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Chapter 1624 Logistics Crisis

To fight a war is to fight logistics, and this sentence is not false at all. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

With the fall of the industrial and agricultural districts of the Far Eastern Republic in the Primorsky, Khabarovsk, Amur, and Transbaikal regions, and later on Eastern Siberia and the main railway lines fell into the hands of the rebels and the Japanese, the logistical supply of the Far Eastern Army and the Anjia Army was seriously threatened.

However, since the Japanese army entered Tomsk and Novosibirsk last month, the industrial and agricultural bases of the entire Western Siberia have been seriously threatened by the Japanese army, and at the same time, a large number of Soviet partisans have infiltrated Western Siberia and the Urals to wreak havoc, and the supply of military supplies has become extremely difficult.

Now, with the continuous rainfall, airships and transport planes cannot be used to replenish the front line in time, and the situation has deteriorated dramatically.

To this end, the General Staff has always paid close attention to the weather conditions in Central Asia, intensified its efforts to transport supplies to areas where there is no rainfall, and transported supplies to the front line by rail and road. At the same time, the attitude of the South China General Staff towards the remnants of the Soviet army in southern Central Asia changed from total annihilation to sending them out of the country as a gift, and the consumption of materials was minimized to ease the logistical pressure.

Nanhua, Xinjing.

Unlike Western Siberia and Central Asia, it was a sunny day in Xinjing at the moment, the sun was shining, and the scorching sun was shining on the skin, faintly painful.

At nine o'clock in the morning, An Yi walked into the conference room of the General Staff Headquarters of Duzhu Temple, and the generals of the three general departments on both sides of the conference table all stood up.

An Yi went straight to the main seat, waved his hand, motioned for the generals to sit down, and asked directly: "Now that Commander Hu is in danger one after another, and he urgently needs reinforcements, I don't know where Xiao Wubing's movement is?" Also, when did the main forces of Ye and Li launch an attack on the Andijan region and force the Soviet army to take the initiative to make a choice? ”

Deputy Chief of General Staff Yang Fei stood up, walked to the map, and picked up the baton:

"The day before yesterday, after Hu Jiyang's corps captured Almaty, Xiao Wu's corps was ordered by the theater command to quickly go north and rush to Tatarsk. Prior to this, the logistics department had organized 10 trains, which were concentrated in Frunze, Chucheng and Burlik, and after receiving the order, the corps headquarters quickly loaded the trains, and now the forward has reached Moyingti (now Moint City), north of Lake Balkhash, and is expected to arrive in Tatarsk within a week.

"The main forces of the Ye and Li fronts marched into Andijan from the north and south lines yesterday. Due to the heavy rain falling for several days, the water of the Naryn, Kara, Syr Darya, and Fergana canals swelled, and when the Soviet troops retreated, they damaged roads and railway bridges, and the mechanized troops and artillery of our army made slow progress, and the logistics could not keep up, and it is expected that the general offensive will be launched in at least three to five days. ”

"It's too slow!"

An Yi frowned: "In the name of the General Staff Department, I went to urge by telegram, is it that without artillery fire and the air force, they will not fight?" As I have already said, the strategic intentions of the Soviet troops are obvious, they are clinging to Andijan only in order to delay time, so that their main forces can be strategically transferred to the south in an orderly manner.

"Time is very precious to us, if we can't liberate the troops of the Ye and Li fronts as soon as possible and rush to the aid of the northern front, the Japanese army may turn the direction of the attack to us at any time! Moreover, only when the southern front is truly stabilized can we let go of industrial and agricultural construction, otherwise it will always be a hidden danger. ”

Yang Fei was slightly stunned, and then nodded:

"Well, I'll call right after the meeting to see what the hell is going on. However, if the conditions did not allow, I insisted on waiting for the conditions to be ripe before launching an attack to minimize casualties. ”

"You make it clear to them that things can't be delayed. The Japanese army was rapidly increasing its forces in Siberia, and so far ten corps had already driven to Siberia by rail. One corps of the Japanese army has three to five divisions under its jurisdiction, and each division plus artillery, cavalry, engineers, and baggage troops, at least 20,000 people, and ten armies will reach one million! If we can't plug the gap in time, these million Japanese troops will crush our northern defense line, and the good situation will fall apart! An Yi said sternly.

