Looking at Meng Qingshan's somewhat gloomy face, Lieutenant Colonel Kovasili, a staff officer of the Logistics and Quartermaster Department of the Headquarters of the Far Eastern Military District of the Soviet Army, who was responsible for escorting this batch of weapons and equipment, naturally knew it. This batch of equipment transferred to the Chinese comrades was the period of the Civil War when the Far Eastern Military District had stored in warehouses, and the backward weapons of the battles and warehouses of the White Russian Federation were captured.

After a long period of use and poor maintenance in the later stage, these weapons have basically reached the standard of scrapping. Moreover, most of the weapons, the ammunition that needs to be imported is scarce, or even non-existent. In fact, when the commander of the military district, General Abanasek, and the political commissar of the military district, Ivanov, who saw such weapons, did not approve of the transfer of these weapons and ammunition, which had actually been scrapped, to the Chinese comrades.

They were on the front line of the confrontation with the Kwantung Army, and naturally they knew very well what the Chinese comrades really needed. The role of this group of Chinese comrades in the Far Eastern Military District is even clearer. But this is an order from Moscow, and they do not dare to veto it either.

Originally, in accordance with the will of the commander of the military district and in accordance with Comrade Stalin's order, the weapons that had been eliminated by the Soviet Red Army in the inventory of the military district were selected and handed over to the Chinese comrades free of charge after they were selected and maintained, and the ammunition was relatively sufficient. However, two days before the transfer, Moscow sent another telegram ordering the exchange of weapons with the group of abandoned weapons that had been hoarded for a long time and handed them over to the Anti-Union.

From his suspicion that this may have been caused by the Chinese comrades' private contact with Yan'an, Comrade Stalin, who had wanted to incorporate this group of people, was very angry, and ordered the Far Eastern Military District to replace these weapons with obsolete weapons, which made Kovalev, who was also the personal representative of General Abanasek, first apologize for the trouble caused to the Chinese comrades by these incidents. He hoped that Meng Qingshan would not let such a thing affect the cooperation that had in fact been established with the Far Eastern Military Region.

Looking at Vasily with a sincere face, Meng Qingshan nodded. But he still said in a stiff tone: "Comrade Vasily, as soon as I arrived at the arsenal today, I found that these weapons either had guns but no bullets, or they were so rusted that they couldn't even pull the bolts. You just let us take such weapons and go to a bloody battle with the Japanese Kwantung Army, armed to the teeth? ”

"Comrade Vasily, I would like to ask, we bought such a pile of broken copper and iron for a ton of gold?"

After listening to Meng Qingshan's words, Vasily hurriedly said: "Comrade Meng Qingshan, you misunderstood. The weapons were given to you for free, and the machines and equipment you need are still on the way, and you know the situation in the Far East, this is not Moscow, nor is it an industrial zone like Ukraine or Leningrad, there are no factories that produce these things, and it will take time to get them from Moscow. ”

Meng Qingshan was so angry that he said a little unscrupulously: "We treat your trusted friends on duty like big brothers." But that's how you treat us? Just fool us with such a pile of rags, you really fucking treat us as food, and give it away for nothing. Otherwise, I will also send you some gifts for you to go back and give to Comrade Stalin, after all, our China is a country of etiquette, and we still understand the matter of courtesy, Xiaohuzi went to ask people to take out those spears, red tassel guns, and ring-headed knives in the warehouse and pack them for the Soviet comrades. ”

"Comrade Meng Qingshan, this is not necessary, I am here to be an instructor this time, I will not leave, believe us, we will hurry up and send the machinery and equipment you need?"

"How long?"

"Not much. Half? ”

Meng Qingshan rolled his eyes, you are teasing me! If you wait for half a year, Lao Tzu will talk to you about something. Wouldn't it be okay to go directly to the little devil to borrow it, and besides, if you wait for another half a year, your Soviet Union will even be surrounded by people, where will you remember the problem of machinery and equipment.

"Comrade Vasily, if the machinery and equipment arrive in half a year, then we will be no different from each other!"

"Comrade Qingshan, what do you want to do?" Vasily asked cautiously. A moment ago, Meng Qingshan was like an angry male wolf, and now he has become a greedy businessman, which makes Vasily a little afraid.

"Comrade Vasily, since it will take half a year to deliver the equipment we need, then we don't want it."

"Don't want it?"

"Yes, no."

