Zhang Xuewu knew that this was a way to hone his so-called spiritual will, and that in his military school, the standard of food ration in peacetime was to make people eat seven or eight points full, and the senior generals of the army had always held such a set of theories, and they stubbornly believed that the soldiers' ability to endure hunger and cold in wartime was trained by strict training.

This so-called theory of hunger was very much appreciated by some people in China, and Chiang Kai-shek in his youth expressed great appreciation for it when he was studying military affairs.

Chiang Kai-shek saw that the soldiers drank cold water and took cold showers, and that every meal was always the same with only a few thin pieces of pickled fish, a little vegetables, and a small iron box of white rice, so he came to his own conclusion, believing that the reason why the Chinese and Chinese officers and soldiers were lazy and sick was because they were comfortable and loved to eat too much.

When Chiang Kai-shek took charge of the [***] team, he was determined to introduce this very effective way of motivating officers and soldiers into the [***] team, but the result of the introduction was unrecognizable. Then this person has simply lived enough.

In Zhang Xuewu's view, the combat effectiveness of the troops comes from favorable logistical support, and unilaterally emphasizing that the so-called spiritual will to win is irresponsible for the lives of officers and men, and Zhang Xuewu is not afraid of sacrifice, what he is afraid of is meaningless sacrifice.

Zhang Xuewu's urgent oil problem was alleviated with the successful exploitation of the first, second and third wells in the Yumen Oilfield, and the most important thing was that the Soviet Union provided 700 oil tankers for transportation, Zhang Xuewu knew that the Soviets would still be very generous, but this so-called generosity could only last until the signing of the Soviet Neutrality Treaty in 1941.

Historically, on April 13, 1941, the two countries signed a neutrality treaty between the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union in the Kremlin in Moscow, the specific actual content refers to the treaty signed between the Soviet Union and the Soviet government axe on April 13, 1941 in order to ensure each other's neutrality during the war in order to ensure each other's neutrality in the war, and was formally signed in Moscow by Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and Yoyoyo Matsuoka, the foreign minister of the Soviet Union, and the treaty was valid for five years. This so-called neutrality treaty signed in secret means that the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union respect each other's territorial integrity and guarantee their mutual non-aggression, and that if one of the signatories is attacked by a third country, the other side should remain neutral, and the treaty will be valid for five years.

As an annex to the treaty, the joint declaration that the two sides recognized the territorial integrity and inviolability of Mongolia and Manchukuo respectively, but it was precisely the conclusion of this treaty that relieved the worries of the Soviet Union's large-scale southward expansion and accelerated the pace of its launching of the Pacific War.

However, from the current point of view, Zhang Xuewu is not sure whether the military will choose the strategic choice of going south or north? This is because the main reason why the army decided to move south, first, was that the provocation of Zhang Gufeng and Nomenkan was defeated disastrously, and the powerful ground-to-air firepower of the Soviet army gave Yue himself the feeling that he was out of reach, and second, because he continued to use strategic resources such as oil from Indochina and rubber from Southeast Asia, and obtained the resources that he urgently needed to control himself at the smallest cost, and undoubtedly it seemed much easier to go south to deal with the European powers that had already fallen into the west.

Therefore, now Zhang Xuewu is opening his mouth to the Soviet side, Zhang Xuewu does not value the strength of blood transfusion, but the function of his own hematopoiesis, giving a hundred rifles at a time, it is better to have a production line by himself, and he can make ten guns a day to be reliable.

After the commissioning and installation of a large number of factory equipment purchased from the United States by Zhou Ying, it can be said that the scale of Baotou Industrial Zone is expanding every day, and the mining of the Jungger open-pit coal mine has ensured the coal use of 10 50,000-kilowatt-hour coal-fired thermal power units introduced by Zhang Xuewu, and various industrial equipment transported from the Soviet Union has settled in the new park planned by Zhang Xuewu.

Before Zhang Xuewu most of the armament is from Germany and Europe, Zhang Xuewu seriously visited the entire Baotou Industrial Park, especially the new medium tank production line that is still in the commissioning stage, and conducted an overall visit, Zhang Xuewu is a doer, many things he must confirm with his own eyes to believe in the recognition.

However, in the case of medium tanks, should the Leopard medium tank, which is mainly based on German technology, develop a Soviet-made medium tank? At this point, Zhang Xuewu is also entangled, Soviet-made weapons are generally clumsy compared with German goods, but their production process is generally very simple, convenient for large-scale production of equipment, and the weapon is adaptable, strong and not easy to damage, but the accuracy and effectiveness of Soviet-made weapons are indeed not as strict as German goods with extremely strict craftsmanship, so Zhang Xuewu is also hesitating which development route to take?

