The problem of the designer was solved, but the trouble faced by Li Xiaofeng was not solved, and 1934 would be a particularly busy year for him, with the congress in January and February, the organization and summary of the 1934 exercises of the fleet in March and April, and the big military parade on Red Square on May 1, which was held on May 1, and he was also responsible for the organization and security of the military parade on Red Square. It wasn't until mid-May that someone could catch a breath.

However, this breath was not breathing, and soon an urgent telegram came from the Far East, and after almost a year of fighting, Feng Yuxiang and Ma Zhanshan's team finally met, but the result of the meeting was a bit miserable and miserable.

The once-vigorous Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Alliance fell from nearly 90,000 at its peak to less than 20,000, while Ma Zhanshan's troops also fell from nearly 30,000 at its peak to less than 5,000. This kind of roller coaster-like ups and downs made Feng Yuxiang and Ma Zhanshan a little disheartened.

However, in Li Xiaofeng's view, this is the most normal situation, resisting Japan has never been an easy thing, whether it is Feng Yuxiang or Ma Zhanshan, they are not mentally prepared to deal with the difficult situation before, so it is actually a good thing for them to see the cruel reality.

Especially Ma Zhanshan, who did not want to go south to join Feng Yuxiang before, but tried to carry out the war of resistance in big cities such as Hailar and Manchuria. As a result, it was obvious that the devil gave him a blow in the face, unceremoniously routed his team, and drove into the Great Khing'an Mountains like a sheep.

After a long arduous march, Ma Zhanshan's headquarters were either wiped out by the devils or surrendered to the devils, and the beard that filled his ranks was truly unsafe.

That is, under the strong request of Ren Fuchen and Zhang Furong, Ma Zhanshan sent an advance team of 2,000 people south to "meet" Feng Yuxiang. Otherwise, Ma Zhanshan's troops really won't have a few people left.

Feng Yuxiang's situation is only slightly better than Ma Zhanshan. When leaving Duolun and heading north. His team still has nearly 90,000 people, but the team has shrunk all the way to the north, and some of the former Northwest Army generals who can't bear the hardships have run away with their men and horses, and the other part has been directly disbanded on the spot, plus the siege of the Northeast Army, the Central Army, the Jin Army and the devils, after the convergence of Ma Zhanshan, there will be 18,900 people left.

Moreover, these 18,900 men were almost left with little combat strength, and they could not be supplied on long marches and on the way. Coupled with constant fighting, the consumption of troops is not ordinarily large. A considerable number of Anti-Japanese Allied fighters arrived almost bare-chested in what would become the city of Arshan.

At that time, Arshan was not as developed as it was later, but it was also a more decent place for the Xing'anling generation. The most important thing is that from 1929, a railway began to be built, which was the Bai'a Railway, the most important supply line of the Kwantung Army in the Normenhan Incident.

Of course, the railway was completed in 1939, and Arshan was opened to traffic in 1937, when Arshan did not have any railway. Of course, having a railway did not mean much to Feng Yuxiang and Ma Zhanshan, because their source of supplies and supplies was from the Soviet direction, except for the support they could get from Outer Mongolia. In the domestic direction, especially in the northeast, which was controlled by the Kwantung military. It's hard to get any decent support.

In fact, after Ma Zhanshan and Feng Yuxiang joined forces in Arshan, the situation was quite unsatisfactory, and at one point, both of them despaired of the prospects, believing that it was a miracle that their troops could hold out until the end of 1934. Even Feng Yuxiang and Ma Zhanshan are both ready to pick their sons, one is ready to go back to Shandong to continue living in seclusion with his old subordinate Han Fuyu, and the other is ready to go to Tianjin to be a duke.

"Two generals, Comrade Andrei had foreseen that the situation would be more difficult before, and he had made certain preparations in advance, we can continue to persevere, and we can't just give up!"

