[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 982: Great Ambition (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Three days later, Ma Zheng led his team to leave Yan'an, and then Yan'an adjusted the military and political institutions in the north, abolished the Shandong Military Region, and merged all the troops of the former Shandong Military Region into the Suicha Military Region. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At the same time, Yan'an decided to reorganize the Northern Bureau and appoint Ma Zheng as secretary of the Northern Bureau and commander of the Suicha Military Region, and unified command of the military and political affairs of the Suicha Military Region.

In view of the fact that the Suicha Military Region is now intertwined with the North China Front Army, and the border defense area is too long, covering almost the entire North China region, so many times the fighting breaks out very suddenly, so the central authorities have granted the Suicha Military Region the right to decide on self-determination in battle.

As soon as the order was issued, the party and the army were greatly shaken, and they didn't understand what kind of madness Yan'an had made, and they had given Ma Zheng such power.

Although there were also opposing voices in the party, they were suppressed by the chairman and others, and coupled with Ma Zheng's past achievements, everyone acquiesced.

After returning to the military region, Ma Zheng carried out drastic reforms of the entire military region and formulated a more detailed development plan.

In particular, Ma Zheng knows what is fundamental to the development of the army, that is, to coordinate the development of industry and agriculture. Agriculture is the foundation of industry, and industry is the cradle of weaponry, which in turn is an important component of the army's combat effectiveness. As long as the two legs of industry and agriculture are coordinated, you can straighten your waist and speak wherever you go in the future. Therefore, before really stepping onto the big stage of the world, Ma Zheng especially needs to adjust these two legs.

After formulating the plan, Ma Zheng, Political Commissar Luo, and others went to various localities to carry out inspections, mainly to investigate the development of the industrial, agricultural, and agricultural areas of various military sub-districts.

During the inspection, Ma Zheng found many problems, and now the development of heavy industry and light industry in Suicha is relatively balanced, but the speed of development is not very fast, and there are four iron and steel production enterprises in the entire Suicha area, with an annual production capacity of 3.2 million tons of crude steel and 8 million tons of iron, which cannot meet the needs of the military and civilian production and living of the Suicha Military Region at all. Especially now to support Ma Zheng to realize that huge plan, this steel output is far from enough.

Therefore, after paying a certain price, Ma Zheng directly asked the Soviet Union to help build three huge steel plants, all the equipment was directly dismantled from the large steel plants in the Soviet Far East, and it is expected to produce 15 million tons of crude steel and 20 million tons of iron per year after completion.

In addition, the development of agriculture and animal husbandry in Suicha is seriously lagging behind, especially in agriculture. The largest agricultural and animal husbandry area in the entire military region is located in the Tumut River Plain between Guisui and Baotou, but due to the sparse population and backward agricultural technology, the grain output of the entire Tumut River Plain is not as high as Ma Zheng imagined.

The Tumut Plain is named after the place where the Mongolian Tumut tribe lived, and is also known as the Qiantao Plain. It starts from the suburbs of Baotou City in the west, reaches the Manhan Mountain in the east, Daqing Mountain in the north, and the Yellow River and the Helinger loess hills in the south. It is about 330 kilometers long from east to west, narrow from north to south, with an average width of 19 kilometers in the west and more than 200 kilometers in the east, with a total area of about 10,000 square kilometers.

The terrain here slopes to the south in the west, north and east, with an altitude of about 1,000 meters, and the lowest is along the Yellow River. The whole plain is flat, the climatic conditions are suitable, the soil is fertile, the water source is abundant, it is rich in wheat, corn, sugar beet, flax and other crops and all kinds of vegetables, it is the "rice grain river" of Suiyuan Province.

According to statistics, there are a total of 2 million mu of arable land, 1.73 million mu of grain crop planting area, a total output of 180 million catties, and a grain output of only about 80 catties per mu. Although it has increased by more than 40 million catties compared with 1939, for the entire Suicha area, this grain still cannot solve the food ration problem for everyone, and the food gap in the Suicha area is still very large.

In addition, there were 1.01 million heads of livestock in the entire Suicha area, an increase of 216,000 heads compared with 1939.

Although the development momentum is good, it is still far from what Ma Zheng needs. As far as Ma Zheng knows, the production potential of this place is very huge. In later generations, the crop planting area here was as high as more than 8 million mu, and the grain crop planting area alone could reach more than 5 million mu, and the total output was as much as more than 6 billion catties.

Due to the pleasant climate here, the soil is fertile. The large and small are criss-crossed, and are suitable for planting spring wheat, rice, millet, millet, soybean, sorghum, corn and other crops. In later generations, wheat and corn and some cash crops were mainly used here, and the annual output of wheat could exceed 1 billion catties per year, and the yield per mu was as high as 670 catties. Corn can easily exceed 5 billion catties, and the yield per mu can even reach 1,500 catties.

