Chapter 337: Yang Zhen's Loss
Especially when Yang Zhen made this request, the Soviet Union had just handed over more than 200 German planes, more than 300 tanks, and more than 700 artillery pieces of more than 100 mm caliber to the Anti-Japanese Union. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe Soviets expressed their unacceptability for Yang Zhen to return at this time by sending personnel from the Northern Fleet to return.
However, under Yang Zhen's repeated efforts, he also took into account that at present, the Soviet army has reached the Oder River, which is only 60 kilometers away from Berlin, in the European theater. The frontal battlefield has already shortened a considerable distance compared to when fighting on Soviet soil. A part of the naval personnel who have been integrated into the army can be transferred back to the navy to take over the defense work.
At the same time, the command of the Soviet Navy also considered the Navy to be a complex technical branch. The Chinese will have to return home sooner or later, and it is impossible to serve the Soviet Navy all the time. This is not only a question of the face of the great Soviet Red Navy, handing over the coastal defense line to the Chinese is also not conducive to the security of the great Soviet coastal defense.
The most important thing is that once the navy has painstakingly cultivated personnel, it will lose embers in ground operations. Even when it came time to retake the fleet after the war, the Soviet side finally agreed to Yang Zhen's request under the condition that Yang Zhen promised that he would never transfer back the personnel of the other three fleets before the end of the European battlefield.
When Li Mingfeng, who led a team to the Soviet Union to study the navy, and a group of middle-level cadres, at the request of Yang Zhen, escorted this group of personnel back to the northeast. Yang Zhen closed the door and talked with Li Mingfeng secretly for three days. After these three days of talking, Li Mingfeng immediately led the team back to the Soviet Union without any delay.
What Yang Zhen and Li Mingfeng talked about behind closed doors in the past three days, it wasn't until the earth-shattering incident a few months later that others knew what the two of them talked about in the past three days. As for the time when the conversation just ended, all others saw was a group of cadres who had been transferred back from the Soviet Union, as well as thousands of sailors who had returned home in Soviet naval uniforms and had changed into anti-coalition uniforms after returning home.
At the same time, I saw the ports of Lushun and Huludao, which were repaired after the spring of four or five years. The heavy artillery wing left by the Japanese army in Arthur was also redeployed and adjusted. The two ports of Lushun and Huludao, as well as the Yingkou port, which is being expanded, have also been considerably strengthened in the surrounding shore artillery and air defense.
In the Kannai battlefield, after discovering that the Anti-Japanese Union had entered the customs in a big way in early April or May, the Japanese army, which immediately felt the pressure on the Kannai battlefield, also made adjustments at the first time. It abandoned the only remaining control area along the Jinpu Railway north of the Huai River, and Jinan, which had basically become an isolated city. All of them shrank to the south of the Huai River defense line, using the Huai River as a natural barrier to try to carry out a dying struggle.
The base camp of the Japanese army decided to abolish the formation of the North China Front Army and reorganize the Japanese army in Huainan into a Sixth Front Army, with Yoshio Kamitsuki as the commander of the front army. It has a total of five divisions and regiments, 11 independent mixed brigades, and seven independent garrisons under the jurisdiction of the 1st Army and the 12th Army.
It's just that the connection with the mainland, except for the already extremely unreliable sea route, has been cut off, and the Japanese army on the battlefield in Kannai is too old to be better every year. Even the distribution of winter clothing in the past four years has been repeatedly postponed, and the replenishment of weapons and ammunition has repeatedly declined despite the fact that shipping has been greatly blocked.
The Japanese army carried out strategic contraction at the fastest speed, but the overall situation in the Kannai area changed quite strangely with the strategic contraction of the Japanese army. Chongqing's 1st, 2nd, 5th, and newly established 11th Theaters have made frequent moves on the line of control between the two armies.
However, the two armored divisions of the Anti-Union entry force quickly moved south, and immediately retreated after entering the junction of Hebei, Shandong, and Henan. However, even though he retracted it, he didn't make much of a move in the end. But at the junction of the areas controlled by the two sides, misfires occur every day.
