Swept a few ministers present who had an unusually stern expression after listening to his somewhat shocking words. Yang Zhen didn't pay attention to Xiong Dazhen, but turned his head to Zhang Zhenhua, the logistics minister who attended the meeting, and said: "Lao Zhang, this battle is very important, and the requirements for logistics and supply are extremely high. ”

"What this operation involves is a bit too long for our army's logistical aspects compared to our previous internal supply lines, which is a severe test for our army's logistics. This kind of long-distance supply, which is basically not available by rail, is the first time we have encountered it. But sooner or later, we have to fight out, and this kind of long-distance supply situation is to be encountered. ”

"I've always been quite relieved of your work. But for the next stage of the battle, I only have two requirements. First, all ammunition, supplies, and fuel must be kept strictly secret when they are transferred to the starting point of the offensive and hoarded. There must be no exposure until the battle begins. ”

"The Chief of Staff is responsible for drawing up plans and ensuring their implementation in terms of the secrecy of personnel and equipment at the time of the pre-movement. However, Zhang Zhenhua is responsible for the secrecy of the ammunition and materials that need to be delivered in advance, as well as the secrecy of the means of transportation required for troop transportation. If there is a problem in these two aspects, I will not look for others, I will only look for you, the Minister of Logistics. ”

"The second and most critical issue is that where the front advances, and where your logistics support supply will follow. Not only ammunition, but also food and other supplies. That is, soldiers cannot be allowed to fight hungry, let alone the guns in the hands of soldiers can be starved to the battlefield. ”

"The main areas of our next phase of operations will be either the nomadic areas of Mongolia or the barren mountainous areas. In addition, the Japanese army has repeatedly and brutally swept up the troops in Guannai this year, and the various base areas of our army in North China are no longer able to afford the supply of our army's southbound troops. ”

"I'm afraid that all the supplies in the next stage of the operation will need to be borne by ourselves. In modern warfare, logistics is the top priority. To ensure the astronomical amount of food and ammunition that these hundreds of thousands of troops need every day, the pressure on your logistics department is very heavy. But no matter how heavy the burden is, you must also ensure the supply of the troops participating in the battle at the front in full. ”

"At the same time, the next phase of the operation is our first large-scale use of tanks and armored clusters. For these oil tigers, you must be in place to replenish the oil. We must not allow our armored forces to miss any planes because the fuel replenishment cannot keep up. ”

"For all the work, you have to come up with a detailed plan for me to implement to each specific person responsible. Remember not only our own troops, but also the advance army and the preparation of supplies for wartime consumption for the Kannai troops. However, the main problem of ammunition for the troops in the customs is ammunition. ”

"From tonight onwards, everything else will be handed over to your deputy. You concentrate your efforts and come up with a detailed plan for the next stage of logistics and material transportation, as well as secrecy. All your plans are classified as top secret before the battle begins. Except for reporting to the Standing Committee of the Military Region, it is absolutely not possible to leak anything to anyone. ”

"In addition, proceeding from the entire intention of the next stage of the battle, the headquarters has decided to transfer the 5th Engineer Regiment directly under your logistics department to the aviation formation. Follow the advance of the aviation in order to set up field airfields according to the needs of the aviation forces. You have to pick the best construction machinery and equip it with both regiments. ”

"Change the 2nd and 4th Engineer Regiments to which you belong to a fully mechanized engineer regiment using construction machinery imported from the United States. Follow the troops to ensure the emergency repair of roads in wartime. In addition, the headquarters has decided to allocate all the American trucks imported this time to you. The training of your drivers and maintenance personnel must keep up with the speed of equipment development. ”

Originally, he just wanted to hold a meeting to attack Japan's reunification ideology, but because of Xiong Dazhen's interruption, Yang Zhen did not expect that it would finally be held for the next stage of the campaign and part of the preparatory work. Although I feel a little off-topic, for Yang Zhen, this can be regarded as a crooked beating.

The pre-war preparatory meeting was held sooner or later. Although several column commanders, as well as commanders of the armored and artillery arms, did not attend the meeting. However, Yang Zhen believes that it is still beneficial to talk about certain issues, especially in the military industry and logistics.

As the saying goes, the army goes first before the grain and grass are moved. The amount of ammunition and supplies consumed in a major war is almost astronomical. The ammunition and supplies are not fully prepared, and the time will delay the major event. According to its own plan, the logistics department will begin to secretly start stockpiling war readiness materials to the starting point of the offensive next month.

According to his entire plan, even if this meeting is not held today, it will be held before the end of the year. Because of a series of work, we will start to arrange it immediately after the New Year. Since there are already some digressions, it is better to make mistakes. Taking advantage of the presence of several important second-level ministers at the headquarters, I will talk about this matter first.

Let's talk about one aspect first, and then implement another. In particular, logistics and military production are the key issues that have a bearing on the success or failure of the next stage of the battle. The amount of ammunition and supplies hoarded can not meet the needs of the campaign. Whether or not logistical support can ensure the smooth progress of the campaign is a very crucial issue.

In the next stage of the battle, the logistics supply line that is several hundred kilometers long will be the first time for the logistics department, which has been carrying out internal line supply, and it will be a rather severe test. Many things are implemented earlier, and it is better to have more time to deal with unexpected situations that may occur at any time than to implement them later.

