Chapter 221: A Trip to the Soviet Union
In more than 20 days, the Anti-Japanese Union brilliantly completed the plan set by the original headquarters and destroyed all the railways and highways leading to the enemy's base areas, while the Third Military Region sabotaged the train line from Jiamusi to Harbin in order to cooperate with the main battle plan.
When the Japanese army learned the news and gathered heavy troops to encircle and suppress the Anti-Japanese Federation, the Anti-Japanese Federation had already retreated to the base area, leaving only deep pits on the ground, which made the Japanese Kwantung Army Command General Umezu Mijiro very angry, very much like immediately gathering troops to encircle and suppress this group of damned bandits, but the organization of two consecutive encirclement and suppression, the headquarters was no longer able to organize a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Anti-Japanese Union in the area of Longjiang Province, for this reason, General Umezu Mijiro, the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, sent several urging telegrams to the base camp in a row, ordering Gu Shoufu to immediately set off to Manchuria to take up his post. At the same time, he is also actively studying and exploring the anti-United Nations strategy of encirclement and suppression activities in the North Manchurian area.
After many days of continuous fighting, the troops were already extremely tired, Meng Qingshan and Yang Jingyu led the troops to carry the captured abundant supplies and railroad tracks in Sunwu County to join the division in victory, and after returning to the base area, they ordered the whole army to enter a three-day state of rest and recuperation.
At the same time, Zhou Baozhong, political commissar of the General Headquarters of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, escorted by a guard company, crossed the river to the headquarters of the Far Eastern Frontier Army in the city of Boli in the Far Eastern Frontier Region.
Beginning in the autumn of 1936, the invading Japanese army continued to provoke the Soviet Union and held military exercises against the Soviet Union. The Soviet side has always wanted to know about the strategic facilities and military intelligence of the Japanese army in the northeast, and it is far from enough to rely on the dispatch of Russian overseas spies for this important task, and can only rely on the help of the anti-Japanese coalition forces in the northeast. This is because in the struggle against Japanese militarist aggression, China and the Soviet Union have common interests. Especially in the past few months, Li Yanping of the Anti-Japanese Federation came here to discuss with him for some time and left in a hurry with the supplies, which made Ivanov very regretful, while looking forward to the next time the Anti-Japanese Federation sent someone to contact, and secondly, he sent agents to secretly collect information about the Anti-Japanese Federation, and when he learned that Zhou Baozhong, one of the leaders of the Anti-Japanese Federation, led a team of hundreds of people to come here. Ivanov thought that it must have been the Anti-Japanese League that had been beaten by the Japanese army and went into hiding and came here to ask for help.
As soon as he crossed the river this time, Zhou Baozhong felt that the treatment he received this time was different from the past, not to mention, the standard of the other party who came forward was high, and the high treatment he gave himself was simply heaven and earth compared with a few months ago.
Commander of the Far Eastern Military District of the USSR, General Abanashenk, with Political Commissar Ivanov. These two top officials of the Far Eastern Military District not only came forward in person, but also arranged for Major General Wang Xinlin, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Far East Military District, to hold special negotiations with the commander-in-chief, and sent a colonel to take care of the commander-in-chief's daily life.
Exceptions were made to return the weapons of the guard company that had been seized by the Soviet border guards while crossing the river. Although only the fast and slow machine and the Type 38 rifle were returned, and a car and three trucks were also distributed to Zhou Baozhong to use when he was in the Soviet Union, this specification and treatment can be said to be incomparable to the past.
The reason for the drastic change in attitude on the part of the USSR. Zhou Baozhong is very clear. It's definitely not just because the Anti-United Nations can exchange information with them. In the final analysis, the Anti-Japanese Federation has fought more bravely and stronger with the Japanese army in the field this year, not only killing a large number of Japanese puppet troops, but also taking down the important town of Qiqihar in Manchukuo (of course, it was recaptured by the enemy in less than two days), and according to the news transmitted by the Soviet Union's intelligence officers lurking in the three eastern provinces, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army has ambushed and eliminated tens of thousands of Japanese troops under the leadership of Meng Qingshan and others, and the scope of activities has expanded to dozens of times. According to intelligence estimates, the total strength of the Anti-Japanese Union should now be around 30,000. This made Stalin in Moscow attach great importance to it, if Stalin did not look down on this group of buns at all in the past, but in a big battle with the Japanese army Normenhan paid nearly 20,000 casualties, although the Soviet Union looked down on the backward tactics of the Japanese army, but did not underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, even if it relied on sophisticated weapons or paid tens of thousands of casualties, and with the Germans slowly approaching, the Soviet Union had to send heavy troops to hoard on the Soviet Union's border line to guard against Germany.
