But the sheep is killed and skinned, and the meat must not be thrown away. In addition to exporting a large amount of lamb to the USSR as part of the repayment of the original debt, the surplus could only be digested internally. In order to digest these mountains of mutton, in addition to distributing a large number of troops as meat, the Northeast Bureau also called on the common people to eat mutton.

Even for a long time, only mutton was available in the markets of the major cities in the base. Pork, the main meat of the Northeast people, was not seen at all during the first phase of the battle and before the Spring Festival. Even beef is basically available.

If it weren't for the ice and snow outside, it would be difficult for ordinary people to smell the smell of sheep everywhere when they arrived at the base area, and because they did not come to the northeast, where the number of Hui people is not large, but to the northwest region where the Hui people live.

The Japanese spies lurking in the base areas also released false information to the Kwantung Army that the economic crisis broke out in the anti-Japanese occupation area and that they could no longer afford the supply of pork, so they could only replace it with mutton from Western Manchuria.

In fact, for the follow-up impact of this matter, the most headache is not Yang Zhen, but the chief of the department and the cooking squad leader of each army. In the face of the large amount of mutton rationed by the superiors, almost an excessive amount, the cooking classes of various units thought of many ways to adjust the preparation of mutton as much as possible.

Although there are recipes for making mutton distributed by superiors, they are limited to the limited materials in hand, and how to do it is those kinds over and over again. The monotonous taste is added with the unique flavor of mutton. For a long time, it still caused many people to revolt when they saw mutton for a long time. After all, most Chinese still use pork as their main meat at the moment.

In fact, mutton is more nutritious than pork. However, it has its own smell of zài, which is difficult for most people who are not Hui people and other people who have eaten mutton since childhood. Therefore, although the military region issued some methods for making mutton, it was still not very popular. Some seriously injured people were even admitted to the hospital, and there were no other requirements, just give them pork to eat.

As for the winter military hat, which is called the three tiles, where to find those hundreds of thousands of dogs according to the ground? If all the zuò military hats were made of dog skin, the hundreds of thousands of dogs needed would not be found in Beiman alone. In desperation, in order to save cotton as much as possible, the number of dog skins was not enough, so rabbit skins and goatskins could only be used instead.

In order to raise enough raw materials for hundreds of thousands of winter cotton military hats, not only did they kill almost all the dogs and rabbits in the base area. In order to raise enough rabbit skins, a large number of people were mobilized to go up the mountain to hunt rabbits. They even tried to smuggle dog skins and rabbit skins from enemy-occupied areas and North Korea. It can be said that it took a lot of effort to get the leather needed for winter clothes.

As for the goatskins that were exchanged from Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo, as well as those produced in the base area and could not be used to make zuò coats, they were changed to make zuò winter Japanese-style wool cotton shoes, which were later known as big-toed shoes. Considering the heavy snow in the Northeast, and the importance of the feet for the march. All the big-toed shoes are all in the style of the winter big-toed shoes of the Japanese army stationed in Heihe, and all of them are high-waisted shì.

However, although the troops who eat mutton and the people in the base area have reached the point of nausea at the mention of mutton. However, compared with the Chinese-style thick cotton jacket that becomes dead once it is damp, and it is very easy to be damaged and damaged during marching and combat, thus reducing the warmth.

These sheepskin coats are not only better insulated, but also quite abrasion-resistant and lightweight. At the same time, the white appearance is also a good protective color in the ice and snow of the Northeast. At the same time, the large collar made of sheepskin can be erected when necessary, and it can be fastened with a button on the top to ensure that the face is not frostbitten.

These advantages compared with the old-style tie-tied cotton clothing make this kind of winter clothing, which was originally only used as a temporary means, quite popular with the troops. As for the two disadvantages of the small white color not being resistant to dirt, and the hem that cannot be tucked into the cotton pants when necessary, it is nothing.

Moreover, sheep, which has a short growth period and is resistant to roughage, is also suitable for partially replacing the local production in Northeast China, and can only rely on foreign aid and imported cotton. In addition, imported cotton has to be spun into cotton cloth to supply the summer clothes of the troops and ensure the daily needs of the people, and cotton is always in short supply.

Sheepskin, which is the easiest to source, is also the largest quantity available, and is easy to process, has become an important raw material for anti-joint zuò winter clothing. After all, this short coat in the style of the Soviet army is not a high-end leather jacket, and it does not need to be finely processed. Even a small tailor's shop can make zuò as long as the rough work is done.

It's just that to everyone's surprise, Yang Zhen resolutely refused to allow the logistics department to mobilize all the masses in the base area to make winter clothes for the troops on the grounds of keeping military secrets. It was insisted that the expansion had just been completed for less than two months, and even the first and second factories of the military region had not yet found all the workers who needed to be called after the expansion.

Although the two quilt factories have just been expanded and their production capacity has quadrupled, the number of workers required is still far from the number required. Combined with the production of cotton trousers, winter military hats and military shoes, it is quite difficult to complete hundreds of thousands of sheepskin short coats in a month.

Although the mouton coat is a short coat, it is compared to any coat. Compared with the original anti-joint cotton coat below the knee, it is naturally short. But compared with the padded jacket, this kind of coat that was lengthened to the knees under Yang Zhen's request really can't be considered short.

