Since entering the secret warehouse of the Japanese army, Yang Zhen has been so busy that he can hardly touch the ground. At night, when everyone else was resting, the lights in the war room or the bedrooms of him and Guo Bingxun often stayed on all night.
Translating the teaching materials of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, revising the training plan based on the problems that arose during the day's training, studying follow-up combat plans, and formulating plans to deal with various emergencies, many times I stayed up all night.
There is no other way. The troops, who are surrounded by powerful enemies on all sides and are in the initial stage of creation, have too many things to face. During the day, he also leads troop training and adjusts defense deployment and fortifications. Many things can only be studied calmly after giving lessons to the teaching team and company platoon officers at night.
After a month, others have become stronger with adequate food supplements and a lot of physical training. However, he and Guo Bingxun were so exhausted that they could be blown away by a gust of wind.
Looking at Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun, whose eyes were red from boiling, the commander-in-chief said with some distress: "How can you survive like this? What have become of you? The future is long, and I can't eat a fat man in one day. Things always have to come little by little. , there is no need to rush.¡±
"This whole day and night without rest. If you are exhausted, what will happen to the army? Zhang Ting reported to me that the average rest time for you two does not exceed three hours a day. You often only sleep for one or two hours for several days in a row. , even stayed up all night and ate little. If this keeps going on, how can it be okay?"
Although he felt exhausted physically and mentally, Yang Zhen, who was formulating a training plan for engineers, shook his head in response to the commander-in-chief's persuasion and said: "Commander-in-Chief, we also want to rest, but we are also tired, and we are not invincible. But time does not wait. That person?"
"It's almost time for the Japanese army to transport supplies. Once the Japanese army's supply trucks arrive, it will be difficult to conceal our identity. By then, a fierce battle will be waiting for us. The army recruits account for almost 90%. The combat effectiveness has dropped so sharply. If we don't hurry up and wait for the Japanese to react, what will happen to us? Everyone knows it."
"Although there are relatively complete defenses here, they are designed to cope with the weak firepower and lack of offensive means to resist the Allied forces. For the Japanese army, which has complete aircraft and heavy artillery, especially large-caliber direct-aiming artillery, the defensive means here are still too much. Single and too thin.¡±
"Under such circumstances, let untrained troops fight against the Japanese army. Commander-in-Chief, we are not fighting, but letting them die, which is a crime. One month is really not enough. It will take at least three months just for these recruits to fully integrate into the army, become qualified soldiers, and complete the most basic training."
"But for us, what we lack most now is time. What's more, this is for those units with a complete officer system. For us who don't even have enough grassroots officers, we need more time. But right now As you know, once we are exposed, it will be like poking a hornet's nest."
"There are two Japanese divisions stationed in the Xiajiang area alone. Once exposed and these two divisions are pressed across the board, whether we can resist depends on the results of these days of training. Commander-in-Chief, what do you say? Can the two of us not work hard?"
Regarding Yang Zhen¡¯s words, the commander-in-chief was silent. Regarding the situation in Xiajiang, the commander-in-chief, who has been assisting Yang Zhen in training the teaching team and giving lessons to the officers these days, is even more aware of it. After most of the main force of the Second Route Army was disbanded and defeated, the only remaining part of the Second Route Army, the Seventh Army, which was relatively intact, has not been found. In fact, everyone knows that even if they can be found, the remaining two hundred people will lose the ability to coordinate operations.
After the main force of the Third Route Army's Western Expedition, the troops remaining in the Xiajiang area also lost contact. Even if they were found, they were unable to coordinate operations due to limited strength. As for the Second Army that stayed in the Jidong area, they have not been found since they left the east. Now this unit can be said to be facing a situation of fighting alone.
Not counting the heavy military groups stationed in the Mudanjiang area, the Japanese army only has a fourth division in the Jiamusi area, which is close to itself. Even though I have dealt with this fourth division before, I am familiar with them and know how effective they are in combat. But in the Dunhua area, there is only one brigade of troops. And in Jiamusi, which is very close to him, there is a whole division of troops. If a fight breaks out, it's hard to say what the outcome will be.
Regarding the desperate work attitude of Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun, the commander-in-chief knew that it was a helpless choice in a critical situation, but the commander-in-chief was really worried about them. This kind of more than twenty hours a day is close to the intensity of hard work, and it is difficult for ordinary people to endure it.
