest industrial area, single-handedly founded the Republic of South China, and in fact in charge of everything in Mongolia, although Danba Dorji and An Yi swore to me for the sake of answering, but the relationship is still not close enough. If he has a relationship with his younger brother Luo Shaodong, doesn't that confirm the identity of the emperor's relatives?

Thinking of this, Danba Dorji immediately found Yin Jinan and asked him to match this family matter.

Yin Jinan didn't dare to slack off, and after asking Luo Shaodong's own opinion, he went to Danba Dorji's house to find the two twins in person and asked them what they thought about marrying Luo Shaodong. Perhaps it was because of the warning of Danba Dorji, or maybe it was the real love at first sight, and both daughters expressed their willingness to marry Luo Shaodong as their wives.

As the senior general of the An Jiajun and the second person in the provincial government, if Luo Shaodong can marry a Mongolian girl, it will be beneficial to the rule of the An Jiajun in Mongolia, so Yin Jinan conveyed his opinion and Luo Shaodong's situation to An Yi.

Over the years, An Yi is most at ease is Luo Shaodong, his own life-saving benefactor, for various reasons, has not been by his side, and now it is already a year old, and the marriage has not yet been settled.

"Dongzi, for so many years, I haven't been with my eldest brother. Seeing that all the brothers have become members of the unified army, and you are still stumbling in the military industry and logistics department of the central military system, have you ever hated the eldest brother? ”

An Yi and Luo Shaodong sat cross-legged face to face, with a small coffee table in the middle. An Yi asked the question that had been pressed in his heart for many years, felt a sense of lightness all over his body, poured tea into the teacup in front of Luo Shaodong, filled it for himself, and took a sip.

"How so? I know Big Brother is for my good! Which of the generals under your command didn't come out of the rain of bullets? You were afraid that I would make a mistake, so you deliberately arranged me to be far away from you, and asked my friends to take care of me in every way, and slowly worked my way up to such a high position today, which is not at all the same as the achievements of you and your group of subordinates. ”

Luo Shaodong shook his head and smiled bitterly, picked up the tea and drank it all.

Originally, Luo Shaodong didn't like to drink tea very much, but after arriving in Mongolia, he ate meat every day, and green leafy vegetables could only be airlifted from Syria, which was pitiful, and the immigrants who migrated to Mongolia from the Far East, as well as refugees from Huanghuai and North China, settled down not long after, and the land that was reclaimed had just been planted with vegetable seedlings, and it took two or three months to eat fresh vegetables.

Due to the barren land and harsh climatic conditions, the small-scale peasant economy of the family unit has no place in Mongolia, and according to the advice of experts from the Agricultural Academy, agriculture here will be large-scale agriculture, and the people who will work will not be farmers, but agricultural workers, who will receive wages and bonuses according to the intensity and performance of their work. In winter, due to the use of greenhouses, fresh vegetables can also be eaten on the snow-covered Mongolian plateau, but before that, the dryness of meat can only be neutralized by drinking tea, and slowly Luo Shaodong has also studied tea.

An Yi let out a long sigh: "Dongzi, I know you're complaining about me...... But I really don't want anything to happen to you. You know? Dongzi, you are my savior, my own brother, my brother has gone through wars, and has died many times, and I don't want you to live a military career where you will face life and death decisions at any time. Up to now, our foundation is bigger, we are safe, you have also worked up enough qualifications in the central government, and my brother doesn't have to worry about being scolded for nepotism, so my brother did not hesitate to transfer you back to his side, let you enter politics, and assist my brother in taking care of administrative affairs. Mongolia is only the first step in your career, and when you have enough qualifications, my brother will appoint you as a provincial governor, a party in charge, or even a prime minister or minister in the central government. As long as you behave well, anything will come! ”

Luo Shaodong was a little anxious, and grabbed An Yi's hand: "Brother, I really don't blame you, don't deliberately promote me so high!" I know my ability very well, and now it's barely enough to be the director of the Department of Civil Affairs, if I am promoted to be a provincial governor or even enter the central government, it is really not enough, you still let me do practical things at the grassroots level for a few years! ”

An Yi looked at Luo Shaodong's sincere eyes, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Dongzi, I know what you are afraid of, in fact, my brother is also panicked in his heart...... If you think about it, such a large territory, the three regions of South China add up to 750,000 square kilometers, and Mongolia also has 2 million square kilometers (plus the Tangnu Ulianghai), if it exercises effective rule over Central Asia in the future, it will be 4 million square kilometers of land! There is so much land that needs to be developed and utilized, to ensure that the people in our territory have food, clothing, and a worry-free life, and my brother feels that he is not very sure!

"However, my brother is the leader of our group, so he doesn't dare to show his lack of confidence at all, so he can only pretend to be in control of everything, and he can't hesitate at all, otherwise it will affect everyone's emotions, lead to everything looking forward and backward, and seriously restrict our enterprising hands and feet. Our current situation is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat! I can't afford to delay even a minute!

