For Yang Zhen, it doesn't matter if he is a cold war or a hot war, as long as it is good for the Chinese. These Peiba bombers, since their performance is okay, it is not without benefits to use them for the last exchange. At least the Americans, in order to understand the latest strategic-level aircraft technology of the Soviets, will not be stingy with a little bit of nothing.

It's just that except for the bombing of Japan, until four or three years, Yang Zhen refused to make any big moves on the entire front. No matter how much the United States and Britain urged, they just refused to launch an attack according to the intentions of the United States and Britain. Even when the Americans threatened to cut off all aid, he never made a big move.

The lack of heart but strength is the biggest reason why Yang Zhen has not launched a new offensive for a long time. The casualties of the troops in the battle of '42 were too great, and even though the troops had been reorganized for a long time, they had not been able to recover by the end of '42. In particular, nearly half of the casualties of the recruits who were replenished at the end of 41 and the beginning of 42 are even more distressing.

This casualty figure makes Yang Zhen always quite cautious when carrying out any military action. It also made Yang Zhen determined that he would take a defensive position strategically as a whole for a long time. With the exception of the combat-ready mobile units on duty, the whole army entered a period of comprehensive and long recuperation.

During this period of time in the whole army, apart from adjusting the establishment and replenishing the troops, there is only one thing for both the old and the new troops. That's training, training, and training. Infantry tactics, artillery tactics, armored tactics, infantry and artillery coordination, infantry and tank coordination, and ground-air coordination. Once, twice, even countless times.

Recruits are also not trained uniformly after all of them are concentrated. Rather, after forming a new corps, a new corps will be trained. Yang Zhen had already made up his mind that he would definitely not launch any active attack until the troops were trained to the goal they wanted.

But the replenishment of soldiers is still his biggest headache. The pace of mobilization in the new districts is far from reaching the desired goal. Because of the combat objectives, the main goal of this battle was the Siping line, and in South Manchuria, which was relatively densely populated, there were not many new areas to recover. It is not possible to meet the needs from the roots.

Although the entire Rehe was preempted, the population of the Rehe was limited. In addition, the advance army mobilized a group of new soldiers last year, and some residents who moved north, the already small population became even more scarce. As a result, the replenishment of troops has been delayed in meeting the needs.

Although a large number of additional troops have been mobilized in the Guannai, these numbers are still insufficient for the expansion and replenishment needs of the Anti-Japanese Federation. Because the expansion of the army is not only infantry, but also aviation, tank and artillery, and a large number of personnel are urgently needed to expand the army. In particular, the bomber force, which is being expanded, needs to be replenished not only in terms of quantity, but also in terms of a certain cultural base.

In order to replenish the most urgently needed needs of the troops, the Northeast People's Government will even transfer all the puppet Manchurian schools in the new district in 42 years, and the male graduates of the puppet Manchu middle schools who have not entered high schools to continue their studies. Male graduates of all normal schools in the old district, as well as students of national high schools who have not been admitted to secondary schools.

After screening, all of them were transferred to the aviation unit, mainly to supplement the bomber unit. This was able to barely meet the urgent need for the expansion of the air force, mainly bomber units, in the second half of '42. At the same time, the People's Government of the Northeast joined forces with the aviation units to create aviation clubs in each region.

The air force has sent out training personnel and training planes, and the localities have selected a number of educated young people to join these clubs to learn how to fly, so as to serve as a reserve training base for the air force. All young men must enter this club as long as they have the qualifications of graduates of the puppet Manchu high school and pass the medical examination.

Whether you will enter the army in the future is one thing, but now in your spare time or spare time, you must learn to fly and master certain flying skills. This is a method that combines the experience of the Soviet Union, the United States and other developed aviation countries, and uses private resources to save some time and pressure.

For this reason, the Anti-Japanese Federation specially imported a large number of primary and intermediate training planes from the United States, and each county arranged five of them. A group of air and ground crews who were unable to return to the battlefield due to injuries or other reasons were selected to serve as deputy directors of the armed forces, aviation section chiefs, and education officers in various counties.

In order to ensure the replenishment needs of the Anti-Japanese Federation and the expansion of the number of soldiers, the central authorities also aimed to reduce the burden on the various base areas in the Guannai and reduce the pressure on the masses. In the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Province, Taihang and other major base areas, large-scale operations were carried out on local political power and various directly subordinate institutions. Various localities and counties have adopted the method of streamlining the administration of the army and streamlining the administration of the army, and have streamlined the transfer of a large number of young cadres and staff members to the northeast.

In the second half of '42, the severe drought in North China was a foregone conclusion, and the entire territory of Shanxi was already full of Henan refugees, and a large number of areas in Hebei, Shandong, Henan, and southern Hebei began to run out of food. When the common people in Henan heard that the northeast could have enough to eat, they changed the historical route of escaping from the famine, and all of them entered Shanxi, where the drought situation was slightly better.

The central government also mobilized refugees from Shanxi to go north to northern Shanxi, where a large number of trucks were transferred to the northeast by the Anti-Japanese Federation. In order to ensure that these refugees can reach the northeast smoothly, the entire Shanxi and Hebei provinces have suffered from severe drought and cannot afford the influx of Shanxi refugees.

The Anti-Union dispatched all light aircraft, and even some training planes were dispatched. They also concentrated a group of fighter planes to cover it, and even dispatched more than 60 transport planes and bombers at one time to continuously airdrop grain to Taihang and Taiyue districts. Prepare the refugees for the northeast and prepare them materially.