"Strange, with the mobilization of nearly a million troops to fight, the Japanese army is not afraid of being dragged down by logistical pressure? Also, in just eight months, the Japanese army sent 20 million Lanyin immigrants to North China, which is an almost impossible task! Chang Baofang, director of the General Logistics Department, was overwhelmed by the materials needed in the Central Asian Theater, and after listening to An Yi's words, he immediately asked incredulously.

Major General Xu Yifan, head of Nanhua in the fourth hall, who attended the meeting as an observer, stood up:

"I have the answer to that. Since Ishihara took charge of the Japanese army headquarters, helped Nagano Shusei as the head of the military command, and appointed Isoroku Yamamoto as commander of the Combined Fleet, relations between the army and navy, and between the army and the government, have been effectively improved. After the Japanese army occupied the Lanyin Islands, they took over the mines, non-ferrous metal smelters, and iron and steel enterprises of the Dutch, and in addition to the introduction of a large amount of American capital investment, so far three coal plants, two iron and steel plants, two tin factories, and one aluminum plant have been completed and put into operation, and their material supplies have been greatly improved, and the steel and alloy materials used to build tanks, artillery, and airplanes have increased by at least 50 percent.

"Through various channels, the Japanese government has purchased ready-made and scrapped transport ships from Britain, France, the United States and other countries, with tonnage ranging from 20,000 tons to 1,200 tons, and put them into use after a little repair, and in just half a year, it has established 12 shipping companies with a total tonnage of up to 3 million tons. These companies all have military backgrounds and have invited the emperor and government officials to take shares, and are ready to provide transportation services for the army. 20 million immigrants from India may seem like a lot, but for Japan, which has a transportation capacity of tens of millions of tons, it is not worth mentioning. ”

(PS: According to the data, the gross tonnage of merchant ships in the United States before World War II was 82.9 million tons, the United Kingdom was 74.8 million tons, and Japan was 6.87 million tons.) Throughout World War II, the United States produced a total of 86,338 tanks, 160,000 armored vehicles, 2.4 million military trucks, 297,000 aircraft, 64,500 landing craft, thousands of warships, and 520,000 tons of merchant ships. ）

Liu Qing confirmed Xu Yifan's words: "The so-called immigrants in Japan are similar to the white people who sold black slaves to the Americas in history, those Lanyin natives were confiscated of their property, men, women, old and young were all locked up together, and the whole ship was transported to China like piglets, and only a small amount of water and food were issued on the way, and after arriving at the ports in North China and Northeast China, they were distributed by the puppet government according to the region." Under the whips and guns of the puppet army, those Lanyin people had to travel long distances to reach their destination. In the course of this barbaric migration, at least a quarter of the frail people died. ”

Zhan Zhi, director of the General Political Department, asked puzzledly: "Since Japan has dealt with the Lanyin people with such cruel means, why are these natives still willing to be the lackeys of the Japanese?" ”

Xu Yifan said: "The migration was violent, but after arriving at the locality, Japan adopted gentle methods, sent people to the resettlement sites, apologized on behalf of the Japanese government, and compensated the families who had lost the population's military tickets, land, and means of production. Generally, a village has two village heads, one Chinese village chief and one indigenous village head, and if there is any dispute, the Japanese colonial government is biased in favor of the indigenous people. Through this means, those natives saw the fate of the Chinese who were even more miserable than themselves, and their psychology was balanced, and they naturally turned to the Japanese. ”

The generals looked at each other, but they didn't expect these Lanyin natives to be so easy to fool.