This is the land of fish and rice in Ma Zheng's mind, and this is the Tumut River Plain in Ma Zheng's heart. The lack of agricultural output is seriously restricting the development of the Suicha region and the Suicha Military Region, and without food, it is impossible to recruit more troops, and without enough troops, the combat effectiveness of the troops cannot grow rapidly, and this phenomenon must be changed.

It is not easy to change the status quo, and the main reason for the lagging development of agriculture and animal husbandry in the northern part of the country is the small population and backward agricultural technology. Agricultural technology is okay, but a small population is a hard problem.

On April 5, 1941, Ma Zheng made a radio speech to the people of the whole country, calling on the landless peasants from all over the country to emigrate to the Suicha area, and told the peasants all over the country that as soon as they arrived in the Suicha area, the government would immediately give each of them 20 acres of land and most of the means of production needed for production and life, including farm tools, seeds, and part of the funds needed to build houses.

Of course, none of these things are free, and farmers need to apply to the government. and repay a portion of their own harvest every year until it is repaid.

In addition, Ma Zheng also called on the population of the enemy-occupied areas to also be transferred to the Suicha area, and the military district government will give them the same treatment, as long as they arrive in the Suicha area, they will still have 20 acres of land per person.

In order to ensure the implementation of the entire plan, Ma Zheng specially transferred 30 million US dollars from Huaxia Company for this special fund.

For an anti-Japanese hero like Ma Zheng, he was the brightest star of this era, so his words were very attractive, and soon people from Shanxi, Henan, Anhui, Shandong, Hebei and even Northeast China flocked to the Suicha Military Region.

The population problem is solved, then the rest is the problem of agricultural technology, this Ma Zheng himself does not understand very well, but he knows that the yield of potatoes and corn is high, and it is also a cold-tolerant and drought-tolerant crop, planting these things will definitely solve the problem of eating the people in the defense area.

After solving the problems of industry and agriculture, Ma Zheng turned his attention to the troops. Although the Suicha Military Region has now completed the task of recruiting 100,000 recruits as explained by Ma Zheng, the entire military region now has more than 500,000 troops, large and small, and the total strength of the Shandong Military Region has exceeded 600,000.

But this is still not enough, if only against one North China Front, these forces are obviously enough. But now Ma Zheng's goal is all the Japanese troops invading China, and he also dreams of fighting on the Japanese mainland, so this amount of troops is obviously not enough.

In addition, the training and combat effectiveness of the troops are not satisfactory; because there are too many recruits in the troops, and in addition to those recruits recruited before, the recruits of the Suicha Military Region have exceeded 250,000, and such a large number of recruits has greatly lowered the combat effectiveness of the troops. In addition, the Suicha Military Region has adopted the model of increasing the number of military subdivisions and increasing the number of military units, so the coordination ability of various units is not strong.

Although these problems seem to be very small, if they really start a big battle and a tough battle, they will definitely suffer losses, so Ma Zheng immediately discussed with Political Commissar Luo and others, and decided to upgrade the establishment of the whole army and implement the plan for the large establishment of the large military region.

The so-called plan for the large military region includes two aspects: on the one hand, the large military region, that is, the abolition of the previous military subdivisions and the establishment of military regions. In the future, the Suicha Military Region will only retain the organs of the General Headquarters and the troops directly under it, and all the original six military subdivisions will be upgraded to military regions, namely, the Suixi Military Region, the Guisui Military Region, the Chanan South Military Region, the Chabei Military Region, the Suidong Military Region, and the Renan Military Region, while all the independent units that were originally under the management of the military region headquarters will be transferred to various military regions.

In addition, the military region has also upgraded and expanded all the units under its jurisdiction, and with the exception of technical arms, all units in the military region are divided into only two establishments, one is an integrated division with a quota of 22,000 troops, and the other is a standard division with a quota of 12,000 troops.

At present, there are only five integrated infantry divisions and one cavalry division in the whole military region, and the rest are all in the form of independent brigades, and now Ma Zheng has broken all this small establishment, and in addition to adding five integrated infantry divisions, Ma Zheng also plans to form 20 standard divisions.

In addition, the armored corps, artillery, cavalry, aviation corps, signal corps, engineer corps, special forces, and other technical arms must also be expanded.

Under Ma Zheng's order, the entire Suicha Military Region was like a huge machine, running rapidly. Millions of people have invested in Ma Zheng's plan, and everyone is working hard to seize this rare opportunity.