Chapter 19: A desperate bet (two)

After finishing the meal in the military canteen with the soldiers who were about to go west to Xinjiang, Cui Yi began to worry about something on the way to the train station: "Sir, this time we allocated good equipment to our Xizhi Group, but there are so many cars inside, the fuel consumption is not a decimal. Can the logistics be guaranteed?"

Touched by what Zhao Zhen said before dinner, Cui Yi began to calm down from the joy and excitement of obtaining new equipment, considering the various problems that the new equipment will face after it arrives in Xinjiang. Artillery must be towed by cars. If the equipped car has no fuel, those new equipment will rely on manpower and transport of animal power will become a big problem. Especially for the 155-caliber heavy artillery, if there is no car pulling in the cold winter in Xinjiang, it will be difficult to deal with those big guys.

Zhao Zhenzhong smiled and pointed at Zou Degui on the side and said, "With the shopkeeper Zou is here, you can find him if there is no oil."

Zou Degui also said with a smile: "Now Xijin Group is the number one target of our logistics department's key support. Even if the cars in my place are out of gas, I have to protect you."

"The logistics department is not a oil mill, can it still turn oil out of thin air?" Cui Yi said in confusion.

Zou Degui looked at Zhao Zhenzhong and said with a slight pride: "The supply of materials for the Westward Group is uniformly responsible for the Hami Army Station. You know that your oil supply is indispensable, so don't worry about the rest."

Since Zou Degui became the Minister of Logistics of the People's Army, he has put in a lot of effort to ensure the supply of the People's Army in the northwest. This can be seen from the military stations everywhere. Without the large and small military stations that follow the People's Army, northern Shaanxi and northwest Shanxi would not have been stable in such a short time, and the action of Xinjiang to march into Qinghai would not be as smooth as it is now.

However, Zou Degui's courage to accept the supply of oil from Xijin Group is indeed confident that he has the confidence.

In the first half of 35 years, the Yumen Petroleum Base, which has been built for more than a year, not only did it drill three stable oil wells, but the high-quality crude oil produced can also be processed and refined to ensure a refined oil rate of more than 50. Although the output of these three oil wells cannot be compared with that of large foreign oil fields, it is more than enough to ensure the future combat needs of the People's Army. In addition, new oil wells are also being explored and under construction, by the end of the year, the Yumen Base can mine at least 80,000 tons of crude oil, which can process gasoline, diesel, kerosene and other oil materials. By next year, the output will increase.

However, the oil produced must be transported and exported. The Lanxin Railway, which is constructed at the same time on multiple sections, is now open to traffic from Anxi to Gulang. By the end of February next year, you can cross Wushaoling to Lanzhou to the east, and go west to the south of Xingxingxia to reach Hami. This ensures that the materials produced by industrial bases such as Yumen, Jingtieshan, and Yongchang can be easily transported to places in the base area.

As the Minister of the Logistics Department of the People's Army and an alternate member of the Central Committee of the People's Party, Zou Degui was not sure about the specific production situation of several bases, but due to the need for material allocation, he still knew the general situation of several bases. However, with the confidentiality discipline, he would not disclose to Cui Yi that the People's Army was able to produce finished oil by itself.

In fact, information related to the production of several important industrial bases is top secret. For the need for confidentiality, the people around the base have moved to other places. The safety of the base is jointly responsible by the Special Column and the Security Department, and several well-equipped garrison brigades will soon be formed. After all, these industrial bases are fundamental to the future development and growth of the People's Army, and must not be leaked out and known to the hostile forces. Those who do not hold valid documents issued by the People's Army Headquarters and appear near the base will be detained. Unless it is strictly reviewed and found that the person can indeed be exempted from suspicion, they will be detained or sent to labor.

Seeing that Zou Degui was unwilling to say more, Cui Yi understood the secrets discipline and did not ask more questions. Anyway, he could ensure that those iron guys had good oil, so Cui Yi didn't want to care where Manager Zou turned into oil.

Starting at 1 pm on October 19, eight trains of full-person and equipped trains in Yongchang Railway Station set off one after another. However, even though all the locomotives and car wagons assembled and produced by the People's Army in the northwest were used, there were still 200 cars from a car regiment that were not transported away, so they had to wait until the train returned tomorrow before transporting them.

In addition to Cui Yi and other soldiers, there were also personnel from the Logistics Department and the Science and Technology Commission. Among them, the logistics department staff were sent to Xinjiang to coordinate the troop station and material transportation; the Science and Technology Commission staff went to understand the performance of new equipment under severe cold conditions in winter and listened to relevant opinions from the equipment users.

