Early February 1930.

Approaching the Spring Festival, a sudden heavy snow turned the entire Central Plains into a white expanse, and the turbulent Yellow River was also covered by hard and thick ice at the moment, and was frozen in this ancient vicissitudes of land.

It was a busy winter in Shandong Province, where the Yellow River flows into the sea, and the entire land of Qilu was full of trucks and wagons full of trucks and wagons on several major highways, heading in the direction of Laizhou and Longkou in the Bohai Bay. There are two of them there

The seaport was also extremely busy during this time, with thousands of tons of various supplies being shipped from there every day to the port of Huludao across the sea to supply the army of thirteen divisions and three brigades deployed on the battlefield in western Liaoning, as well as more than three planes of one aviation division.

Shandong, Weifang Railway Station.

Trains roared into the station, each train loaded with supplies. On the platform in the station, there is an endless stream of people, constantly carrying materials out of the open carriages and stacking them on the open space inside and outside Weifang Station.

Fan Hanjie, commander of the Joint Logistics Command of the National Revolutionary Army, was in the only open area inside the station. The whole station and outside the station have long been piled up with all kinds of supplies, only this place is still empty, set up a military tent, and use ammunition boxes to pile up two simple desks in the tent, one of which has two radio stations on it, and a young man who looks like a staff officer next to him is reporting to him.

Fan Hanjie had obviously lost a lot of weight, his chin had become sharper, his beard seemed to have not been shaved for a few days, his tweed army coat was tightly wrapped around his body, and when the tent door was opened, he could clearly see groups of infantry carrying boxes of supplies from the train under the command of the officer.

"This is the report just received from the Huludao military station, after more than a month of rushing to transport artillery shells shortage has been resolved, at present all divisions and brigades on the front line have five bases of artillery shells, and there are still five bases of reserves in the warehouse of the military station. The total storage of artillery shells, including mortar shells, is more than 30,000, which is enough to cope with a large-scale battle. The logistics headquarters of all divisions and brigades are protected, and the units have reached the 10 base number of bullets, and there are still 10 base numbers in the warehouse of the military station. In terms of fuel, the 1st and 2nd Light Armored Divisions have sufficient fuel, and the reserve fuel is also at the fifth base, and the trucks of the other infantry divisions and brigades do not need enough fuel, and it will take at least five days to meet the needs. As for the Air Force, the Second Air Division has 10 bases of fuel in its airfields and logistics warehouses, and it is basically fully equipped with ammunition, but there are only two bases in the logistics warehouses, and at least 10 bases must be added to meet the needs of long-term operations. In addition, spare tanks for the lightly armored division and spare aircraft for the aviation division have not yet arrived. Grain Building Materials ......"

After the staff officer finished the report, he looked up at Fan Hanjie and hesitated: "Commander, now the materials stored by the troops in western Liaoning and the Huludao military station are enough to support a large-scale battle...... The responsibility for not reaching the plan is not ours, but the shipping force is insufficient, the Beijing government recalled their navy, and now the sea transportation is only seventy percent of the original, and all kinds of materials have been piled up in Weifang military station and Longkou and Laizhou ports. ”

Although Fan Hanjie, the commander of the joint logistics department, personally sat in Weifang to supervise the rush to transport supplies, the land route to the north was interrupted because the relationship between the two parties was almost broken, and although the sea route was not interrupted, it was also because the Chinese government recalled the naval fleet that originally belonged to the Northeast Army, so that the ability to transport Yu was also reduced by 30%. So now the whole transport plan ... Only less than 30% of the work has been completed. Although it was enough to support a large-scale battle, it could not support a persistent battle after the short-term cut off of shipping. In addition, due to the lack of access to the railway, there was no way to transport a 380-mm caliber train gun to Huludao, and now the Huludao fortress has only four 280-mm caliber coastal defense guns in addition to the 48 210-mm howitzers of an army heavy artillery brigade, which is basically unable to deal with the battleships that break into the frenzy.