The Chongqing side also successively transferred the all-American armament army, which had completed the Yunnan-Burma operation, to central Henan and northeastern Anhui. In the central Henan region alone, the strength of four US armies was increased. At the same time, with the opening of the Yunnan-Burma Road, the speed of the transfer of US aid equipment has been greatly accelerated. The new chief of staff of the U.S. theater in China is much more realistic than his predecessor.
From January to April of the fourth or fifth year alone, Chongqing was newly organized into 11 all-American armies. In January 45, the United States handed over 600 75 mountain guns and 240 105-mm howitzers to Chongqing at one time. In addition, more than 50,000 tons of light weapons and ammunition stored in the Yunnan-Burma Theater were transferred to Chongqing at one time.
And coordinated with the British to rush by the end of April 4 to transport all the Bren light machine guns that had not yet been handed over to Chongqing. And all the more than 200 tons of 79 bullets captured by the Germans in the battlefields of Belgium and the Netherlands were handed over to Chongqing. In addition, the German-made 79 bullets that were previously captured in the Italian battlefield and transferred to Chongqing ensured that Chongqing had enough 79 caliber ammunition reserves for two years.
At the same time, the Americans began to provide Chongqing with a large number of American-made 37 anti-aircraft guns and some 57-millimeter anti-aircraft guns needed for anti-tank operations. And for the air force of Chongqing, it began to equip a large number of air-to-ground rockets. Although only some of the M-3 and 5 light tanks were supplied, two fully formed regiments of M-18 Hellcat tank destroyers were supplied.
The Americans are constantly strengthening the strength of the shield in Chongqing, and at the same time, they are also constantly reducing the weapons and equipment assistance of the confrontation alliance. After four or five years, the amount of equipment provided by the United States has repeatedly declined, and by May and June, the amount of equipment delivered has reached the point where it is nothing.
Yang Zhen didn't care too much about the United States' assistance in reducing weapons and equipment. Although its own tank production capacity is insufficient, it can at least meet the needs for the time being. Therefore, he repeatedly demanded that the weapons and equipment that the Americans had failed to make appointments should be offset by machinery and equipment and military raw materials.
After painstaking negotiations with the US side, the two sides reached the latest agreement on the issue of four or five years of aid. The Americans no longer provided weapons and equipment other than aircraft to the Anti-United Nations, and the original quota of weapons and equipment was replaced by the most urgently needed industrial equipment of the Anti-Japanese Federation.
However, in terms of the type of industrial equipment, Yang Zhen broke out a fierce conflict with the United States. The Americans refused to supply large-tonnage hydraulic presses, as well as shipbuilding equipment proposed by Yang Zhen. It was only agreed to use the existing industrial base of the Anti-Union to provide part of the equipment and spare parts needed to restore the production capacity of these factories.
The U.S. side does not provide steel manufacturing equipment other than electric furnaces, but it can provide some oil extraction equipment and some light industry manufacturing machinery and equipment. The United States can provide the power equipment required by the Anti-United Nations to rush to repair the industrial facilities in South Manchuria, which were damaged by the war, and ensure the power needed for industrial production in South Manchuria.
However, the equipment needed to manufacture the expansion of the industry was rejected by the Americans. The United States has recovered the entire South Manchurian industrial zone with the Anti-Japanese Union, and has obtained the replenishment of South Manchurian industry, which is enough to make up for the consumption of the war except for some raw materials. The United States no longer needs to continue to provide a large amount of machinery and equipment for the anti-United Nations.
The attitude of the Americans was very resolute, insisting on providing only part of the equipment with the gap on the basis of the South Manchurian industrial zone. But it refused to increase the industrial capacity of South Manchuria, especially when it came to military equipment. After painstaking efforts to obtain the final consent of American talents, we will provide a batch of equipment needed for the recovery of Fushun's special steel manufacturing industry and Fushun Aluminum Plant.