Xinjiang and Northeast are similar in terms of severe cold winter. The results of Xinjiang's winter research are likely to be applied to Northeast China or other colder places in the future. Cold prevention research not only includes personnel's cold protection, but also includes maintenance and maintenance of weapons and equipment under severe cold conditions. Now make preparations in advance, even if "preparing without using" in the future is much better than "using without preparing".

Saying Cui Yi and others, Tian Yunyi, Zou Degui and Zhu Rong flew back to Haiyuan in the evening, while Zhao Zhenzhong stayed at Yongchang base for the time being to learn about the progress of equipment development and production.

If there is no major problem with the equipment shipped to Xinjiang, it can basically be produced in a fixed manner. With a specially established production line, the power of combined machine tools is exerted, and the proficiency of production workers in the future will increase, the output of new equipment will inevitably continue to grow. This is also a major guarantee for the People's Army to win the future.

However, Zhao Zhenzhong's stay in Yongchang this time has nothing to do with the equipment that has gone west, but to coordinate and solve problems such as aircraft, heavy-duty trucks, and crawler-type universal chassis.

The northwest side is limited by human resources, resource development and utilization, production scale and other issues. It is impossible to develop a wide variety of models on the same type of products like the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries. They can only try their best to be ahead of performance and take into account quantity. For example, the Soviet Union developed different categories such as light, medium, and heavy tanks at the same time after World War I, and the Northwest side is unacceptable.

Based on the current conditions in the Northwest and the advance grasp of future equipment development trends, Zhao Zhenzhong proposed a development and production plan of "combining light and heavy, focusing first" after inspecting the current munition production situation.

After solving the engine production problem, what we need to solve is the problem of self-producing fighter jets, bombers and transport aircraft. Among them, bombers and transport aircraft should be as common as possible to reduce resource waste caused by repeated development. When the self-developed and produced aircraft in the Northwest cannot meet the current needs, it is necessary to have the ability to produce components on its own and use external engines for assembly and production. Of course, the two bombers developed by Northwest will also be finalized in the next five years.

Specifically, Zhao Zhenzhong proposed that the total assembly and production of bombers should be ensured next summer, and the total assembly and production of transport aircraft should reach more than 80 aircraft, and the total assembly and production of the next summer will reach 200 aircraft. For fighter jets that basically rely on their own development and production, the light aircraft should not be less than 60 aircraft in the next summer, and by the summer of the next summer, the total number of medium aircraft should reach at least 180 aircraft. Among them, a certain number of two-seat trainers must be.

Since he wanted to develop fighter jets on his own, Zhao Zhenzhong naturally would not have any biplane aircraft. He directly launched the best aircraft models in the middle and late stages of World War II according to the current Northwest technical conditions. Zhao Zhenzhong could also provide more advanced aircraft technical information, but it could not be produced based on the industrial level of this era. Not to mention other things, the high-temperature resistant materials required for the jet engine are not produced now. The most obvious example is that although Zhao Zhenzhong provided relevant information on processing and production of titanium to Jiang Fengxue, Tian Wentao, Zhu Hanwen and others, they are still verifying and researching the relevant production principles and digesting them. In fact, they will definitely not be able to do it in the past few years.

Although the number Zhao Zhenzhong requested does not seem to be very large, it is also a challenge for the Northwest.

The main components of the bomber and transport aircraft modified from passenger aircraft can be produced by Antai Company, a subsidiary of Huamei, and it is not difficult to transport it to China assemble and produce. The other two transport aircraft with b-17 and b-29 as templates are relatively sufficient time and have previous experience in producing other aircraft, so there will not be much problem in the future.

As for fighter jets, although they all have to be developed by themselves, and time is tight, in fact, Li Yunshan and others only reproduced the technology of the US-made P-51 and the Soviet-made La-11, which had been very successful in history, and improved it according to the technical data provided by Zhao Zhenzhong.

Among them, fighter jets with La-11 as the template will become light aircraft in the northwest due to their light takeoff weight, small combat radius and slightly lower speed; fighter jets with P-51 as the template will become medium aircraft in comparison. Now, engines with stronger power than the later models of P-51 and La-11 have been successfully produced in the northwest, and the rest will be assembled with produced components and tested flight verification. Of course, the code names of the two fighters in the northwest are f-1 and f-2.

After carefully measuring the actual production capacity of Northwest Aviation Industry, although Feng Yifei, Li Yunshan and others felt a lot of pressure, they believed that as long as the overall arrangement was arranged, the tasks could be completed.

The problem of aircraft production was solved, and the next problem was the problem of heavy-duty trucks and tracked equipment.

