Seeing that so many troops were transferred away at once, and a few old commanders who were very reluctant, the leader smiled and said: "Don't be reluctant, the central government knows that it is not easy for you to develop so many troops behind enemy lines, and you can hold on to such a severe enemy situation, just rely on this little capital. But you have to think strategically about the big picture. The trend of the situation in the northeast has a direct impact on the deployment of Japanese troops in the Kannai. ”

"The situation there is dire. From last autumn to the present, the Japanese army has been constantly increasing its troops. Facing nearly ten divisions and regiments of the Japanese army, hundreds of thousands of troops. Aircraft, tanks, and heavy artillery are complete, and there are hundreds of thousands of puppet Manchu troops with the cooperation. The Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region has the most right to speak in terms of the real combat effectiveness of the puppet Manchurian army and the puppet army in Guannai. ”

"We are a whole, a game of chess. I hope that you will proceed from the interests of the Party and the overall situation of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Don't be petty, take out your best troops, and let them also see the elite soldiers of our old troops. ”

Speaking of this, the leader smiled and said, "But people have said that your soldiers are not in vain. Exchange the equipment of a regiment for the soldiers of your regiment. In the end, you guys are still a good deal. As you have just seen, the firepower of one of their regiments is equal to that of one of your divisions. ”

Several veterans have been veterans for many years, and how can they not understand what the leader said. However, these troops named by the leader are the absolute main force of their respective troops, and they are really the flesh and soul of their hearts. Several people looked at the 129th Division, which had the largest number of troops to be transferred.

The 772nd Regiment and the 14th Regiment are both the main forces of the 129th Division, and they are the two most advantageous fists of the 129th Division. At this moment, two were transferred away at once, and the losses of the 129th Division can be described as quite large.

But the division commander who served three times as chief of the General Staff in the Red Army, known as the contemporary Sun Wu, did not bargain for half a cent. I took off my eyes and wiped them carefully, and then brought them back and said firmly: "Chairman, I will immediately send a telegram to ask the 772nd Regiment and the 14th Regiment along Zhengtai Road, which are now active, to go north immediately, they are very close to the Northwest Shanxi Military Region and can arrive in the shortest possible time." ”

"However, Chairman, our 129th Division has allocated a lot of these troops in accordance with the requirements of the central government, and there are many soldiers and soldiers, and they will be allocated in full. But we have a small request, which we hope the central government will also meet. I hope that in a year we will be able to transfer back 100 qualified artillery instructors and 50 surveying and mapping staff officers. ”

Speaking of this, Division Commander Liu smiled and said: "Chairman, our army is now developing, but the gap between artillery and technical personnel has become even greater. Although there were not many times when Japanese artillery was captured, only a few times. But the troops below lack talent, and if they are captured, they will not be used. In some cases, captured mountain artillery can only be buried on the spot. ”

"Except for the main divisions and brigades, which have surveying and mapping staff officers, most of the military subdivisions and all regiment-level formations do not have a surveying and mapping staff officer, and operational maps can only rely on capture. This is very detrimental to the development of the troops. They need our soldiers, and I think they can rely on them to help us train some of the technical arms that are so urgently needed. Otherwise, the number of graduates who only rely on Kang Da is too small. ”

Ginger is old and spicy in the end. This division commander, who was later known as China's three and a half military strategists, made a small request, but it was quite realistic. 100 artillery instructors, this requirement is really not high, but the focus is very accurate. These 100 artillery instructors can greatly alleviate the shortage of skilled personnel in the troops. It's more or less a bit of a loss.

As soon as Master Liu spoke, several other veterans also agreed. It is hoped that when the troops are deployed, the other side will be able to assist in training a number of technical arms. In particular, the professional artillery and surveying and mapping personnel that the troops urgently need at present.

When the words of the old commanders fell, the boss looked at the senior generals present, turned his head to the leader and said, "Chairman, I think this request can be agreed." After all, is this also a specific difficulty in solving the troops below? And it's more or less a compensation for them. ”

"And the equipment, let's keep it too. Judging from their documentary, these equipment are indeed their surplus. Now there is a shortage of equipment in the troops, especially the number of light and heavy machine guns. With this batch of equipment, especially light and heavy machine guns, a big problem can be solved. ”

The leader looked at the old commanders with eager faces, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded: "Okay, leave a small part of the river defense troops, and you and the deputy commander-in-chief will arrange the distribution of the rest." However, none of these weapons were left behind by the Central Guard Regiment, and all of them were allocated to the front-line troops. ”