"Dongzi, brother tells you, in fact, my brother really has no bottom in his heart! Brother will go to Central Asia next to take a look, especially the Ural River line bordering the Soviet Union, which is likely to become the main battlefield for us to confront and fight with the Soviet Army in the future, thinking about facing up to tens of millions of Soviet Red Army, Brother shuddered in his heart, any measures that can save the lives of our soldiers, Brother will spare no effort to do! Otherwise, once the Soviets break through the Ural River, all our efforts in land reform and economic construction in Central Asia will be in vain, and even Mongolia will be affected because of the loss of Central Asia! ”

Since joining Huangpu, Luo Shaodong found that his eldest brother's tone was so weak and powerless for the first time, and the whole person seemed exhausted and extremely haggard, and his heart suddenly softened, and he gently patted An Yi's hand and comforted:

"Big brother, I hope you can stay strong, because you no longer belong to yourself, but to our collective, to hundreds of millions of people in southern Yunnan, southern Sichuan, South China, and Mongolia. I have learned a lot from working in the Military Industry Administration and the logistics department over the years, and now I don't think it is so difficult to become the director of the Department of Civil Affairs, and here, I have also found someone I like, can there be anything more happy than this? So, you don't have to worry about me at all, but you should be happy for me! ”

An Yi nodded: "Okay, Dongzi, tell me honestly, do you really like those twins?" If you deliberately wronged yourself just for the sake of a good job in the future, my brother will not agree! ”

"I like it, I really like it!"

Luo Shaodong was anxious: "Over the years, many people have been my matchmaker, but I can't look down on them, I always feel that those girls are pretentious and look extremely awkward." The two sisters, Meng Genqige and Hasqiqige, are very frank and lovely, they grew up with their grandfather who lived in Zhangjiakou, and later studied in Beijing, so there was no barrier to communication with me. They are so beautiful, so pure and kind, if I can marry them, it will be a blessing for me in this life! ”

An Yi smiled: "Okay, good, if you like it, brother is afraid that he will wronged you." Say, how can Brother Xiang handle your marriage? Even if the chairman of the committee is invited to officiate for marriage, my brother can do it. ”

Luo Shaodong shook his head: "Big brother, I don't want to be so troublesome, if it weren't for the fear of wronging Sister Qiqige, I wouldn't even want to invite guests." I heard that autumn is the most beautiful day in Mongolia every year, and if you get married on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the lunar calendar, the full moon will be rounder! ”

"Okay!"

An Yi nodded: "When the time comes, our own people in the military and political system will come, I hope that Central Asia will be successfully taken by then, and the Soviets had better not come to provoke us, so that we can handle the wedding wholeheartedly." ”

An Yi thought for a while, and said: "In order to avoid long nights and dreams, my brother will come to the door tomorrow to propose to you, just to see what kind of beautiful way the pair of wonderful people you like is, and actually captured the heart of Dongzi, who has never been cold to women." Don't worry, my brother is prepared, and he prepared a lot of gifts when he came. ”

Luo Shaodong smiled shyly: "Then it's troublesome for big brother...... I think that with the eldest brother coming forward, the father of the Qiqige sisters should also take a reassuring pill! ”

At this time, Shen Fengdao pushed open the door and hurriedly walked in, came to An Yi's side and handed him a telegram:

Lu Yixuan's 30th Group Army once again received the numbers of the 118th Division, the 201st Division, the 202nd Division, the 203rd Division, and the 204th Division.

An Yi took the telegram, read it carefully, and was worried: "Regarding the expansion of the 30th Group Army, the principal in Nanjing has already told me, he said that he hopes to build the 30th Group Army into a model army, and in the future, he will transfer generals and colonels from various central group armies to the 30th Group Army for rotation study, but why should the establishment of the 17th Army be abolished? I don't know ...... him."

Before An Yi could finish speaking, the new confidential secretary, Lieutenant Colonel Liang Zihua, also came in, came to An Yi's side with a somewhat strange expression, and handed him two telegrams.

An Yi took it with some doubts, the first one was sent by Yang Jiuxiao, in which he confessed his dissatisfaction with the cancellation of the 17th Army and explained his views on the series of battles in Shanxi. As early as the beginning of the attack on Daixian, he suggested to Lu Yixuan that he should set a more long-term goal, strive to encircle the headquarters of Tojo Hideki in the area within the Great Wall, squeeze the enemy's living space step by step, and finally use the superiority of air and ground forces to completely wipe out the enemy army in the northern Shanxi region, so that there will be a fundamental reversal in the war situation in North China, and the recovery of Datong and the surrounding areas will not be a problem, and the situation under the fence of the 30 th Group Army can also be fundamentally changed. However, Lu Yixuan did not take his suggestion, and he also ignored his plan to send a force out of Yanmen Pass to the rear of Huyukou and Ruyuekou to block the enemy's retreat, and finally caused the 358th Brigade of the 120th Division of the 18th Group to be outnumbered and retreated, and the fighters of the Tojo Hideki Aircraft Station in northern Shanxi Province were lost. Now, the enemy army has all withdrawn from the line of the Inner Great Wall, passing through Yingxian and Huairen, and retreating to Datong. Yang Jiuxiao requested that he be transferred out of the 30th Group Army and re-lead the old headquarters of the 40th Division.