Chang Baofang said worriedly:

"It's not a good situation right now! The supplies of the Japanese army could be obtained through the Trans-Siberian Railway, but we needed to travel thousands of miles by air from southern Sichuan to Mongolia, and then Mongolia to Central Asia by car or air, and finally by train or car to the front-line soldiers. If it weren't for the fact that we had developed a large-capacity aircraft like an airship, it is estimated that the army in Central Asia would have been out of service by this time! ”

Lieutenant General Shen Yanxiang, head of the Quartermaster Department of the General Logistics Department, said:

"Now that there is still a surplus of food and ammunition for the Far Eastern Army, I am afraid that as the war continues, the logistics of the Far Eastern Army will eventually fall on us, and with our current supply capacity, we will be dragged down sooner or later. The top priority at the moment is to quickly restore industrial and agricultural production in Central Asia and achieve nearby supplies. ”

"It's the best way to do it!"

An Yi nodded slightly: "Have you counted the number of factories and enterprises in Central Asia?" Is there a reasonable development plan? ”

"The comrades of the Democracy Movement Brigade and the working group stationed in various localities to take over factories, enterprises, farms, and pastures, and to preside over land reform and the establishment of military control committees have already handed over the specific data, and our General Political Department and General Logistics Department have sent joint investigation teams to conduct a review. Originally, we wanted to wait for the confirmation before reporting, but since the Chairman mentioned it, I will briefly say it. ”

Zhan Zhi stood up with a thick report:

"By the end of last month, we had set up military management committees at all levels in cities along Central Asian highways and railways, and governments in areas where conditions were ripe. In addition to the area south of Almaty and east of Kokand, an important city in the Karakapal steppe, we have received a total of 986 factories and enterprises, including energy, metallurgy, machinery, chemical industry, textile, etc., of which energy is divided into petroleum, coal and electric power, metallurgy includes steel and non-ferrous metals, machinery is divided into heavy machinery, power machinery, tractors and agricultural machinery, transportation machinery manufacturing, chemical industry including fertilizer, acid and alkali, synthetic rubber, textile cotton, wool, linen fabrics and other factories are readily available. Overall, the industrial situation in Central Asia is better than we expected......"

Speaking of this, Zhan Zhi simply got up and came to the map, and picked up the baton: "The large industrial bases include Karaganda, Guryev, Aktyubinsk, Dezkazgan, Semypaladinsk, Ashgabat, Tashkent, etc., these industrial bases revolve around the characteristics of the city itself, and basically form a huge industrial chain including dozens of factories and enterprises, in addition to the cities along the railway and highways, there are also several to a dozen factories and enterprises, and it is completely feasible for us to use the local resources of Central Asia to supplement the production nearby.

"Look here - Karaganda, located in the heart of Central Asia, is a well-known warehouse of coal, iron, manganese, copper, barite, polymetals and rare metals in Central Asia, with 27% of Kazakhstan's zinc, 35% gold, 47% lead, 60% tin, 63% molybdenum, 80% tungsten and all manganese, as well as rich in rare metals such as bismuth, silver, antimony, titanium, nickel, cobalt, corundum, arsenic, rare earths, etc. Karaganda coal mine reserves are more than 2 billion tons, iron ore and polymetallic ore reserves are abundant, and more than 20 iron ore mines have been proved so far, of which Kentobe ore reserves are more than 200 million tons. Karaganda is located in the central region of the entire large coal mining belt, surrounded by two large iron mines with reserves of more than 500 million tons in Kharkhalinsk and Atasusky, during the First Five-Year Plan, the Soviet government made full use of the coal and iron ore resources in the region to develop industry, in addition to the power and iron and steel industries, metal, machinery, chemical, cement and other industries are also developed. As early as three or five years, Karaganda had achieved an annual output of 2 million tons of steel, 5,000 tractors, and 2,000 trucks and buses, and the Karaganda Military Factory was one of the top ten arsenals in the Soviet Union. As long as we straighten out the relationship and make appropriate changes to the production line, Karaganda will soon become our most important base for the supply of arms and ammunition.