The deputy commander-in-chief, who had been distracted at the meeting and didn't know what to think, said: "Chairman, people can say that this batch of weapons is for the Central Guard Corps to be reequipped, and it is impossible to say that one is not kept. In this way, we left behind the hand-held machine guns that they made themselves, and left all the pistols behind, and some of the fast and slow machines. The rest left two hundred, ten light machine guns, two heavy machine guns. ”

"As for the other weapons, one hundred and fifty light machine guns and thirty heavy machine guns, plus three hundred rifles, two hundred hand-held machine guns, and some of the weapons that have been replaced by the Central Guard Regiment will be selected from this batch of weapons and handed over to the Northwest Military Region and the left-behind corps for equal distribution. The other Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the 129th Division, and the 115th Division, one-third of a family. As for those mortars, all of them were left to the river defense troops. ”

The deputy commander-in-chief's Jian Yì made the leader frown a little: "No, don't keep a weapon of the Central Guard Regiment." Those given to the Central Guard Regiment are reserved for your headquarters special services battalion and guard battalion. You are commanding operations on the front line, which is much more dangerous than we are here. We are here in the rear, what do we want so many good guns for? I'm not that precious. What do you do with so many light and heavy machine guns for guarding duties? ”

Regarding the leader's insistence, the deputy commander-in-chief smiled open-mindedly and said: "Chairman, most of the time my headquarters is working with the troops of the 129th Division. The 129th Division is there, and so is the headquarters. This batch of equipment must be reserved for part of the Central Guard Regiment. Chairman, the fact that the Japanese are now blocked by the Yellow River does not mean that they will abandon their attempt to advance westward in order to make a detour to Chongqing. ”

"There are so many institutions and schools in Yan'an, and once the Japanese army crosses the river, it is also a very burdensome thing to transfer. At present, in the entire Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo region, except for the left-behind corps that has to defend thousands of miles of rivers, only the 120th Division is in the northwest of Shanxi. There is only one central guard regiment in the entire Yan'an region. ”

"We all know that the Central Guard Corps has a firm political stance, but the equipment is really poor. When the main forces of the Eighteenth Army went out to fight, you transferred all the good guns to the front-line combat units. The weapons left behind were all in tatters, and the entire guard regiment had only five light machine guns. How does this deal with emergencies? Especially now that there are still a large number of Kuomintang troops around us, the troops in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo have to face double pressure. ”

"The guard regiment is an important unit responsible for the close protection of the central government, what should I do if there is an abnormal gun jam? The guns of your guards were captured in Jiangxi before the Long March. After so many years of use, the muzzle of the gun is old and has no teeth, how can this work? ”

The upright-tempered and stubborn deputy commander-in-chief said with a final word: "Chairman, this matter is not up to you. I'll ask people to go to the General Office of the Military Commission and ask them to immediately arrange for someone to exchange for guns. Your security is not your personal matter, but a major matter that has a bearing on the whole party and the whole army. ”

Seeing that the deputy commander-in-chief was very resolute, the leader smiled and let him go. After sending off the princes who were anxious to return to their troops tomorrow, the leader left the chief and deputy commanders-in-chief: "In addition to winning soldiers, they still need the assistance of the central government in some matters. I'm going to discuss these things with you. ”

With that, the leader turned around, took out a document from his desk and handed it to the two people: "This is the material they got from the secret base of the Japanese army where they were held when they broke through from Harbin. Let's take a look at that. ”

The chief and deputy commander-in-chief were stunned for a moment when they saw the rare extremely strict stakes on the leader's face. This kind of expression, which they had only seen in Jiangxi and several most dangerous periods during the Long March, made them immediately take the materials handed over by the leader and look at them carefully. The brows of the two people became tighter and tighter the more they looked at them. And the leader sat quietly on the side, smoking a cigarette, watching them.

Before the two people could finish reading it, the grumpy deputy commander had already slapped the table and said angrily: "These little devils of dog days, whether there is humanity or not, they simply don't treat us Chinese as people." So many of our compatriots were injected with viruses by them and dissected alive for study? I thought that their poisonous gas was inhumane enough, but I didn't expect them to have such a vicious plan. ”

The deputy commander-in-chief's words silenced both the leader and the commander-in-chief, because they knew that the reason why the Japanese dared to do this, in the final analysis, was not only that they did not regard the Chinese as human beings, but also because they knew that the Chinese did not have the ability to retaliate against them. There are no taboos about what you do.