The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area was the first to get closer to the water, and the Anti-Japanese Federation mobilized a large number of trucks to transport grain to Chahar and Rehe. In order to transport refugees, troops, and food, Yang Zhen even transferred a considerable part of the cars of the combat troops. Moreover, Jin-Cha-Ji is close to Rehe, and the first batch of refugees who entered Rehe were sent to Tongliao by road, and were transferred to the Sanjiang Plain by train.

In fact, this year, not only Henan, but also Shanxi, Chahar, Taihang, and Hebei, Shandong, and Henan are just as serious as the drought. In particular, the problem of grain shortage in Jin-Cha-Ji, which has already begun spring drought since the beginning of spring, is particularly serious, and the common people in the base area go to the richer Jizhong Plain to beg for food. Begging to do it for the wounded, dilute yourself to pad some stomachs.

A large number of villagers who really couldn't survive mobilized slightly, and they all poured in the direction of Chahar. Even in the territory of Rehe, a large number of people in the customs have poured in. It is important to know that the drought is not only for the base areas and the nationally controlled areas, but also for the enemy-occupied areas. A large number of ordinary people in the occupied areas, who were simply unable to provide disaster relief and did not want to do so, went north to Rehe in large numbers.

The troops who returned from the advance army even had to leave a considerable part of the land in Chahar to support themselves or feed themselves. But the territory of Chahar was also barren and poor, and it was difficult to feed too many troops. Coupled with the refugees who have entered Chahar and are waiting for transshipment, food in Chahar is also quite tight.

In order to resettle these refugees, the Military Region and the Northeast Government spent a large part of their energy to mobilize food and materials to support the drought situation in Guannai. Fortunately, some new recruits were mobilized from among the refugees, and the need for the expansion of the army was finally met by the end of '42.

However, although the army has reached full strength by the end of 42 years, there is still a big shortage of qualified personnel required for the expansion of technical arms. The slow progress of the expansion of the troops, especially the slow expansion of technical arms, was also one of the main reasons why Yang Zhen never made any major moves in the second half of '42 and the first half of '43.

And according to Yang Zhen's next battle plan and intentions, at least part of it will make him have to wait for a while. Wait for the Japanese army to shed more blood in the Southeast Asia and Pacific theaters. The Japanese Navy, in particular, is not shed enough blood now. Those behemoths on the Japanese mainland are a considerable threat to themselves if they are not resolved.

At present, although the Yamato ship has been transferred to Krut, the two Nagato-class battleships Nagato and Mutsu, and the two Fuso-class Fuso and Yamashiro, are currently on standby at home. In particular, the battleship Musashi, which had just been built, was now at the Pillar Island Naval Base.

Before most of these warships go to the bottom of the sea to stay permanently, Yang Zhen will not carry out the next plan. The Japanese navy bombarded Hunchun outside the mouth of the Tumen River, and hundreds of shells of more than 380 mm fell in the depths of Hunchun. and the next few shellings on the area controlled by the North Korean Anti-Japanese Federation, which made Yang Zhen deeply impressed.

A 460-millimeter shell fell and shook the mountain, and a small hill was wiped out. These warships remained on the Japanese mainland, making Yang Zhen feel like a thorn in his back when he carried out the next battle plan. The next battle plan, whether it is South Manchuria or Korea, the problem of the Japanese Navy must be solved. Therefore, Yang Zhen resolutely did not take action regardless of the urging of the United States and Britain.

In addition to reorganizing and training troops, adjusting the establishment of troops, and improving the ability and level of commanders at all levels of the troops. For a long time, Yang Zhen focused on the military industry, and then went to Yan'an with Li Yanping to report the situation to the Central Committee. Even basically, every two months, Yang Zhen has to spend more than half a month in Yan'an.

Yang Zhen went to Yan'an mainly in closed meetings with the chairman, vice chairman, and the commander-in-chief or several main responsible persons of the Military Commission. Or often talk to the chairman alone, and talk all night. Except for some meetings with Li Yanping in Yan'an, he went to Yan'an by himself most of the time, and even Yuan Zhiruo only accompanied him occasionally, and no one knew what he talked about when he went to Yan'an so much.

Every time he came back from Yan'an, he did not have a one-night meeting with the main responsible persons of the Northeast Bureau and the Northeast People's Government. It was with Li Yanping, Guo Bingxun and other members of the Standing Committee of the Military Region that the meeting lasted all night. These meetings are never recorded, so no one knows what they are about.

At the same time, the railway line from Jining to Tongliao is being built in a hurry. On the highway from Tongliao to Jining, Yang Zhen personally transferred seven engineering regiments and hundreds of construction machinery, and adopted the method of dividing the road sections into separate constructions, and is making every effort to repair and harden them.

A large number of air defense units of the Anti-Japanese Union also began to move to North China one after another. Yan'an, Zhangjiakou, and Datong have all set up radars. A large number of air defense posts have also been deployed in various base areas in North China. The logistics and engineers of the Anti-Japanese Federation also entered various base areas one after another and began to secretly survey the sites.

At the same time, the Anti-Japanese Union dispatched five light liaison planes with short take-off and landing distances to transport a batch of high-power radio stations and liaison staff officers from the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region to the Shandong Military Region. And through the Taihang and Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Regions, a batch of ammunition was transferred to the Shandong Military Region. And the main person in charge of the Shandong Military Region was taken out and sent to Yan'an, and finally transferred to the northeast for treatment.

In October of 42, the deputy commander-in-chief and the chief of staff of the Central Military Commission arrived in the northeast for inspection with the main responsible persons of several other regions, except for Taihang and Jinchaji. From the military industry to the various training bases, from the aviation and armored units, to all the military schools, and even the division-level teaching teams, they all looked at it quite carefully. The troops who came to the northeast for training were the most important part of the inspection.