The applause gradually died down. Zhou Xiangyu waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, then took a sip of tea and continued. ¡ü ¡°Comrades, we have finished talking about the first four branches of the military. Now we want to explain the fifth branch. The fifth branch of the military is very different from the first four. It has not been formally established. The Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission just decided a week ago. The central government decided to establish this force so late because this force does not bear direct attack missions. Although they have a different equipment system, they will hardly participate in future combat missions against Japan. Because they are an engineering force. As the name suggests, this force is tasked with unified management of the country's railway lines and is mainly responsible for military railway transportation and railway line construction. It also has certain offensive and defensive capabilities. During the three-month battle from May to August, our People's Liberation Army has completely captured the Zhangku Line Railway and basically occupied Beijing-Shanghai, Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo, Sujia, and Beijing. Most of the Jiangxi Railway. In the process, we also occupied various transfer stations and maintenance stations attached to these railways, so so far we have nearly 100 passenger and freight trains and 44 locomotives. , our army also captured the original Japanese invading forces and the special railway equipment they captured from the Soviet and Outer Mongolian armies in Nanjing, Shanghai, Zhangjiakou, Kulun and other places, including two Type 94 armored trains. A Manchuria temporary armored train, a Soviet-made 305mm train gun, and some other armored armed trains. These equipment are also owned by the Railway Corps and are responsible for air defense and ground defense along the railway. These equipments. We will carry out subsequent modifications such as strengthening air defense firepower and adjusting structural strength in the days to come. By then, they will become an integral part of our regional air defense and enemy fire support. However, these are only a small part of the responsibilities of the Railway Corps. The most important field of operations is in the construction of railway lines. From the establishment of the Republic of China to the present, we have experienced Beiyang, warlord wars, and the current Republic of China government. In so many years, our country with a land area of ??tens of millions of square kilometers has Including those occupied by the Japanese army, the total railway mileage does not exceed 20,000 kilometers. The comparison of these figures is inconsistent with the prospects of our country striving for modern industrial transformation. Therefore, after the Central Committee, the Military Commission and the economy. After discussions and research by the department, we believe that in order to improve the industrial and agricultural development of our base areas and the entire country, we must build a road and railway network that meets the actual conditions of our country. Therefore, the most basic task of the Railway Corps is to speed up the construction of railway trunk lines in our base areas. We discussed with the economic department that from 1938 to the end of 1939, we will strive to complete the main trunk railways from Yan'an to Baotou, Baotou to Zhangjiakou, Baotou to Kulun, and Baotou to Xining, and build new roads from Xining to Lanzhou and Lanzhou to Hami. Improve the railway network between the two places and improve Xinjiang¡¯s internal railway network. In addition, we will also build some railway branch lines leading to various economic towns and resource mines to accelerate economic development and construction within our base areas. The above-mentioned construction requires the full cooperation of various domestic departments to open up the joints of civil affairs, economy, industry and commerce, especially steel refining, land acquisition, and rational utilization of resources, to jointly cooperate with the extension and development of the entire Huaxia railway network. The central government decided to invest 10% of our overall income in railway construction for 10 consecutive years starting from 1938. In addition to the needs of education and military, the overall resources will be tilted towards railway and highway construction. From now on, we will have such a purpose. If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. Local economic construction must take transportation construction as the guide, save all resources, first complete the external liaison transportation construction of each base area, and establish a complete supply and transportation system to allow all materials to flow. Each base area shall not hinder the normal commercial flow of all materials permitted by policy for any reason, shall not establish so-called local protection policies, respect commercial behavior, pay taxes reasonably, and manage appropriately. In short, before 1940, the economic flow between the base areas must be basically improved, so that the economy of our base areas can develop in a healthy way. Therefore, the Railway Corps can basically be said to be our fighting force in the industrial and economic fields. They will fight in various harsh geological conditions all year round, contribute their own strength to our transportation industry, and may fight for their entire lives. . Therefore, the establishment of this force will also be based on the development needs of each base area. Our central government requires each base to gather all railway-related talents within the base area, especially in the Republic of China area.Comrades, you will get a list after the meeting. Those are the railway construction talents that we have sorted out by the Republic of China government. I hope that everyone can find