Feng Yuxiang and Ma Zhanshan glanced at each other, to be honest, this kind of Cheng Dù's encouragement could no longer make them excited, and it was only out of politeness that they asked, "What preparations did Mr. Andre make?" ”

Ren Fuchen said: "Soon, there will be a steady stream of supplies from Outer Mongolia arriving in Arshan, including a large number of guns and ammunition and other supplies of one million rubles!" ”

Feng Yuxiang and Ma Zhanshan were a little more energetic, and the two asked in unison, "When will these materials arrive?" ”

"Already on the way!" Ren Fuchen emphasized, "What we should do now is to reorganize the troops and establish a consolidated anti-Japanese base in the Arshan area, at least to be prepared for the next round of the devil's attack!" ”

Regrouping troops?

Feng Yuxiang and Ma Zhanshan glanced at each other, for an old warlord like them, the reorganization of the army was not a good thing. At the end of the Central Plains War, when Feng Yuxiang was forced to go into the wilderness, his Northwest Army was forced to reorganize the Central Army. The reorganization of that round made Feng Yuxiang very demoralized, and a considerable part of the old subordinates changed their courts under Lao Jiang's Jinyuan offensive, and the other part scattered and fled, otherwise with his prestige and influence in the Hebei region, how could the anti-Japanese allied army only have more than 80,000 people.

And now that the Soviets are going to reorganize them again, are the Soviets preparing to learn from Lao Chiang?

Ren Fuchen didn't know what Feng Yuxiang was thinking at this time, he just read the reorganization plan formulated by Li Xiaofeng according to the script, and its core idea was to establish the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army. Among them, Feng Yuxiang served as the commander of the coalition forces, Ma Zhanshan served as the deputy commander, and the coalition forces carried five divisions, namely Fang Zhenwu's first division, Ji Hongchang's second division, Ma Zhanshan's third division, and Yang JY's fourth division and Zhao SZ's fifth division.

Feng Yuxiang and Ma Zhanshan naturally had no opinion on being the commander and deputy commander, and they also readily agreed with the five divisions under them, but how to organize these five divisions has become a big problem. Ji Hongchang and Fang Zhenwu's division is more than 19,000 people, and it is like that when they are organized into two divisions, it is like that, but Ma Zhanshan's department is less than 5,000 people, at most it can only be regarded as a brigade, as for Yang JY and Zhao SZ, there are fewer people, at most it is the regimental scale, and these two people are one in North Manchuria and the other in South Manchuria, and they are not in Arshan at all, so it is more symbolic to integrate them in.

"Comrade Andrei believes that General Ma Zhanshan's troops have suffered relatively severe losses and will be given priority in replenishing troops......"

Feng Yuxiang was a little dissatisfied with this. Why should it be given priority to replenish Ma Zhanshan. It was clear that his troops suffered greater losses.

"You're mistaken." Ren Fuchen hurriedly explained, "What Comrade Andrei means is that General Ma Zhanshan's headquarters will give priority to replenishing personnel, while your troops will give priority to replacing weapons. ”

Feng Yuxiang was comfortable, but Ma Zhanshan was a little anxious: "Don't you send weapons to my troops?" Do you want us old and young masters to fight devils with their bare hands? ”

Ren Fuchen explained: "No, the 1st and 2nd divisions will be equipped with German-style weapons, and the weapons they will replace will be equipped with your troops. ”

Ma Zhanshan thought about it, this is not unacceptable. Who made him really small now, if he didn't expand his troops a little more, he, the deputy commander, would really not be able to sit on an equal footing with Feng Yuxiang in the future.

If these two items were understood by Feng Yuxiang and Ma Zhanshan, then Li Xiaofeng's next request made these two a little annoyed. Because someone put forward: "As for the expansion and reorganization of the troops, there should be a goal and a plan, and we should not blindly expand the scale, our team is an anti-Japanese coalition army, and we can only absorb those who are bent on resisting Japan, and we should treat those who are not too strong-willed, snakes and rats at both ends." The bandits' strict wall-riding elements are excluded...... and shall strictly enforce military discipline and severely resist and punish those vices and bad habits......"

And that's not all. More importantly, someone also proposed: "It is necessary to establish a unified command system for the coalition forces, and the anti-Japanese action should be included in a game of chess, and it should not be broken by the enemy as if it were scattered in a game...... A joint command center should be established, and a three-person military command regiment should be formed by General Feng Yuxiang, General Ma Zhanshan, and Comrade Ren Fuchen, the general adviser, and all military operations should be commanded by the three-person regiment......"

