ps: Ask for tickets on Monday, and there will be a change ^_^ in the evening

Although the victory of this battle has the credit of the 4th Division for "selling teammates", the combat effectiveness of the new recruits of the Anti-Japanese Union has indeed improved a lot compared with the initial battle, which can be seen from the proportion of the number of casualties and the average ammunition consumption of the enemy, and the enemy dealt with this time is also relatively easier to deal with than the first battle of Qiqihar, even the devils have captured more than a dozen prisoners of war, not to mention the puppet army, only to die less than a success, all surrendered, and the puppet Manchurian Xing'an Division that did not surrender in the previous battle is not comparable at all, But this is exactly the normal situation, otherwise the puppet army is brave one by one, just like when the Meng Yuan destroyed the Song Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty, China would really perish

It is precisely because of this that the ammunition captured after the victory of the Anti-Japanese Union this time is enough to make up for the consumption in the battle, and there is a surplus of guns and weapons, plus more than 20,000 rifles bought from the Soviet Union, Xu Xiangqian once again greatly expanded the strength of the United Nations forces, and the total strength of the regular army alone has increased to more than 300,000. Among the additional troops, except for the more than 10,000 people who returned from wounds, the vast majority were newly recruited in the North Manchurian base area, and the ratio of soldiers to civilians in the base area reached an astonishing 1:15, which has exceeded the heyday of the four fields in history (Note 1).

However, when Xu Xiangqian was the commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army, the ratio of soldiers to civilians was sometimes higher than now, but he could still keep the troops quite strong in combat, so he was not too worried about the Anti-Japanese Federation becoming a rabble because the expansion of the troops was too fast, but he had the ability to do so. In the Red Party, and even in the entire Shijie today, I am afraid that there are not a few people

Although there is no need to worry about the military, the economy of the base areas will also be affected, and even more serious, because of the lack of young and strong labor force in the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression in the history of the Central Soviet Region, which directly led to the bankruptcy of the Soviet economy, which in turn accelerated the failure of the Fifth Anti-encirclement and Suppression. However, as secretary of the Northeast Bureau, Gao Yuan has always been known within the party for being good at building base areas, and since he agreed to the old chief's request for further military expansion, he naturally took this factor into account a long time ago.

From the plateau's point of view, the situation in the northeast, especially in the North Manchurian base areas, is very different from that in the southern Soviet areas. First of all, the Northeast has a relatively high degree of industrialization, and even the relatively backward North Manchurian region is stronger than most of the inland areas, and if it is compared with those mountainous base areas, the advantage is even greater, so it can maintain a higher ratio of soldiers to civilians, and it is not just a little higher.

Second, the northeast, especially the north, is sparsely populated and the land is fertile, and each agricultural labor force can produce far more grain than the peasants in the interior. As a result, it is possible to feed a larger number of people who are out of work, including, of course, the military.

What's more. The per capita cultivated land in Northeast China is much more than that in most areas of the interior, especially in North Manchuria, especially after the establishment of the base area, reclamation has been encouraged, so after the land reform, a peasant household can often be divided into dozens or even hundreds of acres of land, so the farming method is inevitably more extensive, even if the agriculture in Northeast China is not mechanized at all. At the same time, because the black soil in the northeast is extremely fertile and does not even need to be fertilized, the farmers here basically have little to do during the slack season, that is, they cannot stop raising livestock. However, after the establishment of primary cooperatives, this work can be concentrated and handed over to a small number of people, or even to the elderly, women and children, which frees up a large number of young and strong laborers.

In addition, the cold winter in the northeast is extremely long, and if you don't make good use of this nearly half a year, it is indeed a pity. Wait until the spring ploughing time to demobilize them, or send troops directly to help the local farm work.

After all, forcibly crossing the great rivers has always been a problem, not to mention that due to the heavy losses of the aviation regiment of the Central China Dispatch Army, the Japanese base camp was forced to give priority to the newly produced army aviation and some naval aviation aircraft to the Central China battlefield. In addition, Luda, which had been bombed before, and the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, which was also within the combat radius of the North China Air Corps, also needed more planes, so that less than one-third of the planes of the Kwantung Army's flight group could provide air support for the attack across the river, which undoubtedly further increased the difficulty for the Kwantung Army to break through the defense line of the Songhua River against the United Nations.

Therefore, the operational plan formulated by the General Staff of the Japanese Kwantung Army was to wait until the Songhua River was completely frozen before launching an attack, and then the Japanese army could easily cross any section of the Songhua River, while the Anti-Japanese Union was forced to fortify everywhere, and under the current situation that the strength was far weaker than that of the Kwantung Army, it was simply impossible to hold the defense line that stretched for thousands of miles.

However, although this jihua is very tempting, but thinking of the pain of last year's winter battle, the devil is not completely confident in whether he can sweep through the enemy's defense line after breaking through the enemy's defense line, so they also think of an alternative combat jihua, if the winter offensive is frustrated, the Kwantung Army will temporarily return the main force to South Manchuria, leaving only a stronghold on the north bank of the Songhua River as an advance base, with the gap in the overall strength of the two sides and the lack of anti-union offensive capabilities, Coupled with the overwhelming firepower superiority of the Japanese shallow water gunboats on the Songhua River, no matter how desperately the Anti-Japanese Union attacked, it was impossible to uproot that stronghold.

When the spring ploughing is in the coming year, the Kwantung Army will attack from here, and then the Kwantung Army will have a longer preparation time and will definitely be able to achieve greater results than the winter offensive. And even if this attack is still not enough to completely "recover" North Manchuria, as long as the spring plowing in the North Manchurian base area is destroyed, the soldiers and civilians in the base area can only wait to starve to death in the second half of the year

However, to the surprise of the Japanese staff officers, in mid-December, a few days after the Songhua River was frozen, Xu Xiangqian led the main force of the Anti-Japanese Federation of more than 200,000 people to cross the river in the lower reaches of the Songhua River by surprise, taking advantage of the opportunity that the 4th Division of Osaka, which was supposed to be stationed in Jiamusi, was still in Harbin and had not returned, and in one fell swoop took the location of the provincial office (that is, the provincial capital) of the so-called "Sanjiang Province" of the puppet Manchurians. As a result, the first aircraft of the Anti-Union was not captured

Note 1: With the addition of local troops, Siye had a maximum of 1.5 million people, while the population of the three eastern provinces dropped from 30 million to less than 25 million during the period from "918" to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and increased slightly during the War of Liberation, but in any case it did not exceed 30 million, so the ratio of soldiers to civilians would not exceed 1:20, but it was still impossible to reach 1:15.

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