Seeing that the Commander-in-Chief was silent, Yang Zhen smiled and said: "Commander-in-Chief, don't worry, I can still hold on. When it really doesn't work, I will work with you.The chief of staff took turns taking a break. We are still clear about our physical condition. Don't worry, nothing will go wrong. "
Regarding Yang Zhen's persistence, the commander-in-chief sighed slightly and said: "If the main force of the Second Route Army is still there and the main force of the Third Route Army is still fighting in the Xiajiang area, with their mutual support, you won't have to work so hard. "
"I don't care what you say, but one thing you have to remember is that you are the highest military commander of this army, and you must take care of yourself. Whatever needs to be considered for the army, everything about you, including your body, is Now, we no longer belong to one person." The commander-in-chief said the last words very seriously.
In response to the commander-in-chief's words, Yang Zhen nodded slightly, but said no more. He just looked out the window at the green forest that had sprouted in the distance. He was silent for a long time and then said: "I hope God can buy us a little more time, even if it is only half a month, or even seven days."
For Yang Zhen, being tired is one thing, but the key is that the lack of information makes him always feel uneasy. Only the captured original Japanese military garrison, Japanese military headquarters and Jiamusi Japanese military liaison radio station can provide limited disappearance.
Because Yang Zhen saw from the captured Japanese military information that the Japanese soldiers here did not ask questions about anything other than reporting on the situation here and receiving orders from their superiors. In other words, the Japanese army here is almost isolated from the outside world.
Although in order to make up for the lack of intelligence, Yang Zhen sent out reconnaissance battalions in turns to conduct reconnaissance after more than 20 days of intensive training, but the intelligence collected was extremely limited. Tactical reconnaissance and strategic reconnaissance on the battlefield and obtaining enemy information are still very different.
Last year, while the Japanese army launched a large-scale encirclement and suppression campaign against Xiajiang, they also brutally suppressed the underground party in the Xiajiang area. Under the betrayal of the traitors, except for a few people whose identities were not exposed, more than ten county committees in the Xiajiang area and the underground party organizations of the Jiamusi Municipal Committee were destroyed.
More than three hundred underground party members and cadres were arrested and killed. The underground party organizations in the entire Xiajiang area have been completely paralyzed. The commander-in-chief sent people several times to find underground party organizations in Jiamusi, Fujin, Tongjiang, Luobei and other places, but all returned in vain.
Unable to penetrate deeply into the Japanese army, the means of obtaining intelligence sources were too single, making intelligence work always lagging behind. It seriously delayed Yang Zhen's judgment on the enemy's situation. This was also the source of uneasiness in his heart.
The only thing that makes Yang Zhen feel relieved is that his efforts to find military workers were not in vain. Yang Zhen never expected that the person he was looking for was actually right under his nose, among the workers he was rescuing here.
These dozen workers were originally workers at the Shenyang Arsenal. Later, they defected to the Anti-Japanese Federation under the leadership of a party worker, and together with some cadres and soldiers transferred from the Anti-Japanese League, they formed the Eleventh Army's arsenal.
At the end of last year, before the heavy snow closed the mountains, in order to destroy the only arsenal among the anti-alliance ministries, the Japanese and puppet troops mobilized more than 3,000 troops to launch a large-scale raid on the Qixinglizi area at the junction of Huanan and Jixian where the arsenal was located.
When the main force of the Eleventh Army accompanied the Third Route Army on the Western Expedition, the commander lost track of him after entering the Soviet Union at the beginning of the year and never returned. After the troops left behind were all sacrificed when they were heavily surrounded by Japanese and puppet troops in Luobei, and they had lost all reinforcements, the arsenal guard troops and workers who were surrounded by only about fifty people did not give in and took advantage of the difficult terrain to persevere. Fight against the Japanese and puppet attacks.
Unable to attack for a long time, the Japanese and puppet troops brazenly released poison gas, causing all the guards and workers to be poisoned, comatose, and captured except for those who died in the battle. Although the equipment of the arsenal had been buried in advance, the factory site was completely destroyed.
The reason why these skilled workers survived and were not massacred immediately after being captured like the security force cadres and soldiers was because they were all skilled workers. When the Japanese army built this fortification, they were unable to use the Koreans who usually served as skilled workers. One life was left behind, and they were sent here as skilled workers and used under strict supervision.
With a few workers as the backbone, ready-made machinery and equipment, and a large amount of raw materials and semi-finished products, Yang Zhen's arsenal was quickly up and running. However, Yang Zhen did not place the arsenal in this secret Japanese warehouse. Instead, all equipment and semi-finished products were moved to the virgin forest of Qinghei Mountain.
Although there are not as many caves in the mountains of Xiaoxing'anling as there are in the karst mountains in the south, as a mountainous area, there are still a large number of caves. After three days of painstaking personal investigation, Yang Zhen personally selected a new factory site near Motian Ridge in Qinghei Mountain.