Fan Hanjie shook his head and said nothing, Luo Yaoguo and An Sihua would not be satisfied with this result, although the Northeast battlefield is calm at the moment, but Fan Hanjie faintly estimated that the Japanese invaders would attack before the end of April at the latest, and the scale of this attack far exceeded the Battle of Liaoxi, and the duration of the battle of Liaoxi was likely to last for several months, and the most worrying thing was that the shipping line might be cut off by the Japanese army in the next war! If you can't stock up on enough supplies before the war, the Liaoxi army is very likely to be defeated due to lack of supplies!

However, he had no way to complete the task of stockpiling enough supplies before the war began.

He had a very strong feeling that the outcome of the next battle would determine the outcome of the entire war, and even the national fortunes of China and Japan, so there was absolutely no room for loss.

Without waiting for Fan Hanjie's answer, the staff officer put the documents into the bag, and then sat down at the desk set up by the ammunition box and continued to prepare the documents for the military meeting to be held in Jinan.

The radio was ticking, and the adjutant took the telegram from the snare man: "Commander, the order of the Chief of General Staff Luo wants you to rush to Jinan Wanzhuyuan immediately." ”

"Call back, obey." Fan Hanjie didn't look back, when a major officer hurriedly ran in from outside, holding a document in his hand.

"Commander, the matter is severe." Fan Hanjie looked back at him, and the major looked down at the documents! "This is the weather forecast I just received, there is another cold air in Siberia going south, the temperature in the entire northeast has plummeted, and the port of Nha Lu Island is expected to freeze again! The ice is expected to last for more than 10 days, and the ship will not be able to re-enter Huludao Port until February 12. The major finished in one breath, and then looked at Fan Hanjie, Fan Hanjie's heart sank, this time it was really a natural disaster, and Huludao Port could not be used for ten days, that is, at least 100,000 tons of materials could not be transported in time, and the material reserves in the hands of the Liaoxi army were even more tight.

"Commander, now we can only find a way to take the land route, if Zhongg Ken agrees to use the Jinpu line and the Bining line......" The major hesitated for a moment and still made a suggestion.

Fan Hanjie sighed, borrowing from Zhong G is not something that he, the commander of the joint logistics can do, even Luo Yaoguo, the chief of the general staff, may not have a way to open the way, Zhong G was ruthlessly pitted by the Kuomintang on the issue of the presidential election, and was forced to raise the signboard of the Soviet government in advance and lost a lot of points in the south, and he is angry at this time.

"It's better to go to Jinan first, and I can only ask the assistant marshal to make an idea." Fan Hanjie shook his head with a wry smile, beckoned to his adjutant and staff officer, and then strode towards the platform. Every day, there are more than a dozen empty dàngdàng trains going to the south, and Fan Hanjie can get on a few at will

It has already arrived in Jinan.

The Northeast Theater now has three headquarters in Huludao, Harbin, and Jinan, which are respectively headed by Senior General An Sihua, commander of the Northeast Theater, Admiral Wang Zhongyi, deputy commanders, and Vice Admiral Long Tenghui. Among them, this Jinan headquarters is mainly responsible for directing naval operations in the Bohai Bay.

Although Jinan is not a former enemy, the atmosphere is clearly wartime, full of soldiers and patrols, there are also many sentry posts along the way, and the newly rebuilt Jinan Railway Station (destroyed in the Battle of Shandong in 1928) is heavily guarded, and even high-ranking generals like Fan Hanjie have to be checked by two checkpoints.

The Jinan headquarters did not send a car to pick it up, so Fan Hanjie and his entourage hurriedly rushed to the headquarters in Wanzhuyuan by a car from the Jinan Military Station of the Joint Logistics Headquarters, and when they arrived there, it was already sunset.

After entering Wanzhuyuan, the atmosphere of Fan Hanjie's current headquarters is quite relaxed, and Luo Yaoguo is not in Wanzhuyuan, but goes to the Shandong Provincial Experimental Theater with Natalie to watch the drama Nala starring Sister Li Yunhe, a sixteen-year-old female artist who is gradually becoming popular in Jinan. This made Fan Hanjie breathe a sigh of relief, and hurriedly went to see Long Tenghui, the deputy commander of the war zone.

