Chapter 628: Northeast Land Reform and Army Building

Han Yunhua's consideration is extremely necessary, and the central government has been very entangled in the land reform plan he submitted for a while. As he feared, this land reform plan has a certain conflict with the anti-Japanese national united front formulated by the central government, especially the confiscation of the landlord's land, the largest landlord in the country is Chiang Kai-shek, and the confiscation of the landlord class's land does not force the old Chiang Kai-shek to break with **.

In the end, after thinking about it for a few days, the central government called back Han Yunhua and asked him to dispel this idea for the time being, as for the reason, the central government also told Han Yunhua without reservation.

After reading the meeting point of the central government, Han Yunhua was not discouraged, and he continued to call the central government to explain the reasons and determination of his intention to carry out land reform in the northeast region, and also stated the possibility of implementing land reform in the northeast. Han Yunhua always believed that the advantages of land reform definitely outweighed the disadvantages, and although the peasants were the lower or the lowest class in the whole country, it was precisely because of this that the peasants were an important force in promoting social development, because they had the courage and determination to revolutionize, so they won the hearts of the people. At this time, although the Republic of China period had begun, the national government still maintained the feudal land system, and the landlords and rich peasants, who accounted for less than 10 percent of the rural population, owned 70 to 80 percent of the land. By virtue of the land they occupied, they brutally exploited and oppressed the peasants. On the other hand, the poor, hired and middle peasants, who account for 90 percent of the rural population, own only 20 to 30 percent of the land. They work hard all year round, are exploited, and do not have enough food and clothing. This feudal land system seriously hindered the development of the rural economy and Chinese society. They were miserable, and the vast number of peasants urgently demanded land reform and access to land! The purpose of land reform is to enable these landless peasants to obtain land, so that they can win the support and love of the people in Northeast China in the shortest possible time and gain a firm foothold in Northeast China.

However, the central government's concerns are also necessary, so Han Yunhua is particularly emphasizing the implementation of land reform in the northeast region alone, because the special political environment in the northeast region provides the possibility of large-scale land reform. During the Japanese puppet rule, in order to support Japanese immigrants, whether it was the Kwantung Army or the Japanese armed pioneer group, the landlord class in Northeast China was brutally plundered, and they robbed and seized land openly and secretly, assassination, low-price purchase, kidnapping and extortion. And those surviving landlords in Northeast China were either high-ranking bureaucrats who were puppeteers, or they took refuge in the Japanese, and became accomplices of the Japanese, and big traitors that everyone shouted and beaten.

And most of these people had already fled when the troops recovered the Northeast, so there were really not many surviving landlords in the Northeast at this time, so Han Yunhua thought that the resistance to this land reform would not be too great. After the implementation of this land policy, the peasants will greatly stimulate their enthusiasm for revolution and production, and in order to defend the fruits of victory, the peasants who have turned over will enthusiastically join the army and actively support the front. Not only is the economy expected to recover in the Northeast, but the troops will quickly gain the support of the people.

Han Yunhua's determination and the reasons he stated eventually impressed the leaders of the central government, and on January 29, the central government called back and agreed to Han Yunhua's department to carry out land reform in the northeast region. However, the scope is limited to the northeast, and the Inner Mongolia Military Region will never be allowed to carry out such large-scale land reform in all areas under its jurisdiction.

After receiving the order from the central authorities, Han Yunhua was overjoyed and ordered Chen Yun to immediately set up a leading group for land reform and gradually carry out land reform with imagination as a unit. At the same time, the commanders of the group armies were required to immediately carry out small-scale land reform in accordance with the 1941 land reform plan of the central authorities in their jurisdictions, so as to promote the economic development of the entire base area. …,

After the peasants who supported the land reform and the order of the Inner Mongolia Military Region was issued, there was a lot of discussion in the entire northeast region, because the work team had not yet descended to the townships and towns, and at most it had reached the city and county level, so the peasants were excited, doubtful, and eager. The landlords, on the other hand, were panicked and hurriedly hid their own land deeds, selling grain, cattle and sheep if they could sell them, and hiding them if they couldn't.