With the experience of producing cars from Antai Company to Northwest Heavy Machinery Company, it is not difficult to produce heavy trucks based on technical data. The problem is to combine heavy trucks and cannons to produce wheeled vehicle-mounted cannons. However, Northwest can now produce heavy artillery of 105 and 155 caliber, and it is not difficult to combine the two according to the requirements put forward by Zhao Zhenzhong. In this regard, Li Yunshan promises to set up the relevant equipment before next summer.

"Next summer, it's better to have some production in a hurry." Zhao Zhenzhong had other opinions on the finalization and production of artillery. "The 105 artillery was developed by ourselves, and will basically be decided in the future. However, the current 155 artillery is based on the imitation of the US military equipment. In the future, we will develop our own long-barreled heavy artillery. The 45-time caliber is the middle transition, and finally achieve 52-time or 54-time caliber. In order to better improve the range and shooting accuracy of the artillery. If installed next summer, the current body tube and caliber are determined, and the subsequent ones must be followed according to the new standards. On the premise of satisfying the unit's batch equipment, the 155-time caliber problem will be solved within 4 years."

In history, the historical trend of the development of 155 artillery after World War II was to grow a tube and be self-produced. Among them, 45 times the caliber was once popular, but later it was found that 45 times the caliber was not the best choice for 155 artillery. It can better exert the driving force generated by gunpowder when it is fired at 52 times or 54 times the caliber, and can better improve the shooting accuracy.

Although the current era cannot compare with the late 20th century in materials and production technology, Zhao Zhenzhong believes that in this era, a long-barrel 155 cannon was produced. Even if it does not reach a range of about 40 kilometers, it will be second to none even if it reaches more than 20 kilometers. With such heavy firepower, the People's Army and the Guard will have a great advantage in future operations.

Of course, heavy-duty trucks are not only used for vehicle-mounted 155 artillery, but also for multi-barrel rocket launchers or for transporting other materials.

In terms of tracked weapons and equipment, it is also being carried out according to the plan proposed by Zhao Zhenzhong. It will take at least about 3 years to complete production. However, Zhao Zhenzhong is focusing on the chassis of tracked equipment this time.

The original chassis was a medium-sized chassis equipped with tanks and self-propelled heavy artillery. Zhao Zhenzhong asked to develop a light chassis for air defense firepower, radar, armored command, battlefield rescue and transportation in addition to the former.

The People's Army's future combat areas will be very wide, and there are many places where wheeled vehicles cannot travel. If the chassis for tanks is uniformly equipped, it is indeed enough, but it is a waste. The combination of light and medium-sized two types can better meet the future combat needs of the People's Army.

After clarifying the relevant tasks for everyone, Zhao Zhenzhong watched the four-wheel drive off-road vehicle that will be finalized and produced. This thing is similar in shape to later pickup trucks, but its performance is the standard for full-drive off-road, and the square bucket behind it is not too big can carry a load of 1 ton. This car is a good choice for firepower such as battlefield transport or loading machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns and other firepower for local penetration.

After staying at Yongchang base for 3 days, Zhao Zhenzhong has a more comprehensive understanding of the current processing and manufacturing level of the Northwest. Even though the current scale cannot be compared with the great powers, with the accumulation of Li Yunshan and others from Antai Company for about 8 years, the Northwest has a better processing and manufacturing capacity of key equipment than its American counterparts.

After understanding the relevant situation, Zhao Zhen’s center became more stable: as long as the stability in the northwest will be more secure next summer, and even if it meets the Central Asian Military Region of Xinjiang with the old Russians, the People’s Army is confident.

However, Zhao Zhenzhong hopes to completely resolve Xinjiang next summer, but Jin Shuren and others, who have suffered consecutive defeats in Xinjiang, are unwilling to give the People's Army the opportunity to consolidate and develop in Xinjiang.

Wusu is located in the western section of the Yiha Highway that runs across the east and west Xinjiang, located in the middle of the Dihua to Yili Highway. The road to Tacheng also goes north from here. In other words, Wusu is located at the intersection of the "Ding" shape of the two highways, which shows the importance of its geographical location.

Since he was driven here by the People's Army from Dihua City in the first half of the year, Jin Shuren felt unwilling to accept it. When Shengshicai, Ma Buqing, Ma Zhongying, and Gani Yazi and other four forces from the southern border crossed the Tianshan Mountains and arrived in Wusu in August, they saw that there were many people and powerful people, Jin Shuren's mind became more active.

At this time, although there were many people gathered in Wusu, they belonged to many forces.