Vasily looked at Meng Qingshan in surprise, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Comrade Vasily, I heard that you have several small repair institutes in the Far Eastern Military District and several small arsenals directly under the Military District!"

"Yes. I don't know what Comrade Qingshan wants to ask? ”

"You see, since the new equipment will take half a year, why don't you give us your old equipment! The new equipment will be yours then, what do you think? Although your machinery and equipment are a little old, in order to solve our difficulties in the shortest possible time, you can hand over all the machinery and equipment of your repair shop and small arsenal to us. Meng Qingshan said with a smile, and at the same time took out a box of cigarettes from his arms and handed it to Vasily.

"Isn't this going to hurt you?"

"Hey! Who made us poor here! Soon the spring will face the counterattack of the little devils, so we urgently need machinery and equipment to expand the equipment of the arsenal and produce enough ammunition to resist the Japanese attack, as for the rest of the gold is exchanged for food, cotton clothes, cloth, you see. ”

Vasily, who thought for a while, opened a pair of blue eyes and stared at Meng Qingshan for a long time before saying: "Comrade Meng Qingshan, Senior General Abanashek cherishes the friendship between the Far Eastern Military Region and the Anti-Japanese Federation. As a qualified soldier, as a commander of a military district with the rank of general, I think he will agree with you. ”

Hearing what Vasily said, General Abanashek has always cherished the so-called traditional friendship between the Far Eastern Military Region and the Anti-Japanese Federation, Meng Qingshan couldn't help but scold in his heart: "Cherish a fart, it's just a mutual use." If it weren't for the occurrence of the Normenhan incident, if it weren't for the fact that the European war was already on the verge of breaking out, if it wasn't for the sudden expansion of tens of thousands of troops by the little devils, or if it weren't for the rapid rise of Lao Tzu, he laid down such a big world. You're still looking at us, thank God if you don't take me away. ”

"The Anti-Japanese Federation has asked for help many times before, why don't you ever reach out? Even a small amount of materials were obtained by the cadres and fighters of the Anti-Japanese Federation with blood and lives. The people of the Anti-United Nations said that they would detain it, and they would arrest it when they said it. From the commander-in-chief and army commanders to ordinary cadres and soldiers, there are no losses on the battlefield, how many losses are in your hands? ”

Later, after the Anti-Japanese Federation withdrew to the Soviet Union for recuperation, several senior generals disappeared inexplicably because they were unwilling to hand over the radio station in their hands, and still tried to find the central government, and even did not see anyone alive or dead, which was done by the big brother of the Soviet Union, which made Meng Qingshan oppose retreating to the Soviet Union from the beginning, because he knew that once he retreated to the Soviet Union, it was a question whether he could come back, so General Yang Jingyu would rather die in South Manchuria than retreat to the Soviet Union to recuperate.

"By the way, Comrade Vasily, help me send this letter to Comrade Stalin when you send electricity."

"Okay!" After receiving Meng Qingshan's letter, Vasily turned around and walked out of the room, he wanted to discuss these things with the leaders of the Far Eastern Military District.

Looking at Vasily's distant figure, Meng Qingshan squinted, he hoped that his letter could save the generals of the Anti-Japanese Federation who were imprisoned in the Soviet prison, and at the same time Meng Qingshan sneered in his heart Don't look at how strong you are now, you will be beaten like a dog by Germany in a year, Meng Qingshan just thought of the Soviet-German war, who is fighting a war, and whoever farms must need a lot of food, so Meng Qingshan temporarily decided to replace most of the machinery and equipment he wanted to buy before with food, and then Meng Qingshan will make war money, Of course, this is also why he is in a hurry to expand the arsenal, you don't see why the little devils after World War II rose again, and they didn't start by making war money from the Korean War, as long as the Soviet Union and Germany started the war, there would be no machinery and equipment at that time.

For this reason, Meng Qingshan asked a large number of young people to go to the arsenal as apprentices to train workers to prepare for the future, and at the same time set up a weapons management and production department in the Northeast Military and Political University, and asked a few weapons experts sent by the Soviet Union to give lessons to these people; of course, he did not forget army building, and at the same time developed military skills such as car driving, radio communications, skiing, driving motorcycles, reading maps and drawings, sending and receiving telegrams, blasting, and taking pictures on the battlefield to improve the tactical and technical level and combat ability of the vast number of commanders and fighters. (To be continued......)