In order not to cause panic among the landlord class, Han Yunhua ordered the work teams of each county to immediately go to the county and village towns to publicize the first policy, especially to explain that only the landlord's land was recovered, and the landlord himself and his family would not carry out any life attack, and the landlord would be counted as a member of the toiling masses in the future, and the landlord would also be praised for taking the initiative to hand over the title deed and cooperate with the working group to measure and distribute the land according to the local per capita share of the land.

The Inner Mongolia Military Region's land reform not only covers a wide area, but also involves an extremely large number of people, and Han Yunhua has initially calculated that about 150 million people will benefit. Of these, 43 million were the result of large-scale land reform, in which landlords' land was confiscated and distributed equally to peasants in need. The remaining 100 million or so people can enjoy the preferential policies of landlords reducing rents and interest and peasants paying rent and interest. Although they are all people in the liberated areas, due to the different political environment, Han Yunhua can only be treated differently for the time being.

The land reform was welcomed by the peasant class, from the initial skepticism to the warm welcome at this time, the change during this period is the change in the attitude of the people in the northeast to the **.

Chen Yun is the supreme leader of the economic department of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and plays a decisive role in economic decision-making, and Chen Yun's own ability is also extremely reassuring to Han Yunhua, so such a large-scale land reform Han Yunhua was handed over to Chen Yun, and he himself was busy with the construction of the army.

At present, the regular troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are extremely strong, and their numbers are also extremely large, and if the army is expanded, the military industry and the economy of the Inner Mongolia Military Region will not be able to provide sufficient supplies for the troops. Therefore, Han Yunhua did not plan to continue to expand the army, and according to the battle plan formulated before, the whole army was divided into eight group armies and one headquarters directly under the guard army. However, Han Yunhua believed that it was necessary to greatly strengthen the construction of mechanized troops, because that would be the main force in future wars.

At present, the Inner Mongolia Military Region has a total of six unconventional troops, namely, Wan Guoquan's armored group, Liu Wenhua's artillery group, Shangguan Qingyun's aviation group, Aolige's cavalry group, Li Shuangjiang's Haiphong river transport group, and Li Wenbing's electronic radar corps. Wan Guoquan's armored group is the earliest mechanized unit established in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, so far this installed unit has a total of 887 armored vehicles and tanks of various types, in addition to 566 military trucks and 128 rapid-fire guns, including logistics, all the troops add up to nearly 50,000 people, is a huge comprehensive mechanized corps.

However, Han Yunhua believes that the strength of the armored group is still extremely weak, because the armored group has only 2 tank divisions, 4 tank brigades and a rapid-fire artillery brigade so far, and the armored forces of the Japanese army stationed in the northeast region have two tank divisions. Moreover, according to the latest intelligence, in view of the successive defeats of the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese army base camp intends to continue to invest a lot of troops and energy on the Chinese battlefield, form 2 or 3 tank divisions, and at the same time rebuild the aviation units of the Kwantung Army. During this trip to the Soviet Union, Stalin promised to reinforce another 200 T34 tanks for the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and also to help build an ammunition production base for T34 tanks in the northeast region for the Inner Mongolia Military Region. These Han Yunhua plans to integrate all of them into Wan Guoquan's armored forces, so that all the tanks of his armored group will break through the 1,000 mark as soon as possible. …,

The second largest unconventional arms group is Liu Wenhua's artillery group, the artillery group of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is the largest powerful arms group except for the armored group of Wan Guoquan, the entire artillery group does not have a division-level command system, and there are only brigades under the group army, and the entire artillery group has a total of 9 artillery brigades, two 75mm mountain artillery brigades, 2 field artillery brigades of the same caliber, a 105mm caliber cannon brigade, a 150mm heavy artillery brigade, and a rocket launcher brigade. A brigade of unconscionable artillery and a brigade of rapid-fire artillery. The entire group army was armed with a total of 1088 standard artillery, accounting for 35 of all artillery pieces in the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Han Yunhua knew that although the role of artillery in the war in northern China was huge, it did not play a decisive role, but once it fought in the south, the role of artillery would be much greater, and the troops were about to launch an attack on the Japanese puppet army in Shandong, Jiangsu, and Anhui, so Han Yunhua urgently needed to strengthen the construction of artillery.