them, persuade them, and encourage them to join our railway construction tide. Don't waste yourself on the inefficient government behavior of the Republic of China government. wealth of knowledge. "After Zhou Xiangyu finished speaking, he picked up his teapot and took a sip of water, and then said. "Comrades, even if the five major arms of our People's Liberation Army system have been formally introduced, the content is very complicated, very complicated, and very impactful. , of course, I also know that everyone heard it a little hazy, and maybe even now everyone can¡¯t remember it. " After saying this, there was a burst of laughter. Zhou Xiangyu waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet. "Of course, after the meeting, a full report will be sent to everyone for discussion, but now, my report is not finished yet. In addition to these five arms, the Central Military Commission also has three major units directly under the Central Military Commission. I will give a brief introduction here. The first largest force, the special operations force, is an offensive force directly under the Central Military Commission. They are not many in number, with only 3,000 people so far, but each of them has unique skills. They are all elite warriors selected by us from various units. Their combat missions include attacking behind enemy lines, reconnaissance and demolition of strategic points, infiltration behind enemy lines, seizing strategic points, and capturing or killing enemy bandit leaders. It is a small-scale but dangerous strategic and tactical operation. This force will be the backbone of our future campaign attacks, and small-scale conflicts will be carried out around this force. It is likely to be an important method of our future military operations, and will also be an important force that affects the consequences of the war. Therefore, the construction of this unit also requires everyone to continue to coordinate in the future work, especially for the descendants of various Chinese martial arts schools and everyone, please contact them in future work and encourage them to come When arriving in Yan'an, the Military Commission hopes to draw on the advantages of these martial arts schools to create suitable fighting techniques for our special operations forces, and to provide certain convenience for the inheritance of these martial arts schools within the military. The second force is our information team. This force has fewer people, but their technical content is extremely high, even exceeding the technical requirements of our Second Artillery Force. They are the key to our military development in this world. The forefront test force. The main mission of this force is to conduct research and development of military electronic information technology, develop radar and wireless communication technology, and carry out the acquisition and collection of military information worldwide. Lay a solid foundation for the future military informatization development of our army. Therefore, we hope to gather the best mathematical talents in this force to carry out topics such as information encryption, decryption, information transmission, basic radio research, and information intelligence research, and will establish the most advanced military intelligence force. In order to achieve these goals, we will also require the leaders of each base area to obtain corresponding mathematics and cryptography talents in the future development process to speed up the construction of existing troops. Having said this, we will talk about the last unit, which is the logistics support unit directly under the Central Military Commission. They are mainly composed of military medical and military logistics. In the subsequent development, we will build complete military medical institutions in various military garrison areas, carry out medical research, and establish our military medical system by integrating the advantages of both traditional Chinese and Western medicine. The military logistics part is to establish a unified military logistics system near various cities and bases, relying on the current transportation and economic departments to provide strong backing for the logistics support of our army. And based on this, we will start the design and manufacturing of military food, military clothing, and auxiliary ordnance for our army, and cooperate with our military industry department to establish our most excellent military logistics system. " Having said this, Zhou Xiangyu slowly closed the report in his hand, then raised his head and continued. "Comrades, the development of our party's military career in the first half of this year is rapid, benign, and even more magnificent. However, everyone must also see that we are also facing difficult choices, especially in terms of logistics support, soldier quality, etc. There is a very obvious gap with the armies of the Western powers. Therefore, I here hope that you will make the best choices in your future work. , we must conscientiously and diligently complete the development plan we formulated in accordance with the development outline provided by the central government. Not afraid of hardships and dangers, and maintaining a spirit of sacrifice to complete various economic, military and urban development goals set by the central government. thank you all. "After saying this, the entire auditorium burst into warm applause that never stopped. Zhou Xiangyu closed the report, tidied it up, and then waited for everyone's applause to stop. "Comrades, on the military side??That's it for the report. Let's take a break and have lunch. In the afternoon, we will make a government development report for the first half of this year based on local development and economic development. Thank you all. " After saying that, Zhou Xiangyu signaled for everyone to adjourn the meeting, and everyone walked out of the auditorium in an orderly manner and headed to the cafeteria.