"Commander Long, burn your eyebrows! The temperature in the Northeast is about to plummet, and Huludao Port is about to freeze, what can I do.

Fan Hanjie's words made Long Tenghui, who was originally smiling lightly, nervous all of a sudden. Although he is now the deputy commander of the theater of operations, and he is not in charge of logistics and transportation, when he recalled the Northeast Army Navy in the middle of last month, he vetoed the proposal of Zhao Zheng, commander of the Beiyang Fleet, to seize the Northeast Army Navy, and as a result, the current transportation capacity is insufficient. If the battle is delayed because of this, the consequences will be serious!

"Commander Fan, how long can the reserves on the Liaoxi front last now?" Long Tenghui stared at Fan Hanjie and asked. Fan Hanjie shook his head and sighed: "At most, the battle will last for a month." "There's a month." Long Tenghui sighed softly, and despised Fan Hanjie with a worried face in his heart: "Huludao will be frozen in a month, and it will be shipped again when the time comes, and now there is no war in Liaoxi?" ”

Fan Hanjie smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Commander Long, when the battle begins, the Japanese Navy will definitely break into the Bohai Bay, can our Beiyang Fleet stop it?" Long Tenghui waved his hand indifferently and laughed: "That's impossible, we have planes in the sky, submarines underwater, and mines on the water...... Are they willing to take that risk? Don't forget, brother, our 200,000-ton capital ships will be in active service by the 23rd year of the Republic of China, and if the Japanese lose a few battleships in the Bohai Bay, it will be too late to cry by then. ”

Long Tenghui smiled and motioned for Fan Hanjie and the others to sit down, asked the orderlies to pour tea for them, and then said with a smile: "Although Brother Hanjie is relieved, the assistant commander also knows the difficulties of our logistics, he came to Jinan to negotiate with the representatives of the Chinese G side to borrow and lease naval ships. "First I was a person, and I was the same person...

At least I'm going to learn to be a human being. When Nala, played by Li Yunhe on the stage, said this classic line, the audience in the theater resounded with thunderous applause. And in a luxuriously decorated box, Xuan Xia's father, the head of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, looked at Natalie Lesinskaya sitting next to Luo Yaoguo with a look full of sympathy, regret, contempt, condemnation, uh, and a little appreciation and surprise. Of course, the Xuan revolutionaries felt that they were not admiring Natalie's self-depravity and betrayal of the revolution to act as the wife of a reactionary warlord, but only admiring the sexy and charming angel face, and they were only surprised by the bumpy devil figure. Luo Yaoguo's concerned voice suddenly sounded in Xuanxia's father's ears. Xuanxia's father only realized that the drama had ended, and he didn't know how long he had been distracted, the full audience had already left, and the theater was pitch black, leaving only the dim lights in this box.

"Oh, I'm considering the conditions of the borrowing proposed by Chief of General Staff Luo." Xuanxia's father sat up straight, frowned slightly, and looked thoughtful, and after a while, he sighed deeply: "The equipment of the ten light infantry divisions is borrowed from a road, and it stands to reason that it is not less." However, now that relations between the North and the South are tense, the South has been making groundless accusations of our party's dictatorship in the newspapers. This is a very unfriendly practice, and the comrades of our party are very indignant about this, if they really have the sincerity to jointly resist Japan, should we first eliminate this kind of influence that is not unfavorable to our party? "Mr. Xuan, the front line in western Liaoning is tight now." Natalie's beautiful eyes flickered, and Ying Ying smiled and said: "We have blocked the land passage, and recalled the Northeast Army and Navy, so that we are not even short of sea capacity now...... The supplies on the front line in western Liaoning ......... even a month,

At this time, Luo Yaoguo coughed lightly, quickly glanced at Natalie, and interjected: "Mr. Xuan, I will try my best to fight for the requirements put forward at the presidium meeting, but I also hope to truthfully report the actual difficulties and threats of the Northeast War of Resistance to the Central Committee of your party, and I believe that they will definitely make the right choice." He pulled Natalie and stood up: "There is still an important meeting in the Northeast Theater, and I am out of company." ..., and Natalie left in a hurry.

