Chapter 3342: A happy event before the end of the year

Sugiyama didn't expect that the battle plan he had worked so hard to make would encounter a mutiny among the soldiers before it could be implemented, and because of this, it was impossible to say that he was not embarrassed or angry. However, the mutiny of more than 3,000 soldiers at the same time is an extremely serious political incident in any army, and there is no room for sloppiness, so Sugiyama Motoya can only stop all actions and concentrate on investigating internal problems.

It is precisely because of this sudden change that the large and small anti-Japanese armed forces, including the Eighth Route Army, have a breathing time and can spend the New Year in peace.

February 18 is the Spring Festival of the Chinese lunar calendar, a traditional year for the Chinese, and people who have been busy all year long relax on this day.

Chinese people want a "reunion", and the Spring Festival is a time for the whole family to reunite. Chinese people have a sense of reunion since ancient times, so no matter what, they will return to their families during the Spring Festival as much as possible. As a foreign friend commented: "A thing called the Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner binds them together, ostensibly a meal, but in fact it is a deep-rooted spiritual sustenance." ”

The Spring Festival of 1939 was the most stable Spring Festival for the people of Suicha and the two provinces, and this time of the year was also the time when the little devils were most frequent, and many villages were razed to the ground on the Chinese New Year's Eve, so people rarely celebrated festivals in the past two years, and even big festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Spring Festival were very low-key.

But this year is different, because of the strong force of the Suicha Military Region to rely on, and although this year's harvest is not good, the Eighth Route Army has exempted all taxes, so everyone's life is much better than the previous two years, at least the roots of the year can eat a fragrant dumpling.

In addition, in the past few days, large temporary markets have been built in various counties, and the Eighth Route Army has sold cloth, cotton, salt, white flour, rice, and other items to the local people at the cheapest prices. Although there is a certain limit for each household. For example, each family should not buy more than 10 pieces of cloth, and each person should not buy more than 50 catties of white flour and rice.

But it still allows the people to get huge benefits, there is no shortage of food, clothing and use, and there are no little devils to harass, and the days are naturally hopeful.

What can ordinary people do, they can have a meal with their families on Chinese New Year's Eve. Even if it is not very rich, as long as the children in the family are all together, this is their greatest expectation.

The common people are also grateful, and they know very well how the stable life has come about. If it weren't for the Eighth Route Army, which had built a solid line of defense outside their homes with blood and life again and again, they would have been able to have the current stability, so the year was approaching, and many people spontaneously went to the places where the garrisons were stationed in various places to express their condolences to the troops, although the condolences were just some eggs and pork and other food, but they expressed the most simple feelings of the common people.

This year's Spring Festival is happy with the herdsmen on the prairie. As the festive season approached, the condolence team sent by the Suicha Military Region visited all the herdsmen's families in the area.

Although the condolence team did not send many gifts, that is, some tea and cloth and other things, they were still warmly received by those bold herdsmen brothers. Later, they also sent their friendship to the Eighth Route Army, first the Mongolian banner lord on the Gegentala steppe of the Siziwang Banner ******came to Guisui Jin to see Ma Zheng, sent a large number of cattle and sheep, and also brought greetings and friendship from more than 20,000 Mongolians on the Gegentala grassland.

Soon after, the Mongolian representatives of the Damao Banner also sent people to Guisui to meet Ma Zheng, and then the Mongolian prince of the Yikezhao League sent representatives to meet Ma Zheng. On behalf of 800,000 herdsmen in Yikezhao, he accepted the management of the Suicha Military Region, and agreed to the garrison and conscription of Ma Zheng's troops in Yikezhao and other places.

For Ma Zheng was able to win the recognition of the ethnic minorities in the territory so quickly. The Party Central Committee and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army were extremely surprised. You must know that the Mongolian people have been a heroic and unruly nation since ancient times, and few foreign races can win their recognition. And Ma Zheng's troops have only been fighting in the Saibei grassland for a little more than a year, especially in less than two months after the capture of Yikezhao, how did they get the recognition of the Mongols so quickly?

In fact, this has a lot to do with Ma Zheng's employment of personnel; in the Suicha Military Region, the employment of troops basically does not look at the nationality. As long as you have the ability, you will be reused. Moreover, ethnic minorities are often particularly reused because of their own ethnic characteristics, such as Bilige, who would have thought that the leader of a Mongolian tribe would become a brigade commander of the field unit of the Suicha Military Region in less than a year, commanding thousands of elites.

