Chapter 491: I Intend to Send Troops to Outer Mongolia
October 5, 1941. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Yichun.
Almost the entire Soviet Far East remained a few cities that were not occupied by the Japanese army, which caused panic among quite a few people. Even the citizens of Yichun began to get scared.
In the past, although I didn't go to the Soviet Union often, the Soviet Union seemed to be everyone's rear and the backbone of everyone. The production department believed that the USSR was the source of raw materials and the place where a large number of products were sold. The USSR is finished, where are our products sold? The vast majority of people think: the Soviet Union is finished, and the next target of the Japanese army must be us. What to do?
Yichun's atmosphere of preparation for war has become even stronger.
In the headquarters, Xiao Lu was reading the autumn harvest in the newspapers from all over the world.
In 1941, there was a bumper grain harvest in the entire Northeast Base Area.
Since the beginning of the conflict between Japan and the Soviet Union in August, Iharu has sent several harshly worded telegrams, urging all localities to concentrate their efforts on making a good autumn harvest in the short term, collecting and storing grain, and leaving not a single grain for the Japanese. In addition, the base areas in southwest Liaoning, southern Inner Mongolia, northern Chahar, and western Rehe were particularly requested to collect grain from various localities and extensively reserve them to meet next year's huge demand for grain.
This year, in addition to the bumper grain harvest in the old base areas, a large amount of grain has been harvested in the Daxinganling area, and wheat, soybeans, potatoes, cabbage, and radishes are the main grain crops. The newly built industrial zone in the Daxinganling area has also stabilized due to the harvest of new grain.
In the autumn, tens of thousands of people from the Yellow Flood Area in Guannei came to the Liaorechasui base area through the liberated areas. The base areas still follow the old method, first distributing free grain for life, and then providing relief through work, building roads, clearing wasteland, and building houses.
Up to now, the base area has sent 100 young and strong victims back to Henan with money to publicize the benefits of the base area and ask them to lead the villagers to come and ask for a way to survive. Now, these people have set out, and I believe it will work.
In the past six months, all factories in Yichun, Inner Mongolia and other places have been working desperately to produce war materials. Yi Chun's order to all localities was to expand the army immediately after the autumn harvest, and strive to expand the army by 50,000 on the basis of the summer expansion, so that the total army strength would reach 450,000, so that there would be the strength to fight the Japanese army.
Now, in order to occupy the Soviet Far East, the Japanese army dispatched 600,000 people. In order to make up for the lack of military strength in Manchuria, the Japanese army rapidly expanded and recruited a large number of soldiers in the countryside and young people in the pioneer regiment, so that the number of Japanese troops left in Manchuria reached 300,000.
At present, the Japanese army occupying the Soviet Far East suffered heavy losses, with only 400,000 men left, of which 200,000 were concentrated in Vladivostok, more than 100,000 in Chita, 10,000 in Ulaanbaatar, tens of thousands attacked Boli, and there were only more than 10,000 people along the Far Eastern Railway.
This is total war.
Unlike the Battle of Nomenkan, this campaign was fought on a long front and on a large scale, with several battles of the same size taking place almost simultaneously.
Compared with this battle, the Battle of Nomenkan was an experimental battle, at most a local conflict, similar to the confrontation between the two armies in ancient China.
The large number of casualties in a short period of time shows that this is a full-scale war.
Seeing that the Japanese army was empty, the Soviets began a guerrilla war. In order to ensure railway transportation, the Kwantung Army Headquarters sent sappers to build roads, once again mobilized the Korean army into Manchuria, and again transferred Manchurian troops to Sun-Wu and other border cities, and then into the Soviet Union.
The advantages and disadvantages of the Soviet and Japanese armies flipped upside down.
At the beginning of the campaign, the Soviet troops were distributed along the railway, with a long snake, which was routed in several places, and could not be ignored from end to end. Now, the Japanese army occupied the railway line, turning from offensive to defensive, and the army was distributed along the railway, with a long snake, which was routed in several places, and could not be taken care of from end to end.
The remnants of the Soviet army turned from a defensive to an offensive, allowing them to concentrate their forces and strike at the weak links of the Japanese army.
Koji issued a text condemning the massacre of civilians by the Japanese army, which was first broadcast on the radio to Japan: In order to make up for the shortcomings of the lack of military strength, the Japanese fascists frantically slaughtered Soviet residents in the occupied areas in order to save military strength in the war territory. We strongly protest against this most crime against humanity.
Later, the manuscript was published in other media.
The Japanese were ruthless than the Soviets.
Soon after the article was issued, information came back from the Soviet Union that the Japanese army had massacred the Soviets along the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to stabilize their rule, and that the Soviets in Hailan Pao had been almost wiped out, and that the massacres in small villages were very secretive, and it was difficult to know the exact number.
I don't know if the article inspired the Japanese or if the article exposed the Japanese.
The real purpose of Koji's heart was to take the Japanese into the hands of the Japanese and recover a large area of land in the Soviet Far East. There are also large numbers of Russians in these lands. Many natives of the Far East were also Russified, learned Russian, and joined the Russian army. A significant part of the soldiers of the Soviet Far East were indigenous.
Koji led the Japanese to carry out the massacre, and he knew that the Japanese would definitely carry out the massacre in order to achieve a quick victory. The massacre would eradicate the resistance of the Russian-Soviet Unions, so that the Japanese army could take time out to participate in the battle, and there would be no need to leave a large number of troops to maintain local law and order.