It is surrounded by mountains, the terrain is dangerous, and there are cliffs everywhere. There is only a narrow road to the outside world, which is inaccessible even to carriages. And there are primeval dense forests everywhere, with dense vegetation and excellent concealment.
After selecting the new factory site, Yang Zhen dismantled all the machinery and equipment as quickly as possible and secretly transported them there along with the semi-finished products and raw materials from the Japanese warehouse. In order to meet the power needs of the arsenal, Yang Zhen even transported two small generators and a hand-operated generator from the Japanese warehouse there. Half of the seized mountains of gasoline were even transported.
In order to establish the arsenal as quickly as possible, Yang Zhen did not hesitate to interrupt the training of the engineering corps and specially mobilized a group of old backbones to assist in the establishment of the arsenal. Fortunately, the pristine forests there provide enough and large enough timber. There is a large natural cave itself. It only took half a month to put it into operation.
In order to protect the safety of this arsenal, Yang Zhen not only deployed the two most effective companies as specialized security forces, but also selected the best fifteen-watt radio and the best operator from the Japanese warehouse.
While the ordnance equipment was being transferred, the materials in the warehouse also began to be transferred one after another. Equipment, ammunition, clothing, medicine, and food were all dispersed into the primitive dense forests of Xiaoxing'an Mountains, except for some spare parts. All material transfer operations are carried out at night.
The transport troops are also carefully selected. They use all the old backbones trained by Lao Heidingzi's secret camp. No new recruits are used, and strict confidentiality is achieved.
Only Yang Zhen, the commander-in-chief, Li Yanping, Guo Bingxun and a few other people know the secret location of the reserve materials and the specific location of the arsenal. Not to mention ordinary cadres and soldiers, even several regiment leaders don't know. Yang Zhen always carries the map with the specific location with him.
In order to protect these materials from mistakes and losses due to poor storage, especially ammunition, food, clothing and other materials that are susceptible to moisture, Yang Zhen almost used up the tarpaulin in the Japanese warehouse.
At the same time, since it is impossible to leave troops for protection, in order to avoid being destroyed by the still large number of wild animals, these material reserve areas still need to undergo some necessary repairs. At the very least, a rat infestation requires strict prevention.
Moving these supplies is easy to say, but extremely difficult to do. It is not only necessary to maintain strict confidentiality, but also to do repair work at the reserve material storage location to avoid non-combat losses, and to complete it in the shortest possible time. This task is not easy.
Fortunately, when Yang Zhen occupied this place, the Japanese war preparation warehouse had not yet been completed, and there were still sufficient supplies and tools. With Yang Zhen using a large number of captured Japanese military vehicles to assist in transportation, after more than ten days and nights of hard work, these tasks were completed before the end of the month.
Of course, it is impossible to build warehouses on a large scale like the Japanese army. Yang Zhen does not have that much labor force and does not have that much reinforced concrete. The most important thing is that there is no such time. We can only take protective measures as much as possible under the existing conditions.
Seeing that more than half of the warehouse had been emptied, Guo Bingxun said to Yang Zhen: "Commander, as long as these supplies are in our hands, we will have the confidence to confront the Japanese army head-on in the future. Not to mention anything else, just these grains and clothing will be enough." It can ensure that we don¡¯t freeze or go hungry in winter.¡±
Regarding Guo Bingxun¡¯s emotion, Yang Zhen nodded slightly and said: ¡°In this sparsely populated North Manchuria with harsh winter climate, our enemies are not only the Japanese and puppet troops. More often, we have to fight against God.¡±
"In the winter here, the severe cold of 30 to 40 degrees below zero poses a greater threat to us than even the Japanese and puppet troops. Hunger and cold can be said to be our biggest enemies and all the anti-Japanese armed forces."
"Last winter, many troops of the Anti-Japanese Alliance were not defeated, but were crushed by freezing and starvation. Do you remember what the commander-in-chief looked like when he went to Lao Heidingzi's secret camp? The severe cold was 30 to 40 degrees below zero. What does it feel like to wear unlined clothes? For the future development and survival of the army, these materials must be kept well, and there must be no mistakes."
Guo Bingxun nodded and said: "Yes, these supplies can be said to be the lifeblood of the army. Once they are lost, it will be very difficult to replenish them in the vast and sparsely populated North Manchuria. Especially when the Japanese and puppet troops are closely guarded It is under blockade and control. It is difficult to solve the problem of tens of thousands of winter clothes alone. With these supplies in hand, we can generally say that we have nothing to worry about."