Moreover, sheepskin is not peeled off and can be used, but also needs to be further processed. Although it is not as laborious as making high-end leather clothing, there are many processes. The two people who relied on the Anti-Union alone did not have a quilt factory, and it was difficult for them to complete the preparation of such a large batch of winter clothes in a short period of time.

But under Yang Zhen's resolute request, Logistics Minister Zhang Zhenhua was helpless. He couldn't figure out how a simple problem of issuing winter clothes to the troops could come up with the problem of strategic camouflage in terms of economic warfare. In Zhang Zhenhua's opinion, this is all next to each other.

Although I don't understand it, I have to implement Yang Zhen's understanding, and I have to execute the order if I don't understand it. Zhang Zhenhua, who had no choice but to mobilize some of the troops' family members to work in the clothing factory, was busy day and night for almost a month, and finally completed the production of the winter clothes required by the generals, ensuring that the troops were distributed in time before the freeze, and nothing was delayed.

But despite this, under the premise of making every effort to ensure the production of winter clothes, the production of cotton shoes and cotton gloves was not completed before it was issued. Fortunately, there is still a certain amount of inventory of the captured Japanese army-style winter cotton shoes. The transfer of these cotton shoes to non-front-line combatants such as ground crews of the aviation and rear anti-aircraft artillery units barely met the needs. As for cotton gloves, non-front-line combat units such as organs were issued half a month late.

In any case, when the second batch of ordered materials did not arrive on time, the Anti-Japanese Federation finally distributed all this year's winter clothes on time before the freeze. Although some good or bad things were caused in the future, the key problems were finally solved. At least the troops were not allowed to freeze in this icy and snowy North Manchurian because of the lack of supplies.

In the entire Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation, a Soviet-style short sheepskin suede glossy coat, plus a sweater or thin cotton jacket used as a second layer of warmth, a pair of thick cotton pants, and a cotton hat made of rabbit skin or dog skin, plus a pair of Japanese-style high-toe shoes and three-fingered goatskin hand stuff.

This extremely popular winter clothing combination has almost become the standard winter clothing style during the entire war of the Anti-Japanese Federation. This kind of new-style winter clothes were worn by the Anti-Japanese Federation until the founding of New China and after the cotton crisis was completely resolved, and then they were withdrawn from the troops.

At the end of 43, after some troops of the Anti-United Nations entered the customs. As soon as the Japanese puppet army in North China saw this outfit, they didn't even need to deliberately reconnoitre, and they knew that the anti-union they called the Siberian Tiger was coming. This matter was not expected by Yang Zhen, who was only used as an emergency measure at that time.

As for the Soviets' request for Belarus, it was not as complicated as Yang Zhen and Li Yanping imagined at first. Yang Zhen, who didn't want to offend the Americans who had something to do in this matter, and Yang Zhen, who caused the Belarusians working in some base areas to fall into chaos, finally gave the Soviets a bad idea.

The Anti-Japanese Federation gathered the White Russians needed by the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union held a briefing on the war situation at the Soviet Consulate, and the Soviet side counted the number of overseas Chinese in Kazakhstan, and provided a permit to go to the United States for those who did not want to return to China.

As for the follow-up problems, it was up to the Soviets themselves to solve them. In consideration of possible unexpected and unexpected situations, Yang Zhen, after consulting the Central Committee, agreed that the Soviets should mobilize a regiment of the Far East Military District Affairs Department to temporarily stationed in Harbin while handling this matter. It's just that Yang Zhen didn't expect that there would be some deviations in this matter.

After the Anti-Japanese Federation gathered Belarus, the Soviets who came to receive it waited until the number of young and middle-aged Belarusians was gathered in sufficient numbers. The consular officials who cooperated with the action directly announced that the time had come for them to serve the motherland and make amends for the sins of oppression and betrayal during the Tsarist period.

Then, regardless of whether the White Russians agreed or not, they directly dispatched the internal affairs regiment stationed in Harbin, forced all the young and middle-aged people to change into military uniforms with machine guns, and sent them directly to the train in the camp and brought them all back to China. Perhaps the Soviets, who were losing more and more manpower, were really curious about these soldiers. Not only those under the age of thirty, but even some children of sixteen or seventeen, or middle-aged people in their thirties, were also on the list of forcibly recruited soldiers by the Soviets.

In fact, the Soviets, who also had a deep infiltration into North Manchuria, had a very clear understanding of these White Russian backgrounds. When it is concentrated to a certain scale, there is no need to count the number of anti-union unions and transfer the roster. The Cheng dù he is familiar with, and even the cadres who handled the transfer are far from being compared. And it was not selected at all, and the eligible ones were taken away.

Among them, those who had a certain status or prestige in the Harbin White Russians, with the cooperation and guidance of the officials of the consulate, directly handcuffed them in front of the people who handed over the Anti-Japanese Federation, and regardless of the feelings of others, directly handcuffed them and threw them into a bus brought from China with iron railings, and sent special personnel to escort them to the airport and use the plane to transport them back to China.

But perhaps there is a real need for reinforcements, or perhaps it is because women, the elderly, and children are no longer a threat to them. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Far Eastern Military District, which had come to receive the White Russians, had taken away only young men and some of those on the special list, and the elderly, women, and children had all been left behind.