Ma Dunjing and Ma Quanliang belong to Ningma. Although he suffered a blow from the People's Army, he suffered too many losses and was more scrupulous. In the first half of the year, the unit basically charged behind and retreated in the front, and now it still has more than 10,000 troops.

Although Ma Lin and Ma Buqing were both born in Qingma and were both uncles and nephews, Ma Buqing has always been disliked by his uncle, while Ma Lin likes to regard himself as an elder. Although the troops now have more than 8,000 troops, Ma Buqing is basically in control.

Yang Zhengzhong was sent by Zhang Peiyuan to reinforce Dihua earlier. He originally had more than 4,000 troops, but now, in terms of the wounded soldiers, the total number is only 2,000. Moreover, these two thousand people are still thinking of returning to Yili as soon as possible, and they are unwilling to follow Jin Shuren, the old smoke gun, to save their lives.

Sheng Shicai led the Xinjiang Provincial Defense Forces. After expansion in southern Xinjiang, the troops now have about 5,000 troops. However, although Sheng Shicai was respectful to Jin Shuren on the surface, he was thinking about how to start his own business as soon as possible. Moreover, the 5,000 troops from the people from the south and north of the south and the north saw that winter was coming soon, and he was unwilling to suffer from the severe cold in northern Xinjiang. Many people had the idea of ​​returning to the south.

As for Ma Zhongying and Ganiyazi, the total force is about 5,000. This group of troops was originally filled with all kinds of people. Although there were many desperate situations, the military records were not really up to the question. Moreover, the two departments originally went north to favour Jin Shuren's promised territory and food and wages, but now Jin Shuren has been driven to Wusu. Ma Zhongying and Ganiyazi's minds are not very correct.

In addition to these major forces, there are also landlord armed forces and bandits who ran to Wusu and were recruited by Jin Shuren after being attacked by the People's Army. Whether it is smokers or tuberculosis, there are a total of about 5,000 people.

More than 30,000 soldiers and bandits gathered in the Wusu area, and the people nearby were in trouble. After a few months, the people who could escape near Wusu fled elsewhere. The remaining ones were not only the elderly, weak, women and children who could not move, but also the wealth or had a certain status and could still deal with those who could not leave their homes.

Jin Shuren is also a veteran in the officialdom for many years, so he naturally knew that this would not be a solution. In the past, when he was in Dihua, Jin Shuren had the financial resources of Xinjiang and had a stronger constraint on various troops. But now when he was in Wusu, he could count on the taxes transferred from northern Xinjiang through Tacheng, and the financial and taxation on the ground between Suilei and Wusu. As for Zhang Peiyuan in the west of Yili, Jin Shuren called on him to come to Wusu several times, but Zhang Peiyuan only said, "I have a busy official business and have no time to visit him, so I will see you again in the future", which made Jin Shuren angry enough.

Fortunately, Wusu is located on a key road, from east to west, from south to north to pass here. With the charges for setting up a card and the soldiers and gangsters, they can also find their own way of wealth, and there has been no mutiny in a few months. But this state is definitely not a long-term solution.

Seeing that winter is coming, if the army's winter clothes and cold protection problems cannot be solved, these more than 30,000 people may have dispersed. By then, Jin Shuren will have to become a lonely person.

In order to solve the current dilemma, Jin Shuren had also talked privately with several major forces here. Qingma and Ningma both said that "only Chairman Jin's leader is the leader", but Jin Shuren was not sure about this. Yang Zhengzhong clearly stated that "the battle lasted for a long time, the casualties were heavy, and winter came, and his subordinates thought of returning home." Ma Zhongying and Gani Yazi were more happy and said in person, "If you have any benefits, do it, and if you don't have any benefits, you will part with each other."

The only one who gave Jin Shuren was Sheng Shicai, but his idea made it difficult for Jin Shuren to make a decision.

Sheng Shicai gave Jin Shuren an idea at this time because he understood very well: now he is leading the Provincial Defense Force, and no matter what, it belongs to the Jin Shuren line. In the current situation, if the Jin Shuren sign is gone, the other forces may compete with him for territory in Xinjiang; and with Sheng Shicai's current strength, they basically cannot deal with other parties, especially Qingma, Ningma has a great relationship. If they join forces to go against him, Sheng Shicai will definitely not be the opponent; let alone Zhang Peiyuan in the west, and the People's Army in the east are eyeing him. Therefore, Jin Shuren's sign cannot be lost now.

Sheng Shicai gave Jin Shuren the idea to ask the Soviet Union to send troops into Xinjiang to assist the Xinjiang authorities in quelling the "civil bandits" through the Soviet Consul General in Xinjiang.