This made Feng Yuxiang quite unhappy, because in his opinion, his troops were the largest in the coalition army, and apart from his troops, there were no people in the coalition army. Since he is the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, then he has full command of the reason, why should he give the command to Ma Zhanshan, especially why let an Ermaozi serve as an auxiliary minister?

In Feng Yuxiang's view, Mao Zi is ill-intentioned, this is to encroach on his military power step by step, and he wants to interfere in China's internal affairs, which he cannot accept no matter what. Anyway, according to Feng Yuxiang's own intentions, he would never accept this kind of method.

However, to Feng Yuxiang's surprise, his old subordinate Ji Hongchang supported it, which made his glasses shatter.

"Shiwu, what do you mean by that?" Feng Yuxiang stared at Ji Hongchang viciously, with a posture that you would fight with you if you didn't explain clearly.

"Gong Huan," Ji Hongchang replied respectfully, "Now that the national crisis is at the head, Yiqiē takes the anti-Japanese first." Moreover, the Soviets' mention was not completely unacceptable, and Ren Fuchen was just an adviser, and he could not command a single soldier. A three-person group has been formed, as long as you reach an agreement with Ma Zhanshan, why worry about the Soviets doing tricks? ”

Feng Yuxiang's face was cloudy, and he stared at Ji Hongchang for a while before saying, "Even so, you should discuss this kind of big matter with me first!" ”

Feng Yuxiang is indeed very angry, his Northwest Army is an army with a strong paternal atmosphere, and his generals are almost the same role as his father and eldest brother, and as a "son", he supports the opinions of outsiders without consulting his father, Feng Yuxiang is naturally very angry.

So why did Ji Hongchang support the opinion of a certain immortal? The reason is very simple, he had already joined the Communist Party before, and the higher-level party organization had explained to him and asked him to support the opinion of a certain immortal, so naturally Ji Hongchang wanted to follow the party.

And Ji Hongchang's troops accounted for almost half of Feng Yuxiang's, even if Feng Yuxiang opposed it before, he had to consider the opinions of the people below at this time, and he could only accept the opinion of a certain immortal very unhappily.

If it weren't for the fact that the Soviet Union's assistance was in place later, and the Soviet Union did not make small moves in military command, otherwise the Arshan anti-Japanese base area would not have been born at all.

On June 1, 1934, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance Army, the predecessor of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Democratic Alliance, was born in Arshan. At the beginning of its establishment, the army had about 30,000 people, and most of the weapons were at the level of the German World War I, and in the following 11 years, this army persisted in the war of resistance, and finally developed into an anti-Japanese army with 100,000 troops, killing and wounding more than one million Japanese and puppet troops.

On the other side of the world, Li Xiaofeng was found by the problem of airplanes again.

"Boeing 299 bomber?"

Li Xiaofeng went through it in his mind, but he never remembered what the Boeing 299 bomber was? He looked at Arxness, who was a little excited. "You mean?" he asked. Boeing wants to bid for the Air Force's four-engine long-range bomber project? ”

Alksnis nodded repeatedly, "That's right. I confirmed the message they sent saying that they had built a prototype four-engine bomber, codenamed Boeing 299, and that Boeing wanted us to send a representative to see their plane! ”

Li Xiaofeng thought for a while and asked, "This Boeing 299 has good performance?" ”

Alxnis nodded again and again: "The performance is quite excellent, the maximum speed is more than 400 kilometers, the maximum bomb load can reach 8 tons, and it has thick armor, except that the range is slightly short." It was just perfect! ”

The more Li Xiaofeng listened, the more familiar he felt, how did he think that this Boeing 299 was very similar to the B-17 he was familiar with?

In fact, the Boeing 299 was the prototype of the B-17, when the U.S. Army Air Corps began bidding in 1934 for a new twin-engine bomber to replace the Martin B-10 bomber. At the time, however, Boeing believed that a four-engine bomber would be far superior to a twin-engine bomber, and that it would be easier to meet the demanding requirements of the Army Air Corps. So Boeing fused the technology of the XB-15 and Boeing 247 transport aircraft to create the Boeing 299.