The news that the Kuomintang army on the western Liaoning front was logistically tight and might only last for a month was quickly transmitted to Beijing through a telegram and placed on Zhou Elai's desk, Zhou Elai frowned and thought for a long time after reading the telegram, and then asked the secretary to put General Secretary Li Lsan, Politburo members Mao Zd, Xiang Ying, Zhu D, Wang Ming, Liu Sqi, Zhang ... Days, alternate member Gu Shunzhang, o international consultant Mifu and others invited to discuss, and the not wide study room immediately looked a little cramped after nine people came in.

"What do you think about this? Putting aside the greetings of the meeting, Zhou Elai asked straight to the point: "The Kuomintang sent the equipment of ten light infantry divisions to borrow from us, and it seems that the war situation in western Liaoning is really precarious." ”

"Ten divisions...... I think I can borrow it. Our party's army suffered heavy losses in the battle of western Liaoning and urgently needed to be replenished, and now a lot of personnel have been recruited, but there is a great shortage of weapons and ammunition. With the equipment of these ten divisions, our army will be able to recover. Xiang Ying spoke in favor first, he is the chairman of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and he also has the deepest understanding of the difficulties of the current GCD army, and when he heard that there were ten divisions of weapons and equipment to take, his eyes immediately lit up.

"What do they have in mind?" Sheet... Tian rarely wonders: "It costs such a lot of money just to borrow a way?" "That Zhengming Kuomintang's material reserves in western Liaoning are not enough to meet the needs of long-term warfare." Zhu D looked at Mifu and Wang Ming cautiously, after returning from Liaoxi, he was very cautious, he has been very silent, and he couldn't help but speak today: "Xuanxia's father is also on the telegram, and the materials of the Kuomintang army can only support a month's battle...... Moreover, the temperature in the Northeast has plummeted in the past two days, and the port of Huludao may be going to live in the east again. However, the Japanese army quickly mobilized troops to the northeast through the ice-free port of Lushun, "There must be a conspiracy among the Kuomintang reactionaries!" Wang Ming suddenly interrupted Zhu D's words: "I don't believe that they will give us any benefits out of thin air." During the battle in western Liaoning, Comrade Zhang Xueliang asked them for planes and tanks, but they didn't give them, but now they are doing this, there must be a conspiracy here, and I suggest rejecting them. …，

"Comrade Wang Ming is very vigilant." Miff nodded appreciatively at Wang Ming: "The Kuomintang not only has a conspiracy, but also a big conspiracy!" We can't borrow this road anyway! Mi Wen Wang Ming's singing and harmony made the Politburo members attending the meeting frown slightly, and they all looked at them intently.

This is a man who repeated, and then looked up at the other comrades: "Isn't there a false way in Chinese history to destroy arrogance?" Now the Kuomintang has 300,000 troops in western Liaoning, more than 100,000 troops deployed along the Yellow River, and 100,000 Jin troops and 50,000 Kuomintang troops in Shanxi. After saying this, Miff set his eyes on Mao Zd.

Mao ZD was holding a cigarette, smoking it heavily, his head down, his face gloomy, as if he was thinking about something. Seeing Mifu's eyes, he snuffed out his cigarette and stood up and said: "I agree with Adviser Mifu's analysis, this time the Kuomintang reactionaries are definitely not at ease!" And their conspiracy probably doesn't stop there...... If we do not agree with the Kuomintang reactionaries to use the excuse, they may also use the pretext that the Japanese army is overwhelming and difficult to defeat the enemy, and drive the 300,000 troops in western Liaoning into the Guannai and seize our Zhili and Beijing! At that time, the situation facing our party will be even more critical. Therefore, on this issue, our party is now facing a dilemma: if we borrow the way to the Kuomintang, it is very likely that we will encounter a false way to destroy arrogance, and if we do not use the Kuomintang, it is possible to "withdraw the 300,000 troops in western Liaoning and enter the pass, and we will not be able to get weapons and equipment and resist them."