Chapter 376: The Last Battle?

After the completion of the Jianghuai Campaign, the central authorities made certain adjustments to the major strategic areas in the Guannai. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 The★ original Huainan, Huaibei, Northern Jiangsu, and Soviet-Central Military Regions were abolished, and the four military regions were unified and reorganized into the Jianghuai Military Region, and the Jianghuai Military Region Headquarters was formed with the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army. Chen Hanzhang served as the commander of the Jianghuai Military Region and the commander of the New Fourth Army, and the original acting commander of the New Fourth Army was transferred to the post of political commissar.

The tank unit transferred into the pass by the Anti-Japanese Union after the completion of the Jianghuai operation. One part was assigned to the Jianghuai Military Region on the spot, and the other part was transferred to Shimen, and the deployment of the air force was mainly along the Jianghuai Military Region and the Pingjin line. After this reorganization, the Jianghuai Military Region has become one of the major strategic regions in the Guannai region in terms of strength and disposition, second only to the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, which serves as the general reserve.

Regarding the change of the troops entering the customs into the New Fourth Army, Yang Zhen could only shake his head and smile bitterly. In fact, Yang Zhen believed that it would be better if the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the troops of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region were to be reorganized in the south to join the New Fourth Army, and after the troops of the Anti-Japanese Union entered the customs completed the Jianghuai operation, they would be deployed respectively to serve as the general reserve of the whole army in the Guannai.

But Yang Zhen also understands that it is better not to intervene in this matter. The central government's deployment must have the intentions and ideas of the central government. Depending on the environment and position, the perspective of the problem is also different. The central authorities' reorganization of the anti-coalition forces with the New Fourth Army should give more consideration to the overall situation around Jianghuai.

At least for the time being, in the Chinese battlefield, it can maintain sufficient deterrence against the Chinese dispatch troops that only have a corner of Jiangnan and Taiwan. It also maintains sufficient deterrence in other directions. The most important thing is that the land of Jianghuai, although it is currently being invaded by the Yellow River, is much richer than that of North China, and it has enough strength to support the supply of the army.

The recovery of Jianghuai, together with the grain-producing areas in central Hebei and Shandong, has basically reduced the burden on the old areas of Guannai to one-third of what it used to be. If the Yellow River Delta is being reclaimed, this proportion can be further reduced according to the current degree of reclamation.

However, the central government also took into account the opening of the northeast, after the completion of the Jianghuai campaign. From the New Fourth Army and the Shandong Military Region, a number of troops were transferred to the northeast, and the units were converted into agricultural units to speed up the development of the Liaohe Delta. The Shandong Military Region has also intensified its efforts to reclaim the mouth of the Yellow River in order to lighten the burden on the Guannai as much as possible.

Yang Zhen insisted on the requirement of opening the Liaohe Delta, although it brought a certain burden to the northeast finances, but the entire Liaohe Delta opened very quickly. At the end of May 45, the first oil well in the Liaohe Oilfield officially produced oil. And according to the prediction of an American expert, if sufficient investment is maintained, the Liaohe oil field, which has no low reserves, will become the second Romania.

The successful development of the Liaohe Oilfield put Yang Zhen's heart at ease. At the end of June, the first ship of oil produced from the Liaohe oil field was shipped to Norway to pay for the remaining payment for the purchase of German equipment from Norway, and the subsequent signing of an order for 50,000 tons of oil to be exported to France also greatly relieved the tight finances of Northeast China.

It's just that the French, who are now on the verge of financial bankruptcy, do not have enough cash to pay for this oil order. But Yang Zhen also generously agreed that the French could not pay cash, but use their industrial equipment in the German-occupied areas and German equipment captured by the French army to settle the bill. However, it is limited to the specified equipment and equipment, as well as the corresponding technology.

The French occupation zone is the main distribution area of the German automotive industry and optics, which is home to the largest in Europe and the leading industrial base even in the world. Automotive industry equipment, Yang Zhen didn't count too much. But optical equipment and technology are what the Chinese need most at the moment.

Both sides were happy, one getting much-needed equipment, and the other generously getting much-needed fuel. At the moment, the French are also very shy in their pockets, and in the face of the shortage of fuel throughout Europe, as long as they can get much-needed fuel without paying large sums of cash, they can do business with whomever they want.

For the French at the moment, the war is over, and the generosity of the Americans has stopped. After a long period of occupation and plundering by the Germans, the northern industrial town was also known as one of the main battlefields on the Western Front. Although the large-scale fighting in France lasted only half a year, the damage caused was staggering.

For the French at the moment, it has become an option to obtain a cheap, preferably cash-free source of goods, to survive the initial post-war crisis and to create the conditions for the country's recovery. At this time, the Chinese are willing to do this deal, which is undoubtedly good news for the French.

As for the Germans, let them go to hell. These Germans are starving to death, and the best news for France is this. The total occupation by the Germans in World War II was undoubtedly a serious blow to the arrogant French. At this time, the Chinese proposed that France, which was about to go bankrupt, exchange the equipment and technology of the French occupation areas, as well as French industrial products, for oil and medicine, which the French naturally did not like to be happy with when the traditional export market had basically been lost to the Americans.

France was the first, then Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Denmark, and even Italy, an ally of the Germans throughout World War II, made the same demand. Not having to pay cash is undoubtedly a good way for these battered and broken countries. It's just that these countries that did not have an occupied zone in Germany were very poor, and there was only a limit to what could be exchanged.