Historically, the Boeing 299 performed very well, but the progress was not very smooth, and the prototype crashed due to an operational error during the second evaluation test flight, and the Boeing 299 lost to Douglas's B-18. Of course, the main thing is that the four-engine Boeing 299 is much more expensive than the twin-engine B-18, and the Senate, which is dominated by isolationism and has no external threat for the time being, is really difficult to accept its high price.

This is history, though. On this plane, things are different. With the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the United States, relations between the two countries further thawed and warmed up, and when Ordzhonikidze and Douglas discussed the issue of the production license of the DC transport aircraft, the American aviation community was greedy for the purchasing power of the Soviets.

Especially as an old rival of Douglas, it was really unpleasant to watch the DC airliner soar into the sky. When Boeing learned that the Soviets were working on a four-engine long-range bomber project, Boeing was overjoyed. Because the Boeing 299 fully meets the requirements of the Soviets, and compared to the conservative US Army Aviation and the Senate, the Soviets are really not bad for money!

After some emergency operations, Boeing got through Ordzhonikidze's work, and after he gave feedback to the country, when Arksness, who likes long-range aviation, learned that there was a new four-engine bomber on the other side of the ocean that perfectly met his requirements, he was really overjoyed.

Why is Arksnis so happy? The main reason is not that the TB-3 is too bad, this slow stupid bird is really difficult to get into his eyes, especially since there are still a lot of engine problems in this car, even if the AM-34 is replaced with 12Ycrs, but it can't be solved overnight. The long-range aviation of the Air Force is actually lame for the next year or two.

Arksnis was desperate to change the situation, and Tupolev's main focus at this time was still on the bombers of both sides, preparing to get the twin-engine medium-range bomber and then get the four-engine long-range bomber. Truth be told, Arksnis really can't wait!

Now that Boeing has ready-made long-range bombers to choose from, why not give it a try?

To be honest, this decision made Li Xiaofeng a little painful, and if he could, he still hoped to solve the problem based on China. It's not that the Soviet Union can't get long-range bombers, the historical Pe-8 and Yer-2 are okay, mainly because of the interference of the upper echelons, the Red Army only loves the front-line aviation and appreciates light bombers more, which leads to the development and demand of Pe-8 and Yer-2 are quite slow.

And now, with his accession, the situation is no longer the same, long-range aviation has been taken seriously, and it can be based on the country, even if the domestic technical reserves are indeed a little thin, but it is better to do than not to do it, right?

However, what Li Xiaofeng did not expect was that the Americans had inserted a pole, and the Soviet Union was indeed much weaker than the technical level of the United States. If the Americans are allowed to enter the long-range bomber project, the domestic design bureau will be beaten to the ground.

After thinking about it for a long time, just when Li Xiaofeng wanted to refuse, he saw the very eager face of Arxness, and thought of the current situation of long-range aviation. Objectively speaking, the position of long-range aviation is better than in history, but there are not many air forces and the upper echelons of the Red Army who support long-range aviation, and the main driving force is still in Arxnis and him.

In particular, when the TB-3 is very bad, there are quite a few people who talk about the construction of long-range aviation, and if we can introduce advanced long-range bombers from the United States and use the world's advanced level to open the eyes of the backward Red Army leopards, it seems to be a good thing for the construction of long-range aviation?

Not only that, Li Xiaofeng also thought of Lenin's previous request, and it was obvious that the mentor was preparing to expand relations with the United States and to introduce some American goods to make Americans happy. In the past, in the fighter, torpedo plane and dive bomber project, he embarrassed the mentor a little, and made the relationship between the two sides a little stiff, which can be improved through the guò long-range bomber project!

After thinking about it again and again, Li Xiaofeng finally decided to give Boeing a chance, but he also said: "If the Boeing 299 is indeed so good, then we not only have to buy a batch of finished products, but the most important thing is to introduce a full set of production technology, and our national defense construction must be based on China!" ”

Alksnis left happily, and almost immediately sent his henchmen to the United States to inspect the Boeing 299. But what Alxnis didn't expect was that when his henchmen just arrived at Boeing, what he heard was the bad news of the crash of the Boeing 299 prototype! (To be continued......)

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