And the problems that the military industry needs to face are not easier than those of the logistics department. Production and storage of ammunition, modification and repair of tanks. In particular, it is necessary to prepare for the reception of German tanks transferred by the Soviet army in accordance with the agreement, and make corresponding preparations for modification. It was also the most stressful department before the campaign was launched. Knock it out in advance, it's still some good for Xiong Dazhen.

It's just that although Yang Zhen beat Xiong Dazhen very hard at this meeting, no one expected that the number of tanks handed over by the Soviets would eventually exceed imagination. However, due to the production capacity, until all the tanks of the Soviets were handed over, the armament department was not able to come up with all the required 45-mm tank guns.

Fortunately, Xiong Dazhen's reaction speed is still there, and his head turns fast enough. He took advantage of the tank guns on the T26 tank, which had relatively severe damage in the previous stage of the battle and could no longer be repaired, and replaced the 37mm Czech-made tank guns on the 38th T tank. The 20-millimeter machine artillery shells used on the No. 2 tank were improvised by him with 23-millimeter anti-aircraft artillery shells.

As for the No. 3 tank, he used the foundation accumulated by making 45-mm armor-piercing shells. The fifty-mm tank gun, which was used for it in a month's time, produced and manufactured a part of the shells before the campaign began. Although it was not possible to form a sufficient reserve due to the rush of production, the output of 30,000 rounds was enough to meet the needs of the campaign.

Such a large number of British and Soviet equipment were in place almost at an interval of less than a month, leaving the Equipment Department and the Military Industry Department of the Northeast Bureau busy. In addition, it is necessary to concentrate on the production of artillery shells, aerial bombs, and all kinds of light weapons and ammunition, and also to meet the quantity of deliveries to the Soviet Union.

Xiong Dazhen believes that instead of rushing to produce substandard products and Lang Fei, it is currently a very valuable raw material for the Anti-United Nations. It is better to use the foundation of making shells for 45-mm tank guns and first make a batch of shells for emergencies. At least the production process of artillery shells is much simpler than tank guns.

Except for the fact that there are certain differences in the armor-piercing projectile Soviet-German aspect, the technology of ordinary steel-core armor-piercing bullets is basically the same. Even if there is a certain difference between the armor-piercing bullets of the cap, the difference is not very large. With the technical ability of the anti-union, it can fully meet the needs of this difference.

In fact, the gap between the production process and technology of 50 mm tank shells and 45 mm tank shells is much smaller than that of making tank guns. Moreover, the 50-mm tank guns used in these German tanks were also more powerful than the Soviet-made 45-mm tank guns.

The tanks handed over by the Soviets were mainly Tank No. 3 equipped with a 50-mm gun. As for the 38T tank, the number of the No. 2 tank is not very large, and the total is only more than 70 units. The No. 4 tank is less than a hundred units. Tank No. 2, which was used as a reconnaissance tank and did not require the replacement of artillery. The remaining 38T with a 37-mm gun and a small number of No. 3 tanks will save much trouble.

Except for a few of the tanks transferred by the Soviet army, most of them were captured during the counterattack of the defense of Moscow. When these tanks were captured, most of them were because the tank engines were frozen and unusable during the extremely cold temperature of -25 degrees during the day, -40 degrees Celsius at night, and even -52 degrees Celsius in Moscow from December to January. Coupled with the problem of oil, the Germans had to abandon it when they retreated.

Except for some of these tanks with minor damage that can be repaired, most of the tanks are basically intact. Except for the need to clean the engine, there is basically no need to repair it. This saved his equipment department and armored troops a lot of trouble.

In the early days of the Soviet-German campaign, although the German army achieved a huge victory, its own losses were also quite heavy under the stubborn resistance of the Soviet army. Not counting the Battle of Kiev and Smolensk, the number of tanks lost by the Germans in the Battle of Vyazma before the Battle of Moscow alone was as high as nearly 800.

At the beginning of the war, the 38T tank and the No. 2 tank, which were the main forces of the German army, had lost their embers by the time the Battle of Moscow began. In the face of the crisis of the Soviet Army's T three or four tank manufacturing, the remaining few are no longer undertaking front-line combat missions because they basically have no room to fight back. With the exception of some of them, which were converted into various self-propelled guns, most of them were transferred to the rear units to clear out the guerrillas for use.

In the early years of the Soviet-German war, the heavy victories of the German army overshadowed their equally heavy losses. Tanks, the main means of assault of the German army, suffered even more heavy losses. The No. 2 and 38T tanks, which were weakly armored and could be destroyed by Soviet-made anti-tank guns, were the preferred hunting targets of the Soviet army and the heaviest tanks. By the time of the attack on Moscow, the Germans had already invested in armored forces with tank No. 3 as the main tank, supplemented by tank No. 4.

And basically all of them are the third late model equipped with a 50-mm tank gun in the later period. If in the early days of the Soviet-German war, nearly half of the 3,300 tanks invested by the German army were the No. 2 tank equipped with 20-millimeter machine guns, and the 38-type T tank equipped with 37-millimeter tank guns were still the main force of the German tank force at this time, Xiong Dazhen would have had even more headaches.