When they learned that the Japanese army had gone through a battle, the Japanese did not restrain but continued to expand their troops and prepare for war, and in less than a few months, they actually expanded the strength of two more divisions. For this reason, the Soviet Union had to be anxious, and once the Soviet Union and Germany were at war, the Japanese army attacked the rear of Surin from behind, and the situation could be suffered. Just as the people of the Soviet authorities held a special meeting to study this matter, the news of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation came from Manchuria, and Stalin ordered the Far Eastern Military District to immediately send people to the Northeast to get in touch with the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance.
In order to obtain bargaining chips in this negotiation, Meng Qingshan handed over the drawings of the bazooka and AK47 to Zhou Baozhong. Asked him to use these two things to exchange with the Soviet Union for the materials needed by the Anti-Japanese Federation, Zhou Baozhong only took one-third of those drawings and handed them to Ivanov, and when Ivanov saw these two drawings, he immediately sent someone to arrange for Zhou Baozhong to rest, and he flew back to Moscow overnight.
After viewing the materials on these two new weapons, Stalin asked Ivanov, political commissar of the Far Eastern Military District and first secretary of the Far Eastern Territory: "You say that these new weapons were designed by comrades in northeastern China and were specially designed to exchange with us some of the supplies they needed?" ”
In response to Stalin's question, Ivanov nodded without thinking about it: "Yes, Comrade Stalin. The commander-in-chief of their Second Route Army, no, is now the general political commissar of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and is still waiting for our reply at the headquarters of the Far Eastern Military Region in Boli. ”
"The Chinese comrade who designed these weapons is clearly clear about what kind of weapons our Red Army needs. He designed these weapons that were not only extremely simple in practical terms, but also convenient for mass production. If the Red Army is equipped with these weapons, its firepower will be able to rise to a higher level on the basis of not increasing the number of logistics trucks in the troops. ”
"Especially the kind of anti-tank bazooka, which can almost be done by everyone. Its lethality against tanks is not inferior to that of the 37-mm anti-tank guns we are now equipped with, but it is extremely lightweight, and it can not occupy the strength of the troops. ”
"It is clear that these weapons meet the needs of our Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Comrade Stalin, I think, we can make an exchange. Although the Chinese comrades provided samples of weapons, the design drawings and material requirements were still in their hands. ”
"And Comrade Stalin, the automation of infantry weapons is a trend in the development of weapons in the world. The so-called AK47 they designed is much better than the Tokarev semi-automatic rifle we have produced now in terms of reliability, productivity, and firepower continuity. ”
"The intensity of firepower has increased dramatically, and it is easy to use and inexpensive, and I think that as long as this weapon is issued to the Soviet Red Army, it will greatly increase the firepower of the Red Army infantry."
"If we can exchange some of the materials they urgently need, we can save a lot of manpower and material resources in weapon research and development. Use this part of the weapons research and development funds to where they are more needed. ”
In response to Ivanov's heartfelt appreciation of these two weapons, Stalin smiled but did not give him a direct reply, but changed the subject: "Comrade Ivanov, what conditions did the Chinese comrades put forward in addition to these weapons?" ”
"Comrade Stalin, they also asked us to send some technicians to help them train their soldiers, and they also asked that we could help them get in touch with Yan'an."
After listening to Ivanov's answer, Stalin was silent for a while and said: "Do you think we agreed to all their conditions?" ”
"I think we can agree to the first and second, but the third," Ivanov replied cautiously.
Stalin picked up the list of supplies on his desk, read it intently again, and after making a lot of corrections on it, he handed it to General Ivanov and said: "You take this list to General Shaposhnikov of the General Staff and General Kulik, Minister of General Ordnance, and ask them to help solve the needs of the Chinese comrades in the shortest possible time, and at the same time send a teaching team headed by Comrade Vasily to help the Chinese comrades train soldiers, and at the same time see if we can control this army in our hands." ”
Ivanov took the list of supplies handed over by Stalin, and found that the 10 37 anti-aircraft guns on the top were crossed out, and the other side asked for 50 Deshka 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine guns to be replaced by 30. The ammunition base was changed from two million rounds to one million rounds. Twenty-four 120-mm mortars and tens of thousands of Soviet obsolete rifles, 50,000 sets of cotton clothes, and 3 million catties of grain were given for nothing.
Meng Qingshan knew that the Soviets would definitely not be able to easily agree to the conditions proposed by the Anti-Japanese Federation, so in front of Zhou Baozhong and Yang Jingyu, he drew an extra zero for all the things he needed, and added some unimportant things, and Meng Qingshan was very happy to change the anti-aircraft machine gun, food, and cotton clothes. (To be continued.) )
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