Sheng Shicai's reason was that since several other forces in Xinjiang did not work hard, and the provincial defense force could not defeat the "civilian bandits", in order to calm the situation in Xinjiang, we can ask the Soviet Union to send troops into Xinjiang as before. Since the Soviet Union did not take the opportunity to occupy Xinjiang at that time, the Soviet Union will basically not occupy it now. Besides, the stability of Xinjiang can also alleviate the pressure faced by the Soviet Union in Central Asia.

As mentioned in the previous example, Sheng Shicai said, it was when Yang Zengxin was in charge of Xinjiang, and he invited the Soviet Union to send troops to Xinjiang to quell the Belarusian rebellion. Of course, Jin Shuren knew this example, but he was not sure about it now and was fighting in his mind: "Will the Soviets agree? Even if they agree, what name would they enter Xinjiang? A province and local governments would attract foreign troops without the consent of the central government. This is a foreign country. Even if they are not treason, they would become a reputation as a traitor, right? But at present, Zhang Peiyuan clearly refused to listen to the hello. Although there were many people on Wusu's side, they were useless. As winter was about to come, they really scattered."

Unlike the fact that Kim Shuren was disheartened and left Xinjiang by Sheng Shicai and others in history, Kim Shuren is now driven out of Dihua by the "minister bandits". Now the "minister bandits" are out of Dihua again, which makes Kim Shuren, who is unwilling to accept it, have the idea of ​​taking back Dihua.

After struggling himself for a few days, Jin Shuren was still unwilling to give up, so he sent someone to find Sheng Shicai: "Jinyong, I think about the method you said a few days ago, there is still a problem. Even if the Soviets agreed to send troops, they would not be able to come in blatantly. Besides, how can we explain to Nanjing?"

"Chairman Jin, what you are concerned about is. However, there is a way to solve this problem." Sheng Shicai smiled and said confidently, "Didn't we have a naturalized army in Xinjiang? As long as the Soviets agree to send troops, they can put on the clothes of our troops and participate in the war in the name of the naturalized army. In this way, the Soviets came in and there was no way to catch the handle in Nanjing."

After October, many people from the Belarusian forces defeated by the Soviet Red Army had taken their families to Xinjiang. Even after the Soviet Union entered Xinjiang to pacify Belarus, many people were still willing to stay and obey the management of the Xinjiang authorities. Yang Zengxin, who was in charge of Xinjiang at that time, gave these people the name "naturalized tribe". Since many of these people had served in the Tsarist Russian army, Jin Shuren recruited personnel to form the "naturalized army" after they came to power. However, in 33 years, because the naturalized army participated in the rebellion to overthrow Jin Shuren, when Qingma and Ningma quelled the rebellion, the naturalized army was also disbanded.

"In the name of the naturalized army?" Jin Shuren's eyes lit up, but then hesitated, "There are many civilian and bandit forces, what should we do if the Soviet Union sends fewer troops?"

According to the feedback from various units after the battle, the "civilian bandits" appearing on the battlefield should have more than 50,000 troops. It is really not easy to deal with such a large force if the Soviet army comes less. After all, the longer the battle takes place, the greater the possibility of being exposed.

Sheng Shicai thought for a moment and then spoke again: "If Chairman Jin is worried that the Soviets will send fewer troops, there is another way to bring the Mongols in. I heard that earlier this year, Mongolia sent troops to Burgen County, and the local area has been unsuccessful in negotiations with the other party. We might as well let the Mongols send troops to attack the Jinxi behind the bandits at the cost of Burgen County and nearby areas to the front line of Qitai. The attack on the two sides will surely achieve twice the result with half the effort."

"Pull the Mongols in too?" Jin Shuren was startled first, and then frowned and thought about it while twisting his beard under his jaw.

"Through the past two years of combat, I found that the bandits never take major combat actions in winter, especially in the severe cold season. This is likely because they are not adapted to the severe cold weather in Xinjiang." Shengshicai said with confidence, "With the joining of the Soviets and Mongols, Chairman Jin has offered a reward for the various ministries after they agreed to wipe out the bandits. We will definitely be able to wipe out the bandits in one fell swoop."

"Is it really sure?" Jin Shuren stared at Sheng Shicai and asked, "Jinyong, don't use good words to coax me to hide it."

"As long as all aspects cooperate well, you will be 80% sure if you don't have 10% of them." Sheng Shicai's tone affirmed.

"Well, I'll listen to Jin Yong this time and take a gamble." Jin Shuren gritted his teeth and made up his mind...

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