However, the construction of artillery is not an overnight thing, and Stalin also clearly told Han Yunhua that the Soviet Union's own artillery also has a big gap, and it is impossible to assist the Inner Mongolia Military Region for the time being. Therefore, Han Yunhua can only work the training of artillery and the use of artillery. On the one hand, because the Japanese-made mountain artillery and field artillery are obviously less powerful, although the size is small and carryable, but the effect on strong fortifications is not too great, it is okay to deal with the poorly equipped guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, and the effect on the regular descendants of the Nationalist Fu is not to be beaten, in this Northeast War, the artillery units of the Kwantung Army are almost just a decoration, and under the blow of the Soviet Union's large-scale artillery clusters, the Japanese artillery units have no chance to fight back. After seeing the captured Japanese mountain guns, the artillery commander of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District, Shinfsky, said disdainfully: "How can the Japanese be embarrassed to bring such inferior weapons to the battlefield, and it is simply inconceivable that the great Soviet should confront such an enemy for such a long time." "If such weapons and equipment are not supplemented by advanced training methods and methods of use, the power is even less pitiful.

In terms of artillery training and the use of artillery arms, the Soviet Union is definitely the most powerful country in the world, and even Germany cannot compare with the Soviet Union. Although Stalin said that he could not provide assistance to the Inner Mongolia Military Region in terms of weapons and equipment, Han Yunhua believed that although weapons and equipment were important, if there was no correct way to use them, even the most advanced artillery would be in vain, so Han Yunhua specially sent a telegram to Stalin, hoping that the Soviet Union would send an artillery team to China to help the Inner Mongolia Military Region train its artillery units. Han Yunhua believed that with the current strength of Liu Wenhua's artillery group, as long as the Soviets handed over to them the correct methods of use and the relevant experience and theory of artillery, the strength of the artillery group would be raised by more than one level.

In addition, Han Yunhua also knew that in this war against Japan, the Soviet Red Army captured a lot of Japanese weapons and equipment, from rifles to heavy artillery to planes and tanks, and except for a few Zero fighters, which could be regarded as the eyes of the Soviets, the other Soviets obviously did not look down on them. However, due to the regulations of the army, after the war, these weapons and equipment were transported back to Boli by the Far Eastern Military Region and were not handed over to Han Yunhua.

Han Yunhua had made a special request to Lieutenant General Ivanov about this batch of weapons and equipment, hoping to transfer this batch of weapons and equipment that they did not like to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, but Ivanov said that he needed Comrade Stalin's order, and he would submit an application report to Comrade Stalin, but it had been nearly a month, and there was still no news at all, so Han Yunhua still decided to mention it to Stalin himself, after all, those weapons and equipment that the Soviets did not look down on and shipped back to Boli was just like broken copper and iron to be rebuilt. If you want to use such equipment to compete with the Germans, I am afraid that it will not be long before the front will return to the same way it was half a year ago. …,

For such a trivial matter, Stalin happily agreed, anyway, as long as Han Yunhua did not ask for Katyusha rocket artillery and other important artillery, Stalin was still happy to help this Chinese comrade, in Stalin's view, every time the Chinese comrade made a request, he owed the Soviet people an extra favor, which needed to be repaid. It was still very cost-effective to use those broken copper and iron as an emotional investment in Stalin's opinion. After listening to the whole story of the Northeast War sent by Lieutenant General Ivanov, commander of the Far Eastern Military District, Stalin also despised the Japanese tank troops that had no achievements, and in order to show his atmosphere, Stalin waved his hand and reinforced Han Yunhua with 121 captured Japanese 97 tanks, more than 650 artillery pieces of various kinds, and a large number of conventional weapons.

