In addition to these agreements, which said that Haode would provide free aid, he was always worried about the lack of funds for domestic industrialization (in fact, the Soviet Union was already very rich at this time, but Stalin's goal was to build the Soviet Union into the first industrial power, so no amount of money was enough. Stalin also acquiesced in the sale of weapons and ammunition and even some chemical raw materials necessary for the arsenals in the base areas to the Soviet Army in the Far East in exchange for gold seized by the Anti-Japanese Federation or produced in the base areas (there are many gold mines in North Manchuria, in addition to the direct occupation of ready-made gold mines, the plateau also brought some geological exploration and metallurgical personnel when it entered the northeast. Silver and some foreign exchange, including yen, were also collected, and although the Soviet side offered a good price, it was barely able to get by relying on the discounts obtained by the wine table offensive

With these material foundations, the development of the Anti-Japanese Front is even more rapid and ever-changing, and the Kwantung Army, which has a maximum of millions of troops in history, has been in a state of blood loss because of the Japanese army's repeated requests for help in the Guannei, and its strength is not at all comparable to the current North China Front, and even there is a certain gap between it and the Central China Front.

Moreover, under the command of such a top-notch guerrilla warfare expert on the plateau, the level of guerrilla warfare of the anti-United Nations forces and the militia guerrillas in the base areas has made rapid progress, and in addition, the northeast is vast and sparsely populated, and there is a lot of room for the anti-United Nations to make roundabouts. But if the devils scatter their forces. The squadron and even the brigade-level troops were completely unable to defeat the field troops of the previous anti-United Nations in terms of weaponry and technical and tactical quality, and as a result, they not only failed to eliminate the anti-United Nations but also buried the lives of thousands of devils in vain

In the early spring of 1938, the Kwantung Army Headquarters was dismayed to find that after the "Imperial Army" braved the cold of the Manchurian winter to carry out an unprecedented sweep of the "non-security zone" in North Manchuria, the number of enemies had not decreased much at all, but its combat effectiveness had become stronger because of the hard fighting. What's worse is that there are more than 10,000 devils who froze to death in the winter sweep. This made the Kwantung Army all know about the winter operation

At the turn of the spring and summer of that year, the Kwantung Army, which was more prepared, was preparing to take advantage of the relatively warm months below to launch a larger sweep, but because of the emergency in North China, it was forced to draw a large number of troops into the pass again to support. As a result, the original Jihua was suddenly in vain, but the Anti-Union seized this rare opportunity to launch a fierce counterattack

The first target of the plateau is the Mohe gold mine in the northern part of Heilongjiang. Although this gold mine has been developed for nearly half a century, it is still one of the largest gold mines in China, and according to the estimation of those geological prospectors brought by the plateau, there should be some veins in the Mohe gold mine that have not yet been discovered. At the same time, because the Mohe gold mine is close to the Sino-Soviet border. Even if the Kwantung Army sends reinforcements, it will be bound by the strong Soviet Army in the Far East, which is also very beneficial to the United Nations, and the previous sweep of the devils has put the Anti-Union and the masses in the base areas under great pressure, and there is no spare strength to attack the gold mines in front of them for a while. But now, it's a different story

Thanks to the help of the Japanese Communist Party, although the Red Party was not able to accurately grasp the short-term movement of the Japanese army, it still had a good idea of the total strength of the Kwantung Army. Prior to this transfer of troops to the Kannai, although the Kwantung Army still had eight divisions on the surface, most of them were not fully staffed. With 15,000 people in a non-combat state, even with the addition of several independent mixed brigades and those garrisons, the total strength is only about 200,000. As for the 100,000 puppet Manchurian troops, except for the 30,000-strong "Xing'an Army," which has a combat strength close to that of the Japanese army's field divisions, the rest are simply not enough in the eyes of the vast number of commanders and fighters of today's Anti-Japanese Federation. In this case, another 100,000 elite soldiers were withdrawn, how strong can the Kwantung Army be? …,

Of course, Japan will definitely urgently conscript troops to the northeast, or directly transfer Korean divisions and regiments to the north to supplement the Kwantung Army, but the combat effectiveness of the new recruits is weaker after all, and the Korean division is only one, and even if it is fully established, it will only be 20,000 or 30,000 people, and it is undoubtedly overstretched to make up for such a huge gap in the strength of the Kwantung Army. In short, in any case, at least for a short time, the Kwantung Army will not be able to launch a large-scale sweep of the North Manchurian base area, and this alone will be enough to free up the plateau to take those gold mines not far away

Coupled with the cooperation of the underground party, it took less than a month for the Anti-Japanese Federation to seize almost all of the gold mines in North Manchuria from the hands of the Japanese puppets, and by the way, some county seats, and the area and population of the North Manchurian base area have increased substantially. What's more, the Anti-Japanese Federation not only quickly resumed the production of those gold mines, but also directly seized no less than 100,000 taels of gold (about 10 million legal currency), and then exchanged it and some other currencies and materials that the Soviets were willing to accept for more than 10,000 Mosin Nagant rifles, more than 500 rotary machine guns, more than 20 million rifle machine gun shells, and more than 500 82mm mortars (this caliber mortar has an advantage, it can fire devil's 81mm mortar shells, but the accuracy is slightly worse, But the devil's 81mm mortar could not fire the 82mm mortar shells that the gun was equipped with), more than 30,000 mortar shells. However, the so-called "115mm heavy artillery" -- the so-called "115mm heavy artillery" that the Soviets tried their best to sell -- could not deceive the plateau that had been educated by Hu Weidong before coming to the Northeast, not to mention the 115mm caliber, even the 76mm Soviet-style howitzer was too heavy

The Anti-Japanese Union, which has always been resentful of devil planes, even wanted to buy anti-aircraft guns, but after learning that an anti-aircraft gun would cost a full 40 catties of gold, and even a shell would cost 1 tael of gold, and this was still the so-called "conscience price", everyone had to temporarily give up the extravagant hope of forming an air defense force (welcome to your support, is my biggest motivation. )