It also agreed to sell some of the aircraft manufacturing equipment to restore the production capacity of the Shenyang aircraft factory. and agreed to provide a batch of machinery and equipment required for automobile manufacturing. And for the resumption of production of the two major coal mines in Fushun and Fuxin, a number of coal mining and coal washing equipment, as well as thermal power generation equipment, will be provided.
In other respects, the Americans only agreed to provide 300 tractors for the Northeast to help the Northeast People's Government develop the Liaohe Delta. and the provision of another 1,000 drilling rigs to assist the northeast in the development of the Liaohe oil field. But all of the stuff is counted against the Lend-Lease aid program, which means that all of it needs to be accounted for.
In the face of the change in the attitude of the Americans towards aid, Yang Zhen simply put forward a proposal for the most favored treatment in trade with the United States. And this suggestion made the Americans, all of a sudden, the hard-line Americans interested. After a month and a half of negotiations, an agreement was reached that the Americans regretted for decades.
As for Chongqing's continuous actions, Yang Zhen, who was urgently recalled to Beiping by the central government, did not care. At this time, Chongqing will not make a big fight, they are not stupid enough to reach this juncture, when the foreign war is not over and a large number of invaders are still stationed on the country, they will start a civil war first. Politically disadvantaged first, and I am afraid that the United States will be the first to turn around.
Although they have now received a large number of beautiful weapons, their waists are very hard and their confidence is also sufficient. But at this time, the misfire is just a temptation at most. So the chairman asked what to do if Chongqing made the first move, and Yang Zhen replied cleanly and neatly, then call them back. Let's see if their equipment is hard, or if our fists are hard.
Regarding Yang Zhen's very tough attitude, the chairman just smiled and didn't say anything more. I just talked with him for a long time about the future development of Northeast China, as well as Yang Zhen's next strategic ideas and ideas in view of the situation in the entire Northeast and actually on the Korean battlefield.
After taking over as the first secretary of the Northeast Bureau, he will preside over the overall work of the Northeast and the overall work of the military region, and will also be responsible for foreign negotiations and the research and development of certain secret projects. Yang Zhen, who was really overwhelmed, repeatedly asked the central government to send more people to him to share some of the work.
After careful consideration, the chairman finally decided to transfer the former commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to the post of second political commissar of the Northeast Military Region, and to concurrently serve as secretary of the Science and Technology Committee of the newly established Northeast Bureau, which is specifically responsible for the research of some cutting-edge weapons, while Yang Zhen is also the first political commissar of the Military Region.
After the adjustment of the Central Committee, Yang Zhen concurrently served as the first secretary of the Northeast Bureau, the commander of the Northeast Military Region, and the first political commissar. As the three positions of the party, government and military in the Northeast, he has become a veritable king of the Northeast. Although after the commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region was transferred to the northeast, Yang Zhen repeatedly asked that the posts of first political commissar and first secretary be changed to his old chief. But the chairman's attitude was very clear, telling Yang Zhen that this decision would not change.
However, although the central government met Yang Zhen's needs and helped him unload part of the burden. However, at the request of the boss, the central government retained Wang Guangyu, who assisted General Lin in commanding the main force of the Anti-Japanese Federation to enter the customs, and left him as deputy chief of staff of the Central Military Commission. Li Yanping, acting political commissar of the military region, was also transferred and reappointed as political commissar of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
was suddenly transferred away from his old partner and a general, which caught Yang Zhen somewhat off guard. However, the boss put forward a request to strengthen the construction of the central command force, and although Yang Zhen was a little reluctant, he could only release him. Moreover, the reason put forward by the central government for transferring Li Yanping to work in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region also made Yang Zhen unable to refuse. The troops transferred into the customs by the Anti-Japanese Federation are mainly deployed in the areas under the jurisdiction of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. The transfer of Li Yanping to work in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region is conducive to maintaining the stability of the troops.
The old partner and the general were transferred, although Yang Zhen also knew that it was impossible to work together for a lifetime. There is no banquet in this world, but I still feel quite lost.