Seeing that the Japanese understood things very well, Xiaolu was in a much better mood, and left the headquarters and went to the arsenal in Yichun North to inspect the production of weapons. On the way, Xiaolu lowered his head and kept thinking about the situation in Europe.
At present, the situation of the war in the Soviet Union has changed dramatically, and the defense of Moscow has begun ahead of schedule. This effect was very unfavorable to the Soviet Union. Because this time, Stalin evacuated Moscow, and the blow to confidence in the entire USSR was enormous.
Historically, the Germans dragged on for a long time. Just after attacking Moscow, not far from Moscow, it came the autumn rains, which not only made the soldiers uncomfortable, but also made the roads muddy and difficult to march. The thin mud tens of centimeters deep made it impossible for the car to move, and the tank went slowly, and it had to tow the car. Historically, the Germans blamed the failure of the attack on Moscow to the autumn rain and bitter cold, which was partly right and partly wrong. The will of the Soviets to resist was the main factor.
But now, Stalin's withdrawal has dealt a serious blow to Moscow's will to fight, and even to the determination of the entire Soviet Union to resist.
Next, Moscow will engage in street fighting, as in Leningrad and Stalingrad. However, Moscow is, after all, the capital, which has a huge psychological impact on both the offensive and defensive sides, and is more symbolic.
So will Stalin turn around and plead with himself to solve the problems of the Far East for him?
If you go to him yourself, you will be at a disadvantage when it comes to asking for money.
How can you get Stalin to come to him?
Only by making an example and making Stalin realize his own strength.
Where to show power?
The answer is clear, and it has been designed for a long time, and that is Outer Mongolia. Now that Japan has started a full-scale war with the Soviet Union, the pressure of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation has disappeared all at once. All the senior cadres of various units called to inquire about the next step, and some even asked if they would hold a meeting to discuss the big plan.
In order to ask the Soviet Union for a price, Yi Chun asked the various units to strengthen their armaments and wait for the order on the pretext of waiting for the order from Yan'an.
Also, how much does it cost? Abolish all the unequal treaties signed between Tsarist Russia and China? Not very realistic. Want the USSR to abandon Outer Mongolia? Realistic, but this is unlikely to be agreed to by Stalin.
Xiaolu is a little unwilling, can he ask for concessions from the Soviet Union?
Just thinking about it, the arsenal has arrived.
Several settlements were opened in the vicinity of the arsenal, where the employees of the arsenal and their families lived. This is the best residential area in the whole of Yichun, all of which are buildings, with running water, heating, and houses with sewerage. There are more than 10,000 people working here, and tens of thousands of people live here, including their families.
Most of the family members are involved in the work and are engaged in logistics services. A small number of family members who turned out to be farmers organized to produce some grain and vegetables for the factory.
After the safety check was completed, the car on the trail entered a factory area. The so-called factory area is a ravine, a well-defended ravine. When I drove into the factory, I saw a convoy full of grass-green wooden boxes leaving the factory. This is a newly produced weapon, a submachine gun. There are also submachine gun accessories and cartridges.
When I entered the workshop, I saw that the workers were busy and orderly. At this time, the bell rang, and a group of workers walked into the workshop, found their jobs, and began to take over and sign with the person on the previous shift. Soon, the workers who had finished their shifts left the workshop and got off work.
After walking a few workshops, I came to the tank repair plant. Nikolai is directing the workers, hoisting a tank. Next to it are several produced armored cars. Today, the old tank parts on hand are running out, and the entire Northeast Democratic Alliance Army has hundreds of tanks.
Nikolai, in addition to developing his own tanks, also carried out work on the modification of armored cars. At the moment, armored cars have been finalized, dozens of them have been produced. As for the source of the car, some are new cars bought by the Soviet Union, and some are old Japanese cars, and some iron plates are welded around the cars, and ninety percent of them are armored cars.
Nikolai saw the path coming and said, "There is always something wrong with the road?" ”
Xiaolu said: "I want to talk to you." Got time? ”
Nikolai said, "Please come and sit in the office." ”
Nikolai's office is a room with windows, and the factory is basically in an underground cave, so there are not many such offices. Xiaolu sat down and asked, "How is the new tank progressing?" ”
Nikolai: "It's too complicated, it's too expensive. According to the materials we have accumulated, only one prototype is produced, and the prototype is all manual. After testing it, it is powerful, and it is the most powerful tank in the world. There are still some problems that are being tackled. There are still problems with the weapon system. ”
Later generations of Chinese workers have created miracles, all manual imitation of other CNC machine tools, and the performance is the same as the original machine. Nikolai and they also have this ability, and the masters from Shenyang are the main ones, and they make tanks by hand, which is really amazing.
Xiaolu said: "I want to talk to you about the situation on the battlefield in the Soviet Union. Do you know about the recent progress? ”
Nikolai: "Just communicated. Got it. ”
Xiaolu said: "What do you think?" ”
Nikolai: "I'm afraid the Soviet Union won't be able to support it." I am afraid that we will be caught in a protracted war like China. ”
"The Soviet Union can't support it, do you think the United States will send troops?"
"Unlikely."
"The Soviet Union is finished, and the Japanese army turns back to deal with us with all its might, then China will be in danger. I want to send troops to Outer Mongolia, what do you think? ”
"The Japanese army can't afford to come to Outer Mongolia, and now they can send troops. If the Japanese had conquered Chita, it would have been too late. However, it is also a good idea for us to send some troops into the Soviet Union and cause trouble for Japan. ”
Obviously, like almost all of the upper echelons of Yichun, Nikolai was thinking about it.