Whether to take the quality route or take the quantity route, in fact, Zhang Xuewu also knows that his advantage lies in his understanding of the development trend of weapons, and dare to carry out large-scale innovative design, and apply new designs and new technologies to the weapons and equipment installed, which is undoubtedly in the eyes of outsiders Zhang Xuewu is not too smart and courageous or too stupid, you must know that every mature weapon design has to go through the complex test of actual combat, and the application of many new technologies is actually the success of Xiao He and the defeat of Xiao He. What is okay in theory can fail in practice.

Weapons and equipment from the design idea to the sample, to the test of the actual combat application feedback, to mass production is often a very long process, you must know that a weapon from design to mass production can be described as a huge cost, such as tanks and aircraft such as cutting-edge main battle weapons.

Zhang Xuewu led Hao Wenbin, Chen Yuxing, Li Xinkai, Wang Chuang, Xu Guohui, Zhao Xinyu, Hu Zhenglong, Gao Zhihang, Guo Xiangfei, Zhanyang, Tang Ziqiang, Zhang Tianpeng, Huang Tao, Ye Yunfei, Zhang Lingfu and others to hold a large-scale on-site meeting in the conference room of the New Armored Design Institute in the first-class defense area in Baotou.

Zhang Xuewu also moved out his secret family this time, he wanted to make his generals full of self-confidence, and let them know how powerful the Rehe Army was at the moment!

Zhang Xuewu first introduced Li Anguo, the major general and captain of the Sixth Baotou Security Corps! Many people don't understand why Zhang Xuewu wants to introduce a security captain to everyone? Moreover, the captain of the security corps is usually a major or lieutenant colonel, why did a major general captain suddenly run out?

Zhang Xuewu smiled and introduced to everyone the new First Division of the Army Youth Army under the name of the Sixth Security Corps, and all the sergeants, sergeants, and non-commissioned officers of the division are veterans of a hundred battles.

The officers and soldiers are all young students from all over the country, the proportion of college students accounts for more than 17 percent, the rest are high school graduates, the whole division is equipped according to the model of armored divisions, two tank regiments are equipped with 110 "Jackal" type 2 light tanks, 28 "Leopard" type medium tanks, 36 "Stinger" 75-mm self-propelled field guns mounted on the Leopard chassis, and one armored infantry regiment is equipped with 179 Hound armored vehicles and command vehicles. An air defense battalion under the division is equipped with 48 Forts 20-mm four-barreled antiaircraft guns mounted on Calvins half-tracks imported from Germany, and 24 48-barreled 105-mm hail rocket launchers equipped with "jackal" chassis, as well as a fuel transport battalion, a maintenance battalion equipped with 12 combat vehicle repair vehicles, a communications battalion, and an armored reconnaissance battalion.

As the so-called peers are enemies, Tang Ziqiang, who has always regarded himself as a baby, suddenly found that he still has such a big competitor? Immediately alert! What surprised Tang Ziqiang was that he had heard of the number of the first division of the new Youth Army, but at that time he thought it was the same existence as the so-called student training brigade, so he didn't pay any attention to it at all, and now he realized that a sharp sword of the Rehe Army suddenly turned into two iron fists on the left and right? It seems that he has to fight with others to grab equipment?

Tang Ziqiang glanced at Li Anguo, who was expressionless, a little depressed, and thought that he must inquire about what kind of way this guy is? Silently bitten such a large piece of fat? At the same time, he secretly decided to give Zhang Xuewu a cry, make trouble, and hang himself after the meeting, forcing him to ensure that the new medium tank first meets the needs of the mechanized division.

After Zhang Xuewu introduced the new First Division of the Youth Army, he directly announced the order for Zhang Lingfu to form the new Second Division of the Youth Army, and then the director of the Gao Zhi Aviation Army read out the Air Force's recent large-scale sortie operation plan.

As soon as Hao Wenbin, Li Xinkai, Xu Guohui, Zhanyang, and others heard Gao Zhihang's brief combat plan, they immediately cheered up their spirits, because everyone could hear that the air force's sortie combat plan included a large number of ground support missions.

Some time ago, the Rehe Army was bullied to the doorstep of the house, and because Zhang Xuewu was not in his position, and Li Xinkai, who was in charge of the overall strategy, was an old and serious person, so he only fought a large-scale defensive battle, and apart from the frequent attacks by the air force, the ground forces did not make any achievements.

(To be continued)