"Look at this again -- Guriev on the northern shore of the Caspian Sea, near the city of Enba, Zhiraya Spit, Koschagar, Dosol, Makat and other five major oil fields are extremely rich in oil reserves, with an annual output of more than 2 million tons of oil, the industry is mainly oil refining, chemical industry, in addition to machinery manufacturing, shipbuilding and repair, as well as canned fish, meat processing enterprises are also relatively developed. In the future, Guryev will be our most important energy base, with the oil produced here, the development of industry will have blood, and the troops will be able to replenish fuel nearby, which will greatly alleviate our logistical supply tension. ”

Zhan Zhi moved the baton in his hand: "Jezkazgan is located in the northeast of the Aral Sea, known as the 'copper city', the copper reserves near the city are extremely rich, the Soviet Union carried out key planning and construction during the First Five-Year Plan, is the largest copper production center in Central Asia and even the whole Soviet Union, with large mining and metallurgical companies, including mining, beneficiation, copper smelting plants a total of 14, industrial categories also include meat processing complexes, dairy plants, thermal power plants, etc. The data of three to five years is that the city has been able to produce 60,000 tons of copper ingots per year, and the output will increase after the technological transformation, which will provide a steady stream of copper for our military enterprises.

"Aktyubinsk, which is located in the northwestern region of Kazakhstan, runs through the Central Asian Railway and the North Kazakhstan Railway. The reserves of the Kostanay iron ore near the city are as high as more than one billion tons, and the mineral reserves of bauxite, asbestos, phosphorus, nickel, chromium, potash and other minerals are also extremely rich, and the ore and metal smelting, iron and steel, military industry, machinery, metal processing, chemical industry, textile, shoemaking, food processing and other industrial categories are complete, especially the military industrial enterprises relying on metal smelting and steel, as long as they are slightly transformed, they can produce bullets, shells, grenades, mines, semi-automatic rifles, automatic rifles and cannons and other weapons, and it is the industrial center city that we must focus on defending.

"Tashkent, located in the south of Central Asia, is the capital of Uzbekistan, within 500 kilometers of copper, lignite, oil, sulfur, phosphorus and non-ferrous metals and other rich reserves, the Soviet Union has built a large mining and metallurgical company here, the production of copper, zinc, lead, sulfuric acid, fertilizers, etc., as well as carpet complexes, automobile manufacturing and repair plants, our plan is to build this place into a metal smelting and chemical capital, and then drive the overall development of the surrounding industry. In addition, the Nevertiabad oil field southeast of Leninabad and the Haudag oil field southwest of Stalinabad can produce 500,000 tons of crude oil per year, which is a strong support for the development of our chemical industry in Tashkent!

"The Semipaldinsk Industrial Zone, radiating the East Kazakhstan Altai Mountains of Ust-Kamen, Leninogorsk, Zryanovsk and other cities with huge reserves of metal symbiotic mines, due to the Soviet Union during the First Five-Year Plan on the Irtysh River and its tributaries built five large hydropower stations played a huge role, the region has convenient hydropower resources, the construction of lead, zinc, titanium and magnesium and other metal smelting complexes, but also has machinery manufacturing, textile, building materials industry and wood and food processing industry. In three to five years, the region has achieved the production of 55,000 tons of refined lead, 77,000 tons of crude zinc, in addition, nickel, magnesium, titanium, vanadium, tungsten, molybdenum, rare earth and gold, silver, platinum group metals output is also very considerable, the future will be our focus on the construction of non-ferrous metallurgical industry center city.

"Ashgabat, located in the southwest of Central Asia, the capital of Turkmenistan, near sulfur, oil, miscanthus salt, coal, salt and other minerals, industry machinery manufacturing, motor, glass, petrochemical, oil refining, textile and food processing, etc., of which machinery manufacturing includes the production of engineering machinery, oil pumps, agricultural machinery and automobiles and diesel locomotives and other factories and enterprises, textiles including cotton textile, silk reeling, carpet factories and other factories. In particular, it should be noted that the Chireken and Nebit Dag oil fields in this area have reached one million tons of oil production, which has become another fuel replenishment channel for us.