After being silent for a long time, the commander-in-chief said: "I really don't know how they came out of there, and they completely solved this Japanese demon base." Although we don't quite understand this bacteriological warfare, we still understand what plague and cholera are. Judging from these materials, once the Japanese army enters the scale of actual combat, what kind of danger will it bring to the Chinese nation? ”

"Fortunately, when they came out, they solved this Japanese bacteriological warfare base, so that our calamitous nation was exempted from the threat of national extinction."

The leader snuffed out the cigarette in his hand, lit another cigarette and nodded: "Yes, if it weren't for them, once this Japanese bacteriological warfare base is completely completed, I don't know what the consequences will be." They can make a difference in such a difficult environment, and we should give it our full support. ”

"They are now building up aviation and armored forces, and they want to buy a batch of American-made fighters from the Soviet side. It is hoped that the Central Committee will come forward to coordinate with the Soviet comrades and provide some help. In addition, the technology of synthetic penicillin that they shipped with this batch of equipment this time was developed by themselves and has been put into formal production and use. ”

"They want the central government to step in and sell this technology to big foreign pharmaceutical companies in exchange for us and the foreign currency they desperately need. They are now in dire need of foreign exchange and want to transit a batch of American-made transport planes through the Soviet Party. If all these loans were to be relied on by the Soviet Union, not only would they not be able to apply for the loans, but they would also be able to apply for them, which would also cause them a great financial burden in the future. Their main meaning is to solve it on their own. ”

After hearing this, the chief and deputy commander-in-chief glanced at each other, and the commander-in-chief said: "Chairman, now all ports in China have been blocked by the Japanese army, and almost all kinds of western medicines, including penicillin, especially antibiotics that are extremely valuable for treating trauma, rely on imports from Hong Kong and the Yunnan-Burma Highway. In Chongqing, this kind of medicine is priced at one price a day, and even one tael of gold cannot buy one. ”

"Due to the shortage of Western medicine caused by the blockade of the Japanese army, many diseases that could have been treated have lost their lives in vain because there is no cure. Chairman, can we consider purchasing a batch of equipment to produce this medicine ourselves, and sell it to the people behind enemy lines and in the Kuomintang area? ”

In this way, one can solve part of the funds, and the other can greatly alleviate the shortage of drugs for the domestic people. This is extremely beneficial to our work. The profit in this is no less than selling to a foreign company. It's time for us to nurture the national pharmaceutical industry. ”

Hearing the commander-in-chief's words, the leader smiled and said, "Don't worry, boss, they have already thought of this." What they mean is that we should make our own, make our own, and sell for sale. This time, they sent a total of two documents, one for our own use. ”

What they mean is that we don't have pharmaceutical equipment now, and even if we have the data, it is difficult to produce qualified products. They built a central government that could use the foreign exchange of the technology sold, and through the American company, they could buy a batch of production equipment and then produce it themselves. The central government is responsible for the sales of the entire customs area. ”

"As long as we agree not to sell the technology when we sell it, the technology should be able to sell for a good price. Because of this high-quality antibiotic, it's not just China that is lacking. There is not enough in the world due to the difficulty of extraction. Western countries pursue profits, and this technology is definitely a piece of fat in the eyes of Western countries. It should be able to sell for a good price. ”

Hearing this, the boss nodded and said, "Are they still thinking about it in detail?" However, we are not buying and selling, and how much this technology can be priced at is not what we are good at. If it sells low, it will be a loss. But how much is the right price? But it's not something we can figure out. ”

The leader smiled and stretched out two fingers and said, "They are lions with a big mouth, and this technology is priced at $500 million according to what they mean, and the minimum price cannot be less than $200 million." And they also put forward candidates to negotiate with American companies. They hope that Comrade Li Kenong will be fully responsible for this matter. ”

The boss smiled when he heard this: "They really know how to choose people." I think so, but the price is too bad for them to ask for it. 200 million US dollars, the national government's annual net export foreign exchange income is probably not enough. However, if we can really talk about it, with such a large amount of money, we will have enough confidence. And we use penicillin as a weapon, which can effectively break through the blockade around us. ”

"As for the Soviet side, let's let Vice Chairman Zhou, who is still being treated in the Soviet Union, come forward to coordinate. As much as possible, this is the first air force of our army, and we should do everything we can to assist them. If they succeed, we will have our own air force. ”