An Yi frowned, and then read the second message.

This telegram was sent by Lu Yixuan, expressing his extreme shock at the central government's plan to expand the army and the cancellation of the 17th Army, saying that all this was by no means the result of his activities, and that the specific reason was to be ascertained by the Fourth Department on his behalf, with the heart of the officers and men of the security army. In addition, Lu Yixuan also expounded his views on the war in Shanxi in the telegram.

Lu Yixuan said that from the perspective of the overall strategic situation of the An Jiajun, it is unrealistic to force the enemy army to stay in northern Shanxi if it is fought for huge attrition:

First of all, the enemy's retreat is not only Huyukou and Ruyuekou, the enemy can completely retreat from the Pingxingguan line, the purpose of the war is to destroy the enemy while preserving themselves, the enemy's tenacious will and strong combat effectiveness are obvious to all, occupy such a big advantage in Xinkou, the entire group army still loses a quarter, and the other losses in the battle are even more amazing, in fact, the 30th group army followed the north to pursue the enemy, less than half of the troops. By the end of the battle in Daixian, only half of the 30th Army was actually still in combat strength, and it was too risky to destroy the enemy army with such a tired division that still had 200,000 troops;

Second, judging from the overall strategic situation of the Anjia Army, the war in Central Asia has entered a critical stage, and all strategic materials must be tilted there, and the 30th Group Army can only tighten its stomach to live in a short period of time; instead of letting go of fighting its own elite and the enemy troops are transferred from other places to launch a new attack, resulting in a rapid deterioration of the situation in Shanxi as a whole, it is better to let this enemy army that has suffered great fright go back, and they will certainly not dare to talk about the war lightly, and this will greatly ease the pressure on the front line in northern Shanxi. According to the current situation, as long as the 30 th Group Army exists in Shanxi for one day, the enemy forces in North China will weigh the serious consequences of attacking Shanxi; on the contrary, if the 30 th Group Army is completely wiped out, the enemy will inevitably act unscrupulously in the future, which will lead to the deterioration of the situation and be unfavorable to the war situation.

Third, Japan's attack on the Far Eastern Republic is imminent, although from the perspective of the allies, this is very cruel, but the enemy's attack on the Far East, whether it is China, South China, or the Anjia Army, is extremely beneficial, once the enemy's forces are involved in the vast Far East and Siberia, it will greatly dilute the enemy's strength, and facilitate the Anjia Army to break through, from the perspective of the overall strategic situation, at this critical juncture, it is really not appropriate to re-attract the enemy's attention back to North China and force the enemy's base camp to engage in a decisive battle with our army, which is for the country and the nation, It would be a huge disaster.

An Yi read the message and thought silently.

What Yang Jiuxiao and Lu Yixuan said is reasonable, Yang Jiuxiao looks at the problem from the perspective of the battle itself, and believes that once the enemy army suffers a major defeat, the benefits to the overall situation of the national War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression are self-evident. However, Lu Yixuan looked at the war in Shanxi from the perspective of the entire international situation, and believed that it was not appropriate to overstimulate the enemy army at this time. From the perspective of realizing the strategic intention of the An Jiajun, there is no doubt that Lu Yixuan's choice is correct.

But now the problem is coming, it is obvious that Yang Jiuxiao has already resisted, this fierce general who has been standing on the front line of resistance against Japan since the 918 Incident, obviously cannot accept the ending of letting the enemy army go, if he is forced to stay, and he will be restrained everywhere when he works with Lu Yixuan in the future, then the 30th Group Army, the façade he left in North China, will face the crisis of infighting.

An Yi thought about it and said to Shen Fengdao: "Old Shen, you send a secret telegram to Qu Muchen, and ask him to narrate the cause and effect of the matter as a bystander. At the same time, the intelligence departments of the National Security Department and the General Staff Department were also ordered to make a detailed analysis of the consequences of the development of the two men's operational ideas, and to compile them into a specific report. I'll make a decision when the report comes out! ”

Lao Shen nodded and left, and An Yi said to Liang Zihua again: "In my name, send a telegram to the Nanjing Military Commission to ask for the reason for canceling the establishment of the 17th Army. The Seventeenth Army is a unit with a glorious tradition, which was once widely recited by the people of the world as a mainstay in the Great Wall War of Resistance, so it was canceled, is it appropriate? ”

Liang Zihua took the order and left, An Yi's tired face reappeared, and said to Luo Shaodong with a wry smile: "Dongzi, have you seen it?" Even we are not monolithic internally, and I don't know how many things like bullshit will be in the future, but on weekdays, because our military victories have been covered up, it will be slowly exposed over time, and we will have to be busy in the future! ”

Luo Shaodong was full of sympathy: "In the past, I only saw the scenery on your bright side, and I didn't understand the pressure behind this scenery at all. Big brother, don't worry, no matter what, Dongzi will always support you. ”

An Yi nodded, and gently patted the back of Luo Shaodong's hand, everything was silent.