"In the places I have listed here, since the Soviet Union planned hydropower at the beginning of construction, we do not need to spend extra energy on duplicate construction at all, and most of the factories and enterprises organized by the Far East to be demolished from Siberia and the Urals are now also mostly relocated to these regions, and after the completion of the resettlement, the scale of the industry will be multiplied. Therefore, I suggest that from now on, we have to transfer manpower from factories in southern Sichuan and southern Yunnan to work in Central Asia by air, so that these factories can resume production capacity as soon as possible. At the same time, we can use Soviet prisoners of war to build a network of railways and highways to promote the development of our transportation and circulation channels. With such a multi-pronged approach, the development of Central Asia will inevitably embark on a high-speed channel, and in two or three years, it will not only meet the needs of the war in Central Asia, but will also be able to promote the construction of our South China in turn. ”

"The advice is good!"

An Yi nodded again and again, looking very satisfied: "The work of the Political Department has been done very carefully, and I will discuss it with Chu'er, Sister Qian, Chong'an, and He Jing when I go back, and come up with the regulations for sending skilled workers to work in Central Asia as soon as possible." In addition, at the same time as the factories and enterprises in Central Asia started, the Syrian Institute will also send experts to conduct a comprehensive investigation of those backward production lines to see if they can save labor costs and increase production capacity through technological transformation and upgrading, such as steelmaking must use our current pure oxygen top blowing converter steelmaking method, so that in a short period of time, the steelmaking cost can be reduced by 60%, the production speed can be accelerated by 3 times, and the utilization rate of ore raw materials can be increased by 80%! By the way, did your General Political Department and the General Logistics Department come up with a specific resettlement plan, and how did you arrange the workers who had migrated from the Far Eastern Republics? ”

"It's simple—"

Zhan Zhi smiled slightly: "The factories that are demolished and relocated will be received according to the original factory and the original unit, anyway, the Far Eastern Republic, like the Soviet Union, implements militarized management of the factory, and is not afraid of chaos. Thanks to our propaganda, the Central Asian population now hates the Soviet Union to the extreme, and we have succeeded in gaining the hearts and minds of the people. ”

An Yi and Liu Qing tacitly glanced at each other, knowing that it was those shady methods that could not see the light that worked.

In real history, during World War II, Stalin sent a large number of Red Army, disguised as invading German ** teams, went deep behind enemy lines to commit crimes, wantonly damaged the reputation of the German army, and used the photos and audio-visual materials taken to strengthen the determination of Soviet personnel to resist fascism. In this era, in order to discredit the Far Eastern Republic, Moscow sent people to wear the uniforms of the Far Eastern Army, created a series of tragedies in Western Siberia, and carried out terrorist activities in the name of the Far Eastern Army in Moscow and other places, causing the good reputation that the Far Eastern Army had finally established collapsed, and everyone shouted and beat it! An Yi just instructed Liu Qing to do the same. The only difference is that the Soviet army deliberately faked it, while An Jiajun knew that the tragedy had occurred but had no direct evidence, so he had to select people from the prisoners to play.

"The wheat, barley, corn, millet, rye, rice and other cereals and potatoes that we planted in the north-central region of Kazakhstan from May to June are growing well and are expected to be harvested in September and October," Chang advises. But before that, we have to resupply by air. If the materials needed by the Far Eastern Army also fall on us in the future, then even if the grain is harvested, there will be a large shortage, and our logistics department will have to increase the intensity of air transportation. Therefore, I am also in favor of dealing with the remnants of the Soviet army in southern Central Asia as soon as possible, so that if we hurry up, we can also plant a season of potatoes and sweet potatoes, supplemented with plastic film, and harvest them before the snow falls. ”

At this moment, the wall clock on the wall of the conference room rang loudly and struck twelve times in a row.

An Yi stood up and said loudly: "Okay, let's start today's meeting here, and after we go back, we will perform our own responsibilities and implement the spirit of today's meeting." In the afternoon, I will fly to southern Yunnan, Mr. Tesla's permanent projection orbit research has made a breakthrough, I have to go and see, at the same time, I also want to see the research and development of the nuclear reactor, and then discuss with Chu'er about dispatching workers by the way. ”

The generals all stood up, saluted An Yi solemnly, and respectfully watched An Yi leave, and then slowly dispersed.