However, the central government believed that this was undoubtedly a good time to make friends and open up trade routes, and immediately approved Yang Zhen's proposal to use oil and grain, as well as textiles from Tianjin and Liaodong, to adopt barter trade with Western European countries, which solved the urgent needs of European countries and obtained certain technology and urgently needed equipment.

What to do with the fact that the Netherlands had no currency, and there were no German machinery and weapons. This is easy to do, you come forward to buy from the Americans, and the Chinese use oil as a means of payment. The cows in the Netherlands are good, the shipbuilding technology is also good, and the Chinese will not refuse to take it out. In tattered Belgium, you can do the same.

In fact, Yang Zhen is eyeing a Belgian steel factory, but the Belgians would rather be frozen than sell this factory. However, in the face of the predicament, the Belgians finally provided some of the most urgently needed smelting equipment and technologies for die steel and shipbuilding steel in the northeast in exchange for much-needed food, oil, textiles, and penicillin and streptomycin, which are urgently needed to curb the epidemic of epidemics.

Italy's shipbuilding and automobiles, aircraft manufacturing technology, and the arms industry are also not weak. The attitude of war like playing soy sauce is a matter of attitude towards war. But the industrial foundation of the Italians still has a certain level in Europe. The Italians, who lost all their colonies, were still very generous in order to obtain supplies. In order to obtain cheap grain and oil from the East, the Italians generously took out torpedo technology.

Wait until the Americans, who were half a beat slower to react, began to implement the Marshall Plan in Europe, and large-scale aid to European countries began. The Northeast Bureau and the Northeast People's Government have opened channels for oil exports and established trade relations with the countries of Western Europe after the war.

Barter, a form of exchange, is undoubtedly very suitable for most of the present, and the colonies in Asia are either still under the control of the Japanese army, or the European countries have begun to surge. Except for Britain, which is still insisting on its overseas territories, the rest of the Western European countries have basically established trade relations with the Northeast.

In fact, Yang Zhen basically didn't interfere in these things, and he didn't even ask. He handed over all the economic work to the Northeast People's Government to deal with. In terms of the import and export of the Northeast government, except for letting the intelligence department help matchmaking, the rest is all hands-off practice.

He doesn't have the energy or the heart to do that. Especially at present, the commander of the entire Northeast Military Region has been transferred back to work in the central government. The former director of the Political Department of the Military Region was also transferred back to the Central Committee. The first political commissar was only in charge of some secret work, and Guo Bingxun was transferred to North Korea by him, and many things could only be done by himself.

It is impossible for him to divert a lot of energy from meddling in the economy, which he is not good at. In addition to asking the intelligence department to provide some assistance, Yang Zhen's main focus was on his own plan. During this period, he constantly flew to the Central Committee to report on his work and discuss matters with the chairman and vice chairman. Even throughout the month of July, he spends more time in the center than in the northeast.

And just when Du Kaishan was attacking on all fronts on the battlefield in southern Korea, Yang Zhen drew back sailors from the Soviet Northern Fleet in advance. In addition to a large number of personnel from the intelligence and technical departments, they also began to secretly enter the DPRK in the name of reserves.

The long-range reconnaissance planes of the Anti-Japanese Union have also been constantly dispatched to carry out the most extensive reconnaissance operations against various military ports along the coast of Japan and on the entire Japanese mainland. The reconnaissance operation involved a wide range of areas and the meticulousness of the aerial reconnaissance operation, and it was the first large-scale reconnaissance of the Anti-Japanese Union against Japan.

From military ports to cities, from villages to coastlines, all movements in the entire Japanese mainland are within the reconnaissance range of the anti-United Nations reconnaissance planes. In particular, from the South Kuril Islands in the far north to Kyushu Island in the south, all the military ports and naval shipyards on the Japanese mainland, the anti-coalition reconnaissance planes hovered over these locations almost every day.

It's just that at this moment, the Japanese army, whose local air defense forces have been exhausted, can only resign themselves to these reconnaissance planes hovering over their heads every day as long as they do not drop bombs. The only remaining air defense fighters are no longer capable of intercepting these reconnaissance planes. Anyway, there is almost nothing left of the bombed homeland, and there are no secrets to preserve.

These reconnaissance planes took a large number of photographs, which were analyzed in detail. As long as there are places that resemble factories, they are clearly marked on the map. The photographs taken after the entire reconnaissance operation filled several rooms after the war. Based on reconnaissance, the intelligence department also redrew a map of the four islands of the Japanese mainland, especially Honshu Island, which has the highest concentration of industry.

The Second Paratrooper Division stationed on the Korean Peninsula is also constantly conducting targeted training. Several fully formed divisions mobilized from the northeast also replaced the divisions of the North Korean cluster, which suffered heavy casualties, and stationed them in various ports of Busan and Ulsan. At the same time, from the northeast, a large amount of diesel fuel was stored in the two ports of Busan and Ulsan before the railway was repaired.

Dalian and Huludao, where there are shipbuilding industries, are also constantly increasing their horsepower to change a large number of sailing ships mobilized from the coastal areas of Shandong and northern Jiangsu into sailboats, and carry out centralized training for shipwrights, and complete a batch of transfers to North Korea. And it is not an easy thing to avoid the eyes of the US military, which has completely mastered the sea and air supremacy in the western Pacific at this time.

Throughout July, Yang Zhen continued to travel between Beiping and Shenyang on the one hand, and on the other hand, he continued to adopt various technical and propaganda methods to cover up his strategic plan. The slogan of the last war against Japan and the complete liberation of the Japanese people from the rule of all evil militarism was constantly propagated in the newspapers and on the radio.