According to incomplete statistics, in addition to the Han nationality, Ma Zheng's subordinates also have fighters from 18 ethnic minorities, including Mongolian, Hui, Manchu, Oroqen, Kazakh, and Korean. Ethnic minority officers and administrative officers also account for a large part of the Suicha Military Region. Of course, in this steppe with the Mongolian ethnic group as the main body, the most eye-catching of them is the Mongolian ethnic group.

More than half of the cavalry units of the Suicha Military Region were Mongolian soldiers, and half of the officers were from the Mongolian ethnic group. Many of the infantry are Mongolians, and the total number of Mongolians in the 100,000 troops of the Suicha Military Region is at least 40,000. There are many Mongolian soldiers, and the number of officers is naturally large, and although there are no officers at or above the division level for the time being, there are still many at the level of brigade commanders and regiment commanders.

With these people as examples, the reputation of the Suicha Military Region for not discriminating against ethnic minorities naturally spread, coupled with the strong strength of Ma Zheng's department and the appeal of Commander Ma's soldiers, this army was quickly recognized by the Mongolian tribes.

In addition to these happy events, Ma Zheng is even more happy that the Baotou Heavy Industry Base has finally been put into full operation, and with the joint efforts of all the military and civilians, the steel plant has produced more than 1,000 tons of steel per day, which basically meets the production needs of the arsenal. WITH SUFFICIENT RAW MATERIALS, THE PRODUCTION CAPACITY OF THE ARSENAL HAS NATURALLY INCREASED, AND NOW IT PRODUCES MORE THAN 500 RIFLES, MORE THAN 50 MACHINE GUNS, AND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GRENADES, IN ADDITION TO PRODUCING MORTARS AND 75MM CALIBER MOUNTAIN ARTILLERY AND FIELD ARTILLERY SHELLS.

According to Feng An's prediction, after the production capacity of the arsenal is fully increased, it will be able to meet the operational needs of the troops, and at that time, the Suicha Military Region will not only be able to meet its own needs, but also support other units of the Eighth Route Army.

But Ma Zheng knows that the industrial potential of Baotou is only a preliminary development, and it is far from reaching the limit. You must know that Baotou, as the most famous heavy industry base in northern China, shouldered the heavy responsibility of military production and machinery manufacturing in the entire northern Xinjiang region, and the guns and bullets produced by Baotou's first and second machine factories alone could meet the needs of millions of troops in the north.

Therefore, Baotou's industrial potential still has a great space for development, now what is lacking is only industrial equipment and skilled workers, as long as these problems are solved, Baotou does not say that it is the production of these light weapons, even heavy weapons can be produced, you must know that the tanks and heavy trucks produced in Baotou in later generations account for about half of the country's ordnance enterprises.

Even so, the development of the Baotou Industrial Base has made Ma Zheng very satisfied, after all, the Baotou Industrial Base has been established for a short time, and it is only two and a half months to be full, and such an achievement is thanks to the help of the Japanese industrial equipment.

With his own industrial base, Ma Zheng's mind is alive. As a special operations commander in later generations, a real king of soldiers, to be honest, these weapons and equipment in this era are too rubbish in Ma Zheng's eyes. First of all, this rifle can't even be semi-automatic, let alone compared with the automatic assault rifles of later generations, which greatly limits the offensive ability of the infantry.

The second is the sniper rifle and artillery fire, the Japanese devil's 97-style sniper rifle is, to put it bluntly, the three or eight big covers of the scope are pressed, and the performance is too poor. Compared with the Barrett heavy sniper used by Ma Zheng in his later life, it was 108,000 miles worse, and Ma Zheng had long wanted to replace it, but he never had a chance.

Speaking of artillery, although there are many models of infantry support artillery in the army, such as Type 92 infantry guns, 75mm caliber mountain artillery and field artillery, and mortars of various calibers, they all have their own shortcomings. Mortars were limited in power, mountain and field guns were too cumbersome, and more importantly, they were of little use against the enemy's armor.

Therefore, after the establishment of the Baotou Industrial Base, Ma Zheng specially convened Feng An and others to hold a secret meeting and gave them a secret task to immediately mobilize all the outstanding military personnel of the entire military region to study their own weapons and equipment. Of course, the sketch of the weapon and the relevant code size have been figured out by Ma Zheng, and the task of Feng An and others is to build the weapon "designed" by Ma Zheng, and then test its performance. After more than a month of hard work, the first weapon was finally created. (To be continued.) )