The remaining 4 unconventional troops Han Yunhua is most assured of the cavalry group of Aolige, the Mongolian man has grown into a qualified commander after more than 5 years of bloodshed, his cavalry group is the largest cavalry unit in the entire Chinese battlefield and even the entire Pacific Rim Theater, the entire cavalry group has a total of 6 cavalry divisions, and the whole army has more than 83,000 people. Han Yunhua knew that the cavalry was already a declining branch of the army, and the cavalry had completely declined in the face of modern warfare, especially after the armored force was used in large quantities, even the Polish cavalry, which was famous for its cavalry, had to be swept into the garbage heap of history in a tragic way. Therefore, what Han Yunhua needs is not a conventional cavalry unit, what he needs is a comprehensive force with rapid response in the mountains and plains. Therefore, the cavalry group of Aurege is not only a warrior on a war horse, but also an artillery, engineer and other arms. And Aolige did not disappoint Han Yunhua, the 6 cavalry divisions do have their own characteristics, except for two ordinary cavalry divisions, the remaining four are all special forces in the cavalry, one of them is a cavalry artillery division, a cavalry engineer division, one is a cavalry attack division, and the last one is a cavalry rapid reaction division.

Now the aviation regiment of the Inner Mongolia Military Region has all been incorporated into the joint air force, but Han Yunhua also asked Shangguan Qingyun to form an aviation regiment in the name of training pilots, this aviation regiment does not have a single fighter, but it has nearly 6,000 pilots, Han Yunhua asked Shangguan Qingyun to use the resources of the United States and the Soviet Union to train a large number of qualified pilots for the Chinese Air Force. The United States and the Soviet Union were well aware of this, but these were all minor matters, so no one raised any objections. However, the national government and the FU side also saw the same example, and 500 college students were transferred from Chongqing to Saibei to participate in pilot training.

The inland waterway shipping group is definitely an alternative to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, in fact, this is another name for the first navy, Han Yunhua has made a Chinese Northern Air Force has caused great annoyance, so when Han Yunhua proposed to establish the Northern China Navy, the central government immediately ordered him to dispel this idea. In desperation, Han Yunhua had no choice but to name this navy as an inland shipping unit, as the name suggests, it is a surface force that only maintains inland waterway shipping. The entire inland waterway shipping group has a total of 8 warships, 22 torpedo boats and 12 troop carriers, most of which were captured in the northeast region, but unfortunately, none of these 8 warships are battleships or heavy cruisers, including 3 destroyers, 2 cruisers, and 3 frigates, with a maximum displacement of 7,600 tons.

Han Yunhua didn't know anything about the navy, and there was no one in the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region and the entire **, so in desperation, Han Yunhua had no choice but to let Li Shuangjiang temporarily take the position of naval commander, and also used the top commander of the puppet Manchukuo surface forces as his assistant.

As for the electronic radar group, it is the unit that Han Yunhua attaches the most importance to in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, although this unit has only three battalions for the time being, but Han Yunhua is constantly searching for talents to supplement this unit, although this unit now has only 1,650 people, but in terms of cultural level, it is the absolute first among the more than 3 million troops in the Inner Mongolia Military Region. There was not a single person in the entire army who had an education level below junior high school, which was the absolute first in China at this time.

Although this electronic radar unit is just a shelf, Han Yunhua has great hopes. The electronic radar unit consists of three battalions, the first electronic countermeasure jamming battalion, referred to as the electronic battalion, whose main task is to use electronic jammers to jam the Japanese military radio stations on the battlefield, so that their electronic signals are disordered or have no signal at all, resulting in the paralysis of the command system of the Japanese army. The second battalion is the electronic radar battalion, or radar battalion for short. This battalion is the only radar unit in the Inner Mongolia Military Region and is equipped with a military radar supported by the United States and the Soviet Union. Although there are only two radars, Han Yunhua has mobilized 800 people to serve them, and Han Yunhua hopes that these two radars will become the cradle of training China's radar soldiers. The third battalion is the electronic intelligence battalion, referred to as the intelligence battalion, which is responsible for intercepting Japanese electronic signals and then translating the information contained therein for reference in the movement of the troops.